The Master (The Destination Wars): Difference between revisions

Later, he departed his home world "in much the same circumstances" as the Doctor, except that the ship he took from the repair bays was "not quite so operational", because the [[Quadrigger]]s had not yet had the chance to "overhaul" it. He managed to travel for an unknown period and had an encounter with [[Harry Houdini]], but eventually the ship "simply fell apart around [his] ears". He crash-landed on Destination, a planet in "the farthest arm of the galaxy, in the earliest [[Segment of Time|Segments of Time]]". The Master would later attribute this to "an experiment gone wrong", and say that it left him with "the bare minimum of components." ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destination Wars (audio story)|The Destination Wars]]'')

[[File:DreyfusMaster.jpg|thumb|left|The Master poses as "the Inventor". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destination Wars (audio story)|The Destination Wars]]'')]]

The Master took charge of the planet [[Destination]], assuming the title of "the Inventor", and developed the planet's technology for his own ends. He pitted the human colonists against the [[Dalmari]], so that the colonists would develop the nuclear technology he planned to use to refuel his TARDIS's engines.

When the [[First Doctor]] arrived, he changed his plans and tried to steal [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] to escape. He was able to trick [[Ian Chesterton]] and [[Barbara Wright]] into leading him to the ship, but they were able to overpower him and use the [[fast return switch]] to take the TARDIS back to Destination. The Master ultimately became trapped in his own laboratory after the Doctor had rerouted its power to help Destination to rebuild. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Destination Wars (audio story)|The Destination Wars]]'')

=== Crossing into the future ===

On [[Segonax]], the Master allied himself with the [[Gods of Ragnarok]], and used a [[pendant]] they gave him to contact a street artist on [[Zamyatin]] named [[Kingpin]] and use his free spirited energy to cause a [[psychic storm]], which caused a revolution on Zamyatin. The Master then persuaded Kingpin to organise a collective of various artists and bring them to Segonax to become the [[Psychic Circus]], before convincing the [[Chief clown]] to organise a talent contest, so that new energy could be acquired.  

When the Clock was completed, the Master began to kill some of the residents by using a temporal extractor to rewinding their timelines, thus ensuring the Clock would be fueled by their experiences in stellar engineering.  In the midst of these murders, the [[Fourth Doctor]] arrived to the Repository to bring back the [[Grimoire|Discord Grimoire]]. The Master, still under the disguise of Haku, tried to frame him for the murders by extracting from him a false confession under the [[Time Winds|Time Winds;]] when this failed, it tricked the Doctor and assisant librarian [[Elanora]] (who was helping) to become victims of the Mandelbroth. He then manipulated the following trial in order to have the blame for the murders placed on [[Ansillon (Blood of the Time Lords)|Ansillon]], the [[Provost]] and the Doctor's old friend. When the Doctor discovered his identity, he was convinced by Sedanya not to kill him on the spot and to instead have the Doctor and Elanora dying in the explosion of his TARDIS (the Master didn't think he needed it anymore). The Master finally managed to activate the Clock, but he miscalculated and the device starts malfunctioning; desperate, the Master encouraged the Doctor to use the Grimoire to deactivate the Clock. He was involved in the Clock's collapse and disappeared without a trace, as the Doctor used the Clock to undo his actions. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Blood of the Time Lords (audio story)|Blood of the Time Lords]]'')

=== Post-mortem ===