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An unnamed Earth-like planet (PROSE: The Man in the Velvet Mask) was an advanced planet which was home to the civilised people of the City, led by the Elders, and the primitive "Savages". (TV: The Savages)
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For a long time, the Elders extended their lives by draining energy from the so-called "Savages" who lived outside their city. The First Doctor, Steven Taylor and Dodo Chaplet visited the planet and were welcomed as honoured guests. However, once they discovered what lay beneath the advances of the planet, they helped to show that the two peoples were not so different. During this time, the planet was governed by council led by the Elder Jano. But when Jano accidentally had a copy of the First Doctor's mind transplanted over his own, he began to see the error of the Elders' ways and helped to topple the council and resigned as leader. As agreed upon by both the Elders and the Savages, his companion Steven Taylor was chosen to become the planet's new leader, (TV: The Savages) and he gained the title of king. (AUDIO: The War To End All Wars)
During Steven's reign as king, he helped the planet to recover, such as helping to build schools. From his experience on the planet Comfort, which he visited during his travels with the Doctor, Steven intentionally introduced policies which would eventually make the people see they didn't need him. When eventually the challenge came, Steven happily stepped out of their way and left the planet with a self-governing meritocracy. Raleigh and her sister, daughters of Steven, were involved in his ousting, having seen Steven granting out powers to other people, hence losing what they planned to inherit. They themselves ended up governing regions of the planet, with guidance from the mind copy of the First Doctor which still remained. (AUDIO: The War To End All Wars)
A Sontaran scout ship crashed on the planet several years before Steven was transported to an alternative Death Zone on Gallifrey by Borusa. This experience taught him a Sontaran could be incapacitated by striking his probic vent. (AUDIO: The Five Companions)
Later, having seen the poor governance the planet had seen, the Doctor's mind copy would run for presidency, although eventually it decided to abandon this goal after Steven convinced his granddaughter Sida that it was untrustworthy. Instead the copy of the Doctor integrated himself into his laboratory computer while Sida ran for presidency, and won. (AUDIO: The Founding Fathers) During her reign, Sida helped fund a radio telescope for Steven on top of his house in the mountains. Steven had been planning to contact the Doctor for some time, but his knowledge of how to do so and the associated impetus came from a Vardan which had been inside him and the Doctor since they encountered her on Grace Alone, and needed them together to reconstitute herself.
Three years into Sida's presidency, the Doctor was summoned to the planet and the reconstitution completed. The Vardan wrecked havoc on the planet for a while, before it was stopped when Sida tricked it into entering the computer occupied by the copy of the Doctor, who unravelled her. Sida then convinced Steven to return to public life. (AUDIO: The Locked Room)