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'''The Great Desolatrix''' was, as the [[Fourth Doctor]] described it, a [[cosmic storm]] of unparalleled magnitude and ferocity. He used an analogy to describe it to [[Leela]], comparing it to [[christmas light]]s and no matter how carefully one stored them, how they "always end[ed] up in an impossible tangle that takes a [[month]] and most of your [[sanity]] to unpick". The Great Desolatrix had existed for [[500|five-hundred]] [[year]]s, cutting off [[civilisation]]s, snarling up [[time]] and [[space]], rendering entire patches of the [[universe]] inhospitable. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Red Planet (short story)|Red Planet]]'')

After [[the Abandonment of Mars|the Abandonment of]] [[Mars]], eleven [[World-Ship]]s were sent out to find a new [[homeworld|homeland]] for the [[Ice Warrior]]s. However, communication between [[High Marshal]] [[Kryss]] and [[World-Ship (Red Planet)|the World-Ship he was the captain of]] was severed from the rest of the World-Ships, due to the Great Desolatrix. With his World-Ship damaged from a [[crash]], Kryss fought on the [[Bridge (ship)|bridge]], claiming that it was his new Mars, slaying anybody who tried to take it, for [[7 (number)|seven]] [[day]]s. However, he was then captured by [[Sycorax]], who took him to [[Asteroid (Red Planet)|an asteroid]], forcing him to fight in [[the Cage (Red Planet)|the Cage]]. Eventually, after the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Leela]] arrived, searching for the Great Desolatrix, they were captured by the Sycorax, and Leela and Kryss were forced to fight in the Cage. The Ice Warrior tried to kill Leela in rage, but Leela calmed him down, and he then asked for her to kill him. She refused, and then, through the speakers surrounding the Cage, several of the Ice Warrior captains of the other World-Ships asked for immediate help due to damage from the storm. After the Ice Warriors destroyed parts of the asteroid, Kryss was rescued. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Red Planet (short story)|Red Planet]]'')

The Great Desolatrix bears, probably coincidentally, a strong similarity to [[the Flux]], the omnipotent threat of the [[Series 13 (Doctor Who 2005)|titular series]] of ''[[Doctor Who]]''. Both are functionally very similar, being cosmic storms that rip through the universe, disrupting space and time.