Great Intelligence
The Great Intelligence (or Yog-Sothoth) was a disembodied sentience who attempted to find a body and a physical existence.
Powers
The Great Intelligence had no physical existence, which meant it was incapable of interacting with the rest of the universe. It could possess living creatures, such as Humans and also used control spheres to form a locus for the Intelligence. Also, it manifested as webbing in order to trap the Doctor's TARDIS. (DW: The Web of Fear)
History
Yog-Sothoth was one of the Old Ones who existed before the present universe. (MA: Millennial Rites) It had been exiled from another dimension, and was forced to wander the universe in an attempt to find a body to possess. (DWN: Doctor Who and the Web of Fear)
- This dimension it was expelled from was probably the Calabi-Yau Space.
At some point, the Great Intelligence possessed the Tibetan lama Padmasambhava while he was travelling on astral plane. In 1935, the Doctor, a friend of the lama's, as well as Edward Travers, a westerner determined to find the Yeti, intervened. Padmasambhava's physical body died when the Intelligence melted away. (DW: The Abominable Snowmen)
Thirty-five years or so later, the robot Yeti re-activated and the Intelligence manifested as webbing, ensnaring the Doctor's TARDIS in space and forcing it to land in the London Underground, where, reunited with Travers, the Doctor assisted British military in their battles with the Yeti. The Intelligence re-animated and possessed the corpse of Staff Sergeant Arnold, using him to track the Doctor's actions. The Intelligence captured the Doctor, attempting to use a conversion headset to take over and possess the Doctor's body. The Doctor attempted to reverse the process, allowing him to absorb the Intelligence and destroy it. When the control spheres that formed the focus of the Intelligence were smashed by Jamie McCrimmon, the Intelligence vanished, powerless but still alive.. DW: The Web of Fear)
The Intelligence later contacted the Doctor's former companion Victoria Waterfield and manipulated her into using computers to return to physical existence. (MA: Downtime)
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