User:NoNotTheMemes/The Master (bottle universe)
In the bottle universe of I.M. Foreman, the Master, immediately after escaping the Cheetah Planet with his Kitling, Shadow, arranged a deal with the Tzun Confederacy. After aiding him in the retrieval of his TARDIS from the planet Antari Three, they provided him with Nanites that cured him of the Cheetah virus and supposedly gave him a new regenerative cycle. Shortly after his body was repaired, the Master was shot by Ace and regenerates into a new body.
After somehow escaping into N-Space, the man with the rosette survived the destruction of Gallifrey as one of the four surviving elementals.
Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]
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A day to come[[edit] | [edit source]]
When pouring through the Matrix using a copy of the Time Lord President's terminal, the Master became intoxicated by the knowledge of the various means by which he could extend his life beyond the limitations of a regenerative cycle. (PROSE: The Quantum Archangel)
Though he believed that the powers of the Source of Traken granted him a superior control over his body, he still missed the Time Lord heritage of his former body. (PROSE: The Quantum Archangel)
Alliance with the Tzun Confederacy[[edit] | [edit source]]
Shortly after being restored to his full Time Lord heritage, he was shot in the back by Ace to avenge his murder of Joe Manco, causing him to regenerate. Following the regeneration, he was able to make his escape, summoning his TARDIS using a Stattenheim remote control built from Tzun technology. After leaving a booby-trap for the Doctor in a nuclear warhead, the Master fled (PROSE: First Frontier) to the Scoundrels Club to recover from his regeneration. (PROSE: Dismemberment)
Out in the universe[[edit] | [edit source]]
Later, the Master laid a trap for the Doctor in one of the Doctor's homes using a device which would release the energy from a time fissure once the Doctor's TARDIS materialised, destroying it. The plan failed when Sarah Jane Smith, Mike Yates and K9 Mark III destroyed the device, causing the Master to flee. (PROSE: Housewarming)
Quest for invulnerability[[edit] | [edit source]]
Despite the promise of a wholly new regenerative cycle, the Master was still desperate to ensure his own longevity.
The Master steals the Loom of Rassilon's Mouse to experiment with flesh looming as part of his attempt to create an indestructible clone body from the remains of Anthony Rupert Hemmings. (PROSE: Happy Endings)
As every past attempt of prolonging his longevity eventually failed, the Master realised that the only way to stave off death was to place his life essence into another Time Lord's body. (PROSE: The Novel of the Film) Recalling the knowledge he had obtained from within the Matrix during a previous incursion, the Master set out to obtain a deathworm morphant on which to experiment. (PROSE: The Quantum Archangel, The Novel of the Film)
Upon procuring a source of deathworm, the Master applied his knowledge of accelerated genetic engineering to reprogram and improve the morphant. While only one of the many he had worked upon had survived, that was enough for his scheme. (PROSE: The Eight Doctors)
Trial on Skaro[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Master eventually arrived in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt and was captured to be placed on trial (AUDIO: Mastermind) by a Dalek scouting party. (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe)
The Master was tried in the presence of the Dalek Emperor (PROSE: The Novel of the Film) and the whole Parliament of the Daleks, (PROSE: The Runes of Fenric) for his attempts to destroy them and usurp their place as "the supreme creatures of the universe", (PROSE: The Novel of the Film) specifically with regard to his failure in their mutual plot behind the Human-Draconian War. (PROSE: The Runes of Fenric) The Dalek Litigator found the Master guilty, ordering him to be exterminated as his punishment. (AUDIO: Vengeance)
The Master sent a psychic message to the Seventh Doctor before he was executed by the Dalek Prelature, asking him to retrieve his remains and return them to Gallifrey. (PROSE: The Novel of the Film) While it was said that he stayed oddly impassive as his long list of crimes was read out to him, this was all a part of his quest to find a new and better body. (AUDIO: Mastermind)
After the Time Lords of N-Space stole Foreman's bottle universe, they kept it for safekeeping in the Time Vortex with plans to possibly colonise it to escape the Enemy. However, the four-dimensional nature of the Vortex caused a leak in the bottle and its universe began seeping out. As the bottle leaked, the Master escaped their fate on Skaro into N-Space and survived into the post-War universe. (PROSE: Interference, The Ancestor Cell)
The mysterious visitor[[edit] | [edit source]]
The man with the rosette knew the Doctor before he had lost his memories. The man was known to have tried to destroy the universe while the Doctor tried to save it. The man and the Doctor "had all of time and space as [their] battlefield", and had many duels upon it. (PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street)
Having survived the destruction of War Queen Romana's Gallifrey by the Eighth Doctor, the man travelled to Earth in the 18th century and sat with Scarlette in a pub during a brawl. He wore a blue Whig rosette and spoke with her about politics. He left before the Eighth Doctor arrived.
He later met Scarlette at the London docks, where he gave her a pair of rings for the Doctor's wedding. At the Doctor's wedding he sat in the seat reserved for the Doctor's family. He did not interact with the other guests but simply sat quietly and helped himself to the wine.
The man left a wedding present for Scarlette: a fake rose of blue and white satin, resembling no flower on Earth.
The man later met the Doctor in the Kingdom of Beasts. As they stood on a hill, they talked about the state of the universe without Gallifrey in it. The man told the Doctor that he would not fight him because there were only four of their kind left in existence. He told the Doctor that Sabbath and his people were now the future of the universe before he quietly left.
The man was present at the fall of the house on Henrietta Street, where he told Lisa-Beth that he was leaving and that, if he couldn't find something to alleviate his boredom, he would go to sleep until the universe was ready for him again, even if it took a million years. He then walked away from the house on Henrietta Street.
Over the next centuries, many individuals impersonating the Doctor claimed that the man had returned in an "unexpected capacity". However, the meaning of this was never revealed. (PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street)
In a vision of the four surviving elementals, the Eighth Doctor and Marnal saw the man wearing his blue rosette. (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles) During the War in Heaven, Mother and Father were shown a vision by a loa where, in the post-War future, the Magistrate toyed absently with his rosette while he and the other Ministers waited for their Elemental Emperor who wandered aimlessly in an "exile's century". (PROSE: The Story So Far...)
The man and the other elementals were rumoured to have died sometime during the Emperor's rule, the Emperor having outlived them all. (PROSE: Father Time)
As Yardley James[[edit] | [edit source]]
When Judy Collins was seventeen, she met "Yardley James", and he convinced her to rob a bank so he could buy yellowcake. She then became his travelling cohort on trips around the universe. He was recognised everywhere as a dangerous criminal; Collins spent three weeks in jail on Altos III just for associating with him. However, Yardley, having discovered a terrible truth about the history of the universe, ultimately returned Judy to Earth so he could "warn his people". (PROSE: Judy's War)
Return to the Homeworld[[edit] | [edit source]]
Eighty years before the War in Heaven, the future War King broke into the presidential chambers on the Homeworld and killed three guards so he could speak with the Head of the Presidency. For fifteen minutes he told the President about the coming War, but this warning failed to convince the President to take any preventative action.
Five years later, the renegade surrendered himself to the Homeworld. He was sentenced to retro-annulment but first requested to address the ruling Houses in a Closed Session. Despite the President's dissent, this request was granted, and the renegade informed them about the enemy. In return, the ruling Houses granted him a pardon. He charged them with the mission of pursuing diplomatic negotiations with the enemy, while he himself would research and develop new defensive and offensive technologies to aid the Homeworld if it came to War.
When the renegade returned to the Homeworld four decades later to present his plans, he was immediately arrested by the Presidency, who had stonewalled any attempts at diplomatic negotiation in the renegade's absence. The head of the Presidency organised a public trial that resulted in the Faraway Declaration and, through the First Message from the Enemy, validation of the renegade's warnings. (PROSE: The Book of the War)
During the interim[[edit] | [edit source]]
When Judy Collins was seventeen, she met "Yardley James", and he convinced her to rob a bank so he could buy yellowcake. She then became his travelling cohort on trips around the universe. By this time, he was recognised everywhere as a dangerous criminal; Collins spent three weeks in jail on Altos III just for associating with him. However, when Yardley discovered a terrible truth about the history of the universe, he returned her to Earth so he could warn his people. (PROSE: Judy's War)
Magistrate of the Citadel[[edit] | [edit source]]
Missing info from The Infinity Doctors.
The renegade became an important and highly-trusted adviser to the new President Umbaste. (PROSE: The Book of the War) As the most senior member of the Prydonian Chapter, (PROSE: The Infinity Doctors) he was given the title Magistrate of the Citadel. (PROSE: A Farewell to Arms, The Infinity Doctors, The Taking of Planet 5)
In preparation for the War, he created the Academicians for Game Logic and laid the groundwork for the House Military and the first Ships of War. (PROSE: The Book of the War) He worked with the Infinity Chambers every day. (PROSE: The Infinity Doctors)
During this time, the ruling Houses tried several times to replace Umbaste and install the renegade as their new leader, but each time the renegade himself blocked the efforts, citing his chequered past. House Dvora tried to solve this by expunging his records without his permission, but they were stopped before the process completed, leading to only fragmentary records of his criminal past. (PROSE: The Book of the War)
The Magistrate was, at this time, the Doctor's oldest friend; though they'd had their differences in the past, Larna saw that they clearly loved each other. They were the only members of the High Council less than two thousand years old.
When Omega threatened Gallifrey with the Effect, the Magistrate was among those who journeyed to the Needle in the far future. After giving his Tissue Compression Eliminator to Larna for her safety, the Magistrate confronted the Doctor's body possessed by Omega. Omega tried to force the Magistrate to serve him, saying, "I have seen all your lives. I know what you have been and what you will be. You do not deserve an end like this." When the Magistrate resolutely refused, Omega waved his hands and vanished the Magistrate "out of harm's way". After the crisis ended, the Doctor was certain the Magistrate was not dead but merely lost. (PROSE: The Infinity Doctors)
The renegade was again present on the Homeworld at the time of Umbaste's death six years before the War, when he accepted the presidential responsibilities and announced himself War King. (PROSE: The Book of the War)
Psychological profile[[edit] | [edit source]]
In contrast to his previous incarnation, this incarnation of the Master was calmer, less emotional and flustered, with a proud bearing and an inscrutable demeanour, (PROSE: First Frontier) though he would resort to a panicked state upon confronting the unexpected. (PROSE: Happy Endings) Highly manipulative, the Master would maintain control of a situation, while making others around him think he was not, (PROSE: First Frontier) though would lose this advantage when he knew he was overpowered, such as when at Bernice Summerfield and Jason Kane's wedding. (PROSE: Happy Endings)
Unlike his immediate predecessor, this incarnation of the Master was aware that his theatrical plotting could be his undoing, but found amusement in the irony rather than bitterness. (PROSE: Happy Endings)
He thought very highly of his hypnotic skills, finding it amusing when he made two guards believe he was Major Kreer. He looked down at humanity, treating them like children, and believed the concept of regeneration to be beyond them, (PROSE: First Frontier) and showed a disdain for explaining things he did not have interest in. (PROSE: Happy Endings) However, he showed some respect towards Ace, who had killed his previous incarnation, believing she would make a good enforcer and admiring her willpower. (PROSE: First Frontier) He also enjoyed fencing with Mike Yates and Sarah Jane Smith. (PROSE: Housewarming)
While he agreed with the Ice Lord Savaar that he lacked a degree of honour, the Master would only resort to harming others if he found an advantage in the act, opting to perform with "a considerable degree of leniency" when sabotaging Bernice and Jason's wedding until he was forced to take Bernice hostage at gunpoint during the ceremony. (PROSE: Happy Endings)
The "Tzun" Master was just as adept at winding the Doctor up as his predecessor was, claiming that the Seventh Doctor's pacifism was pure hypocrisy, (PROSE: First Frontier) and taking delight in his apparent inability to protect his friends from Bloom. (PROSE: Happy Endings) However, he did hold the Doctor in some regard, believing the Tzun incapable of overpowering him on their own, and insisting he was a threat to be eliminated, though he felt bittersweet about it, admitting to himself that the Doctor was an inspiring adversary, (PROSE: First Frontier) though reacted with horror when four variants of the Seventh Doctor confronted him at once. (PROSE: Happy Endings)
Nonetheless, the Master pointed out that the Doctor preferred to kill and destroy from a distance, such as with the Sea Devils. To prove this point, the Master handed the Doctor a blaster and baited him to shoot him at close range, which the Doctor refused to do. (PROSE: First Frontier)
Appearance[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Master had a high forehead, neat and glossy Van Dyke beard, an aristocratic nose, and a lean face. His voice came across as rich and cultured. (PROSE: First Frontier)
By the time of his trial, the Master's appearance had turned saturnine. (PROSE: The Novel of the Film) His eyes were reptilian in appearance and, as a result of the deathworm morphant, seemed to glow in speckles of gold and blue; as if lit by some kind of fire behind them. (TV: Doctor Who, PROSE: The Novel of the Film)
Clothing[[edit] | [edit source]]
He wore a dark Italian-designed suit, a silk shirt, and a cravat with a silver bird-of-prey tiepin. (PROSE: Housewarming) When put on trial by the Daleks, the Master wore a high collared black tunic with crimson lining. (TV: Doctor Who)
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- According to David A. McIntee, the regenerated Master's appearance was based on actor Basil Rathbone's portrayal of the Guy of Gisbourne in in The Adventures of Robin Hood (DWM 222).
- Tipple's role in the television movie was originally a bit larger, with him delivering the prologue voice-over. It was eventually decided to have Paul McGann do the introduction from the point of view of the Eighth Doctor.
- Tipple appeared on-screen for only a few moments and retained a billing on the closing credits despite no longer having any lines, as well as his face being obscured in the finished film — leaving it unclear what his version of the Master is meant to look like without consulting promotional stills for the film.
