Trask (The Highlanders)
Trask was a human sailor who ran the Annabelle as a slave ship. Following his death in an encounter with the Second Doctor, (TV: The Highlanders [+]Loading...["The Highlanders (TV story)"]) he became a Celestis agent and attended Qixotl's auction for the Relic. (PROSE: Alien Bodies [+]Loading...["Alien Bodies (novel)"])
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Trask was Willie Mackay's partner in smuggling weapons from France to Scotland during the Jacobite Rebellion in 1746. He betrayed Mackay to the government army and seized control of his ship, the Annabelle. Trask became part of Grey's slave-trading ring and took prisoners on board for transporting to Caribbean plantations. With the Second Doctor's help, the prisoners rose up; Jamie fought with Trask and threw him overboard. (TV: The Highlanders [+]Loading...["The Highlanders (TV story)"])
When he died from drowning, the Celestis thought it would be appropriate to reincorporate him and send him as their representative to the East Indies ReVit Zone with the mission of recovering the Relic and carrying it back to Mictlan by whatever means necessary. When he arrived at the auction in the late 21st century, he had been dead for nearly four hundred years.
Due to her reconditioning in the Faction, Cousin Justine was irresistibly attracted to Trask. (PROSE: Alien Bodies [+]Loading...["Alien Bodies (novel)"]) Godfather Morlock would later describe this as her "pathological attraction to dead things", though she insisted she had gotten over it. (AUDIO: The Eleven Day Empire [+]Loading...["The Eleven Day Empire (audio story)"])
Shortly before the auction, Mr Shift edited Trask's memory of his death in an attempt to turn him against the Doctor and distract him while the Shift secured the Relic. Trask recognised the Eighth Doctor's face at the auction due to the altercations to his memory, and, when E-Kobalt tried to attack the Doctor, Trask tackled it, decaring the Doctor to be his to kill. He split his knuckles and fingers but successfully cracked the crystal with his undead strength.
Trask hid during the Krotons' attack on the ziggurat; he later approached the dying Mr Qixotl and put him into a mortal stasis to offer him recorporation in exchange for the Relic. Qixotl agreed to the offer, regaining his health, and Trask promptly took the Relic to Mictlan for recorporation. When the Doctor followed him, Trask gave him the Mark of Indenture, turning him into a Celestis servant, and gave him the now-worthless Relic to destroy. Trask did not realise that he had really Marked the Shift, who was trapped in the Doctor's mind. (PROSE: Alien Bodies [+]Loading...["Alien Bodies (novel)"])
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