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* Why don't the Time Lords who the Master kills regenerate? | * Why don't the Time Lords who the Master kills regenerate? | ||
::The [[Staser]] weapons used by the Time Lords are designed to inhibit regeneration. | ::The [[Staser]] weapons used by the Time Lords are designed to inhibit regeneration. | ||
:::It's because Time Lords have to be alive to regenerate. Regeneration occurs when a Time Lord is in a near death state on the brink of life and death, but when sudden death occurs there is no time for the process to be triggered. As the Doctor asserts in The Tomb of the Cybermen he can live forever | :::It's because Time Lords have to be alive to regenerate. Regeneration occurs when a Time Lord is in a near death state on the brink of life and death, but when sudden death occurs there is no time for the process to be triggered. As the Doctor asserts in The Tomb of the Cybermen he can live forever barring accidents i.e. sudden death. | ||
* Surely the high-ranking Time Lords are already aware of the Master since the high-council have both warned the Doctor regarding (See [[Terror of the Autons]]), and sent the Doctor after (See [[Colony in Space]]) him in previous stories. In fact Borusa should know him personally since he must have encountered him while teaching the Doctor, with whom he was also at school. | * Surely the high-ranking Time Lords are already aware of the Master since the high-council have both warned the Doctor regarding (See [[Terror of the Autons]]), and sent the Doctor after (See [[Colony in Space]]) him in previous stories. In fact Borusa should know him personally since he must have encountered him while teaching the Doctor, with whom he was also at school. | ||
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::::It's more the point that the Master (and indeed, the writers) clearly knew about regeneration. There are always a lot of "X factors" (unknowns) involved in any story concerning Time Lords - including a fair amount of "how did they do that". So in-universe: Assuming the Master wants to kill Runcible, which he obviously does, then it's reasonable that one Time Lord plotting to kill another would plan for the possibility of regeneration. | ::::It's more the point that the Master (and indeed, the writers) clearly knew about regeneration. There are always a lot of "X factors" (unknowns) involved in any story concerning Time Lords - including a fair amount of "how did they do that". So in-universe: Assuming the Master wants to kill Runcible, which he obviously does, then it's reasonable that one Time Lord plotting to kill another would plan for the possibility of regeneration. | ||
::Regenerating would presumably only save his life if he could first extract the weapon sticking out of his back. Perhaps having tried and failed to remove it himself, he staggers down to the Panopticon looking for help, only for the trauma and internal bleeding to become irreversible before he can find any. | ::Regenerating would presumably only save his life if he could first extract the weapon sticking out of his back. Perhaps having tried and failed to remove it himself, he staggers down to the Panopticon looking for help, only for the trauma and internal bleeding to become irreversible before he can find any. | ||
::Maybe Runcible had already had his full cycle of twelve regenerations. | |||
* Just before the "train attack" in the APC Net, the Doctor's enemy is seen within three different trains, all of which are of too wide a gauge to even fit on the tracks. Indeed, the train that actually runs the Doctor down turns out to be a far smaller vehicle than any of those three, making their (lack of) purpose in the plot very obscure. | * Just before the "train attack" in the APC Net, the Doctor's enemy is seen within three different trains, all of which are of too wide a gauge to even fit on the tracks. Indeed, the train that actually runs the Doctor down turns out to be a far smaller vehicle than any of those three, making their (lack of) purpose in the plot very obscure. | ||
