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Despite the Doctor's protestations that [[Planet X (Planet X)|Planet X]] was boring, Bernice managed to persuade him. He was arrested upon arrival for being too interesting. He discovered that the populace was decreasing due to the population being processed to be boring, believing that they would be protected from the wider universe if nobody was interested in them. He was to be processed but the gas they used didn't affect him. He worked out that 20 million people were killed in 5 years. He escaped and met [[Ego (Planet X)|Ego]] where he was invited to a suicide party and re-arrested. In the final confrontation with [[Prime Minister 470]], he exposed the truth about her reign while she was trying to torture him, encouraging the rest of the population to explore possibilities rather than being boring all the time. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Planet X (audio story)|Planet X]]'')

The two of them then visited Tramatz to stop an imminent attack but got distracted by the singing river. [[Megatz]] inquired into why they were there but he had forgotton why after a couple of weeks on the planet. When Benny saw a unicorn he told her to talk to it to calm it down. He spent his time listening to the world. He wouldn't allow Benny to keep the unicorn. It became glaringly obvious that a weapon that had ended the war was warping reality and making people unaware of their impending doom. After the weapon was disabled, he decided to visit Admiral [[Effenish]] in order to try and stop the war from restarting. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Very Dark Thing (audio story)|The Very Dark Thing]]'')

The TARDIS then received a distress call from the end of the universe from the [[Mother Superior (The Library in the Body)|Mother Superior]] to take her to the Emporium. He met the Manager, the Master in disguise, and found him familiar. He was escorted out of the building for trying to sneak around the Master's offices. He later decided to sell his memories to help people escape this universe, only to learn that he had already sold them to keep this universe alive. With this revelation, and his subconscious recognition of the Master, the Doctor realised that the Master's portal, which was allegedly sending lucky people to an alternate universe, was actually disintegrating them and creating the illusion of accelerated universal destruction so that the Master could guarantee his own escape. The Master was subsequently thrown into the portal and disintegrated, leaving the Doctor and Benny to explore this universe and find another way to save it. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Emporium At The End (audio story)|The Emporium At The End]]'')

Forced to officially take on his title of [[Ruler of the Universe]] in order to try and protect the survivors of this dying reality, the Doctor funded Bernice's mission to excavate the site of the [[Apocalypse Clock (The City and the Clock)|Apocalypse Clock]] as a means to save his universe from destruction, even as he admitted later that he'd never seriously expected her research to bear any fruit and mainly did it to try and secure a public victory to improve his credibility. Benny asked him to come and look at the dig. He was grumpy at his job, due to the amount of paper work and the remedial talks he had to do. He was stuck on [[Merin (planet)|Merin]] as he didn't negotiate the settlement of strikes of the spaceport staff a week earlier. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The City and the Clock (audio story)|The City and the Clock]]'')

Troubled by his inability to help others due to the bureaucracy of his position as president, he attended regular appointments with the therapist [[Guilana (Asking for a Friend)|Guilana]]. He discussed such issues as his perception of other people as tools to help him or his frustration at the bureaucracy that prevented him helping certain planets as he tried to "punish" troublesome rulers. She helped him to remember portions of the Great War. However, his appointments ended when he was revealed to have manipulated Guilana's timeline to save her former fiancé from the shuttle accident that killed him. He did this because he wanted to make someone happy when he lost a planet and a friend. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Asking for a Friend (audio story)|Asking for a Friend]]'')

He eventually became so frustrated with his position as president that he went off in the TARDIS to try and find some random alien invasion to deal with, but his efforts failed as his new reputation meant that every alien he encountered immediately backed down when they recognised him, and his only discovery of a "successful" invasion was more morally complex as the "invasion" had occurred sixty years earlier and aside from the children of the original invaders, the only member of the planet's original inhabitants left was one old woman who liked her isolation, forcing the Doctor to accept things as they were. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Truant (audio story)|Truant]]'')

The Doctor plotted to step down from running the universe, and concocted a grand scheme to make the change seem natural. He made plans to sabotage his credibility as leader, and allowed the Master to take his place. Using the energy discharged from the Apocalypse Clock, which the Master had believed would awaken the [[Great Old One]]s before the Doctor stole the energy for himself, he then returned Benny to her home universe, only to realise that he too was trapped there. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The True Saviour of the Universe (audio story)|The True Saviour of the Universe]]'')