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|species = Time Lord | |species = Time Lord | ||
|job = Lord Burner | |job = Lord Burner | ||
|job2 = | |job2 = tutor | ||
|job3 = Lord Cardinal | |job3 = Lord Cardinal | ||
|job4 = High Chancellor | |job4 = High Chancellor | ||
|job5 = Lord President | |job5 = Lord President | ||
|affiliation = High Council | |affiliation = Braxiatel Collection | ||
|affiliation2 = High Council | |||
|origin = [[Gallifrey]] | |origin = [[Gallifrey]] | ||
|child = Maggie Matsumoto | |child = Maggie Matsumoto | ||
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== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
=== Early life | === Early life === | ||
[[File:The Empire of Glass IB.jpg|thumb|left|Braxiatel as he appeared when meeting the [[First Doctor]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Empire of Glass (novel)|The Empire of Glass]]'')]] | [[File:The Empire of Glass IB.jpg|thumb|left|Braxiatel as he appeared when meeting the [[First Doctor]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Empire of Glass (novel)|The Empire of Glass]]'')]] | ||
As a youngster on [[Gallifrey]], Braxiatel lived with [[the Doctor|his brother]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Tears of the Oracle (novel)|Tears of the Oracle]]'') and [[The Doctor's sisters|sisters]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Arachnids in the UK (TV story)|Arachnids in the UK]]'') He also hinted to the [[Oracle of the Lost]] that he had lost either a daughter or a sister. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Tears of the Oracle (novel)|Tears of the Oracle]]'') At school, Braxiatel was taught that "[[time]] plays silly buggers with us all". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Winging It (short story)|Winging It]]'') His mentor at [[Time Lord Academy|the Academy]] was [[Danna|Danna Dementara]], who taught him how to be a diplomat and a soldier. She taught him how to shoot down a whole flock of [[Pazithi bat]]s with one shot. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Soldier Obscura (audio story)|Soldier Obscura]]'') | As a youngster on [[Gallifrey]], Braxiatel lived with [[the Doctor|his brother]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Tears of the Oracle (novel)|Tears of the Oracle]]'') and [[The Doctor's sisters|sisters]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Arachnids in the UK (TV story)|Arachnids in the UK]]'') He also hinted to the [[Oracle of the Lost]] that he had lost either a daughter or a sister. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Tears of the Oracle (novel)|Tears of the Oracle]]'') At school, Braxiatel was taught that "[[time]] plays silly buggers with us all". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Winging It (short story)|Winging It]]'') His mentor at [[Time Lord Academy|the Academy]] was [[Danna|Danna Dementara]], who taught him how to be a diplomat and a soldier. She taught him how to shoot down a whole flock of [[Pazithi bat]]s with one shot. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Soldier Obscura (audio story)|Soldier Obscura]]'') | ||
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[[Maris]]' [[potential engine]] told him that the Doctor's brother was a government stooge. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir (short story)|Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir]]'') At one point, Braxiatel held the position of [[Lord Burner]], the personal assassin of President [[Pandad VII]], who "burned" people from history. During this time, he allowed "[[First Doctor|an old man]]" and "[[Susan Foreman|his granddaughter]]" to flee Gallifrey, even though Braxiatel had been given the order to erase them from history. The very same day, President Pandad died when a power relay in his office overloaded; an inquiry headed by Braxiatel found that this was an "accident". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Disassembled (audio story)|Disassembled]]'') | [[Maris]]' [[potential engine]] told him that the Doctor's brother was a government stooge. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir (short story)|Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir]]'') At one point, Braxiatel held the position of [[Lord Burner]], the personal assassin of President [[Pandad VII]], who "burned" people from history. During this time, he allowed "[[First Doctor|an old man]]" and "[[Susan Foreman|his granddaughter]]" to flee Gallifrey, even though Braxiatel had been given the order to erase them from history. The very same day, President Pandad died when a power relay in his office overloaded; an inquiry headed by Braxiatel found that this was an "accident". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Disassembled (audio story)|Disassembled]]'') | ||
=== Beginning the Collection === | |||
Braxiatel calculated that [[Project Alpha]]'s [[Timonic Fusion Device]] would be devastating and, after failing to convince [[Glower]] to put an end to the project, placed a [[data bomb]] in [[the Matrix]] recording information on it and its destruction of [[Minyos]]. However, time was changed and the device was stolen, with Braxiatel being told that it had been dismantled. Given the amount of destruction that the device could have caused, he was driven to begin the [[Braxiatel Collection]], gathering art from across the universe for its own protection, a mission which involved regularly communicating with his future selves. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Inquiry (audio story)|The Inquiry]]'') | |||
In his position as the Time Lords' unofficial ambassador, Braxiatel organised the [[Armageddon Convention]], which he tried to get the [[Third Doctor]] to chair, but after the [[The Three Doctors (TV story)|Omega crisis]], his agents accidentally brought the [[First Doctor|wrong incarnation]]. The Convention was not particularly successful, although it did outlaw the use of [[Cyber-bomb]]s. Due to the relative failure of the Convention, Braxiatel decided to begin focusing on building up his Collection rather than involving himself in galactic politics. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Empire of Glass (novel)|The Empire of Glass]]'') | In his position as the Time Lords' unofficial ambassador, Braxiatel organised the [[Armageddon Convention]], which he tried to get the [[Third Doctor]] to chair, but after the [[The Three Doctors (TV story)|Omega crisis]], his agents accidentally brought the [[First Doctor|wrong incarnation]]. The Convention was not particularly successful, although it did outlaw the use of [[Cyber-bomb]]s. Due to the relative failure of the Convention, Braxiatel decided to begin focusing on building up his Collection rather than involving himself in galactic politics. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Empire of Glass (novel)|The Empire of Glass]]'') | ||
Wanting to find like-minded people, Braxiatel helped found the [[Collector's Guild]], though rarely played a part in the way it was governed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Cost for a Collection (short story)|The Cost for a Collection]]'') | Wanting to find like-minded people, Braxiatel helped found the [[Collector's Guild]], though rarely played a part in the way it was governed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Cost for a Collection (short story)|The Cost for a Collection]]'') | ||
=== Brax of the Collection === | |||
==== On Dellah ==== | |||
Another version of Braxiatel became the head of the [[Department of Theatrology]] at [[St Oscar's University]] on the planet [[Dellah]], where he met Bernice Summerfield after her meeting with his other self. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dragons' Wrath (novel)|Dragons' Wrath]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Disassembled (audio story)|Disassembled]]'') They became friends, and he supported her in several adventures. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]'', ''[[The Medusa Effect (novel)|The Medusa Effect]]'', ''[[Deadfall (novel)|Deadfall]]'') After Bernice obtained a post at the archaeology department in [[2593]], the pair of them became entangled in many adventures. Braxiatel was on Dellah during the rise of the [[All-High God]]s and helped to evacuate a group of survivors. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Where Angels Fear (novel)|Where Angels Fear]]'') | |||
During this time, he won [[KS-159]], the future home of his Collection. Braxiatel supported Benny when she was dying and through her memory-loss that came with the recovery, conspiring with Jason, Chris, and Clarence to stop Benny from abandoning them all for the dangerous Eastern Rim. Braxiatel supported the Time Lords when their problems with [[the People]] had to be resolved. He supported the team in sending Dellah back to the Gods' universe, destroying that threat and ending the prospect of a war between the People and the Time Lords. In the aftermath, after leaving Vremnya, Braxiatel invited Benny to join him on the newly established Collection. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Tears of the Oracle (novel)|Tears of the Oracle]]'', ''[[Return to the Fractured Planet (novel)|Return to the Fractured Planet]]'', ''[[The Joy Device (novel)|The Joy Device]]'', ''[[Twilight of the Gods (BNA novel)|Twilight of the Gods]]'', ''[[The Doomsday Manuscript (novel)|The Doomsday Manuscript]]'') | |||
The [[Braxiatel Collection]] (one of the greatest art galleries in [[Mutter's Spiral|the galaxy]]) was founded by Braxiatel on KS-159. It had extensive archaeological libraries which could be used with Braxiatel's permission. Braxiatel's collection of books contained every book banned by the [[Catholic Church]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Tears of the Oracle (novel)|Tears of the Oracle]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Theatre of War (novel)|Theatre of War]]'') | |||
The reason for the creation of the Braxiatel Collection was the disastrous test of the Timonic Fusion Device, which destroyed the planet [[Minyos]], prompting Braxiatel to begin collecting and preserving historical artefacts in case such widespread destruction ever happened again. He also admitted that he had transgressed the Laws of Time by being in contact with his future [[regeneration]]s. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Inquiry (audio story)|The Inquiry]]'') | |||
He often used Benny as an expert as part of his art dealings. Wishing to obtain a [[Halstad Harp]] he took her to an auction on [[Palastrid]]. Discovering the truth behind the death of the planet [[Halstad]] he wanted to employ [[Hulver]] to his collection. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Extinction Event (audio story)|The Extinction Event]]'') | |||
While Benny was working at the Braxiatel Collection, a conspiracy started to form around Braxiatel. While all the characters were shown dark, twisted mirror images of themselves, Braxiatel was unaffected, and when [[Jason Kane]] wondered if the real Braxiatel was the mirror version, he was brainwashed into an inability to be suspicious of Braxiatel. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Mirror Effect (audio story)|The Mirror Effect]]'') Further incidents showed the Time Lord to be far more dangerous and manipulative than he let on — he used a brainwashed Jason for his own ends, had murder done in his name, and caused a civil war in the [[Domus]] system. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Life in Pieces (anthology)|A Life in Pieces]]''{{Which}}) | |||
The [[Eighth Doctor]] once visited the Braxiatel Collection at [[Christmas]] and dropped off a pair of socks for Braxiatel, signed "Thete". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[...Be Forgot (short story)|...Be Forgot]]'') | |||
[[Patrick Quilby]] was an old friend of his and asked Braxiatel for the services of an archaeologist in his protection of [[Bellotron]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Bellotron Incident (audio story)|The Bellotron Incident]]'') He then asked her to go to [[Draconia]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Draconian Rage (audio story)|The Draconian Rage]]'') The [[Earth Reptile Council]] asked Brax to look after a counterterrorism mission and sent Benny to [[Chosan (planet)|Chosan]] to help find the culprit among the [[Sea Devil]]s. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Poison Seas (audio story)|The Poison Seas]]'') Braxiatel was finally caught when the Collection was occupied by the [[Fifth Axis]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Life During Wartime (anthology)|Life During Wartime]]''{{Which}}) He was kept under house arrest and often tortured until he would tell [[Mushtaq Anson]] where [[Irving Braxiatel's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] was. After [[Bev Tarrant]] was rescued he authorised her to start the liberation of the Collection. After Joseph told him that the Daleks were behind the Fifth Axis, he decided to act. He escaped his prison and then assumed control of the liberation army. He used the [[Dalek time machine]] that was left on the Collection to destroy Fifth Axis fleets using [[Isaac Summerfield]]'s connection as the [[Dalek Battle Computer]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Death and the Daleks (audio story)|Death and the Daleks]]'') | |||
Whilst playing a game of [[tennis]] he first bumped into [[Veronica Bland]], and kept meeting up with her. He hadn't found a replacement for Mr [[Crofton]] and whilst Jason was offworld he had to take care of them. He became overprotective of Veronica. He delibrately got Benny drunk to find out why she didn't like Veronica. Benny accused Brax that he was collecting Veronica for the Collection. He then banished Benny for this view. He had installed cameras in Veronica's room and found Benny was in the Collection. Benny realised that Brax was being controlled by Veronica. At the wedding he realised this and fell out of love with her and made everyone not love her. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Braxiatel in Love (audio story)|Braxiatel in Love]]'') | |||
To ensure the Collection would survive, he recruited an army. He turned to the colony of [[Cantus]], which had been taken over long ago by the [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]], and had a member of the Collection, [[Ronan McGinley]], turned into a [[Cyber-Controller]] subject to Braxiatel's will. Using a mysterious [[Gallifreyan crystal]], Ronan made all the Cybermen follow Braxiatel's orders. It was later revealed that the crystal was slowly killing Ronan, so Braxiatel arranged for Jason to arrive on Cantus to become the new Controller. Thanks to Benny, this plan backfired and Jason remembered everything that Braxiatel had done to him. Braxiatel was forced to leave the Collection. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Crystal of Cantus (audio story)|The Crystal of Cantus]]'') | |||
Braxiatel's absence (and activities after leaving) led to the [[Draconian]] Empire claiming a territorial right to the Collection, as well as getting into a war with the [[Mim]]. Bernice Summerfield eventually tracked down Braxiatel to return him to the Collection to handle the situation. He had travelled back in time and found an ascetic to transform him into an amber-coloured crystal, known as the Stone of Barter, in which form he remained for around 3000 years. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Empire State (audio story)|The Empire State]]'') Taking the [[Gravity Rainbow]] back to the Collection as part of the cargo. He did this in order to avoid Benny, as he didn't want to live up to the stuff he had done to her and Jason. He also hid in the box in order to avoid the monsters in the light. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Tub Full of Cats (audio story)|The Tub Full of Cats]]'') When he arrived he was determined to fix his TARDIS then leave, but he was roped into finding some way to remove the gauntlet that Bev had on her hand. This meant he had no time to sort out the defences to the Collection allowing the Draconians to invade. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Judas Gift (audio story)|The Judas Gift]]'') He proved successful in stopping the war, though he stopped the war in secret by convincing Collection [[gardener]] [[Hass]] to kill the entire Mimsphere, framing the Draconians for it. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Freedom of Information (audio story)|Freedom of Information]]'') | |||
Jason Kane grew suspicious that Bernice and he were meant to still be married and have children, but that Braxiatel had altered the timeline for his own purposes. He also began to believe Irving had altered the lives and timelines of everyone at the Collection for his own ends and only Jason could notice. He eventually found proof. Braxiatel had deliberately orchestrated [[Parallel Lives|the breakdown and death]] of [[Clarissa Jones]] (after she had noticed his manipulations), had manipulated time to ''create'' a Draconian/Mim war, and was "grooming" Bernice as part of his agenda to preserve the past via his Collection. The Collection was his [[TARDIS]], making his temporal manipulations easier. To prevent Jason revealing any of this, Braxiatel manipulated [[Peter Summerfield]] into killing him. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The End of the World (audio story)|The End of the World]]'') | |||
While pretending to be just a resident, Braxiatel regained dominance of the Collection via a puppet provisional government and, using his ally [[Doggles]], manipulating a mourning Bernice to bring her closer to him. This failed and Bernice escaped with her son. Braxiatel sent agents to track her down. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Wake (audio story)|The Wake]]'') He once asked Benny to paint him which he used to keep as part of his vault in the [[Vingus Bank]]. The bank staff were clones of him for security reasons. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Glory Days (audio story)|Glory Days]]'') | |||
Braxiatel's reasons for setting up the Collection where he did were later revealed to be due to the location of a great temporal leak depositing enough power to fuel a hundred colonies, or perhaps even bring back his own people. He began to syphon the leak, moving it to the planet [[Maximediras]] which he had just purchased following the failure of its economy, thinking it could potentially become a new homeworld for his people. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Resurrecting the Past (audio story)|Resurrecting the Past]]'') Whilst plotting to restore his people he became aware of the [[Deindum]], a species in the future who would learn the secret of time travel and could rival his own people. He attempted to prevent their creation using Frost but was ironically stopped by the involvement of Bernice Summerfield and Robyn, an android created by this race and sent back in time to ensure their creation. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Secret Origins (audio story)|Secret Origins]]'') | |||
His reasons for keeping such a close eye on Bernice Summerfield, and tampering with her personal history, were revealed when it appeared she was destined to fall through a portal in time and become instrumental in the creation of the Deindum. Unable to prevent their creation Braxiatel, with the help of Doggles, planned to turn them into less aggressive creatures by altering the genetic material they would be based on. However, due to the actions of Robyn and [[Hass]], Bernice was prevented from falling through the portal at all, leaving the Deindum a far more aggressive and paranoid species than before. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Resurrecting the Past (audio story)|Resurrecting the Past]]'') The Deindum travelled back and began a full-scale invasion of the galaxy in order to protect their own history and ensure their creation. Keen at first to fight off these enemies of his own people, Braxiatel led a galaxy-wide resistance against the Deindum, although he eventually lost faith in his abilities and surrendered to his defeat. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Present Danger (short story)|Present Danger]]'') | |||
Braxiatel was captured and tortured by the Deindum, before being rescued from the Deindum mothership by Bernice Summerfield. She finally confronted him with the death of Jason, and he explained that Jason was about to be used against him by the Deindum. He expressed no guilt for his actions, except that he had failed in his mission and brought about the Deindum's creation. When Bernice offered him an alternative solution he expressed interest, and finally (begrudgingly) apologised for Jason's death. He and Bernice began to engage in a personal time war against the Deindum, engineering a plan to prevent them from ever having existed. The plan worked, although just before its conclusion Braxiatel was shot by a Deindum soldier. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Escaping the Future (audio story)|Escaping the Future]]'') | |||
=== Brax of Gallifrey === | === Brax of Gallifrey === | ||
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He was Gallifrey's chief negotiator in the true temporal summit, whilst Romana attended her duties and the fake summit. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Square One (Gallifrey audio story)|Square One]]'') | He was Gallifrey's chief negotiator in the true temporal summit, whilst Romana attended her duties and the fake summit. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Square One (Gallifrey audio story)|Square One]]'') | ||
Braxiatel | Braxiatel presided over the Inquiry into Romana's actions on Gryben. He knew that a Timonic Fusion Device existed and Darkel's line of questioning was wrong. When K9 accidentally let off a data bomb, he became worried when the data in [[the Matrix]] had a recording of its explosion, an explosion that didn't happen. He suggested to Leela to go to the Archives if she wanted to know more about Andred. When Darkel said that he had illegally interfered in the affairs of the universe, he said that all he was doing was protecting a set of art treasures. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Inquiry (audio story)|The Inquiry]]'') | ||
Braxiatel was a [[tutor]] in the Time Lord Academy when [[Romana I]] attended. When she was contacted by [[Pandora]], she told him. He hypnotised her to forget not only Pandora but also him. As a result, she recalled only having heard of him through his art collection before her eventual return to Gallifrey from [[E-Space]]. He guided her subsequent rise to the Presidency in order to watch her closely for any evidence of Pandora's influence. He eventually became in charge of the academy and asked Romana to appoint him to the role of chancellor. He chastised [[Wynter (Lies)|Wynter]] for leaving Romana in the catacombs. He worked out that Narvin was being framed and wasn't the cause of the [[Archivist (The Inquiry)|Archivist's]] death. He went with Narvin to find Romana in the vaults. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Lies (audio story)|Lies]]'') | Braxiatel was a [[tutor]] in the Time Lord Academy when [[Romana I]] attended. When she was contacted by [[Pandora]], she told him. He hypnotised her to forget not only Pandora but also him. As a result, she recalled only having heard of him through his art collection before her eventual return to Gallifrey from [[E-Space]]. He guided her subsequent rise to the Presidency in order to watch her closely for any evidence of Pandora's influence. He eventually became in charge of the academy and asked Romana to appoint him to the role of chancellor. He chastised [[Wynter (Lies)|Wynter]] for leaving Romana in the catacombs. He worked out that Narvin was being framed and wasn't the cause of the [[Archivist (The Inquiry)|Archivist's]] death. He went with Narvin to find Romana in the vaults. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Lies (audio story)|Lies]]'') | ||
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He was actually kidnapped by [[the Epoch]]. The Epoch took Braxiatel to a point beyond time, where his memory was altered to make him think that he was an actor, called Miles Richardson, portraying Braxiatel. Bernice awoke the dormant personalities in her companions and defeated the Epoch by burying it under paradoxes of its own creation. Using the Epoch's technology, Braxiatel then sought out a way to find Gallifrey. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[In Living Memory (audio story)|In Living Memory]]'') | He was actually kidnapped by [[the Epoch]]. The Epoch took Braxiatel to a point beyond time, where his memory was altered to make him think that he was an actor, called Miles Richardson, portraying Braxiatel. Bernice awoke the dormant personalities in her companions and defeated the Epoch by burying it under paradoxes of its own creation. Using the Epoch's technology, Braxiatel then sought out a way to find Gallifrey. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[In Living Memory (audio story)|In Living Memory]]'') | ||
=== Another incarnation === | === Another incarnation === | ||
