Irving Braxiatel: Difference between revisions

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 ====

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]]'')

[[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]]'')

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]]'')

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]]'')

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]]'')

He tried his best to make Benny comfortable. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Vesuvius Falling (audio story)|Vesuvius Falling]]'') He decided to buy a house for Benny outside Legion City for her to store her archaeological finds. He bought it from [[Galot]], one of his other self's acquaintances. Benny then inquired into how he wasn't the Braxiatel she knew. He explained that there were other versions of him and they knew the bigger picture, and the more he knew about the other Braxiatel he didn't like him. He got Benny to check over the base. It was also at this point he bought [[the Irverfield]] to use on missions to other planets. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Everybody Loves Irving (audio story)|Everybody Loves Irving]]'')