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=== Beginning the Collection ===
=== Beginning the Collection ===
Braxiatel became a [[Lord Cardinal|cardinal]], sitting on the [[High Council]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Extinction Event (audio story)|Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Extinction Event]]'', ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]'', etc.)
Braxiatel became a [[Lord Cardinal|cardinal]] but did not have a seat on the [[High Council]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Extinction Event (audio story)|Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Extinction Event]]'', ''[[Lies (audio story)|Lies]]'', etc.)


He 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]]'')
He 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]]'')
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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]]'')


=== Gallifreyan politics ===
=== Romana's presidency ===
Braxiatel came to Romana after the events of the third [[moon]] of [[Kikrit]] to help her explain what happened. He informed [[Leela]] that Romana wanted her help. He knew of the [[Free Time]] movement on [[Gryben]] and was worried when they knew of terrible time technologies. Romana asked him for his opinion on the situation on Gryben. He thought that the story which [[Mephistopheles Arkadian]] told could mean that the [[Monan Host]] were trying to usurp the Time Lords. When the situation on Gryben worsened as a combination of the Monan Security forces and the [[Timonic Fusion Device]] was armed, he stopped Romana from evacuating the [[planet]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Weapon of Choice (audio story)|Weapon of Choice]]'')
Braxiatel sought [[Romana II]] out when she returned to Gallifrey and supported her throughout her campaign to become [[Lord President|president]], wanting to keep an eye on her due to [[Pandora]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Lies (audio story)|Lies]]'') and planning to succeed her. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Pandora (audio story)|Pandora]]'') Some years after her election, he informed her when the [[Eighth Doctor]]'s [[the Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] dematerialised of its own accord, having been infected with [[anti-time]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]'')  


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]]'')
Months later, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Lies (audio story)|Lies]]'') Braxiatel went to the [[Outland]]s with [[K9 Mark I]] to take [[Leela]] back to the [[Capitol]] and discussed the issues of the [[Timonic Fusion Device]] and [[Gryben]] with Romana and [[Narvin]], later countermanding Romana's command for Gallifrey's [[transduction barrier]]s to be lowered for the refugees. [[Darkel]] informed him that there would be an inquiry into how the Gryben situation was handled. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Weapon of Choice (audio story)|Weapon of Choice]]'')


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]]'')
Whilst a pretend [[temporal summit]] was held elsewhere under [[Hossak|Liaison Officer Hossak]]'s supervision, Braxiatel attended the real one as Gallifrey's chief negotiator. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Square One (Gallifrey audio story)|Square One]]'')


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]]'')
Alongside Darkel, Braxiatel presided over the inquiry into Romana's actions. He was arrested by [[Andred|"Torvald"]] once his flouting of the [[Laws of Time]] became known, although he claimed that he did so for the benefit of the universe, and was let off when Romana determined his crimes to be inconsequential. He admitted that he had planned to install a data bomb should Project Alpha have gone ahead to ensure that it could not be covered up and also suggested that Leela look at Andred's [[biodata]] in the [[Panopticon Archive]] to help with her search for him. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Inquiry (audio story)|The Inquiry]]'')


Secretly, throughout his rise to power, he was in communication with his past and future selves, sending items to his collection. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Lies (audio story)|Lies]]'') President Romana knew this and held the information over him; he would be disgraced if it were known that he had broken the laws of time.
Braxiatel was placed in charge of Romana's new university and set his sights on the office of [[High Chancellor]] and a place on the [[High Council]], two things that Romana told him that she would not give him due to their friendship and Braxiatel's involvement with his past and future selves. He defended [[Narvin]] when he was implicated in Andred's escape and, in the vaults, confessed to Romana that he had put a [[memory block]] on her at the Academy. Following [[Pandora]]'s apparent defeat, Braxiatel recommended that Narvin, whom he had told about his law-breaking, be given a selective memory wipe. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Lies (audio story)|Lies]]'')


He presided over the Inquiry over the Pandora incident and recommended to Romana that she take Garden Leave whilst the K9's tracked Pandora in the Matrix. He had to debate with Darkel that this wasn't evidence of Romana not being fit for office. When an intruder came to [[Davidia]], he was tasked with finding out which Time Lord it was. He recalled Romana when K9 found Pandora in the Matrix. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Spirit (audio story)|Spirit]]'')
More than a week later, Braxiatel suggested that Romana take a leave of absence whilst K9 Mark I and [[K9 Mark II|Mark II]] scoured [[the Matrix]] for Pandora, aware of Darkel's desire for her to step down. He investigated [[Wynter (Lies)|the broken man]] and planned to collect him and his TARDIS secretly to protect Romana, a mission in which he was unsuccessful. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Spirit (audio story)|Spirit]]'')  


He suggested to let [[Castellan]] Wynter oversee the investigation of the mysterious body. When Andred informed him about when [[Gillestes]] tried to poison the water supply. Eventually, Braxiatel became High [[Chancellor]], a post empty for many years since Romana's predecessor had overthrown ''his'' predecessor. Mere hours later Braxiatel had to use his mind to contain the past and present forms of [[Pandora]]. Pandora would be able to escape if he ever connected to the Matrix or [[telepathy|telepathically]] communicated with another Time Lord mind, so Braxiatel exiled himself from Gallifrey. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Pandora (audio story)|Pandora]]'')
Braxiatel was finally made Chancellor after Darkel suggested that Romana do so for the good of Gallifrey. He appointed Leela as acting castellan in Wynter's absence ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Pandora (audio story)|Pandora]]'') and successfully trapped Pandora inside Darkel's mind after she released her, storing some of the creature in his own mind to act as a key to its true prison. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mindbomb (audio story)|Mindbomb]]'') He chose to protect Gallifrey from her by entering a self-imposed [[exile]] to keep Pandora from entering the Matrix, but Romana was forced to strip him of his titles and exile him in disgrace after Narvin made his breaking of the Laws of Time known. Before leaving, he advised Romana to place Leela in charge of the Academy. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Pandora (audio story)|Pandora]]'')


When Romana destroyed the future form of Pandora, as well as its intelligence, it also destroyed the Matrix. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Warfare (audio story)|Warfare]]'') After Romana was removed from office, Braxiatel returned briefly and unexpectedly to Gallifrey and assumed the post of [[Lord President]], since there was now nowhere for the Pandora entity to escape to. Having conspired with [[Matthias]], he claimed that as Inquisitor [[Darkel]] had cancelled much of Romana's presidential edicts, he was restored to the position of Chancellor and Vice-President. His first act was to free Romana.
=== Exile and the Axis ===
In exile, Braxiatel had a number of adventures in which he took down the [[Free Time]] movement. He heard several rumours of [[Gallifrey]] one day [[Last Great Time War|facing a terrible threat]] which only [[Pandora]] would have had the strength to defeat and also realised that whoever was president during the [[Dogma Virus]] situation would be taken down. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Panacea (audio story)|Panacea]]'')


The ambitious Darkel goaded Braxiatel into losing control of Pandora, believing that it would destroy Braxiatel's mind. Braxiatel revealed that only a remnant of the entity had ever been in his mind; the bulk of it had sought refuge in Darkel's mind and Braxiatel had merely been the key that kept it restrained. Freed, Pandora consumed both Darkel and itself. Immediately resigning, Braxiatel named Matthias his successor, much to Romana's surprise, and returned to his exile, retaining the last fragments of Pandora within him. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mindbomb (audio story)|Mindbomb]]'')
Following the destruction of the Matrix, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Warfare (audio story)|Warfare]]'') Braxiatel returned to Gallifrey. He publicly declared that Darkel was not president due to the stripping of his offices being technically annulled, meaning that [[Valyes]] was never Chancellor and could not appoint her as his successor. Braxiatel claimed the presidency for himself but, unable to deal with Pandora's hatred in his mind in the presence of so many Time Lords, he resigned and appointed [[Matthias]] as his successor, seeking to save Romana. Before returning to his exile, he used the small amount of Pandora in his mind to free the creature imprisoned in Darkel, which devoured her. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mindbomb (audio story)|Mindbomb]]'')


Braxiatel was not done: hearing rumours of a threat against Gallifrey and deciding that in its weakened state the world was doomed, he hatched a scheme to preserve the Time Lord [[biodata]] archive, holding the genetic patterns of all Time Lords, past and present, hoping to reconstruct Gallifrey after its inevitable fall. As the [[Free Time]] [[Dogma Virus]] ravaged Gallifrey, Matthias ordered Romana to find the cure, then go into exile. Romana followed the trail, only to find Braxiatel. He had nominated Matthias knowing that whoever was President was doomed to fall to the Dogma virus. The only cure was to end the Time Lords' regeneration capabilities. With [[K9]]'s help, Braxiatel used a [[Time Scoop]] to collect the biodata archive. He asked Romana to decide whether to administer the cure or to let Gallifrey die and rebuild it using the biodata. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Panacea (audio story)|Panacea]]'')
Braxiatel brought Romana and [[Elbon]] to the [[Axis]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Reborn (audio story)|Reborn]]'') although he pretended that they were on a [[planetoid]]. He used a [[Time Scoop]] to remove the biodata archive, along with Leela and Narvin,  with the intention of using it to reconstruct the Time Lords following Gallifrey's fall. However, matters were complicated after a cure that removed the ability to [[regeneration|regenerate]] headed to Gallifrey with a consignment of guns. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Panacea (audio story)|Panacea]]'') He located a [[portal]] in the Axis which led to [[Gallifrey (Reborn)|a Gallifrey]] that he wished to explore.


Braxiatel took Romana, Leela, K9 and Narvin to the [[Axis]]. They explored numerous alternate Gallifreys to find one on which they could live. The first [[Gallifrey (Reborn)|Gallifrey]] they explored, was one where Romana didn't travel with the Doctor. He became intrigued when one of the Time Lords tried to sell his future incarnations to Brax and Romana. He flirted with the alternative version of Romana. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Reborn (audio story)|Reborn]]'') He stayed behind on the Axis so that no-one from an alternate timeline could take over it. On one of these Gallifreys, they encountered an alternate version of [[Burner Doctor|the Doctor]], who returned to the Axis. It turned out the Doctor meant to assassinate Braxiatel, and during a fight, they fell into one of the Axis's portals. Romana said it likely that they would be falling through time for eternity, but it was possible that one or both of them would end up in one of the timelines. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Disassembled (audio story)|Disassembled]]'')
On the first Gallifrey that the group visited, Braxiatel met and flirted with [[Romana (Reborn)|an alternative Romana]] and was intrigued by the selling of [[regeneration]]s. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Reborn (audio story)|Reborn]]'') Upon returning to the Axis, he remained there to prevent it from being taken over by anybody from an alternative timeline and fought with [[Burner Doctor|an alternative Doctor]] who attempted to do so, falling into a portal with him. Romana said that it was likely that they would fall through time for eternity, although one or both of them might survive and land in one of the timelines. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Disassembled (audio story)|Disassembled]]'')


=== Brax of Dellah ===
=== Brax of Dellah ===
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