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'''Ushas''', better known as '''the Rani''', was a [[renegade Time Lord]]. | '''Ushas''', better known as '''the Rani''', was a [[renegade Time Lord]]. A brilliant but cold neurochemist, she knew [[the Doctor]] and [[the Master]] when all three were young and was a member of the Deca, and became an enemy of the former and an unwilling ally of the latter. | ||
== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
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Ushas was on an Academy research project when the Doctor was expelled from the Academy. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties]]'') The Doctor was invited to her 94th birthday party. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Death of Art (novel)|The Death of Art]]'') At the Doctor's graduation, there was an incident involving Ushas and a giant [[rat]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Party Animals (comic story)|Party Animals]]'') | Ushas was on an Academy research project when the Doctor was expelled from the Academy. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties]]'') The Doctor was invited to her 94th birthday party. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Death of Art (novel)|The Death of Art]]'') At the Doctor's graduation, there was an incident involving Ushas and a giant [[rat]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Party Animals (comic story)|Party Animals]]'') | ||
Ushas felt that she was never forgiven for the incident with the President's cat and opted out of Time Lord society. She took a TARDIS and settled on [[Miasimia Goria]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties]]'') under the name of "the Rani". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mark of the Rani (TV story)|The Mark of the Rani]]'') | Ushas felt that she was never forgiven for the incident with the President's cat and opted out of Time Lord society, becoming a renegade. She took a TARDIS and settled on [[Miasimia Goria]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties]]'') under the name of "the Rani". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mark of the Rani (TV story)|The Mark of the Rani]]'') | ||
=== Life as a renegade === | === Life as a renegade === | ||
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==== Presence in Earth history ==== | ==== Presence in Earth history ==== | ||
While the Rani certainly did not share the Doctor's fondness for [[Earth]], which she considered a "miserable planet," it was the focus of several of her research projects. At some point, she had visited Earth in the [[distant past]] and acquired several [[tyrannosaur]] embryos. | While the Rani certainly did not share the Doctor's fondness for [[Earth]], which she considered a "miserable planet," it was the focus of several of her research projects. She was also disdainful of humans themselves, and called them carnivores because they ate animals. At some point, she had visited Earth in the [[distant past]] and acquired several [[tyrannosaur]] embryos. | ||
When the test subjects on [[Miasimia Goria]], a planet she had enslaved, became violently restless and uncontrollable as a side effect of her experiments on them, the Rani visited Earth at various points in its history to extract chemicals from the brains of select [[human]] specimens. Because the chemicals in question enabled the human brain to sleep, and because the absence of these chemicals made her victims as violent and uncontrollable as those from her previous experiments, the Rani deliberately chose periods of social unrest to visit, using the violence to conceal her presence and its consequences. She visited the [[Trojan War]], the [[Dark Ages]], the [[American War of Independence|American Revolutionary War]], and finally the [[Luddite]] riots in the village of [[Killingworth]] during the early [[19th century]] where she used the local bath house as her base, posing as the old woman in charge of the premises. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mark of the Rani (TV story)|The Mark of the Rani]]'') Around this time, the Rani travelled to [[Shildon]], where she encountered [[Panda]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[From Wildthyme with Love (novel)|From Wildthyme with Love]]'') | When the test subjects on [[Miasimia Goria]], a planet she had enslaved, became violently restless and uncontrollable as a side effect of her experiments on them, the Rani visited Earth at various points in its history to extract chemicals from the brains of select [[human]] specimens. Because the chemicals in question enabled the human brain to sleep, and because the absence of these chemicals made her victims as violent and uncontrollable as those from her previous experiments, the Rani deliberately chose periods of social unrest to visit, using the violence to conceal her presence and its consequences. She visited the [[Trojan War]], the [[Dark Ages]], the [[American War of Independence|American Revolutionary War]], and finally the [[Luddite]] riots in the village of [[Killingworth]] during the early [[19th century]] where she used the local bath house as her base, posing as the old woman in charge of the premises. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mark of the Rani (TV story)|The Mark of the Rani]]'') Around this time, the Rani travelled to [[Shildon]], where she encountered [[Panda]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[From Wildthyme with Love (novel)|From Wildthyme with Love]]'') | ||
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== Personality == | == Personality == | ||
The Rani was an evil (or, arguably, simply [[amoral]]) scientific genius whose villainy came not from the usual variety of lust for power and suchlike, but from a mindset that treated everything (including morality) as secondary to her research. She was highly intelligent, but extremely arrogant, narcissistic, ruthless, powerful and intensely cruel. She was known to enslave entire worlds in order to have a ready supply of experimental subjects and a place to carry out her experiments uninterrupted. Her major interest was in altering the biochemistry of other species. | The Rani was an evil (or, arguably, simply [[amoral]]) but a brilliant scientific genius whose villainy came not from the usual variety of lust for power and suchlike, but from a mindset that treated everything (including morality) as secondary to her research. She was highly intelligent, but extremely arrogant, narcissistic, ruthless, powerful and intensely cruel. She was known to enslave entire worlds in order to have a ready supply of experimental subjects and a place to carry out her experiments uninterrupted. Her major interest was in altering the biochemistry of other species. She was also capable of linking a remote control to a TARDIS, something that other Time Lords had not been able to manage themselves. | ||
While she did appear evil, she found the Master to be truly evil and therefore stupid. She also said that his plans were so overcomplicated that if he walked in a straight line he would get dizzy. What evil she did she felt was necessary to her work. When the [[Sixth Doctor]] tried to convince her not to experiment on [[human]]s, she called them carnivores and asked if they ever thought of the lesser species when they sunk their teeth into a lamb chop; she had a [[conscience]] of some kind, as she was later willing to destroy her test subjects intending to kill the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mark of the Rani (TV story)|The Mark of the Rani]]'') | While she did appear evil, she found the Master to be truly evil and therefore stupid. She also said that his plans were so overcomplicated that if he walked in a straight line he would get dizzy. What evil she did she felt was necessary to her work. When the [[Sixth Doctor]] tried to convince her not to experiment on [[human]]s, she called them carnivores and asked if they ever thought of the lesser species when they sunk their teeth into a lamb chop; she had a [[conscience]] of some kind, as she was later willing to destroy her test subjects intending to kill the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mark of the Rani (TV story)|The Mark of the Rani]]'') | ||
