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Ushas was the same age as the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time and the Rani]]'') As a [[Time Tot]], she played [[hide and seek]] with the [[First Doctor]], with the [[Ninth Doctor]] claiming that his skill at finding her "drove [her] nuts". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Weapons of Past Destruction (comic story)|Weapons of Past Destruction]]'') | Ushas was the same age as the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time and the Rani]]'') As a [[Time Tot]], she played [[hide and seek]] with the [[First Doctor]], with the [[Ninth Doctor]] claiming that his skill at finding her "drove [her] nuts". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Weapons of Past Destruction (comic story)|Weapons of Past Destruction]]'') | ||
Ushas belonged to [[the Deca]], the same [[Time Lord Academy|Academy]] clique as the [[First Doctor]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties]]'') being their most intelligent member. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Rani Elite (audio story)|The Rani Elite]]'') She was taught by [[Sendok]], [[Borusa]] and [[Franilla]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties]]'') At the Academy, she specialised in [[neurochemistry]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Time and the Rani (novelisation)|Time and the Rani]]'') Ushas conducted an experiment which resulted in some of her lab [[mouse|mice]] growing to an enormous size. The mice ate the [[Lord President]]'s pet [[Gallifreyan cat|cat]]. They also bit the President himself, triggering a [[regeneration]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mark of the Rani (TV story)|The Mark of the Rani]]'') | Ushas belonged to [[the Deca]], the same [[Time Lord Academy|Academy]] clique as the [[First Doctor]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties]]'') being their most intelligent member. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Rani Elite (audio story)|The Rani Elite]]'') She was taught by [[Sendok]], [[Borusa]] and [[Franilla]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties]]'') At the Academy, she specialised in [[neurochemistry]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Time and the Rani (novelisation)|Time and the Rani]]'') Ushas conducted an experiment which resulted in some of her lab [[mouse|mice]] growing to an enormous size. The mice ate the [[Lord President]]'s pet [[Gallifreyan cat|cat]]. They also bit the President himself, triggering a [[regeneration]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mark of the Rani (TV story)|The Mark of the Rani]]'') | ||
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]]'') | ||
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==== On Lakertya ==== | ==== On Lakertya ==== | ||
On the planet [[Tetrapyriarbus]], the Rani made the acquaintance of, and decided to employ, the [[Tetrap]]s, led by [[Urak]]. With them, she invaded the peaceful planet [[Lakertya]] and put into motion a complex plan. The Rani abducted eleven scientific geniuses from across time and space, including [[Albert Einstein]] of Earth. Finally she decided to "collect" the Doctor and attacked [[The Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Time and the Rani (TV story)|Time and the Rani]]'') with concentrated beams of a [[radiation]] lethal to Time Lords. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Brink of Death (audio story)|The Brink of Death]]'') The Doctor was wounded as a result, triggering the [[regeneration]] into his [[Seventh Doctor|seventh incarnation]]. The Rani channelled the intellects of the geniuses into a giant artificial brain which she believed could find the secret to manipulating [[strange matter]], the key to making the planet of Lakertya into a [[Time Manipulator]] in order to correct what she considered to be errors in the universal [[timeline]]. Her first target was to be Earth, where she would prevent the [[extinction]] of the [[dinosaur]]s, creatures whose full potential she felt had never been truly realised. She considered the death of the native [[Lakertyan]]s a small price to pay. | On the planet [[Tetrapyriarbus]], the Rani made the acquaintance of, and decided to employ, the [[Tetrap]]s, led by [[Urak]]. With them, she invaded the peaceful planet [[Lakertya]] and put into motion a complex plan. The Rani abducted eleven scientific geniuses from across time and space, including [[Albert Einstein]] of Earth. Finally she decided to "collect" the Doctor and attacked [[The Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Time and the Rani (TV story)|Time and the Rani]]'') with concentrated beams of a [[radiation]] lethal to Time Lords. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Brink of Death (audio story)|The Brink of Death]]'') The Doctor was wounded as a result, triggering the [[regeneration]] into his [[Seventh Doctor|seventh incarnation]]. The Rani channelled the intellects of the geniuses into a giant artificial brain which she believed could find the secret to manipulating [[strange matter]], the key to making the planet of Lakertya into a [[Time Manipulator]] in order to correct what she considered to be errors in the universal [[timeline]]. Her first target was to be Earth, where she would prevent the [[extinction]] of the [[dinosaur]]s, creatures whose full potential she felt had never been truly realised. She considered the death of the native [[Lakertyan]]s a small price to pay. | ||
She used the artificial brain to find the answer as to how to create a lightweight substitute for strange matter. When it was devised she sent a missile containing the substance aimed at a strange matter asteroid. However, the Doctor destroyed the brain and redirected the missile. Urak betrayed her, leading the Tertraps against her, and they placed her under house arrest in her TARDIS on Tetrapyriarbus. The Rani was 953 years old when these events took place. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time and the Rani (TV story)|Time and the Rani]]'') | She used the artificial brain to find the answer as to how to create a lightweight substitute for strange matter. When it was devised she sent a missile containing the substance aimed at a strange matter asteroid. However, the Doctor destroyed the brain and redirected the missile. Urak betrayed her, leading the Tertraps against her, and they placed her under house arrest in her TARDIS on Tetrapyriarbus. The Rani was 953 years old when these events took place. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time and the Rani (TV story)|Time and the Rani]]'') | ||
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== Personality == | == Personality == | ||
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. | 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]]'') | ||
