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{{Infobox Object | {{Infobox Object | ||
|image = | |image = Mind Robber 4 (Master brain).jpg | ||
|type = [[Computer]] | |type = [[Computer]] | ||
|origin = [[Land of Fiction]] | |origin = [[Land of Fiction]] | ||
|appearances = ''[[The Mind Robber]]'' | |appearances = ''[[The Mind Robber (TV story)|The Mind Robber]]'' | ||
}}The '''Master Brain''' was the central computer that controlled the [[Land of Fiction]]. Having no imagination of its own, it fed on the creative power of the [[Master of the Land]], usually via a cable connected to their head. The [[Thirteenth Doctor]] referred to it as '''the bookworm''', and said that it was "An incorporeal, unknowable being. Not an evil thing – just one that needs stories to survive." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Wonderful Doctor of Oz (novel)|The Wonderful Doctor of Oz]]'') | }}The '''Master Brain''' was the central computer that controlled the [[Land of Fiction]]. Having no imagination of its own, it fed on the creative power of the [[Master of the Land]], usually via a cable connected to their head. The [[Thirteenth Doctor]] referred to it as '''the bookworm''', and said that it was "An incorporeal, unknowable being. Not an evil thing – just one that needs stories to survive." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Wonderful Doctor of Oz (novel)|The Wonderful Doctor of Oz]]'') | ||
==History== | |||
At one point, the Master Brain enslaved a writer from [[1926]] as the Master and made him write until he grew old. The Master tried to replace himself with the [[Second Doctor]] so that he could leave, with the Master Brain controlling his mind and speaking through him in third person. It planned to take over [[Earth]] by turning Mankind into a "string of [[sausage]]s," all the same, without free will. The Doctor freed the Master, and the Master Brain was destroyed by [[Jamie McCrimmon]] and [[Zoe Heriot]] overloading it. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mind Robber (TV story)|The Mind Robber]]'') | |||
After pulling a [[Cyberman]] invasion force into the Land, Zoe rebuilt the Master Brain and became the Mistress of the Land in order to fight the Cybermen. They sought to use the computer to remove imagination from humanity so they would be docile and conquerable, but were turned into fiction and winked out of existence. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Legend of the Cybermen (audio story)|Legend of the Cybermen]]'') | After pulling a [[Cyberman]] invasion force into the Land, Zoe rebuilt the Master Brain and became the Mistress of the Land in order to fight the Cybermen. They sought to use the computer to remove imagination from humanity so they would be docile and conquerable, but were turned into fiction and winked out of existence. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Legend of the Cybermen (audio story)|Legend of the Cybermen]]'') | ||
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[[Jason (Conundrum)|Jason]], installed by {{Champion}} as the new Master of the Land, was connected to the master computer by a thick cable. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Conundrum (novel)|Condundrum]]'') | [[Jason (Conundrum)|Jason]], installed by {{Champion}} as the new Master of the Land, was connected to the master computer by a thick cable. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Conundrum (novel)|Condundrum]]'') | ||
When [[Oz's palace]] began to crumble, [[Dorothy (The Wonderful Doctor of Oz)|Dorothy]] heard an inhuman, distraught, piercing sound, and realised that the Master Brain disliked how the story was going. She was attuned to its feelings because she was a "bookworm" herself. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Wonderful Doctor of Oz (novel)|The Wonderful Doctor of Oz]]'') | When [[Oz's palace]] began to crumble, [[Dorothy (The Wonderful Doctor of Oz)|Dorothy]] heard an inhuman, distraught, piercing sound, and realised that the Master Brain disliked how the story was going. She was attuned to its feelings because she was a "bookworm" herself. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Wonderful Doctor of Oz (novel)|The Wonderful Doctor of Oz]]'') | ||
==Appearance== | |||
During the [[Second Doctor]]'s visit to the Land, the Brain appeared as a large, translucent, many-faceted orb situated among the Control Room's computers. It contained opaque webbing-like structures which pulsed with light as it slowly rotated. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mind Robber (TV story)|The Mind Robber]]'') By one account, it was a "strange abstract object that stood at the heart of the computer display... A huge, whirled shape, imprisoned in a glass case: patterned like coral, and shaped like the kernel of a walnut, it pulsed with an inner light". This light changed between white, deep rose, crimson, a throbbing mauve, and purple; it finally turned black when overloaded. The Brain was also described as "floating". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Mind Robber (novelisation)|The Mind Robber]]'') | |||
[[Category:Computers]] | [[Category:Computers]] | ||
[[Category:Land of Fiction]] | [[Category:Land of Fiction]] | ||
