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[[Commander]] '''Brak''', ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Old Soldiers (BBV audio story)}}) later code-named "[[Field Marshal | [[Commander]] '''Brak''', ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Old Soldiers (BBV audio story)}}) later code-named "[[Field Marshal]] '''[[Bios]]'''", ([[HOMEVID]]: {{cs|Fog (home video)}}) was a [[Sontaran]] soldier who, having crashed on [[Earth]] in [[1916]], went on to become the longest-lived Sontaran in recorded history, living for over a century in total. | ||
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Brak was originally the [[pilot]] of a one-man craft within [[General]] [[Dakaal]]'s Sontaran fleet. His wing was assigned to bomb [[Satellite Neutreet]], a long-standing outpost opposed to the Sontarans, as a detour on the way to a larger, unrelated battle. During the operation, something went wrong and blew Brak's ship out of the fleet and into the inner part of the [[sol system|solar system]]; he crashed on [[Earth]], in the midst of the [[1916]], [[Battle of the Somme]]. Overwhelmed by the fighting he could not understand, he was captured by [[human]]s and held as a prisoner. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Old Soldiers (BBV audio story)}}) | Brak was originally the [[pilot]] of a one-man craft within [[General]] [[Dakaal]]'s Sontaran fleet. His wing was assigned to bomb [[Satellite Neutreet]], a long-standing outpost opposed to the Sontarans, as a detour on the way to a larger, unrelated battle. During the operation, something went wrong and blew Brak's ship out of the fleet and into the inner part of the [[sol system|solar system]]; he crashed on [[Earth]], in the midst of the [[1916]], [[Battle of the Somme]]. Overwhelmed by the fighting he could not understand, he was captured by [[human]]s and held as a prisoner. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Old Soldiers (BBV audio story)}}) | ||
=== Twenty years of apathy | === Twenty years of apathy === | ||
Though initially held by the [[German]]s, ([[HOMEVID]]: {{cs|Fog (home video)}}) he passed into British custody in [[1918]], with his status later changing to that of a "guest of the [[United Nations]]" after [[World War II]], though his safehouse-slash-prison was still located on British soil. Every [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] would visit Brak upon being elected, including [[Ramsay MacDonald|MacDonald]], [[Stanley Baldwin|Baldwin]], and [[Neville Chamberlain|Chamberlain]]. Believing himself a failure for having abandoned his unit partway through a battle — albeit involuntarily — Brak spent the first twenty years of his captivity with the British in a state of near-catatonic apathy, wrestling with his [[conscience]]. Unaware that humans normally ate meals that were mostly [[vegetable]]s with only a little [[meat]], he believed his rations were a means of torturously slow [[execution]] via [[starvation]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Old Soldiers (BBV audio story)}}) | Though initially held by the [[German]]s, ([[HOMEVID]]: {{cs|Fog (home video)}}) he passed into British custody in [[1918]], with his status later changing to that of a "guest of the [[United Nations]]" after [[World War II]], though his safehouse-slash-prison was still located on British soil. Every [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] would visit Brak upon being elected, including [[Ramsay MacDonald|MacDonald]], [[Stanley Baldwin|Baldwin]], and [[Neville Chamberlain|Chamberlain]]. Believing himself a failure for having abandoned his unit partway through a battle — albeit involuntarily — Brak spent the first twenty years of his captivity with the British in a state of near-catatonic apathy, wrestling with his [[conscience]]. Unaware that humans normally ate meals that were mostly [[vegetable]]s with only a little [[meat]], he believed his rations were a means of torturously slow [[execution]] via [[starvation]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Old Soldiers (BBV audio story)}}) | ||
