Korven The Korven were a species of cold - loving , ogre - like humanoid s . Biology . The Korven were green - skin ned humanoid s with large , wing - like ear s , two horn s on their head s and four horns on their chin . They were adapted to cold temperatures . The colour of their eye s seemed to change continually . They were usually dark grey , but could change to light grey or red . Each eye could be a different colour . ( TV : " The Korven " , " The Eclipse of the Korven " ) Technology . The Korven who came to 2050 from 2618 had wrist - mounted devices capable of draining minds . Using a process called " Leeching " , it could extract the thoughts of an individual , leaving only an empty shell . During this process the Korven focused all their will on the victim , leaving them oblivious to outside forces . The wrist device also could stop people from speaking for ten minutes and shoot energy beams . The Korven could create immobilising force field s , as well as causing levitation . It also brought a supply of phosphane gas . ( TV : " The Korven " ) The Korven used ships which were crewed by more than a hundred Korven , containing cryogenic pods and a Space - Time Manipulator . ( TV : " Angel of the North " ) The Korven homeworld was an unspecified ice giant , similar to Uranus or Neptune but with a much thicker atmosphere . The Korven need extreme cold and highly compressed air to survive . Culture . The Korven had ambitions to rule time and space . Their plans involved invading planets in the past that they failed to conquer in their own time . The Korven were ruled by a Supreme Leader who also commanded their pan - dimensional army . Lomax was a Korven Supreme Leader . History . Before 2050 a Korven spacecraft carrying a Space - Time Manipulator crashed in the frozen wastes of Canada . The Manipulator was later captured by The Department . ( TV : " Angel of the North " ) In the year 2480 , the Korven attacked Earth , but were unable to conquer it . Hostilities between humanity and the Korven continued to at least the year 2618 . In 2618 , the Korven learned that a cooling agent capable of lowering the Earth ' s tempurature would be invented in 2050 . One of their agents travelled back to that time , using the aforementioned Space - Time Manipulator . It kidnapped Alistair Gryffen , planning to leech the recipe from his brainwaves . Luckily K9 and the youngsters tracked it down , with K9 succeeding in incinerating the monster . ( TV : " The Korven " ) Before the year 50 , 000 , the Korven helped the Meron s to win their ancient war with the Jixen by supplying them with revolutionary energy weapons . ( TV : " Hound of the Korven " ) Four Jixen later hired a bounty hunter to assassinate Zanthus Pia . ( TV : " The Bounty Hunter " ) The Jixen fought the Hound of the Korven , K9 Mark I who witnessed the murder . They were then sent to 2050 London where K9 killed three of the Jixen and regenerated into a new form , forgetting his affiliation with the Korven in the process . ( TV : " Regeneration " ) The Korven plotted to conquer Earth in the mid - 21st century . Before 2048 , ( TV : " The Last Precinct " ) the Korven Supreme Leader hijacked the British government and turned it into a corrupt , totalitarian government in preparation for the pending Korven invasion . By this time , government agencies MI5 and MI6 seem to have merged together to form The Department ( TV : " The Eclipse of the Korven " ) which also operated in the Americas , the Pacific Union and other , lesser countries , all of them controlled by the British government . ( TV : " Lost Library of Ukko " ) Lomax was aided by Thorne , the governor of the Department ' s Dauntless Prison . Lomax had Thorne implanted with Meron DNA , effectively turning him into one . ( TV : " The Eclipse of the Korven " ) In Dauntless Prison , Meron scientists secretly took DNA from alien prisoners to create Trojan . ( TV : " Liberation " ) When the Department ' s head of security , Inspector Drake , accidentally almost destroyed Earth , Lomax had him replaced by Thorne . ( TV : " Black Hunger " ) Lomax later ordered Thorne to acquire the Regeneration unit of K9 Mark 2 , the regenerated form of their former agent . ( TV : " Robot Gladiators " ) Thorne overheard Gryffen tell June that with a Virtual Reality encasement suit , he could travel to the fallen angel in Canada where the STM came from , get the temporal stabiliser , and operate the STM properly . Thorne told Lomax , who ordered him to help Gryffen . Thorne and Gryffen went to Canada , There Gryffen found the temporal stabiliser . He also spotted empty cyrogenic pods , Thorne ( initially thinking only one Korven was released ) was shocked to find they were all empty . Thorne had Gryffen taken away when he demanded to know what was in the pods and ordered the CCPC ' s to scour the tunnels . K9 and Starkey arrived at the crashed ship , where they alerted Gryffen that the Korven were about . Gryffen realised that the ship and the STM was Korven technology . When Thorne and the CCPCs left , Gryffen , K9 and Starkey was able to recapture the stabiliser ( which Gryffen dropped ) . K9 and Starkey left with the stabiliser while Gryffen tried to escape from the CCPCs . He evaded a Korven and left the ship . When the CCPCs arrived , the Korven chased them . Gryffen , Starkey and K9 returned to Gryffen Manor . Gryffen and K9 agreed not to use the stabiliser on the STM lest it allow the Korven to enter . ( TV : " Angel of the North " ) Thorne tricked into giving him the regeneration unit by conducting a trade in the sewers with a false memory chip which turned K9 into a bomb set to detonate when he encountered a surviving Jixen in the sewers . However K9 stopped himself from self - destructing . The Jixen , named " Jixey " by Starkey , revealed that they were not the aggressors and warned them the Korven had infiltrated the Department . Thorne inserted the regeneration unit in his pet , the completed Trojan to make him indestructible . ( TV : " Hound of the Korven " ) Some time later , the STM activated and brought together a black hole and a white hole . K9 flew off to retrieve his regeneration unit from Thorne at the Millennium Dome with Starkey and Jorjie following . Meanwhile , Gryffen tried to avert the space - time explosion that would occur when the two holes fused together to form a grey hole . K9 was beaten by Trojan . He was wired up to a Korven cryo pod and forced to siphon the space - time energy from the preemptive explosion of the STM into the Dome . This generated a portal that allowed the Korven pan - dimensional invasion force to make their entry , led by Lomax . Thorne ordered the CCPCs to secure London , restraining all civilians . Starkey and Jorjie caught up with K9 in time to see the Korven arrive and learned that Thorne was a Meron / Korven hybrid . As Darius and June made their way to the mansion , Gryffen tried to use the temporal stabilizer to shut down the STM but only made things worse . Thorne had expected this and wanted it to happen all along , but Gryffen managed to overcome his agoraphobia and make it to The Dome , screaming out the voice activated shutdown code for The STM , causing the black and white holes to fuse . Lomax and the Korven were sucked into the cataclysm and destroyed as the STM exploded . Thorne tried to use Trojan to kill K9 but the extremely weakened K9 promptly used a recording of a Jixen sonar attack to cause Trojan ' s Jixen and Meron DNA to fight one another , sending it toppling over and crushing Thorne . ( TV : " The Eclipse of the Korven " )