Argolis Argolis was the home planet of the Argolin s . The Argolins ' warmongering culture led to the devastation of their world and the near - extinction of the race . History . Ancient history . Argolis was originally known as " Xxbrmm " and was home to a large number of tribes which shared a warrior culture and chivalric values . The tribe known as the Argolins eventually subjugated the rest of the planet and renamed it Argolis , which was generally considered to be an improvement . ( PROSE : " Doctor Who and the Leisure Hive " ) War with Foamas and the founding of the Leisure Hive . The development of high technology did not curb the aggressive ways of the Argolin people , which eventually led to catastrophe when they encountered the equally belligerent Foamasi . In 2250 , a twenty minute war between the two devastated both Argolis and Foamas , leaving all the Argolin survivors sterile . The Argolin abandoned their warlike ways and devoted themselves to peace and pleasure , building on their world the first of the Leisure Hive s . They also began experiments in tachyon control in an attempt to save their race from impending extinction . The experiments produced only one newborn Argolin , Pangol . ( TV : " The Leisure Hive " ) The new Argolis . The Foamasi had also survived the war and , ironically , were apparently the only race in the galaxy able to survive on the surface of Argolis unprotected . A criminal organisation known as the West Lodge began secret negotiations to buy the planet from the Argolins , causing disasters in the Hive to drive down the purchase price . The Fourth Doctor and agents of the legitimate Foamasi government stopped the plan , but it gave Pangol the pretext he needed to use the Hive ' s tachyon generator to create an army of clones with which to restore Argolis to its former glory . Fortunately the clones proved unstable and in the confusion Pangol was regressed to infancy . The crisis had however led to the Argolins perfecting many of the flaws in their tachyon technology , which appeared to place the future of both race and planet on a rather more solid footing than had previously been the case . ( TV : " The Leisure Hive " ) Culture and economy . Prior to the Foamasi War Argolis appears to have been run along semi - feudal autocratic lines , with a strong emphasis on personal prowess and honour . The traditional of absolute loyalty to the war - leader was deeply engrained and facilitated Pangol ' s attempt at seizing power , many years after the old traditions had supposedly been abandoned . Argolis appeared to have been an aggressively expansionistic world at this time with an economy presumably geared to reflect this . After the war , the Argolins were in theory pacifists , devoted to the recreational needs of others . The Leisure Hive effectively comprised Argolin society , and was run as a business with the Chair of the Board the de facto head of state for the planet . The planet ' s economy revolved solely around its status as a tourist attraction . ( TV : " The Leisure Hive " ) The Seventh Doctor , Benny , and Ace once visited a cafe on Argolis , ( PROSE : " Set Piece " ) and later Rory Williams , Strax , and the Eleventh Doctor visited the Xxbrmm Tavern . Rory drank something that turned his skin red , much to the shock of the Doctor and Strax . ( COMIC : " Time Gentlemen , Please ! " ) Technology . Argolis had an impressively high technological level both before and after the war , although the ends to which this was put obviously differed significantly . Despite the quasi - archaic dress affected by the Argolin leaders , their battle fleet had sufficient firepower to devastate an entire planet within twenty minutes — though their own defences were not strong enough to prevent the same fate befalling their homeworld . After 2250 , Argolis was still able to build and maintain a luxury resort like the Hive , fully shielded from the irradiated wasteland outside . Attractions such as zero - gravity squash were also available . The key feature of Argolin technology at this time was their development of applied tachyonics , almost uniquely in the galaxy . This technology was of a sufficiently high level to pique the interest of the Time Lord s who visited the Hive . The Tachyon Recreation Generator which was the basis of this technology was in fact fundamentally flawed , however , and required the insertion of TARDIS components before it was made fully functional . ( TV : " The Leisure Hive " )