The Eminence The Eminence was a gaseous entity and psychic force that encountered the Doctor on several occasions . Abilities . The Eminence travelled across the universe in teleportation casket s . It could control the minds of any being it came into contact with , as long as it inhaled the breath of forever , turning them into its Infinite warrior s . ( AUDIO : " The Seeds of War " ) Biography . The Eminence was first created by Markus Schriver in his attempt to allow astronauts to control their ships by using only their minds . According to , the Eminence were created from re - engineering mnetic particles at the molecular level , which created a neural compound that mimicked the human brain . The Master added some extra ingredients , such as a scoop of residual vortex emissions for energy storage and durability which gave them an orange glow , silicon activators which allowed them to manipulate logic gates as well as coming in handy as calcification agents which allowed the creation of the Infinite warrior s . ( AUDIO : " Masterplan " ) Schriver later cooperated with the Dalek s on the development of his gas . He transferred his consciousness into his creation , thus becoming the original Eminence . He called the gas the Mnetic Neural Network , the MNN gas , and the Eminence name was a corruption of MNN . However , his consciousness was joined by the Dalek Time Controller ' s and its desire to conquer and enslave , as well as the consciousness of Molly O ' Sullivan , who moved it to the very end of the universe . ( AUDIO : " Eye of Darkness " ) It was at the edge of the universe where the Eminence first encountered the Doctor . The " Orpheus " travelled to the Eminence ' s location and attempted to siphon its power in order to get home . The Eminence began to possess the crew of the ship . ( AUDIO : " Time ' s Horizon " ) The Doctor first fought the Eminence in his fourth incarnation on Delafoss . The Eminence created a ship called the " Infinite " , which it planned to use to end its war against the Earth Alliance . It breathed its breath of forever into the Doctor , and left him in command of the " Infinite " . The Doctor used his telepathy to trick the Eminence , and destroyed the " Infinite " . The Eminence subsequently lost its hold over Delafoss . ( AUDIO : " Destroy the Infinite " ) The Eminence spent many years at war with humanity . The planet Kalsos was on the front lines of the war . After it had expanded to a certain point , the Eminence withdrew its forces , correctly calculating that the subsequent riots would lead to mankind essentially destroying itself . Shortly after the war had been abandoned , the Sixth Doctor arrived in this time period , where it was revealed that the Eminence still had a connection to him . The Eminence believed that it had managed to take control of him , intending to use the Doctor to infect Earth ' s seed banks , thus either rendering the Earth ' s colonies barren or ensuring that the contamination would allow it to infect all of humanity and turn them into its infinite warriors . Manipulating the Eminence ' s perception of its influence over him , the Doctor was able to move the seeds to safety and trap the Eminence ' s only available Infinite Warrior slave in an empty vault that was subsequently set to self destruct . ( AUDIO : " The Seeds of War " ) A thousand Eminence teleportation caskets travelled to the Nixyce system with the intention of taking over humanity . Seeing that in a possible future the Eminence would end up as the only life for in the universe , the Time Lord s sent to steal one of the caskets . The Master and took it back in time to 1970s London and experimented on the Eminence . When the Eighth Doctor came to investigate , he opened up the link to the Eminence in his mind and allowed the Eminence to pilot the Master ' s TARDIS . The Master managed to expel the Eminence into the Time Vortex . ( AUDIO : " Eyes of the Master " ) The Dalek s detected the presence of an Eminence fleet at the edge of the Nixyce system . ( AUDIO : " The Traitor " ) The Eighth Doctor teamed up with the Daleks against the Eminence . The Dalek time controller used the weapon they had built on Nixyce VII to destroy the Eminence fleet . ( AUDIO : " Time ' s Horizon " , " Eyes of the Master " ) Heron ' s World was on the fringes of their war . There they got there Infinite warrior s to inhabit the remainders of the population there . attracted their attention . They tried to use the Breath of forever on the population but Molly O ' Sullivan ' s regenerator particles stopped them . ( AUDIO : " The Death of Hope " ) The Eminence called the Doctor the ancient one and that the Ramossan s unevolved species . The Master told the Eminence about Ramosa , which they then burned . ( AUDIO : " The Reviled " ) The Master , the Doctor , Liv Chenka and Sally Armstrong went back to their creation to change it . The Doctor and Liv planned to avert it , whereas the Master and Sally wanted to get the Eminence under the Master ' s control . The Master released the Eminence from his mind so that they could control the ship they would crash on . But the Eminence didn ' t do the Master ' s bidding and started to try and kill the Master and the Doctor . ( AUDIO : " Masterplan " ) The Eminence entered into an alliance with the Master where they both could control the human race through Dark Eyes . However , the Doctor told the Eminence that the Master planned to betray him and told the Eminence how to take down the Master . The Doctor tried to destroy the Eminence by dispersing the Retro - genitor particle through Walter Vincent . ( AUDIO : " Rule of the Eminence " )