Sutekh Sutekh , also known as Sutekh the Destroyer , was an Osiran who planned to destroy all life in the universe . He feared all forms of life which might one day challenge his hegemony , and so became the destroyer of all living things . History . Like in the Egypt ian myths on Earth , Sutekh was son of Geb , ( AUDIO : " Ozymandias " ) brother to Horus , ( TV : " Pyramids of Mars " ) and husband to their sister , Nephthys . ( PROSE : " The Sands of Time " ) Sutekh was " head of security " for the Osirian Court , and he destroyed their homeworld ( AUDIO : " The Judgment of Sutekh " ) Phaester Osiris . According to the Fourth Doctor , this began a " trail of havoc across half the galaxy " . During this time , he was called many names , including the Typhonian Beast , Set , Sadok , and Satan . ( TV : " Pyramids of Mars " ) When the Great Houses threatened the Court after the destruction of the Eleven - Day Empire , Sutekh brought unconquerable armies of Mal ' akh to the areas around the Mediterranean in the 15th century . This simultaneously distracted House agents and severely threatened a major historical focal point , forcing the Houses to recognise the Osirians ' independence . In the treaty , he was granted the Faction Paradox shrine at Civita . However , Sutekh became jealous that Osiris ' accomplishments civilising 660 worlds were being celebrated more than his own , ( AUDIO : " Coming to Dust " ) so he killed him . ( AUDIO : " The Ship of a Billion Years " ) After Osiris was resurrected as Horus in the body of Cousin Eliza , Sutekh declared a time war against Horus for the Osirian throne . ( AUDIO : " Ozymandias " ) Among the planets where Sutekh and the Osiran s fought was Youkali . ( PROSE : " Return of the Living Dad " ) The two armies fought a great battle in Egypt ; at the end , Sutekh found his traitorous wife Nephthys and a heavily - wounded Horus in the Temple of Geb . Horus ( in reality , just Eliza pretending to be Horus ) begged Sutekh to finish the battle , complaining about being tired of fighting and Sutekh ' s boringness . Angered , Sutekh ripped out Horus ' heart . Elated at killing his opponent and winning the contest , Sutekh told Nephthys that he planned to erase Horus ' name from the universe . However , she claimed that Faction Paradox would always remember and resist Sutekh ' s claim to the throne . Though Cousin Justine had gone into hiding , Sutekh read from Nephthys ' mind that the Faction had allies in the 18th century . On 16 October , 1764 , Sutekh forced John Pennerton to direct the Society of Sigismondo di Rimini to declare war on Faction Paradox and seek out its members . Though the society had found no trace of Justine by 8 November , Sutekh felt an " intrusion " in Volanto . There he found Abelard Finton , who he tortured ruthlessly until he divulged that the timeship was in the Mediterranean Sea and Justine had returned to the Osirian Court . Sutekh then brought Finton to Pennerton and released them both from his control ; Finton died shortly thereafter . Going to the Mediterranean , Sutekh found not Justine ' s timeship but the barge of Geb , who was investigating Corwyn Marne ' s claim that Sutekh had left for Earth . When confronted , Geb said that he ' d found Sutekh ' s body on Mars , barely alive , and buried him in a pyramid while a proper prison was built . Angry and outraged , Sutekh attacked Geb and dumped him in the Temple of Geb , just in time to watch an earlier version of Sutekh kill Horus . Above the Osirian Court , Sutekh confronted the simulacrum copy of Justine , accompanied by an earlier version of Finton , in the Ship of a Billion Years . This simulacrum had been trained to resist Sutekh ' s mind control , and when he opened a direct channel between their minds during his attack , she lashed out with her shadow - weapon , revealing herself to be the real Justine , hidden behind a bio - screen built by Anubis . She then severed some of Sutekh ' s neural connections , dumped him on Mars , and called Geb to tell him to look there . At Sutekh ' s funeral , almost the entire Osirian Court came to pay its respects . Justine and Horus agreed to tell the Court that Sutekh had been cornered on Earth by Horus ' seven - hundred - and - some fellow warriors . This version of events was repeated in the official records and legends of Earth and throughout the galaxy . ( AUDIO : " The Judgment of Sutekh " ) The Fourth Doctor repeated this claim to Sarah Jane Smith , saying that 740 Osirans led by Horus had cornered and defeated Sutekh on Earth . Sarah recognised the name from the 740 gods recorded in the tomb of Thutmose III . The Eye of Horus on Mars beamed a signal to suppress Sutekh ' s powers and hold him prisoner . The tales of the Osirans were remembered in Egyptian mythology . Sutekh still retained a cult of followers , such as Ibrahim Namin . ( TV : " Pyramids of Mars " ) In 1903 , after receiving a wealth of information from the future , Grigori Rasputin foresaw , among other things , the coming of this Egyptian god . ( AUDIO : " The Wanderer " ) In the year 1911 , the archaeologist Professor Marcus Scarman excavated the inner chamber of the pyramid beneath which Sutekh was imprisoned , discovering Sutekh and thereby accidentally allowing him a chance of escape . Sutekh controlled Scarman ' s corpse , using it and Osiran service robot s to construct an Osiran war missile in an English priory aimed at the Eye of Horus on Mars . The Fourth Doctor and Sarah were able to destroy the missile , but the Doctor fell under the psychic control of Sutekh ' s will as a result . He was made to take Scarman and the robots to Mars in the Doctor ' s TARDIS . Despite the Doctor ' s attempt to stop them after surviving an attempt on his life by one of Sutekh ' s robots , Scarman destroyed the Eye and freed Sutekh . Hurrying back to Earth , the Doctor defeated Sutekh by delaying his trip in a time corridor to the priory by moving the corridor ' s threshold to the far future , thus effectively ageing him to death . The Doctor said he lived about seven thousand years . ( TV : " Pyramids of Mars " ) Only the body of Sutekh was defeated by the Doctor . Years later , his consciousness found a way into a new body created for him using an Osirian flesh loom . ( AUDIO : " The Pyramid of Sutekh " ) He escaped from Mars and travelled back in time to the reign of Hatshepsut , in order to coerce Tutmosis to usurp his mother ' s throne and start his reign of terror on the world . ( AUDIO : " The Eye of Horus " ) He thought he had destroyed the world by the time of the 21st century which surprised Russell Courtland who had predicted it . He went across the Earth devouring in his wake but left his worshippers till last . In fact the Seventh Doctor tricked him and showed him the solar flare ravaged earth in the 29th century . He went back in time to start over again but this created an ouroboros loop . ( AUDIO : " The Tears of Isis " ) Other references . When the Skith Leader scanned the Tenth Doctor ' s mind , Sutekh was among the alien creatures shown to him . ( COMIC : " The First " ) Powers and abilities . Sutekh possessed immense power : he could change the course of history and destroy entire star systems . Even when he was trapped and his powers limited , he was able to contain the explosive force of gelignite from miles away , although this was difficult and could be easily disrupted by a simple distraction . He had telekinesis , enabling him to levitate the TARDIS key . The Fourth Doctor took Sarah Jane Smith to an alternate 1980 , where the Earth had become a ruined and abandoned wasteland orbiting a dead star due to Sutekh ' s destruction . According to the Doctor , not even the Time Lord s could stop Sutekh had he been released from his prison . ( TV : " The Pyramids of Mars " ) Lolita said that if he became king of the Osirian Court , he would become the single greatest threat to life in the universe . ( AUDIO : " The Judgment of Sutekh " ) He was incredibly powerful and easily able to defeat even a Time Lord . His powers became apparent when his eyes glowed green , and boasted that he could keep his victims alive for centuries in excruciating pain . Furthermore , his mental abilities allowed him to easily dominate others , making them puppets to his will . He also appeared to be able to telepathically read other beings , even those established to have psychic defences , ( TV : " Pyramids of Mars " , AUDIO : " The Judgment of Sutekh " ) and he could monitor progress several thousand miles away with the aid of Osiran computer technology . This included reanimating corpses for servants , as he did with Marcus Scarman . He could focus his power through these servants , enabling them to burn people to death with a touch , and was able to destroy the Eye of Horus on Mars from Earth when Scarman was within a few metres of it . Sutekh was somewhat paranoid , fearing that all lifeforms might potentially rise up against him and therefore he destroyed all life wherever he found it . Despite this , he was extremely intelligent and patient . ( TV : " Pyramids of Mars " ) Despite other Osirians needing a barge to handle the heat of the star Ra , Sutekh could safely stand next to Ra without any protection . ( AUDIO : " The Ship of a Billion Years " ) He was also able to stop and reverse the materialisation of Mortega ' s timeship . ( AUDIO : " Body Politic " ) He threatened to hold Justine in torment , conscious , for centuries , peeling her nerves from her carcass and repeatedly burning and resurrecting all of her cells . ( AUDIO : " The Judgment of Sutekh " )