Ollistra Cardinal Ollistra was a high ranking Time Lord involved in the Last Great Time War . Biography . Padrac ' s warnings . When Padrac revealed the imminent destruction of the universe to the council of the Time Lords , Ollistra , together with some members of the Enclave , fled Gallifrey and hid in New York City , Earth during the 1970s . She met and together , they infiltrated the business industry of the city to create structures and buildings resembling those of Gallifreyans in order to shield themselves when the destruction of the universe comes . She also formed an alliance with the Weeping Angel s to power these structures . To act as her eyes and ears , she also sent Volstrom and Veklin to the Crucible of Souls to spy on Padrac . When the Eleven came to New York to confront Ollistra and the Eighth Doctor , she was pushed from a building by him , which triggered a regeneration . ( AUDIO : " The Side of the Angels " ) The Last Great Time War . Working with the Eighth Doctor . During the Last Great Time War , Ollistra sponsored a Time Lord project to weaponise the Vashta Nerada against the Daleks by altering their biodata so that they could consume Dalekanium . Ollistra met the Eighth Doctor , who had arrived at the station independently , just as the Vashta Nerada began to fight back . After the Doctor had got her to safety , Ollistra pleaded with him to join the fighting . The Doctor refused , rejecting the choice to become a warrior . ( AUDIO : " Day of the Vashta Nerada " ) She organised a battle to get the Doctor from a planet and to see the effectiveness of the Type 120 TARDISes . Ollistra had caused the destruction of the planet and corrupted its timeline . ( AUDIO : " Echoes of War " ) She didn ' t want to get the Celestial Intervention Agency involved in the interrogation of Bliss . She told Bliss that she could just let her disappear as a casualty of the war . Shortly afterwards she wanted to find more about Rupa Maguire and Quarren Maguire . She only let the Doctor go when the Doctor was to leave . She then threatened the Doctor with death so that she could get his next incarnation to join the war . ( AUDIO : " The Conscript " ) When the Daleks broke into the structure , she left all her guards behind in the Doctor ' s TARDIS . She discovered that the Daleks were using a reversal wave on the system . She was after the CIA weapon that was stored on the " Theseus " . Using material she got from the CIA , she discovered that Quarren was the CIA weapon , he could rewrite reality with his mind . After escaping the Daleks , she used her Hypercube to get herself rescued . Using a Temporal Flare , a Battle TARDIS appeared but this alerted the Daleks . Quarren sent Ollistra back to Gallifrey . ( AUDIO : " One Life " ) Working with the War Doctor . Ollistra was present when a Gallifreyan reported the destruction of the Dalek fleet and the death of the Doctor . Horrified , Ollistra lamented Time Lord soldiers Bennus and Arverton when they allowed the War Doctor to activate the Dalek Time Destructor instead of them , a blast no Time Lord could survive . Ollistra attended the Doctor ' s funeral , sceptical of his demise . With her strong belief that the Doctor was still alive , she sent Veklin to search for him . After gaining control of the Eye of Harmony of the Doctor ' s TARDIS , Ollistra pulled the Doctor from Keska when he refused to go home . ( AUDIO : " The Innocent " ) Ollistra signed an order allowing a team of Time Lords , headed by Councilor Voltrix , to open a rift into the universe of the Great Vampire s , allowing them to destroy a fleet of Dalek saucers . ( COMIC : " The Bidding War " ) She later built a team , consisting of the War Doctor , Veklin , Bennus and Arverton , to rescue Seratrix , a Time Lord strategist , in the " Null Zone " . ( AUDIO : " The Thousand Worlds " ) It was later revealed that the scheme underneath the mission was to purge the idea of Seratrix to make peace with the Dalek . The reason why she sent the " rescue team " was because she believed that the Doctor , Bennus , and Arverton were followers of the belief of Seratrix so they should be killed together with him . After the War Doctor stopped the plan of the Daleks to explode the thousand planets , Ollistra came and revealed her plan to the Doctor . After that , she brought the Doctor to the future of Keska to show how the planet recuperated from the invasion of the Daleks . ( AUDIO : " The Heart of the Battle " ) Ollistra caught up with the Doctor after he used the Annihilator to erase the Technomancer s , placing him under arrest as a war criminal . ( AUDIO : " Legion of the Lost " ) She was looking for the Doctor in order for him to understand the whether they should use the anima device . She then decided to take on a mission to Asteroid Theta 12 to discover the secrets that they were the war council was hearing . She was reluctant to save Jarad . She discovered the research that the Daleks were doing . The Doctor got her to use the anima device in order to destroy the Dalek fleet . The Doctor left her behind on the Asteroid . ( AUDIO : " A Thing of Guile " ) Ollistra followed the Doctor to the Neverwhen as his TARDIS was used to travelling to strange places . She was interested in the results of the weapon that created the Neverwhen , especially because it resurrected Time Lords . The Doctor later used it to create a state of peace where both Daleks and Time Lords were farmers . Ollistra planned to use it along with the Neverwhen to destroy Skaro . ( AUDIO : " The Neverwhen " ) Ollistra later got Heleyna to contact the Doctor when the quantum shield around Earth was breached . She was kidnapped soon after this . ( AUDIO : " The Shadow Vortex " ) She went to a retreat to gain information about a Dalek Spy in the High Council , where she was taken by General Fesk to be used as a bargaining chip between the Sontarans and both the Daleks and the Time lords to let them into the war . She discussed the beginnings of the war with the Dalek Time Strategist . She was rescued when Fesk was trapped with the Doctor with their temporal weapon . ( AUDIO : " The Eternity Cage " ) She was then taken prisoner by Heleyna and who was the spy . Ollistra then used the Battle TARDIS ' to save the Doctor when he was falling through the Rovidia n atmosphere . She fell to the lower levels of the TARDIS , and ended up in the infirmary . Heleyna wanted her as she was one of the War Council and had access to the Eye , to punish her for the death of Heleyna ' s grandfather and prevent the war from ever happening . After the Daleks were stopped she helped the Doctor to set the time rotor to get them out of the time vortex . ( AUDIO : " Eye of Harmony " ) The Doctor and Ollistra were then captured and sent on an escape capture to be picked up by the Daleks . The Doctor managed to avoid capture by flying the capsule to Beltox . Her main concern was getting back to Gallifrey , but when the Daleks arrived she first organised the retreat of the locals and then the defence of Beltox . ( AUDIO : " Pretty Lies " ) On Grend , she managed to get a message to the war council and asked for a complete Time Fleet to be sent there . Freel arrived to take her back to Gallifrey , but she was annoyed that only a fleet of 20 Battle TARDISes were sent . She then got those 20 TARDIS to defend Grend . Later when the Doctor arrived , he came with the Fifth Time Fleet and Commander Veklin . ( AUDIO : " The Lady of Obsidian " ) On returning to Gallifrey , she was the highest ranking Time Lord not in deep hiding due to the Enigma . She started to not trust Leela because of her savagery . When the Enigma arrived on Gallifrey she thought that the Daleks had won . She helped to explore the dimension she was in , and helped with the Doctor ' s theorising of what was going on and why Leela was being communicated . She thought that the TARDIS was dead and didn ' t like the Doctor ' s patronisation . She welcomed the Enigma found the compassion using Leela , and asked the Enigma to destroy the Daleks instead . ( AUDIO : " The Enigma Dimension " ) Personality . Ollistra was a heartless politician , so much so that Bennus and Arverton joked over the existence of Ollistra ' s emotions , and was also deeply patriotic , allowing Gallifreyans to sacrifice themselves for the greater good . She displayed a discontent with the Gallifreyan armed forces , telling two soldiers " The Doctor is worth a hundred of you . . . people ! " . ( AUDIO : " The Innocent " ) Relationship with the War Doctor . Although Ollistra respected the Doctor ' s efforts for Gallifrey , she also appeared to despise him , describing him as " a thorn in [ the Time Lords ' ] side " and " An embarrassment for most of his lives . " When he was presumed dead , Ollistra confessed that she felt the universe " a far more dangerous place without [ him ] " , displaying that she had some level of recognition for his pursuits and actions . ( AUDIO : " The Innocent " )