Hand of Omega The Hand of Omega was a remote stellar manipulator , used by Omega and Rassilon in the antiquity of Gallifrey . It had the ability to turn star s into supernova s in order to fuel Gallifreyan time travel . Characteristics . Appearance . The Hand lay in a dull , bronze coloured , metal box the size and shape of a coffin . ( TV : " Remembrance of the Daleks " ) Powers and abilities . The Hand could manipulate the life cycle of star s . It also had some basic sentience , was capable of levitation and could follow voice commands . It was even able , by order of the Seventh Doctor , to make Ace ' s baseball bat into a weapon capable of damaging Dalek s . ( TV : " Remembrance of the Daleks " ) History . Origins . Omega himself stated that the Hand was literally a hand placed in the stellar manipulator which had once belonged to Vandekirian , Omega ' s treacherous associate . The name " Hand of Omega " was chosen by Rassilon for political reasons . ( AUDIO : " Omega " ) Rassilon and Omega worked on the project together . ( TV : " Remembrance of the Daleks " ) One Hand was a remote stellar manipulator designed to turn Qqaba into a supernova to serve as a power source great enough to allow the Gallifreyan s time travel . In a sense , this Hand made it possible for the Gallifreyans to call themselves Time Lord s . Acquisition by the Doctor . The Hand was hidden by Rassilon , but escaped . The ancient alarms left by Rassilon were not known and could not be shut off , leaving the Hand to lurk around the rooms of the First Doctor , whom the Hand remembered as the Other . ( PROSE : " Lungbarrow " ) During a period of violent unrest on Gallifrey , the Doctor made off with the Hand , rather than have it fall into the clutches of any of the factions . He subsequently began his self - imposed exile with Susan . ( COMIC : " Time & Time Again " ) According to another , contradictory , account , the First Doctor acquired the Hand of Omega when it was given to him by his seventh incarnation . ( PROSE : " Echoes of Future Past " ) When the Doctor returned to London in November 1963 to collect it during his seventh incarnation , it lay in a funeral parlour . The Doctor was setting a trap for the Renegade and Imperial Dalek factions and the Imperial Dalek leader , Davros . Davros had hoped to use the Hand to transform ( TV : " Remembrance of the Daleks " ) the second sun of the Dalek homeworld Skaro , ( PROSE : " The Stranger " ) turning it into a power source for time travel . However , the Doctor had altered the Hand ' s programming . Instead of enhancing Skaro ' s sun , it went supernova , vaporising Skaro and presumably the Daleks themselves . The Hand of Omega returned to Gallifrey afterwards . ( TV : " Remembrance of the Daleks " ) After defeating WOTAN on 20 July 1966 , the First Doctor checked to see if the Hand of Omega had been buried in Shoreditch Cemetery as per his instructions , only to discover that it had been removed . He determined that his future self would arrive at an earlier point in order to deal with it . ( PROSE : " The Rag & Bone Man ' s Story " ) The Dalek Prime later claimed that the sun which the Hand had turned supernova was not Skaro ' s , but Antalin ' s . ( PROSE : " War of the Daleks " ) According to rumours , the Enemy destroyed the Hand of Omega at the start of the War . ( PROSE : " Alien Bodies " ) Other universes . In an alternate universe , there were two Hands of Omega . ( PROSE : " The Infinity Doctors " )