Axos

Axos was a composite creature, a scavenger entity which came to Earth, supposedly for fuel. Its real motivations were to drain all energy from Earth, with an ultimate plan to gain the secret of time travel, allowing it to feast anywhere in space and time. (TV: )
== Biology ==
Described by the Tenth Doctor as a parasitic multiform entity, the host ship (AUDIO: ) Axos was grown from a single cell and had nutrition and energy cycles that needed to be replenished. A biological creature, Axonite and the Axons were extensions of Axos and were independent, though all of Axos was telepathic and each element could feel what the other did. (TV: ) As they were all linked, the Tenth Doctor explained that trapping one Axon in a freezer would slow down Axos as its energy would be drained by the cold. (AUDIO: )
The eye of Axos was on a stalk that could move, the pupil lighting up when it communicated with its other parts and displaying information. The inside of Axos was covered in claws, which could restrain prisoners and could fire long tendrils to drag victims within. (TV: ) It used thought windows to see the different sections of itself and would bleed if cut into. As Axos absorbed energy directly, individuals walking within it would give it more power the faster they moved. (AUDIO: )
By its nature, Axos was morphologically unstable living organic matter, which meant it was possibly capable of performing Block Transfer Computations and surviving the stress. (PROSE: )
=== Axonite ===
The "chameleon" of the elements, Axonite was a "thinking molecule" in which each molecule was individual, so to speak. It used the energy it absorbed not only to copy but to recreate and restructure any given substance. A lasonic injection of Axonite could enlarge and shrink organisms. It could absorb, convert, transmit, and program all forms of energy (TV: ) harnessing and transforming all energy, (AUDIO: ) as long as the energy exists. (PROSE: ) Additionally, individuals could be copied to obtain their knowledge, but some objects were too complex to be copied. (AUDIO: )
=== Axons ===
Axons appeared as golden humanoids with white bodies covered in gold blotches. Their skin was metallic gold, with curly hair and "covered" eyes. They could transform into ugly, red-coloured creatures with innumerable tentacles and what looked like exposed lungs. They could lash out with their tentacles to either shock or disintegrate enemies. They could also instantly absorb victims, (TV: ) or transform them into Axons, covered in roots and tentacles. (AUDIO: ) The Sixth Doctor called these transformed creatures "Axonoids", while Axos referred to them as "Axos units." (AUDIO: )
== Biotechnology ==
The Axons described their technology as having taken a more organic route, and claimed Axonite to be the source of all their growth technology. Axos also possessed some crude power of time travel, being able to make time jumps that could only travel moments into the past. (TV: ) It could incorporate alien technology into itself (though some was not compatible) and improved the technology with Axonite. (AUDIO: ) It was able to scan a person's timeline and take the form of someone they would know in the future. (AUDIO: )
== History ==
The Axos worlds were on the edge of the Mutter's Spiral. At some point by the 20th century, they were crippled by extreme solar flare activity and entropised, being drained of all life and energy. (PROSE: ) By another account, in the “time of the Triumvirate” the Time Lords grew afraid of Axos’ feeding and moved against them, imprisoning them on a prison planet save one scion which escaped and grew into a spaceship. (AUDIO: )
Axos was the last remnant of their culture and a scavenger, sucking energy from planets. (TV: )
=== Scavenger ship ===
==== Arrival on Earth ====
Axos encountered and captured his TARDIS, keeping him prisoner. He bargained with Axos to direct them to Earth, expecting to get back his craft in return. 
On Earth, they tried to start a "feeding cycle". They met with UNIT and promised them axonite to enlarge food and end world hunger. UNIT ordered worldwide distribution. The Third Doctor realised the Axons planned to drain the planet of all its energy. They took power from a nuclear power plant and later raided the plant, killing members of UNIT. They cloned Bill Filer for information but the real Bill escaped. The Doctor stopped their plan by placing Axos in a time loop. (TV: )
Some of the axonite was kept; the Forge had a sample of Axonite in the archive room of their Alpha Facility. (AUDIO: )
==== Escape to Japan ====
A fragment of Axos was freed from the time loop by Chiyoko to ensure her creation, (COMIC: ) and infiltrated Japan in 2010. Disguising themselves as humans, the Axons produced a television programme for children promoting a new soft drink, Goruda. When children drank it, they developed telepathy and were transformed into Axons. Using the children as leverage, Axos convinced the mayor of Tokyo to send it power from a nearby nuclear plant, claiming they only needed enough power to leave. Instead, Axos used the energy to transform into a giant monster, aiming to begin a new feeding cycle.
The Eleventh Doctor defeated Axos by having the citizens of Tokyo turn on all of their electrical appliances, drawing the plant's energies away from Axos, starving and eventually killing it. (COMIC: ) Chiyoko later undid her alterations to history, averting her own creation. (COMIC: )
==== Attempts to escape the time loop ====
Axos attempted to use an app and coordinate a path out of the time loop to create a vortex ejection window, but the Tenth Doctor and Ace were able to trick it into thinking it could reach Gallifrey and instead returned it to the time loop. (AUDIO: )
In the mid-21st century, British explorers tried to break into the time loop Axos was imprisoned in, hoping to use Axos' power for a new age of energy for the Earth. Axos turned their transmitter into a receiver and began feeding on Devesham. It copied the Sixth Doctor and made him dematerialise the TARDIS out of the time loop as Axos would follow. Two of the explorers set off a nuclear explosion with their ship, dying for nothing, before the Doctor used the fast return switch to send Axos back. Separated from its main body, the Axon copy of the Doctor melted; Axos would remain trapped in and feeding on the explosion until the time loop decayed naturally, sometime six billion years in the future. (AUDIO: )
=== Imprisoned form ===
The main body of Axos remained trapped in the Time Lords’ prison planet. (AUDIO: )
=== Other appearances ===
At some point, the Eighth Doctor and Mary Shelley fought the Axons. (AUDIO: )
78351 was a mutant with Axon, Ogron, and Pyrovile genes. (PROSE: )
=== Minor references ===
Axos was filed in the Fourth Doctor's memory files. (COMIC: )
A serial of Doctor Who entitled The Claws of Axos was broadcast in 1971. In 2013, Claudia Winkleman mentioned the serial and guessed (incorrectly) that the surprise that her co-star Dermot O'Leary got her was an alien duplication unit from the story. (TV: )
Category:Shapeshifters
Category:Biotechnology
Category:Hive minds
Category:Mutter's Spiral species
Category:Gestalt beings
Category:Time loops
Category:Alien technology salvaged by the Forge
Category:Parasitic species
Category:Humanoid species
Category:Individual spacecraft
Category:Individuals who have been inside the Doctor's TARDIS
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