Alani

**Alani** was a colony planet home to many different species and ultimately became another site to the Corale's war, which devastated it.

## Characteristics

Extremely mountainous, Alani was covered with forests made up of rare trees and foliage not found too commonly on other planets - although in recent years before it was devastated, spores had been consistently shipped off-world and so, many of the flora was saved from extinction. Cities such as Launch Hub which held the well renowned Alanian Central Market were built into mountain sides.

After Hell set off a mass nuclear explosion at the core, the surface was shattered, causing vast canyons and killing most of the fauna. The air turned toxic, mutated creatures roamed the wasteland and deadly chemicals were present everywhere. (TV: *Extinction Planet*)

## History

One of the Corale's many battles led them to Alani, where their fighting caused a nuclear explosion beneath the surface that killed most life on the rock. The ensuing chaos allowed Hell to win the fight and gain total control; keeping a hold of a small group of hostages made up of the sole survivors of the nuclear disaster. It planned to torture and agonise them as a form of amusement against Paradise, which it knew would be horrified by its actions.

Unknown to the Corale, Andrew Ron had been off-planet at the time of the disaster. Coming home to find only devastation, he scanned for life and found signals of the hostages. However, it was at that time where he was psychically contacted by the Paradise half who had been weakened and expanding all its efforts to secretly warn Andrew - if he chose to gather a crew to rescue the hostages, he could not tell anyone of the true purpose of their mission, as the Corale's psychic nature would mean Hell would then automatically become aware of his quest and actively work to prevent him; possibly even killing all the hostages prematurely.

Hell's base of operation on Alani was eventually discovered by Andrew, who had been joined by the Seventeenth Doctor, Teddy and Amy-Mae. Their ship had been sabotaged by a Mlerki agent who had been working on behalf of their species to get rid of any threats to their plans of taking over Alani; and thus it crash landed onto the surface, through the protective barrier that Hell had created to keep its hostages alive. (TV: *Extinction Planet*)

Realising what was happening, Hell went into rapid onset hibernation so it could store enough energy that would wipe out all of Alani. In its eyes, it needed to kill anyone who could stop its dominion, whilst keeping its hostages alive to continue torturing them - in stark contrast to the Mlerki who were prepared to kill everyone. Despite this, the hostages were rescued from the caves that they were being held captive in by the Doctor and Amy-Mae, where they also met the remnants of Paradise which was in hiding. The Doctor used his psychic abilities in order to improve Paradise's own in hopes that it could finally defeat Hell.

Meanwhile, Andrew and Teddy repaired the ship and fought off the Mlerki reinforcements so that they could escape. Hell woke up and immediately detonated, but the ship had already left and all it did was wipe out the Mlerki who had stubbornly chosen to remain on the planet and ignored the warnings of what was going to happen. Realising that Alani was done for, Andrew and his people set off to find a new home. (TV: *Reckoning of the Mlerki*)