The Rani

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Ushas, better known as the Rani,or, in other accounts, as simply Rani, was a renegade Time Lady.  A brilliant but cold neurochemist, she became something of a thorn in the Resistance's side during the Battle for Ardonia.

## History

The last of the trio she formed with the Doctor and the Master to turn renegade and leave Gallifrey, the Rani was forced into her exile as a consequence of her having conducted an experiment which resulted in some of her lab mice growing to an enormous size. The mice ate the Lord President Pandad IV's pet cat. They also bit the President himself, triggering a regeneration and devoured Socra - Pandad's Chancellor - and a CIA agent. Feeling that she would never be forgiven for the incident Ushas opted out of Time Lord society - becoming a renegade. She took a TARDIS and settled on Miasimia Goria under the name of "the Rani". (DW: The Legacy of Gallifrey, The Mark of the Rani)

While the Rani certainly did not share the Doctor's fondness for Earth, which she considered a "miserable planet," it was the focus of several of her research projects. She was also disdainful of humans themselves and called them carnivores because they ate animals. At some point, she had visited Earth in the distant past and acquired several tyrannosaur embryos.

When the test subjects on Miasimia Goria, a planet she had enslaved, became violently restless and uncontrollable as a side effect of her experiments on them, the Rani visited Earth at various points in its history to extract chemicals from the brains of select human specimens. Because the chemicals in question enabled the human brain to sleep, and because the absence of these chemicals made her victims as violent and uncontrollable as those from her previous experiments, the Rani deliberately chose periods of social unrest to visit, using the violence to conceal her presence and its consequences. She visited the Trojan War, the Dark Ages, the American Revolutionary War, and finally the Luddite riots in the village of Killingworth during the early 19th century where she used the local bath house as her base, posing as the old woman in charge of the premises. (DW: The Mark of the Rani)

The dinosaur grew to such a size that it broke its neck on the ceiling, but the Rani had been left adrift in her TARDIS when the Master escaped from her by detaching the console room from the rest of her TARDIS. Shortly afterwards, from the Doctor's subjective point of view, the Rani was also trapped along with the Sixth Doctor on Terra Nova, which the entity known as Iam had created. She had in the meantime tried and failed to manipulate the political situation existing between the three children of that reality's version of Cleopatra VII. However, she did manage to escape Terra Nova, by using the entity to create a new TARDIS console room to replace the one the Master escaped in. (DW: State of Change)

On the planet Tetrapyriarbus, the Rani made the acquaintance of and decided to employ, the Tetraps, led by Urak. With them, she invaded the peaceful planet Lakertya and put into motion a complex plan. The Rani abducted eleven scientific geniuses from across time and space, including Albert Einstein of Earth. Finally she decided to "collect" the Doctor and attacked his TARDIS with concentrated beams of a radiation lethal to Time Lords. The Doctor was wounded as a result, triggering the regeneration into his seventh incarnation. The Rani channelled the intellects of the geniuses into a giant artificial brain which she believed could find the secret to manipulating strange matter, the key to making the planet of Lakertya into a Time Manipulator in order to correct what she considered to be errors in the universal timeline. Her first target was to be Earth, where she would prevent the extinction of the dinosaurs, creatures whose full potential she felt had never been truly realised. She considered the death of the native Lakertyans a small price to pay.

She used the artificial brain to find the answer as to how to create a lightweight substitute for strange matter since strange matter was incredibly heavy and could only be destroyed by strange matter. When it was devised she sent a missile containing the substance aimed at a strange matter asteroid. However, the Doctor destroyed the brain and redirected the missile. Urak betrayed her, leading the Tetraps against her, and they placed her under house arrest in her TARDIS on Tetrapyriarbus. The Rani was 953 years old when these events took place. (DW: Time and the Rani)

On the planet of Koturia, the Rani went by the name of Lania. She was genetically modifying pterodactyls in order to take blood and tissue samples of Koturians for the purpose of learning about Phasing. She believed that she could learn of a way to control the outcome of a regeneration by learning how Koturians control their appearance when they Phase. She immersed herself in Koturian culture and became engaged to Jonos, an upper-class Koturian. However, their marriage ceremony was crashed by the Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown, the former of whom was invited as an old friend of Jonos's father, Evris Makshi. Although they were too late to stop the physical ceremony, it failed to result in Jonos completing his Phase because both bride and groom have to be in love with one another for the Imori stone to work and the Rani was only pretending to be in love with Jonos. Although the Rani claimed to be immune to emotion, the Doctor believed she felt some kind of emotional attachment to her work, as she did beg him to not destroy her research by saying "please." (DW: Something Borrowed)

### Category War

During the first days of the Battle for Ardonia, the Rani would visit the planet due to its unusual nature. She experimented on the natives of Ardonia - bringing them into her TARDIS and "analysing" their chemical structure. She had also managed to capture Thorn and Adriano and hypotise them. The Rani her victims in statis on her TARDIS. She would eventually be found by the Resistance, who managed to break the Validium walls around her TARDIS. However, she was able to kidnap the first members of the Resistance to enter the area of her TARDIS - Ankarstian, Areex, and Poseidon. She experimented on them and nearly placed them in statis, however, Thorn and Adriano managed to break their conditioning and attempted to kill the trio. That was when the rest of the Resistance besieged the Rani's TARDIS and she was forced to eject all of the Ardonians on her TARDIS (CW: The Wall).

The Rani then accidentally materialized on Fort Square shortly before the siege of Fort Square. She managed to knock out the Eversiscendants and placed them in statis pods. Some time after this, the Resistance arrived at the bridge of Fort Square. They found the Rani, who pulled a medigun on Ankarstian and threatened to shoot her if the Resistance didn't leave her alone. That was when Thorn broke out of a stasis pod and broke her neck - beginning her regeneration into her second incarnation. (CW: The Raid)

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**Powerful**
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**Semi-Powerful**
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**Non-powerful**
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