Opal Master

## Renewed regenerative cycle

After a lengthy period of hiding away from the Doctor, **the Master** ultimately came head to head against the Twentieth Doctor and planned for multiverse extinction using the Opal Weapon, whilst working with Humanity's Beacon. Later, after saving the Doctor from an assassination attempt by a biological agent, the Master left to hide in the shadows again.

## Biography

After the Wells Master's dealing with the Fourteenth Doctor, the Master and Doctor's paths did not chronologically cross for many years - indeed the Seventeenth Doctor believed the Master to be dead. (TV: *Oh Hell, It's Tari*) Subsequent incarnations of the Doctor continued this line of thinking until the Twentieth Doctor who was investigating suspicious activity within the Earth Alliance in 2345, uncovered a new plot by the Master, who planned to destablise the Alliance and install herself as the new leader of a new empire. The Doctor installed himself as an astrophysics teacher at the Alliance Academy so he could remain relatively close to her without giving his identity away.

Picking up Drelick as a new companion, the two defeated the Master (TV: *Freshman*) which led her to realise that simply having an empire wasn't enough. She needed to end the multiverse and rule over all creation. Locating the Opal Weapon - a device powerful enough to achieve this; the Master met with the leaders of Humanity's Beacon and helped them launch a full-scale attack against the Alliance in an attempt to seize control and begun an open warfare. The Alliance's response was to throw all of their planets into lockdown, sending soldiers to patrol the streets of major cities and readying their fleet to fight. (TV: *The Opal: Part One*)

The Doctor had teamed with the Alliance to launch a counter attack against Humanity's Beacon, alongside all his allies, but the fight proved to extraordinarily difficult and Humanity's Beacon managed to push the Alliance all the way back to Earth. Meanwhile, Drelick had been searching the Alliance's archives, where he found a counter to the Opal Weapon, something that was just as old and powerful. He met with the Doctor and left with no choice, Drelick activated the weapon which destroyed the Opal Weapon before it was charged fully and a large proportion of Humanity's Beacon's fleet.

The Master, who didn’t take the surprise very well, teleported away amid the chaos that was the weapons’ destruction. (TV: *The Opal: Part Two*)

Most of Humanity's Beacon's members were taken into custody - however, just as the Master escaped, so did a few other members of the group. One such member wanted to get their revenge on the Doctor and came up with an assassination plan - to use a highly dangerous and potent poison. When the Doctor and Penelope arrived back in Alliance controlled New York City to meet up with Drelick, this person became aware of the Doctor's presence and managed to sneak in the Alliance building, disguised as a work and poisoned his drink.

The Doctor almost immediately fell into a coma and had his mind placed within a holographic program to keep his mind safe, sane and healthy as Alliance Doctors and the Doctor's companions worked to save his body from dying. The Master was also made aware of the situation and arrived on scene; opting to join the Doctor in the program - she wanted to help him survive as she believed only she herself was allowed to kill him.

She later vowed revenge on this assassin and after exploring the Doctor's memories with him to keep him alert as his condition deteriorated even further - they worked together once he was finally cured to find this assassin and did so by examining security logs and tracking them down within New York City. They were found to be the last member of Humanity's Beacon still at large and were taken into custody as well.

The Master then left in her TARDIS, claiming that maybe she and the Doctor would meet again later in the future, but no promises would be made. (TV: *Duality*)

She later regenerated again into a male incarnation for unknown reasons. (TV: *The Fall of an Agent*)

## Personality

Slightly on the insaniac side of incarnations, the Opal Master had a tendency to explore just how far and crazy she could push the antics that she got up to. She was compassionate when she could and wanted to be - but only for her own reasons and mostly aimed solely at the Doctor; she believed that the compassion had to relate to her goals and help further them.

By far her leading characteristic was her callousness, not hesitating on a plan even it would affect billions to do so, all that mattered was herself - and again to a lesser extent, the Doctor - but she did not do anything just because, she did it for her own goals and reasons. She was willing to completely take over the universe, but would only kill those that actually got in her way and did not mind allies - viewing them as tools to her, a means to an end.

## Appearance

The Opal Master looked like a short, mature woman with pronounced cheek bones and brown eyes. Her brown hair was long and kept free. (TV: *Freshman*)

 **Agency Master** | Television | *The Fall of an Agent* / *The Rise of an Agency*