Fifth Raja

## Incarnations of the Rani / the Raja

The **fifth incarnation** of the renegade Time Lord often dubbed **"the Rani"** embraced the spirit of the name, taking on the title of **"the Raja"** due to having regenerated into a male form. He faced off against the Seventeenth Doctor, often experimenting on his companions.

## Biography

### Post-regeneration

After the events on Delta-91Q6 with the Fifteenth Doctor came to a head, the Fourth Rani was lost within the destruction of her laboratory and subsequently killed. (TV: *Queen for a Day*) The Raja later woke up inside the ruins to find that he had regenerated into a male incarnation. Now calling himself the Raja, he began to operate within the shadows once again and set up a new laboratory in the year 13,400,000,000 BC, in order to hide from the Time Lords as well being able to take advantage of existing stars as fuel.

### Early days

He begun a new experiment; putting all sorts of creatures from across the universe into the most horrific climates in a super-laboratory he had built, but being unable to die. His plan was to test the limits of biology; to see how adaptable DNA really was by itself, without any outside help - to create the ultimate being that could adapt and survive in any environment.

As part of this experiment, he kidnapped Xavier from behind the Seventeenth Doctor's back - due to becoming fascinated by his unique biology, caused by his Nikta core. The Doctor tracked the Raja down to his laboratory, originally believing him to be the Master - leading for the Raja to reveal his true identity, having kept it a secret until that point. (TV: *Cosmic Rebirth*)

The Raja invited the Doctor around for a tour of his laboratory to assert his dominance but this ultimately proved to be his downfall as the Doctor was able to work out how to free all the kidnapped beings and put an end to the experiment. The Raja then fled in his own TARDIS - swearing his revenge. (TV: *Unnatural Selection*)

After Professor Hermann Zaroff's plan to raise Atlantis from the sea was prevented, the Fish People were left isolated. To prevent mass panic, the UK government worked to rehouse them all in a castle located on the shore of Penzance - owned by the Raja. From there, he conducted experiments on the Fish People - researching into the potential of hybrids - with their bodies becoming scarred with symbols.

Keeping the Fish People safe inside an aquarium, he disposed of their bodies once they died, with the Doctor and Jayanna IX finding one such body on the coast after they arrived in Penzance in the 1970s. Investigating the castle, the Doctor discovered their aquarium and set them free once again, after the Raja escaped with an unconscious Jayanna in tow. The Fish People were subsequently left to their own devices inside the castle.

He later visited the Zaggit Zagoo bar in order to meet Raven and the Sensorite City Administrator after being invited by Raven, where they swapped stories about the Doctor. After finishing his tale regarding the Fish People, he explained that he still held Jayanna captive and intended to experiment on her. The secretive fourth member of this group then revealed himself to be the Doctor who demanded that the Raja tell him where Jayanna was, but the Raja refused and teleported out as the Judoon marched in as to apprehend Raven and the City Administrator.

The Doctor tracked him down to his new facility and freed Jayanna in time, so he disappeared - but not before planting a bomb. (TV: *Meeting at Zaggit Zagoo')*

### The Emerald Sky

Beginning a new experiment, the Raja wanted to fuel a supernova beyond its limits - just to see how far it could spread and how much destruction could be caused by it. He planted three extremely young stars within the Emerald Sky, the triangle pattern having been chosen for maximum efficiency, then travelled far into the future to when the stars had grown rapidly in size and detonated them; creating the supernovae.

Yet no matter what the Raja fed into the supernova, it failed to grow to the power levels that he wanted - until one day, the Doctor and Jayanna arrived at one of the viewing platforms. Upon examining the Doctor's and Jayanna's TARDISes, the Raja discovered they contained an unusual energy trace within them, which the Doctor and Jayanna realised must've been created when the TARDISes were merged to form Planet TARDIS.

This energy was enough to push the supernova over the edge, which exploded in activity and threatened to destroy the galaxy. The Doctor managed to transfer the energy remnants from Jayanna’s TARDIS within his own in an attempt to disrupt the flow but this failed to work, just as the laboratory started to fall apart around them as the supernova began to affect it. The Raja escaped as the Doctor flew his TARDIS into its heart to cancel out the supernova. (TV: *Final Destination*)

### Death

The Raja watched the Doctor fly into the supernova and believed him to be dead, but stood too close and was accidentally engulfed in flames by his own creation, heavily damaging his TARDIS and triggering a regeneration into a female incarnation. (TV: *Escapology*)

## Personality

The Fifth Raja was able to maintain an unusually good facade, masking his true identity from the Seventeenth Doctor until it was time to reveal himself. Xavier considered him to be a complete psychopath; emotionless but good at covering it up with a false charm. He was able to talk his way into power and get people to believe that his experiments were, ultimately, beneficial. This hid a level of pompousness and an elevated sense of being.

He believed rage and anger to be for inferior beings and looked down on anyone who lost his temper at him, preferring a quieter form of intimidation - which the Doctor noted came out as mostly object cruelty and sadism. Despite that, he was more than capable of holding grudges and was often seen swearing revenge towards those who had wronged him. He rarely lost his cool, but panicked when the Emerald Sky supernova grew *too* quickly, yet still refused to own up or apologise and make amends for what he had done.

## Appearance

The fifth incarnation of the Raja resembled a man of average height in his late forties with dark skin, brown eyes and curly black hair, originally kept short (TV: *Cosmic Rebirth*, *Unnatural Selection*) before being allowed to grow out slightly. (TV: *Final Destination*)