Dairut Qarmus

**Dairut Qarmus** was an important figure in the history of Thaxolen, for better or for worse.

## Biography

Born and raised on Thaxolen, Dairut never knew a time without the time lock being active. He got into politics and eventually became Minister of Internal Defence. When Thaxolen's time lock began to break, Dairut decided to travel to its future without telling anyone, to see how they solved the crisis and discovered that a Time Lord named Pax had come to the planet - having first been encountered by an emissary on a planet named Proastia, but not arriving on Thaxolen until they had just fought creatures called the Vashta Nerada - repaired its time lock and was now hailed as its saviour; staying on the planet as its guardian and protector. (TV: *Saviour*)

As he was growing mad with desired power, Dairut conducted a plan. He would be the one to bring Pax to Thaxolen to ensure that the time lock would be fixed, then use the moment to seize control of the planet in a military junta. He was aware that some Thaxolites were opposed to the time lock, due to it meaning that they would be unable to call in any allies during times of crisis - which he planned to use to his advantage; anyone against him simply wouldn't be able to receive any outside help.

After establishing up a group of like-minded individuals in secret - who would prepare for his return - (TV: *Guardian*) Dairut used the weakness of the time lock to his advantage and left in search of Pax. Knowing he had to find Pax alongside the Vashta Nerada (TV: *Saviour*) and with only the name Proastia to go on, he travelled there where he met Pax I and the Fifteenth Doctor - becoming the emissary the history books spoke of - and helped them overthrow the system. (TV: *Modern Living*)

Secretly, he left a temporal tracker device inside the TARDIS that occasionally pinged his vortex manipulator when Pax was somewhere which was accessible to him. (TV: *Resort of Terror*) He infiltrated UNIT, thinking it would get him closer to an incursion which he believed was the Vashta Nerada, that UNIT would've otherwise blocked him from getting close to, but turned out to be an entirely different species. He left quickly when he realised the truth. (TV: *Shadow Inquisition*)

Later, he travelled to the Everglow Interplanetary Mall just as Edward Wenlock began his attack. In the ensuing chaos, he bumped into the Doctor alone down a dark corridor, who demanded to know why he was stalking her and Pax, but he declined to properly answer and left the mall soon after. (TV: *The Grand Army of One*)

Only when Dairut came across the two at Sanctum Voluptas, did he finally decide to hijack the Doctor's TARDIS and travel back to Thaxolen - as the Vashta Nerada incursion finally happened. (TV: *Resort of Terror*) Dairut explained the situation to Pax, who ultimately decided to give his life to repair the time lock and become Thaxolen's saviour and future guardian, despite the Doctor's insistence that they find another solution, even offering herself up as the one to enter the room. (TV: *Saviour*)

Pax managed to fix the time lock, but the radiation forced him to regenerate for the first time into a female body. Dairut finally seized power with his junta, and ordered the execution of both Pax and the Doctor, but the two formed a rebel group to fight against him. A number of the rebels debated reopening the time lock to call in help, but Pax ultimately decided against it and Dairut was eventually overthrown. Pax and the Doctor left it to the Thaxolites to decide his punishment, and he was imprisoned for the rest of his life.

Inadvertently, this conflict was what solidified Pax as Thaxolen's guardian in the eyes of the Thaxolites. (TV: *Guardian*)