Scaroth

**Scaroth**, also known as **Count Carlos Scarlioni** and **Captain Tancredi**, was the last of the Jagaroth and planned to also become the saviour of his species. He was also the pilot of the Jagaroth ship that landed on Earth in prehistoric times and concurred to the rise of life on the planet; moreover, he claimed to have contributed to the technological development of the human race. Roughly 400 million years BC, a Jagaroth ship piloted by Scaroth landed on Earth. Despite his ship's advice, he launched at Warp 3; the ship exploded, and in its control cabin, Scaroth was splintered in the time vortex.

Twelve fragments of him were scattered across time, though they could communicate through telepathy. The explosion provided the radiation that the primordial soup needed for the human race to exist. Throughout time, Scaroth's twelve selves pushed the development of the human race forward so that his twelfth self would have the technology to go back in time to the moment of take-off, preventing his splintering in time as well as the death of his race.

All of these incarnations, except for the Egyptian self, who appeared as a god on one occasion, disguised themselves as humans using a mask and skin into which he was able to fit himself.

In Florence, Italy in 1505, Scaroth appeared as a human named Captain Tancredi. He convinced Leonardo da Vinci, a human painter, to paint six copies of his famous painting, the *Mona Lisa*. He stored them away for a later self to find.

His twelfth self took the guise of Count Carlos Scarlioni, a well-known figure in the art world in 1979. Thanks to him, genuine art works that had been missing for centuries started showing up. He was married to Countess Scarlioni, who never knew who he really was, thanks to little gifts every now and then and a little "excitement". He also gave her a micromeson scanner and asked her to wear it always.

Thanks to his other selves, he used the artwork to fund his experiments with time, run by Professor Fyodor Nikolai Kerensky. Having found the other six *Mona Lisas* which were bricked up in his cellar, he planned to steal the one in the Louvre.

He would then sell them to the seven people in the world who would pay anything for the *Mona Lisa*, and since the one from the Louvre would be stolen, each would think he had the original, and Scaroth would make a hundred million dollars off each panting which would further fund his time experiments to a point where he could go back in time and prevent his past self's mistake.

He met the Fourth Doctor and Romana II when they tried to find the crack in time that his experiments had caused. Romana was captured and made to build a field interphase stabiliser to make the artificial time field Scaroth had created stable, allowing him to travel back in time, as he threatened to destroy Paris if she didn't comply.

Having been convinced by the Doctor, and having seen pictures of Scaroth's true form, the Countess turned against Scaroth. He used her bracelet to kill her. Scaroth travelled back in time to try to stop the explosion that splintered him across time; although Romana had sabotaged the field so that it would only take him into the past for two minutes, that would be enough time for him to avert his past mistake.

The Doctor got there first with Romana and Detective Duggan. After the Doctor failed to convince Scaroth to stand down on his own, Duggan knocked Scaroth unconscious. His time in the past then ended and he faded back to 1979. When his servant Hermann saw his true form, he attacked Scaroth with a grenade, and Scaroth was destroyed along with his time field. With Scaroth's death, and history left unaltered, the Jagaroth became prematurely extinct.