Mera Rakhal

**Mera Rakhal** was a Tosan government minister who had played a large role in the government's Bailu project and thus fled the planet when the new regime declared her a wanted criminal and rogue element.

She later joined forces with Revir Ctharcourt in an attempt to lord over all of time and space.

## Biography

Escaping the Judoon who had been hired by the new Tosan government after the previous had been indisposed by the Seventeenth Doctor and young Tosan Teddy, (TV: *On Foreign Shores*) Mera arrived at an American town in the 1800s, burning out her vortex manipulator in the process. Hiding away in a recently burned down and boarded up church, Mera made the most of her situation, using her backpack of machinery when she took with her when she left Tosan and kidnapped town civilians for spare parts, so that she could repair the manipulator and travel to a "more civilised age".

However, the Judoon eventually tracked her down via tracing the manipulator signal and extracted the town to an unnamed planet using a H20 scoop, force field and perception filter to prevent anyone from leaving. Soon afterwards, the Doctor, Teddy and Amy-Mae arrived in the town, having another shot at trying to land on Earth and came across the Judoon marching across the town in search of Mera.

Splitting up to find Mera before the Judoon did - due to knowing how brutish they were and wanting to ensure that Mera had indeed been guilty of her accused crimes - the trio investigated the town before the Doctor discovered her hiding place and found that she was soon to depart. Preventing her from leaving by damaging her equipment, the Doctor's intervention meant that Mera was then arrested by the Judoon, being unable to leave and taken back to Tosan. (TV: *Delusions of Reality*)

Tosan deposited her in a high security prison where a neural blocker was implanted in her mind and her memories on all time travel knowhow were wiped. It was here where she met Revir and the two quickly began to formulate a plan to escape and restore their home planet back to a time travel superpower within the universe. This would be then used as a channel for universal and temporal domination. They recognised the Alae Republic as the biggest threat to their plans - as well as the source of the secrets to time travel which they had lost.

Instigating a prison riot, the two overwhelmed a guard and used their ID to steal a time ring and escaped via a portal - the prison held time portals for their officers because it held people from across all time and was located in no-space. From there, they travelled to Vallaly; a city within the Republic and staged various attacks across the metropolis in order to distract the Temporal Intelligence Agency - so they could sneak into the depths of the Agency's headquarters and steal what they were looking for. Freeing the Horned Demon - which they hoped would destroy the Agency, as well as the Doctor who was also on the scene - (TV: *The Comings and Goings of the Agency*) Mera and Revir, at first, planned to stay and watch them all die, but promptly fled when the Horned Demon proved to be growing so out of control, that he also threatened their own lives. (TV: *Chain Reaction*)

Needing an army with which to take over Tosan in the first place, Mera and Revir travelled across Tosan's past and kidnapped people who they believed whose disappearances wouldn't cause suspicion. They were then all placed within training dimensions, their minds wiped and mindcontrolled into training to become soldiers - (TV: *Another Day in the Desert*) barring one, Lurala, who was instead made to operate the robots on Renovix XI, producing suits of armour from broken and dismantled Cyberman parts - Cybermen being chosen due to their belief that the metal used for their armour was tough and reliable. (TV: *Fugitive of the Cybermen*) Hearing that the Doctor and Agency had somehow survived the Horned Demon, Revir made the decision to use the army that they were building to attack and destroy the Agency first, whilst Mera led the Drahvins to Earth as a distractor for the Doctor. (TV: *The Drahvin Insurgence*)

An alarm on Renovix XI led Mera and Revir back to their lab, where they found the Doctor, Taylor and Luna snooping around. However, Cybermen ships suddenly arriving and attacking the six forced them to split up - Mera with the Doctor and Taylor and Luna with Revir and Lurala. As the three travelled across Renovix XI, Mera refused to talk to the Doctor - still angry with him - although explained what happened in her past to Taylor in an attempt to sour the Doctor's image, which didn't work.

Eventually meeting up in some volcanic plains, the five were intercepted by the Cybermen who were tricked into walking over some erupting lava geysers by the Doctor. Sneaking onboard a Cyber ship, Mera and Revir quickly splintered off from the others when the Doctor admitted that he was looking for a way to destroy the Tosans’ lab - which he succeeded in doing after finding the cockpit. Because of this, Mera and Revir boarded the TARDIS after the Doctor landed the Cyber ship - Revir having stolen Luna’s key. They let the Cybermen in, hoping they would just target the TARDIS team as they left, but this backfired as all of them were now targetted. After a chase through the TARDIS, the Doctor materialised the TARDIS just outside the lab in the air, tilting the ship whilst using an air tunnel to suck the Cybermen out of the TARDIS and crashing down on the ground below.

Mera and Revir left the TARDIS ASAP after it fell to the floor (TV: *Fugitive of the Cybermen*) and jumped through a portal in their lab into one of their training dimensions, hiding from the Doctor and Cybermen, while also checking on the progress of the training. However, it wasn't long until the TARDIS base found their base; in response, Revir spawned creatures set to kill and set them loose. After the three managed to get away, the Doctor soon was able to turn off the encoding signal that mindcontrolled the soldiers and set the dimension to collapse. Mera and Revir refused to leave, having grabbed hold of Moerd Bosro to force the Doctor to leave them behind so he could escape in time. (TV: *Another Day in the Desert*)

Having actually survived due to the dimension just transporting them to another one upon its closure, Mera and Revir freed the Axons from their time loop and gave them the secrets of time travel - later returning with their soldiers to wipe them all out and claimed Axos as a base of operation. (TV: *The Return of Axos*) They readied themselves to launch a surprise attack on the Agency, but Moerd had broken free of the mindcontrol that they planted back on him and secretly informed the Agency as what was going to happen.

When the Agency's army arrived on Axos, Mera led the Tosan army during a brutal and tiring battle, but was eventually captured. She did not accept this loss, however, and broke free from those restraining her, running off but falls into a time eddy which kills her. Following this, the Tosan soldiers stopped fighting - which the Seventeenth Doctor later theorised that the signal told them to fight with Mera as their commander, but didn't to add a clause about what to do if she died. The lack of information caused them to cease fighting.

Once she became aware of Mera's death, Revir gave up all hope and committed suicide by jumping into Axos' core, destroying the planet and granting a Republic victory. (TV: *Embrace the Chaos*)

## Personality

Mera had an unassuming nature; people typically ignored her existence as they rarely believed that she was capable of anything much - but this was something she knew about and used to her advantage, hiding a psychopathic nature and a causal disregard for all life she saw as beneath her. To keep up this guise, Mera was often quiet, subtle in speech and essentially the submissive personality in comparison to Revir.

However, she truly believed in her cause and was solely cold blooded at core. She was also a pathological liar, believing the only person she could trust was herself, which seemed to contradict her relationship with Revir - but both of them saw the other as a means to an end and merely tolerated them.