The Corale

**The Corale** was a lifeform which was permanently divided into two halves; doomed to be locked in a conflict against each other.

## History

Not much was known about the Corale's origins; but what was known was that it was a singular psychic entity made up of two separate halves, one calling themselves Paradise and the other Hell. Paradise was the half that could be somewhat be described as the Corale's good side, where as Hell could be described as its bad side. However, both of them admitted that this was a rather reductive description.

Paradise and Hell were constantly at loggerheads towards each other and could be described as being stuck within a perpetual war against the other half. Existing entirely as a non-corporeal, spiritual entity, Paradise and Hell fought throughout the cosmos - arriving on a planet and destroying it as they manipulated the elements to attack each other. At the end of each battle, one half would come out victorious and gain control over the entire entity; but this wouldn't last long as the other half would soon regain possession of their own side and the battle began anew.

One such battle led the Corale to Alani, where their fighting caused a nuclear explosion beneath the surface that killed most life on the rock. The ensuing chaos allowed Hell to win the fight and gain total control; keeping a hold of a small group of hostages made up of the sole survivors of the nuclear disaster. It planned to torture and agonise them as a form of amusement against Paradise, which it knew would be horrified by its actions.

Unknown to the Corale, Andrew Ron had been off-planet at the time of the disaster. Coming home to find only devastation, he scanned for life and found signals of the hostages. However, it was at that time where he was psychically contacted by the Paradise half who had been weakened and expanding all its efforts to secretly warn Andrew - if he chose to gather a crew to rescue the hostages, he could not tell anyone of the true purpose of their mission, as the Corale's psychic nature would mean Hell would then automatically become aware of his quest and actively work to prevent him; possibly even killing all the hostages prematurely.

Hell's base of operation on Alani was eventually discovered by Andrew, who had been joined by the Seventeenth Doctor, Teddy and Amy-Mae. Their ship had been sabotaged by a Mlerki agent who had been working on behalf of their species to get rid of any threats to their plans of taking over Alani; and thus it crash landed onto the surface, through the protective barrier that Hell had created to keep its hostages alive.

Realising what was happening, Hell went into rapid onset hibernation so it could store enough energy that would wipe out all of Alani. In its eyes, it needed to kill anyone who could stop its dominion, whilst keeping its hostages alive to continue torturing them - in stark contrast to the Mlerki who were prepared to kill everyone.

Despite this, the hostages were rescued from the caves that they were being held captive in by the Doctor and Amy-Mae, where they also met the remnants of Paradise which was in hiding. The Doctor used his psychic abilities in order to improve Paradise's own in hopes that it could finally defeat Hell.

Meanwhile, Andrew and Teddy repaired the ship and fought off the Mlerki reinforcements so that they could escape. Hell woke up and immediately detonated, but the ship had already left and all it did was wipe out the Mlerki who had stubbornly chosen to remain on the planet and ignored the warnings of what was going to happen.

With Paradise's strengthened abilities and Hell's being weakened by the detonation, the Doctor assumed that Paradise completely took over the Corale permanently but admitted that it wasn't a perfect solution. (TV: *Reckoning of the Mlerki*)