Azana

**Azan** was a General of the Alae Republic Army, positioned in the city of Vallaly and given command over all land forces in the Republic's war against the Fallen.

## Biography

Azan was stationed at the Republic's headquarters when Netzer took the Fourteenth Doctor to meet her inside a war conference room, where Netzer proclaimed that the Doctor had knowledge to help win the war. Azan asked her if it was true, with the Doctor about to reply when they were interrupted by an officer. After learning from him that Fallen warships were entering Vallaly airspace, landing on the other side of the river and that the medical ship that fled the base that the Doctor and Netzer came from had been shot down, Azan dismissed the Major to battle stations, ignoring the Doctor's demands of sending a rescue ship.

Azan and the Doctor continued to argue about sending a rescue party out for her companions, Elias and Fleur, when she directed her attention to one of the screens which showed one of the bridges and the forthcoming firefight. (TV: *The Fallen War*)

Azan and the Doctor watched as the entire squadron was wiped by the Fallen, leading the Doctor to begin to criticising Azan for not having a plan, but Azan cut her off and told her not to assume they haven’t been planning this whole time because she had only just arrived and she didn't know what had been going on. The Doctor started to process this and eventually accepted it. She was then interrupted by a transmission by a Captain who was trying to alert Azan about a new weapon that the Fallen were being to use - a weapon that seemingly wiped soldiers from existence with one blast. Dumbfounded, Azan demanded that the Doctor finally help them, which she hit back that she had been trying to but kept getting pushed away. Not seeing how sending out a search party would help them, the Doctor stood her ground against her, stating that she was at her best with her friends.

Watching the Doctor cracking the code for the Fallen transmission frequency, Azan asked her about how she was able to communicate with the Fallen, knowing that the Republic's biggest issue had been that they were simply unable to talk with them - to which the Doctor replies referencing her TARDIS translation matrix. A Fallen Officer invited the Doctor onboard their mothership, which Azan believed was evidently a trap. The Doctor agreed but thought that she had to go because the Fallen would not open up either way.

Taking the Doctor to a small ship to fly up to the Mothership, Azan begun to watch the skies and eventually saw the Doctor falling through the sky, she having jumped from the roof of the ship in a desperate attempt to escape. Ordering a tractor beam to catch her, Azan met the Doctor at a hanger who informed her about the Fallen's new weapon - a larger version of the firearms that could wipe people from existence that the Fallen soldiers were using - only this time, this weapon was large enough to use on planets.

Realising that was the purpose of the power source that the Republic had stolen from the Fallen, Azan planned to fire the energy source at the Fallen Mothership, which the Doctor berated as a foolish idea. Azan asked her for anything else they could do, which the Doctor could not reply easily to. The Doctor then asked for a final audience with the Fallen which Azan reluctantly complied to, however, the Doctor's plea for peace fell on deaf ears and they began a much larger attack than before.

Realising there was no time to lose, Azan authorised the firing of the energy source at the Fallen. However, the cannon would not fire, so Azan asked the Doctor for her help in getting it to work who managed to fix it and fired at the Mothership. As thanks for the Doctor's help, Azan sent orders to every squadron in the city to look for Elias and Fleur, to take them to a ship that would move them to the central base. After the Doctor was reunited with her companions, Azan sent them back to the TARDIS with machinery capable of removing the rocks that had buried it. (TV: *The Republic Falls*)