Pekt

**Pekt** was a refugee of the Time War who later saught revenge on the Time Lords.

## Biography

Pekt was a child of the Time War, living on a planet that was caught between the crossfires of the Daleks and Time Lords long before he was born. At seven years old, the planet was subject to a Time Lord Scorched Earth policy due to suspected Dalek agents and laboratories hidden beneath the surface, but as a teenager, he was told by Schofield - who had hacked into a desolate Battle TARDIS crashed on the moon that housed the refugee camp they lived at afterwards - that no Daleks had ever been present on the planet after accessing the Matrix, realising that its destruction had all been for nothing.

Pekt was one of the few survivors who managed to escape in time, alongside Schofield and Durmush, both with whom he made friends with on the ride to the refugee camp. Growing up constantly hungry, wounded and scared for their lives; the three resented Time Lords for what they had done and sworn revenge. As an adult and when the Time War was over, Pekt became a blacksmith, living within the civilisation that arose from the refugee camp.

Some years after Schofield had bought a ship and left the planet in search of Gallifrey, Pekt later met her again - and went with her as she recruited Durmush - who explained that a wastelander stated that Gallifrey had returned at the end of the universe and they were willing to provide her the coordinates for no cost. Pekt became part of Schofield's crew on her ship and set off to Gallifrey's location, but they arrived to find no Gallifrey. It was reasoned that it was merely shielded and that they simply needed to break through. Sure enough, they waited until the Sixteenth Doctor's TARDIS materialised to take Iriel based off her summons home - teleporting the TARDIS in the ship just as the shielding was lifted and snuck inside.

Staying high in orbit after Schofield realised to fly straight down to Gallifrey's surface would be suicide; the Doctor and Iriel were imprisoned before the three begun their attempts to crack into the TARDIS. As Schofield attempted to extract the secret of how to open the TARDIS from the Doctor's mind; Pekt continued to monitor the outside of the ship in fear of detection, but positioned himself in a way so that he could witness the Doctor's being tortured under the mind probe. He also witnessed the Doctor's reverse psychology on Schofield, causing her to start self-reflecting on what she had done.

As Durmush burst in with Iriel, who had been caught reading Schofield's diary, the Doctor continuing what she had been saying, making no attempt to defend the Time Lords, but explained that attacking innocent people for the crimes committed by people long gone was not the route Schofield wanted to take. It was then Schofield abandoned her efforts, but this was not something Pekt took lying down. He attacked Schofield, but she got the upper hand by tripping him. He ran off, but no one followed, not until the ship began to fall. He had cut the engines and aimed the falling ship at a city, but was knocked out by Schofield who had followed him and then steered the ship to crash in the desert - killing the two of them as a result. (TV: *A Gallifrey Made for Murder*)