Nikta

The **Nikta** were a species from a parallel universe to the Doctor's and resembled humanoids who appeared to entirely made up of glowing fire.

## History

Originating from another universe of which they completely dominated, the Nikta looked to ever increase their power by moving into other universes and taking those over as well - a feat only made possible with the birth of Xavier, a Nikta much more powerful than the species had ever seen the likes of before. Conditioning him from birth to being a living weapon, the Nikta developed a machine which used Xavier's power to destroy entire universes by colliding them into another, creating one larger universe of which the Nikta could shape to how they saw fit.

However, Xavier's mind had snapped and fled before the machine had completed construction, burning a hole in the universe and escaping to N-Space. Realising he had vanished, the Nikta raised an army to follow him but their sheer mass crossing weakened them and so they were forced to use local resources as they gathered their strength and followed his Nikta life signature to Esubeen where the trail ran cold - by now, Xavier was now within an Esubeen body which the Nikta had not taken into account. (TV: *The Universe That Came Crashing Down*)

Stranded in N-Space after the Seventeenth Doctor sealed the spatial wormhole they came through (TV: *From Out The Ashes*) and hiring bounty hunters to look for Xavier, (TV: *The Universe That Came Crashing Down*) their attention was brought to St Eden following a bounty hunter's report that Xavier had travelled there, however, they were still too weak to get there in time before he had left again. However, they did not realise this and thus mistook the TARDIS' arrival for him, attacking the planetoid, using fire to cleanse out their opponents. With the Seventeenth Doctor's intervention, the Nikta soon came to realise that Xavier was no long at St Eden and left the planetoid before they had destroyed it completely. (TV: *From Out The Ashes*)

The Nikta returned to Esubeen and planted a false signal to lure him back, where they planned to ambush him after he arrived. Again, they were too late to catch him, so they laid in motion a new plan involving the Daleks and Cybermen. Secretly meeting with the two - within the shadows as to not reveal their true selves - to provide them with Nikta technology, both species deemed a temporary alliance with the Nikta logical - the deal being that they located Xavier for the Nikta in exchange for even more superior technology. Unaware that the Nikta had spoken to the other, the Daleks and Cybermen went to war with each other which was ended by the Doctor once more, alongside his companions Teddy and Amy-Mae. (TV: *Chaos Theory*)

After the Daleks and Cybermen were defeated, the Nikta set up a detection system at both St Eden and Esubeen in case Xavier ever returned to either planet - the Nikta still being too weak to do anything else. Ultimately, they struck lucky as the Doctor and Xavier returned to St Eden following the Mayor's activation of her distress beacon - but this had caused a loop due to the Nikta only attacking because they had been constantly scanning the planet for Xavier if he had ever come back but the Doctor and Xavier only returned because the Nikta had attacked - a bootstrap paradox.

But now with their machine complete, they kidnapped Xavier and connected him to it, leaving him to charge it up. The Doctor, who had been thrown to the other side of the planetoid and betrayed by the Mayor who became Nikta herself, eventually located Xavier and extracted him from the machine - with the consequence that it began to activate prematurely. With the machine not having been powered up fully, the Doctor changed the input of the machine to Nikta DNA instead, taking a scan from Xavier which led to the destruction of all the Nikta in N-Space. (TV: *The Universe That Came Crashing Down*)