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| Kane |
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 Name: Kane
Format: Television
show
Time of Origin: Proammon, left the
planet three thousand years before he encountered The Doctor
on Svartos at an unspecified date in the future.
Appearances: "Dragonfire"
Doctors: Seventh
Doctor
Companions: Melanie
Bush, Ace and Sabalom
Glitz
History: An interesting detail to note about Kane
is that, while an extremely long-lived being who talked about
large-scale conquest, his ambitions extended no further than
a desire for revenge for crimes that were committed against him
centuries ago, making him a relatively small-minded adversary.
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| Ace Meets Kane |
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According
to a recording that The Doctor discovered, Kane originally came
from the planet Proammon, an ice planet populated by a human-like
species who existed in cold temperatures. While Kane was capable
of existing in temperatures that could be tolerated by humans,
he had to return to his personal chambers when his body temperature
rose beyond a certain level, direct exposure to any form of sunlight
would apparently be fatal to him, and one touch from him could
kill a human in seconds. A notorious criminal, along with his
lover Xana, Kane was eventually captured by the Proammon authorities,
with Xana committing suicide to escape prosecution (Kane reflected
at one point that she had been killed trying to escape arrest,
but it is unclear whether he or the recording The Doctor and
his companions discovered was lying).
Having been exiled from Proammon for his crimes,
Kane was sent to the planet Svartos, which had a permanently
frozen dark side where he could survive in relative ‘comfort’.
To ensure that he remained in prison, the power source of the
ship that brought him to Svartos was relocated to a heat-generating
android, the creature forming the basis of later legends that
there was a dragon on Svartos guarding an ancient treasure (Really
the creature’s power source). Over the centuries, Kane
was able to use his immobilised ship to set himself as a trading
post known as Iceworld, recruiting teams of mercenaries and ‘branding’ them
with an ice-cold mark, using cryogenics to wipe the memories
of all but his more skilled operatives to ensure their loyalty.
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| Kane |
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This status quo continued until the Seventh
Doctor and Mel arrived on Svartos to satisfy The
Doctor’s curiosity about the dragon, swiftly encountering
their old ‘ally’ Sabalom
Glitz and temporally-displaced
waitress Ace. Using a map that Glitz had acquired in
a card game, The Doctor was able to trace the location
of the creature, unaware that Kane had ensured that Glitz
would acquire the map so that he could do Kane’s
work for him. Despite interference from Kane’s
mercenaries, The Doctor, Glitz, Mel and Ace were eventually
able to find the dragon, which revealed its true purpose
by saving them from Kane’s mercenaries and providing
them with a holographic recording detailing Kane’s
history and its role in his imprisonment.
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| The End of Kane |
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Realising that the ship’s star charts
were out of date, The Doctor headed back to the TARDIS with
Ace and Mel to analyse his own records, unaware that
Kane had sent his mercenaries after the dragon while
also driving the current visitors to Iceworld onto Glitz’s
ship, subsequently destroying it to avoid having to deal
with them after he achieved his goal. With the creature
having been damaged by the mercenaries’ assault,
The Doctor took the Dragonfire power crystal from its
head, trading it with Kane for Ace’s safety.
However, as Kane prepared to depart for Proammon in the
now-reactivated Iceworld, The Doctor challenged him to
examine his now-updated star chats - the ship having
been unable to do such a thing itself while it was deprived
of power -, revealing what The Doctor had already discovered;
Proammon’s sun had collapsed a thousand years after
Kane was exiled, leaving him with no home planet and
nobody to avenge himself against. Outraged at having
been deprived of his vengeance, Kane lowered the ship’s
shields and exposed himself to sunlight, melting into
nothing with a defiant scream of rage, left with nothing
to sustain himself now that his opportunity for revenge
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