[Convention One-shot] The Grand Re-Opening

[gregora]

As a short introduction, I am planning on attending a local convention in approximately one week and I had this gem of an idea pop into my head. However, there are some details that need to be ironed out (as seen in the explanation).

It takes place during a routine trip to "keep score" at a museum (expecting someone to play a Doctor, someone usually does). During the visit, they encounter a pamphlet written in circular Gallifreyan, announcing the "Grand Re-Opening of The Collection". I'm thinking either the pamphlet would be on display as some weird relic or would be attached to the door of the TARDIS when they turn to leave (in which case, it would also have The Doctor's real name written on it in circular Gallifreyan).

What is "The Collection?"

It's basically The Braxiatel Collection, curated by Irving Braxiatel, The Doctor's elder brother. How he managed to survive the Time War is that he simply laid low. It's possible he laid low because he still possesses the Biodata Archive, something which holds the biodata of every past and current Time Lord in every past and current regeneration and is capable of rebuilding Gallifrey. 

The fun bit would be that it's entirely possible that the Braxiatel they meet in The Collection was a past version of the one who gave them the invitation (I mean we are talking about someone who routinely crosses his own timestream to add pieces to the collection and the Collection itself is his TARDIS). 

So The Doctor arrives at The Collection, finds it almost devoid of people. All except for one. 

It's unlikely that Braxiatel is as corrupt and warlike as the Time Lords had become during the Time War (since he and the collection disappeared before the war). However, it is likely that if the pamphlets are scattered throughout time and space, it was a ploy to get in contact with any surviving Time Lords who happened to escape the Time War.

The idea was that in a bid to protect the Biodata Archive, he slipped the entirety of The Collection (including the small planetoid it's on) into a pocket universe (or the Vortex) to ride out the storm of the Time War while watching for signs that the war was over. Once things calmed down, he had The Collection enter the now peaceful-seeming universe. And found out that Gallifrey isn't where it's supposed to be. Just dust and destroyed Dalek saucers. 

But as usual, something has to go wrong. 

Ideas of things that could go wrong:
1) a different Braxiatel walks into The Collection with a piece to add to it. (It's obvious that Braxiatel would have had far better grades while at the Academy as compared to his younger brother considering that Braxiatel has always been in good standing and is a career politician)
2) Somehow some Weeping Angels could have managed to creep in and are trying to get into The Collection's Eye of Harmony to absorb enough energy to become more powerful.
3) Or worse - Something managed to hide themselves in pieces of Gallifreyan art and are now on the move.
4) Or something has infiltrated The Collection and has plans for the most precious - and secret - of all of The Collection's artifacts: The Biodata Archive.

Or all of them.

Hopefully this makes sense and maybe ideas could be added to this. I'm not 100% familiar with the character of Braxiatel since all I know about him is off of the Doctor Who wiki and I tend to accept most audio dramas as cannonical due to the referencing to them during Night of The Doctor.

Edit: So it seems that after defeating the Deindum, the collection disappeared and Braxiatel was shot and killed by the Deindum (apparently regenerated according to the wiki). And there seems to be nothing about the newer incarnation of Braxiatel. 

[misterharry]

Aug 9, 2014 4:34:18 GMT gregora said:

Edit: So it seems that after defeating the Deindum, the collection disappeared and Braxiatel was shot and killed by the Deindum (apparently regenerated according to the wiki). And there seems to be nothing about the newer incarnation of Braxiatel. 

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Well, it's not entirely clear but the latest info is that it appears that the new Brax (who prefers to be called Irving) isn't the same version as the old one - it's likely he's from another timeline. Quite what happened to the old version and the Collection remains a mystery so they could both still be out there somewhere. It would be unlike the old Brax not to have put a timey-wimey contingency plan in place to ensure his own survival.

[gregora]

It would be unlike the old Brax not to have put a timey-wimey contingency plan in place to ensure his own survival.

That's the first thing I realized about Brax is that if there is no chance he would have been involved in a war which looks rigged against his side and would simply have remained on the sidelines and just have waited the war out in hiding so that neither side could find him.

So I've realized that I honestly have no clue who the enemies of this little adventure are. But here's what I've figured out that they know that the Biodata Archive is hidden within The Collection. They may or may not know what it is, they may simply just know that it's important and that they want it. Or that they want to destroy it. I don't know how they know that information or even why they'd want it and the reason for the PCs to side with Brax to keep it safe (they might not even side with Brax which would be really dramatic for the person playing The Doctor). 

But that doesn't really get into specifics or narrow down my options. 

So here's my nice little list of possibilities and I honestly have no clue which of these would be fun or even really possible:

The Daleks detected the mysterious appearance of an asteroid and managed to find out that it's the asteroid which houses The Braxiatel Collection and have simply assumed that due to the Time Lord nature of The Collection, the Time Lords may have hid weapons or contingency plans within The Collection and wants to find them and either use them to serve their ends or destroy it.

The Sontaran Empire, much like the Daleks, have detected the asteroid and assumed the same.

The Weeping Angels may have already been within The Collection for some time, disguised as statues and are after Brax's TARDIS to give them power over the universe. But they still haven't discovered where it is quite yet.

The Cybermen could easily find The Collection as a target, mostly due to the fact that Time Lord weaponry could be added to their own and the possibility of obtaining more information regarding the Time Lords and possibly finding Time Lords to turn into Cyberplanners. Or it could be pre-Nightmare in Silver Cybermen believing that The Collection would also give them enough data to understand how to convert Time Lords.

A handful of Graske could have sneaked in. Still iffy on why they'd want the Biodata Archive. Or maybe they're after something else. 

The Krillitane may also assume that there's something of use within The Collection.

Another possibility would be a splinter group of Time Lords from the Time War - akin to Black Ops soldiers who were away from Gallifrey when it fell and could have obtained one of the fliers. In which case, once they know that Brax has the Biodata Archive, they may decide to take it in order to recreate Gallifrey. 

What I'm thinking is that there may be more than one group who see The Collection as their target. Like one group may be seen as the villain until a bigger bad that both sides see as an enemy shows up and they work together. I know, it's a bit of a cliche.

Any ideas or suggestions?

Edit: So I've managed to crank out a rough draft. There's something that doesn't exactly sit well with me since I got a writer's block and decided to have the Daleks, the Cybermen, and the Sontarans fight each other over the asteroid. I'd attach the rough draft, but I can't seem to figure out how to attach it.