Mordeela

Mordeela was the home planet of the Kotturuh. It contained a gateway to another realm, from which the Kotturuh drew the energies they used to impose lifespans on other species. According to one tale, the name was from an old tongue and meant “judgement”.

The planet was shielded by a barrier which kept it one picosecond ahead of the rest of the universe, with one weak point to allow Kotturuh ships access. (PROSE: The Knight, The Fool and The Dead)

History
After discovering her immunity to their touch during their judgement of Destran, the Kotturuh took Estinee back to Mordeela as a prisoner. There she observed numerous dignitaries from across the universe coming to meet the Kotturuh in the hopes of bargaining with them to avoid judgement. She was eventually rescued by Professor Fallomax who was mining crystals from Mordeela for her lifeshrouds. They caught Estinee again but Fallomax rescued her from Mordeela a second time.

The Kotturuh recaptured Estinee on Andalia and were pursued to Mordeela by the Doctor and Brian. Arriving in underground tunnels, the pair encountered the revenants, individual members of each species forced to recite the date the Kotturuh had or would judge their species that were kept on Mordeela. They witnessed Fallomax rescued Estinee a third time and returned to the TARDIS. There the Kotturuh confronted the Doctor and assigned him a date of his own, furious at his meddling.

The Doctor later ordered his mercenary fleet, equipped with lifeshrouds with a limited timespan of effectiveness, to go to Mordeela whilst he finalised his reverse engineering of the Kotturuh’s power. After sentencing them to a lifespan of just fifteen minutes, the Doctor joined his fleet as they arrived in orbit. They watched Kotturuh ships fleeing beneath the barriers, which the Doctor assumed was because they wrongly thought it might shield them from his judgement. The Doctor decided to use crystals from Mordeela to reflect the Kotturuh’s energies back at them, sealing off the gateway at the planet. Before he could launch this device however, his fleet was confronted by the arrival of a Dalek saucer, led by the Eighth Doctor, and a Coffin Ship, commanded by the Ninth Doctor. The two Doctors attempted to talk down their future self but he refused and ordered his fleet to fire, determined that Mordeela was going down with the Kotturuh. (PROSE: The Knight, The Fool and The Dead)

A crystal from Mordeela was one of the exhibits at the Verbier Museum of the Impossible. (PROSE: Canaries)