The Rani's TARDIS



The Rani's TARDIS was a comparatively advanced TARDIS (when compared with the Doctor's model). It had a functional chameleon circuit.

History
When she visited the town of Killingworth, the Rani's TARDIS resembled a large cabinet with a motif on the door which resembled those on some of the interior walls of its console room. The Rani had put tyrannosaurus rex embryos in her console room at this point as she had some experiments ongoing with them. The Rani also stored her equipment for extracting brain fluid in the console room as well as various bottles of chemicals and the metamorphosing mines which she would use to set a trap for the Doctor. The console of the Rani's TARDIS was black, circular and domed in shape and in place of a central column had a rotating pair of metallic rings. The console also utilised interfacing controls in addition to buttons and switches, and had a holographic scanner which popped up from the main console. The walls of the console room were of a dark marble appearance with large opaque roundels. The Sixth Doctor sabotaged her ship, making it impossible to control after she dematerialised. The resulting acceleration of her TARDIS also caused time spillage which made the dinosaur embryos grow and mature. The Rani and her (at this point only marginal) ally the Master found themselves in a TARDIS spinning out of control. (DW: The Mark of the Rani)

The Rani's TARDIS lost its primary console room when the Master separated it from the rest of the ship in order to escape from the acceleration caused by the Doctor's sabotage. As a result, the Rani was forced to cannibalise other components in her ship in order to control her TARDIS to a certain degree, eventually recruiting a matter-duplicating entity that the Doctor later named 'Iam' to duplicate a TARDIS console for her. Although Iam's actions resulted in him creating a duplicate of a large portion of Earth's northern hemisphere in Ancient Egypt when he copied the area where the Doctor's TARDIS- which Iam and the Rani had been tracking from the pocket dimension where Iam existed- had landed rather than just the console, the Rani was eventually able to salvage the console and attach it to her own ship, although Iam left her to remain with the people his actions had created. (MA: State of Change)

The Rani survived and was next encountered by the Doctor on the planet Lakertya, where her TARDIS took the form of a mirrored pyramid. Sh was captured by her servants, the Tetraps, after the failure of her plan, the Tetraps taking her back to their homeworld to force her to help them solve their resource shortage problems. (DW: Time and the Rani)

Abilities

 * The Rani could control her TARDIS via a Stattenheim remote control that she wore on her belt when not in use.
 * The Doctor was able to use his TARDIS key to unlock the Rani's TARDIS.
 * The Rani was able to use her TARDIS to produce mustard gas as part of a trap for The Doctor. (DW: The Mark of the Rani)

Behind the scenes

 * The production team were so impressed by the finished look of the Rani's console room built for The Mark of the Rani that the set was saved for potential future use, though it would not end up being used again. (INFO: The Mark of the Rani)


 * A different console room set which more closely resembled the Doctor's was used as the Rani's in Dimensions in Time.