Bane (Invasion of the Bane)

For other uses of Bane see: Bane (disambiguation)

The Bane were an alien species who attempted to conquer Earth in secret.

Biology
The Bane were split into two types, the children and the Mother Bane.

The Bane children were large, beige, vaguely cephalopod-like creatures. They had 7 ambulatory tentacles; 3 on each side and another on their end. They had a large, single eye on their head and rings of tentacles around their mouths. There were pads on the undersides of their seven tentacles which allowed them to walk across ceilings and floors, and a turtle-like shell on the back. The Bane children had the ability to read and modify the memories of Humans, though only in their true form. (SJA: Invasion of the Bane)

''it has been noted that they have some similartiies to the Rutan Host due transforming abilities and squid-like appearence. This is probably coincidence but there has been no on screen evidence to deny it, save for the fact that Kaagh showed no special disdain for Wormwood, and the Rutan Host are mortal enemies of the Sontarans.''

The Mother Bane was much larger than her children and a blue-green colour. She showed none of the intelligence of the Bane children. She was the one who secreted the Bane chemical. (SJA: Invasion of the Bane) Mr Smith said the Bane reproduced by laying eggs. (SJA: The Lost Boy)


 * Possibly, Mr Smith was lying about the Bane to help his plan, as he was trying to establish that Luke could have been a normal earthling.

The Bane had a physical aversion to cell phone transmissions and even more so to a Butterfly Person's superluminal communications technology. They could also be injured by a spray Sarah Jane Smith kept in her attic. (SJA: Invasion of the Bane)



History
Circa 2008, the Bane attempted to invade Earth. They developed a drink, Bubble Shock!, which was highly addictive due to the Bane enzyme. The Bane children took the form of Humans using image translators and ran the factories to produce the Bubble Shock!. Unfortunately for them, 2% of the population was immune to the enzyme. In order to combat this, they scanned all the people who came into the factory and created an archetype to experiment on.

Eventually, Sarah Jane Smith learned about the actions of the Bane. She confronted Mrs Wormwood in the Bubble Shock! factory and was able to escape with the archetype, despite several assassination attempts. The Bane were forced to step up their plans and took control of all the Bubble Shock! drinkers. Sarah Jane, the archetype and Maria Jackson stopped the Mother Bane, though Mrs Wormwood was able to escape. (SJA: Invasion of the Bane)

When Mrs Wormwood went back to the Bane homeworld the Bane Kindred where angry at her personally as she had let the Bane Mother die. She was forced to flee other wise they would eat her for her so called "crime" there she met Sontaran known as Kaagh they came up with a plan that if they could get the Horath what she found out was that the Tunguska Scroll was on Earth in the Black Archive an area run by UNIT Wormwood had to get the attention of Sarah Jane Smith so she kidnapped Gita Chandra who is the mother of Rani Chandra. The Bane located her and tried to kill her but it failed and Wormwood told Sarah Jane that the Bane were trying to take over the galaxy by finding Horath. Sarah Jane kept her locked up in her attic under Mr Smith's guard. The Bane found her and tried to kill her but she was saved by Kaagh who shot the Bane that was going to kill her. Later Major Kal Kilburne a member of the Bane Kindred went to Sarah Jane Smith's house and pretended he was her nephew Gita Chandra and Haresh Chandra invited him in for coffee and tea. Later when Sarah Jane, Rani, Clyde and the Brigader got home he revealed himself and was killed by the brigader. Mrs Wormwood in the meantime opened Horath and wanted Luke to go with her but she had injured Kaagh believing him to be a fool. Kaagh saw the light and pulled her in with him. It is unknown if she survived or died but when she died it is presumed the Bane Kindred stopped looking for her.(SJA: Enemy of the Bane)