Joseph (Steal from the World)

Joseph was an artificial intelligence computer system given to Bernice Summerfield by Irving Braxiatel.

Origins
Victor Farrison had an android assistant named Joseph, who sacrificed himself to save the Seventh Doctor, Ace and Bernice Summerfield. The Doctor took his omnitronic processor to give to somebody who could salvage the personality from it; (AUDIO: The Dark Flame) it is uncertain if he gave the processor to the People, who built Joseph the Porter, (PROSE: Tears of the Oracle) or to Irving Braxiatel, who built the second Joseph. (PROSE: Steal from the World)

Upon meeting Benny at the Braxiatel Collection, Joseph indicated that he was aware of his predecessor built by the People but that he was a separate intelligence with the same name and personality. (PROSE: Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Doomsday Manuscript) Benny once wrote that she had been able to hang onto Joseph thanks to Braxiatel's reconstruction skills, implying that he might have rebuilt the previous Joseph. (PROSE: The Dead Men Diaries)

Assisting Benny
Joseph was gifted to Benny as a New Year's Day present on 1 January 2600 to organise her schedules, link into the Collection's mainframes, cross-check diaries and other such administration, although he served as little more than a clock off of the Collection. Benny was grateful to Braxiatel to restore something from her old life, although she initially kept him in his box.

Benny took Joseph with her when she and Daglan Straklant went in search of the Lost Tomb of Rablev. At Munroe Hennessey's estate, Joseph helped Benny escape her room and downloaded footage showing half of the Doomsday Manuscript due to an off-hand comment that Benny made. Georgia Salis was later able to work on the data that he had downloaded to create a complete manuscript. He took a radiation level at the tomb and determined that it had long been harmless. (PROSE: Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Doomsday Manuscript)

Joseph went with Benny to Capella Four and offered to accompany her on her expedition, but she told him to stay at the pod and that she would call him every two hours, which displeased him. She called him some time after leaving and asked him to fly around the area to keep an eye out, which she knew would keep him happy; however, he saw nothing out of the ordinary and had to return to the pod to perform a self-diagnostic after his systems played up. He sent Benny's findings to the International Klein Blue and informed her when they responded. (PROSE: Steal from the World)

Joseph accompanied Benny on an expedition to Gigamarket, where he started to malfunction. His time circuits said they were in the wrong time. He later tried to sell Benny upgrades and reading part of her diary at inappropriate moments. (AUDIO: Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Greatest Shop in the Galaxy)

He went with Benny to Marlowe's World, where has had to be downgraded to be allowed on on the planet (PROSE: The Tree of Life).

Benny often got Joseph to record her diary. He accompanied Benny to Goronos and was not sure when Benny left Peter Summerfield in the care of Jason Kane and Adrian Wall. (AUDIO: Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Green-Eyed Monsters)

He often aided Braxiatel in his duties. (AUDIO: The Bellotron Incident)

Axis occupation
Joseph was able to rescue Bev Tarrant from her torture cell. He then aided in her final battle against the Axis. He delivered a message to Braxiatel to warn him that the Daleks were behind the Fifth Axis. (AUDIO: Death and the Daleks)

Continued assistance
Jason asked Joseph to look for time displaced 20th century television signals to show Peter, when he changed the channels he picked up Grel security signals from 2646. He was taken with Jason, Benny, Peter and Sophia through time. (AUDIO: Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Grel Escape)

After the history machine incident, Joseph was retrofitted to look after the wounded. (PROSE: Siege Mentality)

Joseph delivered a message from Thesanius for Benny to Jason which told him to go to Cantus. (AUDIO: The Crystal of Cantus)

When Benny went missing, Joseph told Jason that CroSSScape had information on her whereabouts. (AUDIO:The Tartarus Gate)

Joseph helped Bev Tarrant in her negotiations to protect the collections. Although he was an android he was infected with the sex virus and tried it on with Benny. (AUDIO: Summer of Love)

He also assisted Hass by venturing to the Mimsphere on a diplomatic mission. (AUDIO: The Judas Gift)

He lost a lot of memory when the Mimsphere exploded. (AUDIO: Freedom of Information)

After Jason's death he spent most of his time looking after Peter. (AUDIO: The Wake)

Deindum War and fate
Joseph helped Braxiatel move an energy field to Maximediras and to test its effectiveness. (AUDIO: Resurrecting the Past) The Deindum took him apart and downgraded him to the point that he could not remember what had happened to Braxiatel, but managed to escape with help from Adrian Wall. (AUDIO: Escaping the Future)

Joseph was found by Adrian and Bev in an escape pod and went to live with them on Valentine's World, helping them with the refugee camp that they set up in the wake of the Deindum War. (PROSE: Adorable Illusion)

Some time later, Joseph was recovered by researchers constructing an exhibit based on Benny's life. He assisted Benny in destroying the museum's data on her, saving her life from the infected database that was trying to kill her. (AUDIO: Many Happy Returns)

Features and functions
Joseph had a storage facility of "rather more" than fifty terabytes and was able to download and play video data. He could detect radiation and analyse locks, although he was incapable of unlocking them. (PROSE: Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Doomsday Manuscript)

Personality
Joseph seemed arrogant and self-important, giving Benny the impression that he thought that her rooms on the Collection belonged to him. (PROSE: Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Doomsday Manuscript)

Appearance
Joseph was a plain white sphere, slightly larger than Benny's clenched fist. (PROSE: Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Doomsday Manuscript)