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Kotris was an incarnation of the Time Lord Straxus who worked with the Daleks.

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At some point, Straxus regenerated. Already exhausted with the Time Lords' morally questionable actions, the man now known as Kotris, after an old family name, decided that he could tolerate them no longer. He formulated a scheme with the Dalek Time Controller that involved implanting retro-genitor particles into a living organism. The Time Controller would then send Daleks after this organism and the Eighth Doctor, allowing the particles to latch onto the Doctor's Gallifreyan DNA. Their forced bonding would incubate the particles, eventually charging them enough to be placed inside a space-time projector designed by Kotris. Blasted back in time by the projector, the particles would devolve the Doctor and his fellow Time Lords out of existence. The Time Controller rewrote Kotris's biodata, replacing all references to Time Lords with references to Daleks, to enable him to "get the job done". (AUDIO: X and the Daleks)

Kotris traveled to the planet Srangor to help the occupying Daleks construct the projector. He detected Molly as she fell into a Dalek mine shaft, unaware that they had crossed paths before. Intrigued to see a human on Srangor, he had her brought into the facility constructing the projector. Analysis of blood samples and a scan with a cerebral probe revealed that she was travelling with the Doctor and was "ripe as ripe" with retro-genitor particles. He dissuaded the Daleks from exterminating the Doctor, reasoning that his and the Time Controller’s future selves would do so for them. (AUDIO: X and the Daleks)

Kotris traveled to an Irish village in the early 1890s in his TARDIS, which camouflaged itself as a horse and carriage. He found a two-year old Molly, lost and wandering in stormy conditions after celebrating her birthday with her parents, and took her inside his TARDIS. Observed by the Doctor and the 26-year old Molly, who had arrived to learn why she vaguely remembered him, he dematerialised to implant her younger self with the particles, rematerialised, and returned her sleeping younger self to her tearful parents. He left Ireland and was lambasted by the Time Controller for his potentially ruinous oversight. Reassuring the Time Controller that he had a contingency plan, he sent the Doctor's space-time coordinates to the Mezcoranis. (AUDIO: Tangled Web)

Back on Srangor, Kotris monitored the Doctor as he searched for Molly on the Western Front of 1917. He had time winds released to stop the Doctor, and was successful in briefly incapacitating him. (AUDIO: The Great War) He also monitored an earlier incarnation of Straxus as he attempted to jump off cliffs on Srangor. Well aware of the consequences of Straxus dying on a planet whose radiation hindered regenerations, Kotris sent a temporal drone to soften his falls. (AUDIO: Fugitives)

Centuries after Kotris met Molly for the first time, the Time Controller ordered the projector activated. The particles were sent back in time using Molly as a conduit, but because the earlier Straxus had modified them to target Daleks, the Daleks in attendance began to devolve instead of the Time Lords. (AUDIO: X and the Daleks)

The Time Controller exterminated the earlier Straxus in a confrontation between them and Kotris. With the regeneration into Kotris wiped from the timeline, Kotris and his handiwork faded away. (AUDIO: X and the Daleks, The Death of Hope)

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