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Lakertya is the homeworld of the Lakertyans. It was located in the Lakertyan System, and the Sixth Doctor regarded its natives as peaceful. (AUDIO: The Brink of Death [+]Nicholas Briggs, The Sixth Doctor: The Last Adventure (Big Finish Productions, 2015).) Lakertya was in the same star system as Carsus. (PROSE: Spiral Scratch [+]Gary Russell, BBC Past Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2005).)

History[]

The Sixth Doctor tried to visit Lakertya with Melanie Bush, but found a deadly source of radiation that kept him from going to the planet. He was sent a psychic signal by his future self to go back as part of a preemptive effort to defeat the Valeyard through self-sacrifice by encountering the radiation, a kind fatal to Time Lords but not humans.

En route to Lakertya, he was attacked by the First Rani, whose weaponry used the offending radiation. Upon being exposed to it, the Doctor soon regenerated, and his TARDIS was forced to land on Lakertya after the Rani placed it in a tractor beam. (AUDIO: The Brink of Death [+]Nicholas Briggs, The Sixth Doctor: The Last Adventure (Big Finish Productions, 2015).)

The planet was conquered by the Rani and her Tetraps from their planet Tetrapyriarbus. She built a base of operations in a ravine and she littered the area with traps. Fresh from his regeneration, the Seventh Doctor repelled the Tetraps, who turned on the Rani. (TV: Time and the Rani [+]Pip & Jane Baker, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987).)

During the Last Great Time War, Lakertya was the site of a Recursive Inversion. The Barber-Surgeon's forces carried out a pre-emptive time ambush of that Recursive Inversion, proving the Barber-Surgeon was real. The incident ended with a Time Lord defeat. (AUDIO: The Mission [+]Robert Valentine, He Who Fights With Monsters (The War Doctor Begins, Big Finish Productions, 2022).)

Behind the scenes[]

In the short story While he worked the 9th Doctor mentions Lakertya is in the Canis Dwarf Galaxy and that he died there in 176,457 BC.

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