The Deca were a group of young rebellious friends at the Academy, but when the Doctor left, the Deca ended. In time, each member of the group would choose a lifestyle as a renegade across space and time.
The Doctor
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The Master (Koschei)
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The Rani (Ushas)
Appeared in The Mark of the Rani, Time and the Rani, Dimensions in Space
On Gallifrey, the Rani was known as Ushas when part of the Deca. Knowing both of them in youth, she grew into a rival of the Master and opponent of the Doctor.
Unlike the other members of the Deca, she did not chose to leave Gallifrey but was exiled from the planet after an experiment turned some of her lab mice to enormous size, whereupon they ate the President's cat.
Throughout her travels away from Gallifrey, the Rani has done many terrible things for her personal gains in science.
- She enslaved the inhabitants of Miasimia Goria, using them as test subjects, as well as visiting Earth throughout its timeline, taking chemicals from the brains of selected humans
- Been trapped on the alternative Earth of Terra Nova, and attempted to manipulate the political situation between Cleopatra's three children.
- She also employed the Tetraps and invaded the peaceful planet Lakertya. She abducted eleven scientific geniuses from across time and space, including Einstein and the Doctor, using them to power a giant artifical brain which she believed could alter errors in the universal timeline.
The War Chief (Magnus)
Appeared in The War Games
Known as Magnus when he was part of the Deca, the War Chief later became a renegade Time Lord who assisted a group of aliens known as the War Lords.
During the Doctor's time on Gallifrey, Magnus grew ambitious and arrogant, having little time for "Theet" (the Doctor). Magnus engaged himself in a scheme to provide Gallifrey with a new power source derived from a sphere. The Doctor made himself an unwelcome guest observer of the experiment. He realised the sphere was in fact a living being and that Magnus was killing it.
The Doctor sabotaged Magnus' equipment and freed the creature, an act for which the Time Lords commended him. This interference angered Magnus even more, and he became the Doctor's bitter enemy from that day on.
Now calling himself, the War Chief, he assisted the War Lords, who abducted soldiers from wars spread across Earth's history, to play in simulated "war games". The War Chief aided the War Lords by giving them techonlogy to build basic TARDIS-like machines, SIDRATs, which they used to kidnap the human soldiers.
The War Chief and the Doctor met and recognised each other. The War Chief solicited the Doctor's help to double-cross the War Lords and seize power for themselves. The Doctor pretended to accept the War Chief's offer.
Unable to resolve matters and return the soldiers to their own times, the Doctor summoned the Time Lords for aid, while the War Lords discovered the War Chief's plans and executed him, or so they believed. Unknown at the time, the War Chief did not die but, rather, underwent a faulty regeneration.
Hiding his misshapen doubled body in cloaks and hoods, the War Chief served as an occult advisor to Hitler in hopes of changing history. However, the Doctor confronted him once more and stopped him.
The Meddling Monk (Mortimus)
Appeared in The Time Meddler, The Daleks Master Plan
The Meddling Monk also know as the Monk, the Time Meddler, or Mortimus when he was still a Deca, was a former friend of the young Doctor and later his enemy.
The Monk was the owner of a Mark IV TARDIS and left Gallifrey some fifty years after the Doctor. He decided that he liked to meddle with history, specifically the history of Earth, and to change it for his own amusement.
Such events he meddled with included:
- Lending mechanical assistance to the builders of Stonehenge
- Giving Leonardo da Vanci tips for his aircraft designs
- Attempting to prevent the Norman Conquest in order to guide England into an age of technological prosperity
The Monk was at this time a well-meaning but childish man who was not half as clever as he thought he was, and who never seemed to realise the seriousness of what he was doing. In order to stop him, the Doctor sabotaged the Monk's TARDIS.
However, the Monk fixed his TARDIS and decided to join forces with the Daleks. When the Doctor met him in ancient Egypt, he tinkered with the the Monk's TARDIS, stealing its directional unit, leaving the Monk stranded in a cold, icy location.The Monk then teamed up with the Ice Warriors and battled the Doctor in a complex scheme involving alternate Earths, and a plan to build a sonic weapon. By this time, the Monk referred to himself and the Time Meddler. Sometime after this battle, he regenerated.
He then created a series of alternative timelines, and also served as Death's Champion, in the same way that the Doctor served as Time's Champion. In doing this, he had made himself servant to a being much more powerful and intelligent than himself.
Drax
Appeared in The Armageddon Factor
After leaving Gallifrey, Drax did jail time in Brixton and some of the local accent rubbed off.
During the Doctor's search for the keys final segment, the Doctor and Romana arrived on the planet Atrios, which was at war with their neighbouring planet Zeos. However, the true enemy was a third planet called the Planet of Evil, ruled by The Shadow.
The Shadow had imprisoned Drax and made him work for him. He agreed to help the Doctor. With his assistance, The Doctor recovered the final segment of the Key to Time.
Azmael
Appeared in the Twin Dilemma
On Gallifrey, Azmael worked as Co-ordinator of the Matrix and the Doctor's teacher. He emigrated to the planet Jaconda, a planet of flightless bird people where he settled and ruled there benevolently.
The leader of the race of Gastropods, Mestor, then conquered Jaconda and used a telepathic link to take control of Azmael. Mestor forced Azmael to kidnap the two young genius identical twins, planning to use them to solve the equations needed to explode Jaconda's sun and spread Gastropod eggs throughout the universe.
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if any renegade time lords who time travelling in space and time I wish they had a tardis
It must be pointed out that 'The Deca' is a concept from the books, not the TV series itself. So it is not actually canon (if you care about such things).
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The Deca isn't even a concept from "the books". In fact, it hopelessly contradicts various other books, including itself.
Essentially, the Celestial Toymaker(a character who is well-known for playing games and tormenting people) causes the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa to have nightmares abotut heir past. These nightmares use some actual elements, but they are grotesquely distorted, and are designed to upset and confuse the dreamers, while giving the Toymaker a sick pleasure. They are not in any way shape or form to be taken as literal renderings of actual past events.
It is quite frankly bizarre the way people cherry-pick which information to use as "canon"(ugh).
As someone else already noted, the Deca sequence from Divided Loyalties is a dream. Just before it starts, the Doctor is said to fall asleep. The chapter is entitled "DREAMING". Then after it ends, the Doctor is said to wake up, and shortly afterwards even remarks on the "weird nightmare" he has just had.
This weird nightmare includes such gems as Mortimus and the Doctor being at the Academy together, and Mortimus leaving Gallifrey BEFORE the Doctor. However, nothing compares to the bit on the 'Rassilon Imprimature'. Essentially only someone with a 'Rassilon Imprimature' can control a TARDIS, regenerate, or even TRAVEL in a TARDIS. And it is explicitly stated that only one member of the Deca, Jelpax, ever even got one. Even if the other members of the Deca had somehow got one, then how are Adric, Nyssa and Tegan even travelling in the TARDIS in Divided Loyalties?
Essentially there are two ways of looking at the Deca. One is to take it as literal, in which case the book Divided Loyalties takes place inside its own universe, entirely separate from every other Doctor Who story ever. And that universe collapses in on itself due to its own enormous logical flaws.
Or the sequence clearly titled "DREAMING"(in capital letters), the one the Doctor has between falling asleep and waking up, the one he refers to as a "weird nightmare", the one he has in the Celestial Toymaker's Dreamscape, the one the Celestial Toymaker said he gave to the Doctor to torment him....is a dream. Yes, really. Not a literal description of events. A nightmare. A weird nightmare. And therefore nobody should ever use events in the Deca sequence as background information for the Doctor, or any other character, ever again.
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