Romana

Romanadvoratrelundar (Romana for short) was a Time Lady who was assigned to the Doctor in his quest for the key of time. She stayed with the Doctor long after that task was complete, and then decided to part ways with the Doctor in E-Space. She met up with the time traveler known as Alex Heart, and with K-9, they two traveled the universe before parting ways when she was elected Lady President of the Time Lords of Gallifrey. She was reunited with Alex during the Last Great Time War, where she ran from the High Council who chased her through space and time. She eventually turned herself in to save Alex, and was banished and forced into a human guise on Earth.

First incarnation
Romana was born in the ancestral house of Heartshaven, one of the sub branches of the Hoise of Lungbarrow on Gallifrey Romana attended the Time Lord Academy while Braxiatel was a tutor there. She hated the Academy and her class-mates regarded her with jealousy because of her effortless academic superiority, nick-naming her "The Ice Maiden". While there, she was contacted by the spirit of Pandora, who told her that she had manipulated Romana's genetic make-up through the centuries with the Imperiatrix Imprimatur, in order to create the perfect vessel for her to rule Gallifrey once again. Romana informed Braxiatel, who then hypnotised Romana to forget not only Pandora, but also Braxiatel himself. Thus, she recalled only having heard of him through his art collection before her eventual return to Gallifrey from her travels.

The White Guardian originally assigned Romana to assist the Doctor during the quest for the Key to Time, having appeared to her as the Lord President of Gallifrey. Though she was much younger than the Doctor, she considered him an academic inferior. However as they searched for the various pieces of the Key to Time she came to respect the Doctor for his greater experience and knowledge versus her stolid academic credentials.

Following the completion of the Key to Time mission, Romana chose not to immediately return to Gallifrey and she and the Doctor shared a few more adventures. Then, for reasons that remain unclear, she regenerated. The appearance of her new incarnation was based upon the appearance of Princess Astra of Atrios, who had been the sixth and final segment of the Key. Romana later hypothesised that the torture she endured at the hands of The Shadow had somehow resurected the influence of Pandora, and that the only way to regain full control was to volunarily regenerate. The first Romana's form would later be used by the Pandora entity when she confronted Romana's second incarnation and Leela, and again when Pandora became corporeal - after Romana declared herself Imperiatrix - allowing it to take control of part of Gallifrey and begin a civil war.

Regeneration and early life
After her voluntary regeneration into a likeness of Princess Astra, the Doctor protested that she had no right to assume the likeness of another person. She also initially chose a style of dress that mimicked the Doctor's. The Doctor soon got accustomed to her new form. He found this new incarnation easier to get along with than the last, to the point where he implied that he considered her his best friend. Together, the Doctor, Romana and K-9 Mark II made an unbeatable team.

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After forgetting all about the matter, the Doctor received a message from the Time Lords requesting (or rather, ordering) him to return her to their home planet of Gallifrey now that she had helped him find the segments to the Key to Time. Romana, having tasted the life of adventure with the Doctor, and having bonded with him, clearly made it known that she didn't want to go back, at one point going to her room to sulk about it. En route, the Doctor's TARDIS entered a Charged Vacuum Emboitment, left their own universe and entered another, smaller universe known as E-Space. With K-9 damaged by the time winds, the regular universe remained inaccessible to him. Romana decided to stay with him in the new universe and to help the enslaved Tharils release themselves from captivity.

First Travels Alex Heart
Romana returned from E-Space with the help of K-9, but returning to Gallifrey did not want to stay. She opted to leave Gallifrey and move throughout time and space like her friend the Doctor. She met a young man in the 51st Century, Paris. Alex seemed to know her, but she had no idea who he was. Moving through time and space, the two of them went on many adventures.

President of the High Council
Romana and K-9 eventually did return to N-Space and to Gallifrey, where Romana ascended to the Presidency.Soon after taking office, however, she was abducted by the Daleks and spent more than two decades in captivity before finally escaping with the aid of the Doctor, now in his sixth incarnation. Upon returning to Gallifrey, she resumed her position as president.
 * The manner of Romana's ascendency is unclear. One source claims Romana ran against Flavia in an election and won.' Romana recalled that she had invoked a 'right of challange' against her predecessor as President of the High Council, just as Darkel later challanged her. 'However, Braxiatel stated that no-one had held the role of Lord Chancellor "for many years", not since Romana's "predecessor quelled his predecessor's less-than-stellar stewardship"; while Romana said she had been "asked to become President after the coup that overthrew Flavia's inauspicious reign", in spite of her lack of political experience - suggesting another President ruled in an interim.

It seems Braxiatel supported and guided Romana's appointment partly because it was inevitable and he wanted to monitor her closely for any return of the Pandora influence. Braxiatel was created High Chancellor and given responsability for Romana's experiments with the Time Lord Academy, allowing off-world students to enter the academy.

Romana and her bodyguard Leela later encountered Pandora again, this time taking the form of Romana's first incarnation. Pandora tells Romana that she engineered her return to Gallifrey from E-Space and her appointment as President, in order to fulfill her grand plan. As a result of the Pandora creature, Braxiatel had to leave Gallifrey for exile, and the Academy reforms fell apart under his successor Chancellor Valyes. Romana started to exhibit some symptoms of Pandora's influence - she apparently murdered Andred while possessed, and continued to consult Pandora for advice on her political moves. At Pandora's suggestion, Romana declared herself Imperiatrix of Gallifrey in response to Darkel's challange for the Presidency, but as she crowned herself with the coronet linking her to The Matrix, Pandora became corporeal in the form of the first Romana, declaring herself Imperiatrix. Freed by her chancellory guards, Romana destroyed much the city's infrastructure in the resultant civil war, in response to Pandora's psychic control of the Capitol. She was eventually able to contain Pandora within the Matrix once again, and to kill her by destroying the Matrix completely.

Romana was greatly weakened by her struggle with Pandora, and Chancellor Valyes became acting President. Valyes appointed Matthias as Lord Cardinal before resigning and naming Darkel as his successor. Romana and Matthias both made counter-claims to the Presidency. After Darkel and Matthias agreed to the arrest of Romana for high treason, Braxiatel turned up and made a superior claim for the Presidency, freeing Romana. He immediately resigned and named Matthias his successor, to the surprise of Romana. However, Braxiatel had hatched a scheme to preserve the Time Lord biodata archive, containing the genetic patterns of all Time Lords, past and present, in the hopes of reconstructing Gallifrey after its inevitable fall. As the Free Time Dogma Virus ravaged Gallifrey, Matthias nominated Romana to find the cure, then go into exile. Romana followed the trail, only to find Braxiatel. He had nominated Matthias knowing that whoever was President would be doomed to fall to the Dogma virus. He also noted that, ironically, Pandora would have had the ruthlessness to crush the 'great threat' facing Gallifrey, but Romana would not. The only cure for the virus was to end the regeneration capabilities of the Time Lords. With the help of K-9, Braxiatel used a Time Scoop to collect the biodata archive. He then asked Romana to decide whether to administer the cure, or to let Gallifrey die and then rebuild it using the biodata. Her decision is not known.

Romana boldly initiated diplomatic relations with the Time Lords enemy, the Daleks and a peace treaty was signed: the Act of Master Restitution.

As Lady President
ond incarnation Romana would later return to N-Space; one account suggests the Doctor made this possible. She subsequently assumed a seat on the High Council of Time Lords. She later attained the office of President. She was at this time generally referred to by her full name, and had Leela, K-9 and Irving Braxiatel as her closest confidants.

She was abducted by the Daleks and kept prisoner for twenty years, barely escaping with her sanity intact although an adventure shared with the Doctor helped her recover and afterwards presided over Gallifrey in a ever-changing political situation where new time-active powers like the Monan Host were coming to prominence. The machinations of the Free Time terrorist group and a civil war against the malevolent Pandora (who took on the form of Romana's first incarnation) would eventually see Gallifrey fall into ruin and Romana lose her position to Matthias. Braxiatel attempted to salvage the situation but this went "pear-shaped", leaving Gallifrey overrun by Dogma Virus zombies and about to be hit with temporal weapons; Romana, however, had a plan in mind (though it is as yet unknown).

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Still as Lady President, Romana regenerated a second time into her third incarnation (EDA: The Shadows of Avalon) Romana was far more ruthless in this incarnation in the previous two and presided over a war with the Enemy and the destruction of Gallifrey. She looks (worryingly from the Doctor's point-of-view) like the Doctor's mother, and has a Seal of Rassilon tattoo on her ankle. She has dark hair that she wears long and straight.

Some evidence may suggest that Romana may have been one of a few Time Lords that survived this cataclysm, possibly in a fourth incarnation.

Personality
Romana is an exceptionally clever (even on-par with the Doctor), slightly bossy person. She possesses many personality points of the Doctor. Like the Doctor, Romana is capable of using deadly force when necessary, although this has rarely been documented.

In her first incarnation, she was more haughty and "by the book" and was occasionally annoyed by the Doctor's eccentricities. She does not mind taking on the form of Princess Astra of Atrios.

In her second incarnation, Romana was more bubbly and free spirited, in many ways a female version of the Fourth Doctor. It was also evident that in her second incarnation, she liked to emulate the Doctor's sartorial style, initially wearing a pink version of his overcoat, complete with white scarf.

Although she was also seen wearing period Earth-style outfits such as a schoolgirl costume. She did on at least one occasion slip back into the haughty nature of her first incarnation.

Her third incarnation was not as positively disposed towards the Doctor, and it is said she regenerated as she felt her second incarnation wasn't ruthless enough to handle the coming war.

The Fourth Doctor jokingly refers to Romana by saying that she "knows everything".