OMEGA

Omega was the stellar engineer who created the power supply that enabled the Time Lords to start up their time travel facility. A large sun was selected to be tapped for the energy demands of the Time Lords, and Omega and his team went to work. He triggered a supernova explosion, which was then converted to a white hole, tied to the power taps on Gallifrey. In the process, Omega's ship was destroyed, and it was presumed that Omega was lost with it.

In fact, he was still alive. The forces unleashed in the conversion process had propelled him through the white hole and into a separate Universe beyond. This was a universe composed entirely of anti-matter, yet somehow, through the sheer force of will, Omega managed to survive. The connecting point between the two universes was the point of Singularity. This point Omega finally bent to his own will, and he used the power of the Singularity to create an entire world for himself, and a palace on that world in which to dwell.

He was unable to create complex life forms, and for thousands of years he remained the only inhabitant of this universe. Lonely and bitter, he brooded on his fate, and became convinced that he had been deliberately abandoned by the Time Lords, who saw his engineering abilities as a threat to themselves. (There may, in fact, be some truth in his suspicions.) He became determined to have his revenge on them.

However, Omega was unable to leave this pocket universe of his without some other mind present to take it over. Experimenting with the Singularity, however, he found that he had greater powers than he had ever imagined. The flow of power from the white hole to Gallifrey was reversible, and he began to drain the energy of the Time Lords. Initially, this was a slow process, but it soon built up momentum. He would be able to gain his revenge by destroying Gallifrey--if there was no intervention. He had also tapped into the information network, and found out about the exile of the Doctor on the Earth.

He managed to send a bolt of "lightening" to Earth, drawing the attention of the third Doctor. Using the beam, he then sent one of his primitive life forms to Earth to capture the Doctor. The Time Lords were helpless to intervene directly, but were able to bring two earlier incarnations of the Doctor forward in their time lines to help the third doctor.

The second and third Doctors faced Omega in his anti-matter Universe, where they heard his tale. Omega wanted his freedom, but the Doctors discovered that the corrosive nature of the Singularity had in fact destroyed everything of Omega but his will. It was impossible for him ever to leave his universe and still live. Close to madness to begin with, this information tipped Omega completely over the edge. The Doctors managed to defeat his plan and to lay Omega to rest in the only way open to him: death. Using a small piece off matter (the second Doctor's recorder, unchanged by passage into the anti-matter universe), the Doctors destroyed all of the pocket universe, and Omega along with it--or so they thought.

But Omega was not dead; his will still kept him alive. His original doorway to the matter Universe that we inhabit had been destroyed, but he discovered another--the Arc of Infinity. The Arc is a region of space/time in the vicinity of a collapsed Q star. It is essentially a wide band of quantum magnetism that can keep matter and anti-matter separate. Omega could thus stabilize himself, and once again restore his contacts with the Universe of matter.

The Arc varied though time and space, impacting on many regions and worlds. Once again, Omega's indomitable will bent the physical universe to his control, and he managed to make the Arc project itself wherever he willed. One portion passed through the region of space where Gallifrey exists. Using this, Omega managed to contact Hedin, a Time Lord on the High Council. Hedin impelled by a false sense of loyalty to what Omega once was, agreed to help the renegade to re-enter normal space and time.

This could be done only if Omega could be provided with the body print of a Time Lord, so that Omega could then fuse his mind with the physical portion of that Time Lord. Hedin selected the bio scan data of the Doctor for this--a decision that Omega found particularly appropriate. However, Hedin's transmission of the data was intercepted, and the High Council alerted to the threat. Omega had managed to enter the Matrix, and seize control of it. Terrified lest he gain further control, the Council panicked, and decided that the simplest and fastest way of getting rid of the invader was to destroy the Doctor--the body that the intruder wished to meld with.

The Doctor's TARDIS was dragged back to Gallifrey, and the Doctor sentenced to death. Omega had, however, been expecting this, and his pawn, Hedin, programmed the termination machinery to cut out at the crucial moment. The Doctor was kept alive, and he managed to discern that Omega was hiding on another familiar planet--Earth. Through Hedin's intervention, Omega had gained control of a TARDIS, and he had also created a matter being, the Ergon, to do his will. The Doctor, aided by his companion Nyssa and a technician named Damon, tracked down Omega.

The Doctor shorted out the transfer, condemning Omega to return to the anti-matter Universe he inhabited. Since the transfer of data had almost been accomplished though, Omega took a wild chance and remained in the matter Universe. Sadly, his control began to deteriorate, and the Doctor was forced to annihilate him in order to prevent a massive explosion when he reverted to his anti-matter form.

During the course of this story, the Doctor is revealed by Lady Peinforte as being "from the time of chaos" on Gallifrey.

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