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Despite what some might believe, the Master does have a life outside of the Doctor. He's had over a dozen lifetimes to cause chaos and destruction, sometimes in pursuit of greater glory, sometimes for the sheer fun of it. From his first days as a renegade away from Gallifrey to rotting in his thirteenth incarnation to facing the terror and insanity of the Time War, the Master has both witnessed and caused atrocities, saved lives and taken them too, fought monsters and allied himself with them. Is he the hero or the villain of his own story?

Few have survived encountering him to decide...

Father Octavian and his clerics arrive too late to save a commerce station from a raid by the Weeping Angels. There is only one survivor, a terrified salvage merchant called Rhett Maes who witnessed the terrible massacre. But why did this one lowly worker live when all the others died? What could kill a swarm of Angels? And would it spare the human occupants of the station?

Octavian suspects there another, more dangerous enemy is at large.

Only Rhett Maes knows the truth - but perhaps it's best left that way...

Ah, the Confederacy of Trau - the sort of empire-builders determined to give fascism a good name. Yes, they're benevolent dictators all right and while things are grim on the worlds they conquer, they've got rid of crime, poverty and homelessness. The transports run on time, the economy is booming, medical advances are being made. Surely a rigid curfew, the removal of all individual rights and organized invasion of privacy is worth it?

Of course, not everyone agrees. There are dissidents and they get rounded up, arrested and then die. But the Confederacy is proud at their perfect record of human rights - they've never executed a single person. It's just odd that all their political opponents tend to die in custody.

It's almost like someone - or something - is waiting for the prisoners to be detained.

Something hungry...

Oh, the bitter irony! The Time War has only been officially declared for an hour and the first recorded casualty is none other than the Master himself! Ambushed by a Dalek assault squad, the Master's suffered a fatal injury. The sensible thing to do would be allow the regeneration process to be triggered - but that transformation can be weaponized to destroy the Daleks. All he has to do is stave off the change as long as he can without dying.

And, on the front lines of the Time War, that is a lot easier said than done...

It's the dying days of the twentieth century and Earth has been plunged into World War III. UNIT is struggling to pick up the pieces, but the new Stahlman Project in Eastchester is proving a greater threat to Earth than anything unleashed by defector genius and alien exile Ke Le. The Master is desperate to get off planet while there's still a planet to escape from, but Colonel Brimmicombe-Wood is determined to escape alongside him.

As the Time Lords and the Daleks finally wage full-scale temporal warfare upon each other, the newly-regenerated Master is finding a sudden deficit of places to run. As the quantum barricades slam down, sealing off the other dimensions, the Master runs the gauntlet of parallel universes to find a suitable bolt hole.

With the option of two doomed realities, two different Masters must choose their fates, for better or for worse...