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When the Tardis fell into E-Space an alternate universe and they met Adric who had stowed away aboard the Tardis. Romana viewed Adric as something of a savage, requiring lessons in etiquette. Always prompting Adric and correcting his more outlandish ways. Romana eventually decided to remain, in E-Space to carve out a new existence; when the Doctor was able to find a path back to N-Space this reality. Romana was briefly mentioned again, in Arc Of Infinity — The group also visited a Gallifrey where the Time Lords were simian.

Romana and Leela on another Gallifrey. When an alternative Romana was assassinated, Romana took her place and attempted to help the people of that world perfect their Eye of Harmony. Narvin's counterpart realised that she was from another world and threatened the slaves to make sure that she would comply with his wishes. However, the Eye turned out to be a prison for the Krilig and it was closed, stranding Leela, Narvin and herself on the alternative Gallifrey and K9 in the Axis.

Romana, as President, declared that she would form a New Gallifrey, banning slavery , instituting liberal policies and investing time in alternative time technologies. She identified exposure to the Time Vortex as a possible cure to the Dogma Virus. Romana attended a conference into alternative time technologies and used money as an incentive to get the progress she needed.

She was informed by Castellan Slyne that KAvil had discovered a signal in the Time Vortex, which they later discovered was the word "Axis". She argued with Zakar about a section of land which the Outsiders controlled, prompting Narvin to advise moderation between the two parties.

Kavil's signal was amplified and a portal opened in the Panopticon , through which arrived the Daleks. Romana with a projection of her next self. Romana escaped the Daleks in the Panopticon and managed to tell Castellan Slyne their only weakness, going to the armoury with Leela to halt the Daleks. They were successful in preventing the Daleks' plan to invade the multiverse and managed to return home, complete with a cure for the Dogma Virus.

She killed a Dalek herself before leaving. Shortly after arriving on what seemed to be her own Gallifrey actually the Matrix , Romana was greeted by her next incarnation , calling herself Trey, who entered into a deal with her to return Gallifrey to its former state, thus saving herself thousands of years of work.

She became increasingly tired sorting out the calculations and the negotiations. Trey was worried about her and Romana wanted her exiled, but was exiled herself by Trey for the death of Kolspen of Unvoss.

She returned to Gallifrey just as there was trouble with the transduction barrier and the Eye of Harmony. Romana learnt that she had been saved by K9. Arriving in the real world, she was reinstated as President following Matthias 's resignation.

She could not decide whether or not to use the measure that would cure the Dogma Virus, but Leela decided for her, after which a Dalek force invaded from the Matrix. Romana tricked them into re-entering the Matrix before trapping them there, as was planned by Trey, who turned out to be a Matrix projection.

She then set about rebuilding her Gallifrey, which was crippled by disease and war, and was unaware that Narvin had attempted to avert the creation of the Daleks to save her when he believed her to be trapped in the Matrix. Romana travelled to Earth after Leela disappeared during an investigation that Romana sent her on.

Whilst there, she encountered the Sixth Doctor again, as well as Mike Yates , and helped them defeat Rees after freeing Leela's captive consciousness.

The Nine captured Romana and placed her in his prison for the Doctor's companions. They travelled back in time to correct the timeline but instead prevented the experiment, which had been sabotaged by the Sirens of Time , from happening at all, causing a timeline in which the Time Lords' mastery of time travel never came to be. With the help of the Third , Fourth , Fifth , Sixth , Seventh and Eighth Doctors , she completed the first flight without the Sirens' interference, restoring the timelines.

Romana went to fix the engines of the Moros as a gesture for the Monan Host after diplomatic relations broke down. She planned to use her regeneration as a power boost to stop the ship from becoming a black hole , but her next incarnation sent Braxiatel back in time to stop her so as to avoid the war with Omega.

To be doubly sure that this future would be avoided, Romana stepped down from the presidency and named Livia as her successor, appointing herself as Coordinator of the CIA. One of her first acts was to investigate the death of Narvin. She then discovered that it was Gaal , a Warpsmith of Phaidon , that was behind the destruction of Moros and the Monan embassy on Gallifrey.

With the help of Braxiatel she tracked the source of the paradoxes and found the Leela from the original timeline i. Romana III's world who was left on Legion. After negotiating with the Watchmaker , Romana found a way to stop the black hole and created a new timeline in which Narvin did not die. Romana during the early days of the Time War.

Romana was concerned when Narvin, whom she had made her Deputy Coordinator , told her of a secret facility belonging to the War Council , already suspicious of them and greatly angered by them due to their conduct and rhetoric when the Joint Council discussed the matter of granting asylum to the Warpsmiths.

After Narvin informed Romana that Ace seemed to be dead and that Braxiatel had disappeared, she planned to use the War Master in the fight against the Daleks. Romana secretly came into contact with the Dalek Emperor and attempted to find a diplomatic solution to avoid further death.

She decided to run for presidency again after Livia resigned and named Admiral Valerian as her successor. However, she was unsuccessful after Valerian made her conversations with the Emperor public, albeit heavily edited, and she denounced Valerian as a puppet President for the War Council. Valerian was used as a host body for the resurrection of Rassilon. Narvin gave Romana a message from Braxiatel - that he was right to abandon the war and that she ought to do what the Doctor had.

Romana was then arrested for treason for her negotiations with the Emperor. President Eternal Rassilon's policies were very much against Romana's own views and she found herself at odds not only with the War Council but with the newly created Interior Defence Unit led by Cardinal Mantus , the Chancellery Guard having been dissolved. Trave arrived from the future and told them that Rassilon's rule would lead to ruin, but Rassilon executed him.

She was later informed by General Dalia that the freeze had been breached and Scythes were scavenging the planet. Together they worked with a native, Knyla, to organise an evacuation of Yslaus, with Romana sending Eris back in time one year to meet Kynla and enable her to make contact with Gallifrey in the first place.

After learning Rassilon has arranged this whole Incident as a example, Romana discovered that Eris had helped Kynla send a signal across time calling for a resistance against the Time War.

Although Narvin was unwilling to assist, Romana and Livia planned to assassinate Rassilon using the Sicari. Whilst the plan was almost successful, Rassilon survived. Romana and Narvin, who had sacrificed the chance of a new regeneration cycle to come to her aid, were locked away but freed and framed for killing a guard so as to avoid making martyrs of them. They decided to find Leela. Romana and Narvin during their exile in the Time War.

Romana had finally tired of the endless cycle of death and destruction bought about by the war and elected to stay behind to cover Leela and Narvin's escape from an imminent Dalek attack. At first intending to use a chameleon arch to "wipe the slate clean" she believed such a chance was undeserved given her previous actions, instead surrendering to the approaching Daleks. They journeyed through an alternate timeline where President Romana had authorised the destruction of the Cannavar system.

Upon returning to the universe Romana was ambushed by the Daleks and captured. As they fled through the saucer, they were joined by Narvin, Livia and Mantus. He had Romana imprisoned in a pocket dimension where she would serve as an archivist, including of documentation of her own past glories, whilst Leela was conscripted. Romana urged Leela to fight with the better Time Lords and was then sent away.

In the original timeline, during her second term President Romana went on a mission to fix the engines of the Moros where she regenerated in her third incarnation. AUDIO : Enemy Lines The new Romana later claimed she needed to regenerate to become a more effective leader of Gallifrey in preparation for the War in Heaven , and her third incarnation was noticeably more ruthless than her second.

Her memories of the visit were subsequently erased and she was sent on her way. TV : The Day of the Doctor. At another point, Romana was abducted by Adam Mitchell as part his plan to get revenge on the Doctor, in collaboration with the Master. She was placed in stasis alongside the Doctor's multiple other companions, before being released by the Doctor's first eleven numbered incarnations with the help of Frobisher.

In an alternate timeline in which Aubertides succeeded in getting the Seventh Doctor 's biodata and invaded Gallifrey, Greeneye and August tried to persuade Romana to tell them about secrets of the Matrix.

When Romana refused their order, they killed her. The Eighth Doctor saw a version of Romana in a projection built by the Matrix to show Gallifrey after being affected by anti-time. Romana had taken the title " Imperiatrix " and was much more ruthless than the Doctor expected. She did not mind taking on the form of Princess Astra of Atrios. In her second incarnation, Romana was more bubbly and free-spirited, a female version of the Fourth Doctor.

She liked to emulate the Doctor's sartorial style, initially wearing a pink version of his overcoat, complete with a white scarf.

She also wore period Earth-style outfits such as a schoolgirl costume. TV : City of Death She did on at least one occasion slip back into the haughty nature of her first incarnation.

TV : The Creature from the Pit. Her third incarnation was not as positively disposed towards the Doctor. It is said she regenerated as she felt her second incarnation wasn't ruthless enough to handle the coming war. The Tenth Doctor jokingly said of Romana that she "knows everything". Her third incarnation also appeared to have a sunny and perky disposition, and was prone to wanting to give people hugs even her previous self, although the Blinovitch Limitation Effect made this inadvisable.

Despite this, she could also be manipulative when necessary. Romana stated that she was "nearly one hundred and forty" when she first met the Doctor. TV : The Ribos Operation A while after she regenerated, she stated she was one hundred and twenty-six. TV : The Leisure Hive She celebrated her sesquicentennial as Lady President of Gallifrey, meaning she had held the office for precisely one hundred and fifty years.

Romana III , a later incarnation of Romana, was "thousands of years" older than her second self. When River Song crossed paths with the Fourth Doctor , she, in an attempt to preserve the integrity of the timeline, claimed to be a future incarnation of Romana.

The bluff failed as, at the point in his life, the Fourth Doctor had not yet met Romana. Tardis Explore. Main episode list Classmates. Main episode list K9 and Company. She is one of the all-time favorite companions of the Classic Series and another character that fans would love to see return as, because of her Time Lady status, she still has a multitude of regenerations left.

The Doctor handed her K-9 and wished her the best of luck. Though, shortly after her reign as president started, Romana was kidnapped and remained a prisoner of the Daleks for twenty years before escaping and helping the Sixth Doctor defeat them.

After a number of years as President, Romana eventually lost her presidency to the Time Lord Matthias after a struggle with the Pandora entity.

Soon after, Gallifrey became overrun by zombies from the Dogma Virus, so Romana and Leela initiated a plan to explore new Gallifreys in alternate universes to find one to live on. The novel Tomb of Valdemar suggests that Romana eventually regenerated again into a fourth form.

As there is a number of contradicting theories, there is no practical way to establish where she was during this incident or if she survived it. Tricky answer that really depends on what you accept as canon.