Name:
Lakertya
Natives:
Lakertyans
Appearance:
Time and the Rani
Lakertya was the homeworld of the Lakertyans. It was located in the Lakertyan System, and the Sixth Doctor regarded its natives as peaceful. (The Brink of Death) Lakertya was in the same solar system as Carsus. (Spiral Scratch)
HISTORY
The Sixth Doctor tried to visit Lakertya with Melanie Bush, but found a deadly source of radiation that kept him from going to the planet. He was sent a psychic signal by his future self to go back as part of a preemptive effort to defeat the Valeyard through self-sacrifice by encountering the radiation, a kind fatal to Time Lords but not humans.
En route to Lakertya, he was attacked by theRani, whose weaponry used the offending radiation. Upon being exposed to it, The Doctor soon regenerated, and his TARDIS was forced to land on Lakertya after The Rani placed it in a tractor beam. (The Brink of Death)
The planet was conquered by theRani and her Tetraps from their planet Tetrapyriarbus. She built a base of operations in a ravine and she littered the area with traps. Fresh from his regeneration, the Seventh Doctor repelled the Tetraps, who turned on The Rani. (Time and the Rani)
BEHIND THE SCENES
In the short story while he worked the 9th Doctor mentions Lakertya is in the Canis Dwarf Galaxy and that he died there in 176, 547 BC.