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◊Other Characters:: Hitachiin Kaoru (maturelildevil), Donna Noble (forever_noble)
◊Character: Straxus
◊Series/Fandom: Doctor Who
◊Deviance: D1
◊Age: Younger than the Doctor (young enough that the Doctor never knew him in the Academy), older than Romana. Looks to be in his early to mid-forties.
◊Gender: Male
◊Species: Time Lord
◊Canon Used:
Audio Universe mainly, specifically the New Eighth Doctor Adventure audios with the Eighth Doctor and Lucie Miller. For general Time Lord shenanigans, the original series (specifically serials dealing directly with Gallifrey like The Deadly Assassin, The Invasion of Time, Arc of Infinity, and The Five Doctors) and other Gallifrey-based audios produced by Big Finish Productions (i.e. The Apocalypse Element, Neverland, Zagreus, and the Gallifrey series.) Unfortunately, since he is a minor character in the grand scheme of things, most of his past and appearance I'm piecing together through my own head-canon and conclusions drawn from the events that took place in the aformentioned serials/audios.
◊Appearance:
About 5'8" in height, in this incarnation, he wears the standard non-cumbersome Gallifreyan robes that zip in the back, and are two shades brown, the darkest of which form the horizontal stripe motif running around his collar, chest and waist, each one dipping to a point in the centre. (In short, something like this.) The robe itself goes straight down to the floor, and it's hard to see underneath, but he wears a type of thin trousers under his robes that are incredibly comfortable--and the long-sleeved shirt he wears underneath is of the same material, as well as boots that go up his calves. Time Lords tend to layer their clothing like mad, and Straxus is of no exception. He does have his special robes, complete with fancy collar, in the green colours of the Arcalian chapter in the Academy, as well as a travelling cloak and other robes in the same colour. The standard brown is just what he wears for working purposes and the gold-ish cap he wears on his head is part of the standard fashion for all males. He also wears a Time Ring around his right wrist (which Lucie has described as looking like something from Top Shop and the Doctor's described as a bit bling for him, and really, when it looks like this, neither of them are too far off the mark), and a special watch/communicator/extremely important piece of Time Lord technology around his left, but both of these are worn over leather gloves that extend partway down his forearms.
I'm still playing him as the Nickolas Grace incarnation from the audios, but sadly there aren't many pictures of that wonderful man--not to mention none in the age/look bracket I've thrown Straxus in--so I'm using Tom Hollander as his PB (slightly more pictures for him and he's close in looks to a youngish Nick Grace).
◊Psychology:
Complacency is often the middle name of the Time Lords, and Straxus was, at one time, no different. His attitude has improved somewhat--being stuck with no company other than the occasional visit from an augmented Trell who can only say the name of an Earth female for ten plus years (not to mention visiting the deranged revived Time Lord who only used him for his genetic coding and life force) certainly gives a guy time to think and reflect--but honestly, he's merely a step up from your average Time Lord. His opinions on lesser species like humans only marginally improved, but he's not the type who would go out of his way to invite one 'round for a cup of tea, unless he was ordered to. However, he will not like any vampire. Ever. That prejudice towards those creatures, as well as other beings that defy the laws of time is ingrained in him practically from birth, and they set his teeth on edge. (Sadly, in a sense, it can be said the Time Lords are racist, but at least they are on a universal scale.)
On the whole, he can be smug, arrogant, condescending, pretentious, and a bit of a prat to those he holds little to no respect for. Lesser species and people he can't stand fall into this category, including at one time Inquisitor Darkel and Coordinator Vansell. Those traits mellow a bit as he works up the ladder for those he does tolerate, like, and respect. He's not nearly that much of a smug git, for example, towards Coordinator Bulek, partly because he's Straxus' superior and one he hopes to succeed one day, and partly because they actually get on decently well. Unless Straxus screws up for some reason. Bulek has little tolerance for failure or stupidity. In general though, he's pretty damn smug and snarky, even for a Time Lord. At times, he has quite the temper, especially when he's been caught in something, like a lie or situation he has no control over, but that's all due to a defence mechanism of sorts. He doesn't like to look an idiot--or worse, make the High Council look incompetent--and his own ignorance and naivety of how things really work outside the idealistic and stagnant lifestyle of the Citadel bother him but he won't ever admit that. He's not the type to admit his own shortcomings, especially if somebody else is pointing them out.
Like a good little Time Lord, he remains loyal to Gallifrey and always will. Sometimes, though, the decisions passed by the High Council in reaction to actions made by the Celestial Intervention Agency, or ones made in general, don't always sit well with him, but he enforces them nonetheless. That's his duty as a Time Lord. He absolutely has to uphold the policy of non-interference. This conflicting feeling is stronger after the Cybermen attack on Lonsis when the Doctor points out that Straxus knows what the right thing to do is and that he has no choice in being dragged into the conflict, an action that is in direct violation of the decision made by the High Council. However, he's not going to go out of his way to defy orders and intervene; he's too loyal to betray his people like that. But now he has a niggling sense of doubt and that annoys him.
He has a love/hate relationship with Time Rings. On one hand, they're more reliable than a TARDIS and each new upgrade sees additional vortex buffers, etc, but even with those, continual use of them has never rid him of the feeling that he's going to get pulled inside-out whenever he enters the Time Vortex, despite how smooth the ride is now. He'd rather a TARDIS of his own, something he's never been issued despite having passed the exam. He rarely gets to use a TARDIS except in group assignments where it would be silly to transport more than three Time Lords at a time on a single Time Ring.
Also, as a result of the majority of the food being manufactured into highly nutritious food capsules, he's never tasted anything freshly grown like fruits or vegetables, meat of any kind--they do not eat the singing fish, thank you very much--nor anything even as simple as a slice of bread, not until his imprisonment in Morbius' palace, that is. (I doubt such a thing as the Oven of Rassilon exists.) His flavour palette is appallingly dull--even the drinks offered in the lounge have little to no flavour. And sweets are entirely unheard of. Why bother indulging in such sensory tantalisations when there are more important matters usually at hand?
Plus the use of Earth slang sometimes confuses him, but he's smart enough that he can suss out the meaning quick enough.
◊Other Skills/Abilities:
Typical Time Lord abilities: binary vascular system, lung bypass system, lower body temperature, psychic abilities (mostly defensive but he can communicate telepathically to a certain extent), ability to sense time and disturbances (much in the way Romana and the Doctor can), and mastery over all languages. He's a decent negotiator when it comes to dealing with those from the other temporal powers, but other plebeian classes and lesser species? Not quite so much. Also, he's surprisingly resilient, having survived a Cybermen onslaught and years of feeding Morbius his life energy--of course, that could be attributed to the fact that Straxus has about several regenerations left in him, but the fact still remains that he lived.
◊Other Weaknesses:
Let's face it, he's pretty pathetic in a fight. "Self-defence" is a word not uttered much on Gallifrey. He's not even that good of a shot with a staser either; it's just not his thing. He'd sooner run away or stay out of a situation altogether and for good reason: his stamina is pretty bad as well, at least in comparison to someone who's far more used to running away from things. He can keep up, but he'll be winded.
◊History: (I should note now that Straxus' involvement in canon events is purely based on my own speculation and logical conclusions based on what I know of him and his role in representing the High Council.)
Much of Straxus' life has been fairly normal and typical as far as living in the Citadel can go. Since graduating from the Arcalian chapter of the Academy several centuries ago, he was able to take advantage of his connections to get into the High Council, albeit in a position where he has to report to one of the several Coordinators--usually Coordinator Bulek, who then reports to one of the senior Cardinals and so on--whenever he returns from doing his job. In relative terms, his position would be considered the lowest rung of the High Council ladder, but it's enough that he can truly say he represents the High Council, an honour he relishes with pride since he almost was set on the track of becoming one of the Chancellery Guard, and that certainly wasn't for him. On the plus side, being in the position he's in saves him from attending lengthy council meetings since he's often away and usually, he's not the one who has to report on his assignments to the High Council; the Coordinator does that. He's got plenty of his own meetings to attend anyway, sometimes acting as a liaison to the CIA--or, as often is the case, meeting with the High Council's agent within the CIA on the sly.
Of course, he's had to live through events centering around the Doctor while living in the Citadel like every other good Time Lord, and when those have happened, he hardly had any time for meetings. Like when Omega tried to cross over into this universe and thus drained Gallifrey of nearly all its power in the process--though they didn't know it was Omega's doing at the time. To the Time Lords, Omega was the stellar engineer in Rassilon's time who died when the star he was conducting experiments on with the Hand of Omega turned into a supernova and collapsed into a black hole. Rassilon then took the resulting nucleus of that very black hole and used it to perfect and harness the power of time technology (now called the Eye of Harmony). For his part in it, Omega was revered for what he did and considered a hero, and still is to those who aren't aware of what happened to him.
However, the Time Lords weren't aware that the Eye of Harmony itself was located within the Panopticon until the very day the Lord President was assassinated, the Doctor held prisoner for the crime, and the Master responsible for the destruction of half the city and the loss of many lives. Straxus was in one of the sections of the city that was damaged and he was injured enough that he was forced to regenerate. Thanks to his connections to the High Council, he soon learned why it all happened. As a result of the carnage, he was pulled from his normal duties and assigned to relocate those Time Lords who were displaced and lost their living quarters as a result of the destruction. He lost a few good friends that day...
Unfortunately, that would be the case for him during several other attacks on Gallifrey (some not always the fault of the Doctor's) in the years to come. Like when the Doctor returned to claim his right as Lord President and the consequential infiltration and occupation of the Citadel by the Vardans and later the Sontarans, and Omega's second attempt to return to this universe (except this time they learned it was him. Hard not to when the Matrix is taken over) and the Doctor's tie to that. His supposed execution was widely broadcast--the fact that there was going to be one, not the actual event itself--as the only other time such a measure had been used was in ridding the universe of Morbius (whom will be talked about more in a bit.) When the Daleks invaded after their attack on Archetryx and later the Seriphia galaxy, Straxus was locked in his residential quarters, unable to use any means of identification to open the doors thanks to a "technical difficulty", but he later learned what had happened and how an Earth woman's retinal scan had been used as the key. As a result of that, he, along with a handful of other Time Lords, were sent to the Monan Host and several other races present for the conference on Archetryx to smooth things over. The Time Lords may be the leading race in the temporal powers, but through maintaining pleasantries with the others, they can easily excise control if the other temporal powers step out of bounds.
And not to mention the absolute mess the Doctor made in saving the Earth girl, Charlotte Pollard. He, along with the High Council's agent in the CIA, were reprimanded heavily for never reporting the existence of the Oubliette of Eternity in the headquarters of the Celestial Intervention Agency, nor how Vansell continued to use it in the name of the Lady President Romana. Of course, he had no idea such a thing had happened and the agent wasn't aware of the dispersal chamber in the offworld station. (As for the events in Zagreus, he knew nothing of what happened; few people do aside from Romana, Cardinal Braxiatel, and the savage, Leela.)
(Here's where things get even sketchier. We don't know when the Eighth Doctor and Lucie audios take place in relation to the Gallifrey series of audios, but for the sake of argument, I'm going to place the Morbius incident quite a few years after the end of the Gallifrey audios, after Gallifrey's recovered and there's still quite some time until the Time War occurs.) For Straxus, his role throughout the events that occur later during Romana's presidency is minimal, at best. He was often away, investigating supposed Free Time gatherings and he's one of the fortunate ones to escape unscathed during most of the beginning conflicts with them, as well as during the civil war. He begrudgingly sided with Romana instead of Pandora not because he agreed with her plans for Gallifrey, but simply because of his distinct dislike for Inquisitor Darkel. He's never cared for the woman in the slightest and didn't want her anywhere near the Presidency. He'd sooner take Romana's Gallifrey than hers.
After Gallifrey's recovered many, many years later, life has returned to normal and it's back to the daily grindstone for Straxus--until one day when word of one of the CIA's projects involving an Earth girl comes to the High Council's attentions and more specifically how much they've manipulated her time line so she wouldn't become a powerful political leader whose actions would lead to a dictatorship and aggressive mindset in the development of Earth's interplanetary expansion. The High Council decides to step in and remove her, Lucie Miller, from her time line altogether until certain other projects can be dealt with (like the use of the quantum crystalliser on the planet Lonsis which only ends in a moratorium between the two not to interfere and let it run its course now that the CIA's damage has been done), and in the meantime, she's foisted on the Doctor to keep her out of the way and to keep her time line from becoming too unstable. To make certain he doesn't simply bring her back home, they tamper with his TARDIS to prevent him from doing so. Straxus supervises that operation and makes sure Lucie is fed false information about her being removed as a sort of witness protection program.
Sometime later, however, they discover that she's been removed from the Doctor's care by some outside party and trace her back to Hulbert Logistics (Telford branch), the place she was going to when Straxus' team intercepted her. Knowing where she is, and knowing he himself can't retrieve her, Straxus bargains with the Doctor to go and retrieve the Earth girl using his Time Ring while he--or more specifically, a team of engineers--fixes the TARDIS up properly after the Doctor's attempts to bypass the isomorphic controls have very obviously failed. Knowing how much of a meddler the Doctor is in affairs he has no business sticking his nose in, Straxus simply tells him that she'd need somebody with a familiar face to help her since she's been brainwashed, and to return immediately once she's been found. He also vaguely mentions that she's in a sort of temporal blackspot and doesn't bother to elaborate.
Unfortunately, things go completely pear-shaped for poor Straxus after that. While he's on TARDIS repair duty, the Doctor does what he normally does and turns the entire situation into a total mess. Straxus thought the Cybermen were nearly defeated thanks to the quantum crystalliser turning everything against their favour, but now the Cybermen have invaded the head office and have begun converting people into Cybermen and nearly get access to the gateways that'll lead them straight to Earth. Just as repairs are completed and the engineers have left is when the Doctor returns with Lucie and the removed quantum crystalliser in tow. Straxus is forced to confess that everything was a project of CIA's, including their manipulation of Lucie's time line, and the High Council can't be seen to interfere or made to look bad (but it's okay to use the Doctor since he's one of their favourite scapegoats when plausible deniability is required in a situation such as this) which doesn't go well as she pulls a gun on them in anger and runs off with the crystalliser which could further destabilise her if used. He's yet again forced to do something he really doesn't want to and is made to leave the TARDIS with the Doctor in pursuit of Lucie in complete defiance of the moratorium, but that upsetting fact quickly leaves his mind when he sees just how badly the situation has become and knows he'll have to defend himself somehow if they run into any Cybermen.
To make matters worse, the Doctor later discovers that the High Council pulled the wrong girl out as another Earth girl, Karen, exhibits a personal time line instability without the crystalliser to amplify that effect, much to Straxus' horror. The plan to keep Karen safe--i.e. keeping her in the TARDIS--doesn't work as Straxus and her encounter a group of Cybermen as another group of humans are retreating and the pair of them get separated in the scuffle, leaving Straxus wounded but not near the point of regeneration; he's just being melodramatic. His theatrics fail him as he's still made to stay behind after the Doctor defeats the Cybermen and help Jerry Cooper get all the humans back home to Earth and then destroy all the machines used in the conflict so nobody else can get their hands on the technology ever again.
Some time passes again after the Lonsis incident, yet another thing that earned him a reprimand despite being forced by the Doctor to do the things he did, and word reaches the High Council that a man named Kristof Zarodnix, the richest man in the galaxy, has bought the planet Karn. This planet's heavily watched as not only is it a neighbouring planet, but it's where the remains of Morbius lie. Nothing of interest exists there--even the Sisterhood of Karn have abandoned the planet--so that could only mean one thing. Zarodnix is interested in those remains and soon settles his base of operations there, collecting and buying time technology amongst other things. Things progress to a point where Zardonix, having been outed as the leader of the Cult of Morbius, is finally set to revive his master, but needs the biodata of a Time Lord in order to create a new body for Morbius. It's around this time that the Time Lords are being recalled from wherever they are in the universe--recalled all TARDISes, activated the Time Scoop, everything.
The only Time Lord left to find is the Doctor and not surprisingly, he dodges the Time Scoop. Straxus is sent to find him using the Time Ring, the only safe means of transportation now that Zarodnix can track the Time Scoop and any TARDIS, discovers he's missed intercepting him by two days according to Lucie, and returns to Gallifrey to report his near miss and to have another go. His next attempt turns out to be his last as his orders are to retrieve Lucie--she being the only person with any idea of where the Doctor is--but she, along with his Time Ring, are teleported out of the spacecraft she, Marshall Rosto of the Trell, and he were aboard--a spacecraft that just so happens to be held in a course towards Karn's surface. With no means of taking the ship back under control, or escape of any kind, Rosto and a very panicked and frightened Straxus soon land, Rosto assimilated into the bunch of other augmented Trell, and Straxus taken hostage. Zarodnix wastes no time strapping Straxus in to his machines and extracting the Time Lord's DNA to splice his genes with the samples extracted from the remains of Morbius' brain to induce a new regeneration. And the process is a success.
Now Morbius, the original, was a renegade Time Lord, former member of the High Council and briefly, President. His reign and conquest of the universe is something that still frightened Straxus hundreds of years later. Deranged, Morbius tried to turn the Time Lords away from their policy of observation into one of conquest and such actions hadn't been done since the Dark Time, which was during Rassilon's time after the perfection of time travel (like the war with the Great Vampires and several other bloody conflicts that led to the observation/no interfering rules in the first place.) Eventually, he was defeated and executed, but somehow his brain survived. Another mad scientist and follower of Morbius, Solon, came into possession of the brain and briefly managed to revive Morbius in a very Frankenstein-esque body cobbled together of various species' body parts, but, as reports of the event show, Morbius plummets down to the bottom of the canyon to his death. The Time Lords thought him finally dead--and let's be honest, the brief revival did send some into a bit of a panic, well, those who knew about it anyway. The general populace weren't made aware of it. Only members of the CIA and High Council were and neither did anything to stop it except to divert the Doctor's TARDIS and let him deal with it, which he did in the end.
This time, however, the Doctor arrives over ten years after Morbius' revival. During that gap, Morbius conquered thousands of worlds and full star systems fell to their knees at the sight of his armies (according to him. Straxus just knows what he hears over the tannoy.) The Time Lords never once show themselves. The use of the stellar manipulator managed to steal every ounce of power in the Eye of Harmony, only isolating the Time Lords further and robbing them of any power to do anything. As for Straxus, he spent his time in a dungeon cell in the palace Morbius soon constructs during that decade's reign of terror. The only time he's let out is when Morbius returns, victorious but weakened. The process in which he was revived wasn't perfect as Zarodnix could buy all the technology he wanted--but he couldn't buy the knowledge that came with properly running and using the machinery. It soon became a pattern that whenever Morbius returns, Straxus is paraded out and used to 'feed' Morbius with more of his life energy, and then placed back in his cell. He himself was fed just enough to survive, but never, ever has he had to live in such a situation before. His only company was the augmented Rosto who only ever said Lucie's name when it came to retrieve him for Morbius' feeding. Over time, the process severely weakened Straxus, and by the time the Doctor and Lucie show up, he thinks he's near his end despite the read-outs from Zarodnix's machines that say otherwise.
With the Doctor, Straxus is soon free and waits with Lucie and Rosto while the Doctor launches his mad plan to get the stellar manipulator activator off from around Morbius' neck. In his weakened state, Straxus can't do much of anything but encourage the Doctor on as he struggles with Morbius and shuts the manipulator down--and soon plummets to his death with Morbius. He can only stand by as the Time Lords return and completely undo the damage done to him and everything else Morbius had touched, even going so far as returning Karn to the state it was in before the Zarodnix Corporation settled there. Unable to help Lucie, he offers to make her forget her travels with the Doctor, an offer that she vehemently rejects. Instead, he brings her home to Blackpool, the pair of them believing the Doctor truly dead.
Upon arriving back on Gallifrey, Coordinator Bulek and the Castellan--along with a couple Chancellery Guard--are waiting for him, and he's ordered to turn over his Time Ring. A rather quick decision on the High Council's part, but then again, the Time Lords had a decade plus whilst in hiding to decide what they wanted to do. So, he's parted with his Time Ring yet again and Bulek suspends him from active duty pending an investigation and hearing. Unfortunately, this isn't the first time he's gotten involved (see above for the incident on Lonsis--which I always want to call Monsas, but I really do mean Lonsis), and because Morbius nor the Doctor can't be held accountable due to their being dead, Straxus is the only one who can be punished and held accountable for that, especially since the Time Lords actually had to lift their complacent fingers to fix/intervene in something that should never have happened in the first place. Never mind Straxus also had his Time Ring taken--one that contains his biodata imprint and is thus assigned to him and him alone--and by a human, no less.
Both things have to wait, however, because the Time Lords have to straighten out several things before they can resume anything remotely normal. They've accrued a huge backlog of work and other things they typically monitor in their universe (and others they no doubt keep an eye on as well) and throughout all of time in the countless different eras thanks to their going into hiding before Morbius was even revived.
On top of the suspension and depending on the outcome of the hearing, he has to undergo a re-evaluation exam to make sure he's still up to snuff with the latest of time technology. He was due anyway and it's standard procedure, but it's just another thing added to Straxus' plate.
So, Straxus is left stranded in the Citadel. He can't leave or take a short holiday to Lake Abydos or any of the other location outside the Citadel thanks to the restrictions placed on him. He's not allowed to leave the Citadel or set foot in his office, and he's definitely barred from entering any docking bay. All he can do is prepare for his hearing. Sure, he meets up with some friends, but everybody is busy playing catch-up. He can't even join in the hunt for the Doctor's TARDIS, which ended up disappearing from Karn. Occasionally, he's summoned to the Castellan's to answer a question here and there, but nothing leaves him with an indication of how his hearing will go.
Finally, after a couple months have passed, he's told to report for his hearing in full dress. It's not a simple hearing any longer.
◊Canon Point:
Right after he's dropped Lucie Miller back home in her time in Blackpool. The Eighth Doctor had sacrificed himself to save Gallifrey and the entire universe from Morbius' ten or so years rule, and he believes the Doctor is dead. And to him, Romana has yet to assume the presidency, again.
About to go in for his hearing (and trying not to fret since he only just learnt it was a formal trial instead of the informal hearing he was led to believe he'd be receiving.)
◊Reality Description:
Found in the Kasterborous constellation lies Gallifrey, home of the Time Lords. The race is one of the oldest in the entire universe and one of the first to claim mastery over time travel. At first they abused this technology and began wars with races seen inferior (like the Great Vampires and Racnoss), and then after several disasters resulting from their sharing of advanced technology with other races that shouldn't have it, the Time Lords adopted a policy of non-interference and heavily controlled and monitored the use of any time technology developed by other races.
Effectively, the Time Lords have isolated themselves from the rest of the universe, withdrawing to the point where they are mere observers now--a move seen as cowardly or selfish in the eyes of some, or a waste of such gifts in the eyes of others. Only rarely will the Time Lords act directly in a situation--and it's bad news for the other guy if they do. In most cases, however, when something does need to be done, the Celestial Intervention Agency steps in and manipulates things in their own subtle way. Often, it's someone expendable and removed from the Time Lord society who'll be employed such as renegade Time Lords like the Doctor and Master. Using them makes it easier for Gallifrey to denounce them in case things do go wrong and they won't incur any political damage this way either. But generally, the Time Lords are a peacable race, always observing and making sure Time flows the way it should.
From space, the planet looks an orange-yellow and from the planet's surface, the sky reflects this colour as the twin suns pass from one horizon to the next, but at night, it's a burnt orange bordering on red. At the heart of Gallifrey on the continent of Wild Endeavour and nestled in the Mountains of Solace and Solitude, Mount Caden some distance away, lies the domed Citadel, the centre for all Time Lord activity, including the Capitol (and within that, the Panopticon, security complexes, and other chambers belonging to the governing body, including that which holds all the biodata of every single Time Lord and the Matrix), the Academy and its many chapter houses, and countless residential quarters of various wealth and size, the grandest of all being the Presidential Palace.
Here, the grass is a deep red and the leaves of the cadenwood trees are silver. The sight of them during the second sunrise is a sight to behold. Anything in that light looks grander than it normally would. The planet is mostly mountainous, their caps covered in snow, but there are numerous lakes like Lake Abydos where luxury homes are set when the Time Lords fancy a holiday. Singing fish occupy the lakes and flory birds fly about, mere examples of the fauna found on Gallifrey. On occasion, one might observe a Kasterboran Borealis full of brilliant green, yellow, and purple lights that dance in the sky under the right atmospheric conditions.
Not every inch of Gallifrey is picture-perfect like that, however. There's a stretch of desolate land called the Death Zone that during the Dark Time of Gallifrey's history was used as the Coliseum was in Ancient Rome--except the combatants were of various races around the universe snatched from their homes via the Time Scoop and were pitted against each other. Within the Zone is the Dark Tower that contains the Tomb of Rassilon as well as several booby traps and other preventative measures taken to ensure only the worthy are allowed to see Rassilon's body.
There's also land belonging to the other races present on the planet. These are the regular Gallifreyans, but known as Outsiders to the Time Lords and include the Shobogans (considered an irritating and inferior race), and surprisingly, former Time Lords who left the Citadel because they couldn't stand life there any longer, as well as other races who steer clear of the Citadel.
Being the typical Time Lord that he is, he'll be in the Citadel most often, in his office or residential quarters, when he's not being sent on errands off-world or to meet in some undisclosed location with the CIA insider, but those most likely will happen off-screen and before he even entertains notions of coming into the Plane. His office and residential quarters would both have a view screen (like a built in TV) for conference calls and for watching the news around the Citadel--courtesy of one of the Commentators, and a plain desk/chair combo for that pesky paper work. It should be noted that his desk and chair are exactly the same style in both spaces as he liked the style and didn't want to fuss with picking another to go in his residential quarters. (This does have the unfortunate result of him sometimes forgetting which desk he put which thing, something that continually annoys him and he's in process of creating a physical file sharing device to stick in each drawer to bypass such a problem.) The occasional piece of art dots the walls, and unique to his residential quarters is a tank of singing fish fed by an automated device since he's often away.
As far as NPCs go, Coordinator Bulek, whom I picture to be on the heavyset side and dressed in slightly fancier robes than Straxus, would be a standard feature in Straxus' office, and in one of the many lounges lining the halls. Might even see Rodan, a Time Lady traffic controller (from The Invasion of Time), from time to time, as well as any number of random Time Lords, like Damon (Arc of Infinity) or the occasional Chancellery Guard.