A glowing blue skeletal alien in a desolate, dark, snowy landscape with distant silhouetted figures and debris. Sci-fi art.

Gabrielideans were a liquid-protean bioforms. (PROSE: Alien Bodies, The Book of the War) Mr Shift remembered experiencing "dripping one drop at a time into the me-pool". (PROSE: The Book of the War) However, when interacting with the rest of the universe, Gabrielideans customarily formed themselves into human skin-suits, like the one used by Mr Gabriel. The Shift was a Gabrielidean soldier who was transformed into a Shift by the enemy. Originally, the Shift was a Gabrielidean soldier in the Nth Platoon, sent by the Time Lords to attack a small automated enemy outpost on Simia KK98. Despite being protected by bulletproof armour, he was shot by an enemy combat satellite while on a recon sweep; the rest of his platoon abandoned him as dead before also being killed by the satellites. After this, the dying soldier was visited by the Doctor, who was spectating the battle; though the Doctor couldn't help him, he told him stories and tried to give him hope. However, the soldier lapsed into unconsciousness, and the Doctor left. Enemy agents, dressed in flowing robes with high collars that parodied the costumes of the High Council, rescued the soldier, removed his memories of being a Gabrielidean, turned him into a Shift, and sent him to Qixotl's auction for the Relic as their representative. The Eighth Doctor was able to trap the Shift in his mind and trick the Celestis into marking it as their agent when they attempted to mark him. As a result, not only did the Doctor obtain the See more