The Drornidians were the only people who called themselves by that name or their planet Drornid. All other people used 'Dronidian' and 'Dronid' because the planet's name was mis-spelt in Bartholomew's Planetary Gazetteer. The Drornidians were known for their war-poets. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell) In 1979, Skagra, a Drornidian multidisclipinary scientist of great intellect, tried to harvest the power of the renegade Time Lord Salyavin and place his mind into every living thing in the universe. (HOMEVID: Shada / WC: Shada)