B00DPX9ST8 EBOK

by Parkin, Lance

  During the second quest to find the Key to Time, the White and Black Guardians found that their powers were greatly diminished. The Black Guardian transported the fifth Doctor and Amy the Key-tracer to the location of the next Key segment - ninth-century Sudan - then crashed there himself, four decades prior to their arrival, in a spaceship. The Black Guardian became Lord Cassim Ali Baba, and sired a son named Prince Omar. He partnered with a stranded Djinn - a race of collectors who went from world to world in search of profit - to repair the spaceship and leave Earth. Meanwhile, the weakened White Guardian lived as the Legate of the Caliphate of Baghdad. [264]

  The master vampire Gabriel Saunders embarked upon a breeding programme that developed the Ruthven family into formidable monsters protected by bone spikes, but could pass as human. Saunders hoped to create a prey worthy of being hunted by him, possibly even one that offered the chance of ending his undead existence. [265]

  c 855 - The Destroyer of Delights [266]

  The Black Guardian, a.k.a. Cassim Ali Baba, had spent two years amassing enough gold to hyper-compress into a warp manifold - the last component needed to restore his grounded spaceship. Upon its creation, the compressed gold shard became incarnated as the fifth segment of the Key to Time. Prince Omar killed the Djinn, and - along with forty others - plundered the treasures in the Djinn’s spaceship. The ship self-destructed upon the Djinn’s death, and the fifth Doctor and the Key-tracer Amy acquired the segment.

  Romana met the Black Guardian while trying to answer the Doctor’s distress call, and transported him in her TARDIS to the planet Chaos in the far future. [267]

  c 885 - “They Think It’s All Over” [268]

  The eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory attempted to see England play Germany in the 1966 World Cup Final, but instead landed in Wemba’s Lea, a Saxon area marauded by the Vikings. Henghist, the son of King Ragnar, killed his father as a means of spurring the Vikings against the Saxon. The Doctor and Rory forced the Vikings to retreat after besting Henghist in a penalty shootout.

  The Cup of Aethelstan was made in 924 as a gift from the first King of England to Hywel, king of the Welsh. The Doctor visited Aethelstan’s court around this time. [269] A group of benevolent space travellers landed in Japan and were killed by the scared natives. The ogre-like, animated mannequins - the Otoroshi - built to aid the travellers were incorporated into a holy shrine. [270]

  Marshall Sezhyr founded the Ice Army, and united the nations of Mars, when the planet was in peril. He successfully defended the City of Chebisk against the rebel Dust Riders, and also fought the Kings of the Blood Gullies. Sezhyr’s banners flew in a hundred Martian cities and on the planet’s moons, but such was his tyranny that thousands of dissenters were killed. His mind survived his physical demise, encoded into his body armour. [271]

  A thousand years ago, a new Keeper of Traken was inaugurated. The Union of Traken in Mettula Orionsis had enjoyed many thousands of years of peace before this time. [272] The family of Vislor Turlough owned a planet in a system where wealthy Trions established stellar retreats. A millennia later, these were abandoned at start of the Trion civil war. [273] Some space-faring races plundered more primitive species to create Gelem warriors - fierce cannon fodder soldiers, each created from an amalgamation of five living bodies. Gelems were used in the first battles of the War of Five Hundred Worlds, but were banned by the Pact of Chib in the eleventh century. [274]

  c 1001 - Excelis Dawns [275]

  Numerous civilisations had come and gone on the planet Artaris. The populace was mostly relegated to communities living on mountainsides for defensive purposes. A nunnery emerged on Excelis, the highest mountain on the planet.

  The fifth Doctor landed on Artaris and met the warlord Grayvorn, who was on a quest for “the Relic”, a powerful artifact and purported gateway to the afterlife. The Doctor also met Iris Wildthyme, who couldn’t remember how she ended up there. Grayvorn found the Relic, which was shaped like Iris’ handbag, but he went missing. The Relic’s energies inadvertently made Grayvorn immortal.

  1006 - The Book of Kells [276]

  The TARDIS fell down a temporal wormhole to Ireland, diverting the eighth Doctor and Tamsin from their journey to Charisima Maxima - a pleasure world with billion-year-old forests. A new incarnation of the Meddling Monk, with Lucie Miller as his companion, tried and failed to repair his faulty directional unit. As the Monk’s TARDIS dematerialised, it backfired and scorched The Book of Kells - ruining its cover, and charring its pages. The Doctor hid the Book under some sod, knowing it would be recovered eighty days later.

  The Doctor saved Aethelred the Unready from what would have been a fatal fever. [277] An amoral Time Lord used a twenty-fourth century flood controller to turn back the tide for Canute, giving him great influence. The Doctor set history back on course. [278] The Doctor talked philosophy with the ruler of Ghana, King Tenkamenin. [279]

  Around one thousand years ago, Martin instigated a get-rich-quick scheme that entailed the washed-up actor Prubert Gatridge posing as a god on planets that Martin owned. This seeded “selfish memes” - philosophical concepts that led each world’s populace to destroy themselves. Each genocide lifted the Galactic Heritage Foundation’s development ban, allowing Martin to sell the worlds at fantastic profit. [280]

  During the building of the Cathedral of St Sophia, a casket fell from the sky. It was believed to contain an angel and was placed in the catacombs. [281] In 1033, Clancy’s Comet was mistaken for the Star of the West, sent to commemorate the millennium of the crucifixion. [282] A monastery was established on the site of Forgill Castle in the eleventh century. [283]

  1039 (Midwinter) - Hornets’ Nest: A Sting in the Tale [284]

  The fourth Doctor visited Tilling Abbey in Northumbria to investigate what he suspected was the earliest activity of the Hornet Swarm on Earth. He discovered that the nuns had been besieged by fierce dogs for three months, and that their Mother Superior was a pig that had been possessed by the Queen of the Swarm. The Doctor realised the Queen was trapped because the nuns freely sampled the products of their distillery, and the Hornets couldn’t possess a person if they were drunk. The Doctor left, but only after being bitten by a dog - the new host of the Queen - that had also got inside the TARDIS. The Doctor put the TARDIS into the Vortex, taking the Hornets away from Earth. They would materialise in 1768.

  (=) During his time in the Godwins’ court, Grayle was once bishop of all Cornwall. The Doctor defeated Grayle’s plan to stockpile plutonium for the Nimon, and rewrote history to prevent Gralae from making contact with the Nimon in 305 AD.285

  Edward the Confessor’s reign was one of the Doctor’s favourite times and places. [285] The Aeolians were wiped out in the Centaurian Catastrophe. [286]

  1066 (late summer) - The Time Meddler [287]

  Landing on a beach in Northumbria, the first Doctor, Steven and Vicki learnt that the Monk - a renegade from the Doctor’s own people - was planning to destroy a Viking invasion with futuristic weapons. Harold’s army would be fresh for the Battle of Hastings, and after defeating the Norman invasion, Harold would usher in a new period of peace for Europe. The Doctor foiled the Monk’s plans, and removed the dimensional control from the Monk’s TARDIS, stranding him.

  It “took a bit of time” to fix, but the Monk resumed his travels. [288]

  The eighth Doctor and Mary Shelley met King Harold at the Battle of Hastings. [289] The Shopkeeper implied that he possessed the arrow pulled from the eye of King Harold after the Battle of Hastings, although some said the king wasn’t shot in the eye at all. [290] In 1066, debris from Haley’s Comet damaged a spaceship from the planet Persopolis, causing it to crash to Earth. The components of a powerful Persopolis construction device were separated, and the ship’s occupant, Janxia, went into stasis. [291] Joanna Harris, a future geneticist and vampire, was born. [292]

  The White Emperor, the first of the Deathless Emperors, came to rule on Draconia. He tyrannically conquered fifty- two worlds and formed a
n empire that would last a millennia; scribes said that owing to his actions, the suns ran purple with blood. Each successive emperor was designated by a colour, which came to include gold, green, pearl grey, blood purple and dusk blue. As each emperor neared the end of his reign, the Draconian priesthood slowed his metabolic functions and placed him in Imperial Heaven - a tomb orbiting Draconia. The priesthood could then call upon the emperors’ wisdom as needed. [293]

  Early in his reign, the First Emperor used The Judas Gift - a gauntlet that detected treachery in those who wore it - to determine that one of his nobles, Lord Salak, was a traitor. Salak was executed. As he had duelled left-handed, fighting with one’s left-hand became a mark of shame on Draconia. Only royals were deemed “trustworthy” enough to exercise such a privilege. [294]

  1098 (31st May to 2nd June) - TimeH: Deus Le Volt [295]

  The time-travelling Honoré Lechasseur and Emily Blandish investigated mysterious events at siege of Antioch, 1098. Honoré’s actions inadvertently enabled the crusaders to open the city gates, triggering a massacre. Reynald - the former Earl of Marseille, whom the crusaders had branded a traitor - had become the core of the Fendahl, but Honoré and Emily helped to prevent the creature from manifesting. A “warrior preacher” named Peter suspected Reynald’s lance of being the Spear of Longinus - the weapon used to pierce Christ’s side as he was crucified - and used it to rally the crusaders against the Muslims.

  The militaristic Argians destroyed all knowledge on many planets, including Venedel, Zerinzar and Athrazar. The Argians were undone by their own arrogance, and, over the course of a millennium, their empire fell apart. [296] Humanoids bearing the Jax - a sentient virus - settled on the planet Saturnia Regna. They built a cathedral, but were killed by indigenous wolves. The virus adopted the wolves as its new hosts and retreated into the cathedral, awaiting the arrival of more humanoids. [297]

  In 1120, the Pandorica was the prize possession of the Knights Templar. [298] The Treaty of the Marshes was signed at Cadogan Castle in 1123. [299]

  Two bright green children were seen in Wulpit in Suffolk, and viewed with suspicion by an angry mob. These were actually alien Lampreys. [300] “Smart implants” - devices that could turn those fitted with them into dust - were outlawed under the Hexen-Brock Treaty. The Doctor prevented the assassination of Janakin Brock by a Tamaranian death-squad, who used the implants in a war against the Pashkul. [301]

  The order of the Knights Templar was founded in 1128. [302] The Canavitchi claimed responsibility for founding the Knights Templar. [303] The Doctor rode with the templars in Palestine. Elsewhere, the Templars recovered the Imagineum, a mirror-like device built by an ancient race of extra-terrestrial alchemists. It could create a dark duplicate of anyone who looked into it. [304]

  The Doctor saw the completion of Durham Cathedral in 1133. Sir Brian de Fillis built Marsham Castle in Yorkshire in the twelfth century. The knight went mad, believing his wife was haunting him. [305]

  1139 - The Krillitane Storm [306]

  The tenth Doctor found that people in medieval Worcester feared the legendary Devil’s Huntsman, who had made a number of people disappear recently. He quickly identified the culprits as the Krillitane. The Doctor met an Ertrari bounty hunter, Emily Parr, who was seeking to capture Lozla Nataniel Henk: the man who had killed her father a month ago. Henk and his associates had captured a giant Krillitane, the Krillitane Storm, and were milking it for its oil. A Krillitane ship arrived, and although the Doctor drove the combating factions away, the Krillitane Storm died. Parr turned Henk in for the bounty, and decided to go to university.

  During the twelfth century, the Convent of the Little Sisters of St Gudula was founded with Vivien Fay posing as the Mother Superior. [307] In the same century, the Doctor saw the King of France, Phillippe Auguste, lay the first stone of the Louvre. [308]

  Genghis Khan

  The Doctor delivered Genghis Khan. [309] Susan was familiar with Genghis Khan. [310] The Doctor claimed to have heard Genghis Khan speak. [311] The Master implied that the Doctor was Genghis Khan. [312] The hordes of Genghis Khan couldn’t break down the TARDIS doors. [313] The Doctor suspected that Genghis Khan told him that villains liked to keep record of their villainy. [314]

  Around 1168, the Aztecs left their original home of Aztlan and became nomads. They took a holy relic, the Xiuhcoatl, with them. [315] The other end of the time corridor formed by the timelash was in 1179 AD. [316] The Borad was disgorged from the timelash and quickly killed by operatives of the Celestis, the investigators One and Two. [317] In 1190, Stefan, a Crusader, lost a game to the Celestial Toymaker and became his agent. [318]

  c 1190 - The Crusade [319]

  The first Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Vicki saved Richard the Lionheart from an ambush, and became embroiled in court politics. Richard planned to marry his sister Joanna to the brother of Saladin, the Saracen ruler, but Joanna refused. The Doctor was mistaken for a sorcerer and the TARDIS crew narrowly escaped.

  Richard the Lionhearted tutored the Doctor in use of the broadsword. [320]

  c 1191 - Krynoids: The Green Man [321]

  The Earl of Godfrey and his supporters dispatched two Krynoids that hatched in the English woods.

  The Middle Ages was the native time of Justin, a knight who would help the fifth Doctor fight Melanicus - and would later be canonised. [322] Hubert, the earl of Mummerset, died in Palestine while serving with King Richard. A hapless herbalist’s apothecary took his place, and spent seven years in a Saracen prison before escaping. [323] K9 met the real Robin Hood. [324]

  The village of Stockbridge was named after a bridge over the river Stock, which dated back to medieval times. [325] The Lokhus, a creature from the universe after ours, fell to Stockbridge and went into a chrysalis stage. [326]

  1199 - Castle of Fear [327]

  The Rutan Empire was withdrawing from Mutter’s Spiral. Two Rutans took up residence in Stockbridge Castle in Mummersetshire, and began cloning experiments, hoping to clone Rutans in human form for use as cannon fodder. The fifth Doctor and Nyssa defeated the Rutans, a.k.a. “the demons of Stockbridge Castle”, nine months later. One Rutan clone, Osbert, survived; his offspring in Stockbridge had some Rutan inheritance, but this became more diluted with each generation.

  These events influenced the names of local establishments such as the Green Dragon Inn and the Turk’s Head, and originated the legend of St. George - in reality the apothecary masquerading as the earl of Mummerset - besting a dragon. Future residents of Stockbridge remembered the Rutans’ defeat - and the Doctor’s role in it - as both a hereditary memory and a mummery performance.

  The alien Berserkers were active on Earth in the thirteenth century. [328] Whitaker’s Timescoop accidentally kidnapped a peasant from the Middle Ages. [329] Scaroth possibly posed as a Crusader. [330] Around 1205, a man was boiled in oil for the entertainment of King John. [331]

  In the early thirteenth century, a Khameirian spaceship was rounding Rigellis III when a Yogloth Slayer ship attacked and damaged it. The Khameirian vessel crashed to Earth and destroyed the chapel at Abbots Siolfor, home of a secret society led by Matthew Siolfor. The Khameirians put their life essences into what would later be called the Philosopher’s Stone. They mentally enthralled six of the brotherhood to work toward restoring them to health. The descendants of the society would spread throughout the world, influenced by the Khameirians. [332]

  The sunburst icon became known as a sigil of extra-terrestrial power from the thirteenth century. [333]

  1212 (late summer) - Benny: The Vampire Curse: “Possum Kingdom” [334]

  Benny and the members of a Yesterways, Ltd., time travel tour group visited Marseilles during the Children’s Crusade. Nepesht arrived through time from the twenty-sixth century, and sacrificed his liberty to once again imprison the last of the Utlunta, Lilu, in a pocket universe.

  1215 (4th-5th March) - The King’s Demons [335]

  The Master attempted to pervert the course of constitutio
nal progress on Earth by preventing the signing of Magna Carta. On 3rd March, 1215, an android controlled by the Master, Kamelion, arrived at Fitzwilliam Castle posing as the King. The Master accompanied him, disguised as the French swordsman Sir Giles Estram. The Fitzwilliams had served the King for many years before this, giving him their entire fortune to help the war against the abhorrent Saracens, but the King now demanded even more of them. “King John” began to challenge the loyalty of even the King’s most devoted subjects, but the fifth Doctor, Tegan and Turlough exposed the Master’s plan. They took Kamelion with them in the TARDIS.

  The Doctor acquired a copy of the Magna Carta. [336] Around 1225, the Doctor defeated Thorgan of the Sulumians, who was attempting to kill the mathematician Fibonacci before he wrote the Liber quadratorum (The Book of Squares), a text on Diophantine equations. [337] In 1231, the Pandorica was donated to the Vatican. [338]

  1240 - Bunker Soldiers [339]

  The first Doctor, Steven and Dodo landed in Kiev. The Doctor was asked to help fend off the Mongols, but knew that history recorded the sacking of the city and refused - so the governor of the city, Dmitri, imprisoned him. Dmitri sought supernatural aid, uncovering a casket under the Church of St Sophia. This held an alien soldier, who started a killing spree. He infected Dmitri with a virus that drove him mad, leading to Dmitri refusing the Mongols’ offer of sparing the city in return for an honourable surrender. The Mongols ransacked Kiev, but the Doctor deactivated the soldier.