B00DPX9ST8 EBOK

by Parkin, Lance

  Private Gerrard Lassiter stole the Vvormak ship’s main navigation device as a talisman. It could project images of the future, and became known as the Scrying Glass. Gunther Brun, a German trooper, killed Lassiter in France and took the device, only to lose it to Colonel Otto Klein in a game of cards. Two weeks later, Reichsfuher Heinrich Himmler learned of the device and ordered Klein to hand it over to him. Himmler then gave it to a group of Tibetan mystics for study.

  In July 1944, the sixth Doctor persuaded Churchill to help smuggle him into France, and infiltrated the Reich Records Department as “Colonel Johann Schmidt”. In August 1944, Hitler became curious about other items left at the Turelhampton site, and authorised the Doctor, as “Schmidt”, to participate in a raiding party. The raid occurred on 18th August.

  1944 (December) - Autumn Mist [1649]

  The eighth Doctor, Sam and Fitz were split up when they arrived during the Battle of the Bulge. Sam was injured, the Doctor served as a medic, and Fitz found himself serving as a corporal in the German army. Sam’s injuries were fatal, but she was rescued by the Sidhe. A rift had formed between our realm and theirs, but the Doctor trapped the anarchic King of the Sidhe, Oberon, aboard the dephased USS Eldridge. Oberon perished as the Doctor deployed the Eldridge into the rift, sealing it. It was expected that another aspect of Oberon would take his place. The rift’s closure enabled the Beast to arrive on Earth and begin feeding upon humanity.

  George Woods enlisted in the Army when he was 16, and fought in the Battle of the Ardennes, a.k.a. the Battle of the Bulge. He survived, and would work in the field of radar development in the 50s and 60s. [1650]

  @ 1944/5 - The Turning Test [1651]

  The cryptographer Alan Turing intercepted a unique code transmitted from Dresden, concluding that it was alien in origin. The eighth Doctor had befriended Turing, and suggested they contact the signal’s originator. They allied themselves with the spy Graham Greene. The Doctor also approached American pilot Joseph Heller, promising to get him out of the army if he flew the Doctor and Turing to Dresden. An English officer, Elgar, was revealled as an assassin out to kill the mysterious pale-skinned aliens. The Doctor killed Elgar and the aliens beamed away from Earth, leaving the Doctor behind as the Allied bombing of Dresden began.

  w - Eleonora Albertova Kruger, one of the iterations of Cousin Anastasia, died in Bulgaria in 1944. [1652]

  1945

  Evelyn Smythe, a companion of the sixth Doctor, was born around 1945. [1653] Harry Sullivan, a companion of the fourth Doctor, was born around the same time. [1654]

  On 13th February, 1945, the seventh Doctor and Bernice witnessed the destruction of Dresden. [1655] Charles Arthur Cromwell joined Torchwood in 1945. [1656] In March, the Doctor flew a Mark VIII Halifax bomber. [1657] The Tibetans charged with keeping the Scrying Glass were murdered on 25th April, 1945. In the years to follow, it would fall into the hands of Adolf Hitler’s son. [1658]

  In 1945, members of homo peculiar, fearing that evolution would go the route of exterminating them or homo sapiens, took to living in seclusion at a number of retreats. Peculiar Lives, a “scientific romance” by Erik Clevedon based upon his meeting with Percival, one of homo peculiar, was published. [1659]

  1945 (Monday, 30th April) - The Shadow in the Glass [1660]

  The sixth Doctor, the Brigadier and journalist Claire Aldwych arrived from 2001 with Hitler’s adult son, and the men entered Hitler’s bunker. The Doctor easily portrayed Hitler’s son as a madman, and Hitler, failing to recognise his offspring, shot him dead. The Nazis disposed of the body in a nearby water tower. The Allies would later mistake the corpse for a double of Hitler, killed for an unknown reason.

  Martin Bormann, one of Hitler’s aides, killed Claire and substituted her body for that of Eva Braun. Hitler committed suicide. A pregnant Eva was flown to a submarine in Hamburg. She later gave birth to a son named Adolf. He was raised at the secret Nazi base in Antarctica.

  1945 (9th May) - Forty-Five: “Casualties of War” [1661]

  Joey Carlisle, a thief, stole a cache of alien tech belonging to the Forge, and came into possession of a bracelet called a Truthsayer. The Deons, lawkeepers from the Anurine Protectorate, used such devices to make suspects tell the truth. The seventh Doctor, Ace and Hex tracked the bracelet’s psychic emissions during the VE Day celebrations. Carlisle and his mother lived next door to Ace’s mother and grandmother on Old Terrace in Streatham, and so Ace briefly visited her mother, who was currently age three.

  Lucia Moretti of Torchwood was born on 18th June, 1945. [1662] A reservoir of pain and suffering, possibly representing humanity’s darker nature, became concentrated in an area of England during perihelion: a point in mid-August when our reality and its reality became closest. The dark force was believed to have manifested in dozens of murderous individuals throughout the centuries - and on 13th August, 1945, it compelled young Daniel O’Kane to kill his parents and two sisters. [1663]

  = 1945 - Atom Bomb Blues [1664]

  The seventh Doctor and Ace arrived in Los Alamos, where the Manhattan Project was about to culminate in the detonation of the first atom bomb. The Doctor identified one of the scientists, Ray Morita, as someone from the twenty-first century of a parallel universe. The Doctor made contact with a jellyfish-like alien, Zorg, and went to Los Angeles to confront the Chapel of the Red Apocalypse: a cult that had been a front for a spy ring.

  Ace learned that she was in a parallel universe, and that Ray was from her reality, lured to the alternate history by a love of Duke Ellington music. In the proper timeline, a musicians’ union strike meant much of his work was never recorded, but the strike didn’t take place in the other universe.

  The Doctor and Ace uncovered a plot to alter the equations of the Manhattan Project to unleash enough power to destroy this universe, tipping history in Japan’s favour across the multiverse. The Doctor defeated the plan, the atom bomb test concluded as history recorded and the Doctor took Ray home - with his precious records.

  The End of the Second World War

  Captain Jack and a platoon of commandoes rounded up fugitive Nazis in Berlin at the end of World War II. [1665]

  The Russians captured Emil Hartung’s research into stealth aircraft, and took it to a vault in the Kremlin. Generalleutnant Oskar Steinmann was found guilty (along with twenty-two others) of Nazi war crimes and sentenced to life imprisonment at Nuremberg. [1666]

  Brian Galway was killed in North Africa during the Second World War. His 12-year-old brother, Simon, attended a memorial service on 20th December, 1945. The Doctor placed the surviving consciousness of the Telphin, a peaceful race wiped out by the Chaktra, inside the boy. [1667]

  After World War II, the American military experimented to see if widespread belief could alter the laws of physics. The residents of the Midwest town Lychburg were brainwashed with transceivers, creating thousands of people who simultaneously believed whatever the military wanted. An experiment to make the people believe “the gates of Hell were opening”, however, created an unstable dimensional rift. The military tried to level the project with a low-yield nuclear device, but only succeeded in knocking Lychburg out of Earth’s dimension entirely. [1668]

  After the war, the British government set up Operation Proteus to create illegal chemical weapons. [1669] The Rani briefly kidnapped Albert Einstein. [1670] The collector Julius Silverstein bought the only surviving robot Yeti from Professor Travers. [1671] The Parakon named Freeth began to visit Earth, accounting for some UFO sightings over the next thirty years. [1672]

  (=) A time bubble caused the village of Stockbridge to vanish. Authorities said a bomber had destroyed the town, and the mystery of Stockbridge’s disappearance gave rise to the Psychic Investigation Group (PIG). [1673]

  1947

  1947 - Dying in the Sun [1674]

  The second Doctor, Ben and Polly called in on the Doctor’s old friend, movie producer Harold Reitman, but found he had been murdered. Star Light Pictures were about to release Dy
ing in the Sun, and the Doctor was surprised that such a poor movie had received such rave reviews. The telepathic Selyoids were affecting the audience’s perceptions of the film. The movie’s producer, De Sande, was intent on using their powers to dominate the world. The Doctor caused a plane crash that killed De Sande, but this released the Selyoids present in De Sande’s body. Their dispersal meant that Hollywood would remain a place of extreme emotions.

  1947 - Ghosts of India [1675]

  The tenth Doctor tried to satiate Donna’s craving for curry, but arrived in Calcutta ten years later than he had planned, while India was in the throes of its independence struggle. They met Mohandas “Mahatma” Gandhi, and soon discovered that a weed-like alien, the Jal Kalath named Darac-7, was creating outlawed Gelem Warriors for use by the Hive Council of its homeworld. The Gelem were created by absorbing violent impulses, and when Darac-7 forced Gandhi into the Gelem-making machine, it exploded, killing Darac-7. The Doctor and Donna wished Gandhi farewell, and the Doctor solemnly informed Donna that Gandhi was fated to die in January, the following year.

  c 1947 - “The Professor, the Queen and the Bookshop” [1676]

  C.S. Lewis wrote The Professor, the Queen and the Bookshop, in which little Amelia and Rory wandered into Phoenix Books - a time-travelling bookshop - and met the Professor who managed it. They arrived in the realm of the White Queen, where it was always winter - not Christmas - and trapped her in a book. J.R.R. Tolkien thought that Lewis’ story was rubbish, but one of the Inklings sharing their company at the Eagle and the Child pub - the eleventh Doctor, accompanied by Amy - suggested that the story might work better with a wardrobe.

  The seventh Doctor took his friend, J.R.R. Tolkien, through time to attend the wedding of Bernice Summerfield and Jason Kane. [1677]

  The Roswell Incident

  The CIA captured a Nedenah ship at Roswell. One alien was autopsied, the others were taken to Area 51. [1678] The collector Henry Van Statten had artifacts from Roswell in his private museum. [1679] The Roswell incident was an alien “fender-bender”, according to the Doctor. [1680]

  On 13th June, 1947, ambassador Seruba Velak - a “Grey Alien” - was en route to negotiate an alliance against the Viperox when pirates shot down her saucer. Her ship crashed outside Roswell, and the US Air Force took her to Area 51. Her husband, Rivesh Mantilax, was fighting the Viperox and unable to mount a rescue attempt for six years. [1681]

  The Doctor knocked over a paint pot and inspired Jackson Pollock, an American artist, around this time. Pollock gave the Doctor a painting, Azure in the Rain by a Man Who’d Never Been. [1682]

  The rituals of black arts practitioner Edward Alexander Crowley had summoned a Jarakabeth demon to Earth. The demon impersonated Crowley after his death at Hastings, 1947. The US security service Section Eight approached “Crowley” in the hope that his Hermetic Arts could be adopted for military use. The Crowley demon would become the head of the DIvisional department of Special Tactical Operations (Provisional) with Regard to Insurgent and Subversive Activity (DISTO(P)IA), a government branch designed to counter subversion. [1683]

  1948

  On 30th January, 1948, Mohandas “Mahatma” Gandhi was assassinated. [1684] A year after the first crash, a Nedenah rescue mission was shot down over Roswell. [1685] The Doctor bought a stuffed owl for Sarah in 1948. It was one of the items she packed when she left his company. [1686]

  The Doctor liked the 1948 Olympics opening ceremony so much, he went back to see it again. [1687] Torchwood acquired some alien artifacts at auction in 1948. [1688] Wilf Mott was too young to fight in the Second World War, but joined the British Army and served as a private in Palestine, 1948. [1689]

  Barbara Wilson and Eddie Smith, the future parents of Sarah Jane Smith, met while serving coffee in a Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI) canteen. They were married after he proposed by passing her a note asking her to become “Mrs. Smith”. [1690]

  1949

  Godfather Sabbath of Faction Paradox was born. [1691]

  1949 - The Cabinet of Light [1692]

  An unknown incarnation of the Doctor - one who believed he had regenerated after visiting “the city by the bay” and being shot after meeting “a beautiful lady with no pity” - arrived in London with his companion, Emily Blandish. Agents working for Mestizer, a nemesis of the Doctor, attacked them - Emily helped the Doctor to escape, but Mestizer’s agents captured the Doctor’s time cabinet. The trauma of the event rendered Emily amnesiac. She was found wandering the streets of London, and became known in the press as “the Girl in Pink Pyjamas” (and occasionally “the Girl in the Pink Bikini”). She was used to promote clothes rationing.

  To retrieve his property, the Doctor sought help from an expatriate and time sensitive named Honoré Lechasseur, who chiefly worked as a “fixer” - a trafficker of goods in a largely, but not entirely, legal fashion. Honoré observed the Doctor confronting Mestizer, and light from the Doctor’s time cabinet started her house on fire. The Doctor, Mestizer, the house and the cabinet all disappeared. Afterwards, Honoré and Emily struck up a partnership.

  By now, the Doctor was regarded as a “hobgoblin” or “myth” in the underground community. Legends claimed he variously gave fire to mankind, burned London in 1666, kidnapped the crew of the Mary Celeste and built Stonehenge with his bare hands.

  Honoré and Emily’s future selves travelled back to watch as she was found, wandering the London streets, in her pyjamas. [1693]

  1949 (December) - TimeH: The Winning Side [1694]

  Emily found that she was a “time channeller” who could travel through time and space in conjunction with a time-sensitive such as Honoré. They investigated the appearance of Emily’s body beneath Hammersmith Bridge - part of a divergent timeline triggered when a civil servant, Simon Brown, released nuclear secrets to the entire world. Emily and Honoré erased this errant history after travelling to it in the year 1984, and Emily prevented her death by letting go of her “killer”, a time-sensitive named Radford, during a time jump.

  The Nineteen Fifties

  In the early nineteen-fifties, Professor Zaroff - “the greatest scientist since Leonardo” - vanished. [1695] The testing of nuclear weapons, plus an increase in dumping of toxic waste, destroyed many Silurian shelters. [1696]

  Albinex the Navarino arrived down a faulty time corridor from the far future. [1697] In Jamaica, the 1950s, the Doctor met the ornithologist James Bond and took him to the 1800s to see a live dodo. The Doctor later introduced writer Ian Fleming to Bond, who served as inspiration for Fleming’s super-spy novels. [1698] The Doctor met the Cuban guerrilla leader Che Guevara. [1699] UFOs were fashionable in the fifties. [1700]

  Amy and Rory agreed with the eleventh Doctor that American hot dogs from the 1950s were the best hot dogs of all. [1701] Jack Harkness thought the food of the 1950s was horrid. [1702] Torchwood collected about a dozen items of alien technology that came through the Rift in the 1950s. [1703]

  UNIT in the Fifties

  u - When Lethbridge-Stewart was 21, he spent a time in New York on the way back from Korea. [1704] Lethbridge-Stewart met Fiona, his future wife. [1705] Lethbridge-Stewart’s grandmother died in 1955. [1706]

  1950

  Mentally influenced by the Player Myrek, President Truman approved Operation Kali, a psychic warfare programme. [1707] Kenneth James Valentine, a former policeman who was at D-Day, joined Torchwood Cardiff in 1950. [1708]

  (=) 1950 - TimeH: The Tunnel at the End of the Light [1709]

  Mestizer resurfaced and took command of the Subterraneans. They committed an escalating number of murders while helping her find a time-sensitive that she could use to escape.

  Honoré and Emily went back in time and stopped the Subterraneans’ leader from leaving them, which retroactively prevented Mestizer from knowing they existed.

  Honoré and Emily made further time-jumps, and had adventures pertaining to a clockwork woman in 1805; an impending apocalypse in Japan, 2020; the murderous Cabal o
f the Horned Beast in 1921; and a trapped time entity in London, 1995. [1710]

  1950 (June) - TimeH: Peculiar Lives [1711]

  The future humans that had created homo peculiar now sought to eliminate them, as their timeline depended upon homo peculiar dissipating its essence through humanity. Members of homo peculiar defeated this goal by mastering time-channelling, and took to living in future eras where animal and plant life were in abundance on Earth, but mankind was absent.

  On “a hot summer’s night”, Honoré and Emily left for Antioch, 1098. [1712]

  1951

  The radio telescope was invented. [1713] The last witchcraft act on the English statute books was repealed in 1951. [1714] Rupert Locke, a resident of Jackson Leaves, was convicted of six violent rapes in 1951. [1715] Mrs Randall, a future nursing home resident who would meet Sarah Jane Smith, was named Miss Ealing of 1951. [1716]

  A computer built to regulate space trains, cars and buses was left at loose ends once its humanoid creators were lost in an undisclosed incident. In 1951, the Rift transported a Cardiff train leaving from Platform 4 for Grangetown to the computer’s world. The train driver died, but the computer kept itself occupied by copying him and building trains to shuttle the replicants about. [1717]

  (=) 1951 (13th February) - TimeH: The Sideways Door [1718]