B00DPX9ST8 EBOK

by Parkin, Lance

  & 2196 - Fear Itself (PDA) [437]

  Farside Station was rediscovered in Jupiter’s atmosphere. Anji had become distant from her husband, and stowed away as a Professional was sent to investigate. The survivors had gone feral, while the station had been influenced by alien biological weapons - Fear and Loathing - which had survived in Jupiter’s atmosphere for millennia.

  The Doctor, who had been brainwashed into operating as a Professional for the last four years, neutralised the weapons. Reunited with Anji, the Doctor and Fitz continued on their travels.

  At this time, tent cities existed on Earth and Mars. The Paris crater and the New York waterways were popular tourist traps. [438]

  In 2197, the Dreamstone Moon Mining Company was set up to exploit the discovery of dreamstone on the moon of Mu Camelopides VI. [439]

  ? 2197 - Wooden Heart [440]

  The tenth Doctor and Martha landed on the Castor, a prison ship full of century-old corpses. Deep in the ship, they discovered a strange virtual reality forest and a preindustrial village. Aliens had preserved humans in the wooden heart of the ship.

  2197 (15th-16th January to March) - The Nowhere Place [441]

  Earth’s Damocles-class ships emerged as the deadliest fighter-craft of their age, and were the envy of their enemies. The Red Cross symbol was still in use. Earth’s military used security locks that were susceptible to high-frequency vibrations. A station was in operation on Jupiter. Cryo-freezing was used in this era.

  The Damocles-fighter carrier Valiant travelled to Pluto’s orbital path; scans indicated that hostile raider activity had occurred there in late December. The sixth Doctor and Evelyn arrived on the Valiant, which was under the command of Captain Tanya Oswin, as a mysterious door appeared in the ship’s hull. Crew members were mentally compelled to walk through the door – a device used by the original species that had evolved on Earth, and was trapped in the realm called Time’s End. The original race hoped to use the door to ensnare humanity and retroactively erase mankind from history. The Doctor and Evelyn identified the sound of a train bell coming from the door as hailing from 1952, and ventured back there to investigate. In their absence, three-fourths of the Valiant crew were lost to the door.

  The Doctor and Evelyn returned two months later, just as the spaceship Exeter arrived in response to the Valiant’s cry for help. Oswin ordered the Exeter to fire nuclear weapons against the door; this would have paradoxically created Time’s End and consigned humanity to suffer there. However, the Doctor altered events in Time’s End so that Oswin’s nuclear strike permanently destroyed Earth’s original species.

  Colonial marines fought in the Alphan Kundekka conflict of 2198. [442] Archaeologists Niall Goram and Matt Lacey contracted radiation sickness after opening the tomb of Rablev. They resealed it and split their journal - later known as The Doomsday Manuscript - into two halves. After they died, their estates sold off the documents. [443]

  (=) & 2199 - Legacy of the Daleks [444]

  The eighth Doctor arrived in New London as the Master started a war between rival Domains Haldoran and London. Haldoran and London themselves died in the conflict, and one of Haldoran’s commanders, Barlow, took charge of both regions. The Master reawoke a hidden Dalek factory to gain an experimental matter transmuter. David Campbell was killed in a struggle with the Master, who fled to the planet Tersurus. Susan Campbell destroyed the matter transmuter, an act that ravaged the Master’s body. The Time Lords sent Chancellor Goth to investigate the disturbance on Tersurus, leading to his meeting the now-skeletal Master. A grieving Susan left in the Master’s TARDIS.

  Brian Parsons fought in many space conflicts at this time, and his tactics were programmed into android soldiers for many centuries to come. [445] During the twenty-third century, Jung the Obscure published his theory of the Inner Dark in the Eiger Apocrypha. [446] By the twenty-third century, a riot control gas named Pacificus was invented. [447] Sperm whale songlines were published. [448] 1970s fashions were once again revived in the twenty-third century. [449]

  Humanity conducted tests with fusion bombs out on the Galactic Rim. The devices were so powerful they were immediately banned. [450] The Doctor bought Bobby Charlton’s 1966 World Cup shirt in a Venusian Auction in the twenty-third century. [451]

  The corporations made vast profits from the colonisation of other planets and became a law unto themselves, killing colonists to get to mineral resources. The Adjudication Service became a neutral arbiter of planetary claims. [452]

  Around 2200, the Interbank scandal took place. Chairman Wayne Redfern was indirectly responsible for the bankruptcy of the organisation. [453] The Re’nar and Ju’wes fought a war in the Matrua Nebula. One of the Re’nar fell through a time portal to 1888, and was pursued by a Ju’wes. [454]

  & 2202 - Longest Day [455]

  A Kusk rescue party arrived on the moon of Hirath, intent on retrieving their lost time probe. The probe malfunctioned even further and destabilised TCC’s time barriers on Hirath, threatening to blow up half the galaxy. The eighth Doctor destroyed the probe, triggering an electrical surge that also killed the rampaging Kusks. Samantha Jones was separated from the Doctor in the confusion to follow, and was launched away from Hirath in a crewless Kusk ship.

  & 2202 - Dreamstone Moon [456]

  Dreamstones, a material mined from a satellite of Mu Camelopides VI, also known as the Dreamstone Moon, became very desirable. Consumers would sleep with dreamstones under their pillows to experience vivid dreams. However, Anton La Serre, an artist who recorded and sold his dreams, had a tortuous dreaming experience with a dreamstone and sought to discredit the entire industry.

  The Dreamstone Moon Mining Corporation (DMMC) ship Dreamstone Miner rescued Sam Jones, who had drifted in the Kusk ship for a week. She was taken to the DMMC mining operation on the Dreamstone Moon, which began to experience tremors. The Doctor arrived and concluded that the entire moon was a living entity, and that the dreamstones were parts of its brain.

  The pained entity shared a special mental link with La Serre, and instinctively began lashing out due to his anger toward DMMC. The entity started projecting mental illusions - Earth Fleet had five hundred ships in the Mu Camelopides system on manoeuvres, and the captain of the dropship Royale self-destructed his vessel while experiencing such a waking nightmare. The ship’s compliment of one thousand troops was lost, and altogether five thousand people died.

  The Doctor entered La Serre’s dreams and calmed him, allowing La Serre to peacefully dream himself to death, and the dreamstone entity fell dormant. DMMC abandoned operations on the moon. Sam Jones, embarrassed for her previous abandonment of the Doctor, departed the moon in an evacuation shuttle.

  c 2202 - Seeing I [457]

  Sam Jones relocated to the world of Ha’olam, where she initially worked as a volunteer in an INC-run homeless shelter. She turned 18 during this time. The eighth Doctor was responsible for the Great Umph Massacre of 2202 when he sent data-umphs into the galaxy-wide computer network to look for Sam.

  The Doctor, using the alias “Dr. James Alistair Bowman”, continued to look for Sam and was arrested as an industrial spy on INC premises. He was given a ten year sentence and taken to the Oliver Bainbridge Functional Stabilisation Centre (OBFSC). He was questioned by Dr Akalu, the prison’s “morale officer”. Akalu implanted the Doctor with a retinal implant that provided advance warning of the Doctor’s escape attempts. Akalu also set up DOCTOR, an artificial intelligence, to create an accurate psychological profile on the Doctor. DOCTOR would eventually discover three hundred forty-six reports of TARDIS sightings in hundreds’ years worth of data, despite someone erratically, not systematically, erasing nearly all of it.

  The non-profit organisation Livingspace hired Sam to do volunteer work at Eurogen Village, a desert community for former Eurogen workers. She started a relationship with Paul Hamani, a Eurogen worker assigned to teach her about life on the settlement; their relationship ended five months later. Sam also had relationships wi
th a woman named Chris and a man named Orin (despite his being a soldier and eating meat). After Sam and Orin broke up, he and Paul became a couple.

  ? 2202 - The I: I Scream [458]

  Humans devoted nearly every available acre of the planet Galspar to dairy, egg and sugar farms. These produced the raw ingredients for Galspar’s single export: ice cream, of which Galspar made seven hundred million litres per day, and shipped to such worlds as Earth. The Governor of Galspar served as the CEO of the Company that made the ice cream, and the ruling council was the Company’s board of directors. Galspar’s relatively small population served the Company in one form or another. In their final term at school, students picked their occupation from a choice of farmer, driver, management, admin, computers, family, education and none of the above. Marco Polo City was Galspar’s largest urban area.

  The I - who reproduced in multiple ways - subverted Galspar’s operations, and seeded into its ice cream a filament that would convert anyone who consumed it into the I. In this fashion, the I sought to “promote” humanity to become like them...

  Around 2203, the Selachian Empire invaded Rho Priapus, one of Earth’s colony worlds. [459] Terran Security Forces (TSF) in response instigated a war to combat the alleged Selachian threat, but the conflict owed more to the Selachians endangering human corporate interests on the arms markets. [460]

  On Earth, Professor Laura Mulholland developed the gravity bomb, a devastating weapon capable of making a planet collapse in on itself. The G-bomb boosted Earth’s confidence in the conflict with the Selachian Empire, and a warfleet, led by the flagship Triumph, left Earth to engage the enemy. The Selachians were forced back to their own system within a year. [461] In 2204, Adam Dresden was on his first TSF mission when the Selachians captured him on Molinar. He was subsequently transported to Ockora as a prisoner. [462] Robert Eliot Whitman stole valuable antiques that included a Kettlewell-type Robot, and the humans on the colony of Jegg-Sau used it to create more of its kind. The colony was abandoned when Jegg-Sau’s soil failed due to bad terraforming. Whitman died, and the Robots - confused without any humans to serve - were left behind. [463]

  An Eternal, Hardy, used a shard of Enlightenment to create Marlowe’s World and the people living there - all of them pawns in a game against Barron, a rival Eternal. Barron spent centuries luring champions to Marlowe’s World - had any of them discovered the planet’s true nature, he would have won and claimed the Enlightenment shard. Barron’s champions all failed. [464] The Bantu Independence Group became more militaristic in the 2200s, and - supported by various alien races - formed a loose alliance of dominated worlds. [465]

  2204 - The Final Sanction [466]

  The war with the Selachians was coming to an end. Humans invaded Kalaya, the final planet in need of liberation from the Selachians. After a while, the humans forewent air raids to protect the native population. Out of a thousand troops, only around three hundred survived the campaign.

  The second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe arrived on the war-torn Kalaya shortly before Selachian forces abandoned it. The Doctor found himself onboard the Triumph as it pursued the retreating Selachians to their homeworld of Ockora. The Triumph’s G-bomb was launched, turning Ockora into a black hole and obliterating nine million lives there, including ten thousand hostages. Lieutenant Kent Michaels of the TSF gave the final password that launched the bomb, but the history books condemned Commander Wayne Redfern for the catastrophe, deeming him one of the most evil men who ever lived.

  A group of surviving Selachians captured the Triumph and attempted to retaliate against Earth with the ship’s second G-bomb. Professor Mulholland detonated the bomb before it could reach Earth, turning the Triumph into a second black hole.

  & 2205 - Seeing I [467]

  Sam Jones was involved in a failed protest to prevent INC from buying Eurogen Village. She sought to expose INC’s corrupt practices and broke into a TCC research plant - where she found they were growing human clones with no higher brain functions for immoral experimentation.

  Now 21, Sam learned about the Doctor’s incarceration by hacking into INC’s medical databases. She helped to liberate him, and the TARDIS removed his retinal implant. The Doctor had been an inmate of OBFSC for just over three years.

  The I overran the INC Research and Development Complex at Samson Plains to strip-mine its technology. The Doctor liberated the I’s organic spaceship from their control, turning the I into mindless drones. Reunited with Sam, he departed for Gallifrey to return Savar’s eyes.

  DOCTOR, having acquired some of the Doctor’s personality traits through studying him, departed Ha’olam and travelled human dataspace with another AI, FLORANCE.

  The settlement of Shelbyville was founded on Mars. [468]

  ? 2212 (May) to 2213 (Monday, 10th May) - The Demons of Red Lodge and Other Stories: “Doing Time” [469]

  The fifth Doctor and Nyssa detected the echo of a potential temporal explosion on the planet Folly. The Doctor’s efforts to warn the authorities of this resulted in his being incarcerated for a year, but he still retroactively prevented the explosion - the result of a warp drive accident - from occurring.

  2211 (September) - The Janus Conjunction [470]

  In 2110, an aged Spacemaster, with one thousand colonists on board, was holed by an asteroid prior to crash-landing on the planet Menda. Led by Gustav Zemler, the mercenaries hired to protect the colonists discovered a hyperspatial Link that joined Menda to its neighbour, Janus Prime. The mercenaries crossed over to Janus Prime but were trapped there for a year, and went insane due to radiation sickness.

  The eighth Doctor and Sam discovered that the hyperspatial Link was an accidental by-product of the Janus system’s doomsday device. Zemler was killed before he could set the Janus Conjunction in motion and turn the sun into a black hole. Sergeant Jon Moslei sacrificed himself to collapse the Link, saving Janus Prime.

  2212 - Benny: Secret Origins [471]

  The android Robyn and a temporal projection of Benny foiled Samuel Frost from recovering a zombifying virus from the planet Kresma.

  ? 2215 (last day of year) - The Cradle of the Snake [472]

  The Mara manifested through Tegan a third time, and compelled the fifth Doctor - who was also accompanied by Nyssa and Turlough - to land on Manussa about a century before the Mara dominated it. Not caring if it violated its own timeline, the Mara tried to achieve full manifestation, and to conquer the Manussan Empire (again), through a 4-D crystal featured on the Manussan TV show Dreamarama. The Doctor eradicated the Mara by inverting the crystal’s power. He expressed doubt that the Mara could ever truly be killed.

  The Intergalactic Mineral Exploitation Act was passed in 2217, granting the mining combines vast powers. The corporations had already supplied the colony ships, weather control, terraforming and computer technology to the colonists. [473] The seventh Doctor, Ace, and Benny visited the Moscow City Carnival in 2219. [474]

  The city of Springfield was established near Ascraeus Lacus on Mars around 2227. [475]

  2227 - SLEEPY [476]

  The Adjudication Service was just one of many organisations trying to enforce the law. The Serial/Spree Killers Investigations National Unit was one of the hundreds of small agencies operating in tandem with the conventional legal authorities throughout the twenty-third century - often with more powers than the authorities. Thanks to a combination of paranoia and real concern - some political parties took to hiring serial killers - Unit operatives could get in just about anywhere.

  In the early twenty-third century, CM Enterprises attempted to create a computer that could think like a human by installing organic components - a cat’s brain - into an Imbani mainframe. They only succeeded in building a computer that wanted to play with string and sit on newspapers. The Dione-Kisanu Company (DKC), on the other hand, encoded information in the form of memory RNA. Before long, DKC taught a woman the first verse of Kublai Khan by injection. In 2223, Madhanagopal finished his work on the AI named FLORANCE, which wa
s taken offline.

  Psychic ability was now recognised by humanity, and standard tests had been introduced. DKC were attempting to encode psi-powers using a model of the human mind: the AI named GRUMPY. Bernice Summerfield and Roz Forrester arrived in the preprogrammed TARDIS and met GRUMPY - who injected them with an antidote to a viral outbreak on Yemaya 4 thirty years in the future.

  GRUMPY later escaped DKC by pushing himself through the computer networks, leaving his own hardware behind. He stored a few years’ memories in a data vault in Malindi, tucked away a copy of his operating system in a communications satellite trailing Phobos, and spread pieces of himself across the solar system. For a decade, DKC kept the fact that GRUMPY had escaped secret and destroyed all they could find of him. GRUMPY became increasingly desperate, and used his psychic ability to terrorise and blackmail. After two years, DKC tracked him down, brought him back to Saturn’s moon of Dione and erased the copies he had made of himself.

  ? 2230 - Frayed [477]

  Earth sent those with a perceived genetic disposition to crime or latent psychic abilities (the “future deviants”) to the Refuge on Iwa. There was a strict Eugenics Code on Earth. Corporations funded research into psychic ability, but it was felt that the psychics’ sense of superiority led them to a criminal lifestyle. Babies without brains were cloned for medical research.

  A Time Lord and his companion landed on Iwa. Adopting the names “the Doctor” and “Susan”, they observed the humans’ fight with wolf-like aliens. An uneasy truce was forged, and the humans agreed to help the aliens cure a genetic decay that was afflicting them.

  The Ulla people of Xirrinda developed self-replicating, ravenous machine-creatures that threatened to consume the planet. The machine-creatures were launched into space, but the Ulla civilisation collapsed anyway. [478]