B00DPX9ST8 EBOK

by Parkin, Lance

  (=) The TARDIS absorbed one of the Shasarak.

  Upon the dissolution of the time-child Chiyoko, the Shasarak found itself at a singles night instead of a meeting for the Shasarak Revolutionary Front. [608]

  The Twenty-Fifth Century

  On a visit to Birnam in the twenty-fifth century, the Doctor saw a Stigorax. [609] The sixth Doctor took Peri shopping in a twenty-fifth century Wal-Mart. [610] In the twenty-fifth century, a mishap at a plastics factory with a matter synthesizer and an advertisement in an antique issue of Power Man and Iron Fist created a huge proliferation of x-ray spectacles. The company prospered for a year, but went out of business when a horde of rampaging sea monkeys - something else that shouldn’t have existed - destroyed the factory. [611] Alphonse Chardalot wanted to take Toby the Sapient Pig to a scientific conference on Gamantis. [612]

  2400 - The Pit [613]

  At the beginning of the twenty-fifth century, the space docks of Glasson Minor, a planet-sized ship-building station, bustled with activity and human colonisation continued to gather pace.

  Bernice worried that the seventh Doctor was becoming too despondent, and tried to snap him out of it by having him investigate the destruction of the Seven Planets of the Althosian binary star system in 2400, an event that had never been explained. Colonisation at this time was still hazardous, and the Seven Planets were far from the normal trading routes, years away from the nearest other colony. A number of new religions sprang up on Nicea, the planet with the largest population, and these spread to the smaller worlds of Trieste and Byzantine. Most of these were based around the Form Manipulator, and adopted Judeo-Christian beliefs to the environment of the Seven Planets. The geographical and religious isolation made it easy for them to declare independence from the Corporation, but the corporations responded by cutting off all supplies and communications. Rioting broke out that the Archon and his armies were unable to contain.

  The Time Lords’ ancient enemies, the Yssgaroth, were making efforts to invade our universe and had created a series of space-time tears. The Doctor fell through one such tear into the past, and returned to this era with William Blake. A former Gallifreyan general, Kopyion Liall a Mahajetsu, had been among the Althosian system’s first settlers and was seeking to thwart the Yssgaroth - but was moved to save the Doctor and Blake. Fearing that the Yssgaroth would view his compassion as a weakness to be exploited, Kopyion destroyed the Althosian system purely to demonstrate his resolve, sealing the tears and killing millions. The Doctor and Benny took Blake home.

  c 2400 (days 1 to 16, ninth month) - LIVE 34 [614]

  Elections on Colony 34 were now five years overdue. Jaeger’s administration continued its crackdown, but the Colony Central Commission (CCC) accepted a petition from his opposition - the Freedom and Democracy Party (FDP) - and ruled that elections must be held in sixteen days. The radio station LIVE 34 called Jaeger’s administration into question through such programmes as Wareing’s World and Live With Charlotte Singh, but the station’s independence was revoked, and the State Broadcast Monitoring Department assumed editorial control.

  The FDP leader, Durinda Cauldwell, had reportedly been killed by members of her own party, and her predecessor had allegedly died in a transporter accident. The seventh Doctor - accompanied by Ace and Hex - accepted the FDP leadership, unwilling to risk anyone else’s life in the post. Ace organised resistance as “the Rebel Queen”, and her operatives blew up empty government buildings to obtain evidence of Jaeger’s corruption. Nobody was killed, but Jaeger’s forces blew up a vehicle manufacturing plant and a senior citizens’ home, gaining political favour by blaming the hundreds of resultant casualties on the Rebel Queen and the FDP.

  The Doctor stood for election against Jaeger, who claimed to have won with 81.5% of the vote, a victory margin of 63%. The CCC declared the election void as the Doctor was believed dead during the voting, and the truth about the false Jaeger was revealled. Jaeger’s staff were arrested, political prisoners were freed and Charlotte Singh was designated the CCC’s representative. A mob fell upon the false Jaeger.

  One version of Peri spent twenty-five years being married to Yrcanos, and became Queen of the Krontep and the Seven Systems. She governed seven worlds. “Gilliam, Queen of Krontep”, as she was known, disappeared in 2404 and returned to the twentieth century. [615] Another version of Peri stayed on Krontep with her family. [616]

  Humans colonised the Garazone system. The Garazone Space Patrol was formed to fight smugglers. [617]

  ? 2405 - Vanishing Point [618]

  The geneticist Cauchemar worked to overthrow “the Creator” responsible for the reincarnation process on an alien colony planet. The Creator’s functions were disrupted to the point that deformed children named “mooncalves” were being born without the genetic “godswitch” needed to facilitate reincarnation. Cauchemar hoped to overload the Creator, triggering an energy release that would destroy the planet, yet facilitate his soul’s admittance to the afterlife. The eighth Doctor, Fitz and Anji foiled this scheme. The genetic experiments that had extended Cauchemar’s life, coupled with radiation exposure, failed and he died. One of the mooncalves became pregnant with Fitz’s child.

  Years later, the Creator had rebalanced enough to include the mooncalves in its designs.

  2408 - Divided Loyalties [619]

  The fifth Doctor, Tegan, Nyssa and Adric arrived on space station Little Boy II to find communications with Dymok had been disrupted. The Doctor travelled to the planet and was captured by the Toymaker. An attack by the Toymaker made Dymok vanish completely, but the Doctor again defeated him. The Toymaker decided to base himself in Blackpool, the 1980s.

  In 2414, Darzil Carlisle was born outside Olympus Mons on Mars. At age three, following an airlock accident that killed his parents, he was relocated to an orphanage in Finchley, North London. At age 17, he earned a scholarship to the Phobos Academy of Music, and studied there for three years.

  The fifth Doctor, having encountered an older Carlisle circa 2484, secretly aided Lord Carlisle in becoming a renowned peacemaker, and in saving billions of lives by ending wars on at least thirty-six planets. [620]

  Around 2415, the people of the Elysium system discovered the Artifact, a vast ammonite-like structure, on the edge of their territory. [621] In 2416, on an unnamed colony world, IMC had set up a genetics engineering project named Project Mecrim. The Company built the ape-like Rocarbies, cheap labour developed from the native primate life; and the Mecrim, a race built for combat with a claw that could vibrate and cut through even the hardest materials. When a Mecrim gut microbe escaped, the colony was declared off limits. The survivors developed an immunity, but came to hate science and degenerated to a medieval level of technology. [622]

  In 2420, the human race and Sontarans signed a non-aggression pact. [623] In the 2420s, the deserts of Earth were reclaimed and the city New Atlantis was built in the Pacific. The population of Earth was sixty billion at this time.

  The sixth Doctor and Frobisher visited Peri on Krontep and caught up with her family. Following that visit, her son Corynus was killed in a hunting accident. Yrcanos died suddenly, and his and Peri’s grandsons - Artios and Euthys - unaccountably fell out over the succession. Peri rode off, vowing not to return until the war had ended. Krontep was devastated by civil war between Artios and Euthys. Yrcanthia, their mother, was killed in crossfire, and this provoked the generals to rebel against both brothers and stake them out in the desert. Farlig was appointed regent to Peri’s granddaughter Actis. [624]

  c 2429 - “The Age of Chaos” [625]

  The sixth Doctor arrived on Krontep to celebrate Actis’ sixteenth birthday, and learned of the turbulence of the last decade. At Actis’ insistence, they went to the Antarctic to meet Frobisher. The Doctor and Frobisher set off on a perilous journey to the distant land of Brachion, in hope of finding what had gone wrong with the planet, and discovered a mysterious dome. The Doctor identified it as a Thought Aligned Random Displacement Energiser Ne
gative Activated (TARDENA), and learned that it was being operated by a Nahrung, a member of an old race that fed on suffering - it was this madness that had consumed the planet. Deep underground in the Hall of Atonement, the lair of a sect of mad monks, the travellers went on to meet Euthys and Artios, and were reunited with Actis. They escaped thanks to the mysterious Ranith.

  Comparing notes, the Doctor deduced that the regent Farlig had used Nahrung technology to set the brothers against each other. The Nahrung possessed Farlig, and both were killed. As the Doctor and Frobisher left, the Doctor revealled that Ranith was secretly Peri herself.

  2430 - “Dogs of Doom” [626]

  The savage Werelox were werewolf-like aliens who could convert humans into their kind with a single bite or slash of their claws, and they attacked the more than thirty colonies of the New Earth system.

  The TARDIS landed on the Spacehog: an astro-freighter, operated by Joe Bean and Babe Roth, that was working the system. As the fourth Doctor and Sharon introduced themselves, the Werelox attacked the ship and their leader, Brill, clawed the Doctor. He became a Werelok and retreated to the TARDIS, taking it out of time. Three months later, he had cured himself, and returned to the Spacehog mere minutes after he left. The Doctor hypnotised Brill and realised the Werelox were the Daleks’ servants. The Daleks were using neutron fire to sterilise planets and planned to colonise them. The Doctor headed to the Dalek ship with Brill and K9.

  Meanwhile, Joe Bean and his partner Babe planned to ram the Dalek ship in the Spacehog. The Doctor discovered that the Daleks were distilling emotions from alien monsters to make themselves more efficient killing machines, and that unless something was done, the New Earth system would become a huge Dalek breeding ground. K9 released the alien monsters, which attacked the Daleks. Additionally, the Doctor used equipment in the Daleks’ Room of Many Centuries - a laboratory where the Daleks were building a time transporter - to timelock the Dalek battlecruiser, removing the threat just as the Spacehog was about to ram it.

  The Tyrenians had been developed as human super-soldiers with canine attributes, genetically engineered by Gustav Tyren. When the military pulled its funding for the project, the Tyrenians stole a ship and founded a colony on Axista Four. They set up satellite defences and then entered suspended animation using symbiotes.

  Around 2430, the human colony ship Big Bang departed into space. The seventh Doctor, in preparing colonist Kirann Ransome to help one of his previous selves, was the last person to visit her before she entered stasis.

  The defence grid on Axista Four shot down the Big Bang, and it crashed to the planet. Kirann remained trapped in stasis while the survivors founded a colony based on her text, Back to Basics, and strove for a low-technology approach that modelled society on the Wild West. They were unaware of the Tyrenians’ presence. [627]

  = In 2436, an alternative Earth that was ruled by Nazis who had won the Second World War, and later gone on to galactic conquest, was destroyed. [628]

  ? 2440 - Survival of the Fittest [629]

  Among the worlds of the galactic plane, the Geo-Police were a fascist group of “justice officers” who would cordon off various worlds to protect their resources.

  The seventh Doctor and Klein arrived on a planet located high above the galactic plane, with a good view of the Milky Way. The insectoid Vrill who lived there were threatened by a team of humans seeking to acquire and sell the prized nutrient gels the Vrill used in their reproductive process. The humans used a nerve agent - the Spear of Destiny 2Tri-C81 - to kill the Vrill queen, their Authority. The Doctor saved enough gel to guarantee the Vrill’s survival, but Klein - plotting to rewrite history in favour of the German Reich - stole the TARDIS, stranding him...

  The Doctor was transplanted into the alternate reality Klein created in 2044, and retrieved his Ship. [630]

  The lost planet of Delfus Orestes, formerly designated Cappa Nine Seven, was re-named KS-159. The Delfans of Delfus Clytaemnestra had built the Oracle of the Lost - a sentient statue that could make predictions of the future based upon universal models - on Delfus Orestes, and it resided there even after its creators had passed. [631]

  Enormous spaceport terminals were created as hyperspace travel enabled humanity to spread further into the universe. The small planet New Memphis was close to a hyperspace nexus point, and so became a hub of intergalactic travel, its Elvis the King Spaceport servicing traffic from a hundred different star systems. [632]

  Circa 2450, Earth instigated a time-travel project on Vilencia Sixteen that went horribly wrong and destroyed half the planet. The Stella Stora Sigma Schutz-Staffel SturmSoldaten (SSSSSSS), a neo-Nazi organisation, used bits of this technology to weave their philosophies into the timelines of many worlds. [633]

  c 2450 - Scaredy Cat [634]

  Fathrea - the fourth world orbiting its sun - had known peace for centuries, and colonists from there settled in another system on the planet Endarra. The biological agent Saravin had been developed for warfare, and a passing Ventriki ship tested the weapon’s effects on the Endarra colony. The eighth Doctor, investigating events that would occur four million years in the future, refrained from interfering for fear of disrupting history. C’rizz gave the colonists an antidote from the TARDIS medial facility, but this wasn’t enough to save them. Within three months, the colonists had perished. One small girl, Galayana, had a natural immunity and survived a few weeks longer, then perished herself.

  Endarra was newly formed, and the trauma of the colonists’ deaths remained in its morphogenetic field. Galayana’s memories and aspect were also preserved.

  ? 2450 - The Underwater War [635]

  The purple water planet Hydron was home to the Schoal: fish people whose eggs carried an immense electrical charge. One egg could power a starship for a week. The Schoal attacked the Earth vessel Marine Adventurer when it tried to steal the Schoal’s eggs, but two survivors - including a man named Fleming - escaped back to Earth. Two years later, the eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory defused tensions when the Company sent the Cosmic Rover to scour Hydron for minerals. Fleming tried and failed to capture thousands of eggs, sell them and retire to Catrigan Nova and its whirlpools of gold. With peace restored, the Doctor and his friends decided to visit the Tower of London.

  General Moret fought in the Telepathic Uprising of ‘54. [636] Spacefleet used psi drugs to enhance human psychokinesis. [637] The Doctor met a Legion in the twenty-fifth century. [638] A Dalek War broke out in 2459. [639] Forests in Madagascar and Portugal were made into cropland to such a degree, the sentient lemurs there dispersed throughout the galaxy in search of a new home. They formed the Order of Lost Lemuroidea. [640] Comes the Trickster released the HvLIP All The Way From Heaven in 2465. [641]

  Down Among the Dead Men, Bernice Summerfield’s study of archaeology (particularly that of the Martians) was published. [642]

  2472 (Tuesday, 3rd March, to Wednesday, 4th March) - Colony in Space [643]

  Earth was overpopulated, with one hundred billion people living like “battery hens” in communal living units. 300-storey floating islands were built, housing five hundred million people. There was “no room to move, polluted air, not a blade of grass left on the planet and a government that locks you up if you think for yourself”.

  IMC scoured the galaxy for duralinium, to build ever more living units. From Earth Control, their headquarters, a fleet of survey vessels ruthlessly strip-mined worlds and killed anyone that stood in their way. Discipline on IMC ships and planets relied heavily on the death penalty: piracy, mutiny and even trespass were all capital offences. Earth Government turned a blind eye to these abuses, although an Adjudicator was assigned to each Galactic Sector to judge disputes in interplanetary law.

  Despite the conditions on Earth, few were prepared to leave the homeworld for a bleak life on a colony planet. Some groups of eccentrics bought their own ship and tried to settle on a new world, but most people preferred a life on Earth, where the government may have been harsh, but at least
they were able to feed their citizens.

  Colonists on Uxarieus - a world that supported birds, insects and basic plant life, and which had an atmosphere similar to that of Earth before the invention of the motor car - found themselves in competition with IMC for control of the planet. The colonists arrived first, surveyed the planet and set up their habitation domes. They discovered that Uxarieus was inhabited by a small subterranean city of telepathic Primitives. Two colonists were killed when they tried to enter the city, but an understanding was reached - in return for food, the Primitives provided menial labour. The colonists proceeded with their plans, but it proved difficult to grow crops as they withered for no reason that the colonists could ascertain.

  Just over a year after they arrived, giant lizards attacked some of the outermost domes and some colonists were killed. Many colonists were prepared to leave, but their spacecraft was obsolete, and would almost certainly be unable to reach another world.

  IMC arrived in Survey Ship 4-3, under the command of Captain Dent, and angered the colonists by staking a claim on the world. When they discovered that IMC had been using optical trickery to project images of the lizards, and a Mark III servo-robot to kill the colonists, many turned to arms.

  Colonists and IMC men were killed in a series of gun battles. The Master posed as an Adjudicator and ruled in IMC’s favour, but he was more interested in the Primitives’ secrets. The IMC team attempted to murder the colonists by forcing them to leave in their obsolete rocket. They were defeated and a real Adjudicator was brought in.

  It was discovered that the Primitive city was home to an ancient superweapon, which had been leaking and poisoning the soil. The third Doctor and Jo, working on behalf of the Time Lords, convinced the guardian of this device to destroy to weapon - and the city - rather than let it fall into the Master’s hands.