B00DPX9ST8 EBOK

by Parkin, Lance

  The Master sabotaged the slow time converter on Hogsumm, creating a Fortean Flicker. President Romana of Gallifrey located the source of the disturbance on Hogsumm, and released the trapped humans and Chelonians. The Chelonians weren’t grateful, so Romana marooned them there and took the humans home. [978] The abandoned Chelonians survived and created a viable colony that made contact with the rest of their kind after a few thousand years. [979]

  ? 2684 - Mission of the Viyrans [980]

  The Viyrans cured Peri of a virus that she contracted while attending a party on the planet Gralista Social, then wiped her and the fifth Doctor’s memories of the event. This was the first time that the Viyrans came into contact with humanity.

  c 2690 - “Bus Stop!” [981]

  Scientists on Mars invented a crude time machine. Mutant assassins captured the device and attempted to retroactively eradicate the ancestors of Martian President Lithops. The tenth Doctor followed the killers to the twenty-first century and stymied them while Martha and D.I. Moloch re-captured the time machine and recalled the Doctor to this time zone. The Doctor destroyed the time machine, which by extension exterminated the assassins.

  The Battle of the Rigel Wastes took place in 2697. The seventh Doctor, Bernice, Roz and Chris witnessed the massacre. In the twenty-seven and twenty-eight hundreds, New Earth Feudalism was established. This social system would lead to the thirtieth-century Overcities. [982]

  The Twenty-Eighth Century

  In the twenty-eighth century, the Legions tried to undermine the business consortia of the galaxy using their multidimensional abilities. The Time Lords intervened, sending Mortimus to imprison the Legion homeworld for eight thousand years. Around this time, the Wine Lords of Chardon had the best wine cellars in the galaxy. [983] By the twenty-eighth century, interest in Mozart was so low, his work was pretty much restricted to the bargain bin. [984]

  Earth claimed the planet Dust on the Dead Frontier, but never developed it. [985] The renegade Time Lord Koschei visited Earth in the twenty-eighth century and met Ailla, a woman who joined him on his travels. It was a time of food riots and constant war. [986]

  The great-great-grandchildren of the shareholders of Omni-Spatial Mercantile Dynamics thought that their ancestors had blown a deal concerning the Labyrinth of Kerykeion, and sent a murderous cyborg back in time to secure a better result. [987]

  2708 - “By Hook or By Crook” [988]

  The eighth Doctor and Izzy landed in the City-State of Tor-Ka-Nom. The Doctor chided Izzy for being more interested in the guidebook than seeing the sights, but changed his tune upon being arrested for a murder that he didn’t commit. Izzy freed him by looking up the identity of the real murderer in her guidebook, which wouldn’t be written for another twenty-three years.

  A human hospital ship in the Dravidian war zone crashed “a long way from Earth” on the planet Chodor, at the eastern edge of Haldevron. The crew attempted to stop the ship’s mechanical drones, a.k.a. Takers, from euthanising forty-four patients to contain the Richter’s Syndrome they carried. This damaged the ship’s quantum flux generator and released warp energy, turning the infected into ghostly beings. The surviving patients and their descendants - forgetting their past, and adopting hospital and sterilisation procedures as societal rituals - founded the colony of Purity. [989]

  = The sixth Doctor visited the planet Narrah in 2721. [990]

  The Doctor met the mad scientist Linus Leofrix on Ricarus in 2723. [991]

  c 2725 - “Warlord of the Ogrons” [992]

  The brilliant if misguided surgeon Linus Leofrix landed on the planet of the Ogrons, along with his pilot Rostow, and captured one of the natives: Gnork. Leofrix used a surgical implantation technique to make Gnork super-intelligent, planning to use him to conquer half the galaxy. Gnork challenged Gwunn for the leadership of the tribe, sparing his life because he wanted his help to defeat the Earthmen. Gnork stole the ship, leaving the humans at the mercy of Gwunn.

  The middle Sumaran era produced some exquisite artwork, including a headpiece entitled the “Six Faces of Delusion”. [993]

  One branch of humanity fell into a futile and stalemated war against the Foucoo - a humourless, burrowing and territorial species that fought with micro-munitions. Such was the conflict that nobody actually knew what the Foucoo looked like. The warfare lasted for decades, and the human colony on Nocturne was used as a departure point for soldiers going to or leaving the warzone. [994] In 2736, a guidebook to Tor-Ka-Nom was published; a copy of it would end up in the TARDIS library. [995] A breakaway cell of Ventriki militants believed its enemies were operating from the trading world Crestus V, and deployed the biological agent Saravin there. In response, the Earth Empire destroyed Saravin production plants across an entire sector of space. [996]

  2750 - “Time Bomb” [997]

  The Arrow of Righteousness was a hundred years from its destination. The TARDIS was nearby and was hit by a time weapon - a Temporal Disruption Pulser. The sixth Doctor and Frobisher traced it to a hundred years in the future on the planet Hedron.

  c 2764 - The Sensorites [998]

  During the twenty-eighth century, spacecraft from Earth ploughed deeper and deeper into space, searching for minerals and other natural resources. On Earth, air traffic was becoming congested.

  A five-man Earth ship discovered the planet Sense-Sphere, a molybdenum-rich planet that was inhabited by the shy, telepathic Sensorites. They feared exploitation, and refused to trade with Earth. The Earth mission left, but shortly afterwards, the Sensorites began dying from a mysterious new disease. Within a decade, two out of ten Sensorites had died.

  By the time a second Earth mission arrived, the Sensorites were terrified of outsiders. They used their psychic powers to place the crew of the ship in suspended animation, a process that drove one human, John, mad. The first Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan found that the Sensorites were suffering from nightshade poisoning, introduced to the City water supply by the previous Earth expedition. The second expedition left, promising not to return to the planet.

  c 2764 - The End of Time (DL) [999]

  The Governors of Mygosuria had set up the “Universal Learning System”, and ruled that the children of the Nine Galaxies should be educated to the highest standard. Those with the highest Ability Index were nicknamed The Mind Set and sent to study at the Space Brain, a school for gifted children.

  The Krashoks finished construction of the Eternity Device - a machine that would reanimate the dead, when powered by the Eternity Crystal - and calibrated it aboard the Space Brain. The tenth Doctor recalibrated the device to emit an energy blast that turned the Krashoks’ organic components to dust. He also destroyed the Eternity Crystal by tossing it into the Eternity Device, which exploded. Afterward, his companion Gisella elected to stay aboard the Space Brain.

  By 2765, INITEC had built the first of a chain of Vigilant laser defence space stations in orbit around Earth. The station proved vital in preventing the Zygons from melting the icecaps and flooding the world. [1000]

  2775 - The Stealers of Dreams [1001]

  The ninth Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack found themselves on Colony World 4378976.Delta-Four, where the authorities banned any form of fiction or fantasy. The Doctor discovered that a microscopic native life was feeding on the colonists’ imaginations, overwhelming their ability to distinguish fact from fiction. When the truth emerged, the colony’s scientists quickly came up with a cure.

  2789 (10th June) - Paradox Lost [1002]

  The TARDIS unexpectedly diverted the eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory to the banks of the Thames, 2789. London was now a mixture of the future and the past - glittering metal towers were interspersed between brick houses and churches. Enormous glass domes housed forests and served as oxygen factories. St. Paul’s Cathedral, the Tower of London, Buckingham Palace, Oxford Street, the British Museum, the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Bridge were still in existence.

  Humanoid constructs housing Artificial Intelligences, as
created by the Villiers Artificial Life laboratory in Battersea, cost a small fortune and had been on the market for about three months. One such unit, Arven, was dredged from the Thames after nearly a thousand years spent buried there. Arven expired after warning the Doctor that a timeship created by Professor Celestine Gradius had drilled a hole in space-time through which the Squall - extra-dimensional parasites that fed on psychic energy - were swarming into the Universe. The Doctor sent Amy and Rory to investigate Gradius while he travelled back to the day before Arven fell into the Thames: 16th October, 1910.

  Amy and Rory found that the Squall had killed Gradius, and met Arven’s younger self - who had been serving as Gradius’ assistant. They escaped to 1910 in Gradius’ time vessel when the Squall attacked - and thereby created the hole in space-time that granted the Squall access to the Universe.

  The Doctor, Amy and Rory returned to 2789 after dealing with the Squall, and loaded a back-up copy of Arven’s intelligence into a new body at the Villiers facility. They then took him to live with a mutual friend in 1923.

  Lothar Ragpole established a drinking establishment on Nocturne, and it would serve the developing artistic enclave there. [1003] In the early 2790s, the ten-planet Minerva system was colonised by an Earth ship captained by Julian de Yquatine. [1004]

  Elizabethan, the wife of President John F Hoover of New Jupiter, gave birth to triplets following fertility treatment. She had used DNA samples from Hanstrum, Hoover’s chief technician, and not her infertile husband. The children were named Asia, Africa and Antarctica. Years later, Hanstrum tried to murder Elizabethan after she began to suspect her triplets were psychopaths, and wanted to confess her infidelity. Elizabethan was rendered comatose, and the triplets were blamed and imprisoned. [1005]

  The human colony Nocturne was now home to the Department of War, munitions factories and some hospices, but the planet itself was secure, being located eight months of travel from the front. The adversity of the war with the Foucoo attracted to Nocturne the greatest concentration of artists and thinkers since the Florentine Renaissance - this creative revival would become known as the Far Renaissance. The creativity that flourished on Nocturne would only be accomplished about half a dozen times in the whole of human history.

  Glasst City on Nocturne had canals and smelt like Venice. The Sol system, Zeta Reticula, the Hessa Cloud and the Foucoo home system and were all visible to the naked eye from Nocturne. The Doctor was involved when the Foucoo attempted to assassinate members of the War Department, and officials on Nocturne covered up two mysterious deaths. [1006]

  Will Alloran, a student of Korbin Thessenger, went looking in the Nocturne archives and found alien scripts bearing the bioharmonics of the extinct Ultani race. He feared the documents’ power and purged them - but his brother Lomas secretly made copies. Will signed up to fight in the war with the Foucoo. He spent eight months travelling to the front, and lost his leg during a skirmish on the planet Zocus. [1007]

  c 2799 - Companion Piece [1008]

  Philosophical questions about alien civilisations, such as whether nonhumans possessed souls and could be baptised, caused a rift in the Catholic Church. Social and political instability compelled Pope Athanasius to relocate to Rome, a mobile space station with a replica of Vatican City. The Catholics who remained on Earth elected Pope Urban IX as their leader, and each side declared the other false.

  Missionaries from the Catholic Church had arrived on the planet Haven and converted much of the indigenous population. However, a malfunctioning TARDIS landed there and exploded, devastating the planet. The Church in response branded all Time Lords as witches. Grand Inquisitor Guii del Toro rose to power in the church on Haven, and instigated the Good Shepherd project, using human-like robots to evangelise.

  A Carthian bandit chief named Brotak took control of most of the planets in the Magellanic system, and named himself Tsar of all the Magellanic Clouds. He converted to Roman Catholicism, and favoured the Cetacean Brrteet’k (a.k.a. Celestine VI) as the next Pope.

  The seventh Doctor and his companion Catherine Broome repaired the malfunctioning TARDIS by stealing some mercury from the Weirdarbi, a race of cybernetic insects. They then arrived on Haven to do some shopping, but the Doctor, identified as a Time Lord, was quickly arrested by del Toro. The Doctor and Cat were dispatched to Earth aboard an Inquisition spaceship to face a papal conclave, but Pope John Paul XXIII was declared soul-dead at this time. Forces supporting either Celestine VI or Pope Urban XII as John Paul’s successor fell into open conflict. Del Toro died amid the warfare.

  The Inquisition ship took heavy damage, and the Doctor, Cat and their allies had minutes to live unless a robot could go through the ship’s toxic areas and use the bridge controls to release the sealed-off TARDIS. With the Inquisition’s robots nonfunctional, the Doctor resigned himself to telling Cat about her true nature.

  c 2800 - Nocturne [1009]

  The Far Renaissance was one of the Doctor’s favourite periods of history, and he visited the locale in more than one incarnation. The security force on Nocturne - the Overwatch - had eight separate reports of the Doctor’s visits, dating back thirty years. Tegan was present during one such stopover.

  Lomas Alloran sought to achieve great music with his copy of the Ultani bioharmonics, but Nocturne was a planet that inherently contained more discord than the Ultani homeworld. Use of the bioharmonics created a creature of pure noise - this entity sought works of artistry, but killed the artists themselves.

  The TARDIS arrived on Nocturne, and Ace and Hex expressed scepticism that the seventh Doctor lacked an ulterior motive for the visit. Previously, the Doctor had taken them to Breearos to “return some library books”, then spent a fortnight negotiating a ceasefire in the Orbit Wars. On another occasion, the Doctor said he wanted to use the infallible laundry services of Tau Sartos, but in fact worked to prevent the spawning of a Zylax swarm (an incident that left Hex covered in mucus).

  The noise creature killed the celebrated composer Lucas Erphan Moret. Lomas Alloran also perished, and his brother Will - upon realising that his actions had caused some deaths - goaded the creature to killing him.

  The Doctor devised a means of echoing and cancelling out the noise creature’s harmonics. Will’s mentor, Korbin Thessenger, was moved to write his Great Mass - it would be the last great work of his career, and celebrated for as long as humanity persisted. History forgot the manner of Will’s death, and it was speculated that he died in the war.

  The war would continue for “a long time”, but the Far Renaissance lasted a total of thirty years. It gave rise to the plays of Casto, Cinder’s Odes, the Quantum Movement, Luminalism, all but one of Thessenger’s symphonies, the Zeitists and the novels of Elber Rocas. Also, the sculptor Shumac took eight years to carve “Man Triumphant Above the Rigours of Space” from a single block of Lympian Onyx.

  Nocturne was home to the Museum of Culture, the Lazlo Collection and the College of Music. Data pads were in use. Robotic “familiars” - fashioned after the female form, as research showed that people were more comfortable with representations of the female gender - performed menial tasks for the populace.

  c 2800 - EarthWorld [1010]

  Earth Heritage had established around the galaxy thousands of EarthWorld theme parks, where lifelike androids would replicate - albeit in a rather garbled form - the history of Earth. Many of the people of New Jupiter wanted independence from Earth, and the Association for New Jupitan Independence (ANJI) was gaining support. The eighth Doctor, Fitz and Anji were arrested on suspicion of sympathy with the independence movement, but the Doctor stopped an android rampage.

  Elizabethan revived from her coma, and although her daughter Asia died, she pledged to help her remaining two children.

  The Doctor was a drinking buddy of Henry XII. [1011] Colonists seeking independence from Federation officials settled on Phoenix, the fourth planet in the Paledies system. Terraforming machinery automatically engaged while most of the colonists rem
ained in hibernation, but sunspot activity hampered development of an ozone layer and set the process back by decades. Space station Medusa was set up in geostationary orbit. [1012]

  c 2800 - The Story of Martha: “Star-Crossed” [1013]

  The tenth Doctor and Martha arrived on generation ship 374926-slash-GN66, which was full of frozen Earth colonists. The Artificials - vat-grown clones engineered to perform maintenance - had become “the Breed” and now ran the ship. The human colonists had woken up two years previous, and war had broken out between them and the Breed. The Doctor learned that the colonists had died when their cryogenics failed, and that the Breed had used what raw material was available to create Artifical bodies for as many colonists as possible, downloading their memories into the new forms. The realisation that all of those present were Artificial stopped the conflict. The Doctor repaired the ship’s energy cells enough to get the vessel to its destination.

  (=) The eleventh Doctor was present when archaeologists dug up an empty coffin that was supposed to contain the remains of a Hawkshaw Manor nursing home resident. Finding this suspicious, he went with Amy to investigate the matter in 2011. [1014]

  2815 - Festival of Death [1015]

  The leisure cruiser Cerberus, with a thousand passengers onboard, was trapped in hyperspace between Teredekethon and Murgatroyd. Nearly one hundred ships crashed into it, including a prison ship containing dangerous Arachnopods. They escaped and went on the rampage. The Repulsion - an extra-dimensional creature that existed between life and death - offered the survivors of Cerberus the chance to escape. They agreed, and the Repulsion exchanged them with participants of the “Beautiful Death” in 3012. Rescue missions would discover only empty ships, prompting “the mystery of the Cerberus”.