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by Parkin, Lance

  The Doctor joined the Federation mission to meet the Glass Men, and also met their leader, Daedalus, a giant jade elephant who planned to make war with the Federation. Daedalus had opened up forty-three space-time corridors from the Enclave to planets such as Telosa, Skaro, Wertherkund and Sonturak. The Nepotist launched a preemptive strike with sonic cannons, shattering the Glass Men, but was counter-attacked by the Sahmbekarts, a race of lizards. The Nepotist crashed near the Valcean city, and the people of the Obverse rushed to defend their territory. The Doctor attempted to intervene, but Iris Wildthyme tricked him into leaving the area. He would never know how the situation was resolved.

  c 3940 - “A Cold Day in Hell” [1247]

  Ice Lord Arryx and a small squad of Ice Warriors captured the weather control station on the pleasure planet A-Lux. They transformed A-Lux into an arctic wilderness, wiping out almost the entire population. The Martian homeworld was uninhabitable at this time, and Arryx - who opposed Martian membership of the Federation - wanted this to become a home base.

  The seventh Doctor and Frobisher arrived and reversed the weather control, killing the Ice Warriors. Frobisher stayed behind to help the natives rebuild their lives, and the Doctor was joined by a young woman - Olla - that Frobisher had met.

  & 3940 - “Redemption” [1248]

  The TARDIS was caught in the null beams of a Federation ship captained by the Vachysian Skaroux. Olla confided that she used to be Skaroux’s servant. The seventh Doctor was shocked to learn that her people, the Dreilyn, had no legal status in the Federation because they were heat vampires ... but this was a lie. Olla was Skaroux’s consort, and had stolen all his money. The Doctor handed her over for trial.

  ? 3950 - Bang-Bang-a-Boom! [1249]

  The 308th Intergalactic Song Contest was broadcast to over a quinquillion homes across the universe. Contestants included the Architects of Algol (“Don’t Push Your Tentacle Too Far”), the Angvia of the Hearth of Celsitor (“My Love is as Limitless as a Black Hole, and I’m Pulling You Over the Event Horizon”), the Breebles, the Cissadian Cephalopods, Cyrene, the Freznixx of Braal and Maaga 29 of Drahva (“Clone Love”). The jury included a Martian. Earth’s national anthem at this time was “I Will Survive”.

  The matriarchal warlords of Angvia and the transcendental gestalt Gholos had been feuding for thirty generations. A peace conference between the two was supposedly being held on Achilles 4, but this was a feint for the real conference, which was taking place at the Song Contest on the Dark Space 8 station. A Gholos nationalist tried to disrupt the proceedings, but both sides sued for peace.

  Earth discovered and surveyed the planet Antalin. [1250] In the mid-fortieth century, a “Cyber-fad” swept the Federation. The Martian archaeologist Rhukk proved that both Telos and New Mondas had been destroyed, meaning the Cyber Race had been eradicated. The public were briefly fascinated by the Cybermen. Documentary holovid crews went to the dead worlds of Voga and Telos. [1251]

  In 3950, Mavic Chen became the Guardian of the Solar System, ruling over the forty billion people living on Earth, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and the moon colonies from his complex in Central City. At this time, the prison planet Desperus was set up to house the most dangerous criminals in the solar system.

  Chen sought alternatives to the giant clock that enabled humanity to travel through hyperspace, and established a secret mining operation to find taranium, “the rarest mineral in the universe”, and which was found only on Uranus. Taranium, he suspected, was the vital component for a device that could bend time akin to the giant clock. Many in the solar system showed an almost religious devotion to Chen. His reputation was enhanced in 3975, when all the planets of the solar system signed a non-aggression pact. For the next twenty-five years, they lived in peace under the Guardianship, and the solar system - though “only part of one galaxy” - now had a status that was “exceptional... it had influences far outside its own sphere”. It was hoped that by following Chen’s example, peace would spread throughout the universe. [1252]

  ? 3951 - Iris: The Sound of Fear [1253]

  Iris Wildthyme met a man named Sam Gold at the Intergalactic Song Competition and wound up marrying him. On the night of their wedding, the Master Bakers of Barastabon took Iris out of time and tasked her with finding the six lost slices of the Celestial Gateaux. Six months later, Iris and Panda arrived on Radio Yesterday, a space station broadcasting golden oldies to Earth’s colonies; Gold was the manager and DJ there. The evil Naxian hordes sought to strip a mood-altering harmonic into the Radio Yesterday broadcasts and make everyone in human space terribly depressed, paving the way for an invasion. The Naxian warlord made Iris, along with Gold, take him back to the 1960s in a bid to rewrite history. Iris returned after Panda had turned the Naxians’ signals against them, and the ones aboard the station threw themselves out the airlock.

  After the Radio Yesterday incident, Iris and a Naxian named Roger had a relationship. While Iris was off gallivanting around the cosmos, Roger and a Naxian beachhead were sent back to 2108. [1254]

  Around 3970, the Hiinds overthrew the Mufls. The Reverend Lukas established The Church of the Way Forward, and preached that marriage between alien species was unholy. [1255] In 3972, Sirius-One-Bee University Press published Albrecht’s Of Finders and Seekers - a users guide to being lost in time. [1256] Strantana was the site of an orbital mining facility that later became Station 7, where humans carried out experiments on Dalek artifacts. [1257]

  (=) Circa 3979, emaciated, grotesque beings named the Unnoticed had constructed a Tent City, made from invulnerable taffeta, on the photosphere of Earth’s sun and set about breeding a colony of human time sensitives there. Uncertain as to their origins, the Unnoticed used the time sensitives to keep watch for time distortion and time travellers - wary that contact with such phenomena could somehow avert their own creation. The human Carmodi Litian was born as one of the Unnoticed’s sensitives and served for fifteen years before being left for dead on the planet Porconine. She swore revenge against her former masters. [1258]

  The Varlon Empire tried to establish itself in the Sirius system, and fought a war with the Kith - a highly advanced spore-producing, sponge-like race (each of which had four progenitors) in the neighbouring system. Both sides were nearly wiped out before a treaty was signed at Pluvikerr-Hinton. The Varlon were made to apologise and pay compensation for the ruination of the Kith home system. [1259]

  ? 3980 - “Deathworld” [1260]

  An Ice Warrior mission to Yama 10 scouted for trisilicate until a Cyberman space-craft arrived to stake a rival claim. The Ice Warriors retreated to the polar areas and set a trap for the Cybermen, destroying them with rising water. As a last act of retaliation, the Cybermen buried the Ice Warriors in ice. The Martian commander, Yinak, remained conscious and waited patiently for the spring thaw.

  Carrington Corp built the leisure planet Micawber’s World between Pluto and Cassius around 3984. [1261]

  c 3985 - Legacy [1262]

  The Federation fought a number of wars to secure its position and to protect democratic regimes. GFTV-3 covered the main news stories of this era: atrocities on the Nematodian Border, the android warriors of Orion, slavery on Rigellon and Operation Galactic Storm. The Martian Star Fleet built the deep space cruiser Bruk, one of the largest vessels the galaxy had ever seen, and it helped enforce law throughout the galaxy.

  With its trisilicate mines exhausted, Peladon faced a choice between becoming a tourist resort or leaving the Federation altogether. The question remained unaddressed while Queen Thalira ruled, but she died in a space shuttle accident. Within four years of her death, her successor King Tarrol applied to leave the Federation, suggesting that Peladon ought to try and find its own solutions to its problems. His choice had perhaps been made easier by the carnage caused when an ancient weapon, the Pakhar Diadem, was tracked to his world. The Diadem was blasted out of space by the Bruk and went missing.

  Tarrol’s decision probably saved Peladon - had the planet
remained in the Federation, it would almost certainly have been targeted by the Daleks thirty years later during the Dalek War.

  3985 - Theatre of War [1263]

  The colony of Heletia was founded by a group of actors wanting to stage the greatest dramas of the universe. Society on Heletia was confined to one small area of their own planet, but nonetheless became an expansionist power and fought a war with the Rippeareans. The Heletians believed that only races with a sophisticated theatre were truly civilised. Following the death of their leader, the Exec, the Heletians sued for peace.

  By this point, Stanoff Osterling’s play The Good Soldiers had been lost. Bernice, while travelling with the seventh Doctor and Ace, first visited the Braxiatel Collection - and met its founder, Irving Braxiatel - at this time.

  Sara Kingdom was present when her brother Bret Vyon, age 18, received a commendation. [1264] The Daleks used time corridors to establish hibernation units on many planets such as Kar-Charrat. The Daleks would only activate when a time traveller entered range, and the Daleks hoped this gambit would help them gain access to the Kar-Charrat Library. [1265]

  Bret Vyon had been bred on Mars Colony 16, and joined the Space Security Service (SSS) in 3990. [1266] Earth forces recaptured Caridos from the Daleks in ‘94 and took Robomen prisoners. On one of the worlds the Daleks had ravaged and abandoned, human researchers found deactivated Mechanoids. [1267] The artificial star of Tír na n-Óg was due to run out of fuel around this time. [1268]

  c 3994 - The Daleks: “The Destroyers” [1269]

  The Daleks were the dominant form of life on Skaro, which was located in the eighth galaxy. They exterminated the crew of Explorer Base One, located on the giant meteorite M5, as the first phase of a gambit to destroy Earth and its colonies. Three Space Security Agents - Sara Kingdom, Jason Corey and the humanoid robot Mark Seven - attempted to rescue the sole survivor of the incident: David Kingdom, Sara’s brother. The Daleks escaped in a rocket with David as their captive...

  Mavic Chen would later read Mark Seven’s account of the incident. [1270] Bret Vyon attained First Rank in the SSS in 3995, and Second Rank in 3998. [1271]

  3999 (July) - Placebo Effect [1272]

  The eighth Doctor and Sam attended the wedding of his former companions Stacy Townsend and Ssard on Micawber’s World. Stacy and Ssard had settled in this timezone two years ago after leaving the Doctor. The Church of the Way Forward, who opposed interspecies weddings, crashed the ceremony but order was restored. Stacy and Ssard left to honeymoon on Kolpasha, the fashion capital of the Federation.

  Micawber’s World was hosting the Olympic Games, and scientist Miles Mason was secretly infecting athletes with Wirrn eggs disguised as performance enhancing drugs. The Wirrn hatched, and the Space Security Service was called in to contain the situation. The Doctor destroyed the Wirrn Queen, although one group of Wirrn escaped to Andromeda. The Olympic Games continued.

  Earth at this time had a Royal Family. King Garth had just died; Queen Bodicha was in mourning, but the rest of the world was glad to see the back of him. His heir was Prince Artemis, Duke of Auckland. Some humans on Earth, but few offworlders, followed the tenants of Christianity. There were 1362 races in the Federation’s database, but the Time Lords weren’t one of them. The Foamasi were members of the Federation.

  ? 3999 - Max Warp [1273]

  The Inter-G Cruiser Show was held at the Sirius Exhibition Station to showcase various spaceship models; it was hoped that the event would improve Varlon-Kith relations. Geoffrey Vantage - a war veteran, and now a presenter on the ten-year-old show Max Warp - had access to a computer virus developed late in the Varlon-Kith war, and planned to use it to make the Kith warfleet crash into one of Sirius’ moons. The eighth Doctor and Lucie stopped Vantage; the Kith Oligarchy pledged to make a massive investment in the Varlon, and President Varlon (sic) used the influx of funds to abolish income tax. Max Warp became a lot more banal without Vantage to host it.

  The planet Sirius Alpha had at least four moons. Varlon politicians used Spindroids to judge public opinion and help determine policy. Spaceships in this period included the new Kith Sunstorm, the Umbriel Slipstream (regarded by the Doctor as the sleekest, fastest spaceship ever constructed), the escape-pod-less Epsilon Nova 90, the Magellan Danube 4000, the Nebular Toscanini, the Umbriel Slipstream, the Freefall Sunstriker (which contained the same engine as the Moonstalk, but at a fraction of the cost), the Skythros Warpshock, the New Thorndon 90, and the antiquated Cobra Mark Three.

  Spaceship design now incorporated quark drives, hyperion boosters, gamma burst regulators, catalytic filtration systems, residual dampeners, gravitic thrust converters, plasma outfits, tractor beams, hydrogen fuel filtration converters and a-line converters.

  The eighth Doctor, Fitz and Compassion tried to find a way into the Obverse in the Wandering Museum of the Verifiably Phantasmagoric, also known as the Museum of Things That Don’t Exist. [1274]

  The Daleks’ Master Plan

  3999 - The Guardian of the Solar System [1275]

  The first Doctor, Steven and Sara found themselves in 3999 - a year before they first met - at the giant clock that enabled humanity to travel through hyperspace. Sara’s younger self was currently on Venus, part of a six-month posting. Mavic Chen continued to pursue a number of alternatives to the clock, hoping it could be slowly wound down without Earth going into decline. Chen was impressed upon meeting Sara, and - not comprehending that she was from the future - promoted her contemporary self to be part of his senior staff on Earth.

  The clock ensnared the Doctor and Steven’s minds into its network, and threatened to do the same to Sara - who realised that she was historically destined to wreck it. She reached out with her mind and brought the clock crashing down, enabling the travellers to escape...

  The loss of the clock imperilled Earth’s security so much that Chen allied himself with the Daleks. In exchange for the taranium that he possessed, the Daleks would make him ruler of the entire galaxy. The Daleks recruited Zephon to their Master Plan, and he secured the support of the rulers of two further galaxies, Celation and Beaus. The conspiracy also included Trantis, Master of the Tenth galaxy (the largest of the Outer Galaxies), Gearon, Malpha, Sentreal and Warrien. [1276]

  c 4000 - Mission to the Unknown [1277]

  “This is Marc Cory, Special Security Agent, reporting from the planet Kembel. The Daleks are planning the complete destruction of our galaxy together with powers of the Outer Galaxies. A war party is being assemb---”

  In the year 4000, Chen attended an Intergalactic Conference in Andromeda. The Outer Galaxies and the Daleks held a council at the same time, sending Trantis to Andromeda to allay suspicion. The Space Security Service (SSS) and the UN Deep Space Force had been monitoring Dalek activity for five hundred years.

  On the planet Kembel, SSS agent Marc Cory learned that the Daleks and their allies were preparing for conquest. Cory was exterminated, but not before recording a warning.

  4000 - The Daleks’ Master Plan [1278]

  Shortly after concluding a mineral agreement with the Fourth galaxy, Mavic Chen left Earth for a short holiday, or so he told the news service Channel 403. In reality, his Spar 740 spaceship headed through ultraspace to Kembel, the Daleks’ secret base. There, he met the delegates from the Outer Galaxies for the first time, and presented the Daleks with a full emm of taranium - enough to power their Time Destructor, a device capable of accelerating time.

  Space Security Agents were sent to investigate the disappearance of Marc Cory. One of them, Bret Vyon, allied with the first Doctor, Steven and Katarina. They stole the taranium and absconded with Chen’s ship, which was diverted to the convict planet Desperus. The group escaped, but a convict smuggled himself aboard the Spar and took Katarina hostage. To end the standoff, she blew both of them out of an airlock.

  The Doctor, Steven and Vyon reached Central City on Earth, where Vyon was killed by Sara Kingdom - his sister and a fellow SSS agent, who believed him a traitor. Pursu
ed, the Doctor and Steven broke into a research facility. They were transported with Sara across the galaxy, via an experimental teleportation system, to the planet Mira - the home of invisible monsters named the Visians. Sara came to side with the Doctor against Chen, and the group returned to the Daleks’ base on Kembel. They fled through time and space in the TARDIS, with the Daleks in pursuit.

  Chen was ready to doublecross the Daleks, and had special forces on Venus ready to occupy Kembel. Eventually, the Daleks re-captured the taranium, and they exterminated their allies - including Chen - in readiness for universal domination. They had assembled the “greatest war force ever assembled”, including an assault division of five thousand Daleks to invade Earth’s solar system. The Doctor activated the Daleks’ Time Destructor, which destroyed their army and transformed the surface of Kembel from lush jungle to barren desert in seconds. Sara helped the Doctor and was aged to death. The universe was safe once more.

  Earth was under totalitarian rule. Humans were “bred”, and told not to question orders. Christmas was not celebrated or even remembered.

  The expression “never turn your back on a dead Dalek” came into use among humans. [1279] In the forty-first century, mankind developed vegetable life that resembled humans - Bio-Organic Plasmatoid Creations, a.k.a. Biogrowers - and used them as servants. Biogrowers lived for a hundred years, but were brain dead after fifty. The braindead Biogrowers were dumped on the planet hospital Bedlam, which was patterned after the original sanatorium. [1280]