B00DPX9ST8 EBOK

by Parkin, Lance

  Eleven years later, the Crystal Bucephalus was destroyed. Arrestis was revealled as Lazarus and escaped in a time gate, only to arrive back on Sontara moments before his execution.

  About a hundred years after the Crystal Bucephalus ended, humanity was again fragmented by civil war. The Union swiftly evolved into the Concordance, then the Confederation, then the Junta - a totalitarian regime that stemmed from the Elective. This instigated a millennium of barbarism. [1554]

  c 11,000 - Synthespians™ [1555]

  A fleet of ark ships fled the galactic civil war and passed through an area known as the Great Barrier. Cut off from the rest of the galaxy, the colonists found themselves in an area rich with natural resources. The New Earth Republic was founded, and included such planets as Bel Terra, New Alaska, New California, New Regency, Paxas and Tranicula in the Thomas Exultation (which was noted for its vineyards).

  A hundred years later, the Republic was peaceful but boring. A business consortium failed in its bid to restore contact with the rest of the galaxy, but managed to pick up old TV broadcasts from twentieth-century Earth. These proved extremely popular and Reef Station One was built to produce new shows such as As the Worlds Turn, Dreams of Tomorrow, Executive Desires, The Rep, Star Traveller: The Motion Picture, ReefEnders, Liberation Street, Confessions of a Monoid and This Evening With Phil and Bev. The people of the Republic become obsessed with television.

  A Time Lord force of War-TARDISes launched an attack against the Nestene home planet of Polymos. The mission was commanded by Lord Vansell, and destroyed swarms of energy units. The Nestene Consciousness attempted to relocate to the New Earth Republic. Plastic automata named Synthespians - in reality Autons - had been freely used to perform manual labour in the Republic, and those aboard Reef Station One instigated a slaughter. The sixth Doctor and Peri defeated the Nestene Consciousness and its Autons. The Consciousness was trapped in a plastic Replica body, forced to again and again act out the last episode of Executive Desires.

  The Junta attempted to invade the New Earth republic several centuries after the Auton incident, but was repelled. The New Earth Republic began intergalactic colonization efforts, sending sleeper ships to the Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte galaxy and Andromeda. [1556] A resurgent Confederation finally overthrew the Junta. [1557]

  The Earth became habitable again. Humanity didn’t recolonise its homeworld. [1558] The human colonists who had arrived on an unnamed planet as the Sol Three and Terraforming groups renamed themselves the “Soul Free” and the “Terror Farmers”. They fought each other for ten thousand years. [1559] Cyberblind released their DTM Machina ex Machina in 11,265. [1560] The year 12,005 was the time of the New Roman Empire. [1561]

  ? 15,000 - City at World’s End [1562]

  An asteroid hit the moon of Sarath, changing its orbit so that it was now on a collision course with the planet. Ten years later, the first Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan found that preparations to build a rocket to evacuate the planet for the nearby Mirath were nearly complete. However, the Sarath leaders, based in the capital city of Arkhaven, had realised that the rocket ship could never fly and were only planning to save five hundred members of the elite.

  Most of the population had been killed in a recent war and replaced by androids. This was a plot on the part of Monitor, the central computer in Arkhaven, to save itself before the planet’s destruction. Monitor was destroyed, and the Doctor and Susan increased the capacity of the true escape rocket to save those they could.

  w - The first land battle of the War in Heaven between the Time Lords and the Enemy was fought on Dronid in the 160th century. It lasted a day, and was utterly devastating. The Time Lords used clockwork bacteria as a weapon. The Time Lords’ attempts to cover their tracks after the battle wreaked almost as much harm as the battle itself, and became known by the inhabitants as the Cataclysm. The Doctor was thought to have been killed on Dronid, and the Relic, said to be his body, was recovered there in 15,414. A misguided Faction Paradox member, Cousin Sanjira, cast the Relic into the Time Vortex and it arrived in the twenty-second century. The Faction made Sanjira murder his younger self as punishment. [1563]

  Return to Earth

  c 16,000 - The Ark in Space [1564]

  The fourth Doctor, Sarah Jane and Harry arrived on Nerva and helped some of the colonists there to awaken. The Wirrn had infested the Ark, and sought to absorb the humans’ knowledge. The Wirrn were killed, and humanity prepared to reoccupy their homeworld. They intended to restock the planet with plant and animal life and to rebuild human civilisation.

  Before their defeat, the Wirrn seeded their DNA into various insect species in Nerva’s gene bank. [1565]

  & c 16,000 - The Sontaran Experiment [1566]

  Field Major Styre of Sontaran G3 Intelligence conducted a Military Assessment Survey on Earth, which had acquired strategic value in the Sontarans’ war with the accursed Rutans, and was believed devoid of intelligent life. Styre conducted experiments on Galsec colonists that he lured to Earth, but the fourth Doctor and Harry, accompanied by Sarah Jane, killed him.

  The Sontarans posthumously published Styre’s manual on human resistance to torture. [1567]

  & c 16,000 - The Eye of the Tiger [1568]

  Just after the people aboard Nerva had begun to resettle the Earth, a feline race arrived and helped the reconstruction efforts. Soon, though, some humans turned against the aliens, who left with ten thousand humans to find a new home. They were lured to settle on planets within a black hole by the avatars of their descendants, the Conservers, who existed in the black hole billions of years in the future.

  & 16,100 - Wirrn: Race Memory [1569]

  Fifty years after the Nerva sleepers revived, the station’s solar stacks failed, and it was abandoned. Another half-century on, the remaining humans from Nerva and their descendents worked to restore Earth’s ecology by using gene spoolers to re-create various animal species. Cherries had been cultured, but weren’t yet approved for gene spooling. The Wirrn DNA hidden in Nerva’s gene bank caused the spoolers to generate some mature Wirrn, and although these were killed, the Wirrn DNA persisted in at least two people. It was suspected that the Wirrn had absorbed so much non-Wirrn material, any new Wirrn offspring would be born as humans.

  The Dalek War against Venus in Space Year 17,000 was halted by the intervention of a fleet of war rockets from the planet Hyperon. The rockets were made of a metal completely resistant to Dalek firepower. The Dalek task force was completely destroyed. [1570]

  c 17,150 - The Time of Angels [1571]

  The Delerium Archive was the biggest museum ever and the final resting place of the Headless Monks. The eleventh Doctor found artifacts there relating to himself, and also a message from River Song carved into the Home Box of the Byzantium: “Hello, Sweetie”, along with a series of time-space coordinates. He and Amy went to the Byzantium, in the past, as instructed.

  The Far Future

  In the far future, humanity’s influence was felt in other galaxies such as Andromeda, Acteon, Isop, Artoro and the Anterides. [1572] The Daleks were the greatest threat in the universe ... until one day, when they just vanished. Eventually they became mere legends. Unknown to humanity, they had left to fight the Last Great Time War with the Time Lords, a conflict that all but wiped out both races. [1573]

  The Gods of Light conducted experiments on Vortis. They replaced the core with a propulsion system, and kidnapped the Menoptra from their home planet. [1574]

  The Aapex Corporation, based on Mina Fourteen, started a genetics experiment on the planet Nooma to further terraforming and bioengineering on low-gravity planets. Nooma’s sun was an Aapex spaceship, and the planet’s artificial “Sky” - actually a sentient being programmed to regulate Nooma’s biosphere - formed a protective shell around the planet.

  Biology on Nooma became such that humanoids developed in the forest as carnivorous children, but mature males would fight to the death. The winners underwent genetic “promotion”, which entailed their gr
owing wings and joining the flying “naieen”, but the losers would reanimate as infertile cadavers named the Dead. The naieen would mate, causing their seed to fall on the forest and bud new children. [1575]

  ? 18,000 - Heroes of Sontar [1576]

  The Sontaran Empire now had seven “great” clans of distinction, each of which was cloned from one of the Sontarans’ greatest warriors. Three Sontarans were required for a formal execution party. Under Standing Order 447-subsidiary clause two, mockery of a Sontaran officer was an act of war. The Sontarans regarded Terra as a Class-C civilisation. The Fifteenth Treaty - whether or not the Sontarans recognised it - exempted non-combatants in a war zone from martial jurisdiction. Sontarans could commit honourable suicide by ingesting coronic acid pills.

  In this era, people all across the “middle galaxies” came to the planet Samur to find sanctuary and solace - especially at its Citadel, which stretched all the way around Samur’s equator. Ten local years after the Doctor visited the Citadel, the Sontarans tried to oppress Samur and ran into heavy resistance from amorphic space-mercenaries, the Witch Guards. The Sontaran Stabb detonated one hundred twenty canisters of biological agent Zed-Oblique-Stroke-Zero-Zero-Two in Samur’s troposphere, which transformed the planet’s inhabitants into an invasive purple moss. Such was the honour to follow, Stabb became Field Marshall Stabb, the Unvanquished Supreme Commander of the Ninth Sontaran Space Fleet.

  Stabb was used as the template for one million Sontaran clones, but a Witch Guard corrupted Stabb’s DNA, so the clones had subtle defects. This marked a turning point for the Sontaran Empire - after the victory at Samur, Sontaran forces increasingly had to pull back from Rutan space and consolidate within the Madillon Cluster.

  Twenty local years after the Sontarans devastated Samur, the fifth Doctor, Tegan, Nyssa and Turlough were present as the Witch Guards perished while trying to usurp the cloning vats on the Sontaran homeworld and create an army of themselves. A rain composed of embryonic Sontarans washed over Samur, eliminating the moss and reviving the planet’s ecosystem.

  c 18,000 - Plague of the Daleks [1577]

  The Lucerians were a scholarly, non-aggressive purple-coloured race with tentacles. They re-absorbed their dead, and displayed bioluminescence in their mating rituals. Humans inhabited Satellite 16 in the Hammer Nebula; working ninety hours a week was permitted there, and there were queues for health care. The WN5 filtration booster was obsolete, replaced by the WN9 in deep-space communication systems.

  The Daleks learned of the Doctor’s fondness for the village of Stockbridge, and laid a trap for him by preserving it beneath an environmental dome - it was one of only three sites given such treatment in Earth’s Northern Hemisphere. Tourists would visit Stockbridge, and what villagers remained were Nth-generation clones, the products of a degrading gene pool.

  The fifth Doctor and Nyssa surfaced in this era owing to a collapsing time bubble in the twenty-first century, retrieved the TARDIS from a Dalek stasis vault, and prevented the Daleks from using the Ship to gain mastery of space-time. They departed as one of the Daleks’ thralls nullified the environmental dome, destroying Stockbridge and all within.

  Around 18,500, Earth was abandoned once again. [1578] The Aapex Corporation went bankrupt. Nooma was abandoned to its own fate. [1579]

  ? 20,000 - The Web Planet [1580]

  The planet Vortis in the Isop galaxy was the home of the moth-like Menoptra, who worshipped in glorious temples of light and lived in the flower forests. They kept an ant-like race, the Zarbi, as cattle. The planet was invaded by the Animus, an entity that could absorb all forms of energy, and which pulled three planetoids - including Pictos - into orbit around Vortis. Most of the Menoptra fled to Pictos, but the descendants of those that stayed behind slowly devolved into sightless dwarfs, the Optera. The Animus used the Zarbi as soldiers, and had dreams of galactic conquest until the first Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Vicki arrived. The Animus was destroyed by the Isop-tope, a Menoptra weapon.

  New Rhumos broke away from Rhumos Prime, which marked the beginning of a lengthy conflict. [1581]

  c 20,192 - Twilight of the Gods [1582]

  After the Animus’ defeat, Vortis wandered into the Rhumos system. Two Rhumon factions, the Imperials and the Republicans, fought for control of the planet. The second Doctor, Jamie and Victoria arrived a year later, just as a seed of the Animus emerged. The Doctor brought the Rhumons and Menoptera together to destroy the new Animus. The Gods of Light who had engineered Vortis agreed to stop interfering in its affairs, and it was hoped that Vortis could peacefully co-exist with its Rhumon neighbours.

  ? - “The Naked Flame” [1583]

  The fourth Doctor and Sarah landed on Vortis, where a glowing crystal was attracting Menoptra to their deaths. The Doctor shattered it with his sonic screwdriver.

  c 20,592 - Return to the Web Planet [1584]

  Humanity developed a synthetic means of propagating itself throughout space that was more efficient than colonisation or invasion; “seed ships”, each carrying two “gene-synthetics” - a male and a female - were dispatched to barren worlds where humanity couldn’t thrive. Upon arrival, the gene-synthetics would adapt to the local conditions, then merge into a large cocoon from which hundreds of offspring - humans biologically adapted to the environment - would emerge.

  One seed ship was drawn to Vortis by a “lode-seed” - a powerful gravitational attractor that both nourished the land and helped the Zarbi navigate during migrations. The female gene-synthetic, named Xanthe, became telepathically integrated into the Zarbi hive mind. The fifth Doctor and Nyssa were present when Xanthe merged with her mate, Yanesh, and it was expected that their offspring would live in peace with the Zarbi.

  Carbon-dating suggested that The Worshipful and Ancient Law of Gallifrey was written circa 22,000 AD. [1585]

  c 21,906 - “Final Sacrifice” [1586]

  Robert Lewis and Eliza Cooper of Torchwood, along with Alexander Hugh and Annabella Primavera, arrived from 1906 and met the tenth Doctor and Emily on an alien planet. The war between the Soul Free and the Terror Farmers had reduced a population of hundreds of thousands to just a few thousand. The Doctor deduced that the Terror Farmers would win the conflict and become known as the Terranites - and later his adversaries, the Terronites.

  The Advocate arrived with Matthew Finnegan, who as a twentieth century-born human could activate the planet’s terraforming satellite. This would have killed everyone present. Matthew turned on the Advocate and deactivated the satellite by electrocuting them both. The Advocate died, which released the millennia of fifth-dimensional power within her. The energy turned Matthew into the Tef’Aree: an immortal, five-dimensional being. The Tef’Aree manipulated events throughout time to engineer its own creation from Matthew’s sacrifice.

  Lewis and Primavera were killed during these events. Cooper stayed to help the surviving humans rebuild their world. The Doctor took Emily and Hugh back to 1906.

  c 22,000 - Birthright [1587]

  For three thousand four hundred and ninety-seven years, the insect-like Charrl had occupied the planet Anthykhon, which was far from the major space lanes. Their vast hive pumped ammonia into the already-depleted atmosphere, the planet’s ozone layer had been depleted, the seas had dried up, and the soil was barren. The native life, the Hairies, survived by adapting to this environment.

  The Charrl were not savages - indeed, they had created over three hundred of the six hundred and ninety-nine wonders of the universe - before coming to this world to escape solar flares on their own planet. The Charrls made contact with Muldwych, a mysterious time-traveller exiled to Anthykhon at this time, and together they attempted to traverse the Great Divide back into the past on Earth. Muldwych came to regret his association with the Charrls and foiled their plans. He remained on Anthykhon in exile.

  Anthykhon was Earth during one of the several periods when the planet was isolated and forgotten.

  c 22,000 - Speed of Flight [1588]

  The third Doc
tor, Jo and Mike Yates landed on Nooma. The Dead assaulted the planet’s artificial sun, working on preprogrammed instructions to seek a means of terminating the Nooma experiment to protect Aapex’s trade secrets. The Doctor tapped the sun’s databanks and found a message from Aapex granting the citizens of Nooma independence, restoring social order on the planet.

  The shafts of the Great Pyramid would align with the constellation of Orion around 23,000. [1589] The Terranites eventually became the Terronites, and the Tef’Aree enabled one Terronite - Leo Miller - to travel to Earth in 1926. [1590]

  ? - The Face of Evil [1591]

  A Mordee colony ship landed on an unnamed world and developed a computer failure. The fourth Doctor helped their descendants by linking the computer to his own mind, but he neglected to remove his personality print from the data core. As a result, the computer became schizophrenic.

  Centuries later, the colonists worshipped the computer as Xoanon. It had split them into two groups: the Sevateem (the savage descendants of Survey Team Six); and the Tesh (formerly the technicians, to whom Xoanon granted psychic powers). Xoanon was thus attempting to breed superhumans, but the fourth Doctor returned and made a reverse transfer, curing the computer’s multiple personality disorder. Leela, a warrior of the Sevateem, left with the Doctor.