B00DPX9ST8 EBOK

by Parkin, Lance

  Consulting the Bench of Matrocians, Quences - the head of the Lungbarrow household - learned that the Doctor would be a huge influence on the future of Gallifrey. He wanted the Doctor to become a Cardinal. The Doctor stormed out of his family home after an argument with Quences about the Doctor’s future prospects. With the Doctor no longer regarded as a member of the family, a replacement - Owis - was Loomed to maintain the family quota. However, this was illegal and the House was ostracised from Gallifreyan affairs. The Doctor’s Cousins were trapped in the House.

  The Doctor left an experiment with water-sligs running. A hundred and thirty years, later they broke out.

  Quences was the 422nd Kithriarch of Lungbarrow.

  The Doctor decided to steal a TARDIS and leave Gallifrey. The Hand of Omega recognised the Doctor was linked to the Other. When the Doctor left Gallifrey, the Hand redirected him to Gallifrey’s ancient past.

  Account Three: [372]

  The Doctor lived sealed inside a city, on a planet hidden behind energy barricades. He finally left his people so he could experience the universe’s wonders, to see its majesty, firsthand. He didn’t leave for Susan’s sake - she was an “accidental passenger, a hanger on”. The Doctor looked old, but was just an adolescent as far as his people went; Susan, comparatively speaking, was just a baby. The TARDIS navigation system wasn’t broken as was sometimes claimed - the Doctor had yet to forge a “mystical” bond with his TARDIS, which the legends of his people said was possible.

  Account Four: [373]

  The president of Gallifrey, Pandak VII, issued a kill order on Braxiatel - but Braxiatel killed Lord Burner, the president’s assassin, in self-defence. Braxiatel was appointed Lord Burner as punishment, and given a “burn order” for a member of his family - an old man - as a test of loyalty. The old man was tipped off by Braxiatel as to the danger, stole a TARDIS and left Gallifrey with his granddaughter. Pandak VII died the very same day, owing to a power relay overload... that an inquiry led by Braxiatel determined was an accident. Braxiatel and the old man were the only two Time Lords to ever survive a burn order.

  The Doctor might have left of his own free will, because he was “bored” or had “grown tired of their lifestyle”. He renounced the society of Time Lords. He abandoned his Prydonian birthright. [374] But he has also stated he was “kicked out” and was “on the run”. [375] The Doctor “ran away” from Gallifrey. [376]

  The Doctor was an “exile”, unable to return home. [377] He “had reasons of his own” for leaving his home planet. [378] The second Doctor told Victoria that he might try to take her to his planet. [379]

  He left Gallifrey because of the corruption rife in Time Lord politics. [380] The Doctor travelled to see history happen in front of him. [381] He saw himself as an explorer and researcher. [382] After discovering “the mysteries of the skies”, he could return home. [383]

  The following image appears early in the Doctor’s memory: “Here was a cowled figure shaking a fist at a dark castle, and in the next picture he was cowering from something huge and fearful. Then he was running.” [384]

  The Doctor claims to have borrowed rather than stolen the TARDIS. [385] The Doctor stole the TARDIS - or he borrowed it, he always intended to return it. [386] He fully intended to return it. [387] He wasn’t authorised to take it. [388] Nor did he own the Ship. [389] He stole the TARDIS. [390] The Doctor technically nicked the TARDIS, but in truth the TARDIS wanted to see the universe as much as he did. [391]

  There were “pressing reasons” why he couldn’t wait for the Ship’s chameleon circuit to be fixed. [392] If he stopped to consider his actions, he’d never have left Gallifrey. [393]

  The Doctor’s TARDIS was already a museum piece when he was young. The first time the Doctor touched the TARDIS console, he said aloud that she was “the most beautiful thing he had ever known”. The Doctor chose the TARDIS because her door was open - the Ship wanted to see the universe, and so “stole” a Time Lord and ran away. Only the Doctor was “mad” enough to yield to the temptation the Ship offered.

  By the time the Doctor was in his eleventh incarnation, he and the TARDIS had been travelling together for seven hundred years. [394]

  The TARDIS was a family heirloom. [395] The TARDIS had been taken from Marnal by Ulysses. Marnal’s son knew the truth about the Doctor’s departure, and told his father what had happened afterwards. [396] The Doctor chose not to take a Type 53 TARDIS. [397]

  The authorities thought of him as arrogant. [398] In addition to the TARDIS, the Doctor took the Hand of Omega, the Validium statue and his granddaughter Susan. [399]

  The Doctor and Susan left home “ages” before they met Ian and Barbara. [400] Possibly more than fifty years. [401]

  (=) If the Doctor had never left Gallifrey, he would have become President, but spent his time appeasing the Daleks. The Earth would have been invaded dozens of times.

  Benny Summerfield witnessed the Doctor and Susan leaving Gallifrey. [402] During a timeslip, the Doctor would later re-enact the time he activated the TARDIS. [403]

  Many other Time Lords were known to have left Gallifrey in the Doctor’s lifetime: Azmael left Gallifrey to become Master of Jaconda. The Rani was exiled following illegal experiments on animals, including an incident where genetically re-engineered mice that she had created ate the President’s cat and attacked the President himself. She became ruler of Miasimia Goria. The Doctor’s mentor left Gallifrey for Earth and became known as K’Anpo. [404] At some point, the Doctor knew the Corsair - a Time Lord adventurer who had a snake tattoo in every regeneration, including the couple of times that he was female. [405]

  Rummas was taught by Delox and Borusa. He left Gallifrey in a stolen TARDIS to build up a collection, mainly of books. He took the Spiral Chamber - a portal to the Spiral at the nexus of the Time Vortex - and settled at the Library of Carsus. [406]

  The Doctor left before the Monk, the War Chief and probably before the Master. [407]

  Braxiatel spent twenty years arranging the Armageddon Convention. He would eventually dedicate himself to building the Braxiatel Collection, a repository of universal knowledge and art. Braxiatel collected every book banned by the Catholic Church. Unlike the Doctor, he freely left Gallifrey. [408]

  The Morbius Crisis

  The Cult of Morbius was formed in 5725.3, Rassilon Era. [409]

  Morbius, the leader of the High Council, proposed that the Time Lords should end their policy of non-interference. When the High Council rejected this, he left Gallifrey and raised an army of conquest, promising them immortality. Devastating several planets on the way, the Cult of Morbius arrived on Karn, home of the Sisterhood. The Time Lords attacked them on Karn, destroying his army. Following a trial, Morbius was vaporised. Solon had removed Morbius’ brain before his execution and preserved it. [410]

  Warmonger [411]

  Morbius was deposed by Saran, who became Acting President in his place. Junior Cardinal Borusa assisted Saran. Morbius was exiled from Gallifrey. Adopting the identity “General Rombusi”, he raised an army of mercenaries using stolen Celestial Intervention Agency funds. These armies came from Darkeen, Fangoria, Martak and Romark. They conquered, among many other worlds, Tanith and the Ogron homeworld. Freedonia joined the General, and conquered nearby Sylvana. The General met the surgeon Solon, who pledged to build an army for him from patched-together corpses.

  The fifth Doctor encountered Morbius and travelled to Gallifrey, where he convinced Acting President Saran to act. The Doctor took charge of a large Alliance - an army that included the Draconians, Sontarans, Ice Warriors, Cybermen and Ogrons - and defeated Morbius’ forces.

  The Order of the Weal, the Homeworld’s first counter-intelligence organisation, was dedicated to the “common-weal” (i.e. common-good) and in operation at this time. It helped to expose the Imperator’s abuses of power, accelerating his downfall. [412] One of Morbius’ followers would acquire his presidential robes. [413]

  Acting President Saran was almost c
ertainly never elected President. [414]

  The Time Lords had thrived on their status quo for ages, but the Morbius’ rise and fall disrupted their culture to such a degree, some change seemed inevitable. Nonetheless, the announcement by one of their number, later known as Grandfather Paradox, of the formation of a new bloodline - that of House Paradox - seemed immeasurably tasteless, especially as the very name seemed an affront to the Time Lords’ governing Protocols. [415]

  Seven years after the formation of House Paradox, its members established the Eleven-Day Empire. It would serve as a “bolt-hole and reliquary” for the followers of Grandfather Paradox for years to come. [416]

  Greyjan the Sane dabbled with the idea of time paradoxes. His three-year reign was the shortest in Gallifreyan history, and coincided with the relative Earth dates that saw the creation of the Eleven-Day Empire. [417] Four years after the Empire’s founding, the Time Lords cracked down on threats to their hierarchy and imprisoned Grandfather Paradox, supposedly in perpetuity. [418]

  The leader of the Order of the Weal, Chatelaine Thessalia, foresaw the oncoming War in Heaven and became intent on learning more about the future Enemy of the Great Houses. Her interrogation of a babel - a sentient weapon engineered to protect the Homeworld against physical and language-viral attacks - that had gone rogue and wiped out House Catherion ended in a Violent Unknown Event on the planet Zo La Domini. Thessalia was reported missing, and the Order crumbled without her. In actuality, the wounded babel hid itself in the timeline of Isaac Newton, and Thessalia was flung through time to seventeenth century Earth. [419]

  The Dark Path

  Two hundred years after the second Doctor last saw Koschei, they met on the Earth colony of Darkheart in the thirty-fourth century. Koschei wanted an ordered universe, but his methods had become increasingly questionable. He felt betrayed upon realising that his dear companion Ailla was a Time Lord spy, and came into conflict with the Doctor also, which kept him emotionally isolated. Koschei became obsessed with the power of the Darkheart and declared himself the Master.

  The Master has had many enemies, and always misses them when they are gone. [420]

  The Doctor’s First Trial / Increasing Intervention [421]

  The War Games / Spearhead from Space

  In the aftermath of defeating the War Lords, the second Doctor faced a Malfeasance Tribunal. The Time Lords found the Doctor guilty of interfering in history, and exiled him to twentieth-century Earth, changing his appearance. The Tribunal continued to monitor him. [422]

  A Gallifreyan protocol dictated that before entering a period of exile, a Time Lord was required to regenerate. [423] At the time of the second Doctor’s trial, the current model of TARDIS was the Type 97, and psychic paper had just been invented. House Dellatrovella was politically powerful and ambitious. [424]

  World Game

  The Time Lords covered up the true end of the Doctor’s trial. He was secretly recruited to the Celestial Intervention Agency by its leader, Sardon, to investigate time disturbances on Earth, given a companion (Serena) and a new TARDIS. Serena was killed on that mission. On his return, the second Doctor was visibly older, with grey hair and in new clothes. It was noted that he “took his time getting back”, and he insisted on reclaiming his old TARDIS.

  The second Doctor, accompanied by Jamie, was sent to space station Chimera to call a halt to the time travel experiments of Kartz and Reimer. [425]

  Eventually, the Doctor’s sentence was reinstated. He regenerated and was exiled to twentieth-century Earth...

  The Doctor’s Exile to Earth

  Terror of the Autons

  Around this time, the Master removed Time Lord files containing information about the Doomsday Weapon and the Sea Devils. The Time Lords sent a messenger to warn the third Doctor about the Master’s imminent arrival on Earth. [426]

  The Master stole the plans for the Doomsday Weapon on 5892.9, Rassilon Era. [427] He also learned of the Psychic Parasites of Bellerophon; the Doomsday Weapon; Azal of the Daemons; the Earth Reptiles; the Crystal of Kronos; the Dalek army on Spiridon; the Source on Traken; the Cheetah people; the Midnight Cathedral; the GodEngine on Mars; the deathworm; the frozen gods of Volvox, the Amentethys, the Proculus and the Scerbulus; and the secrets of the planet Kirbili. [428]

  Colony in Space / The Curse of Peladon / The Mutants

  The Time Lords sent the exiled third Doctor on various missions to other planets and times. These were always crucial points of galactic history, with implications for the entire universe. The Doctor was sent to Uxarieus to prevent the Doomsday Weapon from falling into the hands of the Master; to Peladon to ease the passage of that planet into the Galactic Federation and to prevent galactic war; and to Solos, where the Doctor delivered a message to Ky, the leader of the Solonian independence movement, that allowed him to fulfill his race’s evolutionary potential.

  The Three Doctors

  A black hole suddenly drained the cosmic energy of the Time Lords. Unable to power their machinery, the Time Lords called on the third Doctor for help. They brought two of his previous incarnations into the present to try and counteract whatever was draining the power.

  The second and third Doctors travelled into the black hole and arrived in a universe of anti-matter. They discovered that Omega lived, maintaining an entire world with his mental control of a singularity. Omega resented the Time Lords, feeling they had abandoned him. He couldn’t leave his domain without it ceasing to exist before he departed, and needed the Doctors’ help to leave. But the Doctor learnt that Omega’s body had long been destroyed, and that only his will remained. It would be impossible for him to return to the universe of matter.

  The Doctors tricked their way back to their TARDIS, apparently destroying Omega in a matter/anti-matter explosion. The power drain ended, and the Time Lords had a new source of energy. In gratitude, the Time Lords lifted the Doctor’s exile.

  For some time after this, the Time Lords would “occasionally” call upon the Doctor’s services. [429]

  Planet of the Daleks

  At the third Doctor’s request, the Time Lords piloted the TARDIS to Spiridon, the location of a Dalek army.

  Romana

  Romana was born when the Doctor was between six hundred and six hundred twenty five. [430] She was from the House of Heartshaven. [431]

  She was an only child, as her brother Rorvan had been consigned to the Oubliette of Eternity and erased from history. [432] She read Our Planet’s Story as a Time Tot. [433] Romana’s disapproving father once told her, “You know you’re getting old when the High Council seemed to be getting younger.” [434]

  Braxiatel served as Romana’s tutor. One day, Romana wanted to escape the bullying of her fellow students and wandered into the ancient vaults beneath the Capitol. She came into contact with the lingering spirit of the Imperiatrix Pandora - who had manipulated Romana’s genetic heritage so her body could host Pandora’s spirit. Braxiatel prevented this by having one of his future selves - who was more adept at hypnotism - erase Romana’s memory of the encounter. Romana also forgot that Braxiatel had ever mentored her. Romana believed that she met Braxiatel for the first time after her return to Gallifrey, when he offered to help with her political campaign. [435]

  Romana spent most of her spare time at the academy developing mental and physical discipline, and learned the Seven Strictures of Rassilon, as well as the Foxtrots of Rassilon. [436] As part of her studies, Romana studied the lifecycle of the Gallifreyan Flutterwing and she eventually graduated from the Academy with a Triple First. [437] Romana was an historian and worked in the Bureau of Ancient Records. [438] She was a Prydonian. [439] When she was sixty, she went to Lake Abydos on holiday with her family. [440] For her seventieth birthday, she was given an air-car. [441]

  The Time Vampire

  The Time Lords asked the third Doctor and Joshua Douglas to intervene when the Z’nai acquired a primitive time capsule. Time travellers who crossed weak points in space-time in a paradoxical fa
shion sometimes created “time vampires”: exquisite wraiths who only wanted to observe the beauty of time through the eyes of their hosts. The Time Lords deemed the creatures as abominations who could “ride the tides of time” and, potentially, use their power to wipe out creation. The Time Lords created temporal suspension cages to restrain such creatures, although Gallifrey’s official policy was that the capture of such creatures was a crime, and such cages were outlawed.

  Genesis of the Daleks

  The Time Lords predicted a time when the Daleks would dominate the universe, and sent the fourth Doctor, Sarah and Harry to prevent the Daleks’ creation (or at least slow their development).

  Lord Ferain was head of Allegiance at the Celestial Intervention Agency, and it was he who sent the Doctor to Skaro to prevent the Daleks’ creation. [442]

  The Brain of Morbius

  The Time Lords also apparently sent the TARDIS, with the fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane aboard, to Karn to prevent the resurrection of Morbius.

  Chancellor Goth visited Tersurus on 6241.11, Rassilon Era. [443]

  Faction Paradox

  House Paradox re-defined itself as Faction Paradox during a time of cultural crisis on Gallifrey. The Time Lords officially outlawed and exiled House Paradox, whose representatives left Gallifrey and recruited the Faction’s members from the lesser species, including humanity. [444]

  The Faction set out to be deliberately confrontational. Whereas the Time Lords abhorred time paradoxes, Faction Paradox revelled in them. The Time Lords were immortal, so much of the Faction’s iconography - like their skull masks - celebrated death. The Time Lords thought themselves sterile, so the Faction used familial titles such as “Father”, “Mother”, “Cousin” and “Little Brothers and Sisters”. The relationship between the Time Lord authorities and Faction Paradox was analogous to that of the Catholic Church and satanic cults on Earth. [445]