B00DPX9ST8 EBOK

by Parkin, Lance

  When the truth about Ravolox was revealled, popular unrest deposed the High Council. Both the Master and Valeyard moved to take advantage of the situation: the Master planned to take control of Gallifrey, even as the Valeyard attempted to assassinate senior members of the Time Lord hierarchy. Both failed. The Master was trapped by the Limbo Atrophier, a booby trap placed on the Matrix files. The Valeyard was believed destroyed by his own particle disseminator, but he somehow survived. When last seen, he had assumed the guise of the Keeper of the Matrix.

  The Doctor suggested that once order was restored, the Inquisitor should run for President.

  A secret faction of Time Lords had authorised Peri’s assassination, fearing the damaging testimony she might deliver at the sixth Doctor’s trial. A splinter group of that faction, fearing reprisals from the Doctor, revised history so Peri instead became Yrcanos’ queen. The incoming Gallifreyan president, upon reviewing the Trial, authorised use of standard CIA protocol - that Peri be returned home after her memories of the Doctor were wiped, save for their first adventure together. Each intervention created a new timeline for Peri; before long, at least five of her were active in the universe. [482]

  The Eight Doctors

  The eighth Doctor travelled to the time of his trial. He called on Rassilon to briefly free Borusa’s noblest incarnation. Borusa deposed the corrupt High Council and arranged honest elections. Flavia was re-elected and restored Earth to its rightful place. Rassilon might have intervened to make the Doctor meet his companion Sam Jones in 1997.

  Unregenerate! [483]

  The High Council foresaw a time when lesser species would develop time travel, and pack the space-time continuum to the bursting point. The Gallifreyan CIA therefore instigated a project to install the sentiences of newly birthed TARDISes into living beings. They hoped the sentiences would operate as CIA agents on their hosts’ homeworlds, thwarting the lesser species’ endeavours to create time-travel technology. The CIA believed this would work better than the usual array of spies and brainwashing.

  Professor Klyst, a Time Lord, spearheaded the research. Experiments on Daleks were forbidden, but subjects were recruited from at least fifty worlds. Each were offered lifetimes of success if they participated in the research on the day before their deaths. Yet the beings’ brains were unable to host the TARDIS sentiences, and many went insane.

  The seventh Doctor ended the operation. One TARDIS sentience stabilised in the human Johannes Rausch. Klyst agreed to host another sentience, thus erasing her own knowledge of the research. The sentiences in Rausch and Klyst transferred another of their number into the Institute where the research was conducted, turning it into a makeshift travel vehicle. They went on the run from the Time Lords, hoping to stabilise the other sentiences in their host bodies.

  Remembrance of the Daleks

  Addressing Davros, the seventh Doctor claimed to be “President-Elect of the High Council of Time Lords... Keeper of the Legacy of Rassilon”. After destroying Skaro, the Hand of Omega returned to Gallifrey.

  Back on Gallifrey, the Hand of Omega missed its creator and tended to hover around the Omega Memorial. [484] An Adjudicator - a retired Time Lord acting as an academic assessment officer - considered Ace for enrollment in the Prydonian Academy... but she declined, and remained in the Doctor’s company. [485]

  “The Forgotten” [486]

  The War of Agrovan Seven had now lasted fifteen hundred years, and the Time Lords had designated it a non-intervention site. The Strykes and Marats had been evenly matched for generations, but an unknown party gave the Strykes a bioweapon designed to work on Gallifreyans. As the Marats had a similar biology to the Gallifreyans, this lead to a great plague among them. The Time Lords wanted an end to the war, but the seventh Doctor and Ace gave the Marats a restorative that cured 90% of Gallifreyan ailments.

  Blood Harvest / Goth Opera

  Three Time Lords - Rath (the younger brother of Goth), Elar and Morin - took responsibility for security matters. Most Time Lords considered this a rather lowly position, but the Committee of Three, as they styled themselves, used their office to build their own powerbase. Using their expertise, they planned to kill Rassilon in his Tower and take control of the galaxy. They were defeated by the seventh Doctor, Ace, Benny and Romana.

  The three traitors were sentenced to vaporisation. Romana settled back on Gallifrey from E-Space, and was greeted by Ruathadvorophrenaltid, a Time Lady acquaintance of the Doctor. Ruath planned to be the consort of the Vampire Messiah, and targeted the fifth Doctor. Romana alerted Gallifrey and the Doctor to the threat, and was rewarded with a seat on the High Council.

  Gallifreyan medics examined Romana after her return from E-Space, and determined that her body - which had unknowingly become the sixth Key to Time segment - was degenerating, and that regeneration wasn’t possible. [487]

  The Chaos Pool

  Romana aided the fifth Doctor in the second quest for the Key to Time, then returned to Gallifrey with the former Tracer named Amy - whom she hoped would help to convince the Time Lords of the worthiness of non-Gallifreyans to attend the Academy. Afterwards, Amy left Gallifrey and went in search of her sister. [488]

  The Time Lords outlawed Vaspen space-time stamps - a means of transporting a small package to any point in space-time, and which were more expensive than a planet. [489] Some Interventionists on Gallifrey took an interest in introducing alien genetic material into the make-up of other species, including humanity. [490]

  The Romana Presidency

  Happy Endings

  Romana was elected President of the Time Lords, beating the previous Madame President - who had been found drunk while in possession of the Sash of Rassilon - by 53 to 47% in the elections, and won the support of the Interventionist movement. She promised an end to isolationism and to open an embassy with the Tharils. Very soon after her election, she investigated a Fortean Flicker which the Master was exploiting. He had stolen the Loom of Rassilon’s Mouse, which could build monsters. The Master was defeated and the Loom retrieved, but he escaped Gallifreyan custody.

  Romana was the 413th President. [491]

  The Carnival Queen affected rationality throughout the universe. On Gallifrey, Grandfather Paradox, “voodoo priest of the House of Lungbarrow”, escaped his prison when the Lady President had a fit and released three hundred prisoners from their prison asteroid. Six hundred Time Lords claimed to be the ghost of Morbius, and the planet’s automatic defences activated. [492]

  Grandfather Paradox removed his arm, as the Time Lords had branded it. Soon, he would remove himself from history. With its leader free, Faction Paradox would grow in size and influence. [493]

  Lungbarrow

  The seventh Doctor and Chris Cwej returned to the Doctor’s ancestral home of Lungbarrow. He was accused of murdering Quences, the head of the household. The Doctor was badly beaten and incapacitated by his family, who blamed him for all their woes. Innocet - one of the Doctor’s Cousins - joined Ace, Leela, Chris and Romana in reviving him. They learned the Doctor contained the genetic codes of the Other.

  The Doctor deduced that another Cousin, Glospin, had briefly regenerated to look like the Doctor and thus framed him for Quences’ murder. Quences’ mind was in Badger, the House’s robot servant. The House itself committed suicide, throwing itself from the mountain it rested upon. Romana ordered a new House built for the Cousins.

  Chris decided to stay on Gallifrey and work as an agent of the President. He was given a time ring. Leela discovered she was pregnant. The Dromeians and Arcalians objected to Romana’s interventionist policies. She was given a gift by the Chairman of Argolis and opened an embassy with Karn.

  The Celestial Intervention Agency sent the Doctor to recover the Master’s remains from Skaro.

  Death Comes to Time [494]

  A new generation of Time Lords was far more open to the idea of intervention. Among them was the Minister of Chance, and he met with the seventh Doctor to discuss intergalactic crises. One
such matter emerged when the Time Lords Antinor and Valentine were killed on Earth. Meanwhile, Ace trained to be a Time Lord under Casmus. Events climaxed on the twenty-first century Earth.

  Romana and a research team went missing when the planetoid Etra Prime vanished on 6776.7, Rassilon Era. An interim President was appointed in Romana’s absence. [495]

  (=) The Sirens of Time [496]

  The Knights of Velyshaa seized control of the Gallifreyan Capitol. They were exploiting time disturbances using a captured Temperon, an animal that could release particles capable of disrupting time. The fifth, sixth and seventh Doctors restored established history and the conquest of Gallifrey never happened. The Temperon sacrificed itself to forever hold in check the Sirens of Time, extra-dimensional creatures that fed off time distortion.

  Doctor Who - The Movie

  The seventh Doctor recovered the Master’s remains from Skaro, and was heading for Gallifrey in 5725.2, Rassilon Era. The Master sabotaged the TARDIS, and forced a landing in San Francisco, 1999, but was later lost to the TARDIS’ Eye of Harmony.

  10639.5 Rassilon Era - “The Final Chapter” [497]

  Fey and Izzy piloted the TARDIS to Gallifrey. They told Castellan Tenion and Overseer Luther that the eighth Doctor was dying, and he was taken to a hospital complex called the Mortal Coil. At this point, the Doctor was considered fiction by most people on Gallifrey.

  Xanti, an Academy dropout and admirer of the Doctor, hurried to meet him. The Doctor’s mind resided in the Matrix while his body healed. He encountered the Higher Evolutionaries - which now included a representative of the Order of the Black Sun, Demoiselle Drin, in Merlin’s place. They all had experienced nightmares of a Gallifrey grown “dark and wicked”.

  A group of Elysians materialised over the Doctor’s body, planning to kill him “for the sake of the future”, but Shayde arrived to fight them off. The Elysians vanished, taking Izzy with them.

  The Doctor spoke to Uriel, Xanti’s father, in the Quantum of Solace (which was now being run by ex-military man Tubal Cain). He learned of the history of the Elysians, and that Luther was their leader. Luther’s rebuilding of the Capitol had effectively turned the whole planet into a giant TARDIS, powered by Xanti’s mind. Now he planned to take it back to the moment of Rassilon’s triumph and overwrite that history with his own. The Doctor forced Luther out into the Vortex, but Luther killed Xanti, and the Doctor had to take his place. Shayde rescued the Doctor, but the strain apparently triggered the Doctor’s regeneration into a balding man... [498]

  Eve of the War in Heaven

  Alien Bodies / Interference / The Taking of Planet 5

  Although Time Lords were unable to see into their own future, the eighth Doctor found evidence that the Time Lords would fight a War across time and space against an unknown Enemy. This War involved exotic weapons and such shifts in the timeline, reality, and cause and effect as to make it all but impossible to determine any firm details. The broad sweep of events became apparent among the fragmentary evidence, however, and it was bleak news for Gallifrey.

  Romana regenerated for the second time. Her third incarnation became increasingly concerned - perhaps even paranoid - about the prospect of the War. [499] Some Time Lords tried to acquire a bottle universe from IM Foreman, hoping to flee into it when the Enemy attacked. [500]

  The Shadows of Avalon

  President Romana now put the survival of the Time Lords over more ethical considerations. While she was concerned with the dispute with the People of the Worldsphere, Romana was aware that the War with the unknown Enemy would soon be upon Gallifrey.

  The Doctor’s TARDIS ruptured in a dimensional rift and was presumed destroyed. Learning that the eighth Doctor’s companion, Compassion, was mutating into a TARDIS thanks to her contact with future technology, Romana sent Interventionist agents Cavis and Gandar to capture her. Romana planned to force Compassion to breed with other TARDISes. Compassion transformed into a TARDIS, and she, the Doctor and Fitz fled the Time Lord authorities.

  Until Compassion, the most advanced TARDIS was the Type 98. [501]

  The Ancestor Cell / The Gallifrey Chronicles

  As the War approached, Gallifreyan society was starting to fray at the edges and many Time Lords were becoming superstitious. Time Lords succumbed to the cults of Ferisix, Thrayke, Sabjatric, Rungar, the Pythian Heresy, Klade and the legend of Cuwirti.

  A vast Edifice materialised over Gallifrey. This was the Doctor’s original TARDIS, which was drawing energy from IM Foreman’s leaking bottle universe.

  On Gallifrey, many Time Lords had fallen under the sway of Faction Paradox. They summoned the dead President, Greyjan the Sane, who infected the Matrix with Faction Paradox virus. Faction Paradox arrived in force to occupy Gallifrey, led by Grandfather Paradox. Fitz’s original self, Father Kreiner of Faction Paradox, was freed from the Vortex, but killed by the Grandfather when he switched allegiances and aided the eighth Doctor.

  The Enemy was revealled as evolved ancestor cells - primeval lifeforms that had been mutated and empowered by the leaking bottle universe. The Enemy now launched its first strike on Gallifrey, destroying the TARDIS berths.

  Faced with the choice of either submitting to Faction Paradox or escaping, the Doctor instead used the remaining energy of the Edifice to destroy Gallifrey. Faction Paradox was wiped out, and the annihilation was so complete that it destroyed the entire constellation of Kasterborous, creating disturbances in space and time that prevented any further time travel to or from Gallifrey.

  The Doctor and Compassion downloaded the entire contents of the Matrix into the Doctor’s brain. Compassion sent the Doctor and his TARDIS, which had been all but destroyed, to Earth to recover. She also dropped Fitz off in 2001 to reunite with him, then left with Nivet, a Time Lord technician.

  It was possible that the destruction of Gallifrey prevented...

  The War in Heaven [502]

  In some texts, the Time Lords were called the Great Houses, Gallifrey was cited as the Homeworld, and TARDISes were named as timeships. [503]

  The War in Heaven was about meaning as much as it was about territory. [504]

  The Time Lords created at least nine duplicate Gallifreys, in case the Enemy destroyed the original. Not even the President knew which was the “real” one. [505]

  Realising that the Enemy could erase them from history, some Celestial Intervention Agency members tried to remove themselves from the universe as a means of defence. They became conceptual beings named the Celestis. They operated from a realm called Mictlan, and influenced universal affairs with a network of agents. [506]

  The War King, a former renegade who had tried and failed to warn the Great Houses about the Enemy, was made the official head of the Homeworld six years before the War began. He had a pointed beard that had grown white with age, and wore black robes. [507]

  The living timeship Compassion was the only Type 102 timeship. Type 101 timeships, an attempt to breed a living timeship such as Compassion, had been a disastrous failure. Compassion largely attempted to stay neutral in the War, sometimes having adventures with companions such as Carmen Yeh. Two years before the War began, the death of the timeship Percival moved Compassion to take a more active role in the War, and she brokered a deal with the War King, becoming the mother of the first Type 103 timeships. Nonetheless, she insisted that the Enemy attacking the Great Houses was a distraction, and focused her attention on House Lolita. [508] The first of Compassion’s offspring, Antipathy, was deeply unstable and kept imprisoned on the Homeworld. [509]

  The Enemy struck Gallifrey, completely destroying it. Aware this attack was coming, the Time Lords broke their oldest laws, travelling back in time to assault their Enemy before they were attacked. [510]

  Early in the War, the Enemy succeeded in wiping out the most powerful Gallifreyan artifacts like the Demat Gun and the Sash of Rassilon. Many secrets and pieces of biodata were lost. Those that survived became extremely valuable, and much sought-after, as they cou
ld be adapted into weapons.

  The first land battle of the War was fought on Dronid in the 155th century. The Doctor was thought to have died on Dronid. His body was recovered, and its unique biodata would make it perhaps the most valuable artifact in the universe. The Doctor had agreed to donate his body to the Celestis in return for their non-intervention on Dronid. [511]

  Every battle was fought and then refought, as the losing side retroactively attempted to reverse the result. Eventually, time collapsed in the vicinity and the fighting would move elsewhere. The Time Lords searched their own future for advanced weapons to be used in the War. [512]

  The Enemy learned how to build conceptual entities such as the anarchitects, beings capable of rearranging architecture. Qixotl met the Doctor and saw him escape the Antiridean organ-eaters. [513]

  Faction Paradox grew corrupt and started trading weapons and time travel. The Time Lord authorities moved to wipe them out as they would a virus. In 2596, the Time Lords destroyed the Earth colony Ordifica because of its contact with Faction Paradox. [514]

  The Time Lords allied themselves with the Gabrielideans. The Time Lords had a military training ground on Gallifrey XII. The latest model TARDISes were the Type 103s, which were sentient and could take the form of people. [515]

  The regenerated Thessalia, now passing as “Larissa”, agreed to a personal alliance with Faction Paradox. [516]

  In the War’s eighth year, Cousin Octavia and her corps of elite Faction troops - the Red Brigade - brought about the ruin of a breakaway Faction stronghold (the Thirteen-Day Republic) and its leader, Cousin Anastasia. Father Dyavol, formerly the mad monk Rasputin, died in mysterious circumstances. For her crimes against the Faction, Anastasia was triplicated and put back into linear time, in the twentieth century, to die three times over. [517]