[434] Gallifrey: Reborn
[435] Gallifrey: Lies. This seems intended to paint over Romana’s not making the connection between her old tutor and the “Braxiatel Collection” that she mentions in City of Death. This doesn’t fix the problem, though, as other Time Lords would know about their history together.
[436] Tomb of Valdemar
[437] The Ribos Operation
[438] State of Decay
[439] The Romance of Crime, The Ancestor Cell.
[440] Neverland
[441] The Pirate Planet
[442] Lungbarrow
[443] Neverland. This is presumably the visit in Legacy of the Daleks, first referenced in The Deadly Assassin.
[444] Interference, FP: The Book of the War. Lawrence Miles, commenting on an advanced copy of Ahistory (First Edition), said the formation of Faction Paradox “should come just before The Deadly Assassin (or just after Genesis of the Daleks)... the point when Gallifrey starts being shaken up by renegades, assassinations and invasions, and mortality suddenly becomes a major issue.”
[445] Alien Bodies, Interference, FP: The Book of the War.
[446] FP: The Book of the War
[447] “Three hundred years” before “The Final Chapter”, and it’s tempting to see this as emerging from the same “cultural crisis” that created Faction Paradox.
[448] Cat’s Cradle: Time’s Crucible (p210-211).
[449] A different actor plays Borusa in each of his televised appearances (Angus MacKay in The Deadly Assassin, John Arnatt in The Invasion of Time, Leonard Sachs in Arc of Infinity and Philip Latham in The Five Doctors).
[450] The Ancestor Cell
[451] Alien Bodies
[452] Timewyrm: Genesys
[453] Tomb of Valdemar
[454] We learn of Leela and Andred’s marriage in Arc of Infinity.
[455] In The Ribos Operation, the Doctor wishes that he’d thrown the President to the Sontarans, suggesting that Borusa has become President (although the treacherous Kelner apparently survived The Invasion of Time and he’d have a strong constitutional case, as the Doctor named him Vice-President). The Doctor was meant to have lost his memory of the Sontaran invasion at the end of The Invasion of Time, but clearly didn’t, or was given some sort of account of it before he left Gallifrey. By Arc of Infinity, Borusa is President.
[456] Established at the start of each of the four K9 books published in 1980. In K9 and the Zeta Rescue, we learn that K9 reports to a Space Controller on Gallifrey and that the Doctor came up with the name for his spacecraft, K-NEL. We can also infer the order in which the books take place: K9 is flying K-NEL Mark 1 in K9 and the Beasts of Vega, it’s destroyed in K9 and the Time Trap, he goes on a test flight in the Mark 2 at the start of K9 and the Zeta Rescue, he’s using it in K9 and the Missing Planet.
It’s also interesting to note that after many years of sending the Doctor on missions for them, the Time Lords stop doing so (the last time is apparently The Brain of Morbius on television, “Light Fantastic” - from Doctor Who Annual 1980 - in other media). We might infer K9 is now doing this work for them.
[457] Dating K9 and the Time Trap (The Adventures of K9 #1) - This takes place in the Gallifreyan timeframe. K9 is referred to as being “hired” by the Time Lords, but this may be a figure of speech rather than indication he is paid.
Rigel
The delegate from the Rigel Sector is a member of the Order of the Black Sun in “Black Sun Rising”, and the Rigellians are mentioned as once being enemies of the Time Lords in The Infinity Doctors, but they are allies in K9: The Time Trap (in both “Black Sun Rising” and The Time Trap, they are depicted as humanoid). They would seem to be one of the “Higher Powers”. These Rigellians would seem to exist in a different era to humanity - perhaps the same early universe as the Time Lords. Earth has a depot on Rigel by “Conflict of Interests” (?2192). Rigellians had four tentacles, three mouths and a reputation for being untrustworthy according to Abslom Daak (c2550). Rigel VII is part of the Earth Empire by 2620. The Battle of the Rigel Wastes took place in 2697. Slavery is abolished on Rigellon by the time of the Federation (3985). The Shadow Proclamation shut down a maximum security prison on Rigel 77 according to TW: The Undertaker’s Gift.
[458] Dating K9 and the Zeta Rescue (The Adventures of K9 #3) - This story takes place soon after K9 and the Time Trap.
[459] The Ribos Operation
[460] Gallifrey: Lies. This directly conflicts with the notion in The Chaos Pool that Romana’s regeneration occurred because she became a segment of the Key to Time. Much of Gallifrey Series 2 and 3 is predicated on the notion of Romana having a genetic link to Pandora, so it seems fair to give this account precedence. As Romana’s memories of Pandora are suppressed, it’s entirely possible that she falsely believes for a while that she regenerated due to the Key’s influence - even if she does, for a time, become a Key segment.
[461] “Centuries” before “The Final Chapter”. It’s unclear when this takes place. It’s before “The Tides of Time”, because we see the Watchtower in that story. Perhaps there was more extensive destruction during the Vardan/Sontaran assault in The Invasion of Time than we saw on TV. References to the “old Panopticon” might mean there’s a new one - we haven’t seen the Panopticon on television since The Invasion of Time.
[462] The Pyralis Effect
[463] Shada. It’s unclear when this happened. FP: The Book of the War states it was three hundred and ninety-two years before the War starts, and four hundred and seventy-four years after Morbius’ execution.
[464] Alien Bodies. The Terrestrial Index and The Discontinuity Guide both mistakenly refer to Drornid as Dronid.
[465] Meglos, Full Circle.
[466] “The Stockbridge Horror”
[467] “The Final Chapter”
[468] As witnessed in works by Paul Cornell (Circular Time: “Spring” and The Shadows of Avalon).
[469] Hexagora. This direct statement on the Doctor’s part is further evidence that all of his adventuring has really taken a toll on his lifespan.
[470] See the Regeneration, A Complete New Life Cycle sidebar.
[471] The Ancestor Cell
[472] In Warriors of the Deep, the Doctor says he should have changed his TARDIS for a Type 57 “when he had the chance”. This could imply that Type 57 is the most advanced model at present, or simply that newer models exist but the Doctor prefers Type 57.
[473] The Eight Doctors
[474] “4-Dimensional Vistas”
[475] “The Forgotten”
[476] Singularity
[477] Later in the story, the Doctor suspects that the Time Lords are aware of events and have been manipulating him, but this is never confirmed.
[478] Recorded Time and Other Stories: “Recorded Time”
[479] The Mysterious Planet. The Valeyard’s “evidence”, as displayed throughout The Trial of a Time Lord, derives from this feature, although it’s unclear if the Doctor’s TARDIS was secretly fitted with surveillance gear at some point (his visit to Gallifrey in Arc of Infinity, for instance), or if the Ship was incorporated into the system by remote.
[480] The Eight Doctors
[481] The Valeyard
It is unclear exactly what the Valeyard is. The Master, who knows a great deal about him, says, “there is some evil in all of us, Doctor, even you. The Valeyard is an amalgamation of the darker sides of your nature, somewhere between your twelfth and final incarnation, and I must say you do not improve with age”.
This is rather vague, and it seems that the Valeyard might be a potential future for the Doctor (like those presented to him in The War Games or arguably those of Romana in Destiny of the Daleks), a projection (like Cho-je in Planet of the Spiders or the Watcher in Logopolis) or an actual fully-fledged future incarnation (as he was in the original script). The Master seems to have met the Valeyard before, and sees him as a rival (he also says “as I’ve always know him, the Doctor” - suggesting that the Valeyard would normally refer
to himself as “the Doctor” not “the Valeyard”).
That the Doctor has a “dark side” that can manifest, either physically or within his mind, was established in The Three Doctors; both the Valeyard and the Dream Lord (Amy’s Choice), arguably, are a further culmination of this. Some commentators have leaned toward viewing the Dream Lord (the result of psychic pollen manifesting a dark part of the Doctor’s psyche) as a sort of precursor (in the Doctor’s lifetime) to the Valeyard, but no overt link has ever been drawn between the two.
Whatever the Valeyard is, he doesn’t have any qualms about killing his past self - perhaps if the sixth Doctor died, the Valeyard would apparently gain his remaining regenerations by default. His survival at the end of the trial, when we had seen him disseminated (and the Doctor has promised to mend his ways) perhaps suggests that he is something more than just a mere Time Lord.
Note also that the Master says “twelfth and final”, not “twelfth and thirteenth” - which, if you squint, leaves open the possibility that the Doctor will survive the end of his regenerative cycle. Alternatively, if the Master really is working to the “Time Lords get thirteen lives” paradigm first established in The Deadly Assassin, the Valeyard might be a “12.2 Doctor” of sorts.
The novels and audios have tended to steer clear of the Valeyard - indeed, the Writers’ Guide for the New Adventures stated, “anything featuring the Valeyard is out - he’s a continuity nightmare, and a rather dull villain”. Despite this, a number of the novels (particularly Time of Your Life, Head Games and Millennial Rites) have developed the idea first aired in Love and War that the Doctor sacrificed his sixth incarnation (“the colourful jester”) to create a stronger, more ruthless seventh persona (“Time’s Champion”) who was better equipped to change his destiny. Ironically, books such as Love and War and Head Games suggest that this internal conflict might well have been the catalyst that brought the Valeyard into being. The PDAs Matrix and Mission: Impractical feature the Valeyard, as does the non-canonical audio He Jests at Scars.
[482] Peri and the Piscon Paradox
[483] It’s difficult to say how much the CIA is operating independently in this story, or to what degree it’s sanctioned by the High Council. Presuming the CIA isn’t acting totally solo, the High Council that initiated the project is possibly the administration that was overthrown in The Trial of a Time Lord.
[484] Lungbarrow
[485] Thin Ice. This was proposed as a means of Ace leaving the TARDIS in the unmade Season 27, but in the Big Finish adaptation of it, she stays with the Doctor after all.
[486] Dating “The Forgotten” (IDW DW mini-series #2) - No date is given. It’s interesting that the Time Lords designate this a “non-intervention site”, as the working assumption is that all intervention is banned. Presumably, this is a particularly sensitive area.
[487] The Chaos Pool
[488] Romana’s desire to open up the Academy to non-Gallifreyans doesn’t happen until a long time on (in the Gallifrey mini-series) and must fizzle at this juncture.
[489] A Death in the Family
[490] The novel version of Human Nature, in which a Gallifreyan agent arranges for an alien Aubertide to transform into a cow and get eaten as such.
[491] The Gallifrey Chronicles
[492] Christmas on a Rational Planet. No date is given in the Doctor Who books, but the Faction Paradox timeline in the back of FP: The Book of the War pegs the Grandfather’s escape as occurring “one hundred fifty-one years” before the War in Heaven... and also places it simultaneous to the transition of House Paradox to Faction Paradox, which seems to happen in the era of the fourth Doctor, not (as here) the seventh.
[493] Christmas on a Rational Planet, Alien Bodies, Interference - the first of these identifies the Time Lord criminal brand as a “dragon tattoo”, probably in accordance with Jon Pertwee’s real-life tattoo, as seen on the exiled third Doctor’s right arm in Doctor Who and the Silurians.
[494] Dating Death Comes to Time (BBC1 drama, unnumbered) - While there are discrepancies, Death Comes to Time shares a number of features with the timeline of the later New Adventures - the Time Lords are more openly interventionist, and Ace is training up as a Time Lord. While Lungbarrow is clearly meant to lead straight into Doctor Who - The Movie, there are other stories set in the “gap”, such as Excelis Decays and Master. Ace is a lot older than she was in the New Adventures (her last appearance is in Lungbarrow). As with events in Death Comes to Time that occur in the Present Day section, the canonicity of these details is highly debatable. Fans are free to incorporate this story or ignore it.
[495] Neverland
[496] The story takes place during the interim Presidency, in the seventh Doctor’s “current” Gallifrey.
[497] Dating “The Final Chapter” (DWM #262-265) - The date is given on the TARDIS screen at the beginning of the story, and is significantly later than the one given in Neverland. This is tricky to fit in with the books and audios, where Romana is President throughout the eighth Doctor range - although we never actually see the President in this story. It clearly happens before Gallifrey’s destruction and fits in with the idea of Gallifreyan society fraying and succumbing to cultism depicted around the time of The Ancestor Cell.
[498] The adventures of this newborn “ninth Doctor” (patterned after Big Finish producer Nicholas Briggs) continue in “Wormwood”, set around 5220.
[499] The Shadows of Avalon
[500] Interference
[501] FP: The Book of the War specifies that Compassion becomes a Type 102 TARDIS.
[502] The War in Heaven
Alien Bodies introduced the future War and the Enemy (neither of which were capitalised at that point). Further details were added in subsequent eighth Doctor books, principally Interference, The Taking of Planet 5, The Shadows of Avalon and The Ancestor Cell. The term “the War in Heaven”, while not used very much in the Faction Paradox-related stories themselves, has become a common currency in fandom to differentiate this time-active conflict from the Last Great Time War of the new Doctor Who, following the lead of FP: The Book of the War as to how historical figures and others tend to perceive the conflict. Technically, this should be the second “War in Heaven”, the first being the conflict between the Time Lords, the Great Vampires (State of Decay) and the Yssgaroth (The Pit) as elaborated upon in FP: The Book of the War.
The Doctor destroyed Gallifrey in The Ancestor Cell, in large part to avert the War. At that point, all the events of the War ceased to be the “real” future of the Doctor Who universe. However, there’s the caveat that, by definition, it’s difficult to establish facts or the sequence of events of a time war. When asked about the canonicity of its Faction Paradox novels, Mad Norwegian Press - tongue planted firmly in cheek - would sometimes respond that The Ancestor Cell was propaganda written by the Faction’s enemies (as evidenced by a framing sequence therein), and that the War events had not been erased from history.
[503] Faction Paradox Terminology
These equivalents were used throughout the Faction Paradox novels, audios and comics for legal reasons. Similarly, “babels” are the Faction Paradox equivalent of the Shaydes from the DWM comic; the “Imperator Presidency” refers to Morbius’ tenure as head of the High Council. The War King is generally presumed to be the Faction Paradox version of the Master, but little confirms this beyond a few background details (the War King’s statement that he was one of the few to leave the Homeworld, that he has no House of his own, that the Council forgave him, etc.) given in FP: Words from Nine Divinities.
[504] FP: The Book of the War, which chronicles the first fifty years of the War in Heaven in great detail.
[505] The Taking of Planet 5. FP: The Book of the War says the alternate Homeworlds/Gallifreys were made “in the last decades before the War”, and FP: Sabbath Dei specifies that this happens thirty years before the War starts.
[506] This happens twenty years before the War, according to FP: The Book of the War. The Ce
lestis first appeared in Alien Bodies.
When Did the War in Heaven Start?
There’s no indication in the Doctor Who books exactly when the War was due to start relative to the Doctor. The War began one hundred and fifty-one years after Grandfather Paradox escaped his prison, according to The Book of the War. That escape occurred in Christmas on a Rational Planet, shortly after Romana became President. Romana celebrates her one hundred and fiftieth year as President in The Ancestor Cell, meaning the War is now imminent.
[507] FP: The Book of the War, The Taking of Planet 5.
[508] FP: The Book of the War, FP: Sabbath Dei, FP: In the Year of the Cat. Lolita of House Lolita features prominently in the Faction Paradox audios.
[509] FP: Of the City of the Saved
[510] The Ancestor Cell
[511] Alien Bodies
[512] The Ancestor Cell
[513] Alien Bodies
[514] Interference
[515] Alien Bodies
[516] FP: Newtons Sleep. The Faction has recently severed ties with the Remote, and the Great Houses’ Military is making a major effort to wipe out the Faction’s holdings wherever they are found (p257) - which going by the timeline in FP: Book of the War means that it’s about Year Six of the War. What becomes of Thessalia’s alliance with the Faction isn’t known.
[517] FP: The Book of the War, and referenced throughout FP: Warring States.
[518] This happens in Year 18 of the War, according to FP: The Book of the War.
[519] It’s Year 29 of the War, FP: The Book of the War.
[520] FP: Erasing Sherlock. This happens before the Celestis’ destruction in The Taking of Planet 5; the placement is in keeping with the way that Mad Norwegian’s Faction Paradox novels (where the War in Heaven was concerned) tended to occur in reverse order.
[521] The years are respectively provided in the intros to FP: Warring States, FP: Warlords of Utopia, FP: Of the City of the Saved...
[522] The background to the Faction Paradox audios, as given in Alien Bodies, FP: The Eleven-Day Empire, FP: The Shadow Play and FP: The Book of the War. Eliza’s quote hails from The Eleven Day Empire, and the implication behind it is that Eliza is Christine Summerfield from Benny: Dead Romance. (This is further evidenced in FP: In the Year of the Cat, when Eliza says she went to Buckingham Palace on a school trip - meaning she grew up on Earth or a version of Earth.)
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