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GALLIFREY STUFF
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information from the TV Series
(Including the
Dimensions in Time
, and Universal/BCC Telemovie,
Scream of the Shalka
)
information from the Novels
(Virgin, BCC,
I Who
(which isn't a novel but it's source material is))
information from
The Infinity Doctors
and some of
Cold Fusion
(I put
The Infinity Doctors
as an 8th Doctor sidetrip. I admit I could be wrong.)
information from deliberately created alternate version of
Doctor Who
(
The Unbound Series, Death Comes to Time
)
information from 'licensed' reference sources
(The
Technical Manual
,
Monsters
,
The Doctor Who Cookbook
and
The Gallifrey Chronicles
)
information from 'unreliable' sources:
(FASA's role-playing game, the Nth Doctor, Destiny of the
Doctors (I don't trust them either, but you never know))
information from unofficial sources
(
Lawrence Miles' books, the Benny adventures)
information from speculative sources
(my own speculation, and other fan speculation. Includes ideas
from sites listed on my home page.)
? The event occurred approximately in this interval.
?? A pretty wild guess as to when this event took place.
GALLIFREY:
They that Walk in Shadows
“Can you imagine silver leaves waving above a pool of liquid gold containing
singing fish? Twin suns that circle and fall in a rainbow heaven, another world in another
sky? If you’d like to come with me, I’ll show you all this - and it will be, I
promise you, the dullest part of all. Come with me and you will see wonders that no Human
has ever dreamt possible. Or stay behind and regret your staying until the day you
die.”
- The Doctor
The Minyan Constellation of Kasterborus
In the Kasterborus Sector.
The centermost star is Gallifrey's sun.
(seen on the back of the 3rd/4th/8th Doctor's TARDIS key)
ASTROPHYSICAL LOCATION:
Gallifrey is in the seventh system
at the heart of the Home Constellation
(a Gallifreyan "constellation" refers to elements of
time/relativity/location) - which is known to the Lesser Species as the
Minyan
constellation of Kasterborus
(also known as the Kasterborus Sector). It is named for an astrologist
who also wrote Our Destiny is in the Stars. Later myths will claim that the gods yoked him
to a chariot of silver fire. His beliefs have infiltrated the cultures of the Delphons,
Phreni, and Sirians.
The Constellation of Kasterborus is located at
the centre
(or the edge)
of
the Mutter's Stellian
(or Stellarian)
Spiral Galaxy (The Milky Way, Galaxia Kyklos)
on the edge of the Capricorn Tract. This is a close to the centre of the
galaxy as its possible to be without drawn into the black hole. The Kasterborus Ice Ring,
and Kasterborus Borealis are in the same sector as Gallifrey's system, but the other systems
of the Kasterborus sector have no significant populations.
The Nebula of Cyclops is near enough to Gallifrey
to be faintly visible. The Kasterborus Constellation might be in the
Sagittarius constellation (centre of the galaxy) in the Earth skies.
In this area of space stars would be clustered so tightly that they
would only be about 1/10th of a lightyear apart.
During the Rassilon Era
Gallifrey
is 29,000 light years from Sol III. However by the time of the Humanian
Era it is 250,000,000 light years away
(it was probably moved there during the Time War or perhaps it was the
only Gallifrey to survive).
During the Rassilon Era its binary coordinates are 10-0-11-0-0 by 02
from galactic 0 centre
Gallifrey's Dominions include several planets that would be valuable if mined
(Could they contain Taranium?)
Time Lord traffic control monitor any vessels that pass near Gallifrey's
space-time location. Traffic Control's temporal scans will detect an unscheduled Timeship
about 2 minutes before it materialises and identify whether it is Gallifreyan from its
molecular patina. Space vessel must request permission to pass through Gallifrey's
space-time. The Sisterhood of Karn draws a significant number of space vessels (probably to
steal the Elixir), causing them to crash on Karn.
The Planet Gallifrey
SYSTEM DATA:
Gallifrey's primary star has no name.
In order to protect Gallifrey from Vampires, the solar engineer Omega
constructed a new
Second Sun, which
he added
to Gallifrey's system.
This Second Sun is probably a small artificial one for
Gallifrey is usually described as having only one sun. The star is
visible from Gallifrey and named Pogar. Because of
the twin suns
the planets in system have very short nights.
The Gallifrey system has six planets: Gallifrey,
Karn,
a frozen gas giant named Polarfrey, Kasterborus the Fibster (an
asteroid) and another unknown planet
(possibly Demos).
Gallifrey and Karn might be the second and third planets in the system.
Karn is located a few billion miles (could be SI or European "billion") from
Gallifrey
and appears to have population of no more then a few million.
Parts of Karn are covered in hexagonal crystalline rock
formation.
If Gallifrey had similar rock formations it could explain the importance
of hexagons in their mythology.
Gallifrey is known as the Shining World of the Seventh System. On Gallifrey the second
sun rose in the south. Gallifrey's
gravity, orbital radius, star type,
pressure, temperature, and oxygen levels are the same as Earth. As
Gallifrey appears to have the same orbit as Alzarius it might be draw farther from the sun
every 50 years by other planets in the system.
The planet has a significant amount of Gallifreyan Zinc which is one of
the strongest metals in the universe.
Gallifrey has a moon called Pazithi Gallifreya which orbits Gallifrey
every 27 days.
It exerts a much stronger tidal force on the planet.
In ancient times it was known as the Virgin Moon Goddess. It is copper
(or ivory or heliotrope) coloured and shines even in the sunlight.
This moon has a large supply of Taranium
which was mined during the Dark Time.
The "sky" outside a place that is outside of time
(as Gallifrey is)
still shows a constellations of stars, but an observer can see a
billions of years of star movement in just a few minutes.
Some wisps of nebula can be seen in the night sky of Gallifrey. There
are also several artificial satellites that can be seen from the surface, even during the
day.
By the time of Death Comes to Time the constellations around Gallifrey
appear similar to the constellations around Sol III.
Outer Gallifrey
THE PLANET GALLIFREY:
Because it located in Inner Time,
Gallifrey (or maybe just the Death Zone) shows up as no time and no
place on TARDIS instruments
Despite the fact that Gallifrey has been primed to resist the effects of
entropy,
the planet is very old
and appears quite ancient. From orbit Gallifrey is the colour of rust,
with brown lakes and dust-grey clouds.
There are
three small
oceans
(which were once quite large)
and several seas
but less then half its surface is water.
Many of the lakes gold coloured
(reflecting light from the burnt orange sky?)
At night
and day
the sky is burnt orange
and often filled with purple, green, and yellow lights.
Under certain circumstances the sky will also appear blue.
Millions of years after the installation of the Eye of Harmony, very
little of Gallifrey’s original biosphere survives.
Gallifrey has more then 24 seasons - but they are
similar
(and dry) enough that many claim Gallifrey has no seasons.
The Autumn breezes would blow through the silver leafed trees, creating
a musical effect.
At one point the planet might have been very much like Alzarius from
E-Space and possibly had a Mistfall every 50 years caused by another planet pulling
Gallifrey farther from its sun.
Southern Gallifrey occasionally suffers blizzards. The planet is
currently in the midst of an ice age, but in the summer, Gallifrey's sun is still intense
enough to cause sunburn on a human. Despite the ice age Gallifrey's ice caps are quite
tiny
(probably due to the overall lack of water).
There is no argon in the atmosphere. Southern
Gallifrey is considered
quite wild and
beautiful. It can experience warm Gallifreyan nights where the stars
shine.
Most of Gallifrey is burnt red deserts (with orange sand) and mountains.
There are some green forests, and golden fields strewn with rubble - but they make up a
minority of the terrain. Gallifrey's surface is divided up into sectors. The planet's
highest mountain is Mount Cadon (from which flows the river Cadonflood?). This snow topped
grey-green mountain is located on the continent of Wild Endeavour and extends to the fringes
of Gallifrey's atmosphere. It is located within visual sight of
the Capitol which is also found on the continent of Wild
Endeavour
The bulk of mount Cadon dwarfs the Capitol. Many of the river beds are
dry, though the still active River Lethe is located within walking distance of Mount
Cadon.
Another important mountain is Mount Plutarch which is near the Lune
Forest and the inland sea.
Mount
Lung
is located in Southern Gallifrey.
The river Cadonflood is located near Lungbarrow and (as its name
implies) is know to flood from time to time.
The Soonwell Valley is 500 leagues (~3000 km) from the Capitol. Lake
Abydos might be near House Heartshaven (or Dvora). In the modern era there are only between
3 and 9 million Gallifreyans, which leaves many settlements and roads completely
abandoned.
BIOLOGY
Memento Mori
The Gallifreyan Flower of Remembrance
Plants: The leaves of the plant life come in the following colours : green, blue, bronze, silver, and some are transparent. There are Kaden-Wood trees (with silver leaves), Maldor Trees, Cerub Trees (with hallucinogenic truffle-flavoured nuts), Hefzi Moss, Madevinia Aridosa (small desert plants that have an incredibly rapid life cycle), red-petalled orchids, Magentas (fruit tree), Trumpberries, Lushberries (probably edible), Molten Rushes (with zinc hawthorns), Grass (both in deep red and probably purple), Gallifreyan Flowers of Remembrance ( Memento Mori - 6 yellow petals), Schlenk Blossoms, Grockel Root (a type of plant used to make alcohol), Nitvil (a slimy plant with healing properties) Oaks, and Sarlain (a yellow flower that resembles a Terran Daisy, Daffodil or Rose). Some flowers glow in the dark and some might be as tall as trees. Biotrophic fungi include Feathergills, pogsquats, skullcaps, and Cardinal's collars.
An Owl - The Symbol of Rassilon
Animals:
Invertebrates: Beatitude Flies (with golden wings),
Butterflies, Bees,
Gullet Grubs, Blossom Thieves, Scrubblers, Neversuch Beetles,
Sandbeetles, Dustworms, Scissors Bugs,
Flutterwings
(3 meters by 25 meters, never land), web spinning insects, Snails, and
Water-Sligs. There are really nasty creatures that live beneath big stones.
Marine
life: Singing Fish, Kittensharks (are hatched from eggs and presumably grow up to be
Catsharks), Elapids include Taipan (10 meters long and venomous snake), Venal Snakes,
Bat-Snakes Avians: Owls (the symbol of Rassilon), Flurry Birds, song birds, Mammals:
Plungbolls (thumbnail sized furry creatures, live in mountains, attack enmass to warm
objects), Taffelshrews, Fledershrews, Cobblemice (sprout wings), Rovie Mice (live in fields,
long lived if they are not killed, sometimes kept as pets), Vex (burrowing animal),
Gallifreyan Womprats (1 meter long rats with fifteen legs), Pig-Rats, Flubbles (small
six-legged koalas), Horse-Cats, Elephants, Pig-Bears,
Baanjxx (arboreal browser, eats cerub nuts),
and probably walrus. The Doctor and Ruath
re-
introduced cats into the ecosystem (at a point before The Infinity
Doctors).
Ancient Gallifreyan Biology: Ancient Gallifreyans didn't evolve from apes (they do not believe they evolved from monkeys either). Early Gallifreyans had only one heart. Most deaths were a result of heart failure. Ancient Gallifreyans have a bypass respiratory system. When used, the bypass system makes them very resistant to most forms of anaesthetic (but not chloroform) and strangulation With warning a Gallifrey can store enough oxygen in their system to be active for 20 minutes. They can hold their breath for hours if they don't move much. Their blood, hormones and pheromones have distinct differences from modern Gallifreyan. They usually can't interbreed with humans. Their children have milk teeth. Their children aged slower then Humans and it might take hundreds of years for a Gallifreyan to mature into an adult. An 11 year old would look like an 8 or 9 year old human, but a 16 year old would look like an earth teenager. At around this point their aging slows dramatically - a 48 year old would look like an 18 year old human. Gallifreyans in their teens need as much food as a human teenager if not more. Adult Gallifreyans eat about as much as human. Young Gallifreyans need to sleep a little more then most humans, but after they pass First Maturation and learn to control their bodies, they only need 1-2 hours a day. They live to be about 300 years old - or possibly forever. They might have had the telepathic, adaptive, and regenerative abilities similar to the Marshmen in Full Circle. By human standards ancient Gallifreyans were tall and athletic, and the women tended to be much taller then males (this changed after when the looms were created). The women also tended to have well developed muscles While a young (around 16) Gallifreyan’s telepathic powers are still developing they are vulnerable to experiencing strong emotions from large groups. Sometimes this causes a psychic feedback where the Gallifreyan ends up reinforcing the emotions of a group. All the adult minds of the planet were in constant telepathic entrelacement due to an organ located in their hypothalamus. This was thought to be the greatest curse of Gallifreyan civilisation One Gallifreyan every 1,000 years was born an Individual. Individuals could shield their minds from telepathy and had other psionic powers. When young, Individuals also made good time pilots. Because of their ability to focus older Individuals often became great philosophers, scientists, and explorers. Many became Heroes Ancient Gallifreyans were sensitive to time and its movement.
Modern Gallifreyan Biology
GENETICS - Gallifreyans have Triple Helix DNA as well as TNA. The extra third strand was added by Rassilon to make Regeneration possible. Hidden in Gallifreyan DNA are 'killing lessons' to destroy Cacophony should she ever appear. Time Lords share 98% of their genes with Vampires. The DNA of every previous incarnation lies dormant inside a Gallifreyan's body. By the time he had regenerated 7 times the Doctor (and presumably other Gallifreyans) have 69 chromosomes divided into 23 homogeneous triads. They are vulnerable to some earth viruses, like influenza, fevers, and the common cold. They can also suffer from rheumatism. Before the curse fades almost all Gallifreyans are sterile. Every Gallifreyan has a Biodata Extract (aka biog-data extract, or D-E) sample removed and stored by Coordinator of the Matrix and viewable only by the Coordinator, the Castellan, and members of the High Council. Losing one's virginity makes it much more difficult (if not impossible) for Gallifreyan technology to read ancestral memories from the subject's biodata. Transmission of an extract is considered treason. There are millions of Time Lord extracts stored in the Archival Office (implying that Gallifrey has had more then 1000 Time Lords for much of it history), but as of The Ancestor Cell a total of only 153,846 Time Lord minds have been uploaded into the Matrix. Extracts of Time Lords are colour coded by chapter. Time Lord D-Es can only be accessed by the High Council or the Castellan and all accesses are logged. Also see this site
NERVOUS SYSTEM -
Gallifreyan brains are green in colour and larger then a human's. They
have Superganglion
which allows them to re-order and re-program their neural pathways at
will. Among other things this allows them to separate the operation of the two hemispheres
of their brains
and makes
them immune to some types of interrogation technology.
They can also switch off the parts of their brain that process input
from various senses, allowing them to limit their vast number of senses to the same range as
a human. They have perfect memory of everything they experience
(in that incarnation)
and an over greater memory storage capacity than a human.
A dormant throwback organ in their brains can allow them to sense higher
dimensions (with training).
They are much more vulnerable to changing magnetic fields then most
humanoids are. Depending on
how their brain is currently configured, and
how "off" their biorhythms are it can sometimes take them a while to
notice the blindingly obvious.
At the base of their brains is a separate tertiary lobe called
the Autonomic Brain that handles all body and motor functions.
This frees the rest of the brain for purely intellectual pursuits
allowing them to think of over 7,432 ideas in a few minutes.
An electroencephalograph of a Gallifreyan brain will show a type of
activity unlike any human brain.
Because of their extended life span Gallifreyans need to clear out some
of their memories every few thousand years. They usually store the more important memories
using telepathic circuits. Gallifreyans have a nerve cluster of major ganglion along their
left collar bone beneath the left clavicle that allows them complete control over their own
metabolism . A blow at this cluster will render them unconscious. Their retinas are so
sophisticated that they can almost think on their own. In addition to rods and cones their
eyes are equipped with octagons,gives them amazing night vision. They can shift their vision
outside the normal visual spectrum allowing them to see a total of 170 different levels of
the electromagnetic spectrum, including in some shades of ultraviolet. There's a lot of
evidence that their eye colour can change depending on mood. Their pupil response is very
different from humans and can resist super intense photo-emissions that would permanently
blind a human.
(If they remember to check)
they can tell whether a humanoid is Gallifrey just by looking at
them.
A
regenerated
Gallifreyan's,
hearing and
smell is better than human's and some Gallifreyans can perform
biochemical analyses of what they eat including identifying blood type.
Unconscious
Gallifreyans can often be awakened with a heated infusion of free
radicals, antioxidants, and tannin (aka boiling tea vapour). The scent of Celery is
considered to be another powerful restorative on Gallifrey. Many Gallifreyans are capable of
amazing voice imitation Thus locks with voice prints are not in common use.
CIRCULATORY SYSTEM -
Most Gallifreyans are loomed with one heart. When they regenerate they
acquire a second heart
that is a mirror image of the first.
Newblood Gallifreyans are loomed with 2 hearts and have excellent
control over their appearance when regenerating. Their hearts are bivalved
and each heart produces two distinct beats per cycle.
Most Gallifreyans have two hearts (a primary and a secondary) each of
which usually beat 60 times per minute and normally fibrillate at a rate of 300. A double
pulse of 170 is considered more or less normal.
The electrical activity of the hearts is much greater then a
humans
and the beats are quite powerful
making it difficult for the hearts to be exactly located with a
stethoscope
The speed of each heart can vary and they can survive with only 1 heart
beating. Gallifreyans are trained to stop both their hearts and feign death for several
hours.
Both hearts are supported by a binary vascular system.
The removal of one heart results in the temporary loss of many
Gallifreyan enhancements while a new heart is grown. If someone has a Gallifreyan heart
transplanted into their body they will be linked to the doner Gallifreyan and it will be
very difficult to kill the doner without killing the receiver as well.
A Gallifreyan's blood pressure is typically 70/70 millimetres of
mercury.
Gallifreyan blood is darker than human blood and reddish-orange.
It doesn't conform with any form of human blood
because it has a different pathological state
and lots of unusual acids.
The respiratory pigment
doesn't use haemoglobin
but does share some of structural characteristics of human
haemoglobin
Their blood doesn't have a type and (due to its regenerative properties)
it is in a constant state of genetic flux. It carries a unique artron energy signature. Not
surprisingly doesn't smell like human blood. Because of its unique nature it can be
transfused into any human without complications. A human recipient will feel rather
energised, probably because it carries oxygen
(and other gases)
vastly better than human blood. They have advanced platelets detect even
tiny amounts of toxins. Gallifreyan lungs can absorb every single molecule of oxygen
inhaled.
They need less
(only 1/4)
oxygen as a human to function normally
and thus they normally take only 4 breaths a minute.
Gallifreyans have a bypass respiratory system and a secondary
cardiovascular system.
When consciously triggered,
the bypass system
contracts,
closing off their primary respiratory passages making them very
resistant to most forms of anaesthetic,
ether,
cyanide, strangulation,
hanging,
and the squeaky voice caused by helium.
Gallifreyans are also much more resistant to mercury poisoning than
Humans.
Mustard Gas is still deadly however.
They lose their sense of smell when they rely on their Bypass
respiratory system.
The bypass respiratory systems also allows
them to hold their breath for several minutes and
, with warning,
a Gallifrey can store enough oxygen in their system to be active for 20
minutes.
If this is insufficient they can enter a trance to reduce their oxygen
intake even further
allowing them to hold their breath for hours. As Gallifreyans pass 1000
years of age their bypass respiratory system becomes less reliable and there is a chance
that they won't be able to awaken from its use.
Some Gallifreyans (such as the Rani) have some trouble breathing in
humid environments.
Also see this
site
and this
site.
PSIONICS -
Whenever two Gallifreyans meet there is a courtesy mind-touch to
identify and acknowledge each other. This allows
them to recognise each other even if they are wearing a new body.
There are also able to tell if humans are telepathic or not.
Gallifreyans suffer psychic feedback, fever and headaches as their telepathic abilities
mature.
Gallifreyans can use touch telepathy to form
entrelacement
(Contact). If they are trying to telepathically contact one of their own
incarnations they don't even need to be touching. Indeed such contact can be made over the
astral plane
(the 4th Dimension)
over galactic distances. Some of them can telepathically block a
person's memories back to an arbitrary point in their life.
They can also implant post-hypnotic suggestions in people who are trying
to read their minds. The Matrix also enhances the Time Lord telepathic powers. Every Time
Lord possesses a quantum of Artron Energy which gives them a unique artron energy
signature.
This is significantly more life-energy than a human has.
It's possible that females might be more gifted with telepathic
abilities.
They generate Artron Energy traces that can be used by others to
determine their age and identity. The energy they possess increases by a minute amount every
time they pass through the Vortex.
They are capable of absorbing lethal amounts of energy from another
humanoid. After doing so a regeneration will be necessary to eliminate the energy. They can
also donate some of their energy to recharge a TARDIS Power Cell but doing so consumes 10
years of their total lifespan.
Gallifreyans can uses a process called Soul Catching to absorb a dying
Gallifreyan's memories.
Mindbending (aka Time Lord Wrestling) is a Time Lord game that involves
a telepathic battle between two contestants. They try to regress each other mentally through
their previous incarnations. Its just a game but it can end in deathlock if a contestant is
pushed back to the point of death.
GENERAL BIOLOGY -
They have got
multiple organs of virtually everything including two more ribs (than
humans). They have 2 of most of the organs that humans have only one of, and 4 of the organs
that humans have only two of.
Aside from the extra ribs a Gallifreyan's skeleton is almost identical
to a humans.
They have only one liver.
Their internal body temperature is 15-16 degrees Celsius
(60 degrees Fahrenheit)
however their skin temperature is only a little below the human
norm.
Gallifreyans tend to find a room temp of 20 C to be uncomfortably
hot.
Despite this, adult Gallifreyans are capable of withstanding
extreme temperatures at both ends of the scales.
They can remain concious in the -270 C cold of space for 6 minutes and
can withstand 200 degrees C for up to 3 minutes. At body temperatures of several hundred
degrees below 0 C a Gallifreyan will lose complete control of their body and appear dead.
Despite this their mind is in fact very active. Gallifreyan probably have tonsils and its
not probably not unknown for them to have to be removed.
Gallifreyans have more than one stomach and are not as vulnerable to
malnutrition as Humans are.
Some (if not all) believe that only one meal a day is perfectly
normal.
Despite this their metabolism is relatively close to a humans and they
can eat the same foods. Some Gallifreyans can use their stomachs to interpret human memory
RNA and producing the Gallifreyan equivalent.
They and can easily go two days without water
and a week without food is not a major strain. In fact they sometimes
sit in thought for days without food or water.
However 40 days without food or water will make a Gallifreyan
delirious.
Gallifreyans metabolise alcohol very quickly so it is almost impossible
for them to become drunk or suffer the effects of hallucinogens. Thus can easily drink 10
pints of beer without showing any ill effects. Some Gallifreyans can use special meditations
to regulate their metabolism. This gives them a very fine control over the rate at which
they metabolise alcohol, making inebriation or hallucinations possible. However Ginger pop
has a severely deleterious effect on any Gallifreyan metabolism.
This allows them to be easily effected by any alcohol they might have
consumed.
They need to urinate every few days.
Arsenic is toxic to Gallifreyans and will inhibit their enzymes. If a
large source of protein, salt, and other chemicals (found in ginger beer) are available a
Gallifreyan who has been poisoned with arsenic can use a major shock or surprise to trigger
Detox. This detoxification allows their stomach to stimulate inhibited enzymes to reverse
and release all toxins a gas that can be exhaled.
This procedure doesn't work for all toxins,
most notably,
Aspirin, which is
incredibly
toxic to Gallifreyans.
The allergic reactions that occur when aspirin begins to interfere with
their genetic structure causes massive a pulmonary and cerebral embolism severe enough to
prevent regeneration. Even touching it can be dangerous. Gallifreyans don't have prostate
glands. When trained they can control their adrenaline, blood-sugar levels, heart rate,
respiration, and perspiration to the point where they can fool 23rd century medical
diagnostics into thinking they are human. They can even switch off any of their organs at
will. They also have control over the speed and location of their hair growth. They can grow
hair faster then humans or stop the growth completely Despite this
some Gallifreyans still shave their faces. Their skin
smells like honey and has extra subdural and subcutaneous layers.
This makes their skin very resistant to radiation,
physical damage, poison ivy, sunburns, and tanning
.
Gallifreyans can resist radiation that will kill a human in 4 minutes
for 2-12 minutes before they start to take noticeable damage.
They can easily absorb 50 times the output of a 21st century medical
X-ray machine
(approximately 50 rems
of Roentgen (aka X-Ray) radiation) and them expel it into any object
they they can touch. Incarnations which appear to be physically younger are significantly
more resistant to radiation then older bodies.
Gallifreyans can erect non porous barriers around their noses, ears and
eyeballs that prevent any intrusion on the molecular level. This allows them to remain
concious for 6 minutes and survive up to 20 minutes in space unprotected.
Gallifreyans have incredible strength
for their size.
They can remain concious when exposed to G-forces that would kill a
human.
They can enter self-induced sleep trance in which breathing, heart beat,
and brain activity are all reduced to an absolute minimum. While in this trance a Time Lord
can ponder complex ideas without any outside distractions. 20 minutes in this state is
equivalent to 8 hours for a human. Thus they only need about 1-6 hours of sleep every 2 days
and some Gallifreyans can get by on a decade of sleep every 100 years. Others become tired
after only being awake for only 4 days. Gallifreyans rarely dream, but when they do, they
sometimes dream of choosing their next bodies, being able to fly, becoming the opposite sex,
and bearing children.
Gallifreyan who have regenerated in that last few days will require a
lot of sleep, even by human standards.
LOOMING -
There are between 3 and 9 million Gallifreyans and
just over 10% of them are female.
Because of their history, Gallifreyan culture tends to view the female
gender as a symbol of the unlike and the outside.
The Curse of the Pythia rendered almost all Gallifreyans are sterile.
Though they are physically capable of sex
most have almost no sex drive.
Losing one's virginity makes it much more difficult (if not impossible)
for Gallifreyan technology to read ancestral memories from the subjects biodata. While some
Gallifreyans will enjoy erotic dancers actual prostitution is very rare.
Despite all this,
some Gallifreyans fall in 'love' and some undergo get marriage. However
Gallifreyan Marriages are almost always undertaken to maintain the power of the Chapters by
strengthening the political power of the Houses involved.
A Gallifreyan generation is 10,000 years.
Each Chapter house has a loomshed, which holds the House’s
Loom.
The Honourable Central Population Directory defines the quota of cousins
for each House's Loom. A loom consists of millions of fine cords which
weave matter (probably Rapid Growth Biomass) and biodata
together.
For several days spirals of data flow down these cords and are woven
into a mesh. From this mesh a Gallifreyan
Childe
is formed. During this time Loom-Tender's supervise and occasionally
sing traditional rhymes.
The Looms are complex anchors in time designed to link the Gallifreyan
to Gallifrey and, by extension, the Web of Time. As such they have limited knowledge of the
future of every loomling. They probably weave not only DNA but also give each loomling a
distinct future.
Depending on the Loom, some loomlings
(or childes)
produce offspring as small child
e
s (reminiscent of a human child)
other looms produce them as full grown adults. The children have milk
teeth.
Gallifreyans in their teens need as much food as a human teenager if not
more.
Adult Gallifreyans eat about as much as human.
Young Gallifreyans need to sleep a little more then most humans,
but after they pass First Maturation and learn to control their bodies,
they only need 1-2 hours a day.
DEVELOPMENT -
A Gallifreyan child
e
ages slower then Humans and it takes hundreds of years for them to
mature into what a Gallifreyan would consider an adult. A loomling will have trouble using
proper grammar, but can walk right after Looming.
At 5 years old, loomlings are amazingly intelligent
. An 11 year old would look like an 8 or 9 year old human,
but a 16 year old would look like an earth teenager.
At around this point their aging slows dramatically - a 48 year old
would look like an 18 year old human. Some one around 60 would still still look like young
adult but would still considered to be a very young child
e.
They are still considered kids at age 90.
Childes spend several decades undergoing Brainbuffing both at home and at
school.
Most (if not all) children are taken from their families at the age of 8
to attend their Chapter's Academy.
At some points in history some aliens (such as Gresaurus) are allowed to
take classes at the Academies. These aliens are not allowed to learn any Temporal
Engineering skills. One of these races was the War Lord Aliens. They were expelled for
trying to learn how to build TTCs (TARDISes).
The Prydon Chapter has its own Time Academy
and the Patrex Chapter has its own Academy
as does each of the other Chapters.
The Prydon Time Academy is open to the air and located on the slopes of
Mount Cadon (Gallifrey's highest mountain). Perfectly
groomed lawns surround the buildings, which are accessed by sand filled
pathways Those taking the mystic studies course spend a great deal of time meditating
and
dark secrets are taught to the monks in the upper levels of its towers.
The Lodge of the Patrexes Academy is located in the Capitol. It has a gate of solid light
with a sphere of the first gold ever formed in the Universe.
The same year they enrol in the Academy each Novice is taken outside the
Capitol to the Untempered Schism for their initiation. They gaze into this gap in reality
and stare at the raw power of the entire Space-Time Vortex. When confronted with eternity
some Novices are inspired, some run away, and a very few go mad. Gallifreyans
who pass
are know as Time Tots
(aka Time Toddlers) and
are given the rank of Novice.
Some (if not all) students receive a new official name while attending
their Academy.
All Gallifreyans receive single names (though they are usually very
long).
The long version of a Gallifreyan's name is written in Old High
Gallifreyan. The length of a Time Lord's name grows as his social and political stature
increase.
They also receive a nickname using Greek letters
that identifies them uniquely and relates to the location their mind
will occupy in the Matrix, based off their
physical and
mental abilities The closer to alpha their names is the greater their
perceived abilities.
These names are listed on the Academy Roll in a bronze Records
Building.
Gallifreyans are force-educated using Neural Training, which on
high-intensity level, can teach someone to speak, read, write, count, and play an instrument
in one hour.
Despite this, there are a number of major similarities between the
Prydon Academy and the schools on Earth in the 20th century. Novices learn quantum mechanics
in Infant School and
even the simplest geometry problem is solved using the first 5
dimensions.
While still Time Tots they read
4 dimensional pop-up books like
Our Planet's Story
.
and Every Gallifreyan Child's Pop-Up Book of Nasty Creatures From
Other Dimensions
. They are also taught to recite their 2337 times tables.
Some of the games the children play might involve extra-galactic space
travel.
They are taught how to live and act in society and that all life is
sacrosanct and that Gallifreyans need to be dedicated to a life of service to Time.
They also study supralogic.
At around 60 they are taught Tri-bio-physics. Novices take the entrance
examination for the
Time Academy
while still in brain buffing.
If they are accepted then, after 12 years
with their Chapter's Academy, they are enrolled in the Time
Academy. If they don't pass they remain at their Chapter's Academy.
Gallifreyans are not considered
legal
adults until they are 200 years old
A Gallifreyan who is almost 400 years old is a legal adult, but they are
viewed as being an adolescent but his elders until he can taste his own tongue.
750
-850
years old is considered to be analogous to "approaching middle
age."
REGENERATION (aka Face-Lift, Telebiogenesis) -
Several sources claim that Time Lords are the only Gallifreyans who are
capable of regeneration. But several other sources show normal (ie non-Time Lord)
Gallifreyans regenerating without anyone considering it unusual.
Regeneration was created to extend the already amazing Gallifreyan
lifespan.
Gallifreyan bodies are filled with self-replicating biogenic
molecules
(sometimes known as the Immortality Virus,
the Legacy of Rassilon or nanites) that work ceaselessly to repair and
prune damaged and malformed cells. Because of this
it takes hundreds of years for a Gallifreyan to show signs of
aging.
These biogenic molecules are a variation of symbiotic nuclei and
(probably using sonic waves) gives
all
Gallifreyans a symbiotic self-renewing cell structure.
Time Lords actually use their symbiotic nuclei to govern regeneration.
If a Gallifreyan's symbiotic cell structure was ever deactivated they will not be able to
regenerate. The biogenic molecules allow the body to dispose of foreign objects and implants
fairly quickly.
They usually recover from unconsciousness faster than humans.
By
"retreating" into a healing trance most injuries
(such as burns and diseases)
can be healed
in a day. While extreme pain or
a sufficiently strong audio-visual barrage will automatically induce
a
healing
trance
some training is required to enter one voluntarily. The biogenic
molecules are aided by temporal platelets which cluster around any wound,
accelerating time in that area
to speed the healing. A broken leg takes about 4 days to heal
and non-lethal bullet wounds heal in a day (the bullet is ejected from
the body). Bullet grazes heal in a few hours. A combination of a bullet hole through the
frontal lobe, a broken nose, jaw, femur, and collarbone will take a Gallifreyan 6 months to
heal. They can also recover from deadly poisons and selectively regenerate specific organs
while in the trance. These rates of healing can be enhanced if the Gallifreyan is kept near
(or inside) a TARDIS.
While in the healing trance, they will appear dead to most
humanoids,
but other Gallifreyans can tell they're alive.
Their body temperature will drop so far below zero that that frost
sometimes forms on the body and the mind will essentially switch off. Despite this
one
heart will continue to beat about once every 10 seconds.
While in the trance they can metabolise many types of poisons and
drugs.
A fall of 30 feet
(or even 200 feet)
can be survived
by a combination of bone relaxation and cellular break down and
regeneration (similar to what happens in larval pupa).
They have been know to survive lightning strikes.
Given several months a Gallifreyan can grow a new heart (should one of
their originals be removed). It might be possible for them to grow new limbs.
If kept alive, a Gallifreyan’s severed body part can be used to
detect whether that specific Gallifreyan is in the area.
If the body is subjected to great stress such as a severed limb,
extreme
illness, (or perhaps extreme boredom) the the Limbic (or
Lindal) Gland releases the hormone Lindos to trigger Regeneration. As
the hormone travels throughout the Gallifreyan's body will begin to feel weak as it prepares
to lose solidity. Gallifreyans are educated in how to control their regenerations at their
chapter's academy.
It is also possible for some
(all?)
Time Lords to will their own regeneration without stress or
injury.
By enacting the proper meditative techniques
a Gallifreyan can
temporarily
delay their regeneration for several hours
and (if their will is great enough) several days
- unless they die first.
Chemical and telepathic signals can be used to force regenerate someone
who is badly wounded (but not somebody who is concious and refuses to regenerate).
Gallifreyans who are exposed to the vacuum of space for several minutes, have had both their
hearts punctured, or suffer a direct hit by a Dalek particle beam can not regenerate.
It is possible to regenerate from a glancing hit by a Dalek
Neutraliser.
Ideally all regenerations should take place within
a low-grade telepathic field (like the inside of
a TARDIS). As a body prepares for its very first regeneration, they will
get very weak.
The extra third strand of Gallifreyan DNA was added by Rassilon to make
Regeneration possible.
This strand stores
the regenerative information within a Gallifreyan's Bioplasmic Field
that surrounds their bodies. During regeneration this information is conveyed to the
biogenic molecules
via a bio-language called Nucleolingua Symbiotica.
When a regeneration does occur the permanently carried self-replicated
biogenic molecules
rebuild the body in a violent biological eruption of
Artron
Energy.
Using this energy
every molecule in
every cell is adjusted, displaced, rearranged causing a complete renewal
and healing. A
blinded Gallifreyan will regain their sight after after a regeneration
if the neural pathways controlling his sight are intact. Even damaged synapses are repaired.
and a Gallifreyan who regenerates after decapitation will grow a new head
(that will probably have the same memories as the original).
A regeneration is an exhilarating experience akin to driving a car very
very fast.
If a Gallifrey the regeneration was triggered by an injury, and the
subject a suitable bio-matching receptacle (a spare hand that had been amputated for
example) is available, they can abort the Regeneration after the healing process is complete
by siphoning off all the extra energy into the receptacle This is a rare occurrence as
regeneration was never intended to be used to heal injuries (and by-matching receptacles are
rarely available).
In most cases, once all the cells have been healed, the regeneration
of the body (and to a lesser degree) the mind will consume the rest of the
Artron
Energy. The subjects body will be completely restructured.
Regeneration also restructures the biodata of the subject, thus it could
affect the subjects past as well as its future.
At the first regeneration the nanomachines are programmed to build into
the new body a number of improvements and backup systems including
a new heart.
For this reason
the first regeneration is usually the most painful.
At the end of the regeneration the comatose Gallifreyan is
awakened
with by an automatically triggered electroencephallic shock.
It
takes about 10-60 minutes for the body to "gel" completely
which allows
members of New Blood Houses
some time to try various forms.
Occasionally two Gallifreyans will end up with bodies that look the
same.
This could mean that the looms have only a limited number of bodies
stored in their data spirals.
The new body will
often
have a different personality
that expresses a different aspect of their fundamental
personality.
A copy of the previous personality is stored in the memory space for
eventual transfer into the Matrix. Each copy is kept "sleeping" in a "room with no doors."
The past incarnations often resent being locked away and wish they could have lived longer.
Some Time Lords of the first rank can achieve Retro-regeneration and temporarily summon the
skills and personality of a former incarnation. A TARDIS's Telepathic Circuits can help a
Time Lord achieve this.
Regeneration often causes temporary memory gaps and, while many skills
remain the same, it appears that many dexterity based skills need to be "relearned" (at a
fairly quick rate)
due to the difference in body design.
A Gallifreyan's handwriting remains more or less the same throughout all
of their incarnations.
Until recently Regeneration was still a relatively risky procedure.
While regenerating
a Gallifreyan's body might incorporate any foreign biodata it comes in
contact with
allowing them to change species.
Thus a Gallifreyan could regenerate and find himself to be half human.
This problem was only corrected within the last several thousand years. Gallifreyans from
Newblood Houses have amazing control over there regenerations.
This allows them to try on several different genetic templates (and
appearances) during a regeneration.
This technique can be taught with some success to other Gallifreyans. It
is possible for a male Gallifreyan to regenerate into a female or a dog
if they regenerate by committing suicide
.
For these reason there's a fair amount of "regeneration politics" among
certain factions on Gallifrey. These focus on issues of class, gender, and species. Some are
even capable of temporarily shifting their genetic make-up enough to fool some types of gene
scanners without inducing a regeneration.
Within the first 15 hours of regeneration a Gallifreyan will still have
enough residual cellular energy to regrow a severed body part, such as a hand.
The new body part might be designed to prevent what ever caused the loss
of the original. Shortly after regeneration Gallifreyans will often experience bursts of
superhuman strength and speed
while the new body stabilises
They can also experience Ambient Complexity which causes erratic and
volatile mood changes. Its worth knowing that extreme heat combined with adrenalin can
temporarily stabilise a newly regenerated mind. In most cases the Gallifreyan's mind will
synchronise properly within 4 days returning their strength, reflexes, and personality to
normal (for their new incarnation). In some cases Post-Regenerative
Trauma
can cause severe personality instability.
Some times
in the absence of a Zero Room
the subject never synchronises properly.
Both Metamorphic Symbiosis Regenerators and Zero Rooms can assist with
regenerative trauma and ambient complexity.
Anaesthetic can delay or destroy the regenerative process
and cause amnesia. Gallifreyan biofields have to be very active to adapt
to the trauma of Regeneration. So much so that if a member of a lesser species lives on
Gallifrey the bio-fields will rejuvenate their cells and replace their telemeres. As a
result the primitive will age very slowly and live for centuries. If this alien was to leave
Gallifrey they will start to age rapidly: a year for every day.
For all these reasons regenerations are usually planned months to years
before the actual event.
Gallifreyan technology (such as a TARDIS) or assistance is essential to
ensure survival during a regeneration
especially if the subject has suffered radiation damage.
Without technological assistance (such as a TARDIS) a Gallifrey runs the
risk of the regeneration aborting halfway through leaving the subject looking like some sort
of multi-limbed monster.
It is very dangerous for Gallifreyans who haven't passed First
Maturation (ie teenagers) to regenerate.
For this reason
it is usually forbidden for Gallifreyans to regenerate until they are
500 years old. Discussions of regeneration among Gallifreyans appears to be similar to sex
amongst humans (not good table manners). Some seedy Gallifreyan Cardinals hang themselves to
get rid of extra regenerations. This is considered to be a dangerous hobby.
A single body can last over 1000 years but the subject's body will
atrophy until he's only a few feet tall and he will require a wheelchair for
mobility.
After 12 regenerations the biogenic molecules begin to decay
naturally.
Gallifreyans are limited to 13 bodies because
their minds and
bodies can only withstand the strain of twelve regenerations.
Each body can last centuries
and Gallifreyans only need to regenerated every thousand years or so.
However the last few incarnations generally don't last as long as the earlier bodies. If a
Gallifreyan suffers a severe enough injury in his 13th body a regeneration will be
triggered, but its inevitable failure will kill the subject.
Triggering a 13th Regeneration might be the accepted way that
Gallifreyan's end their lives.
It is possible to "recharge" a regeneration cycle, but this can only be
done with the permission of the High Council and requires a massive amount of
Artron
Energy.
It probably involves a Metamorphic Symbiosis Regenerator.
Occasionally a Gallifreyan renews his regenerative cycle by "Jumping
Looms" (being reborn into a new Family).
DEATH -
Technically
Gallifreyans are immortal except for accidents.
In practice they choose there final Death Day between 7,000
and 12,000
(usually at about age 10,000).
They often spend the last years leading up to their final Deathday in
meditation. All Gallifreyans can force themselves to stay alive indefinitely.
When they choose their Deathday, many Gallifreyans have massive
ceremonial funerals (with lots of Remembrance Flowers).
Legally
all deceased consciousness must be interned in the Amplified Panatropic
Computations Network
(sometimes known as the Remembrance Garden)
of the Matrix. This is done either directly using electrical scans of
the brain pattern at the moment of death
(or no more then an hour afterwards)
or after the fact in cinerary urns.
Because of the risk of psychosomatic feedback living brains are never
hooked directly into the Matrix. The Lord President is an exception to this but he spends
years training for such contact.
Gallifreyans can also use 'Soul Catching' to take the 'mind' of someone
who is dying.
Once in the APC they live on forever.
The deceased Gallifreyan's body is entombed in the vaults beneath their
Houses
where they quickly break down into degenerate matter and then into
random molecules.
Under some
(not entirely clear)
circumstances the disintegration of a Gallifreyan's body can happen
within a minute after death.
THE LORDS OF TIME
“
The Web of Time could not exist until Rassilon built the Eye of Harmony,
the
hitching post of Chronology, that which does not flux nor wither nor change its
state.”
-The Doctor
EYE OF HARMONY (aka Rassilon's Star, the Caldera, the Time-Sun, the Black Hole of
Rassilon)
Rassilon’s Star was originally a
Population III
star named
Qqaba.
Rassilon and Omega used the Hand of Omega to turn this star into a
rotating Black Hole.
Using Amaranths and
Stasis-Halos,
Rassilon brought the nucleus of the first Black Hole to Gallifrey. The
Eye was stabilised in an eternally dynamic equation against the mass of Gallifrey.
This star became known as the Eye of Harmony because it sits outside
History and watches the rest of the Universe. The Eye makes up the largest structure on
Gallifrey
- so large that it needs its own
fold in space
micro-universe to contain it.
This chamber is known as the Caldera and
is located under the Panoptican (assembly hall) in the Capitol. Rassilon
also created the ebonite rod known as the Rod of Rassilon (sometimes
translated as
"Great Key") which allows a Time Lord physical access to
the Power Mast of
the Eye of Harmony.
The Caldera itself can be accessed via the Vaults found beneath the
Capitol. The Security Codes needed to enter the Cladera change every microspan. If a lesser
species was to enter the Caldera they would be killed.
Within the Event-Horizon of the black hole is singularity and a universe
of antimatter. All the known physical laws cease to exist here and anyone with a high
enough
reality quotient and
willpower can have god-like powers.
Outside the Event-Horizon of the spinning star is an area called the
Ergosphere. In this area energy that escapes the singularity’s gravity is accelerated
and amplified to almost infinite levels. Rassilon surrounded the Ergosphere with an iron
sphere 10 kilometres in diameter. This sphere was mirrored on the inside. Rassilon allowed a
light beam to enter the sphere. This light was amplified by the singularity’s
Ergosphere, reflected off the mirrored sphere, was amplified again, and so on. Each time the
light beam gained energy. A small hole at the top of the sphere releases the amplified light
beam.
Using transdimensional physics,
the Eye was shifted slightly into the future so that the near infinite
power of the light beam emerges in a controllable osmotic stream.
This process is known as singularity inversion.
After being converted into Artron Energy, the power is ready for use.
Artron energy is measured in units called Omegas. This near magical use of super radiant
scattering allows
the Eye of Harmony to provide energy for all of Gallifrey’s needs
(including time travel). The destabilisation of the Eye of Harmony
would cause Gallifrey to turn into antimatter,
creating a quasar that
would destroy a hundred worlds.
Rassilon created the Great Key of
Rassilon (not to be confused with the Rod of Rassilon). This object can be used to power the
planetary defence time weapon, the D-Mat Gun.
The D-Mat gun is the ultimate Omnicalculator. The Great Key links this
quantum computer to the Eye of Harmony. When a target is “hit” by a D-Mat gun
its entire timestream (and biodata if sentient) is recorded and then all of history is
rewritten so that the only difference between this Universe, and the previous one is the
total absence of the target. Objects hit with the D-Mat gun become Never-Objects existing
only in the gun’s perfect memory.
When the Great Key of Rassilon is used with the Rod, the Sash, and the
Matrix
Crown
the user has direct access to the sum total of Time Lord Power.
Only two Time Lords have had access to all of these
simultaneously
- Rassilon, and The Doctor. To prevent this power from being abused the
Great Key of Rassilon is held in secret by the Chancellor. Officially the Great Key is lost
and most Time Lords believe that is is only a legend. The Key appears to have the ability to
wipe the memories of its users (as per the wisdom of Rassilon)
and it is likely that when a Time Lord ceases to be Chancellor all
memory of the Great Key is taken from them.
THE WEB OF TIME (aka History, Time, Causal Nexus)
The Web of Time,
within the
Space-Time Vortex, was constructed by Rassilon and the Other. The
Space-Time Vortex is an atom sized dimension which contains the Web of Time. It when mapped
into three dimensions is can look like any of the opening sequences of Doctor Who.
The Vortex became a dimension of pure thought with a complexity that
borders on sentience
(in fact the Faction Paradox believe that it is sentient and refer to it
the Loa).
The Web of Time is a vast transdimensional spiral that encompasses the
universe and serves as a foundation for all points in space and time.
Its creation made it much easier for the Time Lords (and any other
species) to travel in time but it also made it much harder for anyone to change
history.
The Vortex enables Time Travel Capsules to move from Minkowski space and
integrate into the fifth dimension.
The Observer Theory states that for the changing of history to make any
sense their must be an outside observer who watch all of history and sees this change. The
Eye of Harmony is that observer.
The Eye of Harmony created a Universe of Positive Time by locking down
the Web of Time within the Space-Time Vortex. It serves as an anchor for the
Continuity
and causality
of the Universe and probably sits at the exact centre of the
Vortex.
While the Time Lords' control of the Weak Nuclear Force
(and through it Gravity and Time)
extends only to the limits of this cluster of Galaxies,
the Noosphere (the range of understanding and data that is defined by a
culture's physical, perceptive or comprehensive capabilities) of Time Lord activity is much
larger. This
Noosphere
is known as the Spiral Politic and
reaches from
around 3500 years after Event 0 (the Big Bang)
to the time of the story Frontios
(10,000,000 AD)
and covers most of Space.
This forms a temporal barrier to legal Timeship travel.
It should be noted that there are areas within the Spiral Politic that
the Time Lords can’t observe or penetrate.
It is possible that some other power with their own Eye sits in distant
future beyond the Noosphere.
In order to be connected to all points in space and time the
Transduction Barriers
shifts the planet outside of the space-time continuum and into its own
Microuniverse
of Inner Time.
Despite being in Inner Time, Gallifrey is still liked via a real-time
analogue to its former location in the Web of Time.
Rassilon
and Jelen
create the Transduction Barriers and installed the machinery that
controls them on level 30, right below the Panoptican. They use
delta circuitry and
probably quasitronics. The Barriers are
a 10 dimensional defence
field that prevent
atomic sized
infiltrations, teleporters, and illicit frequencies,
but they can’t stop spaceships from landing. They also allow their
primary star's sunlight and gravity to reach them but block all weapons fire or kamikaze
runs. Because of this barrier when one is on Gallifrey one is "outside" of the
Universe.
Once lowered into place a TARDIS can not breach the Transduction
Barriers.
The Lord President’s Rassilon Imprimatur and Presidential Code
allow him and his TARDIS to pass through the transduction barrier at will. When a Timeship
passes through the Transduction Barriers the effect is visible from Gallifrey’s
surface.
If Gallifrey was every to be attacked the Transduction Barrier would be
raised to Factor 5.
The Time Lords also use Transduction Barriers in other locations
such as TARDIS Neural Construction Docks
to prevent the Capsules from escaping.
The Eye (and thus all of Gallifrey) sits at the centre of the Web of
Time and anchors all of its threads.
The Eye was stabilised in an eternally dynamic equation against the mass
of Gallifrey.
This star became known as the Eye of Harmony because it sits outside
History and watches the rest of the Universe. The structure of the whole planet of Gallifrey
became a bio-system in which biodata acts as a planet sized receiver and processor of data
from the rest of the universe.
The Time Lords
use the Eye of Harmony's control over the Web of Time
and their ability to manipulate the Weak Nuclear Force
and the Force of Gravity
to map out every inch of the Universe and define the rational laws upon
which it functions.
This is probably done using the
Skasas Paradigm (aka the God Maker or the Universal Theory) which
unlocks how the universe works, giving the user complete control of the basic building
blocks of the universe (time, space, matter).
Using the data collected the Time Lords can observe and predict almost
any event. In mapping out the Universe they rationalise it and create a permanent version of
space-time.
Because of this most primitive forms of time travel aren't capable of
making major changes to History.
This Intuitive Revolution destroys Irrationality and Magic. Cacophony
(irrationality and magic) is banished from the Universe.
This lack of belief might have caused the destruction of dragons,
unicorns, faeries, slithy toves, bread-and-butterflies and other illogical creatures.
Psionics are the only quasi-magical phenomenon that survives.
The Web of Time is the structure that all future races used to build
their own histories on. The Time Lords view History (aka the Web of Time) as high-order
mathematical structures that can be predicted by powerful computers.
These predictions can then be presented in an infinity chamber. The
infinity chamber in the Citadel is capable of decrypting the universe and predicting the
course of history,
however these processes are complex enough to be regard as living
beings. Indeed some Time Lords (and all members of Faction Paradox) view history as a
sentient being or beings (sometimes called Loa). The Web is capable of affecting the mind's
of a Time Lord.
In conjunction with the Web of Time, the Eye of Harmony was used to
define the physical and temporal laws of the Universe. It also might have been used to
influence the evolution of these species so that most resembled the Gallifreyans.
The Rassilon Imprimiture biologically links a Time Lord to the Web of
Time,
making the foundation of the first four dimensions an integral part of
Time Lord biology and culture. This link means that Time Lords keep history largely
unchanging merely by existing. Indeed they are so intertwined with the universe that they
are a part of the Laws of Time and Space.
Thus only beings with a Rassilon Imprimiture (or a similar biodata) are
capable of making significant changes to History. Thus in the Web of Time only Time Lords
truly have free will. Unfortunately
in order to keep the Web of Time stable it is necessary for the Time
Lords to be steady and unchanging.
This is why
all Time Lords are instilled with an ideal of service towards
Time.
To ensure stability
cultural change and natural reproduction are forbidden on
Gallifrey.
The very idea of Gallifrey having a history of its own is viewed as
vulgar and primitive.
A single timeship exploding in the Vortex is no danger but the
destruction of a fleet of 1700 timeships could rupture the Web of Time permanently.
It is unhealthy for even a Time Lord to stand too close to the
Eye
due to density of strands in the Web of Time.
Whenever another species causes enough temporal distortion to damage the
Web an Interventionist (probably the CIA) is sent to prevent the species from causing
further damage. If that Time Lord doesn't return then the Time Lords (again, probably the
CIA) has that Time Lords personal timeline shut down effectively removing that worlds
timeline from history (apparently to be replaced by one where the temporal damage never
happened in the first place). This prevents the missing Time Lord from being used to damage
the rest of the Web. The alternate timelines are attached, in a spoke like pattern, to the
Axis, which is located in inter-dimensional space. The Overseer, from the sideways dimension
of Guardus, supervises the Axis. Each of these timeline is trapped in a giant loop. While
most of the timelines in the Axis are created by the Time Lords some are produced by other
species.
By the end of the Universe over 100 billion alternate versions of
history will have been created.
It should be noted that the creation of the Web of Time also create Anti-Time - the
opposite of the positive time. This timeless shadow of the Web of Time is just as
destructive to causality and continuity as anti-matter is to matter. The theory of Anti-Time
is viewed as superstition for millions of years.
THE MATRIX OF TIME (aka the Space-Time Amplified Panatropic Computations Matrix, the
Matrix):
The Matrix of Time is a vast extra-dimensional panotropic computer
network that exists in its own micro-universe outside of Time and History.
It is the essence of Gallifrey and its culture.
Its memory system is an eleven dimensional self referential lattice
of
trillions of neural electro-chemical cells in a continuous
matrix.
These Neural mechanics can processes data faster than the speed of
Time.
The Matrix is a small part of Gallifrey's Amplified Panatropic Computer
Network (APC Net) and stores the memories all dead Time Lords and the personality of
hundreds of Time Lords.
The first intelligence to be stored in the APC was the
Rassilon's.
As of The Ancestor Cell there are billions of minds stored in the APC
but only a total of only 153,846
full
Time Lord minds.
The Matrix's purpose is to monitor
all
events in the Capitol and predict future developments within the
Capitol.
All Time Lord minds are connected to the Matrix on a basic level
via
Reflex Link found in their brains.
Through the Matrix
this Reflex Link connect every Time Lord to the Time Lord
Intelligentsia.
The Matrix gathers information from the Time Lords and allows Time Lords
to telepathically contact each other. This link can be used across space and time.
It might also be used to allow the Intelligentsia to access the full
Power of Creation.
Localised Transduction Barriers can be used to shield a Time Lord form
the Matrix. Time Lords who exiled lose the ability to contact other Time Lords across space
and time.
The Temporal Scanning Service is responsible for collecting tempographs
and monitoring the outside Universe. It is overseen by a sub-committee of the High Council
made up of three Time Lords - one of which is a representative of the CIA.
The biodata of the whole planet of Gallifrey acts as a planet sized
receiver and processor of data from the rest of the universe.
With the sum of all Time Lord minds (living and dead) as well as the
input from sensors fitted into newer TARDlSes,
and data from Time Space Visualisers,
the Matrix provides the Time Lords with vast (but not entirely complete)
amounts of information about the Universe.
Inside the Citadel's Temporal Scanning HQ Time Lords use infinity
chambers to map out every inch of the History of the Universe. This information is stored in
the Archive Banks.
Using this information the Matrix can predict
a few billion years into
the future. Some events can be predicted with a great deal of accuracy.
The more primitive information in the Matrix was archived in Phase 1 and 2. The more
advanced and recent information was kept in a master file composed of Phases 3,4,5 and
6.
The Matrix has a back up of all its records called the Secure
Information Dump, which is located in the Labyrinth. The Labyrinth is the framework beneath
normal time - the foundations of History itself. All information is stored on printed books.
Their are miles of corridors with each section being allocated to a single Chapterhouse.
Many sections have around 100,000 books.
The Labyrinth also includes books
written by aliens that were "collected" by the Time Lords.
Since the records are located outside of normal time it will remain
protected and unchanged even if History is changed.
The Labyrinth is maintained by the
Minotaur, who is a function or extension of the Labyrinth.
This library is connected to every Gallifreyan outpost however a ticket
is need to check out a book.
The Matrix requires maintenance (such as the replacement of a transductor)
approximately once every 1000 years. It would appear that only the Inner Council knew much
about the Matrix before The Deadly Assassin but afterwards all Time Lords
and Academy Students
are guaranteed limited access to the Matrix.
The Matrix Safeguards automatically wipe any irrelevant info that a user
stumbles across Every time they access the Matrix they leave a unique artron imprint.
Only the President has full viewing rights
through the use of the Matrix Crown (aka the Matrix Diadem
or Coronet). The Matrix has never rejected a President. The Sash of
Rassilon that is worn by the President
alters his biodata to allow easier access to the Matrix.
The President also has the authority to isolate Master Control of the
Matrix (i.e. prevent anyone from accessing it) by charging the transduction field. Most of
the access doors to the Matrix
are located in the Archive Tower.
but the legendary Seventh Door is capable of being summoned to any
location
by the Key.
Another access point can be found in the Vaults. Rassilon created the
Key of Rassilon, which allows access to all Doors of the Matrix. This key is entrusted to
the Keeper of the Matrix
(aka the Matrix Coordinator).
Though it is not commonly know the Key can be copied. If a Time Lord has
the Key of Rassilon they can interface their TARDIS with the Matrix's thought space.
Lord Presidents who physically enter the Matrix dreamscape can leave
through any of the other “Doors” to the Matrix.
Unlike the Matrix Crown the Key gives someone the ability to re-write
and alter pre-existing information stored in the Matrix. The Matrix is maintained by the
Co-ordinator of the Matrix (aka the Keeper of the Matrix) from the APC Control room
(in the Archive Tower).
He keeps the Key of Rassilon in his possession at all times. The
Co-ordinator
and his subordinate Matricians
use the Matrix to monitor life in the Capitol and record predictions
about future events.
There is also a Sub-Matrix which handles the basic functions of Capitol,
like transductions. There is a little known partition of the Matrix nicknamed the Pandora
Partition. This partition stored the Dark Designs (the dark sides of the mind) of the all
the Time Lords 'living' in the Matrix. Because of her massive desire for power the Time Lady
Pandora (aka the Imperiatrix) rules over this partition. Should Gallifrey be destroyed or
retro-annulled the Matrix would continue to survive within its own dimension for 50-60
years. Gallifreyans use datacubes when they need to physically transport information.
There are rumours among the Time Lords that the Matrix always existed
and created the Gallifreyans just so that it would have a point of origin. There are also
some Gallifreyans who believe the Matrix controls the Time Lords. The Mother of all TARDISes
always existed and created the Gallifreyans just so it would have a point of origin. She
believes that she controls the Time Lords.
THE LAWS OF TIME:
Rassilon created the Laws of Time during the Time of Legend
and insured that they were hard wired into the structure of the Web of
Time when the Eye of Harmony was first created.
The Kingmaker is the Keeper of the Laws of Time.
The Time Lords teach these Laws as Scientific Laws and most
(including almost all the Oldbloods)
believe them to be such. They learn these laws by rote. These Laws are
based on
Mason and
Aaron Blinovitch's early work in Temporal Physics. There are over 15,000
Laws of Time.
Time Lords consider the preservation of History to be far more important
than the preservation of life.
Some Time Lords realise that the Laws of Time will let you get away with
virtually anything if you do it subtly enough.
It is technically possible for these Laws to be overturned or revoked,
but to do so would destroy Time Lord culture and power.
The Laws of Time give the Time Lords the divine purpose of serving Time itself by maintaining the continuity/history of the fabric of the space-time continuum and the causality of the Universe. They claim that this service is their right because they were first humanoid culture to naturally evolve and see this as providing justice to all species. The Time Lords consider their Constitution to be the Mother of Democracy.
I. No being shall distort History
as he knows it.
You can't alter the Past.
This is the most important Law of the Time Lords.
This is a moral as well as legal law.
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THE TIME LORDS:
A Novice,
the Kingmaker,
The Seal of the Prydonian Chapter,
the Untempered Schism
"I swear to protect the Ancient Law of Gallifrey with all my might and main, I will to
the end of my days with justice and with honour temper my actions and my thoughts."
-Time Academy Induction Ceremony
THE ACADEMY OF TIME (aka The University, the Time Academy) -
Novices at the Chapter Academies take the entrance examination for
the
Time Academy
while still in brain buffing.
If they are accepted then, after 12 years
with their Chapter's Academy, they are enrolled in the Time
Academy.
The Time Academy is a self-contained city annexed to the Capitol. The
Academy covers 28 square miles. It has it's own TARDIS cradles. The Academy is deliberately
structured so that the students hate being there. This is considered part of the learning
process. Initiates at the Academy wear one piece robes that are the colours of their
chapter. Initiates live at the dormitories at the Academy unless their houses are nearby.
The dormitories are segregated by sex. Pets are not allowed in the dormitories. Students at
the Academy have partial access to the Matrix.
Most (if not all) of the Time Lord councillors teach at the
Academy.
The Academy has a Codex of Disciplines that they teach. Academy students
are forbidden to study the later Human Era because it is outside the influence of the Time
Lords.
They learn to stop their hearts and feign death.
They are also forbidden to regenerate until they turn 500 years old.
Students spend a great deal of time chanting their lessons and are always watched closely
while working on a project.
All subjects that don't relate to temporal phenomenon (such as art,
culture, and biology) are classified as General Studies. Its possible the operation of
Veteran and vintage Timeships is classified as General Studies as students are able to
substitute the Life-Cycle of the Flutterwing as an alternative class. General Studies
classes are viewed as being less important by the Time Lords.
No course in Hydrology is offered at the Academy. A score of 8 out of 10
is a very good grade for a project.
Many Gallifreyans attend the Time Academy, but only a very select few are chosen to
become Time Lords.
Symbiotic Nuclei are granted when the appropriate course work has been
completed
With the acceptance of the symbiotic nuclei the Initiates become Junior
Grade Time Lords.
The education of a Time Lord costs a House a small fortune.
Those that don't become Time Lords are doing well if they make it to the
7th Grade.
No Gallifreyan student has ever been permanently expelled from the Time
Academy.
The number of Time Tots accepted is quite limited because
(in modern times)
there are only 1,000 Time Lords at any given time.
Each Chapter can have 100 full Time Lords at any time.
The rest are probably Apprentice and Junior Grade Time Lords.
For this reason, despite different ages and different entrance years,
all students selected to become Time Lords
in a certain millennium
will have the same graduation year.
There are Data-Extracts of millions of Time Lords on file
but as of The Ancestor Cell only a total of 153,846
full
Time Lords have been created.
Because the Web of Time has been dependent on the Time Lords for so
long,
Junior Time Lords are encouraged to think of themselves as forces of
nature
and history
rather than as a people or a living species.
They consider their physical nature and needs to be vulgar.
Junior Time Lords have limited access to the Power
of Creation
through the direct link to the Eye of Harmony that their heart (or one
of their hearts if a Newblood) provides.
Technically speaking only Gallifreyans who have a Time Travel Capsule
hold the title of Time Lord.
To achieve full Time Lord status Junior Grade Time Lords must undergo
numerous challenges (including the Cavern of Infinite Death) and lessons before they travel
to Mount Plutocracy to meet the Kingmaker. The Kingmaker is the being who is responsible for
granting full Time Lord status. The Time Lords guard Time and the Kingmaker guards the Time
Lords.
For this reason
her Powers are independent from the other Time Lords. She is more
powerful then any any single Time Lord in existence - though not all of them as a whole. She
is the keeper of the Laws of Time and can grant other Time Lords the ability to safely strip
violators of their Time Lord abilities.
At the Academy a Junior Grade Time Lords will
be
chosen by
a TARDIS.
This ceremony appears to be offered only as set times
- probably only once every 1000 years. After the TARDIS has
chosen
the Kingmaker states "We grant you TARDIS!" and
the Time Lord will form a symbiotic bond with the TARDIS
giving him access to the Power of Creation.
Students are then tested to see if they can resist the temptation to use
their new powers. This means a journey to Anima Persis where they are confronted by the
psychic remains of the planet's former inhabitants. The Junior Time Lord is tempted to use
there powers to save themselves from the ghosts. This is a test that all (or almost all)
Initiates fail but failure doesn't prevents one from becoming a Time Lord.
This is why
Academy students learn to "Never talk to the dead."
However in order to graduate as a full Time Lord the student must still
pass the Temporal Engineering tests.
To be a Time Lord one must learn to predict the movements of the
Universe.
A Junior Time Lord's score on these tests is often used a way of
predicting their future career as a Time Lord. Receiving
a Triple Alpha score
in Temporal Engineering
is very note worthy, where as
a Double Gamma
(a 51%) is the minimal passing score.
Graduation ceremonies probably occur only once every thousand years.
Thus several Junior Time Lords of varying ages would be graduated on the same year.
Graduates (without doctorates) can be as young as 125 years old. The
students scores for the final exams are kept confidential.
Only after graduation Time Lords are allowed to make solo trips in their
TARDISes.
(Like any Gallifreyan) all Time Lords have a Biodata Extract taken and
stored in the Archival Office. Time Lord D-Es are colour coded by chapter
People who possess a doctorate are greatly honoured in Gallifreyan
society.
While at the Academy Initiates
often play Eighth Man Bound. This extreme 'rite of passage' claims the
lives of 15 Gallifreyans every macrosemester. A symbiosonic generator is used, and the
student's classmates (called The Inquiry) sit around him and chant his name while the
student tries to predict his future incarnations. An Arcalian managed to discover what his
first seven bodies but couldn't see his eighth. Thus the Arcalians named the game Eighth Man
Bound. Similarly other students with symbiotic nuclei would also play the Perigosto Stick
Game. This involves using
Time Lord powers to keep a
4-dimensional
sphere or cube
in motion,
without letting it fall back into the normal space-time continuum. This
technique is called Transmigration of Object
and was often done as a party trick, even though it often took hours of
preparation The Cardinals always warn the students that Transmigration of Object damages
their biodata.
TIME LORDS (aka
Lords Temporal, Lords of Time, Chronarchs, Timeys) -
Time Lords (or Ladies)
are Higher Evolutionaries who
walk in eternity and are the
self-appointed
guardians of
both Time
and History. While they are considered to be the oldest and most mighty
of the Universe's civilisations the Time Lords view themselves
as academicians and
observers
who are devoted to a life of service to History.
They are always on time, for to be late or early for any event is
unthinkable.
Each Chapter has 100 full Time Lords for a total of 600.
Their are also
about 400
Apprentice
and Junior
Grade
Time Lords at any given time for
a total of 1,000 Time Lords.
Of the 1,000 only about 12 are female.
Technically speaking only Gallifreyans who have a Time Travel Capsule
can hold the title of Time Lord.
Sentients who time travel are thought to have Temporally Active Biodata,
because they have the power to chronoform themselves.
This means that they truly have free will.
All stable forms of time travel require re-writing of the traveller's
biodata.
Time travel makes sentience vulnerable to the influence of powerful
transtemporal beings who exist outside of linear time. These beings will try to force the
time traveller to become their agent/servent.
It is for this reason
any species that wants to become a stable, time-active race must change
itself into another species.
Gallifreyans who attend the Academies have their Biodata modified
(especially their DNA)
by anointing them with Time Energies
from the Eye of Harmony
while they are still Initiates.
This alters the Initiate's DNA, creating the symbiotic nucleotides, a
fourth helix of DNA, and the other capabilities
making the Gallifreyan a Time Lord. Time Lord abilities can also be
added to a subject's biodata
by injecting them with Retro DNA serum in the form of a red liquid. The
initiates gain the rank of Junior Grade Time Lords at this point. Time Lords are rated
human-plus-plus-plus-plus (as opposed to an agent of Faction Paradox which generally only
rate a Human-plus status). Extensive exposure to a Time Lord might cause a human to become
"infected" with Time Lord DNA in some way. The effects of this would not be obvious to a
human.
All Time Lords have Symbiotic
Atomic
Nuclei which is needed to 'prime' a Time Travel Capsules, form a
quasi-symbiotic link with the Capsule, and to prevent the Capsule from molecularly
detabilizing in the Vortex. This
self-regenerating genetic
link in known as the Rassilon Imprimature.
They serve a similar function with Time Rings and other transtemporal
technology. The atomic nuclei serves as a genetic key to the Vortex. It holds the
Dematerilializtion Codes necessary to create a Molecular Stabilisation System.
Without this system a Capsule would be destroyed by the Vortex
after several hundred years.
The semi-instinctual neural-link between a TARDIS and its operator is
almost sexual in its intimacy. Some believe a TARDIS provides a sense of companionship for a
Time Lord in much the same way that a husband or wife does for their spouse. For whatever
reason, sex is completely irrelevant to most Time Lords.
A side effect of the full link is that a Time Lord is constantly sending
small temporal waves throughout the Universe that can be used by Gallifrey to track a Time
Lords space-time travels. The Nuclei might be located in a Time Lord's hearts.
The Symbiotic Nuclei cannot be removed from a Time Lord without killing
them.
They can be permanently deactivated by the right type of mutagen. Such a
deactivation would eliminate a Time Lord's powers and his ability to regenerate.
The modification causes them to grow a
"time brain"
(probably connected to
the temporal lobes)
under the frontal lobes of their brains
making them time sensitive
and giving them resistance to chrono-instability. An organ in their
hypothalamus allows Time Lords to perceive the higher dimensions by reciting the right
equations.
The abnormalites of a Time Lord's brain show clearly in an X-ray.
In all Time Lords have 27 different senses and all but the first five
are related to time. The Time Brain processes many (if not all) of these time senses.
These senses grow more accute the more times a Time Lord crosses the
Time-Fields
in a TARDIS.
These senses will induce a strong sense of prejudice and revulsion if
they detect someone who is immortal because they have become fixed in time and space.
They might have their sense of shame psycho-surgically removed. The
following is a list of known Time Lord senses.
1. Sight
2. Hearing
3. Taste
4. Smell. Time Lord noses might have "special powers."
5. Touch, Temperature and Pain
6.
Acceleration and Balance: A Gallifreyan can sense the rotation of the
planet he's standing on. Gravity and acceleration dialate the passage of time.
7.
Sense of Time: the basic awareness that time is passing which most
lessers species have.
8. Magnetoception:
Strong magnetic fields give their skin goosebumps. Magnetic fields also
cause fluctuations in artron energy.
9.
Topographical Sense: They have Time Lord Topographical Sense which
allows them to remember any path they have taken
(this might work by tracing their own biodata).
To use their Topographical Sense they must however remember to store the
path they took.
Some Time Lords can measure rooms down to the centimeter by eyesight
alone.
10.
Higher Dimensions: An organ in their hypothalamus allows Time Lords to
perceive the higher dimensions by reciting the right equations.
11. The Scent of History:
Time Lords can identify familiars time periods by a sense
akin to
smell. This might be one of the "special powers" their noses have.
12. Crystallisation of local History:
They can see (though not identify) other peoples time traces allowing
them to know if sentient beings have been in the area.
They can also measure how crystallised events are in any given time
zone.
13. Object dating:
They can sense an object's relative age.
14. TARDIS Recognition:
They usually can identify TARDISes as TT Capsules regaurdless of their
disguse and often tell the Type and general condition of the Capsule as well.
15. Reality Quotient: This allows the Time Lord to get a rough idea any
nearby sentient's current reality quotient (assuming its not too low to detect).
16. Reading another's Biodata:
A mechanism inside Time Lord Biodata allows them to sense distortions in
the biodata of others In other words they can tell when someone's personal history has been
altered.
In some
incarnations
this sense is so acute that they can read a person's
biodata (such as
their future history) just by looking at them.
Losing one's virginity makes it much more difficult (if not impossible)
for Gallifreyan technology to read ancestral memories from the subjects biodata.
17: Temporal Disturbance Sense:
Some of these senses will make a Time Lord dizzy
and nausious
when exposed to temporal disturbances. The effects of Chronic Hysteresis
can reduce
Apprentice
Time Lords to tears.
18. Paradox Sense:
Proximity to a temporal paradox causes them headaches.
19.
History Proof:
Time Lords
are "History Proofed" which
gives them superior abilities to remeber alternate timelines (in most
species they are little more then dreams)
and can usually remember previous versions of history books (that they
just read).
20-27.
Various other forms of enhanced temporal perception.
Depite these senses a Time Lord's understanding of the 4th dimension is mathematical
and not instictual. A Junior Time Lord's heart (or one of his hearts if a Newblood) serves
as a link (via the TARDIS) to Gallifrey, and the Prime Eye of Harmony in a way that not even
the Time Lords totaly understand. This link ensures the Time Lords survial and "integrity"
while they travel the Universe. Without this anchoring, a Time Lord who leaves Gallifrey
will die in less than 2 centuries.
This link provides limited access to the Power of Creation,
allowing Junior Grade Time Lords to make minor uses of the power (see
below for more info).
While a Triple Helix of DNA is nessecary for regneration
a Time Lord DNA has quadruple helix. The fourth helix is a "fast line"
which extends
(via a TARDIS)
into the fourth dimension and maps the Time Lord into the Space-Time
Vortex (the fifth dimension) with Block-Transfer Numbers.
Because of this, the Vortex is an integral part of Time Lord biology and
culture. Once linked
to the heart of space time
their TARDISes give them access to the Power of Creation and
they are capable of changing their time state by thinking the right
Block-Transfer Time Equation
allowing them to interact with the deep-level process of the Fourth
Dimension.
This the greatest of the Time Lord powers
and might be related to Quantum Mnemonics or Omega's power of
Psychosynthesis.
The Osiran Sutekh has enough power
to singlehandedly hold of entire time-fleet of War TARDISes and
is one of the few beings whose power might exceed all of the Time
Lords.
However by the year 2966 AD
the Sisterhood of the Flame on Karn claim to be the only other race
whose mental powers are equal to the Time Lords.
This power is such Time Lords who leave Gallifrey (or the micro-universe
of a TARDIS) will, just by observing, crystalizes the mimetic structure of local
History
preventing events from occuring any other way and creating a single
continuity.
The more time a Time Lord spends traveling in the Vortex the more artron
energy they will build up in their bodies.
Experienced Time Lords can work apparent miracles by manipulating Time
(the 4th Dimension) through their access to the dimension of thought and conciousness that
serves foundation of the Universe (the 5th dimension).
By focusing on the right time equations they can alter the rate at which
they experiance time - allowing them to move with seemingly super human reflexes that can be
as much as ten times faster than a human's. They can speed read at a superhuman level
and some can write 30,000 words in just over 2 hours.
Some Time Lords can
(when in the right state of mind) temporairly
shift objects
(or themselves)
out of space,
and levitate their bodies. A sufficiently adept mathematical genius can
project a temporary block-transfer projection of himself through space and time just by
reciting the right equations. Under the right circumstances they might be able to shoot
death rays out of their eyes. The power held by a single Time Lord is limited by both the
age
(or possibly experiance)
of the Time Lord
, the moral code of the Time Lord, and by the total number of Time Lords
in existance at that point. The more Time Lords the more spread out the Power of Creation is
and the less powerful each individual is. The Power is dispersed among all the Time Lords to
prevent one single Time Lord from taking over the Universe.
Using their Reflex Links they might be capable of unifying the Time
Lords to use all of the Power at once. It is possible that there unified minds would create
a powerful block-transfer processor that could create almost any space-time event
desired.
If their were only seven Time Lords left it would be possible for an
young Time Lord to destroy a starship with a thought.
If only a single Time Lord existed he would be able to travel through
time and space just by thinking about it and his every movement would alter history whether
he wanted to or not.
Time Lords keep History (aka the Web of Time) largely unchanging merely
by existing. Indeed they are so intertwined with the universe that they are a part of the
Laws of Time and Space.
They consider is their primary purpose to serve Time. AsHigher
Evolutionaries,
Time Lords have a complex of a pseudo-precognitive powers.
Despite superficial appearances the Universe is not random but instead
follows a complex four dimensional pattern. Time Lords can see this pattern and thus can
predict the future with an astonishing degree of accuracy.
They can perceive (in a vague way) the full history of the biodata of
others.
The Doctor has always had a knack for telling when society was out of
phase or when evil was present.This could be a Time Lord gift, but if it is its not one that
other Time Lords aknowledge.
This Power of Creation should never be used on a large scale. For to do
so would be to bend and corrupt time causing damage to the physical laws of the universe The
larger the use of the power the more devestating the rips in space-time that form as a side
effect. Among the most destructive of these temporal disturbances is the formation of many
new black holes and the increase in power of previously existing ones.
This damaged might be caused because the alternate universe created by
the Power has such temporal momentum that it achieves escape velocity and thus halves the
life of the entire universe.
The only time a large scale use would be acceptable would be to prevent
the power from falling into the hands of a single Time Lord. Time Lords are forbidden to
fall in love or develop other strong affections for lesser species because the emotional
attachment could cause them to use their terrible powers. If a Time Lord is to interact with
lesser species it is recomended they form a series of short shallow short term relationships
to avoid stronger attachments.
Because of the danger of using their power
the the Laws of Time are built into a Time Lord's genetic modifications;
so Time Lords know them instinctually.
These genetic modifications allow them to "think" in 4 dimensions, which
is necessary to truly understand the Laws of Time.
If a Time Lord is going to be tempted to break the Laws of Time, the
violator will experience severe long term memory problems and some pain, months to years
before the temptation. At the moment of temptation the Time Lord will feel large parts of
his personality being blocked and disabled. These retroactive responses are programmed into
the genetic modifications to make it extreamly difficult for a Time Lord to break the Laws
of Time. Once a Time Lord learns to overcome these blocks they become fairly easy to ignore.
Time Lords are programmed to panic if they think that there’s something wrong with the
Space-Time Continuum. Minor and major temporal paradoxes give them headaches. In addition to
pattern-recognition systems are encoded into the genetic memories of the Time Lords' unborn
young they have multidimensional killing responses hidden in their biodata that allows them
to fight their ancient enemies from the Time Wars. Their biodata can't be rewritten by an
outside source (This might be the second biggest lie in Time Lord History).
When a sentient being meets his younger self the blinovitch limitation
effect
causes
a time differential.
Time Lords used to be shielded to the Blinovitch Limitation Effect but
the Time Lords removed this shield to stop violations of the First Law of Time.
Now, in the case of the same Time Lord meeting a younger version of
himself this time differential is shorted out causing an ageing of the biodata of the
younger version. This causes the subject to appear much older then actually are. The amount
of time differential (and thus the amount of ageing) is dependent on the amount of time that
has passes between the two versions. This distortion of the younger version’s biodata
will snap back to normal when the source of the time differential is removed.
If released within the Vortex Time Lords trained to used a
Vortex-Walking trance can,
with the aid of a Vortex Tunnel,
travel through space and time under their own power.
Some Time Lords have Internal Chronometry abilities. This allows them to
know the time down to a nanosecond (the Doctor can’t do this).
Other Time Lords have deep-time memory, which allows them to clearly
remember the original version of their history even after their personal past has been
deliberately changed.
Graduates of the Academy were given Reflex Links in there brains which
connect them to the Time Lord Intelligentsia.
This link can be used across space and time.
A Time Lord would be able to detect the existance of other Time Lords
(even if they are slightly out of sync with his timeline). This would allow a Time Lords to
know if all the Time Lords in the cosmos had been killed. The right type or
Ro Wave
broadcasts could be used to hide a Time Lord. The Reflex Link can be
used to unify all 1000 Time Lords.
This might allow the Intelligentsia access to the full Power of
Creation.
Time Lords who exiled lose the ability to contact other Time Lords
across space and time.
They are however still capable of using the Reflex Link if another Time
Lord Contacts them.
The dreams of a Time Lord
are visions that are free of the shadows of matter. Thus they can
provide information about the world outside of the range of their senses and
can be premonitions about the future. Some Time Lords get random
premonitions of the future while concious. Time Lords who have nightmares (a very rare
occurance)
or near-death states sometimes make deals with them, sometimes to become
their Champions.
Prior to a regeneration it is
not uncommon
for Time Lords
to unconciously
generate
alternate
future versions of themselves
in a proto-plasmic pupate stage.
These beings are called Watchers. The Watchers
are insubstantial but
can communicate and act on their own. If a Time Lord's mental power are
very well developed they can even create a fully interactive stable future incarnation (this
is probably a violation of the first Law of Time).
These type of projections might be called a tulpa.
In either case Watcher will last untill the regeneration occurs.
Unconciously created Watchers are very rare but can be caused precipitated by damage to the
Causal Nexus.
With about 3000 years (or less) of meditation a Time Lord can turn
himself into a being of pure energy and move at the speed of light. But this is forbidden by
the Dimensional Ethics Committee. Like all life forms that reside in the first 5 dimensions
Time Lords are incapable of observing the 6-11th dimensions.
The only way
most
Time Lords can cope with their near infinite power is to be so
narrow-minded and dull-witted that they never realize the power they have. The Doctor claims
that after living in the Capitol for a few thousand years a Time Lord completely loses their
personality.
Indeed, in order to keep the Web of Time stable it is necessary for the
Time Lords to be steady and unchanging. It is for this reason that culture change and
natural reproduction are forbidden to ensure stability. Time Lords are
forbidden to fall in love or developing other strong affections for lesser species.
It’s possible that Time Lord biodata actually changes and mutates
the biodata of lesser species who interact with them.
All Time Lords take their responsibility to Time very seriously and know
that if there was any danger that they would be used by an alien force to threaten Time then
the other Time Lords would shut down the victum's personal timeline and place it in the
Axis. For this reason every Time Lord that leaves Gallifrey knows they are considered to be
expendable. Because of this, only the most eccentric or arrogent Time Lords will voluntairly
leave their homeworld.
Time Lords
who travel the cosmos regularly
are encouraged to take a companion from among the lesser speices to
serve as something of a moral concience.
A visionary Time Lord is rare and a stable visionary Time Lord is even
rarer. Time Lord dementias are much worse then Alzheimers Disease.
All Time Lords have a dark side to their minds
called the Dark Design. When a Time Lord goes mad a storm of the Dark
Design covers their brains. Insane Time Lords are usually quielty locked away in
institutions
like the Quantum of Solace.
It is not unusual for inventive Time Lords to go mad and indeed all the
truly great Time Lords went mad: (Omega, Rassilon, Borusa, the Master, Morbius. . .
etc).
Any Time Lord who has access to the power of the heart of the Vortex
would become a vengeful god.
They cease being Time Lords when they have used up all 12 of their
regenerations. Retired Time Lords are not permitted to own TARDISes but possilby have the
option of living off Gallifrey if they choose. Old Time Lords often get their tenses
muddled.
Because
the minds (or souls) Time Lords are stored in the APC after death
they don't fear death. For this reason
Time Lords are expected to face death with dignity. Their bodies are
sometimes interned in the Panoptican Vault 30 meters beneath the Panoptican.
Time Lord corpses are telepathicaly active due to residual psychic
power.
If a Time Lord dies within his TARDIS while in his final incarnation his
body will fade away
as the TARDIS stores his essance.
The Artron Energy released
into the Vortex
by the death of a Time Lord would be enough to drag Earth's moon out of
orbit and crash into the planet.
"I grant you TARDIS!"
-The Kingmaker
TARDIS (aka Time And Relative Dimension In Space, Time Travel Capsules aka TTC, aka
Timeship):
For my complete TARDIS Technical Index at Whoniverse.com see the link
below...
THE HEART OF THE SPIRAL POLITIC
The Capitol
and other domed Gallifreyan city-complexs.
THE CAPITOL OF GALLIFREY:
Several Time Lords use the word Gallifrey to indicate the Capitol (and
not Gallifrey in general) so the Captiol's real name might be Gallifrey but
to avoid confusion with the planet's name
it is almost always called "the Capitol." The Capitol is
in the Northern Hemisphere
on the continent of Wild Endeavor and sits in the valley beween snow the
capped mountains of Solace and Solitude. These are part of a
desert
mountain range that stretches to the horizon.
The massive Mount Cadon dwarfs the Capitol.
The only thing that grows on these mountains a deep red grass.
Beneath the Capitol is a volcanic chasm known as the Crevasse of
Memories That Will Be. The Capitol used to have a harbor
(but the lake dried up).
The Kasterborus Borealis can be seen from the Capitol, as can Mount
Cadon.
The Capitol might suffer from a bitter wind from the Northern
Lakes.
Its population is at least several thousand and
it has the largest concentration of Gallifreyans on the planet.
By Earth standards the Capitol is not that large of a city.
A large glass dome covers the Capitol.
Gallifrey
(the Capitol?)
smells of cloisters, libraries, vellum, and old exitonic circuitry.
Candles are very common. Most of the walls in the Citadel appear to be made of stone with
dim green light leaking out from the crakes in the aging walls. Unused corridors are filled
with dust. Retina interface technology has virtually replaced all but the most basic manual
keyboard interfaces. Most doors and even many TARDIS systems rely on Gallifreyan retinal
scans to prime/activated it. All of these retina prints are controled by the APC which holds
the Retina Master Print.
It should be noted that some of their security systems are
telepathically based.
In the center of the Capitol (beneath the apex of the dome) is a
structure known as the Citadel (see below).
A small conventional spaceport can be found near the Citadel. Time
Scaphs are docked the Scaph Port. Scientific research is done in the Penansulix Scientific
Structure. The Parachronistic Chamber (located deep in the Capitol) can regulate time
distortions. There are two huge towers in the north of the Capitol named Canoncity and
Likelihood. Both of these building are dimensionally trancendental.
The tower of Likelihood might be home to the Bureau
of Possible Events.
Time Lords meet in the Artron Forum to telepathically discuss and
exhange points of view. While meeting their excess artron energy is abosorbed and routed to
the berething bays to supply TARDISes. Other buildings include the Multidimensional Art
Gallery (filled with vast numbers of computer created paintings from thoughout Gallifrey's
history), the Capitol Library,
the Mortal Coil
hospital complex of the Hospitaller-surgeons, Retro-Engineered
Spare-Body-Parts Repository,
Bureau of Political Advancement, The Temple of Capitol Guilds, and the
Office of Public Registry.
Only a few of the buildings in the Capitol are dimensionally
trancendental. The streets of the Capitol are patrolled by cleaning machines
including automated street cleaning mechanisms.
All the rooms in the Capitol are numbered (example Room 30007 in the
Administrative Complex). Council
members use aircars to get around the Capitol.
The 53 story
Communications Tower is in Sector 7 (just outside the Capitol).
Beneath the upper levels of the Capitol is MidTown which has a
multi-dimensional art gallery. Half a mile
beneath the Capitol is the foundations of the Capitol, the remains of
the original Capitol,
and LowTown. Low Town is the society of poor that has formed in the
foundations of the Capitol.
The Vaults are the chambers that date back to the Old Time that serve as
a foundation to the Capitol. The Vaults hold
the power couplings for the eastern part of the Capitol,
a
flucutatiing
access point for the matrix,
the once regal Pazithi Cloisters and the Main Water Pumping Station. The
last is off limits to unauthorized personnel, even Time Lords. The Nostrom Cloisters in the
lower levels serve as a presidential bolt-hole. Hidden in the lower levels a shrines
dedicated to the cult of Rassilon the Vampire.
Buried deep underground are fallout shelters and Catacombs whose total
length (if arranged end to end) would exceed the diamater of Gallifrey.
The Transtube
carriages (or
trains) are used for transport
from one city
-compex
to another on Gallifrey. They look a bit like Earth subways.
The cities of Gallifrey are filled with spires, temples, and
cathedras.
Olyesti is one of the Three Minute Cities in the East.
Prydos is an old city built on an artificial mound in great plane.
Imports from all over the galaxy (and from any point in time) can be found for sale at
Prydos. Its streets are paved with mosaics which present the history of the city.
Transmats are used to reach the Houses. Gallifreyan transmats can not
transmit through leathal levels of Ion Flux.
Gallifreyans also use
skimmers to travel.
They are shaped like longboats with carved dragons in the back. They can
fly and have sophisticated forcefields to protect the crew.
They are computer controled
or an organic pilot can fly the ship from below decks. The golden sails
can be deployed to absorb energy to power the ship.
Skimmers are considered obsolete transportation. Transmats are
prefered.
The idea of using an animal as a beast of burden is completely alien to
their culture. Most Gallifreyans
(and all Time Lords)
never venture into the wildernes of the Outer Gallifrey unless they wish
to become outsiders.
The Citadel of the Time Lords
THE CITADEL OF THE TIME LORDS:
In the center of the Capitol (beneath the apex of the dome) is
a turquoise colored
hour-glass shaped structure known as
the Citadel. Rassilon designed the
fortress-like
Citadel and this is where all the Time Lords live.
Though it towers over the other buildings its exterior isn't large
enough to allow 1000 Time Lords to live in comfort. It's interior is dimensionaly
trancendental and
has at least 119 levels.
The Presidents Office is on Level 5. Level 31 of the Citadel has the
Panoptican (which holds
the Power Mast of
the Eye of Harmony). Level 31 houses the controls for the Transduction
Barriers and the Quantum Force-Fields.
A Time Travel Embarkation Port can be found on Under-Level 15.
Traffic Control is one of the highest security-rated rooms in the
Citadel. The Citadel also houses the Panoptican Archives,
and the Temporal Scanning HQ.
There are 363 white towers arrayed in a circle around the Presidential
Wheel.
A famously effective polygonal Zero Room can be found in the basement of
the Junior Senate Block.
The Chanceller Guard work in the Jasdisary Building (90 stories tall,
rotates every 58 minutes)
which is attached to the Citadel.
Within the Citadel
's Jasdisary Building
is the Security Compound where Security Control
and the Obliette Suites are located. The luxurious Oubliette Suites are
where prisoners are held (if they aren't sent to Shada).
Time Lords appear to use the brass like Machenite as the building
material of choice for the interior of important rooms.
During the Time War the following levels can be found beneath the
Capitol.
4th Circle: tactical envisioning and clairaudient intelligence
5th
Circle: Perceptual warfare
6th Circle: Extra-sensory camouflage
7th Circle:
primary evolutionary and terrorogical research
8th Circle: Deep Level Conference and
Bunker facilities
Lowest Circle: The War Room where the War Council of the Great Houses
meets.
"Tradition, Obedience, Honor, Understanding, Loyalty, and Respect"
-The Philosophy of Gallifrey
GOVERNMENT:
THE HEAD OF THE PRESIDENCY (Lord President of Gallifrey, President of the Supreme
Council, the Inheritance of Rassilon) -
The Lord
(or Lady)
President rules Gallifrey.
The Head of the Presidency is seen as the physical manifestation of the
Laws of Time and
is entrusted with many of Gallifrey’s most closely guarded
secrets, including Jasquig Records, the War Perceptives, the Cavox Imperatives, and the
Oubliette of Eternity.
The President is the only Time Lord that knows that the Time Lords are
directly answerable to the Gaurdians.
It is likely that the President knows that Omega survived the detonation
of
Quaba.
The President of the Supreme Council of Gallifrey
and all of her Dominions,
has the obediance of all Colleges,
is the holder of the Wisdom of Rassilon, Guardian of the Legacy of
Omega, and
probably the Keeper of the Legacy of Rassilon, Defender of the Laws of
Time, and Protector of Gallifrey. Like the Chancellor, the President is addressed as "Your
Excellency." The President
is the Preserver of the Matrix and
holds the Matrix
Crown
which allows him direct access to the entire Matrix and its predictive
abilites (though its use
is quite stressful and thus
reserved for corenations
and emergencies).
Once they don the Matrix Crown a President becomes part of the Matrix.
The President wears the Sash of Rassilon on ceramonial occassions and carries the Rod of
Rassilon. If the President was to have access to the Great Key they would have unlimited
access to the Power of the Time Lords and have complete access to all the different
Universes.
The President has direct control over all aspects of Gallifrey's
defenses, however the CIA can override him. The first time they put on the Sash of Rassilon
they are altered to become Biodata Ultra-Aware, which allows them to predict and manipulate
biodata in a way no other Time Lord can. It also helps them interact with the Matrix.
Up until Arc of Infinity the Presidential Code was 4544553916592.
Approximately every thousand years the Time Lords would deliberately loom a collection
of potential leaders, one of whom would become the next Lord President of Gallifrey.
Each President has the right to name his successor. This is usually done
at a Resignation Ceremony when reading the Resignation Honours' List. However under Artical
17 of the Gallifreyan Constitution any Time Lord can declare himself a cannidate during an
election. All Presidents are elected, however it is traditional to always elect the
successor named by the previous President. 50 Members of the Chancellery Gaurd will be
present for a Presidentian resignation. Should a president step down without naming a
successor an election must be held within 48 hours.
All voting for a presidential election occurs in the Capitol
(this might mean that only the Time Lords get to vote for the
President).
Despite the urgency to decide upon a President-Elect it normally takes
years to plan and assemble a Presidential Ordination. Presidential Ordinations
and other formal ceremonies such as the appointment of a
Chancellor
are lead by Gold Usher
(also known as the Dromeain Archibaptirx). At all such
appointments
Gold Usher will rap his staff down three times.
Once for wisdom, once for honor, and once for tradition.
Computers paint pictures
of every Presidential Ordination.
It is tradition for a new President to forgive political prisoners as
his first act in office.
The current President can not be but on trial
But Presidents can be removed by a vote of no-confidence from the High
Council.
After a certain amount of time (at least 900 years) President's face
mandatory retirement. Ex-Presidents appear to retain the right to access the Matrix's
predictive abilities
and call for Presidential Inquirys. As of President Flavia there have
been 412 Presidents of Gallifrey.
THE INNER COUNCIL - The Inner Council is made up of the Lord President, the Lord High Chancellor of All Gallifrey (Vice-President) who serves as the administrative head of the goverment, and the High Cardinals. Like the President, the Chancellor is addressed as "Your Excellency." The Chancellor is appointed by the Supream Council and ratified by the President. For this reason the Chancellor is always a member of the same Chapter as the President. The Chancellor also oversees the Castellan and the Watch. The Constitution states that the President cannot give orders the Chancellor. The Vice-President is responsible for representing the President to other Time Aware Races, and coordinating the Watch and the CIA. Traditionally the post of Vice-President was seperate from the post of Chancellor, however in the modern era the Chancellor also handles the powers Vice-President. Together these 5 represent the most powerful of the Great Houses of Gallifrey. During Emergency Sessions, they can override the President's authority with a unanimous vote. Despite the various elections and appointments, the Houses represented on the Inner Council rarely change. It is very rare for any Newblood House to be represented on the Council.
THE HIGH COUNCIL (aka The High Council of the Time Lords of Gallifrey, Ruling Houses) - The High Council is composed of 15 Councillors including the Inner Council members. Below the High Cardinals are the six Prime Cardinals (one for each chapter), and the Cardinals. They are are made up of the Inner Council and the 10 longest serving members of the Supreme Council. They can be removed by a 1/3 petition by all the Time Lords. A sub-committee of the High Council overseens the Temporal Scanning Service at Temporal Scanning HQ. Later the positions of Keeper (aka Coordinator) of the Matrix, and Castellan (commands the Chancellory Guard and the Watch) were made non-voting members of the Council. Since Castellans aren't always Time Lords this is the only way a non-Time Lord can serve on the Council. The positions of the Chancellor and the other High Cardinals are ratified by the other members of the High Council and confirmed by the President. They usually meet in the High Council Chamber of Congress. It is rumored that 2/3rds of the High Council has been bribed or blackmailed by the CIA.
THE SUPREAM COUNCIL (aka the Council, the Parliment) - These Councillors are the Supream Guardians of Gallifreyan Law. Without a President the Supream Council techncially can not ratify anything. However this law has been known to be deliberately overlooked. Their combinded mental powers allow them to take mental control of any Time Lord (even ex-presidents). The number of Councillors of the Supream Council varies. Traditionaly the current President's Chapter will be the most well represented Chapter on the Council. Below the Cardinals are the Chapter Cardinals (who lead the Chapters), Under Cardinals, and Junior Cardinals. Chapter Cardinal do not serve on the High Council. The Surgeon-General is a member of the Supream Council, as is the Castellan. Membership is confered by petition of 1/3 of the Time Lord community. It is very rare for a Time Lord to achieve a rank higher then Junior Cardinal in less then 2000 years. They remain Councillors unitl they retire, die, or are removed by the President or 1/3 vote of the Time Lord populace.
LORDS TEMPORAL (aka the Time Lords, Lords of Time) - Each Chapter has 100 full Time Lords for a total of 600. Their are also about 400 Apprentice and junior Grade Time Lords at any given time for a total of 1,000 Time Lords. All are graduates of one of the six Time Academies. (For more info see the Time Lord entry above).
THE CIVIL SERVICE -
Ranks that can be held by Non-Time Lords iinclude Castellan,
Ordinal-Generals, Ordinals. It should be noted that plebeian non-Time Lords are not bound by
the color coding of the chapters with respect to dress.
ORDINAL-GENERAL (aka Auld Mortality) -
The title of Ordinal-General is given to the Gallifreyan
who has been chosen to become the next Auld Mortality after his final
Deathday. When he dies, his spectral form take on a ghostly form and becomes Auld Mortality.
This dark spectral presence haunts the current President of Gallifrey, reminding him that
life and power is fleeting and that this death is certain. Computers paint pictures of every
Presidential Ordination. Auld Mortality can be seen lurking in the shadows of each of these
pictures. Ordinal-Generals have no staff, and no office. The existence of Auld Mortality is
known only to the Head of the Presidency.
THE CHAPTERS (aka the Six Cardinal Colleges) - Gallifreyan society is organized into six Chapters or Colleges. These Chapters are politico-economic factions (or clans), each of which is represented on the Inner Council by at least one Cardinal Prime. The six chapters are based on the six founders of Gallifrey: Rassilon (Prydon), Apeiron (a warrior), Omega, the Other, Pandak the First (Second President) and possibly Vanderkerian. Each Chapter has 100 full Time Lords for a total of 600. Their are also about 400 Apprentice and Junior Grade Time Lords at any given time. Each Chapter has a Chapterhouse. Gallifreyan customs forbid a person changing alligences to another Chapter. Time Lords can give their words as either a Time Lord or as a Prydonian. Such oaths are taken very seriously. Gallifreyans who become Investigators for the CIA loose all rank and connection to their colleges.
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THE CELESTIAL INTERVENTION AGENCY (aka CIA) -
The Time Lords are pledged to uphold the Laws of Time and prevent alien
aggression where the indigenous population
(and the Web of Time)
is threatened. They also protect lesser species from Time Active
races.
Time Lords use the Kardashev Scale to rate species. Type 1 Civilization
controls all the resources of their planet. Type 2 have control of their star system. Type 3
have control over a complete galaxy. And Type 4 Civilizations have control over the
fundemental forces of the entire Universe.
Type 1, 2, and 3 Civilizations are usually termed “Lesser
Species”
while the Type 4s are often referred to as Higher Evolutionaries. It
should be noted that many Type 3 Civilizations have enough power and resources to pose a
small amount of risk to a Type 4 Civilization.
The Interventionist organizations are responsible for protecting
history
from such speices.
They also carefully monitor other species research into time travel and
act to prevent unauthorized time travel.
The CIA was originally formed to deal with minor issues that the Time
Lords viewed as being beneath them, but they eventualy grew to be a very powerful
organization.
The CIA is the most influential of the interventionist movement and
believes that the Web of Time should be adjusted whenever it suits the needs of the Time
Lords.
Their moto is "They story changes, the ending remains the same." (ie you
can do what ever you need to as long as recorded history remains the same). Their HQ is
located in the Citadel Constraint Block and is sometimes refered to as Gallifrey
Central.
The CIA is obsessed with titles and positions.
Though the President is the nominal head
the effective leaders of the Agency is the Tribunal
(also know as the Dark Council).
Unbeknownst to even the Tribunal,
the CIA is secretely controled by the Matrix Lords (Rassilon, Morvane,
and Bedevere) from within the Matrix.
It is rumored that 2/3rds of the High Council has been bribed or
blackmailed by the CIA (the Doctor believes it's more like 1/2). The Tribunal is made up of
the First (also known as the Director), Second and Third Speakers.
The Allegiance Command Cell is a branch of the CIA. The CIA numbers its
investigators. The higher the number the higher the rank of the Investigator.
Under-Assassin is another title. Once they imprison someone not even the
President can overtrun the judgment.
CIA Investigators loose all traditional rank and connections to their
colleges when they join.
CIA robes are simplier than other governmental robes and usually either
gray or black.
However their bio-data extract will never mentions that they are
affiliated with the CIA.
They appear to join until their final death day.
The TARDISes used by the CIA's Field Agents have enhanced Recall
Circuits and remote self-destruct systems. To insure the existance of back up copies, top
secret message sent from Gallifrey to agents are routed through the TARDIS closest to the
receiver (they are of course encoded). They are equiped with details histories, complete
wardrobes, false identification, documents of authority (including Psychic Paper), and
curancy for various temporal nexus points. Many agents celebrate being able to eat various
foods from the outside universe.
The CIA prefers conspiracy and manipulation to open confrontation.
Their agents are trained in the Smallest Effective Change
Principles.
The CIA has been known to
change history by manipulating the genes of a race by having their
agents interbreed with various races. This is done to direct genetic drift between one
biosystem and another or to reduce their aggressiveness.
Despite this they can delete entire planets without leaving Gallifrey
and
even have the ability to freeze time on Gallifrey.
Because of this, the CIA belives that Time Lords should always present
themselves as Gods to the lesser species.
THE ORDER OF THE WEAL -
Organization founded by President Morbius and based at House Ixion. It
was tasked to ensure Gallifreyan culture survived, but tended to be radically proactive in
carrying out this goal. It viewed all historical records as suspect and trusted only what
they could directly sense and comprehend. The Order was led by Chatelaine Thessalia, had
about 170 members and access to 4 TARDISes. Its members were malcontents from larger Houses
who were combat trained by the Order. Despite this training most of their duties were
administrative. The elite guard wear black and gold instead of the usual red. The CIA
eventualy assumed all the responsibilites of the Order.
THE CHAPTERHOUSE GUARD (aka Chancellery Guard, the Watch)-
The Watch
represents Gallifrey’s only real “army" but really
serves as the police force for Gallifrey.
It is made up of Gallifreyans from servitor-classes houses.
Some (if not all) of the guards are Time Lords. All off the officers
attend an Academy.
It is possible for a House to buy their members commission in the
Chancellery Guard. The guards who protect the Capitol have all had more then two centuries
of experiance.
Each Chapter maintains its own branch of the Watch.
Each branch of
the Watch is lead by a Commander who reports to the Castellan. The
Castellan
(aka the Magistrate)
is head of Gallifreyan security but is not always a Time Lord.
He is selected by the Supream Council and
serves on the
Inner
Council. The Watch are supervised from Security Control.
Besides security the Castellan's other duties include ensuring the
maintance redecoration of the Citadel.
Even the need for a constabulary force is limited and the Watch’s
main purpose is ceremonial.
They are the only ones allowed to carry deadly weapons in Capitol. Most
if not all Gallfreyans and Time Lords believe Gallifrey to be a just and fair society
and citizens have no real desires or needs. Thus Gallifrey has very
little crime and the Watch has little combat ability. Most lack any real fighting
skills.
The Watch can use torture on murder suspects but needs special authority
to use the Mind Probe.
However under Romana's Presidency both torture and the Mind Probe were
made illegal.
Time Lord trials and inquires
don't have juries, but they
do have members of the court who act as bailiffs and witnesses.
The Cardinal-Judge (or Inquisitor) is the only one who can call
witnessess.
The Valeyard is the learned court prosecutor. In Gallifreyan courts the
accused can be held responsible for actions and statements that the Matrix predicts that he
will make in his future.
Punishments authorized by the Worshipful and Ancient Law of Gallifrey "We but administer. You are imprisoned not by this Court, but by the power of the Law"
Temporonic
Biodata Tag
(received by all convicted criminal Time Lords) Time Destruction (a painful method of execution)??? |
OTHER ORGANIZATIONS:
Junior Senate, Council of the Great Mother, Bureau of Loomographic
Records, Causal Archive Record Office, Matrician Bench of Ordnance Surveyists, Brotherhood
of Kithriarchs, and a Space/Time Accessions Bureau.
The Central Office of Temporal Observation.
Hospitaller-surgeons handle medical issues.
THE HOUSES:
Each Chapter is organized into several Houses.
Each House has one loom with a uniquie genetic core to loom its cousins.
The Looms are held in the loomshed of the a physical house. These houses are sentient and
the oldest living thing on the planet.
Members of each house have minor variations in abilities. Under the
Worshipful and Ancient Law of Gallifrey, a member of any House can give up the protection of
their House and become the Kithriarch of a new House with a new Chapterhouse and Loom. The
founder of a new House carries the title Grandfather. A new loom probably takes over 11
years to produce its first loomling. A Renegade Time Lord traditionally renounces his name
and his house.
FOUNDING HOUSES - Of the many Houses there are five or six Founding Houses that date all the way back to the Dark Time. These Houses command significantly more respect than later ones.
House of Fordfarding:
House of Blyledge:
The House of Blyledge was ancient even before the time of Rassilon.
Blyledge is one of the senior houses in the Prydon Chapter of Glorious Gallifrey. The House
of Blyledge is an angular small dark building that is older than the hill it sits on. It has
a walled garden of silver trees in its center and is within visual sight of the Capitol.
Family members often wear blue clothes
and thus the House might be a member of the the Cerulean Chapter.
House of Jadedreamers:
One of the Houses that predates the Intuitive Revolution. Some of its family were
members of the Sisterhood.
House of Lineacrux:
The least active of the Founding Houses, known only for their
expertise in Gallifreyan history and laws. All of its cousins have the appearance of
extremely old and senile Gallifreyans who passively observe society around them. In fact
the Lineacrux cousins at some of the most powerful and influential members of Gallifreyan
society. Their decrepit appearance is merely an act designed to lull others into ignoring
them. They observe and (when consulted) offer their opinion in almost all gatherings of
Gallifreyan society.
OLDBLOOD HOUSES- The oldblood houses are the Founding housese plus the houses created by Rassilon after the Intuitive Revolution.
House of Arpexia:
The cousins of this house are Gallifrey’s only scientific fundamentalists. They
place great faith reason and logic as the solution to all problems and shun emotion. They
have been conducting research for research’s sake for millions of years. This house
was responsible for the unstable Babels. They’ve produced many experimental Time
Travel Capsules over the eons, but their technology tends to be over complicated.
House of Catherion:
An now extinct House whose chapterhouse is looked after by
a caretaker line.
House of Scarlet:
Almost certainly a Prydonian House.
House of Brightshore:
A Prydonian House
House of Dellatrovellas:
One of the oldest and most powerful Houses. Time Lady Serenadellatrovella was a cousin
of this house.
House of Ixion:
This House is located on the edge of the civilized portion of
Gallifrey next to a mountain range. Its original Family left during the first Diaspora
leaving only a line of caretakers to watch after the House. Millions of years later
Morbius chose it as the Headquarters for the Order of the Weal and made one of the
caretakers, Chatelaine Thessalia, head of the organization. Its “cousins” were
malcontents from larger Houses who were combat trained. Despite this training most of
their duties were administrative. They Loom of Ixion was never used but rumor has it that
they tampered with other House’s Looms to produced mutants and renegades.
House of Lungbarrow
pictures by
Daryl Joyce
House of Lungbarrow:
This Oldblood House was founded in response to the curse
and became one of the original five founding houses from the time of
Rassilon.
The crest of Lungbarrow is two silver leafed trees whose branches reach
over and intertwine. 45 cousins are allotted to the house of Lungbarrow. For the most part
no Family members come to the House of Lungbarrow, except for Loomings and Tombings. In the
last several thousand years it has fallen from favor, with its highest-ranking member
holding a title of Ordinal General. About 350 years after the looming of the Doctor, the
House was deleted from History for exceed its Loom Quota. It was reinstated 673 years
later.
The House
of Lungbarrow
is in the Prydon Chapter.
The Lungbarrow Chapterhouse located in the Southern Mountain Ranges, two
days walk from Rassilon's Rampart, and overlooks the river Cadonflood. A forest of silver
leafed trees stretch from the House to the river Cadonflood at the base of the
valley.
The House sits halfway up Mount
Lung on the west side. The river right next to the Hermits home floods
frequently
(this might be Cadonflood?).
Southern Gallifrey is considered quite wild and beutiful, but does
occationally suffer blizzards.
A partial list of the Lungbarrow Cousins
The Doctor
Arkhew,
Maljamin,
Farg,
Innocet,
Quencessetianobayolocaturgrathadeyyilungbarrowmas (Ordinal-General and
422nd Kithriarch),
Satthralope (Housekeeper),
Glospinninymortheras ( Cellular Eugenics (CIA?)),
Jobiska,
Luton,
Rynde (Epicural Overseer),
Celesia,
Almund,
Tulgel,
Chovor (the Various),
DeRoosifa,
Salpash
Irving Braxiatel claims to be a brother of the Doctor.
Owis was the Doctor's Replacment after he was disinherited.
House of Mirraflex:
A minor oldblood House that produced most of Gallifrey’s generals,
enforcers, and strategists. Its cousins are known for being aggressive and ruthless
defenders of the Laws of Time. They have nothing but disdain for the Lesser Species. Their
Loom was known for being particularly versatile. The House was founded by General Mirraflex
after the beginning of the Eternal Wars, who structured it as an esoteric martial lodge.
House of Nechronmancy:
Nechronmancers don’t believe in the passage of time and don’t acknowledge
their gender or their names. They’ve deleted most of the records of their House and
are viewed as pariahs among Time Lord society. They are capable altering time states in ways
that would be impossible for any other Time Lord. During the War these deep engineers
collected Highest Entropy Matter (HEM) from dead time states (where the universe had reached
thermal equilibrium and history/time has ceased to flow).
House of Stillhaven:
A Prydonian House.
House of Wildthyme:
A House in the mountains of Southern Gallifrey.
House of Effeston
Romanadvoratrelundar is custodian of this House.
NEWBLOOD HOUSES -
There are very few Newblood houses (relative to the Older Houses) and
their cousins tend to be quite eccentric. All of them were founded no more than 10,000 years
before the Doctor was loomed.
House of Dvora
(aka House of Devouring Hounds):
The first of the
Newblood houses, House of Dvora
was created 10,000 years before the looming of the Doctor. Their Cousins
view themselves as destined to publicly lead and control. Dvora is the only Newblood House
whose power equals the Five Founding Houses. They are ruthlessly practical and open to using
violent methods, but strive to appear impersonal and passionsionless. They have seven elite
operatives who undertake secret missions for them.
Originally part of the Patrex chapter
they later became Prydonian.
Cousins include: Morbius.
Romanadvoratrelundar, is inheriter of the House of Dvora.
House of Heartshaven
Probably a House that was spawned out of House Dvora. Cousins include:
Romanadvoratrelundar.
House of Oakdown:
This Newblood House is
a member of the Prydon Chapter
and is one of the most respected and noble Houses on Gallifrey.
This House produced the Master.
House of Paradox:
This House conducted illegal experiments on Non-Linear Time. The Grandfather also
begins to experiment with lesser species reproductive methods and begins wearing the armor
of Yssgaroth Time Lords. It was reformed into Faction Paradox and exiled from
Gallifey,.
House of Tracolix:
A minor Newblood House that is known for subtly trying to exploit every change that
occurs in Gallifreyan society. They are arrogant, reckless, and ambitious. Their willingness
to follow any passing fashion gives their cousins more versatility then those of other
Houses.
House of Xianthellipse:
A minor Newblood House known for its understanding of biology and
biodata. It is not a member of the Prydon Chapter (i.e. never wears scarlet).
CARETAKER HOUSES - Below the Time Lords are the Plebeian Classes (non Time Lord). This ancillary staff and their families live in the rest of the Capitol. They are Watch guards, technicians, artisans, cleaners, engineers, cooks, and musicians. MidTown is between the Capitol and LowTown. Low Town is the society of poor that has formed in the foundations of the Capitol. The Low Towners call Time Lords Timeys while the Gallifreyan elite refer to New Age Time Lord dropouts who live in Low Town as Shobogans. These Houses are ruled by a Chatelaine. There are between 3 and 9 million Gallifreyans.
House of Redlooms:
The Prydon Newblood House of Redlooms has been producing military Ordinals who serve
in the watch for a very long time. It is a family of loyal mavericks who have defeated a
dozen Time Lord traitors.
OUTSIDERS - Some Gallifreyans and even some Time Lords reject technology entirely and live in the wilderness of outer Gallifrey hunting and growing their food.
MEASURING TIME:
Because it is located in Inner Time
Gallifreyans measure local time according to the Time Band. Gallifreyan
seconds, minutes,
days,
years
are indentical to the ones used on Earth.
A Gallifreyan month is probably equal to 27 days.
Gallifrey time is told in 18 hour days. 9 hours of daylight and 9 hours
of night. The length of the hours are dependent on the season and location.
The passage of hours is marked by the ringing of bells. The number of
rings denote the hour.
Some Clock have 12 divisions.
48 hours is division of time that is often used.
A Gallifreyan Cycle is approximately 23 years.
They also used micro-spans (which is also used by the Sisterhood). One
micro-span probably equals 200 seconds.
Time Lord watches can synchronize themselves to the local time
instantaneously (use the same technique as the translations systems). The watch face morphs
to match local time keeping conventions. These watches are standard equipment for field
operatives.
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NOTE: Greyjan was the shortest serving President in Gallifreyan
history, serving for only three years; however, his reign spanned the Earth-relative days in
September 1752 AD where the Shadow Parliament is found. However the Eye of Harmony was
activated in 3.5 Billion BC and Greyjan only became President a few Million years after that
activation. Does this mean time flows much slower on Gallifrey then in the rest of
the Universe? If so then 1 year in Inner Time would equal ~1750 years in Normal Space.
Transduction Barriers
separate Gallifrey’s continuity and history from the rest of the
universe by locating it in a Micro-Universe outside of Time.
Thus when you are on Gallifrey, you are in Inner Time,
"outside" of the Universe. In addition to this, its past is protected by
powerful Temporal Baffels, Temporal Locks and
Governing Circuits built into all Gallifreyan time travel
technology.
The Rassilon Era uses at least five dating systems.
The first is the Relative Date
(Mission to Magnus, The Gallifrey Chronicles,
Armagedon Factor, TV Movie).
Relative Dating began with the installation of the Eye of Harmony in the
Citadel - which was the begining of the Rassilon Era.
For this reason the dates are given with the prefix RE for Rassilon Era.
The Doctor would have been loom in
200
4716
.44
(The Gallifrey Chronicals claim the Doctor was loomed on
4756.7 RE But this is 40.5 years off from all other sources).
For convience sake Time Lords usualy abreviated Local Date Line to five
digits (ie 5725.2).
The Relative Date can be found by adding 2004716.44 to the Doctor's age.
The Local Dateline (ie the 4 diget version) can be found by adding 4716.44 to the Doctor's
age.
Any Earth date can be translated into Local Dateline (LD) by
adding3503412400.2 (about 3.5 billion) to the Earth year if
after 1 BC or 3503412399.2 if before 1 AD. Day 1 of the
Gallifreyan new year is between day 274 and day 310 on Earth (ie Dec 30 10:47 pm EST is
1/5th of the way through the Gallifreyan year).
Thus New Year's Day on Gallifrey probably begins arond Oct 20.
This
system is often used for discussing events that occured in the outside
universe relative to Gallifrey time. For example
1999 AD
(the 20th century) would be 3,5034139.89 RE.
The second systems is used by the Matrix and APC for dating events
(Neverland)
and can be found by adding 5720.6 years to the Doctor's Age.
This system is often used to record events arround the time of the
Doctor, for example Romana's mission to Neverland occured at 6798.5 MD.
The Doctor was loomed on 5720.6 MD.
Side Note: It is possible that Local Date Line and the Matrix Dating
system are the same system that had been corrected in some way. Much like the 11 days that
were added to the English calender to correct it so to might the Time Lords have added about
1000 years from their calender to correct it. This might have been done to compensate for
some unknown temporal phenomenon. If this did happen then it probalby happened between
Lungbarrow and Neverland.
The third system is called Date Index (Deadly Assasin,
The Gallifrey Chronicles). Any Relative Date can be converted to Date
Index (DI) by subtracting 1695300 to the full RE or adding 304700 to the four diget verstion
of RE. Thus 5206.4 RE would be
309906. This dating system is also abriviated to 2 digets (ie
92)..
The fourth system is the GRT system (The Gallifrey Chronicals),
which works just like the Relative Date system only you need to subtract
2003543 from the long version of the RE date.
Thus
200
4756.44 RE would be 1213 GRT.
The fifth system is the
Gallifreyan
TL Dating System
(FASA,
The Gallifrey Chronicals),
which works like the Relative Date system only you need to add 100448 to
the Doctor's Age.
Thus 2004756.44 RE would be 100447 TL
HOLIDAYS:
Day 1
(Oct 20th~)
Creation of the Web of Time
Day 13
(Nov 1st~)
The Thirteeth Night: Gallifreyan Cults practice Mimesis.
Day 128
(Feb 24th~)
Intuitive Revolution Day
Day 162
(Mar 30th~)
Otherstide
/Othermass
/Festival of Freedom: Otherstide is a holiday on Gallifrey. No one
leaves their houses on Otherstide eve, and gifts are given to time-tots.
Day 205
(May 12th~)
Death of Omega
The Festival of the Timewright (Anmers-Tonastide, or
TimeWorker), Feast of Omega, and Rassilon's Flag Day are other holidays.
LANGUAGE:
Old High Gallifreyan had 10,000,000 letters in its alphabet and worked well as code
for computer programs. Old Low Gallifreyan is another language that was once used. But the
Modern Gallifreyan Omegabet
is a mathematically based language that
has only 1,000,000 characters.
Its possible that their number system is base 12 as thats all the digits
that appear on a standard key pad.
Messages are writen in equations that must be solved to be deciphered.
This half writing, half math language is very precise but not very practical. Gallifreyans
use 208 language tenses.
Because of the stagnation of their society Gallifreyans have difficulty
handling different cultures. They have 30 different words to describe culture shock. The
plural of TARDIS is still still debated by Time Lords.
The Patrexian Numbers serve as a numerical base to everything that
Patrexian's create.
Gallifreyan Morse is similar to Morse Code. Many (if not all) Time Lord
documents are printed on circular colored paper. Somtimes these are rolled up into
scrolls.
Meyopapa: appears to mean master.
Grumblies: kid slang for adults
Gjara'vont: of darkest thought
Broken House: a dying bloodline.
The name
Deliavatsud
written in the Omegabet
The name
Adelphi
written in the Omegabet
Two more Gallifreyan Names
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Gallifreyan numerical keypad. (translation below)
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Gallifreyan Sayings, Rymes, Teachings, and Jokes:
"Those who plot the destruction of others, often fall victim
themselves." - from Pelatov's Collected Sageries
"A leader's greatness is best judged by the quality of her advisers." -
from Pelatov's Collected Sageries
"Life begins at 750"
"What the devil?!"
"Life begins at 1500"
"You see all those stars? Each one of those represents a promise. All
the time they shine the promise remains unbroken"
"Frost in the fire and the rocking
chair / Frost in the hearth, frost in the ladle / Children's voices in the air / Wind that
rocks the empty cradle." -Mid-Gallifreyan Nursery Versery
"Those to Rassilon's Tower would go, must choose: Above, Between, Below"
-Nursery Rhyme.
"Zagreus sits inside your head / zagreus lives among the dead / zagreus sees you in
your bed / and eats you when you're sleeping / zagreus at the end of days / zagreus lies all
other ways / zagreus comes when time's a maze / and all of history's weeping / zagreus
taking time apart. / zagreus fears the hero heart. / zagreus seeks the final part. / the
reward that he is reaping. / zagreus sings when all is lost / zagreus takes all those he's
crossed / zagreus wins and all is cost / the hero's hearts he's keeping. / zagreus seeks the
hero's ship / zagreus needs the web to rip / zagreus sups time at a drip / and life aside,
he's sweeping. /...???..../ zagreus waits at the end of the world / for zagreus is the end
of the world / his time is the end of time / and his moment time's undoing" - Nursery Rhyme
(Ledgends of Zagreus can be found on a 1000 different worlds. It was put there by the
Neverpeople to trick the leaders of Gallifrey into entering the Anti Time Universe.)
"History is time's way of preventing everything from happening at once" - Graffito the
Prydonian
"What goes bang thud, bang thud, bang thud, bang thud, bang thud, bang thud,
bang thud, bang thud, bang thud, bang thud, bang thud, bang thud, bang thud? - - -A Time
Lord committing suicide." - Graffito the Prydonian.
"...never trust a venusian shanghorn with a perigosto stick." is the
punch line to a funny joke.
[paraphrased] "Its not the size that matters, its how you
use it."
"There are some corners of the Universe which have bred the most terrible
things. Things which act against everything we believe in. They must be fought."
(ancient child's maxim)
"There is always still-time, and there is always flowing-time"
[a threat] ...or I shal lay your soul to waste!
“The moment has been prepared for.”
– might be a Gallifreyan phrase referring to Regeneration.
Gallifrey profanity: "Rassilon's Rod," "Great Rassilon" “Rot in a
black star”
"Scares the Staazula out of me" "For Rassilon's Sake!" ""Sweet mother of
Chaos" "Rassilon's Death" "What is the name of Rassilon..." "Rassilon's Ghost"
“Omega’s orifice” “Othering Other” “Othering
Omega” “Otherf---er”
"Thank the Other!"
"Rungar protect us"
-
Rungar is a criminal imprisoned in Shada
"Ferisix and Thrayke protect us"
"All that was long ago as the
vortisaur flies."
"Never trust a Time Lord" (presumably said only by Gallifreyans)
By the time of the War with the Enemy using the names Rassilon, or Omega
is considered blasphemy (example “Omega’s orifice”).
Pre-ja Vu: (Modern Gallifreyan) the sense that you're going to have been
somewhere before. (coined by Academi Plurix)
RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY:
Since Gallifreyans are never born, are never
learn like
children, and almost never die their understading of mythology and
fairy-tales is limitied.
It wasn't till millions of years after the creation of the Eye of
Harmony that they invented post-modernism.
Many Time Lords belive that there was a creator of the universe.
Old Time legends and Gallifreyan mythology states that the Universe was
born from a sentient singularity called Eru or the Great Old one Azathoth. At Event 0 the
being split into 10 dimensions (the Universe has 11 dimensions). After Event 0 the Mother
Goddess used the
Aurora Temporalis (anvils of heaven) to create
and pour Time itself into the void of the empty Universe. With the
exceptions of some Shobogan cults,
the Gallifreyans do not worship either Azathoth of the Mother Goddess,
nor do they do call them "gods," but they do belive that the ordered compexity of the
universe points unquestionably to the existance of a creator. This creator's power takes the
form of gravity when viewed from 3 dimensions.
The primary Gallifreyan Gods are the Menti Celesti who have been
worshiped since the Old Time. The Menti Celesti are made up of Pain, Death, and Time
(aka
the daughter of the Timewyrm). Other gods include Light, and Life. The
Gallifreyan Gods have the following colors attributed to them. Red and Black for Pain, White
for Death, and a shifting Gray color for Time. The ancient symbol of Death is a red circle
called a Regenerative Circle. About 25% of the population of Gallifrey worships Death, Time,
Pain etc. Prayer to the gods is usualy conducted by individuals in a privet setting. The
Time Lords belive these Gods to be Higher Eternals
but in reality they are part of the essence of the Universe.
They are abstract universal conceptual entities, a non-corporeal beings
that can control time, and fate. Death, Time, and Pain might be the dreams of Time Lords who
leak out into the cosmos. Time Lords in nightmares or near-death states sometimes make deals
with them, sometimes to become their Champions.
Early in their history the Gallifreyans came to believe that if they
killed all the evil people in the universe then the good people who remained would become
evil. Light can not exist without darkness. If evil were destroyed then good would vanish as
well.
Sin is not a concepts that can be found in Gallifreyan culture.
Damaging History is about as close to evil as Gallifreyan culture
gets.
The number six is very important to Gallifreyan
culture and is used in
architecture,
and numerous other aspects of life.
It probably derives from the 6 Gaurdians (aka the Six-Fold God).
Most Time Lords consider the six segments of the Key to Time to be a
myth. The number 13 is important as well (steming from the Fendahl being composed of 13
parts).
Other Gallifreyans (including the Doctor) believe in The Great Moral
Dialectic. It states that the Moral Universe refines itself towards goodness just as the
physical Universes keeps expanding.
Reality leads to complexity, which leads to life, which leads to
civilization, which leads to ethics.
This leads to the Ultimate superiority of Good over Evil.
As of The Infinity Doctors many Gallifreyans worship Omega. He is know
as the God Ohm.
Some Gallifreyans believe that the Matrix controls Gallifrey. Some even
believe it created the Gallifreyans so that it would have an origin.
The minds (or souls) Gallifreyans are stored in the APC after death
which is a form of heaven.
Gallifreyan legends reference a Hell filled with horror and pain. Time
Lords have also been known to mention a devil from time to time.
Cats are a symbol of intelligence in Gallifreyan culture.
The Omniscate has been seen as an almost magical symbol for warding off
evil and is placed on rooms and objects of great power.
Gallifreyan Mythology has lots
to say about the Daleks and the Klade. It also mentions races of creatures that "wear the
skins of men" (meaning aliens that look like Gallifreyans).
Time Lord mythology say
that to much time traveling cause a mental illness akin to delusionary schizophrenia.
Legands and fairytales of the Toclafane
and Grandfather Paradox
are often told to child
e
ren.
There are no records of this person in the Matrix files.
The Story
of the Rock is an old fairy-tale that warns against interference in history.
Sabjatric and Rungar were prisoners on Shada
but some Gallifreyans beleive that they were Gods of the Dark Time. They
sometimes swear by Rungar. The Legends of Cuwirti, Ferisix, and Thrayke are also
important.
Gallifreyan folk-tales speak of Gallifreyans abandoned and
“raised” by humans. These Gallifreyans develop amazing abilities and are ruled
their extreme passions.
Vampires still scare adult Time Lords, even in the modern era. Vampires
in the Capitol is a particularly horrific thought.
Some Gallifreyans believe that
Rassilon was a Vampire. Some even worship Rassilon the Vampire.
The Time Lords guard against magic and have files on everyone who claims
to use it.
The mythology of Gallifrey has stories of the Fendahl and the
Fendahleen.
There was a cult on Gallifrey that used Mimesis which is a Gallifreyan
art in which whatever is written comes true.
Mimesis is a variation of Quantum
Mnemonics.
It was performed in the annual ritual of "The Thirteenth Night. The High
Council had the cult banned.
Some Gallifreyan bedtime stories claim excessive time travel causes
dementia and hallucinatory schizophrenia.
Some people belive that anything that can be
imagined must exist otherwise you wouldn't be able to imagine it.
"Three two one, three
two one, / A wreath of roses lay. / Rassilon's dead and Omega's lost, / The other one's gone
away. / Three to wonder and bide their time, / They'll all come back one day." - Transcribed
from hieroglyphics in the Domdaniel Caverns on Strava.
MISCELLANEOUS:
The very idea of Gallifrey having a history is viewed as vulgar and
primitive by the Time Lords.
6 is a special number in Gallifreyan Culture. 6 members of the Supreme Council, 6
great heroes who founded the 6 colleges .
Some (if not all) students receive a new official name while attending
their Academy.
All Gallifreyans receive single names (though they are usually very
long).
The long version of a Gallifreyan's name is writen in Old High
Gallifreyan. The length of a Time Lord's name grows as his social and political stature
increase. Arround the time of the Doctor's birth,
many Time Lords
began
using titles instead of names.
These titles are based on what they do and how they do it.
The ceremonial robes, collars, and makeup of the Time Lords are worn
only for special occasions.
CIA robes are simplier than other governmental robes.
Food: Usually Gallifreyans consume pill shaped food
(such as Promarzzi Bars), but on special occasions Karmine pudding,
Dactyl Eggs, blue fruit, and
Gallifreyan Pizza
is eaten. Most Time Lords have never had to cook a meal for
themselves.
Beverages served in Gallifrey include tea (Unconcious Gallifreyans can
often be awakened with boiling tea vapor)
and a Gallifreyan Tea Set has approximately 178 peices.
Other beverages include Milean Head Juice(a type of alcohol),
Bog-Truffle Tincture (a type of drink), Orneilian Wine and Rassilon's Red (a fine
Gallifreyan wine bottled at the time of Rassilon). Wine is dated by the President who was in
power a the time it was bottled.
Some Gallifreyans smoke pipes or cigars.
Gallifreyan art is made so that look good even when they are decaying
and falling apart from old age. The aging is "part" of the sculpture.
The concept of caricatures is unknown to Gallifreyan art. The Patrexes
are an order of artists aesthetes.
House and TARDIS
is a Time Lord magazine. It is bigger on the inside then on the outside
so that it can hold a near infinite number of loose leaf advertisments.
The Gallifreyan Flower of Remembrance (Memento Mori)(6 yellow petals) is
an omen for disaster. It is often scattered around Funerals and Tombings.
The Gallifreyan Roll of Honor is a list of Gallifreyans who have died
with valor.
Media entertainment is provided by Public Register Video which covers
all the ceromonies and traditions. There are over 87656432 media channels. The Videos are
watched by the Gallifreyans.
They have entertainment transmission (which sometimes broadcasts of
emergency regenerations).
It should be noted that Time Lord culture has no mass media and
the
only news source read by them is the Daily Presidential Bulletin.
On Gallifrey all paintings are done by computers.
Sensory Tanks are used by Gallifreyans as a popular recreational device. The
oxygenated liquid the subject is immersed in sooths away all stress and worries and induces
dreams that fullfill the user's deepest and most wonderful fantasies. The water is imbunned
with oxygen, nitrogen, clorine, dopymene, protean chains (which contains the intelligence of
the Sensory Chamber). The chambers use timers to awaken the user, though a switch inside the
chamber can also be used to deactivate the chamber.
The pianalaika is a Gallifreyan instrument.
The Harp is another common insturment on Gallifrey.
They keep track of popular music on a top twenty music chart.
Scratchin is a Gallifreyan game.
Four-D Chess is a popular Time Lord game. Not only can the peices move
on three vertically stacked boards but they can also move forwards and backwards in time.
However the First Law of Time must be observed during play meaning that the its possible to
get the other player to lose by forcing him to create a paradox. And indeed this is a common
way of winning.
Gallifreyan Chequers has 2 colors - red and white. Pieces include:
Presidents Cardinal, President's Commander, Chancellor's Castallan, Gold Usher's
Captain.
Gallifreyan playing cards are round and have the following suits:
Flames, Owls, Clouds, Souls, Deeps, Mesmers, and Dominoes. Face cards include the Hand, the
Duke, and the Rogue). They can use these cards to play Five Dimensional Cribbage.
Gallifreyan Labyrinth Game: The point of this game is to get your opponents lost in a
(dimensionally transendental?)
maze and then manipulating their movements by subconciously training
them to make certain turns. At the height of its popularity there were Labyrinth games on
every street corner and even in the Panoptican.
Some seedy Gallifreyan Cardinals hang themselves to get rid of extra
regenerations. This is considered to be a dangerous hobby.
Shifting everything in a defined area forward a few seconds in time
creates an impenatrable black wall. This is sometimes done on a small scale as a parlor
trick.
The Foxtrot of Rassilon is a Time Lord waltz.
Pandaks
(made of brass),
Pounds, and Guineas are used as currency. A guinea will buy you a few
drinks in a bar.
However most uses of currancy on Gallifrey appear to be completely
symbolic and ritualistic.
For this reason
Gallifrey has very low potential for commercial development.
Many of the most advanced pieces of Gallifreyan technology require the
user to have the correct biodata to operate them.
Gallifreyans dislike robots, considering them primitive.
Gallifreyan memory wiping techniques aren't totally reliable. The
memories often appear as dreams.
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