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THE HISTORY OF THE TIME LORDS
PART III
MIDDLE GALLIFREY
Pre and Morbius
Doctors Era
The following color code and terms are used:
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 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
(Zagreus strongly implies that
DCTT
is an alternate Gallifrey the Rassilon deliberatly negated))
information from 'licensed' reference sources
(The Technical Manual, Monsters, 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.
After 2,000,000 years the Gallifreyans become the
one of the longest lived culture in the History of the universe. Gallifreyans often
claim to have had complete power for 10,000,000 years but many lesser species
believe that the often-quoted 10,000,000-year figure for Time Lord power was simply made
up to suggest a very long time. Anthropological projections indicate that it is utterly
impossible for a society such as Gallifrey’s to remain stagnant for so long. It is
possible that the Time Lords being linked to the Fifth Dimension might explain this
inconsistency. Humans and Gallifreyans are the only races whose cultures can not be
accurately predicted by these projections.
?? Patience lives in the House of Lungbarrow for
countless generations.
-309,456 (Probably 309456 years before the Doctor's
looming)
The Date Index method of dating goest into use
-249,000
(250,000 before TID)
The Blank Plague is
eradicated.
-156,403 (Date Index 1-5-3-0-5-3)
Pengallia (aka Pandora)
is one of the Prestes of the Sisterhood of Karn and
a decendent of the Great Mother of Sisterhood of
Karn.
She renegades from the Sisterhood
and arrives on Gallifrey with a large amount of Elixir. She convinced the High Council that
she could find a solution to the Curse of sterility and was made a Time Lady. She takes the name
Pandorastrumnelliahanfloriana (aka Pandora).
The name Pandora shows up in the mythology of lots
of planets. In every case she unlocks things that should have remained hidden.
?? Time Lady Pandorastrumnelliahanfloriana develops a theory that states that if the psychic reduplication processes used by the Friars of Pangloss were every used in an area of space on the fringe of normal space and/or unsimple special interfaces the process would suffer a severe dysfunction.
-156,400~ (a few years after becoming a Time Lord)
Pandora begins serving on the High Council
and
takes the title Majestrix.
-156,181??
(thousands and thousands of years before Lungbarrow)
An event
occurs that is as important as Romana's talks with the Sisterhood of Karn.
?? (Aeons after the Matrix is created / Date Index 310333 / Almost certainly before
the Master steals the Doomsday Files )
The Time Lords delegate maintance of the
Matrix to the Elzevirs of the Moon of Leptonica (in the Daedalus Constellation). The
Elzevirs are experts at micro-technology and are responsible for servicing and
refurbishing the micro-circuity of the Matrix. They often have access to the Key of
Rassilon (which allows full access to the Matrix).
?? (thousands of years ago)
Verne is loomed.
?? Verne regenerates into a handsome body.
?? (probably at least 2,000 years after looming)
Verne becomes a
Councilor.
?? (eons ago, during "a Dark Time")
During the early exploration
of the universe, Time Lords would occasionally be forced into runaway chain regenerations in
alien environments. These Time Lords would turn into horrid monsters. If they managed to
return to Gallifrey, they would be killed, walled up in there own TARDISes, or hidden away
by their cousins.
?? (A long time before the Babels are invented)
The family of the House of Catherion become extinct. Their loom and house are
maintained by a caretaker line.
-99,000 A particularly successful Lord President
resigns.
?? Reverse Tachyon-Chronons (RTC) are smuggled onto Gallifrey in the
form of books. They were banned by the Time Lords.
Reverse Tachyon-Chronons can be used to move time forwards and
backwards. They can be used to make objects and materials that never age.
?? The Type 39 is created. It is very similar to the Type 40. Salyavin
will later steal a Type 39 from a scrap heap.
?? (thousands of years before Salyavin is imprisoned)
The Worshipful and Ancient Law of Gallifrey is misfiled in the Academy Library.
?? The Decoupling Era occurs on Gallifrey. Lord Wratfac begins lecturing at the Patrex College.
?? Patience teaches the Doctor's Great Grandfather.
-10,000~?
(He is at the end of his 13th incarnation in The Time of My Life)
The Doctor's Grandfather is born.
His name might have been Borusa or Pandak III.
Patience lives in his House and tutors him. He will become the Doctor's
Grandfather. He is one of the many Gallifreyans who worships Omega.
?? The Doctor's grandfather marries Varda.
?? Varda and the Doctor's Grandfather have a son who will be the Doctor's father. (they could have been decendants of the Time Scaphe Crew, and thus exempt from the Pythia's curse). Publicly he was from the House of Lungbarrow. The Doctor's father was a powerfully built Gallifreyan with rugged features, white hair, clipped beard, and dark eyes. Patience tutors the Doctor's Father. He will evenually uses the alias Ulysses (as well as John Smith and Danial Joyce) and enjoys exploring the unknown.
-9000~ At this point it is unthinkable that any
species would attack Gallifrey.
-9000??
(Salyavin is a boy when Type 40 were constructed)
Salyavin
is loomed. He uses an abacus when he is a Time Tot.
?? (before Savar's mission)
TARDISes are designed to be male or
female. They can telepathically communicate with their operators.
?? Ulysses becomes a Time Lord.
Ulysses is interested in wars
and other projects. He is the greatest explorer of that age.
-8860? (While Salyavin is young man)
Salyavin becomes known as a hotheaded, brilliant Gallifreyan.
?? (this journey probably lasts at least a few years /
well over 10,000 years before the time of the 5th Doctor)
Ulysses (the Doctor's Father) begins the
Odyssey. The Odyssey is a famous journey into Deep Time which visted every corner of the
Universe. The term Deep Time has been used to refer
to alternate universes that no longer "exist" due to alterations to the time line.
??
(before the Doctor is born / after the Master leaves Gallifrey)
Salyavin is wrongly accused of Mind
Crimes.
Salyavin has the ability to project his mind into the minds of others. Because of
this he is tried and found guilty of Mind Crimes. He is imprisoned on Shada.
Iris's TARDIS disguised as the Number 22 to Putney Common
?? (ruled for 900 years / must be after -9250 / during the modern era)
Pandak III becomes President of Gallifrey. He holds power for 900 years making him one
of the longest serving Presidents in the last 10,000 years.
-6600~ (over 9 incarnations before Invasion of Time)
Gomer was
loomed.
-6660~ Quences is loomed. He might have been the brother of the Doctor's Great-Granduncle. Throughout Quences's life the House of Lungbarrow will produce only servants and petty clerks.
?? (less than 10,000 years before the Doctor is loomed)
Drall is
loomed.
-6000?? (the archivist can remember him and
he still has a few incarnations left as of Lies)
Pandak VIII is President.
?? A roaming group of CIA agents rescue the Catuvelauni from the Romans.
There King Constantine is given technology that allows him to create a dreamland for his
people to live in.
?? Minatorius: A Time Lord visiting the planet
Minatorius is killed preventing the explosion of a reactor.
-5251 All Type 40 TTCs undergo a checkup.
-4000~?? The Hermit begins living in a cave on the peak of Mount Lung.
-4000~??
Gallifreyans become aware that acceleration affects temporal
manipulation.
-3323~?? (299, or
3462 or 4332 before Lungbarrow
)
Jobiska of the House of Lungbarrow is Loomed.
-2855
(4000 years before TID)
Norval becomes a Time Lord.
-2251 All Type 40 TTCs undergo a checkup.
-2167~ (probably 3010 years befrore Mawdryn
Undead)
Mawdryn and seven other Kastron
scientists steal a Metamorphic Symbiosis Regenerator from Gallifrey. They are caught by the
elders of their planet and exiled to a ship in a warp ellipse, where they will regenerate
perpetually. Are the Kastrons related to
Kasterborus? Or are they from Drornid?
?? The Doctor is considered to be a pioneer among Gallifreyans. By the time of the Doctor, no one remembers this pioneer's name.
-1395 to -1928 (or maybe at -72)
The old Keeper of the Matrix is
loomed
The Doctor (George Gallacio)
?? (before his first regeneration)
??
(Several 1000 years before TID )
There is a prophecy that sometime during the next
10,000 years the Time Lords will face many enemies - one of which will destroy Gallifrey.
Matrix predictions list possible identies for the
Enemy. These include: the Omega, the Sontarans, Tannis, Vore,
Faction Paradox, Catavolcus, Varnax, and Timewyrm. It is said that a Time Lord of this generation will be
central to these events. He will find the lost Scrolls of Rassilon and lead Gallifrey from
darkness.
Only the President and the Supream Council know of
the this prophecy and they never talk of it to others.
A sub-committee dealing with the Gallifrey's future War with the Enemy
begins deliberation. These discussions will last at least until TID and presumably beyond.
The new Doctor (Robert Banks Stewart)
??
(before the grandaughter's Birth / 2 million
years after the Curse
)
Patience and her husband (the Doctor) have children, 13 sons and daughters. They wear
blue clothes most of the time. None of them become Housekeeper of Blyledge but they all live
and grow up there.
None of their children are named
Miranda.
??
Patience's father-in-law becomes a Cardinal on the Council. The Doctor might have been hiding his regenerations by
pretending to be succeding generations of people from the House of Blyledge.
?? (sometime after graduation)
The Doctor spends many years as a
councillor on the High Council.
-1241~ (2000 years before Stones of Blood)
The Time Lords abandon
teaching interspacial geometry and hyperspace theory.
-1099~ (2000 years before Trial of a Time Lord)
The future Coucillor Xeroniam is loomed.
The new Doctor (Phillip Hinchcliffe)
?? (Before Divided Loyalties)
Rannex becomes Castellan.
?? (he is older then the Doctor)
Irving Braxiatel
is loomed from the House of Lungbarrow. He
is the Doctor's brother. At some point Brax aquires the Newblood ability to (with great
concentration) control his appearance during regeneration.
The new Doctor (Douglas Camfield)
-400??
(centuries before TID / hundreds of
centuries after the Curse / the day before the Granddchild is supposed to be born)
Patience's husband, the Doctor,
regenerates. His new body has light colored curly hair and a dark beard.
The Doctor and Patience's first born son's wife is is going to give
birth to the Doctor's grandchild tomorrow.
Susan's mother thinks that the Doctor is a bad
influence on Susan.
One of Susan's parents was related to Rassilon.
-400??
(
during the
Womb-Loom riots
/
right before Susan in born /
After the Panoptican is created
/ possibly
centuries after the Odyssey
)
The Loom-Born rebel against the Womb-Born killing
almost all of them. There is a riot in the Capitol.
The
President uses the Legacy of Rassilon to issue a warrant for the arrest
of Patience's husband. The Watch are to search for the Spawn of the Pythia (naturally born
children) and investigate allegations that Patience's husband has been consorting with
aliens and sharing the secret of Regeneration with naturally born children.
Patience's husband, the Doctor , is in the Capitol
while it is partially burned during
a riot.
Patience doesn't know if her husband has been arrested
or not.
The Doctor tries to stop the Watch's arrest of his family
but is to late.
The Watch tracks Patience down at the House of Blyledge.
The Watch kills the Housekeeper of Blyledge, captures Patience, her
children, and their associates and hauls them off. Patience's first born son's granddaughter is threatened with abortion
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NOTE: Lance
Parkin has stated that the Loom/Womb riots seen in Executive Action are different then
the Loom/Womb Riots seen in at the time of Susan's birth.
The Other's and the Doctor's granddaughter
Susan
-340 The Colonel is loomed. He is a Prydonian
-300~ (Centuries before the Morbius Crisis)
Councillor Morbius beings plotting to take over the Universe.
The new Doctor (Graeme Harper)
-241~ (50x older then he looks in Lungbarrow)
Damon is loomed
The new Doctor (Robert Holmes)
-150~ (a millenia before Hot Ice)
The Ventrosians of Ventros Prime want to share Time
Lord technology. The offer is refused because of the arrogence of the Ventrosians.
-139? Kelaphaludner is loomed. He is a Prydonian.
-107 (1008 years before Trial of a Time Lord)
One of the Councillors at the Doctor's Trial is loomed.
The new Doctor (Chris Baker)
-39? Rollonovaradnavashir is loomed.
?? (Possibly older than the Doctor given that became a Junior Time Lord
first)
Rallonwashatellaraw of the House of Stillhaven (Rallon) is loomed. He is a
Prydonian.
?? (before the Doctor is loomed)
At least one of the 45 Cousins of the House of Lungbarrow dies.
Throughout Quences's life the House of Lungbarrow has produced only
servants and petty clerks.
?? The Magician becomes a Hermit on Regal. He is also known as Pagd and Magus.
?? (a long time before The Infinity Doctors / more then a year after the begining of the Odyssey )
Forward to the Looming of the William Hartnell Doctor!
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