THE HISTORY OF THE TIME LORDS PART I
THE DARK TIME
Event Zero and Ancient Gallifrey
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.
--
(before the beginning of all beginnings)
Only two forces exist - Good and Evil
--
(before Time, Light, Space, and Matter,
before the Cataclysm, / before the Doctor's Universe / before Time)
The Beast claims to have been imprisoned on Krop Tor
by the
Disciples of Light. The Doctor beleives that no life could have
existed at this point. Sometime between the Time of Legend
(when the Time Lords invent black holes) and the Humanian Era the
planet Krop Tor be put in orbit of the black hole K-37 Gem 5. The Beast will be the template for
evil and numerous cultures will have legends inspired by it.
-50,000,000,000
(50
billion years
before Modern Gallifrey / Before the
formation of the Multiverse)
The
Cataclysm??: An Ur-Universe forms in the first Big Bang. Time is
born as is matter and space. The forces of Good and Evil shatter
leaving only echos. This Universe was “open” and expanded
until heat
death and
beyond. Secondary universes bud off
from the Ur-Universe. The Ur-Univers is like a series of
russian dolls. Inside each universe is another. This budding
process is probably an act of deliberate creation by sentient beings.
It occurs throughout the Ur-Universe,
producing a sea of
isolated universes. The lifeforms, called Intercreationals,
are composed of these universes exist
and in this sea. These Swimmers are far more powerful than
Chronovores (and Gaurdians) and can destroy universes by touching them.
Doctor Who?
“Always the same.”
-The Doctor
??
Event 0 - A
random fluctuation of energy creates a
Big
Bang, which produces the Normal-Space Universe. This Universe
begins
collapsing and expanding over billions of
years. One of the physical constants of this universe might be
the Doctor as he appears in several very different Universes that were spawned at the same time
as this one. It should be noted the Brigadier, Liz Shaw,
and Benton all appear in other universes and thus are also constants. The
Great Old One, Fenric, believed that the Doctor was a Great Old One. The
Kingmaker
claims that the Doctor is able to transcend death
because ideas cannot die. This implies that the Doctor is
conceptual entity. The
Doctor exists in 3 forms: the Other, the Renegade,
and Guardian of Justice and Morality. In every cycle the Universe
goes through, the Doctor begins as the Other, becomes the Renegade, and
eventually evolves into the Guardian of Justice and Morality.
Hastur the Unspeakable
--
(The
Beginning of
all Beginnings)
Hastur the Unspeakable (Fenric)
is formed out
of the
anti-life impulses inherent in the new Universe. He will become a
Great Old One and will be
responsible for the creation
of the Fendahl.
--
(The Time before Time)
The Seven Shadows are
created. They will later be put into a flask and used to imprison
Fenric.
-- After an unknown number of cycles, the gestalt entity known as the Nestene Consciousness or Shub-Niggurath comes into existence.
--
The Shub-Niggurath (Nestene Consciousness) and perhaps other beings (probably
Nyarlathotep) survived the creation of
the previous Universe. In this Universe, space was green instead
of black, and stars looked like giant doughnuts. There
are Time Lords in this universe. The Shub-Niggurath
becomes the Director of the CIA of this Universes
Time Lords.
She holds sway over this universe.
-12,000,000,000
(shortly before the Cathedral was built)
The Grey Man's People observe the evolution of the
First
Humanoids in a star system 30,000,000,000 light years from Sol.
-12,000,000,000
(15 billion years before the 20th century)
They
Grey Man builds the Cathedral Metahedron. This Cathedral will
survive into the next universe.
-- A war breaks out involving the previous Daleks and the previous Key to Time. Relizing that the end of this Universe is upon them, the Old Time Lords of the previous universe shunt themselves into a parallel universe (with a slightly longer lifespan) to escape this destruction. They become the Great Old Ones. None of them remember the previous Universe. The sentient void left in the old universe will become the Dark when it reforms (after the Big Bang).
-10,000,000,000 (13,500,017,903 BC / pretty close to exactly 10,000,000 years before the Qqaba mission / at least 3 or 4 cycles after the Shub-Niggurath appear existence)
-10,000,000,000
(right after the Big Bang)
The
11 dimensions
begin to solidify from the chaos. The three spatial (dimensions
1-3) and two temporal dimensions (4-5) form first. The
remaining 6 dimensions curled up to become the Six-Fold Realm (aka
Calabai-Yau Space). The Space-Time Vortex (dimension 5) is
also known as the Astral Plane and Two
of the dimension might be
named Possibility and Imagination. The realites of other dimensions can
manefest themselves in the N-Space universe as works of fiction. There are 4 forces in the universe,
Gravity, Electromagnetism, Strong Nuclear, and Weak Nuclear. It
is the Weak Nuclear Force which allows the existance of the 5th
Dimension.
The universe has 9 corners. Some
minor Paradoxes form within the
first picosecond of the Universe's existence. Causality is
largely structureless at this point.
THE ELEVEN
DIMENSIONAL UNIVERSE
Number Dimension Color Gaurdian Key to Time 1 Length N/A N/A N/A 2 Width N/A N/A N/A 3 Height N/A N/A N/A 4 Time/Thought N/A N/A N/A 5 Space-T. Vortex N/A N/A N/A 6 ?? White Structure / Order / Light 1 Segment 7 ?? Black Chaos/Darkness/Entropy 2 Segment 8 ?? Red Justice/Morality/Doctor 3 Segment 9 ?? Azure Equilibrium 4 Segment 10 Imagination Crystal Toymaker / Dreams 5 Segment 11 Possiblity Gold Sentience/Life 6 Segment |
The Guardians of Light, Chaos, Dreams and Justice?
-10,000,000,000 (Earlier
then the Time Lord historical records reach)
The Great
Old Ones
that were High Council of the Old
Time Lords become a elemental forces and
an integral part of
the new Universe. They become the Council of Guardians.
There are six Gauridans: Light (Structure / White),
Chaos (Entropy / Black), Justice
(Red), Dreams (the Toymaker/Crystal), Equilibrium (Azure), and Life
(Gold).
Together they are the Six-Fold God. They essential for cosmic
balance because they serve as conduits through which
the fundamental essence of
the Universe can act. On of there jobs is to ensure
that the Time Lords do not abuse their abbilites to manipulate the Weak
Nuclear Force. A balance between ridged order and
total chaos is needed to ensure a dynamic living cosmos. For this
reason the Guardians can
only act in unison otherwise cosmic balance will be upset and
they answer only to the Greater Old Ones known as the Grace. The Grace is probably a huge and
pan-dimensional being with amazing powers and is even capable of
banishing the Guardians. The Guardians nurture the early
civilizations of the universe. The Black Gaurdian is responsible
for 50% of the reality of the Universe. If the Black Guardian
were ever to defeat the White he would become the undisputed ruler of
Reality. The
Gaurdian of Structure appears less likely to lie then the Gaurdian of
Chaos. The
Black Gaurdian is strongest
as the far end of the universe and the white is weakest at this
point.
Among
the Time Lords, only those who
have served (or are serving) as President know of the true nature of
the Gaurdians. They can only contact lower
primates when the primate's brain has been knocked into an altered
state. Other
transendental
beings include the Chronovores, the Eternals, Sirens of Time, the Time
Vortex
Wraiths (which number in the billions), and the Temporon.
Vortisaurs are scavengers that inhabit
the 5th Dimension and feed on temporal energy. They are
uncomfortable
in the 3 dimensional universe but can survive for some
time.
These beings exist in the Six-Fold Realm
(Dimensions #6-11 aka the Center
of Time) or the Space-Time Vortex (Dimension 5). The
member of the Old Time Lord High Council known as the Renegade enters
this
Universe and becomes the Other. He will eventually become the The
Red Guardian of Justice. The Great Old One,
Hastur the Unspeakable, believed that the Doctor was a Great Old One.
The Key to Time
The Gods of Ragnarok
-10,000,000,000 Three of the Guardians from the previous Universe become the Gods of Ragnarok (Raag, Nah, and Rok). They have relatively little power in this universe and exist in a bubble of their own universal laws. They later create the Land of Fiction. The other three Guardians from the previous Universe become the Arma, Gedd, and Onn. One of these last three was the Renegade from the previous universe.
Yog-Sothoth, Lloigor, and Shub-Niggurath
<>-10,000,000,000 The other Great Old Ones (Old Time Lords from the Previous Universe) become the Transient Beings (or Sub-Gaurdians). The greatest and darkest is Nyarlathotep. Other Great Old Ones include the Time Lord military stratagist Yog-Sothoth (the Great Intelligence which lives in the Astral Plane known as the Vortex), Senior Watcher Lloigor (Animus), Dagon, Azathoth, Cthulu, Director of the CIA Shub-Niggurath (whose daughter will become the Nestene Conciousness), Hastur the Unspeakable (Fenric), Melefescent, and Gog (Gog and Magog). Other 'Things Unspeakable' from the Dark Times: the Cerrunos, the Valdemar, the Primeval Beings, the Dark, the Chlutu, and Narytholotep. Of the Great Old Ones, both Hastur the Unspeakable (Fenric), and the Shub-Niggurath (Nestene Consciousness) survive the creation of this Universe just as they survived the last. Most if not all lose their memories from the previous universe. Gog and Magog probably become the Ogri of Ogros in the Tau Ceti system.
-10,000,000,000 The Transendental Beings are bound by the Great and Ancient Covenants.
-10,000,000,000
The Chronovores (aka Kronovores) were
created
by the Council of Guardians on the artifical planet Darkheart.
The Chronovores used a nearby neutron star to create the Darkheart
Feeding system. It allowed them to sustain themselves with the
raw energy of stars while they learned to evolve into two
transcendental beings.
, but at the time of their birth, the
Chronivores fail to meet the Council's standards. They are
considered to be vampires (because of their feeding habits)
and are segregated from the Eternals to become the Dark Caste.
The Chronovores live in the
Space Time Vortex but feed in off the
Lux Aeterna in the Six-Fold
Realm. They exist as six-dimensional polymorphic lattices of
non-baryonic matter (such as photinos
and chronons), bound by superstrings. Their life-energies are
inimical to humanoid existance.
They feed on time (specifically
chronons) and
are essential to the ecology of the Universe. They prefer to devour temporal paradoxes,
parallel universes, and other time problems. Though they are
above the
laws of the universe and are magic personified they work to maintain
the laws of physics by removing the stresses and strain on the
laws.
They are led by their Matriarch, Lillith. The Reapers appear to be a sub-type of
chronovore (they do feed on time). They cauterize temporal paradoxes
preventing the the damage from turing into universe wide changes in
History.
-10,000,000,000 (after the Chronivores are
created)
Eternals: The Eternals have
existed since they were created by the Council of Guardians. They
were abandoned by
their parents at the beginning of this Universe. They exist outside Time in the Domain
of Eternity as
six-dimensional polymorphic lattices of
photinos and chronons, bound by superstrings. The
Guardians seek fullfillment through the Eternals and the
Eternals seek
fullfilment through the thoughts of Ephemerals and feed on
imagination. The
Patriarch of
the Eternals is Sadok. Other Eternals appear to be the
Gallifreyan
Gods Pain, Death, Time, Light, and
Life. Every Eternal has a mortal Champion. The Council of Guardians and other Old
Gods will often arrange games and tournaments for the Eternals.
The Eternals are cousins of the Chronivores. The Temporon is a
distant cousin of the Chronivores.
?
(the dawn of time)
The Eternal
Elektra and the Chronivore Prometheus conceive a child in defiance of
the Ancient Covenants. That child, Kronos
is the greatest of the Chronivores. He is imprisoned in the
Crystal of Kronos by the Council of Guardians.
-10,000,000,000? (from HOU)
The
Gods of Ragnarok and the Eternals wrote down the rituals that constrain
the Chronivores. The Daemons eventualy copy these texts.
-10,000,000,000 (The big bang / earlier than a TARDIS
can safely go)
The Old Ones
exist, including Valdemar.
??
(before the Time Lords)
The energy beings known as the
Constructors
of Destiny come into existance. They might also be know as the
Halldons.
-9,999,997,000??
(a few millennia after coming into
being)
The Celestial Toymaker grows bored with nurturing
the early civilizations of the universe, and startes to destroy them
instead. He eventually founds distraction in the world of games.
-9,999,996,500??
(Possibly the coordinates given by
the Master to Head of the Presidency / 13,500,014,400
BC)
The Gods of Ragnarok
(Raag, Nah, and Rok) create the Land of Fiction.
-5,110,000,000
(4.6 billion years before life evolves / 8,112,027,893
BC)
Gallifrey's system formed relatively
early in
galactic history. It is one of the first of what will eventually
be 650 million systems with planets that have G-Type enviroments (ie Earth-like).
It is located very near the center of Mutter's Spiral. (TID implies it is located very near the edge of
the Mutters Spiral.)
-5,000,000,000
(5 billion years before the 1980s)
A star supernovas
creating
the gas cloud that will eventualy form Earth Sun.
-3,000,000,000 (6,502,027,893 BC)
Gallifrey's sun ingnites.
??
(before the
Rassilon Era / billions of years before the 20th century / at or before
4.6 billion BC / before the Time Scoop
is created / after Gallifrey is
born)
The beginning of the the
Dark Time (aka the Dark Days). It will last untill the beginning of the
Rassilon Era.
??
(during the Dark Times)
On of the Great Old Ones has a space ship known as
the Infinite. The Heart's Desire would be granted to anyone who
entered the ship. Untill at least the 40th century people would
go on quests for the Infinite.
-1,500,000,000
(5,000,000,000 BC Timelink /
6,500,000,000 before the Eye of Harmony from HOU??)
Castrovalva: Event 1
occurs. Mutter's
Stellian Spiral Galaxy (aka the Milky Way) forms out of a huge in rush
of hydrogen. The time force of this event is so immense that it
is almost impossible for a TARDIS to escape its field. It will be named after a famous Gallifreyan explorer named
Mutter Stellian. The
-1,500,000,000
(5 billion years before 4663 AD)
Skaro's
sun ignites.
-1,500,000,000
The Sol system's sun ignites. Sol is located in Sector 8023 of
the Third Quadrant of Mutter's Stellian Spiral Galaxy.
-1,100,000,000
(during the Dark Times / 4.6
billion years before the 20th
century / probably when Gallifrey had an Empire)
The Racnoss are are species of carnivores and omivores who
devoure entire planets (prossibly
related to the Great Vampires). The Fledgling Empires of
the
universe (including the Gallifreyans)
went to war with the Racnoss and all but destroyed them. The
Secret Heat, a fleeing
Racnoss ship, becomes the center of the planet Earth as if forms.
(Since Rassilon comes to power
in
3.5 billion BC, its possible that the Time Lords traveled back in time
to help in this war)
-600,000,000
(600 million years before the Eye of Harmony / 4,012,027,893
BC)
Life from
the Ancestor Cell arrives on Gallifrey and begins to
evolve. These
lifeforms move quickly up the evolutionary
ladder. The planet
might have been very much like Alzarius from E-Space and possibly had a
mistfall every 50 years.
??
The Stolen TARDIS: The Saurian Age exists on
Gallifrey. Great
lizards like the Gargantosaurs will
continue to exist untill the Time of Legend.
-11,010,007 The last Population III star, Qqaba, ignites.
-10,000,000??
(1-5 billion
of years before 2003 AD)
The ancestors of the Constructors of Destiny
(one of the first Great Races to appear) guide and instruct the more
primative races of the Universe.
??
The
Khorlthochloi are one of the oldest races in the Galaxy. They
guide developing speices and eventually ascended to a higher
dimension. The Doctor believes that the Khorlthochloi's
acheivements outweigh even Rassilon's. Other ancient races are
the Spraxis Jelloids.
-8,014,500
(4250
years before hyperdrive)
The enter the Bronze and then the Iron Ages. The early Gallifreyans had
many
wars, periods of regression, and periods of progress. Telepathy
becomes
common among Gallifreyans. Each city develops its own Academia to
train these telepathes. The Academia's are run by Priests of the
Menti Celesti . The
Menti Celesti are Gallifreyan Gods and are made up of Pain, Death, and
Time (aka the daughter
of the Timewyrm). 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. Prayer to the gods is usualy conducted by
individuals in a privet setting. The Menti Celesti are abstract universal
conceptual
entities, a non-corporeal
beings that can control time, and fate.
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.
-8,013,900
(3650
before hyperdrive)
The walled cities of Gallifrey
become the capitols of various city states that are ruled by City
Warlords.
-8,011,500
(1250 years before hyperdrive)
The Age of the
Pythias beings with the rule of City by the First Pythia. She is
also The Symbol of the planet's fertility, Mouthpiece of the Gods, and
Guardian of the Great Book of Future Legends. To see the future,
a Pythia sits in a wicker cage in the Cavern of Prophecy, under
the adytum of Temple. She is suspended over the Crevasse of
Memories That Will Be. The smoky vapors allow her to acheive the
state of clairvoyant and the state of clairaudiant. Attendants of
the Pythian Order wear rust red robes. Pythian seers eat fish
tongues. The Court of
Principals governs under the
Pythia. The Councilors
of this court form a meritocracy. This City often suffers from a bitter
wind from the
?? The Book of Future Legends might have predicted that a vampire would be entombed on Ravalox and rise to lead his people as the Vampire Messiah.
?? (After the First Pythia comes to power but before hyperdrive)-8,010,650
(200 years after space flight)
The Gallifreyans launch the first manned
interstellar probe.
-8,010,250
(10,250
years before the Empire)
The Gallifreyans develop hyperdrive.
-8,010,000
(millions of years befor TID / 250
after hyperdrive)
The City of
??
(before The Five
Doctors)
The
City/Capitol might be named Gallifrey.
-8,000,000 (They've had absolute power for 10,000,000 years / 10 million years before
TID)
The Time of Empire
begins when the
first Pythia creates the Gallifreyan Empire. The Pythia is the
Guardian, Embodiment, and Crown of the Gallifreyan Empire. The Chancellery Watch is
formed as part of the Council Police.
-4,580,000?? The Epiphany Scrolls of Soneuramos are entrusted to the 217th Pythia in the sacred Firelake of Rag-Fraish.
-3,990,000??
The 254th Pythia declare that all technology should
be abandoned (or maybe technological
advances are forbidden).
-3,420,000??
(During time of the
290th Pythia)
The Gallifreyans split into two major factions: The
Colonialist (who belive that Gallifrey's eco-system has been killed and
they should begin again on a new world), and the Restorationists (who
believe that the planet can be brought back to life). The 290th
Pythia
favors both factions with ships and funding to accomplish their
goals.
Many of the colony ships that left Gallifrey ended up becoming "lost"
and founding several of that Galaxy's ancient humanoid
civilizations.
This could include the Union of Traken, the Logopolitans, and the
Elders???
-3,420,000??
(before the
Rassilon Era / billions of years before the 20th century / at the time of
the Colonialist and Restorationists)
The Pythia
call this era the Bright Past. It will last untill the beginning of the
Rassilon Era.
-1,640,000
(During the time of the 430rd Pythia)
The 403rd Pythia decrees that all prisoners of war
shall be transported to Gallifrey, and
forced to fight each other to survive. The survivors would gain
their
freedom. This became known as the Games. Death Zone (or
Forbidden Zone) is created in a valley in
the southern
hemisphere as an arena for
the
Games. The games are considered holy and
serve as an outlet for the stresses of the telepathic group mind of
Gallifreyans. Gallifreyans
watch these Games on their
Public Access
Channels. The Death Zone is about
the size
of North Wales and is surrounded
by a powerful forcefield that can trap even a TARDIS.
-10,000
The Logistomancer of A32K foresees an Empire of Logic that lasts
for 10,000 years.
-5,023~
(before Time's Crucible / 5000 years before the Quaba
mission)
By this time, Gallifrey is the center of the mighty
Gallifreyan Empire.
The
culture is similar to Earth's
Hellenic Greece
period.
The
Gallifreyan Empire focuses most of its energies on exploring
undeveloped planets. It
encompasses: Ezmion VI, Pen-Shoza,
Jagdagian, Oshakarm, the Star Grellades, Mirphak 2, Drornid (or Dronid),
the Aubert
Cluster and many others.
The Gallifreyans convince all alien races to view them as
gods. Gallifrey has a population
in the millions at this point. The
Empire
is governed by a Pythia. The Pythia is the
Guardian, Embodiment, and Crown of the Gallifreyan Empire. She is
also The Symbol of the planet's fertility, Mouthpiece of the Gods, and
Guardian of the Great Book of Future Legends. They see their
heritage as the Bright Past. To see the future,
a Pythia sits in a wicker cage in the Cavern of Prophecy, under
the adytum of Temple. She is suspended over the Crevasse of
Memories That Will Be. The smoky vapors allow her to acheive the
state of clairvoyant and the state of clairaudiant. Attendants of
the Pythian Order wear rust red robes. Pythian seers eat fish
tongues.
The Court of
Principals governs under the
Pythia. The Court has a Council made up of 100 Councilors (which includes at least one
Cardinal). Gallifreyans
are educated at the Academia
which is located in the City's Olmesian Quarter. The Academia is
controlled by the Court of Principals. It teaches
philosophy and strategy sports, swordplay, and military
maneuvers. Very little emphesis is made on
recording and
documenting thier own history. Students are called cadets and
live in barrack
rooms.
Military Cadets are called Young Heroes. Military Officers
are called Heroes. The
Watch continues to act as the police force. People who are
stoned have their heads put on
pikes. People who are convicted of minor crimes work at the suet
factories. Gallifreyans have abolished racism. Treazants
are the form of currency used. The Gallifreyans speak and write
Old High Gallifreyan (10,000,000 letters in alphabet), and Middle
Gallifreyan. The nobles of Gallifrey
have estates in South Gallifrey.
The superstitious people worship the Menti Celesti (heavenly minds) as
Gods. These Gods are Time, Death,
and Pain. Ancient
Gallifreyans belive that Evil can be used to repell Evil.
-5,000
(3rd Century Gallifrey dating)
The great philosopher Pelatov writes
Pelatov's Collected
Sageries.
?? Astrafoils begin being used for space travel.
??
(during the
Old Time)
There was a theory that stated that if all the magic
of the
universe became science and everything about everything was
understood then all the science and technology of the universe would
fail.
??
(probably
earlier then 4,000,000 BC
/ before Time Travel / possibly less then 240,000 years before the
1980s AD/ Must be after the
Racnoss ship forms the nucleus of Earth)
The humanoid Laima live
on the drab, and, hot planet Trion (located near the center of Mutter's
Spiral, about 20,000 light years from earth). The word "Laimee"
means happiness. They have
great
knowledge and power and discover the secret of
Unified Field Theory, which gave them the ability to travel through
time and to alternate universes. But to traverse these
dimensions,
they needed to stop the gravitational constant from decreasing. Desiring to travel to the next highest Universe (a
dimension of Thought), they create
the Gravity Generator Control Unit and place it
on Earth. It stops the decay of the
Gravitational Constant and stabilizes it at 6.672x10^-11 N
(m/kg)^2 throughout the universe.
This Gravity Generator makes physics operate differently around Earth
(thus it took humans a long time to discover FTL drive) and attracts
the attentions of several other races.
This is the catalyst for the hundreds of alien invasions that
Earth experiences throughout the Human Era. The Matrix also
predicts that near the end of the Universe (Event 2), the Time Travel
Technology of the Tellurians (Humans),
will surpass the Time Lords. All of this makes Earth an important
Nexus World (like Solos, Tylers Folly, and possibly Gallifrey).
Many
Time
Lords will keep a close eye on Earth for
these reasons, though some Time Lords (including the Doctor in his 6th
incarnation) don't know that the Gravity Control Unit is on Earth.
The Earth's gravity control unit might be buried beneath
the Indian ocean's gravity distortion (this is a real distortion that
cause a deformation in the ocean)
Or it might be located at
stone henge which is where the Monk built a monument and it was the
first place Tanis seized when he attacked.
Logopolis
??
(aeons.billions of years before 1982 / before the Time Lords / after
the Gallifreyans evolve)
Due to a
tailored virus, entropy begins inceasing
at an accelerated rate. The people of Logopolis being using the
Block Transfer Computation to save the Universe from Heat Death.
They drain entropy into Charged Vacuum Embodiments. This stops
the destruction of the Universe by
preventing the Emerald Wave of Entropy. In this way the planet Logopolis
becomes one of the anchoring points for the entire causal nexus.
The people of Logopolis are driven not by individual need but by
mathematical necessity.
Omega and
the Seal of Omega
-136.3
(169 years before the the Curse)
The 508th Pythia begins her
rule. She has a mask like face,
streaked with gold, and long grey hair coiled with silver wire.
She reeks of wood smoke and wears blue furs with dangling talismans.
??
(a long time before the Curse)
The 508th Pythia
foresees the
point when the veil of Time will not be breached by thought but instead
will be physically traveled. She instigates the Time
Program. The Time Program is an Academia project.
-153
(130 years before the Qqaba
Mission)
Taranium is discovered and mined from
Gallifrey's moon Pazithi. This rare element will be essential to
Gallifreyan temporal science. Gallifreyan temporal science is based
on the fact that revolution-induced gravity exists and affects all
temporal manipulation.
The Dark Tower
Rassilon
-130~??
(he is young when he fights the Vampires)
Rassilon (full name Rassil Onasti Prydonius
is born. Rassilon's father is a suet
shredder. His
House
is a member of the Prydon Chapter. He is probably a member of the
House of
Fordfarding. Rassilon
is considered to be the single
greatest figure in Time Lord History and
the Father of Gallifrey. His
symbol will be an owl. Rassilon is short even
for a
male, but the Time Lords
of the future will believe that Rassilon was very tall, wore
bodystockings, and had well developed muscles. Omega and Rassilon will form and lead
different Chaptershouses
but Omega is Rassilon's cousin.
??
(he outranks Amnoni)
Quennesander Olyesti Pekkary of the
House of Fordfarding is born. He is Rassilon's nephew.
-120?? Amnoni Distuyssor Lorizhon, oldest daughter of the ancient House of Blyledge is born. Amnoni might have been one of the daughters of the Doctor and Old Patience. She eventually becomes Second Officer of the Chronoscaphe. 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.
-110~?
(she was
young when the
Revolution took place, several "generations"
before the 'Infinity Doctor' was born)
Patience
is born from a womb. She is a
Gallifreyan with dark hair, green eyes, and freckles on her
shoulders. There is a birth mark on her foot. Her DNA is of
the same ancestry, but different then the Doctors. She is born from
the House of Blyledge, one of the senior houses in the Prydon Chapter
of Glorious Gallifrey.
She might have become a member of the Pythia's Order and thus be immune
to the Curse?
-110~?
(right before he becomes
Omega)
Paylix (Omega) hides a Warp Ellipse Field
Generator in his desk -
which gives him 3 years to compleate a 3 hour examination. His
teacher, Cardinal Louvis chooses not to punish him.
-110~?
(before turning in the paper)
Paylix (aka Omega)
discovers that to
make unlimited time travel possible a nearly endless power source will
be needed. He develops the Genfranies(sp??)
Theory of Temporal Aging based on a
theory created by a lesser species. The theory states that time
itself
ages and becomes more curved. If one could control the oldest
part of
Time then one could control and map out all of history. He knows
the
oldest part of time is in the Sector of Forgotten Souls (probably where the Terminus
Timestation is located) and
belives that detonating a star in that sector would give the
Gallifreyans control of History.
-110~?
(before the revolution / when
Omega is at the
Academy)
Student Paylix (soon to be Omega) turns in his
Cronological
Studies paper on the
Genfranies(sp??)
Theory of Temporal Aging into Cardinal
Louvis. Louvis is so offended by
Paylix
ignoring his teachings and worried about how dangerous the theory is
that he gives Palix the lowest possible grade ever given at the Academy
- Omega. No one in the history of the Academy has ever scored
this low
and Palix goes from being a nobody to being famous for his score of
Omega. Palix
becomes known universaly by the name Omega.
??
Rassilon appears to be the first Gallifreyan to relize that matter and
energy are interchangable.
?
(long before she meets the Doctor)
Patience meets Omega.
??
Young Patience
and Omega fall in love.
??
(probably
before entry into the Vortex)
One of the earliest Time Lords, Omega,
discoveres De-materialization Theory and
learns to make
Dematerialization Circuits using the steady state micro-welding
technique developed by the Lamadines.
?? Palix (Omega) becomes a Time Plumber. His job might have been to remove temporal energy from the vortex tubes.
?? (a while before the Qqaba mission)-102
(102 years before
the Eye
of Harmony)
The first Space-Time craft
capable of carrying a Gallifreyan into the Vortex is constructed by
Palix (aka Omega). Palix
(aka Omega) is the first
Gallifreyan to
survive the Space-Time Vortex.
-102?
(at
least a few years before the return from the Odyssey / )
Patience's
lover is a pioneer among
the Time Lords.
He becomes one of the first Time Lords to enter the Space-Time
Vortex after its discovery. By the
time of
the Doctor, no one remembers this pioneer's name. Nobody will remeber what Omega's real
name was.
-70~?
(he
is barely an adult in Time's Crucible)
Vael Voryunsti Sheverell is born in his family's
home in Soonwell
Valley (about 500 leagues from The City). He comes from a family
of merchants. He has older sisters who later marry and have
children of their own.
?? The Pythia, having foreseen that the next ruler of Gallifrey will be a male, chooses Vael Voryunsti Sheverellas as her successor. She has the Academia single Vael out for special treatment, which is good because he didn't fit in at the Academia. He was the only one to study Time Theory and he failed his final assessments. Vael was a Temporal Physicist. He got the Highest exam quota ever in Temporal Manifold Physics.
??
(at least a few years before
the return from the Odyssey /
19 years before returning according to Homer)
Patience's
lover embarks on the Odyssey into Deep Time.
?? Despite just getting married, Patience's husband spends most of his time 'shaping a new future' for Gallifrey.
-36.7
(4 years before the Curse)
Shonnzi is born. He has
red hair and before he grows up he is gifted in piloting a ship through
the Astral Vortex.
-36.5 (3 years before the Launch)
?
Amnoni plans to have children
after the launch of the Time Scaphe. She is also named as the
next Kithriarch of the House
of Blyledge.
?? During the Time War the Time Lords created the several TARDIS to use as tools to try to free the Fendal. The surviving TARDISes become the the Sphinxs who a know as the Kings of Space. The Sphinxes absorb energy from other dimensions and excrete raw space-time. The Kings of Space are a male and female Sphinx who are the parents of all the others. One is black and one is white. Having no interest in the other Gods they set themselves up in an area of space on the opposite side of Mutter's Stellian Spiral from Sol III. This area is called Sphinx Space. They get a bunch of human worshippers to take care of their little Sphinxes.
-33.3
(1 year before the Curse / day 0)
Haclav Agusti Prydonius is a
mighty Hero and Space Voyager. He
has black hair and his ship is the Apollaten. He returns from
overthrowing the reign of a marauding Sphinx on the distant world of
Thule. Of all the augurers within the nine corners of the
Universe, the Sphinx sees the farthest. It is rumored that this
event fulfilled one of the Future Legends. At this point
Prydonius dislikes Rassilon's political views. The Pythia has
Taspar killed in what appears to be a freak skimmer accident, and the
Pythia has Vael Voryunsti Sheverell replace him on the Time Scaphe's
Crew. Vael supports the Neo-Technologsts, but agrees to be
the Pythia's agent because he wants to rule Gallifrey.
-34~
(1 year before the Curse)
The Pythia
abolishes sales taxes on slave trade
-34~
(1 year before the Curse)
There are
riots and two public
stonings in the cities in the South.
-34
(1 year before the Curse / day 61)
The Time Scaphe is launched. The first
Temporal Transportation
System (aka time machine) to use the Space-Time Vortex is called the
Time Scaphe or Chronoscaphe. The
first time travel is
planned to be ninety minutes in the Astral Vortex, and ninety days into
the future.
-33
(3 years before getting funding for the Hand of
Omega project)
With Omega's
support, Rassilon begins
conducting preliminary research into mapping an controling History.
? Omega begins calling Rassilon 'Rass.'
?? Omega becomes the first Solar Engineer. He and future solor engineers will be scoffed at for their interest in providing for Gallifrey over exploring the Universe. Omega is also considered to be the first real scientist of the Gallifreyan people.
??
A solar
engineer discovers that the square
root of negative three is impossible to calculate. They have
Gallifreyan biological engineers create a creature that has that
knowlege
breed into it. It instinctualy know what was possible and
impossible and could thus prevent inventors and theorists from wasting
their time for foolish projects. It is known as a Calculating
Animal with a Tail (CAT) and was the Gallifreyan Empire's greatest
acheivement to date. Cats become the symbol of intelligence in
Gallifreyan culture. It
should be noted that Rassilon's CAT described in the "Legacy of
Gallifrey" is almost certainly the
Other.
?? The Gallifreyan science vessel known as the Starkiller Class is designed. A few hundred Starkillers collapse a star into a singularity. They might have been golden corkscrew shaped vessels.
?? (after Omega became the first Solar Engineer)
The Yssgaroth
Vampire King
-33.7
(arround the time when Rassilon meeds
with the Pythia)
An Ice Age begins. In the beginning the Ice
Age will cause a partial collapse of Gallifreyan society - this
collapse is known as the Darkness. The Ice Age might last for 10
million years and only end arround the time the Doctor is in his 8th
body. .
-33.8
(1 year before the Curse / day 151)
The 508th Pythia meets with Rassilon.
Afterwards, she
discovers she can't see the future anymore. She refuses to leave
her cage. This fuels the Neo-Technologist moment. The Time
Scaphe fails to return and is presumed lost. The Pythia's
inability to see
the future
might be related to the weakening of the hypothalamus organ in
all humanoid brains. This organ allowed humanoids to see the
higher
dimensions and gave them powerful telepathic abilites.
?? The Pythia's health begins to fail.
-33.8 (1 year before the Curse / day 166)-32.8~?
(1 year before the Curse /
precisely 1 year after Rassilon meets with the
Pythia)
The Council
has the Admiralty
imprisoned because they protested the restrictions the Pythia put on
the space fleets. Despite the
Admiralty's bad relationship with Rassilon, Prydonius
and the rest of the
Admiralty side with Rassilon. The Hero
Prydonius, publicly pledges allegiance to Rassilon. In
response, the Court of Principles makes Prydonius a noble and makes him
observer of the Ruta III and Sontara Warburg dispute and stations him
on the distant post of
Funderell.
-32.7~?
(the year of the Curse)
Rassilon is
temporarly held under house arrest for misappropriation of
Academia revenues.
-32.7~?
(the year of the Curse)
The Aubert
Cluster demands independence. The Pythia has the Eye
of the Sphinx
stolen. She uses it to contact Vael.
"Now, See what we have
created. We have built a world of Reason Triumphant. And it
is Good"
-Rassilon
-32.65
(32.65 years before the Eye of Harmony / day 128 of the new calender /
the
beginning of the Rassilon Era / Intuitive Revolution Night is
probably not New Year's Day)
Rassilon, the Other, Lord Dowtroyal head of the
Court of Principals, General Gimel and the
rest of
Neo-Technologists start the Intuitive Revelation/Revolution. The Inquisitors begin rounding up everyone who doesn't
belive in Rationality. Rassilon and
Omega climb up something (probably a
mountain - maybe Mount Cadon). They look down and watch as the
west district of the Capitol (which includes the Academia) burn.
Omega objects to the violence
of
the revolution. The Temple is invaded. Vael uses his
psionic powers to kill himself and hurt the
Pythia. Realizing that that she has
lost, the 508th
Pythia curses Gallifrey and drops into the Crevasse of Memories That
Will Be. The Pythia's Curse
is known as the Great Schism. The Curse renders
all of Gallifrey (and its Imperial Colonies) sterile. Rassilon's
daughter
is born dead and his wife mourns. The Great Schism causes
shock-waves in the space-time continuum (Patience and her
children are immune to the Pythia's
Curse - possibly because was
a member of the Pythia's order?) and channeles Gallifrey's procreative
impulse to Earth. Rassilon might
have
ended centuries of tyranny and blood shed on Gallifrey. The Time Scaphe returns,
and it is seen as
a good omen. It's captain, Pekkary, is made a Young Hero. This is
the end of the Dark Time and the beginning
of the Time of Legend. The
term Old Time continues to apply.
??
(before the Panoptican)
Six
heroes are considered
the Founders of Gallifrey.
This led to the Six Cardinal Colleges or Chapterhouses.
The
Founders
of Gallifrey
Prydon Rassilon (the First Earl of Prydon and Grandmaster of the Prydon Chapter) Apeiron (a warrior) Omega The Other Pandak the First (possibly) Yassinbur (the Hero)
The Six Colleges (aka Chapterhouses) Prydon (represented by Rassilon)
Arcal Patrexes Dromeian Cerulean Scendeles |
Maren, Reverend Mother of
the Sisterhood of the Flame
-32
The Council of the Court of Principles continues
to rule Gallifrey.
The
Council is mostly made up of Arcalians. The
Leader of the Council is
the Tussan of the Arcalian Chapter. Lord Dowtroyal is another leader of
the Court of Principles. They interpret the Pythia's mention of
"He" to mean that Rassilon is to be the next Pythia/Crown of
Gallifrey.
??
(before Rassilon is
entombed)
Pandak becomes
a member of the
Council.
-32
(the year of the Curse)
The Council gives Rassilon two
crowns probably making him Crown of the
Gallifreyan Empire (the Title held by the Pythia). Rassilon doesn't want to be the sole
ruler of Gallifrey because he is afraid of his own corruption.
??
(before the Qqaba mission)
Patience, the Other (but probably not Omega) are all immortal, barring
accidents and could live for millions of years. This immortality
is not
due to Rassilon. By the
time of the first Otherstide Rassilon probably believes that the Other
is not immortal.
-32
(probably the year of the Curse)
The Ice Age that began last
year continues. It
might last 10 million years.
?
(before the Tempesh
Incident)
The
Sisterhood still refuses to use aircars and other technology, but their
leadership accepts that science can explain their sorcery
-31?
(1000 years before the Eternal War ended / probably not long after the Curse
/ Before
TARDISes are invented / during
the Dark Times)
The Gallifreyans discover other races
whose view
of
the universe is so alien to the Gallifreyan views that their mere
observations threaten Gallifreyan life. The Time Lords declare
war on these beings and try to eliminate them. The
Eternal War begins.
The
Gallifreyas will ally with the Fledgling Empires to fight the Great Old
Ones (including the Yssgaroth),
The Racnoss, the Vampires, and the Nestenes. This is the first
and
greatest of the Vampire Wars that
take place during this period.
??
The
Gallifreyans appropriate Block-Transfer
Mathematics from the Logopolitans.
??
(at the Time of Legend)
The Gallifreyans deveople
Tribophysics. This is the science of interacting surfaces in
relative motion. Studies of Tribophysics will eventually allow
the Gallifreyans to slip through dimensions.
??
(during
the Time of Chaos / when
Rassilon and Omega were alive / Before
Rassilon becomes President / possibly after the Triumvirate is created /
after the revolution)
Omega,
Rassilon, and the Other create Validium as the Ultimate Defense for
Gallifrey. Validium is living metal
with DNA, that becomes
sentient when it achieves critical mass (probably about
300 kg). Its sole function is to
cause
destruction however it also
might
also be able to turn items into water or other elements. It generates an aura of chaos that
causes violence and destruction on any world it passes near. It
can shape itself into whatever its owner asks it to be.
Validium
is probably used to create the Cold - A substance that exists
as a liquid gateway/buffer between the Normal
Space and the Yssgaroth-Space of the
Vampires.
Validium
might be related to the Casts or the N-Forms.
??
(before Omega decides to
shape the universe)
They build a statute of Omega in the great hall of
the Academy. The statue is made of ebonite. While watching
the construction of this statue Omega decides to shape the
universe.
-30~?
(3 years after Rassilon and Omega begin
privately researching time
travel /the year Rassilon becomes President / after the
begining of the Eternal Wars / before the
Quaba Mission)
Rassilon forges
a fragment of The Book of Future
Legends to gain popular support for the Time Program and his other
reforms. This fragments covers the years from the Curse to the
end of
the Qqaba mission. The
Council is very disinterested
in the Time Program but the CAT (the Other) and the Fragment convinces
Council Leader Tussan and the Consortium to fund the
project. Omega,
the first of
the Solar Engineers, and
Rassilon, begin
developing a Stellar Manipulator that will be called the Hand of
Omega. Their goal is to achieve time
travel by using a singularity for a power source (not a Black Hole as
Rassilon has yet to invent event horizons). .
??
The Vogans use the Seal of
Rassilon as their own. This is probably an accidental
side affect of the creation of the Web of Time (Or maybe the
Vogans ARE
Gallifreyans from the past or the future? Or did the Time Lords
help Voga during the Cyberwars?).
??
The Starbreakers and Omegan Sunskipper ship
classes are created.
They use Vworp Drive for interstellar travel and fusion engines for sublight
manuvering. They have
temporal grace curcuits and dimensional stabilizers.
Bow Ship
??
(probably before the Time Lords seal the dimensional holes)
The Bow
Ship is invented to destroy the Vampires. The steel projectiles
launched a Vampires are called Bowspikes. Rassilon might
have taken credit for the invention.
Rassilon orders the construction of 700 Bow Ships to destroy the
Vampires. The Bow Ships are crewed
by 16,000 Prydonians
and Arcalians. The
Eternal Wars are
organized by Rassilon's personal
guard
(who will later become the CIA). The
fleets are led by General Kopyion Liall a Mahajetsu, Lord
Defender of the Faith of the Peoples of Gallifrey. These ships turn the tide of the Vampire War.
Unlike species infected with the V-Factor the bodies of Great Vampires
do not crumble to dust upon death.
??
(At the height
of the Eternal Wars)
Despite protests from the Prydonians and the
Arcalians, the Patrex Chapter and Lord Rassilon secretly
develop sub-matter block-transfer drones called
N-Forms to fight the
Vampires. They are scattered throughout the Cosmos and exist in
pocket dimensions and are anchored into
N-Space via carrier molecules.
They are
remotely controlled from Gallifrey but their intelligence
can be raised to
near sentience. They usually remain
dormant untill they detect a V-Stet (Vampiric Waveform caused by the
V-Factor). When activated they
burst through the carrier molecule via a dimensional rent and take on a
beutiful metalic form. They can take on any shape and can use
dimensional shifts to teleport themselves. An activated N-Form
will home in on the
Vampire brain-wave patterns and exterminate any species that has a
trace
of contamination. It will also destroy and planets which show signs of
the V-Factor. N-Forms will not attack Gallifreyans. It is
secretly used against the
Vampires and helps with the Bow ships'
victories.
?? The Other probably witnesses the death of at least one of the Great Vampires first hand.
?
(During the
Eternal Wars)
General Mirraflex becomes famous. He later
becomes
the Grandfather (founder) of the House of Mirraflex. Possibly
fearing the eventual War in Heaven, Grandfather Mirraflex structures
the House into an esoteric martial lodge.
??
(after the start of the Eternal Wars / after they started on the hand
of
Omega / before the holes are sealed)
Rassilon might have allowed
himself to become a Vampire.
If so, then half of the High Council believed that he had become a
Vampire. In the modern era some Gallifreyans worship Rassilon the
Vampire.
??
(probably before the Hand of Omega is finished / after the Bowships / probably right
before heading back
to Gallifrey / before Tepesh
discovers the Foundry)
Rassilon and Omega
seal all the dimensional holes that allowed the
Yssgaroth to enter N-Space. Forced-matter shells are
constructed around the node points where the
Yssgaroth entered Normal Space. These shells were designed to
look
like planets on the outside. Given the events of Inferno it is
possible that Earth is one of these shell-planets. The Gallifreyans continue to montior these planets
incase the shells
should be breached. By this point the Great Vampires
numbers are reduced to a mere
thousand.
??
Omega returns to Gallifrey.
-24.02
(after Rassilon is declared a Hero of
the Eternal War / the year of the Qqaba mission / Day 1)
Rassilon returns
to Gallifrey and is
hailed as a hero. By this point in the
Eternal War only 34 Bowships and 1200 crewmembers still survive. The Time Lords of the future will believe Rassilon
fought heroically in the Eternal Wars.
??
(right after Rassilon dies and
revives / Almost certainly before the first Otherstide)
Tussan is removed from the Council and Tussan's CAT (the Other) joins Rassilon
saying "I am the cat that walks by himself and all places are alike to
me."
-23.99
(the year Omega dies / day 3)
Omega and the Other begin the
final stages of constructing the prototype remote stellar
manipulator, called the Hand of
Omega for political
reasons. It has the ability
to customise stars. Rassilon, Omega, and the Other have a
great deal of trouble with the prototype.