RASSILON, OMEGA,
and that OTHER Guy
"A full summary of the Great Houses'
activities over the aeons would be unimaginably long and mostly
tedious..."
-The Book of the War
INTRODUCTION:
Greetings. I am know in these
parts as Marnal Gate and this is the worlds largest (and most badly
spellchecked) website on the Time Lords of Gallifrey. This was
my first web page
so I
tried to follow the KISS principle (Keep It Simple Stupid). This page
was created in March 1998.
It was last updated in January, 2010.
PURPOSE:
I have (shall we say 'an
obsessive'? Yes. Yes, we shall) an obsessive interest in
the history of the history of the Doctor's people from before the time
of Rassilon to its apparent destruction in the Time War with the
Daleks. The idea behind
this web page is to trace all the little details about the Time Lord's
past that we have been given over the decades. I've also added a
section on the Daleks (though it doesn't cover as much material as I'd
like). If
you have any doubts as to the validity of the data presented, just
check
the color code chart at the top of each page. I've been pretty
religious about sticking to it.
THE
HISTORY OF GALLIFREY
Exhaustive time lines of Gallifrey's history.
(the following links contains many spoilers for
the TV series, audios, and novels)
PART
I: THE DARK TIME
(Event
Zero & Ancient Gallifrey)
PART
II: THE TIME OF LEGEND
(Rassilon Omega and the Other)
PART
III: MIDDLE
GALLIFREY
(The Pre-Doctor Era)
PART
IV: MODERN GALLIFREY
(The
Doctor - Renegade Era)
PART V:
LATER GALLIFREY
(The Doctor - Time's Champion)
APPENDIX
(a page of lists -
rather out of date)
The
TARDIS Technical Index
An exhaustive collection of data on
the Time Ships
of Gallifrey
(the
following links takes you to the home of my
TARDIS Index at The Whoniverse)
DALEK
STUFF
DALEK STUFF
(Astronomy,
technology, biology, sociology and more stuff)
SOURCES:
I've tried to
base all my information off of reliable (or at least well thought
out) sources. These include the TV series (new and old), Novels,
Audios, and
numerous referance books. The Whoniverse and The Cloister
Library have also been essential. Obviously I have a great
deal of respect of the expanded universe of Doctor Who beyond the TV
episodes but I've made sure to color code the text so that those with a
narrow veiw of canon can still find the site useful but just following
the font color of their choice. Rest assured that when
irreconcilable differences appear the TV series will alway trump any
other source.
If you think I've forgotten some
data or just want to give your opinion on my page, then please don't
hesitate to E-Mail me at willbswift@hotmail.com . (If I don't respond after week then a cybermat must
have ate your email before it got to me and you should send again).
Holly and
William Swift (aka Marnal)
LINKS:
Here a few web sites I've found
useful/interesting/meaningful.
Distant Worlds.net (
http://www.distantworlds.net/viewstory.asp?ID=147 ) My first
published short story can be found here.
The
Whoniverse ( http://www.whoniverse.org )
An AMAZING followup to the Discontinuity Guide book. It attempts
to
cover all the novels and has lots of other goodies too.
TARDIS Index File Wiki ( http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
) A very nice Doctor Who Wiki with loads of info.
New Apocrypha (http://newapocrypha.wetpaint.com/
) A wiki site with all sorts of Doctor Who continuity all
nicely integrated.
New Apocrypha
(
http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/newapocrypha/ ) A Yahoo
group devoted to intense and obsessive analysis of Whoniverse
continuity issues. They have been very helpful at proofreading
parts of my website. Its loosely connected to the New Apocrypha
wiki.
Amica Temporis (
http://www.crista-galli.com/temporis/ ) A very nice site with
detailed speculative drawings of Time Lord anatomy and discussions of
their biology.
The DiscContinuity Guide ( http://www.tetrap.com/drwho/disccon/) Another great follow up to the book. This one covers the audio adventures and the TV Movie.
The Doctor Who Web Guide ( http://webguide.doctorwhofans.net/current ) The best guide to Doctor Who wesites on the web. They were kind enough to give my site a Website Gold award.
Doctor Who Continuity Cops (
http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/DoctorWhoContinuity/ ) A Yahoo
group devoted to analyzing continuity issues of Doctor Who, Faction
Paradox and all the other Whoniverse titles.
Faction Paradox
(http://web.archive.org/web/20050305165229/www.factionparadox.co.uk/homepage.htm)
An archived version of the definitive site
for info about
Lawrence Miles' Faction Paradox. Used to be at http://www.factionparadox.co.uk
)
another version of it can be found here http://www.curufea.com/Wikka/wikka.php?wakka=FactionWebsite
Fluid Link
( www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~abr/drwho/tardis/ ) An amazing
speculative TARDIS Technical Manual.
The Mistress of the Magical Bus ( http://www.iriswildthyme.thiswaydown.org/ )
A stylish site devoted Iris Wildthyme!
Who3D (http://www.who3d.com/) A great site filled with wonderful computer rendering of the 60's TARDIS.
The Doctor Who Image Archive (http://www.shillpages.com/dw/dwia.htm) As the name implies, a great site for Doctor Who pictures. Many of the pictures on my site come from there.
Journey through the Fourth Dimensions (http://members.tripod.co.uk/mattdurrant/) And Nerva Graphics (www.nervagraphics.co.uk) A nifty Doctor Who site created by a friend of mine. Check it out.
Edgar Governo Historian of Things That Never Were (http://www.mts.net/~arphaxad/history.html ) A wonderful site filled with chronologies to just about every Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror franchise every created.
LEGAL STUFF:
I have no intention of
infringing on anybody's ideas, property, or the copyrights of
any of the above franchises, I only wish to promote a more detailed
understanding and appreciation of their universes. This Web page
should be viewed as an advertisements for all the sources that went
into making it.
Oh and the myspace page http://www.myspace.com/merlin_3055
has shamelessly stolen my material and posted it in his blog as his
own. May he rot in a black star!