Three million years ago, civilisation had started on Veltroch. [228] When the People of the Worldsphere were young, their metaphors were powerful enough to restructure reality. In this manner, the concept of the “inner world” was seeded throughout the universe, and came to hollow out and reshape interior of the planet later known as Tyler’s Folly. This facilitated the creation of Mankind Expects Pain, However Much It Seems To Outsiders (MEPHISTO), a conceptual entity who represented the need to feel pain even in a utopia. [229]
2,579,868 BC - Genocide [230]
Captain Jacob Hynes, a genocidal UNIT member, arrived through time with a virus intended eliminate all mammalian life on Earth. Jo Grant and Sam Jones prevented him from releasing a deadly prion, and some primitive humans killed Hynes. A message from the eighth Doctor’s Tractite ally, Kitig, enabled Jo and Sam to find the buried TARDIS and locate the eighth Doctor 1.07 million years in the past.
? 2,500,000 BC - Frozen Time [231]
The Martians gave one of their number, Arakssor, a life sentence because he wanted to lead his people to war. Arakssor and about twenty of his followers were frozen in Antarctica, with a group of Martians watching over them. The guards were betrayed and Arakssor’s warriors broke free. A firefight led to everyone involved being covered in ice - the seventh Doctor was present, fell into freezing water and went comatose. Sediment congealed around him in the centuries to follow, and he would remain frozen until 2012.
w - Godfather Morlock of Faction Paradox studied a South American missing link that was two million years old. [232] A humanoid race sent probes out into the galaxy to build transference pylons capable of teleporting people between solar systems at the speed of light. Ninety-nine percent of the probes failed, but the remaining 1% allowed the Slow Empire to be established. [233]
The Ulanti developed a technique called “bioharmonics”, wherein they transformed their entire planet into a musical instrument and produced a natural melody using the biological rhythms of their ecosystem. The Ulanti homeworld was an unspoilt wilderness, and its music was incredibly sublime. Nonetheless, the Ulanti died out two million years ago. Some of their music would survive in ancient alien scripts in the archives on Nocturne. [234]
A million years ago, the Mastons of Centimminus Virgo became extinct. [235] The Hoothi made the first moves in their plan to conquer Gallifrey. They enslaved the Heavenites, keeping them as a slave race and turning their planet into a beautiful garden world. [236] The Tralsam-mavarians died out. [237] The planet Wrouth was an enormous diamond with a monetary value in excess of the number of molecules in the universe. For a million years, the planet had been defended by war asteroids. In that time, it attracted a number of attackers, including the Daleks (driven away by the Doctor and Captain Nekro) and the Gantacs. [238] An entity said to be “the spirit of the trees, the life force of nature” came to slumber in what would become Wells Wood in Stockbridge. A pagan cult came to worship this Green Man, a.k.a. Viridios. [239]
The Ice Warriors of Mars had space travel a million years ago. [240] Around the same time, diamonds were formed in the remnants of a Jovian planet in the Caledonian Reef. [241] The earliest splinter of Scaroth gave mankind the secret of fire in his efforts to accelerate human development. [242]
The Thal civilisation had begun half a million years ago on Skaro, and writings survive from this time. [243] A quarter of a million years ago, the Monks of Felsecar began collecting objects and information. [244] Two hundred thousand years ago, homo sapiens - “the most vicious species of all” - began killing one another. [245] As man evolved, the alien entity that the TARDIS dropped off on primeval Earth was summoned. It took human form and existed “on the edge of fear”, always seeking the TARDIS. [246] The Lobri were created in the collective unconscious of primitive mankind. They were xenophobia incarnate, living symbols of our fear of the alien. [247]
The planet Hitchemus was 7/8ths covered by ocean, and the shifting climate there threw the genetics of the indigenous species of tigers into flux. A generation of tigers was born hyper-intelligent and built a weather control system. However, the tigers’ progeny lacked the increased intelligence of their parents - presumably as a survival mechanism to prevent the tigers from over-developing their limited resources. Before passing on, the intelligent tigers built a hidden storehouse to preserve something of their developments. A generation of intelligent tigers would sporadically be born from time to time, with multiple generations of instinctive tigers in-between. [248]
The First Ice Age and Cavemen
A Martian ship crashed on Earth, and became encased at the foot of an ice mountain. [249] Ice Warrior spaceship designs changed little after this time. [250]
One hundred thousand years ago on Earth, the First Ice Age began. By this time, two rival groups of intelligent primates had developed: Neanderthals and homo sapiens. [251] Another group, the Titanthropes, became an evolutionary dead end. They possessed more intelligence than Neanderthals, but were more hostile and killed themselves off before the emergence of homo sapiens. [252]
The being named Light surveyed life on Earth for several centuries during the Ice Age. Ichthyosaurs were included in Light’s catalogue, as were the Neanderthals. The Doctor visited a Neanderthal tribe and acquired the fang of a cave bear. [253]
The Daemon Azal wiped out the Neanderthals. Race memories of beings with horns and their science survived in human rituals. Light had preserved a single specimen - Nimrod - and a few individual examples of the race survived for tens of thousands of years. [254]
c 100,000 BC - An Unearthly Child / The Eight Doctors [255]
The first Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan met a prehistoric tribe struggling to survive “the great cold”, and was in the throes of a leadership struggle between Kal and Za. Ian made fire, and the leadership dispute was settled in Za’s favour when Kal was exposed as a murderer. The eighth Doctor observed his earlier self.
(=) 100,000 BC - TW: The Men Who Sold the World [256]
CIA agent Rex Matheson was thrown back in time from 2010 by a Ytraxorian Reality Gun. A caveman, Bent Low, confronted him.
The super-assassin Mr Wynter altered events so that the rogue CIA operative Cotter Gleason was displaced to 100,000 BC instead. Bent Low killed Gleason, and used the man’s meat to feed his family.
The Cold, a form of intelligence, evolved in the Siberian ice. It became dormant as the planet warmed, but would emerge in the savage winter of 1963. [257] The Gappa - a race of telepathic hermaphrodites from Hydropellica Hydroxi, on the far side of the Milky Way - hailed from a cold planet with at least six moons. They became so adept at hunting their prey, they consumed each another until only one remained. Some Modrakanians transported the last Gappa to a snowy portion of Earth, but their spaceship disintegrated. Fire-wielding early humans drove the Gappa underground, where it was buried in an icefall. The tenth Doctor and Martha, having defeated the Gappa in 2099, recovered the bodies of the Modrakanians for burial. [258]
The box entity that the sixth Doctor flung into a space-time tear in 1965 fell into “the distant past”, and arrived on a desolate asteroid. In the ages to follow, a spaceship crashed on the asteroid and the box entity merged with a young boy to become The Wishing Beast. It subsisted off hapless travellers for three centuries until the sixth Doctor and Mel defeated it. [259]
The Galyari evolved as an intelligent lizard race that was descended from avians. They sought to overrun the homeworld of the Cuscaru, but the Doctor obtained the Galyari’s Srushkubr, the “memory egg” deposited on every colony world. He destroyed it when General Voshkar of the Galyari refused to withdraw. This released a dose of neural energy that would taint the descendants of the Galyari present for generations. The Galyari later became nomads aboard a fleet of spaceships named the Clutch. [260]
The Doctor’s role in this affair made the Galyari regard him as “the Sandman”, a legendary killer of Galyari children. The threat of the Sandman’s return helped to keep the Galyari’s aggression in check.
[261] The Witch Guards, an amorphic gestalt that absorbed their opponents’ attributes, began operating as mercenaries. [262]
Scaroth, the Fendahl and the Daemons all continued to influence human development until the late twentieth century. [263] At some point mankind will become embroiled in a conflict with the Leannain Sidhe, an energy-based race dimensionally out of phase with humanity, existing in all eleven dimensions rather than the “visible” four but sharing the same planet. A truce between the two races will eventually be reached. [264]
The Gubbage Cones were the dominant empire in the galaxy. [265] The Master had a Vortex Cloak stolen from the ruins of the Gubbage Cone Throneworld on the edge of the Great Attractor. [266]
The ozone layer of Urbanka collapsed around 55,500 BC. The Monarch of the planet stored the memories of his population, some three billion, on computer chips which could be housed in android bodies. Monarch built a vast spacecraft and set out for Earth. The ship doubled its speed on each round trip, and the Urbankans landed and kidnapped human specimens. [267]
It was thought that mankind made the Great Leap Forward from animal to human around 50,000 BC. Humans started burying their dead, and created art and money. [268]
The P’Shiem created millions of mechanical beings - the Omicron - to explore different worlds via the Cardiff Rift, and then pool any information they gleaned pertaining to history, geography, science, society and technology in a tesseract fold. The Rift proved so hazardous that only one Omicron survived to the twenty-first century; the P’Shem themselves died when a monstrous creature came through the Rift and ate their world. [269]
The Flurrgh and the Wfflmibibiki initiated a long-lasting war with each other. [270]
Cavemen Days
Cave paintings on one Mediterranean island date from the Cro-Magnon period, forty thousand years ago, demonstrating that a primitive human culture had developed by this time. [271] Around 35,500 BC, the Urbankans kidnapped the Australian Aborigine Kurkurtji and other members of his race. [272] An Onihr captain took charge of a vast Onihr ship thirty thousand years ago. The same captain would seek to acquire time-travel technology on Earth, the twenty-first century. [273]
29,185 BC (24th May) - Only Human [274]
The ninth Doctor and Rose arrived from the twenty-first century, on the trail of a “dirty rip” time engine. They quickly discovered a group of researchers from the far future who were monitoring the local Neanderthal tribe. Rose accidentally married the prince of the caveman tribe, Tillun, while the Doctor discovered that Chantal - one of the time travellers - had engineered fearsome Hy-Bractor creatures. She planned to release them, changing history to wipe out the inferior homo sapiens. The Doctor defeated her.
The Neanderthals died out around twenty-eight thousand years ago. [275] A “framily” (friends who become like family) took up residence inside a space-faring Ghaleen. [276]
The T’Zun began space conquests around 23,000 BC. They defeated the fungoid Darkings of Yuggoth, but their genetic structure became corrupted and they mutated into three subspecies. [277] The energy fields of the dormant Permians influenced the early Inuit legends. [278]
Two Krynoid pods landed in Antarctica in the Late Pleistocene Period, twenty to thirty thousand years ago. They remained dormant in the Antarctic permafrost until the twentieth century. [279]
The older religions on the planet Vortis claimed that “the light” made the universe and the sky, but a being named Pwodarauk made time and the ground so that things might wither but also grow. The first Menoptera, Hruskin, went to Pwodarauk and described the world she envisioned for her offspring. They agreed that slaves would build the temples for the light and raise harvests while the Menoptera enjoyed themselves, and so Pwodarauk made the Zarbi. [280]
Humans hunted centaurs (an “extremely unpleasant lot”) to extinction. [281] Around 16,000 BC, Sancreda, a scout of the Tregannon - an alien race with great mental powers - was marooned on Neolithic Earth. [282]
Around 15,000 BC, the Urbankans returned to Earth. They kidnapped the princess Villagra. [283] Circa 13,000 BC, the Canavitchi of the Pleiades begin conquering neighbouring star systems, building an empire that would eventually stretch over seven galaxies. [284]
The being named Martin was born on Frantige Two, a dull planet and home to a species with an extraordinarily long lifespan. He would live fourteen thousand years into the twenty-first century. [285]
Circa 9000 BC, Traken outgrew its dependency on robots. [286] Around 8000 BC, the Euterpian civilisation died out. [287] Around the same time, the Jex from Cassiopeia started their conquests. They would eventually dominate several galaxies, including a planet in the Rifta system where the Doctor encountered them. [288]
The wolf-like Valethske had worshipped the insectile Khorlthochloi as gods, but the Khorlthochloi believed the Valethske were becoming too dominant. They destroyed the Valethske warfleets, and released a plague that devastated the race. The Khorlthochloi later abandoned their physical bodies for a higher plane of existence. A threat to their new forms made the Khorlthochloi try to reunite with their bodies, but this proved impossible, as the bodies had become too independent. The threat killed the Khorlthochloi’s minds, but their bodies lived on as sedate herds of giant beetles. [289]
About ten thousand years ago, the inhabitants of a dying planet encoded everything about their world - including genetic information on its plant life, animal life and inhabitants - onto a crystal. This was dispatched via a slow-travelling spaceship to another solar system, where the crystal would rebuild their civilisation. Half the races in the universe coveted the crystal, and its transport was obliterated. The Doctor acquired the crystal, but its magnetic fields prevented it from undergoing time travel. He deposited it for safekeeping in Earth’s past; various royalty would guard it for millennia. [290]
Around ten thousand years ago, humanity developed the wheel - with a helping hand from Scaroth. [291] The leaders of the Silence claimed to have ruled the Earth “since the wheel and fire”. [292]
Legends spoke of how the Ice Warriors built an empire on Mars out of snow. The Doctor suspected that they found something - a malevolent entity that lived in water and created water - and used their might and wisdom to freeze it in the underground glacier in Gusev Crater on Mars. [293]
The Ice Warrior Civilisation Collapses
Flowers last grew on Mars around ten thousand years ago. [294] The tenth Doctor and Martha visited the Frozen Castles of the Ice Warriors. [295] The Ice Warrior language had the dialect Ancient North Martian. [296] Some Ice Warriors were herbivorous, others ate glacier fish from the polar regions. [297]
(=) Martians were superstitious about Pandas, owing to a legend from the dawn of their history, which said that a Panda deity visited them in a scarlet chariot from the stars. [298]
c 8000 BC - The Judgement of Isskar [299]
Mars had prospered as a world of builders, craftsmen and farmers for twelve thousand years. The whole of the planet was criss-crossed with waterways, and while the Martians had learned to hunt, they didn’t fight one another and had yet to experience warfare. The Martians thought themselves protected by their gods, and had a gift economy in which water and other goods were offered for free; a strict code of honour demanded that something be given in return. Alien visitors were rare, but not unknown. A town on the Martian equator was home to a pyramid that had taken nineteen thousand masons, six hundred carpenters and forty-six overseers to complete.
The fifth Doctor and the living Key-tracer Amy visited Mars during the second quest for the Key to Time. The segment was undergoing decay and formed a gravity well through the middle of Mars, generating earthquakes and boiling away the canals. The Doctor and Amy left with the segment, preventing it from forming a black hole. The warped gravity eventually corrected itself, but the Martian environment was left permanently altered. Millions died as earthquakes and hurricanes persisted for thirty years. Some Martians left their world during this time.
As Mars’ ecolog
y went into decline, some Ice Warriors entered hibernation in caverns on the Martian moon of Deimos. Another group went to sleep in the asteroid belt. [300] The Martians who remained on Mars wanted to rebuild their world, but Lord Izdal concluded that the cause was lost, and that the Martian atmosphere could no longer filter out deadly radiation. To prove this, Izdal gave himself to the Red Dawn - the time of day when the atmosphere was the most toxic. Izdal’s sacrifice, as witnessed by the magistrate Isskar, convinced the Martians to abandon their homeworld. Isskar himself entered cryogenic suspension, hoping to exact revenge upon the Doctor for his role in Mars’ decline. [301] The Doctor visited the tombs on Mars. [302]
In the Prion system, the Zolfa-Thurans developed a powerful weapon. When the Dodecahedron, a power-source, was aligned with the giant Screens of Zolfa-Thura, an energy beam - “a power many magnitudes greater than any intelligence has ever controlled” - was formed. The beam was capable of obliterating any point in the galaxy.
Zolfa-Thura fell into bloody civil war, and everything on the planet’s surface except the Screens was devastated. The Dodecahedron was taken to Zolfa-Thura’s sister-planet, Tigella, where the Deons worshipped it. [303] A crystal sculpture was made of Arincias, one of the lost gods of Atlantis. [304]
Two factions of evolved spiders lived on the planet Jaiwan: the Alpha spiders were a federation of cultures, but the Omega spiders - calling themselves the Laughing People, a.k.a. The Way of Life that Works - sought to eradicate the Alphas. The Omega spiders diverted an asteroid toward Jaiwan, then sabotaged the Alphans’ efforts to deflect it. The Omegas went into hibernation, intending to ride out the devastation and awaken to claim the planet, but some Alphans survived in cryo-sleep. [305]
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