B00DPX9ST8 EBOK

by Parkin, Lance

  The Doctor met Doctor Johnson. [719] Scottish poet Robert Burns was born in 1759, so Jamie McCrimmon had never heard of him. [720] A salon full of people from the eighteenth century was kidnapped by Varan Tak. [721] The Mohican named Chingachgook refined the Doctor’s tracking abilities. [722]

  w - 1762 - FP: Sabbath Dei / In the Year of the Cat [723]

  Cousins Justine and Eliza, having fled the ruined Eleven-Day Empire, took refuge with the Order of St. Francis. The arrival of their timeship caused such a commotion at Portsmouth Docks, they used lethal force against bystanders in fighting their way out. With Lord Dashwood absent, the Earl of Sandwich served as their host. The Cousins routed Special Forces assassins dispatched against them by the Service (over Sabbath’s recommendation against such a move).

  The living timeship Lolita sought to strengthen her hold on this era by giving King George III an army of three hundred clockwork automata, the commanders of which originated from circa the year 5000. Lolita overlaid her personality onto Queen Charlotte; it was possible that Prince George IV was actually of Lolita’s blood.

  The rival timeship Compassion, as channelled through the famous prostitute/witch Mary Culver, aided the Cousins against Lolita. Sabbath discretely helped Eliza, Lord Sandwich and the Sieur d’Eon - a French spy, transvestite and special envoy to King Louis IV - in destroying the automata army sequestered at Queen’s House. A speech that the King had made to both houses of Parliament about bringing in “troops from outside the country” was dismissed as a symptom of his growing madness. Eliza informed Sandwich that history would forget his role in helping to save the world, and that he would chiefly be remembered for “those snacks you always have brought to your desk while you’re working - where you stick the beef between the two slices of bread”.

  The Great Houses captured Justine, put her on trial and sentenced her to perpetual imprisonment in their prison asteroid.

  w - 1763 - FP: A Labyrinth of Histories [724]

  Compassion spent six months using her influence to liberate Justine, who was reunited with her friends in 1763.

  w - 1763 - FP: Coming to Dust / The Ship of a Billion Years [725]

  Three members of the Society of Sigismondo di Rimini - Corwyn Marne, John Pennerton and Abelard Finton - summoned Cousins Justine and Eliza to Naples to consult on reports of renewed activity from the Mal’akh. Justine vowed to kill Sutekh upon discovering that he had destroyed what was probably the last cache of Faction biomass on Earth. Merytra’s cadre of Mal’akh self-immolated themselves - a sacrifice to open an interdimensional tunnel for benefit of their master. Justine used this tunnel to travel to the Osirian Court.

  w - Cousin Eliza joined Justine at the Court, and spent weeks tracking down what remained of Osiris’ biodata, which was now spread across thousands of miles. [726]

  w - 1764 - FP: Ozymandias [727]

  Justine and Eliza sent a telepathic message to Corwyn Marne and Abelard Finton, who comprehended it through their dreams and poetry writing. The two men felt compelled to journey via an interdimensional tunnel to Mars, circa 5,000 BC, where they assisted the Cousins in defeating Sutekh.

  1764 (15th April) - The Girl in the Fireplace [728]

  The tenth Doctor once again travelled to France to meet Reinette, but arrived to find that she had died. He took a letter she had written to him back to the future.

  w - 1764 (16th October to 8th November) - FP: The Judgment of Sutekh [729]

  Sutekh mentally compelled John Pennerton to write letters urging that the Society of Sigismondo di Rimini destroy Faction Paradox wherever it found them. Sutekh released Pennerton from his servitude about three weeks later, and also returned Abelard Finton home. Finton’s encounter with Sutekh proved so horrifying, he soon died.

  Winterborne was built in Surrey, 1764, by Sir Isaac Greatorex for use as a charity house, but was later sold off and became a public boys’ school. Greatorex himself was charged with being the leader of a dark cult, and was tried in secret and hanged. [730]

  Neutronic War on Skaro - and the Dalek Conquests Begin

  & 1763 - There were two races on Skaro: the original Daleks (or Dals) and the Thals. The Daleks were teachers and philosophers, the Thals were a famous warrior race. Skaro was a world full of ideas, art and invention.

  However, there were old rivalries between the two races, and this led to a final war. Skaro was destroyed in a single day when the Daleks detonated a huge neutronic bomb. The radiation from the weapon killed nearly all life on the planet, and petrified the vegetation. The only animals that survived were bizarre mutations: the metallic Magnadons, their bodies held together by a magnetic field, and the monsters swarming in the Lake of Mutations.

  After the Neutronic War, the Daleks retired into a huge metal city built as a shelter, where they were protected from the radiation. They became dependent on their machines, radiation and static electricity. Most of the Thals perished during the final war, but a handful survived on a plateau a great distance from the Dalek City, where they managed to cultivate small plots of land. The Thals mutated, evolving full circle in the space of five centuries, becoming physically perfect blond supermen. [731]

  “Deep in Hyperspace is Planet Skaro. This world is the most feared globe in all the universe. Many thousands of years ago, it was already the scene of a vicious conflict. On the continent of Davius, the Thals, a tall, handsome, peaceful race went in constant dread of attack from the short, ugly Daleks who inhabited Dalazar across the Ocean of Ooze.” [732]

  & 1763 - “The Daleks: Genesis of Evil” [733]

  The Daleks discovered cobalt in a mountain range, and developed a neutron bomb. In the year 2003 of the New Skaro Calendar, Minister Zolfian, Warlord of the Daleks, killed the peaceful leader Drenz. The scientist Yarvelling developed war machines (“metal slaves”) to kill Thal survivors. As the Dalek factories prepared for war, a meteorite storm struck, starting fires which spread to where the neutron bombs were stored. There was a vast atomic explosion which wiped out the entire continent of Dalazar and reached as far as the Thals’ homeland, Davius. Radiation spread across the planet.

  The explosion shifted the north pole of the planet, freezing three scientists who had recently discovered a planet nine galaxies away: Earth. [734]

  & 1765 - “The Daleks: Genesis of Evil” [735]

  Two years later, Yarvelling and Zolfian emerged from a shelter. Exploring their continent, they failed to locate any other survivors, and began to succumb to radiation poisoning. They were ambushed by one of the war machines, learning that a mutated survivor had crawled inside. This was the first of a new race of Daleks, with brains a thousand times superior to the original. Zolfian and Yarvelling rebuilt the war factory, creating a Dalek production line. The first Dalek declared himself Emperor and had a special casing constructed - it was finished as Zolfian and Yarvelling died. The Emperor realised the Daleks needed slaves to continue their work.

  The Black Dalek was built - it had even more firepower than a standard Dalek, and was the Emperor’s deputy. [736]

  & 1765 - “The Daleks: Power Play” [737]

  Within two months, the Daleks had built a vast new city and begun to develop new inventions and weapons. A Krattorian slave ship arrived to collect valuable radioactive sand. The Daleks encouraged a slave revolution, then took the spaceship and the slaves for themselves. Two of the slaves managed to recapture the ship and escape with the slaves... but not before the Daleks learned the spaceship’s secrets.

  & 1765 - “The Daleks: Duel of the Daleks” [738]

  All the Daleks lacked was the ability to make a material strong enough to withstand the heat stress of space travel. Dalek Zeg was bathed in chemicals and found that he had become stronger (and that his casing had become red and gold). Zeg announced that he had discovered metalert, a substance strong enough to build spaceships from, and would only share it if he was declared Emperor. Zeg attracted followers, and the Emperor consulted the Dalek Brain Machine, which ordered the two fight a duel
. Realising that Zeg was resistant to heat, not cold, the Emperor froze Zeg - thus destroying him.

  & 1765 - “The Daleks: The Amaryll Challenge” [739]

  The first three prototype spacecraft failed, but the fourth succeeded... until it tried to break the light barrier, when it was destroyed. Proto 9 broke the light barrier, but metalert proved too weak to resist the heat barrier. The saucer-shaped Proto 13 passed every trial, and soon a space armada left Skaro. The Emperor led the fleet, from the golden flagship Proto-Leader.

  Dalek saucers landed on Alvega, the nearest planet to Skaro. It was the home of the Amarylls: plant creatures who resisted the Dalek scouts. They wiped out the Amarylls, and destroyed the world-root - and with it, the entire planet. The Emperor declared a new law: what the Daleks could not conquer, they would destroy.

  & 1765 - “The Daleks: The Penta Ray Factor” [740]

  The fleet went onward to Solturis, home of a humanoid race that had been at peace for a hundred years. The Daleks were welcomed, and pretended to be friendly while they discovered the extent of the planet’s defences. The penta ray (which combined alpha, infra, omega, ultra and beta rays) was a threat. The Daleks swapped the real weapon for a fake, but needed the key to operate it. The main fleet left while Daleks from two saucers attacked the city of Bulos, but were destroyed by the ray. Instead of avenging this, the Emperor received a message from Skaro that demanded his immediate return.

  & 1765 - “The Daleks: Plague of Death” [741]

  Skaro had become a huge war factory that was overseen by the Black Dalek, but a dalatomic rust cloud escaped from one research base and began eating through every Dalek it came into contact with. Dalek hoverbouts were sent to investigate the cloud, and it was contained with magnets, but mutated into a plague. The Daleks began destroying each other, rather than risk infection. The Emperor returned and deduced that the Black Dalek carried the plague. The Black Dalek’s casing was recast, and the planet was rebuilt.

  & 1765 - “The Daleks: The Menace of the Monstrons” [742]

  The Monstrons landed in a dead volcano on Skaro, and set their Engibrain robots to building a bridgehead. A Dalek was captured, and the city bombarded with missiles. The Daleks seemed defeated, but the captured Dalek broke free and set off the volcano, destroying the Monstrons.

  & 1765 - “The Daleks: Eve of War” [743]

  A few months later, a new Dalek City had been built, with improved defences. The Daleks constantly monitored against surprise attack. The Daleks built a space station as a staging post to the planet Oric, with construction supervised by the Red Dalek. Workers there were attacked by the Mechanoids’ “suspicion ray”, and began fighting amongst themselves. The Daleks detected the Mechanoid ship and destroyed it. Two Mechanoid ships quickly retaliated, destroying the Dalek saucer and warning the Daleks to avoid their territory.

  & 1765 - “The Daleks: The Archive of Phryne” [744]

  The Emperor ordered the Daleks to prepare new weapons to fight a galactic war, and began searching nearby planets for new inventions. A force led by the Black Dalek discovered the planet Phryne behind an invisibility screen, and landed to seize “the genius of a hundred planets”. But the Phrynians kept the information in their own memories, and fled the Dalek invasion.

  & 1765 - “The Daleks: Rogue Planet” [745]

  The Astrodalek observed a newborn rogue planet in the Eighty-Fourth galaxy, which they named Skardal. It collided with the planet Omega Three, altering its course so that it was heading for Skaro. Upgraded Dalek saucers fitted with Magray Ultimate deflected Skardal until it was aimed at the home planet of the Mechanoids, Mechanus.

  & 1765 - “The Daleks: Impasse” [746]

  The leaders of the planet Zeros were alarmed at the prospect of galactic war between the Daleks and Mechanoids, and sent a robot agent, 2K, to prevent either side from winning. 2K arrived on Skaro and discovered the existence of Skardal. 2K launched himself towards the rogue planet in a Dalek missile. 2K was captured by the Mechanoids, but diverted the Dalek missile to destroy Skardal. He tricked the Mechanoids into thinking the Daleks had saved them, and the threat of war receded.

  As a time agent, Jack Harkness stole a rare manuscript of Shakespeare and Fletcher’s Cardenio - A Spanish Comedie from Thomas Sheridan in 1765. [747] Sir Francis Dashwood, an ancestor of Brigham Elisha Dashwood III and Chancellor of the Exchequer to King George III, founded the Hellfire Club as a social organization. The group peaked in the 1760s, becoming a debauched haven for the aristocracy. The generations to follow exaggerated the group’s dabblings with the black arts. [748]

  1768 - Hornets’ Nest: The Circus of Doom/ A Sting in the Tale [749]

  The Hornets mentally compelled the fourth Doctor to bring them to this time, and they took control of the hideous dwarf Antonio was he was 13. He met the Hornets in the lagoons outside Venice, and they granted him vast psychic powers - that he used to burn out the minds of those who had taunted him. Freed of the Hornets’ influence once they possessed Antonio, the Doctor and a dog the Hornets had previously possessed - which he named Captain - tried to find the dwarf for four days, but to no avail.

  Rubasdpofiaew, a drug from Tau Ceti Minor, found its way to Earth and started growing in Tibet as a “miracle flower” named Om-Tsor. Those who consumed Om-Tsor could turn thought into reality. Starving Tibetan lamas ate the Om-Tsor flowers, and used their newfound abilities to found the peaceful “Om-Tsor” valley. [750]

  Sabbath was initiated into the British intelligence service in 1762, adopting the name by which we know him. [751] He was not supposed to survive the initiation, but the Council of Eight saved him. The Council claimed to be humans from the future who wanted to become the Lords of Time. They recruited Sabbath as a counterpart to the Doctor, but he did not hear from them for another twenty years. [752]

  1770 (April to June) - Transit of Venus [753]

  The TARDIS arrived on the sailing ship Endeavour, which was commanded by Captain James Cook. His expedition had recently left Tahiti after observing a transit of Venus - a rare event when Venus moves across the disc of the sun. The transit would aid astronomers in creating a map of the skies, and the Endeavour was now headed toward Cook’s historical discovery of Australia.

  Superstitious sailors pitched the TARDIS - with Barbara and Susan inside - into the water. The first Doctor and Ian were mistaken as hailing from Venus, and enjoyed Cook’s hospitality while worrying about their lost friends. Susan had tied the TARDIS to the Endeavour with some rope, and the time machine had been pulled behind Cook’s vessel. Barbara passed some time relating details of the period to Susan, whose latent empathy had unknowingly influenced Cook’s chief scientist, Joseph Banks, to write and talk about historical events, tunes and poems from the future.

  In June, the Doctor’s party were reunited when the Endeavour reached Australia; Cook’s nephew, Isaac Smith, was the first to step ashore. Banks promised to remain silent about these events - and the extra-terrestrial travellers he’d purportedly met.

  Banks named a plant “Barberer” after “barber”, meaning Latin for beard, possibly because his telepathic link with Susan brought the word “Barbara” to mind.

  In 1771, Alexander Monro reclaimed the last Hand of Onk Ndell Kith from Benjamin Franklin, who was staying at the home of the philosopher David Hume. Two years later, Alexander used the hand to “rebirth” his father as a baby, and presented it to his wife Katherine as an abandoned infant that they should raise as their own. [754] The Xoanthrax Empire subjugated the Hargarans. [755]

  w - 1774 (December) - FP: “Political Animals” / FP: “Betes Noires and Dark Horses” [756]

  Empress Catherine of Russia gifted the court of King George III with a mammoth - a relic of history from a different time. Mother Francesca of Faction Paradox arrived, along with her unnamed second, as various parties gathered at the court for a ritualistic hunt. The event drew the attention of Sabbath. The American delegation intended on using a Mayakai warrior, Mayakatula, as their hunting
dog, but she freed herself and made the acquaintance of a young servant named Isobel...

  Sabbath first met the Mayakai warrior Tula Lui in 1776, when she was ten. She would eventually become his apprentice. In 1780, Sabbath failed to seduce Scarlette, a brothel owner and ritualist. The same year, he was present during the Gordon Riots. He left the Service, and dealt with the agents of the Service - the “Ratcatchers” - sent to assassinate him. Tula Lui, as Sabbath’s only real company from 1780 to 1782, eliminated some high-ranking Service officials as a message for them to leave Sabbath alone. [757]

  The American War of Independence

  The Doctor was at the Boston Tea Party in 1773. [758] The Rani was present during the American War of Independence. [759] The Canavitchi were involved in the same conflict. [760] The Doctor met American founding fathers Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Alexander Hamilton - two of them fancied him. [761] The Doctor was once stuck at a tea party with Thomas Jefferson, who wouldn’t shut up about bees. [762]

  Benjamin Franklin became President of the United States. [763]

  = On Roma I, Americanus crushed a republican insurrection in America. As a reward, the Emperor granted his family stewardship of the continent. [764]

  Devil’s End became notorious when the Third Lord of Aldbourne’s black magic rituals were exposed. [765] In the late eighteenth century, Scaroth lived in France at the time of Louis XV. He acquired a Gainsborough. [766]

  Gainsborough also painted a portrait of Ace that ended up in Windsor Castle. [767] Kalicum, an agent of the Council of Eight, made genetic alterations to the grandfather of the Frenchman D’Amantine. The alterations would work their way through thirteen successive generations. [768] Shardlow lost a game of backgammon at the Hellfire Club in July 1778, and became the Celestial Toymaker’s thrall. [769]