B00DPX9ST8 EBOK

by Parkin, Lance

  Jonah Rankin, a time sensitive, accidentally transported Honoré and Emily to a parallel reality where their alternate selves had brazenly used their abilities to avert World War II and make other changes. The temporal amendments were such that history began to unravel. Honoré and Emily escaped as their counterparts were transported to parts unknown by a fatally wounded Rankin.

  1951 (23rd February) - TimeH: The Albino’s Dancer [1719]

  Emily and the Albino - a half-human, half humanoid crimelord - travelled back some months to a bunker the Albino owned, as did Honoré and Catherine Howkins, one of the Albino’s dancers. They were present as Leiter and Catherine’s younger self - fugitives from the Sodality - arrived at the bunker using time belts. Honoré saved Catherine’s younger self when the bunker exploded; she believed that Emily had perished, when in fact her older self had died instead. The Albino was also killed in the explosion - which so gravely wounded a man named Burgess, he would become the Albino in future.

  Sarah Jane Smith - a companion of the third and fourth Doctors, an associate of the tenth Doctor and a thwarter of alien evil-doers - was born between 1st and 21st May, 1951, in the village of Foxgrove, to Eddie and Barbara Smith. [1720] On 30th June, 1951, Catherine Howkins was hired as an exotic dancer for the Albino. [1721]

  1951 (18th August) - SJA: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith [1722]

  When Sarah Jane Smith was three months old, her parents mysteriously left her in her pram along the side of the road in the village of Foxgrove, then were killed when their car struck a tractor that had broken down in the lane. She would be raised by Lavinia Smith, her father’s sister.

  (=) The Trickster enabled Sarah Jane to travel back from 2009 and prevent her parents’ death, creating a parallel timeline in which the Trickster devastated Earth. Sarah’s parents accepted that their survival had crippled the world, and sacrificed themselves to restore history.

  1951 (4th November) - TimeH: The Albino’s Dancer [1723]

  Catherine Howkins happened upon Honoré and thanked him for saving her life last February - in an explosion where Howkins believed that Emily had died. Honoré, Howkins, Emily and the Albino used various means to go back to February, all of them intent on uncovering the truth about the incident.

  Honoré and Emily briefly travelled to a parallel reality in which their alternate selves were abusing their powers. [1724]

  1951 (1st December) - TimeH: Child of Time [1725]

  Honoré and Emily examined the corpse of a woman from the future, which caused them to travel to 2586. After learning of Emily’s origins, they returned to 1951 and looked forward to new adventures together.

  (=) 1951 - Timewyrm: Exodus [1726]

  Following the total defeat of the British army at Dunkirk in 1940, the German army swept across the Channel and landed at Folkestone. Britain fell in six days. Churchill and thousands of suspected troublemakers were executed. Oswald Mosley was installed as Prime Minister, and Edward VIII was crowned. Unsure what to do with Britain, the Nazi High Command let the country fall into ruin.

  All able-bodied men were conscripted as slave workers and shipped to the continent. In 1951, the Festival of Britain took place in London to celebrate ten years of Nazi victory. The Germans planned to have a man on the moon in this year. The seventh Doctor and Ace realised that history had been altered. They travelled back and averted this timeline with the destruction of Drachensberg Castle in 1939.

  After they defeated the War Lords and Timewyrm, the Doctor and Ace visited the real Festival of Britain and discovered that history was back on course.

  @ 1951 - Endgame [1727]

  The seventh Doctor (and Ace) saw the eighth Doctor at the Festival of Britain, but neither recognised the other.

  The Players decided on a new game, seeing which among them could provoke a nuclear holocaust on Earth. Kim Philby, a member of British intelligence and a double agent for the Soviet Union, recruited the eighth Doctor to defeat the Players.

  President Truman became abnormally hostile to China, and the Doctor discovered the president was under the influence of the Player Myrek. As Philby suspected, another Player - the Countess - was manipulating Stalin. The Doctor ended the Players’ control of the Russian leader and Truman. Returning to America, the Doctor tricked the Players into killing each other. The Doctor declined a job at the White House and returned to London.

  @ The eighth Doctor was present in the Soviet Union during a high profile chess match played in 1951. [1728] In 1951, the Dionysus Project in Cardington opened a doorway to the Divergents’ domain. This killed the researchers Dr. Stone and the Reverend Matthew Townsend. [1729]

  (=) 1951 - Real Time [1730]

  With the Cybermen firmly in control of Earth, a group of human rebels crafted an organic techno-virus capable of destroying the Cybermen’s artificial implants. They used a Chronosphere to dispatch Dr Reece Goddard to 3286, the year in which the Cybermen altered history, in the hope of averting this timeline altogether.

  1952

  Barbara Wright worked at Hampstead High School for girls in 1952. [1731] Pilot Diane Holmes flew from England to Australia in just four days. [1732]

  Ronald Turvey went to university to read biochemistry when he was 18, but bullies tore his beloved teddy bear, Mr. Cuddles, to shreds. In the years to come, Turvey was infected with the Tinghus: a member of a race of psychic parasites. He felt as if the ghost of Mr. Cuddles was talking to him, and would found a toy company. [1733]

  1952 (7th September) - The Nowhere Place [1734]

  Scientists working on behalf of the British War Office were stationed RAF Hill Lankton Base, and the Oxford-educated Trevor Ridgely was assigned to work on rocket propulsion there. Trevor doodled the rudimentary design for a star drive-equipped ship, and although he never worked toward the completion of such a device, his sketch planted the seed of his idea. Someone would return to Trevor’s sketch in future, spot something he’d overlooked and help to facilitate mankind’s journey into the stars.

  The sixth Doctor and Evelyn arrived from 2197, and encountered Trevor on the Ivy Lee, the last Turret-class train in service, as it was passing through Stapely Moor. Representatives of the original race that evolved on Earth hoped to trick the time travellers into facilitating the loss of Trevor’s sketch - and thereby subvert humanity’s star-travel - but the Doctor and Evelyn thwarted the plot and returned to the future.

  (=) In Klein’s history, the Third Reich controlled Africa. When the Mau Mau rebelled in 1952, waves of German aircraft obliterated their tribal areas. [1735]

  1952 (October) - A Thousand Tiny Wings [1736]

  The Chaliss had evolved as a species of intelligent little birds - a rarity in the universe, owing to their inability to work tools with wings. They would nestle on a humanoid - a “mule”, of sorts - in their hundreds, thousands even, and thereby achieve a group consciousness.

  One such Chaliss gestalt arrived in Kenya as the Mau Mau rebelled against the British. It intended on using humanity as test subjects in the creation of a “universal plague” that could be tailored and sold to various parties. As different races wiped themselves out, the Chaliss would amass enough economic might to control the galaxy.

  (=) The Elizabeth Klein who escaped from Colditz was now in Kenya, owing to her fascination with the dark continent. She had a full laboratory in Nairobi, but abandoned it when the uprising started. The seventh Doctor happened upon Klein as she sheltered in a farmhouse, and together they killed the Chaliss birds, whose “mule” died soon afterwards. A British subject, Mrs Sylvia O’Donnell, was tasked with seeing that a dome the Chaliss had built was buried, forever trapping the contagion within. The Doctor hoped to broaden Klein’s philosophies by letting her see other worlds, and made her his new companion.

  Owing to Klein’s removal from history in 2044, the Doctor defeated the Chaliss without her involvement.

  (=) In Klein’s history, Hans De Flores was “the Führer’s favourite”. The Nazis sent builders to construct new
cities in the devastated Kenya, but the carpet bombing in 1952 had released the Chaliss contagion. Within three years, most of the builders were dead. The Führer assigned Klein to take a team of doctors and investigate, but they were evacuated before making any progress. It was years before the Nazis dared return to Africa. [1737]

  1952 (December) - Amorality Tale [1738]

  The third Doctor and Sarah Jane sought to investigate a warp shadow, and arrived prior to a killer smog descending on London. The Doctor set up shop as a watchmaker. Sarah found out that a war was brewing between the Ramsey and Callum gangs. Callum was actually a member of the Xhinn, a ruthless alien species, and the killer smog was actually a Xhinn weapon. The Doctor destroyed the Xhinn scoutship, which deterred their main fleet from attacking.

  1952 - A Christmas Carol [1739]

  The eleventh Doctor, the teenage Karzan Sardick and Abigail Pettigrew visited Hollywood. The Doctor was supposed to do a duet with Frank Sinatra, but accidentally got engaged to Marilyn Monroe. They were married at a locale the Doctor later insisted wasn’t a real chapel. In the same year, the Doctor met Albert Einstein and Father Christmas - whom the Doctor better knew as “Fred” - at Sinatra’s hunting lodge.

  1953

  The science fiction serial Nightshade was first shown by the BBC in 1953. It would run for five years. [1740] @ The eighth Doctor quickly became a fan of the show. [1741]

  The Doctor was the first man to climb Everest, giving Tensing and Hillary a hand up. [1742] The notorious Piltdown Man skull was exposed for what it was: a human cranium with the jawbone of an ape attached. [1743] Joshua Douglas, a companion of the third Doctor, won first prize in a race in 1953 and was awarded a metal cup. [1744] Rivesh Mantilax was shot down attempting to rescue his wife from Area 51. He was found and kept safe by a group of Native Americans led by Night Eagle. [1745]

  In 1953, the Alliance of Shades - an extra-terrestrial organisation dedicated to keeping advanced technology from primitive worlds such as Earth - deployed robots presenting themselves as Men in Black to perform recovery operations. The tenth Doctor would encounter a quartet of Men in Black - Mr Dread, Mr Fear, Mr Terror and Mr Apprehension - during his visit to Area 51 in 1958. [1746]

  Martin Trueman was born at exactly the right moment, exactly the right time, for him to later serve as a channel for the power of the Ancient Lights. [1747]

  The Doctor made a hobby of seeing The Mousetrap, and watched every production from 1953 to at least 2009. [1748]

  u - Jo Grant’s grandfather died when she was seven. [1749]

  1953 (1st-2nd June) - The Idiot’s Lantern [1750]

  An alien became an energy being after her people executed her, and fled to Earth in 1953. The Wire, as she was now called, conscripted Mr Magpie of Magpie’s Electricals to supply cheap televisions in the run-up to the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. This enabled the Wire to feed off the electrical energy of viewers’ brains, which turned them blank-faced. The Wire wanted to connect with the twenty million people expected to watch the Coronation, and regain her corporeal body.

  The tenth Doctor and Rose arrived on Florizel Street in London and learned of the Wire’s intentions. The Doctor sabotaged the transmitter at Alexandra Palace, which trapped the Wire onto a Betamax tape (that the Doctor intended to tape over) and restored her victims to health.

  The Wire killed Mr. Magpie before she was captured, but his company would prosper without him. [1751]

  1953 (20th November) - TW: Trace Memory [1752]

  An Arctic expedition discovered a Vondraxian Orb, and sent it via a Scandinavian cargo ship to Torchwood Cardiff. The Orb reacted badly to the presence of the Rift and exploded - a dock worker, Michael Bellini, absorbed the Orb’s energy and was flung back to 1941.

  (=) In 1953, the second President of the English Empire celebrated the fiftieth Jubilee of victory by executing one of his two captive Daleks. [1753]

  The Toymaker beat Le Chiffre at baccarat. [1754] On 18th December, 1953, a plane with three people on board fell through the Rift in Cardiff. They would emerge from it in late 2007. [1755] An archaeological dig at Mynach Hengoed in 1953 uncovered an alien spaceship, which Torchwood acquired. [1756]

  1954

  In March 1954, Torchwood Cardiff carried out an inventory of its alien tech that took all five of its staff the best part of a month to complete. [1757]

  1954 - “The Good Soldier” [1758]

  The seventh Doctor and Ace drove up to a diner in the Nevada desert and found it full of American soldiers. The area lifted into space and docked with a flying saucer, which in turn docked with its mothership... and Cybermen emerged from the sand. The Doctor told Ace that the Mondasian Cybermen would have attacked Earth before 1986 if they’d had the right weapon... and that they were standing in it.

  Meanwhile, the Cybermen had learned how to control human minds, and required aggression - which they lacked themselves - to power their warship. They installed Colonel Rhodes, the leader of the soldiers, into the device. Ace interfaced with the system, detaching the flying saucer. The Cybermen pursued, but the Doctor and Ace overloaded their reactor, destroying the warship.

  1954 (9th November) - The Witch Hunters [1759]

  The first Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan arrived after visiting Salem during the witch trials. Susan was distressed to think that some of the residents would be burnt as witches, and used the TARDIS’ Fast Return Switch in a bid to go back and save them. Returning to 1954, the time travellers attended the premiere of The Crucible in Bristol.

  Later, the Doctor brought the condemned Rebecca Nurse to this era to view The Crucible and see memorials to the victims of the Salem witch trials.

  Graham Greene received a tape from Alan Turing that explained his contact with the Doctor. [1760] Circa 1954, the student Astrabel Zar vacationed on Gadrahadradon, a haunted planet that facilitated glimpses into the future. Zar received instructions from his future self on how to build Tomorrow Windows, devices that would similarly display images of future times. He would later pass on the secret of building Tomorrow Windows to one of his own students, Charlton Mackerel. [1761]

  Warlord Hagoth’s group of Zygons infiltrated the music business, then branched out into mankind’s industrial operations. Their goal was to spur industry in a way that would promote global warming and damage the ozone layer - making Earth more habitable for Zygon-kind. [1762]

  Peter Allen Tyler, the future father of Rose Tyler, was born 15th September, 1954. [1763] George Limb survived being catapulted through time and landed in 1954. He loosely learned to navigate his time machine between 1940 and 1962, but his journeys created a number of alternate timelines. Limb’s final trip resulted in his being left in 1954 while his time machine jumped on ahead to 1959. He waited five years to retrieve it. [1764]

  1955

  In 1955, Chris Parsons was born. The Doctor visited Chris’ future College, St Cedd’s Cambridge. [1765] Captain Jack signed items into the Torchwood Cardiff archive. [1766]

  (=) In an errant timeline, George Limb saved the life of actor James Dean. The alternate Dean served as Limb’s assistant in the proper reality. [1767]

  (=) To undo events at Colditz Castle, the seventh Doctor arrived at a border-crossing checkpoint in the Reich-controlled West. He arranged for himself to be gunned down, and regenerated in secret while the Nazis took the TARDIS away. He spent the next six years helping people evade the Reich’s ethnic cleansing programs. [1768]

  1956

  Lavinia Smith published her paper on the teleological response of the virus when her niece, Sarah Jane, was five years old. [1769]

  In 1956, the Doctor met a Jesuit palaeontologist in Africa. [1770] The vampires of Los Angeles culled their own kind to hide their numbers. [1771] Joseph Heller told Kurt Vonnegut, future author of Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), about his meeting with the Doctor. [1772]

  Ben Jackson, age 14, stowed away on a cargo ship bound for Singapore. The captain discovered him and offered him a job. [1773] The Doctor prevente
d Santa Mira from being taken over by aliens in 1956. [1774] The French colony of Kebiria was granted independence in 1956. Civil war started almost immediately. [1775]

  By 1956, the Grimoire of Anubis had fallen into the hands of comedian Joey Bishop. [1776]

  1957

  A replica version of the 1957 edition of Agatha Christie’s Death in the Clouds was produced in the year five billion. [1777] Douglas Caldwell of Torchwood died in 1957. [1778]

  = c 1957 - FP: Warlords of Utopia [1779]

  Scriptor had been a captive of the Nazis for sixteen years. The Council of Hitlers had made many gains, and Scriptor and Abschrift spent a lot of time together. Abschrift was from True Earth, and believed the Roman and Nazi Earths had been created by mysterious forces, very possibly to create armies to fight in the War in Heaven. The Nazi Worlds had, by now, launched attacks across the Divide and conquered one of the Roman Earths. The Hitler of Germania I had produced a son, August Hitler.

  Scriptor escaped his captors, but failed to kill August. The Nazis destroyed a huge Roman invasion force with nuclear weapons. The Romans launched a massive counterattack, taking world after world.

  1957 (18th September) - “Agent Provocateur” [1780]

  The tenth Doctor and Martha materialised from the year five billion at Ainsworth Point, Cumbria. Martha was shot, and so the Doctor rushed her to Ainsworth House. They encountered Silas Wain - an agent provocateur working to test the Doctor on behalf of the Elite Pantheon of higher beings. Martha deduced that one of her nurses was a Catkind, and the Doctor discovered that Wain had been building a pan-dimensional sonic weapon - that their rival, Professor Tharlot, promptly stole. The Elite Pantheon returned the Doctor and Martha to the year five billion.