c 2895 - “Supernature” [1049]
Following a massacre on Nigella IV, the Earth Empire adopted a policy of not risking innocent lives on colony worlds. Transports filled with outcasts - thieves, the bankrupted, political dissidents, etc. - were sent on a one-way trip to confirm that potential colony planets were viable. If so, traction factories would follow and lay concrete.
One such transport arrived on a world where an alien terraforming effort had gone awry. An alien gene-splicer caused people to hybridise with the local wildlife; when the eleventh Doctor and Amy showed up en route to Basingstoke, she was transformed into a butterfly person. The Doctor destroyed the gene-splicer, returning everyone to normal. On his recommendation, the colonists maintained their quarantine warning, keeping the Empire at bay from what was now paradise. They also accepted the Doctor’s proposed name for the planet: Basingstoke.
The TARDIS was tainted with the genetic transfer effect. It would absorb lifeforms in its travels to follow, leading to the creation of Chiyoko, the “child of time”. [1050]
Around 2900, the Vargeld family became prominent in the politics of the Yquatine system. [1051] Early Hollywood comedy star Archibald Maplin was known in the thirtieth century; a holograph of him appeared on the uniweb. [1052]
c 2900 - Sontarans: Silent Warrior [1053]
Humanity now used cloning transports to supply its colony planets with livestock. The advent of the Sigma 3, a.k.a. Sentinel, AI series meant that such transports required only a gene tech and an engineer as crew. An adversary of the Sontarans had early warning systems and graviton mines stationed on a frontier at Sigma 150, impeding the Sontarans from waging full-scale war against humanity. Field Major Starn attempted to smuggle a Sontaran army through human space aboard the cloning transport Genesis, but an advanced android named Alex diverted the Genesis through a field of life-sucking Plasmites, killing them.
Decline and Fall
By the beginning of the thirtieth century, the Empire had become utterly corrupt. Planetary governors, such as the one on Solos, would routinely oppress the native races of the planet. [1054] Humans were often little more than “work units”, fit only for manning factories or mines where using humanoid robots was uneconomic. Humanity was exploiting other worlds and “going through the universe like a plague of interplanetary locusts”. Mogar, in the Perseus Arm of the galaxy, was a rich source of rare metals such as vionesium, but although Earth assured the Mogarians that they only required limited mining concessions, they were soon strip-mining the planet. The vionesium shipments to Earth received Grade One security. [1055]
Every native animal species died out except humanity and the rat. [1056] The humans of Earth in the thirtieth century had no appendix or wisdom teeth, and most racial differences had been smoothed out in the general population. [1057] Humans had a lifespan of around one hundred and forty years. [1058] Suspensor pools were fashionable in the Earth Empire. [1059] In the thirtieth century, the Cybermen built a time capsule, but a test flight left them stranded in Jersey in 1940. [1060]
In 2905, Chris Cwej’s father graduated from the Academy. He served in the Adjudication Service, as his ancestors had for centuries, until 2971. [1061] Nerva Beacon completed its mission at Voga. The space station remained operational for many centuries afterwards. [1062]
& 2944 - Robophobia [1063]
Kaldor City now had a thriving interstellar trade, and exported its robots to many other planets. A string of murders occurred aboard the factory starship Lorelei, which had set out to deliver approximately one hundred fifty-seven thousand robots and five construction plant kits to the planet Ventalis. Robots were suspected as having committed the killings, but the truth was that Security Chief Farel had contracted Grimwade’s Syndrome following his wife’s death in a storm mine scoop - an incident where robots had tried and failed to save her. Farel sought to end all human dependence on robots by faking transmissions that a robot revolution was in progress, then destroying Ventalis by driving the Lorelei into it. The seventh Doctor thwarted the scheme.
The Overcity Era
The pollution levels on the surface of Earth reached such a level that the population was forced to live in vast sky cities. [1064]
The Manussan people had been reduced to barbarism and degradation under the Mara’s rule. The Mara was overthrown, and banished to the “dark places of the inside”. The outsider who defeated the Mara founded and ruled over a three-world Federation, the third planet of which was Manussa. A legend said that the Mara would return in a dream. [1065] Around 2945, the Wars of Acquisition fought by the Empire reached Earth itself. The Overcities were built over the battle-torn Earth using a new form of cheap and effective null-gravity. They floated around a kilometre from the surface, supported on stilts and by null-grav beams.
Half the Earth’s population, everyone that could afford it, lived in the Overcities and Seacities. The wealthier you were, the higher the levels that you were allowed to access. Earth’s surface became the Undertown: a flooded, ruined landscape. The Vigilant belt of defence space stations proved invaluable at repelling alien attacks, and within ten years the front had shifted so far away from Earth that humanity had almost forgotten they were taking place.
After a few years of austerity, Earth benefited from a technological and economic upsurge. It was “a time of peace and prosperity: well, for the peaceful and prosperous, at least”. Earth was a cosmopolitan place, with races such as Alpha Centauri, Arcturans, Foamasi and Thrillip living in the lower areas of the Overcities, although aliens were treated as second-class citizens. Earth at this time had a human population of thirty billion, with almost as many robot workers. The data protection act was modified in 2945 to reflect the changes in technology and society.
Over the generations, a semi-feudal system had developed. A Baron was responsible for sections of an Overcity, typically controlling a few hundred levels. A Viscount ran the whole city (an area the size of an old nation state); a Count or Countess was responsible for ten Cities (equivalent to a continent). Earth, and each of the other planets, was ruled by a Marquis or Marquessa. The solar system and its Environs were under the authority of its Lord Protector, the Duke Marmion. The Divine Empress ruled over the whole of the Earth Empire, in which thousands of suns never set, and which stretched across half the galaxy. Few on Earth knew that the Empress was Centcomp - the computer network that ran the solar system - setting judicial sentences, running navigational and library databases, co-ordinating virtually every aspect of life. [1066]
Roslyn Sarah Forrester, a companion of the seventh Doctor, was born. [1067]
The Glass Men of Valcea established their Glass City, and defended it against many enemies. [1068] The second Doctor and Jamie arrived at a communications centre on Mendeb Two’s equator. They pocketed the main communications relay device as a reminder that they should re-visit the area, but this altered history. Without the device, Mendeb Two’s disparate settlements were unable to pool their resources and skills, and thus failed to match technological developments on Mendeb Three. [1069]
Roz Forrester joined the Adjudicator service, against the wishes of her aristocratic family. She spent two years training on Ponten IV, then five more years training with an offworld Adjudicator [1070]
c 2950 - Independence Day [1071]
The Mendeb colonies regressed to a feudal, agricultural society without the corporations’ advanced technology. On Mendeb Three, the tiny region of Gonfallon declared itself a duchy, and came to dominate the planet within a generation.
Military commander Kedin Ashar - the Duke of Jerrissar - helped King Vethran rise to power. Vethran enslaved Mendeb Two, using the drug SS10 to brainwash the populace into submission, but became increasingly tyrannical. Ashar launched a revolt against Vethran, and the seventh Doctor and Ace, hoping to atone for the Doctor’s previous error in hindering Mendeb Two’s development, helped Ashar achieve victory. Ashar formally ended the slave trade and ordered reparations be made to Mendeb Two.
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c 2950 - Master [1072]
The seventh Doctor brokered a deal with Death, having come to recognise the entity’s hold over the Master. Their agreement was that the Master would remain outside of Death’s purview for ten years, and live his days as a contented man. At the end of that time, the Doctor was required to kill his old friend.
The physically scarred Master consequently turned up in the colony of Perfugium with no memory of his past. He became known as “John Smith”, settled into a happy life and became a physician.
In Perfugium, a serial killer slaughtered eleven prostitutes and an ordinary teenage girl. Green was the colour of death in the colony, and the bodies were found wrapped in green blankets. On the tenth anniversary of John Smith’s arrival, his friends - the Adjudicator Victor Schaeffer and his wife Jacqueline - gathered at Smith’s house to celebrate his “birthday”. Their festivities were interrupted by the Doctor, who begrudgingly admitted Smith’s previous identity as the Master. Victor was exposed as the serial killer and further murdered his wife - who was secretly in love with Smith.
The Doctor and Death amended their deal so Smith could choose his fate. Death presented Smith with the option of either killing Victor before he slew Jacqueline, an act that would retroactively save Smith’s beloved but make him Death’s agent again, or refraining from action and thus saving his benevolent personality. Death expelled the Doctor from Perfugium before he could learn of Smith’s decision.
Christopher Rodamonte Cwej, a companion of the seventh Doctor, was born on 5th September, 2954, in Spaceport Nine Overcity. [1073] Roz Forrester was squired to Fenn Martle. She would be his partner for fifteen years, and he would save her life on five occasions. [1074] When Roz was 20, the Schirron Dream took her through time to the future. She returned with no memory of the event. [1075]
The Black Dalek and the Renegade Dalek Faction may have used the Time Controller to hide from Davros a trillion miles from Earth in the mid-2960s. [1076]
? 2965 - The Space Museum [1077]
The TARDIS jumped a time track and the first Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Vicki found their future selves on exhibit in the Space Museum of the Morok Empire, located on Xeros. The Moroks had executed the adult population of the planet and set the children to work as slaves. The temporal anomaly ended, and the travellers came under risk of the future they’d glimpsed. Vicki incited revolution among some Xeron rebels, and the travellers made their escape once the Moroks were overpowered.
The Morok Empire collapsed thanks to human intervention, with criminal gangs like the Morok Nostra filling the power vacuum. [1078] The Daleks exterminated the inhabitants of Santhorius. [1079]
? 2966 - The Evil of the Daleks [1080]
The Dalek Emperor made plans to capitalise on the difference between the Daleks and humanity. The Daleks were unable to make this distinction on their own, and so the Emperor hatched an elaborate trap in three timezones for their old enemy, the second Doctor. The Daleks tricked the Doctor - who was accompanied by Jamie - into believing that they wished to become more human. He was all too willing to educate the Daleks about the “Human Factor”, highlighting the difference between the two races: humans were not blindly obedient and showed mercy to their enemies. However, as the Emperor planned, this merely enabled the distillation of the “Dalek Factor”. The Emperor planned to install this into all humans throughout the history of Earth, forcing them to become Daleks, but the Doctor managed to “humanise” a number of Daleks.
Civil war broke out between the “Human” and “Dalek” factions. Every Dalek had been recalled to Skaro in preparation for the conquest of humanity, and in the ensuing battle they were all wiped out. The Emperor was exterminated by his own kind. The Doctor named this the “final end” of the Daleks.
Victoria Waterfield joined the Doctor and Jamie on their travels after her father, Edward Waterfield, died while saving the Doctor’s life.
& c 2970 - “Bringer of Darkness” [1081]
The second Doctor, Jamie and Victoria encountered a group of Daleks who taunted them with the news that the humanised Daleks had all been exterminated.
However, one saucer of humanised Daleks did survive, and travelled to the planet Kyrol. [1082] During the 2970s, anti-magnetic cohesion was developed. [1083] The Landsknechte - Earth’s official security force - fought the Aspenal Campaign in 2970. The seventh Doctor, Chris and Roz helped the Jithra repel the Jeopards, but the Earth Empire conquered Jithra and Jeopardy. The Jithra were wiped out, but a few hundred thousand Jeopards survived. Leabie Forrester began plotting to usurp the Empress. [1084]
The Earth’s oceans were heavily polluted in the thirtieth century. [1085] Humanity and the Silurians were now working together. [1086] The seventh Doctor hired two Silurian musicians, Jacquilian and Sanki, to play at Benny’s wedding. [1087]
2975 - Original Sin [1088]
In the early 2970s, mankind fought a short but brutal war with the Hith, a sluglike race. The Empire annexed Hithis and terraformed it. The Hith were displaced, becoming servants and menial workers on hundreds of worlds. They adopted names to denote their displaced status, such as Powerless Friendless and Homeless Forsaken Betrayed and Alone.
The last Wars of Acquisition ended shortly afterwards, when Sense-Sphere finally capitulated. The Earth Empire now stretched across half the galaxy.
Soon after the Hith pacification, Roz Forrester saw a man kill a Ditz (a Centaurian pet akin to a bee, but the size of a small dog). When he denied it, she ate his ident and arrested him for perjury and not having valid ID. The incident entered Adjudicator folklore. Forrester eventually killed her partner Fenn Martle when she discovered he had betrayed the Adjudication Service and was on the payroll of Tobias Vaughn. She attended Martle’s funeral, and shortly afterwards the Birastrop Doc Dantalion wiped her memories of Martle’s death, replacing them with false memories that the Falardi had killed him.
Christopher Cwej graduated from the Academy in 2974. During his training on Ponten IV, he had achieved some of the highest marksmanship and piloting scores ever recorded. Cwej’s first assignment was a traffic detail. A year later, he was squired to Roz Forrester.
The very same day, serious riots started throughout the Empire, particularly on Earth itself. Insurance claims were estimated at five hundred trillion Imperial schillings, a total that would bankrupt the First Galactic Bank. Worst of all, it was revealled that the Adjudication Service was rife with corruption. The riots had been sparked by the release of icaron particles from a Hith battleship, the Skel’-Ske, which had been captured by INITEC corporation and kept in hyperspace in Overcity Five.
When the source of the radiation was destroyed, it was clear that the Empire was collapsing. At the time of the rioting on Earth, the Rim World Alliance had applied to leave the Empire. Over the years, all the major corporations had moved from Earth to the outer Rim planets. An Imperial Landsknecht flotilla was sent to pacify them. Rioting also began on Allis Five, Heaven, Murtaugh and Riggs Alpha. Colony worlds took the opportunity to rebel, stretching the resources of the Landsknecht to their limit.
The seventh Doctor again encountered the now-robotic Tobias Vaughn, leading to a conflict in which Vaughn was decapitated. The Doctor used Vaughn’s brain crystal to repair the Cwej family’s food irradiator.
The corrupt head of the Adjudicators, Rashid, feared exposure. She named Roz Forrester and Chris Cwej as rogue Adjudicators, and placed a death sentence on them. Roz and Chris departed with the Doctor and Bernice.
At this time, Armstrong Transolar Aerospace were building Starhopper craft on Empire City, Tycho and Luna. [1089] The Empire conquered the Ogron homeworld of Orestes, one of the moons of gas giant Clytemnestra, in the Agamemnon system. When humans engineered pygmy Ogrons, a native uprising started that would last six years.
While searching for secret Ogron bases, the Imperial ship Redoubtable discovered the Nexus on the moon Iphigenia. This was a Gallifreyan device that could alter reality, and drove the expedition insane.
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Roz was declared legally dead in 2976. Her sister Leabie created a clone of Roz, Thandiwe, to raise as her own daughter. [1090] Humberto de Silvestre was born 31st December, 2978. Heavy pollution levels on Earth made him sickly, but his computer skills meant he received medical grants. [1091]
2982 - So Vile a Sin [1092]
A demilitarised zone existed between the Empires of Earth and the Sontarans. The planet Tara was part of the Empire, and the importance of the nobility had been diminished.
The seventh Doctor, Roz and Chris returned to this time zone and investigated the source of a signal that was awakening Gallifreyan N-forms. Roz discovered an N-form at the Fury colony on planet Aegistus, the Agamemnon system, and crushed it under a slab of dwarf star alloy. Meanwhile, the Doctor found that the moon Cassandra was actually an ancient TARDIS, wounded during the war with the Vampires, and that its distress signal was waking N-forms. The Doctor programmed the TARDIS to self-destruct, destroying the moon.
Back on Earth, the Doctor euthanised Empress Helen I at her request. He was arrested for regicide. The Empress’ death sparked civil war and widespread rioting. The psionic Brotherhood launched a brutal attack on the Forresters’ palace on Io, killing a dozen Forresters. The casualties included Roz’s niece and nephew, Somezi and Mantsebo.
Abu ibn Walid, actually a pawn of the Brotherhood, was crowned Emperor. He offered Roz the office of Pontifex Saecularis, head of the Order of Adjudicators. Roz’s sister Leabie, with army and Unitatus backing, instigated a rebellion against Walid’s rule. Her forces attacked Mars on 26th August. The Battle of Achebe Gorge started. Roz defected to Leabie’s side and was appointed the rank of Colonel.
The Doctor and Cwej were captured by the Grandmaster, a psychic gestalt that hoped to use the reality-altering Nexus. The Doctor defeated the Grandmaster’s plan, and the dozens of bodies that contained parts of the Grandmaster’s persona were either killed or banished to alternate timelines.
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