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by Parkin, Lance

  The “other being” like Lolita is Compassion, one of Lolita’s chief rivals in the audios. Compassion is the only Type 102 timeship according to FP: The Book of the War; Lolita’s Type is never revealled. The short story “Toy Story” - by Lawrence Miles, and included in the Mad Norwegian Press edition of Dead Romance - implies that Lolita once served as the Master’s TARDIS.

  Godfather Sabbath (actually seen in FP: A Labyrinth of Histories) and the Sabbath who trained with the British Secret Service and appears in the Eighth Doctor Adventures (and also crops up in the Faction Paradox audios and comics) are not the same person, as first demonstrated when Eliza says the Secret Service’s Sabbath, “I used to have a godfather called Sabbath... didn’t look much like you, though” in FP: Sabbath Dei.

  [523] Dating FP: The Eleven-Day Empire and FP: The Shadow Play (FP audios #1.1-1.2) - The Faction Paradox audios follow on from FP: The Book of the War, which cites Year 50 of the War as “the present”, and contains some character entries - notably those of Godfather Morlock and Lolita - that establish their status before the audios begin. A few references in the audios (notably in FP: In the Year of the Cat and FP: Body Politic) reiterate that the War is roughly at the half-century mark.

  [524] FP: In the Year of the Cat

  [525] Dating FP: In the Year of the Cat, FP: Movers and FP: A Labyrinth of Histories (FP audios #1.4-1.6) - Justine revives after six months (the same amount of time that Compassion has spent trying to aid in her escape) of stasis on the Great Houses’ prison asteroid (almost certainly Shada). Ergo, it might still be Year 50 of the War when she awakes, but simplicity tends to suggest that it’s Year 51.

  [526] Dating FP: Coming to Dust, FP: The Ship of a Billion Years, FP: Body Politic, FP: Words from Nine Divinities, FP: Ozymandias, FP: The Judgment of Sutekh (FP audios #2.1-2.6) - For Justine and Eliza, a matter of months seem to pass between Series 1 and 2 of the Faction Paradox audios, and a comparable amount of time presumably passes where the War itself is concerned.

  [527] Interference

  [528] Subsequent events would suggest the clone was of the Master.

  [529] The Taking of Planet 5

  [530] Alien Bodies

  [531] The Taking of Planet 5

  [532] “There Are Four of Us Now”

  The Infinity Doctors (p213) first mentioned “four names” as the four people that Rassilon had ordered killed as a threat to Gallifrey, with Omega and the Doctor specified as two of the four. The above quote comes from The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (p231). In The Gallifrey Chronicles, the four survivors are described as “A man with a sallow face and small, pointed black beard, who wore a blue rosette; a young woman with long blonde hair in an extraordinary piece of haute couture; a tall man with a bent nose wearing a cravat and holding a pair of dice; the Doctor himself with close-cropped hair, sitting on an ornate throne, a new-born baby girl in his arms” - intended, but not named, respectively as the Master; Iris Wildthyme (or possibly Romana); the Minister of Chance from Death Comes to Time; the Doctor (possibly the Doctor from The Infinity Doctors, or in his role as the Emperor of the Universe, father of Miranda, mentioned in Father Time).

  [533] The books from Father Time to Sometime Never often showed races with time travel or magical abilities.

  [534] The Faction Paradox comic series (FP: “Political Animals” and FP: “Betes Noires and Dark Horses”). To date, this is the only appearance of Faction Paradox set after the War in Heaven. As the Doctor, Fitz and Compassion all survived the War in Heaven, these events may or may not “still happen” following the potential erasing of the War in Heaven timeline in The Ancestor Cell.

  [535] The Doctor’s intent to recreate Gallifrey in The Gallifrey Chronicles raises the interesting possibility that he does so, and that the Gallifrey featured in Big Finish’s eighth Doctor-era audios and Gallifrey mini-series (which lead into the Last Great Time War) all take place on the “restored” Gallifrey, not the original. If nothing else, this might explain why Romana (seen in her third incarnation in The Shadows of Avalon and The Ancestor Cell) reverts back to being her second incarnation as played by Lalla Ward - either the copy of the Matrix hidden in the Doctor’s mind (The Ancestor Cell) hadn’t been updated to include the new Romana, or (rather amorally) the Doctor went out of his way while renewing Gallifrey to bring Romana back to life as her previous self.

  [536] Gallifrey: Square One

  [537] Neverland

  [538] The prologue to the Big Finish webcast offers an in-story explanation as to why the Doctor needs to “repeat” an adventure. See “Which Shada, if Any, is Canon?” for more.

  [539] Neverland

  [540] Neverland. The date was given earlier in the story as 6978.5, but this is clearly a fluffed line, given the other recent dates.

  [541] Terror Firma

  [542] J&L: Dead Men’s Tales. There’s not really a convenient point in the Gallifrey mini-series for this to have occurred, so it likely happened beforehand.

  [543] Dating Gallifrey Series 1 - The season opens up in wake of events in Zagreus.

  [544] Gallifrey: Weapon of Choice, providing the background to Gallifrey Series 1. Leela was pregnant in Lungbarrow, and no mention is made of her child in the Gallifrey series.

  [545] Inquisitor Darkel is the same character as the Inquisitor in The Trial of a Time Lord, and is once again played by Lynda Bellingham.

  [546] Benny: The Crystal of Cantus

  [547] The Big Finish audios featuring the eighth Doctor and Lucie Miller (initially broadcast on BBC7) are a little tricky to place in Gallifrey’s timeline. The audios were marketed as occurring “later” in the eighth Doctor’s life, but it’s hard to imagine the Time Lords sparing the resources (or having the desire) to address issues related to Lucie and the Cybermen on Lonsis (Human Resources) once Gallifreyan society comes apart at the seams in Gallifrey Series 2. As the Gallifrey mini-series follow on from Zagreus, and the intent of the Lucie audios is, quite clearly, that they occur after the Doctor’s travels with Charley Pollard, the best solution is to place these stories at some point before, after or during Gallifrey Series 1.

  [548] Given the sheer number of Time Lord renegades at work in the universe throughout Doctor Who, it’s hard to swallow that “all Time Lords are accounted for”, i.e. have been recalled to Gallifrey. Still, the Timescoop used here is powerful enough to snatch in-flight TARDISes - a much greater use of the device than is seen in The Five Doctors.

  [549] Dating Gallifrey Series 2 - The opening installment, Lies, takes place “six weeks” after A Blind Eye. Spirit opens “a week” after Lies, and the remaining installments of Series Two happen in rapid succession. Neverland forecast Romana’s ascension to Imperiatrix. Braxiatel departs Gallifrey in Pandora, and appears to experience all of his involvement in the New Adventures and the Bernice Summerfield range between now and his return to Gallifrey in Mindbomb (see the Irving Braxiatel vs. Cardinal Braxiatel sidebar).

  [550] Dating Gallifrey Series 3 - The fact that Pandora is Imperiatrix long enough to amass a horde of illegal temporal weapons suggests that some indeterminate time passes between Series 2 and 3, but the episodes of Series 3 themselves occur in rapid succession. Gary Russell, the producer of Gallifrey, has confirmed that Series 3 ends shortly before Gallifrey becomes embroiled in the Last Great Time War referenced in the new series. To that end, Arkadian expresses a desire to sell the temporal weapons stockpile to “metal gentlemen of his acquaintance”, presumably meaning the Daleks. The suggestion that Time Lords could be restored from the biodata archive could be a precursor to the Time Lords “resurrecting” their number (particularly the Master, as mentioned in The Sound of Drums) for the Time War. The technique might even be a front-runner to the resurrection gauntlets seen in Torchwood and The End of Time (TV).

  [551] Dating Gallifrey Series 4 - The series picks up immediately after (or near enough) Series 3.

  [552] Braxiatel’s meet-up with Benny is a dramatisation of their “first” meeting (from B
raxiatel’s point of view, not Benny’s) in Benny: Dragons’ Wrath - which might suggest that post-Gallifrey, Braxiatel is, somehow, living in his own subjective past. One suspects that future Bernice Summerfield audios will address the point.

  [553] Dalek

  Who Started the Last Great Time War?

  In both an essay for the 2006 Doctor Who Annual and an interview for Doctor Who Confidential, Russell T Davies is of the opinion that the Time Lords “fired first” in the Time War by sending the Doctor to intervene in the Daleks’ origins (in Genesis of the Daleks). He may well be correct, but this perhaps doesn’t tell the entire story.

  By Genesis of the Daleks, there can be little doubt regarding the threat that the Daleks pose. In The Daleks, they’re initially portrayed as a group of desperate war survivors who cannot even leave their own city, but in rapid succession they’ve conquered Earth (The Dalek Invasion of Earth) and developed a crude form of time travel (The Chase). As early as Season 3 (with The Daleks’ Master Plan), they are an intergalactic power to be reckoned with. The stories to follow have them suffering various defeats and setbacks, but their potential to cause widespread havoc and genocide never diminishes much. Even in Day of the Daleks, their comparatively shoddy time-technology has allowed them to alter history and conquer Earth a second time.

  Real-life analogies quickly fail when applied to the Daleks. At times they’re compared to the likes of Nazis, but in truth they’re literally lacking of humanity. Even “conquest” as we generally understand the term doesn’t really interest them - sometimes they put foes to work as slaves (as in Death to the Daleks), but this is almost inevitably in the interest of facilitating new atrocities and exterminations. The point is that one can (and should) hope to use reason against real-world governments, but there is virtually no chance of diplomacy succeeding against the Daleks Occasionally the Doctor makes a group of Daleks passive - say, by altering their very nature in The Evil of the Daleks - but only under unique and limited circumstances. Basically, the Daleks remain united behind one goal: kill everything that isn’t a Dalek (see especially The Stolen Earth).

  In Genesis of the Daleks, the Time Lord that sends the Doctor to Skaro’s past says, “We have foreseen a time when [the Daleks] will have destroyed all other life forms, and become the dominant creature in the universe”. Based on the Daleks’ characteristics and past behaviour, this seems worryingly plausible. Faced with such a scenario - literally a death sentence for everything save Dalek-kind - the Time Lords using their one trump card, their mastery of time, to change the Daleks’ origins might well seem like a risk worth taking. (It should be remembered that it takes something as catastrophic as the War in Heaven for the Time Lords to marshal anything resembling military might. A war-TARDIS isn’t even seen until the fifth Doctor’s era in “The Stockbridge Horror”, so in most periods of history, the Time Lords sending troops to physically contain Dalek advances doesn’t appear to be an option. Time-technology remains the best leverage they have.)

  A probable effect of the Doctor intervening in Genesis, however, would be to make the Daleks aware of the Time Lords as a rival temporal power. In the stories to follow, both Davros and the Daleks become openly confrontational toward Gallifrey, and even minor races (such as the Cryons in Attack of the Cybermen) know of the Time Lords. Resurrection of the Daleks has the Daleks plotting to assassinate the Gallifreyan High Council (there’s no evidence that the Time Lords ever learn about this, though). The Apocalypse Element has the Daleks directly attacking Gallifrey. Remembrance of the Daleks has Davros stating his intention to use the Hand of Omega to wipe out the Time Lords and install the Daleks as the new “Lords of Time” - although it’s the Doctor who arranges Skaro’s destruction, and in so doing probably rouses the Daleks into further hostilities. It’s easy to see how such tit-for-tat escalation might lead to the Time War.

  It was probably inevitable - given the Time Lords’ mastery of time and the Daleks’ intention to totally eradicate all other species - that their civilisations would fall into open warfare at some point. Either way, the Doctor intervening in the Kaled bunker might well be the first cross-temporal attack in the conflict, but it’s a bit disingenuous to think the Time Lords were without justification in sending him there.

  [554] Bad Wolf

  [555] Journey’s End

  [556] The Sontaran Stratagem

  [557] According to Davros in Journey’s End.

  [558] “The Stockbridge Child”

  [559] Doomsday

  [560] “The Forgotten”

  [561] The Stolen Earth

  [562] The Parting of the Ways, Doomsday, Utopia. It’s possible that the Emperor took power after the loss of Davros.

  [563] The Unquiet Dead. There seem to be some races in the middle - the Krillitanes (School Reunion) and Cynrog (The Nightmare of Black Island) - who were aware of the Time War, but weren’t directly affected by it. In Bad Wolf, Captain Jack mentions hearing rumours of the Time War and the Daleks.

  [564] Rose

  [565] The End of the World

  [566] The Unquiet Dead

  [567] The Sontaran Stratagem. There’s no explanation as to who or what blocked the Sontarans’ participation. The Doctor seems to have formally led the Time Lord forces.

  [568] “The Futurists”

  [569] “The Age of Ice”

  [570] School Reunion

  [571] The weapon seen in The Eyeless may be the device the Doctor talked about in “The Forgotten” that needed the Key, which in turn may be the Moment, the weapon that dooms Gallifrey according to The End of Time (TV). If so, this link isn’t explicitly established in any of those stories.

  [572] “Hotel Historia”

  [573] Doomsday

  [574] The Sound of Drums. Mention of the Master being “resurrected” probably covers all contingencies regarding his status prior to the new series. The Dalek Emperor’s presence suggests that this occurs after Davros’ “death” in the Time War.

  [575] Doomsday

  [576] Dating “The Forgotten” (IDW DW mini-series #2) - This seems to take place during the Last Great Time War, but it could always be the War in Heaven. We don’t learn the name of the planet or the Doctor’s jailers. The landscape is red, so resembles Gallifrey, but it could be another planet. The Great Key was once part of the De-Mat Gun (The Invasion of Time), and the suggestion seems to be that “the Moment” that the Doctor uses to end the Last Great Time War is an extension of it. No explanation is given for why, if the Doctor lost all memory of Chantir, he’s suddenly able to relate the story of how they met.

  [577] The Coming of the Terraphiles

  [578] The Doctor speaking to the Master in The End of Time (TV). The Doctor described the stone Daleks in The Big Bang as “footprints of the never-were”, and River Song says that the Doctor’s fate if he’s erased from the universe would see him “trapped in the never-space, the void between worlds”, so we might infer the Never-Weres are beings who exist despite being erased from history.

  [579] The Beast Below

  [580] Journey’s End. This is possibly a sign that the Doctor had followers on Gallifrey during the War, or perhaps even was formally next in the order of succession.

  [581] “Fugitive”, “Don’t Step on the Grass”.

  [582] “The Forgotten”

  [583] Seen on the first page of “Agent Provocateur”. The Capitol Dome looks intact and no Dalek wreckage is visible, unlike The End of Time (TV).

  [584] The Fires of Pompeii

  [585] Dalek

  [586] The Doctor’s Wife

  [587] “Agent Provocateur”

  [588] “The Forgotten”. This is apparent confirmation that Susan no longer exists after the Time War.

  [589] The Stolen Earth

  [590] Jack, in The Parting of the Ways, for one.

  [591] The Vampires of Venice

  [592] Says the eighth Doctor in “The Forgotten”. A line cut from The Eyeless said that the eighth Doctor was betrayed by his then-
companions.

  [593] Journey’s End. On when the eighth Doctor might have regenerated into the ninth, see The Last Great Time War sidebar.

  [594] “The Forgotten”. This is apparent confirmation that Rose occurs soon after the end of the Last Great Time War.

  [595] The End of the World

  [596] School Reunion

  [597] Dalek

  [598] Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways

  [599] Victory of the Daleks

  [600] The Unquiet Dead, Father’s Day.

  [601] Rise of the Cybermen

  The Last Great Time War

  The new TV series is set after The Last Great Time War, and although we know the broad strokes of what happened, there’s been little detail. Stories that provide hints about the event include Rose, The End of the World, The Unquiet Dead, Dalek, Father’s Day, Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways.

  Doctor Who Annual 2006 contains a short account of the Time War written by Russell T Davies, which echoes his thoughts in a Doctor Who Confidential interview that the roots of the War lie with the Time Lords trying to prevent the Daleks’ creation in Genesis of the Daleks. The article links the story to Lungbarrow and The Apocalypse Element, mentions the Deathsmiths of Goth (from the DWM back-up strip “Black Legacy”) and adds the information that the Animus (The Web Planet) and the Eternals (Enlightenment) were caught in the fighting. The article was the first place related to the 2005 series that names Gallifrey as the Doctor’s destroyed home planet (the new series later named it in The Runaway Bride and The Sound of Drums), and says Skaro was in “ruins” by the end - a reference that seems to support the claim in War of the Daleks that Skaro wasn’t destroyed in Remembrance of the Daleks.

  There is no indication (beyond an ambiguous statement from the tenth Doctor in Journey’s End) whether it was the eighth or ninth Doctor who fought in the Last Great Time War, or whether he regenerated during (as a result of?) events during the War. The Dalek in Dalek doesn’t seem to recognise the Doctor’s face, but responds to his name. Many fans have speculated that the Doctor has recently regenerated in Rose, as he seems unfamiliar with his reflection. There’s a broad fan consensus that it’s the eighth Doctor who fought the Time War and that its climax somehow triggered the regeneration - but there’s no actual evidence that this is the case, and it seems clear from Clive’s website in Rose that the ninth Doctor’s an established incarnation.