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Rassilon and the High Council of Time Lords, still trapped inside the timelock on the final day of The Last Great Time War, saw a way to escape. They planted the sound of drums - the heartbeat of a Time Lord - into the Master’s mind when he was still a child, then sent a white-point star crystal to Earth at this time. The Master retrieved the star, amplified the drum-sound now echoing through billions of people, and traced it back to its source. The disruption to the timelines allowed the entire planet of Gallifrey to emerge in space near Earth. The Master then sought to copy his biological template through every Time Lord.

Rassilon thwarted the Master by restoring humanity to normal, and the Doctor destroyed the Gate. The Master attacked Rassilon in revenge for the High Council driving him mad with the Sound of Drums, and the two of them - and all the Time Lords - vanished as Gallifrey was consigned back to the Time War.

The Doctor sacrificed his life to save Wilf, who had become trapped in a chamber that was filling with radiation. With what time he had remaining, the Doctor visited his former companions - he saved Mickey and Martha, who had become freelance alien hunters, from a Sontaran; saved Luke Smith from a car accident; attended a book signing of Verity Newman, the great-granddaughter of Joan Redfern, whose book
The Journal of Impossible Things
was based on her ancestor’s diary; and travelled forward a few months to attend Donna Noble’s wedding.

UNIT headquarters was still based in Geneva.

Sarah Jane had Mr. Smith distribute a story claiming that Wi-Fi had gone mad all over the world, and given everyone the hallucination that they had become Harold Saxon.
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Mike Yates planned to attend the UNIT New Year reunion.
 [1345]

2010
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One Hornet had survived at Nest Cottage. Mrs Wibbsey disturbed it when she cleaned a pair of curtains, and it took control of her. It developed into a new swarm, which allied itself with an interdimensional demon capable of assuming different aspects, and began plotting its revenge on the Doctor...
 [1347]
Dr. Vera Juarez, a future associate of Torchwood, made the decision not to resuscitate her mother after she suffered a massive stroke.
 [1348]
The Samarands invaded Greece in 2010.
 [1349]

The Halliwell Film Guide
of 2010 contained a particularly scathing review of
The True History of Planets
movie, which was broadcast on television for the first time this year. Britain had a King at this time.
 [1350]
The Americans researched military applications for Schumann Resonance, a set of low frequency peaks in Earth’s electro-magnetic spectrum.
 [1351]
Earth’s scientists first noticed the dark tides that permeated the universe, but it would be a long time before they were understood.
 [1352]

(=) The third Doctor surrendered Earth to the Martians. The Martians withdrew, and Earth became a nature reserve. The Doctor spent a thousand years living in Kent.
 [1353]

c 2010 - Shadow of the Past
 [1354]

The remains of the Mim scout locked in UNIT quarantine reconstituted, and merged with the remains of Sergeant Robin Marshall. Liz Shaw judged that the resultant hybrid, who looked like Marshall, had at least some of the man’s memories and possessed none of the Mim’s anger.

2010 - Cuddlesome
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The fifth Doctor visited Angela Wisher, a Sussex resident who aided him during the Cuddlesome slaughterhouse three years previous.

2010 - The Macros
 [1356]

The space-time rift created by the Philadelphia Experiment interacted with the micro-universe containing the planet Capron. Presidenter (sic) Osloo had established a dictatorship, and tapped the rift to power her society and growing army. The sixth Doctor and Peri arrived on Capron, and Osloo increased the power being siphoned from the rift - the first gambit in her effort to conquer the macro-universe from which the travellers originated. The power drain caused the USS
Eldridge
, time-looped in the rift since 1943, to disintegrate entirely. The Doctor ended Osloo’s reign by neglecting to stabilise her temporal equilibrium after a trip to the macro-universe, which turned her into an infant. He also provided a battery which, hailing from the macro-universe, was powerful enough to fuel Capron for a million years.

c 2010 - Memory Lane
 [1357]

Travel to planets in the solar system was now feasible from Earth, and the
Led Zeppelin
spaceships were named after a public vote. Kim Kronotska became a commander in the Commonwealth Space Programme - a means of using British money to fire off rockets in the middle of the Outback - and participated in the
Led Zeppelin II
mission to the Martian moon of Phobos.

The development of cryo-stasis facilitated grander ambitions. Kim, Tom Braudy and their colleague Samuel were dispatched aboard the
Led Zeppelin IV
to Jupiter, but a system failure drew them off course. They wouldn’t awaken for a hundred years. The eighth Doctor rescued Kim and Tom on the planet Lucentra, and returned them to their native era. They settled down together under adopted identities, letting the world believe they were lost in space.

The film
Star Begotten
entailed a second sun appearing over Earth.

2010 - Situation Vacant
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The Pan-Galactic Initiative on Dimensional Rifts had been established as an organisation that monitored rogue wormholes and other dimensional anomalies. On Earth,
Situation Vacant
was a reality show that had contestants competing for a job.

The Meddling Monk had regenerated, and advertised for a new companion - then syphoned some of the more murderous and hapless respondents to a secondary location, and manipulated the eighth Doctor into handling them while he conducted the real auditions in an office in Soho. The less-than-desirable applicants assisted the Doctor in stopping a 20-foot-tall robot from menacing London. One of the companion hopefuls - Theo Lawson, a hacker who had caused a global recession - was killed. The Doctor asked another applicant, actress Tamsin Drew, to accompany him on his travels.

Lucie Miller answered the Monk’s ad, and became his new companion.
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2010 - Apollo 23
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The discontinued Saturn V rocket remained the biggest launch vehicle ever built by mankind. Base Delta, America’s secret moonbase, was being used to conduct clandestine experiments upon hardened criminals in an effort to remove their evil impulses, a.k.a. their Keller impulses.

The gelatinous, slimy inhabitants of the planet Taleria discovered that their bodies were dying - each new generation of Talerians was more fragile than the one before it. The Talerians took control of Base Delta - part of their plan to mentally transfer their whole race into humanity. The eleventh Doctor was briefly stranded on Earth, and rode aboard
Apollo 23
- a standby Saturn V (serial No. SA-521) that had been mothballed since the 1970s, and was made to run on M3 Variant fuel - to reunite with Amy and the TARDIS aboard Base Delta. They stymied the Talerians’ efforts, and decompression burst the Talerians’ bodies. The quantum link emanating from Base Delta became nonfunctional, and it was expected that the base would be unsustainable without it.

2010 - Code of the Krillitanes
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In London, the tenth Doctor was surprised to see ordinary people demonstrate amazing mental feats. They had been eating Brainy Crisps - which the Doctor tested and discovered contained Krillitane Oil. At the Brainy Crisps home office, he learned that the Krillitane were planning to harness the power of social networking to solve the riddle of life. They also created a new generation of Krillitane - only to find that the Director of Computing at Brainy Crisps had programmed the new Krillitane to be polite and agreeable. The two factions clashed with one another, which destroyed the Brainy Chips factory - and both generations of Krillitane - in an explosion.

2010 (a Saturday night) - The Forgotten Army
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The eleventh Doctor told Amy that the sausage-burgers served at Big Paulie’s Sausages - a battered old trolly in Manhattan where a tired-looking man flipped burgers - became so renowned in future that all manner of beings (including Judoon, Graske, cat-people and Haemo-Goths) journeyed back through time to discretely consume them. Such time travellers had to endure a 12-year waiting list; the Doctor claimed to have circumvented this by purchasing the street on which the trolley stood, and named it after Amy. He recommended to her the “Doctor Burger”: “like a cheeseburger but with extra bacon, sausage and steak. And a bit of chicken... No ketchup though. Absolutely banned.”
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The 99th Vykoid Expeditionary Force revived, and arranged for a human expedition to find its (secretly robotic) woolly mammoth frozen in ice. The
New York Times
proclaimed, “New York Welcomes Wooly the Mammoth” as the “creature” was taken to the New York Natural History Museum. The Vykoids deployed a Time Freeze and used their combat vehicles to round up New Yorkers for use in the desiccated Vykoid slave mines on Cassetia 2. In the brouhaha to follow, New York was cut off from the outside world: the Vykoids sealed off all access routes with debris, brainwashed every member of the New York Police Department to corral the populace, and plunged the city into its worst power outage since 1922.

The Doctor and Amy commandeered the mammoth and “swam” it across the Hudson, then used a Vykoid teleport device in the Statue of Liberty to send the invaders away from Earth. The Time Freeze ended, and the New Yorkers lost all memory of what had triggered the chaos.

(=) 2010 - “The Golden Ones”
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The time-child Chiyoko freed Axos from the time loop in which it was trapped, and it transmogrified its form to become the Shining Dawn Tower in Tokyo. Axons disguised as humans formed the Shining Dawn Corporation and marketed a brain-boosting drink that claimed to increase the intelligence of children. UNIT summoned the eleventh Doctor and Amy upon discovering that Tokyo’s children
were
becoming noticeably smarter, and chemical analysis claimed the drink was ordinary water.

Axos converted the fifty thousand children who drank the brain-booster (actually Axonite molecules changed to look like water) into little Axons. A state of emergency was declared as they secured government offices and utilities in Tokyo. Axos absorbed enough energy from the Tokyo grid to transform into a giant Axon monster, and initiated its nutrition cycle. The Doctor reversed the polarity of the neutron flow, and broadcast a message that the Tokyo residents should switch on all their electrical devices. The power drain killed Axos, and freed the children.

The TARDIS absorbed some of Axos’ genetic material, which aided in Chiyoko’s creation. She later reversed the effects of her interference.
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= 2010 - Doomsday
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On Pete’s World, Harriet Jones was President and there was optimism for a new global age. However, in the last sixth months, the planet’s average temperature had risen by two degrees. Lumic’s Cybermen were infiltrating our universe - Pete Tyler and Torchwood helped to defeat them, then sealed off travel between the two universes. Rose, Mickey and Jackie were stuck in the parallel universe.

A few months after arriving in the parallel universe, Rose was contacted by the Doctor. She said goodbye to him at Dárlig Ulv Stranden (“Bad Wolf Bay”) in Norway, and announced that Jackie was three months pregnant with Pete’s child.

2010 - Vincent and the Doctor
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The eleventh Doctor and Amy visited the Musee d’Orsay museum in Paris to see a van Gogh exhibition. The Doctor saw a monster in the painting
The Church at Auvers
, and he and Amy hurried to 1890, when van Gogh painted it. A few days later, they brought van Gogh himself to the museum, to show him that he was considered one of the greatest painters of all time. Van Gogh still committed suicide in his own era, but the painting he dedicated to Amy,
Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers
, was on display in the museum.