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2050 - K9: The Custodians

Jorjie and Darius played the new VR game
Little Green Men
, even as the city outside was in chaos, and emergency services were overwhelmed. The headsets for the game were alien in origin, and twenty million children had been simultaneously affected by it. Greenroom Entertainment had allied with the last of the Etydions - they were the most powerful telepaths who ever lived, and had hired themselves out to psionically repel invading forces with waves of fear, but were wiped out by their enemies. Greenroom intended that the Etrydion would create a telepathic network that would pacify youngsters into being good children, but the Etrydion secretly planned to transform the children into members of its own race. The Etrydion died when June’s emotions for Jorjie’s safety overloaded it.

2050 - K9: Taphony and the Time Loop

Gryffen helped to liberate Taphony, a girl trapped in a VR created by the Department. She was a Time Blank, an entity that didn’t follow the normal rules of time and could disintegrate everything she touched. She had been created within the Department by use of alien technology, but became vengeful upon learning that Gryffen was partly responsible for said experiment. Starkey, Jorjie and Darius befriended Taphony, and persuaded her to leave for a realm better suited to her.

2050 - K9: Robot Gladiators

Freddie Maxwell ran Destructertainment, which put on robot gladiator shows. Darius pretended to trick K9 into becoming part of Maxwell’s stable of robots - all part of a plan to end Maxwell’s illegal scam. Thorne colluded with Maxwell to develop combat robots such as the Pain-Maker, with the ultimate aim of acquiring K9’s regenerative technology. The Pain-Maker was packed with enough solarmite explosive to destroy everything in the arena apart from K9’s regeneration unit, and when K9 refused to fight, Thorne had the Pain-Maker self-destruct. The blast wasn’t enough to damage K9. Maxwell’s business was shut down, leaving Gryffen, K9 and the kids to wonder how Thorne knew that K9 could regenerate...

2050 - K9: Mind Snap
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K9 activated the Space-Time Manipulator, hoping that some siphoned temporal power would help restore his memories. Instead, it adversely affected his mind, making him confused and aggressive. Gryffen restored his memories by having K9 remember his previous adventures.

2050 - K9: Angel of the North

K9 deduced the co-ordinates of a Fallen Angel - the ship from which the Space-Time Manipulator was recovered - in Canada. Gryffen thought the ship might contain the device’s missing temporal stabiliser, but was unable to conquer his agoraphobia, and so travelled to Canada in a VR encasement suit. K9 and the kids used the Manipulator to teleport to the alien ship, where they encountered a Korven - one of over a hundred in the area. The Korven were the most dangerous race K9 had ever encountered, and the Manipulator had been made from their technology. Gryffen vowed to never use the temporal stabiliser upon deducing that K9’s enhancement code was somehow part of it.

2050 - K9: The Last Precinct

A group called The Last Precinct staged a spate of attacks on CCPCs. Fake CCPCs came to Gryffen’s house and immobilised K9 - these were actually humans, all of them all ex-policemen made obsolete by the CCPCs. Darius’ father, Harry Pike, was among their number. They planed to infect the CCPCs with a virus, but it proved unstable, and caused the CCPCs to go on a rampage. K9 deactivated the CCPCs, and the Last Precinct members were rounded up and arrested.

2050 - K9: Hound of the Korven

Thorne showed Darius that his father was cracking up in his solitary confinement VR prison, and demanded that he fetch him K9’s regeneration unit. He also revealled he had K9’s memory disc and offered a swap. Thorne and K9 traded the components - but K9’s memory disc had been implanted with a self-destruct code that would activate if he got within range of an unknown location. A Jixen kidnapped Gryffen, and explained that the Jixen were a friendly, peaceful race marauded by the Meron, who were allied with the Korven. K9 and his allies realised that someone at the Department was working for the Korven. Although K9 rerouted the self-destruct orders on his memory disc, Thorne still had his regeneration unit.

2050 - K9: The Eclipse of the Korven

The Space-Time Manipulator observed a white hole and a black hole coming together - if they touched, Earth would be destroyed. K9 discovered that the Department also had a Space-Time Manipulator at their Millennium Dome base. Thorne’s army of CCPCs surrounded K9, and Thorne explained that an alien army was massing on the other side of the galaxy, ready to invade Earth via a temporal portal. The Department had engineered Trojan - a supersoldier built from the DNA of every alien species they had encountered - and fitted it with K9’s regeneration unit. Throne was working with the invaders, and had engineered the white hole and black hole to come together, knowing it would force Gryffen to use the temporal stabiliser to widen the portal. Thorne was actually as a Meron, while the head of the Department, Lomax, was a Korven.

The spearhead of the Korven invasion force arrived through the portal, but Gryffen conquered his agoraphobia and closed the portal using his personal voice command: “Omega, Sigma, Theta, Ohm”. Lomax and the Korven were sucked into the portal and destroyed. K9 fought Trojan, and got its Jixen and Meron imperatives to destroy each other. Thorne was crushed to death when Trojan toppled on him. The more evil elements of the Department had been eliminated.

The polar ice cap melted in the twenty-first century.
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c 2050 - The Time of the Daleks
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The Daleks attempted to exploit a temporal rift to enhance their time travel capabilities, but the experiment backfired and they almost lost their entire fleet. They made contact with Mariah Learman, the ruler of New Britain, who had a primitive time scanner. Learman didn’t believe the population appreciated Shakespeare, and the price for her co-operation with the Daleks was that they would assassinate Shakespeare as a youth and preserve the only copy of his works for Learman’s benefit. Rebels thwarted this plan by smuggling an eight-year-old Shakespeare from 1572 for his own protection, but this caused further time distortion. The eighth Doctor arrived, trying to explain why his companion Charley didn’t know of Shakespeare. The Doctor set history back on course by returning young Shakespeare to his rightful time. The Daleks were trapped in an endless temporal loop after mutating Learman into one of them.

It now took only a couple of hours for a shuttle rocket to travel from the Earth to the new moonbases. Around 2050, the ultimate form of weather control, the Gravitron, was built on the moon’s surface. The political implications on Earth proved complex, and the General Assembly spent more than twenty years negotiating between farmers and landowners.
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The Butler Institute built the Gravitron.
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Rhinos were extinct on Earth by 2051.
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Harnessing gravity waves allowed artificial gravity to be installed on spacecraft and space stations.
Permanent space stations were built. Flowers were cultivated on the surface of Venus. The first Doctor visited this timezone.
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Victorian time traveller Penelope Gate and her companion Joel Mintz accidentally visited the middle of the twenty-first century.
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Around the middle of the century, domesticated wolves were reintroduced into the forests of Northern Europe. It was rumoured that the Wicca Society had released wild wolves, and there was some debate as to which strain would become dominant.
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In 2050, after two years of training, Steffi Ehrlich formed part of the tenth German moon mission. The following year, she married Hans Stott. Roman Groom had degrees in English and Physics, and was beginning postdoctoral work in astrophysics. He was only 17, but was accepted into NASA’s Search for Astronauts programme in January 2051, and began two years’ training. In April 2051, Margaret Cain became only the second female Briton to land on the moon. As part of that effort, she met Adelaide Brooke.

Mia Bennett had her thesis on Martian geology published. She had managed to grow green beans and turnips from samples of Martian soil.
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2050 (28th September) - The King of Terror
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Eighty years after the events occurred, some early UNIT files were officially released. The records included details on Cybermen, the Autons, the fall of General Carrington and the Stahlman incident.

Reporter Daniel Clompus, writing for the
Guardian
, visited the elderly Brigadier General Sir Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart at the Westcliffe Retirement Home in Sussex; the Brigadier General was thought to be 121 years old, but physically looked about 75.

Lethbridge-Stewart passed away shortly afterwards. The book that Clompus wrote on UNIT,
Watch the Skies: The Not-So-Secret-History of Alien Encounters
, was published in 2051. Lethbridge-Stewart’s memoirs,
The Man Who Saved the World
, were published in 2052.

c 2050 - The Wedding of River Song
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The eleventh Doctor phoned Lethbridge-Stewart’s nursing home... and discovered he had passed away, peacefully, a few months before.

The people of the ocean planet Ockora built exoskeletal battlesuits and started an uprising against their Kalarian oppressors, who hunted them for sport. These warriors renamed themselves Selachians. After defeating the Kalarians, they conquered four planets, including Kalaya and Molinar. The Selachians became arms dealers, and attacked a Martian colony with a sunstroker.
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The best and brightest of Earth’s children, including Zoe Heriot, were given over to the Company’s Elite Programme at a young age. The Elite Programme erased the children’s memories of their families - Zoe became unable to remember her mother - and performed other techniques so alarming, the Company could have toppled if the truth became known. The Company taught the children self-defence techniques.
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Freda, an offspring of the aliens who settled in Cardiff, was born on 30th May, 2053.
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In 2054, the Doctor and UNISYC (led by General Tchike) defeated the Montana Republican militia, who were using Selachian weapons.
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Sam Jones had a mid-2050s ergonomic chair in her TARDIS room.
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The Dogworld poodles built their first space station. It received radio signals from other planets, including Earth.
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All the religious faiths of the world were merged with the idea of creating world harmony. This consensus was unworkable and quickly collapsed. The Chapter of St Anthony was formed to fill the spiritual vacuum. When China was taken over by Hong Kong, the Yong family joined them on a new crusade to purge the heathens.
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In the mid 2050s, the world government overreacted to major wars and nuclear terrorism by passing police shoot-to-kill laws and banning all religions. There were years of total chaos, and cities became no-go areas. There was no effective government.
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The shuttle
Apollo 34
taking the first colonists to Mars set off around 2057. The first Martian colony was established on 1st July, 2058. This was Bowie Base One, built by robot drones on top of the underground glacier in Gusev Crater, and as supervised by nine human astronauts. Their mission was to discover whether the planet could be made suitable for human beings. The crew of Bowie Base One had dehydrated protein for their Christmas Dinner in 2058. Susie Fontana Brooke, granddaughter of mission commander Adelaide Brooke, was born after the crew left Earth. The base was partly constructed using a steel combination manufactured in Liverpool.
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2059 (21st November) - The Waters of Mars
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The tenth Doctor arrived at Bowie Base One, the very first Martian colony, and realised he had arrived on the day it was doomed to be destroyed. History recorded that all the colonists were killed in a mysterious explosion. This would have an inspirational effect on humanity, spurring them to explore space. The Doctor theorised that base commander Adelaide Brooke’s death was a “fixed” moment in time that was crucial to the future of humanity, and as such he was powerless to intervene.

The colonists had tapped the underground glacier in Gusev Crater for water, and in doing so had woken the Flood - an ancient lifeform that lived in liquid water, and could transform host creatures with water in their bodies. As more of the colonists were affected, Brooke initiated Action Procedure Five: the destruction of the base via a nuclear device in its central dome.