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There were no pure humans left, but human genes survived in a number of races. Apple trees were extinct until Silver cloned one from an apple core that the Doctor gave him. The universe was past the point of sustainable expansion, and the rate of star death had dramatically increased.

Miranda brought the Factions and Houses together and united the people of the universe. She had at least one child, a daughter named Zezanne. Zezanne’s father died. The Council of Eight kidnapped Miranda and Zezanne when Zezanne was a teenager.
 [1761]
It was possible that the electrocuted board imprisoning the Celestial Toymaker remained active until around the year two trillion.
 [1762]

? - Singularity
 [1763]

The planet Ember had served as an outpost from which to watch other galaxies for signs of intelligent life. Toward the end of the universe, some descendants of humanity prolonged the lifespan of Ember’s sun as most stars in the universe extinguished, and thereby survived for some millennia. They believed that the Time Lords had opened a gate to another realm and escaped with all the life they deemed worthy, leaving humanity’s children to perish.

Ember’s sun began to fade also, and the survivors began swapping their intelligences with Earthlings in the late twentieth century, hoping to facilitate the creation of a Singularity entity. The plan failed, whereupon the conspirators were forced to return to this era and quickly died off.

The laws of time and causality started to break down as Ember approached its end. Nonetheless, the fifth Doctor and Turlough arrived as one of the conspirators - Xen, who claimed to be the last human - passed on.

The stars of the universe were burning out and fading away. The Science Foundation initiated the Utopia Project to preserve mankind, and enable it to survive the collapse of reality itself.
 [1764]
Professor Yana was found as a boy, naked in a storm off the coast of the Silver Devastation. He was discovered with a watch, which he kept with him as he went from one refugee ship to another. No university had existed for a thousand years, but Yana became accomplished at science and took the title “Professor” as an affectation.
 [1765]

100,000,000,000,000 - Utopia
 [1766]

The planet Malcassairo had been home to an advanced race of humanoid insects, the Malmooth, but the Conglomer-ation there died. Chantho was the last representative of this species, and she served as Yana’s assistant for seventeen years.

A signal came from far beyond the Condensed Wilderness, out toward the Wild Lands and the Dark Matter Reefs. It said nothing more than “Come to Utopia”, and some remnants of humanity gathered on Malcassairo in preparation to journey there. They huddled to protect themselves from the cannibalistic Futurekind - said to be what mankind would become - while Yana and Chanthro worked to complete a rocket that would evacuate everyone save themselves.

The tenth Doctor, Martha and Captain Jack arrived and helped to complete the rocket. Martha learned that Yana was - unknown even to himself - the Master, disguised as a human to escape the Time War. The rocket launched. The Master learned of his true identity, but was shot by Chanthro, whom he had fatally wounded. He regenerated, stealing the TARDIS and marooning the Doctor and his companions, but not before the Doctor fused the TARDIS’ controls. It could only travel to this point in time and within eighteen months of the Ship’s last departure in 2008.

The Doctor, Martha and Captain Jack returned to the twenty-first century using Jack’s vortex manipulator.
 [1767]

The Master returned to this future era with his wife Lucy, and found the darkness overtaking the humans on Utopia. He arranged to house their shrunken heads into metallic spheres equipped with weaponry, and named them the Toclafane. Six billion Toclafane were created in this fashion. The Master then returned to the twenty-first century, and converted the TARDIS into a Paradox Machine.

(=) Thanks to the Paradox Machine, the Toclafane were able to travel back and enslave their ancestors.

With the Paradox Machine’s destruction, the Toclafane were stranded at the end of the universe.
 [1768]

Event Two

“One mad prophet martyr journeyed too far and saw the Timewyrm. He saw it in a timeline that he could not be sure of, devouring Rassilon or his shade, during the Blue Shift, that time of final conflict when Fenric shall slip his chains and the evil of the worlds shall rebound back on them in war.”
 [1769]

The Doctor owned a copy of
A Universal History of Fable and Demonology, Written at the End of All Time
.
 [1770]

100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 - The Infinity Doctors
 [1771]

The Needle had been inhabited for tens of millions of years, but now it was all but abandoned. Ruined cities dotted its surface, and the atmosphere had frozen. The only known survivors were the predator animals named the Maltraffi, mushrooms and four “knights”: Gordel, Willhuff, Pallant and Helios. Each could only remember the future - with less and less to remember each day - and each had his own theory as to their origins. They may have been the last survivors of the Children of Kasterborous, human/Gallifreyan hybrids who intervened in the universe at great cost; superevolved Thals who fled the penultimate destruction of Skaro at the start of the Final Dalek War; members of the People of the Worldsphere, left behind when everyone else transcended reality; or the last High Evolutionaries (Helios might have been Merlin, or his son).

The Doctor arrived from Gallifrey to find the god Ohm, who was trapped in the black hole at one end of the Needle. Two of the Doctor’s colleagues, the Magistrate and Larna, were sent in to rescue him when he vanished. Omega emerged from the black hole wearing the Doctor’s body, banishing the Magistrate somewhere unknown and taking Larna back to Gallifrey.

Omega sought to attain ultimate power by unleashing the Eye of Harmony. The Doctor had been reunited with his wife as part of these events, but was forced to lose her again. He once more defeated Omega.

The Time Lords believed that a powerful force, the Dark Flame, stemmed from a pocket dimension that was pushed out of space-time during the Universe’s collapse.
 [1772]
The Last Museum stood as a collection of the human race’s greatest objects and achievements. It was located at the end of Time, at the exact centre of the universe. The Council of Eight member Soul served at the Museum, disguised as an old man named Singleton.
 [1773]

The Epoch claimed to be from the end of time, and that they would meet Bernice Summerfield there.
 [1774]

Event Two Minus Sixty-Six Minutes - The Judgement of Isskar / The Chaos Pool
 [1775]

Extra-dimensional beings - the Grace - sought to maintain the universal balance. To that end, they forged the Key to Time in a pool on the planet Chaos - which existed sixty-six minutes from the end of time. Chaos had been known as the planet Safeplace, and was the final resting place of the Teuthoidians.
The Key was a perfect cube consisting of six segments, which when combined helped to maintain the equilibrium of time itself. The segments contained the elemental force of the universe, and could adopt any shape or size. They were dispersed throughout space-time until it became imperative to restore the universal balance. The White Guardian sent the fourth Doctor and Romana to recover the segments; they did so, then dispersed the segments once more.

The Doctor had used a synthetic sixth segment to complete the Key, but in doing so had destabilised it. The scattered Key segments decayed and damaged local space-time; a total collapse would destroy the universe. The Grace created two living Key-tracers - Amy and her sister Zara - and tasked them with retrieving three segments each. The fifth Doctor accompanied Amy on her quest.

They returned to Chaos as President Astra came in search of the legendary Chaos Pool, which she hoped would cure her people’s deteriorating condition. The weakened and amnesiac White Guardian - now passing as Professor Lydall, an Atrion - had created a fold in hyperspace, liking the extreme beginning and end of time. The Teuthoidians, servants of the White Guardian, travelled through the fold and engaged an army of the Black Guardian’s supporters.

Romana arrived with the Black Guardian, having answered the Doctor’s cry for help from Gallifrey. The Key to Time was assembled after Astra re-acquired the essence of the sixth segment from Romana, then transformed into it. The Grace declared that neither of the Guardians should possess the Key, and banished them back to the howling void to continue their conflict.

The Doctor destroyed the Key to Time within the Chaos Pool - an act that dispersed the Grace throughout eternity.

Amy and Zara were left as human beings, but retained many of their powers. Zara retired to Atrios while Amy accepted Romana’s invitation to visit Gallifrey.

Graceless: The End
 [1776]

Abby and Zara navigated warships belonging to the space pirate Kreekpolt back to Chaos, hoping to absorb enough lingering power from the Grace to heal Kreekpolt’s gravely wounded daughter, the Lady Persephone. Kreekpolt accepted an offer from an incarnation of the Grace, and traded his life for his daughter’s health - the restored Persephone vowed vengeance against the sisters for their role in her father’s death. The Grace told Abby and Zara that they would live as long as they wished, and left them with time rings that functioned so long as they were together. They left to perform good acts as penance for their various crimes, accompanied by Marek - their mutual lover, and the father of Zara’s infant daughter Joy.

Sometime Never
 [1777]

The Council of Eight existed in the Vortex Palace, right at the end of time. By placing unique crystals at the beginning of time, they mapped out events across the universe, and generated energy from unused potential timelines by correctly predicting the course of events. This energy was stored in Schrodinger Cells. The Council sent apes mutated by the Time Winds (“the Agents of the Council”) to ensure their version of history transpired, and also recruited Sabbath to unwittingly work on their behalf. The Council deemed many of the Doctor’s companions a threat, as they were touched by his innate ability to influence history, and thus engineered the possible deaths of Sarah Jane Smith, Harry Sullivan, Melanie Bush, Ace and Samantha Jones.

The Council leader, Octan, planned to destroy human history with a starkiller, releasing vast amounts of energy. This energy would paradoxically create the Council of Eight, and in all probability allow them to survive the end of the universe. Octan took Miranda hostage, but she sacrificed herself, allowing the eighth Doctor a free hand to fight them. Sabbath killed himself to thwart his former employers, and his death helped to instigate the destruction of the Vortex Palace.

The Council of Eight perished except for the benevolent Soul and Octan, who journeyed to 1588 in a last-ditch effort to save their plans. The Doctor donated some of his life energy to stabilize Soul’s body into his former guise as the old man Singleton. Soul took Octan’s starkiller.

The Doctor and his allies left in the TARDIS, while Soul and Miranda’s daughter Zezanne evacuated in the
Jonah
, which arrived in a junkyard in 1963. Beings who sought to acquire the starkiller monitored the
Jonah
’s departure.

Other beings that survived until the last moments of the universe included the Solarii and Korsann’s reptilian race.

Legends said the Sycorax would be one of the last three races left when the universe finally died. Humans were one of the other two.
 [1778]

Our universe was destroyed in the Big Crunch. All matter imploded to a central point, returning to the state from which it was created: “a bright blazing pinprick of sheer energy”.
 [1779]
The Time Lords referred to the end of the universe as Event Two.
 [1780]

Insect-like “forces of chaos” fed on the debris of the collapse of the universe, as they had fed on the Big Bang.
 [1781]

The City of the Saved

w - The City of the Saved created by Compassion and the UniMac occupied - or rather
comprised
- an artificially sustained bubble that existed after the end of the universe, and before the beginning of the next one. Within the City’s environs - believed to be the size of a spiral galaxy - literally every member of the entire human race, “from its sentient prehuman ancestors to its posthuman offshoots”, had been resurrected in invulnerable bodies. The City’s population easily numbered in the septillions. Multiple versions of the same person could be present (as was the case with Compassion’s four previous iterations, who had been born in the Remote’s remembrance tanks).