B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (328 page)

Without more information to go on, the placement here is highly random, but contingent on the construction-robot armies being
far
beyond the solar flare era. The abandonment of Earth seen in
The Mysterious Planet
or
The Sun Makers
seems like reasonable guesses, but the choice made here speculates that the robot armies rebuilding Earth are part of the restoration done by the National Trust prior to
The End of the World
.

[
1725
] Dating
Forty-Five:
“False Gods” (BF #115a) - No date is given, but it’s obviously prior to Earth’s destruction, when the surface is uninhabitable due to the sun’s deterioration.

[
1726
] “Two hundred sixty years” before the year 4,999,999,999 component of “Agent Provocateur”.

[
1727
] Dating
New Earth
(X2.1) - The epilogue clearly occurs before
The End of the World
, but it’s difficult to judge how many years before, as there’s no way of knowing how long Cassandra survives as an elongated piece of skin.

[
1728
] Dating “The Forgotten” (IDW
DW
mini-series #2) - The judge and many other inhabitants appear to be Catkind.

[
1729
] Dating “Agent Provocateur” (IDW
DW
mini-series #1) - The date ties in with
New Earth
; New Savannah is being turned over to the Earth Empire as part of the impending year five billion, and a businessman says, “In eight hours, it’ll be midnight, and we enter the year five billion”. As part of this, a sign reads “Happy New Millennium”. Curiously, in issue #5, the term “fifty-first century” is used to denote “five billion” - the Doctor says the technology being used “shouldn’t exist on Earth outside the fifty-first century” and that he “was there recently... first on Savannah then on Omphalos”, when he clearly visited those worlds in the time zone of
New Earth
. Martha makes the same mistake - even though Wain is a native of this time, she also says he’s from the fifty-first century. At different points in the story, we’re told that it’s the psychic trauma of the people who have disappeared and the alignment of the planets that causes the Rend.

The Milk Bar sequences (from issue #1 of this mini-series) occur after the Sycorax Tribe of Astrophia died out in the forty-first century, but otherwise shy toward the undatable side of things. Even so, they fit here as well as anywhere else.

[
1730
] Dating “The Deep Hereafter” (
DWM
#413) and “The Crimson Hand” (
DWM
#416-420) - No year or era of time given. The story’s author, Dan McDaid, intended that New Old Detroit was broadly analogous to New New York as seen in
New Earth
and
Gridlock
. It seems likely that New Old Detroit isn’t located on the New Earth seen in those stories, as the tenth Doctor would hardly be likely to let Majenta live there prior to a devastating plague that he knows (
Gridlock
) will wipe out most of the population.

[
1731
] Dating
The End of the World
(X1.2) - The Doctor tells Rose “this is the year 5.5/apple/26, five billion years in your future”. This story seems to contradict
The Ark
(and, by implication,
Frontios
), which saw the destruction of the Earth a mere ten million years in our future, and had a different fate for humanity. The obvious inference to make is that the Earth wasn’t completely destroyed in
The Ark
, and the National Trust’s renovations were more extensive than the Doctor told Rose.

[
1732
]
New Earth

[
1733
] Dating
New Earth
(X2.1) - It is “twenty-three years” after
The End of the World
.

[
1734
] “Twenty-four years” before
Gridlock
.

[
1735
] “Twenty-three years” before
Gridlock
.

[
1736
] “Twelve years” before
Gridlock
.

[
1737
] “Three years” before
Gridlock
.

[
1738
] Dating
Gridlock
(X3.3) - The Doctor gives the date as “the year five billion and fifty three”.

[
1739
]
Gridlock

[
1740
]
New Earth

[
1741
]
The Unicorn and the Wasp

[
1742
]
The Feast of Axos

[
1743
]
Colony in Space
. It’s possible the Doctor witnessed this for himself. It doesn’t contradict
The Ark
, which had Earth crashing into the Sun, not the Sun going supernova, or
The End of the World
, where the Sun merely expands enough to destroy the Earth.

[
1744
] Dating “Autopia” (IDW
DW
one-shot #3) - We’re told, unhelpfully, that it’s “somewhere, someplace, sometime”. The people of Autopia are described as “human”. This story has been placed in the far future.

[
1745
] Dating
The Savages
(3.9) - At the end of
The Gunfighters
, the Doctor claims that they have now landed at “a distant point in time” (see the quote above). The Elders have the technology to track the TARDIS, but are not capable of time travel themselves. They declare themselves to be “human”.

[
1746
] “A few years” before
The Five Companions
.

[
1747
]
The Five Companions

[
1748
] Dating
The Armageddon Factor
(16.6) - No clues are given on screen, but
The Chaos Pool
stipulates that Atrios exists “much closer” to the end of time - an opposite number, of sorts, to the Teuthoidians who stem from the universe’s early days. Marking a more specific placement than that, however, is a bit problematic.

It’s said that Princess Astra lives to be more than 200 following
The Armageddon Factor
, and she participates in events on the planet Chaos - which is said to exist sixty-six minutes from the end of time (
The Chaos Pool).
However, this is not to say that
The Armageddon Factor
literally takes place just two centuries before the universe’s end. Firstly, it’s very hard to believe that a society of Atrios’ level could be functioning so close to the universe’s total heat death without specific technology in place (as that of the Grace or the Council of Eight in
Sometime Never
) to counter-act this. Second, it’s doubly hard to believe that Astra and the Atrions accompanying her could have been flitting about in a spaceship without noticing that the universe is little more than an hour away from total extinction. Third,
The Chaos Pool
ends with Zara retiring to Atrios - not something she’d be likely to do if it had only sixty-six minutes left to exist.

It’s far more likely that Chaos is held in suspension at the exact moment of sixty-six minutes from the end of time, and that some time-shifting is required to visit it. As further proof of this, time on Chaos seems to operate independently from that of the outside universe - there’s no sense, for instance, that those on Chaos have only sixty-six minutes to live, just as more than eleven days can pass for those living within the boundaries of Faction Paradox’s Eleven-Day Empire.

[
1749
]
The Chaos Pool

[
1750
]
Timewyrm: Apocalypse, The Infinity Doctors, Father Time, Hope, The Eye of the Tyger, Sometime Never.

[
1751
] “Eight billion years” after
Cold Fusion.

[
1752
]
The Eye of the Tyger

[
1753
] Dating
Timewyrm: Apocalypse
(NA #3) - The novel is set “several billion years” in the future (p3), “ten billion years” before the end of the universe (p178).

[
1754
]
Zagreus
. These facts were presented as part of a simulation, and so may not take place.

[
1755
]
The Quantum Archangel
. The Ministers first appeared in the short story “The Duke of Dominoes” (
Decalog
, 1994).

[
1756
]
The Infinity Doctors
,
Father Time.

[
1757
]
Unnatural History

[
1758
] Dating
Father Time
(EDA #41) - The exact timescale is unclear, and is stated to be “a few million years in the future”, “several million years hence”, and “a million years in the future”. The physical state of the universe, however, suggests it is much later than that.

[
1759
] Dating
Miranda
(Miranda comic #1-3) - It’s “billions of years” in the future. Three issues of this projected six-issue story were published by Comeuppance Comics. The story simplified/ignored some of the plot points in
Father Time
(such as the existence of Cate, a robot Miranda, Miranda not knowing at first that Ferran was evil and the inclusion of the characters Rum and Thelash, who apparently died in
Father Time
).

[
1760
] Dating
Hope
(EDA #53) - The Doctor pushes the TARDIS to see how far into the future he can take it and the TARDIS goes “too far”. This is the same far, far future time period referred to in
The Infinity Doctors
and
Father Time
, which alluded to Silver and this period (p191).

[
1761
]
Sometime Never

[
1762
]
The Magic Mousetrap

[
1763
] Dating
Singularity
(BF #76) - It is clearly toward the end of the universe. It’s said that the Ember base is located “trillions of years” in the future, but it’s also mentioned that, “This far into the future, numbers become meaningless.” Technically, Xen’s claim that he is “the last human” seems dubious, as episodes such as
The End of the World
and
New Earth
indicate that no purebred humans exist after Cassandra’s era. The planet Ember bears no apparent relation to the star of the same name from
The Suns of Caresh
, although that story might explain why the Doctor here mutters “Ember… I’ve heard that name before.”

[
1764
] “Thousands of years” before
Utopia
.

[
1765
]
Utopia
. It’s said in
The End of the World
that the Face of Boe also hails from the Silver Devastation.

[
1766
] Dating
Utopia
(X3.11) - The TARDIS is propelled into the far, far future, with the last date the Doctor reads being “one hundred trillion years” (it’s possible it lands even later). As in
The Sun Makers
and
Frontios
, the Doctor states that the Time Lords didn’t travel this far into the future, although he never explicitly rules out the possibility he’s been here before, as we saw in a number of books and audios.