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14
]
Day of the Daleks

[
15
] From
The Chase
onwards, the Daleks know about the Doctor. They have “files” on him by
The Daleks’ Master Plan
; Chen thinks, possibly because the Daleks told him, that the Doctor is from “another galaxy”. The Daleks recognise the second Doctor on sight in
The Power of the Daleks
, and lay a trap for him in
The Evil of the Daleks
(they have a photograph of him). They need to use the Mind Analysis Machine to identify the third Doctor in
Day of the Daleks
, but understand he can change his appearance. They know the third Doctor on sight in
Frontier in Space
,
Planet of the Daleks
and
Death to the Daleks
and the fourth Doctor in
Destiny of the Daleks
. They again lay a trap for the fifth Doctor in
Resurrection of the Daleks
(and have built duplicates of the fifth Doctor, Tegan and Turlough, so know of them). In
Revelation of the Daleks
, Davros has a tombstone prepared that’s specifically the sixth Doctor’s; the Daleks don’t seem to recognise the seventh Doctor in
Remembrance of the Daleks
- and Davros remarks on his changed appearance - but they know his name (and, indeed, both factions’ plans rely on detailed knowledge of the Doctor’s past).

Since the Time War, the Doctor has gone from being “an enemy of the Daleks” who they know is a threat to someone they are viscerally scared of - in Dalek, the Dalek knows the Doctor’s name and reputation, but apparently doesn’t recognise the ninth Doctor on sight. In
Doomsday
, the Daleks don’t recognise the tenth Doctor, but are able to identify him, on sight, as a threat.

[
16
]
The Rescue

[
17
]
The Daleks

[
18
]
The Chase
,
Day of the Daleks
and “Dogs of Doom”.

[
19
]
Frontier in Space

[
20
] “Nemesis of the Daleks”

[
21
] “Metamorphosis”,
Death to the Daleks
.

[
22
] The seventh Doctor met the Emperor earlier in history in the comic strip “Nemesis of the Daleks”. As the Emperor in
The Evil of the Daleks
says it’s their first meeting, he’s either lying or a different individual from the one in the earlier story.

[
23
]
The Daleks’ Master Plan

[
24
]
The Apocalypse Element

[
25
] The Doctor explicitly states that the Daleks don’t want to conquer the Earth in
Remembrance of the Daleks
.

[
26
] The four Big Finish
Dalek Empire
mini-series.

[
27
] The televised Dalek stories from 2005 onwards have told a continuing story of the post-War Daleks rebuilding. These are
Dalek, Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways, Army of Ghosts/Doomsday, Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks,
Journey’s
End/The Stolen Earth
and
Victory of the Daleks.

Gallifrey

The history of the Time Lords and their homeworld of Gallifrey was shrouded in mystery. The Time Lords knew little of their own past, and much of what was known was cloaked in uncertainty and self-contradiction. It is extremely difficult to reconcile the various accounts of the origins of the Time Lords. The authorities suppressed politically inconvenient facts, although few Time Lords were very interested in politics anyway.
 [1]

Gallifreyan history can be divided into two periods: “the Old Time”, the semi-legendary foundation of Time Lord society millions of years ago; and “recent history”, that which has happened within living memory. (Time Lords, of course, live a long time.)
 [2]

The Old Time

We have only a few scraps of knowledge about the history of Gallifrey before the discovery of time travel.

“The Stolen TARDIS”

In the distant past of Gallifrey, the dinosaur-like Gargantosaurs dominated the planet. The reptilian Sillag arrived here from the future in a stolen TARDIS, but a Gallifreyan technician - Plutar - was along for the ride and had the vital Relativity Differentiator needed to repair the Ship. The two fought and returned to their native time.

Gallifrey was the home of “the oldest civilisation in the universe”, and had “ten million years of absolute power”.
 [3]
On the last day of Gallifrey, Rassilon spoke of “a billion years of Time Lord history”.
 [4]

Gallifreyans mastered the use of transmats when the universe was less than half its present size.
 [5]
Time Lords used to speak and write Old High Gallifreyan, now a dead language.
 [6]
Old High Gallifreyan contained a lot of tenses that aided in speaking about the convoluted nature of time travel.
 [7]
There were days when Old High Gallifreyan could “burn stars, and raise up empires, and topple gods”.
 [8]

Gallifrey means, literally, “they that walk in shadows”.
 [9]
Gallifrey was in the constellation Kasterborous.
 [10]
It “circled a little star in Kasterborous”.
 [11]

Kasterborous was a mythological figure who was chained to a chariot of silver fire by the gods.
 [12]
The planet Karn was close to Gallifrey.
 [13]
Karn was in conjunction with the gas giant Polarfrey.
 [14]

Gallifreyans were naturally telepathic and could build “living” machinery that was also telepathic.
 [15]
They possessed a “reflex link”, superganglions in their brains that allowed the Time Lord intelligentsia to commune.
 [16]
The Time Lords discovered that they had a “dark side” of their minds.
 [17]

Gallifrey had twin suns, a burnt orange sky, slopes with deep red grass and plants that displayed silver leaves in the autumn.
 [18]
Masonry from the Old Time survived, deep beneath the Capitol, into the modern era.
 [19]
Gallifrey had a single moon, Pazithi Gallifreya.
 [20]

The Celestial Toymaker existed before the start of Time Lord records. Gallifreyan researchers later made some efforts to track his origins, but became bored with all of the Toymaker’s games, realised they couldn’t control him and opted to leave him alone.
 [21]

The ancient mythology of the Time Lords spoke of an entity that lived in the wastelands between realities, and subsisted on nightmares. In Old High Gallifreyan, its name, the Mi’en Kalarash, translated to “blue fire”. The Doctor would make the Kalarash “remember what was done to you... what you did” during the Old Times.
 [22]

The Dark Days

At the very dawn of Time Lord history were “the Dark Days”.
 [23]
This was “the time of Chaos”. One of the Doctor’s most closely guarded secrets was that he was somehow involved with this period.
 [24]

“In the days before Rassilon, my ancestors had tremendous powers which they misused disgracefully. They set up this place, the Death Zone, and walled it around with an impenetrable force field. Then they kidnapped other beings and set them down here... even in our most corrupt period, our ancestors never allowed the Cybermen to play the game - like the Daleks they played too well... old Rassilon put a stop to it in the end. He sealed off the entire zone and forbade the use of the Timescoop... there are rumours and legends to the contrary. Some say his fellow Time Lords rebelled against his cruelty and locked him in the Tower in eternal sleep.”
 [25]

Gallifreyans were naturally “time sensitive”, with a unique understanding of time.
 [26]
The earliest Time Lords discovered dematerialisation theory.
 [27]
Another key discovery was transdimensional engineering.
 [28]
The Time Lords built the Time Vortex, a vast transdimensional spiral encompassing all points in space and time.
 [29]

The Gallifreyans became “what they did” through continued exposure to the Time Vortex - the Untempered Schism - over billions of years.
 [30]

The Time Lords’ ancestors built the Timescoop.
 [31]
The Gallifreyans mostly resembled tall, athletic humans.
 [32]
They were truly immortal, barring accidents.
 [33]

Cat’s Cradle: Time’s Crucible

The Pythias, a line of prophetesses who, since the 254th Pythia, rejected technology in favour of magic and superstition, ruled Gallifrey. Time travel was achieved by psychic prophecy, not physical means. The Pythias were guided by the prophesies in
The Book of Future Legends
, and saw their heritage as the Bright Past. The great philosopher Pelatov lived five thousand years before Rassilon.

At the time of the Intuitive Revelation, the age of Rassilon, the barbaric Gallifreyan Empire spread across the universe and encompassed the Pen-Shoza, Jagdagian, Oshakarm, the Star Grellades, Mirphak 2 and the rebellious Aubert Cluster. For aeons, Gallifreyan Heroes such as Ao had fought campaigns against foes such as the Gryffnae, lacustrine Sattisar and the batworms of the asteroid archipelago. The Winter Star was besieged for a century. The great hero Haclav Agusti Prydonius, commander of the Apollaten, defeated the marauding Sphinx of Thule, and was sent to observe a dispute brewing between Ruta III and the Sontara Warburg.

Across the cosmos, the ruling seers were dying: the Sphinx of Thule; the Logistomancer of A32K, foreseer of a cold empire of logic; the Core Sybilline of Klanti; the Sosostris in the West Spiral; The-Nameless-That-Sees-All in the North Constellations. The 508th Pythia became the last of her line. After a visit from a Master Trader of the South, she finally recognised that the veil of Time would soon only be traversed physically, not mentally. She instigated the Time Programme. The Time Scaphe, the first time vessel and powered by the mental energy of its crew, was launched but vanished.

Rassilon and his neo-technologists overthrew the Pythia. As her followers fled to Karn, the Pythia cursed Gallifrey with her dying words: its people became infertile, the colonies began to demand their independence and an Ice Age commenced. The Pythia cast herself into an abyss.

Rassilon lost a daughter to the Pythia’s curse. The only good omen was the return of the Time Scaphe. Quennesander Olyesti Pekkary, captain of the Time Scaphe and first son of the House of Fordfarding, was Rassilon’s nephew.

The family Houses of Gallifrey were sentient and the oldest beings on Gallifrey. They were born at the time of the Intuitive Revelation.
 [34]
Mount Caden was home to the Houses of Firebrand and Heartshaven. Other Houses included Goodlight and Warpsmith.
 [35]

To get around the Pythia’s curse of sterility, Rassilon and the Other built Looms capable of weaving Gallifreyans from existing genetic material.
 [36]
Time Lords were born from the Loom fully grown and fully conscious, but needed educating.
 [37]

A priest on early Gallifrey was driven into the wilderness when Rassilon dissolved the monasteries. While wandering, he happened across all twelve of his future incarnations, who had no memory of how they came to appear together. The priest became known as IM Foreman, and his thirteen incarnations founded a time-travelling carnival. Their caravan was a complex space-time event that would model itself a new shape on each arrival.