B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (334 page)

There were records known as
The Other Scrolls
.
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There was a prophecy that the Time Lord who found the lost scrolls of Rassilon will lead Gallifrey from darkness.
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One book, bound in reptile skin and with an embossed omniscate on the cover, survived until the end of the universe. It contained one last prophecy, which terrified the Doctor when he read it.
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Between the Ancient and Modern

The Time Wars were fought in the generation after Rassilon. The Tomb of the Uncertain Soldier in the Capitol honours a Gallifreyan who died during the Time Wars, cancelling out his own timeline for the greater good of Gallifrey. The Time Lords’ Oldharbour Clock is the only surviving relic from an alternate universe wiped out in the Time Wars. Unknown to anyone, the clockwork figures had evolved into the most intelligent beings on the planet.
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The Doctor said he witnessed Gallifrey’s Time Wars first-hand, although the Time Lords wiped the wars from their history books.
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Omegon was a Time Lord who created the system that gave the Time Lords time travel, and harnessed the power of a thousand suns for them. They made him Emperor, then plotted to destroy him and exiled him into a bubble in time. From there, he plotted his revenge.
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The Pyralis, energy beings who mimicked other races, swarmed throughout Kasterborous and were defeated after a century-long war. They were imprisoned within a temporal void for millennia, but their obelisk-shaped dimensional gateways remained dormant on some worlds.
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The Time Lords time-looped the Fifth Planet, home of the Fendahl, twelve million years ago.
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When the Gallifreyans were new to space/time exploration, they discovered the inhabited world of Minyos and were worshipped by the population there. In return, they gave technology to the Minyans.
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The Time Lords used their great powers to help the people of Micen Island, in Orion. This led to chemical and biological warfare on the planet. The Time Lords renounced interference, erecting the Temple of the Fourth as a monument. A small number of Time Lords, though, felt the need to atone for past sins, and covertly intervened in the universe’s affairs.
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Because of their great powers, and their tendency to lead to corruption, Time Lords were discouraged from emotion and affection. They were trained with a series of tests, including a journey to Anima Persis. They were mentored by older Time Lords, but the final judgement on whether an individual can be a Time Lord (and the punishment of any Time Lords who misuse their power) was handled by the mysterious Kingmaker, an ancient crone.
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Time Lords appear to have possessed mental blocks that prevented their interfering in history. However, if one of these blocks was broken, the others soon shattered.
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Three centuries after Rassilon’s death, Rassilon’s Rampart was built to defend against the lawless Shobogans.
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It took fifty generations for TARDISes to become an acceptable form of travel, and another twenty for them to be used to participate in history.
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The “living soul” of each TARDIS was an eleventh-dimensional matrix.
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All TARDISes had a preset circuit - a time-track crossing protocol - that prevented travellers from visiting the same space-time location more than once. Doing so would result in recursion effects of completely unknown and unpredictable consequences. The Daleks didn’t use such a system, meaning they could sometimes overlap their journeys and history.
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Epsilon Delta was a Time Lord from the Ancient Time who gained a double beta in cybernetics. He stole a TARDIS and adopted the name “the President”. He settled in St Matthew’s College, Oxford.
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The shanty township of Low Town sprang up at the base of the Capitol Dome, and was settled by normal Gallifreyans, Outsiders and those seeking a life free of the restrictions of Time Lord society. The Capitol once had a Harbour.
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A suit of armour belonging to Tegorak gathered dust in one storeroom, as did a giant stuffed bird.
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Time Lords dabbled at breaching the higher dimensions, but the Dimensional Ethics Committee banned the work.
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At some point, the Biblioclasm claimed the Endless Library. The Watch checked every night to prevent such a thing happening again. A quarter of a million years ago, the Time Lords were afflicted with the Blank Plague. The Time Lords fought military campaigns against Rigel, Gosolus and about a dozen other worlds.
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The Time Lords developed the blackstar, a weapon to crack Dyson Spheres.
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Gallifreyan artifacts included Pandeka’s staff and an artifact associated with Helron.
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“The Stolen TARDIS”
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A Gallifreyan student named Plutar was failed because he wanted to meddle in the affairs of other planets. He was put to work maintaining TARDISes. Meanwhile, a ship landed outside the Time Lords’ city, and the lizard-like Sillarg fooled those present into watching a space circus while he moved to steal a TARDIS. He stole one that Plutar was working inside, but it malfunctioned and took them to the distant past of Gallifrey. Plutar warned the authorities on their return, whereupon Sillag was arrested and his memory of Gallifrey erased. Plutar was asked to reapply to the Academy.

“Minatorius”
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A young Time Lord visited the planet Minatorius, and died to prevent a reactor there from going critical.

Gallifrey’s history was spotted with a few presidential assassinations.
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The Matrix

The Time Lords built the Matrix, a form of computer that could - amongst other things - store the minds of dead Time Lords.
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When the Matrix was young, it began to break down as thousands of Time Lord minds resented their deaths. The Time Lords cleaned the Matrix by isolating its dark part: the Dark Matrix. It was caged and forgotten about beneath the Citadel, sealed with a great key held by the Keeper of the Matrix.
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The Garvond was imprisoned for a time in the Gallifreyan Matrix, where it assimilated copies of Time Lord minds, including that of the Doctor. The creature’s exact origins were unknown, although by nature it was the embodiment of the evil in the minds in the Matrix. The Garvond wanted to sail the Time Vortex and consume all life. It had several thousand names, all corruptions of the High Gallifreyan term for “of darkest thought”.
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The Land of Fiction was originally part of the Matrix.
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Technological and Scientific Advancement

Gallifreyan technology has been refined, rather than totally reworked, over the last ten million years.
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A dark science of earlier Time Lords was quantum mnemonics, a reality-altering power that manipulated the basic nature of reality and probability. Quantum mnemonics allowed one to transform the history of a planet or an individual by warping space and time.
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The Time Lords used devices called amaranths to rebuild parts of time and space that were damaged in the Time Wars. They were originally built to manipulate black holes.
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The Time Lords discovered an indestructible material.
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They learnt to engineer micro-universes. Eventually, they abandoned the barren road of technology.
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They abandoned tachyonics for warp matrix engineering.
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They invented the Magnotron. Over time, the Primitive Phases One and Two of the Matrix were relegated to the Archives. Phases Three to Six remained in use.
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They developed Gallifreyan Morse.
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The science of Temporal Reversion was so tricky, the Time Lords avoided using it.
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Gallifreyan zinc was an excellent conductor, and one of the strongest substances in the known universe.
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Erkulon, the greatest nano-engineer in Gallifreyan history, created the time ram.
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The Time Lords took the credit for the Library of Carsus, although no-one knew for sure who built it. It was built millennia ago, and contained every book ever written. It was in an area of space known for time anomalies - the same solar system as Minerva, Schyllus, Tessus, Lakertya, Molinda, Hollus and Garrett.
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Three thousand years ago, Mawdryn and his followers stole a Metamorphic Symbiosis Regenerator.
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Two thousand years ago, the Time Lords abandoned interspacial geometry.
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Some Time Lords such as Epsilon Delta could rehearse various events without altering the true timeline.
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Time Lords could use Reverse Tachyon-Chronons to move time backwards and forwards, manipulating material so that it wouldn’t age.
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With great effort, Time Lords used a process called “soul-catching” to absorb a dying Gallifreyan’s memories.
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The Time Lords built the Parachronistic Chamber, deep in the Capitol, to regulate time distortions.
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Mimesis was a Gallifreyan art in which anything you write came true. It was practiced by a cult that held an annual ritual, the Thirteenth Night, but the High Council banned the ritual and the art - probably because it was too arcane and unpredictable.
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Time Lords’ extended lifespans sometimes necessitated that they edit out their more useless memories, storing them electronically or erasing them.
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An artificial, multi-dimensional art gallery was located beneath the Capitol.
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TARDISes were grown, not built.
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They were intended to have six pilots, but on numerous occasions had just one.
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They were grown in space, away from Gallifrey, to prevent time pollution. Stattenheim signals could broadcast along Eye of Harmony time contours, so TARDIS remote control worked even from across the Universe.
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Time Lord technology could retrieve ancestral memories from the blood of virgins. Time Lords could communicate telepathically across the Time Vortex. The poisons in tea couldn’t harm them.
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Time Lords used two hundred and eight language tenses, most of which didn’t translate well.
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The Time Lords used an omegabet, which was better than an alphabet.
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Castellan Lode, a female, was the greatest literary historian the Time Lords ever had.
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A Gallifreyan golden guinea could buy you a few drinks at a bar.
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Time Lords had an emergency messaging system that entailed bundling their thoughts into cube-shaped psychic containers that could be dispatched through time and space.
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Foreign Policy

The Time Lords were the oldest and most mighty race in the universe, sworn only to watch, never to interfere. Gallifrey was called “the Shining World of the Seven Systems”.
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Alien races from all periods of recorded time have had dealings with the Time Lords, ranging from those in the ancient past such as the Kastrians and the destroyer Sutekh to those in the far future such as the Usurians. Other races or beings who know something of the Time Lords and Gallifrey (without hearing just of the Doctor or another individual) include the Andromedans, the Bandrils, the Cryons, the Cybermen, the Daleks, the Face of Boe, the Family of Blood, the Fendahl, Fenric, the Forest of Cheem, the Guardians, House, the Keeper of Traken, Mawdryn’s race, the Mentors, the Minyans, the Nestene, Prisoner Zero, the Racnoss, Saturnynians, the Shadow Proclamation, the Silence and the Academy of the Question, the Sisterhood of Karn, the Sontarans, some residents of the Third Zone, the Tractators, Vampires and the Vardans.

The Time Lords visited many worlds in many time periods, even in an official capacity.
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They authorised (or prevented) other races’ time travel experiments and defended the Laws of Time.
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Time Lords observed but didn’t interfere.
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At times they intervened with regards to unauthorised time travel, and could almost be thought of as “galactic ticket inspectors”.
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