B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (339 page)

The Doctors tricked their way back to their TARDIS, apparently destroying Omega in a matter/anti-matter explosion. The power drain ended, and the Time Lords had a new source of energy. In gratitude, the Time Lords lifted the Doctor’s exile.

For some time after this, the Time Lords would “occasionally” call upon the Doctor’s services.
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Planet of the Daleks

At the third Doctor’s request, the Time Lords piloted the TARDIS to Spiridon, the location of a Dalek army.

Romana

Romana was born when the Doctor was between six hundred and six hundred twenty five.
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She was from the House of Heartshaven.
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She was an only child, as her brother Rorvan had been consigned to the Oubliette of Eternity and erased from history.
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She read
Our Planet’s Story
as a Time Tot.
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Romana’s disapproving father once told her, “You know you’re getting old when the High Council seemed to be getting younger.”
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Braxiatel served as Romana’s tutor. One day, Romana wanted to escape the bullying of her fellow students and wandered into the ancient vaults beneath the Capitol. She came into contact with the lingering spirit of the Imperiatrix Pandora - who had manipulated Romana’s genetic heritage so her body could host Pandora’s spirit. Braxiatel prevented this by having one of his future selves - who was more adept at hypnotism - erase Romana’s memory of the encounter. Romana also forgot that Braxiatel had ever mentored her. Romana believed that she met Braxiatel for the first time after her return to Gallifrey, when he offered to help with her political campaign.
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Romana spent most of her spare time at the academy developing mental and physical discipline, and learned the Seven Strictures of Rassilon, as well as the Foxtrots of Rassilon.
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As part of her studies, Romana studied the lifecycle of the Gallifreyan Flutterwing and she eventually graduated from the Academy with a Triple First.
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Romana was an historian and worked in the Bureau of Ancient Records.
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She was a Prydonian.
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When she was sixty, she went to Lake Abydos on holiday with her family.
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For her seventieth birthday, she was given an air-car.
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The Time Vampire

The Time Lords asked the third Doctor and Joshua Douglas to intervene when the Z’nai acquired a primitive time capsule. Time travellers who crossed weak points in space-time in a paradoxical fashion sometimes created “time vampires”: exquisite wraiths who only wanted to observe the beauty of time through the eyes of their hosts. The Time Lords deemed the creatures as abominations who could “ride the tides of time” and, potentially, use their power to wipe out creation. The Time Lords created temporal suspension cages to restrain such creatures, although Gallifrey’s official policy was that the capture of such creatures was a crime, and such cages were outlawed.

Genesis of the Daleks

The Time Lords predicted a time when the Daleks would dominate the universe, and sent the fourth Doctor, Sarah and Harry to prevent the Daleks’ creation (or at least slow their development).

Lord Ferain was head of Allegiance at the Celestial Intervention Agency, and it was he who sent the Doctor to Skaro to prevent the Daleks’ creation.
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The Brain of Morbius

The Time Lords also apparently sent the TARDIS, with the fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane aboard, to Karn to prevent the resurrection of Morbius.

Chancellor Goth visited Tersurus on 6241.11, Rassilon Era.
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Faction Paradox

House Paradox re-defined itself as Faction Paradox during a time of cultural crisis on Gallifrey. The Time Lords officially outlawed and exiled House Paradox, whose representatives left Gallifrey and recruited the Faction’s members from the lesser species, including humanity.
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The Faction set out to be deliberately confrontational. Whereas the Time Lords abhorred time paradoxes, Faction Paradox revelled in them. The Time Lords were immortal, so much of the Faction’s iconography - like their skull masks - celebrated death. The Time Lords thought themselves sterile, so the Faction used familial titles such as “Father”, “Mother”, “Cousin” and “Little Brothers and Sisters”. The relationship between the Time Lord authorities and Faction Paradox was analogous to that of the Catholic Church and satanic cults on Earth.
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“Faction Paradox doesn’t do things for the sake of power, or out of any inherent sense of sadism. It seems to do them because it wants to make a point. Because the universe would be lacking if
nobody
did it. Because, quite simply, it’s a carnival. And even the very word ‘carnival’, with its overtones of death, flesh and pointless ceremony, would on [the Homeworld] suggest something so disgusting that only the outcaste would consider it.”
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The Elysians were a secret society on Gallifrey run by a man called Luther. They rejected the traditional houses, were sick of the non-intervention code, and styled themselves as “the Final Chapter”. They planned to capture Gallifrey in a coup using unregistered clones. The first was the son of Uriel, named Xanti. Uriel, Xanti’s father, volunteered for incarceration in a mental asylum: the Quantum of Solace.
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The Deadly Assassin

“Through the millennia, the Time Lords of Gallifrey led a life of peace and ordered calm, protected against all threats from lesser civilisations by their great power. But this was to change. Suddenly and terribly, the Time Lords faced the most dangerous crisis in their long history...”

The fourth Doctor received a telepathic message, warning him that the President was going to be assassinated. He returned to his home planet, only to find himself implicated in the assassination. The President had been due to resign anyway after centuries in office, and the murder appeared motiveless.

The Doctor’s old enemy, the Master, had lured him back to frame him for the murder. The Master had exhausted his regenerations, and had been found by Chancellor Goth on the planet Tersurus. Goth had been favoured to succeed the outgoing President, but he had discovered that another was to be nominated instead. In return for Goth’s help, the Master killed the incumbent President.

The Master wanted full access to various items such as the Sash of Rassilon, as he needed to find a way to prolong his life. He discovered that he might regenerate again if he had a powerful enough source of energy - the Master selected the Eye of Harmony. He believed the Sash would protect him if he unleashed the Eye’s power. The Doctor prevented the Master from destroying Gallifrey, but the Master escaped.

Around this time, the Doctor began to learn more about the Time Lords’ ancient past.

“It was a chance encounter with the
Book of the Old Time
that had first nudged the Doctor’s own thoughts back towards his world’s archae-barbaric past. A suspicion had been born in his mind that before regeneration there had been reincarnation. Some memories might be more than racial inheritance. Nothing lasts that does not change.”
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Borusa regenerated at some point between this and the Doctor’s next visit to Gallifrey.
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Image of the Fendahl / Underworld

Soon after learning of his planet’s past, the fourth Doctor began to encounter survivors from his race’s ancient history: the Fendahl and the Minyans.

The Invasion of Time

The fourth Doctor was contacted by the Vardans, a race capable of travelling down energy waves, including thought. The Vardans had infiltrated the Matrix, and now wanted to commence a physical invasion of Gallifrey. The Doctor pretended to collaborate with the Vardans and claimed the Presidency of Gallifrey. He then returned the Vardan invasion force to their home planet and time-looped it. The Sontarans had been manipulating the Vardans all along, and attempted to invade Gallifrey themselves. This incursion was also repelled. Leela and K9 elected to stay behind on Gallifrey.

The Doctor was the 407th President.
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During his short tenure, his biodata was altered by contact with the Sash of Rassilon.
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While in the Matrix, the Doctor became aware of the Timewyrm. He sent his future self a warning about it.
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Romana was not directly affected by the Sontaran invasion.
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Leela and Andred, a member of the Chancellery Guard, married soon afterwards, but the Doctor was unable to attend the ceremony.
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Borusa became President and regenerated once again.
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K9 Mark 1 was sent on independent missions in situations classed as too dangerous for Time Lord intervention.
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K9 and the Time Trap
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K9 met with the Rigellian Fleet Commander to discuss the disappearance of the Rigellian Seventh Fleet. Between galaxies, K9’s spaceship - the K-NEL - was sucked into a time trap, and K9 discovered ten thousand alien ships that had also been caught there, including the Rigellians. Omegon, a figure from early Time Lord history who was exiled here, was amassing the ships to form a warfleet and launch an attack on Gallifrey. K9 sacrificed K-NEL, using it to ram and destroy Omegon and his ship. As a reward, the Rigellians gave K9 K-NEL Mark 2 - the same ship, but with racing stripes.

K9 and the Zeta Rescue
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K9 had now saved the Time Lords “many times”. He tested the Mark 2 K-NEL, and was sent to investigate massive explosions in the Zeta Four Sector - if Zeta Canri went nova, the whole galaxy would be blown apart. At the heart of the devastation, K9 discovered a prison ship of the Megellan Empire, the sworn enemies of the Time Lords. He rescued Dea, an ambassador from Telios. Nuclear war had wiped out the Telians and Megallans, and K9 and Dea watched the two leaders kill each other in a final duel. The few survivors were given medical treatment.

The Key to Time

The White Guardian picked Romana to aid the fourth Doctor and recover the six segments of the Key to Time.
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Romana’s torture by the Shadow broke the conditioning that had made her forget the Imperiatrix Pandora. Fearing that Pandora would manifest through the Imperiatrix Imprimature within her, Romana forced her own regeneration. Her memories of Pandora were again scrambled, and her genetic link to Pandora went dormant.
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Luther designed the reconstruction of the Capitol over the hulk of the old, including the Watchtower, over the old Panopticon.
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The development of fungal brains eluded Gallifrey, as such networks were notoriously unstable.
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A schism in College of Cardinals led to a rival President setting himself up on Drornid. The Time Lords ignored them, and they eventually returned home.
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Drornid was also known as Dronid.
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Shada

The fourth Doctor and Romana prevented Skraga of Drornid from using the powers of the Time Lord mind criminal Salyavin to impose himself as the “universal mind”.

With the quest for the Key to Time long-completed, the Time Lords recalled Romana. Before she could return, the TARDIS fell through a CVE into E-Space.
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State of Decay

The fourth Doctor, Romana, Adric and K9 destroyed the Great Vampire, who had survived the war with the Time Lords and fled to E-Space.

“The Tides of Time”

The fifth Doctor continued at times to be addressed as “the President” of the Time Lords. He said of Gallifrey, “When my wanderings are over, I will make my home here.”

The Time Lords installed a defence system onboard the TARDIS without telling the Doctor. In an emergency, it would automatically summon Shayde to the ship.
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