B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (342 page)

Realising that the Enemy could erase them from history, some Celestial Intervention Agency members tried to remove themselves from the universe as a means of defence. They became conceptual beings named the Celestis. They operated from a realm called Mictlan, and influenced universal affairs with a network of agents.
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The War King, a former renegade who had tried and failed to warn the Great Houses about the Enemy, was made the official head of the Homeworld six years before the War began. He had a pointed beard that had grown white with age, and wore black robes.
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The living timeship Compassion was the only Type 102 timeship. Type 101 timeships, an attempt to breed a living timeship such as Compassion, had been a disastrous failure. Compassion largely attempted to stay neutral in the War, sometimes having adventures with companions such as Carmen Yeh. Two years before the War began, the death of the timeship Percival moved Compassion to take a more active role in the War, and she brokered a deal with the War King, becoming the mother of the first Type 103 timeships. Nonetheless, she insisted that the Enemy attacking the Great Houses was a distraction, and focused her attention on House Lolita.
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The first of Compassion’s offspring, Antipathy, was deeply unstable and kept imprisoned on the Homeworld.
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The Enemy struck Gallifrey, completely destroying it. Aware this attack was coming, the Time Lords broke their oldest laws, travelling back in time to assault their Enemy before they were attacked.
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Early in the War, the Enemy succeeded in wiping out the most powerful Gallifreyan artifacts like the Demat Gun and the Sash of Rassilon. Many secrets and pieces of biodata were lost. Those that survived became extremely valuable, and much sought-after, as they could be adapted into weapons.

The first land battle of the War was fought on Dronid in the 155th century. The Doctor was thought to have died on Dronid. His body was recovered, and its unique biodata would make it perhaps the most valuable artifact in the universe. The Doctor had agreed to donate his body to the Celestis in return for their non-intervention on Dronid.
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Every battle was fought and then refought, as the losing side retroactively attempted to reverse the result. Eventually, time collapsed in the vicinity and the fighting would move elsewhere. The Time Lords searched their own future for advanced weapons to be used in the War.
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The Enemy learned how to build conceptual entities such as the anarchitects, beings capable of rearranging architecture. Qixotl met the Doctor and saw him escape the Antiridean organ-eaters.
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Faction Paradox grew corrupt and started trading weapons and time travel. The Time Lord authorities moved to wipe them out as they would a virus. In 2596, the Time Lords destroyed the Earth colony Ordifica because of its contact with Faction Paradox.
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The Time Lords allied themselves with the Gabrielideans. The Time Lords had a military training ground on Gallifrey XII. The latest model TARDISes were the Type 103s, which were sentient and could take the form of people.
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The regenerated Thessalia, now passing as “Larissa”, agreed to a personal alliance with Faction Paradox.
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In the War’s eighth year, Cousin Octavia and her corps of elite Faction troops - the Red Brigade - brought about the ruin of a breakaway Faction stronghold (the Thirteen-Day Republic) and its leader, Cousin Anastasia. Father Dyavol, formerly the mad monk Rasputin, died in mysterious circumstances. For her crimes against the Faction, Anastasia was triplicated and put back into linear time, in the twentieth century, to die three times over.
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One of the Great Houses - the highly militaristic Mirraflex - assaulted the City of the Saved with timeships reconfigured into behemoths. The City’s state of grace protocols were temporarily suspended; twenty million City-dwellers (and eleven timeships) perished as the whole of Snakefell District was expelled into the Big Crunch. The casualties were re-resurrected and a memorial built to commemorate the attack.
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Christopher Cwej, an agent of the Great Houses, was mass replicated into a standing army called the Cwejen.
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The Celestis provided Jimmy Moriarty, a corporate guru in the twenty-first century, with time-travel technology. He used it to interfere in the timeline of Sherlock Holmes.
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In Year 41 of the War, Cousin Octavia went in search of an immortality-granting casket in China, 1900. In Year 46, every parallel reality where Nazi Germany conquered the globe came into conflict with every parallel history where Rome dominated Earth. The forty-eighth year of the conflict saw increased political and social tensions within the City of the Saved.
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Faction Paradox Series 1: The Faction Paradox Protocols

Cousin Justine of Faction Paradox was sent on a mission to the East Indies ReVit Zone in 2069. She returned afterwards to the Eleven-Day Empire, having failed in her duty. One of Justine’s guardians, Sanjira, failed even more badly and as punishment was made to kill his eight-year-old self, paradoxing his timeline.

One of Justine’s associates in the Faction, Cousin Eliza, told her:

“I used to live in a city like this. Different world, different time - different universe, come to think of it... One day, the sky just opened, and that was it. That was the end of it all. [The Great Houses] tore up all the cities, turned most of the people into worker drones. That was the way I found out about things, about how the universe really worked... I was pretty much the only person who got away.”

Godfather Morlock now served as head of Faction Paradox’s Bio-Research Wing, and was the Acting Emergency Speaker of Parliament. Godfather Sabbath commanded Faction Paradox’s Military Wing. The biological catalogue in the Eleven-Day Empire contained eighteen billion species.

Old bloodlines were waning on the Homeworld, and new ones were in ascendancy. House Lolita emerged as a newblood amongst the Great Houses, and initially wasn’t seen as being politically relevant. It was composed of a single member - the living timeship Lolita, who remarked that “there were only two [beings] like her”.

By Year 50 of the War, Lolita had birthed a daughter and was again pregnant. She furthered her bloodline by overlaying her personality upon beings on multiple worlds, occupying at least one body on every planet where she had influence. She then began to infiltrate the bloodlines of those planets, planting her children within them.
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Year 50 - The Eleven-Day Empire / The Shadow Play
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Lolita moved to enhance her standing amongst the Great Houses by eliminating Faction Paradox. The Eleven-Day Empire repelled an attack by Lolita’s allies, the Seventy-Ninth Sontaran Assault Corps, but this was just the opening volley of a greater gambit. The Houses offered the Faction a treaty - they would once again recognise House Paradox, and refrain from prosecuting its practices.

Godfather Morlock arranged events so that Cousin Justine lost her shadow - she was then fitted with the shadow of Grandfather Paradox, which resided within the knife he had used to cut off his arm. The Grandfather’s shadow was a siege engine, capable of generating and discarding an infinite number of shadow weapons.

The Faction’s Parliament ratified the treaty, whereupon Lolita exploited the laws governing transition of affairs and the treaty’s clause on prestanding crimes - and demanded that the shadow of Grandfather Paradox be turned over for trial. The Faction’s failure to do so put it in breach of protocol. Lolita performed an invocation that linked her to the
loa
protecting the Eleven-Day Empire... and she then consumed the whole of the Empire, compressing it into her internal dimensions. Justine and Eliza were the sole survivors of the Empire, and escaped in the timeship of a House member slain by Lolita.

Lolita said that the Empire’s remains resided to the left of her alimentary canal.
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Year 51 - In the Year of the Cat / Movers / A Labyrinth of Histories
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The Great Houses recaptured Justine in 1762 and condemned her to their prison asteroid for all eternity, but she escaped back to the eighteenth century. Before doing so, Justine encountered Kresta Ve Coglana Shuncuker - the previous (and from Shuncuker’s perspective, current) bearer of the shadow of Grandfather Paradox.

Faction Paradox Series 2: The True History of Faction Paradox

Year 51 - Coming to Dust / The Ship of a Billion Years / Body Politic / Words from Nine Divinities / Ozymandias / The Judgment of Sutekh
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The past of the Osirian Court interacted with the present of the War in Heaven. The Great Houses officially recognised the Court via a treaty signed after Sutekh made a power play into fifteenth century Earth. Many Osirians took to living on the Ship of a Billion Years after Sutekh destroyed their homeworld, and although Sutekh was no longer acknowledged as a divine shield of Ra, some of their number were agreeable to giving him Osiris’ throne as a matter of security. Cousin Justine - travelling to the Court from 1763, and intent upon killing Sutekh - strengthened the Ship’s defences, stymieing Sutekh’s efforts to claim dominion over it.

To further keep Sutekh in check, Justine asked Lord Anubis to resurrect Osiris. The War King backed Justine’s gambit by deploying the Fifty-Ninth Fleet of the House military to protect Anubis’ stronghold. Cousin Eliza harvested what remained of Osiris’ biodata, but failed to retrieve 12% of his psychic mass and 7% of his timeline. Osiris’ biodata was already tainted with Faction Paradox biomass, so Anubis used Eliza herself to fill in the gaps, instilling Osiris’ essence within her. She made a bid for the throne as “Horus”, and was acknowledged as being somewhere between Osiris’ firstborn son and a reincarnation of him. Lolita, not wanting a maniac like Sutekh on the throne, secretly endowed Eliza with some of her own biomass, giving “Horus” enough power to temporarily wound Sutekh. The matter of Sutekh’s claim to the throne was settled on Mars, circa 5000 BC.

The War was currently being fought on nine hundred and twenty fronts, across nearly half a million worlds. The Great Houses had brokered alliances in more than eight thousand cultures, and thought the Osirians could be key allies on seventeen fronts of the War. The War King prematurely triggered an inevitable civil war between his followers and Lolita’s, thinking it better to start the conflict before she became even more powerful. The clash ended with Lolita consuming the War King just as she had the Eleven-Day Empire, and claiming leadership of the High Council. Justine realised that Lolita represented a greater threat than even Sutekh, and sent her a “message”: a cadre of Mal’akh, who tore their way through the Council chambers.

Justine negotiated a deal wherein the force of Osirians historically destined to defeat Sutekh were instead diverted to the Homeworld. Led by Cousin Eliza/Horus, they “dealt” with the effectively immortal Lolita.

Alien Bodies

As some of the Celestis began switching sides, the War began tipping in favour of the Enemy. The Doctor’s dead body - the Relic - was auctioned by Mr Qixotl. The Celestis won by giving Qixotl a new body when his original one was fatally wounded. The eighth Doctor tricked the Celestis and stole the Relic. He took it to Quiescia, then destroyed it with a thermosystron bomb.

The Time Lords quickly moved to occupy or control millions of planets. They opted to mate Marie, a Type 103 TARDIS, to a male Type 105 as a means of diversifying TARDIS genetics. They also created the Ogron Lords, shock troops with the ability to time travel.
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Interference

The Time Lords were losing the War. Gallifrey had a last resort - a weapon designed to destroy Earth, which would not only destroy the Enemy’s homeworld but collapse the entire web of time. The ship was dispatched at sub-light speeds, and was due to arrive at Earth in 1996. Fitz became Father Kreiner of Faction Paradox and hunted down Time Lords, including the Master and the Rani. One of these was actually a clone.
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One of the duplicate Gallifreys was destroyed in the Battle of Mutter’s Cluster. Gallifrey VIII was an industrial planet with vast Looms pouring out soldiers.
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There was a Gallifrey XII.
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Time Lords were force-regenerated into physical forms engineered to fight. Fifteen out of a thousand Time Lords survived each combat mission. There were distinct Waves of warfare, with gaps between them allowing the Time Lords to Loom more soldiers. Only those from the First Wave resembled humans. The Time Lords suffered heavy losses in the Third Zone during the Fifth Wave.

Any gathering of around a dozen TARDISes would attract an Enemy attack. The Time Lords used Parallel Cannons that created holes to other, more hostile, parts of the universe and unleashed the forces there. The Enemy detonated the star of the planet Delphon, causing a significant rout of the Time Lords.
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