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Andred stopped Gillestes - a Free Time agent from Yevnon - from contaminating the Time Lords’ water supply with a “dogma virus” that had been engineered by Free Time. Pandora nestled herself in Castellan Wynter’s mind, but was then confronted by Braxiatel and Darkel. Braxiatel devoted a portion of his thoughts to the Matrix equations that kept Pandora imprisoned, trapping Pandora in his own mind. Wynter died soon after. Braxiatel volunteered to go into exile, removing all possibility of Pandora escaping on Gallifrey - but the public disclosure that he’d broken the lines of time by communicating with his past and future selves meant that he did so in disgrace. Before leaving, Braxiatel warned Romana that he’d only bottled Pandora’s past and present aspects; her future aspect remained in the Matrix.

Gallifrey: Insurgency / Imperatrix

Non-Gallifreyans at the Academy included humans, the Warpsmiths of Phaidon, Monans and at least one Sunari. Cardinal Valyes became Chancellor of the Academy.

The Time Lords didn’t know how many of their number had been infected by Gillestes’ “dogma virus” - but learned that it would make any tainted Time Lord, upon their regeneration, accept Free Time’s beliefs and political agenda. Racial tensions at the Academy increased, and a human student, Taylor Addison, died while attempting to sabotage the Eye of Harmony. A terrorist bombing at the Academy killed twenty; the High Monan and the Nekkistani emperor withdrew their citizens and students from Gallifrey. K9 Mark 1 detected another bomb at Gallifrey’s spaceport - his early warning saved many lives, but blast doors were lowered. He died in the subsequent explosion, along with everyone else trapped within.

Darkel decried Romana’s policies as having compromised Gallifrey’s security, and forced a new election. The future aspect of Pandora, communing with Romana through K9 Mark 2, insisted that Gallifrey would fall into civil war unless Romana stepped down. Romana worried about Pandora’s secret agenda, but also feared the consequences of Darkel becoming president. In accordance with the law - and in full possession of the Great Key, the Sash, the Rod and the Coronet of Rassilon - Romana ended the stalemate by declaring herself Imperiatrix, i.e. dictator of Gallifrey. She ordered the dissolution of the Chapters.

Romana donned the Coronet of Rassilon to prevent another Free Time agent from blowing up the Panopticon and force-regenerating the assembled Time Lords therein, but this act triggered the Imperiatrix Imprimature within her, enabling Pandora to draw biological matter from the Matrix and manifest in the form of Romana’s first incarnation. Pandora usurped the mantle of Imperiatrix. Romana realised that Pandora, as part of her schemes, had mentally influenced her into killing Andred.

Gallifrey Series 3
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Gallifrey: Fractures / Warfare / Appropriation / Mindbomb / Panacea

Civil war erupted on Gallifrey. Darkel and Chancellor Valyes sided with Pandora; Leela, Narvin, Councillor Matthias and others joined Romana’s resistance effort. Romana used her presidential access codes to ground all TARDISes, denying Pandora access to time travel. The other temporal powers parked war fleets near Gallifrey. Romana’s group sabotaged various resources - the Gallifreyan archive banks were razed, destroying millions of years of recorded history. Narvin and Leela attempted to ruin the Artron microform - a locale where excess Artron energy from Time Lord minds was absorbed and sent to the TARDIS berthing bays - but their charges went off prematurely, causing a discharge of Artron energy that permanently blinded Leela. Leela nonetheless stabbed Pandora through both hearts, slaying her physical form. Pandora’s essence was once more contained within the Matrix - which was made to self-destruct, killing her and the preserved minds of former Time Lords within.

Political jockeying led to Chancellor Valyes, then Darkel, becoming acting president. The High Council took a vote of no confidence in Romana - an act that legitimised her term as president, and invalidated Valyes’ tenure. Matthias claimed the powers of a vice-president, and called for the first presidential election Gallifrey had experienced in millennia. Darkel, Matthias and Romana stood as presidential candidates. Romana was impeached, and her candidacy declared void.

Gallifrey’s transduction barriers temporarily fell, and timeships carrying Sunari soldiers - who said they wanted to retrieve any surviving Sunari students - arrived in the Capitol. The Nekkistani warfleet allied with the Sunari vessels. Matthias ordered Gallifrey’s transduction barriers raised without giving the warfleets time to withdraw, killing hundreds and causing a diplomatic fiasco.

Braxiatel returned to Gallifrey, having learned that Gallifrey would soon face a threat that it was too weak to defeat without the Imperiatrix. He allied with Matthias, who tricked Darkel into annulling the effects of Romana’s presidency from the moment Pandora escaped from the Matrix - which restored Braxiatel to his former position of Chancellor. He automatically became President.

The remaining Pandora component - little more than raw hatred - longed for freedom, even though this would kill both the component and its host. Darkel tried to murder Braxiatel by freeing the Pandora component, only to find that it had been restrained all along in
her
mind, and that Braxiatel’s mind - while containing a small portion of Pandora - was merely the key to its prison. Darkel and the Pandora piece perished upon its release. Braxiatel declared that, for Gallifrey’s safety, he would resume his exile. Knowing that the next president would fall with Gallifrey, Braxiatel named Matthias as his successor.

Matthias’ tenure began with a great calamity: the pig-rats used to incubate Gillestes’ dogma virus had escaped from the Academy labs during the civil war, and widely tainted the Gallifreyan population. K9 estimated that at least 35% of the Time Lords was already infected; any infected Time Lord who regenerated would became a mindless Free Time thrall. Before long, thousands of Time Lords were in such a state.

Braxiatel offered to trade the Braxiatel Collection’s holdings to Mephistopheles Arkadian, in exchange for his help in securing and disposing of the treaty-violating temporal weapons that Pandora had amassed while Imperiatrix. Arkadian offered to give Gallifrey a cure for the dogma virus in exchange for Pandora’s weapons - which the Time Lords loaded into a battle-TARDIS rigged to explode, in the hope that they would obtain the cure and prevent the weapons from falling into the wrong hands.

Romana and K9 piloted the battle-TARDIS to the now-disused Braxiatel Collection, which was outside space-time. Braxiatel Timescooped the Time Lords’ entire biodata archive - and snared Leela and Narvin while doing so - so that it would survive Gallifrey’s upcoming downfall. He told those assembled that the virus “cure” worked, but only by stripping a Time Lord of their ability to regenerate - this had been Free Time’s goal all along, to curtail the Time Lords’ near-immortality. Free Time itself was no longer a threat, perhaps owing to Braxiatel’s adventures in exile.

Romana had to choose between using the cure and consigning the Time Lords to a single life each, or letting Gallifrey fall and reconstructing the Time Lords with the biodata archive. Before she could decide, the battle-TARDIS - with Arkadian inside - was recalled to Gallifrey. Romana, Leela, K9, Narvin and Braxiatel were horrified to realise that the battle-TARDIS was headed toward a zombie-filled Gallifrey with a stockpile of booby-trapped temporal weapons, and a cure that would rob the Time Lords of their regeneration prowess. Romana told her allies: “Right. What we’re going to do is...”

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= Gallifrey: Reborn / Disassembled / Annihilation / Forever

Romana and her friends used the Axis to visit different versions of Gallifrey, hoping that one of them had the means of curtailing the dogma virus and halting the impending war. On one such alt-Gallifrey, the Time Lords boosted their economy through the sale of time rings, TARDISes, battle-TARDISes and more. Regenerations could be extracted and sold for currency.

A second alt-Gallifrey was highly interventionist, and used surgical changes to history - including assassination and erasure from history by D-Mat gun - to achieve an optimal timeline. Romana’s group prevented the President Romana of that Gallifrey from using the Axis to collapse all realities into a single continuum that she ruled, but Braxiatel and President Romana’s assassin - Lord Burner, an alternate version of the sixth Doctor - were lost to the Vortex. The timelines shifted around Braxiatel, and he again encountered Bernice Summerfield in 2593.
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Romana obliterated Lord Prydon’s vampires on a third alt-Gallifrey, but it was expected that Majestrix Borusa’s diminished “True Lords” would die out soon after. Leela regained her sight by imbibing blood from one of Prydon’s vampires. Yet another Gallifrey was found to have simian Time Lords.

Finally, Romana’s group visited a militant Gallifrey that had never developed time travel. The President Romana of that reality was killed, and Chancellor Narvin died to prevent the insatiable Krillic from escaping the Eye of Harmony. Romana’s access to the Axis was terminated to prevent the same, stranding her, Narvin and Leela while K9 Mark 2 remained behind in the Axis. Leela left, tired of Romana’s broken promises. Romana and Narvin took their counterparts’ place, making this Gallifrey their new home so that they could teach its inhabitants the ethics needed for them to one day become Time Lords.

The Last Great Time War

The Doctor’s home planet was destroyed in the Last Great Time War, “a war between the Daleks and the Time Lords with the whole of creation at stake”.
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The Daleks removed themselves from history to go off and fight the Time War.
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They became experts at fighting TARDISes.
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The Doctor led the battle in the Last Great Time War.
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He was on the frontline during the war, and did “terrible things” just to survive.
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He “butchered millions” during the Time War.
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He fought on the front line, and saw the fall of Arcadia.
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“I saw Arcadia destroyed. I laughed in the face of the Nightmare Child.”
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In the very first year of the Time War, at the Gates of Elysium, the Doctor saw Davros’ command ship fly into the jaws of the Nightmare Child. The Doctor tried, and failed, to save Davros as his ship was timelocked. Dalek Caan came back in time and attempted made a thousand attempts to rescue Davros - he gained vast insight into the nature of time in the process, but drove himself insane. He finally succeeded where the Doctor failed, and broke Davros from the timelock.
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The Daleks were led by the Dalek Emperor.
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The Time War was invisible to “smaller” species, but was devastating to “the higher forms”.
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Many planets, such as those of the Gelth, were affected. The food planets of the Nestene were wiped out.
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The Forest of Cheem knew of the War, and thought it was impossible that any Time Lords could exist afterwards.
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The Gelth were forced to become incorporate spirits when their bodies were destroyed.
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The Sontarans consider this the finest war in history, but “weren’t allowed to be part of it”.
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The Time War devastated the Hajor dimension.
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Hotel Historia was a popular attraction that allowed holiday-goers to time travel to other eras, but its business plummeted when the Last Great Time War triggered a lapse in demand for time travel.
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It’s possible that the civilisations of Perganon and Assinder fell during the Time War.
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It’s possible that the city of Arcopolis was depopulated during the Time War, and it’s possible the Doctor activated the weapon that did so.
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The Graxnix were one of the grubbier races involved in the Time War, and had very unreliable time technology.
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The Time Lords used the Genesis Ark, a dimensionally transcendental prison, to confine many thousands of Daleks. The Doctor was not involved with this.
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The Time Lords resurrected the Master as the perfect warrior to fight in the Time War - he was present when the Dalek Emperor took control of the Cruciform, and fled. He turned himself into a human, and hid at the end of the universe.
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The four Daleks that made up the Cult of Skaro stole the Genesis Ark and used a Voidship to leave the universe before the end of the War.
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