B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (356 page)

[
507
]
FP: The Book of the War
,
The Taking of Planet 5
.

[
508
]
FP: The Book of the War
,
FP: Sabbath Dei
,
FP: In the Year of the Cat
. Lolita of House Lolita features prominently in the
Faction Paradox
audios.

[
509
]
FP: Of the City of the Saved

[
510
]
The Ancestor Cell

[
511
]
Alien Bodies

[
512
]
The Ancestor Cell

[
513
]
Alien Bodies

[
514
]
Interference

[
515
]
Alien Bodies

[
516
]
FP: Newtons Sleep
. The Faction has recently severed ties with the Remote, and the Great Houses’ Military is making a major effort to wipe out the Faction’s holdings wherever they are found (p257) - which going by the timeline in
FP: Book of the War
means that it’s about Year Six of the War. What becomes of Thessalia’s alliance with the Faction isn’t known.

[
517
]
FP: The Book of the War
, and referenced throughout
FP: Warring States
.

[
518
] This happens in Year 18 of the War, according to
FP: The Book of the War
.

[
519
] It’s Year 29 of the War,
FP: The Book of the War
.

[
520
]
FP: Erasing Sherlock
. This happens before the Celestis’ destruction in
The Taking of Planet 5
; the placement is in keeping with the way that Mad Norwegian’s
Faction Paradox
novels (where the War in Heaven was concerned) tended to occur in reverse order.

[
521
] The years are respectively provided in the intros to
FP: Warring States
,
FP: Warlords of Utopia
,
FP: Of the City of the Saved...

[
522
] The background to the
Faction Paradox
audios, as given in
Alien Bodies, FP: The Eleven-Day Empire
,
FP: The Shadow Play
and
FP: The Book of the War
. Eliza’s quote hails from
The Eleven Day Empire
, and the implication behind it is that Eliza is Christine Summerfield from
Benny: Dead Romance
. (This is further evidenced in
FP: In the Year of the Cat
, when Eliza says she went to Buckingham Palace on a school trip - meaning she grew up on Earth or
a
version of Earth.)

The “other being” like Lolita is Compassion, one of Lolita’s chief rivals in the audios. Compassion is the only Type 102 timeship according to
FP: The Book of the War
; Lolita’s Type is never revealled. The short story “Toy Story” - by Lawrence Miles, and included in the Mad Norwegian Press edition of
Dead Romance
- implies that Lolita once served as the Master’s TARDIS.

Godfather Sabbath (actually seen in
FP: A Labyrinth of Histories
) and the Sabbath who trained with the British Secret Service and appears in the Eighth Doctor Adventures (and also crops up in the
Faction Paradox
audios and comics) are
not
the same person, as first demonstrated when Eliza says the Secret Service’s Sabbath, “I used to have a godfather called Sabbath... didn’t look much like you, though” in
FP: Sabbath Dei
.

[
523
] Dating
FP: The Eleven-Day Empire
and
FP: The Shadow Play
(
FP
audios #1.1-1.2) - The
Faction Paradox
audios follow on from
FP: The Book of the War
, which cites Year 50 of the War as “the present”, and contains some character entries - notably those of Godfather Morlock and Lolita - that establish their status before the audios begin. A few references in the audios (notably in
FP: In the Year of the Cat
and
FP: Body Politic
) reiterate that the War is roughly at the half-century mark.

[
524
]
FP: In the Year of the Cat

[
525
] Dating
FP: In the Year of the Cat
,
FP: Movers
and
FP: A Labyrinth of Histories
(
FP
audios #1.4-1.6) - Justine revives after six months (the same amount of time that Compassion has spent trying to aid in her escape) of stasis on the Great Houses’ prison asteroid (almost certainly Shada). Ergo, it might still be Year 50 of the War when she awakes, but simplicity tends to suggest that it’s Year 51.

[
526
] Dating
FP: Coming to Dust
,
FP: The Ship of a Billion Years
,
FP: Body Politic
,
FP: Words from Nine Divinities
,
FP: Ozymandias
,
FP: The Judgment of Sutekh
(
FP
audios #2.1-2.6) - For Justine and Eliza, a matter of months seem to pass between Series 1 and 2 of the
Faction Paradox
audios, and a comparable amount of time presumably passes where the War itself is concerned.

[
527
]
Interference

[
528
] Subsequent events would suggest the clone was of the Master.

[
529
]
The Taking of Planet 5

[
530
]
Alien Bodies

[
531
]
The Taking of Planet 5

[
532
] “There Are Four of Us Now”

The Infinity Doctors
(p213) first mentioned “four names” as the four people that Rassilon had ordered killed as a threat to Gallifrey, with Omega and the Doctor specified as two of the four. The above quote comes from
The Adventuress of Henrietta Street
(p231). In
The Gallifrey Chronicles
, the four survivors are described as “A man with a sallow face and small, pointed black beard, who wore a blue rosette; a young woman with long blonde hair in an extraordinary piece of haute couture; a tall man with a bent nose wearing a cravat and holding a pair of dice; the Doctor himself with close-cropped hair, sitting on an ornate throne, a new-born baby girl in his arms” - intended, but not named, respectively as the Master; Iris Wildthyme (or possibly Romana); the Minister of Chance from
Death Comes to Time
; the Doctor (possibly the Doctor from
The Infinity Doctors
, or in his role as the Emperor of the Universe, father of Miranda, mentioned in
Father Time
).

[
533
] The books from
Father Time
to
Sometime Never
often showed races with time travel or magical abilities.

[
534
] The
Faction Paradox
comic series (
FP:
“Political Animals” and
FP:
“Betes Noires and Dark Horses”). To date, this is the only appearance of Faction Paradox set after the War in Heaven. As the Doctor, Fitz and Compassion all survived the War in Heaven, these events may or may not “still happen” following the potential erasing of the War in Heaven timeline in
The Ancestor Cell
.

[
535
] The Doctor’s intent to recreate Gallifrey in
The Gallifrey Chronicles
raises the interesting possibility that he does so, and that the Gallifrey featured in Big Finish’s eighth Doctor-era audios and
Gallifrey
mini-series (which lead into the Last Great Time War) all take place on the “restored” Gallifrey, not the original. If nothing else, this might explain why Romana (seen in her third incarnation in
The Shadows of Avalon
and
The Ancestor Cell
) reverts back to being her second incarnation as played by Lalla Ward - either the copy of the Matrix hidden in the Doctor’s mind (
The Ancestor Cell
) hadn’t been updated to include the new Romana, or (rather amorally) the Doctor went out of his way while renewing Gallifrey to bring Romana back to life as her previous self.

[
536
]
Gallifrey: Square One

[
537
]
Neverland

[
538
] The prologue to the Big Finish webcast offers an in-story explanation as to why the Doctor needs to “repeat” an adventure. See “Which
Shada
, if Any, is Canon?” for more.

[
539
]
Neverland

[
540
]
Neverland
. The date was given earlier in the story as 6978.5, but this is clearly a fluffed line, given the other recent dates.

[
541
]
Terror Firma

[
542
]
J&L: Dead Men’s Tales
. There’s not really a convenient point in the
Gallifrey
mini-series for this to have occurred, so it likely happened beforehand.

[
543
] Dating
Gallifrey
Series 1 - The season opens up in wake of events in
Zagreus
.

[
544
]
Gallifrey: Weapon of Choice
, providing the background to
Gallifrey
Series 1. Leela was pregnant in
Lungbarrow
, and no mention is made of her child in the
Gallifrey
series.

[
545
] Inquisitor Darkel is the same character as the Inquisitor in
The Trial of a Time Lord
, and is once again played by Lynda Bellingham.

[
546
]
Benny: The Crystal of Cantus

[
547
] The Big Finish audios featuring the eighth Doctor and Lucie Miller (initially broadcast on BBC7) are a little tricky to place in Gallifrey’s timeline. The audios were marketed as occurring “later” in the eighth Doctor’s life, but it’s hard to imagine the Time Lords sparing the resources (or having the desire) to address issues related to Lucie and the Cybermen on Lonsis (
Human Resources
) once Gallifreyan society comes apart at the seams in
Gallifrey
Series 2. As the
Gallifrey
mini-series follow on from
Zagreus
, and the intent of the Lucie audios is, quite clearly, that they occur after the Doctor’s travels with Charley Pollard, the best solution is to place these stories at some point before, after or during
Gallifrey
Series 1.