B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (45 page)

The Krillitanes, a race who are a genetic amalgam of all the species they’ve conquered, invaded the planet Bethsan and made a million widows in a day. They also absorbed the natives’ wings into their own physiology.
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Antonio, a hideous dwarf, was born around 1755.
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The Doctor saw a performance of
Eurydice
.
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& 1759 - The Girl in the Fireplace
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The tenth Doctor saved Reinette from the clockwork men, but was apparently trapped in the past. However, Reinette had arranged to move her fireplace to her new residence, and it was still capable of working as a time window. The Doctor returned to the future, promising he would return for her.

1759 - The Many Hands
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The tenth Doctor and Martha landed in Edinburgh and briefly encountered Benjamin Franklin - who was there to pick up an honorary degree from St. Andrews University - as the self-replicating biological material of the Onk Ndell Kith approached a critical mass. This caused the dead to rise from the city’s Nor’ Loch, and much of the Onk Ndell Kith’s substance was animated as hundreds of hands. Many of the Onk Ndell Kith’s parts merged into a larger creature, but it required the genetic information of eighty thousand people to fully repair itself. The Doctor tried to avert chaos, but the Onk Ndell Kith learned of the TARDIS and coveted it. Inspired by Franklin, the Doctor used a kite, the TARDIS key and a bolt of lightning to destroy the creature.

The last hand of the Onk Ndell Kith remained in Franklin’s possession. The elder Alexander Monro died during this conflict - his younger self took over “father’s” position as Chair of Anatomy at St. Andrews.

The Doctor met Doctor Johnson.
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Scottish poet Robert Burns was born in 1759, so Jamie McCrimmon had never heard of him.
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A salon full of people from the eighteenth century was kidnapped by Varan Tak.
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The Mohican named Chingachgook refined the Doctor’s tracking abilities.
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w - 1762 - FP: Sabbath Dei / In the Year of the Cat
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Cousins Justine and Eliza, having fled the ruined Eleven-Day Empire, took refuge with the Order of St. Francis. The arrival of their timeship caused such a commotion at Portsmouth Docks, they used lethal force against bystanders in fighting their way out. With Lord Dashwood absent, the Earl of Sandwich served as their host. The Cousins routed Special Forces assassins dispatched against them by the Service (over Sabbath’s recommendation against such a move).

The living timeship Lolita sought to strengthen her hold on this era by giving King George III an army of three hundred clockwork automata, the commanders of which originated from circa the year 5000. Lolita overlaid her personality onto Queen Charlotte; it was possible that Prince George IV was actually of Lolita’s blood.

The rival timeship Compassion, as channelled through the famous prostitute/witch Mary Culver, aided the Cousins against Lolita. Sabbath discretely helped Eliza, Lord Sandwich and the Sieur d’Eon - a French spy, transvestite and special envoy to King Louis IV - in destroying the automata army sequestered at Queen’s House. A speech that the King had made to both houses of Parliament about bringing in “troops from outside the country” was dismissed as a symptom of his growing madness. Eliza informed Sandwich that history would forget his role in helping to save the world, and that he would chiefly be remembered for “those snacks you always have brought to your desk while you’re working - where you stick the beef between the two slices of bread”.

The Great Houses captured Justine, put her on trial and sentenced her to perpetual imprisonment in their prison asteroid.

w - 1763 - FP: A Labyrinth of Histories
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Compassion spent six months using her influence to liberate Justine, who was reunited with her friends in 1763.

w - 1763 - FP: Coming to Dust / The Ship of a Billion Years
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Three members of the Society of Sigismondo di Rimini - Corwyn Marne, John Pennerton and Abelard Finton - summoned Cousins Justine and Eliza to Naples to consult on reports of renewed activity from the Mal’akh. Justine vowed to kill Sutekh upon discovering that he had destroyed what was probably the last cache of Faction biomass on Earth. Merytra’s cadre of Mal’akh self-immolated themselves - a sacrifice to open an interdimensional tunnel for benefit of their master. Justine used this tunnel to travel to the Osirian Court.

w - Cousin Eliza joined Justine at the Court, and spent weeks tracking down what remained of Osiris’ biodata, which was now spread across thousands of miles.
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w - 1764 - FP: Ozymandias
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Justine and Eliza sent a telepathic message to Corwyn Marne and Abelard Finton, who comprehended it through their dreams and poetry writing. The two men felt compelled to journey via an interdimensional tunnel to Mars, circa 5,000 BC, where they assisted the Cousins in defeating Sutekh.

1764 (15th April) - The Girl in the Fireplace
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The tenth Doctor once again travelled to France to meet Reinette, but arrived to find that she had died. He took a letter she had written to him back to the future.

w - 1764 (16th October to 8th November) - FP: The Judgment of Sutekh
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Sutekh mentally compelled John Pennerton to write letters urging that the Society of Sigismondo di Rimini destroy Faction Paradox wherever it found them. Sutekh released Pennerton from his servitude about three weeks later, and also returned Abelard Finton home. Finton’s encounter with Sutekh proved so horrifying, he soon died.

Winterborne was built in Surrey, 1764, by Sir Isaac Greatorex for use as a charity house, but was later sold off and became a public boys’ school. Greatorex himself was charged with being the leader of a dark cult, and was tried in secret and hanged.
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Neutronic War on Skaro - and the Dalek Conquests Begin

& 1763 - There were two races on Skaro: the original Daleks (or Dals) and the Thals. The Daleks were teachers and philosophers, the Thals were a famous warrior race. Skaro was a world full of ideas, art and invention.

However, there were old rivalries between the two races, and this led to a final war. Skaro was destroyed in a single day when the Daleks detonated a huge neutronic bomb. The radiation from the weapon killed nearly all life on the planet, and petrified the vegetation. The only animals that survived were bizarre mutations: the metallic Magnadons, their bodies held together by a magnetic field, and the monsters swarming in the Lake of Mutations.

After the Neutronic War, the Daleks retired into a huge metal city built as a shelter, where they were protected from the radiation. They became dependent on their machines, radiation and static electricity. Most of the Thals perished during the final war, but a handful survived on a plateau a great distance from the Dalek City, where they managed to cultivate small plots of land. The Thals mutated, evolving full circle in the space of five centuries, becoming physically perfect blond supermen.
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“Deep in Hyperspace is Planet Skaro. This world is the most feared globe in all the universe. Many thousands of years ago, it was already the scene of a vicious conflict. On the continent of Davius, the Thals, a tall, handsome, peaceful race went in constant dread of attack from the short, ugly Daleks who inhabited Dalazar across the Ocean of Ooze.”
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& 1763 - “The Daleks: Genesis of Evil”
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The Daleks discovered cobalt in a mountain range, and developed a neutron bomb. In the year 2003 of the New Skaro Calendar, Minister Zolfian, Warlord of the Daleks, killed the peaceful leader Drenz. The scientist Yarvelling developed war machines (“metal slaves”) to kill Thal survivors. As the Dalek factories prepared for war, a meteorite storm struck, starting fires which spread to where the neutron bombs were stored. There was a vast atomic explosion which wiped out the entire continent of Dalazar and reached as far as the Thals’ homeland, Davius. Radiation spread across the planet.

The explosion shifted the north pole of the planet, freezing three scientists who had recently discovered a planet nine galaxies away: Earth.
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& 1765 - “The Daleks: Genesis of Evil”
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Two years later, Yarvelling and Zolfian emerged from a shelter. Exploring their continent, they failed to locate any other survivors, and began to succumb to radiation poisoning. They were ambushed by one of the war machines, learning that a mutated survivor had crawled inside. This was the first of a new race of Daleks, with brains a thousand times superior to the original. Zolfian and Yarvelling rebuilt the war factory, creating a Dalek production line. The first Dalek declared himself Emperor and had a special casing constructed - it was finished as Zolfian and Yarvelling died. The Emperor realised the Daleks needed slaves to continue their work.

The Black Dalek was built - it had even more firepower than a standard Dalek, and was the Emperor’s deputy.
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& 1765 - “The Daleks: Power Play”
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Within two months, the Daleks had built a vast new city and begun to develop new inventions and weapons. A Krattorian slave ship arrived to collect valuable radioactive sand. The Daleks encouraged a slave revolution, then took the spaceship and the slaves for themselves. Two of the slaves managed to recapture the ship and escape with the slaves... but not before the Daleks learned the spaceship’s secrets.

& 1765 - “The Daleks: Duel of the Daleks”
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All the Daleks lacked was the ability to make a material strong enough to withstand the heat stress of space travel. Dalek Zeg was bathed in chemicals and found that he had become stronger (and that his casing had become red and gold). Zeg announced that he had discovered metalert, a substance strong enough to build spaceships from, and would only share it if he was declared Emperor. Zeg attracted followers, and the Emperor consulted the Dalek Brain Machine, which ordered the two fight a duel. Realising that Zeg was resistant to heat, not cold, the Emperor froze Zeg - thus destroying him.

& 1765 - “The Daleks: The Amaryll Challenge”
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The first three prototype spacecraft failed, but the fourth succeeded... until it tried to break the light barrier, when it was destroyed. Proto 9 broke the light barrier, but metalert proved too weak to resist the heat barrier. The saucer-shaped Proto 13 passed every trial, and soon a space armada left Skaro. The Emperor led the fleet, from the golden flagship Proto-Leader.

Dalek saucers landed on Alvega, the nearest planet to Skaro. It was the home of the Amarylls: plant creatures who resisted the Dalek scouts. They wiped out the Amarylls, and destroyed the world-root - and with it, the entire planet. The Emperor declared a new law: what the Daleks could not conquer, they would destroy.

& 1765 - “The Daleks: The Penta Ray Factor”
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The fleet went onward to Solturis, home of a humanoid race that had been at peace for a hundred years. The Daleks were welcomed, and pretended to be friendly while they discovered the extent of the planet’s defences. The penta ray (which combined alpha, infra, omega, ultra and beta rays) was a threat. The Daleks swapped the real weapon for a fake, but needed the key to operate it. The main fleet left while Daleks from two saucers attacked the city of Bulos, but were destroyed by the ray. Instead of avenging this, the Emperor received a message from Skaro that demanded his immediate return.

& 1765 - “The Daleks: Plague of Death”
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Skaro had become a huge war factory that was overseen by the Black Dalek, but a dalatomic rust cloud escaped from one research base and began eating through every Dalek it came into contact with. Dalek hoverbouts were sent to investigate the cloud, and it was contained with magnets, but mutated into a plague. The Daleks began destroying each other, rather than risk infection. The Emperor returned and deduced that the Black Dalek carried the plague. The Black Dalek’s casing was recast, and the planet was rebuilt.

& 1765 - “The Daleks: The Menace of the Monstrons”
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The Monstrons landed in a dead volcano on Skaro, and set their Engibrain robots to building a bridgehead. A Dalek was captured, and the city bombarded with missiles. The Daleks seemed defeated, but the captured Dalek broke free and set off the volcano, destroying the Monstrons.