B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (47 page)

c 1784 - Helicon Prime
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Mindy ‘Voir believed the second Doctor had made off with the prized memory bank of the Fennus colony, and travelled back to eighteenth century Scotland to see if Jamie knew its location. The data bank was a pendant around Jamie’s neck - and when Mindy attacked Jamie, it absorbed her, trapping her mind with the memories of the Fennus colonists.

c 1786 - The Glorious Revolution
 [781]

Jamie McCrimmon had married a young woman named Kirsty, and they’d had “more bairns than there are days in the week”. Their children had grown up, and made them grandparents.

A representative of the Celestial Intervention Agency visited Jamie about forty years after he’d encountered the Doctor, having detected a fluctuation in Earth’s timeline.

(=) Jamie’s encounter with King James VIII in 1688 had created a paradoxical timeline in which the king never left England and stayed on the throne, causing the ascension of King Charles III. The CIA operative stabilized the temporal integrity of Jamie’s past self in 1688, enabling him to put history right...

Jamie decided that he’d had a full life and was better off not knowing about his adventures with the Doctor. At Jamie’s request, the CIA agent re-instated his memory block.

In the late 1780s, Montague and Tackleton, a firm making dolls’ houses, scandalously made a house that resembled the haunted Ilbridge House.
 [782]
In 1788, the Nemesis Bow was stolen from Windsor Castle.
 [783]
Fitz’s great-great-grandfather and his twin, Freddie Tarr and Neville Fitzwilliam Tarr, were born in 1790.
 [784]

c 1791 - “The World Shapers”
 [785]

The sixth Doctor, Peri and Frobisher arrived in the Scottish Highlands, looking for Jamie and clues about the mysterious Planet 14. The Time Lords had failed to erase Jamie’s memory after all, and he was now known as “Mad Jamie” because he had told people about his adventures with the Doctor. Jamie remembered the reference to Planet 14 - the Cybermen referred to it when they invaded Earth. The Doctor let Jamie go back to Marinus with him, dematerialising the TARDIS in front of the other villagers to prove that Jamie wasn’t mad.

The Doctor claimed to be the first person to spin a jenny.
 [786]
The first Doctor met James Watt, an engineer who influenced the Industrial Revolution.
 [787]
Auderly House was built in Georgian times.
 [788]

In the late eighteenth century, a cabin boy named Varney served aboard a treasure galleon. A storm left him shipwrecked, and he wasn’t seen for five years. During that time, the last of the Curcurbites entered “communion” with Varney, altered his blood and gifted him with a knowledge of biochemistry. He rejoined civilisation as a vampire pirate, made his fortune and settled on an island in the Atlantic. Like Varney, his descendents worked toward the Curcurbite’s restitution.
 [789]

The French Revolution

This was the Doctor’s favourite period of Earth history.
 [790]
Susan visited France at this time with the first Doctor.
 [791]
A rack used at the Bastille would later, in German-occupied Paris, be occupied by Lucie Miller.
 [792]

In 1791, the first Doctor and Susan were imprisoned in Paris, but escaped by using an artillery shell. Transcripts of the Doctor’s interrogation would end up with the Shadow Directory.
 [793]
It was the Doctor and Susan’s first-ever visit to Earth. It demonstrated to the Doctor that the old order could be toppled, and that people wanted freedom and a hope for the future.
 [794]

Mozart hated cats.
 [795]

(=) 1791 (5th December) - 100: “My Own Private Wolfgang”
 [796]

A Mozart clone from the far future travelled back in time, intending to damage the reputation of his original self. He appeared, masked, at the dying Mozart’s bedside and offered him immortality in exchange for his producing a new symphony every year. Mozart agreed, and the clone pumped him full of self-regenerating fluid, curing his tuberculosis. As the clone intended, Mozart lived for centuries - and proved the rule that while the good die young, the mediocre stick around forever.

The sixth Doctor and Evelyn convinced Mozart to not sign the life-extending deal. To hobble Mozart’s reputation just a little, the Doctor - with Mozart’s consent - tore out the last twelve pages of his finished
Requiem
.

The Doctor met Marie Antoinette and obtained a lockpick from her.
 [797]
The Doctor claimed to have been invited into Marie Antoinette’s boudoir.
 [798]
He judged that Marie Antoinette had a lovely cook, and decided that eating cake was a good way of passing the time.
 [799]
The Meddling Monk claimed to have cakes from the kitchen of Marie Antoinette.
 [800]

In 1791, the fifth Doctor, Tegan and Turlough were dining at the Cafe de Saint Joseph in Aix-en-Provence when they were accidentally scooped up by the Crystal Bucephalus and whisked thousands of years into the future.
 [801]
In 1793, the attempted opening of Devil’s Hump by Sir Percival Flint resulted in disaster.
 [802]
The Daniells brothers unearthed a statuette of a dancer in Pakistan in 1793.
 [803]
In 1793, the actor Robert Dodds built Banquo Manor using money he inherited. The rumour was that Dodds had murdered his aunt for her money.
 [804]

1794 (late July) - The Reign of Terror
 [805]

The first Doctor and his companions landed in France during the Reign of Terror. Ian met the British spy James Stirling, but Barbara and Susan were arrested as aristocrats and sentenced to the guillotine. Posing as a Citizen, the Doctor rescued his companions. Ian and Barbara helped Stirling to identify Napoleon as the next ruler of France, but were unable to prevent his predecessor, Robespierre, from being arrested.

(=) A group of curious aliens performed experiments on reality control and used a “world-machine” device to slip the entire Earth out of N-Space. The planet was remade according to the philosophies of a single human: the Marquis de Sade. However, the world-machine’s operator threw off the aliens’ control and became Minski, a dwarf. Minski created an automaton of the Marquis, who began ruling France the day Robespierre was arrested, and the real Marquis was imprisoned. The fake Marquis ruled France, with Minski as his deputy, for ten years.
 [806]

1794 (August) - World Game
 [807]

The immortal Players interfered in Earth history for their amusement. After an attempt to kill the future Duke of Wellington failed, the opposing Player countermoved by having Napoleon arrested.

The second Doctor and Serena - an ambitious Time Lady sent to keep him in check - arrived in Antibes to monitor the time disturbances caused by the Players’ actions. The Doctor saved Napoleon from execution and came into contact with the Countess, one of the Players, who was working to see Napoleon defeat the British. The Doctor worked out that she hoped to kill Nelson and Wellington, and that the two only met once, in 1805. The Doctor and Serena departed for that meeting.

In 1795, the Directory was running France after Robespierre’s arrest. They learned of many unusual visitations and encounters on Earth, and set up the Shadow Directory to capture or destroy such things. At some point, the Shadow Directory autopsied a Time Lord and knew of them as
les betes aux deux coeurs,
or “the devils with two hearts”. One of the Shadow Directory’s agents, the psychic aristocrat Marielle Duquesne, investigated the Beautiful Shining Daughters of Hysteria in Munchen.
 [808]

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was the “last man” to have read every book in circulation; he was the last true “universal expert”. But as a result, he kept falling asleep and forgetting his poems.
 [809]
The Doctor met the artist Turner.
 [810]
The Quoth gave psychic abilities to the toymaker Montague in 1797.
 [811]
In 1798, Napoleon undertook an expedition to colonise Egypt. He entered the Great Pyramid, and was mentally influenced to dig out the sand-covered Sphinx.
 [812]

1798 - Set Piece
 [813]

Benny fled the robot Ants, and ended up with archaeologist Vivant Denon as he began to uncover ancient Egyptian treasures for Napoleon. She located the TARDIS, thanks to a message Ace left in 1366 BC, and programmed it to find the Doctor. It did so in Paris, 1871.

The Doctor had a close friendship with Wordsworth, and was present when the writer did a first draft of his most famous poem.
 [814]
Robert Dodds was murdered at Banquo Manor in 1798. A Time Lord agent was dispatched to wait for the Doctor, who eventually showed up a century later.
 [815]
In 1799, Mother Mathara of Faction Paradox and two thousand refugees from Ordifica arrived from 2596. They began building the city of Anathema. With the help of the remembrance tanks that Mathara left, this society would become the Remote.
 [816]

1799 (9th November to 25th December) - Christmas on a Rational Planet
 [817]

Napoleon returned to France from Egypt, shutting down the Directory and replacing it with the Consulate. The Shadow Directory secretly survived. The mysterious Cardinal Scarlath gave the Vatican’s Collection of Necessary Secrets certain documents that described the creation of ancient Egyptian civilisation by a one-eyed monster.

Roz Forrester accidentally ended up in Woodwicke, New York state, after investigating a temporal anomaly in 2012. She set herself up as a fortune-teller and met Samuel Lincoln, whom she mistook for an ancestor of Abraham Lincoln. Roz planned to assassinate Samuel, thus changing history and enabling the seventh Doctor to locate her.

The Doctor arrived and stopped Roz, but a vast psychic disturbance started in the town. This was caused by the Carnival Queen, also known as Cacophony, who sought to create an irrational universe. The Queen was releasing irrational gynoid monsters into the area, and sought to create further disruption through the latently telepathic Chris Cwej. He chose Reason over the Carnival Queen’s irrationality, and the defeated Queen departed into eternity, where she hoped to inspire more ideas.

The Doctor learned afterwards that the TARDIS had planted a memory in Chris’ mind that swayed his decision, as the TARDIS feared becoming denationalised under the Queen’s rule. Jake McCrimmon, agent of the American Special Congress, investigated the aftermath.

The Nineteenth Century

Lord Aldbourne formed a branch of the Hellfire Club and played at devil worship.
 [818]
The Doctor brought the ornithologist James Bond to the 1800s to see a live Dodo.
 [819]
The Doctor met Beethoven.
 [820]
He learned tracking skills from the Arapaho tribe, who were experts in pursuing buffalo across the American plains.
 [821]

Mind parasites, the Racht, germinated throughout space via “seed discs”. One such disc infected a town in Norfolk in the 1800s; the fifth Doctor and Nyssa cleansed the populace, but the seed disc went missing.
 [822]

(=) By this time, Katsura Sato had conquered the Earth. He renamed the world Dhakan.
 [823]

A sentient planet birthed grub-creatures that ravaged her resources and returned nothing. The planet then birthed a warrior race, the Metatraxi, to eliminate the grubs. The Metatraxi developed a highly refined sense of honour and left their homeworld, returning only to supply their Great Mother planet with minerals. Some grubs survived, off world.
 [824]

1800 (December) - Foreign Devils
 [825]

The Emperor became sickened by the foreign-sponsored opium trade afflicting China, and ordered the removal of all “foreign devils”. The Chief Astrologer to the Emperor placed a curse on one such opium trader, Roderick Upcott. The curse was designed to first endow the Upcott family with prosperity, making their inevitable downfall all the more crushing.

The TARDIS arrived in China, and while the second Doctor was caught up with local politics, Jamie and Zoe disappeared through a “spirit gate” - a stone ring traditionally designed to keep demons at bay. The Doctor realised the gate was a teleporter and used the TARDIS to follow his companions to 1900.