B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (53 page)

In 1870, the Jameson boys were out cutting peat when they encountered the Zygons on Tullock Moor. The elder brother Robert was driven mad by the experience and never spoke again; his younger brother Donald simply disappeared.
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Around that time, Reuben joined the lighthouse service. He spent twenty of the next thirty years in a gas-powered lighthouse.
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In 1871, a battlefield from the Franco-Prussian War was lifted by the War Lords
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and the Doctor was given a Gladstone bag by Gladstone.
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1871 - Set Piece
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The time-lost seventh Doctor, Benny and Ace were reunited in Paris. After they defeated the robotic Ants, Ace chose to leave the TARDIS and joined the ruling Paris Commune. She was the last soldier to leave the barricades when the Commune fell from power. She had possession of a time-hopper built by Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart, a means of travelling through time.

The Doctor met Tsar Nicholas at the Drei Kaiser Bund of 1871.
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During this time, Magnus Greel arrived in the Time Cabinet from the year 5000. The Chinese peasant Li H’sen Chang sheltered Greel, thinking he was the god Weng-Chiang. The Emperor acquired Greel’s cabinet, and gave it as a gift to Litefoot’s mother.
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Cousin Octavia of Faction Paradox was born in Scotland, 1872.
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The Doctor had a permanent suite on Floor Six of the Singapore Hilton from 1872 until at least 2008.
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A mine owner, Gideon ap Tarri, established the Tretarri in Cardiff as a housing district for his employees in 1872.
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Agnes Havisham found herself shooting at zombies - a clue that perhaps the Cardiff Rift was becoming more active.
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Edward Waterfield, Victoria’s father, was officially reported as missing in 1872. It was thought that he’d gone off to Africa. Victoria sold his estate, but let the Doctor use the house on Dean Street as a base in London. Edward’s sister, Margaret, looked after the place. Victoria visited her a few times - sometimes with the Doctor, and once when she was studying graphology.
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1872 (August to December) - Eye of Heaven
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Horace Stockwood organized a second expedition to Easter Island, and the fourth Doctor and Leela joined his group aboard the sailing ship
Tweed
. On the island, Stockwood’s party discovered a giant stone head containing a teleport device. This transported some of the group to the homeworld of the aliens who built Easter Island’s
moai
. They searched an alien library, but their presence triggered a booby trap that turned the alien sun black. The party returned to Earth, hoping the sun would return to normal in their absence. From Leela’s blood, the Doctor created an antidote to the sickness that had killed the Polynesian/alien hybrids thirty years ago. Stockwood remained on the island to help protect the Polynesians until the alien DNA the
moai
carried could re-infect them.

1872 (25th November) - The Chase
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The first Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Vicki arrived on the
Mary Celeste
, and left moments before the Daleks pursuing them. The crew were so terrified by the Daleks, they abandoned ship.

c 1872 - 100: “The 100 Days of the Doctor”
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The sixth Doctor learned that an assassin working for the Tharsis Acumen - a technocracy of scientists who were enraged because he freed their political prisoners - had tainted him with an intelligent virus that would eventually kill him. The Doctor and Evelyn backtracked his various destinations to find the point of infection, and in so doing observed two versions of the eighth Doctor - respectively accompanied by Lucie; Charley and C’rizz - playing cards in a Western saloon in the 1870s.

Joseph Sundvig died on 3rd February, 1872.
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Ace witnessed some of the rebuilding of Paris in 1873, then used her time-hopper to meet up with the Doctor and his friends in 2001.
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The Nine Travellers were surveyed in 1874.
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Old Priory, a Victorian folly, was built for the Scarman family. After this time, Marcus and Laurence Scarman played in the priest-hole there as children.
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The Doctor swam with Captain Webb in the Channel.
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1873 (11th September) - The Silver Turk
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Mondas was now within two hundred light years of Earth. A scoutship with two Cybermen, Graham and Brem, reconnoitred the space around Mondas and crashed on Earth. Dr Johan Drossel and Alfred Stahlbaum acquired Brem, who was badly damaged, and turned him into a touring curiosity that could play checkers and the piano. The eighth Doctor and Mary Shelley stopped Graham - who cannibalised Brem for needed parts - from contacting Cyber-Control on Mondas. Graham’s systems failed, and the Doctor and Mary burned a number of advanced marionettes that he had constructed. Stahlbaum toured with one such marionette - a wooden Doctor-duplicate, “the Silver Doctor”, which challenged people to play games.

1873 - Strange England
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The TARDIS landed on an asteroid shaped by Gallifreyan Protyon units to resemble an idyllic Victorian country house based on Wychborn House. It was sculpted by a friend of the Doctor, the Time Lady Galah, who had reached the end of her regenerative cycle. With the seventh Doctor’s help, Galah lived on as one of her human creations, Charlotte. She returned to Earth and married Richard Aickland, who became a renowned Gothic novelist (of such books as
Cold Eyes
and
The Wine Press
) in the early twentieth century.

1875 - “Bad Blood”
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The eighth Doctor landed in the Dakota Hills, and found that Chief Sitting Bull had been told he would arrive in a vision. Miners had awoken an ancient evil, and Indians and General Custer’s forces were both attacked by wolf-like creatures: the Windigo. The Doctor was reunited with Destrii when she arrived with her uncle, Count Jodafra, but the two aliens started to arm Custer’s men with laser weapons.

It turned out that Jodafra had made a deal with the Windigo, as it could navigate the timestream. Destrii sided with the Doctor, and helped destroy the Windigo. Jodafra savagely attacked Destrii, leaving her for dead, but the Doctor brought her back aboard the TARDIS.

The
Vantarialis
crashed on Zanak, where its injured captain was remade as a cyborg.
With the assistance of old Queen Xanxia, the Captain converted the entire planet into a hollow world capable of teleporting between star systems and sucking the life out of planets by materialising around them. After this time, and with increasing frequency, Zanak attacked and destroyed Bandraginus V, Aterica, Temesis, Tridentio III, Lowiteliom, Bibicorpus and Granados.
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Gideon ap Tarri bore witness in 1876 as an earthquake wracked Cardiff. This was a consequence of Abaddon fighting Pwccm for control of the Rift. The combatants each had a second: the twins, Bilis and Cafard Manger. The contest left Abaddon trapped under Cardiff, and Pwccm stuck the Rift. Cafard physically merged with Bilis. On Bilis’ advice, ap Tarri relocated his workers to newer accommodations in the Windsor and Bute Esplanades. The Tertarri would remain uninhabited for a century, and become a place of hauntings.
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The Doctor met Alexander Graham Bell.
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Bell initiated the first phone message while asking for his assistant Watson. The message would later dominate phone lines during a time paradox in 1987.
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The Doctor warned General Custer against taking his Seventh Calvary over the ridge, but Custer ignored him.
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The Doctor met Gilbert and Sullivan.
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The Doctor claimed to have inspired the
Mikado
, a comic operetta.
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In 1878, the Vondrax collected an Orb from Canada.
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The Doctor knew Billy the Kid, who wasn’t like Emilo Estevez’s portrayal in
Young Guns II
.
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1878 (September) - Imperial Moon
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Using Bryce-Dennison’s impeller drive, the British government had crafted three spaceships: the
Cygnus
,
Draco
and
Lynx
. The fifth Doctor and Turlough arrived as the ships explored Earth’s moon, and mistook the deadly Vrall for the exiled Phiadorans. While returning to Earth, the Vrall were exposed aboard the
Draco
and a deadly struggle took place. The crewless
Draco
sped into space.

The
Cygnus
and
Lynx
arrived on Earth, where Queen Victoria greeted the “Phiadorans” as emissaries from another world. The Vrall self-replicated and instigated a slaughter. The Doctor and Turlough used advanced weapons from the lunar safari park to wipe out the Vrall on Earth. At the Doctor’s command, Kamelion disguised himself as the late Prince Albert and appeared to the Queen “in a vision”. Kamelion convinced the Queen to dismantle the remaining spaceships and never mention the incident.

The moon safari park self-destructed, leaving only a large crater.

Torchwood Victoriana

1879 - Tooth and Claw (TV)
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The tenth Doctor and Rose met Queen Victoria in Scotland. She was en route to the royal jewellers, but was diverted by the brethren who served a werewolf-like alien to Torchwood Estate. The alien intended to bite Victoria and through her foster the Empire of the Wolf, but the Doctor deduced Prince Albert’s plan to defeat the creature and killed it.

Queen Victoria knighted the Doctor for saving her life, and named Rose as “Dame Rose of the Powell Estate”. However, the Queen was not amused - she was fearful that the Doctor and Rose had strayed from all that was good, and therefore posed a danger. She banished them from her empire, and secretly ordered the formation of the Torchwood Institute to protect the realm from such alien threats.

It was possible that the werewolf scratched the Queen before it died. The Doctor theorised that the Queen might similarly nip her children, and that the “royal disease” (unknown in Victoria’s bloodline before her, and thought to be haemophilia) might actually be the alien werewolf taint.

Torchwood was established by royal decree, and was funded directly by the Crown. Victoria stated:

“Torchwood is also to administer to the Government thereof in our name, and generally to act in our name and on our behalf, subject to such orders and regulations as Torchwood shall, from time to time, receive from us through one of our Principal Secretaries of state.”
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The Doctor was named as an enemy of the Crown in the Torchwood Foundation Charter, which was established on 31st December, 1879.
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Torchwood Cardiff - per Victoria’s decree and on the advisement of Agnes Havisham, a Torchwood associate - was established as a means of monitoring Rift activity.
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Torchwood India was founded to recover alien artifacts in the Raj.
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Torchwood took to studying a stone circle near Cardiff, which was a focus for Rift energy.
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In 1879, an Arkansas Bible salesman named Abraham White touched a shooting star and was exposed to images from a thousand worlds, including visions of Time Lords. The “star” was actually the consciousness of Pariah - a predecessor to Shayde, and now an enemy of Gallifrey. White hosted her essence within him. Armed with Pariah’s knowledge, White sought to boost humanity’s technology development. He nudged a generation of geniuses and inventors - including Thomas Edison, Nicola Tesla, Rudolf Diesel, Henry Ford and Albert Einstein - along.

Pariah grew herself a new body within White’s form, and learned to replicate her basic sphere influence. White infused select agents with the spheres and turned into living gateways. In this fashion, he founded the Threshold: an organisation that traded its services (moving clients through spatial doorways) in exchange for alien technology. The Threshold mastered space as the Time Lords had mastered time, and avoided Gallifrey’s detection by refraining from time travel technology.