B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (241 page)

2994 - Superior Beings
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The fifth Doctor and Peri were caught when the fox-like Valethske invaded a pleasure planet, Eknur 4. The invaders were looking for the homeworld of their gods. The Valethske put Peri into suspended animation aboard their ship and departed. The Doctor calculated its next arrival point, in a century’s time, and left to rendezvous with Peri then.

Eknur 4 was one of the Wonders of the Universe, and a utopian society given over to hedonism.

Humanity migrated from Earth aboard space arks built to house the population of entire nations. Britain was unable to launch an ark until a star whale, hearing the cries of Britain’s children, intervened. The Britons repaid this by capturing the whale and torturing it to fly through space with their ark atop it. The ark, named Starship UK, contained much of Great Britain, Wales and Northern Ireland (Scotland had chosen to go into space in its own ship). Enormous buildings housed the populations of Yorkshire, Devon, Surrey, Kent, Essex, Lancashire, London and more. The population of the ark chose to remain ignorant of the crime perpetrated upon the space whale, and continually had their memories of it erased.
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In 2999, a Sun City teenager hacked Earth’s TacNet, causing a meltdown that killed thousands on the East Coast of Australia. Humberto de Silvestre was wounded by this, and only saved when he was grafted with experimental liquid computers. He became the cyborg Silver.
 [1107]

The Fourth Millennium

The Daleks invaded the Earth around the year 3000.
 [1108]
Africa was in the middle of its Third Golden Age in the year 3000.
 [1109]

At the turn of the thirty-first century, an Imperial Navy force was sent out to seek out alien technology that might help shore up the Earth Empire. They discovered the planet Darkheart and colonised it. They remained isolated for three and a half centuries, but came to discover a device that they also named the Darkheart, and which was built from Chronovore technology. The Chronovores had designed the device to beam healing energy to their remote, injured members, but the colonists adapted it to alter morphic fields. Properly tuned, the Darkheart could transform all alien species into human beings.
 [1110]

The Hexion Geldmongers of Mercutio 14, located out beyond Cassiopeia’s Elbow, had an empire that spanned whole galaxies. They forged the Mymon Key: a device that could tap gravitational force to produce limitless energy. Mercutio 14 fell, and endless wars were fought over the Key - which was placed a casket that only a Hexion speaker could open. A museum of antiquities in the thirty-first century owned the casket, but had budget cuts. The Key was sold to a private buyer in Andromeda, but the Gobocorp ship transporting it,
The Herald of Nanking
, crashed on the Gyre: an amalgamation of space junk in the Battani 045 system. Only five hundred of the three thousand crew survived. In the hundreds of thousands of years to follow, their descendents forgot their origins, and thought that the Gyre was humanity’s homeworld.
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The eleventh Doctor failed to take Amy and Rory to Margate for the 3000 AD World Jamboree.
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The mobile Super Hotel Miramar operated during humanity’s first expansion into space. It resided on the Spiral Wing, then spent a century on the edge of the Golden Chasm.
 [1113]

From the year 3000 to the year 3500, Earth knew of no Dalek activity in the galaxy.
 [1114]
From around the year 3000, the Foamasi began gaining in power and reputation across the galaxy.
 [1115]
In 3006, aliens invaded Earth, overrunning America and capturing Washington. The government used experimental time machines to send agents to fetch help - Agent Grey was sent to the past, Agent Silver to the far future.
 [1116]

Legends of
The Book of the Still
begin circulating. Unknown parties had developed this artifact so that stranded time travellers could summon help by writing their name in it. Copies of the book, made from invulnerable taffeta, found their way to various points in time and space, including the planet Lebenswelt in the year 4009.
 [1117]

Documentary maker Harken Batt was discredited when he used actors in an expose of organised crime.
 [1118]

3012 - The Space Age
 [1119]

The eighth Doctor, Fitz and Compassion found an asteroid that contained a reconstruction of a futuristic city. The inhabitants - rival members of the Mods and Rockers gangs - had been spirited there from 1965 by a benevolent alien named the Maker. However, the gangs had fallen into continued bloodshed for nineteen years. The Maker, imprisoned by the Mods and compelled to make weapons, had instigated the city’s dissolution. Other Makers arrived, liberated their colleague and caused the Mods and Rockers to stand down. The Makers offered the humans a choice: return to 1965 as their younger selves with no memories of these events, or join a futuristic society in 3012. The humans made their decisions, and the Doctor’s party departed.

3012 - Festival of Death
 [1120]

Against objections from the major religions, Dr Koel Paddox - the galaxy’s leading necrologist - opened the Necroport. This housed a machine in which tourists could be temporarily killed and experience the Beautiful Death, which was touted as the “thrill to end a lifetime”. It was located at the G-Lock ship’s graveyard in the Teredekethon-Murgatroyd hyperspatial conduit, and attracted visitors such as the alien Hoopy.

The fourth Doctor and Romana found that tourists experiencing the Beautiful Death were becoming savage zombies. The Repulsion had temporally swapped the tourists with survivors of the
Cerberus
disaster in 2815. The tourists went into the Repulsions’ realm, and the
Cerberus
survivors were endowed with pieces of the Repulsion’s essence - the Repulsion hoped this would let it fully manifest in our reality. The Doctor and Romana trapped the Repulsion’s essence in ERIC, the G-Lock’s central computer, then destroyed it. The Necroport exploded and the zombies expired.

The G-Lock was evacuated and the hyperspace tunnel in which it was located collapsed, eradicating the station. The Arboretan race went extinct as a result of Paddox’s experiments. Paddox attempted to reincarnate into his younger self and prevent his parents’ deaths, but this trapped him in a recurring loop of his lifetime.

The Proxima Centauri All Blacks did the double in 3012. Pakafroon Wabster had their first No. 1 hit in the same year. The Doctor visited the colony of Puxatawnee, and deemed it a very happy and prosperous place.
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The planets Emindar and Nimos started a series of minor wars that would run for over a century.
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The Silurian colony under Cwntaff in South Wales was set to emerge to the surface around 3020.
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c 3025 - The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
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Although many remained patriotic and a new Empress was crowned, it was clear that the Empire was collapsing. The Landsknechte Corps had fallen, and the newly-independent human worlds were now building vessels of their own.

On the medieval world of Avalon, some natives became more proficient at tapping the ancient nanobot system to generate “magic”. The first Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan arrived as various “sorcerers” sought to gain further power. A magical battle ensued, but the Doctor had his allies place an Avalonian control device - Merlin’s Helm - on the head of a reptilian cephlie, a native of the planet. The Helm restored the cephlies, but they elected to destroy themselves and the nanobot system.

? 3026 - Kinda
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The homeworld was overcrowded, and teams were sent to assess other worlds for colonisation. One of these was S14, a primeval forest world, which had the local name Deva Loka (“the land of the Kinda”). The natives were humanoid telepaths and lived in harmony with nature. Trees came into fruit all year round, and the climate hardly varied throughout the year. The Mara compelled Tegan into letting it “borrow” her form, and so crossed over from the dark places of the inside. The fifth Doctor, aided by Adric while Nyssa experienced induced delta-sleep in the TARDIS, banished the Mara using a circle of mirrors. The colonists were persuaded to abandon further settlement. The Mara was not entirely purged from Tegan’s mind, and would later revive.

On Peladon, the royal Citadel was constructed. The highest point of it looked out across the entire kingdom, from the Cargas Mountains in the east to the shores of Lake Vanashor. Midnight on Peladon was called “the witching hour”, when the ancients of Peladon had pledged their souls to the Dark Beast to gain power, fame and immortality.
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In 3045, humanity and the Kustollons fought a war which devastated both sides. Igrix, a Kustollon, stole a time machine and travelled to 1966 to prevent this.
 [1127]

3060 to 3090 - Flip-Flop
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The planet Puxatawnee had two timelines.

= 1) The Slithergees arrived around Christmas, 3060, and demanded a moon to inhabit. President Mary Bailey was apparently killed by her secretary, who was allegedly a Slithergee agent. In truth, she had been assassinated by beings from another timeline, who feared she would cave in to the Slithergees. There was an uprising, and warfare against the Slithergees left Puxatawnee a heavily damaged, radioactive wasteland. Christmas Day was renamed Retribution Day. Thirty years later, Professor Capra built a time machine to change history by sending agents back to kill the President’s secretary. The time machine overloaded, destroying the planet.

= 2) President Bailey survived thanks to the time travellers’ intervention, and yielded to the Slithergee demands. Thirty years later, the aliens had dominated the planet. In this timeline, Capra built a mind peeler to interrogate people, not a time machine. Rebels forced the seventh Doctor and Mel to take them back in time, hoping to assassinate Bailey before she capitulated to the Slithergees...

The Cyrrehenic Alliance fought a series of Frontier Wars. The Graff Vynda-K led two legions of his men for a year in the Freytus Labyrinth, and also fought on Skarne and Crestus Minor. He was an unstable, temperamental man, though, and upon returning home discovered that his people had allowed his half-brother to take the throne. The High Court of the Cyrrhenic Empire rejected the Graff’s claim for restitution. He spent eighteen years plotting his revenge.
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c 3064 - The Ultimate Treasure
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The fifth Doctor and Peri arrived at the Astroville Seven trading post. A dying merchant gave them galactic co-ordinates purporting to pinpoint the treasure of Rovan Cartovall, the emperor of Centros who once ruled fifty star systems. His treasury was worth the equivalent of 64,000,000,000,000 stellar credits. The co-ordinates led to the planet Gelsandor, where some telepaths set a variety of challenges for any who wanted Cartovall’s treasure. The Doctor and Peri found that the treasure was the infinite possibilities of life, as represented by the puzzles themselves.

c 3068 - Palace of the Red Sun
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The warlord Glavis Judd had risen to power on his homeworld of Zalcrossar, and expanded his military might to create a Protectorate of twenty star systems. His forces sought to subjugate the planet Esselven, but King Hathold and his family sealed the Keys to Esselven, an irreplaceable set of documents and protocols, in an impenetrable vault that would only open for their DNA. Without the Keys, Esselven society degenerated.

The royals fled and established the Summer and Winter Palace residences on Esselven Minor, a planetoid orbiting a white dwarf star. However, the white dwarf’s gravity, in conjunction with the planetoid’s mass and the royals’ planetary defence shield, started altering space-time in the area. Time within the shield accelerated faster than time in the outside universe.

Judd spent a year tracking the royals and landed on the planetoid in search of them. Due to the fast-time effect, he wasn’t seen again for five hundred years. Judd never appointed a successor, and his Protectorate collapsed in his absence.

? 3078 - The Ribos Operation
 [1132]

The rare mineral Jethryk was now used to power ships such as Pontenese-built battleships. Communication across the galaxy was via hypercable, and highly trained mercenaries, the Schlangi, were available for hire.

Located three light centuries from the Magellanic Clouds, the Cyrrhenic Alliance included the planets Cyrrhenis Minima (co-ordinates 4180), Levithia and Stapros, as well as the protectorate of Ribos (co-ordinates 4940) in the Constellation of Skythra, 116 parsecs from Cyrrhenis Minima.