B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (34 page)

A vast fleet of diverse starships appeared above the Earth - a Dalek fleet (a minimum of twelve thousand Dalek battleships), Cyberships and four Sontaran battlefleets. River attempted to relocate the TARDIS to aid the Doctor, but was taken to the year 2010 instead. Rory’s Auton programming activated, and he mortally wounded Amy. The Doctor insisted that he wasn’t responsible for the destruction of the TARDIS, but the leaders of the alliance sealed him in the Pandorica. The TARDIS exploded in 2010 anyway.

The Doctor travelled back from 1996, and had Rory free his past self from the Pandorica. They put Amy’s body in his place, knowing that the Pandorica would keep her in stasis, healing her when it obtained a sample of her future DNA. Rory remained behind to guard the Pandorica - he would do so for nearly two thousand years, spurring the legend of the Lone Centurion.

In 118, the Pandorica was taken back to Rome under armed guard.
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The Vondrax killed many in Syria, the second century AD, while retrieving one of their Orbs.
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120 - The Stone Rose
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The tenth Doctor and Rose arrived in Rome, hoping to explain how a statue of Rose from the second century ended up in the British Museum in the twenty-first. They discovered a GENIE from the year 2375 and captured it, preventing the damage its reality-altering powers could cause.

(=) The eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory photographed a Roman-built road in England that had been diverted around Swallow Woods.
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Jack Harkness attempted to sell tickets to horse racing in second century Rome to the Cephalids, but they didn’t understand the concept.
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On a visit to Condercum, the Doctor debated military ethics with a group of Romans fighting the Caledonians.
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A group of third-century Romans was kidnapped by Varan Tak.
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The Romans drove the Celts from their lands. Gallifreyan intervention allowed King Constantine to pass into the parallel world of Avalon. Even while sleeping, Constantine ruled Avalon for two thousand years.
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A Roman legionary fell through the Rift to arrive in twenty-first century Cardiff.
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The planet Quagreeg developed in the Sirius system as a marsh world that was a source of the rare metal telmonium, and was home to a race of unpleasant reptilians. One reptilian - later named the Sepulchre, after St. Sepulchre’s Church - developed within its mental landscape overlapping recreations of London in various time periods. The Sepulchre used dimensionally transcendental beams to transport various humans into the London-recreations within its mind, and did so with a Roman legion.
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Ptolemy was immune to the Doctor’s psychic paper, meaning he was a genius.
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= On one parallel Earth, later designated Roma I, the Roman Empire enjoyed a golden age as successive Emperors Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antonius Pius, Marcus Aurelius, Avidius Cassius, Septimus Severus, Publius Septimus, Claudius Gothicus, Domitius Aurelianus and Diocletian ruled wisely. The Rhine and Danube were crossed, and the Germanic peoples fled East; they spent centuries fighting the Huns, Vandals and Ostrogoths. Rome was free to concentrate elsewhere. Constantine conquered Asia.
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Around 200, the Doctor defeated a silicon-based life form called the Ogre of Hyfor Three - its foot ended up in the British Museum.
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The Demon Melanicus was a native of Althrace, a member of the race of Kalichura. He sought to conquer the advanced culture, generating legends of gods and demons. His armies were defeated and Melanicus fled to third century Earth, where he came in a dream to the tyrant king Catavolcus. Melanicus bestowed great power on him and the secrets of time travel.
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c 275 - “The Futurists”
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Valente and Secundus, two Roman soldiers fighting in Wales, saw a green fire in the sky. The energy enveloped Valente. Shortly afterwards, the tenth Doctor and Rose arrived from 1925 and defeated the alien Hajor, who were attempting to master Time.

The Doctor challenged Fenric to solve a chess puzzle. Fenric failed, and the Doctor imprisoned him in a flask, banishing him to the Shadow Dimensions.
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By the end of the third century, the Old Silk Road to and from Cathay had been opened.
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The Cult of Demnos had apparently died out by the fourth century.
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(=) In a potential timeline, the Daleks used time machines to invade Roman Britain in 305.
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(=) 305 - Seasons of Fear
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The Roman Decurion Gralae worshipped Mithras, and had made contact with the Nimon, who posed as his god. They granted Gralae eternal life in return for his making sacrifices to them.

The eighth Doctor met Gralae at this time. Between now and his next meeting with the Doctor, seven hundred and fifty years later, Gralae would become known as “Grayle” and spend eighty years repenting with monks. He married twelve times, all his wives dying of old age while he stayed young.

The eighth Doctor sent some Nimon from 1806 to here, and rallied the Roman troops to wipe them out. He then rewrote history by buying out Gralae’s commission before he met the Nimon.

A time warp briefly sent a Roman soldier to the late twentieth century.
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325 (May) - The Council of Nicea
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The Roman Emperor Constantine held a conference in Nicaea so bishops could settle issues of dispute within the Christian Church. Among other concerns, the assembled council sought to decide the matter of Christ’s divinity. The deacon Athanasius believed Christ was divine, but the presbyter Arius held that Christ was subordinate to God. Erimem found Arius to be honourable and aided his cause, threatening to derail history. Tensions mounted, but the fifth Doctor encouraged Constantine to defuse the situation with his oratory skills. In accordance with history, the Council adopted Athanaisus’ views.

The Doctor was ejected from the staff at the Library of Alexandria after he misshelved the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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Iris Wildthyme paid a visit to the library at Alexandria.
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The Doctor saved two Aristophanes plays from the destruction of the Great Library of Alexandria.
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The Rani kidnapped Hypatia to become part of her Time Brain.
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In 375, Mongol hordes swept into central Europe... and were wiped out by Nazi tanks.
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The Doctor suggested that the joke “What’s the most ruthless thing in the bakery… Attila the Bun!” was much funnier if you had known the man.
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Venice was founded by refugees from Attila the Hun.
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In 420, the Pandorica was taken from Rome during a raid by the Franks.
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The Roman Empire fell; both the Doctor and Rory Williams witnessed it.
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The world of the Omnim was lost when the resonances they created shattered it. Remnants of the Omnim’s mental energies existed in a few fragments, one of which became rogue asteroid D35XQ2.
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The original colonists of the planet Karagula found the heat of its twin suns unbearable - some went underground and became the Darksmith Collective, practitioners of the dark arts. They learned to break and reassemble reality, moulding time and space much like a child would play with wet sand. For centuries, the Darksmiths accepted commissions to make “impossible, wonderful frightening things”.
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Energy beings, the Pyralis, swarmed throughout the constellation of Kasterborous and were defeated after a century-long war. They were imprisoned within a temporal void for millennia, even as their obelisk-shaped dimensional gateways remained dormant on some worlds.
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In 514 AD, warfare broke out on the planet Q’ell. The Recruiter, a device created to destroy the Ceracai race, extended the war as part of its programming. The conflict would last until the twentieth century, and cause at least 2,846,014,032 casualties.
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= On Roma I, Roman Emperor Justinian was crowned Emperor of India. By the time of his death, he was also Emperor of America. The Romans had discovered the continent and the Native Americans, like so many previous civilisations, were keen to be togafied.
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In the seventh century, Lord Roche’s TARDIS crashed in England and died on impact. One of the Furies trapped within starved to death, but the other survived until the Ship was discovered in 1999.
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c 600 - TW: “Rift War”
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The Cardiff Rift briefly transported Jack Harkness and Gwen Cooper back in time. Their duplicitous ally Vox went through the Rift and guided them back home.

The Doctor caught a huge salmon in Fleet and shared it with the Venerable Bede (who “adored fish”).
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Bede made the Doctor the Dean of Westminster Abbey.
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The
Necronomicon
was written by Abdul Al-Hazred, a mad poet of Sanaa, in Damascus around 730.
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Around this period, Monarch left Urbanka for the last time.
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The Rani visited Earth during the so-called “Dark Ages”.
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The Galactic Heritage Foundation emerged as an organisation to halt alien property development on planets with indigenous populations. In the eighth century, the third princess Tabetha of Cerrenis Minor spent a weekend in Lewisham. Despite her finding it all a bit gauche, Earth was accorded a low-level ranking of Grade 4, which put it under the Foundation’s protection.

With planets under such development bans selling for cheap, the Frantige Two native named Martin purchased a hundred or so worlds for next to nothing. Among his acquisitions, he bought the planet Earth for a few thousand Arcturan ultra-pods from a Navarino time-share salesman going through a messy divorce. The Navarino threw in the rest of Earth’s solar system for free.
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The Doctor defeated the Tzun at Mimosa II in 733.
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= “Sideways in time” on an Earth where the truth about King Arthur was closer to the myths of our world, a future incarnation of the Doctor was known as Merlin. During the eighth century, Arthur and Morgaine fought against one another, despite their childhood together at Selladon. The Doctor cast down Morgaine at Badon with his mighty arts.

Eventually, though, Morgaine was victorious and Arthur was killed. The Doctor placed Arthur’s body and Excalibur in a semi-organic spaceship, and transferred it to the bottom of Lake Vortigern in our dimension. Morgaine imprisoned the Doctor forever in the Ice Caves, and went on to become Empress of the solar system.
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Godric, a swordsman in the age when Arthur ruled, found the Holy Grail in a freshwater spring. A wood dryad seduced Godric into her tree, where he slept until 1936. The Doctor claimed to have taught Lancelot how to use a sword at King Arthur’s court.
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The Birth of the Daleks

The planet Skaro was the birthplace of the Kaleds and the Thals, and had formerly been home to such wiped-out races as the Tharons and the Dals. Skaro had two moons: Falkus and Omega Mysterium.
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& 683 - I, Davros: Innocence
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The Kaleds and Thals had warred with each other for centuries, and neither side remembered what started their conflict. Davros was born to an influential Kaled family - his mother was Lady Calcula, a personal assistant to Councillor Quested, and his father was acknowledged as Nasgard, a senior military officer. Quested was actually Davros’ biological father. Davros’ half-sister, Yarvell, was in the Military Youth. A House of Congress governed the Kaleds.

When Davros was 16, Calcula murdered her husband and his sister, Tashek, to keep secret the truth about Davros’ parentage. Brogan, a major, was framed for the crime and executed. Davros’ interest in science grew, and he brutally subjected his tutor, Magrantine, to radiation to understand its effect on living tissue. He also killed Quested in a domestic dispute.