Authors: Lance Parkin,Lars Pearson
? 2190 - “Hunger from the Ends of Time!”
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The planet Catalog was the repository for all collated knowledge in the universe. The seventh Doctor decided to go for a browse there, as he hadn’t visited for decades, but he found the TARDIS dragged there anyway.
The Doctor met an FHD team, who informed him that the data was now stored as “information energy” across time rather than space. The system had become infiltrated by “bookworms” eating the information. These forces of chaos were only meant to exist at the ends of time, and their presence here was affecting the fabric of time. The Doctor brought all the records back into the present, cutting off the food supply... but leaving around a century’s worth of refiling to do.
2191 (January) - Time of Your Life
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For over twenty years, the Meson Broadcasting Service (MBS) had showed some of the all-time TV classics:
Bloodsoak Bunny
,
The Party Knights and the Kung-Fu King
s,
Jubilee Towers
,
Prisoner: The Next Generation
,
Life’s a Beach
and
Abbeydale High
. The broadcaster successfully rebuffed the claims of the Campaign for the Advancement of Television Standards that such programming as
Death-Hunt 3000
,
Masterspy
and
Horror Mansions
increased violence and criminal behaviour.
On Torrok, the citizens were compelled by law to watch MBS’ offerings all day. Peace Keeper robots patrolled every street, rounding up suspected criminals. The sixth Doctor arrived on Torrok during this time and accepted an inquisitive Angela Jennings as his companion. The Time Lords directed the TARDIS to MBS’ space station headquarters, where a mechanical adversary killed Angela.
As part of the reality show
Time of Your Life
, the city of Neo Tokyo was teleported from New Earth into a Maston Sphere, where the residents were terrorised. The Doctor discovered that the information-consuming datavore Krllxk had gone insane from absorbing the entire MBS output. He transmatted Neo Tokyo back home, and the ensuing conflict made the MBS station fly into the sun. Krllxk took refuge in a game-show android, but the Doctor destroyed it. MBS went off the air when the people on Torrok rebelled, overthrowing the totalitarian regime. Grant Markham, a computer programmer who helped the Doctor, joined him on his travels.
2191 - Killing Ground
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Humanity thought the Cybermen were extinct. Most were asleep in their Tombs on Telos, but some nomads wandered the galaxy. Earth was still rebuilding from the Dalek Invasion at this time.
The sixth Doctor suspected the Cybermen were involved in the affairs of Agora, Grant Markham’s home planet. The Overseers who ruled the planet on the behalf of the Cybermen captured the Doctor, and Grant fell in with the rebels.
One of the rebels, Maxine Carter, used Cybertechnology to build the Bronze Knights - a volunteer army of cyborgs. The Doctor learned that the Cybermen were running out of parts and becoming increasingly reliant on stolen technology. These Cybermen hijacked and adapted a Selechian warship. The Doctor sabotaged it, releasing radiation that was lethal to the Cybermen. The Bronze Knights left Agora to hunt down more Cybermen, and the remaining colonists rebuilt their planet.
? 2192 - “Conflict of Interests”
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Rigel Depot sent an FHD team at light by six to Aleph-77 in the Deneb system, where they found a Sontaran Infantry squad. Galactic Survey was keen to protect the archaeology of the extinct civilisation on the planet, but found the Sontarans had the same goal... and they’d have to fight for it.
Efforts to terraform Mars continued throughout the twenty-second century. Each Martian pole was given an ocean - the Borealis Ocean in the north had freshwater and canals, whereas the Southern Sea generated carbon dioxide. Ransom Spaceport was near Mars’ north pole, Carter Spaceport was near its south. Noachis Spaceport handled approximately 60% of Mars’ commercial flights. Transmats were in use. Eventually, Mars became a popular living destination for retirees.
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c 2192 - Fear Itself (PDA)
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The eighth Doctor, Anji and Fitz landed on Mars, where Anji was attacked and hospitalised. The Doctor and Fitz linked her attackers to Farside Station and set off to investigate… but shortly afterwards, Farside reported destroyed with all hands lost.
Thinking the Doctor and Fitz dead - and that she was stranded - Anji became a consultant on twenty-first century matters for a television channel. She married a cameraman called Michael. At this time, a new and ruthless military group called the Professionals emerged.
There was a space elevator in the Yucatan and holographic slides had replaced paper. A vaccine for the common cold had been developed. Anti-radiation suits were made from Dortmunium. The Martians who remained on Mars were a social underclass, and some resorted to terrorist acts.
Humanity fought against a number of hostile races in deep space, including the Cybermen. A number of Cyber Wars were fought at the beginning of the twenty-third century, but humanity prevailed.
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Gustav Zemler’s unit defeated some Cybermen on the borders of Earth’s colonies, but the Cybermen’s hostages were killed. Zemler and his survivors were dishonourably discharged and became mercenaries.
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After the Cyber Wars, Eurogen Butler changed their name and became the Spinward Corporation.
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The former Houses of Parliament were used as a hospice for veterans of the first Cyber Wars.
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Privateers from the Andosian Alliance made several incursions into Earth’s solar system in the last half of the twenty-second century. In the decade before 2197, they caused much loss of life and damage to cargo payloads, and continued menacing the spaceways into the early twenty-third century. The Privateers were eight feet tall, with rippling mauve muscles and possibly three heads. They had a penchant for the melodramatic, with their leaders choosing such names as Doctor Leopard.
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The I had developed as a gestalt, centaur-like race that seeded technology onto planets, then later returned to harvest the developments. The I acquired some Gallifreyan technology and the eyes of a Time Lord named Savar, and around 2192 used this to facilitate the development of advanced retinal implants on the planet Ha’olam.
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The buffalo became extinct in 2193.
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The Selachians sold their Cloak weapons to Earth in the mid-2190s.
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& 2196 - Fear Itself (PDA)
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Farside Station was rediscovered in Jupiter’s atmosphere. Anji had become distant from her husband, and stowed away as a Professional was sent to investigate. The survivors had gone feral, while the station had been influenced by alien biological weapons - Fear and Loathing - which had survived in Jupiter’s atmosphere for millennia.
The Doctor, who had been brainwashed into operating as a Professional for the last four years, neutralised the weapons. Reunited with Anji, the Doctor and Fitz continued on their travels.
At this time, tent cities existed on Earth and Mars. The Paris crater and the New York waterways were popular tourist traps.
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In 2197, the Dreamstone Moon Mining Company was set up to exploit the discovery of dreamstone on the moon of Mu Camelopides VI.
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? 2197 - Wooden Heart
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The tenth Doctor and Martha landed on the
Castor
, a prison ship full of century-old corpses. Deep in the ship, they discovered a strange virtual reality forest and a preindustrial village. Aliens had preserved humans in the wooden heart of the ship.
2197 (15th-16th January to March) - The Nowhere Place
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Earth’s
Damocles
-class ships emerged as the deadliest fighter-craft of their age, and were the envy of their enemies. The Red Cross symbol was still in use. Earth’s military used security locks that were susceptible to high-frequency vibrations. A station was in operation on Jupiter. Cryo-freezing was used in this era.
The Damocles-fighter carrier
Valiant
travelled to Pluto’s orbital path; scans indicated that hostile raider activity had occurred there in late December. The sixth Doctor and Evelyn arrived on the
Valiant
, which was under the command of Captain Tanya Oswin, as a mysterious door appeared in the ship’s hull. Crew members were mentally compelled to walk through the door – a device used by the original species that had evolved on Earth, and was trapped in the realm called Time’s End. The original race hoped to use the door to ensnare humanity and retroactively erase mankind from history. The Doctor and Evelyn identified the sound of a train bell coming from the door as hailing from 1952, and ventured back there to investigate. In their absence, three-fourths of the
Valiant
crew were lost to the door.
The Doctor and Evelyn returned two months later, just as the spaceship
Exeter
arrived in response to the
Valiant
’s cry for help. Oswin ordered the
Exeter
to fire nuclear weapons against the door; this would have paradoxically created Time’s End and consigned humanity to suffer there. However, the Doctor altered events in Time’s End so that Oswin’s nuclear strike permanently destroyed Earth’s original species.
Colonial marines fought in the Alphan Kundekka conflict of 2198.
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Archaeologists Niall Goram and Matt Lacey contracted radiation sickness after opening the tomb of Rablev. They resealed it and split their journal - later known as
The Doomsday Manuscript
- into two halves. After they died, their estates sold off the documents.
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(=) & 2199 - Legacy of the Daleks
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The eighth Doctor arrived in New London as the Master started a war between rival Domains Haldoran and London. Haldoran and London themselves died in the conflict, and one of Haldoran’s commanders, Barlow, took charge of both regions. The Master reawoke a hidden Dalek factory to gain an experimental matter transmuter. David Campbell was killed in a struggle with the Master, who fled to the planet Tersurus. Susan Campbell destroyed the matter transmuter, an act that ravaged the Master’s body. The Time Lords sent Chancellor Goth to investigate the disturbance on Tersurus, leading to his meeting the now-skeletal Master. A grieving Susan left in the Master’s TARDIS.
Brian Parsons fought in many space conflicts at this time, and his tactics were programmed into android soldiers for many centuries to come.
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During the twenty-third century, Jung the Obscure published his theory of the Inner Dark in the Eiger Apocrypha.
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By the twenty-third century, a riot control gas named Pacificus was invented.
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Sperm whale songlines were published.
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1970s fashions were once again revived in the twenty-third century.
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Humanity conducted tests with fusion bombs out on the Galactic Rim. The devices were so powerful they were immediately banned.
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The Doctor bought Bobby Charlton’s 1966 World Cup shirt in a Venusian Auction in the twenty-third century.
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The corporations made vast profits from the colonisation of other planets and became a law unto themselves, killing colonists to get to mineral resources. The Adjudication Service became
a neutral arbiter of planetary claims.
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Around 2200, the Interbank scandal took place. Chairman Wayne Redfern was indirectly responsible for the bankruptcy of the organisation.
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The Re’nar and Ju’wes fought a war in the Matrua Nebula. One of the Re’nar fell through a time portal to 1888, and was pursued by a Ju’wes.
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& 2202 - Longest Day
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A Kusk rescue party arrived on the moon of Hirath, intent on retrieving their lost time probe. The probe malfunctioned even further and destabilised TCC’s time barriers on Hirath, threatening to blow up half the galaxy. The eighth Doctor destroyed the probe, triggering an electrical surge that also killed the rampaging Kusks. Samantha Jones was separated from the Doctor in the confusion to follow, and was launched away from Hirath in a crewless Kusk ship.