Authors: Lance Parkin,Lars Pearson
Carrington Corp built the leisure planet Micawber’s World between Pluto and Cassius around 3984.
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c 3985 - Legacy
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The Federation fought a number of wars to secure its position and to protect democratic regimes. GFTV-3 covered the main news stories of this era: atrocities on the Nematodian Border, the android warriors of Orion, slavery on Rigellon and Operation Galactic Storm. The Martian Star Fleet built the deep space cruiser
Bruk
, one of the largest vessels the galaxy had ever seen, and it helped enforce law throughout the galaxy.
With its trisilicate mines exhausted, Peladon faced a choice between becoming a tourist resort or leaving the Federation altogether. The question remained unaddressed while Queen Thalira ruled, but she died in a space shuttle accident. Within four years of her death, her successor King Tarrol applied to leave the Federation, suggesting that Peladon ought to try and find its own solutions to its problems. His choice had perhaps been made easier by the carnage caused when an ancient weapon, the Pakhar Diadem, was tracked to his world. The Diadem was blasted out of space by the
Bruk
and went missing.
Tarrol’s decision probably saved Peladon - had the planet remained in the Federation, it would almost certainly have been targeted by the Daleks thirty years later during the Dalek War.
3985 - Theatre of War
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The colony of Heletia was founded by a group of actors wanting to stage the greatest dramas of the universe. Society on Heletia was confined to one small area of their own planet, but nonetheless became an expansionist power and fought a war with the Rippeareans. The Heletians believed that only races with a sophisticated theatre were truly civilised. Following the death of their leader, the Exec, the Heletians sued for peace.
By this point, Stanoff Osterling’s play
The Good Soldiers
had been lost. Bernice, while travelling with the seventh Doctor and Ace, first visited the Braxiatel Collection - and met its founder, Irving Braxiatel - at this time.
Sara Kingdom was present when her brother Bret Vyon, age 18, received a commendation.
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The Daleks used time corridors to establish hibernation units on many planets such as Kar-Charrat. The Daleks would only activate when a time traveller entered range, and the Daleks hoped this gambit would help them gain access to the Kar-Charrat Library.
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Bret Vyon had been bred on Mars Colony 16, and joined the Space Security Service (SSS) in 3990.
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Earth forces recaptured Caridos from the Daleks in ‘94 and took Robomen prisoners. On one of the worlds the Daleks had ravaged and abandoned, human researchers found deactivated Mechanoids.
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The artificial star of Tír na n-Óg was due to run out of fuel around this time.
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c 3994 - The Daleks: “The Destroyers”
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The Daleks were the dominant form of life on Skaro, which was located in the eighth galaxy. They exterminated the crew of Explorer Base One, located on the giant meteorite M5, as the first phase of a gambit to destroy Earth and its colonies. Three Space Security Agents - Sara Kingdom, Jason Corey and the humanoid robot Mark Seven - attempted to rescue the sole survivor of the incident: David Kingdom, Sara’s brother. The Daleks escaped in a rocket with David as their captive...
Mavic Chen would later read Mark Seven’s account of the incident.
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Bret Vyon attained First Rank in the SSS in 3995, and Second Rank in 3998.
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3999 (July) - Placebo Effect
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The eighth Doctor and Sam attended the wedding of his former companions Stacy Townsend and Ssard on Micawber’s World. Stacy and Ssard had settled in this timezone two years ago after leaving the Doctor. The Church of the Way Forward, who opposed interspecies weddings, crashed the ceremony but order was restored. Stacy and Ssard left to honeymoon on Kolpasha, the fashion capital of the Federation.
Micawber’s World was hosting the Olympic Games, and scientist Miles Mason was secretly infecting athletes with Wirrn eggs disguised as performance enhancing drugs. The Wirrn hatched, and the Space Security Service was called in to contain the situation. The Doctor destroyed the Wirrn Queen, although one group of Wirrn escaped to Andromeda. The Olympic Games continued.
Earth at this time had a Royal Family. King Garth had just died; Queen Bodicha was in mourning, but the rest of the world was glad to see the back of him. His heir was Prince Artemis, Duke of Auckland. Some humans on Earth, but few offworlders, followed the tenants of Christianity. There were 1362 races in the Federation’s database, but the Time Lords weren’t one of them. The Foamasi were members of the Federation.
? 3999 - Max Warp
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The Inter-G Cruiser Show was held at the Sirius Exhibition Station to showcase various spaceship models; it was hoped that the event would improve Varlon-Kith relations. Geoffrey Vantage - a war veteran, and now a presenter on the ten-year-old show
Max Warp
- had access to a computer virus developed late in the Varlon-Kith war, and planned to use it to make the Kith warfleet crash into one of Sirius’ moons. The eighth Doctor and Lucie stopped Vantage; the Kith Oligarchy pledged to make a massive investment in the Varlon, and President Varlon (sic) used the influx of funds to abolish income tax.
Max Warp
became a lot more banal without Vantage to host it.
The planet Sirius Alpha had at least four moons. Varlon politicians used Spindroids to judge public opinion and help determine policy. Spaceships in this period included the new Kith Sunstorm, the Umbriel Slipstream (regarded by the Doctor as the sleekest, fastest spaceship ever constructed), the escape-pod-less Epsilon Nova 90, the Magellan Danube 4000, the Nebular Toscanini, the Umbriel Slipstream, the Freefall Sunstriker (which contained the same engine as the Moonstalk, but at a fraction of the cost), the Skythros Warpshock, the New Thorndon 90, and the antiquated Cobra Mark Three.
Spaceship design now incorporated quark drives, hyperion boosters, gamma burst regulators, catalytic filtration systems, residual dampeners, gravitic thrust converters, plasma outfits, tractor beams, hydrogen fuel filtration converters and a-line converters.
The eighth Doctor, Fitz and Compassion tried to find a way into the Obverse in the Wandering Museum of the Verifiably Phantasmagoric, also known as the Museum of Things That Don’t Exist.
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The Daleks’ Master Plan
3999 - The Guardian of the Solar System
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The first Doctor, Steven and Sara found themselves in 3999 - a year before they first met - at the giant clock that enabled humanity to travel through hyperspace. Sara’s younger self was currently on Venus, part of a six-month posting. Mavic Chen continued to pursue a number of alternatives to the clock, hoping it could be slowly wound down without Earth going into decline. Chen was impressed upon meeting Sara, and - not comprehending that she was from the future - promoted her contemporary self to be part of his senior staff on Earth.
The clock ensnared the Doctor and Steven’s minds into its network, and threatened to do the same to Sara - who realised that she was historically destined to wreck it. She reached out with her mind and brought the clock crashing down, enabling the travellers to escape...
The loss of the clock imperilled Earth’s security so much that
Chen allied himself with the Daleks. In exchange for the taranium that he possessed, the Daleks would make him ruler of the entire galaxy. The Daleks recruited Zephon to their Master Plan, and he secured the support of the rulers of two further galaxies, Celation and Beaus. The conspiracy also included Trantis, Master of the Tenth galaxy (the largest of the Outer Galaxies), Gearon, Malpha, Sentreal and Warrien.
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c 4000 - Mission to the Unknown
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“This is Marc Cory, Special Security Agent, reporting from the planet Kembel. The Daleks are planning the complete destruction of our galaxy together with powers of the Outer Galaxies. A war party is being assemb---”
In the year 4000, Chen attended an Intergalactic Conference in Andromeda. The Outer Galaxies and the Daleks held a council at the same time, sending Trantis to Andromeda to allay suspicion. The Space Security Service (SSS) and the UN Deep Space Force had been monitoring Dalek activity for five hundred years.
On the planet Kembel, SSS agent Marc Cory learned that the Daleks and their allies were preparing for conquest. Cory was exterminated, but not before recording a warning.
4000 - The Daleks’ Master Plan
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Shortly after concluding a mineral agreement with the Fourth galaxy, Mavic Chen left Earth for a short holiday, or so he told the news service Channel 403. In reality, his Spar 740 spaceship headed through ultraspace to Kembel, the Daleks’ secret base. There, he met the delegates from the Outer Galaxies for the first time, and presented the Daleks with a full emm of taranium - enough to power their Time Destructor, a device capable of accelerating time.
Space Security Agents were sent to investigate the disappearance of Marc Cory. One of them, Bret Vyon, allied with the first Doctor, Steven and Katarina. They stole the taranium and absconded with Chen’s ship, which was diverted to the convict planet Desperus. The group escaped, but a convict smuggled himself aboard the Spar and took Katarina hostage. To end the standoff, she blew both of them out of an airlock.
The Doctor, Steven and Vyon reached Central City on Earth, where Vyon was killed by Sara Kingdom - his sister and a fellow SSS agent, who believed him a traitor. Pursued, the Doctor and Steven broke into a research facility. They were transported with Sara across the galaxy, via an experimental teleportation system, to the planet Mira - the home of invisible monsters named the Visians. Sara came to side with the Doctor against Chen, and the group returned to the Daleks’ base on Kembel. They fled through time and space in the TARDIS, with the Daleks in pursuit.
Chen was ready to doublecross the Daleks, and had special forces on Venus ready to occupy Kembel. Eventually, the Daleks re-captured the taranium, and they exterminated their allies - including Chen - in readiness for universal domination. They had assembled the “greatest war force ever assembled”, including an assault division of five thousand Daleks to invade Earth’s solar system. The Doctor activated the Daleks’ Time Destructor, which destroyed their army and transformed the surface of Kembel from lush jungle to barren desert in seconds. Sara helped the Doctor and was aged to death. The universe was safe once more.
Earth was under totalitarian rule. Humans were “bred”, and told not to question orders. Christmas was not celebrated or even remembered.
The expression “never turn your back on a dead Dalek” came into use among humans.
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In the forty-first century, mankind developed vegetable life that resembled humans - Bio-Organic Plasmatoid Creations, a.k.a. Biogrowers - and used them as servants. Biogrowers lived for a hundred years, but were brain dead after fifty. The braindead Biogrowers were dumped on the planet hospital Bedlam, which was patterned after the original sanatorium.
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SSS agent Dryn Faber investigated the planet Antalin and discovered Daleks there.
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Earth was involved in a number of wars on the frontier of Earthspace. The Daleks massacred the colonists on a mining outpost.
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The Sycorax Tribe of Astrophia died out in the Valhalla Wars of the forty-first century.
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4009 - The Book of the Still
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About this time, TimeCorp offered its employees the plus of completing their workday, then temporally returning to the morning for family time. Participating TimeCorp workers aged a third faster than their families every day, but got to spend more time with their loved ones.
The temporal expert Albrecht managed to retroactively wipe himself from existence, but his diaries survived in a reality pocket. His theories gave rise to the condition Albrecht’s Ennui, which affected temporally displaced people who went a few years without time travel.
The affluent, distant planet Lebenswelt settled into a state of hedonism and decay, as nobody would voluntarily travel so far to perform menial tasks. The IntroInductions escort service on Lebenswelt used illegal fast-acting memory acids to make kidnapped humans fall in love with their clients. Lebenswelt also became home to the Museum of Locks (
Das Museum der Verriegelungen
), which almost incidentally guarded a copy of
The Book of the Still
.