Authors: Lance Parkin,Lars Pearson
On the sunless Detrios, an anomaly feeding off energy from the Land of Fiction had become the Miracle: a replacement source of heat and light for the planet. The unstable anomaly threatened the entire universe, so the seventh Doctor, Roz, Chris and Bernice sought to close it with force field generators. This nullified the Miracle, but some rebels on Detrios imposed order, and the inhabitants sought alternative methods of survival without a sun.
Glitz found a MiniScope and briefly met Romana, who was trapped inside. Flavia arrived in a Type 90 TARDIS and returned Romana to Gallifrey.
[1672]
? 3,000,000 - Iris: Enter Wildthyme
[1673]
The super-thief Terrance went to the planet Hyspero and made off with the Scarlet Empress Euphemia.
[1674]
He took her back to his bookshop in the twenty-first century.
Kelly and the villain Anthony Marville arrived on Hyspero via the
Dii h’anno Doors
... and found themselves looking at a 20-storey-tall face of Iris Wildthyme, which had been carved out of rock. Jenny, Euphemia and Barbra also travelled through the
Dii h’anno Doors
, and were reunited with Iris, Panda and Simon when they visited from the twenty-first century.
Prison in Space
[1675]
Life on Earth prospered as machines were engineered to provide for humanity’s heat, light and food. Some people lived in a futuristic city that looked down upon the clouds, and had art-deco skyscrapers. The world’s overpopulation had been exacerbated by the advent of a drug that extended the average lifespan by two hundred years.
These developments gave rise to the regime of Chairman Babs. She brought about the World Federation of Womanhood and judged that men had become superfluous. Males were stripped of their right to vote, and treated as inferiors. Babs and the Federation Council outlawed war and capital punishment, but anti-social enemies of the state were launched in capsules to the Outer Space Corrective Establishment (OSCE): an octagonal satellite constructed more than a century ago. The most heinous crime cited in the Constitution of these United Female States was publicly insulting Chairman Babs. Her enforcers, all women, wore tight-fitting, black rubber uniforms. Paris, New York and Tokyo were provinces in Babs’ government.
The second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe arrived on what was, in local time, the 14th of Aphrodite in the year 122 SCB (meaning Since Chairman Babs, denoting the time since her birth). The Doctor and Jamie were sent to the OSCE while Zoe underwent mental rehabilitation in Babs’ Silver Maiden machine. Jamie’s familiarity with kilts made him the logical candidate to crudely dress as a woman and attempt an escape; before long, he and the Doctor had started a revolt on the OSCE. Their actions gave the ruling Council the courage to depose Babs. A time of gender equality came about, with Sister Nora as Chairman. Jamie broke Zoe’s mental conditioning by spanking her.
Chairman Babs, now just “Sister Babs”, fancied the Doctor as the manliest man she had ever met. The Doctor fended off her advances, and escaped with his friends in the TARDIS.
c 4,000,000 - The Sun Makers
[1676]
Earth’s mineral wealth was finally exhausted and its people were dying. In return for their labour, the Usurians moved mankind to Mars, which they terraformed. The population was later moved to Pluto, where six megropolises were built, each with its own artificial sun. However, the fourth Doctor - who the Usurians knew had “a long history of violence and economic subversion” - and Leela started a rebellion. The Doctor imposed a growth tax and rendered the planet uneconomic.
c 4,000,000 - Benny: Escaping the Future
[1677]
The humans who fell through a time-space rift in twenty-sixth century Buenos Aires arrived on the planet Deindus, where their genetic makeup and memories co-mingled with primordial soup to create the Deindum - a race of reptilian humanoids.
(=) The Deindum made an immense technological leap during their Industrial Age, when they were contacted and aided by their future selves. This triggered their development into powerful beings who developed time travel and manifested as giant glowing heads. The hyper-evolved Deindum knew of Irving Braxiatel’s efforts to hamper or eliminate them, and dispatched an android, Robyn, through time to stop him. They then sent warfleets to conquer the twentieth century - all in a bid to guarantee their creation.
Benny and Braxiatel intervened in the Deindum’s Industrial Age using Braxiatel’s TARDIS, and sent the younger Deindum down a wormhole to a faked civilisation they had constructed on the planet Rawlus. The younger Deindum were tricked into thinking that their “future selves” were frauds, and the resultant conflict either weakened the Deindum’s development or destroyed them in a paradox. If the Deindum existed afterwards, they never developed time travel.
Before they were erased from history, the advanced Deindum broke into Braxiatel’s TARDIS, and killed both him and Bernice.
Bernice and Peter, hoping to learn of the Deindum’s weaknesses, went even further into the future and saw the ruins of the Deindum’s empire. The whole galaxy had been crippled by the Deindum’s occupation.
[1678]
Benny went to collect Excalibur from Mars, but found that Merlin had already retrieved it.
[1679]
c 4,000,000 - Scaredy Cat
[1680]
According to legend, the people of Caludaar almost destroyed themselves through a series of global wars, and made a pledge to never set foot on their sister world, Endaara. Several millennia passed, but an expedition to Endaara was permitted when scans detected sophisticated indigenous lifeforms there. Professor Arken, a noted Caludaar scientist, used lambda radiation to experiment on the monkey-like natives, hoping to identify the part of the brain that facilitated evil. Arken hoped his research would facilitate a means of blocking evil impulses, ending war and violence.
The eighth Doctor, Charley and C’rizz arrived as Arken further used lambda radiation on Eunis Flood, a convicted serial killer from Caludaar. This unexpectedly forged a link between the planet’s morphogenetic field and Flood, turning him into a formidable psionic. The planet’s collective life force appeared in guise of the dead girl Galayana, and although Flood disintegrated her physical form, she peeled away his defences and left him with the mind of a child. Flood had similarly lobotomised Arken, but Endaara was now left to develop naturally.
c 4,500,000 - The Criminal Code
[1681]
Humanity developed a new method of terraforming: a quasi-organic, asexually reproducing machine that would generate massive amounts of nanobots. Such nanobots could transform entire worlds, and interface with a user’s synapses to respond to verbal commands. They could erect force fields, direct lightning strikes and create earthquakes.
An nine-member terraforming team got lost in a wormhole, and emerged a long way from human space. They terraformed a local world, but a disease killed all but one of them. The survivor was alone for forty years, and the machine created smoke creatures based upon the darker recesses of his mind. After the survivor’s death, the creatures spurred evolution of the Shanquis - a race of pale blue humanoids, whose bodies they could inhabit. The Shanquis developed an advanced society, but the smoke-creatures possessed their political leaders and were deeply xenophobic. English became a forbidden language, as the smoke-creatures feared someone uttering commands that would terminate their existence.
Tensions increased between the Shanquis and the neighbouring planet of Esoria, and so the Doge of Micene - a cosmopolitan planet - asked the seventh Doctor to serve as an arbiter. The Doctor and Benny extracted the smoke-creatures from the Shanquis rulers, who petitioned for peace.
5,000,000 - “4-Dimensional Vistas”
[1682]
In the twentieth century, the Monk and the Ice Warriors seeded a giant crystal in the Arctic. Now they arrived to harvest it. They would be able to destroy continents with the sonic cannon powered by the crystal.
Two Time Lords visited the far future, and found that the Cybermen had evolved to become pure thought - the most peace-loving and advanced race in the universe.
[1683]
(=) Iris visited an alternate universe “three dimensions to the left” from our reality, where flying, vampiric versions of her companion Panda decimated entire worlds.
[1684]
The Doctor took the Cold to Pluto in the far future.
[1685]
Many millions of years in the future, the people of Phryxus established a technocracy in NGC4258 and developed galactic travel using warp capsules in the Grey Interchange. The renegade scientist Zodaal was jailed for experimenting on lesser life forms, and tried to escape using a warp capsule. This failed and he had to reduce himself to a gaseous state to survive. He escaped to the year 1929.
[1686]
Humanity attempted time-travel experiments during the Twenty-Seventh Segment of Time, but these proved to be a total failure.
[1687]
Parasitic eggs laid by the Artifact were expected to hatch in the Elysium system.
[1688]
The Destruction of Earth
“Fleeing from the imminence of a catastrophic collision with the sun, a group of refugees from the
doomed
planet Earth...”
[1689]
c 10,000,000 - The Ark
[1690]
In the Fifty-Seventh Segment of Time, ten million years hence, scientists realised that the Earth was falling towards the Sun. With the help of the Monoids, a mysterious race whose own planet had been destroyed in a supernova many years before, humanity constructed a great space vessel. It contained the entire human, Monoid, animal and plant population of the Earth in miniaturised form on microcells. Audio space research revealled that Refusis II was suitable for colonisation. It would take seven hundred years to reach the new world. To symbolise the survival of man, a vast statue of a human carved from gregarian rock was begun.
The ship set out, and the few humans and Monoid servants that remained active - the Guardians - watched the Earth’s destruction. Very soon afterwards, the common cold swept through the vessel, brought by the first Doctor’s companion Dodo. The Doctor cured the disease using animal membranes.
Enormous generation ships were “quite common” as mankind left Earth for the final time, during humanity’s late expansion period: the great Diaspora Era. Human engineering was now at its peak - entire worlds could be terraformed to Earth conditions over several generations. The Ice Warriors had resettled on Mars prior to the Earth’s death, but the Red Planet was rendered uninhabitable with the sun’s expansion, and the Martians similarly migrated into space.
[1691]
c 10,000,000 - Frontios
[1692]
A vast colony ship containing thousands of people, plus the technology and material capable of rebuilding the whole of human civilisation, was sent to the Veruna system on the distant edge of the universe. Despite being touted as failure-proof, every system on the colony ship failed. The ship crashed on Frontios. Most of the crew died in the crash, and many more perished from diseases that spread through the colony immediately afterwards.
Captain Revere eventually restored order. For ten years, the survivors planted and harvested crops, stocking up with food. But then meteorite bombardments began, striking the colony with such accuracy to make plain that it was being deliberately targeted. The bombardment continued for thirty years, but that wasn’t the worst of it: the earth began swallowing up the dead. Over the years, the number of Retrogrades - people who deserted the colony - swelled.
And then, the earth swallowed Captain Revere while he was investigating the planet’s potential mineral wealth. This left his son, Plantagenet, in command. The colony was soon in danger of falling apart.
The Tractators, insect creatures who could harness gravity, had arrived on Frontios five hundred years before and were responsible for the colony’s setbacks. Under the command of their leader, the Gravis, they had pulled down the colony ship. They had given the colonists ten years to establish themselves, then began the meteorite bombardment. The Tractators had been kidnapping humans to serve as “drivers” for their tunnelling machines. The Gravis hoped to create a tunnel system that would amplify the Tractators’ gravity fields and let them pilot Frontios throughout the cosmos.
The fifth Doctor, Tegan and Turlough arrived on Frontios, isolated the Gravis and transported it to the planet Kolkokron. Without their leader, the Tractators were mindless drones, and the survival of the human colony was better assured.