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It is, of course, very difficult to fully reconcile these accounts. The main problem is rationalising Ace’s death in “Ground Zero” with her other appearances, although one explanation is that her “demise” relates to the Council of Eight’s attempts to eliminate the Doctor’s companions -
Sometime Never
p154-155 even mentions Ace’s double timeline, and although this was in reference to
Loving the Alien
, it could also, albeit retroactively, be made to apply to “Ground Zero”. As such, temporally speaking, Ace’s “death” in “Ground Zero” might hold no more weight than the notion that Sarah Jane “dies” in
Bullet Time
(set in April 1997).

[
225
]
Benny: Beige Planet Mars

[
226
] Dating
The Indestructible Man
(PDA #69) - The date is given. This story contradicts many other stories, but only ones that were written after the sixth season in which the novel is set. It’s set after a “global teleportation system” is built and fails (p78), a reference to
The Seeds of Death
(or possibly
Transit
); and it’s before Zoe’s time (p283), which puts it before
The Wheel in Space
. (We’ve chosen to contradict this reference; see the dating notes on
The Wheel in Space
.)

[
227
]
The Gallifrey Chronicles.
These would have to be time-travelling Daleks from the future, as the Daleks of this time period are confined to Skaro.

[
228
] This is the historical background to
Transit
. In
The Seeds of Death
, Zoe has never heard of the Ice Warriors - even though mankind is exploring the solar system in her time - which suggests that her contemporaries are not interested in Mars. We learn in
Transit
, amongst many other historical snippets, that the Thousand-Day War ended about twenty-five years before (p188) and that the decade following the war saw economic upheaval (p108). In his “Future History Continuity”, Ben Aaronovitch stated that the War took place between 2086-2088, which by his reckoning was straight after
The Seeds of Death
. Victory Night is mentioned in
The Highest Science
(p21), and it might celebrate the end of this War. We learn in
Infinite Requiem
that forests are still planted after a battle (p266).

[
229
]
The Story of Martha:
“The Frozen Wastes”

[
230
] According to the Doctor in
The Mutants
. As we will see, a number of stories claim to be set on the “first” colony. To explain the apparent contradiction, it’s possible that colonists are either counting different “firsts” (the first plan to colonise, to actually leave Earth, to arrive, to terraform, to settle, to form a local government and so on) or that they simply like to take pride in their pioneering ways and are prepared to exaggerate a little.

[
231
] In
The Sensorites
, ship captain Maitland thinks the Doctor’s party is from the twenty-first century.
The Waters of Mars
establishes the first mission to Proxima Centauri flew at “lightspeed”, but there’s been no firm date set for when mankind first flew faster than light.

[
232
]
Transit
(p264).

[
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]
The Coming of the Terraphiles
. It’s unclear what qualifies as “deep space” in the Terraphile era, when ships fly between galaxies and even universes.

[
234
]
The Pit

[
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]
Benny: The Big Hunt

[
236
]
The Waters of Mars
. The Doctor no doubt means that the Brookes were space explorers for many generations, so it’s very difficult to date these events. The Dragon Star might (or might not) be a reference to Draconia.

[
237
]
The Space Pirates
. The story states the “whole galaxy” has been explored. Yet based on evidence from many other stories, in which planets and civilisations are discovered long after this time, this must be an exaggeration or the exploration must be fairly rudimentary.

[
238
] The Doctor watches the prospectus in
Paradise Towers
and relates Kroagnon’s story. The Chief Caretaker describes Kroagnon as a “being” rather than a “man”, suggesting Kroagnon might be an alien. It’s never specified that the tower block was built on Earth, but this seems to be the implication. The war in question might be the conflict of
Warriors of the Deep
or the Thousand Day War first referred to in
Transit.

[
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]
Killing Ground

[
240
] “At least a hundred years” before
Wooden Heart
.

[
241
]
Shakedown

[
242
]
Vengeance on Varos
. The Governor notes that “Varos has been stable for more than two hundred years”.

[
243
]
The Prisoner’s Dilemma

[
244
]
“
They’ve come a long way in a hundred years” according to the Doctor in
Time of Your Life
(p27).

[
245
]
Love and War
(p39).

[
246
]
Birthright
(p189).

[
247
]
The Also People
(p155, p191).

[
248
]
The Face-Eater
(p64).

[
249
]
Nightmare of Eden

[
250
]
So Vile a Sin

[
251
] “The Screams of Death” , “The Child of Time” (
DWM
).

[
252
] Dating
Snowglobe 7
(NSA #23) - The year is given.

[
253
] Dating “Sun Screen” (
The Doctor Who Storybook 2008
) - It’s “the twenty-first century”. The technological prowess needed to erect the Great Solar Shield is well beyond contemporary levels. The Doctor believes that humanity will find a means of dealing with global warming in “a few years”, but it’s still a problem in
Snowglobe 7
, set in 2099.

[
254
] “Ninety-one years” before
Killing Ground.

[
255
] According to the Doctor in
Army of Ghosts
, although he might just mean they shouldn’t have them at that point in the twenty-first century (2007).

[
256
]
Last of the Gaderene
(p246). He also says he has flown a Spitfire in
Loups-Garoux.

[
257
]
Heart of TARDIS

[
258
] “Profits of Doom”

[
259
] Dating
Paradise Towers
(24.2) - Paradise Towers has been abandoned for between about fifteen and twenty years, judging by the age of the Kangs. The Doctor’s remark that the building won awards “way back in the twenty-first century” may or may not suggest that the story is set in the twenty-second. Taking the New Adventures into account, the War at Time Start might well be the Thousand-Day War that took place a generation before
Transit
. In
Lucifer Rising
, Adjudicator Bishop refers to the “messy consequences of the Kroagnon Affair” (p189), so it is set before then.
The Terrestrial Index
suggested that the war is the Dalek Invasion of Earth, and therefore set the story around 2164.
Timelink
sets the story in 2040.

[
260
] The Master poses as an Adjudicator in
Colony in Space
, the only time the Adjudicators were referred to or seen on television. They feature a number of times in the New Adventures, and the Doctor’s companions Cwej and Forrester are ex-Adjudicators.
Lucifer Rising
relates the foundation of the Guild of Adjudicators, and their early successes. “The Macra case” (p189) isn’t necessarily
The Macra Terror
, and is likely another encounter with that race.
Gridlock
would suggest that humanity had many encounters with the species.

[
261
]
Lucifer Rising.
There’s no indication how long after
Paradise Towers
this happened.

[
262
] Dating
Iris: The Claws of Santa
(Iris audio #2.5) - It’s Christmas Eve, obviously. The story takes place after the melting of the polar ice cap in the late twenty-first century. Also,
The Claws of Santa
is predicated on Father Christmas not being able to cope with humanity’s expansion beyond the solar system - a flip-over point that roughly dates to 2100. All of this presumes that the planet-sized Cosmo Mart that Iris visits - which seems to be in the same time zone - actually has nothing to do with humanity at all, as it’s far, far too soon for mankind’s space explorers to have the resources and technology for such an undertaking.

[
263
] This occurs as part of Earth’s “first wave” of colonists, “five hundred years” (p153) before
Benny: A Life in Pieces
.

[
264
] “Five hundred years” before
Benny: The Goddess Quandary
. There’s no reason to think that any of the participants of the Festari war are human.

[
265
]
The End of the World

[
266
]
Excelis Decays

[
267
] Dating “The Cruel Sea” (
DWM
#359-362) - It’s “the early twenty-second century”. At one point, the Doctor says Rose is his fifty-seventh companion.

[
268
]
Lucifer Rising
(p100, p320).

[
269
]
Timewyrm: Revelation

[
270
]
Transit
(p157-158).

[
271
]
Deceit
(p27-28).

[
272
]
Wetworld

[
273
] Dating
Genocide
(EDA #4) - The date is given (p30).

[
274
] Dating
Wetworld
(NSA #18) - The year is given (p32).

[
275
] Dating
Iris: The Two Irises
(Iris audio #2.3) - The year is given.

[
276
]
Speed of Flight, Genocide.