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Thorn discovered that the Orion war council, fearful of the Cybermen on Earth, had authorised use of an Eclipse-Class device: a fusion initiator that would make Earth’s sun release an intense solar shockwave. This would kill all organic life - human and Cyberman alike - within orbit of Mars.

Hunt underwent full Cyber-conversion as Barnaby and Thorn directed their attention toward the main Cyber-facility at Bergen. Thorn interfaced her positronic mind with the Cyber-network hub there, and convinced the Cyber-Planner that the Cybermen’s campaign to conquer Earth would result in millions of Cyber-casualties and the complete obliteration of humanity and the Orion androids. The Cyber-Planner judged the cost of victory as too great, and ordered the Cybermen to leave Earth in fleet vessels. The strain of communing with the Cybermen killed Thorn. She was buried on the Norway coast.

The androids opted to live in peace with humanity, ending the Orion War. In deep space, an android warfleet engaged the Cyber-vessels before they could enter hyperdrive.

The twenty-sixth century saw the Great Orion Cyber Wars.
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? 2515 - Parasite
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Three hundred and sixty-seven years after it had been colonised, the Elysium system was on the brink of civil war. Over the last fifty years, a schism had developed between the Founding Families (who wanted to remain isolated from Earth and maintain their own distinctive political system) and the Reunionists (who wanted to make contact with the Empire).

Before the situation could be resolved, the Artifact was found to be a vast transdimensional living entity. It could warp space to create water worlds that would collapse into stars, then generate gas giants to incubate its planet-sized eggs. The seventh Doctor, Benny and Ace visited the Artifact during a crucial point in its life-cycle - which threatened to accelerate. As each young Artifact required the water from forty or fifty thousand planets, this posed a threat to the entire universe. The Doctor altered the Artifact’s biology so that it would only produce children with a symbiotic, not a parasitic, relationship with water-bearing worlds. Previously laid eggs would be born as parasites, and possibly threaten the Elysium system in several million years.

The Draconian War

Around 2520, a peace mission between Draconia and Earth was arranged, but it ended in catastrophe when the Draconian ship approached, as was their tradition, with the missile ports open. The Draconian ship carried no missiles, but the humans assumed they had been lured into an ambush. A neutron storm prevented communications and the human ship destroyed the Draconian one. A war between Earth and Draconia started immediately, and although it didn’t last long, millions died on both sides.
 [706]

As a result of a pop can that Bernice kicked onto a path in 2001, a less-elegant writer came to draft a crucial speech shortly before the outbreak of hostilities. The war consequently broke out an hour earlier, with dozens of extra casualties on both sides.
 [707]

During the Dragon Wars, Shirankha Hall’s deep-space incursion squadron discovered a beautiful garden world halfway between human and Draconian Space. He named it Heaven.
 [708]

Although many on both sides wanted to see the war fought to its conclusion, diplomatic relations were forged and the war ended. The Frontier in Space was established, a dividing line which neither race’s spacecraft could cross. Relations between the two planets remained wary, and factions on both Earth and Draconia wanted to wage a preemptive strike on the enemy. For twenty years, the galaxy existed in a state of cold war, although treaties and cultural exchanges were set up. Espionage between the powers was expressly forbidden.
 [709]

Arkheon was thought destroyed. It was known as Planet of the Ghosts, because it was the location of the Arkheon Threshold, a schism in time and space.
 [710]
Glory Under the Mud
, a collection of Edward Watkinson’s essays, was published in 2524.
 [711]

The Cyber War

Over five hundred years after Mondas’ destruction, the Cybermen had been redesigned and were more deadly than ever.
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2526 - Earthshock
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Earth was not directly affected, but it was clear that only the homeworld could provide the military resources needed to combat the Cyber threat. In 2526, a Conference was held on Earth that proposed that humanity should unite to fight the Cybermen. The fifth Doctor, Tegan, Nyssa and Adric stopped the Cybermen from detonating a bomb on Earth. The Cybermen then attempted to land an invasion force on Earth using a hijacked space-freighter. Adric was still aboard the freighter, trying to alter its coordinates, as the ship was thrown back to prehistoric times...

The Cybermen were unafraid of contravening galactic law or arms treaties, and were prepared to destroy entire planets using Cyberbombs. But the war against the Cybermen united many planets, and humanity started from a strong position. Earth was aware of the Cybermen’s vulnerability to gold and developed the glittergun, a weapon that exploited this weakness. There was more gold on Voga than in the rest of the known galaxy, and when those vast reserves were used against the Cybermen, humanity inflicted massive defeats.
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The glittergun was built by INITEC.
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Realising that they were beaten, the Cybermen launched an attack on Voga and detonated Cyberbombs that blew the planet out of orbit. The Vogans were forced into underground survival chambers. After this time, the Cybermen disappeared, and it was believed that they had died out.
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The Cyber Fleet was destroyed. Bounty hunters and mercenaries hunted down the remaining Cybermen.
 [717]

On Dellah, the Great Act of Toleration of 2528 recognised one thousand and thirty-six religions, including five hundred and twelve indigenous groups.
 [718]
Mr. Misnomer was a pulp-story hero of such adventures as
The Shadow of the Dying Ones
(2529).
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The Rise of the Earth Empire

2534 - The Colony of Lies
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Matter transmitters were abandoned by this time, and there were strict laws on DNA manipulation. The Eurozone still existed. The human colonies were known as the Earth Federation, and were patrolled by Colony Support Vessels. Space was marked with navigation beacons. The term “Earth Empire” was used for the first time this year.

On Axista Four, the human colonists divided into conservative and technological-minded factions: the Loyalists and the Realists. The Realists set up their own settlement away from the Loyalist city of Plymouth Hope, but often raided the Loyalists for supplies.

By now, the Daleks were making gains in the third quadrant. Human space stations and colonies on the front line were evacuated. The Earth Federation had formed an alliance to try to prevent Dalek expansionism. About eighty thousand refugees were scheduled for relocation to Axista Four, and the Earth support vessel
Hannibal
entered orbit around the planet, responding to a signal for help from the Realist faction. The
Hannibal
’s arrival triggered machinery that revived some Tyrenians from stasis, and they threatened to make warfare against the humans.

The second Doctor, accompanied by Jamie and Zoe, both revived Kirann Ransome from suspended animation and defused the conflict. The Realists and Loyalists agreed to accept Kirann as their mutual leader. The Doctor allowed the Federation to believe the Tyrenians were the survivors of a space plague, covering over their true history. Federation Administrator Greene agreed to let the Tyrenians live on Axista Four in peace.

Vega Station was built and secretly run by the Battrulian government. The fourth Doctor visited and lost a lot of money in the Station’s casinos.
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Jodecai Tyler founded a colony on a planet that became known as Tyler’s Folly.
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c 2535 - Mindgame / Mindgame Trilogy
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The Sontaran-Rutan war continued on the “outer reaches of the universe”. A representative of an advanced race teleported a human female mercenary, the commander of Draconian Brigade Merq (who had served in the Second Cryogenics Wars) and Field Major Sarg of the Sontaran First Assault Battalion into an asteroid located between dimensions, to determine which of their species was worthy of partnering with for conquest. The captives overpowered their abductor and separately departed. Sarg perished in battle, the Draconian was found guilty of sedition and sentenced to banishment to an outer moon of the Draconian Empire, and the mercenary killed herself when her fighter craft was damaged and her oxygen ran out.

Earth had a female president from 2536 to 2541.
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In the mid-2530s, KroyChem AgroMedical produced cancer-fighting drugs. Per the First Demographic Charter of 2537, the Spirea Consortia established concentration camps on Darvilleva-Q, and “processed” any colonist with less than 34% human lineage.
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The Earth Empire moved to incorporate the four planets of the Domus system, and warred against the human settlers there. Generosum, Perfugium and Salvum capitulated, and while Aequitas kept its independence, the Empire seized its moon, Verum. Decades of guerrilla fighting ensued.
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The Sunless - an ashen race of humanoids - lived below ground on a planet with a dying red sun. The Piercy Corporation stole technology from the Sunless homeworld, and relocated some clam-like reproductive units, the Blooms, to the planet Ursu. The Blooms propagated the eight races living there. Meanwhile, the Sunless copied the Piercy spaceships, left their homeworld and subjugated other worlds, searching for the Blooms.
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The spaceship
Wayfarer
was rescued from a scrap yard, and retrofitted for use as a naval patrol ship.
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The Space War

c 2540 - Frontier in Space
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At this point, Earth’s “Empire” was still democratic, ruled by an elected President and Senate, although Earth Security forces also had political influence. The Bureau of Population Control strictly enforced the rule that couples could only have one child.

The Arctic areas were reclaimed. New Glasgow and New Montreal were the first of the sealed cities to be opened, and the Family Allowance was increased to two children for those who moved there. The Historical Monuments Preservation Society existed to protect Earth’s heritage. While there was a healthy political opposition, any resistance to the principles of government by either anti-colonialists or pacifists was ruthlessly suppressed. Under the Special Security Act, a penal colony was set up on the moon to house thousands of political prisoners, each of whom served a life sentence with no possibility of parole or escape. In 2539, Professor Dale, one of the most prominent members of the Peace Party, was arrested and sent to the penal colony on Luna.

Larger colonies such as those in the Sirius system were given Dominion status, and allowed regional autonomy, including powers of taxation and extradition. Governors appointed directly by Earth ruled the smaller worlds.

In 2540, interplanetary tension mounted as human and Draconian spacecraft were subjected to mysterious attacks. Cargos were stolen and ships were destroyed. Each planet blamed the other, and eyewitnesses on both sides claimed to have seen their enemy. On Earth, war with the “Dragons” appeared to be inevitable.

On 12th March, Earth cargo ship C-982 was attacked only minutes from Earth at co-ordinates 8972-6483. The News Services monitored and broadcast their distress calls. Anti-Draconian riots flared up in Peking, Belgrade and Tokio. The Draconian consulate in Helsinki was burnt down, and in Los Angeles the President was burnt in effigy. When the C-982 docked at Spaceport Ten, Security discovered the third Doctor and Jo were onboard. He resisted the mind probe, even on level 12, and was sent to the Lunar Penal Colony. He was convinced that a third party was trying to provoke war, a possibility that no one else had considered. A small ship under the command of General Williams was sent to the Ogron home planet at co-ordinates 3349-6784, where the true masterminds, the Daleks, were revealled.

& 2540 - Planet of the Daleks
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The third Doctor and Jo tracked the Daleks to the planet Spiridon in the ninth system, many systems from Skaro. Here, a group of six Thals - selected from the six-hundred strong division that hunted Daleks - were already investigating. They had discovered a research station where twelve Daleks were developing germ weapons, and also experimenting with an anti-reflective lightwave that rendered them invisible. The Doctor discovered an army of ten thousand Daleks in neutron-powered suspended animation beneath the research base. Supreme Command sent the Dalek Supreme to oversee the invasion of the Solar Planets, but the Doctor defeated them and froze the Dalek army with a mass of icy liquid from an “ice volcano”.