B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (349 page)

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Neverland

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] “The Tides of Time”

The Higher Evolutionaries

It’s never explained in the comic strips exactly what defines a Higher Evolutionary, or what their sphere of influence is. From the examples of Rassilon and Merlin, we can see that they’re semi-legendary figures - immortals with enormous personal powers that go far beyond psychic abilities until they are indistinguishable from magic. As such, the Higher Evolutionaries are capable of viewing and influencing events across infinity and eternity.

In the final part of “The Tides of Time”, we see dozens of High Evolutionaries from “throughout the known universe”. We’re only given the names of six during the story: Rassilon; Morvane; Bedevere (“The Matrix Lords”, and implicitly the latter two are Gallifreyans); Dakon Theta and the Thane of Kordar from the Althrace system; and Merlin the Wise from Earth. By the time of “The Final Chapter”, the Higher Evolutionaries include a representative of the Order of the Black Sun, Demoiselle Drin, in the place of Merlin.

It’s unclear whether the fact that Bedevere and Merlin are both names from Arthurian legend is significant, or how this Merlin relates to the Doctor being the Merlin of a parallel universe in
Battlefield
.

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The Five Doctors

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The Infinity Doctors

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The Ancestor Cell

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Cat’s Cradle: Time’s Crucible

[
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] We hear a female voice read an extract from the modern translation of
The Book of the Old Time
in
The Deadly Assassin
.

[
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] The last extant copy of The Black Scrolls of Rassilon is destroyed in
The Five Doctors.

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Goth Opera
(p119).

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]
No Future
(p203).

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Timewyrm: Revelation
(p65).

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Lungbarrow

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The Infinity Doctors

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The Gallifrey Chronicles

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The Infinity Doctors, The Ancestor Cell.

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The Infinity Doctors

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Heart of TARDIS

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K9 and the Time Trap
. The story bears similarity to Omega’s story, and is written by Bob Baker, Omega’s co-creator. However, there are differences - Omega was never Emperor, and he only harnessed one sun. Omegon has a crippled leg. Despite the very similar names, they
do
seem to be different figures from early Time Lord history.
The Time Trap
doesn’t mention Omega, so doesn’t explore the relationship between the characters. Perhaps Omegon is Omega’s son, building on his father’s work. As an interesting side note, Omegon says he has met K9’s master, presumably the Doctor.

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] “Millennia” before
The Pyralis Effect
. Gallifrey is in Kasterborous, and it’s not impossible that the unnamed race that defeated the Pyralis was the Time Lords, although it’s impossible to say exactly when in their history this event would fall.

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Image of the Fendahl

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Underworld

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Death Comes to Time
. This sounds like a retelling of the Minyan story, or possibly an indication that there were many such mistakes made in Gallifrey’s past.

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Death Comes to Time

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Time and Relative

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Lungbarrow

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The Ancestor Cell

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The Doctor’s Wife

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Renaissance of the Daleks
. The fifth Doctor overrides this circuit to rescue Nyssa and a Knight Templar after they’re killed in 1864, which somewhat begs the question of why he doesn’t do this more often. It’s presumably this circuit that malfunctions and causes the “time track” anomaly seen in
The Space Museum
. The fact that the Daleks don’t use such a protocol probably accounts for the alternate timeline in which they’re the masters of Earth in
Day of the Daleks
.

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The Dimension Riders

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The Eight Doctors, The Infinity Doctors.

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The Infinity Doctors

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Tomb of Valdemar

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The Infinity Doctors

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The Infinity Doctors
. The implication is that they would be (or had been?) used against the People of the Worldsphere first seen in T
he Also People.

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Divided Loyalties

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] Dating “The Stolen TARDIS” (
DWW
#9-11) - The Doctor says “when did it happen? Oh, a long time ago, dates really aren’t important to us time travellers”. Sillarg lands without encountering Gallifrey’s transduction barriers (
The Invasion of Time
) or other defences, and the city isn’t domed (although it may not be the Capitol, as we know there are other cities on Gallifrey).

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] Dating “Minatorius” (
DWM Winter Special 1981
) - Like “The Stolen TARDIS”, this could take place at any time.

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Gallifrey: Reborn

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The Deadly Assassin

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Matrix

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The Dimension Riders

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Conundrum
, referencing
The Mind Robber
.

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So Vile a Sin

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Millennial Rites

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Christmas on a Rational Planet

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The Mutants

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The Deadly Assassin

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The Leisure Hive

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The Trial of a Time Lord

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Shada

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Revenge of the Judoon

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Pier Pressure

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The Quantum Archangel

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Spiral Scratch
. Lakertya appeared in
Time and the Rani.

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Mawdryn Undead

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The Stones of Blood

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The Dimension Riders

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Legacy

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The Devil Goblins from Neptune

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A Device of Death

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Managra

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Timewyrm: Genesys

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Damaged Goods

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The Impossible Planet
, which concurs with information in the novels, such as
Cold Fusion
and
The Taking of Planet 5
.

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Journey’s End
, perhaps intended to explain why the Doctor is so rubbish at piloting the TARDIS, but in defiance of the large number of times in classic
Doctor Who
(
The Time Meddler
, every story with the Master, etc.) that TARDISes other than the Doctor’s Ship operate just fine with a single pilot.

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Cold Fusion

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Goth Opera

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The Crystal Bucephalus

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The Gallifrey Chronicles

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Love and War

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The Eight Doctors

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] First seen in
The War Games
(suggesting that the technology predates the Doctor leaving Gallifrey) and most recently used in
The Doctor’s Wife.

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The Sound of Drums

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] Aliens recognise the Doctor as a Time Lord in
The Time Warrior, The Brain of Morbius, Image of the Fendahl, Underworld, The Invasion of Time
,
The Ribos Operation, State of Decay, The Keeper of Traken, Earthshock, Mawdryn Undead, Frontios, Resurrection of the Daleks, Attack of the Cybermen
,
Vengeance on Varos, The Two Doctors, Timelash, The Trial of a Time Lord, The Curse of Fenric, Rose, The End of the World, Dalek, Human Nature
(TV),
The Stolen Earth, The Eleventh Hour, The Doctor’s Wife
and
A Good Man Goes to War.

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The Two Doctors

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The War Games

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The Time Warrior

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The Hand of Fear