GALLIFREY STUFF
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information from the TV Series
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information from the Novels
(Virgin, BCC, I Who (which isn't a novel but it's source
material is))
information from The Infinity
Doctors and some of Cold Fusion
(I put The
Infinity Doctors
as an 8th Doctor sidetrip. I admit I
could be wrong.)
information from deliberately
created alternate version of Doctor Who
(The Unbound Series, Death Comes to
Time)
information from 'licensed'
reference sources
(The Technical Manual, Monsters, The Doctor Who Cookbook and The
Gallifrey
Chronicles)
information from 'unreliable'
sources:
(FASA's role-playing game, the Nth Doctor, Destiny of the Doctors (I
don't trust them
either, but you never know))
information from unofficial
sources
( Lawrence Miles'
books, the Benny
adventures)
information from speculative
sources
(my own speculation, and other fan speculation. Includes ideas
from sites listed on my
home page.)
?
The event occurred approximately in this
interval.
??
A pretty wild guess as to when this event
took place.
GALLIFREY:
They that Walk in Shadows
“Can you imagine silver leaves waving
above a pool of liquid gold containing singing fish? Twin suns that
circle and fall in a rainbow heaven, another world in another sky? If
you’d like to come with me, I’ll show you all this - and it will be, I
promise you, the dullest part of all. Come with me and you will see
wonders that no Human has ever dreamt possible. Or stay behind and
regret your staying until the day you die.”
- The Doctor
The Minyan Constellation of Kasterborus
In the Kasterborus Sector. The centermost star is Gallifrey's
sun.
(seen on the back
of the 3rd/4th/8th Doctor's TARDIS key)
ASTROPHYSICAL LOCATION:
Gallifrey is in the seventh system at the heart of
the Home Constellation (a
Gallifreyan "constellation" refers to elements of
time/relativity/location) - which is
known to the Lesser Species as the Minyan constellation
of Kasterborus (also
known as the Kasterborus Sector). It is named for an astrologist
who also wrote Our Destiny is in the Stars. Later myths will
claim that the gods yolked him to a chariot of silver fire. His
beliefs have
infiltrated the cultures of the Delphons, Phreni, and Sirians. The
Constellation of Kasterborus is located at the
center (or the edge) of the Mutter's Stellian
(or Stellarian)
Spiral Galaxy (The Milky Way, Galaxia Kyklos) on the
edge of the Capricorn Tract. This is a close to the center of the
galaxy as its possible to be without drawn into the black hole.
The
Kasterborus Ice Ring, and
Kasterborus Borealis are in the same
sector as Gallifrey's system, but the
other systems of the Kasterborus
sector have no significant populations. The
Nebula of Cyclops is near enough to Gallifrey to be faintly
visible.
The Kasterborus Constellation might be in the Sagittarius constellation (center of
the galaxy) in the Earth skies. In this area of space stars would be
clustered so tightly that they would only be about 1/10th of a
lightyear apart. During the Rassilon
Era Gallifrey is 29,000
light years from Sol
III. However by the time of the Humanian Era it is 250,000,000 light years away (it was probably moved there
during the Time War or perhapse it was the only Gallifrey to survive).
During the Rassilon
Era its binary coordinates
are
10-0-11-0-0 by 02 from galactic 0 center.
Gallifrey's Dominions include
several planets that would be valuable if
mined (Could they contain
Taranium?) Time Lord traffic
control monitor
any vessels that pass near Gallifrey's space-time location. Traffic Control's temporal scans will detect an
unschedualed Timeship about 2 minutes before it materializes and
identify whether it is Gallifreyan from its molecular patina. Space vessel must request pemission to pass through
Gallifrey's space-time. The
Sisterhood of Karn draws a
significant number of space vessels (probably to steal the Elixir), causing
them to crash on Karn.
The Planet Gallifrey
SYSTEM DATA:
Gallifrey's primary star
has no name. In
order to protect Gallifrey from Vampires, the solar engineer Omega
constructed a new Second Sun, which he added to Gallifrey's
system. This Second Sun is probably a small
artificial one for Gallifrey is usually described as having only
one sun. The star is visible from Gallifrey and named
Pogar. Because of the twin suns the
planets in system have very short nights.
The Gallifrey system has six
planets: Gallifrey, Karn, a
frozen gas
giant named Polarfrey, Kasterborus the Fibster (an asteroid) and
another unknown planet (possibly
Demos). Gallifrey
and Karn might be the second and third planets in the system.
Karn is located a few billion miles
(could be SI or European "billion") from Gallifrey and appears to
have population of no more then a few million. Parts of
Karn are covered in hexagonal crytaline rock formation. If Gallifrey had similary rock
formations it could explain the importance of hexegons in their
mythology.
Gallifrey is
known as the Shining World of the Seventh System. On Gallifrey the
second sun rose in the south. Gallifrey's
gravity, orbital radius, star type, pressure,
temperature, and oxygen levels are the same
as Earth. As Gallifrey appears to have the same
orbit as Alzarius it might be draw farther from the sun every 50 years
by
other planets in the system. The planet has a significant amount
of Gallifreyan Zinc which is one of the strongest metals in the
universe. Gallifrey has a
moon called
Pazithi Gallifreya which orbits Gallifrey every 27 days. It exerts a much stronger tidal
force on the planet. In ancient times
it was known as the Virgin Moon Goddess. It is copper (or ivory
or heileotrope) colored and
shines even in the sunlight. This moon
has a large supply of Taranium which was
mined during the Dark Time. The "sky" outside a place that is outside of time (as Gallifrey is) still
shows a constellations of stars, but an observer can see a
billions of years of star movment in
just a few minutes. Some
wisps of nebula can be seen in the night sky of Gallifrey. There are also several artificial
satellites that can be seen from the surface, even during the
day. By the time
of Death Comes to
Time the constellations around Gallifrey appear similar to
the constellations around Sol III.
Outer Gallifrey
THE PLANET GALLIFREY:
Because
it located in Inner Time,
Gallifrey (or maybe just the Death Zone) shows up as no time and no
place on TARDIS insturments. Despite the
fact that Gallifrey
has been primed to resist the effects of entropy, the
planet is very old and appears quite
ancient. From orbit
Gallifrey is the color of rust, with
brown
lakes and dust-grey clouds. There are three small oceans (which were once quite large)
and several
seas but less then half its
surface is water. Many of
the lakes gold colored (reflecting
light from the burnt orange sky?) At
night and day
the sky is burnt orange and often filled with purple, green, and yellow
lights. Under certain
circumstances the sky will also appear blue.
Millions
of years after the installation of the Eye of Harmony, very little of
Gallifrey’s original biosphere survives. Gallifrey has
more then 24 seasons - but they are similar (and dry) enough
that many claim Gallifrey has no seasons. The Autumn breezes would blow through
the silver leafed trees, creating a musical effect. At
one point
the planet might have
been very much like Alzarius from E-Space and possibly had a Mistfall
every 50 years caused by another planet pulling Gallifrey farther from
its sun. Southern Gallifrey
occationally suffers blizzards. The planet
is
currently in the midst of an ice age, but in the summer, Gallifrey's
sun
is still intense enough to cause
sunburn on a human. Despite the ice age Gallifrey's ice caps are
quite tiny (probably due to
the overall lack of water). There is no argon in the
atmosphere. Southern Gallifrey is
considered quite
wild and beautiful. It can
experiance warm Gallifreyan nights where the stars shine. Most of
Gallifrey is burnt red deserts (with orange sand) and mountains.
There are some
green forests, and golden fields strewn with ruble - but they make up a
minority of the terrain.
Gallifrey's surface is divided up into sectors. The planet's highest mountain is
Mount Cadon (from which flows the river Cadonflood?). This snow topped
gray-green mountain is located on the continent of Wild Endeavor and extends to the fringes
of Gallifrey's atmosphere. It is located within visual sight of
the Capitol which is also found on the continent of Wild Endeavor.
The bulk of mount Cadon
dwarfs the Capitol. Many of the
river beds are dry, though the still
active River Lethe is
located within walking distance of Mount Cadon. Another
important mountain is Mount
Plutarch which is
near the Lune Forest and the inland sea. Mount Lung is located in Southern
Gallifrey. The river
Cadonflood is located near Lungbarrow and (as its name implies) is know
to flood from time to time. The
Soonwell
Valley is 500 leagues (~3000 km) from the Capitol. Lake Abydos might be near House Heartshaven (or Dvora). In the
modern
era there are only between
3 and 9 million Gallifreyans, which leaves many settlements and roads
competely abandoned.
BIOLOGY
Memento Mori
The Gallifreyan Flower of Remembrance
Plants:
The
leaves of the plant life come in the following colors : green, blue, bronze,
silver, and some
are transparent. There are Kaden-Wood trees (with silver leaves),
Maldor
Trees, Cerub Trees (with hallucinogenic
truffle-flavored
nuts), Hefzi
Moss, Madevinia Aridosa (small desert
plants that have an incredibly rapid life cycle), red-petaled orchids,
Magentas (fruit tree), Trumpberries, Lushberries (probably edible), Molten Rushes (with zinc hawthorns), Grass (both in deep red and probably
purple), Gallifreyan Flowers of Remembrance (Memento
Mori - 6 yellow petals), Schlenk Blossoms, Grockel Root (a type of plant used to
make alcohol), Nitvil (a slimy plant with
healing properties) Oaks, and
Sarlain (a yellow flower that resembles
a
Terran Daisy, Daffodil or Rose). Some flowers glow in the dark and some might
be as tall as trees. Biotrophic
fungi include Feathergills, pogsquats, skullcaps, and Cardinal's
collars.
An Owl - The Symbol of Rassilon
Animals: Invertabrates: Beatitude Flies
(with golden wings), Butterflies,
Bees, Gullet Grubs, Blossom Thieves, Scrubblers,
Neversuch Beetles,
Sandbeetles, Dustworms, Scissors Bugs, Flutterwings (3 meters by
25 meters, never land), web spinning
insects, Snails, and Water-Sligs. There
are really nasty creatures that
live beneath big stones.
Marine life: Singing
Fish, Kittensharks (are hatched
from eggs and presumably grow up to be Catsharks),
Elapids include Taipan (10
meters long and venomous snake), Venal Snakes, Bat-Snakes
Avians: Owls
(the symbol of Rassilon), Flurry Birds, song
birds,
Mammels: Plungbolls (thumbnail sized furry
creatures, live in mountains, attatch enmass to warm objects),
Taffelshrews, Fledershrews, Cobblemice
(sprout wings), Rovie Mice (live in fields, long lived if they
are not killed, sometimes kept as pets), Vex (burrowing animal),
Gallifreyan Womprats (1 meter long rats with fifteen
legs), Pig-Rats, Flubbles
(small
six-legged koalas), Horse-Cats, Elephants, Pig-Bears, Baanjxx (arboreal browser,
eats cerub nuts), and probably
walrus. The Doctor and
Ruath re-introduced cats
into the eco-system
(at a point before The Infinity Doctors).
Ancient Gallifreyan Biology: Ancient Gallifreyans didn't evolve from apes (they do
not believe they evolved from monkeys either). Early Gallifreyans
had only one heart. Most deaths were a result of heart
failure. Ancient Gallifreyans
have a bypass respiratory system.
When used, the bypass
system makes them very resistant to most forms of anaesthetic (but not chloroform) and
stragulation. With warning a Gallifrey
can store enough oxygen in their system to be active for 20
minutes. They can hold
their breath for hours if they don't move much. Their blood, hormones and pheremones
have distinct differences from modern Gallifreyan. They usualy
can't interbreed with
humans. Their
children have milk teeth. Their
children aged slower
then Humans and it might take hundreds of years for a Gallifreyan
to mature into an adult. An 11 year old would look like an 8 or 9 year old
human,
but a 16 year old would look like
an earth teenager. At around
this
point their aging slows dramaticly - a 48 year
old would look like an 18 year old human. Gallifreyans in their teens need as
much food as a human teenager if not more. Adult Gallifreyans eat about as
much as human. Young
Gallifreyans need
to sleep a little more then most humans, but after they
pass First Maturation and learn to control their bodies,
they only need 1-2 hours a day. They live to be about 300 years old - or possibly forever.
They might have had the
telepathic, adaptive, and regenerative abbilites similare to the
Marshmen in Full Circle. By human standards ancient
Gallifreyans were tall and athletic, and the women tended to be much
taller then males (this changed
after when the looms were created). The women also tended to
have well developed muscels.
While a young (around 16)
Gallifreyan’s telepathic powers are still developing they are
vulnerable to
experiencing strong emotions from large groups. Sometimes this
causes a psychic feedback where the Gallifreyan ends up reinforcing
the emotions of a group. All the adult
minds of the planet were in constant telepathic entrelacement due
to an organ located in their hypothalamus.
This was thought to be the greatest curse of Gallifreyan civilization.
One
Gallifreyan every 1,000 years was born an Individual. Individuals
could shield their minds from telepathy and had other psionic
powers. When young, Individuals also made good time pilots. Because of their abbility to focus
older Individuals often became great philosophers, scientists, and
explorers. Many became Heros.
Ancient Gallifreyans were
sensitive to time and its movement.
Modern Gallifreyan Biology
GENETICS -
Gallifreyans have Triple Helix DNA as well as TNA. The extra third strand was added
by Rassilon to make Regeneration possible. Hidden in Gallifreyan DNA are 'killing lessons' to
destroy Cacophony should she ever appear. Time Lords share 98% of their genes with
Vampires. The DNA of every previous incarnation
lies dormant inside a Gallifreyan's body. By the time he
had regenerated 7 times the Doctor
(and presumably other Gallifreyans)
have 69
chromosomes
divided into 23 homogeneous triads. They are
vunerable to some earth
viruses, like influenza, fevers, and the common cold. They can also suffer from rheumatism.
Before the
curse
fades almost all
Gallifreyans are sterile. Every
Gallifreyan has a Bio-Data Extract
(aka biog-data extract, or D-E) sample removed and stored by
Coordinator
of the Matrix and veiwable only by the Coordinator, the Castellan, and
members of the High Council. Losing
one's virginity makes it much more difficult (if not impossible) for
Gallifreyan technology to read ancestral memories from the subjects
biodata. Transmission of an extract is
considered treason. There are millions of Time
Lord
extracts stored in the Archival Office (implying that Gallifrey has had
more then 1000 Time Lords for much of it history), but as of The Ancestor
Cell a total of only 153,846 Time Lord mindes have been uploaded into
the Matrix.
Exctracts of Time Lords are color coded by
chapter. Time Lord D-Es can only be accessed by the High
Council or the Castellan and all accesses are logged. Also see this
site
NERVOUS SYSTEM - Gallifreyan
brains are green in color and
larger then a human's. They have Superganglion which allows them to
re-order and re-program their neural pathways at will. Among
other things this allows them to separate the operation of the two
hemispheres of their brains and makes them immune to some types of
interrogation technology. They
can
also switch off the parts of their brain that process input from
various senses, allowing them to limit their vast number of senses to
the same range as a human. They
have perfect memory of everything they experiance (in that incarnation) and an
over greater memory storage capacity than a human. A
dormant
throwback organ
in their brains can
allow them to sense higher dimensions (with training). They are
much more vunerable to changing magnetic fields then most humanoids
are. Depending on how
their brain is currently configured, and how "off" their
biorythems are it can sometimes take them a while to notice the
blindingly obvious. At the
base of their brains is a seperate tertiary lobe
called the Autonomic Brain that handles all body
and motor functions. This frees the rest of the brain for
purely intellectual pursuits allowing them to think of over 7,432 ideas
in a few minutes. An
electroencephalograph of a Gallifreyan brain will show a type of
activity unlike any human brain. Because of their extended
life span
Gallifreyans need to clear out some of their memories every few
thousand years. They usually store the more important memories
useing telepathic
circuits. Gallifreyans have a nerve cluster
of major ganglion along their left collar bone beneath the left clavicle that allows them
complete control over their own metabolism .
A blow at this cluster will render
them unconscious. Their
retinas are so sophisticated that they
can almost think on their own. In addition to rods and cones
their eyes are equipped with octagons, gives
them amazing night
vision.
They can shift their vision outside the
normal
visual spectrum allowing them to see a total of 170 different levels of
the electromagnetic specturm, including in some shades of
ultraviolet. There's a lot of
evidence that their eye color can change depending on mood. Their
pupil response
is very different from humans and can resist super intense
photo-emissions that would permanenlty blind a human. (If they remember to check)
they can tell whether a humanoid is Gallifrey just by looking at them. A regenerated Gallifreyan's,
hearing and smell is better than
human's and some Gallifreyans
can perform biochemical
analysises of what they
eat including
identifying blood type.
Unconcious
Gallifreyans can often be awakened with a heated infusion of free radicals,
antioxidants, and tannin (aka boiling tea vapor). The scent of Celery is
considered to be another
powerful restorative on Gallifrey. Many Gallifreyans are
capable of
amazing voice imatation. Thus locks with voice prints are not in
common use.
CIRCULATORY SYSTEM - Most
Gallifreans are loomed with one heart. When they regnerate they
aquire a second heart that is a
mirror image of the first.
Newblood
Gallifreyans are loomed with 2 hearts and
have excellent control over their appearance when regenerating. Their hearts are bivalved and each heart produces two distinct
beats per cycle.
Most Gallifreyans
have two hearts (a primary and a
secondary) each of which
usually beat 60
times per minute and normally fibrillate at a rate of 300. A
double pulse of 170 is considered more or less normal. The electical activity of the hearts
is much greater then a humans and the beats are quite powerful making it difficult for the hearts
to be exactly located with a sethoscope. The speed of each heart can vary and they can survive
with only 1 heart beating. Gallifreyans are
trained to stop both their hearts and
feign death for
several hours. Both hearts are supported by a binary
vascular system. The removal of one
heart results in the temporay loss of many Gallifreyan enhancements
whiile a new heart is grown. If
someone has a Gallifreyan heart transplanted into their body they will
be linked to the doner Gallifreyan and it will be very difficult to
kill the doner without killing the receiver as well. A Gallifreyan's
blood pressure is
typically 70/70 millimeters of mercury. Gallifreyan blood
is
darker than human blood and redish-orange.
It doesn't conform with any form of human
blood because it has a different pathological
state and lots of unusual
acids. The respiratory pigment doesn't
use hemoglobin but does share
some of structural characteristics of human hemoglobin. Their blood
doesn't have
a
type and (due to its regenerative properties) it
is in a constant state of genetic flux. It carries a uniquie
artron energy signature. Not
surprisingly doesn't
smell
like human blood. Because of its unique nature it can be
transfused into
any human without complications. A human recipient will feel
rather energized, probably because it carries oxygen (and other gases) vastly
better than
human
blood. They have advanced platelets
detect even tiny amounts
of toxins. Gallifreyan lungs can absorb
every single molecule of
oxygen
inhaled. They need less (only 1/4)
oxygen as a human to function normally
and thus they normally
take only 4
breaths a minute.
Gallifreyans
have a bypass
respiratory system and a secondary cardiovascular system.
When conciously triggered, the bypass
system contracts, closing
off their primary respiratory passages making them very
resistant to most forms of anaesthetic,
ether, cyanide,
stragulation, hanging,
and the squeaky voice caused by helium. Gallifreyans are also much more resistant to mercury
poisoning
than Humans. Mustard
Gas is still deadly however. They
lose their sense of smell when they rely on their
Bypass respitory system. The bypass respitory systems
also
allows them to hold their breath for several minutes and, with warning, a Gallifrey
can store enough oxygen in their system to be active for 20
minutes. If this is insuficient
they can enter a trance to
reduce
their oxygen intake
even futher allowing them to
hold their breath for hours. As
Gallifreyans pass 1000 years of age their bypass respiratory system
becomes
less reliable and there is a chance that they won't be able to awaken
from
its use. Some Gallifreyans (such as
the Rani) have some trouble breathing in humid environments. Also see this site and this site.
PSIONICS - Whenever two
Gallifreyans meet there is a courtesy mind-touch to identify and
aknowledge each other. This allows them to recognize each
other even if they are wearing a new body. There are also
able to tell if humans are
telepathic or not. Gallifreyans suffer psychic feedback,
fever and headaches as their telepathic abilities mature. Gallifreyans can use touch telepathy to form entrelacement (Contact). If they
are trying to telepathically contact one of their own incarnations they
don't even need to be touching. Indeed such contact can be made
over the astral plane (the 4th
Dimension) over galactic distances. Some of them can
telepathically block a person's memories back to an arbitrary point in
their life. They can
also implant post-hypnotic suggestions in
people who are trying to read their minds. The Matrix also
enhances the Time Lord telepathic powers. Every Time Lord
possesses a quantum of Artron
Energy which gives them a unique artron
energy
signature. This is significantly more
life-energy than a human has. It's possible
that females might be more gifted with telepathic abbilites. They
generate Artron Energy traces that can be
used by others to determine their age
and identity. The energy they
possess increases by a minute amount every time they pass through the
Vortex. They are
capable of absorbing lethal amounts of energy from another
humanoid. After doing so a regneration will be nessecary to
eliminate the energy. They can also donate some of
their energy to recharge a TARDIS Power Cell but doing so consumes 10
years of their total lifespan. Gallifreyans can uses a
process called Soul Catching to absorb a dying Gallifreyan's memories.
Mindbending
(aka Time Lord
Wrestling) is a Time Lord
game that involves a telepathic battle between two contestants.
They try to regress each other mentaly through their previous
incarnations. Its just a game but it can end in deathlock if a
contenstant is pushed back to the point of death.
GENERAL
BIOLOGY - They
have got multiple organs of virtually
everything including two more ribs (than humans). They have 2 of
most of the organs that humans have only one of, and 4 of the organs
that humans have only two of. Asside from the extra ribs a
Gallifreyan's skeleton is almost identical to a humans.
They have only
one liver. Their internal body
temperature is
15-16 degrees Celsius (60 degrees Fahrenheit) however their skin temperature is
only a little below the human norm. Gallifreyans tend to
find a room temp
of 20 C to be uncomfortably hot. Despite
this, adult Gallifreyans are capable of withstanding extreme
temperatures at both ends of the scales. They can remain concious
in the -270 C cold of space for 6
minutes and can withstand 200 degreec C for up to 3
minutes. At body temperatures of several hundred degrees below 0
C a
Gallifreyan will lose complete control of their body and appear
dead. Despite this their mind is infact very active.
Gallifreyan probably have tonsils and its not probably not unknown for
them to have to be removed.
Gallifreyans have more than one stomach and
are not as vulnerable to malnutrition as Humans
are. Some (if not all) believe that only
one meal a day is perfectly normal. Despite this their
metabolism
is relitively close to a humans and they can eat the same foods.
Some Gallifreyans can use their stomachs to interpret human memory RNA
and producing the Gallifreyan equivalent. They
and
can easily go two days without water and a week without food is not a major
strain. Infact they sometimes sit in thought for days without
food or water. However 40 days without food or
water will
make a Gallifreyan delirious.
Gallifreyans
metabolize
alcohol very quickly so
it is almost impossible for them to become drunk or suffer the effects of hallucinogens. Thus can easily drink 10 pints of beer without showing
any ill effects. Some Gallifreyans
can use special meditations to regulate
their metabolism. This gives them a
very fine control over the rate at which they metabolize alcohol,
making inebriation or hallucinations possible. However Ginger pop
has a severely deleterious effect on any Gallifreyan metabolism. This allows them to be easily
effected by any alcohol they might have consumed. They need to
urinate every few days. Arsenic
is toxic to Gallifreyans and will inhibit their enzymes. If a
large source of protein, salt, and other chemicals (found in ginger
beer) are availible a Gallifreyan who has been poisoned with arsenic
can use a major shock or surprise to trigger Detox. This
detoxification allows their stomach to stimulate inhibited enzymes to
reverse and release all toxins a gas that can be exhaled. This procedure doesn't work for all toxins, most notably, Aspirin,
which is incredibly
toxic to Gallifreyans. The allergic reactions that occur
when aspirin
begins to interfer with their genetic struture causes massive a
pulmonary and cerebral embolism severe
enough to prevent regeneration. Even touching it can be
dangerous. Gallifreyans
don't have prostate glands. When
trained they can control their adrenaline, blood-suger levels, heart
rate, respiration, and presperation to the point where they can fool
23rd century medical diagnotics into thinking they are human.
They can even switch off any
of their
organs at will. They also have control over the speed and
location of their hair
growth. They can grow hair faster then humans or stop the growth
compleatly. Despite this some Gallifreyans
still shave their faces. Their skin smells like
honey and
has extra subdural and subcutaneous layers. This makes their skin very
resistant to radiation, physical damage, poison ivy,
sunburns,
and tanning. Gallifreyans can resist radiation that
will kill a human in 4 minutes for 2-12 minutes before they start to
take noticable damage. They can easily absorbe 50 times the
output
of a 21st century medical X-ray machine (approximately 50 rems of
Roentgen (aka X-Ray) radiation) and them expel it into any object they
they can touch. Incarnations which appear to be
physically younger are significantly more resistant to radiation then
older bodies.
Gallifreyans can
erect non porous barriers around their noses, ears and eyeballs that
prevent any intrusion on the molecular level. This allows them to
remain concious for 6 minutes and survive
up to 20 minutes in space unprotected. Gallifrreyans have incredible
strength for their size.
They
can remain concious when exposed to G-forces that would kill a human.
They can enter self-induced
sleep trance in which breathing, heart beat, and brain activity are all
reduced to an absolute minimum. While in this trance a Time Lord can
ponder complex ideas without any outside distractions. 20 minutes
in this state is equivalant to 8 hours for a
human. Thus they only need about 1-6
hours of sleep every 2 days and some
Gallifreyans can get by on a decade of sleep every
100 years. Others become tired after only being awake for only 4
days. Gallifreyans rarely dream, but when they do, they
sometimes dream of choosing their next
bodies, being able to fly, becoming the opposite sex, and bearing
children. Gallifreyan
who have regenerated in that last few days will require a lot of sleep,
even by human standards.
LOOMING - There are between
3 and 9 million Gallifreyans and just over 10%
of them are female. Because of their history,
Gallifreyan culture tends to view the female gender as a symbol of the
unlike and the outside. The Curse
of the Pythia rendered almost all Gallifreyans are sterile. Though they are physicaly capable of sex most have almost no sex
drive. Losing one's
virginity makes it much more difficult (if not impossible) for
Gallifreyan technology to read ancestral memories from the subjects
biodata. While
some
Gallifreyans will enjoy erotic dancers actual prostitution is very
rare. Despite all this,
some
Gallifreyans fall in
'love' and some undergo get marriage. However Gallifreyan Marriages are almost always undertaken to
maintain the power of the
Chapters by strengthening the political power of the Houses involved. A
Gallifreyan generation is 10,000 years.
Each
Chapterhouse has a loomshed, which holds the House’s Loom. The Honorable Central Population Directory
defines the quota of cousins for each House's Loom. A loom
consists of millions of fine cords which weave matter (probably Rapid Growth Biomass) and biodata
together. For several days spirals of data
flow down these cords and are woven into a mesh. From this mesh a
Gallifreyan Childe is
formed. During this time Loom-Tenders's supervise and
occationally sing traditional rhymes. The Looms are
complex anchors in
time designed to link the Gallifreyan to Gallifrey and, by extension,
the Web of Time. As such they have limited knowledge
of the future of every loomling. They probalby
weave not only DNA but also give each loomling a distinct future.
Depending on the Loom, some loomlings (or childes) produce offspring as small childes (reminicent of a human
child) other looms produce them as full grown adults. The
children have milk teeth. Gallifreyans in their teens need as
much food as a human teenager if not more. Adult Gallifreyans eat about as
much as human. Young
Gallifreyans need
to sleep a little more then most humans, but after they
pass First Maturation and learn to control their bodies,
they only need 1-2 hours a day.
DEVELOPMENT - A Gallifreyan childe ages slower
then Humans and it takes hundreds of years for them
to mature into what a Gallifreyan would consider an adult. A loomling will have trouble
using proper
grammar, but can walk right after Looming. At 5 years old,
loomlings are amazingly intelligent. An 11 year
old would look like an 8 or 9 year old
human,
but a 16 year old would look like
an earth teenager. At around
this
point their aging slows dramaticly - a 48 year
old would look like an 18 year old human. Some one around 60
would still still look like young adult but would still
considered to be a very young childe.
They are
still considered kids at
age 90.
Childes
spend several decades
undergoing Brainbuffing both at home and at school. Most (if not all) children
are taken from their families at the age
of 8 to attend their Chapter's Academy. At some points in history some aliens (such as
Gresaurus)
are allowed to take classes at the Academies. These aliens are
not allowed to learn any Temporal Engineering skills. One of
these races was the War Lord Aliens. They were expelled for
trying to learn how to build TTCs (TARDISes). The
Prydon Chapter has
its own Time Academy and the
Patrex Chapter has its own Acadmey as does each of the other
Chapters. The Prydon
Time
Academy is
open to the air and located on the slopes of Mount Cadon (Gallifrey's
highest
mountain). Prefectly
groomed lawns surround the buildings, which are accessed by sand filled
pathways Those taking the
mystic studies course spend a great deal of time meditating and dark
secrets are taught to the monks in the
upper levels of its
towers. The
Lodge of the Patrexes Academy is located in the Capitol. It has a
gate of solid light with a sphere of the first gold ever formed in the
Universe.
The
same year they enroll in the Academy each Novice is taken outside the
Capitol to the Untempered
Schism for their initiation. They gaze into this gap in reality
and
stare at the raw power of the entire
Space-Time Vortex. When confronted with eternity some Novices are
inspired, some run away, and a very few go mad. Gallifreyans who pass are know as Time
Tots (aka Time Toddlers) and are given the rank of Novice. Some (if not all)
students receive a new official
name while attending their Academy. All Gallifreyans receive single
names (though they are usually very long). The long
version of a Gallifreyan's name is writen in Old High
Gallifreyan. The length of a Time Lord's name grows as his social
and political stature increase. They also receive
a nickname using Greek letters that
identifies them uniquely and relates to the location their mind will
occupy in the Matrix, based off
their physical and mental
abilites. The
closer to alpha their names is the greater their preceived
abilities. These names are
listed on the Academy Roll in a bronze Records Building.
Gallifreyans
are force-educated
using Neural Training, which on high-intensity level, can teach someone
to speak, read, write, count, and play an instrument in one hour.
Despite this, there are a number of
major
similarites between the
Prydon Academy and the schools on Earth in the 20th century. Novices
learn quantum mechanics in Infant School and even the simplest geometry
problem is
solved
using the first 5 dimensions.
While
still Time Tots they read 4
dimensional pop-up books like
Our Planet's Story. and Every Gallifreyan Child's Pop-Up
Book of Nasty Creatures From Other Dimensions.
They are also taught to recite their 2337
times
tables. Some
of the games the children play might involve
extra-galactic space travel. They
are taught how to live and act in
society and that all life is
sacrosanct and that Gallifreyans need to be dedicated to a life of
service to Time. They also study supralogic.
At around 60 they are taught
Tri-bio-physics. Novices
take the entrance examination
for the Time Academy while
still in brain buffing. If they are accepted then, after 12
years with their Chapter's
Academy, they are enrolled in the Time Academy.
If they don't pass they remain at their Chapter's Academy.
Gallifreyans are not considered legal
adults untill they are 200 years old
A Gallifreyan who is almost 400 years old is a legal adult, but they
are viewed as being an adolescent but his elders until he can
taste his own tongue. 750-850 years old is considered
to be analogus to "approaching
middle age."
REGENERATION (aka Face-Lift, Telebiogenesis) -
Several sources claim that Time Lords are the
only Gallifreyans who are capable of regeneration. But several
other sources show normal (ie non-Time Lord) Gallifreyans regenerating
without anyone considering it unusual. Regeneration
was created to extend the already amazing Gallifreyan lifespan. Gallifreyan
bodies are filled
with self-replicating biogenic molecules (sometimes known as the Immortality
Virus, the Legacy of Rassilon
or nanites)
that work
ceaselessly to repair and prune
damaged and malformed cells. Because of this it takes hundreds of
years for a Gallifreyan to show signs of aging. These
biogenic molecules are a variation of symbiotic nuclei and
(probably using sonic waves) gives all Gallifreyans a symbiotic
self-renewing cell structure. Time
Lords actually use their symbiotic nuclie to govern regeneration.
If a Gallifreyan's symbiotic cell structure was ever deactivated they
will not be able to regenerate. The biogenic monlecules allow the
body to dispose of foreign objects and
implants fairly quickly.
They usually recover from unconciousness faster than humans.
By
"retreating"
into a healing trance
most
injuries (such as burns and
diseases) can be healed in a day. While extreame
pain or a sufficiently strong
audio-visual barrage will automatically induce a healing trance some
training is
required to enter one voluntarily. The biogenic molecules are
aided by temporal platelets which cluster around any wound,
accelerating time in that area
to speed the healing. A broken leg
takes about
4 days
to heal and nonlethal
bullet wounds heal in a day (the bullet is
ejected from the body). Bullet grazes heal in a few hours.
A combination of a bullet hole through the frontal lobe, a broken nose,
jaw, femur, and
collarbone will take a Gallifreyan 6 months to heal. They can also recover from deadly poisons and
selectively regenerate
specific organs while in the trance. These rates of healing can
be enhanced if
the Gallifreyan is kept near (or inside) a TARDIS. While in
the healing trance, they will appear dead to most humanoids,
but other Gallifreyans can tell they're alive.
Their
body temperature will drop so far below zero that that frost sometimes
forms on
the body and the mind will essentially switch off. Despite this one
heart will continue to beat about
once every 10 seconds.
While in the trance they can metabolize many types of poisons and
drugs. A fall of 30 feet (or even 200
feet) can be survived by a
combination of bone relaxation and cellular break down and regeneration
(similar to what happens in larval pupa). They have been know to survive
lightning strikes. Given several months a
Gallifreyan can grow a new heart (should one of their originals be
removed). It might be possible for them
to grow new limbs. If kept alive, a Gallifreyan’s severed body part can
be used to detect whether that specific Gallifreyan is in the area.
If the body
is subjected to great stress such as a
severed limb, extream illness,
(or
perhaps extreme boredom) the the
Limbic (or Lindal) Gland releases the hormone Lindos to
trigger Regeneration. As the hormone travels throughout the
Gallifreyan's body will begin to feel weak as it prepares to lose
solidity. Gallifreyans
are educated in how to control
their regenerations at their chapter's academy. It is
also possible for some (all?) Time
Lords to will their own regeneration without stress or
injury. By enacting the
proper meditative techniques a
Gallifreyan can temporarily
delay their
regeneration for several hours and
(if their will is great enough) several days - unless they die
first.
Chemical and telepathic signals can be
used to force
regenerate
someone who is badly wounded (but not somebody who is concious and
refuses to regenerate). Gallifreyans
who are exposed to the vacuum of space for several minutes, have had
both their hearts punctured,
or suffer a direct hit by a Dalek particle beam can not
regenerate. It is possible
to regenerate from a glancing hit by a Dalek Neutraliser.
Ideally all
regenerations should take
place within a low-grade
telepathic field (like the inside of a TARDIS). As a body prepares
for its very first regeneration, they will get very weak.
The
extra third strand of
Gallifreyan DNA was added by Rassilon to make Regeneration
possible. This strand
stores the regenerative information
within a Gallifreyan's Bioplasmic Field that surrounds their
bodies. During
regeneration this information is conveyed to the biogenic
molecules via a bio-language called Nucleolingua Symbiotica. When a
regeneration does occur
the permanently
carried self-replicated biogenic molecules
rebuild the body in a violent biological eruption of
Artron Energy. Using
this energy every
molecule in every cell is adjusted,
displaced,
rearranged causing
a
complete renewal and healing. A
blinded
Gallifreyan will regain
their sight after after a regeneration if the neural pathways
controlling his sight are intact. Even
damaged synapses are repaired. and a
Gallifreyan who regenerates after
decapitation will grow a new head (that will probably have the same
memories as the original). A regeneration is an exihilerating
experiance akin to driving a car very very fast. If a Gallifrey
the regeneration was triggered by an injury, and the subject a suitble bio-matching receptacle
(a spare
hand that had been amputated for example) is availible, they can abort
the Regeneration after the healing process is complete by siphoning off all the
extra energy into the receptcal. This is a rare occurance as
regeneration was never intened to be used to heal injuries (and
by-matching recepticles are rarely availble).
In most cases, once all the cells have been healed, the
regeneration of the body
(and to
a lesser degree) the mind will consume the rest of the Artron Energy. The
subjects body will be completely restructured. Regeneration
also restructures the
biodata of the subject, thus it could affect the subjects past as well
as its future. At the
first regeneration the
nanomachines are programmed to build into the new
body a number of improvements and backup systems including a new heart.
For
this reason the first regeneration is usually the
most painful. At the end of the
regeneration the
comatos Gallifreyan is awakened with by an automatically triggered
electroencephallic shock.
It takes about 10-60 minutes for
the
body to "gel" completely which
allows members of New Blood
Houses some time to try
various forms. Occasionally two
Gallifreyans will end up with bodies that look the same. This could mean that the looms have
only a limited number of bodies stored in their data spirals.
The
new body will
often have a different personality that expresses a different aspect of
their fundemental personality. A copy of the previous
personality is stored in the memory space for
eventual transfer into the Matrix. Each copy is kept "sleeping"
in a "room with no doors." The past incarnations often resent
being locked away and wish they could have lived longer. Some
Time Lords of the first rank can achieve Retro-regeneration
and temporarily summon the skills and personality of a former
incarnation. A TARDIS's Telepathic Circuits can help a Time Lord
acheive this. Regeneration
often causes temporary
memory
gaps and, while many
skills remain the same, it appears that many dexterity based skills
need
to be "relearned" (at a fairly quick rate) due to the differance in body
design. A
Gallifreyan's handwriting remains more or less the same throughout all
of their incarnations.
Until
recently
Regeneration was still a relatively
risky procedure. While
regenerating a Gallifreyan's body might
incorporate any foreign biodata it comes in contact with allowing them
to change species. Thus a Gallifreyan
could regenerate and
find himself to be half human. This
problem was only corrected within the last several thousand
years. Gallifreyans from Newblood Houses have amazing control
over there regenerations. This allows them to try on several
different genetic templates (and appearances) during a
regeneration. This techniquie can be taught with some
success to other Gallifreyans. It
is possible for a
male
Gallifreyan to regenerate into a female if they regenerate by commiting
sucide or a dog. For these reason their's a fair amount of
"regeneration politics" among certain factions on Gallifrey.
These focus on issues of class, gender, and species. Some are even capable of temporarily
shifting their genetic makeup enough to
fool some types of gene scanners without inducing a regeneration.
Within the first 15
hours of regeneration a Gallifreyan will still have enough risidual
cellular energy to regrow a severed body part, such as a hand. The new body part might be
designed to prevent what ever caused the loss of the original. Shortly after regeneration
Gallifreyans will often
experience bursts of superhuman strength and speed while
the new body stabilizes. They can also experiance Ambient
Complexity which causes erratic
and volatile mood changes. Its worth knowning that extreame heat combined with
adrenalin can temporaily stabize a newly
regenerated mind. In most cases the Gallifreyan's mind will synchroniz
properly within 4
days returning their strenght, reflexes, and personality to normal (for
their new incarnation). In some cases
Post-Regenerative Trauma can cause severe
personality instability.
Some times in the absence of a
Zero Room the subject never sychronizes properly. Both Metamorphic Symbiosis
Regenerators
and Zero Rooms can assist with regenerative trauma and ambient
complexity. Anaesthetic can
delay or destroy the regenerative process and cause
amnesia. Gallifreyan
biofields have to be very active to adapt to the trauma of
Regeneration. So much so that if a
member of a lesser speices lives
on Gallifrey the bio-fields will rejuvinate their cells and replace
their
telemeres. As a result the primative will age very slowly and
live for
centuries. If this
alien was
to leave Gallifrey they will start
to age rapidly: a year for every day.
For all
these
reasons regenerations are usually planned months
to years before the actual event. Gallifreyan
technology (such as a TARDIS) or
assistance is essential to ensure
survival during a regeneration especially
if the subject has suffered radiation damage.
Without technological assistance (such as
a TARDIS) a
Gallifrey runs the risk of the rengeneration aborting halfway through
leaving the subject looking like some sort of multi-limbed
monster. It is very dangerous
for
Gallifreyans who haven't passed First Maturation (ie teenagers) to
regenerate. For this reason it is usually forbidden for Gallifreyans to
regenerate until they are 500 years old. Discussions of regeneration among Gallifreyans appears
to be
similar to
sex amongst humans (not good table manners).
Some
seedy
Gallifreyan Cardinals hang
themselves to get rid of extra regenerations. This is considered
to be a dangerous hobby.
A
single body
can last over 1000 years but the subject's body will atrophie until
he's only a few feet tall and he will require a
wheelchair for mobility. After 12
regenerations the
biogenic molecules begin
to decay naturally. Gallifreyans
are limited to
13 bodies because their minds and bodies can
only withstand the strain of twelve regenerations. Each body can last centuries
and Gallifreyans only need to
regenerated
every thousand years or so. However the last few incarnations
generally
don't last as long as the earlier bodies. If a Gallifreyan
suffers a severe enough injury in his 13th body a regeneration will be
triggered, but its enevitable failure will kill the subject. Triggering a 13th Regeneration
might be the accepted way that Gallifreyan's end their lives.
It is possible
to "recharge" a regeneration cycle, but this can
only be done with the permission of the High Council and requires a
massive amount of Artron
Energy. It probably involves a Metamorphic
Symbiosis
Regenerator. Occasionally a Gallifreyan renews his
regenerative cycle by "Jumping Looms" (being reborn into a new
Family).
DEATH - Technically
Gallifreyans are immortal except
for accidents. In
practice they choose there final Death
Day between 7,000 and 12,000 (usualy at about age
10,000). They often spend the last years leading up to their
final Deathday in meditation. All Gallifreyans can force themselves to
stay alive indefinitely. When they choose
their Deathday, many Gallifreyans
have massive ceremonial funnerals (with lots of Remembrance Flowers). Legally all deceased consciousness must be
interned in the Amplified Panatropic Computations Network (sometimes known as the Remembrance
Garden) of the Matrix. This is done either directly using electrical scans of
the brain pattern at the moment of death (or no more then an hour afterwards) or
after the fact in
cinerary
urns. Because of the risk of psychosomatic feedback living
brains are never hooked directly into the Matrix. The Lord President is
an exception to this but he spends years training for such
contact. Gallifreyans
can also use 'Soul Catching' to take the 'mind' of someone who is
dying. Once in the APC they
live on forever. The deceased Gallifreyan's body is entombed in the
vaults beneath their Houses
where they quickly break down into
degenerate matter and then into random molecules. Under some (not entirely clear)
circumstances the
disintegration of a Gallifreyan's body can happen within a minute after
death.
THE LORDS OF TIME
“The Web of Time could not exist until Rassilon
built the Eye of Harmony,
the hitching post of Chronology, that which does not flux nor wither
nor change its state.”
-The Doctor
EYE OF
HARMONY (aka Rassilon's Star, the Caldera,
the Time-Sun,
the Black Hole of Rassilon)
Rassilon’s Star was
originally a Population III star
named Qqaba.
Rassilon and
Omega used the Hand of Omega to turn this star into a rotating Black
Hole. Using Amaranths and
Stasis-Halos, Rassilon brought the nucleus of the first Black
Hole to
Gallifrey. The Eye was stabilized
in an eternally dynamic equation against the
mass of Gallifrey. This star
became known as the Eye
of Harmony because it sits outside History and watches the rest of the
Universe. The Eye makes
up the largest structure on Gallifrey - so large that it needs its own
fold in space
micro-universe to contain it. This
chamber is known as the Caldera and is located under the Panoptican
(assembly hall) in the Capitol. Rassilon
also
created the
ebonite rod known as the Rod of Rassilon (sometimes translated as "Great Key")
which allows a Time Lord physical access to the Power Mast of the Eye of
Harmony. The Caldera itself can be accessed
via the Vaults found beneath the Capitol. The Security Codes needed to enter the Cladera change
every
microspan. If a lesser species was
to enter the Caldera they would be killed.
Within the Event-Horizon of the black hole is
singularity and a
universe of antimatter. All the known physical laws cease to
exist here and anyone with a high enough reality quotient and
willpower can have god-like powers. Outside the
Event-Horizon of the spinning star is an area called the
Ergosphere. In this area energy that escapes the singularity’s
gravity is accelerated and amplified to almost infinite levels.
Rassilon surrounded the Ergosphere with an iron sphere 10 kilometers in
diameter. This sphere was mirrored on the inside. Rassilon
allowed a light beam to enter the sphere. This light was
amplified by the singularity’s Ergosphere, reflected off the mirrored
sphere, was amplified again, and so on. Each time the light beam
gained energy. A small hole at the top of the sphere releases the
amplified light beam. Using
transdimensional physics, the Eye was shifted slightly into the
future
so that the near infinite power of the light beam emerges in a
controllable osmotic stream. This process is known as sigularity
eversion. After being converted into Artron
Energy, the
power is ready for use. Atron
energy is measured in units called
Omegas. This near magical use of
superradiant
scattering allows the Eye of
Harmony to provide energy for all of Gallifrey’s needs (including time
travel). The
destabiliztion of the Eye of Harmony would cause Gallifrey to turn into
antimatter, creating a quasar
that would destroy a hundred
worlds.
Rassilon
created the Great Key of Rassilon (not
to be confused with the Rod of Rassilon). This object can be used
to power the planetary defense time
weapon, the D-Mat Gun. The D-Mat gun is the ultimate
Omnicalculator. The Great Key links this quantum computer to the
Eye of Harmony. When a target is “hit” by a D-Mat gun its
entire timestream (and biodata if sentient) is recorded and then all of
history is rewritten so that the only difference between this Universe,
and the previous one is the total absence of the target. Objects
hit with the D-Mat gun
become Never-Objects existing only in the gun’s perfect
memory. When
the Great Key of Rassilon is used with the Rod, the Sash, and the Matrix Crown
the
user has direct access to the sum total of Time Lord Power.
Only two Time Lords have had access to all of these simultaniously - Rassilon, and The Doctor. To
prevent this power from being abused the Great Key of Rassilon is held
in secret by the Chancellor. Officially the Great Key is lost and
most Time Lords believe that is is only a legend. The Key
appears to have the abbility to wipe the memories of its users (as per
the wisdom of Rassilon) and
it is likely that when a Time Lord ceases to be Chancellor all memory
of the Great Key is taken from them.
THE WEB OF TIME
(aka History, Time, Causal Nexus)
The
Web of Time, within the Space-Time Vortex, was constructed by Rassilon and the Other. The
Space-Time Vortex is an atom sized dimension
which contains the Web of Time. It when mapped into three
dimensions is can look like any of the opening sequences of Doctor
Who. The
Vortex
became a dimension of pure thought
with a complexity that borders on sentience (infact the Faction Paradox
believe that it is sentient and refer to it the Loa).
The Web of Time is a vast
transdimensional
spiral that encompasses the universe
and serves as
a foundation for all points in space and time. Its creation made it much easier
for the Time Lords (and any other speices) to travel in time but it
also made it much harder for anyone to change history. The
Vortex enables
Time Travel Capsules to move from Minkowski space and integrate into
the fifth dimension. The Observer
Theory states that for the changing of history to make any sense their
must be an outside observer who watch all of history and sees this
change. The Eye of Harmony is that observer. The Eye of Harmony created a Universe of
Positive Time by locking down the Web of Time
within the Space-Time Vortex. It serves as an anchor
for the Continuity and causality of the
Universe and probably sits at the exact center of the Vortex. While
the Time Lords' control of the Weak Nuclear Force (and through it Gravity and Time)
extends only to the
limits of this cluster of Galaxies, the
Noosphere (the range of understanding and data that is defined by a
culture's physical, perceptive or comprehensive capabilities) of Time
Lord activity is much larger. This Noosphere
is known as the Spiral
Politic and reaches from around
3500 years after Event 0 (the Big Bang) to the
time of the story Frontios (10,000,000 AD) and covers
most of
Space. This forms a
temporal barrier to legal Timeship travel. It
should be noted that there are areas within the Spiral Politic that the
Time Lords can’t observe or penetrate. It is possible that some other power
with their own Eye sits in distant future beyond the Noosphere.
In order to be connected to
all
points in space and time the Transduction
Barriers shifts the planet outside of the space-time continuum
and into
its own Microuniverse
of Inner Time. Despite
being in Inner Time, Gallifrey is still liked via a real-time analogue
to its former location in the Web of Time. Rassilon and Jelen create the Transduction Barriers and installed the
machinery that conrols them on level 30, right below the
Panoptican. They use delta circutry and probably quasitronics. The Barriers are a 10 dimensonal
defense field that
prevent atomic sized infiltrations,
teleporters, and illicit frequencies, but they can’t stop
spaceships
from landing. They also allow their
primary star's sunlight and
gravity to reach them but block all weapons fire or
kamikaze runs. Because of this
barrier when one
is on Gallifrey one is "outside" of the Universe. Once lowered into
place a TARDIS can not breach the Transduction Barriers. The
Lord President’s
Rassilon Imprimatur and Presidential Code allow him and his TARDIS to
pass through
the transduction barrier at will. When
a Timeship passes through the Transduction Barriers the effect is
visible from Gallifrey’s surface. If Gallifrey was every to be attacked
the Transduction Barrier would be raised to Factor 5. The Time Lords also use
Transduction Barriers in other locations such as TARDIS Neural Construction
Docks to
prevent the Capsules from escaping.
The Eye (and
thus all of Gallifrey)
sits at the center of the Web of
Time and anchors all of its threads. The Eye was stabilized in an eternally
dynamic equation against the
mass of Gallifrey. This star
became known as the Eye
of Harmony because it sits outside History and watches the rest of the
Universe. The
structure of the whole planet of Gallifrey became a bio-system in which
biodata acts
as a planet sized receiver and processor of data from the rest of the
universe. The Time
Lords
use the Eye of Harmony's control over the Web of Time and their
abbility to manipulate the Weak Nuclear Force and the Force of Gravity to map out every inch of the Universe and define the
rational
laws upon
which it functions. This is probably done using the Skasas Paradigm (aka the God Maker or
the
Universal Theory) which unlocks how the universe workds, giving the
user complete control of the basic
building blocks of the universe (time, space, matter).
Using
the data collected the Time Lords can observe and predict almost any
event. In mapping out the
Universe they rationalize it and create a permanent version of
space-time. Because of this most primative
forms of time travel aren't capable of making major changes to History.
This
Intuitive Revolution
destroys Irrationality and Magic. Cacophony (irrationality and
magic) is banished from the Universe. This lack of belief might have caused the destruction
of dragons, unicorns, faeries,
slithy toves, bread-and-butterflies and other illogical
creatures. Psionics are the only
quasi-magical phenomenon that survives. The Web of Time is the structure
that all future races used to build their own histories on. The Time Lords view History
(aka the Web of Time) as high-order
mathematical structures that can be predicted by powerful
computers.
These predictions can then be
presented in an infinity chamber. The
infinity chamber in the Citadel is capable of decrypting the universe
and predicting the course of history, however these processes
are
complex enough to be regard as living beings. Indeed some Time
Lords (and all members of Faction Paradox) view history as a sentient
being or beings (sometimes called Loa). The Web is capable of
affecting the mind's of a Time Lord. In conjunction with the Web of
Time, the Eye of Harmony was used to define the physical and temporal
laws of the
Universe. It
also might have been used to influence the evolution of these species
so that most
resembled the Gallifreyans.
The Rassilon Imprimiture biologically links a Time Lord to the Web of
Time, making the foundation of the first four dimensions an
integral
part of Time Lord biology and culture. This link means that Time Lords keep history largely
unchanging merely by existing. Indeed they are so intertwined
with the
universe that they are a part of the Laws of Time and Space. Thus only beings with a Rassilon
Imprimiture (or a similar biodata) are capable of making significant
changes to History. Thus in the Web of Time only Time Lords
truely have free will. Unfortuanatly
in order to keep the Web of Time stable it is necessary
for
the Time Lords to be steady and unchanging. This is why all Time Lords are instilled with an
ideal of service towards
Time. To ensure stability
cultural change and natural
reproduction are forbidden on Gallifrey. The very idea of
Gallifrey having a history of its own is viewed
as
vulgar and primitive. A
single timeship exploding in the Vortex is no danger but the
destruction of a fleet of 1700 timeships could rupture the Web of Time
permanently. It is
unhealthy for even a
Time Lord to stand too close to the Eye due to density of
strands
in the Web of Time.
Whenever another species causes enough temporal
distortion to damge the Web an Interventionist (probably the CIA) is
sent to prevent the species from causing further damage. If that
Time Lord doesn't return then the Time Lords (again, probably the CIA)
has that Time Lords personal timeline shut down effectively removing
that worlds timeline from history (apparently to be replaced by one
where the temporal damage never happend in the first place). This prevents the missing Time Lord
from being used to damage the rest of the Web. The alternate timelines are attached,
in a spoke like pattern, to the Axis, which is located in
interdimensional space. The Overseer, from the sideways dimension of Guardus, supervises the Axis. Each of
these timeline is trapped in a giant loop. While most of the
timelines in the Axis are created by the Time Lords some are produced
by other species. By the
end of the Universe over 100 billion alternate versions of history will
have been created.
It should be noted that the
creation of the Web of
Time also create Anti-Time
- the opposite of the positive time. ; This timeless shadow of the
Web of Time is just as destructive to causality and continuity as
anti-matter is to matter. The theory of Anti-Time is viewed as
superstition for millions of years.
THE MATRIX
OF TIME
(aka the Space-Time Amplified Panatropic Computations Matrix, the
Matrix):
The Matrix of
Time is a
vast extra-dimensional panotropic computer network that exists in its
own micro-univeres outside of Time and History. It is the essance of Gallifrey
and
its culture.
Its memory system is an eleven dimensional self
referential lattice of trillions
of neural electro-chemical cells in a continious matrix.
These Neural mechanics can processes data faster than
the speed of Time.
The Matrix
is a small part of Gallifrey's Amplified
Panatropic Computer Network (APC Net) and
stores the memories all dead Time Lords and the
personality of hundreds of Time Lords. The first
intelligence to be stored in the APC was the Rassilon's. As of The Ancestor
Cell there are billions of minds stored in the APC but only a total of
only 153,846 full Time
Lord minds. The
Matrix's purpose is to monitor
all events in the Capitol and predict future developments within
the Capitol. All
Time Lord minds are connected to the Matrix on a
basic level via Reflex Link found in their brains. Through the Matrix this
Reflex Link connect every Time Lord to the Time Lord
Intelligentsia. The Matrix
gathers information from the Time Lords and allows Time
Lords to telepathically contact each other. This link can be used across
space and time. It might also
be used to allow the Intelligentsia to access the full Power of
Creation. Localized
Transduction Barriers can be used to shield a Time Lord form the
Matrix. Time Lords
who exiled lose the ability to
contact
other Time Lords across space and time.
The
Temporal Scanning Service is responsible for collecting tempographs and
monitoring the outside Universe. It is overseen by a
sub-committee of the High Council made up of three Time Lords - one of
which is a representative of the CIA. The biodata
of the whole planet of
Gallifrey acts
as a planet sized receiver and processor of data from the rest of the
universe. With
the sum of all Time Lord minds
(living and dead) as well as the input from sensors fitted into newer
TARDlSes, and data from Time
Space Visualisers, the Matrix provides the
Time Lords with vast (but not entirely complete) amounts of information
about the Universe. Inside the Citadel's Temporal Scanning HQ Time Lords
use
infinity chambers to map out every inch of the History of the
Universe.
This information is stored in the Archive Banks. Using this information the Matrix can predict a few billion years into the
future. Some events can be predicted with a great deal of
accuracy. The more primative information in the Matrix was
archived
in Phase 1 and 2. The more advanced and recent information was
kept in a master file composed of Phases 3,4,5 and 6. The Matrix has a back up of all
its records called the
Secure Information Dump, which is located in the Labyrinth.
The Labyrinth is the framework beneath normal time - the foundations of
History itself. All information is stored on printed books. Their are miles of corridors
with each section being allocated to a single Chapterhouse. Many
sections have arround 100,000 books. The
Labyrinth also includes
books written by aliens that were "collected" by the Time Lords.
Since the records are located outside of normal time it will remain
protected and unchanged even if History is changed. The
Labyrinth is maintained
by the Minotaur, who is a function or extension of the Labyrinth.
This library is
connected to
every Gallifreyan outpost however a ticket is need to check out a book.
The Matrix requires maintenance
(such as the replacement of a transductor) approximatly once every
1000 years. It would appear that only the Inner Council knew much
about the Matrix before The Deadly Assassin but afterwards all Time
Lords and
Academy Students are guaranteed limited access to the
Matrix. The Matrix
Safeguards automatically wipe any irrelevent info that a user stumbles
accross. Every time they
access the Matrix they leave a unquie artron imprint. Only
the President has full viewing rights through the use of the Matrix Crown
(aka the Matrix Diadem
or Coronet). The Matrix has
never rejected a President.
The Sash of Rassilon that is worn by
the President alters his
biodata to allow easier access to the Matrix. The
President also has the authority to isolate
Master Control of the Matrix (ie prevent anyone from accessing it) by
charging the
transduction field. Most
of the access doors to the Matrix are
located in the Archive Tower. but
the legendary Seventh Door is capable of being summoned to any location
by the Key. Another access
point can be found in the Vaults. Rassilon
created
the Key of
Rassilon, which allows access to all
Doors of the Matrix. This key is entrusted to the Keeper of the
Matrix (aka the Matrix
Coordinator). Though it is not
commonly
know the Key can be copied. If a Time Lord has the Key of
Rassilon
they
can interface their TARDIS with the Matrix's thought space. Lord Presidents who physically enter the Matrix
dreamscape can leave through any of the other “Doors” to the
Matrix. Unlike the Matrix Crown
the Key gives someone the abbility to re-write and alter pre-existing
information stored in the Matrix. The
Matrix is maintained by the Co-ordinator of the Matrix (aka the Keeper
of the Matrix) from the APC Control room (in the Archive Tower).
He keeps the Key of Rassilon in his posession at all times. The
Co-ordinator and
his
subordinate Matricians use the
Matrix to monitor life in the Capitol and record predictions about
future events. There is also a Sub-Matrix which handles
the basic
functions of Capitol, like transductions. There is a little known
partition of the Matrix nicknamed the Pandora Partition. This
partition stored the Dark Designs (the dark sides of the mind) of the
all the Time Lords
'living' in the Matrix. Because of her
massive desire for power the Time Lady Pandora (aka the Imperiatrix)
rules over this partition. Should Gallifrey be
destroyed or retro-annuled the Matrix would continue to survive within
its own dimension
for 50-60 years. Gallifreyans use
datacubes when they need to physicaly transport information. There
are rumors among
the Time Lords that
the Matrix always existed and created the Gallifreyans just so that it
would have a point of origin. There are also some Gallifreyans
who believe the Matrix controls the Time Lords. The Mother of all
TARDISes always existed and created the Gallifreyans just so it would
have a point of origin. She believes that she controls the Time
Lords.
THE LAWS OF TIME:
Rassilon
created the Laws of Time during the Time
of Legend and insured that
they were hard wired into the structure of
the Web of Time when the
Eye of Harmony was first created. The Kingmaker is the Keeper of the
Laws of Time. The
Time Lords teach these Laws as Scientific Laws and
most (including almost all
the Oldbloods) believe
them to be such. They learn these laws by rote. These Laws
are based on Mason and Aaron Blinovitch's early work in Temporal
Physics. There are over 15,000 Laws of Time. Time Lords
consider the preservation of History to be far more important than the
preservation of life. Some Time Lords realize that the
Laws of Time
will let you get away with virtually anything if you do it subtly
enough. It is technically possible for
these Laws to be overturned or revoked, but to do so would
destroy
Time Lord culture and power.
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The Laws of Time
And the Rules Governing
Time
Lords from the
Worshipful and Ancient Law of Gallifrey
The Laws of Time give the Time
Lords the divine
purpose of serving Time itself by maintaining the continuity/history of
the fabric of the
space-time continuum and the causality of the Universe.
They claim that this service is their right because they were first
humanoid culture to naturally evolve and see this as providing justice to all
species. The Time Lords
consider their Constitution to be the Mother of Democracy.
I. No being shall distort History as he
knows it. You can't alter
the Past. This is the most
important Law of the Time Lords. This is a moral as well as legal law.
A. No being shall interact
with his own personal history by traversing their time streams.
1. No being
shall murder their past self. This is the ultimate violation of
the Laws of Time.
2. No
being may come
into contact with his past self. The Temporal
Disturbances caused when this occurs require tremendous amounts of
temporal energy to repair.
3. No
Gallifreyan shall meet another Time Lord whose incarnations is out of
sync
with there own timestream. This prevents damage to space time.
4.
Investing vast sums money in the past and collecting the profit in the
future
is a minor violation
of the first law of time.
5. Sending notes to
your past self to give them advice
(even if you remember receiving the note) is forbidden.
*Note: Interacting with a person who knows your
future
isn’t technically breaking the law as
long as you don’t take advantage of the person’s knowledge. Limited
communications with a Time Lord out of
sequence is also not specifically prohibited.
B. (Also
known as the
Doctrine of Non-Intervention or the "Golden Rule") No being on
Gallifrey or on any other planet
shall
interfere with the Web
of Time (intergalactic history), as it is currently known, no violations of established and
predicted quantal events. Observation from within the micro-universe of a
TT Capsule or Gallifrey is all that is permited.
1. The History of any
person or planet, as it recorded or
predicted in the
Matrix, can not be chronoformed (the deliberate rewriting/distorting of
history) to alter its destiny.
This is defined as changing
any part of the Web
of Time
by not less then fifty-three millistates. (this is also covered under Timeline Interferance Resolution 861)
2. All Time Lords shall
follow a Doctrine of Non-Interference with Time Unaware races.
3. All Time Lords shall
work to prevent Time Aware Races from aquiring Gallifreyan Technology.
4. All
Time Lords shall work to prevent Time Active Races from damaging the
Web of Time. Disturbances of .4 or higher on the Bocca Scale must
be prevented.
5. It is forbidden for Gallifreyans
and Lesser Species to interbreed.
6. All Time Lords are
pledged to prevent alien aggression by Time Active Races, but
only when such agression is deemed to threaten the indigenous
population of a particular
time zone. This
includes preventing the Reapers from destorying an entire world because
of a temporal paradox.
7. A Time Lord who destroys an entire species
forfeits his remaining lives - and thus his title of Time Lord.
*Note: This was created not to preserve life but to
prevent the massive damage to History that genocide would cause.
II. No
being
shall participate
in the creation of a Temporal Paradox
A. No
Time Lord shall use the Power of Creation
1. No Time Lords shall use the
Power on a scale that would corrupt Time.
B. No being shall create us a TARDIS to
create a Vortex Crisis
C.
No being shall
create a Grandfather Paradox
D. No being
shall cause a Dimensional Paradox by transporting sentient beings from
one version of History to another.
E.
Timelooping planets is forbidden.
III. The Protocols
of
Linearity: No Time Lord
shall travel into Gallifrey's
past.
*Note: This prevents anyone from traveling
into Gallifrey’s past, and
ensures that a Time Lord's personal time is always synchronized with
Gallifrey’s time. It also ensures that the Time Lords who
encounter each other outside of Gallifrey always meed meet each other in a linear
progression along their relative time-streams. Though
impossible to travel into
the past, it is possible to collect and
transport objects from the past to the present. These protocols are not physical laws
per say, but
rather engineered by
powerful Temporal Baffels, Backtime Field Buffers, Temporal Locks and Governing Circuits built into
all their time
travel technology. A side effect of this law is that
other time zones
observed by a traveling Time Lord becomes linked with Gallifrey’s
time. In Lungbarrow the
Doctor took a 3 day side trip from events and returned minutes
later. This might
be a power all Presidents have. Robert Scarrit will also
do this during the war but he has to keep it a secret to avoid
punishment.
IV. No Time Lord
shall travel into
Gallifrey’s future.
To do so would be a theoretical absurdity.
V. Whilst there
are any number of Futures beyond the Time Lord Time Parameters (defined
by their noosphere) none maybe
deliberatly shaped by a Time Lord. Travel beyond the Time
Parameters is forbidden - due
to psychological affect of watching the heat death of the universe and
to avoid the temptation of studying the next universe. The
Time Parameters reach from around
3500 years after Event 0 (the Big Bang) to 10,000,000 AD and cover most of Space.
VI. Unauthorized use of a
TARDIS carries a mandatory Death Penalty (This
might
mean they only take one life).
A. It is forbidden to allow non-Time
Lords into a TARDIS.
VII. Protocols of
Observation: No Time Lord shall
interact with his own
future.
A. No being may come into contact with
his future self.
*Note: It is impossible for a
being to see his own future in his own biodata. An attempt to do
so
will cause the observation to collapse, making the knowledge
useless. Losing
one's virginity makes it much more difficult (if not impossible) for
Gallifreyan technology to read ancestral memories from the subjects
biodata.
VIII. No Time Lord
shall use time travel for their personal convenience.
*Note: This law of time isn't
really enforced and
most renegades view it as a trivial.
A. No use of Short-Hops to shorten his
personal perception of time. (the Blinovitch Limitation Effect
helps prevent violations of this law)
B. No use of Temporal Orbits or “Vortex
Drifting” to elongating his personal perception of time.
C. No using
time travel to win at the lottery.
1-6. various etiquettes.
?? There are articles of
emergency power that govern possible alien activity. They allow
the investigation of even the President.
??
The Golden Rule: No alien shall be allowed to spy on Time Lord
activities.
?? Performing TARDIS Interlock (one TARDIS inside another)
violates 15,473 different Laws of Time.
??
Article 17. No Time Lord shall be barred from
offering himself as a candidate during a Presidential Election.
Article ?? Elections must be held within
48 hours if a President dies without naming a sucessor
*Note:
Inagurations usualy take years to organized.
Article
28 Oblique 12, Clause 3.
Upon a vote of no confidence being a leveled against a
president, that president in his or her current regeneration shall be
obliged to stand down from office and legislative power shall past
temporaily to the incumbent of the Vice-Presidency, to the incumbent of
the Chancellorship, or jointly to the members of the High Council in
that hiearchical order - which ever is deemed appropriate until an
election is called.
*Amendment made by
Emergency High Council Session: A President who has been
impeached for high treason against gallifrey can not every stand for
office.
XCIII. ?
2. After a journey of 400 years and 12 parsecs a
Time
Lord is allowed 50 years of rest.
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THE
TIME LORDS:
A Novice, the
Kingmaker, The
Seal of the Prydonian Chapter, the Untempered Schism
"I swear to protect the Ancient Law of
Gallifrey with all my might and main, I will to the end of my days with
justice and with honor temper my actions and my thoughts."
-Time Academy Induction Ceremony
THE
ACADEMY OF TIME (aka The
University, the Time Academy) -
Novices at the Chapter Academies take
the entrance examination
for the Time Academy while
still in brain buffing. If they are accepted then, after 12
years with their Chapter's
Academy, they are enrolled in the Time Academy. The Time Academy is a self-contained city annexed to
the
Capitol. The Academy covers 28
square miles. It has it's
own TARDIS cradles. The Academy is
deliberately
structured so that the students hate being there. This is
considered part of the learning process. Initiates at the
Academy
wear one piece robes that are the colors of their chapter.
Initiates live at the dormitories at the Academy unless their houses
are nearby. The dormitories are segregated by sex. Pets are
not allowed in the dormitories. Students at the
Academy have partial access to the Matrix. Most
(if not all) of the Time Lord councilors teach at the Academy. The
Academy
has a Codex of
Disciplines that they teach. Academy students are
forbidden to study the later Human Era because it is outside the
influence of the Time Lords.
They learn to stop their hearts and feign death. They are
also forbidden to
regenerate
until they turn 500 years old.
Students spend a great deal of time chanting their lessons and are
always watched closesly while working on a project.
All subjects that
don't relate to temporal phenomenon (such as art, culture, and biology)
are classified as General Studies. Its possible the operation of
Veteran and vintage Timeships is classified as General Studies as
students are able to substitute the Life-Cycle of the Flutterwing as an
alternative class. General Studies classes are
viewed as being less important by the Time Lords. No
course in Hydrology is offered at the Academy. A score
of 8 out of 10 is a
very good grade for a project.
Many
Gallifreyans attend the Time Academy, but only a
very select few are choosen to become Time Lords. Symbiotic Nuclie are granted
when
the appropriate course work has been compleated. With the acceptance of
the symbiotic nuclie the Initiates
become Junior Grade Time Lords. The education
of a Time Lord costs a House a small fortune. Those that
don't become Time Lords are doing well if they make it to the 7th
Grade. No Gallifreyan
student has ever
been permanently expelled from the Time Academy. The number of Time Tots accepted
is quite limited because (in
modern times) there are only
1,000 Time Lords at any given time. Each Chapter can have 100 full Time
Lords at any time.
The rest are probalby Apprentice and Junior Grade Time Lords.
For
this reason,
despite different ages and different entrance years, all students
selected to become Time Lords in
a certain millenium will have the same graduation
year. There are
Data-Extracts of millions of Time Lords on file but as of The Ancestor
Cell only a total of 153,846 full
Time Lords have been created.
Because
the Web
of Time has been dependent on the Time Lords for so long, Junior
Time Lords are encouraged to think of themselves as forces of nature and history rather than as a people or a
living species. They consider their
physical nature and needs to be vulgar. Junior Time Lords have limited
access to the Power of Creation
through the direct link to the Eye of
Harmony that their heart (or one of their hearts if a Newblood)
provides.
Technically
speaking only
Gallifreyans who have a Time Travel Capsule hold the title of Time
Lord. To acheive full Time Lord status Junior Grade Time
Lords must
undergo numerous challenges (including the Cavern
of Infinite Death) and lessons before they travel to Mount Plutarch to
meet the Kingmaker. The Kingmaker is the being who is responsible
for granting full Time Lord status.
The Time Lords guard
Time and the Kingmaker guards the Time Lords. For
this reason her Powers are independent from the other Time
Lords. She is more powerful then any any single Time Lord in
existance - though not all of them as a whole. She is the keeper
of the Laws of Time and can grant other
Time Lords the abbility to safely strip violators of their Time Lord
abbilites.
At the
Academy a Junior Grade Time Lords will be choosen by a TARDIS. This ceremony appears to be offered
only as set times - probably only once every 1000 years.
After
the TARDIS has choosen the Kingmaker states "We grant you TARDIS!" and the Time Lord will form a symbiotic
bond with the TARDIS giving him access to the Power of Creation.
Students
are then tested to see if they can resist
the temptation to use their new powers. This means a jorney to
Anima Persis where they are confronted by the psychic
remains of the planet's former inhabitants. The Junior Time Lord
is tempted to
use there powers to save themselves from the ghosts. This is a
test that all (or almost all) Initiates fail
but failure doesn't prevents one from becoming a Time Lord. This
is why Academy
students learn to "Never talk to the dead."
However in order to
graduate
as a full Time Lord the student must still pass the Temporal
Engineering tests. To be a Time Lord one must learn
to predict the movements of the
Universe. A Junior Time
Lord's
score
on these tests is often used a way of predicting their future career as
a
Time Lord. Recieving a Triple Alpha score in Temporal Engineering is very note
worthy, where as a Double Gamma (a 51%)
is the minimal passing
score. Graduation ceremonies probalby occur
only once every thousand years. Thus several Junior Time Lords of
varying ages would be graduated on the same year. Graduates (without doctorates) can be as
young
as 125 years old. The students
scores for the final exams are kept confidential. Only after graduation Time Lords are
allowed to make solo trips in their TARDISes. (Like any Gallifreyan) all Time
Lords have a Bio-Data
Extract taken and stored in the Archival Office. Time Lord D-Es
are color coded by chatper. People who possess a doctorate are
greatly honored in Gallifreyan society.
While at the
Academy Initiates often
play Eighth Man Bound. This extreme 'rite of passage'
claims the lives of 15 Gallifreyans every macrosemester. A
symbiosonic generator is used, and the student's classmates (called The
Inquiry) sit around him and chant his name while the student tries to
predict his future incarnations. An Arcalian managed to discover
what his first seven bodies but couldn't see his eighth. Thus the
Arcalians named the game Eighth Man Bound.
Similarly other
students with symbiotic nuclie would
also
play the Perigosto Stick Game. This
involves using Time Lord powers
to keep a
4-dimensional sphere or cube
in motion, without letting it fall back
into the normal space-time continuum. This
techniquie is called
Transmigration of Object and
was often done as a party
trick, even though it often took hours of preperation. The
Cardinals always warn the
students that Transmigration of Object damages their biodata.
TIME
LORDS (aka Lords Temporal, Lords of Time,
Chronarchs,
Timeys) - Time Lords (or Ladies) are Higher Evolutionaries who walk
in eternity and are the self-appointed
guardians of
both Time and History. While they are considered to be
the oldest and most mighty of the Universe's civilizations the
Time Lords view themselves as
academicians and observers who
are devoted to a life of service to History. They are always on
time, for to be
late
or early for any event is unthinkable. Each
Chapter has 100 full Time Lords for a total of 600.
Their are also about 400 Apprentice
and Junior Grade Time
Lords at any
given time for a total of
1,000 Time Lords. Of the 1,000
only about
12 are female. Technically speaking only
Gallifreyans who have a Time Travel Capsule can hold the title of Time
Lord.
Sentients who
time travel are thought to have Temporally Active Biodata, because they
have the power to chronoform themselves. This means that they truely have free
will. All stable forms
of time
travel require re-writing of the traveler’s biodata. Time travel makes sentients
vunerable to the influence of poweful transtemporal beings who exist
outside of linear time. These beings will try to force the time
traveler to become their agent/servent. It is for this reason any
species that wants to become a stable, time-active race
must change itself into another species. Gallifreyans
who
attend the Academies have their Biodata modified (especially their DNA) by
anointing them with Time Energies
from the Eye of
Harmony while they are still
Initiates. This alters
the
Initiate's
DNA,
creating the symbiotic nucleatides, a fourth helix of
DNA, and the other
capabilites making the Gallifreyan
a Time Lord. Time
Lord abbilites can also be added to a subject's biodata by
injecting them with Retro
DNA serum in the form of a red liquid. The
initiates gain the rank of Junior Grade Time Lords at this point.
Time Lords are rated
human-plus-plus-plus-plus (as opposed to an agent of Faction Paradox
which generally only rate a Human-plus status).
Extensive exposure to a Time Lord might cause a human to become
"infected" with Time Lord DNA in some way. The effects of this
would not be obvious to a human.
All Time
Lords have Symbiotic
Atomic Nuclei which is needed to 'prime' a Time Travel
Capsules, form a quasi-symbiotic link with
the Capsule, and to prevent
the Capsule from molecularly detabilizing in the Vortex. This
self-regenerating genetic link
in known as the Rassilon Imprimature. They serve a similar
function with
Time Rings and other transtemporal technology. The atomic nuclei serves as
a genetic key to the Vortex. It holds the Dematerilializtion
Codes nessecary to create a Molecular Stabilisation System. Without
this system a Capsule would be destroyed by the Vortex after several hundred years. The
semi-instinctual neural-link between a TARDIS and its operator is
almost sexual in its intimacy. Some believe a TARDIS provides a
sense
of companionship for a Time Lord in much the same way that a husband or
wife does for their spouse. For whatever reason, sex is
completely irrelevant to most Time Lords. A side effect of the full link is that a Time Lord is
constantly sending small temporal waves throughout
the Universe that can be used by Gallifrey to track a Time Lords
space-time travels. The Nuclei might be located in a Time Lord's
hearts. The Symbiotic
Nuclei cannot be removed from a Time Lord without killing
them. They can be
permanently deactivated by the right type of mutagen. Such a
deactivation would eliminate a Time Lord's powers and his abbility to
regenerate.
The modification causes them to grow a
"time
brain" (probably connected to the
temporal lobes)
under the frontal lobes of their brains making them time
sensitive and giving them resistance
to
chrono-instability. An
organ in their hypothalamus allows Time Lords to
perceive the higher dimensions by reciting the right equations. The
abnormalites of a Time Lord's brain show clearly in an X-ray.
In all Time Lords have
27 different
senses and all but the first five are related to time. The Time
Brain processes many (if not all) of these time senses. These senses grow
more accute the
more
times a Time Lord crosses the Time-Fields
in a TARDIS. These senses will
induce a strong sense of prejudice and revulsion if they detect someone
who is immortal because
they have become fixed in time and space. They
might have their sense of shame
psyco-surgically removed. The following is a list of known Time
Lord senses.
1. Sight
2. Hearing
3. Taste
4. Smell. Time Lord noses might have "special
powers."
5. Touch, Temperature and Pain
6. Acceleration
and Balance: A Gallifreyan can sense the rotation of
the planet he's standing on. Gravity and acceleration dialate the
passage of time.
7. Sense of Time: the basic awareness that
time is passing which most lessers species have.
8. Magnetoception: Strong magnetic
fields give their skin goosebumps. Magnetic fields also cause
fluctuations in artron energy.
9.
Topographical Sense: They have Time Lord Topographical Sense which allows
them to remember any
path they have taken (this
might work by tracing their own biodata). To use their
Topographical Sense they must however
remember to store the path they took.
Some Time Lords can measure rooms
down to the centimeter by eyesight alone.
10. Higher Dimensions: An
organ in their hypothalamus allows Time Lords to
perceive the higher dimensions by reciting the right equations.
11.
The Scent of History: Time Lords can identify
familiars time periods by a sense akin to smell. This
might be one of the "special powers" their noses have.
12.
Crystalization of local History: They can see (though not
identify) other
peoples time traces allowing them to know if sentient beings have been
in the area. They can
also measure how crystalized events are in any given time zone.
13. Object dating: They can sense an
object's relative age.
14.
TARDIS Recognition: They usually can identify TARDISes as
TT Capsules
regaurdless of their disguse and often tell the Type and general
condition of the Capsule as well.
15. Reality Quotient: This allows the Time Lord to get a rough idea any
nearby sentient's current reality quotient (assuming its not too low to
detect).
16. Reading another's
Biodata: A
mechanism inside Time Lord Biodata allows
them to sense distortions in the biodata of others In other
words
they can tell when someone's personal history has been altered. In some incarnations this sense is
so acute that they can
read a
person's biodata (such as their future history) just by
looking at them. Losing
one's virginity makes it much more difficult (if not impossible) for
Gallifreyan technology to read ancestral memories from the subjects
biodata.
17:
Temporal Disturbance Sense: Some of
these senses will make a Time Lord dizzy and nausious when exposed to
temporal disturbances. The effects of Chronic Hysteresis
can reduce Apprentice
Time Lords to tears.
18. Paradox Sense: Proximity to a temporal paradox causes them
headaches.
19.
History Proof: Time Lords are
"History Proofed" which gives them superior abbilites to remeber
alternate
timelines (in most species they are little more then dreams) and can usualy remember previous
versions of history books (that they just read).
20-27. Various other forms of enhanced
temporal perception.
Depite these senses a Time Lord's understanding of the 4th
dimension is mathematical and not instictual. A Junior
Time Lord's
heart (or one of his
hearts if a Newblood) serves as a link (via the TARDIS) to
Gallifrey, and the Prime Eye of Harmony in a way that not even the Time
Lords totaly understand. This link ensures the Time Lords survial
and "integrity" while they travel the Universe. Without this
anchoring, a Time Lord who leaves Gallifrey will die in less than 2
centuries. This link
provides limited access to the Power of Creation, allowing
Junior Grade Time Lords to make minor uses of the power (see below for
more info).
While a Triple Helix of DNA is nessecary for
regneration a Time Lord DNA has
quadruple helix. The
fourth helix is a "fast line" which extends (via a TARDIS) into the
fourth dimension
and maps
the Time Lord into the Space-Time Vortex (the fifth dimension) with
Block-Transfer
Numbers. Because
of this, the Vortex is an integral
part of Time Lord biology and culture. Once linked to the heart of space time their TARDISes give them access to
the Power of Creation and they are capable of changing
their time state by thinking the right
Block-Transfer Time Equation allowing them to interact with the
deep-level process of the Fourth Dimension. This
the greatest of the Time Lord
powers and might be related
to Quantum
Mnemonics or Omega's power of Psychosynthesis. The
Osiran Sutekh has enough power to
singlehandedly hold of entire time-fleet of War TARDISes and is one of the few
beings whose power might exceed all of the Time Lords.
However by the year 2966 AD
the Sisterhood
of the Flame on Karn claim to be the only
other race whose mental powers are equal to the Time Lords. This power is such Time Lords
who leave Gallifrey (or the micro-universe of a TARDIS) will, just by
observing, crystalizes the mimetic
structure of local History preventing
events from occuring any other way and creating a single
continuity. The more time a
Time Lord spends traveling in the Vortex the more artron energy they
will build up in their bodies. Experienced Time
Lords can work
apparent miracles by manipulating Time (the 4th Dimension) through
their access to the dimension of thought and conciousness
that serves foundation of the Universe (the 5th dimension). By focusing on
the right time
equations they can alter the rate at which they experiance time -
allowing them to move with seemingly super human reflexes that can be as
much as ten times faster than a
human's. They can speed
read at a superhuman level and
some can write
30,000 words in just over 2 hours. Some Time Lords can (when in the right state of mind)
temporairly shift objects
(or themselves) out of space, and levitate their bodies. A
sufficiently adept mathematical genius can project a temporary
block-transfer projection of himself through space and time just by
reciting the right equations. Under the
right circumstances they might
be able to
shoot death
rays out of their eyes. The
power held by a single Time Lord is limited by both the age (or
possibly experiance) of
the Time Lord, the moral code of the Time Lord, and by the total
number of Time
Lords in existance at that point. The more Time Lords the more
spread
out the Power of Creation is and the less powerful each individual
is. The
Power is dispersed among all the Time Lords to prevent one single Time
Lord from taking over the Universe. Using their Reflex Links they might
be capable of unifying the Time Lords to use all of the Power at
once. It is possible that there unified minds would create a
powerful block-transfer processor that could create almost any
space-time event desired. If
their were only seven Time Lords left it would be possible for an young
Time Lord to destroy a starship with a thought. If only a single Time Lord existed he
would be able to travel through time and space just by thinking
about it and his every movement would alter history whether he wanted
to or not. Time Lords keep History (aka the
Web of Time) largely
unchanging merely by existing. Indeed they are so intertwined
with the
universe that they are a part of the Laws of Time and Space. They consider is their primary purpose to serve
Time. As Higher Evolutionaries, Time Lords have a complex of a
pseudo-precognitive powers. Despite
superficial appearances the Universe is not random but instead follows
a complex four dimensional pattern. Time Lords can see this pattern and thus can predict
the future with an astonishing degree of accuracy. They can perceive (in a vague way)
the full history of the biodata of others. The Doctor has always had a knack for telling
when society was out of phase or when evil was present. This
could be
a Time Lord gift, but if it is its not one that other Time Lords
aknowledge.
This
Power of Creation should never be used on a large scale.
For to do so would be to bend and corrupt
time causing damage to the physical laws of the universe The
larger the use of the power the more devestating the rips in space-time
that form
as a side effect. Among the most destructive of these temporal
disturbances is
the formation of many
new black holes and the increase in power of previously existing
ones.
This damaged might be caused because the alternate universe created by
the Power has such temporal momentum that it achieves escape velocity
and thus halves the life of the entire universe. The only
time a large scale use would be acceptable would be to prevent the
power from falling
into the hands of a single Time Lord. Time
Lords are forbidden to fall in love
or develop other strong affections for lesser species
because the emotional attachment could cause them to use their terrible
powers. If a Time Lord is to
interact with lesser species it is recomended they form a series of
short shallow short term relationships to
avoid stronger attachments.
Because of
the danger of using their power the the Laws of Time are built
into a Time Lord's genetic modifications;
so Time
Lords know them
instinctually. These genetic modifications allow them to "think" in 4
dimensions, which is necessary to truly understand the Laws of
Time. If a Time Lord
is going to be tempted to break the Laws of Time, the violator will
experience severe long term memory problems and some pain,
months to years before the temptation. At the moment of
temptation the Time Lord will feel large parts of his personality being
blocked and disabled. These retroactive responses are programmed
into the genetic modifications to make it extreamly difficult for a
Time Lord to break the Laws of Time. Once a Time Lord learns to
overcome these blocks they become fairly easy to ignore. Time Lords are programmed to panic if they think that
there’s something wrong with the Space-Time
Continuum. Minor and major temporal paradoxes give them
headaches.
In addition to pattern-recognition
systems
are encoded into the genetic memories of the Time Lords' unborn young they have multidimensional killing responses hidden in
their biodata that allows them to fight their ancient enemies from the
Time Wars. Their biodata can't be
rewritten by an outside source (This might be the second biggest lie in
Time Lord
History).
When a
sentient being meets his
younger self the blinovitch limitation effect causes a time differential. Time Lords used
to be
shielded to
the Blinovitch Limitation Effect but the Time Lords removed this shield
to stop violations of the First Law of Time. Now, in the case of the same Time Lord meeting
a younger version of himself this time differential is shorted out
causing an ageing of the biodata
of the younger version. This causes the
subject to appear much older then actually are.
The amount of time differential (and thus the amount of ageing)
is
dependent on the amount of time that has passes between the two
versions. This distortion of the younger
version’s
biodata will snap back to normal when the source of the time
differential is
removed.
If released within the Vortex Time
Lords trained to used a Vortex-Walking trance
can, with the aid of
a Vortex Tunnel, travel through space
and time under their own power. Some Time Lords have Internal Chronometry
abilities. This allows them to know the time down to a nanosecond
(the Doctor
can’t do this). Other
Time Lords have deep-time
memory, which allows them to clearly remember the original version of
their history even after their personal past has been deliberately
changed.
Graduates of the Academy were given Reflex Links in
there brains which connect them to the Time Lord Intelligentsia. This link can be used across space and time. A Time Lord would be able to detect
the existance of other Time Lords (even if they are slightly out of
sync with his timeline). This
would allow a Time Lords to know if all the Time Lords in the cosmos
had been killed. The right type or Ro Wave broadcasts could be
used to hide a Time Lord. The Reflex Link can be used to unify
all 1000 Time Lords. This might allow the Intelligentsia
access to the full Power of
Creation. Time Lords
who exiled lose the ability to
contact
other Time Lords across space and time. They are however
still
capable of using the Reflex Link if another Time Lord Contacts
them.
The dreams of a Time Lord are visions that are
free of the shadows of matter. Thus they can provide information
about the world outside of the range of their senses and can be premonitions about the future. Some Time Lords
get random premonitions of the future while concious. Time
Lords who have nightmares (a very rare occurance) or near-death
states sometimes make deals with them, sometimes to become their
Champions. Prior
to a regeneration it is not
uncommon for Time Lords to
unconciously generate alternate future versions
of themselves in a proto-plasmic
pupate stage. These beings
are called Watchers. The Watchers
are insubstantial but
can communicate and act on their own. If a Time Lord's mental power are very well
developed they can even create a fully interactive stable future
incarnation (this is probably a violation of the first Law of
Time). These type of
projections might be called a tulpa. In either case Watcher will
last
untill
the regeneration occurs. Unconciously created Watchers are very
rare but can be caused precipitated by damage to the Causal Nexus.
With about 3000
years (or less) of meditation a Time Lord can turn himself into a being
of pure energy and move at the speed of light. But this is
forbidden by the Dimensional
Ethics Committee. Like all life
forms that reside in the first 5 dimensions Time Lords are incapable of
observing the 6-11th
dimensions.
The only way most Time Lords can cope
with their
near infinite power is to be so narrow-minded and dull-witted that they
never realize the power they have. The Doctor claims that
after living in the Capitol for
a few thousand years a Time Lord completely loses their
personality. Indeed,
in order to keep the Web of Time stable it is necessary for
the Time Lords to be steady and unchanging. It is for this reason
that
culture change and natural
reproduction are forbidden to ensure
stability. Time Lords are forbidden
to fall in love
or developing other strong affections for lesser species.
It’s possible
that Time Lord biodata actually changes and mutates the biodata of
lesser species who interact with them. All Time Lords take their responsibility to Time very
seriously and know that if there was any danger that they would be used
by an alien force to threaten Time then the other Time Lords would shut
down the victum's personal timeline and place it in the
Axis. For this reason every Time Lord that
leaves Gallifrey knows they are considered to be expendable.
Because of this, only the most eccentric
or arrogent Time Lords will voluntairly
leave their homeworld. Time
Lords who travel the cosmos
regularly are encouraged to take a companion from among the
lesser speices to serve as something of a moral concience.
A visionary
Time Lord
is
rare and a stable visionary Time Lord is even rarer. Time Lord
dementias are much worse then Alzheimers
Disease. All Time Lords have
a dark side to their minds called the Dark Design. When a
Time Lord goes mad a storm of the Dark Design
covers their brains. Insane Time Lords are usually quielty locked
away in institutions like the Quantum of Solace. It is
not unusual for inventive Time Lords to go mad and indeed all the truly
great
Time Lords went mad: (Omega, Rassilon, Borusa, the Master, Morbius. . .
etc). Any Time Lord
who has access to the power of the heart of the Vortex would become a
vengeful god.
They cease being Time Lords
when they have used up all 12 of their regenerations. Retired
Time Lords are not
permitted
to own TARDISes but possilby have the option of living off Gallifrey if
they choose. Old Time Lords often get their tenses
muddled. Because the
minds (or souls) Time Lords are stored in the APC
after death they don't fear
death. For this reason
Time Lords are expected to face death with
dignity.
Their
bodies are sometimes interned in the
Panoptican Vault 30 meters beneath the Panoptican. Time Lord corpses are telepathicaly
active due to residual psychic power. If a Time Lord
dies within his TARDIS while in his final incarnation his body will
fade away as the TARDIS stores
his essance. The Artron Energy
released
into the Vortex by the death of a Time Lord would be enough
to drag Earth's moon out of orbit and crash into the planet.
"I grant you
TARDIS!"
-The Kingmaker
TARDIS (aka Time And Relative
Dimension In Space, Time Travel Capsules aka TTC, aka Timeship):
For my complete TARDIS
Technical Index at Whoniverse.com see the link below...
THE HEART OF THE
SPIRAL POLITIC
The Capitol and other
domed Gallifreyan city-complexs.
THE CAPITOL OF GALLIFREY:
Several Time Lords use the word Gallifrey to indicate the Capitol (and
not Gallifrey in general) so the Captiol's real name might be Gallifrey
but to avoid confusion with
the
planet's name it is almost
always
called "the Capitol."
The
Capitol is
in the Northern Hemisphere on the continent of Wild Endeavor and
sits
in the valley beween snow the capped
mountains of Solace and Solitude. These are part of a desert mountain range that stretches
to the
horizon.
The massive Mount Cadon dwarfs the Capitol. The only thing
that grows on these
mountains a deep red grass. Beneath the Capitol is a volcanic
chasm known as the Crevasse of
Memories That Will Be. The Capitol used to have a harbor (but the lake dried up). The Kasterborus Borealis
can be seen from the Capitol, as
can Mount Cadon. The Capitol might
suffer from a
bitter wind
from the
Northern Lakes.
Its population is at least
several
thousand and it has the largest
concentration of
Gallifreyans on the planet.
By Earth standards the Capitol is not
that large of a city. A large
glass dome covers the
Capitol. Gallifrey (the Capitol?) smells of
cloisters, libraries, vellum,
and old exitonic circuitry. Candles are very common. Most
of the walls in the Citadel
appear to be made of stone with dim green light leaking out from the
crakes in the aging walls. Unused corridors are filled with
dust. Retina interface technology has virtually replaced all but
the most basic manual keyboard interfaces. Most doors and even many TARDIS systems rely on
Gallifreyan retinal
scans to prime/activated it. All of these retina prints are
controled by the APC which holds the Retina Master Print. It should be noted that some of their security systems
are telepathically based.
In the
center of the Capitol (beneath the apex of
the dome) is a structure known as the
Citadel (see below).
A small conventional spaceport can be found near the Citadel.
Time Scaphs are docked the Scaph Port. Scientific research is done in the Penansulix
Scientific
Structure. The Parachronistic Chamber (located deep in the
Capitol) can regulate time distortions. There are two huge towers
in the north of the
Capitol named Canoncity and Likelihood. Both of these building
are dimensionally trancendental. The tower of Likelihood might be
home to the Bureau of Possible
Events. Time Lords meet in the
Artron Forum to
telepathically discuss and exhange points of view. While meeting
their
excess artron energy is abosorbed and routed to the berething bays to
supply TARDISes. Other
buildings include the Multidimensional Art Gallery (filled with
vast numbers of computer created paintings from thoughout Gallifrey's
history), the Capitol Library, the Mortal Coil hospital
complex of the Hospitaller-surgeons, Retro-Engineered
Spare-Body-Parts Repository, Bureau
of Political Advancement, The Temple of Capitol Guilds, and the Office
of Public Registry. Only a
few of the buildings in the Capitol are dimensionally
trancendental. The
streets of the Capitol are patrolled
by cleaning machines including automated street
cleaning mechanisms. All the
rooms in the Capitol are numbered (example Room 30007 in the
Administrative Complex). Council
members use aircars to get around
the Capitol.
The 53
story Communications
Tower is in Sector
7 (just outside the Capitol). Beneath
the upper levels of the Capitol is
MidTown which has a multi-dimensional art
gallery. Half a mile beneath
the Capitol is the foundations of
the Capitol, the remains of the original Capitol, and
LowTown.
Low Town is the society of poor
that has formed in the foundations of the Capitol. The
Vaults are the chambers that
date back to the Old Time that serve as a foundation to the
Capitol.
The Vaults hold the power couplings for the eastern part of the
Capitol, a flucutatiing access
point for the matrix, the once regal Pazithi Cloisters and the Main Water Pumping Station. The
last is off limits to unauthorized personnel,
even Time Lords. The Nostrom
Cloisters in the lower levels serve as a presidential bolt-hole. Hidden in the
lower levels a shrines dedicated to the cult of Rassilon the Vampire. Buried deep underground are fallout
shelters and Catacombs
whose total length (if arranged end
to end) would exceed the diamater of Gallifrey.
The Transtube carriages (or trains)
are used for transport from one city-compex to another
on Gallifrey. They look a bit like Earth subways. The cities of Gallifrey are filled with
spires, temples, and cathedras. Olyesti
is one of the Three
Minute Cities in the East. Prydos
is an old city built on an artificial mound in great plane.
Imports from all over the galaxy (and from any point in time) can be
found for sale at Prydos. Its streets are paved with mosaics
which present the history of the city. Transmats
are used
to reach the Houses. Gallifreyan transmats
can not transmit through leathal levels of Ion Flux. Gallifreyans also
use skimmers to
travel. They are shaped like longboats with carved
dragons in the back. They can fly and have sophisticated
forcefields to protect the crew. They are computer controled or
an organic pilot can fly the ship
from below decks. The golden sails can be deployed to absorb
energy to power the
ship. Skimmers are considered
obsolete transportation. Transmats are prefered. The
idea of using an animal as a beast of burden is completely alien to
their culture. Most Gallifreyans (and all Time Lords) never
venture into the
wildernes of the Outer Gallifrey unless they wish to become outsiders.
The Citadel of the Time Lords
In the center of the Capitol (beneath
the apex of
the dome) is a turquoise colored hour-glass
shaped structure known as the
Citadel. Rassilon
designed the fortress-like Citadel
and this
is where all the Time Lords live. Though
it towers over the other buildings its exterior isn't large enough to
allow 1000 Time Lords to live in comfort. It's interior
is dimensionaly trancendental and has at least 119
levels. The Presidents
Office is on Level 5. Level 31 of the Citadel has the Panoptican
(which holds the Power Mast of the
Eye of
Harmony). Level 31 houses the controls for the Transduction
Barriers and
the Quantum Force-Fields. A Time Travel Embarkation Port can be
found on Under-Level 15. Traffic Control is one of the highest security-rated
rooms in the Citadel. The Citadel also houses the Panoptican Archives, and the Temporal Scanning HQ.
There are
363 white
towers arrayed in a circle around the Presidential Wheel. A famously
effective polygonal Zero Room can be found in the basement of the
Junior Senate Block. The
Chanceller Guard work in the Jasdisary Building (90 stories tall,
rotates every 58 minutes)
which is attached to the Citadel. Within the Citadel's
Jasdisary Building is the Security Compound
where Security Control and the Obliette Suites are
located. The luxurious Oubliette
Suites are where prisoners are held (if they aren't sent to
Shada). Time Lords
appear to use the brass like Machenite as the building material of
choice for the interior of important rooms.
During the Time War the following levels can be found
beneath the Capitol.
4th Circle: tactical
envisioning and clairaudient intelligence
5th Circle: Perceptual warfare
6th Circle: Extra-sensory
camouflage
7th Circle: primary
evolutionary and terrorogical research
8th Circle: Deep Level
Conference and Bunker facilities
Lowest Circle: The War Room where the War Council of the Great Houses
meets.
"Tradition, Obedience, Honor,
Understanding,
Loyalty, and Respect"
-The Philosophy of Gallifrey
GOVERNMENT:
THE HEAD OF THE PRESIDENCY (Lord President of
Gallifrey, President of the Supreme Council, the Inheritance of
Rassilon) - The Lord
(or Lady) President rules
Gallifrey. The Head of
the Presidency is seen as the physical manifestation of the Laws of
Time and is entrusted with many of
Gallifrey’s most closely guarded secrets, including Jasquig Records,
the War Perceptives, the Cavox Imperatives, and the Oubliette of
Eternity. The President is the only Time Lord
that knows that the Time Lords are directly answerable to the Gaurdians.
It is likely that the President
knows that Omega survived the detonation of Quaba. The President of the Supreme
Council of Gallifrey and all
of her Dominions, has the
obediance of all Colleges, is the holder of the Wisdom of
Rassilon, Guardian of
the Legacy of Omega, and probably the Keeper of
the Legacy of Rassilon, Defender of the Laws of Time, and Protector of
Gallifrey. Like
the Chancellor, the President is addressed as "Your Excellency." The President
is the Preserver of the Matrix and holds the Matrix Crown which allows him direct
access to the entire Matrix and its predictive abilites (though
its use is quite stressful and
thus reserved for corenations and emergencies). Once they don the Matrix Crown a
President becomes part of the Matrix. The President wears the Sash of
Rassilon on ceramonial occassions and carries the Rod of
Rassilon. If the President was to have access to the Great Key
they would have unlimited access to the Power of the Time Lords and
have complete access to all the different Universes.
The President has direct control over all aspects of Gallifrey's
defenses, however the CIA can override him. The first time they
put on the Sash of Rassilon they are altered to become Biodata
Ultra-Aware, which allows them to predict and manipulate biodata in a
way no other Time Lord can. It also helps them interact with the
Matrix. Up until Arc
of Infinity
the Presidential Code was 4544553916592.
Approximately
every thousand years the Time Lords would deliberately loom a
collection of potential leaders, one of whom would become the next Lord
President of Gallifrey. Each
President has the right to name his successor. This is usually
done at a Resignation Ceremony when reading the Resignation Honours'
List. However
under Artical 17 of the Gallifreyan Constitution any Time Lord can
declare himself a cannidate during an election. All Presidents
are
elected, however it is traditional to always elect the successor named
by the previous President. 50 Members of the Chancellery Gaurd will be
present for a Presidentian resignation. Should a president
step down without naming a successor an election must be held within 48
hours. All voting for a
presidential election occurs in the Capitol (this might mean that only the Time
Lords get to vote for the President). Despite the urgency
to decide upon a President-Elect it
normally takes years to plan
and assemble a
Presidential Ordination. Presidential Ordinations and other formal ceremonies such as the appointment
of a Chancellor are lead by Gold Usher
(also known as the Dromeain Archibaptirx). At all such
appointments Gold Usher will rap
his staff down three times. Once for wisdom, once for
honor, and once for tradition. Computers
paint pictures
of every Presidential Ordination. It
is tradition for a new President to forgive political prisoners as
his first act in office. The current President can not be
but on trial But
Presidents
can be removed by a vote of no-confidence from the High Council. After a certain amount
of time (at least 900 years) President's face mandatory
retirement. Ex-Presidents
appear to
retain the right to
access the
Matrix's predictive abbilites and call for
Presidential Inquirys. As
of President Flavia
there have been 412 Presidents of Gallifrey.
THE INNER COUNCIL - The
Inner Council is made up of the Lord President, the
Lord High Chancellor of All Gallifrey
(Vice-President) who
serves as the administrative head of the goverment, and
the High Cardinals. Like
the President, the
Chancellor is addressed as "Your Excellency." The Chancellor is
appointed by the Supream Council and ratified by the President. For this reason the
Chancellor is
always a member of the same Chapter as the
President. The Chancellor
also oversees the Castellan and the Watch. The Constitution
states that the President cannot give orders the Chancellor. The Vice-President is responsible for
representing the President to other Time Aware Races, and coordinating
the Watch and the CIA. Traditionally the post of Vice-President
was seperate from the post of Chancellor, however in the modern era the
Chancellor also handles the powers Vice-President. Together
these 5 represent the most powerful of
the Great Houses of Gallifrey.
During Emergency Sessions, they can
override the
President's authority with a unanimous vote. Despite
the various elections and appointments, the Houses represented on the
Inner Council rarely change. It is very rare for any Newblood
House to be represented on the Council.
THE HIGH
COUNCIL (aka The High Council of the Time Lords of
Gallifrey, Ruling Houses) -
The High Council
is composed of 15 Councillors including the Inner
Council
members. Below the High Cardinals are
the six Prime Cardinals (one for each chapter), and
the
Cardinals. They are are
made up of the Inner Council and the 10 longest serving members of the
Supreme Council. They can be removed by a 1/3 petition by all the Time
Lords. A
sub-committee of the High Council overseens the Temporal Scanning
Service at Temporal Scanning HQ. Later
the
positions of Keeper
(aka Coordinator) of the Matrix, and Castellan (commands the
Chancellory Guard and the Watch) were made non-voting members of the
Council. Since Castellans aren't always Time Lords this is the only way a non-Time Lord
can serve on the Council. The positions of the Chancellor and
the other High Cardinals are
ratified by the other members of the High Council and confirmed by the
President. They usually meet in the High Council
Chamber of Congress. It is rumored that 2/3rds of the High
Council has been bribed or blackmailed by the CIA.
THE SUPREAM COUNCIL (aka the Council, the Parliment) - These
Councillors are the Supream Guardians of Gallifreyan Law. Without
a President the Supream Council techncially can not ratify
anything. However this law has been known to be deliberately
overlooked. Their
combinded mental powers allow them to take mental control of any Time
Lord (even
ex-presidents).
The number of Councillors of the
Supream Council varies. Traditionaly the current President's
Chapter will be the most well represented Chapter on the Council.
Below the Cardinals are the Chapter Cardinals (who lead the Chapters), Under
Cardinals, and Junior Cardinals. Chapter Cardinal do not serve on
the High Council. The Surgeon-General is a member of the Supream Council, as
is the Castellan.
Membership is confered by petition of
1/3 of the Time Lord community. It is
very rare for a Time Lord to achieve a rank higher then Junior
Cardinal in less then 2000 years. They remain Councillors
unitl they retire, die,
or are removed by the President or 1/3 vote of the Time Lord populace.
LORDS TEMPORAL (aka the Time
Lords, Lords of Time) - Each
Chapter has 100 full Time Lords for a total of 600.
Their are also about 400 Apprentice
and junior Grade Time
Lords at any
given time for a total of
1,000 Time Lords. All are graduates
of one of the six Time
Academies. (For
more info see the Time Lord entry above).
THE CIVIL SERVICE - Ranks that can be held by Non-Time
Lords iinclude Castellan,
Ordinal-Generals,
Ordinals. It should be
noted that plebeian
non-Time
Lords are not bound by the color
coding of the chapters with respect to dress.
ORDINAL-GENERAL (aka Auld Mortality)
- The title of
Ordinal-General is given to the Gallifreyan who
has
been chosen to become the next Auld Mortality after his final Deathday.
When he dies, his spectral form take on a ghostly form and becomes
Auld Mortality. This dark spectral presence haunts the current
President of Gallifrey, reminding him that life and power is fleeting
and that this death is certain. Computers paint pictures of
every Presidential Ordination. Auld Mortality can be seen lurking
in the shadows of each of these pictures. Ordinal-Generals have
no staff, and no office. The existence of Auld Mortality is known
only to the Head of the Presidency.
THE CHAPTERS (aka the Six Cardinal Colleges)
- Gallifreyan
society is organized into
six Chapters or
Colleges. These Chapters
are politico-economic factions (or
clans), each of
which is represented
on the Inner Council by at least one Cardinal Prime. The six chapters are based on the six founders of
Gallifrey: Rassilon (Prydon), Apeiron (a
warrior), Omega, the Other, Pandak the First (Second President) and possibly Vanderkerian. Each
Chapter has 100 full Time Lords for a total of 600.
Their are also about 400 Apprentice
and Junior Grade Time
Lords at any
given time. Each Chapter has a Chapterhouse. Gallifreyan
customs forbid a person changing alligences to another Chapter. Time Lords can give their words as
either a Time Lord or as a Prydonian. Such oaths are taken very
seriously. Gallifreyans who become
Investigators for the CIA
loose all rank and connection to their colleges.
*Prydon Chapter: The
Prydonians wear scarlet and orange. They are known to be plotters
and decision makers. This Chapter holds the most politically
powerful Houses and for this
reason receives
more advanced Rassilon Imprimaturs than the lower chapters. The
Prydon Chapter has producted more Presidents then all the other
Chapters combinded. This Chapter was founded by
Rassilon.
*Arcal
Chapter:
Arcalians wear green and brown robes. This is the second most powerful
chapter and for this reason receives more advanced Rassilon
Imprimaturs then the lower chapters. Arcalians are known for always siding
with the winning side of any political debate. Arcallians dislike
interacting with the outside universe and rarely leave their TARDISes.
*Patrex Chapter: The Patrexes wear Heliotrope robes. The Patrexes are an order of artists aesthetes who see
artistic value in everything (even pain and suffering). But
they lack any true imagination and are
minor players in Time Lord politics. The Patrexian Numbers serve
as a numerical base to everything they create. They are know for
obsessively catologing everything. One of the
duties of the Patrexians might scanning into the future as far as was
possible. Practically everything they create is beutiful but
pointless.
*Cerulean Chapter: Their
colors are a subdued light blue and they have little political power. Probably Green in
policy. This chapter is
made of either academicians or bureaucrats.
*Drome Chapter: The
Dromeian
colors are probably silver-grey and they
have
little political power. Probably
similar to Social Democrats. This chapter is
made of either academicians or bureaucrats.
*Scendeles Chapter: Their colors are
quite subdued and they have little
political power. This chapter is made of either academicians or
bureaucrats.
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THE CELESTIAL INTERVENTION AGENCY (aka CIA) - The Time Lords are
pledged to uphold
the Laws of Time and prevent alien aggression where the indigenous
population (and the Web of Time) is threatened. They also protect lesser species
from Time Active races. Time Lords use the Kardashev Scale to
rate species. Type 1 Civilization
controls all the resources of their planet. Type 2 have control
of their star
system. Type 3 have control over a
complete galaxy. And Type 4 Civilizations
have control over the fundemental forces of the entire Universe.
Type 1, 2, and 3 Civilizations
are usually termed “Lesser Species” while
the Type 4s are often referred to as Higher Evolutionaries.
It should be noted that many Type 3 Civilizations have enough power and
resources to pose a small amount of risk to a Type 4 Civilization. The
Interventionist organizations are responsible for protecting history from such speices.
They also carefully monitor other species research into time
travel and act to prevent unauthorized time travel. The CIA was originally formed to deal
with minor issues that the Time Lords viewed as being beneath them, but
they eventualy grew to be a very powerful organization.
The CIA is the most influential of the
interventionist movement and believes that the Web of Time should be
adjusted whenever it suits the needs of the Time Lords. Their moto is "They story changes, the ending remains
the same." (ie you can do what ever you need to as long as recorded
history remains the same). Their HQ is located in the Citadel
Constraint Block
and is sometimes refered to as Gallifrey
Central.
The CIA is
obsessed with titles and positions.
Though the President is the
nominal head the effective leaders of
the Agency is the Tribunal (also know as the Dark
Council). Unbeknownst to even the Tribunal,
the CIA is secretely controled by the Matrix Lords (Rassilon, Morvane,
and Bedevere) from within the Matrix. It is rumored
that 2/3rds of the High
Council has been bribed or blackmailed by the CIA (the Doctor believes
it's more like 1/2). The Tribunal is made up of the First (also known as
the
Director), Second and Third Speakers. The
Allegiance Command Cell is a
branch of the CIA. The CIA numbers its investigators. The
higher the number the
higher the rank of the Investigator. Under-Assassin is another
title. Once they imprison someone not even
the President can overtrun the judgment. CIA
Investigators
loose all traditional rank and connections to their colleges when they
join. CIA robes
are simplier than other governmental robes and usually either gray or
black. However their
bio-data extract will
never mentions that they are affiliated with the CIA.
They appear to join until their final death day. The TARDISes used by the CIA's Field
Agents have enhanced Recall Circuits and remote self-destruct
systems. To insure the
existance of back up copies, top secret message sent from Gallifrey to
agents are routed through the TARDIS closest to the receiver (they are
of course encoded). They are equiped with details
histories, complete
wardrobes, false identification, documents of authority (including
Psychic Paper), and curancy for various temporal nexus points.
Many agents celebrate being able to eat various foods from the outside
universe.
The
CIA prefers conspiracy and manipulation to open confrontation. Their agents are trained in the
Smallest Effective Change Principles. The CIA has been
known to change history by manipulating
the genes of
a race by
having their agents interbreed with
various races. This is done to direct genetic drift between one
biosystem and another or to reduce their aggressiveness. Despite this they can delete entire planets without
leaving Gallifrey and even have
the ability to freeze time on Gallifrey. Because of this, the CIA belives
that Time Lords should always present themselves as Gods to the lesser
species.
THE ORDER OF THE WEAL - Organization founded by President
Morbius and based at House Ixion. It was tasked to ensure
Gallifreyan culture survived, but tended to be radically proactive in
carrying out this goal. It viewed all historical records as
suspect and trusted only what they could directly sense and
comprehend. The Order was led by Chatelaine Thessalia, had about
170 members and access to 4 TARDISes. Its members were
malcontents from larger Houses who were combat trained by the
Order. Despite this training most of their duties were
administrative. The elite guard wear black and gold instead of
the usual red. The CIA eventualy assumed all the responsibilites
of the Order.
THE CHAPTERHOUSE
GUARD (aka Chancellery Guard, the Watch)- The Watch represents
Gallifrey’s only real “army" but really serves as the
police force for Gallifrey. It is made up
of Gallifreyans from
servitor-classes houses. Some (if not all) of the guards are
Time Lords. All off the officers attend an Academy. It is possible for a House to
buy their members commission in the Chancellery Guard. The guards
who protect the Capitol have all had more then two centuries of
experiance. Each Chapter
maintains its own
branch of the Watch. Each branch of the Watch is
lead by a Commander who reports to the Castellan. The Castellan
(aka the Magistrate) is
head of Gallifreyan security but is not always
a Time Lord. He is selected
by the Supream Council and serves on the Inner Council. The
Watch are supervised from Security Control. Besides security the Castellan's
other duties include ensuring the maintance redecoration of the
Citadel. Even
the
need
for a constabulary force is limited and the Watch’s main purpose is
ceremonial. They are the
only ones allowed to carry deadly weapons in Capitol. Most if not
all Gallfreyans and Time Lords believe
Gallifrey to be a just and fair society and citizens have no real desires or
needs. Thus
Gallifrey has very little crime and the Watch has little combat
ability. Most lack any
real fighting skills. The
Watch can
use torture on murder suspects but needs special authority to use the
Mind Probe. However under Romana's Presidency
both torture and the Mind Probe were made illegal. Time Lord
trials
and inquires don't have juries,
but they do have members of the court who act as bailiffs and
witnesses. The
Cardinal-Judge (or Inquisitor) is the only one who can call
witnessess. The
Valeyard is the learned court prosecutor. In
Gallifreyan courts the accused can
be held responsible for actions and statements that the Matrix predicts
that he will make in his future.
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Punishments authorized by the
Worshipful and Ancient Law of Gallifrey
"We but
administer. You are imprisoned not by this Court, but by the
power of the Law"
Temporonic Biodata Tag (received
by all convicted criminal
Time Lords)
- A biodata tattoo in the form of a serpent dragon
on their
right arm
- This tattoo is keyed into the subject's entire
biofield and links
them
to the courts though
his own biodata strands.
Mind Block (blocks specific memories or
skills
using chemicals that break down memory acids)
Exile from Gallifrey without a fully
functional TARDIS
-A common practice often viewed
as being worse then death.
-Often used for Time Meddlers (minor violations of
the Laws of Time)
and violent criminals who
refuse to become outsiders or hermits.
-Always accompanied by a Forced
Regeneration.
Forced
regeneration (probablly
regarded as a type of death sentence)
-Considered to be a punishment for relatively
minor crimes
- For conduct unbecoming a Time Lord??
-Mandatory
punishment for
unauthorized use of
a Time Capsule.
Biodata Amendment (to make someone less curious)
-Used for aliens who are
caught spying on the Time Lords
Biodata Amendment (to confiscate
or transfer future
incarnations)
-Reserved for major violations of
the First Law of Time.
-A Time Lord who destroys an
entire species
forfeits all his remaining lives.
Execution by Vaporisation (via a Warrent of
Termination and a Dispersal Chamber)
-High Treason and assination
of a President are both punishible by vaporization
-Major violations of the 1st
Law of Time (such as aggravated
temporal interferance) are punished by vaporisation.
-As of Arc of Infinity Morbius was the onlly Time Lord to be executed.
-The remains of the criminal are dispersed through
time and space to the nine corners of the universe and all
records of the Time Lord's existance are
deleated.
Sentenced
In Perpetuity to be frozen within Shada, an
Oubliette, or a Phantom Sun
-Used on criminals (regaurdless of species) whose
existance is viewed as a threat
to Gallifrey.
-Used on being taht went places
forbidden by the Time Lords or discovered information forbidden by the
Time Lords.
Time Looping a planet (reserved for
punishing an entire race)
-Used on species that attempt to violate the Laws of
Time.
Unhappening
from History (using an Omnicalculator such as D-Mat gun or the Oubliette of
Eternity)
-As this punishment is a violation of the First Law of Time it
is only enacted in secret by the President of (more often) the
CIA.
-Used for
aliens who are caught spying on the Time Lords.
Time
Destruction (a painful method of execution)??? |
OTHER
ORGANIZATIONS: Junior
Senate, Council of the Great Mother, Bureau of
Loomographic Records, Causal Archive Record Office, Matrician Bench of
Ordnance Surveyists, Brotherhood of Kithriarchs, and a
Space/Time Accessions Bureau. The Central Office of Temporal
Observation. Hospitaller-surgeons handle medical
issues.
THE HOUSES:
Each
Chapter is organized into several Houses. Each House has one
loom with a uniquie genetic core to loom its cousins. The Looms are held in the
loomshed of the a physical house. These houses are sentient and
the oldest living thing on the planet.
Members of each house have minor
variations in abilities. Under
the Worshipful and Ancient Law of Gallifrey, a member of any House can
give up the protection of their House and become the Kithriarch of a
new House with a new Chapterhouse and Loom. The founder of a new
House
carries the title Grandfather. A new loom
probably takes over 11 years to produce its first loomling. A
Renegade Time Lord traditionally renounces his name and his
house.
FOUNDING
HOUSES - Of the many
Houses there are
five or six Founding Houses that date all the way back to the
Dark Time. These Houses command significantly
more respect than later ones.
House of
Fordfarding:
House of
Blyledge:
The House
of Blyledge was ancient even before the time of Rassilon.
Blyledge is one of the senior houses in the Prydon
Chapter of Glorious Gallifrey. The House of Blyledge is an
angular small dark building that is older than the hill it sits on.
It has a walled garden of silver trees in its center and is within
visual sight of the Capitol. Family members often wear blue clothes and thus the House might be a
member of the the Cerulean Chapter.
House
of Jadedreamers:
One of the Houses that predates the
Intuitive
Revolution. Some of its family were members of the Sisterhood.
House of
Lineacrux:
The least active of the
Founding Houses, known only for their expertise in Gallifreyan history
and laws. All of its cousins have the appearance of extremely old and
senile Gallifreyans who passively observe society around them. In
fact the Lineacrux cousins at some of the most powerful and influential
members of Gallifreyan society. Their decrepit appearance is
merely an act designed to lull others into ignoring them. They
observe and (when consulted) offer their opinion in almost all
gatherings of Gallifreyan society.
OLDBLOOD
HOUSES- The oldblood houses are the Founding housese plus the houses created
by Rassilon after the Intuitive Revolution.
House of Arpexia:
The cousins of this house are Gallifrey’s only scientific
fundamentalists. They place great faith reason and logic as the
solution to all problems and shun emotion. They have been
conducting research for research’s sake for millions of years.
This house was responsible for the unstable Babels. They’ve
produced many experimental Time Travel Capsules over the eons, but
their
technology tends to be over
complicated.
House of Catherion:
An now extinct House whose
chapterhouse is looked after by a caretaker line.
House of Scarlet:
Almost certainly a Prydonian
House.
House of
Brightshore:
A Prydonian House
House of
Dellatrovellas:
One of the oldest and most powerful Houses. Time Lady
Serenadellatrovella was a cousin of this house.
House of
Ixion:
This House is located on the
edge of the civilized portion of Gallifrey next to a mountain
range. Its original Family left during the first Diaspora leaving
only a line of caretakers to watch after the House. Millions of
years later Morbius chose it as the Headquarters for the Order of the
Weal and made one of the caretakers, Chatelaine Thessalia, head of the
organization. Its “cousins” were malcontents from larger Houses
who were combat trained. Despite this training most of their
duties were administrative. They Loom of Ixion was never used but
rumor has it that they tampered with other House’s Looms to produced
mutants and renegades.
House
of Lungbarrow
pictures by Daryl Joyce
House of Lungbarrow:
This Oldblood House was founded in response to the
curse and became one of the
original five founding houses from the time
of Rassilon. The crest of
Lungbarrow is two
silver leafed trees whose branches reach over and intertwine. 45
cousins are allotted to the house of Lungbarrow. For the
most part no Family members come to the House of Lungbarrow, except for
Loomings and Tombings. In the last
several thousand years it has fallen from favor, with its
highest-ranking member holding a title of Ordinal General. About
350 years after the looming of the Doctor, the House was deleted from
History for exceed its Loom Quota. It was reinstated
673 years later. The House of Lungbarrow is in the Prydon
Chapter. The Lungbarrow Chapterhouse located in the
Southern Mountain Ranges, two days walk from Rassilon's Rampart, and
overlooks the river Cadonflood. A forest of silver leafed trees
stretch from the House to the river Cadonflood at the base of the
valley. The House sits halfway up Mount Lung
on the west side. The river right next to the Hermits home floods
frequently (this might be
Cadonflood?). Southern Gallifrey is considered quite
wild and beutiful, but does occationally suffer blizzards.
A partial list of the
Lungbarrow Cousins
The Doctor
Arkhew,
Maljamin,
Farg,
Innocet,
Quencessetianobayolocaturgrathadeyyilungbarrowmas
(Ordinal-General and 422nd Kithriarch),
Satthralope (Housekeeper),
Glospinninymortheras ( Cellular Eugenics (CIA?)),
Jobiska,
Luton,
Rynde (Epicural Overseer),
Celesia,
Almund,
Tulgel,
Chovor (the Various),
DeRoosifa,
Salpash
Irving Braxiatel claims to be a brother of the
Doctor.
Owis was the Doctor's Replacment after he was
disinherited.
House of
Mirraflex:
A minor oldblood House that
produced most of Gallifrey’s generals, enforcers, and
strategists. Its
cousins are known for being aggressive and ruthless defenders of the
Laws of Time. They have nothing but disdain for the Lesser
Species.
Their Loom was known for being particularly versatile. The House
was
founded by General Mirraflex after the beginning of the Eternal Wars,
who structured it as an esoteric martial lodge.
House of
Nechronmancy:
Nechronmancers don’t believe in the passage of time and don’t
acknowledge their gender or their names. They’ve deleted most of
the records of their House and are viewed as pariahs among Time Lord
society. They are capable altering time states in ways that would
be impossible for any other Time Lord. During the War these deep
engineers collected Highest Entropy Matter (HEM) from dead time states
(where the universe had reached thermal equilibrium and history/time
has ceased to flow).
House
of Stillhaven:
A Prydonian House.
House
of
Wildthyme:
A House in the mountains of
Southern Gallifrey.
House of Effeston
Romanadvoratrelundar is custodian of this House.
NEWBLOOD HOUSES - There are very few Newblood houses
(relative to the Older Houses) and their cousins tend to be quite
eccentric. All of them were founded no more than 10,000 years
before the Doctor was loomed.
House
of Dvora (aka House of Devouring Hounds):
The first of the Newblood
houses, House of Dvora was created 10,000
years before the looming of the Doctor. Their Cousins view
themselves as destined to publicly lead and control. Dvora is the only Newblood House
whose power equals the Five Founding Houses. They are ruthlessly practical and
open to using violent methods, but strive to appear impersonal and
passionsionless. They have seven elite operatives who undertake
secret missions for them. Originally
part of the Patrex chapter they later became
Prydonian.
Cousins include: Morbius. Romanadvoratrelundar, is inheriter of the
House of Dvora.
House
of Heartshaven
Probably a House that was spawned out of House Dvora. Cousins
include: Romanadvoratrelundar.
House of
Oakdown:
This Newblood House is a member of the Prydon Chapter
and is one of the
most respected and noble Houses on Gallifrey. This House produced the Master.
House of Paradox:
This House conducted illegal experiments on Non-Linear Time.
The Grandfather also begins to experiment with lesser species
reproductive methods and
begins wearing the armor of Yssgaroth Time Lords. It was reformed
into Faction Paradox and exiled from Gallifey,.
House
of Tracolix:
A minor Newblood House that is known for subtly trying to exploit every
change that occurs in Gallifreyan society. They are arrogant,
reckless, and ambitious. Their willingness to follow any passing
fashion gives their cousins more versatility then those of other Houses.
House of
Xianthellipse:
A minor Newblood House known
for its understanding of biology and biodata. It is not a member
of the Prydon Chapter (i.e. never wears scarlet).
CARETAKER HOUSES - Below the Time
Lords are the Plebeian Classes (non Time Lord).
This ancillary staff and their families live in the rest of the
Capitol. They are Watch guards, technicians, artisans, cleaners,
engineers,
cooks, and musicians. MidTown is
between the Capitol and LowTown. Low Town is the society of poor
that has formed in the foundations of the Capitol. The Low
Towners call Time Lords Timeys while
the Gallifreyan elite refer to New
Age Time Lord dropouts who live in Low Town as Shobogans. These Houses
are ruled by a
Chatelaine. There are between 3 and
9
million
Gallifreyans.
House of
Redlooms:
The Prydon Newblood House of Redlooms has
been producing
military
Ordinals who serve in the watch for a very long time. It is a
family of loyal mavericks who have defeated a dozen Time Lord traitors.
OUTSIDERS
- Some Gallifreyans and even some TTime Lords reject technology
entirely and live in the wilderness of outer Gallifrey hunting and
growing their food.
MEASURING TIME:
Because it is located in Inner Time Gallifreyans measure local
time according to the Time Band. Gallifreyan
seconds,
minutes,
days, years are
indentical to
the ones used on Earth. A
Gallifreyan month is probably equal to 27 days. Gallifrey time is told
in 18 hour days. 9 hours of daylight and 9 hours of night.
The length of the hours are dependent on the season and location.
The passage of hours is marked
by the ringing of bells. The number of rings denote the hour. Some Clock have 12 divisions. 48 hours is division of
time that is often used. A
Gallifreyan Cycle is approximately 23 years. They
also used
micro-spans (which is also used by the Sisterhood).
One micro-span probably equals 200 seconds. Time
Lord watches can synchronize themselves to the local time
instantaneously (use the same technique as the translations
systems). The watch face morphs to match local time keeping
conventions. These watches are standard equipment for field
operatives.
nano-span = .2 seconds
micro-span = 200
sec (3.3 min)
milli-span
= 55.6 hours (2.3 days)
centi-span = 23
days
span
= 6.3 years
kilo-span
= 6341 years |
NOTE: Greyjan was the
shortest serving President in Gallifreyan
history, serving for only three years; however, his reign spanned the
Earth-relative days in September 1752 AD where the Shadow Parliament is
found. However the Eye of Harmony was activated in 3.5 Billion
BC and Greyjan only became President a few Million years after that
activation. Does this mean time flows much slower on
Gallifrey then in
the rest of the Universe? If so then 1 year in Inner Time would
equal
~1750 years in Normal Space.
Transduction Barriers separate
Gallifrey’s continuity and history from the
rest
of the universe by locating it in a
Micro-Universe
outside of Time. Thus when
you are on Gallifrey, you are in Inner Time,
"outside"
of the Universe. In addition to
this,
its
past is protected by powerful Temporal Baffels, Temporal Locks and Governing
Circuits built into all Gallifreyan time
travel technology.
The Rassilon Era uses at least five dating systems.
The first is the Relative
Date (Mission to Magnus,
The Gallifrey Chronicles, Armagedon Factor, TV Movie).
Relative Dating began with the
installation of the Eye of Harmony in the Citadel - which was the
begining of the Rassilon Era. For this reason the dates are given
with the prefix RE for Rassilon Era. The Doctor would have been loom in 2004716.44 (The Gallifrey Chronicals
claim the Doctor was loomed on
4756.7
RE But this is 40.5 years off from
all other sources).
For convience sake Time
Lords usualy abreviated Local Date Line to five digits (ie
5725.2). The Relative Date can be found by
adding 2004716.44 to the Doctor's age. The Local Dateline (ie the
4 diget version) can be found by adding 4716.44 to the Doctor's
age. Any Earth date can be translated into
Local Dateline (LD) by adding 3503412400.2 (about 3.5 billion) to the Earth year
if after 1 BC or
3503412399.2 if before 1 AD. Day 1 of the
Gallifreyan new year is between day 274
and
day 310 on
Earth (ie Dec 30 10:47 pm EST is 1/5th of
the way through the Gallifreyan year).
Thus New Year's Day on
Gallifrey probably begins arond Oct 20. This
system is often used for
discussing events that occured in the outside universe relative to
Gallifrey time. For example 1999
AD (the 20th century)
would be 3,5034139.89 RE.
The
second
systems is used by the Matrix and APC for dating events (Neverland) and can be found by adding 5720.6 years to the Doctor's
Age.
This system is often used to
record events arround the time of the
Doctor, for example Romana's mission to Neverland occured at 6798.5
MD. The Doctor
was loomed on 5720.6 MD.
Side Note: It is possible that Local Date Line and the Matrix Dating
system are the same system that had been corrected in some way.
Much like the 11 days that were added to the English calender to
correct it so to might the Time Lords have added about 1000 years from
their calender to correct it. This might have been done to
compensate for some unknown temporal phenomenon. If this did
happen then it probalby happened between Lungbarrow and Neverland.
The
third system is called Date Index (Deadly Assasin, The Gallifrey Chronicles). Any Relative Date
can be converted to Date Index (DI) by subtracting 1695300 to the full
RE or adding 304700 to the four diget verstion of RE. Thus 5206.4 RE would be 309906. This dating system is
also abriviated to 2 digets (ie 92)..
The fourth
system is the GRT system (The Gallifrey Chronicals), which
works just like the Relative Date system only you need to subtract
2003543 from the long version of the RE date. Thus 2004756.44 RE would be 1213
GRT.
The fifth
system is the Gallifreyan
TL Dating System (FASA, The
Gallifrey Chronicals), which works like the Relative Date system
only you need to add 100448 to the Doctor's Age. Thus 2004756.44 RE
would be 100447 TL
HOLIDAYS:
Day 1 (Oct 20th~)
Creation of the Web of Time
Day 13 (Nov 1st~)
The Thirteeth Night:
Gallifreyan Cults practice Mimesis.
Day
128 (Feb
24th~) Intuitive Revolution Day
Day 162 (Mar 30th~) Otherstide/Othermass/Festival of
Freedom:
Otherstide is a holiday on
Gallifrey. No one leaves their houses on Otherstide eve, and
gifts are given to time-tots.
Day 205 (May 12th~)
Death of
Omega
The Festival of the Timewright
(Anmers-Tonastide, or TimeWorker), Feast of Omega, and Rassilon's Flag
Day are other
holidays.
LANGUAGE:
Old High
Gallifreyan had 10,000,000 letters in its alphabet and worked well as
code for computer programs. Old Low
Gallifreyan is another language that was once used. But the
Modern
Gallifreyan Omegabet is a
mathematically based language that has only 1,000,000
characters. Its possible
that their number system is base 12 as thats all the digits that appear
on a standard key pad. Messages are writen in equations
that must be solved
to be deciphered. This half
writing, half math language is very precise but not very
practical. Gallifreyans use 208 language tenses. Because of the stagnation of their
society Gallifreyans have difficulty handling different cultures.
They
have 30 different words to describe culture shock. The plural of
TARDIS is still still debated by Time Lords. The Patrexian Numbers serve as a
numerical base to everything that Patrexian's create. Gallifreyan Morse is similar to
Morse Code. Many (if not all) Time Lord documents are printed on
circular colored paper. Somtimes these are rolled up into
scrolls.
Meyopapa: appears to mean master.
Grumblies: kid slang for adults
Gjara'vont: of darkest thought
Broken House: a dying bloodline.
"Those who plot the destruction of others, often fall victim
themselves." - from Pelatov's Collected Sageries
"A leader's greatness is best judged by the quality of her advisers." -
from Pelatov's Collected Sageries
"Life begins at 750"
"What the devil?!"
"Life begins at 1500"
"You see all those stars? Each
one of those represents a promise. All the time they shine the promise
remains unbroken"
"Frost in the
fire and the rocking chair / Frost in the hearth, frost in the ladle /
Children's voices in the air / Wind that rocks the empty cradle."
-Mid-Gallifreyan Nursery Versery
"Those to Rassilon's
Tower would go, must choose: Above, Between, Below" -Nursery Rhyme.
"Zagreus sits
inside your head / zagreus lives among the dead / zagreus sees you in
your bed / and eats you when you're sleeping / zagreus at the end of
days / zagreus lies all other ways / zagreus comes when time's a maze /
and all of history's weeping / zagreus taking time apart. / zagreus
fears the hero heart. / zagreus seeks the final part. / the reward that
he is reaping. / zagreus sings when all is lost / zagreus takes all
those he's crossed / zagreus wins and all is cost / the hero's hearts
he's keeping. / zagreus seeks the hero's ship / zagreus needs the web
to rip / zagreus sups time at a drip / and life aside, he's sweeping.
/...???..../ zagreus waits at the end of the world / for zagreus is the
end of the world / his time is the end of time / and his moment time's
undoing" - Nursery
Rhyme (Ledgends of Zagreus can be found on a 1000
different worlds. It was put there by the Neverpeople to trick
the leaders of Gallifrey into entering the Anti Time Universe.)
"History is time's way of
preventing everything from happening at once" - Graffito the
Prydonian
"What goes bang thud, bang
thud, bang thud, bang thud, bang thud, bang thud, bang thud, bang thud,
bang thud, bang thud, bang thud, bang thud, bang thud? - - -A
Time
Lord committing suicide." - Graffito the Prydonian.
"...never trust a venusian
shanghorn with a perigosto stick." is the punch line to a funny joke.
[paraphrased]
"Its not the size that matters, its how you use it."
"There are some corners of
the Universe which have bred the most terrible things. Things
which act against everything we believe in. They must be fought."
(ancient child's maxim)
"There is always still-time, and
there is always flowing-time"
[a threat] ...or I shal lay your soul to
waste!
“The moment has been prepared for.” – might be a Gallifreyan
phrase
referring to Regeneration.
Gallifrey profanity: "Rassilon's
Rod," "Great Rassilon"
“Rot
in a black star” "Scares the Staazula out of me" "For
Rassilon's Sake!"
""Sweet mother of
Chaos" "Rassilon's Death" "What is the name of Rassilon..." "Rassilon's
Ghost" “Omega’s orifice”
“Othering Other”
“Othering Omega”
“Otherf---er”
"Thank the
Other!"
"Rungar protect us" - Rungar is a
criminal imprisoned in Shada
"Ferisix and Thrayke protect us"
"All that was long ago as the vortisaur flies."
"Never trust a Time Lord" (presumably
said only by Gallifreyans)
By the time of the War
with the Enemy using the names Rassilon, or
Omega is considered blasphemy (example “Omega’s orifice”).
Pre-ja Vu: (Modern Gallifreyan) the sense that you're going to have
been somewhere before. (coined by Academi Plurix)
RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY:
Since
Gallifreyans are never born, are never learn like children, and
almost never die
their understading of mythology and fairy-tales is limitied. It wasn't till millions of years
after the creation of the Eye of Harmony that they invented
post-modernism.
Many
Time Lords belive that there was a creator of the universe. Old Time legends
and Gallifreyan mythology states that the Universe was born from a
sentient singularity called Eru or the Great Old one Azathoth. At
Event 0 the being
split into 10 dimensions (the Universe has 11 dimensions). After
Event 0 the Mother Goddess used the Aurora
Temporalis (anvils of heaven) to create and pour Time itself
into the void of the empty
Universe. With the exceptions of some
Shobogan cults, the Gallifreyans do not worship either Azathoth
of the Mother Goddess, nor do they do call them "gods,"
but they do belive that the ordered compexity of the universe points
unquestionably to the existance of a creator. This creator's
power takes the form of gravity
when viewed from 3 dimensions.
The primary
Gallifreyan Gods are the Menti
Celesti who have been worshiped since the Old Time. The Menti
Celesti
are made up of Pain, Death, and
Time (aka the daughter
of the Timewyrm).
Other gods include Light, and Life. The Gallifreyan
Gods have the
following colors attributed to them. Red and
Black for Pain, White for Death, and a shifting Gray color for
Time. The ancient symbol of Death is a red circle called a
Regenerative Circle. About 25% of the population of Gallifrey
worships Death,
Time, Pain etc. Prayer to the gods is usualy conducted by
individuals in a privet setting. The
Time
Lords belive these Gods to be Higher Eternals but in reality they are part of the
essence of the Universe. They
are abstract universal conceptual
entities, a non-corporeal
beings that can control time, and fate. Death, Time, and Pain
might be the
dreams of Time Lords who leak out into the cosmos. Time Lords in
nightmares or near-death states sometimes make deals with them,
sometimes to become their Champions.
Early in
their history the Gallifreyans came to believe that if they killed all
the evil people in the universe then the good people who remained would
become evil. Light can not exist without darkness. If evil
were destroyed then good would vanish as well. Sin is not a concepts that can be found in
Gallifreyan culture. Damaging History is about as close to
evil as Gallifreyan culture gets.
The number six is very important to Gallifreyan culture and is used in architecture, and numerous other aspects of
life. It probably
derives from the 6 Gaurdians (aka the Six-Fold God). Most Time Lords consider the six
segments of the Key to Time to be a myth.
The number 13 is important as well (steming from the Fendahl being
composed of 13 parts).
Other Gallifreyans
(including the Doctor) believe in The Great Moral Dialectic. It
states that the Moral Universe refines itself towards goodness just as
the physical Universes keeps expanding. Reality leads to complexity, which
leads to life, which leads to civilization, which leads to ethics.
This leads to the Ultimate
superiority of Good over Evil.
As of The Infinity Doctors many Gallifreyans worship
Omega. He is
know as the God Ohm. Some
Gallifreyans believe that the Matrix controls
Gallifrey.
Some even believe it created the Gallifreyans so that it would have an
origin.
The minds (or
souls) Gallifreyans are stored in the APC after death which is a form
of heaven. Gallifreyan
legends
reference a
Hell filled with horror and pain. Time
Lords have also been known to mention a devil from time to time.
Cats are a symbol of intelligence in Gallifreyan culture.
The Omniscate has been seen as an almost magical symbol for warding
off evil and is placed on rooms and objects of great power.
Gallifreyan Mythology has
lots to say about the Daleks and the Klade. It also mentions
races of creatures that "wear the skins of men" (meaning aliens that
look like Gallifreyans).
Time Lord mythology say that to much
time traveling cause a mental illness akin to delusionary schizophrenia.
Legands and fairytales of
the Toclafane and Grandfather
Paradox are
often told to childeren. There are no records of this person
in the Matrix files.
The Story of the Rock is an old fairy-tale that
warns against interference in history.
Sabjatric and Rungar were prisoners on Shada but
some Gallifreyans beleive that they were Gods of the Dark Time.
They sometimes swear by Rungar.
The Legends of Cuwirti, Ferisix, and Thrayke
are also important.
Gallifreyan
folk-tales speak of Gallifreyans abandoned and “raised” by
humans. These Gallifreyans develop amazing abilities and are
ruled their extreme passions.
Vampires still scare adult
Time Lords, even in the modern era. Vampires in the Capitol is a
particularly horrific thought.
Some Gallifreyans believe that
Rassilon was a Vampire. Some even worship Rassilon the Vampire.
The Time Lords guard against magic
and have files on everyone who claims to use it.
The mythology of
Gallifrey has stories of the Fendahl and the Fendahleen.
There was a cult on Gallifrey
that used Mimesis which is a Gallifreyan art
in which whatever is written comes true. Mimesis is a variation of Quantum
Mnemonics.
It was performed in the
annual ritual of "The Thirteenth Night. The High Council
had the cult banned.
Some Gallifreyan bedtime
stories claim excessive time travel causes dementia and hallucinatory
schizophrenia.
Some people belive that anything that can be
imagined must exist otherwise you wouldn't be able to imagine it.
"Three two one, three two one, / A wreath of roses lay. / Rassilon's
dead and Omega's lost, / The other one's gone away. / Three to wonder
and bide their time, / They'll all come back one day." -
Transcribed from hieroglyphics in the Domdaniel Caverns on Strava.
MISCELLANEOUS:
The very idea of Gallifrey having a history is
viewed as
vulgar and primitive by the Time Lords.
6 is a special number in Gallifreyan Culture. 6 members of the
Supreme Council, 6 great heroes who founded the 6 colleges .
Some (if not all)
students receive a new official
name while attending their Academy. All Gallifreyans receive single
names (though they are usually very long). The long
version of a Gallifreyan's name is writen in Old High
Gallifreyan. The length of a Time Lord's name grows as his social
and political stature increase. Arround the time of the Doctor's
birth, many
Time Lords began using
titles instead of names. These
titles are based on what they do
and how they do it.
The ceremonial robes, collars, and makeup
of the Time Lords are worn only for special occasions.
CIA robes are simplier than other governmental
robes.
Food: Usually Gallifreyans consume pill shaped food (such as Promarzzi Bars),
but on
special occasions Karmine pudding, Dactyl
Eggs, blue fruit, and Gallifreyan Pizza is eaten. Most Time Lords
have never had to cook a meal for themselves.
Beverages
served in Gallifrey include tea (Unconcious
Gallifreyans can often be awakened with boiling tea vapor) and a Gallifreyan Tea Set has
approximately 178 peices. Other beverages include Milean
Head Juice(a type of alcohol), Bog-Truffle Tincture (a type of drink),
Orneilian Wine and Rassilon's Red (a fine
Gallifreyan
wine bottled at the time of Rassilon). Wine is dated by the President who
was in power a
the time it was bottled.
Some Gallifreyans smoke pipes or
cigars.
Gallifreyan art is made so that look good even when
they are decaying and falling apart from old age. The aging is
"part" of the sculpture. The concept of caricatures is unknown to
Gallifreyan art. The Patrexes are an order of artists aesthetes.
House
and TARDIS is a Time Lord magazine. It is bigger on the
inside then on the outside so that it can hold a near infinite number
of loose leaf advertisments.
The
Gallifreyan Flower of Remembrance (Memento Mori)(6 yellow petals) is an
omen for disaster. It is often scattered around Funerals and
Tombings.
The Gallifreyan Roll of Honor is a list of Gallifreyans who have
died with valor.
Media entertainment is provided by Public
Register Video which covers all the ceromonies and traditions.
There
are over 87656432 media channels. The Videos are watched by the
Gallifreyans. They have entertainment transmission
(which sometimes broadcasts of emergency regenerations). It should
be noted that Time Lord culture has no mass media and the only news source read by them is
the
Daily Presidential Bulletin.
On Gallifrey all paintings are done by computers.
Sensory Tanks are used by
Gallifreyans as a
popular recreational device. The oxygenated liquid the subject is
immersed in sooths away all stress and worries and induces dreams that
fullfill the user's deepest and most wonderful fantasies.
The water
is imbunned with oxygen, nitrogen, clorine, dopymene, protean chains
(which contains the intelligence of the Sensory Chamber). The chambers use timers to awaken the user, though
a switch inside the chamber can also be used to deactivate the
chamber.
The
pianalaika is a Gallifreyan instrument. The Harp is another common insturment
on Gallifrey. They keep
track of popular music on a top twenty music chart.
Scratchin is a Gallifreyan
game.
Four-D Chess is a popular Time Lord game. Not only can the
peices move on three vertically stacked boards but they can also move
forwards and backwards in time. However the First Law of Time
must be observed during play meaning that the its possible to get the
other player to lose by forcing him to create a paradox. And
indeed this is a common way of winning.
Gallifreyan
Chequers has 2 colors - red and white. Pieces include:
Presidents Cardinal, President's Commander, Chancellor's Castallan,
Gold Usher's Captain.
Gallifreyan playing cards
are round and
have the following suits: Flames, Owls, Clouds, Souls, Deeps, Mesmers,
and Dominoes. Face cards include the Hand, the Duke, and the Rogue). They can use
these cards to play Five Dimensional Cribbage.
Gallifreyan Labyrinth Game:
The point of this game
is to get your opponents lost in a (dimensionally transendental?)
maze and then manipulating their movements by subconciously training
them to make certain turns. At the height of its popularity there
were Labyrinth games on every street corner and even in the Panoptican.
Some seedy Gallifreyan
Cardinals hang themselves to get rid of extra regenerations. This
is considered to be a dangerous hobby.
Shifting everything in a defined area forward a few
seconds in time
creates an impenatrable black wall. This is sometimes done on a
small scale as a parlor trick.
The
Foxtrot of Rassilon is a
Time Lord waltz.
Pandaks (made of brass), Pounds, and
Guineas
are
used as currency. A guinea will buy you a few drinks in a
bar. However most uses of currancy
on Gallifrey appear to be completely symbolic and ritualistic. For this reason Gallifrey
has
very low potential for commercial development.
Many of the
most advanced pieces of Gallifreyan technology require the user to have
the correct biodata to operate them.
Gallifreyans dislike robots,
considering them
primitive.
Gallifreyan memory wiping techniques
aren't totally reliable. The memories often appear as dreams.
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