Editing War prediction

Though they had power over all of time and space, due to the [[Protocols of Linearity]], [[Time Lord]]s were incapable of directly observing their own future. However, throughout their history, multiple parties predicted the destruction of [[Gallifrey]] in a [[time war]]. These were collectively known as '''War predictions'''. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'', ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'')

== Prophecy ==
The generation of Time Lords before [[the Doctor]]'s amassed information and were able to glean something of their future. They knew that a spate of attacks would strike Gallifrey, one by one. These would include [[Omega]], the [[Sontaran]]s, [[Tannis]], [[Faction Paradox]], [[Varnax]], [[Catavolcus]], and the [[Timewyrm]].<ref> Each of these prophesied attacks reference stories where Gallifrey is invaded or attacked. Omega's attack is seen in [[TV]]: ''[[The Three Doctors]]''; the Sontarans invade in [[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time]]''; [[Tannis (Death Comes to Time)|Tannis]] attacks in [[NOTVALID]]: ''[[Death Comes to Time]]''; Faction Paradox invade in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]''; Varnax would have attacked in various [[The Nth Doctor|cancelled TV stories]]; Catavolcus attacks in [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Tides of Time (comic story)|The Tides of Time]]''; and the Timewyrm is foretold to attack in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Genesis (novel)|Genesis]]'' before being defeated in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Revelation|Revelation]]''.</ref> A single Time Lord would be central to all these events, and Gallifrey would survive each attack. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'', ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'')

However, Gallifrey would nevertheless fall in a war against an implacable enemy, who would be unknown until [[Last Contact]] was made. Then, the one Time Lord would find the [[lost scrolls of Rassilon|lost scrolls]] of [[Rassilon]] and lead Gallifrey from the darkness.

The [[Lord President|president]] and members of the [[Supreme Council]] knew this prophecy, but they kept it hidden, fearing that Gallifrey would fall into chaos if it was widely known. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'') The council was split on whether to tell [[the Matrix]] to look for threats matching the description, since such action might inevitably lead to contact and conflict with the enemy. Deliberation on the topic took several millennia.

[[The Doctor (the Infinity Doctors universe)|The Doctor]] was aware of this prophecy. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'') His student [[Larna]] shared it with [[Ulysses]], [[Penelope Gate]], and [[Saldaamir]] at [[the Shoal]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'')

== The Imperator ==
After millions of years of stasis on [[Gallifrey|the Homeworld]], inexplicable anomalies appeared in the [[loom|breeding engines]]. This was interpreted by some as the Homeworld's acausal reaction to the events-to-come. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'')

[[The Imperator]] was one such anomaly, and he pushed for the [[Time Lord|Great Houses]] to drop their non-interventionist policies and become involved in the outside universe in preparation for an inevitable upcoming conflict. He also founded the [[Order of the Weal]], run by his friend and disciple, Chatelaine [[Thessalia]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'', ''[[The Return of the King (short story)|The Return of the King]]'')

Though the Order of the Weal eventually turned on the Imperator, Thessalia used it as a vessel for her own plans and preparations. She believed that Gallifrey's enemy would be motivated unambiguously by a racial-survival agenda and mainly concerned with maintaining the integrity of its own history. She also expected the first attack on the Homeworld to be aimed at its [[noosphere]], with physical fighting only occurring in the final stages of the war. In anticipation of this, she commissioned the [[babel]]s as a defense for the Homeworld's noosphere. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'')

== Greyjan the Sane ==
[[Greyjan the Sane]] was the shorted-reigning [[Lord President|President]] of [[Gallifrey]]. Before becoming President, he researched the patterns of time. He believed that a law like [[chaos theory]] governed [[paradox]]. This research led him to foresee [[the War]], and he invented a plan for creating [[Nine Gallifreys|backup Gallifreys]]. He was publicly perceived as a prophet of doom.

He also researched the origins of [[life]]. Observing the common physical and chemical characteristics of all life, he theorized all living things in the [[universe]] were descended from a single "ancestor cell". However, before that cell, other organisms existed with exotic and alien biochemical systems, and by feeding off [[TARDIS]] pollution and the energies of temporal paradox, these cells would be able to grow into life that was impossible for the Time Lords to fathom and utterly inimical to their existence, which would eventually destroy Gallifrey. This theory drove him to suicide after only three years in office.

After his death, his sciences were outlawed and declared arcane, though [[Romana III]] would later build his [[Nine Gallifreys]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'')

== Doom Coalition ==
When [[Padrac]] became Lord President and gained access to [[the Matrix]], he saw that in every projection of [[Gallifrey]]'s future, the Time Lords were destroyed by war, attrition, or collateral damage in the battles of other species. The only scenario in which Gallifrey survived was the one where the Time Lords were the only race in the universe. To achieve this, [[Padrac]] founded the [[Doom Coalition]], who planned to use the [[Crucible of Souls]] to convert all the universe's energy into regeneration energy, making the Time Lords immortal while destroying the universe. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Crucible of Souls (audio story)|The Crucible of Souls]]'')

== The Rivera Manuscript ==
The [[Rivera Manuscript]] was written by a [[renegade Time Lord|renegade]] of the [[Time Lord|Great Houses]], translated by a human hand, first recorded as belonging to [[Diego Rivera]], and distributed through the twentieth century to [[Jorge Luis Borges]] to [[Salvador Allende]] to the [[Eleven-Day Empire]]. It told of the narrator's imprisonment by an unknown power and the results of his forced exposure to a high dosage of [[praxis]]. The account seemed to predict the enemy's first invasion of the [[Gallifrey|Homeworld]], or at least a version of the Homeworld where [[the War King]] never prepared the Great Houses. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'')

== The War King ==
The [[Gallifrey|Homeworld]]'s most infamous criminal and [[renegade Time Lord|renegade]] surrendered himself to the Homeworld to tell the then-President his knowledge about [[the enemy|a future enemy]]. The President didn't believe him, so five years later, the renegade returned and addressed a [[Closed Session]] of the [[Ruling Houses]], warning them about an upcoming war. They pardoned him of his crimes, but the Presidency was still in denial, so he left the Homeworld to prepare defenses, only returning forty years later. The ensuing drama with the [[Faraway Declaration]] culminated in his promotion to . He immediately took action, appointing the first [[Academician for Game Logic]] and commissioning the [[90-form]] [[TARDIS|timeships]], though he only officially became the Homeworld's [[the War King|War King]] several years later. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'')

== Miscellaneous ==
Frightened at the prospect of war, the [[Celestial Intervention Agency]] preemptively removed themselves from time, becoming [[the Celestis]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'')

[[Ruath]] foresaw that there would be no sign of civilisation on Gallifrey by the [[20th century]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Goth Opera (novel)|Goth Opera]]'')

Upon hearing rumours of a threat against Gallifrey, [[Braxiatel]] planned a scheme to preserve the Time Lord [[biodata]] archive so he could reconstruct Gallifrey after its inevitable fall. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Panacea (audio story)|Panacea]]'')

President [[Umbaste]] effectively committed suicide by opening his [[biodata]] to the [[caldera]], which was recognized as a potential way to gain insights into future events. It launched him into a fugue state, his body just a husk while his mind traveled through the meta-structure of history. When he eventually resurfaced, over a year later, all he could say was the word "One", over and over again. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') When Cousin [[Shuncucker]] burned down the [[records library]] in the Great Houses' [[Shada|prison planet]], [[Mr. Smith (A Labyrinth of Histories)|Mr. Smith]] said that no one would be able to know the truth behind Umbaste's alleged suicide. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Labyrinth of Histories (audio story)|A Labyrinth of Histories]]'')

== Footnotes ==
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