Editing The Enemy

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'''The Enemy''', also known as '''the Adversary''', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Newtons Sleep (novel)|Newtons Sleep]]'', ''[[And To Dust We Shall Return (short story)|And To Dust We Shall Return]]'', et al.) was the opponent of the [[Time Lord]]s during the [[War in Heaven]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'') ''[[The Book of the War]]'' claimed that it was not a [[species]] or a political faction as much as a process. It had a name, but the [[Great Houses]] were reluctant to use it. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') The form of the Enemy was constantly shifting. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'') Some theorised that the real War was against "the archetypal concept of enmity itself". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Of the City of the Saved... (novel)|Of the City of the Saved...]]'')

== Identity ==
=== Pre-War speculation ===
Before the War, multiple parties [[War prediction|speculated]] about the enemy's identity. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'')

[[Rassilon]] foresaw that the [[Time Lord]]s were imperfect despite their knowledge, and after realising who the enemy really was, he charged [[the Watch]] with killing [[Four Names|four Time Lords]] when the time was right. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'')

Chatelaine [[Thessalia]] incorrectly predicted in ''[[The Little Book of Absolute Power]]'' that the enemy would be mainly motivated by survival or keeping its history intact. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'')

[[Greyjan the Sane]] hypothesized that the Enemy were [[ancestor cell]]s which had been irradiated by temporal interference and energised by a leaking [[bottle universe]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'')

The [[Rivera Manuscript]] described a [[Rivera Manuscript renegade|renegade]]'s [[praxis]]-induced vision of the enemy's [[the Event|devastation of the Homeworld]]. In that vision, enemy soldiers appeared to closely resemble [[posthuman]] [[Ashla shock-troop]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'')

[[File:Yartek.jpg|thumb|left|[[Yartek]], leader of the [[Voord]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keys of Marinus (TV story)|The Keys of Marinus]]'')]]
During his first encounter with the War, the [[Eighth Doctor]] travelled to [[Mictlan]] with [[Kathleen Bregman]] and saw an alien agent of the [[Celestis]] who wore a parody of ceremonial [[Time Lord]] [[robe]]s. He later told Bregman that the robed alien was one of the enemy, saying, "Try to forget you ever saw it. I know ''I'' will." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'') He went on to erase the enemy's identity from his memory. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Toy Story (short story)|Toy Story]]'') At later times he joked that the enemy could be "[[Yartek]], leader of the alien [[Voord]], carrying a big stick" or "[[87th century|eighty-seventh-century]] [[Earth Reptile]]s with transforming [[Tyrannosaurus rex|T.rex]] [[time machine]]s. The whole of established [[human]] history could be a Time Lord attempt to eradicate their [[causal nexus]]." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Taking of Planet 5 (novel)|The Taking of Planet 5]]'') [[Helios (The Infinity Doctors)|Helios]] said that [[the Doctor (The Infinity Doctors)|the Doctor]] had seen the enemy, and that going into [[Omega]]'s [[anti-matter universe]] would lock that future into place. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'')

In the [[Infancy Gospel of Grandfather Paradox]], [[Grandfather Paradox|the Grandfather]] suggested that [[spider]]s could be a good enemy for the [[Great Houses]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Pre-narrative Briefings (short story)|Pre-narrative Briefings]]'')

[[The Matrix]] predicted that the enemy destined to destroy Gallifrey would be unknown until [[Last Contact]]. The [[Lord President|president]] and members of the [[High Council|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 [[Supreme 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. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'') At date index [[309456/4756.7RE/1213GRT/100447TL]], the Matrix projected that the [[Vore]] were a potential candidate for [[Last Contact]], so the council mandated that no Time Lord was to engage the Vore or come within one [[parsec]] or one century of any of their moons. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'')

''[[The Book of the War]]'' speculated that increasing paranoia on [[the Homeworld]] may have itself caused the War, saying the idea "makes a certain sense, given the nature of the enemy." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') The enemy was also believed to be a conceptual infection of imagination created from races destroyed in the [[anchoring of the thread]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Subjective Interlock (short story)|Subjective Interlock]]'')

=== Secrecy during the War ===
In [[Monsters Coda|her speech]] to the [[Fifth Wave]] on the thirtieth anniversary of [[the Cataclysm]], [[House Military]] strategist [[Entarodora]] said the [[ruling Houses]] kept secret the identity of the enemy and its leadership because, if the Houses believed the true enemy was simply a rogue House or a species of time-active upstarts, they would "simply shrug and go back to sleep." Instead, the secrecy made the enemy into monsters, and the subsequent fear would keep the fight alive.

[[File:The Enemy Sigil.jpg|thumb|right|The empty sigil given for the Enemy in ''[[The Book of the War]]''. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'')]]
''The Book of the War'' posited that the name was kept secret because the "why" of the enemy was more important than the "what". It also speculated that the enemy might come from beyond the Great Houses' [[noosphere]], not because it came from [[parallel universe|another universe]] but because it operated on principles that the Houses weren't built to understand; it said that, unlike the [[Yssgaroth]], the enemy was "civilised, cultured, and intelligent enough to have an agenda beyond pure destruction." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'')

=== Post-War cultural memories ===
Long after the passing of the [[Sun Builder]]s, they and their history remained alive in the culture and mythology of the [[Gendar (species)|Gendar]]. With the Sun Builders cast as benevolent [[deity|gods]], some myths spoke of "[[Bogeyman|bogeymen]]" described "furred, fell things of [[Original Mammoth|tusks]] and [[Dracula|fangs]] and [[Cernunnos|antlers]]". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Out of the Box (short story)|Out of the Box]]'')

=== Possible identities ===
{{Section stub|A section on the [[Life-spore]]s, [[Tardigrade]]s, and [[ancestor cell]]s is needed}}
==== Gods and Sphinxes ====
As recounted by [[Christine Summerfield]] in [[Dead Romance|her memoirs]], when she came into contact with the [[Great House]]s' agent [[Chris Cwej]], they were on a war footing due to recently having discovered something terrible about the "[[All-High God|Gods]]", here referring to god-like beings in whose shadow "all the civilisations in the universe" had grown up, including both [[human]]ity and the houses. 

Most active among the Gods were the [[Kings of Space]], a pair of Gods who created their own [[Sphinx-space]] on the edges of the established universe and created an army of [[Sphinx (Dead Romance)|sphinxes]] who clashed with the Great Houses' forces on several occasions, although the Kings were believed to be "renegades" relative to the orthodoxy of the Gods, and were not the ones the Houses were primarily worried about. Hearing it said that "nobody [had ever] ever come back alive" from Sphinx-space, Christine wondered if "the Gods kept sending back dead bodies, with little notes attached", ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dead Romance (novel)|Dead Romance]]'') closely paralleling the "[[Head of the Presidency]]" incident which ''[[The Book of the War]]'' referred to as the first message from the Enemy to the Great Houses, where the [[President of the High Council|President of the Homeworld]] travelled to a [[Faraway|supposed Enemy base]] and was sent back in the formed of a severed head with a note clenched between its jaws. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') As part of negotiations to salvage the [[bottle universe]], Cwej made a pact with the sphinxes, agreeing to give them access to proper [[time travel]], which they desired. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dead Romance (novel)|Dead Romance]]'')

Christine eventually speculated that Chris Cwej's universe was a [[bottle universe]], and the Gods had originated as the Great Houses' counterparts in the universe of the level "above", fleeing from yet another enemy. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dead Romance (novel)|Dead Romance]]'') Indeed, one account suggested that the universe of [[I.M. Foreman]], in which the better part of the "true" War in Heaven was fought, was indeed a different universe from Cwej's universe, and that its [[Time Lord]]s were fleeing into the bottle universe to escape the War, becoming God-like. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference (novel)|Interference]]'') However, many other accounts depicted the universe Christine entered, and where Cwej was active as an agent of the Houses, as the same level of reality the War in Heaven was fought in. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Eleven Day Empire (audio story)|The Eleven Day Empire]]'', etc.) Cwej believed that these Gods might be "parts of the universe‘s framework" and "might have been there since the beginning of time". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dead Romance (novel)|Dead Romance]]'') According to one account, Cwej later discovered that the group of so-called "All-High Gods" who had taken over [[Dellah]] were instead [[Ferutu]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Twilight of the Gods (BNA novel)|Twilight of the Gods]]'')

==== Posthumanity ====
{{section stub}}The [[Rivera Manuscript renegade]]'s vision of [[the Event]], a possible devastating first attack on [[the Homeworld]] that [[the War King]] managed to avert, showed the Enemy employing what appeared to be [[Ashla shock-troop]]s as soldiers. The Ashla were [[cyborg]] [[posthuman]]s, created for the [[Blood Coterie]] by the [[Silversmiths' Coterie]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') It was widely believed that the Enemy originated on [[Earth]], primarily known as [[human]]ity's home planet. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'', ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'')

==== Timeships ====
===== Thaumoctopus memeticus =====
One account of the Enemy held that a crashed timeship began infecting the local biology of the Earth, resulting in the [[Thaumoctopus memeticus]], a four dimensional mimic octopus that could take on any form, including that of ideas. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[T.memeticus: A Morphology (short story)|T.memeticus: A Morphology]]'') The Enemy did field timeships during the War. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Eternal Escape (audio story)|Eternal Escape]]'')

===== Lolita =====
Although, before the War, [[Lolita]] claimed to [[the Doctor's TARDIS|her sister]] that she was concerned about the Enemy — explaining the War would be "us versus them, our pilots against their pilots", that the enemy was going to "change everything, if it can", and that even [[the Matrix|their mother]] would likely be damaged — ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Toy Story (short story)|Toy Story]]'') some legends indicated that the Enemy was descended from "a [[101-form]] timeship who was so indistinguishable from a human that it lived and died as one". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Of the City of the Saved... (novel)|Of the City of the Saved...]]'') Indeed, the Egyptian god [[Horus]] described [[Lolita]] as a "process" and "a new kind of history", ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Judgment of Sutekh (audio story)|The Judgment of Sutekh]]'') echoing ''[[The Book of the War]]''{{'}}s description of the enemy as a process and the War as "a struggle between one kind of history and another". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') 

Some accounts suggested that Lolita was not the Enemy as the Great Houses knew them, but was behind their rise and was puppeteering them for her own ends. According to [[Carmen Yeh]]'s heavily-fictionalised memoir ''[[Fantastical Travels in an Infinite Universe]]'', [[Compassion]] believed that "the enemy" as commonly understood was a meaningless distraction and the real threat to [[the Homeworld]] would come from within, specifically "[[House Lolita|House Lucia]]" or "family". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'')

When he was given visions of its past by the [[Yssgaroth]] consciousness, the human psychic [[Azacca Dixon|Az Dixon]] caught a glimpse of "a time where the Yssgaroth gazed upon a living time machine, granting it the strength to rise up against [[Great House|its masters]] and the potential to become the greatest Adversary they ever faced". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Preternatural Nights (short story)|Preternatural Nights]]'') Godfather [[Auteur]] asserted that the enemy was created by [[Lolita]] as the sires of a temporal and metafictional version of [[Count Dracula]]. According to Auteur, Loita had primed Dracula to become the Enemy through a timeline in which he came to rule over the [[British Empire]] and led [[vampire]]s into space. Organic Enemy [[space-time vessel]]s kept the timeline hidden from outside view. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Bloody And Public Domaine (short story)|A Bloody (And Public) Domaine]]'')

Other accounts suggested Lolita was grooming [[human]]ity to become a threat to the Great Houses. In established history, a moment known as the [[Ghost Point]] occured right before humanity could have found new ways to think, ways unpredictable to the Great Houses. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') However, in the early [[decade]]s of the [[21st century]], despite the Ghost Point, the history of Earth began to advance once more, with [[Shift (Head of State)|a shift]] claiming this curve towards advancement was caused by the campaign for the office of [[President of the United States]] run by [[Matt Nelson]]. This campaign was being manipulated behind the scenes by Lolita. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Head of State (novel)|Head of State]]'') Every Time Lord knew the enemy's home planet was [[Earth]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'') leading the Time Lords to try to destroy the planet in the [[20th century]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book Two (novel)|Interference - Book Two]]'')

==== Spiders ====
{{main|Eight Legs}}[[File:Queen Spider.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Queen Spider]] on [[Metebelis III]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders (TV story)|Planet of the Spiders]]'')]]
Due to the interference of [[Faction Paradox]] and its [[Remote]] soldiers, the [[Third Doctor]] [[regenerated]] on [[Dust (planet)|Dust]]. This was a revision of the original version of [[history]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference (novel)|Interference]]'') in which he regenerated after defeating the [[Eight Legs]] on [[Metebelis III]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders (TV story)|Planet of the Spiders]]'')

[[The Doctor]]'s later incarnations never stopped the Eight Legs' plan for universal domination. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Blue Angel (novel)|The Blue Angel]]'', ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'') [[The Enemy]] shared a connection with the Eight Legs. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'', ''[[The Map and the Spiders (short story)|The Map and the Spiders]]'', et al.) Therapy filters applied to War-time agents of the [[Great House]]s recovering from [[OMEGA level event]]s deleted terminology relating to spiders. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Subjective Interlock (short story)|Subjective Interlock]]'', ''[[The Short Briefing Sergeant's Tale (short story)|The Short Briefing Sergeant's Tale]]'', ''[[Timeshare (FP short story)|Timeshare]]'', ''[[A Choice of Houses (short story)|A Choice of Houses]]'', ''[[No Enemy But Despair (short story)|No Enemy But Despair]]'')

==== Original Mammoths ====
[[File:Isobel and mammoth.jpg|thumb|right|[[Cernunnos]], who may have been the leader of the Enemy, survived the War, trapped and enfeebled, on [[Earth]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Political Animals (comic story)|Political Animals]]'')]]In the [[posthuman]] era, [[Cernunnos]], leader of the [[Original Mammoths]], was resurrected at [[Terra Primagenia]]. Returning to [[Alter-time realm (Cobweb and Ivory)|the remains of the pre-universe mammoth empire]] with the unwitting help of [[Avus]], Cernunnos began planning to undo the [[anchoring of the thread]] in [[War in Heaven|a War]] against the [[Great House]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cobweb and Ivory (short story)|Cobweb and Ivory]]'') "Fur", "tusks" and "antlers" were among of the attributes of the Sun Builder's enemies in the cultural memories of the [[Gendar (species)|Gendar]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Out of the Box (short story)|Out of the Box]]'')

==== Daleks ====
In a parallel universe where the [[Second Doctor]] was pardoned instead of being exiled to [[Earth]], the [[Sixth Doctor]] was [[Lord President|Lord President Admiral]] of [[Gallifrey]] during the War. There, the Enemy had always had access to rudimentary [[time corridor]]s and [[Dalek time machine|travel machines]], but they gained temporal manipulation powers after [[the Master]] defected to their side. The Doctor described them as [[Dalek|an old foe]] with calculating tin minds and [[Dalek flying saucer|jet-black saucers]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'')

[[Iris Wildthyme]] owned a book entitled ''[[Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks]]''; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Bafflement and Devotion (short story)|Bafflement and Devotion]]'') during the War, [[Ostrev]] remembered fellow Time Lord inductees sharing an illegal copy of the book, whose title had been redacted to ''Doctor ? in an Exciting Adventure With the Enemy'' because proper names in the titles of documents were automatically edited out by [[House Military]] software for "reasons of war security." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Taking of Planet 5 (novel)|The Taking of Planet 5]]'')

[[File:Dalek Supreme & Bronze Dalek in the Time War.jpg|thumb|left|The Time Lords eventually fought the Daleks in the [[Last Great Time War]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Ambush (comic story)|Ambush]]'')]] Gallifrey eventually fought the Daleks in a [[time war]] known widely as the [[Last Great Time War]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Gridlock (TV story)|Gridlock]]'') but which was occasionally called simply "the War". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Meet the Doctor (short story)|Meet the Doctor]]'') Given that the Daleks were their opponent during this conflict, the Time Lords sometimes simply referred to the Daleks as "the enemy", ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sphere of Influence (audio story)|Sphere of Influence]]'') and [[The Squire (The Then and the Now)|the Squire]] recalled the [[Dalek Empire]] as the "Great Enemy" the Time Lords faced. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Pull to Open (comic story)|Pull to Open]]'') In its section on the Last Great Time War, [[Book (The Whoniverse)|a history book]] about [[N-Space]] recounted that the [[Time Lord]]s had long prophesied a coming war that would bring about their destruction "at the hands of a mysterious enemy." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Whoniverse (novel)|The Whoniverse]]'') One history of the Daleks written after the Last Great Time War claimed that the Time Lords had first decided to take action against the Daleks because they believed the coming of the Daleks "represented the emergence of the enemy they had long [[prophecy|prophesied]]". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)|Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe]]'')

Nevertheless, some accounts, while entertaining the possibility of the Enemy being the Daleks, dismissed the possibility. The [[Time Lord]] [[Homunculette]], passing through a ravaged [[Earth]] in the course of his quest for [[the Relic (Alien Bodies)|the Relic]], reflected that Earth was lucky compared to [[Gallifrey]]: it had been invaded, "but only by a bunch of mindless biomechanoids with speech impediments", whereas, in Homunculette's opinion, the Time Lords "were up against something ''really'' dangerous". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'')

A [[briefing]] described "[[Dalek mutant|xenophobic mutants]] travelling in their own [[Dalek|personal war machines]]" as one of the several groups that some considered the Enemy but were in reality just one of the groups trying to take advantage of the War in Heaven for their own ends. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Pre-narrative Briefings (short story)|Pre-narrative Briefings]]'') [[Lawrence Burton (We Are the Enemy)|Lawrence Burton]] thought to himself that the enemy might be those [[Dalek|"outer space robot people"]] that appeared in "at least two films with [[Peter Cushing (Peaceful Thals Ambushed!)|Peter Cushing]]"; however, he dismissed the possibility as implausible. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[We Are the Enemy (short story)|We Are the Enemy]]'')

==== Doctor Who ====
[[File:Eighth_Doctor_Flood.jpg|thumb|The [[Eighth Doctor]] ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Flood (comic story)|The Flood]]'') encountered evidence of a future version of himself who might one day become the Enemy. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'', ''[[Father Time (novel)|Father Time]]'')]]When asked who could fight a war against a [[Great Houses|race of gods]], [[Abschrift]] quickly replied, "[[The Doctor's aliases#Doctor Who|Who]] indeed." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Warlords of Utopia (novel)|Warlords of Utopia]]'') [[The Doctor (Alien Bodies)|The Doctor]] said he wasn't working for the [[High Council]] and was only one of the enemy "depend[ing on] where you're standing." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'') He was one of the [[Four Names]] that [[Rassilon]] instructed [[the Watch]] to [[assassination|assassinate]] after he realised the identity of the true enemy. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'') The Doctor was fated to rule the [[post-War universe]] with an iron fist as [[the Emperor]], one of the "[[four surviving elementals]]", [[Time Lord]]s who had survived the destruction of their Homeworld in the War in Heaven. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Father Time (novel)|Father Time]]'')

====Metafiction====
Multiple accounts of the Enemy involved varying levels of [[fiction]] and reality interacting. 

Notably, [[Lawrence Burton (We Are the Enemy)|Lawrence Burton]] considered the idea that as a writer of ''[[Faction Paradox (N-Space)|Faction Paradox]]'', he was the enemy; to him the Great Houses were no more real than a children's show. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[We Are the Enemy (short story)|We Are the Enemy]]'') One meeting with the Enemy had an agent of the Great Houses read backwards words in the air before gazing upwards at an aspect of the Enemy as reality flickered to the left, as if the enemy were reading a book containing the agent. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Life-Cycle (short story)|Life-Cycle]]'') 

The [[Piebald Man]], while being persecuted by humans, speculated that one day the rejects of human society would live only as stories, and be "far more powerful" then. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[First Draft (short story)|First Draft]]'') The [[Sceneshifters]] guided three specific human writers who broke down the barrier between ideas and the physical world to success so as to accelerate their plans. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Enemy (short story)|The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Enemy]]'') One account held that a war was being fought not by ships, but by living ideas fighting amongst themselves, and that there was [[The Book of the Enemy|a book]] related to the enemy that when read would erase those written from reality and place them into fiction. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the Enemy (short story)|The Book of the Enemy]]'')

=== The Friend ===
{{Main|The Friend}}
The Enemy was not actually a monolithic force, for it had within itself its own disagreements and political disputes between entities. Some among the Enemy's ranks became horrified by War and fell in love with [[Earth]] and the universe as it was under [[Superior]] rule, so they defected and became [[the Friend]]. Because they had a common Enemy, the Friend maintained neutrality with the Superiors. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Vignettes of an Uprising (short story)|Vignettes of an Uprising]]'', ''[[Rebel Rebel (short story)|Rebel Rebel]]'') Within the [[Daylight Saving]], the Friend had a Board of Directors who were incompatible with reality because they were still members of the Enemy "metaphysically, if not politically." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Vignettes of an Uprising (short story)|Vignettes of an Uprising]]'')

== Activities during the War ==
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Although the Enemy's identity was shrouded in uncertainty, many of its activities in the course of the [[War in Heaven]] were relatively well-known. The Enemy once launched an "all-out assault on the [[14th century|14th]], [[11th century|11th]] and [[49th century|49th centuries]]". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Brakespeare Voyage (novel)|The Brakespeare Voyage]]'') The Enemy attacked the [[nexus world]] of [[Golgalith]] to try to destabilise the Web of Time, beginning the [[Battle of Golgalith]] that ended in a victory for the Great Houses. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Eternal Escape (audio story)|Eternal Escape]]'') A [[Boy (Unnatural History)|boy]] from [[Faction Paradox]] claimed to the [[Eighth Doctor]] that he had himself originally been a resident of the 49th century, but had fled in [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] from the Enemy after they "overran [[planet (An Unearthly Child)|his home]]". His history had subsequently been rewritten over and over, sometimes by the Enemy, leading to the Doctor forgetting their original origins and believing themselves to have always been a [[Time Lord]] from [[Gallifrey]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'')

== Powers ==
The enemy was seemingly bound by the same [[Protocols of Linearity]] as the Houses: it was unable to attack vulnerable points in the Homeworld's history, instead, encountering the Houses in the same order that it was encountered by the Houses. This was supported by the initial battle on [[Dronid]], in which the enemy's forces were as ill-prepared as the Houses' [[First Wave]].

Many Great House academicians posited that the enemy was farther along in their ability to use high [[chaotic limiter]] settings.

''The Book of the War'' said the enemy "trie[d] not to" violate the laws of [[physics]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'')

[[Qixotl]] noted that the enemy could wipe out information just as quickly as they could destroy [[matter]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'') In its entry for the enemy, ''[[The Book of the War]]'' referenced its articles on the [[Churchill Index]], [[Formosii|Immaculata Formosii]], the [[Gods of the Ainu]], "[[Miss Hiroshima]]", [[Mohandassa]], [[House Military|Sixth Wave Defections]], [[S'tanim]], and [[Violent Unknown Event]]s; however, none of these entries existed in the book, implying that the enemy had tampered with the text. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'')

== Representatives ==
[[House Military]] soldiers used the colloquialism [[Rep (The Taking of Planet 5)|"Rep"]], an abbreviation of "representative", to refer to the enemy's agents. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Taking of Planet 5 (novel)|The Taking of Planet 5]]'') [[Tonton Macoute]] once cooked the corpse of an enemy soldier. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Tonton Macoute (short story)|Tonton Macoute]]'')

The enemy had a small automated outpost on [[Simia KK98]]; there, a [[Gabrielidean]] soldier working for the Time Lords was wounded by a combat [[satellite]]. As he died, [[the Doctor (Alien Bodies)|the Doctor]] visited him; later, the soldier was rescued and turned into a [[Shift]] by people dressed in flowing robes with high collars, designed as parodies of the costumes of the [[High Council]]. These agents sent him, now calling himself [[Shift (Alien Bodies)|Mr Shift]], to represent the enemy at [[Qixotl]]'s auction for [[the Relic (Alien Bodies)|the Relic]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'')

In the [[Mount Usu duel]] during the filming of ''[[Mujun: The Ghost Kingdom]]'', [[Chris Cwej]] and [[Michael Brookhaven]] encountered [[Gods of the Ainu|an enemy agent]] which apparently summarised its own mystique: "The Scourge. Harvey. Hermes. The coolest character is the one whose face we never get to see." It was represented by the total absence of anything on the recovered film, appearing not as blackness but instead as emptiness and background filmstock. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'')

On [[Roma CLII]], [[Marcus Americanius Scriptor]] killed a [[creature (Warlords of Utopia)|creature]] that was hunting [[Old man (Warlords of Utopia)|a renegade]] who had escaped the War by jumping into a [[Roma I|parallel universe]]. The monster was implied to be working for the enemy. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Warlords of Utopia (novel)|Warlords of Utopia]]'')

== Behind the scenes ==
* When they were first mentioned in ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'', the Time Lords' foe in the war was called just "the enemy", without any capitalisation; this format was followed in ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'' and the rest of [[Mad Norwegian Press]]' ''[[Faction Paradox (series)|Faction Paradox]]'' books. However, following on a brief uppercase reference to "the Enemy" in ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'', the proper-noun title was employed in later [[BBC Books]] novels ''[[The Taking of Planet 5 (novel)|The Taking of Planet 5]]'', ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'', and ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'', as well as the ''Faction Paradox'' books published by [[Obverse Books]], most notably including ''[[The Book of the Enemy (anthology)|The Book of the Enemy]]''.
* Though [[Lawrence Miles]] originally intended the enemy to be an "unseen-and-unknowable factor", by the time he finished writing ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'', he'd "figured out exactly what was going on and why".<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20021209054050/http://www.menace.ndo.co.uk:80/loz/qanda/part1.htm The Ancestor Sell-Off]</ref> However, "moods changed", and he came up with a whole list of other possibilities. None of them were good enough to be the definitive answer, but eight were almost good enough, one of which was a "whale-king" fashioned after the {{w|rat king}} of European superstition. Miles intended to reveal the enemy's identity in his final ''Doctor Who'' novel, and he asked the BBC if they could publish a book where one single page had eight different versions, so the revealed enemy would depend on which book a person purchased.<ref>[https://sci-fi-london.com/podcast/2013/12/420-lawrence-miles Sci-Fi London Interview]</ref> Range-editor [[Stephen Cole]] shot down the idea because he preferred to keep the enemy's identity a complete mystery.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.menace.ndo.co.uk/loz/inter/INTER00.TXT|title=The Potential Last Ever Doctor Who Interview with Lawrence Miles|accessdate=30th July 2012|date of source=2003|website name=Menace|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20030204002644/http://www.menace.ndo.co.uk/loz/inter/INTER00.TXT|archivedate=4 February 2003}}</ref>
*The [[Boy (Unnatural History)|Boy]] suggests in ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'' that before his history was rewritten, his primary "origin story" was that he had run away from his home in the [[49th century]] after it was overrun by the Enemy. ''[[The Brakespeare Voyage (novel)|The Brakespeare Voyage]]'' later confirmed that there had indeed been an Enemy assault on the 49th century, lending credence to this statement. This is a metafictional reference to the [[Dr. Who (memo)|original "Dr. Who" pitch document]] from [[1963 (production)|1963]], some drafts of which suggested that the Doctor and Susan "escaped their homeworld after it was invaded by the Palladin hordes who are still pursuing them": this reading thus identifies the Enemy with the rather mysterious "Palladin hordes". Although by all appearances not part of Lawrence Miles's design, this retconned, implied connection would make the Enemy technically go back to the very earliest form of ''Doctor Who'' lore ever committed to paper, right alongside the Doctor and TARDIS themselves.
* When writing for ''[[The Book of the Enemy (anthology)|The Book of the Enemy]]'', authors were told that the enemy must originate through the agency of the Earth, must either be humanoid or have humanoid agents, and can't be the Daleks or anything else they can't get the rights to.<ref>[https://doctornolonger.tumblr.com/post/178717510910/references-in-my-book-of-the-enemy-story The Book of the Enemy Conditions]</ref>

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