Editing Pre-Time War universe

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As noted by [[historian]]s studying the [[Dalek]]s, the version of '''[[the Doctor's universe]]''' that had "first felt the winds of change" preceding the [[Last Great Time War]] was not the same as the [[Post-Time War universe|universe]] that eventually survived the conflict. The Time War itself was [[Time War time lock|time lock]]ed to its own [[Time War timeline|timeline]] following the [[fall of Gallifrey]]. ([[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]]'')

== Dalek timeline ==
The [[Tenth Doctor]] admitted that [[Daleks' timeline|Dalek history]] was "confusing enough" before the Time War. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Prisoner of the Daleks (novel)|Prisoner of the Daleks]]'')

== Discrepencies with the post-Time War universe ==
[[File:Eighth Doctor companions.jpg|thumb|right|Despite having never met him in this timeline, Bliss was counted among [[the Nine]]'s collection of the Doctor's [[companion]]s. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Ravenous 3]]'')]]
In the universe before the Time War, the Time Lords' existence enabled travel to [[parallel universe]]s, ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'') and they would have acted to prevent [[Reaper]] incursions at wounds in time. ([[TV]]: ''[[Father's Day (TV story)|Father's Day]]'') In their absence in the post-Time War universe, paradox eaters such as Reapers, [[Chronovore]]s and [[Gramoryan]]s ran wild, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Divorced, Beheaded, Regenerated (audio story)|Divorced, Beheaded, Regenerated]]'') and travel to parallel universes became nearly impossible. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'')

The [[Shadow Proclamation]] viewed the Doctor as a reminder of the time when the Time Lords had dictated law in the universe. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Paradox Moon (short story)|The Paradox Moon]]'')

By one account, the parallel strands of the [[Eighth Doctor]]'s life in which he respectively travelled [[The Doctor's reality (The Eight Doctors)|with]] [[Sam Jones]], [[2-D universe|with]] [[Destrii]] [[Positive-time universe|and with]] [[Charlotte Pollard]] were joined together by the Time War, such that all three existed in the Doctor's past from the perspective of the [[post-Time War universe]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eighth Doctor Part 2 (short story)|The Eighth Doctor Part 2]]'')

One known discrepency between the pre and post-Time War universes was the life of [[Bliss]]. In the pre-Time War universe she studied robotics and never encountered the Doctor, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Companion Piece (audio story)|Companion Piece]]'') whereas in the post-Time War universe she studied quantum physics and travelled with the Eighth Doctor. The Doctor himself was travelling with [[Sheena (The Starship of Theseus)|Sheena]] when he become embroiled in the Time War as its effects changed Sheena to Emma then Louise before erasing her from existence entirely, with even the Doctor forgetting his former companion. The ''[[Theseus (ship)|Theseus]]'', the [[spaceship]] they had visited, changed from a luxury liner to a ship carrying [[refugee]]s fleeing the conflict. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Starship of Theseus (audio story)|The Starship of Theseus]]'') Following exposure to a significant number of [[alternate timeline]]s shown in [[Deepa|Professor Deepa]]'s [[quantum visualiser]], the Doctor regained his memories of both Sheena and Emma. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[State of Bliss (audio story)|State of Bliss]]'')

In the original versions of the [[Third Doctor]]'s encounters with the [[Dalek]]s at [[Auderly House]] and in the [[26th century]] [[Ogron]]s were not present. Their roles in the conflicts were retrospectively added during the Time War by the [[Overseer (Planet of the Ogrons)|Dalek Overseer]] as an experiment, though he found their addition made no difference to the events' outcomes. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Planet of the Ogrons (audio story)|Planet of the Ogrons]]'')

In the original timeline, the [[First Doctor]] travelled to the [[South Pole]] immediately after his adventure in [[17th century]] [[Cornwall]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Plague of Dreams (audio story)|The Plague of Dreams]]'') The course of his life was later diverted by interference caused by the Time War era Daleks, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The First Doctor: Volume Two trailer (audio story)|The First Doctor: Volume Two trailer]]'') requiring the Time Lords to send [[The Player (The Plague of Dreams)|the Player]] to put events back on course by directing the Doctor to the South Pole. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Plague of Dreams (audio story)|The Plague of Dreams]]'')

Originally the planet [[Gernica]] existed until at least the [[64th century]], when it was visited by the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Evelyn Smythe]]. During the Time War however the planet was destroyed on the 14th August [[3097]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Death Will Not Part Us (audio story)|Death Will Not Part Us]]'') Another planet, called [[Drakkis]], had originally been at peace for its entire existence, but the Time War caused them to be at war since their beginning. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Sontaran Ordeal (audio story)|The Sontaran Ordeal]]'') 

The [[Aubertide]]s pursued the [[Seventh Doctor]] to [[England]] prior to the [[First World War]], where he was disguised as a [[human]] [[teacher]] named [[John Smith (Seventh Doctor)|John Smith]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'') A similar incident occurred when the [[Tenth Doctor]] became [[John Smith (Tenth Doctor)|John Smith]] in an attempt to elude the [[Family of Blood]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Human Nature (TV story)|Human Nature]]''/''[[The Family of Blood (TV story)|The Family of Blood]]'') [[Daughter of Mine]], of the Family of Blood, was aware that this was a "story that happened many times in many ways", not all of which she was present for. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Shadow of a Doubt (audio story)|Shadow of a Doubt]]'')

Some were aware of the looming Time War; the [[Seventh Corsair]] claimed to [[Parrot (One Virtue, and a Thousand Crimes)|her parrot]] that the [[destruction of Skaro]] by the [[Hand of Omega]] triggered a [[Little time war|smaller-scale time war]] preceding the Time War. According to her, this smaller, premature conflict was eventually erased by the larger one along with all [[memory]] of it ever happening. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[One Virtue, and a Thousand Crimes (short story)|One Virtue, and a Thousand Crimes]]'')

Entire species were eradicated by the Time War, and the [[Gelth]] needed to take on a gaseous form to survive. Some of the races that fell, including the [[Malfinion]]s, [[Hederon]]s, [[Scarbian]]s, were so completely removed from time that, after the war ended, their names only survived as footnotes in old Time Lord records, later being mentioned in a [[Book (The Whoniverse)|historical chronicle]] as well. In fact, no one in the universe even remembered these races existed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Whoniverse (novel)|The Whoniverse]]'') Several races which were erased from existence during the war persisted as echoes displaced from [[time]] on a plane of non-reality, banding together to become the [[Bygone Horde]]. The Ninth Doctor thwarted their plan to return to existence, as it would have entailed the sacrifice of the [[human]] race. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Other Side (audio story)|The Other Side]]'') As related by the Doctor to [[Rose Tyler]], the [[Nestene Consciousness]] was originally a flesh and blood organism with an [[affinity]] for [[plastic]] before the war "rewrote its [[DNA]]" so that it became a living plastic lifeform itself. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Rose (novelisation)|Rose]]'')

The [[Unon]] of [[Zentauron]] were originally peaceful explorers before they were decimated by the Time War. In its aftermath they used weapons salvaged from the conflict to forge themselves as warriors and were among several factions which sought to seize the vacuum left behind by the Time Lords, in addition to the [[Cybermen]] and the [[Sontaran]]s. The newly established [[New Dalek Paradigm]] was content to leave such "upstarts" to [[the Doctor]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Weapons of Past Destruction (comic story)|Weapons of Past Destruction]]'', [[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]]'')

The [[Tenth Doctor]] claimed that before the Time War the universe was full of "pseudo-gods and quasi-deities" which were not present after the conflict. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lost (audio story)|The Lost]]'')

== Other influences ==
[[File:SOTD1 Textless.jpg|thumb|right|The [[Fifth Doctor]] finds himself involved with the future. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Shadow of the Daleks 1]]'')]]
The [[Fifth Doctor]] accidentally became involved in the Time War when [[the TARDIS]] crashed into a [[Dalek time machine]]. The only reason he had crashed into the [[space-time vessel]] was because the timeship was designed to break time, as the ship itself was a temporal bomb, with the four Daleks aboard on a suicide mission to destroy Gallifrey's past, present, and future. When the crash occurred, it created four [[Kaled]]s who were temporal echoes of the Daleks aboard. "Pre-incarnations" of these four and the Dalek weapon were sent throughout time, which was what even led the Doctor to make these events happen.

Speaking with the three surviving Kaleds after the death of [[Maran]], which caused the death of her Dalek counterpart, the Doctor assumed the Dalek mission was revenge for the Time Lords mission to alter the [[creation of the Daleks]], though he then recalled learning of a war. However, it remained "outside of [his] understanding." In order to save Gallifrey's timeline, thus protecting the Doctor from being erased from history, the three Kaleds then sacrificed themselves by confronting their Dalek counterparts, with each extermination resulting in the death of each Dalek as well. The Doctor and the Kaleds believed their destruction would leave the rest of the Dalek Empire without any understanding as to how the mission failed, meaning they would never try the strategy again. The Fifth Doctor then departed from the Time War, still not truly certain on the context for the events that had just taken place. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Effect and Cause (audio story)|Effect and Cause]]'')

When they saw the Daleks emerge from the shadows on a war footing, ([[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]]'') the Time Lords had sent an activation signal to any [[N-Form (Damaged Goods)|N-Forms]] laying dormant throughout history. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Desperate Measures (audio story)|Desperate Measures]]'') The [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Chris Cwej]], and [[Roz Forrester]] encountered one reactivated N-Form in [[1987]] [[Britain]] and stopped it from destroying the [[Earth]]. During a confrontation, the N-Form told the Doctor that its reactivation signal came from the future, taunting him by asking if Gallifrey had forgot to warn him that "the [[Eternal War|War]]'s started all over again." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Damaged Goods (novel)|Damaged Goods]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Damaged Goods (audio story)|Damaged Goods]]'') The Doctor later confirmed that a deliberate reactivation impulse had been sent from the future to dormant N-Forms throughout time, with another N-Form being responsible for the destruction of the [[Quoth]] homeworld. He faintly traced parts of the signal to the [[30th century]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Damaged Goods (novel)|Damaged Goods]]'') where he discovered that the [[Brotherhood of the Immanent Flesh]] had some responsibility for the N-Forms. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[So Vile a Sin (novel)|So Vile a Sin]]'')

On the [[Fall of Gallifrey|last day of the Time War]], [[Leela]] was provided with a [[Wayfinder]] by the [[War Doctor]] through [[Axton]], allowing her to escape the conflict, returning to [[the TARDIS]] and the [[Fourth Doctor]]. ([[WC]]: {{cs|The Final Battle (webcast)}})

== Access after the Time War ==
It was possible for time travellers in the post-Time War universe to arrive in the pre-Time War universe under extraordinary corcumstances. Twice the [[Tenth Doctor]] found himself in the pre-Time War universe, firstly when [[The Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] accidentally jumped a [[time track]] to the [[Second Dalek War]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Prisoner of the Daleks (novel)|Prisoner of the Daleks]]'') and secondly due to being paradoxically abducted by his own future self using [[George Sheldrake]]'s [[time tunnel]]s. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Buying Time (audio story)|Buying Time]]'') The Doctor was able to use a [[Dalek time machine]] to fly through the temporal event horizon to return to the post-Time War universe. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Triumph of Davros (audio story)|The Triumph of Davros]]'')

In addition, the Doctor encountered both his [[fourth incarnation]] and a force of Daleks from the Second Dalek War at the [[Cathedral of Contemplation]], which existed outside of [[spacetime]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Out of Time (audio story)|Out of Time]]'') Indeed, incarnations of the Doctor preceding, living through and postdating the Time War [[Multi-Doctor Event|came into contact]] on many occasions. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time Crash (TV story)|Time Crash]]'', ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'', ''[[Fugitive of the Judoon (TV story)|Fugitive of the Judoon]]'', [[WC]]: ''[[Doctors Assemble! (webcast)|Doctors Assemble!]]'') On one of these Multi-Doctor Events, the [[First Doctor]] was made aware by the [[Testimony Foundation]] that he would become known as the "Doctor of War", a prospect which initially disturbed him before he realised its meaning as demonstrated by the [[Twelfth Doctor]], "a couple fewer dead people on the [[battlefield]]". ([[TV]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'')

The [[Skasis Paradigm]], which the Tenth Doctor acknowledged but ultimately chose not to use, had the potential to prevent the Time War altogether. ([[TV]]: ''[[School Reunion (TV story)|School Reunion]]'')

During the [[Kotturuh crisis]], the Tenth Doctor was surprised to encounter a [[Restoration Empire|version]] of the [[Dalek Empire]] which had no recollection of fighting the Time War. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Defender of the Daleks (comic story)|Defender of the Daleks]]'') This Restoration Empire was formed following the [[Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War]], with the Time War still in the Daleks' future. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Restoration Empire (short story)|The Restoration Empire]]'', ''[[Exit Strategy (short story)|Exit Strategy]]'')

Catching up with [[Nyssa]] after she had lived through the Time War, the Tenth Doctor was well aware that she would go on to reunite with his [[Fifth Doctor|younger self]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Stuntman (audio story)|The Stuntman]]'')

[[Clara Oswald]], a companion of the [[Eleventh Doctor]], entered [[the Doctor's time stream]] to save him from the [[Great Intelligence]], entailing the creation of numerous splinters of Clara whom were present across the Doctors lives, including a direct encounter with the [[First Doctor]] as he [[The Doctor and Susan's escape from Gallifrey|escaped]] from Gallifrey. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'')

[[River Song]] also once found herself in the pre-Time War universe. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Companion Piece (audio story)|Companion Piece]]'')

After acquiring a fragment of the [[Eternity Clock]], the [[New Dalek Paradigm]], led by a new [[Dalek Emperor (The Eternity Clock)|Emperor]], tested its power by locking [[2106]] [[London]] in a [[time bubble]]. Their plan was to expand the [[temporal field]] to swallow the entire [[planet]] [[Earth]], thus cutting it off from [[history]]. Once perfected, the Eternity Clock trap would allow the Daleks to freeze any planet that had ever existed, with the Emperor anticipating the total "obliteration" of Gallifrey. However, this plan was thwarted by the [[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[River Song]], who deactivated the [[time lock]] and recovered the [[Eternity Clock]]. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Eternity Clock (video game)|The Eternity Clock]]'')

The discovery of a wrecked [[New Paradigm]] [[Supreme Dalek (New Dalek Paradigm)|Supreme Dalek]] in a [[Renegade Dalek]] base on [[Thule]] suggested to [[historian]]s some interference from the future Dalek faction in the [[Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War]]. ([[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]]'')

The [[Eleventh Doctor]] made visits to the pre-Time War Dalek Empire, arranging a series of truces with [[Davros]] so the two could meet during [[Christmas]] on various worlds. He sought to teach the Dalek creator that words like "Christmas," or even a word that Darvos related to like "father," could have many meanings across cultures, while "Dalek" would only ever relate to the hatred present within the mutants, only for Davros to reject his offers to change the Dalek species and accept that the exterminators would never see him as a father. After the Doctor helped [[Krillitane]] rebels on [[Gryphon's Reach]] work out a form of cloaking technology, which helped the rebels to beat back a Dalek invasion overseen by Davros, the creator met with him for another Christmas on [[Alacracis IV]], where the Doctor admitted he was scared of what their future clashes would lead to. Nonetheless, Davros used the encounter as a trap to try to kill the Time Lord, only for the Daleks, which Davros had designed cloaking technology for, to fail. One day later, the Daleks declared the Time War. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Father of the Daleks (short story)|Father of the Daleks]]'')

Following the [[Siege of Trenzalore]] from their perspective, which itself was a direct consequence of the so-called [[fall of Gallifrey]], [[the TARDIS]] carrying the [[Twelfth Doctor]] and Clara Oswald once landed in the [[Barn (The Day of the Doctor)|barn]] on [[Gallifrey]] where the [[First Doctor]] slept as a child. Disembarking, Clara briefly came into contact with the young Doctor before returning to the TARDIS, where she refused to disclose the encounter to Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'') The Twelfth Doctor inadvertently found himself on [[Skaro]] during the [[Thousand Year War]], where he [[Hybrid Incident|encountered]] [[Davros]] as a child. Unwilling to kill or save the future creator of the [[Dalek]]s, the Doctor left ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') but later returned to save the young Davros to demonstrate [[mercy]] to him. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'')

A damaged [[New Dalek Paradigm|New Paradigm]] [[Supreme Dalek (New Dalek Paradigm)|Supreme Dalek]] was found by historians in a [[Renegade Dalek]] base on [[Thule]], leading to speculation that the later faction had interfered in the [[Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War]]. ([[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]]'')

The [[Voord]] feared that the Time Lords would restore the pre-Time War timeline if they returned to the universe, thereby undoing the various temporal changes inflicted by the war. The Voord hid away to escape being reverted from the evolution they had undergone during the war, but it was instead reversed during a [[Multi-Doctor Event]] despite their efforts to prevent such an outcome in an [[alternate timelines (Four Doctors)|alternate timeline]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Four Doctors (comic story)|Four Doctors]]'')

Furthermore, individuals in the post-Time War universe and pre-Time War universes could exist in the same moments. The [[Thirteenth Doctor]] encountered the pre-Time War [[Fugitive Doctor]] and [[Gat]] in [[2020]] while investigating the [[Judoon]]'s operations in Gloucester. ([[TV]]: {{Cite source|Fugitive of the Judoon}})

== Behind the scenes ==
[[John Dorney]] has addressed the Time War's effect on the timeline.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/gallifrey/comments/ok03dm/comment/h59hnvo/</ref>
{{Quote|But in terms of the Doctor's timeline (and that of the Time Lords and Daleks) there clearly is a universe in which they're not fighting the Time War (the classic series), and a universe when the Time War is over and done (the new series) and the Doctor has crossed from one to the other (despite this basically being borderline impossible). So the Doctor can literally be in the exact same time and place but on different sides of the war. If that's a little confusing, I'd argue that's exactly how it should be as the Time War is a battle fought by beings who live four dimensionally and shouldn't be wholly comprehensible to those of us who have to limit ourselves to three.|[[John Dorney]]}}

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