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=== Weaponry and defences === | === Weaponry and defences === | ||
[[File: The One and Only...DEMAT GUN!!.jpg|thumb|right|The [[De-mat Gun]], built in ancient times and recreated by the [[Fourth Doctor]] during the [[Sontaran invasion of Gallifrey]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time (TV story)|The Invasion of Time]]'')]] | [[File: The One and Only...DEMAT GUN!!.jpg|thumb|right|The [[De-mat Gun]], built in ancient times and recreated by the [[Fourth Doctor]] during the [[Sontaran invasion of Gallifrey]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time (TV story)|The Invasion of Time]]'')]] | ||
In ancient times, the Time Lords created powerful weapons and defences such as the [[De-mat Gun]], which could erase its target from history, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time (TV story)|The Invasion of Time]]'') and [[validium]], a living metal considered the ultimate defence. ([[TV]]: ''[[Silver Nemesis (TV story)|Silver Nemesis]]'') The [[disciples of Omega]] spent four generations installing the [[transduction barrier]]s around Gallifrey, which kept the planet slightly out of phase with the rest of the universe ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Renaissance (audio story)|Renaissance]]'') and contained four barriers designed to stop outsiders. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen]]'') | In ancient times, the Time Lords created powerful weapons and defences such as the [[De-mat Gun]], which could erase its target from history, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time (TV story)|The Invasion of Time]]'') and [[validium]], a living metal considered the ultimate defence. ([[TV]]: ''[[Silver Nemesis (TV story)|Silver Nemesis]]'') The [[disciples of Omega]] spent four generations installing the [[transduction barrier]]s around Gallifrey, which kept the planet slightly out of phase with the rest of the universe ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Renaissance (audio story)|Renaissance]]'') and contained four barriers designed to stop outsiders. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen]]'') The "last work of the ancients of Gallifrey" was [[the Moment]], known as the "galaxy eater"; a superweapon so advanced it’s operating system became sentient, developing a conscience. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') Rassilon used it against the [[Nestenes]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Pandoric's Box (short story)|Pandoric’s Box]]'') | ||
The "last work of the ancients of Gallifrey" was [[the Moment]], known as the "galaxy eater"; a superweapon so advanced it’s operating system became sentient, developing a conscience. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') Rassilon used it against the [[Nestenes]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Pandoric's Box (short story)|Pandoric’s Box | |||
By the Doctor's era, despite being one of the most powerful species in the universe the Time Lords had little in the way of defences and their conventional warfare technology was lagging behind many other civilisations. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time (TV story)|The Invasion of Time]]'') Few Time Lords, even [[Chancellery Guard]]s, had any real combat experience. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Apocalypse Element (audio story)|The Apocalypse Element]]'') This may be due in part to the transduction barrier, which was almost completely impenetrable by outside forces, or their general [[non-interference policy|policy of non-interference]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time (TV story)|The Invasion of Time]]'') | By the Doctor's era, despite being one of the most powerful species in the universe the Time Lords had little in the way of defences and their conventional warfare technology was lagging behind many other civilisations. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time (TV story)|The Invasion of Time]]'') Few Time Lords, even [[Chancellery Guard]]s, had any real combat experience. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Apocalypse Element (audio story)|The Apocalypse Element]]'') This may be due in part to the transduction barrier, which was almost completely impenetrable by outside forces, or their general [[non-interference policy|policy of non-interference]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time (TV story)|The Invasion of Time]]'') | ||
[[File: ChancelleryGuard.jpg|thumb|left|[[Chancellery Guard]]s wielding their sidearms. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time (TV story)|The Invasion of Time]]'')]] | [[File: ChancelleryGuard.jpg|thumb|left|[[Chancellery Guard]]s wielding their sidearms. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time (TV story)|The Invasion of Time]]'')]] | ||
The most common sidearm used by Time Lords were [[staser]]s, which were carried by the Chancellery Guards ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'') and [[Time Lord soldier]]s during the Last Great Time War. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Conscript (audio story)|The Conscript]]'', ''[[Day of the Vashta Nerada (audio story)|Day of the Vashta Nerada]]'') Stasers fired a type of directed energy, which was relatively harmless to inorganic matter but caused massive tissue disruption to living creatures. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'') They also had a stun setting. ([[TV]]: ''[[Arc of Infinity (TV story) | The most common sidearm used by Time Lords were [[staser]]s, which were carried by the Chancellery Guards ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'') and [[Time Lord soldier]]s during the Last Great Time War. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Conscript (audio story)|The Conscript]]'', ''[[Day of the Vashta Nerada (audio story)|Day of the Vashta Nerada]]'') Stasers fired a type of directed energy, which was relatively harmless to inorganic matter but caused massive tissue disruption to living creatures. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'') They also had a stun setting. ([[TV]]: ''[[Arc of Infinity (TV story)]]'') However when Gallifrey was [[Sontaran invasion of Gallifrey|invaded]] by the [[Sontaran]]s, stasers proved ineffective on Sontaran armour, forcing the [[Fourth Doctor]] to recover the De-mat Gun. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time (TV story)|The Invasion of Time]]'') Another sidearm used by the Time Lords was the [[Lord President's personal security sidearm]]. This gun had no stun setting and a single shot from it would immediately force a [[regeneration]] in any Time Lord shot with it. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'') | ||
[[War prediction| | However, [[War prediction|as war approached]], the shortcomings were remedied. During the [[War in Heaven]], the weapons of the Time Lords were considered "legendary"; they had built defensive arrays the size of star systems and created armaments that took apart entire galaxies. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'') The Time Lords created [[The Cold (Interference)|the Cold]], a validium based weapon that could break through the space/time continuum. When activated it would suck its target and everything in its vicinity into another universe where it would be destroyed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference - Book One]]'') Other accounts described the Time Lords, especially the [[Celestis]] faction, as being knowledgeable enough to construct and weaponise abstract concepts and ideas called [[Conceptual entity|conceptual entities]] to their advantage. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') | ||
The [[Last Great Time War]] caused many great and terrible weapons to be wielded by the Time Lords to the point that time itself was described to have been weaponised. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)|The Day of the Doctor]]'', et al.) The Time Lords used all the forbidden superweapons contained in the [[Omega Arsenal]] on Gallifrey for the conflict, aside from [[the Moment]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') Over a million [[Battle TARDIS|Battle TARDISes]] were deployed along with every other type of [[TARDIS|TARDISes]] the Time Lords had at their disposal. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sphere of Influence (audio story)|Sphere of Influence]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Peacemaker (novel)|Peacemaker]]'') During the war TARDISes carried [[time torpedoes]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Engines of War (novel)|Engines of War]]'') which had been utilised on occasion prior to the conflict, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Stockbridge Horror (comic story)|The Stockbridge Horror]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Neverland (audio story)|Neverland]]'') and could also carry [[Oubliette of Eternity|Oubliette]] devices capable of erasing an entire galaxy from existence. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Collateral Victim (audio story)|Collateral Victim]]'') The Time Lords used planet killer weapons which could be deployed by a single soldier and triggered remotely. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Last Days of Freme (audio story)|The Last Days of Freme | The [[Last Great Time War]] caused many great and terrible weapons to be wielded by the Time Lords to the point that time itself was described to have been weaponised. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)|The Day of the Doctor]]'', et al.) The Time Lords used all the forbidden superweapons contained in the [[Omega Arsenal]] on Gallifrey for the conflict, aside from [[the Moment]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') Over a million [[Battle TARDIS|Battle TARDISes]] were deployed along with every other type of [[TARDIS|TARDISes]] the Time Lords had at their disposal. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sphere of Influence (audio story)|Sphere of Influence]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Peacemaker (novel)|Peacemaker]]'') During the war TARDISes carried [[time torpedoes]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Engines of War (novel)|Engines of War]]'') which had been utilised on occasion prior to the conflict, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Stockbridge Horror (comic story)|The Stockbridge Horror]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Neverland (audio story)|Neverland]]'') and could also carry [[Oubliette of Eternity|Oubliette]] devices capable of erasing an entire galaxy from existence. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Collateral Victim (audio story)|Collateral Victim]]'') The Time Lords used planet killer weapons which could be deployed by a single soldier and triggered remotely. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Last Days of Freme (audio story)|The Last Days of Freme]]'') | ||
The Time Lords sought to devise new biological weapons during the Time War, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Concealed Weapon (audio story)|Concealed Weapons]]'') commissioning the [[War Master]] to create [[the Rage]] and [[war seed]]s, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Darkness and Light (audio story)|Darkness and Lights]]'', ''[[War Seed (audio story)|War Seed]]'') and [[Vibax (Assets of War)|Lord Vibax]] to weaponise the [[Orrovix]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Assets of War (audio story)|Assets of War]]'') The CIA enhanced the psychic powers of one Time Lord, [[Quarren Maguire]], to the point he could alter reality, however he refused to be used as a weapon and fled. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[One Life (audio story)|One Life]]'') During [[the Barber-Surgeon]]’s campaign, the [[War Council]] sought to seize his factory and abominations for themselves, however his erasure from history prevented them. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Horror (audio story)|The Horror]]'') | The Time Lords sought to devise new biological weapons during the Time War, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Concealed Weapon (audio story)|Concealed Weapons]]'') commissioning the [[War Master]] to create [[the Rage]] and [[war seed]]s, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Darkness and Light (audio story)|Darkness and Lights]]'', ''[[War Seed (audio story)|War Seed]]'') and [[Vibax (Assets of War)|Lord Vibax]] to weaponise the [[Orrovix]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Assets of War (audio story)|Assets of War]]'') The CIA enhanced the psychic powers of one Time Lord, [[Quarren Maguire]], to the point he could alter reality, however he refused to be used as a weapon and fled. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[One Life (audio story)|One Life]]'') During [[the Barber-Surgeon]]’s campaign, the [[War Council]] sought to seize his factory and abominations for themselves, however his erasure from history prevented them. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Horror (audio story)|The Horror]]'') | ||
[[File: Gallifrey time war.jpg|thumb|right|[[The Capitol]] surrounded by downed [[Dalek saucer]]s at the end of the [[Time War]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')]] | [[File: Gallifrey time war.jpg|thumb|right|[[The Capitol]] surrounded by downed [[Dalek saucer]]s at the end of the [[Time War]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')]] |