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|name              = Time Lord-Vampire War
|name              = Eternal War
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|date              = [[Dark Times]]?
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|result            = {{il|Time Lord victory|All vampires apart from the [[King Vampire]] killed|King Vampire escapes into [[E-Space]]}}
|result            = [[Time Lord]] victory
|side1            = [[Time Lord]]s
|side1            = [[Time Lord]]s
|side2            = [[Great Vampire]]s, [[Vampires]]
|side2            = [[Yssgaroth]]
|leader1          = [[Rassilon]]
|leader1          = [[Kopyion Liall a Mahajetsu]], [[Rassilon]]
|leader2          = [[King Vampire]]
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The '''Eternal War''' was a devastating conflict between the [[Time Lord]]s and the extradimensional beings known as the [[Yssgaroth]].


{{Infobox Conflict
The war between the two lasted for a thousand years. It saw star systems destroyed and billions killed. Ultimately [[Gallifrey]] was victorious and their foes were expelled from the universe. The [[Gallifreyan]] General [[Kopyion Liall a Mahajetsu]] who led the Time Lords against the Yssgaroth. During that time [[Rassilon]] rose to power. After the Eternal War, Kopyion and two surviving soldiers discovered that their world's religion had been abolished in favour of science. In time, the memory of the war became legend. Its details were never recorded in [[the Matrix]]. ([[NA]]: ''[[The Pit]]'')
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|name = Time Lord-Vampire War
|result = Time Lord Victory. Only the [[King Vampire]] survived.
|combatants = [[Time Lord]]s, [[Great Vampire]]s and [[Vampire]]s
|commanders = [[Rassilon]], [[King Vampire]]
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The '''Time Lord-Vampire War''' was a protracted and extremely bloody conflict fought early in the history of the [[Time Lord]]s, against the [[Great Vampire]]s.
 
== History ==
The war took on the status of a legend throughout most of the [[universe]], with few exact details known. The origins of the [[Great Vampire]]s were unknown, as was the precise reason for the conflict between [[Gallifrey]] and them.
 
[[Rassilon]]'s leadership had revolutionised Time Lord society; it is possible he launched the war on purely moral grounds. Whatever the cause, the ferocity and resilience of the Vampires made their defeat very difficult, even for the Time Lords. Conventional weapons were virtually useless and at this point the Time Lords did not have access to some of the more spectacular armaments they later developed.
 
The weapon which won the war was the [[bowship]]. This was designed to exploit the one weakness of the Great Vampires - their vulnerability to being impaled through the heart. Nevertheless, hunting down the entire species was a protracted business and the leader of the Great Vampires was never found, although much later it was discovered he had escaped into [[E-Space]].
 
The war caused such widespread loss of life that the Time Lords rejected the use of violence forever. They did not, however, adopt their [[non-interference policy]] for some time after this. ([[DW]]: ''[[State of Decay]]'')
 
After the Vampires' defeat, their legend and elements of their story existed in many cultures, including [[Earth]], where Vampire legends also existed among the populace. ([[MA]]: ''[[Goth Opera]]'', [[EDA]]: ''[[Vampire Science]]'')
 
The [[Fourth Doctor]] effectively ended the war by killing the [[King Vampire]], who had fled into [[E-Space]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[State of Decay]]'')
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Revision as of 13:28, 3 April 2012

The Eternal War was a devastating conflict between the Time Lords and the extradimensional beings known as the Yssgaroth.

The war between the two lasted for a thousand years. It saw star systems destroyed and billions killed. Ultimately Gallifrey was victorious and their foes were expelled from the universe. The Gallifreyan General Kopyion Liall a Mahajetsu who led the Time Lords against the Yssgaroth. During that time Rassilon rose to power. After the Eternal War, Kopyion and two surviving soldiers discovered that their world's religion had been abolished in favour of science. In time, the memory of the war became legend. Its details were never recorded in the Matrix. (NA: The Pit)

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