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| {{Merge|Eternal War|the names are synonymous.}}{{Infobox Conflict
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| |date = [[Dark Times]]
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| |location =
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| |result = {{il|Time Lord victory|All vampires apart from the [[King Vampire]] killed|King Vampire escapes into [[E-Space]]}}
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| |side1 = [[Time Lord]]s
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| |side2 = [[Great Vampire]]s, [[Vampire]]s
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| |leader1 = [[Rassilon]]
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| |leader2 = [[King Vampire]]
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| }}
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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.
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| == History ==
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| 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 them and [[Gallifrey]].
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| According to a transmission which [[Samantha Jones]] received on [[Anathema]] (and which may have been influenced by [[Faction Paradox]] propaganda), the war began when [[Rassilon]] first opened a [[black hole]], attempting to draw power from other planes of existence. This first attempt was relatively crude, and took place before [[Omega]] developed the [[stellar manipulator]]. The black hole reached through to an inhabited plane, and the Great Vampires swarmed through the opening Rassilon and Omega had created. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference - Book One]]'')
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| 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.
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| The weapon which won the war was the [[bowship]]. Rassilon ordered the construction of these ships 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. Eventually, all but one — the [[King Vampire]] — were found and destroyed. ([[TV]]: ''[[State of Decay]]'')
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| According to [[the Remote]] transmission, near the end of the war Omega created shells around the black holes which the Vampires had used to enter the universe, blocking them off and making the former black holes resemble ordinary planets — unless someone [[Inferno (TV story)|attempted to drill to the planet's core]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference - Book One]]'')
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| The [[Fourth Doctor]] effectively ended the war by killing the [[King Vampire]], who had fled into [[E-Space]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[State of Decay]]'')
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| == Legacy ==
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| The war caused such widespread loss of life that the Time Lords rejected the use of violence forever. ([[TV]]: ''[[State of Decay (TV story)|State of Decay]]'')
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| 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. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Goth Opera]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Vampire Science (novel)|Vampire Science]]'')
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| Vampires were viewed as extremely scary by [[Gallifreyan]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[World Game (novel)|World Game]]'')
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| During Rassilon's reign as [[Lord President]],his throne was made of the bones of two giant bats. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)|Christmas on a Rational Planet]]'')
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| == External links ==
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| {{fpx|Eternal War|Eternal War}}
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| [[Category:Conflicts]]
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| [[Category:Galactic wars]]
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| [[Category:Vampires]]
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| [[Category:Time Lord conflicts]]
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