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 ==== The conflict begins ====
+===== Overview of conflict zones =====
 Dubbed the "Great Time War" despite those living through it simply calling it "[[Hell]]", ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Engines of War (novel)}}) the savage and endless conflict fought between the Time Lords and Daleks ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)}}) was fought for "the sake of all [[creation]]", ([[TV]]: {{cs|Gridlock (TV story)}}) becoming the most all-consuming and brutal conflict ever inflicted upon the universe. Due to its nature as a temporal war, it was nearly impossible for post-Time War individuals to deduce its proper and logical chronology, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Whoniverse (novel)}}) leaving those who survive to only know it to be a cataclysmic period of universal history. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)}}) As much of the War's history was overwritten and rewritten during the fighting, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)}}, {{cs|The Whoniverse (novel)}}) with the opposing factions each undoing the actions of the other again and again, it was hard to figure out what had even happened, at least within the terms of the post-War timeline. Additionally, much of the Time War's history would become shrouded in mystery, inaccessible, and [[time lock]]ed. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Whoniverse (novel)}})
 [[File:The History of the Time War2.jpg|thumb|right|Understanding the history of the Last Great Time War, as the pictured [[The History of the Time War|book]] claimed to, ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS (TV story)|Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS]]'') was nearly impossible. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Whoniverse (novel)|The Whoniverse]]'')]]
-One account stated that the physical war was fought in the Time Vortex and [[Ultimate Void]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Meet the Doctor (DWAN 2006 short story)}}) with the [[Nestene Consciousness]] perceiving the Time War as being able to breach into the "[[normal universe]]", only to disappear as soon as it came. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Revenge of the Nestene (short story)}}) However, many other accounts did indeed show that the conflict could be fought on terrain or in normal space ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Clockwise War (comic story)}}, [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Engines of War (novel)}}, et. al) in addition to being fought through "[[time battle]]s" that [[lesser species]] could not comprehend. In effect, the Daleks and Time Lords faced each other on both physical and [[temporal front]]s. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Eternity Cage (audio story)}}) With battles opening up in the [[known universe]], [[unknown universe]], [[partly known universe]], and the countless [[epoch]]s that made up history, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)}}, {{cs|Engines of War (novel)}}) the universe was filled with conflict; large and small-scale engagements were fought everywhere and anywhere, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Engines of War (novel)}}) with "all of time and space" becoming available for use as a battleground, while less comprehensible engagements like "time battles" were waged beyond the understanding of lesser beings. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Eternity Cage (audio story)}})
+One account stated that the physical war was fought in the Time Vortex and [[Ultimate Void]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Meet the Doctor (DWAN 2006 short story)}}) with the [[Nestene Consciousness]] perceiving the Time War as being able to breach into the "[[normal universe]]", only to disappear as soon as it came. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Revenge of the Nestene (short story)}}) However, many other accounts did indeed show that the conflict could be fought on terrain or in normal space ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Clockwise War (comic story)}}, [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Engines of War (novel)}}, et. al) in addition to being fought through "[[time battle]]s" that [[lesser species]] could not comprehend. In effect, the Daleks and Time Lords faced each other on both physical and [[temporal front]]s. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Eternity Cage (audio story)}})
+With battles opening up in the [[known universe]], [[unknown universe]], [[partly known universe]], and the countless [[epoch]]s that made up history, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)}}, {{cs|Engines of War (novel)}}) the universe was filled with conflict; large and small-scale engagements were fought everywhere and anywhere, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Engines of War (novel)}}) with "all of time and space" becoming available for use as a battleground, while less comprehensible engagements like "time battles" were waged beyond the understanding of lesser beings. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Eternity Cage (audio story)}}) In fact, for all the devastation and conflict waged throughout the universe and its history, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Engines of War (novel)}}; [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Eternity Cage (audio story)}}, et. al) one account stated that the conflict was still "mostly" fought far beyond the borders of what a human being could understand as "reality." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[DALEK 1|The Time Vortex: The Time War]]'') In effect, even the entire universe, which would see every aspect of its history scorched and battled within, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Engines of War (novel)}}) was a mere minor front of the overall Time War. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[DALEK 1|The Time Vortex: The Time War]]'')
 The War even spread into [[Parallel universe|alternate realities]], which only made uncovering its proper chronology harder, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)}}) and the [[Twelfth Doctor]] later reflected that the War shattered entire [[dimension]]s. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Clockwise War (comic story)}})
+==== Gallifrey gathers its forces ====
 When they saw the Daleks emerge from the shadows on a war footing, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)}}) the Time Lords had sent an activation signal to any [[N-Form (Damaged Goods)|N-Forms]] laying dormant throughout history. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Desperate Measures (audio story)}}) 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]]: {{cs|Damaged Goods (novel)}}, [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Damaged Goods (audio story)}}) 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]]: {{cs|Damaged Goods (novel)}}) where he discovered that the [[Brotherhood of the Immanent Flesh]] had some responsibility for the N-Forms. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|So Vile a Sin (novel)}})
 Having taken them from their own history, the Time Lords were now equipped with a fleet of N-Forms, [[bowship]]s, and [[Black Hole Carrier]]s. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Meet the Doctor (DWAN 2006 short story)}}) As all these ships were swiftly assembled in response to the Dalek war footing, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)}}) it was this fleet of craft that met the Dalek Emperor and his forces at the start of the War, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)}}) defending Gallifrey from the vast Dalek fleets sent against the planet during the [[first days of the Time War|first days of the War]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Whoniverse (novel)}}) To counter the Time Lords' forces, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Meet the Doctor (DWAN 2006 short story)}}) the Daleks fielded an army of extremely powerful [[Bronze Dalek|bronze]] [[Dalek drone]]s, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Dalek (TV story)}}, {{cs|Doomsday (TV story)}}, et al.) deployed a fleet of over ten million [[Dalek flying saucer|flying saucers]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Whoniverse (novel)}}) and unleashed the "full might" of the [[Deathsmiths of Goth]], who were released by the Emperor Dalek himself. (([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Meet the Doctor (DWAN 2006 short story)}}, {{cs|A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)}})
+==== Open war in the universe ====
 [[File:Daleks invade the Homeworld's Second City.jpg|thumb|left|Countless [[Bronze Dalek]]s were fielded to battle [[Time Lord]]s ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') in countless [[epoch]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Engines of War (novel)|Engines of War]]'')]]
 Soon after the Time Lords assembled their fleet, the devastating conflict officially erupted into the universe, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)}}) yet, according to [[the General]]'s reflections, his people did not consider the conflict a war at first; the Time Lords thought the Daleks were simply acting out of line and, even as the Daleks continued their attacks, hoped the fighting would end as a series of mere skirmishes. Whenever Daleks gathered in millions for battle during this early period, the Lords of Time, arrogantly believing they did not need to meet the Daleks as an equal force, would force the star nearest to the assembled Dalek armada to explode in an attempt to wipe out the assembled force, only for the Dalek Empire to assemble another attack group and reattack. Whilst the Time Lords once thought themselves superior to the Daleks, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Third Wise Man (short story)}}) the General came to realise his people were not prepared to do battle with the exterminators. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Dalek Combat Training Manual (reference book)}})