The Year That Never Was: Difference between revisions

|appearances = {{il|[[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]''|[[PROSE]]: ''[[The Story of Martha (short story)|The Story of Martha]]'', ''[[The Unwanted Gift of Prophecy (short story)|The Unwanted Gift of Prophecy]]'', ''[[The Paradox Moon (short story)|The Paradox Moon]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Last Diner (audio story)|The Last Diner]]'', ''[[Silver Medal (audio story)|Silver Medal]]'', ''[[Deceived (audio story)|Deceived]]''}}

|date        = [[2008]]-[[2009]]

|location    = [[Valiant (aircraft carrier)|The Valiant]], [[Earth]]

|leader2    = {{il|[[Tenth Doctor]]|[[Martha Jones]]}}

|side1      = {{il|[[Lucy Saxon]]|[[Alison Docherty]]||Various UNIT soldiers}}

|side2      = {{il|[[Jack Harkness]]|[[Thomas Milligan]]|{{Gomez}}|[[Clive Jones]]|[[Francine Jones]]|[[Tish Jones]]}}<!---Missy was established to be part of this in the short story, ''The Unwanted Gift of Prophecy''.--->

|strength1  = {{il|Six billion [[Toclafane]]|[[The Doctor's TARDIS]]/[[Paradox machine]]|[[Unified Intelligence Taskforce]]}}

|strength2  = {{il|[[Archangel Network]]|[[The Resistance (Last of the Time Lords)|The Resistance]]|[[Torchwood Institute]]}}

|result      = [[Lucy Saxon]] shoots {{Simm}}, killing him.

In an [[alternate timeline]], '''The Year That Never Was''' was a [[year|period]] from [[2008]] to [[2009]] which, due to the destruction of the [[paradox machine]], never occurred for a majority of the population of [[Earth]], but was remembered by a few people on the ''[[Valiant (aircraft carrier)|Valiant]]''. During this time, beginning with [[Day Zero]] in approximately Spring [[2008]] and lasting exactly one year and one [[day]] up to [[Launch Day]] in [[2009]], [[Harold Saxon|the Master]], with the assistance of the [[Toclafane]], ruled over [[Earth]]. However, once the year was erased from history, everything was restored to how it was, the Master failing in his efforts.

During the [[Last Great Time War]], {{Jacobi}} chose to flee the conflict after his use of the [[Heavenly Paradigm]] caused the [[Dalek Emperor in the Last Great Time War|Dalek Emperor]] to seize the [[Cruciform]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Heavenly Paradigm (audio story)|The Heavenly Paradigm]]'') Using a [[Chameleon Arch]], he hid as a human at in the far future near the [[end of the universe]]. The Master's human identity, Professor Yana, worked with a group of surviving humans on [[Malcassairo]] to build a rocket to reach "[[Utopia (Utopia)|Utopia]]", a rumoured safe haven. The [[Tenth Doctor]], [[Martha Jones]] and [[Jack Harkness]] arrived on Malcassairo and helped Yana launch the survivors in their rocket, however in the process Martha brought the Chameleon Arch to Yana's attention. Compelled by voices of his true self, Yana opened it and became the Master again. He made to steal [[the Doctor's TARDIS]], however was shot by Yana's assistant [[Chantho]] and forced to [[regenerate]]. In his new incarnation {{Simm}} stole the TARDIS, abandoning the Doctor and his companions, ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') however the Doctor first fused the co-ordinates, rendering the TARDIS only capable of travel between the end of the universe and its previous destination in [[2000s]] Earth.  

Arriving on Earth circa [[2007]], the Master established himself as British politician Harold Saxon, eventually becoming [[Minister of Defence]]. From that position he oversaw the establishment of the [[Archangel Network]] of satellites and the designing of [[UNIT]]'s flying mobile base, the ''[[Valiant (aircraft carrier)|Valiant]]''. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') The Master met [[Lucy Saxon]], who fell in love with him. He took her on a trip in the TARDIS to the end of the universe, finding Utopia. There he discovered the last of humanity had found no paradise, and had cannibalised themselves into the [[Toclafane]] to survive. The Master promised to help them make a new civilisation, by invading their ancestors trillions of years earlier. The Toclafane fondly called him their "Mister Master". The Master cannibalised the TARDIS into a [[paradox machine]] to enable the paradoxical invasion. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'')

As Harold Saxon, the Master used the hynoptic influence of the Archangel Network to campaign in the [[general election]], receiving celebrity endorsements and being supported by politcians who abandoned their parties once they saw he was winning. During this time he sponsored Professor [[Lazarus]]' experiments in rejuvenation, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') and had agents monitor Martha's family, claiming to them the Doctor was putting their daughter in danger. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lazarus Experiment (TV story)|The Lazarus Experiment]]'', ''[[42 (TV story)|42]]'')  

The Master announced the end of the world to the viewing public as the paradox machine activated, allowing billions of Toclafane to travel to Earth. The Master ordered them to remove one tenth of the Earth's population. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'') As [[Toclafane invasion|Earth fell]], the aged Doctor discretely whispered a plan into Martha's ear, ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') and she used Jack's vortex manipulator to teleport away from the ''Valiant''. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') The beginning of the invasion was later known as Day Zero. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Story of Martha (short story)|The Story of Martha]]'')

The [[Archangel Network]] kept most of the human population docile, though resistance did persist. Any military action however caused the Toclafane to descend. The enslaved people suffered severe over-crowding, often with many families crammed into a single house, and economic and technological regress occurred massively in the neglected urban centres, with [[London]] becoming full of wild dogs. Television and any notable technology was shut down. The effects on Earth were so great that the planet was declared closed to the wider universe, and the planet was designated to be unsafe to approach. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'')

The Master's agents sought to capture Martha. Miss Beecham used cloning technology leftover from [[UNIT]] and [[Torchwood]] to make hundreds of clones of Martha's mother, [[Francine Jones]], whcih she sent to reported sightings of Martha. The clones were unaware they were fakes and had false memories of escaping the ''Valiant''. Beecham also became aware of a lightning strike in [[South Africa]] that had brought down a Toclafane, using that knowledge to devise a way to torture Toclafane. She used this to force an army of Toclafane to serve her, ultimately hoping to usurp the Master. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Deceived (audio story)|Deceived]]'')

Martha travelled to the [[United States of America]]. Reaching a diner, reputed to be the last diner, she told stories to the slaves who gathered there in secret at night. There she was reunited with an old friend, [[Holly (The Last Diner)|Holly]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Last Diner (audio story)|The Last Diner]]'') and one of Beecham's clones of her mother. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Deceived (audio story)|Deceived]]'') Her presence attracted a lot of slaves to the diner, resulting in tragedy when the Toclafane bombed it, leaving Holly the only survivor. Martha continued her travels with her mother and Holly, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Last Diner (audio story)|The Last Diner]]'') reaching [[the Hope (Silver Medal)|the Hope]], the largest resistance group in America, in [[Nevada]]. The group believed they were in contact with aliens seeking to help their cause, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Silver Medal (audio story)|Silver Medal]]'') however this was actually a trick used by Miss Beecham to lure rebel groups. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Deceived (audio story)|Deceived]]'') Martha was uncomfortable with the competition system the Hope operated under and told a story about visiting a mine in the area a century ago to make a point. When their camouflage was exposed the Hope chose to abandon a planned assault on a Toclafane base, to their leader [[Jessie (Silver Medal)|Jessie]]'s disappointment, and fled to the mine Martha had told them about. Beecham subsequently cornered Jessie and revealed the planned attack had been a lure, having Toclafane kill Jessie. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Silver Medal (audio story)|Silver Medal]]'')

Unaware Holly had been secretly replaced by the Master's agent Mr [[Strand]], wearing a hologram disguise, whilst in Nevada, Martha travelled on to [[Las Vegas]], taking sometime to relax in an abandoned hotel. She was located by Beecham who sent in Toclafane to hunt her down, telling them to attack her rival Strand as well. Beecham found Martha herself, bypassing her perception filter with her certainty she was there, and revealed the true identity of the clone, who she killed. Beecham subsequently interrogated Martha whilst she was chained to a roof, wanring to know if rumours about her being able to kill the Master were true. Holly, who had been held at Beecham's facility, escaped and contacted the Hope to come to Martha's aid. They found Strand and let him make a call as he was dying, which he used to inform the Master of Beecham's treachery. Martha managed to hide by dangling over the side of the roof as the Master's forces arrived to destroy Beecham's Toclafane, teleporting Beecham herself aboard the ''Valiant'' where she was executed. Holly rescued Martha from the roof and together they resolved to continue her travels, having found Beecham's data on the lightning strike. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Deceived (audio story)|Deceived]]'')

A year into the occupation of Earth, the Master was preparing for [[Launch Day]] to begin his conquest of the universe. At this time Martha returned to Britain where she met resistance contact [[Tom Milligan]]. He helped her reach Professor [[Alison Docherty]], who had the resources to read the data on the South Africa lightning strike. The Master made a global broadcast as a warning to Martha, using his [[laser screwdriver]] to age the Doctor's body to his actual age of 900 years.

Armed with the lighting strike knowledge, Martha and Tom brought down a Toclafane enabling Docherty to open it and discover their true nature. Horrified at the scale of the paradox, Martha travelled with Tom to slave houses in London to continue her storytelling. Docherty however betrayed them to the Master, wanting information on whether her son was still alive. The Master pwrsonally came to London to capture her, forcing her out by threatening to have his guards to fire on the houses at random. Tom attempted to shoot him however the Master killed him and then taunted Martha of planet Earth's imminent march to war. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'')

[[File:Toclafane over Earth.jpg|thumb|left|The Toclafane in position to begin their conquest of the universe. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'')]]

A revolt on the ''Valiant'' and the destruction of the paradox machine by [[Jack Harkness]] reversed time to just before the Toclafane's arrival on Earth. Everyone on the ''Valiant'' retained their memory of the year while the rest of the human race had no memory of the events under the Master's reign. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|The Last of the Time Lords]]'')

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