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The '''Fall of Gallifrey''', ([[GAME]]: ''[[City of the Daleks (video game)|City of the Daleks]]'') also known as the ''''Falls No More' Incident''', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (novel)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'') was the final battle of the [[Last Great Time War]] between the [[Dalek Empire]] and the [[Time Lord]]s of [[Gallifrey]].  
The '''Fall of Gallifrey''', ([[GAME]]: ''[[City of the Daleks (video game)|City of the Daleks]]'') also known as the ''''Falls No More' Incident''', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (reference book)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'') was the final battle of the [[Last Great Time War]] between the [[Dalek Empire]] and the [[Time Lord]]s of [[Gallifrey]].  


Through the [[prophecy|prophecies]] of [[the Visionary]], {{Dalton}}'s [[High Council]] were aware that they were within the '''Last Day of the Time War''', also known as the '''Final Day'''. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') Indeed, the [[Eleventh Doctor]] would remember this day as such, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') though he admitted to himself that millions of [[day]]s along his timeline were the last day of the Time War. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') Infact, numerous events following Gallifrey's fall were counted as part of the Time War including the [[2005 Nestene invasion of Earth]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Rose (novelisation)|Rose]]'') the [[Battle of GeoComTex]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]'') the [[Battle of the Game Station]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]'') and the [[Siege of Trenzalore]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Secret Lives of Monsters (novel)|The Secret Lives of Monsters]]'')
Through the [[prophecy|prophecies]] of [[the Visionary]], {{Dalton}}'s [[High Council]] were aware that they were within the '''Last Day of the Time War''', also known as the '''Final Day'''. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The End of Time (TV story)}}) Indeed, the [[Eleventh Doctor]] would remember this day as such, ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Day of the Doctor (TV story)}}) though he admitted to himself that millions of [[day]]s along his timeline were the last day of the Time War. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)}}) Infact, numerous events following Gallifrey's fall were counted as part of the Time War including the [[2005 Nestene invasion of Earth]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Rose (novelisation)}}) the [[Battle of Geocomtex]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|Dalek (TV story)}}) the [[Battle of the Game Station]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Parting of the Ways (TV story)}}) and the [[Siege of Trenzalore]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Secret Lives of Monsters (novel)|The Secret Lives of Monsters]]'')


On the Final Day, after the Daleks attacked [[Arcadia (city)|Arcadia]] and the [[Fall of Arcadia|city fell]], the Daleks focused their attention on bombarding the planet from orbit, whilst the [[War Doctor]] stole [[the Moment]], intending to destroy other sides to finally end the War. However with help from his other incarnations, he found a way to save Gallifrey whilst destroying all the Daleks in orbit. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'')  
On the Final Day, after the Daleks attacked [[Arcadia (city)|Arcadia]] and the [[Fall of Arcadia|city fell]], the Daleks focused their attention on bombarding the planet from orbit, whilst the [[War Doctor]] stole [[the Moment]], intending to destroy other sides to finally end the War. However with help from his other incarnations, he found a way to save Gallifrey whilst destroying all the Daleks in orbit. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Day of the Doctor (TV story)}})  


Other accounts suggested the War had ended in different ways. One different account of the fall claimed the [[Eighth Doctor]] detonated [[the Moment]] on a backwater, destroying both the Daleks and his own people. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Time War (short story)|Doctor Who and the Time War]]'') Another account suggested the final battle had been the [[Last Battle of the Seventh Galaxy]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eyeless (novel)|The Eyeless]]'')  
Other accounts suggested the War had ended in different ways. One different account of the fall claimed the [[Eighth Doctor]] detonated [[the Moment]] on a backwater, destroying both the Daleks and his own people. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Time War (short story)|Doctor Who and the Time War]]'') Another account suggested the final battle had been the [[Last Battle of the Seventh Galaxy]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eyeless (novel)|The Eyeless]]'') Yet another account showed the Eleventh Doctor encountering evidence that the War Doctor had in fact chosen to destroy Gallifrey. ([[COMIC]]: {{Cs|Sky Jacks (comic story)|Sky Jacks}}) The [[Twelfth Doctor]] would later state that Gallifrey had originally been destroyed, but he "broke every law of time and rewrote history" to save it. ([[PROSE]]: {{Cs|Big Bang Generation (novel)|Big Bang Generation}})  


== History ==
== History ==
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Speaking with the [[Eighth Doctor]] after it had travelled through the [[multiverse]], the [[Dalek Time Strategist (The Shadow Vortex)|Dalek Time Strategist]] claimed to him that the Time War would end with the destruction of Gallifrey. In an attempt to enlist the Doctor to ensure the destruction, it offered him a [[Alex Campbell (Restoration of the Daleks)|counterpart]] of his dead great-grandson, [[Alex Campbell]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Restoration of the Daleks (audio story)|Restoration of the Daleks]]'')
Speaking with the [[Eighth Doctor]] after it had travelled through the [[multiverse]], the [[Dalek Time Strategist (The Shadow Vortex)|Dalek Time Strategist]] claimed to him that the Time War would end with the destruction of Gallifrey. In an attempt to enlist the Doctor to ensure the destruction, it offered him a [[Alex Campbell (Restoration of the Daleks)|counterpart]] of his dead great-grandson, [[Alex Campbell]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Restoration of the Daleks (audio story)|Restoration of the Daleks]]'')


Through the extrapolations of [[the Matrix]], the Time War-era [[Time Lord]]s foresaw this event from their theoretical future, which was recorded in the ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual]]''. Due to the sensitive nature of the information relating to the outcome of the Time War, tactical analysis for this event was suspended. Nevertheless, the manual noted that the Daleks would use [[Dalek attack ship|dedicated attack ships]] during the assault on Gallifrey to blanket bomb the [[planet]]'s major populated areas. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (novel)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'')
Through the extrapolations of [[the Matrix]], the Time War-era [[Time Lord]]s foresaw this event from their theoretical future, which was recorded in the ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual]]''. Due to the sensitive nature of the information relating to the outcome of the Time War, tactical analysis for this event was suspended. Nevertheless, the manual noted that the Daleks would use [[Dalek attack ship|dedicated attack ships]] during the assault on Gallifrey to blanket bomb the [[planet]]'s major populated areas. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (reference book)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'')


Although the Dalek Empire had long since created a [[hypnoscape]] simulation of Gallifrey's second city, [[Arcadia]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Shoreditch Intervention (audio story)|The Shoreditch Intervention]]'') ensuring they were ready to invade, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Last Day (TV story)|The Last Day]]'', et al.) Gallifrey remained at the furthest edge of the conflict for most of the War. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]'') By the end of the conflict, however, the Daleks had pushed the Time Lords back to their home planet, setting the stage for an invasion. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)|The Day of the Doctor]]'')
Although the Dalek Empire had long since created a [[hypnoscape]] simulation of Gallifrey's second city, [[Arcadia]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Shoreditch Intervention (audio story)|The Shoreditch Intervention]]'') ensuring they were ready to invade, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Last Day (TV story)|The Last Day]]'', et al.) Gallifrey remained at the furthest edge of the conflict for most of the War. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]'') By the end of the conflict, however, the Daleks had pushed the Time Lords back to their home planet, setting the stage for an invasion. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)}})


Under the command of the [[Dalek Time Fleet Commander]], a massive [[Dalek Time Fleet]] was launched in a planned final attack on Gallifrey. However, the force was destroyed by the [[War Doctor]] using a [[Time Destructor]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Innocent (audio story)|The Innocent]]'') After taking the [[Cruciform]], in a change to the [[timeline]] which {{Jacobi}} had inadvertently caused by using the [[Heavenly Paradigm]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Heavenly Paradigm (audio story)|The Heavenly Paradigm]]'') the Daleks brought the Time War directly to Gallifrey. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (novel)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'') Planning his escape to the [[Silver Devastation]] of the [[far future]], the Master considered that the Time Lords and the Daleks could destroy each other. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Secret Diary of the Master (short story)|The Secret Diary of the Master]]'')
Under the command of the [[Dalek Time Fleet Commander]], a massive [[Dalek time fleet]] was launched in a planned final attack on Gallifrey. However, the force was destroyed by the [[War Doctor]] using a [[Time Destructor]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Innocent (audio story)|The Innocent]]'') After taking the [[Cruciform]], in a change to the [[timeline]] which {{Jacobi}} had inadvertently caused by using the [[Heavenly Paradigm]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Heavenly Paradigm (audio story)|The Heavenly Paradigm]]'') the Daleks brought the Time War directly to Gallifrey. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (reference book)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'') Planning his escape to the [[Silver Devastation]] of the [[far future]], the Master considered that the Time Lords and the Daleks could destroy each other. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Secret Diary of the Master (short story)|The Secret Diary of the Master]]'')
 
In the later stages of the War, the War Doctor asked [[the Enigma]] to wipe out both Daleks and Time Lords to bring an end to the fighting. The Enigma denied his request. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Enigma Dimension (audio story)|The Enigma Dimension]]'')


=== The siege begins ===
=== The siege begins ===
Even though their conflict was bringing about the utter destruction of time and space &mdash; with the War Doctor saying that "every moment in time and space [was] burning" because of the War ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') &mdash; and despite the years that had passed, the mighty armies of the Daleks and Time Lords still continued their clash, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Meet the Doctor (DWAN 2006 short story)|Meet the Doctor]]'') but the Daleks found their campaign going exceptionally well. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') A fragmented Dalek transmission from the Time War, one of several salvaged and recorded in ''[[The Dalek Conquests]]'' having been found echoing through [[the Void]] or squeezed through [[temporal anomaly|temporal anomalies]] and [[black hole]]s, spoke of an attack formation, the extermination of the Time Lords and an impending Dalek victory. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Dalek Conquests (audio story)|The Dalek Conquests]]'')
Even though their conflict was bringing about the utter destruction of time and space &mdash; with the War Doctor saying that "every moment in time and space [was] burning" because of the War ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Day of the Doctor (TV story)}}) &mdash; and despite the years that had passed, the mighty armies of the Daleks and Time Lords still continued their clash, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Meet the Doctor (DWAN 2006 short story)}}) but the Daleks found their campaign going exceptionally well. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)}}) A fragmented Dalek transmission from the Time War, one of several salvaged and recorded in ''[[The Dalek Conquests]]'' having been found echoing through [[the Void]] or squeezed through [[temporal anomaly|temporal anomalies]] and [[black hole]]s, spoke of an attack formation, the extermination of the Time Lords and an impending Dalek victory. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Dalek Conquests (audio story)}})
 
Around this time, the Dalek drone that would later be dubbed "the [[Metaltron]]" was created in a Dalek nursery to be one of the countless drones thrown into the War to die for the Dalek cause. After excess limbs were removed from the mutant, with those parts then being placed back into the incubation vats to create new troops, the Dalek was assigned a training squad, later being told it would die in the most significant war its species had ever fought. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Dalek (novelisation)}}) Despite the Dalek advances, the day before the end of the Time War, the War Doctor went to [[Skaro]] and destroyed most of the [[Dalek Emperor]]'s fleet. Using a stolen [[gunship]], he burned the message "no more" into the [[Dalek City]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)}}) By the end of the War, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Daleks in Manhattan (TV story)}}) the conflict's devastation brought about the destruction of Skaro, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Whoniverse (novel)}}) leaving only ruins behind. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Meet the Doctor (DWAN 2006 short story)}}) The Doctor remembered seeing the capital of [[Dalek City|capital]] of [[Kaalann]] left in ruins after the Daleks fled Skaro, leaving destroyed casings behind in the wrecked halls. ([[GAME]]: {{cs|City of the Daleks (video game)}})


Around this time, the Dalek drone that would later be dubbed "the [[Metaltron]]" was created in a Dalek nursery to be one of the countless drones thrown into the War to die for the Dalek cause. After excess limbs were removed from the mutant, with those parts then being placed back into the incubation vats to create new troops, the Dalek was assigned a training squad, later being told it would die in the most significant war its species had ever fought. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek (novelisation)|Dalek]]'') Despite the Dalek advances, the day before the end of the Time War, the War Doctor went to [[Skaro]] and destroyed most of the [[Dalek Emperor]]'s fleet. Using a stolen [[gunship]], he burned the message "no more" into the [[Dalek City]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') By the end of the War, ([[TV]]: ''[[Daleks in Manhattan (TV story)|Daleks in Manhattan]]'') the conflict's devastation brought about the destruction of Skaro, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Whoniverse (novel)|The Whoniverse]]'') leaving only ruins behind. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Meet the Doctor (DWAN 2006 short story)|Meet the Doctor]]'') The Doctor remembered seeing the capital of [[Dalek City|capital]] of [[Kaalann]] left in ruins after the Daleks fled Skaro, leaving destroyed casings behind in the wrecked halls. ([[GAME]]: ''[[City of the Daleks (video game)|City of the Daleks]]'')
Shortly before the attack on Gallifrey, the Daleks launched [[Attack upon the Kasterborous constellation|a successful incursion]] into the [[Kasterborous|Kasterborous constellation]]. This victory came a mere day after the Metaltron was assigned its [[Dalek Commander 1 (Dalek)|Commander]], which was killed in the assault. The drone was certain its officer had fought bravely to help the empire secure a victory and was assigned [[Dalek Commander 2 (Dalek)|a new Commander]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Dalek (novelisation)}})


Shortly before the attack on Gallifrey, the Daleks launched [[Attack upon the Kasterborous constellation|a successful incursion]] into the [[Kasterborous|Kasterborous constellation]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek (novelisation)|Dalek]]'') This victory came a mere day after the Metaltron was assigned its [[Dalek Commander 1 (Dalek)|Commander]], which was killed in the assault. The drone was certain its officer had fought bravely to help the empire secure a victory and was assigned [[Dalek Commander 2 (Dalek)|a new Commander]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek (novelisation)|Dalek]]'')
[[File:Fall of Arcadia begins.jpg|left|thumb|[[Dalek drone]]s [[Fall of Arcadia|descend]] upon [[Arcadia (city)|Arcadia]], beginning the end of the Time War. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Last Day (TV story)}})]]
After centuries of conflict between the Daleks and Time Lords, an invasion fleet made up of millions of [[Dalek flying saucer|Dalek flying saucers]] laid siege to Gallifrey. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Whoniverse (novel)}}) Despite the 400 [[Sky trench|sky trenches]] defending [[Arcadia (city)|Arcadia]], the Daleks [[Fall of Arcadia|broke through and invaded]] the second city. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Last Day (TV story)}}) The Metaltron’s squad were deployed to Arcadia and expected to be amongst the first casualties, though the drone survived. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Dalek (novelisation)}})


[[File:Fall of Arcadia begins.jpg|left|thumb|[[Dalek drone]]s [[Fall of Arcadia|descend]] upon [[Arcadia (city)|Arcadia]], beginning the end of the Time War. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Last Day (TV story)|The Last Day]]'')]]
Whilst rumours spread of the fall of Arcadia and a new front opened at the [[Last Hour]], the Time Lords were alerted that the [[First Doctor]]’s timeline was under attack by the Daleks. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The First Doctor: Volume Two trailer (audio story)}}) [[The Player (The Plague of Dreams)|The Player]] was recruited to meet the Doctor and convince him to go the [[South Pole]] to keep his timeline on track. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Plague of Dreams (audio story)}})
After centuries of conflict between the Daleks and Time Lords, an invasion fleet made up of millions of [[Dalek flying saucer|Dalek flying saucers]] laid siege to Gallifrey. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Whoniverse (novel)|The Whoniverse]]'') Despite the 400 [[Sky trench|sky trenches]] defending [[Arcadia (city)|Arcadia]], the Daleks [[Fall of Arcadia|broke through and invaded]] the second city. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Last Day (TV story)|The Last Day]]'')  


Whilst rumours spread of the fall of Arcadia and a new front opened at the [[Last Hour]], the Time Lords were alerted that the [[First Doctor]]’s timeline was under attack by the Daleks. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The First Doctor: Volume Two trailer (audio story)|Volume Two trailer]]'') [[The Player (The Plague of Dreams)|The Player]] was recruited to meet the Doctor and convince him to go the [[South Pole]] to keep his timeline on track. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Plague of Dreams (audio story)|The Plague of Dreams]]'')
Arcadia fell to the Daleks, with the Doctor fighting on the frontlines. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Doomsday (TV story)}}) The Metaltron sighted him briefly in Arcadia and was so overcome by fear it opened fire aimlessly, missing him entirely. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Dalek (novelisation)}}) On the battlefield one [[Time Lord soldier 1 (The Last Day)|soldier]] encountered the Doctor. The Doctor borrowed his [[fusion blaster]] and left a message for the Time Lords carved into a wall: NO MORE. Returning to his TARDIS, which he flew through a squadron of Daleks that had detected him, the Doctor then proceeded to the [[Time Vaults]] and stole the last weapon in the [[Omega Arsenal]] - [[the Moment]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Day of the Doctor (TV story)}}) He disappeared from the Time Lords’ observation, however they inferred that his intent was to destroy Daleks and Time Lords alike. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The End of Time (TV story)}})  


Arcadia fell to the Daleks, with the Doctor fighting on the frontlines. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'') On the battlefield one [[Time Lord soldier 1 (The Last Day)|soldier]] encountered the Doctor. The Doctor borrowed his [[fusion blaster]] and left a message for the Time Lords carved into a wall: NO MORE. He then proceeded to the [[Time Vaults]] and stole the last weapon in the [[Omega Arsenal]] - [[the Moment]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') He disappeared from the Time Lords’ observation, however they inferred that his intent was to destroy Daleks and Time Lords alike. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')  
[[File:Enemy saucer attacks Capitol of the Homeworld.jpg|thumb|right|[[Dalek flying saucer|Dalek craft]] attack the [[Capitol]] during the siege of Gallifrey. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)}}]]
As the Daleks approached the [[Capitol]], hundreds of Time Lords recorded their cherished memories into [[Memory lantern|memory lanterns]] and set them adrift in the Time Vortex. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Memory of Winter (audio story)}}, [[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Memory Feast (comic story)}}) [[Leela]], serving as a commander, watched the Daleks’ attack on the Capitol from a nearby cliff and believed the Time War lost. A soldier, [[Axton]], delivered her a [[wayfinder]] sent from the Doctor which she could use to escape Gallifrey. A group of Daleks discovered them and exterminated Axton, surrounding Leela. Before they could kill her, Leela activated the wayfinder, transporting herself to the safety of the [[Fourth Doctor]]’s TARDIS. ([[WC]]: {{cs|The Final Battle (webcast)}})


[[File:Enemy saucer attacks Capitol of the Homeworld.jpg|thumb|right|[[Dalek flying saucer|Dalek craft]] attack the [[Capitol]] during the siege of Gallifrey. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]'')]]
During the final battle, the Daleks created a [[time capsule]] launched with a single Dalek with the plan to spread the [[Dalek Factor]] on [[Earth]] to use humanity's life force and raw materials to build more Daleks for back-up in the war. The capsule's engines failed in the journey and the Dalek within ejected, falling to Earth in [[70]] AD. The Dalek died but released a small amount of Dalek Factor that remained dormant in the genetic structure of humanity. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|I Am a Dalek (novel)}})
As the Daleks approached the [[Capitol]], hundreds of Time Lords recorded their cherished memories into [[Memory lantern|memory lanterns]] and set them adrift in the Time Vortex. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Memory of Winter (audio story)|The Memory of Winter]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Memory Feast (comic story)|The Memory Feast]]'') Unable to breach the Capitol’s sky trenches, the Daleks surrounded Gallifrey and began bombarding the planet from orbit with all their remaining ships. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'')  


During the final battle, the Daleks created a [[time capsule]] launched with a single Dalek with the plan to spread the [[Dalek Factor]] on [[Earth]] to use humanity's life force and raw materials to build more Daleks for back-up in the war. The capsule's engines failed in the journey and the Dalek within ejected, falling to Earth in [[70]] AD. The Dalek died but released a small amount of Dalek Factor that remained dormant in the genetic structure of humanity. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[I Am a Dalek (novel)|I Am a Dalek]]'')
Unable to breach the Capitol’s sky trenches, the Daleks surrounded Gallifrey and began bombarding the planet from orbit with all their remaining ships. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Day of the Doctor (TV story)}})


=== The Ultimate Sanction ===
=== The Ultimate Sanction ===
With the planet utterly surrounded and on the verge of destruction, the [[President of the High Council]], [[Rassilon (The End of Time)|Rassilon]], grew more desperate and refused to admit defeat. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Whoniverse (novel)|The Whoniverse]]'') After [[the Visionary]] revealed two Time Lords would survive the coming fall, the Doctor and {{Simm}}, Rassilon devised the [[Ultimate Sanction]]. A link was forged with the future Master on Earth in [[2009]] by implanting a signal, a rythmn of four beats, in his mind as a child via the [[Untempered Schism]]. Rassilon then sent a [[White-Point Star]] to the Master to make the link physical, bypassing the time lock. With the signal inside him and six billion humans converted by the [[Immortality Gate]] into [[the Master Race]] to triangulate it, the Master made a connection with the Time Lords' signal. Rassilon planned to use this link to break Gallifrey out of the time lock, beginning a chain reaction which would tear the Time Vortex apart and destroy the universe entirely which would enable the Time Lords to ascend to beings of pure consciousness.   
With the planet utterly surrounded and on the verge of destruction, the [[President of the High Council]], [[Rassilon (The End of Time)|Rassilon]], grew more desperate and refused to admit defeat. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Whoniverse (novel)|The Whoniverse]]'') After [[the Visionary]] revealed two Time Lords would survive the coming fall, the Doctor and {{Simm}}, Rassilon devised the [[Ultimate Sanction]]. A link was forged with the future Master on Earth in approximately the [[2000s]]{{note|name="sanction"|Both {{cs|Planet of the Dead (TV story)}} and {{cs|The End of Time (TV story)}} are referred to in dialogue as taking place after the end of {{cs|Journey's End (TV story)}}, which is set in either [[2008]], according to [[TV]]: {{cs|The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)}}, [[TV]]: {{cs|The Waters of Mars (TV story)}}, and [[AUDIO]]: ''[[SOS (audio story)|SOS]]'' (and heavily implied by [[TV]]: {{cs|The Star Beast (TV story)}} and [[TV]]: {{cs|The Giggle (TV story)}}), or six weeks after the middle of [[May]] [[2009]], circa [[June]], according to [[PROSE]]: ''[[Beautiful Chaos (novel)|Beautiful Chaos]]''. However, the year of ''The End of Time'' is unspecified, as is whether or not it is intended to be the [[Christmas]] immediately after ''Journey's End''.}} by implanting a signal, a rythmn of four beats, in his mind as a child via the [[Untempered Schism]]. Rassilon then sent a [[White-Point Star]] to the Master to make the link physical, bypassing the time lock. With the signal inside him and six billion humans converted by the [[Immortality Gate]] into [[the Master Race]] to triangulate it, the Master made a connection with the Time Lords' signal. Rassilon planned to use this link to break Gallifrey out of the time lock, beginning a chain reaction which would tear the Time Vortex apart and destroy the universe entirely which would enable the Time Lords to ascend to beings of pure consciousness.   


[[File:Gallifrey above Earth.jpg|thumb|left|[[Gallifrey]] appears above the [[Earth]] in [[2009]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')]]
[[File:Gallifrey above Earth.jpg|thumb|left|[[Gallifrey]] appears above the [[Earth]] in the [[2000s]].{{note|name="sanction"}} ([[TV]]: {{cs|The End of Time (TV story)}})]]
Before proceeding, Rassilon put the Sanction to the vote of the [[High Council]]. Only two opposed; [[The Woman (The End of Time)|the woman]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') and the [[Patriarch of Stillhaven]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lords and Masters (short story)|Lords and Masters]]'') Rassilon led a delegation to Earth, flanked by four Time Lords including the two opponents, who he had kneel in shame, where he confronted the Master and the [[Tenth Doctor]]. With the time lock broken, Gallifrey itself began to manifest above Earth which the Doctor warned was just the beginning; all the terrors of the war were descending. Rassilon revealed the full extent of the plan, to even the Master’s horror. The Doctor broke the connection by shooting the White-Point Star, sending the Time Lords and Gallifrey back to the Time War. The Master decided to take revenge on Rassilon for making him a monster and attacked him, being brought back into the War with him. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') Rassilon's battle with the Master caused him to [[Regeneration|regenerate]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Pandoric's Box (short story)|Pandoric's Box]]'') reportedly because the Master "shoved White Point Stars down his throat". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lords and Masters (short story)|Lords and Masters]]'')
Before proceeding, Rassilon put the Sanction to the vote of the [[High Council]]. Only two opposed; [[The Woman (The End of Time)|the woman]] ([[TV]]: {{cs|The End of Time (TV story)}}) and the [[Patriarch of Stillhaven]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lords and Masters (short story)|Lords and Masters]]'') Rassilon led a delegation to Earth, flanked by four Time Lords including the two opponents, who he had kneel in shame, where he confronted the Master and the [[Tenth Doctor]]. With the time lock broken, Gallifrey itself began to manifest above Earth which the Doctor warned was just the beginning; all the terrors of the war were descending. Rassilon revealed the full extent of the plan, to even the Master’s horror. The Doctor broke the connection by shooting the White-Point Star, sending the Time Lords and Gallifrey back to the Time War. The Master decided to take revenge on Rassilon for making him a monster and attacked him, being brought back into the War with him. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The End of Time (TV story)}}) Rassilon's battle with the Master caused him to [[Regeneration|regenerate]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Pandoric's Box (short story)|Pandoric's Box]]'') reportedly because the Master "shoved White Point Stars down his throat". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lords and Masters (short story)|Lords and Masters]]'')


=== Relocation of Gallifrey ===
=== Relocation of Gallifrey ===
The Doctor took the Moment to a [[Barn (The Day of the Doctor)|barn]] in Gallifrey's [[drylands]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') intending to activate it far from the sight of his TARDIS. The Moment arranged for a meeting with two future incarnations, the Tenth Doctor and [[Eleventh Doctor]]. After an adventure on which they negotiated peace between [[Unified Intelligence Taskforce|UNIT]] and the [[Zygon]]s, the three prepared to detonate Gallifrey together, making sure the War Doctor did not need to bear the responsibility alone. However after the Eleventh Doctor’s companion, [[Clara Oswald]], objected they reconsidered and ultimately decided against it. Inspired by the [[Stasis cube|stasis cubes]] that the Zygons had been using a suspended animation, the Eleventh Doctor realised they had long since thought up an alternative, to the joy of his other selves.
The Doctor took the Moment to a [[Barn (The Day of the Doctor)|barn]] in Gallifrey's [[drylands]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)}}) intending to activate it far from the sight of his TARDIS. The Moment arranged for a meeting with two future incarnations, the Tenth Doctor and [[Eleventh Doctor]]. After an adventure on which they negotiated peace between [[UNIT]] and the [[Zygon]]s, the three prepared to detonate Gallifrey together, making sure the War Doctor did not need to bear the responsibility alone. However after the Eleventh Doctor's companion, [[Clara Oswald]], objected they reconsidered and ultimately decided against it. Inspired by the [[Stasis cube|stasis cubes]] that the Zygons had been using a suspended animation, the Eleventh Doctor realised they had long since thought up an alternative, to the joy of his other selves.


[[File:Moments before ALL THIRTEEN.jpg|thumb|right|The Daleks bombarding Gallifrey moments before "all thirteen" Doctors arrived ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'')]]
[[File:Moments before ALL THIRTEEN.jpg|thumb|right|The Daleks bombarding Gallifrey moments before "all thirteen" Doctors arrived ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Day of the Doctor (TV story)}})]]
Androgar once stated that "all thirteen" incarnations of the Doctor then teamed up to save Gallifrey, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') only for the Twelfth Doctor to admit that he was unsure how many versions of himself used their TARDISes to place Gallifrey in a [[Gallifrey's pocket universe|pocket universe]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') with the Time Lords claiming that every incarnation of the Doctor was present. Through [[the Matrix]]'s projections of post-war history, the Time Lords were aware that the Twelfth Doctor, the last of the thirteen incarnations pointed out by [[Androgar]], would be followed by the [[Thirteenth Doctor]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (novel)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'')
Androgar once stated that "all thirteen" incarnations of the Doctor then teamed up to save Gallifrey, ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Day of the Doctor (TV story)}}) only for the Twelfth Doctor to admit that he was unsure how many versions of himself used their TARDISes to place Gallifrey in a [[Gallifrey's pocket universe|pocket universe]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)}}) with the Time Lords claiming that every incarnation of the Doctor was present. Through [[the Matrix]]'s projections of post-war history, the Time Lords were aware that the Twelfth Doctor, the last of the thirteen incarnations pointed out by [[Androgar]], would be followed by the [[Thirteenth Doctor]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (reference book)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'')


The Doctors contacted the [[War Council]] beforehand and received [[the General]]'s reluctant approval for the plan. The Dalek fleet, which was still surrounding the planet and firing on it at a constant rate, intensified the bombardment in response to the Doctors' activity. It was left suddenly firing on itself when Gallifrey disappeared, nearly destroying the entire Dalek race. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') The result was, in the Emperor's words, an "inferno". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]'')
The Doctors contacted the [[War Council]] beforehand and received [[the General]]'s reluctant approval for the plan. The Dalek fleet, which was still surrounding the planet and firing on it at a constant rate, intensified the bombardment in response to the Doctors' activity. It was left suddenly firing on itself when Gallifrey disappeared, nearly destroying the entire Dalek race. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Day of the Doctor (TV story)}}) The result was, in the Emperor's words, an "inferno". ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Parting of the Ways (TV story)}})


Though the effect had been instantaneous on the Daleks, Gallifrey’s relocation took almost a day to complete, longer than the Doctor had predicted, causing the planet to burn and rage. A town on the shore of [[Lake Calasper]] was ripped apart by an earthquake. The Doctor, in all their incarnations up to the [[Ninth Doctor|Ninth]] (minus the War Doctor), helped to get civilians trapped in dangerous situations to safety. Meanwhile in the War Room, the [[Twelfth Doctor]] entered and helped coordinate disaster relief with the General. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)|The Day of the Doctor]]'')  
Though the effect had been instantaneous on the Daleks, Gallifrey’s relocation took almost a day to complete, longer than the Doctor had predicted, causing the planet to burn and rage. A town on the shore of [[Lake Calasper]] was ripped apart by an earthquake. The Doctor, in all their incarnations up to the [[Ninth Doctor|Ninth]] (minus the War Doctor), helped to get civilians trapped in dangerous situations to safety. Meanwhile in the War Room, the [[Twelfth Doctor]] entered and helped coordinate disaster relief with the General. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)}})  


Afterwards the Doctors were left unsure if they'd succeeded or not, but concluded it was better to have failed doing the right thing than succeeding at the wrong. Due to the timelines being out of sync, the first eleven incarnations involved would forget this act. This caused the Doctor to reject his war incarnation until the memories of saving Gallifrey caught up with the Eleventh Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') Until then, he remembered Gallifrey's fall as a legitimate destruction, which he likened to [[Earth Death]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of the World (TV story)|The End of the World]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eyeless (novel)|The Eyeless]]'') The Tenth Doctor recalled that the [[Cruciform]] fell at the same time that Gallifrey was "burned". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Forgotten (comic story)|The Forgotten]]'')
Afterwards the Doctors were left unsure if they'd succeeded or not, but concluded it was better to have failed doing the right thing than succeeding at the wrong. Due to the timelines being out of sync, the first eleven incarnations involved would forget this act. This caused the Doctor to reject his war incarnation until the memories of saving Gallifrey caught up with the Eleventh Doctor. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Day of the Doctor (TV story)}}) Until then, he remembered Gallifrey's fall as a legitimate destruction, which he likened to [[Earth Death]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The End of the World (TV story)}}, [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eyeless (novel)|The Eyeless]]'') The Tenth Doctor recalled that the [[Cruciform]] fell at the same time that Gallifrey was "burned". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Forgotten (comic story)|The Forgotten]]'') The Eleventh Doctor encountered a version of [[The Matrix]] that seemed to have been driven mad by the deaths of all the [[Time Lords]], though most other accounts would show that the [[Time Lords]] had in fact survived and the Matrix remained on Gallifrey. ([[COMIC]]: {{Cs|Sky Jacks (comic story)|Sky Jacks}})


==Aftermath==
==Aftermath==
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=== Post-Gallifrey ===
=== Post-Gallifrey ===
The "chronological complications" brought about by the War and Gallifrey's apparent destruction resulted in Gallifrey and other artefacts native to its home universe landing within the universe of [[New Eden (The Interstellar Convergence)|New Eden]] for a brief time. [[Capsuleer|Inhabitants of]] New Eden's universe followed these artifacts on a path that brought them into conflict with [[Dalek]]s, who had also arrived within New Eden. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Interstellar Convergence (video game)|The Interstellar Convergence]]'')
The "chronological complications" brought about by the War and Gallifrey's apparent destruction resulted in Gallifrey and other artefacts native to its home universe landing within the universe of [[New Eden (The Interstellar Convergence)|New Eden]] for a brief time. [[Capsuleer|Inhabitants of]] New Eden's universe followed these artefacts on a path that brought them into conflict with [[Dalek]]s, who had also arrived within New Eden. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Interstellar Convergence (video game)|The Interstellar Convergence]]'')


[[The Beast (The Impossible Planet)|The Beast]], who claimed to have lived [[pre-universe|before]] [[the universe]], knew the [[Tenth Doctor]] as "the killer of his own kind". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Satan Pit (TV story)|The Satan Pit]]'') In [[2007]], [[Brother Lassar]] of the [[Krillitane]]s was aware of the Time Lords and their apparent fate. He suggested to the Doctor that he could use the [[Skasis Paradigm]] to prevent the war altogether, but the Doctor refused to allow the Krillitanes to unlock it. ([[TV]]: ''[[School Reunion (TV story)|School Reunion]]'') The [[time travel]]ling [[Family of Blood]] believed the Doctor to be the [[last of the Time Lords]], who they knew as an "wise and ancient race". ([[TV]]: ''[[Human Nature (TV story)|Human Nature]]''/''[[The Family of Blood (TV story)|The Family of Blood]]'') [[Lucius Petrus Dextrus]], a human [[augur]] who followed the [[Pyrovile]]s, knew that the Doctor came from Gallifrey and that his home was "lost in fire". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)|The Fires of Pompeii]]'') In [[2009]], the [[Shadow Architect]] of the [[Shadow Proclamation]] believed the Time Lords to be the "stuff of [[legend]]" which belonged in the "[[myth]]s and whispers of the [[higher species]]". As such, she was sceptical of the Doctor's very existence. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]'')
[[The Beast (The Impossible Planet)|The Beast]], who claimed to have lived [[pre-universe|before]] [[the universe]], knew the [[Tenth Doctor]] as "the killer of his own kind". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Satan Pit (TV story)|The Satan Pit]]'') In [[2007]], [[Brother Lassar]] of the [[Krillitane]]s was aware of the Time Lords and their apparent fate. He suggested to the Doctor that he could use the [[Skasis Paradigm]] to prevent the war altogether, but the Doctor refused to allow the Krillitanes to unlock it. ([[TV]]: {{cs|School Reunion (TV story)}}) The [[time travel]]ling [[Family of Blood]] believed the Doctor to be the [[last of the Time Lords]], who they knew as an "wise and ancient race". ([[TV]]: {{cs|Human Nature (TV story)}}/{{cs|The Family of Blood (TV story)}}) [[Lucius Petrus Dextrus]], a human [[augur]] who followed the [[Pyrovile]]s, knew that the Doctor came from Gallifrey and that his home was "lost in fire". ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)}}) In the [[2000s]],{{note|The present day of ''[[Doctor Who]]''{{'}}s [[Series 4 (Doctor Who 2005)|fourth series]] is [[Aliens of London dating controversy|not consistently dated]], with [[TV]]: {{cs|The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)}}, [[TV]]: {{cs|The Waters of Mars (TV story)}}, and [[AUDIO]]: ''[[SOS (audio story)|SOS]]'' setting the present of the 13 regular episodes in [[2008]] (heavily implied by [[TV]]: {{cs|The Star Beast (TV story)}} and [[TV]]: {{cs|The Giggle (TV story)}} as well), and [[PROSE]]: ''[[Beautiful Chaos (novel)|Beautiful Chaos]]'' setting them in about [[April]] to [[June]] [[2009]].}} the [[Shadow Architect]] of the [[Shadow Proclamation]] believed the Time Lords to be the "stuff of [[legend]]" which belonged in the "[[myth]]s and whispers of the [[higher species]]". As such, she was sceptical of the Doctor's very existence. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Stolen Earth (TV story)}})


Having lived through the Time War, [[Nyssa]] of [[Traken]] became aware of the loss of Gallifrey, which she likened to the destruction of her own homeworld, and offered the Tenth Doctor her condolences. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Stuntman (audio story)|The Stuntman]]'')
Having lived through the Time War, [[Nyssa]] of [[Traken]] became aware of the loss of Gallifrey, which she likened to the destruction of her own homeworld, and offered the Tenth Doctor her condolences. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Stuntman (audio story)|The Stuntman]]'')


[[Rosanna Calvierri]], one of the last surviving [[Saturnyn]], remarked that the [[Eleventh Doctor]] should be either in a [[museum]] or a [[mausoleum]] when he revealed that he was from [[Gallifrey]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Vampires of Venice (TV story)|The Vampires of Venice]]'') In [[2010]], the [[Shansheeth]] knew the Doctor to be the last Time Lord. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death of the Doctor (TV story)|Death of the Doctor]]'')
[[Rosanna Calvierri]], one of the last surviving [[Saturnyn]], remarked that the [[Eleventh Doctor]] should be either in a [[museum]] or a [[mausoleum]] when he revealed that he was from [[Gallifrey]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Vampires of Venice (TV story)}}) In [[2010]], the [[Shansheeth]] knew the Doctor to be the last Time Lord. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death of the Doctor (TV story)|Death of the Doctor]]'')


Confronting the [[Twelfth Doctor]] in [[1980]], the [[Fisher King]] remembered the Time Lords as "[[coward]]ly, [[vanity|vain]] [[curator]]s who suddenly remembered they had [[teeth]] and became the most warlike race in [[the galaxy]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Before the Flood (TV story)|Before the Flood]]'')
Confronting the [[Twelfth Doctor]] in [[1980]], the [[Fisher King]] remembered the Time Lords as "[[coward]]ly, [[vanity|vain]] [[curator]]s who suddenly remembered they had [[teeth]] and became the most warlike race in [[the galaxy]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Before the Flood (TV story)}})


=== Dalek survivors ===
=== Dalek survivors ===
[[File:Dalek corners Rose.jpg|thumb|left|[[Metaltron|One]] of the few Daleks that survived the Time War confronts [[Rose Tyler]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]'')]]
[[File:Dalek corners Rose.jpg|thumb|left|[[Metaltron|One]] of the few Daleks that survived the Time War confronts [[Rose Tyler]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Dalek (TV story)}})]]
To the rest of [[N-Space]], it looked as if the Time Lords had been destroyed as well, making it seem that the War had ended with the destruction of both factions. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') However, some Daleks survived the destruction. One [[Metaltron|Dalek]] fell through time and crashed on Earth in the [[20th century]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]'') The Emperor’s flagship ended up in the distant future, crippled but with the Emperor himself still alive. Over the centuries he manipulated the [[Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire]] and rebuilt the fleet. It was exposed by the [[Ninth Doctor]] in [[200100|200,100]], resulting in the [[Battle of the Game Station]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]'')
To the rest of [[N-Space]], it looked as if the Time Lords had been destroyed as well, making it seem that the War had ended with the destruction of both factions. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Day of the Doctor (TV story)}}) However, some Daleks survived the destruction. One [[Metaltron|Dalek]] fell through time and crashed on Earth in the [[20th century]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Dalek (TV story)}}) The Emperor’s flagship ended up in the distant future, crippled but with the Emperor himself still alive. Over the centuries he manipulated the [[Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire]] and rebuilt the fleet. It was exposed by the [[Ninth Doctor]] in [[200100|200,100]], resulting in the [[Battle of the Game Station]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Parting of the Ways (TV story)}})


The [[Cult of Skaro]], who survived the Time War by hiding in a [[Void Ship|ship]] within [[the Void]], were aware of the fall of Gallifrey. Emerging on Earth in [[2007]], they brought with them the [[Genesis Ark]], a [[dimensionally transcendental]] [[prison ship]] which [[Dalek Sec]] believed to be all that survived of the Time Lords' [[homeworld]]. Coming into [[Battle of Canary Wharf|conflict]] with the [[Tenth Doctor]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'') the Cult escaped via [[emergency temporal shift]] to [[1930]] where they faced the Doctor again, with the resulting [[Invasion of Manhattan|confrontation]] ending in the deaths of all the Cult bar [[Dalek Caan]], who the Doctor believed to be the last surviving Dalek in the universe. In light of the deaths that he had witnessed, both Dalek [[Human-Dalek|and]] [[human]], the Doctor offered Caan his help only to be rejected as the Dalek initiated another temporal shift. ([[TV]]: ''[[Evolution of the Daleks (TV story)|Evolution of the Daleks]]'')
The [[Cult of Skaro]], who survived the Time War by hiding in a [[Void Ship|ship]] within [[the Void]], were aware of the fall of Gallifrey. Emerging on Earth in [[2007]], they brought with them the [[Genesis Ark]], a [[dimensionally transcendental]] [[prison ship]] which [[Dalek Sec]] believed to be all that survived of the Time Lords' [[homeworld]]. Coming into [[Battle of Canary Wharf|conflict]] with the [[Tenth Doctor]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|Doomsday (TV story)}}) the Cult escaped via [[emergency temporal shift]] to [[1930]] where they faced the Doctor again, with the resulting [[Invasion of Manhattan|confrontation]] ending in the deaths of all the Cult bar [[Dalek Caan]], who the Doctor believed to be the last surviving Dalek in the universe. In light of the deaths that he had witnessed, both Dalek [[Human-Dalek|and]] [[human]], the Doctor offered Caan his help only to be rejected as the Dalek initiated another temporal shift. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Evolution of the Daleks (TV story)}})


Breaking the [[time lock]], the temporal shift took Caan into the Time War where he rescued [[Davros]] from the [[Nightmare Child]]. Emerging in the post-war universe, Davros created a [[New Dalek Empire]] which [[21st century Dalek invasion|invaded Earth]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]'') Having saw [[time]], Caan was believed to have gone [[insanity|insane]]; infact, he had come to believe that the Daleks must be destroyed, setting in motion a chain of events which led to the destruction of the empire. ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'') Nevertheless, a [[Dalek ship (Victory of the Daleks)|one ship survived]] and, having found the last of the [[Progenitor]] devices, created a [[New Dalek Paradigm]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Victory of the Daleks (TV story)|Victory of the Daleks]]'')
Breaking the [[time lock]], the temporal shift took Caan into the Time War where he rescued [[Davros]] from the [[Nightmare Child]]. Emerging in the post-war universe, Davros created a [[New Dalek Empire]] which [[21st century Dalek invasion|invaded Earth]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Stolen Earth (TV story)}}) Having saw [[time]], Caan was believed to have gone [[insanity|insane]]; infact, he had come to believe that the Daleks must be destroyed, setting in motion a chain of events which led to the destruction of the empire. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Journey's End (TV story)}}) Nevertheless, a [[Dalek ship (Victory of the Daleks)|one ship survived]] and, having found the last of the [[Progenitor]] devices, created a [[New Dalek Paradigm]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Victory of the Daleks (TV story)}})


=== The Master ===
=== The Master ===
[[File:The Doctor Falls Any Requests Master.jpg|thumb|The War Master regenerated into a new incarnation who was in turn followed by Missy. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')]]
[[File:The Doctor Falls Any Requests Master.jpg|thumb|The War Master regenerated into a new incarnation who was in turn followed by Missy. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Doctor Falls (TV story)}})]]
{{Jacobi|n=The Master}}, who had fought in the Time War, was overcome by [[fear]] after witnessing the Dalek Emperor seize the [[Cruciform]] and so fled the conflict, [[Chameleon Arch|making himself]] [[Yana|human]] so that he would not be found. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') He was ultimately discovered by the [[Tenth Doctor]], who believed that the two of them were the last surviving Time Lords. Regenerating, {{Simm}} was shocked to learn of the apparent destruction of Gallifrey at the Doctor's hand. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sounds of Drum]]'') The ensuing confrontation ended with the Master mortally wounded and choosing to die rather than regenerate and be captured by the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') However, the Master had made [[Potion of Life|arrangements]] for himself to be [[resurrection|resurrected]] which was only partly successful due to an attempt at sabotage by [[Lucy Saxon]], resulting in the Master living with dwindling [[life force]]. As well as coming into contact with the Doctor again, the Master was embroiled in Ultimate Sanction, leading to him returning to Gallifrey on the last day of the Time War as he confronted [[Rassilon (The End of Time)|Rassilon]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
{{Jacobi|n=The Master}}, who had fought in the Time War, was overcome by [[fear]] after witnessing the Dalek Emperor seize the [[Cruciform]] and so fled the conflict, [[Chameleon Arch|making himself]] [[Yana|human]] so that he would not be found. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Utopia (TV story)}}) He was ultimately discovered by the [[Tenth Doctor]], who believed that the two of them were the last surviving Time Lords. Regenerating, {{Simm}} was shocked to learn of the apparent destruction of Gallifrey at the Doctor's hand. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Sound of Drums (TV story)}})
 
Having been [[cure]]d of his "little condition", the Master left Gallifrey; when asked if the Time Lords had "kicked" him out, he claimed that it was a "[[mutual kicking me out]]". Back to using a [[The Master's TARDIS|TARDIS]], he eventually landed on a [[Mondasian colony ship]] caught in the pull of a [[black hole]], stranding him. Overseeing the creation of a race of [[Cybermen]], he encountered his next incarnation who, calling herself {{Gomez}}, had arrived with the [[Twelfth Doctor]]. Provided with a spare [[dematerialisation circuit]] by his future self, the Master was enabled to escape but not before he was mortally wounded by Missy, who now sought to stand with the Doctor. The Master in turn killed Missy before returning to his TARDIS and regenerating, aware that he would lose most of his [[memory|memories]] of meeting his future self. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]''/''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')


Following the Master's regeneration, Missy found that the [[Eleventh Doctor]] had supposedly been killed by [[River Song]]. As such, she claimed herself to be the sole living Time Lord in the universe. After meeting River, Missy learnt that the Doctor had survived. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Bekdel Test (audio story)|The Bekdel Test]]'') Learning of the Doctors' part in relocating Gallifrey, Missy would later teasingly observe to the Twelfth Doctor that he had saved her, and that Gallifrey was just "collateral damage". ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'')
The ensuing confrontation ended with the Master mortally wounded and choosing to die rather than regenerate and be captured by the Doctor, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Last of the Time Lords (TV story)}}) instead relying on other [[Potion of Life|arrangements]] to return. With the [[Ultimate Sanction]], [[Rassilon (The End of Time)|Rassilon]] and the Time Lords from the final day of the War attempted to break through to Earth, but their efforts were stopped by the Doctor and the Master, who was thrown back into the War with Rassilon. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The End of Time (TV story)}}) After Gallifrey's salvation, the Master, cured of his "little condition," left Gallifrey in a "mutual me kicking out." ([[TV]]: {{cs|World Enough and Time (TV story)}}/{{cs|The Doctor Falls (TV story)}})


=== The Monk ===
=== The Monk ===
[[File:HoundMonkMissyMS2.png|thumb|In addition to the Doctor and the Master, the Monk emerged in the post-war universe ahead of Gallifrey. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Too Many Masters (audio story)|Too Many Masters]]'')]]
[[File:HoundMonkMissyMS2.png|thumb|In addition to the Doctor and the Master, the Monk emerged in the post-war universe ahead of Gallifrey. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Too Many Masters (audio story)|Too Many Masters]]'')]]
Like the Master, [[The Monk (The Black Hole)|the Monk]] had fled the war in fear of the Daleks, travelling to [[Earth]] and turning himself [[human]] to escape the conflict. To prevent detection by the [[Time Lord]]s, the Monk pushed his ship hard before he removed [[The Monk's TARDIS|his TARDIS]]' components, but didn't perform a careful job of removing them, badly damaging the TARDIS in the process. He still kept a connection to [[the Matrix]], to see what was going on. The Monk hid away in an [[abbey]] in [[England]] during the [[16th century]]. Through his connection to [[the Matrix]] he witnessed the disappearance of Gallifrey and its subsequent return to the universe. Trapped on Earth in one time zone, the Monk tried to raise Gallifrey's attention by meddling with time but only caught the attention of Missy, who left him stranded after plundering his TARDIS. Furious, the Monk sought to confront both Missy and the Doctor ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Divorced, Beheaded, Regenerated (audio story)|Divorced, Beheaded, Regenerated]]'') and ultimately escaped from his predicament. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Treason and Plot (audio story)|Treason and Plot]]'')
Like the Master, [[The Monk (The Black Hole)|the Monk]] had fled the war in fear of the Daleks, travelling to [[Earth]] and turning himself [[human]] to escape the conflict. To prevent detection by the [[Time Lord]]s, the Monk pushed his ship hard before he removed [[The Monk's TARDIS|his TARDIS]]' components, but didn't perform a careful job of removing them, badly damaging the TARDIS in the process. He still kept a connection to [[the Matrix]], to see what was going on. The Monk hid away in an [[abbey]] in [[England]] during the [[16th century]]. Through his connection to [[the Matrix]] he witnessed the disappearance of Gallifrey and its subsequent return to the universe. Trapped on Earth in one time zone, the Monk tried to raise Gallifrey's attention by meddling with time but only caught the attention of [[Missy]], who left him stranded after plundering his TARDIS. Furious, the Monk sought to confront both Missy and the Doctor ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Divorced, Beheaded, Regenerated (audio story)|Divorced, Beheaded, Regenerated]]'') and ultimately escaped from his predicament. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Treason and Plot (audio story)|Treason and Plot]]'')


=== The Eye of Time ===
=== The Eye of Time ===
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Under the leadership of a [[Dalek Emperor (The Eternity Clock)|different emperor]], the New Dalek Paradigm obtained a fragment of the [[Eternity Clock]]. With this, the Daleks launched an invasion of Earth in [[2106]] and plotted to remove Gallifrey from time to become the new Time Lords, but the Doctor and his wife, [[River Song]], took the clock fragment from them, undoing the Earth invasion and preventing their further plans. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Eternity Clock (video game)|The Eternity Clock]]'') After their memory of the Doctor was [[Asylum Incident|wiped]] from the [[Pathweb]] for a period of time, the Daleks forgot, amongst other incidents, who had detonated the Moment. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)|Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe]]'')
Under the leadership of a [[Dalek Emperor (The Eternity Clock)|different emperor]], the New Dalek Paradigm obtained a fragment of the [[Eternity Clock]]. With this, the Daleks launched an invasion of Earth in [[2106]] and plotted to remove Gallifrey from time to become the new Time Lords, but the Doctor and his wife, [[River Song]], took the clock fragment from them, undoing the Earth invasion and preventing their further plans. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Eternity Clock (video game)|The Eternity Clock]]'') After their memory of the Doctor was [[Asylum Incident|wiped]] from the [[Pathweb]] for a period of time, the Daleks forgot, amongst other incidents, who had detonated the Moment. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)|Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe]]'')


=== Return of the Time Lords ===
=== Return and fall of Gallifrey ===
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{{Main|Siege of Trenzalore}}
Though it would be easy for the Lords of Time to restore themselves to the universe, Rassilon needed to figure out which universe was their actual home. Luckily for them, [[the Matrix]] found [[time field|cracks in a universe]] that could be used to enter it, although they needed to find the right point in history and place to do so. If they entered at an undesirable point or place, they would be spotted, and the Time War would simply begin once again. Using the last crack in time ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]'') in the [[Christmas (town)|town of Christmas]] on the planet of [[Trenzalore]], they broadcasted [[The Question|the first question]] to the universe to draw the Doctor in. If the Doctor answered the question by saying [[The Doctor's aliases|his real name]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') the Time Lords would know they could safely return from their [[pocket universe]].
Discussing the [[Gallifrey Falls No More]] painting with Doctor [[Henry Black]], [[the Curator]] told him it would be better described as "Gallifrey Falls No More (Until the Next Time)"; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dr Black (short story)|Dr Black]]'') as a future incarnation of the Doctor, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Then and the Now (comic story)|The Then and the Now]]'') the Curator knew that strife would return to Gallifrey after the Time War. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dr Black (short story)|Dr Black]]'', [[TV]]: {{cs|The Timeless Children (TV story)}})
 
However, Rassilon's attempt at creating a safe way into the universe accidentally created the most dangerous situation possible; the message was spread throughout the history of the universe, striking fear in all who heard it. Various species, including the Daleks, sent their fleets to investigate. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]'') The Daleks had attempted and failed to translate the message remotely, and the [[Eternal Dalek]] told the [[Supreme Dalek (Victory of the Daleks)|Supreme Dalek]] of the prophecy of the [[Siege of Trenzalore|Fall of the Eleventh]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)|The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe]]'')
 
[[File:The_Siege_of_Trenzalore.jpg|thumb|The species of the universe after gathering at Trenzalore. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'')]]
The [[The Church|Church of the Papal Mainframe]], after putting up a force field around the planet, sent the Eleventh Doctor and his companion [[Clara Oswald]] down, where he translated the message and learned it came from the Time Lords. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') When the Supreme Dalek heard this, he recognised it to be a Time Lord's voice. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)|Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe]]'') Understanding that "half the universe" would descend upon Trenzalore and restart the War, the Doctor fought for centuries in the [[Siege of Trenzalore]] to prevent this, unwilling to leave the planet to its destruction ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') or abandon his own people, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]'') but equally unwilling to release the Time Lords and restart the conflict. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') Nevertheless, even as he defended the world, he understood that the Daleks would eventually mount a full-scale invasion to finally end the Time War. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]'')
 
Elsewhere, the [[Kovarian Chapter]] and its [[The Silence|silents]] broke away from the Church, embarking on [[War against the Doctor|their own campaign]] to try to stop the Doctor from ever reaching Trenzalore and prevent a new time war. To do so, they made [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] explode, causing the [[total event collapse]] that made the cracks in time. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') Earlier in his life, the Eleventh Doctor closed the cracks and restored the universe, including his TARDIS, with the [[Big Bang Two]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'') but the Time Lords had been using the "scar tissue" that was the last surviving crack, meaning the Kovarian Chapter had only ensured the siege occurred. In short, the Kovarian chapter's efforts ended in a [[destiny trap]]; they had tried to prevent a new time war from breaking out at Trenzalore, yet they were part of the history unfolding over the planet and thus could not alter it. They had only ensured the siege would happen. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'')
 
Back at Trenzalore, after so many species had made failed attempts to kill the Doctor to stop the return of the Time Lords, the Daleks made their move after calling for reinforcements on a daily basis in preparation for war. They attacked the Church itself, overwhelming their forces and converting its members into [[Dalek puppet]]s. They also extracted knowledge of the Doctor from the mind of the Church's leader, [[Tasha Lem]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') At an earlier point, [[Oswin Oswald]], a human who had been converted into a Dalek and also a temporal splinter of Clara Oswald, had erased all knowledge of the Doctor from the [[Pathweb|Dalek Pathweb]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)|Asylum of the Daleks]]'') an act that crippled the Dalek war effort for centuries as the [[Parliament of the Daleks|Dalek Parliament]] debated as to who their forgotten arch-nemesis had been. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)|Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe]]'')
 
[[File:Daleks at the Siege of Trenzalore.jpg|thumb|left|[[Dalek drone]]s descend on [[Trenzalore]] to prevent the return of [[Gallifrey]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (novel)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'')]]
Now, however, the Daleks were able to remember who their greatest foe was, although the remembrance made the [[Prime Minister of the Daleks]], having already gone insane after centuries pondering who their great enemy had been, dash itself against its case. The Supreme Dalek then exterminated it and assumed control of the paradigm. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)|Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe]]'') Shortly afterward, the Daleks confronted the Doctor and Clara Oswald, voicing their intention to make sure he died in silence to stop the return of the Time Lords. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'')
 
With the Church's force field down, the Daleks, [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] and other species were free to attack the town of Christmas. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') 750 years into the siege, the [[Mara]] arrived in the town, but, unlike the other invaders, it actively wanted a new Time War to break out, but it was defeated by the Doctor. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dreaming (short story)|The Dreaming]]'') Eventually, even after all other races had fled or been defeated, the Daleks continued their offensive, with only the Doctor and the Church standing in their path. Nevertheless, the exterminators pushed forward and eventually overcame all defences. The Doctor, who was in his final incarnation, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') had previously seen [[Alternate timeline (The Name of the Doctor)|a future]] where Trenzalore was in ruins.
 
[[File:11 regen 2.jpg|thumb|right|With a new [[regeneration cycle]], the [[Eleventh Doctor]] destroys the [[Supreme Dalek (Victory of the Daleks)|Supreme Dalek's]] forces. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'')]]
Though not as destructive as the Time War, millions had still died in this version of the siege, including the Doctor himself. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'') As the Doctor left Clara one last time, content that this was his destined fate, she spoke to the Time Lords through the crack, begging them to save the Doctor. They complied and changed the future by granting the Doctor a new [[regeneration cycle]] before closing the crack. With this new energy, the Doctor destroyed the Dalek force attacking Christmas, preventing the Time War from starting anew and saving the planet. He then completed the regeneration into his next body, the [[Twelfth Doctor]], in the TARDIS with Clara. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'')


According to the book ''[[The Secret Lives of Monsters]]'', "some" considered the siege to have been the last battle of the Time War, though the alleged recount of the battle claimed the Time Lords ''themselves'', working through the crack in time, destroyed the Dalek saucer. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Secret Lives of Monsters (novel)|The Secret Lives of Monsters]]'') Additionally, [[Human]] [[historian]]s dubbed the Siege of Trenzalore the final defeat of the Daleks, but, given the many other loses previously assumed to be their final end, they were not fully convinced. Indeed, they were aware that Skaro, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)|Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe]]'') which had been restored by the Daleks, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'') persisted behind an invisible barrier. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)|Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe]]'')
[[File:Hell Bent.jpg|thumb|left|[[Gallifrey]] at the [[end of the universe]] after the Time War ([[TV]]: {{cs|Hell Bent (TV story)}})]]
 
After their major effort to return to the universe attracted the [[Dalek]]s and many other enemies in the [[Siege of Trenzalore]], during which the Daleks recovered their memories of the Doctor after losing them in the Asylum Incident, ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Time of the Doctor (TV story)}}; [[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)|Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe]]'') the Time Lords returned Gallifrey quietly to the [[end of the universe]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Hell Bent (TV story)}}) The [[Spy Master]] would [[Razing of Gallifrey|raze]] Gallifrey to the ground after learning about the [[Timeless Child]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Timeless Children (TV story)}})
[[File:Hell Bent.jpg|thumb|left|[[Gallifrey]] at the [[end of the universe]] after the Time War ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'')]]
Skaro existed in this state when it was again the [[Dalek control|centre]] of the Daleks' empire, with the [[Dalek City]] rebuilt and thriving in the post-Time War era. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'') Elsewhere, now understanding that they had in fact found the correct universe, Rassilon returned Gallifrey to N-Space. Though they returned to their original spatial coordinates, the Time Lords, in an attempt to remain safe, placed themselves at the [[end of the universe]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]'') "give or take a star system". When he arrived on Gallifrey during [[the Hybrid]] crisis, the Doctor was unsure how they did this as he didn't ask. While confronting the Time Lords at the end of the universe, Clara Oswald told them that "everybody" hated them as a result of the war. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'')
 
=== Until the next time ===
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Discussing the [[Gallifrey Falls No More]] painting with Doctor [[Henry Black]], [[the Curator]] told him it would be better described as "Gallifrey Falls No More (Until the Next Time)"; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dr Black (short story)|Dr Black]]'') as a future incarnation of the Doctor, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Then and the Now (comic story)|The Then and the Now]]'') the Curator knew that strife would return to Gallifrey after the Time War. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dr Black (short story)|Dr Black]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The Timeless Children (TV story)|The Timeless Children]]'')
 
Despite living as {{Gomez}} and [[the Lumiat]], lives where they had sought to do good in the universe, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lumiat (audio story)|The Lumiat]]'') {{Dhawan}} returned to his dark ways and ravaged Gallifrey after learning about the secret of the [[Timeless Child]], much to the horror of the [[Thirteenth Doctor]]. After learning of her past as the Timeless Child, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Timeless Children (TV story)|The Timeless Children]]'') the Thirteenth Doctor began to hunt leads on a Time Lord organization known simply as [[the Division]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Halloween Apocalypse (TV story)|The Halloween Apocalypse]]'')


== Behind the scenes ==
== Behind the scenes ==
[[File:Dalek saucers over burning planet.jpg|thumb|The Dalek fleet caught in the inferno.]]
[[File:Dalek saucers over burning planet.jpg|thumb|The Dalek fleet caught in the inferno.]]
* The [[Doctor Who website]] featured an image, a modification of one depicting the Dalek Fleet over [[Earth]] during the [[Battle of the Game Station]], of multiple Dalek saucers engulfed in flames over a burning [[planet]], consistent with one account of the fall of Gallifrey.
* The [[Doctor Who website]] featured an image, a modification of one depicting the Dalek Fleet over [[Earth]] during the [[Battle of the Game Station]], of multiple Dalek saucers engulfed in flames over a burning [[planet]], consistent with one account of the fall of Gallifrey.
* ''Absence of the Daleks'', the draft for ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]'' before the use of the Daleks had been secured, would have established that [[Toclafane|mysterious sphere]]s from the [[future]], later revealed to be [[human]]s, had attacked the Time Lords among all other [[sentient]] species they could find, with the [[Nestene]]s and the Daleks among the civilisations decimated. Ultimately, the Time Lords trapped the spheres on Gallifrey, where they sacrificed themselves in an act of [[mutually assured destruction]] to eliminate the spheres, leaving only the [[Ninth Doctor]] and one known surviving sphere, which became the [[Metaltron]].
* ''Absence of the Daleks'', the draft for {{cs|Dalek (TV story)}} before the use of the Daleks had been secured, would have established that [[Toclafane|mysterious sphere]]s from the [[future]], later revealed to be [[human]]s, had attacked the Time Lords among all other [[sentient]] species they could find, with the [[Nestene]]s and the Daleks among the civilisations decimated. Ultimately, the Time Lords trapped the spheres on Gallifrey, where they sacrificed themselves in an act of [[mutually assured destruction]] to eliminate the spheres, leaving only the [[Ninth Doctor]] and one known surviving sphere, which became the [[Metaltron]].
 
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The Fall of Gallifrey, (GAME: City of the Daleks) also known as the 'Falls No More' Incident, (PROSE: Dalek Combat Training Manual) was the final battle of the Last Great Time War between the Dalek Empire and the Time Lords of Gallifrey.

Through the prophecies of the Visionary, Rassilon's High Council were aware that they were within the Last Day of the Time War, also known as the Final Day. (TV: The End of Time [+]Loading...["The End of Time (TV story)"]) Indeed, the Eleventh Doctor would remember this day as such, (TV: The Day of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"]) though he admitted to himself that millions of days along his timeline were the last day of the Time War. (PROSE: The Day of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)"]) Infact, numerous events following Gallifrey's fall were counted as part of the Time War including the 2005 Nestene invasion of Earth, (PROSE: Rose [+]Loading...["Rose (novelisation)"]) the Battle of Geocomtex, (TV: Dalek [+]Loading...["Dalek (TV story)"]) the Battle of the Game Station, (TV: The Parting of the Ways [+]Loading...["The Parting of the Ways (TV story)"]) and the Siege of Trenzalore. (PROSE: The Secret Lives of Monsters)

On the Final Day, after the Daleks attacked Arcadia and the city fell, the Daleks focused their attention on bombarding the planet from orbit, whilst the War Doctor stole the Moment, intending to destroy other sides to finally end the War. However with help from his other incarnations, he found a way to save Gallifrey whilst destroying all the Daleks in orbit. (TV: The Day of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"])

Other accounts suggested the War had ended in different ways. One different account of the fall claimed the Eighth Doctor detonated the Moment on a backwater, destroying both the Daleks and his own people. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Time War) Another account suggested the final battle had been the Last Battle of the Seventh Galaxy. (PROSE: The Eyeless) Yet another account showed the Eleventh Doctor encountering evidence that the War Doctor had in fact chosen to destroy Gallifrey. (COMIC: Sky Jacks [+]Loading...["Sky Jacks (comic story)","Sky Jacks"]) The Twelfth Doctor would later state that Gallifrey had originally been destroyed, but he "broke every law of time and rewrote history" to save it. (PROSE: Big Bang Generation [+]Loading...["Big Bang Generation (novel)","Big Bang Generation"])

History[[edit] | [edit source]]

A day to come[[edit] | [edit source]]

Shortly after Rassilon's resurrection and elevation to Lord President Eternal, a future version of General Trave arrived on Gallifrey. After visiting his younger self, Trave was killed by guards trying to deliver a message to the Celestial Intervention Agency's Deputy Coordinator, Narvin. Narvin discovered the holographic message was from his own future self standing in the Capitol under siege, warning that Rassilon's regime would lead to Gallifrey's fall. (AUDIO: Havoc)

Speaking with the Eighth Doctor after it had travelled through the multiverse, the Dalek Time Strategist claimed to him that the Time War would end with the destruction of Gallifrey. In an attempt to enlist the Doctor to ensure the destruction, it offered him a counterpart of his dead great-grandson, Alex Campbell. (AUDIO: Restoration of the Daleks)

Through the extrapolations of the Matrix, the Time War-era Time Lords foresaw this event from their theoretical future, which was recorded in the Dalek Combat Training Manual. Due to the sensitive nature of the information relating to the outcome of the Time War, tactical analysis for this event was suspended. Nevertheless, the manual noted that the Daleks would use dedicated attack ships during the assault on Gallifrey to blanket bomb the planet's major populated areas. (PROSE: Dalek Combat Training Manual)

Although the Dalek Empire had long since created a hypnoscape simulation of Gallifrey's second city, Arcadia, (AUDIO: The Shoreditch Intervention) ensuring they were ready to invade, (TV: The Last Day, et al.) Gallifrey remained at the furthest edge of the conflict for most of the War. (PROSE: A Brief History of Time Lords) By the end of the conflict, however, the Daleks had pushed the Time Lords back to their home planet, setting the stage for an invasion. (PROSE: The Day of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)"])

Under the command of the Dalek Time Fleet Commander, a massive Dalek time fleet was launched in a planned final attack on Gallifrey. However, the force was destroyed by the War Doctor using a Time Destructor. (AUDIO: The Innocent) After taking the Cruciform, in a change to the timeline which the War Master had inadvertently caused by using the Heavenly Paradigm, (AUDIO: The Heavenly Paradigm) the Daleks brought the Time War directly to Gallifrey. (PROSE: Dalek Combat Training Manual) Planning his escape to the Silver Devastation of the far future, the Master considered that the Time Lords and the Daleks could destroy each other. (PROSE: The Secret Diary of the Master)

In the later stages of the War, the War Doctor asked the Enigma to wipe out both Daleks and Time Lords to bring an end to the fighting. The Enigma denied his request. (AUDIO: The Enigma Dimension)

The siege begins[[edit] | [edit source]]

Even though their conflict was bringing about the utter destruction of time and space — with the War Doctor saying that "every moment in time and space [was] burning" because of the War (TV: The Day of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"]) — and despite the years that had passed, the mighty armies of the Daleks and Time Lords still continued their clash, (PROSE: Meet the Doctor [+]Loading...["Meet the Doctor (DWAN 2006 short story)"]) but the Daleks found their campaign going exceptionally well. (PROSE: The Day of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)"]) A fragmented Dalek transmission from the Time War, one of several salvaged and recorded in The Dalek Conquests having been found echoing through the Void or squeezed through temporal anomalies and black holes, spoke of an attack formation, the extermination of the Time Lords and an impending Dalek victory. (AUDIO: The Dalek Conquests [+]Loading...["The Dalek Conquests (audio story)"])

Around this time, the Dalek drone that would later be dubbed "the Metaltron" was created in a Dalek nursery to be one of the countless drones thrown into the War to die for the Dalek cause. After excess limbs were removed from the mutant, with those parts then being placed back into the incubation vats to create new troops, the Dalek was assigned a training squad, later being told it would die in the most significant war its species had ever fought. (PROSE: Dalek [+]Loading...["Dalek (novelisation)"]) Despite the Dalek advances, the day before the end of the Time War, the War Doctor went to Skaro and destroyed most of the Dalek Emperor's fleet. Using a stolen gunship, he burned the message "no more" into the Dalek City. (PROSE: The Day of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)"]) By the end of the War, (TV: Daleks in Manhattan [+]Loading...["Daleks in Manhattan (TV story)"]) the conflict's devastation brought about the destruction of Skaro, (PROSE: The Whoniverse [+]Loading...["The Whoniverse (novel)"]) leaving only ruins behind. (PROSE: Meet the Doctor [+]Loading...["Meet the Doctor (DWAN 2006 short story)"]) The Doctor remembered seeing the capital of capital of Kaalann left in ruins after the Daleks fled Skaro, leaving destroyed casings behind in the wrecked halls. (GAME: City of the Daleks [+]Loading...["City of the Daleks (video game)"])

Shortly before the attack on Gallifrey, the Daleks launched a successful incursion into the Kasterborous constellation. This victory came a mere day after the Metaltron was assigned its Commander, which was killed in the assault. The drone was certain its officer had fought bravely to help the empire secure a victory and was assigned a new Commander. (PROSE: Dalek [+]Loading...["Dalek (novelisation)"])

Dalek drones descend upon Arcadia, beginning the end of the Time War. (TV: The Last Day [+]Loading...["The Last Day (TV story)"])

After centuries of conflict between the Daleks and Time Lords, an invasion fleet made up of millions of Dalek flying saucers laid siege to Gallifrey. (PROSE: The Whoniverse [+]Loading...["The Whoniverse (novel)"]) Despite the 400 sky trenches defending Arcadia, the Daleks broke through and invaded the second city. (TV: The Last Day [+]Loading...["The Last Day (TV story)"]) The Metaltron’s squad were deployed to Arcadia and expected to be amongst the first casualties, though the drone survived. (PROSE: Dalek [+]Loading...["Dalek (novelisation)"])

Whilst rumours spread of the fall of Arcadia and a new front opened at the Last Hour, the Time Lords were alerted that the First Doctor’s timeline was under attack by the Daleks. (AUDIO: The First Doctor: Volume Two trailer [+]Loading...["The First Doctor: Volume Two trailer (audio story)"]) The Player was recruited to meet the Doctor and convince him to go the South Pole to keep his timeline on track. (AUDIO: The Plague of Dreams [+]Loading...["The Plague of Dreams (audio story)"])

Arcadia fell to the Daleks, with the Doctor fighting on the frontlines. (TV: Doomsday [+]Loading...["Doomsday (TV story)"]) The Metaltron sighted him briefly in Arcadia and was so overcome by fear it opened fire aimlessly, missing him entirely. (PROSE: Dalek [+]Loading...["Dalek (novelisation)"]) On the battlefield one soldier encountered the Doctor. The Doctor borrowed his fusion blaster and left a message for the Time Lords carved into a wall: NO MORE. Returning to his TARDIS, which he flew through a squadron of Daleks that had detected him, the Doctor then proceeded to the Time Vaults and stole the last weapon in the Omega Arsenal - the Moment. (TV: The Day of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"]) He disappeared from the Time Lords’ observation, however they inferred that his intent was to destroy Daleks and Time Lords alike. (TV: The End of Time [+]Loading...["The End of Time (TV story)"])

Dalek craft attack the Capitol during the siege of Gallifrey. (PROSE: A Brief History of Time Lords [+]Loading...["A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)"]

As the Daleks approached the Capitol, hundreds of Time Lords recorded their cherished memories into memory lanterns and set them adrift in the Time Vortex. (AUDIO: The Memory of Winter [+]Loading...["The Memory of Winter (audio story)"], COMIC: The Memory Feast [+]Loading...["The Memory Feast (comic story)"]) Leela, serving as a commander, watched the Daleks’ attack on the Capitol from a nearby cliff and believed the Time War lost. A soldier, Axton, delivered her a wayfinder sent from the Doctor which she could use to escape Gallifrey. A group of Daleks discovered them and exterminated Axton, surrounding Leela. Before they could kill her, Leela activated the wayfinder, transporting herself to the safety of the Fourth Doctor’s TARDIS. (WC: The Final Battle [+]Loading...["The Final Battle (webcast)"])

During the final battle, the Daleks created a time capsule launched with a single Dalek with the plan to spread the Dalek Factor on Earth to use humanity's life force and raw materials to build more Daleks for back-up in the war. The capsule's engines failed in the journey and the Dalek within ejected, falling to Earth in 70 AD. The Dalek died but released a small amount of Dalek Factor that remained dormant in the genetic structure of humanity. (PROSE: I Am a Dalek [+]Loading...["I Am a Dalek (novel)"])

Unable to breach the Capitol’s sky trenches, the Daleks surrounded Gallifrey and began bombarding the planet from orbit with all their remaining ships. (TV: The Day of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"])

The Ultimate Sanction[[edit] | [edit source]]

With the planet utterly surrounded and on the verge of destruction, the President of the High Council, Rassilon, grew more desperate and refused to admit defeat. (PROSE: The Whoniverse) After the Visionary revealed two Time Lords would survive the coming fall, the Doctor and the Saxon Master, Rassilon devised the Ultimate Sanction. A link was forged with the future Master on Earth in approximately the 2000s[nb 1] by implanting a signal, a rythmn of four beats, in his mind as a child via the Untempered Schism. Rassilon then sent a White-Point Star to the Master to make the link physical, bypassing the time lock. With the signal inside him and six billion humans converted by the Immortality Gate into the Master Race to triangulate it, the Master made a connection with the Time Lords' signal. Rassilon planned to use this link to break Gallifrey out of the time lock, beginning a chain reaction which would tear the Time Vortex apart and destroy the universe entirely which would enable the Time Lords to ascend to beings of pure consciousness.

Gallifrey appears above the Earth in the 2000s.[nb 1] (TV: The End of Time [+]Loading...["The End of Time (TV story)"])

Before proceeding, Rassilon put the Sanction to the vote of the High Council. Only two opposed; the woman (TV: The End of Time [+]Loading...["The End of Time (TV story)"]) and the Patriarch of Stillhaven. (PROSE: Lords and Masters) Rassilon led a delegation to Earth, flanked by four Time Lords including the two opponents, who he had kneel in shame, where he confronted the Master and the Tenth Doctor. With the time lock broken, Gallifrey itself began to manifest above Earth which the Doctor warned was just the beginning; all the terrors of the war were descending. Rassilon revealed the full extent of the plan, to even the Master’s horror. The Doctor broke the connection by shooting the White-Point Star, sending the Time Lords and Gallifrey back to the Time War. The Master decided to take revenge on Rassilon for making him a monster and attacked him, being brought back into the War with him. (TV: The End of Time [+]Loading...["The End of Time (TV story)"]) Rassilon's battle with the Master caused him to regenerate, (PROSE: Pandoric's Box) reportedly because the Master "shoved White Point Stars down his throat". (PROSE: Lords and Masters)

Relocation of Gallifrey[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Doctor took the Moment to a barn in Gallifrey's drylands, (PROSE: The Day of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)"]) intending to activate it far from the sight of his TARDIS. The Moment arranged for a meeting with two future incarnations, the Tenth Doctor and Eleventh Doctor. After an adventure on which they negotiated peace between UNIT and the Zygons, the three prepared to detonate Gallifrey together, making sure the War Doctor did not need to bear the responsibility alone. However after the Eleventh Doctor's companion, Clara Oswald, objected they reconsidered and ultimately decided against it. Inspired by the stasis cubes that the Zygons had been using a suspended animation, the Eleventh Doctor realised they had long since thought up an alternative, to the joy of his other selves.

The Daleks bombarding Gallifrey moments before "all thirteen" Doctors arrived (TV: The Day of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"])

Androgar once stated that "all thirteen" incarnations of the Doctor then teamed up to save Gallifrey, (TV: The Day of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"]) only for the Twelfth Doctor to admit that he was unsure how many versions of himself used their TARDISes to place Gallifrey in a pocket universe, (PROSE: The Day of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)"]) with the Time Lords claiming that every incarnation of the Doctor was present. Through the Matrix's projections of post-war history, the Time Lords were aware that the Twelfth Doctor, the last of the thirteen incarnations pointed out by Androgar, would be followed by the Thirteenth Doctor. (PROSE: Dalek Combat Training Manual)

The Doctors contacted the War Council beforehand and received the General's reluctant approval for the plan. The Dalek fleet, which was still surrounding the planet and firing on it at a constant rate, intensified the bombardment in response to the Doctors' activity. It was left suddenly firing on itself when Gallifrey disappeared, nearly destroying the entire Dalek race. (TV: The Day of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"]) The result was, in the Emperor's words, an "inferno". (TV: The Parting of the Ways [+]Loading...["The Parting of the Ways (TV story)"])

Though the effect had been instantaneous on the Daleks, Gallifrey’s relocation took almost a day to complete, longer than the Doctor had predicted, causing the planet to burn and rage. A town on the shore of Lake Calasper was ripped apart by an earthquake. The Doctor, in all their incarnations up to the Ninth (minus the War Doctor), helped to get civilians trapped in dangerous situations to safety. Meanwhile in the War Room, the Twelfth Doctor entered and helped coordinate disaster relief with the General. (PROSE: The Day of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)"])

Afterwards the Doctors were left unsure if they'd succeeded or not, but concluded it was better to have failed doing the right thing than succeeding at the wrong. Due to the timelines being out of sync, the first eleven incarnations involved would forget this act. This caused the Doctor to reject his war incarnation until the memories of saving Gallifrey caught up with the Eleventh Doctor. (TV: The Day of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"]) Until then, he remembered Gallifrey's fall as a legitimate destruction, which he likened to Earth Death. (TV: The End of the World [+]Loading...["The End of the World (TV story)"], PROSE: The Eyeless) The Tenth Doctor recalled that the Cruciform fell at the same time that Gallifrey was "burned". (COMIC: The Forgotten) The Eleventh Doctor encountered a version of The Matrix that seemed to have been driven mad by the deaths of all the Time Lords, though most other accounts would show that the Time Lords had in fact survived and the Matrix remained on Gallifrey. (COMIC: Sky Jacks [+]Loading...["Sky Jacks (comic story)","Sky Jacks"])

Aftermath[[edit] | [edit source]]

Main article: Post-Time War universe

Time lock[[edit] | [edit source]]

Main article: Time War time lock

Following the fall of Gallifrey, the events of the Last Great Time War between the Daleks and the Time Lords were contained by a time lock, thus isolating the conflict in its own specific timeline", (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe) which was mostly separate from the normal universe. (PROSE: Revenge of the Nestene)

According to conflicting accounts, the time lock was placed by either the surviving higher species (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe) or the Doctor. (COMIC: Don't Step on the Grass) This time lock was intended to ensure that no entity or faction could use time travel technology to revisit the war to alter or otherwise engage with any of the events that had occurred. Such interference was deemed too dangerous, likely to place the integrity of the Time Vortex itself at risk. (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe)

Post-Gallifrey[[edit] | [edit source]]

The "chronological complications" brought about by the War and Gallifrey's apparent destruction resulted in Gallifrey and other artefacts native to its home universe landing within the universe of New Eden for a brief time. Inhabitants of New Eden's universe followed these artefacts on a path that brought them into conflict with Daleks, who had also arrived within New Eden. (GAME: The Interstellar Convergence)

The Beast, who claimed to have lived before the universe, knew the Tenth Doctor as "the killer of his own kind". (TV: The Satan Pit) In 2007, Brother Lassar of the Krillitanes was aware of the Time Lords and their apparent fate. He suggested to the Doctor that he could use the Skasis Paradigm to prevent the war altogether, but the Doctor refused to allow the Krillitanes to unlock it. (TV: School Reunion [+]Loading...["School Reunion (TV story)"]) The time travelling Family of Blood believed the Doctor to be the last of the Time Lords, who they knew as an "wise and ancient race". (TV: Human Nature [+]Loading...["Human Nature (TV story)"]/The Family of Blood [+]Loading...["The Family of Blood (TV story)"]) Lucius Petrus Dextrus, a human augur who followed the Pyroviles, knew that the Doctor came from Gallifrey and that his home was "lost in fire". (TV: The Fires of Pompeii [+]Loading...["The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)"]) In the 2000s,[nb 2] the Shadow Architect of the Shadow Proclamation believed the Time Lords to be the "stuff of legend" which belonged in the "myths and whispers of the higher species". As such, she was sceptical of the Doctor's very existence. (TV: The Stolen Earth [+]Loading...["The Stolen Earth (TV story)"])

Having lived through the Time War, Nyssa of Traken became aware of the loss of Gallifrey, which she likened to the destruction of her own homeworld, and offered the Tenth Doctor her condolences. (AUDIO: The Stuntman)

Rosanna Calvierri, one of the last surviving Saturnyn, remarked that the Eleventh Doctor should be either in a museum or a mausoleum when he revealed that he was from Gallifrey. (TV: The Vampires of Venice [+]Loading...["The Vampires of Venice (TV story)"]) In 2010, the Shansheeth knew the Doctor to be the last Time Lord. (TV: Death of the Doctor)

Confronting the Twelfth Doctor in 1980, the Fisher King remembered the Time Lords as "cowardly, vain curators who suddenly remembered they had teeth and became the most warlike race in the galaxy. (TV: Before the Flood [+]Loading...["Before the Flood (TV story)"])

Dalek survivors[[edit] | [edit source]]

One of the few Daleks that survived the Time War confronts Rose Tyler. (TV: Dalek [+]Loading...["Dalek (TV story)"])

To the rest of N-Space, it looked as if the Time Lords had been destroyed as well, making it seem that the War had ended with the destruction of both factions. (TV: The Day of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"]) However, some Daleks survived the destruction. One Dalek fell through time and crashed on Earth in the 20th century. (TV: Dalek [+]Loading...["Dalek (TV story)"]) The Emperor’s flagship ended up in the distant future, crippled but with the Emperor himself still alive. Over the centuries he manipulated the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire and rebuilt the fleet. It was exposed by the Ninth Doctor in 200,100, resulting in the Battle of the Game Station. (TV: The Parting of the Ways [+]Loading...["The Parting of the Ways (TV story)"])

The Cult of Skaro, who survived the Time War by hiding in a ship within the Void, were aware of the fall of Gallifrey. Emerging on Earth in 2007, they brought with them the Genesis Ark, a dimensionally transcendental prison ship which Dalek Sec believed to be all that survived of the Time Lords' homeworld. Coming into conflict with the Tenth Doctor, (TV: Doomsday [+]Loading...["Doomsday (TV story)"]) the Cult escaped via emergency temporal shift to 1930 where they faced the Doctor again, with the resulting confrontation ending in the deaths of all the Cult bar Dalek Caan, who the Doctor believed to be the last surviving Dalek in the universe. In light of the deaths that he had witnessed, both Dalek and human, the Doctor offered Caan his help only to be rejected as the Dalek initiated another temporal shift. (TV: Evolution of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Evolution of the Daleks (TV story)"])

Breaking the time lock, the temporal shift took Caan into the Time War where he rescued Davros from the Nightmare Child. Emerging in the post-war universe, Davros created a New Dalek Empire which invaded Earth. (TV: The Stolen Earth [+]Loading...["The Stolen Earth (TV story)"]) Having saw time, Caan was believed to have gone insane; infact, he had come to believe that the Daleks must be destroyed, setting in motion a chain of events which led to the destruction of the empire. (TV: Journey's End [+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"]) Nevertheless, a one ship survived and, having found the last of the Progenitor devices, created a New Dalek Paradigm. (TV: Victory of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Victory of the Daleks (TV story)"])

The Master[[edit] | [edit source]]

The War Master regenerated into a new incarnation who was in turn followed by Missy. (TV: The Doctor Falls [+]Loading...["The Doctor Falls (TV story)"])

The Master, who had fought in the Time War, was overcome by fear after witnessing the Dalek Emperor seize the Cruciform and so fled the conflict, making himself human so that he would not be found. (TV: Utopia [+]Loading...["Utopia (TV story)"]) He was ultimately discovered by the Tenth Doctor, who believed that the two of them were the last surviving Time Lords. Regenerating, the Saxon Master was shocked to learn of the apparent destruction of Gallifrey at the Doctor's hand. (TV: The Sound of Drums [+]Loading...["The Sound of Drums (TV story)"])

The ensuing confrontation ended with the Master mortally wounded and choosing to die rather than regenerate and be captured by the Doctor, (TV: Last of the Time Lords [+]Loading...["Last of the Time Lords (TV story)"]) instead relying on other arrangements to return. With the Ultimate Sanction, Rassilon and the Time Lords from the final day of the War attempted to break through to Earth, but their efforts were stopped by the Doctor and the Master, who was thrown back into the War with Rassilon. (TV: The End of Time [+]Loading...["The End of Time (TV story)"]) After Gallifrey's salvation, the Master, cured of his "little condition," left Gallifrey in a "mutual me kicking out." (TV: World Enough and Time [+]Loading...["World Enough and Time (TV story)"]/The Doctor Falls [+]Loading...["The Doctor Falls (TV story)"])

The Monk[[edit] | [edit source]]

In addition to the Doctor and the Master, the Monk emerged in the post-war universe ahead of Gallifrey. (AUDIO: Too Many Masters)

Like the Master, the Monk had fled the war in fear of the Daleks, travelling to Earth and turning himself human to escape the conflict. To prevent detection by the Time Lords, the Monk pushed his ship hard before he removed his TARDIS' components, but didn't perform a careful job of removing them, badly damaging the TARDIS in the process. He still kept a connection to the Matrix, to see what was going on. The Monk hid away in an abbey in England during the 16th century. Through his connection to the Matrix he witnessed the disappearance of Gallifrey and its subsequent return to the universe. Trapped on Earth in one time zone, the Monk tried to raise Gallifrey's attention by meddling with time but only caught the attention of Missy, who left him stranded after plundering his TARDIS. Furious, the Monk sought to confront both Missy and the Doctor (AUDIO: Divorced, Beheaded, Regenerated) and ultimately escaped from his predicament. (AUDIO: Treason and Plot)

The Eye of Time[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Eye of Time, which had been possessed by the Time Lords, was lost during the "Fall" of Gallifrey. After the Daleks restored their race and empire through the New Dalek Paradigm, the Eye later fell into their hands, so they returned to Skaro and restored the capital city of Kaalann. Under the leadership of a new Dalek Emperor, the Daleks declared themselves the new Time Lords and planned to use the power of the eye to totally rewrite time to their designs. However, the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond, after learning the Daleks had now exterminated humanity in 1963, travelled back to Skaro and prevented the Paradigm from ever using the Eye of Time, restoring the true timeline. (GAME: City of the Daleks)

Under the leadership of a different emperor, the New Dalek Paradigm obtained a fragment of the Eternity Clock. With this, the Daleks launched an invasion of Earth in 2106 and plotted to remove Gallifrey from time to become the new Time Lords, but the Doctor and his wife, River Song, took the clock fragment from them, undoing the Earth invasion and preventing their further plans. (GAME: The Eternity Clock) After their memory of the Doctor was wiped from the Pathweb for a period of time, the Daleks forgot, amongst other incidents, who had detonated the Moment. (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe)

Return and fall of Gallifrey[[edit] | [edit source]]

Main article: Siege of Trenzalore

Discussing the Gallifrey Falls No More painting with Doctor Henry Black, the Curator told him it would be better described as "Gallifrey Falls No More (Until the Next Time)"; (PROSE: Dr Black) as a future incarnation of the Doctor, (COMIC: The Then and the Now) the Curator knew that strife would return to Gallifrey after the Time War. (PROSE: Dr Black, TV: The Timeless Children [+]Loading...["The Timeless Children (TV story)"])

Gallifrey at the end of the universe after the Time War (TV: Hell Bent [+]Loading...["Hell Bent (TV story)"])

After their major effort to return to the universe attracted the Daleks and many other enemies in the Siege of Trenzalore, during which the Daleks recovered their memories of the Doctor after losing them in the Asylum Incident, (TV: The Time of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Time of the Doctor (TV story)"]; PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe) the Time Lords returned Gallifrey quietly to the end of the universe. (TV: Hell Bent [+]Loading...["Hell Bent (TV story)"]) The Spy Master would raze Gallifrey to the ground after learning about the Timeless Child. (TV: The Timeless Children [+]Loading...["The Timeless Children (TV story)"])

Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Dalek fleet caught in the inferno.
  • The Doctor Who website featured an image, a modification of one depicting the Dalek Fleet over Earth during the Battle of the Game Station, of multiple Dalek saucers engulfed in flames over a burning planet, consistent with one account of the fall of Gallifrey.
  • Absence of the Daleks, the draft for Dalek [+]Loading...["Dalek (TV story)"] before the use of the Daleks had been secured, would have established that mysterious spheres from the future, later revealed to be humans, had attacked the Time Lords among all other sentient species they could find, with the Nestenes and the Daleks among the civilisations decimated. Ultimately, the Time Lords trapped the spheres on Gallifrey, where they sacrificed themselves in an act of mutually assured destruction to eliminate the spheres, leaving only the Ninth Doctor and one known surviving sphere, which became the Metaltron.

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Both Planet of the Dead [+]Loading...["Planet of the Dead (TV story)"] and The End of Time [+]Loading...["The End of Time (TV story)"] are referred to in dialogue as taking place after the end of Journey's End [+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"], which is set in either 2008, according to TV: The Fires of Pompeii [+]Loading...["The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)"], TV: The Waters of Mars [+]Loading...["The Waters of Mars (TV story)"], and AUDIO: SOS (and heavily implied by TV: The Star Beast [+]Loading...["The Star Beast (TV story)"] and TV: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"]), or six weeks after the middle of May 2009, circa June, according to PROSE: Beautiful Chaos. However, the year of The End of Time is unspecified, as is whether or not it is intended to be the Christmas immediately after Journey's End.
  2. ↑ The present day of Doctor Who's fourth series is not consistently dated, with TV: The Fires of Pompeii [+]Loading...["The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)"], TV: The Waters of Mars [+]Loading...["The Waters of Mars (TV story)"], and AUDIO: SOS setting the present of the 13 regular episodes in 2008 (heavily implied by TV: The Star Beast [+]Loading...["The Star Beast (TV story)"] and TV: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"] as well), and PROSE: Beautiful Chaos setting them in about April to June 2009.
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