Theory:Timeline - Eighth Doctor: Difference between revisions

: Authorial intent places this between ''The Dying Days'' and ''Storm Warning''.{{source}}

** [[PROSE]]: ''[[After Midnight (short story)|After Midnight]]''

:: Set during ''Before Midnight'', when the Doctor, Charley and C'rizz are briefly telepathically transported to Earth into the bodies of three security guards.

: While tutoring [[Robin Bright-Thompson]] on history, Helen encounters [[Divine Intervention]] for the first time, just as pair of [[Rarkelian]]s arrive in 2020 to kill the Doctor before he can destroy their culture in his future. The paradox of the Doctor dying due to future actions, as well as the Rarkelians' [[time energy]], partially restores the TARDIS, leading the Doctor to plan a test flight after he banishes the Rarkelians, though not before they warn him of Divine Intervention. The residents of 107 Baker Street have their first direct encounter with an alien, and Liv plans to tell them the truth of the TARDIS crew.

: With the TARDIS repaired enough to travel in space again, the Doctor decides to investigate Divine Intervention's corruption of the timeline with Liv, Helen, Tania and Andy, discovering that they colonised [[Judoonia]] and leading the Doctor to decide to explore the corruption at its source, leading into ''Twisted Folklore''.

: After sometime on [[Rarkellia]] investigating Divine Intervention, the Doctor decides to return to Baker Street after the TARDIS crew succeeded in driving Divine Intervention off the planet.

: The Doctor goes from 2020 Baker Street to [[2035]] with Liv, Helen and Andy, and discovers the scope of Divine Intervention's reign if they are left unopposed. Liv and Andy see the 2035 Tania being killed, greatly upsetting them.

: Following "an intense period in his life", the Doctor goes to [[The Doctor's cottage|his cottage]] in [[Wales]], where he finds  painter [[Josie Day]] squatting, and invites her to travel with him when he finds a list of places to visit. The Doctor is wearing his clothes from ''The Night of the Doctor'', though they are much cleaner.

* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Missing Link (audio story)|The Missing Link]]''

 

* [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Darkness and Light (audio story)|Darkness and Light]]''

: The Doctor has been trying to keep away from the Time War, but it keeps catching up with him.<ref group = quote>DOCTOR: ''"I've tried to get away from it, from the war, every chance I could. There are still pockets of time and space that haven't been affected. Places you can find peace. But every time, every place, it catches up with me. I'm so tired''."</ref> He is travelling alone, and his memories of ''The Missing Link'' and ''Darkness and Light'' are erased by the [[War Master]].

: The Doctor enters the [[Last Great Time War]] for possibly the first time during an adventure on the ''[[Theseus (ship)|Theseus]]'' with his companion [[Sheena (The Starship of Theseus)|Sheena]].<ref>https://notthebigfinishforum.freeforums.net/post/241873/thread</ref> Shifts in reality caused by the Time War erase Sheena from history and retroactively change the Doctor's timeline so that he was already aware of the Time War. With the ship under attack from the Daleks and his TARDIS missing, the Doctor leads a band of survivors, such as [[Bliss (The Starship of Theseus)|Bliss]] and [[Quarren Maguire|Quarren]] and [[Rupa Maguire]], into a Dalek ship to escape, leading directly into ''Echoes of War''.

: Authorial intent places this between ''Fugitive in Time'' and ''The War Valeyard''.{{source}}

* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (novel)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]''

: Wearing old, worn-out Victorian clothing, the Doctor attempts to find a way to end the Time War with the [[Key of Rassilon]]. Upon looking back on his eighth incarnation, the Tenth Doctor indicated that he ended the war shortly after inquiring the Key.