Origins of the Last Great Time War: Difference between revisions

{{First pic|Genesis of the Daleks Wires.jpg|On the orders of [[Gallifrey]], the [[Fourth Doctor]] holds two wires that, with a simple touch, could destroy the [[Dalek]]s at their [[Creation of the Daleks|genesis]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks]]'')}}

The '''origins of the [[Last Great Time War]]''' referred to the roots of the massive [[Time war|temporal conflict]] between the [[Time Lord]]s of [[Gallifrey]] and [[Dalek]]s of [[Skaro]]. The conflict could be traced back to many [[War prediction|prophecies]], pre-War skirmishes, military enhancements, and even more. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Meet the Doctor (DWAN 2006 short story)|Meet the Doctor]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Apocalypse Element (audio story)|The Apocalypse Element]]'', ''[[X and the Daleks (audio story)|X and the Daleks]]'', et. al) As the [[Ninth Doctor]] later recalled, the War was "the final battle" between the Daleks and Time Lords. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]'')

[[File:Rassilon's Speech to Panopticon.jpg|thumb|right|[[Rassilon]] showed his true colors during the Time War, becoming a cruel tyrant who was just as willing to kill as the Daleks. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')]]

During the life of the Doctor, after [[The Doctor's trial (The War Games)|deciding to look the other way]] on the renegade's interference across time and space, the Time Lords came to see them as an easy agent to use whenever there was a crisis in history that needed to be solved, instead of getting their own hands dirty. ([[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks]]'', ''[[Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)|Attack of the Cybermen]]'', et al.) Indeed, this was a major reason the Time Lords chose the Doctor to interfere with the Daleks' genesis, with their previous experience against the Daleks also being a major reason. ([[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dalek Problem (novel)|The Dalek Problem]]'', et. al)

The Dalek race eventually ventured beyond Skaro to establish the [[Dalek Empire]]. However, some records suggested the Daleks at first could not figure out the secret to [[Faster-than-light travel|faster than light space travel]], forcing the exterminators to create alliances with the [[Voord]] and other such races for time. In fact, some individuals claimed the Daleks were only able to deduce the science behind faster than light travel by forcing the Doctor to reveal it, ([[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]]'') matching an account that suggested the Daleks and Voord allied together to force "Dr. Who" into giving them the secret to "[[ultkron travel]]". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Daleks (short story)|Doctor Who and the Daleks]]'')

Arriving ten years into the occupation, the rivalry between the Doctor, still in his first incarnation, and the Daleks deepened when the traveler vowed to put a stop to the Dalek conquest, aiding [[human]] rebels with this [[companion]]s to bring about the liberation of the planet. Leaving her grandfather at his urging after he saw she had fallen in love, Susan stayed behind to live with the human rebel [[David Campbell]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'') and helped rebuild the Earth, even battling [[Dalek (After the Daleks)|a surviving Dalek drone]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[After the Daleks (audio story)|After the Daleks]]'') An older [[Susan Foreman]] also once arrived in the Dalek occupation in the Doctor's TARDIS. While she quickly escaped, she was pursued through time by a [[Blue Chrono-Dalek]]. Breaching the TARDIS as Susan introduced [[Boy (Susan and the Daleks)|a child]] to the controls, the Dalek cornered the two and proclaimed that the Daleks would take control of the time capsule. ([[TV]]: ''[[Susan and the Daleks (TV story)|Susan and the Daleks]]'')

=== The Supreme's masterplan and beyond ===

{{Simplequote|Report to Skaro. Our time machine is now in pursuit. Nothing can match Dalek technology. The universe shall be ours. Conquest is assured.|The [[Black Dalek Leader]]|The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)}}

[[File:Cornered.jpg|thumb|right|During their [[Time Destructor Incident|campaign to conquer the Earth's solar system]], the Daleks encountered yet another Time Lord renegade, the [[First Monk]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)|The Daleks' Master Plan]]'')]]

Amid the Great War, the Daleks discovered a means of time travel that did not need taranium, although it was made possible only by accident due to [[human]] experiments in [[1866]] that the Daleks managed to exploit. Equipped with this power, the Emperor arranged for the capture of the Second Doctor in [[Operation Human Factor]], ordering him to use the TARDIS to spread the so-called "[[Dalek factor]]" throughout Earth's entire history. However, the Daleks were then distracted and heavily set back by a [[Dalek Civil War|civil war]] instigated by the Doctor, who had introduced a "[[human factor]]" into [[Humanised Dalek|a number of Daleks]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Evil of the Daleks (TV story)|The Evil of the Daleks]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Evil of the Daleks (novelisation)|The Evil of the Daleks]]'') Some 5000 [[year]]s prior to the [[101st century]], the [[Time Lord]]s were known to have been involved in the Dalek Civil War, after which they were believed to have retreated from the "galactic arena". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Crystal Bucephalus (novel)|The Crystal Bucephalus]]'') While one account alluded to this being "the final end" of the Daleks ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The History of the Daleks (short story)|The History of the Daleks]]'') like the Doctor had hoped, the Daleks pushed back the rebels, eventually rebuilt their forces, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks]]'') and even adapted the human-established time travel into [[time corridor]] technology. ([[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]]'')  

Despite the defeat, the Second Dalek War had accelerated the Daleks' time travel research and demonstrated their growing confidence and capability of using mass manipulation of time as a [[weapon]] of war, effectively laying the groundwork for a future [[Time war|temporal conflict]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Out of Time (audio story)|Out of Time]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Prisoner of the Daleks (novel)|Prisoner of the Daleks]]'') Travel via time corridor became the Daleks primary means of time travel, but this method remained, in the words of the Seventh Doctor, "very crude and nasty". They coveted a system of time travel as sophisticated as that possessed by the Time Lords. ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'') The [[Fourth Doctor]] feared what would happen if the Daleks managed to get a copy of the [[TARDIS Instruction Manual]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Pirate Planet (novelisation)|The Pirate Planet]]'') Beyond allowing travel between different temporal coordinates, Dalek time corridors could be used as [[magnetron]]s, latching onto a target in the Vortex and pulling it to one end of the corridor. One significant advance in Dalek time travel technology came through the [[Time Controller]] device, which was portable but needed time to charge. Another weakness was that it was easily disabled. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (reference book)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'')

In the [[27th century]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (reference book)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'') the Dalek Wars continued through the [[Third Dalek War]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Secret Lives of Monsters (novel)|The Secret Lives of Monsters]]'') which was largely defined not by fighting but the outbreak of a great [[space plague]] that the Daleks engineered after their alliance with the Master. ([[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]]'') Deploying a team of Silver Daleks to the planet [[Exxilon]] to prevent the [[parrinium]] cure from falling into humanity's hands, the final action of the Third Dalek War came with the [[Exxilon Gambit]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Secret Lives of Monsters (novel)|The Secret Lives of Monsters]]'') which ended with the [[Third Doctor]], his companion [[Sarah Jane Smith]], the native [[Exxilon (species)|Exxilons]] and the [[Marine Space Corps]] stopping the Dalek plot, ([[TV]]: ''[[Death to the Daleks (TV story)|Death to the Daleks]]'') allowing the cure to be dispersed across the Earth Empire's territory. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (reference book)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'')

[[File:Skarosian request.jpg|thumb|right|A [[Time Lord messenger (Genesis of the Daleks)|Time Lord messenger]] meets the [[Fourth Doctor]] on Skaro. ([[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks]]'')]]

These documents outlined a very different account of the mission's background, claiming that it was an unauthorised affair; Deliavatsud, who only learnt of the danger the Daleks posed when he consulted the APC Net about their expansion in [[101,197 TL]], launched what became known as "the infamous Deliavatsud Intervention" by stealing a [[Time Ring]] as a way to unlawfully [[Time Scoop]] the Doctor and his companions to Skaro. Whilst the Doctor was found innocent "on technical grounds" due to being forced into the mission, Deliavatsud's blatant rejection of the non-intervention policy resulted in him being [[Disintegration|disintegrated]] by the High Council as punishment, which forced the CIA's further [[interventionist]] activities to be handled in secret. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dalek Problem (novel)|The Dalek Problem]]'') In the days before the [[War in Heaven]], it was indeed said that the "interventionist elite" carried out many [[retro-genocide]]s in secret. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') However, the punishment for Deliavatsud's actions and push to go underground left the CIA crippled for years. A large amount of Deliavatsud's research into "the [[Dalek Situation]]" was also taken and destroyed by the High Council, so the newly-appointed [[Chief of Multihistorical Research]], [[Professor]] [[Qualen]], was selected to research into the future of "The Dalek Problem". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dalek Problem (novel)|The Dalek Problem]]'')

[[File:Shada int.jpg|thumb|right|[[Dalek]]s kept in the [[Shada]] prison. ([[WC]]: ''[[Shada (webcast)|Shada]]'')]]

Although one account claimed that the [[23rd century Dalek invasion]] of [[Earth]] was merely a simulation created by the energies of the [[Land of Fiction]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Head Games (novel)|Head Games]]'') other accounts implied it to be a real event, with [[Davros]] stealing a [[Davros' Time Ring|sacred Time Ring]] from Gallifrey and allying with the [[Dalek Emperor (Dalek Attack)|current Dalek Emperor]]. After directing the [[Seventh Doctor]] to battle the Dalek invasion, the Time Lords froze Davros in time as punishment, ([[GAME]]: ''[[Dalek Attack (video game)|Dalek Attack]]'') although later accounts indicated he somehow escaped, as evidenced by his later moves against the Time Lords. ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remebrance of the Daleks]]'', et. al) Nonetheless, he had come to question whether emotions he despised like fear existed within the Daleks in some form, marking the start of questions about his "children" ([[PROSE]]: ''[[An Incident Concerning the Continual Bombardment of the Phobos Colony (short story)|An Incident Concerning the Continual Bombardment of the Phobos Colony]]'') that he would carry with him into the Time War. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Father of the Daleks (short story)|Father of the Daleks]]'', ''[[The Third Wise Man (short story)|The Third Wise Man]]'')

=== To move against Gallifrey ===

{{Main|Duplicate Incident}}

[[Helgrim]], a Time Lord [[scientist]], once kept [[Dalek mutant]]s in [[the Institute]] as part of an [[experiment]], but this ended in a disaster that led to the passage of a new law that forbade the study of Daleks. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Unregenerate! (audio story)|Unregenerate!]]'')

=== Dalek invasion of time ===

{{Simplequote|We are the masters of time!|A Dalek war cry during the invasion|The Time of the Daleks (audio story)}}

[[File:Dr.Who and a Dalek.jpg|thumb|right|The [[Eighth Doctor]] found the Daleks taking advantage of a [[time fissure]] in a gambit to become the new Lords of Time. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Time of the Daleks (audio story)|The Time of the Daleks]]'')]]

=== The War with the Enemy ===

{{Main|War in Heaven}}

150 years into Romana's Presidency, by which time she had regenerated into [[Romana III|her third incarnation]], the [[Great House]]s of the [[Time Lord]]s began to fight a time war against "[[the Enemy]]". Although it was seen as a "[[War in Heaven]]" to the [[lesser species]] of the universe, the Time Lords simply called this temporal conflict "the War". During this conflict, [[The Doctor (Alien Bodies)|the Doctor]] was a figure of some importance, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'', ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'', et al.) and the fighting appeared to culminate in [[Gallifrey]] being destroyed, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'') seemingly by the [[Eighth Doctor]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'') although [[Romana III's Gallifrey|the planet he destroyed]] may have been a [[Nine Gallifreys|cloneworld]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Story So Far... (short story)|The Story So Far...]]'')

=== The Free Time front ===

[[File:Narvin and Dalek.jpg|thumb|left|[[Narvin]] and a [[Dalek]] during the [[Axis]] crisis. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Extermination (audio story)|Extermination]]'')]]

=== Attempt to prevent the War ===

{{Simplequote|It is strange to reflect that the deadliest conflict history will ever know began between a race of traumatised mutants sealed into tiny battle tanks, and an enclave of time-travelling academics, who had sworn never to interfere in the affairs of the wider universe.|[[Ohila]]|The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)}}

[[File:GallifreyDuringTimeWar.jpg|thumb|right|A [[Time Lord]] bears witness to the start of the [[Last Great Time War]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Agent Provocateur (comic story)|Agent Provocateur]]'')]]

It was known that every part of the Time War "has happened, then not happened at all, then happened again but at a different time entirely", thereby explaining why ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of the Time Lords]]'') there were differing accounts of the War's beginning. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Desperate Measures (audio story)|Desperate Measures]]'', ''[[The Innocent (audio story)|The Innocent]]'', [[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]]'') After the Daleks declared war, they contacted [[Davros]] and asked for his help in the conflict. Although he had just resolved to himself to abandon the Daleks after the prior day's events on [[Alacracis IV]], he was filled with pride at his "children" upon learning they had declared war on Gallifrey and quickly agreed to help them. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Father of the Daleks (short story)|Father of the Daleks]]'') With that, the greatest and most destructive war to ever be inflicted upon the universe began. ([[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]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)|The Day of the Doctor]]'')

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