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'''Pete's World''' is [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor's]] name for an [[Parallel universe| alternate universe]] and home to [[Cybermen (Cybus)|its own Cybermen]] which, the head of [[Cybus Industries]], [[John Lumic]] had created.
{{Cleanup|Is this about the parallel ''Earth'' or parallel ''universe''? It currently seems to be both, so this page needs a split: [https://tardis.wiki/wiki/Pete%27s_World Pete's World] and [[Earth (Pete's World)]].}}
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|aka        = Parallel Earth
|type        = [[Parallel universe]]
|natives    = [[Human]]s, [[Cybusman|Cybermen]], [[Dog]]s
|location    = [[Multiverse]], [[Omniverse]]
|first      = Tardisode 5
|appearances = {{Appears}}
|clip        = A Parallel London - Doctor Who - The Rise of the Cybermen - BBC
|clip2      = The Doctor and Rose Say Goodbye - Doctor Who - Doomsday - BBC
}}{{Earth counterparts}}
"'''Pete's World'''" was the [[Tenth Doctor]]'s name for a [[parallel universe]] that was home to [[Cybusman|Cybermen]] created by [[John Lumic]], the head of [[Cybus Industries]].  


==Overview==
The Doctor derived the name from [[Pete Tyler (Pete's World)|Pete Tyler]], that universe's version of [[Rose Tyler]]'s [[Pete Tyler|father]], who in her universe had died in [[1987]]. Time ran ahead in this universe, compared to the Doctor's universe, so that when it was 2007 in the Doctor's universe it was simultaneously three years later in Pete's World. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'')
Pete's World was similar, though more advanced technologically, to [[the Doctor]]'s [[universe]]. At the time of the Doctor's first arrival, much of the world's technology is provided by [[Cybus Industries]], a company run by [[John Lumic]]. This includes the [[Zeppelin]]s and [[EarPod]]s. ([[DW]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]'')


The Doctor derived the name from [[Pete Tyler (Pete's World)|Pete Tyler]], that universe's version of [[Rose Tyler]]'s [[Pete Tyler|father]], who in her universe had died in [[1987]]. Time apparently moved quicker in this univese than in the usual ones, so that while  mere months pass between his first ([[DW]]: ''[[The Age of Steel]]'') and second  encounter with inhabitants of the parallel Earth, three years had passed on Pete's World. ([[DW]]: ''[[Doomsday]]'')
== Differences ==
=== Historical ===
[[Great Britain]] was a [[People's Republic of Great Britain|People's Republic]] with a [[President of Great Britain|President]] as head of state, instead of a monarch. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'') Presidential elections were held annually on [[8 November]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Time Traveller's Diary (novel)|Time Traveller's Diary]]'') Army blockades and nightly [[curfew]]s, beginning at 10[[PM]], were in place for lower-income areas of [[London (Pete's World)|London]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'') [[Canticum]] was a county in the place of [[Kent]], and there was the [[French Channel]] instead of the [[English Channel]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Turning of the Tide (short story)|The Turning of the Tide]]'') Europe contained the nation of [[New Germany]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Lumic (short story)|Lumic]]'') and [[South America]] was unified in a [[South American State]]. ([[WC]]: ''[[Tardisode 5]]'') Other nations were [[Czechoslovenia™]] and the [[United States of Mexico]], the latter of which contained the [[Grand Canyon]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lumic (short story)|Lumic]]'')


==History==
The planet had a Bio-Convention, whereby [[Geneva]] had to approve any creation of new life forms. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'')
The Doctor was accompanied by [[Rose Tyler]] and [[Mickey Smith]] during his first visit to Pete's World. Rose learned that, on this world her father, [[Pete Tyler]], had not died in an automobile accident ([[DW]]: ''[[Father's Day]]'') but was still alive and a hugely successful businessman and commercial pitchman connected with [[Cybus Industries]]. On this earth, most of the populace is "wired in" to the Cybus network via cellphone-like earpods that upload information (including a daily joke) into the user's brain. Mickey found that his parallel version, [[Ricky Smith]], is a member of an anti-Cybus terrorist cell called the Preachers. This version of Mickey is more rough and violent than he is, and Mickey later learns that Ricky is also gay ([[DW]]: ''[[The Age of Steel]]'' - deleted scene included on the DVD).


Rose's mother, [[Jackie Tyler]], was a socially active diva in this world, and both she and her husband lived in a mansion. Rose learned to her chagrin that she did not exist on Pete's World, but the Tylers did name their dog [[Rose (dog)|Rose]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]'').
[[John Lumic]]'s [[Cybus Industries]] had a high profile internationally. It created the [[Cybus EarPod|EarPod]]s; owned [[Vitex]], Pete Tyler's nutritional drink company; owned [[International Electromatics (Pete's World)|International Electromatics]] as a front organisation; and had created [[Cybus Network]], the world's premier global information system. Secretly, Lumic had them also create the first [[Cybusman|Cybermen]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'') Brigadier [[Krista Lateef]] speculated that the technology that Cybus wielded had led to fewer aliens attacking Earth than had occurred in the Doctor's universe. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Siege of Big Ben (audio story)|The Siege of Big Ben]]'')


It was at this time that Lumic unveiled his version of the [[Cybermen]] and tested them out in hopes of "upgrading" the human race. In the ensuing conflict, Great Britain's president is killed, as is Jackie Tyler when she is upgraded and becomes a Cyberman, and Ricky Smith. After the defeat of Lumic, Mickey chose to remain on Pete's World to take over (most) of Ricky's life, and primarily to care for his elderly parallel-grandmother. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Age of Steel]]'')
Even though [[the Doctor]] apparently didn't travel to Earth in this world, the [[Torchwood (Pete's World)|Torchwood Institute]] nevertheless existed ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'') and [[Jack Harkness (Pete's World)|Jack Harkness]] lived in the [[21st century]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Poker Face (audio story)|Poker Face]]'') It was operating publicly to an extent, with reports it issued being mentioned in the news, ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'') although not everyone knew about it. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Cybus Spy (video game)|Cybus Spy]]'')


Months later, a [[Torchwood 1]] experiment involving a rift in London results in an unusual form of contact with what is believed at first to be "the other side" (i.e. Heaven); in fact, a rip in time and space was being opened which allowed the Pete's World Cybermen (now autonomous after the death of Lumic) to cross over and begin an invasion of Earth, with the intent to "upgrade" the human race. Unknown to Torchwood, a few Cybermen came across first and slowly began infiltrating the facility, converting Torchwood personnel.
=== Technological ===
Pete's World had a higher level of technological advancement in general. Such advancements included moving and speaking advertisements, and the [[EarPod]] devices which downloaded information straight into human brains. Even the Cyberman technology itself was created by humans, without any apparent use of [[Mondas]] technology.


As the invasion began, the Doctor and Rose encountered fighters from Pete's World who had travelled over to try and stop the Cybermen invasion: Rose was reunited with Mickey, while the Doctor was reacquainted with Pete Tyler and the Preachers. The Doctor made a brief visit to Pete's World during this encounter, long enough to learn that the rips in time and space caused by the movement of people and Cybermen between worlds, exacerbated by the Torchwood rift experiment, were causing catastrophic and potentially civilization-ending damage to the parallel world. It was around this time that the Doctor dubbed the parallel earth "Pete's World" after Pete Tyler. ([[DW]]: ''[[Doomsday]]'')
[[Zeppelin]]s served as a common means of transportation, with one soldier implying that the richest of the city tended to own them.


During the ensuing battle (which was made more complicated by an attempt by the [[Cult of Skaro]] to revive the [[Dalek Empire]] and simultaneously battle the Cybermen), Rose, Jackie Tyler (from our universe), and Mickey were ultimately trapped on Pete's World, with no way safely back without destroying their planet. Some months later (as reckoned on Pete's World; an unknown time later in our universe) The Doctor was able to make one final tearful communication with Rose by utilizing a supernova. Afterwards, no further communication was possible. The Doctor learned that, among other things, Pete's World had its own version of Torchwood. ([[DW]]: ''[[Doomsday]]'')
Automotive and engineering companies such as Mercedes-Benz and Volvo also existed in this universe, with vehicles such as the Mercedes-Benz Actros truck and Volvo BM 425 C hauler being used by Cybus Industries and its subsidiaries. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]''/''[[The Age of Steel (TV story)|The Age of Steel]]'') Cybus also made the [[Sleep Replacement System]] (SRS®), invented by [[John Lumic]] himself. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lumic (short story)|Lumic]]'') The [[International Electromatics (Pete's World)|International Electromatics]] [[Www.internationalelectromatics.co.uk|website]] had a fully automated "[[IE ATSS|ATSS]]" chat service. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Cybus Spy (video game)|Cybus Spy]]'')


Unknown to the Doctor, Rose and others on Pete's World began to work on a [[dimension cannon]] to allow transport between the two Earths. This device was also capable of reading timelines, and revealed that they all converge on [[Donna Noble]]. During this time it was discovered that, for reasons unknown, the stars in the sky were going out (a phenomenon termed, "The Darkness"). Learning that this effect was likely affecting parallel worlds and other dimensions, and after possibly trying unsuccessfully to contact the Doctor via a video signal ([[DW]]: ''[[The Poison Sky]]'' and ''[[Midnight (TV story)|Midnight]]''), Rose used the new technology to transport herself back to her original Earth on several occasions, on one occasion arriving too early ([[DW]]: ''[[Partners in Crime]]''), and on another occasion arriving in an alternate timeline in which the Doctor had been killed ([[DW]]: ''[[Turn Left]]''). She finally reunited with the Doctor in the "main" universe ([[DW]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]''). She was soon followed by Mickey Smith and Jackie Tyler.
Scientists developed medallions with the power to enable the wearer to cross universes. Later, they invented a [[dimension cannon]] for the same purpose. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]], [[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'')


After defeating the [[Dalek]]s, Mickey chose to remain on his original Earth, and the Doctor returned Jackie and Rose to Pete's World where he asked Rose to stay in order to look after the [[Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor|new Doctor]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Journey's End]]'')
=== People ===
Various historical figures with fame in the Doctor's universe were also famous in Pete's World. Among these were the musicians [[Richard Wagner]], [[Richard Strauss]] and [[Geri Halliwell]]. Others included [[Niccolo Machiavelli#Pete's World|Niccolo Machiavelli]], [[Genghis Khan#Pete's World|Genghis Khan]] and [[Adolf Hitler/Other realities#Pete's World|Adolf Hitler]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lumic (short story)|Lumic]]'')


==Alternative versions of known people===
[[Pete Tyler (Pete's World)|Peter Tyler]], unlike [[Pete Tyler|his counterpart]], had not died in [[1987]]. Both versions had married [[Jackie Tyler (Pete's World)|Jackie]], though this couple did not have children; instead they had a dog named [[Rose (Rise of the Cybermen)|Rose]]. In stark contrast to his counterpart from the Doctor's universe, all of Pete's "daft little plans" and get-rich-quick schemes worked out, making him a rich and successful businessman. Pete made a fortune from his company, [[Vitex]], a health drink company which Cybus owned and for which Pete himself acted as spokesman. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'') This version of Jackie underwent [[cyber-conversion]] and died. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Age of Steel (TV story)|The Age of Steel]]'') Pete later met and fell in love with the [[Jackie Tyler]] of the Doctor's universe. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'')
[[Pete Tyler (Pete's World)|Pete Tyler]] was a successful businessman who never had any children. [[cyber-conversion]] and death, he had though he had never had any [[Rose Tyler|children]] by his wife [[Jackie Tyler (Pete's World)|Jackie Tyler]]. He ran [[Vitex]], a subsidiary of [[Cybus Industries]].


[[Ricky Smith]] worked with [[the Preachers]] and was a wanted criminal. The Preachers were trying to stop [[Cybus Industries]]' experiments on the poor, which were actually early attempts to make [[Cybus Cybermen|Cybermen]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[The Age of Steel]]'') Unfortunately, Ricky died, leaving the Preachers without a leader. [[Mickey Smith|Mickey]], Ricky's double from the other universe, joined the Preachers, and Jake became the new leader.
[[Ricky Smith|Ricky]], [[Mickey Smith]]'s counterpart, led the anti-[[Cybus Industries]] activists known as [[the Preachers]] with [[Jake Simmonds]]. After Ricky died, Mickey decided to stay behind and take his place. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]''/''[[The Age of Steel (TV story)|The Age of Steel]]'')


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Also, [[Rita-Anne Smith (Pete's World)|Rita-Anne Smith]], Ricky's grandmother, did not die of an accident in this world, whereas [[Rita-Anne Smith|Mickey's grandmother]] had. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'')
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[[Harriet Jones (Pete's World)|Harriet Jones]], like [[Harriet Jones|her counterpart]], had a political career, and her rule as President was referred to as a "golden age", ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'') similarly to how the Ninth Doctor had recalled her time as Prime Minister in his universe. ([[TV]]: ''[[World War Three (TV story)|World War Three]]'')
 
[[Yvonne Hartman (Pete's World)|Yvonne Hartman]] did not become a Cyberman and crossed over into the Doctor's universe to survive. She said that her [[Jack Harkness (Pete's World)|Jack Harkness]] was better looking than [[Jack Harkness|the one]] in the Doctor's universe and had a vague recollection of [[Ianto Jones (Pete's World)|Ianto Jones]], who made bad coffee and worked in administration. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Poker Face (audio story)|Poker Face]]'')
 
A [[Beryl Thompson (Pete's World)|counterpart]] of one of Jackie's friends, [[Beryl Thompson]], existed in Pete’s World. Jackie became friends with her after settling in Pete's World though later admitted she'd treated her poorly due to Beryl not being exactly like her friend in her native universe. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Siege of Big Ben (audio story)|The Siege of Big Ben]]'')
 
[[John Lumic]], a megalomaniac in Pete's World, ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Age of Steel (TV story)}}, etc.) also had [[John Lumic (The Christmas Invasion)|a counterpart]] in the Doctor's universe. The John Lumic of the Doctor's universe, however, seemingly lacked megalomaniac tendencies. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Christmas Invasion (novelisation)}})
 
=== Species ===
The [[Lupine Wavelength Haemovariform]] existed in Pete's World ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Creatures and Demons (reference book)|Creatures and Demons]]'') as it did in the Doctor's universe. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Tooth and Claw (TV story)}}) One source appeared to suggest [[Silurian]]s, [[Judoon]], and [[Sontaran]]s also existed in this universe. ([[GRAPHIC]]: {{cs|Parallel Earth (illustration)}})
 
[[Pete Tyler (Pete's World)|Pete Tyler]] was unfamiliar with the [[Dalek]]s in [[2010]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Doomsday (TV story)}})
 
=== Cultural ===
According to [[Jackie Tyler|Jackie]], in Pete’s World [[football]] was played "backwards" and ''[[EastEnders]]'' didn’t exist. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Siege of Big Ben (audio story)|The Siege of Big Ben]]'')
 
=== Geographical ===
[[File:PetesWorld.jpg|thumb|Earth ([[WC]]: ''[[Tardisode 6]]'') in Pete's World. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Doomsday (TV story)}})]]
The Earth of Pete's World appeared identical to the Earth of the Doctor's universe, with the same landmasses, [[ocean]]s and [[continent]]s. ([[WC]]: ''[[Tardisode 6]]'') According to John Lumic, Earth had seven continents in this universe. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Age of Steel (TV story)}}) Despite the significant differences in political geography, Earth had several natural similarities with its counterpart of the Doctor's universe, such as its own versions of the [[Grand Canyon]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lumic (short story)|Lumic]]'') and the [[River Thames/Other realities#Pete's World|River Thames]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Age of Steel (TV story)}}) The [[English Channel]] also existed, albeit with a different name, being known as the [[French Channel]] in Pete's World. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Turning of the Tide (short story)|The Turning of the Tide]]'')
 
== History ==
=== 19th century ===
One source speculated that Pete's World diverged from [[the Doctor's universe|the Doctor's]] when [[Lupine Wavelength Haemovariform|a Werewolf]] killed [[Victoria#Alternate timelines|Queen Victoria]], an event which was averted in the Doctor's own universe ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Creatures and Demons (reference book)|Creatures and Demons]]'') in [[1879]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Tooth and Claw (TV story)|Tooth and Claw]]'')
 
=== 20th century ===
[[Cybus Industries]] was established in [[1982]]. In [[2001]], Cybus Industries' profits reached [[$]][[78000000000000|78 billion]]. In [[2004]], [[South American State]] reported 265,000 people missing. ([[WC]]: ''[[Tardisode 5]]'')
 
=== 21st century ===
Under the codename Gemini, [[Pete Tyler (Pete's World)|Pete Tyler]] began supplying information from within Cybus to [[the Preachers]], although he thought that they were security services. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Age of Steel (TV story)|The Age of Steel]]'')
 
==== Rise of the Cybermen ====
{{main|Battle of Battersea Power Station}}
On [[1 February]] [[2007]], [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] was catapulted into Pete's World after falling through a crack in reality while travelling through the [[Time Vortex]]. The TARDIS was critically drained of energy by the journey and unable to replenish itself due to the incompatibility of the ambient energy of the parallel world. The [[Tenth Doctor]] gave away ten years of his life to recharge a still-functional artron crystal which was then used to restore the TARDIS long enough to enable it to return to the Doctor's universe. At this time the first [[Cybusman|Cybermen]] were created by [[John Lumic]] from kidnapped homeless population of London. He had the Cybermen storm Pete Tyler’s house, where they killed the [[President of Great Britain (Rise of the Cybermen)|President of Britain]] who had been attending Jackie's birthday party, ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'') and used the Cybus [[EarPod]]s to force their wearers to march to a Cybus factory for conversion. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Age of Steel (TV story)|The Age of Steel]]'') He also ordered facilities around the world to begin converting people into Cybermen. ([[WC]]: ''[[Tardisode 6]]'')
 
The Doctor and his friends worked with Pete and the Preachers to infiltrate the factory in London, managing to compromise the Cybermen’s emotional inhibitors causing the destruction of the factory. Lumic, who been converted into a [[Cyber-Controller]], perished in the destruction of his factory. After meeting his parallel counterpart [[Ricky Smith]] and being inspired by his example, [[Mickey Smith]] decided to stay behind to take the late Ricky's place and help fight the Cybermen, whilst also looking after his counterpart’s gran, with the Doctor and Rose returning to their universe and closing the crack behind them. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Age of Steel (TV story)|The Age of Steel]]'') Following the death of the British President, [[Harriet Jones (Pete's World)|Harriet Jones]] became the new President of Britain. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'')
 
==== Preacher-Cyberman War ====
{{main|Preacher-Cyberman War}}
The [[Preacher-Cyberman War|war against the Cybermen]] became a global conflict, ([[GAME]]: ''[[Cyber Assault (video game)|Cyber Assault]]'') with [[Paris (Pete's World)|Paris]] being the centre of [[liberation of Paris|a battle]]. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Airships (video game)|Airships]]'') Eventually all the Cybermen were successfully sealed in their factories. However, debate raged about whether or not the Cybermen (as former humans) could be saved. As a result of the war, at least five million humans from Pete's World had been converted into Cybermen. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'')
 
Whilst the debate on what to do with them went on, the Cybermen infiltrated the [[Torchwood (Pete's World)|Torchwood Institute]] and used their experiments with a breach in reality to map themselves onto [[Earth]] in the Doctor's universe, seemingly disappearing. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'') [[Yvonne Hartman (Pete's World)|Yvonne Hartman]] happened to be in the right place at the right time and was able to cross over into the Doctor's universe to escape the Cybermen. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Poker Face (audio story)|Poker Face]]'') The People’s Republic eventually discovered Torchwood’s experiments with the breach, which was accelerating global warming, and took control of the Institute. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'')
 
==== Invasion of the Doctor's universe ====
{{Main|Battle of Canary Wharf}}
Three years after the Cybermen's disappearance, ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'') Mickey returned to his original universe in pursuit of the Cybermen and, disguised as a lab technician, investigated the [[Void Ship]] kept in [[Torchwood 1]]'s headquarters. ([[TV]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts (TV story)|Army of Ghosts]]'') [[Jake Simmonds]] and Peter Tyler crossed over into the Doctor's universe to stop the Cyberman invasion. That universe's [[Jackie Tyler]] met the other version of Pete Tyler for the first time and decided to stay with him. Mickey Smith, Pete, and Jake returned to the parallel world, taking Jackie and her daughter [[Rose Tyler|Rose]] with them, trapping them after the breach closed. Rose joined the parallel version of the Torchwood Institute. Jackie and Pete conceived a child and Mickey apparently took up residence with the Tylers.
 
==== Later events ====
Soon after joining Torchwood and several months after Jackie became pregnant, Rose began receiving what appeared to be a message from the Tenth Doctor. With the support of her family, she travelled to [[Dårlig Ulv Stranden]] in [[Norway]], where she briefly made contact with the Doctor so they could say goodbye to each other. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'')
 
Torchwood developed a [[dimension cannon]], which suddenly began working as the barriers between universes weakened, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Endless Night (audio story)|The Endless Night]]'') due to [[Davros]]' [[reality bomb]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'') also known as "the Darkness", ([[TV]]: ''[[Turn Left (TV story)|Turn Left]]'') which was causing dimensions across "[[Multiverse|the whole of reality]]" to start to collapse. ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'') Rose insisted on being the first volunteer to use the cannon to seek out the Doctor, exploring numerous dying parallel universes guided by Pete, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Endless Night (audio story)|The Endless Night]]'', ''[[The Flood (RTDC audio story)|The Flood]]'', ''[[Ghost Machines (audio story)|Ghost Machines]]'', ''[[The Last Party on Earth (audio story)|The Last Party on Earth]]'', ''[[Saltwater (audio story)|Saltwater]]'', ''[[Now is the New Dark (audio story)|Now is the New Dark]]'', ''[[The Rogue Planet (audio story)|The Rogue Planet]]'') and eventually returning to the Doctor's universe. ([[TV]]: ''[[Partners in Crime (TV story)|Partners in Crime]]'', ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]'') Mickey and Jackie followed her, arriving in N-Space in time to save [[Sarah Jane Smith]] from two [[Dalek]]s. After defeating the [[New Dalek Empire]] and preventing the reality bomb from detonating, the Tenth Doctor returned Rose and Jackie to the parallel world, with Mickey deciding to stay behind as his gran had passed away in Pete’s World too. He also left behind the [[Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor]], believing Rose could do him good. Due to the disarming of the reality bomb by Donna Noble, the Darkness never occurred at all and this universe was saved from destruction. ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'') The Meta-Crisis Doctor and Rose settled together in Canticum. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Turning of the Tide (short story)|The Turning of the Tide]]'')
 
President Harriet Jones merged Torchwood and the Preachers together to create [[UNIT (Pete's World)|UNIT]], headquartered in [[Big Ben/Other realities#Pete's World|Big Ben]] and led by Brigadier [[Krista Lateef]]. Pete and Rose joined, whilst the Meta-Crisis Doctor served as a scientific advisor and Jackie worked as a dinner lady. One Tuesday, whilst UNIT were away investigating a reported Cybus factory in Bridlington, Jackie and the Doctor were alone when a group of aliens appeared to attack the base, claiming to be seeking the TARDIS that the Doctor was growing. They claimed to have the UNIT personnel hostage, including Rose and Pete, aboard their Zeppelin, leading to the Doctor deciding to blow up Big Ben to deprive them of the TARDIS in hopes of them letting the hostages go. Jackie talked him round, getting him to think properly and discovered the aliens were just images on the camera. Brigadier Krista confronted them, revealing she’d been behind it all to try to travel back in time to save her daughter from cyber conversion. Jackie and the Doctor talked her down, however the Doctor subsequently reported her to Pete despite having promised to keep her actions secret. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Siege of Big Ben (audio story)|The Siege of Big Ben]]'') This incident soured his and Jackie’s friendship, so Pete and Rose arranged for them to go on a trip to Hull. Their Zeppelin was attacked by a version of Jackie from another parallel universe, resulting in them having to escape it before it crashed. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Flight Into Hull! (audio story)|Flight Into Hull]]'')
 
The Cybermen from this universe survived, and later joined the [[Pandorica Alliance]]. This universe, and indeed every universe, was, as the [[Cyber-Leader (The Pandorica Opens)|Cyber-Leader]] put it, "[[deletion|deleted]]" as a result of [[total event collapse]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'') After reality was rebooted, the collapsed universes such as Pete's World were reinstated. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'')
 
By one account, in 2012, Rose gave birth to her and the Doctor's child. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Turning of the Tide (short story)|The Turning of the Tide]]'') When their daughter [[Mia (Empire of the Wolf)|Mia]] was a adolescent, Rose formed a psio-temporal link with [[Rose Tyler (Sea Devil Earth)|a parallel counterpart of herself]] now living in [[N-Space]]. This link caused Rose to be pulled back to N-Space for a few hours before the [[Eighth Doctor|Eighth]] and [[Eleventh Doctor]]s managed to return her to Pete's World. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Empire of the Wolf (comic story)|Empire of the Wolf]]'')
 
At one point, the Eleventh Doctor's TARDIS landed in the London of this universe with [[Amy Pond]] and [[Rory Williams]]. As this happened, the boundaries of [[time]] merged, resulting in a [[Sontaran]], [[Judoon]], Ancient [[Egypt]]ian, [[Silurian]], [[Toclafane]], [[K-9]], and a [[Cybershade]] being present among a crowd of citizens and an army of Cybermen. John Lumic and Mickey Smith were also present to witness this. ([[GRAPHIC]]: {{cs|Parallel Earth (illustration)}})
 
== References ==
[[Battle of Floor 0507|Facing]] the Cybermen on a [[Mondasian]] [[Colony ship (World Enough and Time)|colony ship]], the [[Twelfth Doctor]] recalled Earth as one of the worlds where he defeated them. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
 
[[Book (The Whoniverse)|A historical account]] of [[N-Space]] made mention of this reality as part of a theory that the Cybermen of Pete's World had joined with the [[CyberMondan]]s of N-Space to form the [[Cyberiad]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Whoniverse (novel)|The Whoniverse]]'')
 
During his second meeting with [[Team TARDIS]], [[Jack Harkness]] explained to the three his initial death at the hands of the Daleks on the [[Satellite Five|Game Station]] in [[200100|200,100]], and how [[Rose Tyler]] managed to resurrect him but that she was now trapped in the parallel world. ([[TV]]: ''[[Revolution of the Daleks (TV story)|Revolution of the Daleks]]'')
 
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Latest revision as of 17:10, 21 October 2024

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"Pete's World" was the Tenth Doctor's name for a parallel universe that was home to Cybermen created by John Lumic, the head of Cybus Industries.

The Doctor derived the name from Pete Tyler, that universe's version of Rose Tyler's father, who in her universe had died in 1987. Time ran ahead in this universe, compared to the Doctor's universe, so that when it was 2007 in the Doctor's universe it was simultaneously three years later in Pete's World. (TV: Doomsday)

Differences[[edit] | [edit source]]

Historical[[edit] | [edit source]]

Great Britain was a People's Republic with a President as head of state, instead of a monarch. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen) Presidential elections were held annually on 8 November. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary) Army blockades and nightly curfews, beginning at 10PM, were in place for lower-income areas of London. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen) Canticum was a county in the place of Kent, and there was the French Channel instead of the English Channel. (PROSE: The Turning of the Tide) Europe contained the nation of New Germany (TV: Rise of the Cybermen, PROSE: Lumic) and South America was unified in a South American State. (WC: Tardisode 5) Other nations were Czechoslovenia™ and the United States of Mexico, the latter of which contained the Grand Canyon. (PROSE: Lumic)

The planet had a Bio-Convention, whereby Geneva had to approve any creation of new life forms. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen)

John Lumic's Cybus Industries had a high profile internationally. It created the EarPods; owned Vitex, Pete Tyler's nutritional drink company; owned International Electromatics as a front organisation; and had created Cybus Network, the world's premier global information system. Secretly, Lumic had them also create the first Cybermen. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen) Brigadier Krista Lateef speculated that the technology that Cybus wielded had led to fewer aliens attacking Earth than had occurred in the Doctor's universe. (AUDIO: The Siege of Big Ben)

Even though the Doctor apparently didn't travel to Earth in this world, the Torchwood Institute nevertheless existed (TV: Rise of the Cybermen) and Jack Harkness lived in the 21st century. (AUDIO: Poker Face) It was operating publicly to an extent, with reports it issued being mentioned in the news, (TV: Rise of the Cybermen) although not everyone knew about it. (GAME: Cybus Spy)

Technological[[edit] | [edit source]]

Pete's World had a higher level of technological advancement in general. Such advancements included moving and speaking advertisements, and the EarPod devices which downloaded information straight into human brains. Even the Cyberman technology itself was created by humans, without any apparent use of Mondas technology.

Zeppelins served as a common means of transportation, with one soldier implying that the richest of the city tended to own them.

Automotive and engineering companies such as Mercedes-Benz and Volvo also existed in this universe, with vehicles such as the Mercedes-Benz Actros truck and Volvo BM 425 C hauler being used by Cybus Industries and its subsidiaries. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel) Cybus also made the Sleep Replacement System (SRS®), invented by John Lumic himself. (PROSE: Lumic) The International Electromatics website had a fully automated "ATSS" chat service. (GAME: Cybus Spy)

Scientists developed medallions with the power to enable the wearer to cross universes. Later, they invented a dimension cannon for the same purpose. (TV: Doomsday, Journey's End)

People[[edit] | [edit source]]

Various historical figures with fame in the Doctor's universe were also famous in Pete's World. Among these were the musicians Richard Wagner, Richard Strauss and Geri Halliwell. Others included Niccolo Machiavelli, Genghis Khan and Adolf Hitler. (PROSE: Lumic)

Peter Tyler, unlike his counterpart, had not died in 1987. Both versions had married Jackie, though this couple did not have children; instead they had a dog named Rose. In stark contrast to his counterpart from the Doctor's universe, all of Pete's "daft little plans" and get-rich-quick schemes worked out, making him a rich and successful businessman. Pete made a fortune from his company, Vitex, a health drink company which Cybus owned and for which Pete himself acted as spokesman. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen) This version of Jackie underwent cyber-conversion and died. (TV: The Age of Steel) Pete later met and fell in love with the Jackie Tyler of the Doctor's universe. (TV: Doomsday)

Ricky, Mickey Smith's counterpart, led the anti-Cybus Industries activists known as the Preachers with Jake Simmonds. After Ricky died, Mickey decided to stay behind and take his place. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel)

Also, Rita-Anne Smith, Ricky's grandmother, did not die of an accident in this world, whereas Mickey's grandmother had. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen)

Harriet Jones, like her counterpart, had a political career, and her rule as President was referred to as a "golden age", (TV: Doomsday) similarly to how the Ninth Doctor had recalled her time as Prime Minister in his universe. (TV: World War Three)

Yvonne Hartman did not become a Cyberman and crossed over into the Doctor's universe to survive. She said that her Jack Harkness was better looking than the one in the Doctor's universe and had a vague recollection of Ianto Jones, who made bad coffee and worked in administration. (AUDIO: Poker Face)

A counterpart of one of Jackie's friends, Beryl Thompson, existed in Pete’s World. Jackie became friends with her after settling in Pete's World though later admitted she'd treated her poorly due to Beryl not being exactly like her friend in her native universe. (AUDIO: The Siege of Big Ben)

John Lumic, a megalomaniac in Pete's World, (TV: The Age of Steel [+]Loading...["The Age of Steel (TV story)"], etc.) also had a counterpart in the Doctor's universe. The John Lumic of the Doctor's universe, however, seemingly lacked megalomaniac tendencies. (PROSE: The Christmas Invasion [+]Loading...["The Christmas Invasion (novelisation)"])

Species[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Lupine Wavelength Haemovariform existed in Pete's World (PROSE: Creatures and Demons) as it did in the Doctor's universe. (TV: Tooth and Claw [+]Loading...["Tooth and Claw (TV story)"]) One source appeared to suggest Silurians, Judoon, and Sontarans also existed in this universe. (GRAPHIC: Parallel Earth [+]Loading...["Parallel Earth (illustration)"])

Pete Tyler was unfamiliar with the Daleks in 2010. (TV: Doomsday [+]Loading...["Doomsday (TV story)"])

Cultural[[edit] | [edit source]]

According to Jackie, in Pete’s World football was played "backwards" and EastEnders didn’t exist. (AUDIO: The Siege of Big Ben)

Geographical[[edit] | [edit source]]

Earth (WC: Tardisode 6) in Pete's World. (TV: Doomsday [+]Loading...["Doomsday (TV story)"])

The Earth of Pete's World appeared identical to the Earth of the Doctor's universe, with the same landmasses, oceans and continents. (WC: Tardisode 6) According to John Lumic, Earth had seven continents in this universe. (TV: The Age of Steel [+]Loading...["The Age of Steel (TV story)"]) Despite the significant differences in political geography, Earth had several natural similarities with its counterpart of the Doctor's universe, such as its own versions of the Grand Canyon (PROSE: Lumic) and the River Thames. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen [+]Loading...["Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)"], The Age of Steel [+]Loading...["The Age of Steel (TV story)"]) The English Channel also existed, albeit with a different name, being known as the French Channel in Pete's World. (PROSE: The Turning of the Tide)

History[[edit] | [edit source]]

19th century[[edit] | [edit source]]

One source speculated that Pete's World diverged from the Doctor's when a Werewolf killed Queen Victoria, an event which was averted in the Doctor's own universe (PROSE: Creatures and Demons) in 1879. (TV: Tooth and Claw)

20th century[[edit] | [edit source]]

Cybus Industries was established in 1982. In 2001, Cybus Industries' profits reached $78 billion. In 2004, South American State reported 265,000 people missing. (WC: Tardisode 5)

21st century[[edit] | [edit source]]

Under the codename Gemini, Pete Tyler began supplying information from within Cybus to the Preachers, although he thought that they were security services. (TV: The Age of Steel)

Rise of the Cybermen[[edit] | [edit source]]

Main article: Battle of Battersea Power Station

On 1 February 2007, the Doctor's TARDIS was catapulted into Pete's World after falling through a crack in reality while travelling through the Time Vortex. The TARDIS was critically drained of energy by the journey and unable to replenish itself due to the incompatibility of the ambient energy of the parallel world. The Tenth Doctor gave away ten years of his life to recharge a still-functional artron crystal which was then used to restore the TARDIS long enough to enable it to return to the Doctor's universe. At this time the first Cybermen were created by John Lumic from kidnapped homeless population of London. He had the Cybermen storm Pete Tyler’s house, where they killed the President of Britain who had been attending Jackie's birthday party, (TV: Rise of the Cybermen) and used the Cybus EarPods to force their wearers to march to a Cybus factory for conversion. (TV: The Age of Steel) He also ordered facilities around the world to begin converting people into Cybermen. (WC: Tardisode 6)

The Doctor and his friends worked with Pete and the Preachers to infiltrate the factory in London, managing to compromise the Cybermen’s emotional inhibitors causing the destruction of the factory. Lumic, who been converted into a Cyber-Controller, perished in the destruction of his factory. After meeting his parallel counterpart Ricky Smith and being inspired by his example, Mickey Smith decided to stay behind to take the late Ricky's place and help fight the Cybermen, whilst also looking after his counterpart’s gran, with the Doctor and Rose returning to their universe and closing the crack behind them. (TV: The Age of Steel) Following the death of the British President, Harriet Jones became the new President of Britain. (TV: Doomsday)

Preacher-Cyberman War[[edit] | [edit source]]

Main article: Preacher-Cyberman War

The war against the Cybermen became a global conflict, (GAME: Cyber Assault) with Paris being the centre of a battle. (GAME: Airships) Eventually all the Cybermen were successfully sealed in their factories. However, debate raged about whether or not the Cybermen (as former humans) could be saved. As a result of the war, at least five million humans from Pete's World had been converted into Cybermen. (TV: Doomsday)

Whilst the debate on what to do with them went on, the Cybermen infiltrated the Torchwood Institute and used their experiments with a breach in reality to map themselves onto Earth in the Doctor's universe, seemingly disappearing. (TV: Doomsday) Yvonne Hartman happened to be in the right place at the right time and was able to cross over into the Doctor's universe to escape the Cybermen. (AUDIO: Poker Face) The People’s Republic eventually discovered Torchwood’s experiments with the breach, which was accelerating global warming, and took control of the Institute. (TV: Doomsday)

Invasion of the Doctor's universe[[edit] | [edit source]]

Main article: Battle of Canary Wharf

Three years after the Cybermen's disappearance, (TV: Doomsday) Mickey returned to his original universe in pursuit of the Cybermen and, disguised as a lab technician, investigated the Void Ship kept in Torchwood 1's headquarters. (TV: Army of Ghosts) Jake Simmonds and Peter Tyler crossed over into the Doctor's universe to stop the Cyberman invasion. That universe's Jackie Tyler met the other version of Pete Tyler for the first time and decided to stay with him. Mickey Smith, Pete, and Jake returned to the parallel world, taking Jackie and her daughter Rose with them, trapping them after the breach closed. Rose joined the parallel version of the Torchwood Institute. Jackie and Pete conceived a child and Mickey apparently took up residence with the Tylers.

Later events[[edit] | [edit source]]

Soon after joining Torchwood and several months after Jackie became pregnant, Rose began receiving what appeared to be a message from the Tenth Doctor. With the support of her family, she travelled to Dårlig Ulv Stranden in Norway, where she briefly made contact with the Doctor so they could say goodbye to each other. (TV: Doomsday)

Torchwood developed a dimension cannon, which suddenly began working as the barriers between universes weakened, (AUDIO: The Endless Night) due to Davros' reality bomb, (TV: Journey's End) also known as "the Darkness", (TV: Turn Left) which was causing dimensions across "the whole of reality" to start to collapse. (TV: Journey's End) Rose insisted on being the first volunteer to use the cannon to seek out the Doctor, exploring numerous dying parallel universes guided by Pete, (AUDIO: The Endless Night, The Flood, Ghost Machines, The Last Party on Earth, Saltwater, Now is the New Dark, The Rogue Planet) and eventually returning to the Doctor's universe. (TV: Partners in Crime, The Stolen Earth) Mickey and Jackie followed her, arriving in N-Space in time to save Sarah Jane Smith from two Daleks. After defeating the New Dalek Empire and preventing the reality bomb from detonating, the Tenth Doctor returned Rose and Jackie to the parallel world, with Mickey deciding to stay behind as his gran had passed away in Pete’s World too. He also left behind the Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor, believing Rose could do him good. Due to the disarming of the reality bomb by Donna Noble, the Darkness never occurred at all and this universe was saved from destruction. (TV: Journey's End) The Meta-Crisis Doctor and Rose settled together in Canticum. (PROSE: The Turning of the Tide)

President Harriet Jones merged Torchwood and the Preachers together to create UNIT, headquartered in Big Ben and led by Brigadier Krista Lateef. Pete and Rose joined, whilst the Meta-Crisis Doctor served as a scientific advisor and Jackie worked as a dinner lady. One Tuesday, whilst UNIT were away investigating a reported Cybus factory in Bridlington, Jackie and the Doctor were alone when a group of aliens appeared to attack the base, claiming to be seeking the TARDIS that the Doctor was growing. They claimed to have the UNIT personnel hostage, including Rose and Pete, aboard their Zeppelin, leading to the Doctor deciding to blow up Big Ben to deprive them of the TARDIS in hopes of them letting the hostages go. Jackie talked him round, getting him to think properly and discovered the aliens were just images on the camera. Brigadier Krista confronted them, revealing she’d been behind it all to try to travel back in time to save her daughter from cyber conversion. Jackie and the Doctor talked her down, however the Doctor subsequently reported her to Pete despite having promised to keep her actions secret. (AUDIO: The Siege of Big Ben) This incident soured his and Jackie’s friendship, so Pete and Rose arranged for them to go on a trip to Hull. Their Zeppelin was attacked by a version of Jackie from another parallel universe, resulting in them having to escape it before it crashed. (AUDIO: Flight Into Hull)

The Cybermen from this universe survived, and later joined the Pandorica Alliance. This universe, and indeed every universe, was, as the Cyber-Leader put it, "deleted" as a result of total event collapse. (TV: The Pandorica Opens) After reality was rebooted, the collapsed universes such as Pete's World were reinstated. (TV: The Big Bang)

By one account, in 2012, Rose gave birth to her and the Doctor's child. (PROSE: The Turning of the Tide) When their daughter Mia was a adolescent, Rose formed a psio-temporal link with a parallel counterpart of herself now living in N-Space. This link caused Rose to be pulled back to N-Space for a few hours before the Eighth and Eleventh Doctors managed to return her to Pete's World. (COMIC: Empire of the Wolf)

At one point, the Eleventh Doctor's TARDIS landed in the London of this universe with Amy Pond and Rory Williams. As this happened, the boundaries of time merged, resulting in a Sontaran, Judoon, Ancient Egyptian, Silurian, Toclafane, K-9, and a Cybershade being present among a crowd of citizens and an army of Cybermen. John Lumic and Mickey Smith were also present to witness this. (GRAPHIC: Parallel Earth [+]Loading...["Parallel Earth (illustration)"])

References[[edit] | [edit source]]

Facing the Cybermen on a Mondasian colony ship, the Twelfth Doctor recalled Earth as one of the worlds where he defeated them. (TV: The Doctor Falls)

A historical account of N-Space made mention of this reality as part of a theory that the Cybermen of Pete's World had joined with the CyberMondans of N-Space to form the Cyberiad. (PROSE: The Whoniverse)

During his second meeting with Team TARDIS, Jack Harkness explained to the three his initial death at the hands of the Daleks on the Game Station in 200,100, and how Rose Tyler managed to resurrect him but that she was now trapped in the parallel world. (TV: Revolution of the Daleks)

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