Time war: Difference between revisions

From Tardis Wiki, the free Doctor Who reference
No edit summary
 
(167 intermediate revisions by 65 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
The '''Last Time War''' was a universe altering conflict between the [[Time Lord]]s and the [[Dalek]]s.  
{{you may|Last Great Time War|War in Heaven|n1=the Last Great Time War|n2=the War in Heaven}}
{{First pic|Time War Battle.jpg|A [[Time Lord]] witnesses the destruction of the [[Last Great Time War]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Whoniverse (novel)}})}}
A '''time war''' could be one of at least two types of time-spanning conflicts. The first type of time war was where sides fought each other across different points in history. The second type of time war was one in which time itself was used as a weapon by two or more [[time-active]] factions, employing preemptive strikes, [[time loop]]s, [[temporal paradox]]es and the reversal of historical events. It is difficult to study these wars, since they tended to erase the damage before it was made.


==The Last Time War==
== Examples ==
[[Image:Ninthdoctor.jpg|thumb|right|[[Ninth Doctor|The Doctor]], the last [[Time Lord]].]]
=== Early time wars of Gallifrey ===
The [[Time Wars]] were a collections of time wars fought between the early Time Lords and other races that were developing [[time travel]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Sky Pirates! (novel)}}) lasting 30,000 years. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Infinity Doctors (novel)}}) The Time Lords destroyed one such race, the [[Charon (species)|Charon]], before they even existed. Another unnamed species which was eliminated created the [[Reality bomb (Sky Pirates!)|reality bomb]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Sky Pirates! (novel)}})


The facts of the Time War are little known, since most of the changes were beneath the notices of most races. It is known that the [[Time Lord]]s fought with the [[Dalek]]s, destroying both of their home [[planet]]s. Though the [[Time Lord]]'s had a policy of non-intervention, on a "higher level", they protected the [[time vortex]] and kept the peace. The origins of the war dated back to when the [[Time Lord]]s sent [[Fourth Doctor|the Doctor]] into the past in an attempt to avert the [[Dalek]]s' creation or affect their development to make them less aggressive. ([[DW]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks]]'') Other clashes included the [[Dalek]] attempt to infiltrate the [[High Council]] of the [[Time Lord]]s with duplicates ([[DW]]: ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks]]''), and the open declaration of hostilities by one of the [[Dalek Emperor|Dalek Puppet Emperors]]; although the Daleks claimed that these were merely in retaliation for the [[Time Lord]]s' sending of [[Fourth Doctor|the Doctor]] back in time. Despite these conflicts, the [[Time Lord]]s made some attempts to make peace. The first was an attempted [[Dalek]]-[[Time Lord]] peace treaty initiated by President [[Romana]] under the Act of [[Master]] Restitution. The second was the Etra Prime Incident ([[DW]]: ''[[The Apocalypse Element]]''), which some say began the escalation of events. Weapons used by the Time Lords included [[Bowship]]s, Black Hole Carriers and N-Forms ([[DW]]: ''[[Damaged Goods]]''), while the Daleks wielded the full might of the Deathsmiths of Goth ([[DW]]: ''[[Black Legacy]]'') and launched a massive fleet into the [[Time Vortex]]. This war lasted for years and took place throughout [[space]] and [[time]]. The last action of the Time War was by [[the Doctor]], who destroyed all of the [[Dalek]]s and [[Time Lord]]s. He also removed all traces of both races out of [[time]].
Among the Time Wars was the [[Black Sun War]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Heart of TARDIS (novel)}}) starting when the [[Order of the Black Sun]] sent a time-travelling [[assassin]] to prevent Gallifrey from gaining time travel. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Star Death (comic story)}}, {{cs|4-D War (comic story)}}) The Order itself existed 30,000 years in the future, and launched a second attack in the [[Question Hall]] twenty years after the initial attack. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|4-D War (comic story)}}) The [[Time Lord]]s had been viewed by the Order as striking first in the present, after the [[Sontaran]] [[ambassador]] [[Brilox]] used a [[psy-snare]] to make the [[parahuman]] [[Millenium (Black Sun Rising)|Millenium]] assassinate the Black Sun Elder in an attempt to secure the [[uranium]] on [[Desrault]] for the Sontarans while Gallifrey and the Black Sun were "at each other's throats". ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Black Sun Rising (comic story)}})


[[Image:Dalek Emperor.jpg|left|thumb|'''The [[Dalek Emperor]]''', one of the survivors of the war.]]
According to one account, however, before the [[Last Great Time War]] only two other time wars had ever taken place — both of each started by other species, but ended with relative ease by the Time Lords stepping on. One was the [[Skirmish between the Halldons and the Eternals|"skirmish"]] between the [[Halldon]]s and the [[Eternal]]s, and the other being was the "brutal slaughter" of the [[Omnicraven Uprising]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Meet the Doctor (DWAN 2006 short story)}})


Despite the destruction caused by the war, it is known that it wasn't complete. On the [[Time Lord]] side, the only known survivor is [[the Doctor]]. On the [[Dalek]] side, a [[Dalek]] survivor crashed on [[Earth]], the [[Dalek Emperor]] escaped the battles, as did the [[Cult of Skaro]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]'', ''[[The Parting of the Ways]]'' and ''[[Doomsday]]'')
=== The Doctor's era ===
When visiting the planet [[Aoris]], the [[Fourth Doctor]], [[Romana II]] and [[K9]] discovered that the planet was engaged in a time-travelling war as residents of [[Era 24]] attacked the 'Age of Greed' in [[Era 14]], approximately a thousand years before their time, stealing endangered animals and the potent natural power source of zenox crystals from the past in the belief that their ancestors were incapable of using these resources properly. In the course of his time on Aoris, the Doctor realised that this war was the result of a complex time loop, as the people of Era 14 only came to rely on more environmentally-dangerous power sources such as fossil fuels because the zenox crystals were stolen by their future descendants. The Doctor, Romana and K9 were eventually able to end hostilities between the two sides, leaving a few people from Era 24 in Era 14 to set up a resistance movement that would aid them in Era 24 while sending the rest of Era 24 into the further future so that Aoris could be regenerated by various terraforming engines. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Paradox Planet (audio story)}}/{{cs|Legacy of Death (audio story)}})


==Effects==
The [[Deindum War]] was fought across time, with [[Irving Braxiatel]] and his associates attempting to erase the [[Deindum]] from history before they developed into a war-like race. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Present Danger (short story)}})
Despite the carnage, the war was unseen by "lower species" but devastating to the "higher" ones. For example, the reason behind the [[Nestene Consciousness]]' invasion of [[Earth]] was because its food [[planet]]s were destroyed in a war. As well, the [[Nestene]]'s form was also affected by the war, causing it to develop more [[humanoid]] features. ([[DW]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'') The [[Forest of Cheem]] also knew of the war and its effects on the [[Time Lord]]s. ([[DW]]: ''[[The End of the World]]'') The [[Gelth]] also lost their bodies because of the war, being turned into gaseous forms. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Unquiet Dead]]'') The [[Eternal]]s apparently fled this reality in despair, never to be seen again. A more deadly affect was the death of the [[Animus]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Doctor Who Annual 2006]]'')


The destruction of the [[Time Lord]]s created a vacuum that may have left history itself more vulnerable to change. [[Ninth Doctor|The Doctor]] told Rose that time was in flux and history could change instantly- a more fluid definition to that which had been seen before. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Unquiet Dead]]'') The most dramatic demonstration of this was when Rose created a [[paradox]] by crossing her own time stream to save her father's life just before his intended death in a traffic accident. This summoned the [[Reaper]]s, who descended to sterilise the "wound" in time by devouring everything in sight. The Doctor stated that if the [[Time Lord]]s had been still around, they could have prevented or repaired the paradox. The consequences of creating a paradox were also why the Doctor could not go back in time and save the Time Lords. ([[DW]]: ''[[Father's Day (TV story)|Father's Day]]'') As well, [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor]] noted that when the [[Time Lord]]s were around, travel between [[:Category: Alternate Dimensions|parallel universes]] was less difficult, but with their demise, the paths between worlds were closed. ([[DW]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]'')
In the earlier stages of their history, the [[Dalek]]s made some attempts to weaponise time travel in war. In the [[26th century]] the Daleks sought to escalate the [[Second Dalek War]] into a temporal conflict by utilising time travel to defeat the [[Earth Empire]]. They were overambitious and unsuccessful, contributing to their ultimate defeat, but the research laid the groundwork for future campaigns of the same nature. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Prisoner of the Daleks (novel)}}, [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Out of Time (audio story)}}) The Daleks later worked with renegade Time Lord [[Shazar]] to attempt to make a fleet of time machines, but were foiled by interference of the [[Fourth Doctor]] and the Time Lord [[High Council]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Return of the Daleks (TVC comic story)}}) The Daleks would eventually develop their own form of [[Dalek time machine|time machine]], which deployed to hunt down the [[First Doctor]] on two occasions; firstly in a [[Mechonoid Incident|failed execution attempt]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Chase (TV story)}}) and in the [[40th century]] to [[2415 Dalek invasion|invade]] [[Earth]] in [[2415]].


==Other Time Wars==
However, the [[Dalek Prime|Dalek Emperor']]s [[Dalek Prime's time machine|personal time machine]] proved unreliable and he was separated from his force, which was defeated. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Secret of the Emperor (comic story)}}) In [[4000]] a time machine was used by the Daleks during the [[Time Destructor Incident]] to retrieve the [[taranium]] core stolen by the First Doctor. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)}}) In [[4590]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Resurrection of the Daleks (novelisation)}}) the Daleks employed a [[time corridor]] during their [[Duplicate Incident|rescue]] of [[Davros]], embroiling [[1984]] London in events occurring centuries later. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Resurrection of the Daleks (TV story)}}) During the [[Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War]], two rival Dalek factions travelled back to [[1963]] to claim the [[Hand of Omega]], resulting in the [[Shoreditch Incident]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)}}) The Daleks would later use time travel technology in their [[Etra Prime incident|successful gambit]] to destroy and rebirth the [[Seriphia Galaxy]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Apocalypse Element (audio story)}})
The term Time War can be applied to at least two types of time-spanning conflicts. The first type of time war is where the two sides are fighting the war across different points in history, separated by centuries or millennia. The second type of time war is where Time itself is used as a weapon, with preemptive strikes, time loops, temporal paradoxes and the reversal of historical events. While the last great Time War appears to be of the latter variety, there have been other wars. There have been difficulties studying these wars, since they tend to erase the damage before it was made.


The Time Lords fought a time war early in their history against the [[Order of the Black Sun]], based some thirty thousand years in their future. The first strike of the war, from the [[Time Lord]]s' point of view, was when a Black Sun agent travelled back in time and attacked the Time Lords just as they were about to turn the star [[Qqaba]] into a power source for their time experiments. This also caused the apparent demise of the stellar engineer [[Omega]]. The [[Time Lord]]s did not know why the Black Sun (whom they had never encountered before the attack) should have wanted to strike at them, and surmised that it was for something they had yet to do. ([[DW]]: ''[[Star Death]]'' and ''[[The 4-D War]]'') Years later, at a diplomatic conference, a representative of the Order was murdered by the [[Sontaran]]s and this was blamed on the [[Time Lord]]s. This provided the motivation for the war's beginnings, as from the Order's point of view, the Time Lords were the ones who struck first. ([[DW]]: ''[[Black Sun Rising]]'')
Following the Daleks' attempt to invade [[Gallifrey]] itself according to one account, ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Ascension (Gallifrey audio story)}}) the Time Lords sent the [[Fourth Doctor]] back in time in [[Genesis Incident|an attempt]] to avert the [[Creation of the Daleks|Daleks from evolving]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)}}) In doing so, they fired the "first shot" of a later [[Last Great Time War]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Hunters of the Burning Stone (comic story)}})


Yet another war was one lasting thirty thousand years. It was fought between the [[Time Lord]]'s people and other races that were developing time travel. The Time Lords destroyed one such race, the [[Charon]], before they even existed. This war took place a generation after the time of [[Rassilon]], the founder of Time Lord society. ([[DW]]: ''[[Sky Pirates!]]''
=== The Ghost Wars ===
The [[Ghost Wars]] of the [[Horsehead Nebula]] were a conflict between the [[Malakh Imperium]], an interstellar empire of [[vampire]]s, and many other factions in and around the Nebula. Because both parties had time travel and routinely used it to alter the course of the conflict, they devolved not only into a time war but into a [[Change War]], endlessly looping back on itself, its every detail subject to change; as [[the Monk (The Bloodletters)|the Monk]] put it, "a beach whose history is washed out completely by a storm only to be washed in again by the next", written in "[[palimpsest universe|palimpsest]] and smoke". The [[Archon of Time|Archons of Time]] were not officially involved, but the Wars nearly caused the death of [[the President Kodachrome|one of their former Presidents]], although he returned to life after thirty-two days as the Wars' timeline mutated again. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Bloodletters (novel)}})


Other Time Wars include the skirmish between the [[Halldon]]s ([[DW]]: ''[[We are the Daleks]]'') and the [[Eternal]]s ([[DW]]: ''[[Enlightenment (TV story)|Enlightenment]]''). Another was the brutal slaughter of the Omnicraven Uprising. Neither of these wars directly involved the [[Time Lord]]s, though they intervened both times.
=== War in Heaven ===
At one point in the [[Eighth Doctor]]'s future, the [[War in Heaven]] was fought between the Time Lords and [[the enemy]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Alien Bodies (novel)}}) The Eighth Doctor destroyed [[Nine Gallifreys|a Gallifrey]] while attempting to prevent this war from beginning. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Ancestor Cell (novel)}})


At one point in [[the Doctor]]'s future a war was fought between the [[Time Lord]]s and an unnamed Enemy. Although [[Gallifrey]] was also destroyed as a result of the Eighth Doctor attempting to prevent the war from beginning ([[DW]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell]]'') this was a different occurance the the Last Time War. At some point, [[Gallifrey]] was restored, only to be destroyed again in the Last Time War.
[[Sutekh]] and [[Horus]] agreed that the [[Osirian]] throne would go to the winner of a time war. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Ozymandias (audio story)}}) The resultant conflict was orchestrated by [[Justine McManus|Justine]] so both Sutekh and [[Lolita]] would be defeated. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Judgment of Sutekh (audio story)}})


:''In the ''Doctor Who Magazine'' column, Davies compared [[Gallifrey]] being destroyed twice with Earth's two World Wars.  He also said that he was "usually happy for old and new fans to invent the Complete History of the Doctor in their heads, completely free of the production team's hot and heavy hands." Despite Davies' unequivocal statement that the two wars are distinct, [[Lance Parkin]], in his Doctor Who chronology ''[[AHistory]]'', suggests in a speculative essay that the two destructions of [[Gallifrey]] could be the same event seen from two different perspectives, with the [[Eighth Doctor]] present twice (and both of them culpable for the planet's destruction).''
=== Last Great Time War and beyond ===
''Pa-Jass Vortan'' was a [[Dalek (language)|Dalek phrase]] that translated to "the Time War." ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Slyther of Shoreditch (short story)}}) According to the [[Seventh Corsair]], the [[Destruction of Skaro|Destruction]] of [[Skaro]] by the [[Hand of Omega]] triggered a [[Little time war|"little" time war]], which was eventually erased by the [[Last Great Time War]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|One Virtue, and a Thousand Crimes (short story)}}) In this much larger war, the Time Lords fought against the [[Dalek Empire]], which by some accounts was originally ended by the destruction of Gallifrey ([[PROSE]]: {{Cs|Doctor Who and the Time War (short story)|Doctor Who and the Time War}}, [[COMIC]]: {{Cs|Sky Jacks (comic story)|Sky Jacks}}) and was later rewritten ([[PROSE]]:{{Cs|Big Bang Generation (novel)}}, {{cs|TARDIS Type 40 Instruction Manual (reference book)|chaptnum=V|chaptname=The Desktop Theme|page=91}}, {{cs|Dalek Combat Training Manual (reference book)|chaptnum=XII|chaptname=The Time War}}) so that, by most accounts, [[The Doctor#The Doctor's incarnations|multiple incarnations]] of [[the Doctor]] instead ended the conflict by freezing Gallifrey in a [[pocket universe]], making the Daleks accidentally destroy one another in their own crossfire, while the rest of the universe believed that both sides had just annihilated each other. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Day of the Doctor (TV story)}})


[[Category: Time travel]]
The Time War's effects on the history of the universe was such that the [[pre-Time War universe]] was not the same as the [[post-Time War universe]], with the war itself being contained within [[Time War timeline|its own version of reality]] by a [[Time War time lock|time lock]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)}}, {{cs|Dalek Combat Training Manual (reference book)}})
[[Category: Conflicts]]
 
The [[Kovarian Chapter]] waged a [[War against the Doctor|war]] through time against the [[Eleventh Doctor]], having gone back along his [[timeline]] in an attempt to avert his arrival at [[Trenzalore]]. [[Tasha Lem]] warned the Doctor that if the Time Lords returned to the universe then the [[species]] waiting above Trenzalore — among them the [[New Dalek Paradigm]], [[Cyberman|Cybermen]], [[Sontaran]]s, [[Terileptil]]s, [[Judoon]] and [[Weeping Angel]]s, along with the [[Slitheen family]] — would attack them and the [[Siege of Trenzalore]] would escalate into another time war. The Daleks managed to break through the [[Papal Mainframe]]'s [[force field]], resulting in a war on Trenzalore and many of the other [[fleet]]s were destroyed or retreated overtime. After 900 years of stalemate and with the Doctor dying of old age at the end of his final incarnation, the Time Lords granted him a new cycle of [[regeneration]]s, with the resulting regenerative "reset" destroying the Dalek forces, ending the Siege, averting a new Time War, and beginning the Doctor's [[Twelfth Doctor|fourteenth incarnation]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Time of the Doctor (TV story)}})
 
With the aid of [[Rassilon]] as [[Cyber-President]], the Cybermen launched an [[Alternate timeline (Supremacy of the Cybermen)|all-out war throughout history]] which overwrote the Last Great Time War, heralding the [[Age of the Cyberiad]]. When the Cybermen betrayed Rassilon, he united with the [[Twelfth Doctor]] to prevent the invasion from beginning. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)}})
 
An attempted [[Kasaavin invasion|invasion]] of the Doctor's universe by the [[Kasaavin realm|extra-dimensional]] [[Kasaavin]], whom were allied with {{Dhawan}}, was enacted across time with fronts in [[1834]], [[1943]] and [[2020]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Spyfall (TV story)}})
 
In anticipation of [[the Flux]], the [[Sontaran]]s waged a [[Temporal Offensive]] on [[Earth]], sending [[timeship]]s back through time and overwriting the planet's history. This offensive was ultimately thwarted by the [[Thirteenth Doctor]] and her [[companion]]s, averting the changes the Sontarans had made. ([[TV]]: {{cs|War of the Sontarans (TV story)}})
 
=== [[Parallel universe]]s ===
In the [[Unbound Universe]], the [[Great War (Unbound Universe)|Great War]] was a time war that ravaged the cosmos. The fighting came to a close when [[Unbound Master|the Master]] unleashed a superweapon that destroyed most of the universe. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Emporium at the End (audio story)}}) After the War, no-one could recall what had started it. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Library in the Body (audio story)}})
 
In [[the Warrior's universe]], a Time War began after [[the Warrior]]'s interference in the [[creation of the Daleks]], ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Dust Devil (audio story)}}) as his actions led to the formation of the [[Unified Skaroan Alliance]] who developed time travel from the [[Fourth Doctor's Time Ring|time ring]] he'd left behind and then sought to control the universe. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Aftershocks (audio story)}})
 
== Behind the scenes ==
Before ''War of the Sontarans'', the video game ''[[Legacy (video game)|Legacy]]'' opened with the [[Eleventh Doctor]] finding the Sontarans waging an offensive across the history of Earth and [[the universe]], beginning a temporal crisis which draws in [[the Doctor]]s, their [[companion]]s and numerous enemies.
{{Time wars}}
[[Category:Conflicts]]
[[Category:Time wars]]
 
[[pt:Guerra do tempo]]

Latest revision as of 21:07, 20 October 2024

You may be looking for the Last Great Time War or the War in Heaven.
A Time Lord witnesses the destruction of the Last Great Time War. (PROSE: The Whoniverse [+]Loading...["The Whoniverse (novel)"])

A time war could be one of at least two types of time-spanning conflicts. The first type of time war was where sides fought each other across different points in history. The second type of time war was one in which time itself was used as a weapon by two or more time-active factions, employing preemptive strikes, time loops, temporal paradoxes and the reversal of historical events. It is difficult to study these wars, since they tended to erase the damage before it was made.

Examples[[edit] | [edit source]]

Early time wars of Gallifrey[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Time Wars were a collections of time wars fought between the early Time Lords and other races that were developing time travel, (PROSE: Sky Pirates! [+]Loading...["Sky Pirates! (novel)"]) lasting 30,000 years. (PROSE: The Infinity Doctors [+]Loading...["The Infinity Doctors (novel)"]) The Time Lords destroyed one such race, the Charon, before they even existed. Another unnamed species which was eliminated created the reality bomb. (PROSE: Sky Pirates! [+]Loading...["Sky Pirates! (novel)"])

Among the Time Wars was the Black Sun War, (PROSE: Heart of TARDIS [+]Loading...["Heart of TARDIS (novel)"]) starting when the Order of the Black Sun sent a time-travelling assassin to prevent Gallifrey from gaining time travel. (COMIC: Star Death [+]Loading...["Star Death (comic story)"], 4-D War [+]Loading...["4-D War (comic story)"]) The Order itself existed 30,000 years in the future, and launched a second attack in the Question Hall twenty years after the initial attack. (COMIC: 4-D War [+]Loading...["4-D War (comic story)"]) The Time Lords had been viewed by the Order as striking first in the present, after the Sontaran ambassador Brilox used a psy-snare to make the parahuman Millenium assassinate the Black Sun Elder in an attempt to secure the uranium on Desrault for the Sontarans while Gallifrey and the Black Sun were "at each other's throats". (COMIC: Black Sun Rising [+]Loading...["Black Sun Rising (comic story)"])

According to one account, however, before the Last Great Time War only two other time wars had ever taken place — both of each started by other species, but ended with relative ease by the Time Lords stepping on. One was the "skirmish" between the Halldons and the Eternals, and the other being was the "brutal slaughter" of the Omnicraven Uprising. (PROSE: Meet the Doctor [+]Loading...["Meet the Doctor (DWAN 2006 short story)"])

The Doctor's era[[edit] | [edit source]]

When visiting the planet Aoris, the Fourth Doctor, Romana II and K9 discovered that the planet was engaged in a time-travelling war as residents of Era 24 attacked the 'Age of Greed' in Era 14, approximately a thousand years before their time, stealing endangered animals and the potent natural power source of zenox crystals from the past in the belief that their ancestors were incapable of using these resources properly. In the course of his time on Aoris, the Doctor realised that this war was the result of a complex time loop, as the people of Era 14 only came to rely on more environmentally-dangerous power sources such as fossil fuels because the zenox crystals were stolen by their future descendants. The Doctor, Romana and K9 were eventually able to end hostilities between the two sides, leaving a few people from Era 24 in Era 14 to set up a resistance movement that would aid them in Era 24 while sending the rest of Era 24 into the further future so that Aoris could be regenerated by various terraforming engines. (AUDIO: The Paradox Planet [+]Loading...["The Paradox Planet (audio story)"]/Legacy of Death [+]Loading...["Legacy of Death (audio story)"])

The Deindum War was fought across time, with Irving Braxiatel and his associates attempting to erase the Deindum from history before they developed into a war-like race. (PROSE: Present Danger [+]Loading...["Present Danger (short story)"])

In the earlier stages of their history, the Daleks made some attempts to weaponise time travel in war. In the 26th century the Daleks sought to escalate the Second Dalek War into a temporal conflict by utilising time travel to defeat the Earth Empire. They were overambitious and unsuccessful, contributing to their ultimate defeat, but the research laid the groundwork for future campaigns of the same nature. (PROSE: Prisoner of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Prisoner of the Daleks (novel)"], AUDIO: Out of Time [+]Loading...["Out of Time (audio story)"]) The Daleks later worked with renegade Time Lord Shazar to attempt to make a fleet of time machines, but were foiled by interference of the Fourth Doctor and the Time Lord High Council. (COMIC: Return of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Return of the Daleks (TVC comic story)"]) The Daleks would eventually develop their own form of time machine, which deployed to hunt down the First Doctor on two occasions; firstly in a failed execution attempt, (TV: The Chase [+]Loading...["The Chase (TV story)"]) and in the 40th century to invade Earth in 2415.

However, the Dalek Emperor's personal time machine proved unreliable and he was separated from his force, which was defeated. (COMIC: The Secret of the Emperor [+]Loading...["The Secret of the Emperor (comic story)"]) In 4000 a time machine was used by the Daleks during the Time Destructor Incident to retrieve the taranium core stolen by the First Doctor. (TV: The Daleks' Master Plan [+]Loading...["The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)"]) In 4590, (PROSE: Resurrection of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Resurrection of the Daleks (novelisation)"]) the Daleks employed a time corridor during their rescue of Davros, embroiling 1984 London in events occurring centuries later. (TV: Resurrection of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Resurrection of the Daleks (TV story)"]) During the Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War, two rival Dalek factions travelled back to 1963 to claim the Hand of Omega, resulting in the Shoreditch Incident. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)"]) The Daleks would later use time travel technology in their successful gambit to destroy and rebirth the Seriphia Galaxy. (AUDIO: The Apocalypse Element [+]Loading...["The Apocalypse Element (audio story)"])

Following the Daleks' attempt to invade Gallifrey itself according to one account, (AUDIO: Ascension [+]Loading...["Ascension (Gallifrey audio story)"]) the Time Lords sent the Fourth Doctor back in time in an attempt to avert the Daleks from evolving. (TV: Genesis of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)"]) In doing so, they fired the "first shot" of a later Last Great Time War. (COMIC: Hunters of the Burning Stone [+]Loading...["Hunters of the Burning Stone (comic story)"])

The Ghost Wars[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Ghost Wars of the Horsehead Nebula were a conflict between the Malakh Imperium, an interstellar empire of vampires, and many other factions in and around the Nebula. Because both parties had time travel and routinely used it to alter the course of the conflict, they devolved not only into a time war but into a Change War, endlessly looping back on itself, its every detail subject to change; as the Monk put it, "a beach whose history is washed out completely by a storm only to be washed in again by the next", written in "palimpsest and smoke". The Archons of Time were not officially involved, but the Wars nearly caused the death of one of their former Presidents, although he returned to life after thirty-two days as the Wars' timeline mutated again. (PROSE: The Bloodletters [+]Loading...["The Bloodletters (novel)"])

War in Heaven[[edit] | [edit source]]

At one point in the Eighth Doctor's future, the War in Heaven was fought between the Time Lords and the enemy. (PROSE: Alien Bodies [+]Loading...["Alien Bodies (novel)"]) The Eighth Doctor destroyed a Gallifrey while attempting to prevent this war from beginning. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell [+]Loading...["The Ancestor Cell (novel)"])

Sutekh and Horus agreed that the Osirian throne would go to the winner of a time war. (AUDIO: Ozymandias [+]Loading...["Ozymandias (audio story)"]) The resultant conflict was orchestrated by Justine so both Sutekh and Lolita would be defeated. (AUDIO: The Judgment of Sutekh [+]Loading...["The Judgment of Sutekh (audio story)"])

Last Great Time War and beyond[[edit] | [edit source]]

Pa-Jass Vortan was a Dalek phrase that translated to "the Time War." (PROSE: The Slyther of Shoreditch [+]Loading...["The Slyther of Shoreditch (short story)"]) According to the Seventh Corsair, the Destruction of Skaro by the Hand of Omega triggered a "little" time war, which was eventually erased by the Last Great Time War. (PROSE: One Virtue, and a Thousand Crimes [+]Loading...["One Virtue, and a Thousand Crimes (short story)"]) In this much larger war, the Time Lords fought against the Dalek Empire, which by some accounts was originally ended by the destruction of Gallifrey (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Time War [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Time War (short story)","Doctor Who and the Time War"], COMIC: Sky Jacks [+]Loading...["Sky Jacks (comic story)","Sky Jacks"]) and was later rewritten (PROSE:Big Bang Generation [+]Loading...["Big Bang Generation (novel)"], TARDIS Type 40 Instruction Manual [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"The Desktop Theme","page":"91","chaptnum":"V","1":"TARDIS Type 40 Instruction Manual (reference book)"}, Dalek Combat Training Manual [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"The Time War","chaptnum":"XII","1":"Dalek Combat Training Manual (reference book)"}) so that, by most accounts, multiple incarnations of the Doctor instead ended the conflict by freezing Gallifrey in a pocket universe, making the Daleks accidentally destroy one another in their own crossfire, while the rest of the universe believed that both sides had just annihilated each other. (TV: The Day of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"])

The Time War's effects on the history of the universe was such that the pre-Time War universe was not the same as the post-Time War universe, with the war itself being contained within its own version of reality by a time lock. (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe [+]Loading...["Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)"], Dalek Combat Training Manual [+]Loading...["Dalek Combat Training Manual (reference book)"])

The Kovarian Chapter waged a war through time against the Eleventh Doctor, having gone back along his timeline in an attempt to avert his arrival at Trenzalore. Tasha Lem warned the Doctor that if the Time Lords returned to the universe then the species waiting above Trenzalore — among them the New Dalek Paradigm, Cybermen, Sontarans, Terileptils, Judoon and Weeping Angels, along with the Slitheen family — would attack them and the Siege of Trenzalore would escalate into another time war. The Daleks managed to break through the Papal Mainframe's force field, resulting in a war on Trenzalore and many of the other fleets were destroyed or retreated overtime. After 900 years of stalemate and with the Doctor dying of old age at the end of his final incarnation, the Time Lords granted him a new cycle of regenerations, with the resulting regenerative "reset" destroying the Dalek forces, ending the Siege, averting a new Time War, and beginning the Doctor's fourteenth incarnation. (TV: The Time of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Time of the Doctor (TV story)"])

With the aid of Rassilon as Cyber-President, the Cybermen launched an all-out war throughout history which overwrote the Last Great Time War, heralding the Age of the Cyberiad. When the Cybermen betrayed Rassilon, he united with the Twelfth Doctor to prevent the invasion from beginning. (COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen [+]Loading...["Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)"])

An attempted invasion of the Doctor's universe by the extra-dimensional Kasaavin, whom were allied with the Spy Master, was enacted across time with fronts in 1834, 1943 and 2020. (TV: Spyfall [+]Loading...["Spyfall (TV story)"])

In anticipation of the Flux, the Sontarans waged a Temporal Offensive on Earth, sending timeships back through time and overwriting the planet's history. This offensive was ultimately thwarted by the Thirteenth Doctor and her companions, averting the changes the Sontarans had made. (TV: War of the Sontarans [+]Loading...["War of the Sontarans (TV story)"])

Parallel universes[[edit] | [edit source]]

In the Unbound Universe, the Great War was a time war that ravaged the cosmos. The fighting came to a close when the Master unleashed a superweapon that destroyed most of the universe. (AUDIO: The Emporium at the End [+]Loading...["The Emporium at the End (audio story)"]) After the War, no-one could recall what had started it. (AUDIO: The Library in the Body [+]Loading...["The Library in the Body (audio story)"])

In the Warrior's universe, a Time War began after the Warrior's interference in the creation of the Daleks, (AUDIO: Dust Devil [+]Loading...["Dust Devil (audio story)"]) as his actions led to the formation of the Unified Skaroan Alliance who developed time travel from the time ring he'd left behind and then sought to control the universe. (AUDIO: Aftershocks [+]Loading...["Aftershocks (audio story)"])

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

Before War of the Sontarans, the video game Legacy opened with the Eleventh Doctor finding the Sontarans waging an offensive across the history of Earth and the universe, beginning a temporal crisis which draws in the Doctors, their companions and numerous enemies.

v • e
Time wars
Kurukshetra war
Early Time Wars
Eternal War
Black Sun War
Racnoss Wars
Other conflicts
Deindum War
Millennium Wars
"A thousand worlds in conflict for a thousand years"
Skirmish between the
Halldons and the Eternals
Omnicraven Uprising
Time Lords vs. unknown
War in Heaven‎
Great Cosmic War
Archons vs. their enemies, The Unravel
Tim War
Superiors vs. unknown
Time War
Last Great Time War
Parallel universe: Great War
Time Lords and Tramatz vs. unknown
Parallel universe: Time War
Retrieved from "https://tardis.wiki/w/index.php?title=Time_war&oldid=3871314"