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{{Wikipediainfo}}The '''edge of the universe''' was the location where [[space]] actually ended, beyond which there was nothing but the [[Black Void]].
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{{first pic|Edge of the world (Voyager).jpg|The edge of the world as the [[Sixth Doctor]] viewed it. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Voyager (comic story)}})}}
The '''edge of the universe''', '''edge of reality''', '''end of the world''', '''edge of the world''' or '''edge of creation''', which [[Astrolabus]] equated with "'''the ends of the [[Earth]]'''", was the location where [[space]] actually ended.  


[[Mondas]] was said to have drifted to "the edge of space". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'')
The [[Sixth Doctor]] claimed that "the world [had] no end", but was told by [[Astrolabus]] that this statement was a product of [[logic]] and that "[[Anchoring of the thread|logic [was] a new toy]]". ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Voyager (comic story)}}) According to the [[Fourteenth Doctor]], the edge was roughly 100 trillion years away from Earth. [[The walls]] of reality were "thin" at "the edge". ([[TV]]: {{cs|Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)}})


The [[Empress of the Racnoss (The Runaway Bride)|Empress of the Racnoss]] travelled to the edge of the universe in her [[Webstar]], where she hibernated until the ''[[Secret Heart]]'' was uncovered. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride]]'')
== History ==
[[Mondas]] was said to have drifted to "the edge of space" (although this was probably a reference to the edge of the solar system rather than the edge of the universe). ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Tenth Planet (TV story)}})


The [[Dæmon]] [[Azal (Voyage to the Edge of the Universe)|Azal]] travelled to the edge of the universe in the spacecraft ''[[Leviathan (Dæmon spacecraft)|Leviathan]]'', where he encountered and merged with his counterpart from another reality. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Voyage to the Edge of the Universe]]'')
The [[Empress of the Racnoss (The Runaway Bride)|Empress of the Racnoss]] travelled to the edge of the universe in her [[Webstar]], where she hibernated until the ''[[Secret Heart]]'' was uncovered. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Runaway Bride (TV story)}})


According to [[Salamar]], [[Zeta Minor]] was located "on the very edge of the known universe." ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of Evil (TV story)|Planet of Evil]]'')
The [[Dæmon]] [[Azal (Voyage to the Edge of the Universe)|Azal]] travelled to the edge of the universe in the spacecraft ''[[Leviathan (Dæmon spacecraft)|Leviathan]]'', where he encountered and merged with his counterpart from another reality. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Voyage to the Edge of the Universe (comic story)}})


The [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Leela]] travelled to the "edge of the cosmos", where they detected the ''[[R1C]]''{{'}}s [[ion drive]] and encountered a [[spiral nebula]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Underworld]]'')
According to [[Salamar]], [[Zeta Minor]] was located "on the very edge of the known universe." ([[TV]]: {{cs|Planet of Evil (TV story)}})


The [[Fourth Doctor]], [[Mike Yates]] and [[Fenella Wibbsey]] travelled to the edge of the universe, where the [[Demon (The Relics of Time)|Demon]] had create the [[Sepulchre]] atop a [[planetoid]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sepulchre (audio story)|Sepulchre]]'')
The [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Leela]] visited a [[Planet (White Ghosts)|planet]] on the edge of the known universe, where they fought [[vampire]]s. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|White Ghosts (audio story)}}) They later travelled to the "edge of the cosmos", where they detected the ''[[R1C]]''{{'}}s [[ion drive]] and encountered a [[spiral nebula]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Underworld (TV story)}})


In [[1999]], [[Anne Travers]] banished the [[Great Intelligence]], stranding it on the edges of the universe, riding the blue shift outwards into infinity. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Millennial Rites]]'')
[[File:Life force (Invasion! The Enemy Within!).jpg|thumb|right|The [[Life force (Invasion! The Enemy Within!)|life force]] at the edge of space. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Invasion! The Enemy Within! (comic story)}})]]
In the mid [[20th century]], a near-omniscient [[Life force (Invasion! The Enemy Within!)|life force]] existed "beyond the beyond of beyond, at the dark endless edge of eternal space". It once informed an individual of a [[Dalek Vault]] hidden below [[London Bridge]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Invasion! The Enemy Within! (comic story)}})


{{Ainley|c}} fled from the [[Kroton (species)|Krotons]] to the edge of the universe, where he collected the exotic particles he needed for use against the [[Chronovore]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'')
It once relayed the details of [[Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event|a Dalek attack on a prehistoric planet]] to an individual from the [[20th century]]. It warned the individual that the Daleks had left a [[Dalek Vault]] on the planet, but the life force did not know which planet this was. It sent a scrambled [[thought image]] to the individual which revealed where the Daleks left their vault: under the modern location of [[London Bridge]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Invasion! The Enemy Within! (comic story)}})


[[The Monk]] travelled to the edge of the universe, where he summoned [[Artemis (No Future)|Artemis]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[No Future]]'')
The [[Fourth Doctor]], [[Mike Yates]] and [[Fenella Wibbsey]] travelled to the edge of the universe, where the [[Demon (The Relics of Time)|Demon]] had create the [[Sepulchre]] atop a [[planetoid]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Sepulchre (audio story)}})


The [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Molly O'Sullivan]] travelled to the edge of the universe, where they encountered [[Liv Chenka]] and [[the Eminence]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Time's Horizon]]'')
In [[1999]], [[Anne Travers]] banished the [[Great Intelligence]], stranding it on the edges of the universe, riding the blue shift outwards into infinity. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Millennial Rites (novel)}})


[[File:Hell_Bent.jpg|thumb|The Twelfth Doctor on Gallifrey at the end of the universe. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'')]]
[[Astrolabus]] was hounded by [[Voyager]] to the very edge of the universe, a frozen wasteland with some rocky formations and a stormy sea which streamed from the edge downwards and into nothingness. He landed [[Astrolabus' TARDIS|his TARDIS]] in the form of a [[lighthouse]] and use it to lure ships to their doom. He successfully found the ship of [[Visitor|the humanoids]] who had taken [[The Book of the Old Time|his charts]] from him, only to be delayed in departing by the [[Sixth Doctor]]. It was with [[Voyager]], the rightful owner of the charts, hot on his heels that Astrolabus left the edge of the world. After telling the Doctor to find Astrolabus on his behalf, Voyager sailed his [[death-ship]] off the edge of the universe and into [[the Void]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Voyager (comic story)}})
The [[Time Lord]]s existed at "the end of the universe, give or take a star system", having moved [[Gallifrey]] there for protection when they emerged from the [[pocket universe]] the Doctor had placed it in. Further on, at five minutes before "[[Hell]]", [[Ashildr|Me]] was found by the [[Twelfth Doctor]], waiting in the [[Cloisters]] in the bowels of the [[Capitol]] for the end of the universe. In her own words, she had been watching the stars die to pass the time until the end. However, she eventually left with [[Clara Oswald]] to drop the Doctor off in [[Nevada]], and then to take Clara back to Gallifrey "the long way round." ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'')
 
{{Ainley|c}} fled from the [[Kroton (species)|Krotons]] to the edge of the universe, where he collected the exotic particles he needed for use against the [[Chronovore]]s. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Quantum Archangel (novel)}})
 
{{Champion|c}} travelled to the edge of the universe, where he summoned [[Artemis (No Future)|Artemis]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|No Future (novel)}})
 
The [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Molly O'Sullivan]] travelled to the edge of the universe, where they encountered [[Liv Chenka]] and [[the Eminence]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Time's Horizon (audio story)}})
 
The [[Twelfth Doctor]] mentioned that humanity would eventually spread its way "to the very edges of the universe." ([[TV]]: {{cs|Kill the Moon (TV story)}})
 
The [[Thirteenth Doctor]] visited the [[Unmarked Purlieus]], an uncharted [[star system]] at "the very edge of reality", where she was infected by a [[psychic virus]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Salvation (audio story)}})
 
[[File: Wild Blue Yonder Nothingness.jpg|thumb|left|[[Spaceship (Wild Blue Yonder)|The spaceship]] at the edge of the universe. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)}})]]
[[Spaceship (Wild Blue Yonder)|A spaceship]] became stranded at the edge of the universe after leaving a [[wormhole]], and [[Captain (Wild Blue Yonder)|the captain]] killed themselves to stop the two creatures from beyond the edge dubbed "[[Not-thing]]s" from using their ship to escape into the known universe. Three years afterwards, the [[Fourteenth Doctor]] and [[Donna Noble]] arrived on the spaceship due to [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] malfunctioning, with the Doctor claiming he had "never travelled [so] far", and they were confronted by the Not-things. In order to drive them back, the Doctor invoked a [[superstition]] about a line of [[salt]] holding back [[vampire]]s, [[demon]]s and [[ghost]]s in a game against the not-things, but they discerned his act was just a ploy and blew away the line. After the not-things were destroyed in the spaceship's self-destruction, the Doctor wondered if there would be consequences for invoking a superstition at the edge of the universe, "where the walls [were] thin and all things [were] possible", ([[TV]]: {{cs|Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)}}) later learning that "play[ing the] game" with the salt had allowed myths and legends to "cross the line" and enter the universe, starting with [[the Toymaker]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Giggle (TV story)}}) Another account referred to these events as occurring at the "edge of creation". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Doctor's Busiest Day (short story)|page=8}})


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* In the real world, the universe doesn't have an edge because space is curved.
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Latest revision as of 21:15, 13 December 2024

Edge of the universe
The edge of the world as the Sixth Doctor viewed it. (COMIC: Voyager [+]Loading...["Voyager (comic story)"])

The edge of the universe, edge of reality, end of the world, edge of the world or edge of creation, which Astrolabus equated with "the ends of the Earth", was the location where space actually ended.

The Sixth Doctor claimed that "the world [had] no end", but was told by Astrolabus that this statement was a product of logic and that "logic [was] a new toy". (COMIC: Voyager [+]Loading...["Voyager (comic story)"]) According to the Fourteenth Doctor, the edge was roughly 100 trillion years away from Earth. The walls of reality were "thin" at "the edge". (TV: Wild Blue Yonder [+]Loading...["Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)"])

History[[edit] | [edit source]]

Mondas was said to have drifted to "the edge of space" (although this was probably a reference to the edge of the solar system rather than the edge of the universe). (TV: The Tenth Planet [+]Loading...["The Tenth Planet (TV story)"])

The Empress of the Racnoss travelled to the edge of the universe in her Webstar, where she hibernated until the Secret Heart was uncovered. (TV: The Runaway Bride [+]Loading...["The Runaway Bride (TV story)"])

The Dæmon Azal travelled to the edge of the universe in the spacecraft Leviathan, where he encountered and merged with his counterpart from another reality. (COMIC: Voyage to the Edge of the Universe [+]Loading...["Voyage to the Edge of the Universe (comic story)"])

According to Salamar, Zeta Minor was located "on the very edge of the known universe." (TV: Planet of Evil [+]Loading...["Planet of Evil (TV story)"])

The Fourth Doctor and Leela visited a planet on the edge of the known universe, where they fought vampires. (AUDIO: White Ghosts [+]Loading...["White Ghosts (audio story)"]) They later travelled to the "edge of the cosmos", where they detected the R1C's ion drive and encountered a spiral nebula. (TV: Underworld [+]Loading...["Underworld (TV story)"])

The life force at the edge of space. (COMIC: Invasion! The Enemy Within! [+]Loading...["Invasion! The Enemy Within! (comic story)"])

In the mid 20th century, a near-omniscient life force existed "beyond the beyond of beyond, at the dark endless edge of eternal space". It once informed an individual of a Dalek Vault hidden below London Bridge. (COMIC: Invasion! The Enemy Within! [+]Loading...["Invasion! The Enemy Within! (comic story)"])

It once relayed the details of a Dalek attack on a prehistoric planet to an individual from the 20th century. It warned the individual that the Daleks had left a Dalek Vault on the planet, but the life force did not know which planet this was. It sent a scrambled thought image to the individual which revealed where the Daleks left their vault: under the modern location of London Bridge. (COMIC: Invasion! The Enemy Within! [+]Loading...["Invasion! The Enemy Within! (comic story)"])

The Fourth Doctor, Mike Yates and Fenella Wibbsey travelled to the edge of the universe, where the Demon had create the Sepulchre atop a planetoid. (AUDIO: Sepulchre [+]Loading...["Sepulchre (audio story)"])

In 1999, Anne Travers banished the Great Intelligence, stranding it on the edges of the universe, riding the blue shift outwards into infinity. (PROSE: Millennial Rites [+]Loading...["Millennial Rites (novel)"])

Astrolabus was hounded by Voyager to the very edge of the universe, a frozen wasteland with some rocky formations and a stormy sea which streamed from the edge downwards and into nothingness. He landed his TARDIS in the form of a lighthouse and use it to lure ships to their doom. He successfully found the ship of the humanoids who had taken his charts from him, only to be delayed in departing by the Sixth Doctor. It was with Voyager, the rightful owner of the charts, hot on his heels that Astrolabus left the edge of the world. After telling the Doctor to find Astrolabus on his behalf, Voyager sailed his death-ship off the edge of the universe and into the Void. (COMIC: Voyager [+]Loading...["Voyager (comic story)"])

The Tremas Master fled from the Krotons to the edge of the universe, where he collected the exotic particles he needed for use against the Chronovores. (PROSE: The Quantum Archangel [+]Loading...["The Quantum Archangel (novel)"])

Mortimus travelled to the edge of the universe, where he summoned Artemis. (PROSE: No Future [+]Loading...["No Future (novel)"])

The Eighth Doctor and Molly O'Sullivan travelled to the edge of the universe, where they encountered Liv Chenka and the Eminence. (AUDIO: Time's Horizon [+]Loading...["Time's Horizon (audio story)"])

The Twelfth Doctor mentioned that humanity would eventually spread its way "to the very edges of the universe." (TV: Kill the Moon [+]Loading...["Kill the Moon (TV story)"])

The Thirteenth Doctor visited the Unmarked Purlieus, an uncharted star system at "the very edge of reality", where she was infected by a psychic virus. (AUDIO: Salvation [+]Loading...["Salvation (audio story)"])

The spaceship at the edge of the universe. (TV: Wild Blue Yonder [+]Loading...["Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)"])

A spaceship became stranded at the edge of the universe after leaving a wormhole, and the captain killed themselves to stop the two creatures from beyond the edge dubbed "Not-things" from using their ship to escape into the known universe. Three years afterwards, the Fourteenth Doctor and Donna Noble arrived on the spaceship due to the Doctor's TARDIS malfunctioning, with the Doctor claiming he had "never travelled [so] far", and they were confronted by the Not-things. In order to drive them back, the Doctor invoked a superstition about a line of salt holding back vampires, demons and ghosts in a game against the not-things, but they discerned his act was just a ploy and blew away the line. After the not-things were destroyed in the spaceship's self-destruction, the Doctor wondered if there would be consequences for invoking a superstition at the edge of the universe, "where the walls [were] thin and all things [were] possible", (TV: Wild Blue Yonder [+]Loading...["Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)"]) later learning that "play[ing the] game" with the salt had allowed myths and legends to "cross the line" and enter the universe, starting with the Toymaker. (TV: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"]) Another account referred to these events as occurring at the "edge of creation". (PROSE: The Doctor's Busiest Day [+]Loading...{"page":"8","1":"The Doctor's Busiest Day (short story)"})

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