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The '''Earth Empire''' existed from circa the early [[26th century]] until its fall circa the late [[30th century]].
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The '''Earth Empire''' was the first [[planetary empire]] of the [[planet]] [[Earth]], which was formed sometime between [[2480]] and [[2520]] and was dismantled by [[2987]].


==History==
== History ==
The definitive date of the formation of the Empire remains unknown. One account says that the Empire existed in [[2501]] ([[NSA]]: ''[[The Monsters Inside]]''. Another set in the [[2530s]], mentions an [[Earth Federation]] exiting at that time ([[PDA]]: ''[[The Colony of Lies]]''). It seems likely that an Earth Alliance or Earth Federation formed the core of the nascent empire.
=== Origin ===
The definitive date of the formation of the Empire remains unknown. Around [[2501]], Earth was controlled by [[EarthGov]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Monsters Inside (novel)|The Monsters Inside]]'') In the [[26th century|2530s]], an [[Earth Federation]] existed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Colony of Lies (novel)|The Colony of Lies]]'')


The Earth Empire continued to grow and established [[Skybase]]s as command centers wherever Earth had a presence. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Mutants]]'', [[MA]]: ''[[Cold Fusion]]'') In the 26th century, [[Human]]s occupied one part of the [[Mutter's Spiral|Milky Way]] [[galaxy]], while the [[Draconian Empire]] occupied another part. There was a war between the two powers, ending with Articles of Peace that guaranteed a "frontier in space" between the two; trade agreements and cultural exchanges were made to lessen tensions. ([[DW]]: ''[[Frontier in Space]]'') In [[2540]], [[the Master (UNIT years)|the Master]], employing [[Ogron]]s, stirred up war between Earth and Draconia on behalf of the [[Dalek]]s. His plan was exposed, however, ([[DW]]: ''[[Frontier in Space]]'') and the [[Second Dalek War]] began. ([[NA]]: ''[[Return of the Living Dad]]'') (The First Dalek War was probably the [[22nd century Dalek invasion]] of Earth.)
Having jumped a [[time track]] to the [[pre-Time War universe]], the [[Tenth Doctor]] identified the Earth Empire as Earth's "first Empire". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Prisoner of the Daleks (novel)|Prisoner of the Daleks]]'') [[Human]] [[historian]]s in the [[post-Time War universe]], following the [[Siege of Trenzalore]], indicated that the empire would be known as the [[First Great and Bountiful Human Empire]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)|Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lost Flame (audio story)|The Lost Flame]]'')


By [[2472]], Earth was severely polluted and overpopulated, with 100 billion citizens. ([[DW]]: ''[[Colony in Space]]'') Food had to be imported from the colonies. In the [[26th century]], new cities like [[New Glasgow]] & [[New Montreal]] were being built in the Arctic, and population control laws restricted families to just one child (unless they moved to the Arctic cities). A free press and broadcasting service existed. ([[DW]]: ''[[Frontier in Space]]'')
=== Early history ===
The [[Galactic Cyberwars]] began in [[2383]] with an attack on the Earth Empire and, following a failed [[attack on Voga]] in [[2483]], finally ended in [[2489]] with the defeat of the [[Cybermen]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Cyber Files (novel)|The Cyber Files]]'')


The Empire continued to grow and develop in [[2450]], as the [[expedition to Telos]] was launched. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Sourcebook for Field Agents (novel)|A Sourcebook for Field Agents]]'')


In [[2480]] Earth was invaded by the [[Korven]]. However since the Korven's homeworld was colder than Earth, their performance in battle was affected and they were defeated. Tensions between the Earth Empire and the Korven lasted until at least [[2618]].([[K9TV]]: ''[[The Korven]]'')
By [[2472]], Earth was severely polluted and overpopulated, with a hundred billion citizens. ([[TV]]: ''[[Colony in Space (TV story)|Colony in Space]]'')


Not every Human in space chose to live in the Earth Empire. One band of the [[anarchist]] [[Traveller]]s, for example, settled on [[Heaven]], a neutral planet used as a burial ground by both sides. ([[NA]]: ''[[Love and War]]'')
In [[2480]], Earth was invaded by the [[Korven]], leading to a human victory. Tensions between the Earth Empire and the Korven lasted until at least [[2618]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Korven (TV story)|The Korven]]'')


In later centuries, a [[Divine Empress]] was established as head of the Empire. ([[NA]]: ''[[Original Sin]]'') By 2982, the current Empress was centuries old and her mind was slaved to the computer intelligence [[Centcomp]], which effectively ran her Empire. ([[NA]]: ''[[So Vile a Sin]]'')
In [[2495]], the [[Orion War]] between the humans of the Earth Empire and the [[Orion android|Android Horde]] began. It continued into the early [[26th century]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sword of Orion (audio story)|Sword of Orion]]'', ''[[Scorpius (audio story)|Scorpius]]'', et al.)


In [[2957]], Earth had recently fought the [[Wars of Acquisition]], and an aged Divine Empress still reigned from her [[Imperial Palace]] in orbit around [[Saturn]]. Some imperial subjects of this time showed prejudice against other species (even though humans, by this time had learned to "[[body bepple]]" into new, sometimes alien-seeming forms). [[Silurian]]s and [[Sea Devils]] had the highest status among non-human species, as they were Earthborn. The rich lived in hovering Overcities, leaving the poor and the alien in the polluted surface of the Earth. ([[NA]]: ''[[Original Sin]]'')
In the [[26th century]], [[human]]s occupied one part of the [[Mutter's Spiral|Milky Way]] [[galaxy]], while the [[Draconian Empire]] occupied another. There was a war between the two empires after a cultural misunderstanding (humans being unaware that Draconians sent battlecruisers to diplomatic meetings), ending with articles of peace that guaranteed a "frontier in space" between the two; trade agreements and cultural exchanges were instituted to lessen tensions. Food was imported from the colonies. Cities like [[New Glasgow]] and [[New Montreal]] were built in the Arctic, and population control laws restricted families to one child unless they moved to the Arctic cities. A free press and broadcasting service existed. ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'')


During [[2981]], as a war with the Ogrons dragged on, [[Seventh Doctor|the Doctor]] and his companion, the Adjudicator [[Roz Forrester]] (as well as [[Chris Cwej]], also a native of that era) got involved in a political struggle while culminated in the installation of Roz's sister, [[Leabie Forrester|Leabie]], as the new Empress. ([[NA]]: ''[[So Vile a Sin]]'')
The Earth Empire continued to grow and established [[Skybase]]s as command centres wherever Earth had a presence. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mutants (TV story)|The Mutants]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'') In a later presidential election, war hero [[John Williams]] campaigned for an "aggressive inter-stellar policy" against the [[President of Earth (Frontier in Space)|successful candidate]]. She appointed him to her government to heal political divides. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Space War (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Space War]]'')


By the [[30th century]] and early [[31st century|31st]] centuries, environmental devastation had degraded Earth's ecology. The Empire also had begun to crumble: with Earth exhausted politically and economically, it was simply unable to afford an Empire and began giving independence to its colonies. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Mutants]]'', [[MA]]: ''[[The Sorcerer's Apprentice]]'') Its collapse left a power vacuum that, by the [[40th century]], would be filled by the [[Galactic Federation]], which would be less Earth-centric and Human-dominated. ([[NA]]: ''[[Legacy]]'')
In [[2540]], {{Delgado}}, employing [[Ogron]]s, stirred up war between Earth and [[Draconia]] on behalf of the [[Dalek]]s. Faked attacks on frontier craft had the human public and political opposition soon demanding war. His plan was exposed ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'') and the [[Second Dalek War]] began. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Return of the Living Dad (novel)|Return of the Living Dad]]'') It raged on for decades, with an entire "[[Dalek Generation]]" who couldn't remember peacetime. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Prisoner of the Daleks (novel)|Prisoner of the Daleks]]'') [[Mars]] itself was occupied. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Beige Planet Mars (novel)|Beige Planet Mars]]'')


==Technology==
Not every human in space chose to live in the Earth Empire. One band of the [[anarchist]] [[Traveller (Love and War)|Travellers]], for example, settled on [[Heaven (Love and War)|Heaven]], a neutral planet used as a burial ground by both sides. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Love and War (novel)|Love and War]]'')
Empire ships were generally built of spheres, connected together with scaffolding. Ships were covered with bas-relief carvings of leaves and faces and other such decorations. The designs used by the Earth Empire was considered to be unpleasant by other species. ([[MA]]: ''[[The Dark Path]]'')


A specific type of ship was the [[Dauntless-class Imperial Destroyer]]. ([[MA]]: ''[[The Dark Path]]'')
Some time after the 26th century, the Earth Empire invaded [[Tractis]] and enslaved the [[Tractite]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Genocide (novel)|Genocide]]'')


The citizens of the Empire (and others) used [[puterspace]], a form of [[virtual reality]]. ([[NA]]: ''[[Love and War]]'') The Empire's monopoly on [[null-grav]] technology kept it powerful. ([[NA]]: ''[[Original Sin]]'')
A [[Third Dalek War]] put a stop to the Empire's expansion for a while. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Chase (novelisation)|The Chase]]'', ''[[Sky Pirates! (novel)|Sky Pirates!]]'') As recorded in the ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'', the Daleks had unleashed a [[space plague]] on colonies to weaken the ever-expanding Terran empire, culminating in the [[Exxilon Gambit]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (reference book)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Death to the Daleks (TV story)|Death to the Daleks]]'') the final action of the Third Dalek War. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Secret Lives of Monsters (novel)|The Secret Lives of Monsters]]'')


==Political System==
=== Later history ===
The Earth Empire was a lumbering bureaucracy with as many civil servants as civilians. The planetary or colonial governor of a planet was called a Viscount. ([[MA]]: ''[[The Dark Path]]'') In the 26th century it was overseen by a [[President of Earth]], who headed a world government with a Cabinet, a congress, and a senate; a democratic opposition existed within the congress and senate. The government also possessed a Bureau of Population Control. An outlaw political group, the [[Peace Party]], existed and attempted to gain power. ([[DW]]: ''[[Frontier in Space]]'')
In later centuries, the Empire became increasingly more unequal and prejudiced, and was under the control of a [[Divine Empress]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Secret of the Black Planet (short story)|Secret of the Black Planet]]'', ''[[Original Sin (novel)|Original Sin]]'')


Eventually, the Empire would be run by a Divine Empress with absolute control.
In the [[28th century]], townships around the major cities were no-go areas and travel permits were required to leave them; Earth was divided into regions (including the moon) and administered by a president, with Africa, the South Chinese Union, and the moon as the wealthiest; and the IT corporation Panafrica, run by the mighty Rohihlahla family, had rewritten history to portray [[Nelson Mandela]] as the founder of apartheid, to support the contemporary African elites and their apartheid policies. The Rohihlahlas' machinations were exposed and the dynasty was supplanted by the Forresters. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Secret of the Black Planet (short story)|Secret of the Black Planet]]'')


There also existed an [[Silurian|Earth Reptile]] Economic Confederation in the [[30th century]]. ([[NA]]: ''[[So Vile a Sin]]'')
Also in the 28th century, the Empire came to the [[Sense Sphere]] to exploit its mineral wealth. Two humans deserted the Sense Sphere in their spaceship while pretending to get reinforcements, but their Commander blew up the ship, leaving three humans stranded for ten years as they slowly poisoned the Sensorites from the [[aqueduct]]s. When more humans came, the Sensorites held them hostage until the [[First Doctor]] and his companions made peace. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sensorites (TV story)|The Sensorites]]'')


The [[Folflower (system)|Folflower System]] was relatively unique by having a constitutional monarchy for the majority of the duration of the Empire. ([[TDL]]: ''[[The Graves of Mordane]]'')
In [[2850]], a new Empress was [[Coronation|crowned]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[So Vile a Sin (novel)|So Vile a Sin]]'')


===Military Forces===
By the mid-[[30th century]], an aged Divine Empress reigned from her [[Imperial Palace]] in orbit around [[Saturn]], with a feudal system in place. The empire was conquering alien planets and most imperial subjects were prejudiced against other species, even though humans, by this time had learned to "[[body bepple]]" into new, sometimes alien-seeming forms. [[Earth Reptile]]s had the highest status among non-human species, as they were Earthborn. The rich lived in hovering Overcities, leaving the poor and alien on the polluted surface of the Earth with the decaying former cities like London; even the Overcities were stratified by wealth, with the relatively poorer confined to lower levels. The Imperial Landsknechte and the ''Vigilant'' space defences had Earth defended. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Original Sin (novel)|Original Sin]]'', ''[[So Vile a Sin (novel)|So Vile a Sin]]'') Environmental devastation had left Earth in a degraded state. On conquered alien worlds, human "Overlords" ruled aliens, who had lesser rights, from [[Skybase]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mutants (TV story)|The Mutants]]'')
In purely military matters, the President's power was limited; to overrule the head of the military in these matters, the President would need the backing of the full Senate. ([[DW]]: ''[[Frontier in Space]]'')


The Empire had the [[Spacefleet]] ([[NA]]: ''[[Deceit]]'') and an Imperial Navy ([[MA]]: ''[[The Dark Path]]''). Security was provided by the [[Landsknechte]] or Naval Troops. ([[MA]]: ''[[The Dark Path]]'') They also had a feared Earth Security organisation that interrogated suspected traitors, including the use of mind probes. A Special Security Act allowed the President to deport traitors to the [[Lunar Penal Colony]] without trial. ([[DW]]: ''[[Frontier in Space]]'')
In [[2957]], the Earth Empire had recently fought the latest of the [[Wars of Acquisition]]. This had included the Empire terraforming the [[Hith]] homeworld and leaving the species homeless, as well as Earth itself being bombarded. Icaron radiation from a Hithis ship held by [[Tobias Vaughn]] sparked off a wave of psychotic murders which escalated to Overcity riots and some cities falling from the sky. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Original Sin (novel)|Original Sin]]'') This started the Empire's downfall.


In 2540, some of the senior military officials believed a military dictatorship would lead to a more effective and stronger Empire. ([[DW]]: ''[[Frontier in Space]]'')
In the late 30th century, the Empire had begun to crumble: with Earth exhausted politically and economically, it could not afford an Empire and began giving independence to its colonies. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mutants (TV story)|The Mutants]]'') Attempts were made to check the fall of the Empire, with little success. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Sorcerer's Apprentice (novel)|The Sorcerer's Apprentice]]'')


In 2618, the military force of Earth was the [[Global Command]]. One of the divisions of Global Command was the [[Special Operations Commando]]. ([[K9TV]]: ''[[The Korven]]'')
In [[2982]], as a war with the Ogrons dragged on and political factions vied for power, the [[Seventh Doctor]] and his companions, the Adjudicators [[Roz Forrester]] and [[Chris Cwej]], got involved in a political struggle which ended in the installation of Roz's sister, [[Leabie Forrester|Leabie]], as the new Empress. The current Empress was centuries old and her mind was slaved to the computer intelligence [[Centcomp]], which effectively ran her Empire, and requested the Doctor kill her. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[So Vile a Sin (novel)|So Vile a Sin]]'')


In later centuries, the Empire's forces would begin conquering alien races and inhabited worlds. ([[NA]]: ''[[Original Sin]]'')
Within five years of becoming Empress, Leabie Forrester dismantled the Empire, granting independence to every planet whether they wanted it or not. After which, Earth was abandoned by its former colonies as the [[Overcity|Overcities]] fell out of the sky, and the remaining population descended into barbarism, with the surviving humans turning on the aliens as sources of food. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dependence Day (short story)|Dependence Day]]'')


In 2982, the special army/religious order Unitatus was part of Earth's defences. ([[NA]]: ''[[So Vile a Sin]]'')
In [[2991]], with the Empire still in decline, [[Admiral]] [[Nyborg]] headed an invasion of [[Avalon (planet)|Avalon]] which turned into a mission to acquire [[Merlin's Helm]] after special officer [[Captain]] [[Shannon (The Sorcerer's Apprentice)|Shannon]] discovered its immense power. This mission was unsuccessful, however, as the [[First Doctor]] had a hand in disabling the [[nanobot]] system which granted the helm its power. Nyborg and [[Magnus III]] of Avalon's principal nation, [[Elbyon]], then engaged in peace talks. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Sorcerer's Apprentice (novel)|The Sorcerer's Apprentice]]'')


===Crime and Punishment===
Another account stated that the Earth Empire was still in decay in [[3174]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Burning Heart (novel)|Burning Heart]]'') [[Garrison Clay]] described the [[33rd century]] as the Late Earth Empire. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Last Words (audio story)}})
In the [[25th century]], the [[Guild of Adjudicators|Adjudicators Bureau]] settled legal disputes in the Empire and enforced Earth law. ([[DW]]: ''[[Colony in Space]]'') In the 26th century, [[Interplanetary Police Commissioners]] administered off-planet law, possessing their own ships with cell facilities. ([[DW]]: ''[[Frontier in Space]]'')


During the war, condemned criminals were given the choice to be sent into Dalek space as [[Dalek Killer]]s, essentially a suicide mission, rather than execution. ([[DWM]]: ''[[Abslom Daak... Dalek Killer]]'')
=== Aftermath and successors ===
The Empire's collapse left a power vacuum that, by the [[34th century]], was filled by the [[Earth Alliance]], a more loose alliance of Earth and its colonies, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Sirens of Time (audio story)|The Sirens of Time]]'', ''[[Invasion of the Daleks (audio story)|Invasion of the Daleks]]'') and the [[Galactic Federation]], which was less Earth-centric and human-dominated. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dark Path (novel)|The Dark Path]]'') A [[Terran Federation]] also existed by the late [[29th century]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Occam's Razor (audio story)|Occam's Razor]]'') On Earth itself, humanity rebounded in the later 31st century. Survivors of the Overcities formed [[Europa (Managra)|Europa]] in former Europe ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Managra (novel)|Managra]]'') and the [[Fifth Doctor]] said the 31st century was "all space cities and monorails". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Butcher of Brisbane (audio story)|The Butcher of Brisbane]]'') The planet became a founding member of the Federation in the [[32nd century]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Legacy (novel)|Legacy]]'')


Under the Special Security Act, political dissidents went to the Lunar Penal Colony ([[DW]]: ''[[Frontier in Space]]'', [[NA]]: ''[[Love and War]]''), [[Justicia]] ([[NSA]]: ''[[The Monsters Inside]]'') or [[Draconian]] Penal Colonies. ([[MA]]: ''[[The Dark Path]]''). The Lunar colony was a life sentence. Many of the dissidents were members of the Peace Party. One Peace Party member remarked to the Doctor that you could be arrested merely for criticising the government. Hardened criminals from regular prisoners were hired as trustees at the Lunar Penal Colony. ([[DW]]: ''[[Frontier in Space]]'')
Both the Galactic Federation and the Earth Alliance lasted to at least the [[41st century]], upon which they collapsed due their own separate wars with the Daleks. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Legacy (novel)|Legacy]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Invasion of the Daleks (audio story)|Invasion of the Daleks]]'') An Earth-centred humanity was already quite powerful in [[4000]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)|The Daleks' Master Plan]]'') and evolved into the Earth Empire's successor, the [[First Great and Bountiful Human Empire]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lost Flame (audio story)|The Lost Flame]]'')


In the later years of the Empire, the Adjudicators (now the Guild of Adjudicators) would transform into an armed law enforcement body. ([[MA]]: ''[[The Dark Path]]'')
[[Human]] [[historian]]s from the [[far future]] who studied the [[Dalek]]s indicated that the initial Earth Empire and the First Great and Bountiful Human Empire were in fact one and the same. They understood that the Daleks waged a [[Dalek Wars|protracted war]] with the [[colony|colonies]] of the First Great and Bountiful Human Empire, which motivated them to enact temporal incursions such as the [[Time Paradox Incident]] to overwrite [[history]] in their favour, with some historians suggesting that the Daleks' nascent [[time travel]] technology had allowed them to foresee the First Great and Bountiful Human Empire swell to encompass innumerable worlds and, as a consequence, identified the human race as a grave threat to their dominance of [[the universe]] and their self-appointed superiority over all other [[life form]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)|Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe]]'')


==Territories==
=== Undated events ===
Colonies under Earth control included [[Sirius IV]] ([[DW]]: ''[[Frontier in Space]]''), the [[Seven Planets|Althosian system]] ([[NA]]: ''[[The Pit]]''), [[Beta Caprisis]], [[Mal Oreille]], the [[Justicia|Justicia System]] ([[NSA]]: ''[[The Monsters Inside]]''), the [[Folflower (system)|Folflower System]] ([[TDL]]: ''[[The Graves of Mordane]]''), and [[Solos]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Mutants]]'')
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[[File:Vourakis 3.jpg|thumb|The [[Skink]] spaceship over [[Vourakis 3]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Pirates of Vourakis (comic story)|Pirates of Vourakis]]'')]]
[[Ron Cordell]] almost started a war in the Earth Empire when he hired [[Skink]]s to blockade the important trading planet [[Vourakis 3]]. The [[Twelfth Doctor]] and ''[[Transmetropolitan]]'' reporter [[Heddy Garber]] went onto the Skink ship and destroyed it, averting the war and killing Cordell, who was on the ship at the time. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Pirates of Vourakis (comic story)|Pirates of Vourakis]]'')


In the 25th century, planets were tasked for either colonisation or mining. ([[DW]]: ''[[Colony in Space]]'') There were often tensions with the colony worlds, even into the 26th century. ([[DW]]: ''[[Frontier in Space]]'')
== Technology ==
Empire ships were generally built of spheres, connected by scaffolding. Ships were covered with bas-relief carvings of leaves and faces and similar decorations. The designs used by the Earth Empire were considered unpleasant by other species. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dark Path (novel)|The Dark Path]]'')


Some of these planets, such as Sirius IV, had dominion status, allowing them to tax and try their own citizens. Some on Earth looked down on them, seeing them as still colonies. ([[DW]]: ''[[Frontier in Space]]'')
A specific type of ship was the [[Dauntless-class Imperial Destroyer]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dark Path (novel)|The Dark Path]]'')


The Empire would go on capture and subjugate many inhabited planets and their indigenous populations. ([[NA]]: ''[[Original Sin]]'') ([[NA]]: ''[[So Vile a Sin]]'') An apartheid system would be in place on a number of these planets, such as Solos. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Mutants]]'')
The citizens of the Empire (and others) used [[puterspace]], a form of [[virtual reality]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Love and War (novel)|Love and War]]'') The Empire's monopoly on [[null-grav]] technology kept it powerful. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Original Sin (novel)|Original Sin]]'')


In the 30th century, the Empire began to collapse. Many colonies were given independence. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Mutants]]'')
In the [[30th century]], [[body bepple]]s allowed Earth Empire citizens to alter their bodies so that they barely resembled humans. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Original Sin (novel)|Original Sin]]'')


==Notable Individuals==
== Political system ==
As noted previously, the Adjudicators Chris Cwej and Roz Forrestor of the powerful [[Forester family]] grew up in the late Earth Empire period of the [[30th century]]. ([[NA]]: ''[[Original Sin]]'')
[[File:PresidentOfEarth(FIS).jpg|thumb|Dora, the President of Earth in 2540. ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'')]]
The Earth Empire was a lumbering bureaucracy with as many civil servants as civilians. The planetary or colonial governor of a planet was called a [[Viscount]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dark Path (novel)|The Dark Path]]'') In the 26th century it was overseen by a [[President of Earth]], who headed a world government with a Cabinet, a congress, and a senate; a democratic opposition existed within the congress and senate. The government also had a Bureau of Population Control. An outlaw political group, the [[Peace Party]], tried to gain power. ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'')


Two other, very different [[26th century]] individuals, both of whom had loved ones killed by the Daleks (and who would one day meet ([[DWM]]: ''[[Emperor of the Daleks]]'') lived during the earlier history of the Empire:
As with the [[British Empire]], dominion planets like [[Sirius IV]] had a large degree of autonomy. Some on Earth looked down on the dominions as jumped-up colonies. ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'')
* One, a particularly savage Dalek Killer named [[Abslom Daak]], living in time period after the Human-Draconian War, survived ([[DWM]]: ''[[Abslom Daak... Dalek Killer]]'') and did so well for himself that, by 2573, at least one [[clone]] of him existed in Human-occupied space ([[NA]]: ''[[Deceit]]'').
*The other, adventurer-[[archaeologist]] [[Bernice Summerfield|Bernice ("Benny") Summerfield]], had lost both parents in the [[Second Dalek War]]. She met [[Seventh Doctor|the Doctor]] on Heaven, a neutral planet, in mid-[[2570]]. ([[NA]]: ''[[Love and War]]'') She joined him on his travels, but, after, her marriage to [[Jason Kane]] ([[NA]]: ''[[Happy Endings]]'') and a divorce from him ([[NA]]: ''[[Eternity Weeps]]''), settled back into her own time. ([[BNA]]: ''[[The Dying Days]]'') She would eventually have many adventures on her own.


Also, though originally native to the late [[1980s]] prior to her travels with [[Seventh Doctor|the Doctor]], [[Ace]] decided to stay on Heaven at the same time as Benny joined ([[NA]]: ''[[Love and War]]'') She joined Spacefleet, where she served for at least three years in her mid-to-late twenties. ([[NA]]: ''[[Deceit]]'')
Eventually, the Empire was run by a [[Divine Empress]] with absolute control. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Original Sin (novel)|Original Sin]]'') The 30th centuy had a feudal system: Barons controlled a few hundred levels of an Overcity, a Viscount ran an Overcity, a Count or Countess ruled about ten Overcities, a Marquess or Marquessa ruled Earth, and the Duke Marmion controlled Earth's Solar System. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Original Sin (novel)|Original Sin]]'', ''[[So Vile a Sin (novel)|So Vile a Sin]]'')
 
There also existed an [[Earth Reptile Economic Confederation]] in the [[30th century]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[So Vile a Sin (novel)|So Vile a Sin]]'')
 
The [[Folflower (system)|Folflower System]] was unusual in its constitutional monarchy for most of the duration of the Empire. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Graves of Mordane (novel)|The Graves of Mordane]]'')
 
=== Military forces ===
In purely military matters, the President's power was limited; to overrule the head of the military in these matters, the President needed the backing of the full Senate. ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'')
 
The Empire's primary space-fleet was the prosaically-named [[Spacefleet]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Deceit (novel)|Deceit]]'') otherwise known in later centuries as the [[Space Navy]] ([[GAME]]: {{cite source|The Iytean Menace (game)|namedpart=Player Characters}}) or the [[Imperial Navy]]. Security was provided by the Naval Troops or by the [[Imperial Landsknechte]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Dark Path (novel)}}) They also had a feared Earth Security organisation that interrogated suspected traitors, often using [[mind probe]]s. A Special Security Act allowed the President to deport traitors to the [[Lunar Penal Colony]] without trial. ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'')
 
In [[2540]], some of the senior military officials believed a military dictatorship led to a more effective and stronger Empire. General [[John Williams]] did not agree but was willing to use the threat of these officials to pressure the President. ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'')
 
In [[2618]], the military force of Earth was the [[Global Command]]. One of the divisions of Global Command was the [[Special Operations Commando]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Korven (TV story)|The Korven]]'')
 
In later centuries, the Empire's forces began to conquer alien races and inhabited worlds. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Original Sin (novel)|Original Sin]]'')
 
In [[2982]], the special army/religious order [[Unitatus]] was part of Earth's defences. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[So Vile a Sin (novel)|So Vile a Sin]]'')
 
=== Crime and punishment ===
In the [[25th century]], the [[Guild of Adjudicators|Adjudicators Bureau]] settled legal disputes in the Empire and enforced Earth law. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Colony in Space (TV story)}}) They were largely involved in [[detective]] work and judicial arbitration, which the Landsknechte or Navy usually providing planetary security. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Dark Path (novel)}}) In the 26th century, [[Interplanetary Police Commissioners]] administered off-planet law, using their own ships with cell facilities. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Frontier in Space (TV story)}})
 
During war, condemned criminals were given the choice to be sent into Dalek space as [[Dalek Killer]]s, essentially a suicide mission, rather than execution. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Abslom Daak... Dalek Killer (comic story)}})
 
Under the Special Security Act, political dissidents went to the Lunar Penal Colony, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Frontier in Space (TV story)}}, [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Love and War (novel)}}) [[Justicia]] ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Monsters Inside (novel)}}) or [[Draconian]] Penal Colonies. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dark Path (novel)|The Dark Path]]'') The Lunar colony was a life sentence. Many of the dissidents were members of the Peace Party. One Peace Party member remarked to the Doctor that you could be arrested merely for criticising the government. Hardened criminals from regular prisoners were hired as trustees at the Lunar Penal Colony. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Frontier in Space (TV story)}})
 
In the [[Darkheart colony]], which still adhered to Imperial ideals after the Empire fell, the Guild of Adjudicators became an armed law enforcement body. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Dark Path (novel)}})
 
== Territories ==
Colonies under Earth control included:
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* The [[Seven Planets|Althosian system]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Pit (novel)|The Pit]]'')
* [[Avalon (planet)|Avalon]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dark Path (novel)|The Dark Path]]'')
* [[Beta Caprisis]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Love and War (novel)|Love and War]]'')
* [[Darkheart colony|Darkheart]] ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Dark Path (novel)}})
* [[Dust (planet)|Dust]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference - Book One]]'' / ''[[Interference - Book Two (novel)|Interference - Book Two]]'')
* The [[Folflower (system)|Folflower System]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Graves of Mordane (novel)|The Graves of Mordane]]'')
* [[Humberville]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Graves of Mordane (novel)|The Graves of Mordane]]'')
* [[Japetus]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[So Vile a Sin (novel)|So Vile a Sin]]'')
* [[Luna Schlosser]] ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Five a Day (comic story)|Five a Day]]'')
* [[Mal Oreille]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Biology Lesson on Mal Oreille (short story)|Biology Lesson on Mal Oreille]]'')
* [[Mayside]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Graves of Mordane (novel)|The Graves of Mordane]]'')
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* [[Plumptious Minor]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Ship of Fools (novel)|Ship of Fools]]'')
* [[Riverville]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Graves of Mordane (novel)|The Graves of Mordane]]'')
* [[Sirius IV]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'')
* [[Solos]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mutants (TV story)|The Mutants]]'')
* [[Vourakis 3]] ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Pirates of Vourakis (comic story)|Pirates of Vourakis]]'')
* [[Wystone]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Graves of Mordane (novel)|The Graves of Mordane]]'')
|}
 
In the 25th century, planets were tasked for either colonisation or mining. ([[TV]]: ''[[Colony in Space (TV story)|Colony in Space]]'') There were often tensions with the colony worlds, even into the 26th century. ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'')
 
Some of these planets, such as Sirius IV, had {{w|dominion}} status, allowing them to tax and try their own citizens. Many on Earth looked down on them, seeing them as still colonies. ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'')
 
The Empire captured and subjugated many inhabited planets and their indigenous populations. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Original Sin (novel)|Original Sin]]'', ''[[So Vile a Sin (novel)|So Vile a Sin]]'') An apartheid system existed on some of these planets, including [[Solos]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mutants (TV story)|The Mutants]]'')
 
In the 30th century, the Empire began to collapse and many colonies were given independence. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mutants (TV story)|The Mutants]]'')
 
== Notable individuals ==
A particularly savage Dalek Killer named [[Abslom Daak]] lived in the 28th century, in the time after the human-Draconian War. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Abslom Daak... Dalek Killer (comic story)|Abslom Daak... Dalek Killer]]'') He did so well for himself that, by [[2573]], at least one [[clone]] of him existed in human-occupied space. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Deceit (novel)|Deceit]]'')
 
Adventurer-[[archaeologist]] [[Bernice Summerfield|Bernice ("Benny") Summerfield]], who had lost both parents in the [[Second Dalek War]], also lived in the 26th century. She met the [[Seventh Doctor]] on [[Heaven (Love and War)|Heaven]], a neutral planet, in mid-[[2570]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Love and War (novel)|Love and War]]'') She joined him on his travels, but after her marriage to [[Jason Kane]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]'') and a divorce from him, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Eternity Weeps (novel)|Eternity Weeps]]'') settled back into her own time. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dying Days (novel)|The Dying Days]]'')
 
Though originally native to the late [[1980s]], after her travels with the [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Ace]] decided to stay on Heaven at the time of Benny's arrival on the TARDIS. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Love and War (novel)|Love and War]]'') Ace joined [[Spacefleet]], where she served for at least three years in her mid-to-late twenties. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Deceit (novel)|Deceit]]'')
 
The Adjudicators Chris Cwej and Roz Forrester of the powerful [[Forrester family]] grew up in the late Earth Empire period of the [[30th century]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Original Sin (novel)|Original Sin]]'')
 
== Behind the scenes ==
* In the story of ''[[Legacy (video game)|Doctor Who: Legacy]]'', the [[Seventh Doctor]], stressing the importance of preventing the [[Sontaran]]s' interference in the [[timeline]], claims that the Earth Empire would have been delayed by [[Millennium|millennia]] were it not for [[technology]] by [[Leonardo da Vinci]].


==See Also==
*[[Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire]], flourished circa the [[42nd century]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Planet of the Ood]]'')
*[[New Roman Empire]], flourished circa [[Far future|12,000]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The End of the World]]'').
*[[Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire]], flourished circa [[200,000]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Long Game]]'', ''[[Bad Wolf (TV story)|Bad Wolf]]'', ''[[The Parting of the Ways]]'')
*[[New Earth Empire]], flourished before [[4,999,999,739]]. ([[IDW]]: ''[[Agent Provocateur]]'')
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The Earth Empire was the first planetary empire of the planet Earth, which was formed sometime between 2480 and 2520 and was dismantled by 2987.

History[[edit] | [edit source]]

Origin[[edit] | [edit source]]

The definitive date of the formation of the Empire remains unknown. Around 2501, Earth was controlled by EarthGov. (PROSE: The Monsters Inside) In the 2530s, an Earth Federation existed. (PROSE: The Colony of Lies)

Having jumped a time track to the pre-Time War universe, the Tenth Doctor identified the Earth Empire as Earth's "first Empire". (PROSE: Prisoner of the Daleks) Human historians in the post-Time War universe, following the Siege of Trenzalore, indicated that the empire would be known as the First Great and Bountiful Human Empire. (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe, AUDIO: The Lost Flame)

Early history[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Galactic Cyberwars began in 2383 with an attack on the Earth Empire and, following a failed attack on Voga in 2483, finally ended in 2489 with the defeat of the Cybermen. (PROSE: The Cyber Files)

The Empire continued to grow and develop in 2450, as the expedition to Telos was launched. (PROSE: A Sourcebook for Field Agents)

By 2472, Earth was severely polluted and overpopulated, with a hundred billion citizens. (TV: Colony in Space)

In 2480, Earth was invaded by the Korven, leading to a human victory. Tensions between the Earth Empire and the Korven lasted until at least 2618. (TV: The Korven)

In 2495, the Orion War between the humans of the Earth Empire and the Android Horde began. It continued into the early 26th century. (AUDIO: Sword of Orion, Scorpius, et al.)

In the 26th century, humans occupied one part of the Milky Way galaxy, while the Draconian Empire occupied another. There was a war between the two empires after a cultural misunderstanding (humans being unaware that Draconians sent battlecruisers to diplomatic meetings), ending with articles of peace that guaranteed a "frontier in space" between the two; trade agreements and cultural exchanges were instituted to lessen tensions. Food was imported from the colonies. Cities like New Glasgow and New Montreal were built in the Arctic, and population control laws restricted families to one child unless they moved to the Arctic cities. A free press and broadcasting service existed. (TV: Frontier in Space)

The Earth Empire continued to grow and established Skybases as command centres wherever Earth had a presence. (TV: The Mutants, PROSE: Cold Fusion) In a later presidential election, war hero John Williams campaigned for an "aggressive inter-stellar policy" against the successful candidate. She appointed him to her government to heal political divides. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Space War)

In 2540, the Master, employing Ogrons, stirred up war between Earth and Draconia on behalf of the Daleks. Faked attacks on frontier craft had the human public and political opposition soon demanding war. His plan was exposed (TV: Frontier in Space) and the Second Dalek War began. (PROSE: Return of the Living Dad) It raged on for decades, with an entire "Dalek Generation" who couldn't remember peacetime. (PROSE: Prisoner of the Daleks) Mars itself was occupied. (PROSE: Beige Planet Mars)

Not every human in space chose to live in the Earth Empire. One band of the anarchist Travellers, for example, settled on Heaven, a neutral planet used as a burial ground by both sides. (PROSE: Love and War)

Some time after the 26th century, the Earth Empire invaded Tractis and enslaved the Tractites. (PROSE: Genocide)

A Third Dalek War put a stop to the Empire's expansion for a while. (PROSE: The Chase, Sky Pirates!) As recorded in the Dalek Combat Training Manual, the Daleks had unleashed a space plague on colonies to weaken the ever-expanding Terran empire, culminating in the Exxilon Gambit, (PROSE: Dalek Combat Training Manual, TV: Death to the Daleks) the final action of the Third Dalek War. (PROSE: The Secret Lives of Monsters)

Later history[[edit] | [edit source]]

In later centuries, the Empire became increasingly more unequal and prejudiced, and was under the control of a Divine Empress. (PROSE: Secret of the Black Planet, Original Sin)

In the 28th century, townships around the major cities were no-go areas and travel permits were required to leave them; Earth was divided into regions (including the moon) and administered by a president, with Africa, the South Chinese Union, and the moon as the wealthiest; and the IT corporation Panafrica, run by the mighty Rohihlahla family, had rewritten history to portray Nelson Mandela as the founder of apartheid, to support the contemporary African elites and their apartheid policies. The Rohihlahlas' machinations were exposed and the dynasty was supplanted by the Forresters. (PROSE: Secret of the Black Planet)

Also in the 28th century, the Empire came to the Sense Sphere to exploit its mineral wealth. Two humans deserted the Sense Sphere in their spaceship while pretending to get reinforcements, but their Commander blew up the ship, leaving three humans stranded for ten years as they slowly poisoned the Sensorites from the aqueducts. When more humans came, the Sensorites held them hostage until the First Doctor and his companions made peace. (TV: The Sensorites)

In 2850, a new Empress was crowned. (PROSE: So Vile a Sin)

By the mid-30th century, an aged Divine Empress reigned from her Imperial Palace in orbit around Saturn, with a feudal system in place. The empire was conquering alien planets and most imperial subjects were prejudiced against other species, even though humans, by this time had learned to "body bepple" into new, sometimes alien-seeming forms. Earth Reptiles had the highest status among non-human species, as they were Earthborn. The rich lived in hovering Overcities, leaving the poor and alien on the polluted surface of the Earth with the decaying former cities like London; even the Overcities were stratified by wealth, with the relatively poorer confined to lower levels. The Imperial Landsknechte and the Vigilant space defences had Earth defended. (PROSE: Original Sin, So Vile a Sin) Environmental devastation had left Earth in a degraded state. On conquered alien worlds, human "Overlords" ruled aliens, who had lesser rights, from Skybases. (TV: The Mutants)

In 2957, the Earth Empire had recently fought the latest of the Wars of Acquisition. This had included the Empire terraforming the Hith homeworld and leaving the species homeless, as well as Earth itself being bombarded. Icaron radiation from a Hithis ship held by Tobias Vaughn sparked off a wave of psychotic murders which escalated to Overcity riots and some cities falling from the sky. (PROSE: Original Sin) This started the Empire's downfall.

In the late 30th century, the Empire had begun to crumble: with Earth exhausted politically and economically, it could not afford an Empire and began giving independence to its colonies. (TV: The Mutants) Attempts were made to check the fall of the Empire, with little success. (PROSE: The Sorcerer's Apprentice)

In 2982, as a war with the Ogrons dragged on and political factions vied for power, the Seventh Doctor and his companions, the Adjudicators Roz Forrester and Chris Cwej, got involved in a political struggle which ended in the installation of Roz's sister, Leabie, as the new Empress. The current Empress was centuries old and her mind was slaved to the computer intelligence Centcomp, which effectively ran her Empire, and requested the Doctor kill her. (PROSE: So Vile a Sin)

Within five years of becoming Empress, Leabie Forrester dismantled the Empire, granting independence to every planet whether they wanted it or not. After which, Earth was abandoned by its former colonies as the Overcities fell out of the sky, and the remaining population descended into barbarism, with the surviving humans turning on the aliens as sources of food. (PROSE: Dependence Day)

In 2991, with the Empire still in decline, Admiral Nyborg headed an invasion of Avalon which turned into a mission to acquire Merlin's Helm after special officer Captain Shannon discovered its immense power. This mission was unsuccessful, however, as the First Doctor had a hand in disabling the nanobot system which granted the helm its power. Nyborg and Magnus III of Avalon's principal nation, Elbyon, then engaged in peace talks. (PROSE: The Sorcerer's Apprentice)

Another account stated that the Earth Empire was still in decay in 3174. (PROSE: Burning Heart) Garrison Clay described the 33rd century as the Late Earth Empire. (AUDIO: Last Words [+]Loading...["Last Words (audio story)"])

Aftermath and successors[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Empire's collapse left a power vacuum that, by the 34th century, was filled by the Earth Alliance, a more loose alliance of Earth and its colonies, (AUDIO: The Sirens of Time, Invasion of the Daleks) and the Galactic Federation, which was less Earth-centric and human-dominated. (PROSE: The Dark Path) A Terran Federation also existed by the late 29th century. (AUDIO: Occam's Razor) On Earth itself, humanity rebounded in the later 31st century. Survivors of the Overcities formed Europa in former Europe (PROSE: Managra) and the Fifth Doctor said the 31st century was "all space cities and monorails". (AUDIO: The Butcher of Brisbane) The planet became a founding member of the Federation in the 32nd century. (PROSE: Legacy)

Both the Galactic Federation and the Earth Alliance lasted to at least the 41st century, upon which they collapsed due their own separate wars with the Daleks. (PROSE: Legacy, AUDIO: Invasion of the Daleks) An Earth-centred humanity was already quite powerful in 4000 (TV: The Daleks' Master Plan) and evolved into the Earth Empire's successor, the First Great and Bountiful Human Empire. (AUDIO: The Lost Flame)

Human historians from the far future who studied the Daleks indicated that the initial Earth Empire and the First Great and Bountiful Human Empire were in fact one and the same. They understood that the Daleks waged a protracted war with the colonies of the First Great and Bountiful Human Empire, which motivated them to enact temporal incursions such as the Time Paradox Incident to overwrite history in their favour, with some historians suggesting that the Daleks' nascent time travel technology had allowed them to foresee the First Great and Bountiful Human Empire swell to encompass innumerable worlds and, as a consequence, identified the human race as a grave threat to their dominance of the universe and their self-appointed superiority over all other life forms. (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe)

Undated events[[edit] | [edit source]]

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The Skink spaceship over Vourakis 3. (COMIC: Pirates of Vourakis)

Ron Cordell almost started a war in the Earth Empire when he hired Skinks to blockade the important trading planet Vourakis 3. The Twelfth Doctor and Transmetropolitan reporter Heddy Garber went onto the Skink ship and destroyed it, averting the war and killing Cordell, who was on the ship at the time. (COMIC: Pirates of Vourakis)

Technology[[edit] | [edit source]]

Empire ships were generally built of spheres, connected by scaffolding. Ships were covered with bas-relief carvings of leaves and faces and similar decorations. The designs used by the Earth Empire were considered unpleasant by other species. (PROSE: The Dark Path)

A specific type of ship was the Dauntless-class Imperial Destroyer. (PROSE: The Dark Path)

The citizens of the Empire (and others) used puterspace, a form of virtual reality. (PROSE: Love and War) The Empire's monopoly on null-grav technology kept it powerful. (PROSE: Original Sin)

In the 30th century, body bepples allowed Earth Empire citizens to alter their bodies so that they barely resembled humans. (PROSE: Original Sin)

Political system[[edit] | [edit source]]

Dora, the President of Earth in 2540. (TV: Frontier in Space)

The Earth Empire was a lumbering bureaucracy with as many civil servants as civilians. The planetary or colonial governor of a planet was called a Viscount. (PROSE: The Dark Path) In the 26th century it was overseen by a President of Earth, who headed a world government with a Cabinet, a congress, and a senate; a democratic opposition existed within the congress and senate. The government also had a Bureau of Population Control. An outlaw political group, the Peace Party, tried to gain power. (TV: Frontier in Space)

As with the British Empire, dominion planets like Sirius IV had a large degree of autonomy. Some on Earth looked down on the dominions as jumped-up colonies. (TV: Frontier in Space)

Eventually, the Empire was run by a Divine Empress with absolute control. (PROSE: Original Sin) The 30th centuy had a feudal system: Barons controlled a few hundred levels of an Overcity, a Viscount ran an Overcity, a Count or Countess ruled about ten Overcities, a Marquess or Marquessa ruled Earth, and the Duke Marmion controlled Earth's Solar System. (PROSE: Original Sin, So Vile a Sin)

There also existed an Earth Reptile Economic Confederation in the 30th century. (PROSE: So Vile a Sin)

The Folflower System was unusual in its constitutional monarchy for most of the duration of the Empire. (PROSE: The Graves of Mordane)

Military forces[[edit] | [edit source]]

In purely military matters, the President's power was limited; to overrule the head of the military in these matters, the President needed the backing of the full Senate. (TV: Frontier in Space)

The Empire's primary space-fleet was the prosaically-named Spacefleet, (PROSE: Deceit) otherwise known in later centuries as the Space Navy (GAME: "Player Characters" [+]Part of The Iytean Menace, Loading...{"namedpart":"Player Characters","1":"The Iytean Menace (game)"}) or the Imperial Navy. Security was provided by the Naval Troops or by the Imperial Landsknechte. (PROSE: The Dark Path [+]Loading...["The Dark Path (novel)"]) They also had a feared Earth Security organisation that interrogated suspected traitors, often using mind probes. A Special Security Act allowed the President to deport traitors to the Lunar Penal Colony without trial. (TV: Frontier in Space)

In 2540, some of the senior military officials believed a military dictatorship led to a more effective and stronger Empire. General John Williams did not agree but was willing to use the threat of these officials to pressure the President. (TV: Frontier in Space)

In 2618, the military force of Earth was the Global Command. One of the divisions of Global Command was the Special Operations Commando. (TV: The Korven)

In later centuries, the Empire's forces began to conquer alien races and inhabited worlds. (PROSE: Original Sin)

In 2982, the special army/religious order Unitatus was part of Earth's defences. (PROSE: So Vile a Sin)

Crime and punishment[[edit] | [edit source]]

In the 25th century, the Adjudicators Bureau settled legal disputes in the Empire and enforced Earth law. (TV: Colony in Space [+]Loading...["Colony in Space (TV story)"]) They were largely involved in detective work and judicial arbitration, which the Landsknechte or Navy usually providing planetary security. (PROSE: The Dark Path [+]Loading...["The Dark Path (novel)"]) In the 26th century, Interplanetary Police Commissioners administered off-planet law, using their own ships with cell facilities. (TV: Frontier in Space [+]Loading...["Frontier in Space (TV story)"])

During war, condemned criminals were given the choice to be sent into Dalek space as Dalek Killers, essentially a suicide mission, rather than execution. (COMIC: Abslom Daak... Dalek Killer [+]Loading...["Abslom Daak... Dalek Killer (comic story)"])

Under the Special Security Act, political dissidents went to the Lunar Penal Colony, (TV: Frontier in Space [+]Loading...["Frontier in Space (TV story)"], PROSE: Love and War [+]Loading...["Love and War (novel)"]) Justicia (PROSE: The Monsters Inside [+]Loading...["The Monsters Inside (novel)"]) or Draconian Penal Colonies. (PROSE: The Dark Path) The Lunar colony was a life sentence. Many of the dissidents were members of the Peace Party. One Peace Party member remarked to the Doctor that you could be arrested merely for criticising the government. Hardened criminals from regular prisoners were hired as trustees at the Lunar Penal Colony. (TV: Frontier in Space [+]Loading...["Frontier in Space (TV story)"])

In the Darkheart colony, which still adhered to Imperial ideals after the Empire fell, the Guild of Adjudicators became an armed law enforcement body. (PROSE: The Dark Path [+]Loading...["The Dark Path (novel)"])

Territories[[edit] | [edit source]]

Colonies under Earth control included:

In the 25th century, planets were tasked for either colonisation or mining. (TV: Colony in Space) There were often tensions with the colony worlds, even into the 26th century. (TV: Frontier in Space)

Some of these planets, such as Sirius IV, had dominion status, allowing them to tax and try their own citizens. Many on Earth looked down on them, seeing them as still colonies. (TV: Frontier in Space)

The Empire captured and subjugated many inhabited planets and their indigenous populations. (PROSE: Original Sin, So Vile a Sin) An apartheid system existed on some of these planets, including Solos. (TV: The Mutants)

In the 30th century, the Empire began to collapse and many colonies were given independence. (TV: The Mutants)

Notable individuals[[edit] | [edit source]]

A particularly savage Dalek Killer named Abslom Daak lived in the 28th century, in the time after the human-Draconian War. (COMIC: Abslom Daak... Dalek Killer) He did so well for himself that, by 2573, at least one clone of him existed in human-occupied space. (PROSE: Deceit)

Adventurer-archaeologist Bernice ("Benny") Summerfield, who had lost both parents in the Second Dalek War, also lived in the 26th century. She met the Seventh Doctor on Heaven, a neutral planet, in mid-2570. (PROSE: Love and War) She joined him on his travels, but after her marriage to Jason Kane (PROSE: Happy Endings) and a divorce from him, (PROSE: Eternity Weeps) settled back into her own time. (PROSE: The Dying Days)

Though originally native to the late 1980s, after her travels with the Seventh Doctor, Ace decided to stay on Heaven at the time of Benny's arrival on the TARDIS. (PROSE: Love and War) Ace joined Spacefleet, where she served for at least three years in her mid-to-late twenties. (PROSE: Deceit)

The Adjudicators Chris Cwej and Roz Forrester of the powerful Forrester family grew up in the late Earth Empire period of the 30th century. (PROSE: Original Sin)

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

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