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A '''universe''' may be considered as a [[space]]-[[time]] continuum, and the matter, energy, laws and [[biodata]] contained therein, such as it operates as a complete totality unto itself.
A '''universe''' was a particular spatial reality.
 
==Cosmology==
These universes exist within an expanse called [[the Void]] ([[DW]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts]]''), an ur-space often conceptualised as an ocean in which they float. ([[FP]]: [[The Book of the War|''The Book of the War'']])
 
A number of universes exist ([[DW]]: ''[[Inferno]]''), but it is not known if that number is infinite or merely incalculably huge. ([[FP]]: ''[[The Book of the War|''The Book of the War'']]'') The Time Vortex can be used to access all of them except ones that exist parallel (Parallel universes could be accessed before the Last Great Time War).
 
Some exist 'sideways' or 'parallel' to each other ([[DW]]: ''[[Battlefield]]''), although such spatial language must be understood as simplification given that 'space' is a phenomenon local to ''within'' universes. ([[FP]]: ''[[The Book of the War|''The Book of the War'']]'') Likewise, some exist 'before' ([[NA]]: ''[[All-Consuming Fire]]'') or 'after' ([[MA]]: ''[[Millennial Rites]]'') each other, although such temporal language must be understood as simplification given that 'time' is a phenomenon local to ''within'' universes. ([[FP]]: ''[[The Book of the War|''The Book of the War'']]'')
 
Many universes develop a civilisation equivalent to that of the [[Time Lord]]s - the first culture within a given reality to reach a level of sophistication which allows them to tailor the laws of that universe to their own nature. ([[MA]]: ''[[Cold Fusion]]'')
 
The composition of the universe consists of [[galaxy|galaxies]] which are made of [[star]]s which are orbited by [[planet]]ary bodies. [[Earth]], for example, lies in the [[Sol]] system of [[Mutter's Spiral]], the galaxy closest to the [[Andromeda Galaxy]].
 
===Parallels===
Most 'parallel' universes are exactly that: ''parallel''. They run alongside each other but exist independently. They may share many common features but do not 'diverge' or 'branch off' from each other at any specific point. ([[FP]]: ''[[The Cosmology of the Spiral Politic]]'')
 
The countless worlds in which the [[Roman Empire]] never fell or in which the [[Nazi]]s won [[World War II]] ([[FP]]: ''[[Warlords of Utopia]]'') are not twigs off the branch of some 'main' universe or paths that have split off at some particular juncture, but are entirely separate creations that share many, but not all, of the features of the familiar universe. ([[FP]]: ''[[The Cosmology of the Spiral Politic]]'') The same would seem to hold true of [[Pete's World]] and [[Inferno Earth]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[Inferno]]'')
 
Those universes which share the most features in common may be considered as being located 'closest' to each other and those which share the least features in common may be considered as being 'furthest away' from each other. Although, again, the spatial terminology here is a simplification as 'space' only exists ''within'' universes. ([[FP]]: ''[[The Cosmology of the Spiral Politic]]'')


It ''was'', however, possible for complete new universes to be formed by 'branching off' from specific points in another universe's history. The difficulty with this though is that it cuts the lifespan of the original universe in half. ([[NA]]: ''[[Blood Heat]]'')
== Cosmology ==
Multiple universes existed ([[TV]]: ''[[Inferno (TV story)|Inferno]]'', ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[A Bright White Crack (short story)|A Bright White Crack]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Assimilation² (comic story)|Assimilation²]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Library in the Body (audio story)|The Library in the Body]]'', etc.),  separated by an expanse called [[the Void]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts (TV story)|Army of Ghosts]]'') Prior to the [[Last Great Time War]], the [[Time Vortex]] could be used to access one another. [[Post-Time War universe|Since the War]], the pathways had closed ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'') and travel usually only occurred through a [[Void Ship]] or the [[reality bomb]] breaking down the fabric of the walls of reality surrounding each universe. ([[TV]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts (TV story)|Army of Ghosts]]'', ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]'' / ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'')


A healthier way for a universe to reproduce is for it to develop within it a species capable of 'engineering' a new universe from scratch. ([[FP]]: ''[[The Cosmology of the Spiral Politic]]'') Although the Time Lords apparently never attained this level of accomplishment, an unpopular fringe theory on [[Gallifrey]] held that their own entire reality had been engineered in this way by the [[21st century]] [[Human]]ity of some other universe. ([[FP]]: ''[[The Book of the War]]'')
Some universes existed sideways or parallel to each other. ([[TV]]: ''[[Battlefield (TV story)|Battlefield]]'') Likewise, some existed before ([[PROSE]]: ''[[All-Consuming Fire (novel)|All-Consuming Fire]]'') or after ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Millennial Rites (novel)|Millennial Rites]]'') each other.


==History==
Many universes developed a civilisation equivalent to that of the [[Time Lord]]s - the first culture within a given reality to reach a level of sophistication which allowed them to tailor the laws of that universe to their own nature. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'')
==="Before"===
The so-called '[[Pre-Universe]]' which existed prior to the Doctor's had a green void, stars shaped like doughnuts and physical laws closer to what might be understood as [[magic]]. ([[MA]]: ''[[Millennial Rites]]'')


Knowledge of this universe was a closely guarded secret, and was only in the Doctor's possession as a result of his connection to [[the Matrix]] during his time as [[Lord President]]. ([[MA]]: ''[[Millennial Rites]]'', [[DW]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time]]'') Even then, the knowledge would ultimately prove temporary; In his [[Sixth Doctor|sixth]] and [[Seventh Doctor|seventh]] lives the Doctor was fully conversant with the details and specifics of this universe ([[NA]]: ''[[All-Consuming Fire]]'', [[PDA]]: ''[[Synthespians™]]''), but by his [[Tenth Doctor|tenth]] life it was almost an article of religious faith to him that such a universe could not have existed. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Impossible Planet]]'')
The composition of the universe consisted of [[galaxy|galaxies]] which contained [[star]]s which were orbited by [[planet]]ary bodies. [[Earth]], for example, lay in the [[Sol]] system of [[Mutter's Spiral]], the galaxy closest to the [[Andromeda (galaxy)|Andromeda Galaxy]].


This universe's equivalent to the [[Time Lord]]s were the [[Old One]]s, who found a means by which to survive into the next. ([[NA]]: ''[[All-Consuming Fire]]'', [[MA]]: ''[[Millennial Rites]]'') [[The Beast]] claimed to have existed before the universe. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Impossible Planet]]'') It was also speculated that the [[Ancient Lights]] came from the previous universe. ([[SJA]]: ''[[Secrets of the Stars]]'')
=== Parallels ===
Although it was possible for complete new universes to form by 'branching off' from specific points in another universe's history, doing so cut the lifespan of the original universe in half. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Blood Heat (novel)|Blood Heat]]'')


===Life of the Universe===
According to [[the Bookwyrm]], people claimed that incarnations of [[Jenny Everywhere]] existed in every universe capable of supporting [[life]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Previously On... The Multiverse (short story)|page=20}})
The universe of [[the Doctor]] and of the [[Time Lord]]s, the current existing Universe, is known as [[Normal Space|N-Space]]. It is constantly expanding ([[DW]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks]]'') and was created out of a continually existing black void roughly fourteen billion years ago in what is known as [[Event One]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'')


:''For more information on Event One, see corresponding article.''
=== Sentience ===
According to the [[Eleventh Doctor]], at least [[N-Space|his universe]] was born alive, but it could only become aware of itself by developing sensors across its surface, known as [[lifeform|life forms]], each of which suffered a temporary delusion of separate identity during data collection - called [[consciousness]] - but in reality had little to none individual existence. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') [[Coincidence]]s occurred as it was a form of amusement for the universe. ([[TV]]: ''[[Closing Time (TV story)|Closing Time]]'') It also rewarded those, like the Doctor, who repeatedly saved it from destruction. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Snowmen (TV story)|The Snowmen]]'') [[Larles]] considered the idea that the Totality was conscious to be an "outdated theory", although it "could still be true in an abstract sense". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Aftermath (short story)|The Aftermath]]'')


The universe passed the point where it should have succumbed to heat death, but vented most of its [[entropy]] into [[E-Space]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'')
== History ==
=== Before ===
The [[pre-universe]] which existed prior to the Doctor's had a green void, stars shaped like doughnuts and physical laws closer to what might be understood as [[magic]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Millennial Rites (novel)|Millennial Rites]]'')


The universe was replete with [[pocket universe]]s and other realms or domains discrete from the wider continuum. Some of these existed in exotic special dimensions such as [[Calabi-Yau Space]] ([[PDA]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel]]''), some folded into quirks of perceptual history such as the [[Eleven-Day Empire]] ([[EDA]]: ''[[Interference - Book One]]'') and others, such as [[Mictlan]], had no measurable existence beyond the purely conceptual. ([[EDA]]: ''[[Alien Bodies]]'')
Knowledge of this universe was a closely guarded secret, and was only in the Doctor's possession as a result of his connection to [[the Matrix]] during his time as [[Lord President]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Millennial Rites (novel)|Millennial Rites]]'') Even then, the knowledge would ultimately have proven temporary; in his [[Sixth Doctor|sixth]] and [[Seventh Doctor|seventh]] lives the Doctor was fully conversant with the details and specifics of this universe ([[PROSE]]: ''[[All-Consuming Fire (novel)|All-Consuming Fire]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Synthespians™ (novel)|Synthespians™]]''), but by his [[Tenth Doctor|tenth]] life it was almost an article of religious faith to him that such a universe could not have existed. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Satan Pit (TV story)|The Satan Pit]]'')


When the [[Olympian]] [[Prometheus (The Life Bringer)|Prometheus]] stole [[life spores]] from the planet [[Olympus]] and let it go across the universe, he created life. This however angered [[Zeus]] which chained Prometheus to a mountain on an unknown planet for his actions. ([[DWM]]: ''[[The Life Bringer]]'') [[Greyjan the Sane]], on the other hand, stated that life [[evolution|evolved]] from a single [[ancestor cell]]. This didn't include more [[Transcendental Being|exotic lifeforms]], which came into being soon after the creation of the universe. ([[EDA]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell]]'')
This universe's equivalent to the [[Time Lord]]s were the [[Great Old One]]s, who found a means by which to survive into the next. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[All-Consuming Fire (novel)|All-Consuming Fire]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Millennial Rites (novel)|Millennial Rites]]'') [[The Beast (The Impossible Planet)|The Beast]] claimed to have existed before the universe. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Planet (TV story)|The Impossible Planet]]'') It was also speculated that the [[Ancient Lights]] came from the previous universe. ([[TV]]: ''[[Secrets of the Stars (TV story)|Secrets of the Stars]]'')


:''It is possible both sources were true, with [[life spores]] being another name for the [[ancestor cell]].''
=== Current ===
The universe of [[the Doctor]] and of the [[Time Lord]]s was known as [[N-Space]]. It was in a state of constant expansion ([[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks]]'') and was created out of a continually existing black void roughly thirteen ([[TV]]: ''[[Secrets of the Stars (TV story)|Secrets of the Stars]]'') or fourteen billion years [[BC]] in what was known as [[Event One]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'')


The [[Time Lord]]s of [[Gallifrey]], as the first sentient culture to develop within their universe ([[NA]]: ''[[Lucifer Rising]]''), were responsible for setting the parameters within which the universe operates. ([[NA]]: ''[[Sky Pirates!]]'') They expunged [[magic]] in favour of [[science]] as the basic governing principle. ([[NA]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]'', ''[[Christmas on a Rational Planet]]'') They established the [[morphic field]] that would seem to favour the development of [[Near-human|humanoid]] life. They established the [[Web of Time]] which guaranteed the universe a stable, linear, history. ([[BFA]]: ''[[Neverland]]'', [[FP]]: ''[[The Book of the War]]'')
The universe passed the point where it should have succumbed to heat death by the [[20th century]], but vented most of its [[entropy]] into [[E-Space]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'')


With the Time Lords now lost to the [[Last Great Time War]], the universe has become a more uncertain and dangerous place. The ability to travel to other universe has stopped ([[DW]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]'') and the creation of [[time paradox]]es has a much more dangerous effect. ([[DW]]: ''[[Father's Day]]'')
The universe was replete with [[pocket universe]]s and other realms or domains discrete from the wider continuum. Some of these existed in exotic special dimensions such as [[Calabi-Yau Space]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'') some folded into quirks of perceptual history such as the [[Eleven-Day Empire]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference - Book One]]'') and others, such as [[Mictlan]], had no measurable existence beyond the purely conceptual. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'')


It is realised that the universe has some sort of basecode as [[River Song]] claimed that the basecode of the universe is 26.06.2010 ([[Flesh and Stone|DW: ''Flesh and Stone'']])
When the [[Olympian]] [[Prometheus (The Life Bringer!)|Prometheus]] stole [[life spore]]s from the planet [[Olympus]] and let them go across the universe, he created life. This angered [[Zeus (The Life Bringer!)|Zeus]], who chained Prometheus to a mountain on an unknown planet for his actions. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Life Bringer! (comic story)|The Life Bringer!]]'') [[Greyjan the Sane]], on the other hand, stated that life [[evolution|evolved]] from a single [[ancestor cell]]. This didn't include more [[Transcendental being|exotic lifeforms]], which came into being soon after the creation of the universe. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'')


''However, she was likely refering to the symbols that appeard on the device that the Doctor was using. When the Doctor'' ''realised that River couldn't read the basecode of the universe, he most likely translated it so she could understand (or the TARDIS translation circuit kicked in). When translated, the device displayed the numbers 26.06.2010.''
The [[Time Lord]]s of [[Gallifrey]], as the first sentient culture to develop within their universe, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lucifer Rising (novel)|Lucifer Rising]]'') were responsible for setting the parameters within which the universe operated. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Sky Pirates! (novel)|Sky Pirates!]]'') They expunged [[magic]] in favour of science as the basic governing principle. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible (novel)|Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]'', ''[[Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)|Christmas on a Rational Planet]]'') They also established the [[morphic field]] that favoured the development of [[humanoid]] life. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lucifer Rising (novel)|Lucifer Rising]]'') They established the [[Web of Time]] which guaranteed the universe a stable, linear history. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Neverland (audio story)|Neverland]]'')


The destruction of the TARDIS caused the the [[Time Field|cracks in time]] to start opening up throughout time and space while all of the universe was being erased and destroyed. By piloting the [[Pandorica]], which basicaly contained a blueprint for the universe into the heart of the TARDIS explosion (which was happening at all points in space and time), the Doctor was able to reboot the universe and restore it to its original self. It is unclear, however, how much of things erased by the cracks were restored however. Amy Pond's parents, her husband Rory and the Doctor were all restored, however this was because she specificly remembered them and the influence of one of the cracks on her life for years. In the case of the Doctor, she had to activly remember him in order to restore him after he was erased by the cracks while restoring the universe so everything else erased, such as the [[Weeping Angel]]s may not have been restored. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'', ''[[The Big Bang]]'')
After the Time Lords were lost to the [[Last Great Time War]], the universe became a more risky and dangerous place. Travel to parallel universes became seemingly impossible ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'') and the creation of [[time paradox]]es had a much more dangerous effect. ([[TV]]: ''[[Father's Day (TV story)|Father's Day]]'')


==="After"===
The destruction of [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] created [[Time Field|cracks in time]] throughout time and space which began erasing the universe. By piloting the [[Pandorica]] (which basically contained a blueprint for the universe) into the heart of the TARDIS explosion (which was happening at all points in space and time), the [[Eleventh Doctor]] rebooted the universe, restoring it to its original state. It is unclear, however, if everything erased by the cracks were restored. [[Amy Pond]]'s parents, her husband [[Rory Williams|Rory]] and the Doctor were all restored, but this was only due to her specifically remembering them and the influence of one of the cracks on her life for years. In the case of the Doctor, she had to actively remember him in order to restore him after he was erased by the cracks while restoring the universe, so everything else erased, such as the [[Weeping Angel]]s, may not have been restored. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'', ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'')
The [[end of the Universe]], also known as Event Two ([[PDA]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors]]''), has been variously projected to occur in [[far future|60 billion AD]] ([[BFA]]: ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]''), [[far future|100 trillion AD]] ([[DW]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') or [[far future|100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 AD]]. ([[PDA]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors]]'')


Though [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor]] denied the existence of a universe before his own, he remained aware that the death of his universe would be followed by the birth of another. ([[DW]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts]]'') The Time Lords at the end of the universe killed themselves at a Time Institute ceremony. ([[ST]]: ''[[The End]]'')
=== After ===
The [[end of the universe]], also known as Event Two, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'') was variously projected to have occurred in [[60000000000|60 billion AD]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]'') [[100000000000000|100 trillion AD]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') or [[100000000000000000000000000000000|100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 AD]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'')


The [[City of the Saved]] existed 'in between' the end of the Doctor's universe and the start of the next one. The inhabitants of the City once believed they had penetrated into that universe and established a colony there, but in fact they were deceived and had only reached a simulated environment inside the hostile [[TARDIS]] known as [[Antipathy]]. ([[FP]]: ''[[Of the City of the Saved...]]'')
Though the [[Tenth Doctor]] denied the existence of a universe before his own, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Planet (TV story)|The Impossible Planet]]'') he remained aware that the death of his universe would have been followed by the birth of another. ([[TV]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts (TV story)|Army of Ghosts]]'') Many time travellers killed themselves at the end of the universe in the [[Institute of Time]] because they feared the universe's heat death. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The End (short story)|The End]]'')


The [[After-Universe]] is a pink void interspersed with green mists of orbiting plankton and [[Saraquazel]], who became its equivalent of a Time Lord. ([[MA]]: ''[[Millennial Rites]]'') The [[Zytragupten]] also inhabit this universe. ([[DWM]]: ''[[The Stockbridge Child]]'')
The [[after-universe]] was a [[pink]] void interspersed with [[yellow]] mists of orbiting plankton and [[Saraquazel]], who became its equivalent of a Time Lord. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Millennial Rites (novel)|Millennial Rites]]'') The [[Zytragupten]] also inhabited this universe. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Stockbridge Child (comic story)|The Stockbridge Child]]'')
 
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Universe
The Doctor's TARDIS passes through the Bubble universe rift leading to House's bubble universe. (TV: The Doctor's Wife)
You may be looking for Doctor Who universe or the Doctor's universe.

A universe was a particular spatial reality.

Cosmology[[edit] | [edit source]]

Multiple universes existed (TV: Inferno, Rise of the Cybermen, PROSE: A Bright White Crack, COMIC: Assimilation², AUDIO: The Library in the Body, etc.), separated by an expanse called the Void. (TV: Army of Ghosts) Prior to the Last Great Time War, the Time Vortex could be used to access one another. Since the War, the pathways had closed (TV: Rise of the Cybermen) and travel usually only occurred through a Void Ship or the reality bomb breaking down the fabric of the walls of reality surrounding each universe. (TV: Army of Ghosts, The Stolen Earth / Journey's End)

Some universes existed sideways or parallel to each other. (TV: Battlefield) Likewise, some existed before (PROSE: All-Consuming Fire) or after (PROSE: Millennial Rites) each other.

Many universes developed a civilisation equivalent to that of the Time Lords - the first culture within a given reality to reach a level of sophistication which allowed them to tailor the laws of that universe to their own nature. (PROSE: Cold Fusion)

The composition of the universe consisted of galaxies which contained stars which were orbited by planetary bodies. Earth, for example, lay in the Sol system of Mutter's Spiral, the galaxy closest to the Andromeda Galaxy.

Parallels[[edit] | [edit source]]

Although it was possible for complete new universes to form by 'branching off' from specific points in another universe's history, doing so cut the lifespan of the original universe in half. (PROSE: Blood Heat)

According to the Bookwyrm, people claimed that incarnations of Jenny Everywhere existed in every universe capable of supporting life. (PROSE: Previously On... The Multiverse [+]Loading...{"page":"20","1":"Previously On... The Multiverse (short story)"})

Sentience[[edit] | [edit source]]

According to the Eleventh Doctor, at least his universe was born alive, but it could only become aware of itself by developing sensors across its surface, known as life forms, each of which suffered a temporary delusion of separate identity during data collection - called consciousness - but in reality had little to none individual existence. (PROSE: The Day of the Doctor) Coincidences occurred as it was a form of amusement for the universe. (TV: Closing Time) It also rewarded those, like the Doctor, who repeatedly saved it from destruction. (TV: The Snowmen) Larles considered the idea that the Totality was conscious to be an "outdated theory", although it "could still be true in an abstract sense". (PROSE: The Aftermath)

History[[edit] | [edit source]]

Before[[edit] | [edit source]]

The pre-universe which existed prior to the Doctor's had a green void, stars shaped like doughnuts and physical laws closer to what might be understood as magic. (PROSE: Millennial Rites)

Knowledge of this universe was a closely guarded secret, and was only in the Doctor's possession as a result of his connection to the Matrix during his time as Lord President. (PROSE: Millennial Rites) Even then, the knowledge would ultimately have proven temporary; in his sixth and seventh lives the Doctor was fully conversant with the details and specifics of this universe (PROSE: All-Consuming Fire, PROSE: Synthespians™), but by his tenth life it was almost an article of religious faith to him that such a universe could not have existed. (TV: The Satan Pit)

This universe's equivalent to the Time Lords were the Great Old Ones, who found a means by which to survive into the next. (PROSE: All-Consuming Fire, PROSE: Millennial Rites) The Beast claimed to have existed before the universe. (TV: The Impossible Planet) It was also speculated that the Ancient Lights came from the previous universe. (TV: Secrets of the Stars)

Current[[edit] | [edit source]]

The universe of the Doctor and of the Time Lords was known as N-Space. It was in a state of constant expansion (TV: Genesis of the Daleks) and was created out of a continually existing black void roughly thirteen (TV: Secrets of the Stars) or fourteen billion years BC in what was known as Event One. (TV: Castrovalva)

The universe passed the point where it should have succumbed to heat death by the 20th century, but vented most of its entropy into E-Space. (TV: Logopolis)

The universe was replete with pocket universes and other realms or domains discrete from the wider continuum. Some of these existed in exotic special dimensions such as Calabi-Yau Space, (PROSE: The Quantum Archangel) some folded into quirks of perceptual history such as the Eleven-Day Empire (PROSE: Interference - Book One) and others, such as Mictlan, had no measurable existence beyond the purely conceptual. (PROSE: Alien Bodies)

When the Olympian Prometheus stole life spores from the planet Olympus and let them go across the universe, he created life. This angered Zeus, who chained Prometheus to a mountain on an unknown planet for his actions. (COMIC: The Life Bringer!) Greyjan the Sane, on the other hand, stated that life evolved from a single ancestor cell. This didn't include more exotic lifeforms, which came into being soon after the creation of the universe. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell)

The Time Lords of Gallifrey, as the first sentient culture to develop within their universe, (PROSE: Lucifer Rising) were responsible for setting the parameters within which the universe operated. (PROSE: Sky Pirates!) They expunged magic in favour of science as the basic governing principle. (PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible, Christmas on a Rational Planet) They also established the morphic field that favoured the development of humanoid life. (PROSE: Lucifer Rising) They established the Web of Time which guaranteed the universe a stable, linear history. (AUDIO: Neverland)

After the Time Lords were lost to the Last Great Time War, the universe became a more risky and dangerous place. Travel to parallel universes became seemingly impossible (TV: Rise of the Cybermen) and the creation of time paradoxes had a much more dangerous effect. (TV: Father's Day)

The destruction of the Doctor's TARDIS created cracks in time throughout time and space which began erasing the universe. By piloting the Pandorica (which basically contained a blueprint for the universe) into the heart of the TARDIS explosion (which was happening at all points in space and time), the Eleventh Doctor rebooted the universe, restoring it to its original state. It is unclear, however, if everything erased by the cracks were restored. Amy Pond's parents, her husband Rory and the Doctor were all restored, but this was only due to her specifically remembering them and the influence of one of the cracks on her life for years. In the case of the Doctor, she had to actively remember him in order to restore him after he was erased by the cracks while restoring the universe, so everything else erased, such as the Weeping Angels, may not have been restored. (TV: The Pandorica Opens, The Big Bang)

After[[edit] | [edit source]]

The end of the universe, also known as Event Two, (PROSE: The Infinity Doctors) was variously projected to have occurred in 60 billion AD, (AUDIO: Zagreus) 100 trillion AD (TV: Utopia) or 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 AD. (PROSE: The Infinity Doctors)

Though the Tenth Doctor denied the existence of a universe before his own, (TV: The Impossible Planet) he remained aware that the death of his universe would have been followed by the birth of another. (TV: Army of Ghosts) Many time travellers killed themselves at the end of the universe in the Institute of Time because they feared the universe's heat death. (PROSE: The End)

The after-universe was a pink void interspersed with yellow mists of orbiting plankton and Saraquazel, who became its equivalent of a Time Lord. (PROSE: Millennial Rites) The Zytragupten also inhabited this universe. (COMIC: The Stockbridge Child)

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