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:''For the anthology, see [[Short Trips: The Solar System]].''
'''The Sun''' or '''Sun''', as it was generally known, was the home [[star]] of the [[solar system]], a planetary system in [[Mutter's Spiral]]. It was also called '''Sol''' on many occasions.
'''Sol''' or '''the Sun''' was the home star of the '''Sol System''', a planetary system about twenty-seven thousand light years from the [[galactic centre]] of [[Mutter's Spiral]].
 
==History==
===Historical Overview===
*Life evolved on at least 5 natural satellites orbiting Sol: [[Venus]], the twin planets of [[Earth]] and [[Mondas]], [[Mars]] and the [[Planet 5]].
 
*At an early stage of development, Venus supported native sentient life. ([[MA]]: ''[[Venusian Lullaby]]'')
 
*Circa [[Distant past|12,000,000 BCE]] the [[Time Lord]]s placed the Planet 5 in a [[time loop]], in effect destroying it. The [[Fendahl]], which came from the Fifth Planet and which the Time Lords had intended to destroy, possibly destroyed life on Mars on its way to Earth. ([[DW]]: ''[[Image of the Fendahl]]'')


::An [[asteroid belt]] somehow resulted from the time looping of the fifth planet. Perhaps the Time Lords themselves imported the asteroids as replacement for the excess mass missing when they removed the Fifth Planet.
It was made up of 74% [[hydrogen]] and 24% [[helium]], with trace elements comprising the star's remaining 2%. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Feast of Fear (audio story)}})


*In the mid-20th century, humans on Earth began exploring their solar system via probes and, tentatively at first, with manned missions. Earth's moon was the first object in the Sol system to be visited by humans -- at least, according to the official historical record ([[DW]]: ''[[Blink]]'', et al). Later, missions to [[Mars]] ([[DW]]: ''[[The Ambassadors of Death]]'', [[The Waters of Mars|''The Waters of Mars'']]) and other planets occurred. For much of the century, the general public believed there to have been nine planets, although a change in the official definition of "planet" disqualified one of them, Pluto, to much controversy in the early 21st century (''contemporary accounts''); at some later date, Pluto's planetary status was restored (implied [[DW]]: ''[[The Sun Makers]]'').
== History ==
The [[First Doctor]] was unfamiliar with Sol prior to his departure on [[Gallifrey]]. However, his granddaughter [[Susan Foreman]] learned of the existence of the solar system and [[Earth]] in her [[spatial cartography]] lessons. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Beginning (audio story)}})


*Circa 2009 CE, Earth was forceably relocated to the [[Medusa Cascade]] by the [[Dalek]]s. The relocation of Earth seemed to have no lasting effects on the Sol system; even Earth's Moon remained in place until the Doctor returned Earth to its proper position. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]''/''[[Journey's End]]''). The end result of the incident was that the general populace of Earth were now aware of the existence of alien life ([[TW]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day One]]'', et al), ushering in the planet's increased presence in interstellar affairs from the 21st century onward ([[DW]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'', [[TW]]: ''[[Everything Changes]]'', et al)
When the Sun was a "young star", a [[Scientist (The Eye of Torment)|scientist]] lured the [[Umbra (The Eye of Torment)|Umbra]] to himself, having brought them together with his immense guilt. He then used what the [[Twelfth Doctor]] guessed was a [[trans-warp tunnel]], using the Sun as a power source, to send the Umbra from the scientist's planet into the Sun, where they survived the heat and "swam" for many years through the [[chromosphere]]. Millions of years later, the quadrillionaire [[Rudy Zoom]] spent ten years planning his expedition to circumnavigate the Sun in the [[sunship]] the ''[[Pollyanna]]'' so that Rudy could become the first man on the Sun. After the ''Pollyanna'' entered the chromosphere, the Umbra attacked the ship and began killing and devouring the "[[soul]]s" of the [[human]]s on board. With the help of [[Alice Dubrovnik]]'s [[graviton inverter]], the ''Polyanna'' was able to invert the [[gravity]] on board the ''Pollyanna'' "to the right degree" and also invert and "[p]ush[...] away" the heat — which also had mass and gravity — from the exterior of the ''Pollyanna''. This caused the Umbra, whom the Doctor had lured to the ''Pollyanna''{{'}}s surface, to freeze to death. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Eye of Torment (comic story)}})


*Around 2089, the Grandaughter of&nbsp;Captain Adelaide Brook&nbsp;decided to pilot the first ever lightspeed earth ship to Proxima Centuri,&nbsp;inspired by her Grandmother who blew&nbsp;up a base on Mars to save the human race.&nbsp;Soon after that, the human race started colonising other Star Systems.
[[File:Sun Mr Men.jpg|left|thumb|The Sun "looks" over a hillside. ([[WC]]: {{cs|The Daleks Chase Walter the Worm (webcast)}})]]
Stealing a prototype [[stellar manipulator]], [[the Eleven]] concocted an ultimately unsuccessful plot to ignite Sol and destroy the solar system in [[1639]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Satanic Mill (audio story)}})


*Sometime before [[4000]] CE, [[Mavic Chen]] assumed the position of [[Guardian of the Solar System]]. Chen's secret allies, the [[Dalek]]s, at the same time proposed to conquer the Sol system. ([[DW]]: ''[[Mission to the Unknown]]'', ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan]]'')
In the 2010s, Sol released a massive [[solar flare]] that threatened to wipe out all life on Earth which not even [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] detected at first. However, a massive [[forest]] that grew up over night shielded the planet from danger. ([[TV]]: {{cs|In the Forest of the Night (TV story)}}) In the [[summer]] of [[2015]], a group of [[Hyperion (species)|Hyperion]] constructed a [[fusion-web]] around Sol to drain its energy before the Twelfth Doctor and [[Clara Oswald]] thwarted their scheme. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Hyperion Empire (comic story)}}) In [[2016]], the [[Twelfth Doctor]] had [[Grant (The Return of Doctor Mysterio)|Grant]] throw the [[Shoal spaceship]] into Sol to completely and harmlessly destroy the threat it posed. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Return of Doctor Mysterio (TV story)}})


*[[human]] scientists predicted [[solar flare]] activity would sterilize their homeworld, Earth and took measures to prepare. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Ark in Space]]'')
In the [[26th century]], a group of fringe [[Academia|academics]] called the [[Helios Society]] believed that the sun contained a habitable paradise they dubbed [[Heliotopia]]. Dr [[Suleiman Zorn]] was the leader of the society and wrote a treatise on the [[Heliopian concept]]. They drove a [[starship]], the [[SS Suria Namasca|SS ''Suria Namasca'']], towards the sun to that end, which the [[Fourth Doctor]], [[Leela]] and [[K9]] landed on when [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] needed to repair itself. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Shadow of the Sun (audio story)}})


*Circa [[2,000,000]], the Time Lords transported the entire solar system using a [[magnetron]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Mysterious Planet]])''
In [[2992]], the "[[last scion of the Clan Van Helsing]]" finally destroyed [[Dracula]], who had become the [[Cyberon Controller]], by launching him into the Sun. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Before the Storm (comic story)}})


:''In some unknown way, the move once more devastated Earth, which less informed people attributed to solar flares.''
For some time around [[4009]], [[Tent City]] was located inside Sol's [[photosphere]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Book of the Still (novel)}})


*In the 57th [[Segment of Time|segment of Time]] the last [[human]]s left on [[Earth]] evacuated the [[Planet|planet]] because of the increasing danger that it would fall into the Sun, they fled to planets such as [[Refusis II]] and [[Frontios]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Ark]]''/''[[Frontios (TV story)|Frontios]]'') The now uninhabited Earth was preserved by the [[National Trust]] and over the billions of years following was restored to a 'classic Earth' before it was finally destroyed by the expanding sun in the year [[5,000,000,000|5.5/Apple/26]]. ([[DW]]:''[[The End of the World]]'')
Human scientists predicted [[solar flare]] activity would sterilise their homeworld of Earth and took measures to prepare for it. To this end, they left Earth in ships, amongst them [[Starship UK]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Beast Below (TV story)}}) [[Space station|Space Station]] [[Nerva Beacon|Nerva]] may have gone into service as a refuge for humans and other life in [[cryogenic suspension]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Ark in Space (TV story)}})


===Comings and Goings===
In the 57th [[segment of Time]] the last humans left on Earth evacuated the [[planet]] because of the increasing danger that it would fall into the Sun. They fled to planets such as [[Refusis II]] ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Ark (TV story)}}) and [[Frontios]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Frontios (TV story)}}) Some accounts indicate the Sun destroyed the planet in [[10000000|10,000,000]] ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Book of the War (novel)}}, {{cs|Of the City of the Saved... (novel)}}) or [[12000000|12,000,000]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Brakespeare Voyage (novel)}}) but others indicate the now uninhabited Earth was preserved by the [[National Trust]] and over the billions of years following was restored to a "classic Earth" before it was finally destroyed by the expanding sun ([[TV]]: {{cs|The End of the World (TV story)}}) in the year [[5000000000|5,000,000,000]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|New Earth (TV story)}}) According to yet another account, at a point when humans still inhabited the Earth, the Sun slowly imploded in a way which was visible from, and did not immediately destroy, the planet; this heralded "the end of the world". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Assessment Day (short story)}})
*During the time of the [[Silurian]]s and [[Sea Devil]]s, a rogue planet approached the orbit of their homeworld, Earth. ([[DW]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians]]'') The Doctor tells the Silurians that instead of crashing into the earth, it became earth's moon.


:''We do not know whether or not this planetoid originated from outside the Sol system.''
Some [[posthuman]]s modified themselves into [[homo solarian]]s and lived in the expanding Sun before it was eventually swallowed by [[Grandfather's Maw]] in [[60000000000|60,000,000,000]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Brakespeare Voyage (novel)}})


*Originally orbiting Sol at the same distance as Earth, Mondas left orbit and wandered out further into the Sol system. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'')
=== Cultural and religious significance ===
In [[BC#Prehistory|100,000 BC]], [[Tribe of Gum|a tribe]] of early humans worshipped Sol as [[Orb (An Unearthly Child)|Orb]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|An Unearthly Child (TV story)}})


*As noted above, the Earth has been relocated at least twice in its history, only to be either shortly or eventually returned to its original location ([[DW]]: ''[[The Mysterious Planet]]'' and ''[[The Stolen Earth]]'').
The [[Greece|Greeks]] worshipped [[Helius]], an [[Olympian]], as the god of the sun. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Life Bringer! (comic story)}})


*The planetoid or moon [[Voga]] entered the solar system sometime after the construction of the [[Nerva Beacon]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen]]'')
In [[Mexico]] circa the [[15th century]], the timing of a [[solar eclipse]] had great religious significance. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Aztecs (TV story)}})


*Circa [[5000]], the [[Fourth Doctor|Fourth Doctor]] destroyed [[Saturn]]'s moon, [[Titan]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Invisible Enemy]]'')
By the time humanity had become a [[space]]-faring civilisation, the [[Apollonian]]s worshipped the Sun as a god. According to [[Sandy Tanaka]], the Apollonians had a [[prophecy]], in which "[i]f the body of the Sun [were] ever violated, [...] 'the [[Eye of Torment]]' [would] open. It [would] look down on humanity and condemn [them]." ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Eye of Torment (comic story)}})


*In [[2009]], the [[Time Lord]] homeworld, [[Gallifrey]], briefly materialized near the planet Earth, before being returned to its proper location. ([[DW]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
=== Alternate timelines ===
In an [[alternate timeline]] where the creation of [[GENIE]]s brought the Earth to the brink of destruction, people used the sun to power the earliest created GENIE they could find so that it could travel back in time to the day of its creation. The sheer power destroyed the GENIE which could not withstand being powered by the sun itself. As the people planned, the lab and the research contained within was destroyed in the process, preventing widespread use of GENIEs and saving the Earth. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Stone Rose (novel)}})


===Cultural and Religous Significance===
== Parallel universes ==
*In [[Early human history|100,000 BC]] a tribe of early humans worshipped Sol as [[Orb]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child]]'')
In the [[Jackie Reeve's universe|first]] [[parallel universe]] that [[Rose Tyler]] visited while trying to find her way back to [[N-Space]], Sol fell victim to the [[reality bomb]], causing its version of Earth to freeze over. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Endless Night (audio story)}}) In [[Rob Tyler's universe|the second]], Earth's orbit had been shifted so that it was closer to Sol, triggering a constant [[rain]], a situation suspected to have been caused by alien powers. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Flood (RTDC audio story)}})


*In [[Mexico]] circa the [[15th century]], the timing of a [[solar eclipse]] had great religious significance. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Aztecs]]'')
{{Solar system}}


==Solar System Objects==
{{TitleSort}}
===Planets, Dwarf Planets and Their Moons===
[[Category:Locations visited by the Twelfth Doctor]]
''Listed from closest to Sol to the most distant.''
*[[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]]
*[[Venus]]
*[[Earth]]
**[[The Moon]]
*[[Mondas]]
*[[Mars]]
**[[Phobos]]
**[[Deimos]]
*[[Ceres]]
*[[Planet 5]]
*[[Jupiter]]
**[[Voga]]
*[[Saturn]]
**[[Titan]]
*[[Uranus]]
*[[Neptune]]
*[[Pluto]]
**[[Charon (moon)‎|Charon]]
*[[Cassius]]
*[[Planet 14]]
 
===Other Natural Objects===
*[[Asteroid belt]]
*[[K4067|Asteroid K4067]]
*[[Halley's Comet]]
*[[Kuiper belt]]
 
===Artificial Satellites===
*[[Nerva Beacon]]
*[[Space Station W3]]
 
===Other Objects===
*[[Nemesis]]
 
==See Also==
*[[Solar flare]]s
{{wikipediainfo|Sun}}
{{wikipediainfo|Solar System|Sol system}}
 
[[Category:Stars]]
[[Category:Sol System| *]]
[[Category:Mutter's Spiral stars]]
[[Category:Mutter's Spiral stars]]
[[Category:Sol system locations]]
[[Category:Stars from the real world]]
[[Category:Stars from the real world]]
[[it:Sole]]
[[ro:Soare]]

Latest revision as of 06:57, 19 March 2024

The Sun

You may be looking for a generic star or the character from "Intervention Earth".

The Sun or Sun, as it was generally known, was the home star of the solar system, a planetary system in Mutter's Spiral. It was also called Sol on many occasions.

It was made up of 74% hydrogen and 24% helium, with trace elements comprising the star's remaining 2%. (AUDIO: Feast of Fear [+]Loading...["Feast of Fear (audio story)"])

History[[edit] | [edit source]]

The First Doctor was unfamiliar with Sol prior to his departure on Gallifrey. However, his granddaughter Susan Foreman learned of the existence of the solar system and Earth in her spatial cartography lessons. (AUDIO: The Beginning [+]Loading...["The Beginning (audio story)"])

When the Sun was a "young star", a scientist lured the Umbra to himself, having brought them together with his immense guilt. He then used what the Twelfth Doctor guessed was a trans-warp tunnel, using the Sun as a power source, to send the Umbra from the scientist's planet into the Sun, where they survived the heat and "swam" for many years through the chromosphere. Millions of years later, the quadrillionaire Rudy Zoom spent ten years planning his expedition to circumnavigate the Sun in the sunship the Pollyanna so that Rudy could become the first man on the Sun. After the Pollyanna entered the chromosphere, the Umbra attacked the ship and began killing and devouring the "souls" of the humans on board. With the help of Alice Dubrovnik's graviton inverter, the Polyanna was able to invert the gravity on board the Pollyanna "to the right degree" and also invert and "[p]ush[...] away" the heat — which also had mass and gravity — from the exterior of the Pollyanna. This caused the Umbra, whom the Doctor had lured to the Pollyanna's surface, to freeze to death. (COMIC: The Eye of Torment [+]Loading...["The Eye of Torment (comic story)"])

The Sun "looks" over a hillside. (WC: The Daleks Chase Walter the Worm [+]Loading...["The Daleks Chase Walter the Worm (webcast)"])

Stealing a prototype stellar manipulator, the Eleven concocted an ultimately unsuccessful plot to ignite Sol and destroy the solar system in 1639. (AUDIO: The Satanic Mill [+]Loading...["The Satanic Mill (audio story)"])

In the 2010s, Sol released a massive solar flare that threatened to wipe out all life on Earth which not even the Doctor's TARDIS detected at first. However, a massive forest that grew up over night shielded the planet from danger. (TV: In the Forest of the Night [+]Loading...["In the Forest of the Night (TV story)"]) In the summer of 2015, a group of Hyperion constructed a fusion-web around Sol to drain its energy before the Twelfth Doctor and Clara Oswald thwarted their scheme. (COMIC: The Hyperion Empire [+]Loading...["The Hyperion Empire (comic story)"]) In 2016, the Twelfth Doctor had Grant throw the Shoal spaceship into Sol to completely and harmlessly destroy the threat it posed. (TV: The Return of Doctor Mysterio [+]Loading...["The Return of Doctor Mysterio (TV story)"])

In the 26th century, a group of fringe academics called the Helios Society believed that the sun contained a habitable paradise they dubbed Heliotopia. Dr Suleiman Zorn was the leader of the society and wrote a treatise on the Heliopian concept. They drove a starship, the SS Suria Namasca, towards the sun to that end, which the Fourth Doctor, Leela and K9 landed on when the Doctor's TARDIS needed to repair itself. (AUDIO: Shadow of the Sun [+]Loading...["Shadow of the Sun (audio story)"])

In 2992, the "last scion of the Clan Van Helsing" finally destroyed Dracula, who had become the Cyberon Controller, by launching him into the Sun. (COMIC: Before the Storm [+]Loading...["Before the Storm (comic story)"])

For some time around 4009, Tent City was located inside Sol's photosphere. (PROSE: The Book of the Still [+]Loading...["The Book of the Still (novel)"])

Human scientists predicted solar flare activity would sterilise their homeworld of Earth and took measures to prepare for it. To this end, they left Earth in ships, amongst them Starship UK. (TV: The Beast Below [+]Loading...["The Beast Below (TV story)"]) Space Station Nerva may have gone into service as a refuge for humans and other life in cryogenic suspension. (TV: The Ark in Space [+]Loading...["The Ark in Space (TV story)"])

In the 57th segment of Time the last humans left on Earth evacuated the planet because of the increasing danger that it would fall into the Sun. They fled to planets such as Refusis II (TV: The Ark [+]Loading...["The Ark (TV story)"]) and Frontios. (TV: Frontios [+]Loading...["Frontios (TV story)"]) Some accounts indicate the Sun destroyed the planet in 10,000,000 (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Loading...["The Book of the War (novel)"], Of the City of the Saved... [+]Loading...["Of the City of the Saved... (novel)"]) or 12,000,000, (PROSE: The Brakespeare Voyage [+]Loading...["The Brakespeare Voyage (novel)"]) but others indicate the now uninhabited Earth was preserved by the National Trust and over the billions of years following was restored to a "classic Earth" before it was finally destroyed by the expanding sun (TV: The End of the World [+]Loading...["The End of the World (TV story)"]) in the year 5,000,000,000. (TV: New Earth [+]Loading...["New Earth (TV story)"]) According to yet another account, at a point when humans still inhabited the Earth, the Sun slowly imploded in a way which was visible from, and did not immediately destroy, the planet; this heralded "the end of the world". (PROSE: Assessment Day [+]Loading...["Assessment Day (short story)"])

Some posthumans modified themselves into homo solarians and lived in the expanding Sun before it was eventually swallowed by Grandfather's Maw in 60,000,000,000. (PROSE: The Brakespeare Voyage [+]Loading...["The Brakespeare Voyage (novel)"])

Cultural and religious significance[[edit] | [edit source]]

In 100,000 BC, a tribe of early humans worshipped Sol as Orb. (TV: An Unearthly Child [+]Loading...["An Unearthly Child (TV story)"])

The Greeks worshipped Helius, an Olympian, as the god of the sun. (COMIC: The Life Bringer! [+]Loading...["The Life Bringer! (comic story)"])

In Mexico circa the 15th century, the timing of a solar eclipse had great religious significance. (TV: The Aztecs [+]Loading...["The Aztecs (TV story)"])

By the time humanity had become a space-faring civilisation, the Apollonians worshipped the Sun as a god. According to Sandy Tanaka, the Apollonians had a prophecy, in which "[i]f the body of the Sun [were] ever violated, [...] 'the Eye of Torment' [would] open. It [would] look down on humanity and condemn [them]." (COMIC: The Eye of Torment [+]Loading...["The Eye of Torment (comic story)"])

Alternate timelines[[edit] | [edit source]]

In an alternate timeline where the creation of GENIEs brought the Earth to the brink of destruction, people used the sun to power the earliest created GENIE they could find so that it could travel back in time to the day of its creation. The sheer power destroyed the GENIE which could not withstand being powered by the sun itself. As the people planned, the lab and the research contained within was destroyed in the process, preventing widespread use of GENIEs and saving the Earth. (PROSE: The Stone Rose [+]Loading...["The Stone Rose (novel)"])

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

In the first parallel universe that Rose Tyler visited while trying to find her way back to N-Space, Sol fell victim to the reality bomb, causing its version of Earth to freeze over. (AUDIO: The Endless Night [+]Loading...["The Endless Night (audio story)"]) In the second, Earth's orbit had been shifted so that it was closer to Sol, triggering a constant rain, a situation suspected to have been caused by alien powers. (AUDIO: The Flood [+]Loading...["The Flood (RTDC audio story)"])

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