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'''Rift Manipulator''' appears to refer to one of two objects used by [[Torchwood Three]].
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|appearances = {{il|[[TV]]: ''[[Captain Jack Harkness (TV story)|Captain Jack Harkness]]''|[[TV]]: ''[[End of Days (TV story)|End of Days]]''|[[TV]]: ''[[Sleeper (TV story)|Sleeper]]''|[[TV]]: ''[[Exit Wounds (TV story)|Exit Wounds]]''|[[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]''}}
|appearances = {{il|[[TV]]: ''[[Captain Jack Harkness (TV story)|Captain Jack Harkness]]''|[[TV]]: ''[[End of Days (TV story)|End of Days]]''|[[TV]]: ''[[Sleeper (TV story)|Sleeper]]''|[[TV]]: ''[[Exit Wounds (TV story)|Exit Wounds]]''|[[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]''}}
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}}The '''Rift Manipulator''' was one of two objects used by [[Torchwood Three]] which could control the [[Cardiff Space-Time Rift]] to a limited extent.


== The Rift Manipulator inside the Torchwood Hub ==
== The Rift Manipulator inside the Torchwood Hub ==
Located in the Torchwood Three Hub, this Rift Manipulator was designed to control the [[Cardiff rift]]. It could, to a limited degree, stabilise the Rift or open the Rift wider. It had very hit-or-miss effects.
Located in the Torchwood Three Hub, this Rift Manipulator was designed to control the Cardiff Rift. It could, to a limited degree, stabilise the Rift or open the Rift wider. It had very hit-or-miss effects.


=== History ===
=== History ===
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The Rift presented a constant danger, and with the Manipulator, the Institute hoped to minimise that danger.([[WEB]]: ''[[Torchwood website|torchwood.org.uk]]'')
The Rift presented a constant danger, and with the Manipulator, the Institute hoped to minimise that danger.([[WEB]]: ''[[Torchwood website|torchwood.org.uk]]'')


The Rift was the [[Torchwood Institute]]'s justification for locating [[Torchwood Three]] in [[Cardiff]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Everything Changes]]'', ''[[Captain Jack Harkness (TV story)|Captain Jack Harkness]]'') as soon as the Institute became aware of it. Torchwood Three was sometimes described as merely a "monitoring station" for the rift. ([[WEB]]: ''[[Torchwood website|torchwood.org.uk]]'')
The Rift was the [[Torchwood Institute]]'s justification for locating [[Torchwood Three]] in [[Cardiff]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Everything Changes]]'', ''[[Captain Jack Harkness (TV story)|Captain Jack Harkness]]'') Torchwood Three was sometimes described as merely a "monitoring station" for the Rift. ([[WEB]]: ''[[Torchwood website|torchwood.org.uk]]'')


=== The Rift equations ===
==== Returning Jack and Toshiko ====
[[Toshiko Sato]] developed equations to serve as guidelines to operate the Manipulator. With the possible exception of [[Jack Harkness]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Captain Jack Harkness (TV story)|Captain Jack Harkness]]'') and [[John Hart]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Exit Wounds (TV story)|Exit Wounds]]'') who had come from a more technologically advanced time, of all of the Torchwood Three team in [[2007]], Tosh seemed to have the greatest understanding of how to operate the machine. ([[TV]]: ''[[Captain Jack Harkness (TV story)|Captain Jack Harkness]]'')
The Manipulator was used to rescue Jack Harkness and Toshiko after the Rift sent the two into [[1941]]. [[Owen Harper]], sick and tired of "living in its shadow" decided to use the Manipulator to try and bring them back. Owen first had to find several missing components of the Manipulator, one in the possession of Bilis Manger and the other in the safe in Jack's office. He also had to use the Rift equations which Tosh had written in 1941 and left for her teammates to find in the future, so that they could rescue Jack and her.


:''We have no knowledge, direct or indirect, as to whether Jack knows how to operate the Manipulator.''
Owen and [[Ianto Jones]] fought. Ianto was certain that Owen should not use the Manipulator. In the fight, he shot Owen in the shoulder, but not before Owen successfully reactivated the Manipulator. With the Rift opened, Jack and Tosh walked through the Rift back to their time period, [[2008]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Captain Jack Harkness (TV story)|Captain Jack Harkness]]'')


[[File:Equations1.jpg|right|thumb|The first half of [[Toshiko Sato]]'s Rift equations ([[WEB]]: ''[[Torchwood website|torchwood.org.uk]]'')]]
Owen's use of the Manipulator caused the Rift to fracture across parts of the entire [[Earth]], causing time slips worldwide. More [[Weevil]]s than ever appeared in Cardiff. Except for Jack and Gwen, the Torchwood Three team saw visions of missing loved ones tempting them to use the Manipulator to open the Rift so that the Rift could undo the damage it was causing. The death of [[Gwen Cooper]]'s love, [[Rhys Williams]], brought Gwen to believe that opening the Rift would bring Rhys back, so she joined Tosh, Ianto and Owen in a mutiny against Jack.


[[File:Equations2.jpg|right|thumb|The second half of [[Toshiko Sato]]'s Rift equations ([[WEB]]: ''[[Torchwood website|torchwood.org.uk]]'')]]
The mutinying team took [[retinal scan]]s of themselves and Jack to unlock the Rift Manipulator, and successfully activated it and opened the Rift, unintentionally releasing [[Abaddon]] in the process. ([[TV]]: ''[[End of Days (TV story)|End of Days]]'')


=== Missing components ===
Captain John Hart used the Rift Manipulator to cause a Rift surge at [[Cardiff Castle]] to send himself and Jack to [[27]] AD Cardiff, where Jack was to be buried beneath the city as it grew on top of him. ([[TV]]: ''[[Exit Wounds (TV story)|Exit Wounds]]'')
Two parts of the Manipulator, both crucial to its activation, remained absent: one, kept in Jack's safe, the other in the possession of [[Bilis Manger]], inside a [[grandfather clock]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Captain Jack Harkness (TV story)|Captain Jack Harkness]]'')


:''We do not know how Manger acquired the part or why he hid it. As Manger had special powers, however, he could have stolen it.''
The Rift Manipulator was later used by Jack, Ianto and Gwen in conjunction with [[Mr Smith]] to manipulate the Rift and boost the signal of [[Martha Jones]]' superphone and contact the [[Tenth Doctor]], who was outside of the [[Medusa Cascade]] as a result of the Earth being stolen. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]'')


=== Use of the Manipulator ===
The Manipulator was subsequently used again to send the Rift's energy to the TARDIS for a tow rope for the Earth to be taken back to where it belonged. With the energy looped around the TARDIS by Mr. Smith, this plan worked. ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]])''
The Manipulator was used to rescue Jack Harkness and Toshiko, who had fallen through the rift into [[1941]]. [[Owen Harper|Owen]], sick and tired of "living in its shadow" decided to use the Manipulator. Owen first had to find several missing components of the Manipulator, one in the possession of [[Bilis Manger]] and the other in the safe in Jack's office. He also had to use the Rift equations which Tosh had written in 1941 and left for her teammates to find in the future, so that they could rescue Jack and her.


Owen and [[Ianto Jones]] fought. Ianto was certain that Owen should not use the Manipulator. In the fight, he shot Owen in the shoulder.
In [[2009]], the Rift Manipulator was destroyed when a bomb detonated in the Hub. ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day One (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day One]]'')


With the rift opened, Jack and Tosh walked through the rift back to their time period, [[2008]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Captain Jack Harkness (TV story)|Captain Jack Harkness]]'')
=== The Rift equations ===
[[Toshiko Sato]] developed equations to serve as guidelines to operate the Manipulator. With the possible exception of [[Jack Harkness]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Captain Jack Harkness (TV story)|Captain Jack Harkness]]'') and [[John Hart]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Exit Wounds (TV story)|Exit Wounds]]'') who had come from a more technologically advanced time, of all of the Torchwood Three team in [[2007]], Tosh seemed to have the greatest understanding of how to operate the machine. ([[TV]]: ''[[Captain Jack Harkness (TV story)|Captain Jack Harkness]]'')


Owen's use of the Manipulator had fractured the Rift, causing other time zones to bleed through to the present. More [[Weevil]]s than ever appeared in Cardiff. Except for Jack and Gwen, the Torchwood 3 team saw visions of missing loved ones tempting them to use the Manipulator to close the Rift. Manger murdered Gwen's love [[Rhys Williams|Rhys]] and she believed that if the Rift closed, Rhys would return to life.
:''We have no knowledge, direct or indirect, as to whether Jack knew how to operate the Manipulator.''


The team had to have [[retinal scan]]s of every member of the team to activate the Manipulator. Torchwood 3 mutinied against Jack, shot him and used a retinal scan off of his corpse. A blue-white column of light shot from the Manipulator, the Rift closed and in doing so, freed [[Abaddon]], as Manger had planned all along. Jack, who had the power of immortality, had by then, returned to life. ([[TV]]: ''[[End of Days (TV story)|End of Days]]'')
[[File:Equations1.jpg|right|thumb|The first half of [[Toshiko Sato]]'s Rift equations. ([[WEB]]: ''[[Torchwood website|torchwood.org.uk]]'')]]


Captain John Hart used the Manipulator to send Jack to [[27]] AD Cardiff where he was to be buried beneath the city as it grew on top of him. ([[TV]]: ''[[Exit Wounds (TV story)|Exit Wounds]]'')
[[File:Equations2.jpg|right|thumb|The second half of [[Toshiko Sato]]'s Rift equations. ([[WEB]]: ''[[Torchwood website|torchwood.org.uk]]'')]]


The Manipulator was later used by Jack, Ianto and Gwen in conjunction with [[Mr Smith]] to manipulate the Rift to boost the signal of [[Martha Jones]]' superphone and contact the [[Tenth Doctor]], who was outside of the [[Medusa Cascade]] as a result of the Earth being stolen. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]'')
=== Missing components ===
 
Two parts of the Rift Manipulator, both crucial to its activation, remained absent: one, kept in Jack's safe, the other in the possession of [[Bilis Manger]], inside a [[grandfather clock]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Captain Jack Harkness (TV story)|Captain Jack Harkness]]'')
The Rift Manipulator was used to send the Rift's energy to the TARDIS for a tow rope for the Earth to be taken back to where it belonged. With the energy looped around the TARDIS by Mr. Smith, this plan worked. ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]])''
:''We do not know how Manger acquired the part or why he hid it. However, he may have used his teleporting abilities to steal it.''
 
In [[2009]], the Rift Manipulator was destroyed when a bomb detonated in the Hub. ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day One (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day One]]'')


== Portable Rift Manipulator that repaired time shifts ==
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|origin      = [[Cardiff]]
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|appearances = [[TV]]: ''[[To the Last Man (TV story)|To the Last Man]]''
|appearances = [[TV]]: ''[[To the Last Man (TV story)|To the Last Man]]''
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}}This portable device was used as a key to stitch together two [[time shift]]s occurring in [[1918]] and [[2008]].
== Portable Rift Manipulator that repaired time shifts ==
 
This portable device was used as a key to stitch together two [[time shift]]s occurring in [[1918]] and [[2008]].


=== History ===
=== History ===
In 1918, [[Gerald Carter]] and [[Harriet Derbyshire]] were given instructions by a future version of [[Tommy Brockless]] to send Tommy into suspended animation so he could use the portable Rift Manipulator to close the time shifts and prevent the two times from happening simultaneously at the moment he was in both times.


In 1918, [[Gerald Carter]] and [[Harriet Derbyshire]] were given instructions by a future version of [[Tommy Brockless]] to send Tommy into suspended animation so he could use the shifts to close the time shifts and prevent the two times from happening simultaneously at the moment he's in both times.
In 2008, Tommy awoke and gave Gerald and Harriet their message. After doing this, Tommy returned to 1918, but entered a state of [[shell shock]]. Toshiko Sato projected a psychic image of herself and reminded Tommy to turn the mechanism. He did so, stopping the time shifts. ([[TV]]: ''[[To the Last Man (TV story)|To the Last Man]]'')
 
In 2008, Tommy awoke and gave Gerald and Harriet their message. After doing this, Tommy returned to 1918, but entered a state of [[shell shock]]. Toshiko Sato projected a psychic image of herself and reminded Tommy to turn the mechanism. He did so. ([[TV]]: ''[[To the Last Man (TV story)|To the Last Man]]'')
 
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Revision as of 16:08, 20 January 2013

The Rift Manipulator was one of two objects used by Torchwood Three which could control the Cardiff Space-Time Rift to a limited extent.

The Rift Manipulator inside the Torchwood Hub

Located in the Torchwood Three Hub, this Rift Manipulator was designed to control the Cardiff Rift. It could, to a limited degree, stabilise the Rift or open the Rift wider. It had very hit-or-miss effects.

History

Motives for creation

The Torchwood Institute discovered the Rift in 1879 at the earliest (the year of the Institute's formation) (TV: Tooth and Claw) and 1913 at the latest. By April of the latter year, work on the Manipulator had started.

During 1913, the Institute noticed increased Rift activity. This was given as justification to commence work on the Manipulator. The increased activity came from "foreshocks" of the use of the Manipulator itself, travelling backwards in time from the widening of the Rift, finally resulting in its fracture in the early 21st century. Paradoxically, the Manipulator itself (in the future), had caused the widening of the Rift.

The Rift presented a constant danger, and with the Manipulator, the Institute hoped to minimise that danger.(WEB: torchwood.org.uk)

The Rift was the Torchwood Institute's justification for locating Torchwood Three in Cardiff. (TV: Everything Changes, Captain Jack Harkness) Torchwood Three was sometimes described as merely a "monitoring station" for the Rift. (WEB: torchwood.org.uk)

Returning Jack and Toshiko

The Manipulator was used to rescue Jack Harkness and Toshiko after the Rift sent the two into 1941. Owen Harper, sick and tired of "living in its shadow" decided to use the Manipulator to try and bring them back. Owen first had to find several missing components of the Manipulator, one in the possession of Bilis Manger and the other in the safe in Jack's office. He also had to use the Rift equations which Tosh had written in 1941 and left for her teammates to find in the future, so that they could rescue Jack and her.

Owen and Ianto Jones fought. Ianto was certain that Owen should not use the Manipulator. In the fight, he shot Owen in the shoulder, but not before Owen successfully reactivated the Manipulator. With the Rift opened, Jack and Tosh walked through the Rift back to their time period, 2008. (TV: Captain Jack Harkness)

Owen's use of the Manipulator caused the Rift to fracture across parts of the entire Earth, causing time slips worldwide. More Weevils than ever appeared in Cardiff. Except for Jack and Gwen, the Torchwood Three team saw visions of missing loved ones tempting them to use the Manipulator to open the Rift so that the Rift could undo the damage it was causing. The death of Gwen Cooper's love, Rhys Williams, brought Gwen to believe that opening the Rift would bring Rhys back, so she joined Tosh, Ianto and Owen in a mutiny against Jack.

The mutinying team took retinal scans of themselves and Jack to unlock the Rift Manipulator, and successfully activated it and opened the Rift, unintentionally releasing Abaddon in the process. (TV: End of Days)

Captain John Hart used the Rift Manipulator to cause a Rift surge at Cardiff Castle to send himself and Jack to 27 AD Cardiff, where Jack was to be buried beneath the city as it grew on top of him. (TV: Exit Wounds)

The Rift Manipulator was later used by Jack, Ianto and Gwen in conjunction with Mr Smith to manipulate the Rift and boost the signal of Martha Jones' superphone and contact the Tenth Doctor, who was outside of the Medusa Cascade as a result of the Earth being stolen. (TV: The Stolen Earth)

The Manipulator was subsequently used again to send the Rift's energy to the TARDIS for a tow rope for the Earth to be taken back to where it belonged. With the energy looped around the TARDIS by Mr. Smith, this plan worked. (TV: Journey's End)

In 2009, the Rift Manipulator was destroyed when a bomb detonated in the Hub. (TV: Children of Earth: Day One)

The Rift equations

Toshiko Sato developed equations to serve as guidelines to operate the Manipulator. With the possible exception of Jack Harkness (TV: Captain Jack Harkness) and John Hart, (TV: Exit Wounds) who had come from a more technologically advanced time, of all of the Torchwood Three team in 2007, Tosh seemed to have the greatest understanding of how to operate the machine. (TV: Captain Jack Harkness)

We have no knowledge, direct or indirect, as to whether Jack knew how to operate the Manipulator.
File:Equations1.jpg
The first half of Toshiko Sato's Rift equations. (WEB: torchwood.org.uk)
File:Equations2.jpg
The second half of Toshiko Sato's Rift equations. (WEB: torchwood.org.uk)

Missing components

Two parts of the Rift Manipulator, both crucial to its activation, remained absent: one, kept in Jack's safe, the other in the possession of Bilis Manger, inside a grandfather clock. (TV: Captain Jack Harkness)

We do not know how Manger acquired the part or why he hid it. However, he may have used his teleporting abilities to steal it.

Portable Rift Manipulator that repaired time shifts

This portable device was used as a key to stitch together two time shifts occurring in 1918 and 2008.

History

In 1918, Gerald Carter and Harriet Derbyshire were given instructions by a future version of Tommy Brockless to send Tommy into suspended animation so he could use the portable Rift Manipulator to close the time shifts and prevent the two times from happening simultaneously at the moment he was in both times.

In 2008, Tommy awoke and gave Gerald and Harriet their message. After doing this, Tommy returned to 1918, but entered a state of shell shock. Toshiko Sato projected a psychic image of herself and reminded Tommy to turn the mechanism. He did so, stopping the time shifts. (TV: To the Last Man)

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