Origins of the Last Great Time War: Difference between revisions

The exact identity of this messenger varied depending on the account. Many tellings held that he was a Time Lord from the Fourth Doctor's own era, explaining why that was the incarnation chosen. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Device of Death (novel)|A Device of Death]]'', ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]'', et. al) One account held that the messenger was Lord [[Ferain]], who was the [[Director of Allegiance]] within Gallifrey's [[Celestial Intervention Agency]] and writer of ''[[An Alternative History of Skaro: The Daleks without Davros]]'', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') whereas another telling held the Time Lord who led the mission was the [[coordinator]] of the APC Net, [[Jelpax]], after his team foresaw the Dalek-controlled future. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'') By one account, the messenger had been [[Lord Cardinal]] [[Brastall]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Device of Death (novel)|A Device of Death]]'') By [[The Doctor's reality (Death Comes to Time)|another account]], the messenger was [[Valentine (Death Comes to Time)|Valentine]]. ([[WC]]: ''[[Death Comes to Time (webcast)|Death Comes to Time]]'') A final account claimed [[Valyes]], a Time Lord from a future point in time when Gallifrey was threatened by Daleks, had been the messenger. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Ascension (audio story)|Ascension]]'') The CIA's own documents claimed the messenger had been [[Director]] [[Deliavatsud]], whose administration had failed to recongise the threat of the Daleks for 25,000 years.

Sometime after adopting the bronze casings ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Gallifrey VI]]'') they used throughout the Time War, ([[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]]'') the Daleks created the [[Dogma Virus]] to corrupt Time Lord DNA and eventually wipe out the Time Lords. They sent the virus to Gallifrey through an organisation known as [[Free Time]], who were working for them. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Panacea (audio story)|Panacea]]'', ''[[Ascension (audio story)|Ascension]]'') The Daleks then hacked into [[the Matrix]], giving them a backdoor to invading Gallifrey. The Dalek Supreme led an invasion force into the Matrix with the intention of leading them out into Gallifrey itself. The plan was stopped by Romana II and [[Romana III|her third incarnation]], who created enough defences inside the Matrix to allow it to be shut down. Romana II trapped them in a time loop to ensure that a temporal war with the Daleks would be avoided.

According to this account, the Fourth Doctor's [[Genesis Incident|mission to avert the creation of the Daleks]] had been ordered during this time. Acting through his own authority and unaware that Romana had succeeded in defeating the Daleks, [[Narvin]] sent [[Valyes]] to [[Skaro]] to give the Doctor the mission, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Ascension (audio story)|Ascension]]'') accidentally creating the Dalek-Gallifreyan tensions that led to war. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Engines of War (novel)|Engines of War]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Hunters of the Burning Stone (comic story)|Hunters of the Burning Stone]]'', et al.) Later, once the War had begun, [[Rassilon]] commended Narvin for his decisive thinking, though Narvin admitted that he had been hasty in his choice of agent. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Assassins (audio story)|Assassins]]'') Alternatively, [[Cardinal]] [[War Ollistra|Ollistra]], who indeed stated the mission had in fact been from the [[Celestial Intervention Agency|CIA]], believed it had been a "misjudged operation". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Eternity Cage (audio story)|The Eternity Cage]]'') The supposed future in which the Daleks had destroyed all other life may have just been a claim from Narvin to save Romana, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Ascension (audio story)|Ascension]]'') but other accounts treated it as a legitimate future the Time Lords had foreseen. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Whoniverse (novel)|The Whoniverse]]'', ''[[Meet the Doctor (DWAN 2006 short story)|Meet the Doctor]]'', et al.)