Prehistory Repeating Itself (feature)

Prehistory Repeating Itself
Main setting:	Earth
Key crew
Publisher:	Cubicle 7
Writers:	Will Brooks, Andrew Kenrick, John Snead, Alasdair Stuart, Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, John M. Kahane, Ken Spencer, Kieran Turley
Illustrator:	Paul Bourne
Release details
Part of:	The Silurian Age
Release date:	12 April 2016

Prehistory Repeating Itself was a feature in The Silurian Age which outlined a Doctor Who universe of Earth's prehistoric ages for use in Adventures in Time and Space: The Roleplaying Game. Most of its text was repurposed from Cubicle Seven's Primeval roleplaying game.

It was accompanied by the adventure seeds Dinosaurs on a Clockwork Spaceship, 1 Million Years Before Clara, and The Dawn of (Cyber)Man.

Summary

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Characters

• Adventurers

Worldbuilding

• Periods of Earth's history were Precambrian (4.5 billion - 542 million BCE), Cambrian (542 million - 488 million BCE), Ordovician (488 million - 443 million BCE), Silurian (443 million - 416 million BCE), Devonian (416-359 million BCE), Carboniferous (359-299 million BCE), Permian (299-251 million BCE), Triassic (251-200 million BCE), Jurassic (200-145 million BCE), Cretaceous (145-65.5 million BCE), Paleocene (65-56 million BCE), Eocene (56-34 million BCE), Oligocene (34-23 million BCE), Miocene (23-5.3 million BCE), Pliocene (5.3 to 2.5 million BCE), Pleistocene (2.5 million - 10,000 BCE), and the Holocene (10,000 BCE - present).
• The extinction events in the Ordovician may have been caused by Tritovores and the Sycorax.
• No Silurians exist in the Silurian era.
• Some Saturnyn came to the Devonian period through a crack in time and plan to build a home there.
• Macra may have been present in the Carboniferous.
• The era of Silurian civilisation was likely in the Cretaceous.
• Krynoids may have fallen to Earth in the Paleocene and taken over the planet if not for the intervention of time travellers.
• The Fendahl influenced Earth in the Miocene.
• Light came to Earth in the Pliocene, and may have encountered the adventurers at this time.

Notes

• Most of this text was repurposed from Cubicle Seven's Primeval roleplaying game, written by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan and John M. Kahane. With Primeval being a series in which time travelled occurred between the present and eras of Earth's distant past, much of the content on time travellers travelling to Earth's distant past could also be applied to a Doctor Who setting. A few hints of the text's Primeval origins remain.
  • The section on the Precambrian contains the sentence, "A creature or disease from the Precambrian would be as incomprehensible and bizarre – and possibly as dangerous – as an alien." In the original Primeval version of this text, this sentence was in reference to the Fog Worms from the TV series.
  • The species selection, being recycled from a Primeval game, heavily corresponds to the species seen in Primeval, including several obscure dinosaurs.

Continuity

• The Rani's plan to avert the K-T extinction with a time brain from TV: Time and the Rani ^[+]Loading...["Time and the Rani (TV story)"] is mentioned, as well as the events of GAME: Dinosaurs on a Clockwork Spaceship ^[+]Loading...["Dinosaurs on a Clockwork Spaceship (game)"].

External links

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