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| '''Gallifrey ''' was the [[planet|homeworld]] of the [[Time Lord]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Warrior]]'') It was believed to have been destroyed in the [[Last Great Time War]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]'') but was later discovered to be frozen in a pocket universe, surviving the war. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'', ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') The literal translation of Gallifrey was "They that walk in the shadows". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Pit]]'') | | '''Gal livery was destroyed in the great sos wars when dalek smithy and da boys saw the planet and decided to kill all the homeless homosexual disabled Jewish niggers that resided there. The last thing uttered by a time lard was "fuck me this isn't going to plan, that marder II just one shot me, fuck this"'''[[es:Gallifrey]] |
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| == Location ==
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| Gallifrey was located in the [[constellation]] of [[Kasterborous]], at galactic coordinates 10-0-11-00:02 from [[Galactic centre|Galactic Zero Centre]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars (TV story)|Pyramids of Mars]]'', [[Full Circle (TV story)|Full Circle]], ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') Several accounts placed it more or less at the centre of its [[galaxy]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Devil Goblins from Neptune]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book Two]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'') Indeed, [[I.M. Foreman]] once specified to the [[Eighth Doctor]] that it wasn't in "the exact dead centre, but it's as close as you can get without ending up in a [[black hole]]". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One]]'') According to another account, the Eighth Doctor explained to [[human]]s [[Grace Holloway]] and [[Chang Lee]] that Gallifrey was "[o]n the other side of [[Mutter's Spiral|your galaxy]]" and "250 million light-years away" from [[Earth]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') A Time Lord who came to speak to the Third Doctor said that he had just travelled "29,000 light years". ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons]]'') Another account put Gallifrey 30,000 light-years from Earth. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Devil Goblins from Neptune]]'')
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| Gallifrey had the alternative name, "the Shining World of the Seven Systems". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'')
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| At one point, Gallifrey was removed from the [[time lock]] during the [[Last Great Time War]] and relocated to near [[Earth]] with potentially devastating consequences for the latter planet. It returned to the time lock when the [[Tenth Doctor]] shot at the [[White-Point Star|diamond]] which connected Gallifrey to Earth. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') At the end of the Time War, it was then frozen in time in a [[pocket universe]] for its own protection by "all thirteen" incarnations of [[the Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor]]'')
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| Missy later told the Doctor that Gallifrey had returned to its original position, but this was revealed to be a lie when the Doctor travelled to these coordinates and found only empty space. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'')
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| == Astronomical data ==
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| === Size ===
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| Gallifrey was several times larger than [[Earth]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
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| === Gallifrey's system ===
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| Gallifrey was in a binary [[star system]]. The second star seemed to rise in the south in the morning, making the mountains glow. ([[TV]]: ''[[Gridlock]]'') The main star was large and golden red. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Forever Trap (audio story)|The Forever Trap]]'') The system contained five other planets ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time]]''), among them [[Karn]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Brain of Morbius]]'') and [[Polarfrey]], and an asteroid named [[Kasterborous the Fibster]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow]]'')
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| === Satellites ===
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| Gallifrey had at least two large [[moon]]s and a ring system, similar to [[Saturn]] in [[Earth]]'s solar system. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Agent Provocateur]]'') One of the moons was the copper-coloured [[Pazithi Gallifreya]], which shone so brightly it could be seen during the day. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]], [[Lungbarrow]]'') Gallifrey's moons perished with the Daleks when Gallifrey disappeared. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Agent Provocateur]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'')
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| == Landscape ==
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| From orbit, Gallifrey was rust-coloured, with brown lakes and grey clouds. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]'') Following the [[Last Great Time War]], it was still rust and brown coloured, but had a more volcanically active appearance. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
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| [[Susan Foreman]] once described it as "a brown, green, snow-capped planet." ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Beginning (audio story)|The Beginning]]'')
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| From the planet's surface, it boasted an orange sky, snow-capped mountains, fields of red grass, and trees with silver leaves. These reflected the morning sunlight, making it look like the forests were on fire. ([[TV]]: "[[A Desperate Venture]]", ''[[Gridlock]]'') There were also green forests, golden fields and red deserts ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]''), but overall it seems to have been a much drier world than Earth. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow]]'') The [[Sixth Doctor]] once declared the climate to be "like the [[Serengeti]] all year round". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Spiral Scratch]]'') There was also a river called [[Lethe]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Master (audio story)|Master]]'') The wastelands around the [[Capitol]] were referred to as "outer Gallifrey" by the Time Lords. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time (TV story)|The Invasion of Time]]'')
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| == Known geographic features ==
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| {{section cleanup|This section needs to be converted to sourced prose.}}
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| === Regions ===
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| * [[Wild Endeavour]] ([[continent]])
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| ** The [[Capitol]]
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| ** The mountains of [[Solace]] and [[Solitude]]
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| * [[Death Zone|The Death Zone]]
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| ** The [[Tomb of Rassilon]]
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| * [[Southern Gallifrey]]
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| * [[Arcadia (city)|City of Arcadia]]
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| === Mountains ===
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| * [[Mount Cadon]]
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| * [[Mount Lung]]
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| * [[Mount Perdition]]
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| * The Never-Ending Mountains of [[Solace]] and [[Solitude]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'')
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| === Rivers, lakes, and oceans ===
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| * [[Cadonflood River]]
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| * [[Lake Abydos]]
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| * [[Lethe]] river
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| == History of the planet ==
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| [[File:Gallifrey2.jpg|thumb|right|A [[Sontaran]] ship approaches Gallifrey. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time]]'')]]
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| {{Main|Gallifreyan history}}
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| Gallifrey was duplicated eight times to create the [[Nine Gallifreys]]. It was used both to confound its enemies and as a place of refuge. Gallifrey was still destroyed by the [[Eighth Doctor]] (following involvement from [[Faction Paradox]]) during the [[Second War in Heaven]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell]]'') It was later recreated. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'')
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| On the final day of the Time War, the Time Lords, now led by [[Rassilon]], broke the time lock to materialise Gallifrey in Earth's skies in [[2009]], thinking the [[War Doctor]] would precipitate their ultimate demise on that final day through [[the Moment]]. However, the Tenth Doctor sent the planet, Time Lords included, back to its doomed fate, by breaking the link that brought the Time Lords to Earth. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
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| Gallifrey was thought to have been destroyed by the Doctor in the Time War ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of the World (TV story)|The End of the World]]'', ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]'') but was frozen in time in a pocket dimension by the first thirteen incarnations of the Doctor. The vast majority of the Daleks died in the crossfire when Gallifrey disappeared. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'')
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| === Alternative timelines ===
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| In an [[Gallifrey (Forever)|alternative timeline]], [[Rassilon#Alternative timelines|Rassilon]] failed to finish the [[Eye of Harmony#Alternative timelines|Eye of Harmony]] before his death and Gallifrey never achieved [[time travel]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Forever (audio story)|Forever]]'')
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| In a timeline [[Timothy Dean]] showed [[John Smith (Seventh Doctor)|John Smith]] to prevent him giving the [[Aubertide]]s the pod containing [[Time Lord]] [[biodata]], the Aubertides had conquered Gallifrey. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'')
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| In another alternate timeline created by the [[Sirens of Time]], the [[Knights of Velyshaa]] conquered Gallifrey. However, the [[Fifth Doctor|Fifth]], [[Sixth Doctor|Sixth]] and [[Seventh Doctor]]s, with the help of the [[Temperon]], averted this. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Sirens of Time (audio story)|The Sirens of Time]]'')
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| == Major settlements ==
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| [[File:The Citadel.jpg|thumb|right|The [[Capitol]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'')]]
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| * The [[Capitol]] (sometimes also called "Gallifrey" or "the Citadel") was Gallifrey's largest city, the home of most of the [[Time Lord]]s.
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| * [[Olyesti]]
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| * [[Arcadia (city)|Arcadia]], Gallifrey's second largest city, which was protected by a large number of [[sky trench]]es. These defences failed on the last day of the Time War, and the city was ravaged by the Daleks. The War Doctor was present at the [[Fall of Arcadia]], and it was there that he left his warning of "No More" for the combatants.
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| == Native species ==
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| === Gallifreyan flora ===
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| Gallifrey had a wide variety of plant life, ranging in colour from silver to green and golden. Known plant species included the [[Schlenk Blossom]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Island of Death (novel)|Island of Death]]'') [[ulanda]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Blind Fury (short story)|Blind Fury]]'') and the ''[[Madevinia aridosa]]''. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]'') [[The Master]]'s father's estate was lush with red grass. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') The [[Third Doctor]] also once said that there were [[Daisy|daisies]] on Gallifrey. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Monster (TV story)|The Time Monster]]'')
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| === Gallifreyan fauna ===
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| Animals native to Gallifrey included [[flutterwing]]s ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pirate Planet]]''), [[Woprat]]s ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Heart of TARDIS]]''), [[trunkike]]s, [[yaddlefish]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Blind Fury (short story)|Blind Fury]]''), [[flubble]]s ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Island of Death (novel)|Island of Death]]''), [[tafelshrew]]s ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]''), [[plungboll]]s ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Ghosts of N-Space (audio story)|The Ghosts of N-Space]]''), [[rabbit]]s ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Caerdroia (audio story)|Caerdroia]]''), [[rovie]]s ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[No Place Like Home]]''), [[mouse|mice]], [[cat]]s ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mark of the Rani]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'') [[pig-rat]]s ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Panacea (audio story)|Panacea]]'') and, of course, the [[Gallifreyan]]s themselves. In the past, the [[dinosaur]]-like [[Gargantosaur]]s lived on the planet. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Stolen TARDIS (comic story)|The Stolen TARDIS]]'') According to one account, no animal had gone extinct from the planet. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Last Dodo]]'') However, according to another account, a large lizard-like creature that had been placed out of its time in the [[Death Zone]] was described by the [[War Doctor]] as a "a long-extinct species from before the Time Lords ever walked the planet". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Engines of War]]'')
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| == Behind the scenes ==
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| * Although the planet was referenced numerous times earlier, and even seen on occasion ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games]]'' and ''[[The Three Doctors]]'' for instance), the name Gallifrey was not uttered on screen until [[Jon Pertwee]] did so in ''[[The Time Warrior]]''. In the revived series, the name Gallifrey was mentioned for the first time in ''[[The Runaway Bride]]''.
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| * In the original script of ''[[The Time Warrior]]'', Gallifrey was scripted as "Galfrey", but was later changed.
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| * Even though the first on-screen mention of Gallifrey was in ''[[The Time Warrior]]'', broadcast in December 1973, the word appeared in ''[[TV Action]]'' #126, put out for the week ending 14 July 1973. There, in the letters column, the editors responded to a question from Simon Still of Kent who asked where [[the Master]] came from. The answer? "The Master's home planet was called 'Gallifrey'." This probably doesn't mean, however, that [[Polystyle]] gets the credit for "Gallifrey". Since shooting on ''The Time Warrior'' wrapped on 12 June 1973, and the scripts had been completed earlier that spring, the likelihood is not that the ''TV Action'' originated the name, but that they were given it by the ''Doctor Who'' production office.
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| == External links ==
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| * [http://meshyfish.com/~roo/index.html "Rassilon, Omega and that Other Guy": informally named but very exhaustive website compiled Gallifrey information from all media, with speculation (clearly labelled as such)]
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| * [http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/locationofgallifrey.shtml ''Discontinuity Guide'' article on the location of Gallifrey]
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| [[pt:Gallifrey]] | | [[pt:Gallifrey]] |
