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| |aka = Sol III, Terra, [[Mondas]], Tellus, Gaia, Ravolox, Avallion, Antýkhon, [[New Skaro]], Erith, Old Earth, Orphan 55, True Earth, Planet C-Z-456378-D-C-D-C/42-K
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| '''Earth''', also known as '''the Earth''' ([[TV]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Beginning (audio story)|The Beginning]]'') and '''Planet Earth''', ([[TV]]: ''[[World War Three (TV story)|World War Three]]'', ''[[The Long Game (TV story)|The Long Game]]'', ''[[Bad Wolf (TV story)|Bad Wolf]]'') was a [[planet]] in the [[solar system]] whose native sapient species included the [[human]] race ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') and the [[Silurian]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV story)|Doctor Who and the Silurians]]'') The twin planet of [[Mondas]], it was the third planet from [[Sol|its sun]] and therefore also known as '''Sol III''' (or '''Sol 3'''), ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time (TV story)|The Invasion of Time]]'', ''[[Voyage of the Damned (TV story)|Voyage of the Damned]]'') though mainly to extraterrestrial cultures. Eventually, it was shifted across two light years by the [[Time Lord]]s, and renamed '''Ravolox'''. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mysterious Planet (TV story)|The Mysterious Planet]]'') In interstellar law it was also referred to as '''Planet C-Z-456378-D-C-D-C/42-K'''. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Doomsday Contract (audio story)|The Doomsday Contract]]'') In one potential future, societal environmental irresponsibility caused the planet to degenerate into an [[orphan planet]], and it became known as '''[[Orphan 55]]'''. ([[TV]]: ''[[Orphan 55 (TV story)|Orphan 55]]'') It had counterparts in other timelines, but these were only derivatives branching from the original, '''True Earth'''. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Warlords of Utopia (novel)|Warlords of Utopia]]'')
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| By the [[20th century]], various incarnations of [[the Doctor]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'', ''[[Partners in Crime (TV story)|Partners in Crime]]'', ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'') as well as [[Romana II|Romana]] ([[TV]]: ''[[City of Death (TV story)|City of Death]]'') and [[Hardaker (Voyage of the Damned)|Captain Hardaker]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Voyage of the Damned (TV story)|Voyage of the Damned]]'') referred to Earth as a "[[Level 5 planet]]".
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| It was a planet in which the [[the Doctor]] had a "particular interest" ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'') in all known [[incarnation]]s. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Thing of Guile (audio story)|A Thing of Guile]]'') It may even have been the origin of some of the Doctor's [[DNA]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') Certainly, it was the planet from which the Doctor drew most of their [[companion|travelling companions]]. It was also a planet about whose complete history the Doctor had demonstrated expertise, often knowing minutiae about it and being able to sense [[fixed point in time|which points]] in its history and in its solar system's history were able to be altered, and which not. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Waters of Mars (TV story)|The Waters of Mars]]'') The [[Fourth Doctor]] once referred to it as his "home from home", ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Devil's Armada (audio story)|The Devil's Armada]]'') as did the [[First Doctor|First]]. He found that something about the planet always cheered him up. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Rag & Bone Man's Story (short story)|The Rag & Bone Man's Story]]'') Although the [[Twelfth Doctor]] for a time claimed that the Earth wasn't his home, ([[TV]]: ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'') he later admitted that "This [was his] world too." ([[TV]]: ''[[In the Forest of the Night (TV story)|In the Forest of the Night]]'') Even the [[War Doctor]] maintained a special fondness for Earth and Terran culture. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Thing of Guile (audio story)|A Thing of Guile]]'') By the [[21st century]], the Doctor had become an [[The Doctor in popular culture|integral part]] of Earth culture. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Mark of Terror (comic story)|The Mark of Terror]]'', etc.)
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| It attracted many alien invasion attempts throughout its multi-billion year history. Indeed, it owed its very existence to a species that hadn't originated there. Its core was formed around either a [[Racnoss]] [[webstar]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride (TV story)|The Runaway Bride]]'') or a [[Time Lord]] containment shell ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference - Book One]]'') which hid the [[caldera]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Head of State (novel)|Head of State]]'', ''[[A Bloody (And Public) Domaine (short story)|A Bloody (And Public) Domaine]]'')
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| Still, it was not a planet that was merely ripe for invasion. Its history included long periods of time where it was a formidable player in intergalactic politics. At the height of its influence, Earth was the centre of several massive empires and confederations, and its DNA was flung to the furthest reaches of the [[universe]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'', ''[[The Monster of Peladon (TV story)|The Monster of Peladon]]'', ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'', ''[[The Long Game (TV story)|The Long Game]]'', ''[[Planet of the Ood (TV story)|Planet of the Ood]]'') Earth was thought to be the homeworld of [[the Enemy]] in the [[War in Heaven]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book Two (novel)|Interference - Book Two]]'', ''[[T.memeticus: A Morphology (short story)|T.memeticus: A Morphology]]'', etc.) with some Time Lords suspecting that the thousands of alien invasions the planet endured were faked. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'')
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| == Astronomical data ==
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| === Location ===
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| Earth was located at [[galactic coordinate]]s 58044 684884 ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pirate Planet (TV story)|The Pirate Planet]]'') in [[Sector 8023]] of the [[Third Quadrant]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'') Being caught in a [[time corridor]] on [[Frontios]], the [[Fifth Doctor]] commented that the TARDIS was being dragged towards "the middle of the universe" before arriving on Earth. ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontios (TV story)|Frontios]]'')
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| It was the third planet in the [[solar system]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'', ''[[The Invasion of Time (TV story)|The Invasion of Time]]'', ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'', ''[[Voyage of the Damned (TV story)|Voyage of the Damned]]'') located 149,600,000 [[kilometre]]s away from [[the Sun]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Hyperion Empire (comic story)|The Hyperion Empire]]'') At one point the planet was transported to the [[Medusa Cascade]] by the [[Dalek]]s, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]'') and was subsequently towed back to its normal orbit in the Solar system by [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'') Earth's "constellation" was later shifted across two [[light-year]]s of space by the [[Time Lord]]s and renamed "Ravolox" circa [[2000000|2,000,000 AD]], being returned at some later point to its original location. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mysterious Planet (TV story)|The Mysterious Planet]]'')
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| === Moon(s) ===
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| For much of Earth's history until [[2049]], a planetoid-sized egg was a satellite of Earth. This egg, known as [[the Moon]], impacted the Earth's tides and eventually hatched in 2049. The creature replaced the Moon's position with a "new moon" - equal in size to the original - when it laid another egg shortly after hatching. ([[TV]]: ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'') By the time of the [[Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire]], the Earth had five moons. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Long Game (TV story)|The Long Game]]'')
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| === Geology ===
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| Earth was rich in many valuable metals and elements. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks]]'') It was one of the few sources of [[quartz]] in [[Mutter's Spiral|the galaxy]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pirate Planet (TV story)|The Pirate Planet]]'') and was also rich in [[silicon]] and [[carbon]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Four to Doomsday (TV story)|Four to Doomsday]]'')
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| The planet was not entirely [[Sphere|spherical]], which meant that [[Shanghai]] and [[Buenos Aires]], while technically [[antipode]]s, were slightly off. [[The Blessing]] ran through the Earth between those two points. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Blood Line (TV story)|The Blood Line]]'')
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| === Atmosphere and gravity ===
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| Earth's [[atmosphere]] was 80% [[nitrogen]] and 20% [[oxygen]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Resurrection of Mars (audio story)|The Resurrection of Mars]]'') [[Carbon dioxide]] was vital to Earth's lower atmosphere. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ice Warriors (TV story)|The Ice Warriors]]'') Due to [[human]] activity, Earth had a lot of [[toxin]]s and [[dioxin]]s in its atmosphere, which would have provided decent nutrition for the [[Nestene Consciousness]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'')
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| The [[First Doctor]] noted that Earth's atmosphere and [[gravity]] were roughly equivalent to those on [[Gallifrey]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Rag & Bone Man's Story (short story)|The Rag & Bone Man's Story]]'')
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| As the [[Third Doctor]] noted, with the invention of the [[car|motor car]] came a change in Earth's atmosphere. ([[TV]]: ''[[Colony in Space (TV story)|Colony in Space]]'') As cars admitted excess [[carbon dioxide]] into the atmosphere, causing [[pollution]], they were fitted with [[ATMOS]] in the [[2009]], and didn't emit any at all. What they did add to the atmosphere, though, was [[clone feed]], as it was the [[Sontaran]]s' plan to convert Earth into a [[cloning world]]. This was reversed by the [[Tenth Doctor]] and [[Luke Rattigan]], who used an [[atmospheric converter]] to clean up the atmosphere again. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem (TV story)|The Sontaran Stratagem]]'', ''[[The Poison Sky (TV story)|The Poison Sky]]'') Nevertheless, the pollution of Earth's atmosphere through [[global warming]] reached a point of no return in the early [[21st century]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Warhead (novel)|Cat's Cradle: Warhead]]'')
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| === Geography ===
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| Earth was 70[[percentage|%]] [[water]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)|The Fires of Pompeii]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Kings of Infinite Space (audio story)|Kings of Infinite Space]]'')
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| Earth's surface changed considerably over the course of its long history, owing to its high seismic activity. When native life first appeared on the planet, for example, what later became the middle of the [[Atlantic Ocean]] was a vast, rocky wasteland. ([[TV]]: ''[[City of Death (TV story)|City of Death]]'')
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| The actions of humans, specifically their [[pollution]], also had a major effect on the geography of the world. Earth nearly became an [[ocean world]] in the early [[22nd century]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Kings of Infinite Space (audio story)|Kings of Infinite Space]]'') By the [[26th century]], the seas of Earth had been polluted, [[radiation|irradiated]], set on [[fire]] and [[boiling|boiled]] off into a thick [[sludge]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Ship of Fools (novel)|Ship of Fools]]'') By the [[52nd century]], [[winter]]s no longer occurred due to [[global warming]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Frozen (short story)|The Frozen]]'') However, in the days of the [[Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire]], the Earth was far less polluted than in the twentieth century. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)|The Daleks' Master Plan]]'')
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| Over millions of years, [[continental drift]] caused the surface of Earth to change radically, creating such features as the [[Arctic Desert]] and the [[Los Angeles Crevasse]]. The [[National Trust]] installed [[gravity satellite]]s to hold back the expanding [[Sol|Sun]], from a now uninhabited Earth. They also shifted the [[continent]]s back to their earlier positions, a planetary style known as "Classic Earth", which took billions of years. It stayed like this until the planet's final destruction ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of the World (TV story)|The End of the World]]'') in the year [[5000000000|5,000,000,000]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[New Earth (TV story)|New Earth]]'')
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| == Sapient native species ==
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| Several sapient and semi-sapient species evolved on Earth, though the most important and influential ones were the [[human]]s and [[Earth Reptile]]s, known as Silurians. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Love and War (novel)|Love and War]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Cold Blood (TV story)|Cold Blood]]'')
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| Other sapient species native to Earth included the [[Fairy|Fairies]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Small Worlds (TV story)|Small Worlds]]''), [[Sidhe (Autumn Mist)|Sidhe]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Autumn Mist (novel)|Autumn Mist]]''), the [[dolphin]]s ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Island of Death (novel)|Island of Death]]''), the [[Carpanthan]]s ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Fishmen of Carpantha (comic story)|The Fishmen of Carpantha]]''), the [[Merman|Mermen]] ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Guests of King Neptune (comic story)|Guests of King Neptune]], ''[[AUDIO]]: ''[[Cryptobiosis (audio story)|Cryptobiosis]]''), the [[Tusken]]s ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Mad Dogs and Englishmen (novel)|Mad Dogs and Englishmen]]'') and the [[Erithian]]s ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Caves of Erith (audio story)|The Caves of Erith]]'').
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| == Flora and fauna ==
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| In its long history, many [[species]] had [[evolution|evolved]] on Earth. By the [[21st century]], over three hundred billion species of animals had already evolved and gone [[extinction|extinct]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Last Dodo (novel)|The Last Dodo]]'')
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| The Fourth Doctor stated that Earth was the only planet in its galaxy where [[oak]] trees grew. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Android Invasion (TV story)|The Android Invasion]]'') [[Botanist]]s tried to seed oak trees on other [[colony]] [[planet]]s, but found that they always died. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Unknown (audio story)|The Unknown]]'')
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| The [[Tree of Cheem|Trees of Cheem]], a race of intelligent [[humanoid]] [[tree]]s, originally descended from the tropical [[rainforest]]s of Earth. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of the World (audio story)|The End of the World]]'')
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| == Historical significance ==
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| === Early history ===
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| ==== Before life ====
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| [[File:Earth 6 billion years ago.jpg|thumb|Earth around 6 billion years prior to [[1974]], on a [[Tuesday]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hide (TV story)|Hide]]'')]]
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| Following [[Rassilon]]'s [[Eternal War]] against the [[Yssgaroth]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Pit (novel)|The Pit]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[State of Decay (TV story)|State of Decay]]'') the [[Time Lord]]s tracked down all the openings to the [[Spiral Yssgaroth|Yssgaroth's universe]] and closed them off with containment shells disguised as [[planet]]s, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference - Book One]]'', ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') the Earth being one of these. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'')
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| One account stated that [[the Sentience (Nightshade)|the Sentience]] existed like a fissure in the universe, around which the Earth formed, trapping it, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Nightshade (novel)|Nightshade]]'') while another account claimed Earth formed [[Distant past|circa 4.6 billion years]] [[BC]] around a [[Racnoss]] [[spacecraft]] which carried the last of their ancient race. The craft drew in surrounding asteroids and shaped them into a planetary body. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride (TV story)|The Runaway Bride]]'')
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| Soon afterwards, the [[Eleventh Doctor]] arrived on a [[Tuesday]], in what he described as "6 billion years ago." At that time, the Earth was hot and [[Volcano|volcanic]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hide (TV story)|Hide]]'')
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| Around 3 billion BC, the consciousness of the [[Sou(ou)shi]] settled on Earth and went into dormancy. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Venusian Lullaby (novel)|Venusian Lullaby]]'')
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| ==== Creation of life ====
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| Native life eventually developed due to the explosion of a [[Jagaroth]] spaceship circa 400 million BC, ([[TV]]: ''[[City of Death (TV story)|City of Death]]'') the experiments of the [[Archaeon]]s using red [[lightning]] to seed the Earth and turn it into an ordered "garden" circa 450 million BC, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Beginning (audio story)|The Beginning]]'') or both.
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| ==== Dinosaurs, Silurians and Sea Devils ====
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| Various species of [[dinosaur|saurian]] creatures dominated the planet until circa 65 million BC when a freighter from [[2526]] time-warped to this period and exploded in the upper atmosphere. The resulting clouds of dirt and smoke obscured [[Sol|the Sun]], lowering the temperature and causing mass extinctions. ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'')
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| An intelligent species of [[reptile]]s flourished and then went extinct. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[All-Consuming Fire (novel)|All-Consuming Fire]]'') Reptilian [[Silurian]]s ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV story)|Doctor Who and the Silurians]]'') and [[Sea Devil]]s ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sea Devils (TV story)|The Sea Devils]]'') were also active and were the dominant species on Earth. During this time, the [[red leech]] also existed and was the Silurians' most virulent enemy. They were believed to have gone extinct during this period, but at least [[Sweet (The Crimson Horror)|one]] survived to the year [[1893]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Crimson Horror (TV story)|The Crimson Horror]]'')
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| The reign of the Silurians and Sea Devils came to a final end when the small planet (later known as Earth's primary satellite, [[the Moon]]) entered Earth's orbit. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV story)|Doctor Who and the Silurians]]'') Some of the reptilian scientists, such as Dr [[Wolik]], calculated that the Moon would closely approach Earth, drawing off the atmosphere ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Cave-Monsters (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Cave-Monsters]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Twilight of the Silurians (comic story)|Twilight of the Silurians]]'') and destroying "all life". ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV story)|Doctor Who and the Silurians]]'') The [[Third Doctor]] repeated the claim to [[Marc Marshall]] that the Silurians built the shelters when they thought the planet would "suck away" Earth's atmosphere as it rushed by. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Scales of Injustice (novel)|The Scales of Injustice]]'') Conversely, the [[Fifth Doctor]] recalled that the Silurian astronomers predicted that Earth was about to be "struck" by the planet at the time, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Warriors of the Deep (novelisation)|Warriors of the Deep]]'') and the [[Eleventh Doctor]] described the trajectory of the planet the astronomers had predicted as a "crash course". ([[TV]]: ''[[Cold Blood (TV story)|Cold Blood]]'') The reptiles went into [[suspended animation]] until the atmosphere returned. Because the atmosphere never went away, they stayed in hibernation for millions of years. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV story)|Doctor Who and the Silurians]]'') Nonetheless, the effects of the Moon's arrival, while never completely pulling the atmosphere away, caused huge [[tidal wave]]s to sweep over its continents, [[volcano]]es to erupt, [[earthquake]]s bringing mountains down and [[cyclone]]s to rage across the planet. Millions of [[human]]ity's [[ape]] ancestors drowned or were blown into rocks by the winds, but some survived and multiplied. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Cave-Monsters (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Cave-Monsters]]'') During millions of years of hibernation, the reactivation machinery of the reptiles' [[hibernation unit]]s deteriorated. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sea Devils (TV story)|The Sea Devils]]'') One account implied that the Moon was already in orbit before intelligent life had developed, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Beginning (audio story)|The Beginning]]'') while another stated that it was an egg laid by an alien species around 100 million BC. ([[TV]]: ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'')
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| Apes, regarded by the reptiles as pests, eventually evolved into the species known as humans, given a substantial jolt forward when the [[Fendahl]] Core arrived in [[Africa]] circa 12 million BC. ([[TV]]: ''[[Image of the Fendahl (TV story)|Image of the Fendahl]]'')
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| === Human age ===
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| ==== The rise of human civilisation ====
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| Human civilisation evolved quickly, assisted (either accidentally or directly) by the [[Dæmon]]s, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dæmons (TV story)|The Dæmons]]'') the various temporal fragments of [[Scaroth]], ([[TV]]: ''[[City of Death (TV story)|City of Death]]'') the predatory nature imparted to humans by the [[Fendahl]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Image of the Fendahl (TV story)|Image of the Fendahl]]'') and the occupation by [[the Silence]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Moon (TV story)|Day of the Moon]]'') Scaroth claimed responsibility for the inventions of fire and the wheel; ([[TV]]: ''[[City of Death (TV story)|City of Death]]'') the [[Silent]]s claimed they were on Earth since that point. ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Moon (TV story)|Day of the Moon]]'') The [[Osiran]]s apparently had an influence on Earth around 5000 BC, inspiring many aspects of Ancient Egypt and imprisoning one of their number, [[Sutekh]], in Egypt. ([[TV]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars (TV story)|Pyramids of Mars]]'') The [[Third Doctor]] said that the Dæmons helped ''Homo sapiens'' "kick out" [[Neanderthal]] man. He mentioned the [[Greek]] civilisation, the [[Renaissance]], the [[Industrial Revolution]], and various myths, gods and devils including [[Khnum]] and the Horned Beast as being inspired by the Dæmons. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dæmons (TV story)|The Dæmons]]'')
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| For "a half a million years", humanity systematically killed one another in conflicts. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'') Human beings' predatory and aggressive nature was evident in the many conflicts which humans fought amongst themselves throughout much of their early history, such as during the siege of [[Troy]], the [[Dark Ages]] and the [[American War of Independence]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mark of the Rani (TV story)|The Mark of the Rani]]'') Other conflicts, including [[World War I]], the [[English Civil War]], the [[American Civil War]], the [[Mexican Civil War]], the [[Crimean War]], the [[Boer War]], the [[Russo-Japanese War]], the [[Thirty Years' War]] and the [[Peninsular War]] were also exploited by the [[War Lord]]s, who kidnapped human soldiers from these various conflicts in Earth history for use in their war games. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'')
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| ==== 20th and 21st centuries ====
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| The [[First Doctor]]'s companion [[Vicki Pallister]], who was from the [[25th century]], did not consider early [[20th century]] Earth to be much more advanced than [[Rome]] in the [[1st century]]. [[Barbara Wright]] took offence at this remark. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Starborn (audio story)|Starborn]]'')
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| The conflicts known as the [[World War I|First]] and [[World War II|Second World Wars]] and the [[Cold War]] would be particularly significant in the 20th century. The development of [[nuclear weapon]]s increased international tensions in the late [[20th century]] even more. In the [[1980s]] nuclear war between the [[Soviet Union]] and the [[United States]] seemed imminent. ([[TV]]: ''[[Cold War (TV story)|Cold War]]'') This threat was somewhat alleviated when the great powers entrusted their nuclear launch codes to the United Kingdom for safe-keeping ([[TV]]: ''[[Robot (TV story)|Robot]]''), and again when the planet came under the rule of the [[World Zone Authority]] in the early [[21st century]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Enemy of the World (TV story)|The Enemy of the World]]'')
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| In [[July]] [[1969]], the [[Eleventh Doctor]] made the humans subconsciously turn against the [[Silent]]s and drove them off the planet, leaving behind their network of underground tunnels and several of their crafts. It was at this time that humans sent their first people on [[the Moon]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Moon (TV story)|Day of the Moon]]'') Scaroth was killed in [[1979]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[City of Death (TV story)|City of Death]]'')
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| The space race, partially inspired by the Silence, ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Moon (TV story)|Day of the Moon]]'') was of great significance: while Earth had been visited by aliens many times throughout its history, the launching of space probes made such visits more frequent, as ''Homo sapiens'' began drawing attention to themselves. ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]'') These visits also tended to be more openly hostile. Earth was saved from conquest or outright annihilation often only through the intercession of [[the Doctor]] or the secret (prior to the 21st century) organisation [[Torchwood Institute|Torchwood]]. An attack by the [[Great Intelligence]] would finally force the Earth's governments to agree on a unified response to aliens: the [[United Nations]] body known as [[UNIT]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Web of Fear (TV story)|The Web of Fear]]'', ''[[The Invasion (TV story)|The Invasion]]'') Despite this increase in invasions, a number of aliens that arrived were benevolent.
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| The governments of Earth, as well as the Doctor, UNIT, Torchwood, and (by the [[21st century]]) [[Sarah Jane Smith]] and her [[Ealing]] group, tried to keep these invasions a secret. UNIT was officially a counter-terrorist group and had several incidents explained as terrorism and accidents, though this caused political scandals throughout the 1970s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy]]'') Torchwood used mind-wiping drugs to cover up some incidents, ([[TV]]: ''[[Everything Changes (TV story)|Everything Changes]]'') while Sarah Jane used her computer [[Mr Smith]] to deliberately falsify evidence and news reports. ([[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Slitheen (TV story)|Revenge of the Slitheen]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') The [[Seventh Doctor]] would remark that these cover-ups were helped by the fact humans didn't ''want'' to notice, and were performing self-deception on themselves. ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'')
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| In the early 21st century, starting with the [[Slitheen]] infiltration of [[10 Downing Street]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Aliens of London (TV story)|Aliens of London]]''), alien incidents became far more blatant. The governments and UNIT would have a random policy of alternately admitting that some aliens existed ([[TV]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]'', ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Coup (audio story)|The Coup]]'') and trying to desperately cover things up, such as claiming the [[Battle of Canary Wharf]] was because of terrorists planting drugs in water. ([[TV]]: ''[[Everything Changes (TV story)|Everything Changes]]'') Many humans acknowledged the aliens, while others tried to claim they were fake. ([[TV]]: ''[[Smith and Jones (TV story)|Smith and Jones]]'') However, several further events, most notably the forced relocation of Earth and a global Dalek assault ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]''/''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'') and the [[The 456|456]] crisis ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth]]'') served to finally convince the populace at large that humanity was not alone in the universe. Subsequent events, however, in particular the manifestation of the [[time field]], removed some of these events from the memories of many, if not all humans; ([[TV]]: ''[[Flesh and Stone (TV story)|Flesh and Stone]]'', ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'') the Doctor ultimately rebooted the universe and Earth's history. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'')
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| In [[2011]], Earth's political and social climate changed heavily following [[Miracle Day]], where the human race stopped dying as a result of a [[morphic field]] and yet continued to age. ([[TV]]: ''[[The New World (TV story)|The New World]]'', ''[[Rendition (TV story)|Rendition]]'') This ended when [[Jack Harkness]]' blood was fed into [[the Blessing]]'s antipodes. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Blood Line (TV story)|The Blood Line]]'') As a result, some countries like [[India]] and [[Pakistan]] reduced tensions with one another, while others like [[North Korea]] started mobilising troops and the legal definition and practical use of attempted [[murder]] and [[suicide]] were thrown into chaos. ([[TV]]: ''[[The New World (TV story)|The New World]]'', ''[[Rendition (TV story)|Rendition]]'', ''[[The Categories of Life (TV story)|The Categories of Life]]'', ''[[The Middle Men (TV story)|The Middle Men]]'') Various governments established the [[categories of life]], throwing category 1s and 2s into [[overflow camp]]s and incinerating category 1s inside [[Module]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Categories of Life (TV story)|The Categories of Life]]'') This quickly became public knowledge. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Middle Men (TV story)|The Middle Men]]'')
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| Around [[2018]], Earth had a population of 7 billion. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lie of the Land (TV story)|The Lie of the Land]]'', ''[[The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos (TV story)|The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos]]'', ''[[Resolution (TV story)|Resolution]]'')
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| From [[2019]] to at least [[2059]], Earth went through a period of chaos: [[climate change]], [[ozone]] degradation, the "[[oil apocalypse]]", the [[Great Cataclysm]], a [[Korven]] invasion ([[TV]]: ''[[The Waters of Mars (TV story)|The Waters of Mars]]'', ''[[The Eclipse of the Korven (TV story)|The Eclipse of the Korven]]'') and the increased weight of [[the Moon]] causing high [[tide]] everywhere all at once. ([[TV]]: ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'') Humanity faced [[extinction]], but not only survived; they achieved major advances in [[space travel]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Waters of Mars (TV story)|The Waters of Mars]]'') and developed [[Gravitron|weather control technology]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Moonbase (TV story)|The Moonbase]]'') In [[2058]], Earth's [[Bowie Base One|first colony]] on [[Mars]] was established by [[Adelaide Brooke]]; ([[TV]]: ''[[The Waters of Mars (TV story)|The Waters of Mars]]'') humanity would go on to create an [[T-Mat|early form]] of [[transmat]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Seeds of Death (TV story)|The Seeds of Death]]'') and [[lightspeed travel]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Waters of Mars (TV story)|The Waters of Mars]]'') To cope with the depleted [[oil]] supply, humans began drilling off world, taking oil from other planets. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Infinite Quest (TV story)|The Infinite Quest]]'')
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| In late 21st century, the [[United States of America]] and [[Eurozone]] began showing hostilities to each other ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Trading Futures (novel)|Trading Futures]]'') and by [[2084]], there were again two vast power blocs in conflict and the threat of nuclear war. ([[TV]]: ''[[Warriors of the Deep (TV story)|Warriors of the Deep]]'') According to one account, the tensions between the competing blocs ended with the [[Ice Warrior|Martian]] assault of [[2086]], when [[Paris]] was destroyed. A [[Thousand Day War]] against a common alien enemy united humans and planted the seeds for a united Earth. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Transit (novel)|Transit]]'') However, a different account showed that all of the Martians were either destroyed after — in the words of [[Harold (Deimos)|Harold]] — "something to do with [[T-Mat]] on the Moon" or were inactive and in [[suspended animation]] on [[Deimos]] and in the [[Sol system]]'s [[asteroid belt]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Deimos (audio story)|Deimos]]'')
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| However, other accounts differed on this, stating that, among other things, Mars was entirely populated by human colonists by the [[23rd century]], with the native [[Martian]]s, the [[Ice Warrior]]s, already becoming — in the words of Ice Warrior expert, Professor [[Boston Schooner|Schooner]] — "extinct for hundreds of years", when, according to what [[Gregson Grenville]] had learnt from school, "they were all melted when their invasion fleet spiralled into the sun".
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| This account showed extant Ice Warriors, but all were in [[suspended animation]] for — according to the [[Eighth Doctor]] — "many millions of years" at the time both the destruction of the fleet and the Thousand Year War were purported to have happened. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Deimos (audio story)|Deimos]]'')
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| ==== Humanity travels to the stars ====
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| In [[2089]], Earth made its first interstellar flight which was flown by [[Susie Fontana Brooke]] and it led her to [[Proxima Centauri]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Waters of Mars (TV story)|The Waters of Mars]]'') In [[2095]] a full-scale [[human]] colonisation of [[Mars]] began to be colonised for the wealthy minority humans. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Beige Planet Mars (novel)|Beige Planet Mars]]'') [[2099|Four years later]], the governments of Earth, in answer to [[global warming]], had taken vast sections of the [[Arctic]] and [[Antarctica|Antarctic]] and placed them inside huge domes called [[Snowglobe]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Snowglobe 7 (novel)|Snowglobe 7]]'')
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| In [[2151]], Earth went through a [[bee]] invasion. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Secret in Vault 13 (novel)|The Secret in Vault 13]]'')
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| In the [[22nd century]], Earth suffered the rise of large corporations which would occasionally wage active war against each other, energy crises and the collapse of the [[tourist]] trade. In [[2156]], [[Earth Central]] declared bankruptcy and the corporations (under the [[Earth Alliance of Corporations]]) took control of the planet. Despite this, Earth's colonisation of the galaxy continued to advance. The [[Guild of Adjudicators|Adjudicators]] were established to enforce Earth law on the colonies. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lucifer Rising (novel)|Lucifer Rising]]'')
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| ==== 22nd century Dalek invasion ====
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| The [[22nd century Dalek invasion]] proved devastating to Earth. First, the Daleks wiped out fifteen colonies; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lucifer Rising (novel)|Lucifer Rising]]'') next, they released a plague across the Earth. Over a six-month period, [[Africa]], [[Asia]] and [[South America]] were almost wiped out; humanity was barely able to resist when the Daleks arrived. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'') [[New York City]] and many other cities were destroyed. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Chase (TV story)|The Chase]]'') For ten years, the remaining inhabitants of Earth were terrorised by the Dalek forces, who enslaved many and turned others into [[Robomen]], while the Daleks attempted to turn Earth into a mobile dreadnought. Only a handful of resistance groups existed.
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| Following the defeat of their grand scheme ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'') and the shattering of their solar system blockade in the [[Battle of Cassius]], the Daleks left Earth. The planet remained divided into feudal kingdoms for a time, as Earth refused assistance from the colonies; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Legacy of the Daleks (novel)|Legacy of the Daleks]]'') large conglomerates, however, stepped in to rebuild the [[Terran Security Forces]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Final Sanction (novel)|The Final Sanction]]'') The invasion killed about two-thirds of Earth's population. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[An Earthly Child (audio story)|An Earthly Child]]'') Thirty years after the invasion, the [[Earth Council]] existed as a fledgling government, but anti-alien organisations like [[Earth United]] began to attract many youths to their cause. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[An Earthly Child (audio story)|An Earthly Child]]'') Earth was finally rebuilt when other ships from other human colonies arrived to offer their aid. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Janus Conjunction (novel)|The Janus Conjunction]]'') The Daleks, during the 2190s, invaded Earth again under the Leadership of the [[Dalek Time Controller]], after the renegade Time Lord [[the Monk]] spread another virus. They dug up much of North America, hoping this time to move Earth through time and space for the viruses from the [[Amethyst Viral Containment Station]], turning Earth into a plague planet. This plan was averted when [[Lucie Miller]] crashed a Dalek Saucer into the mines at the cost of her life. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Lucie Miller (audio story)|Lucie Miller]]''/''[[To the Death (audio story)|To the Death]]'')
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| ==== Earth empires ====
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| By the [[23rd century]], Earth had recovered and a major "break-out" of colonisation took place. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Romance of Crime (novel)|The Romance of Crime]]'') During this century, global warming caught up with the planet, resulting in three quarters of the Earth’s landmass being drowned by water. London was among the flooded cities, with sub-aquatic community [[Poseidon 8]] being established in its ruins. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Shadows of the Vashta Nerada (video game)|Shadows of the Vashta Nerada]]'')
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| In time the planet formed a unified government and an [[Earth Empire]] emerged. This dominated most of Mutter's Spiral for over 500 years. This empire at times came into military conflict with other space powers, particularly the [[Draconian]]s, ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'') [[Cybermen]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'') and the [[Korven]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Korven (TV story)|The Korven]]'') It often employed oppressive and disenfranchising policies on the indigenous inhabitants of its colonies. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Power of Kroll (TV story)|The Power of Kroll]]'', ''[[The Mutants (TV story)|The Mutants]]'') Alongside Draconia, Earth would fight and win the [[Second Dalek War]]. Before the war, Earth and the Empire was overseen by a [[President of Earth|president]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'') but from the late 26th century it was ruled by a [[Divine Empress]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'')
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| By the [[28th century]], Earth was commonly referred to as "Old Earth" by the inhabitants of its colonies such as [[Nocturne (planet)|Nocturne]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Nocturne (audio story)|Nocturne]]'')
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| In the [[29th century]], Earth's environment was largely destroyed by solar flares. Humanity fled the planet on giant spaceships, returning when the solar flares stabilised. Autonomous nations returned during the crisis, as countries like the [[United Kingdom]] constructed their own, specific [[Starship UK|refuge ships]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Beast Below (TV story)|The Beast Below]]'') The first ship to return to Earth after the flares had passed was the [[SS Lucy Gray]]. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Return to Earth (video game)|Return to Earth]]'') The United Kingdom was still travelling on its refuge ship by the [[33rd century]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Beast Below (TV story)|The Beast Below]]'')
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| By the [[30th century]], Earth was again the centre of the Empire. Overcities now hovered above the surface to house the rich, leaving the poor and alien on the polluted surface with the decaying former cities like London. In [[2957]], Icaron radiation from a [[Hith|Hithis]] ship held by [[Tobias Vaughn]] sparked off a wave of psychotic murders which escalated to Overcity riots and some cities falling from the sky.([[PROSE]]: ''[[Original Sin (novel)|Original Sin]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Original Sin (audio story)|Original Sin]]'') Unrest among the subjugated alien races, instabilities in the Empire's political and economic structure, and ecological damage to Earth eventually led to the decline of the Empire. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mutants (TV story)|The Mutants]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Sorcerer's Apprentice (novel)|The Sorcerer's Apprentice]]'') After [[Leabie Forrester]] became Empress, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[So Vile a Sin (novel)|So Vile a Sin]]'') she dismantled the Empire within five years, causing the former colonies to abandon Earth. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dependence Day (short story)|Dependence Day]]'')
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| The [[Kustollon]] [[Igrix]] recalled that in [[3046]], the Kustollons of [[Kustollia]] fought the humans of Earth in an "enormous, terrible battle" over disputed territories in the [[Perseus arm]]. The humans won using a [[virus]] developed from [[Peter Cobb|Peter]] and [[Charlotte Cobb]]'s research which disabled the Kustollons' [[biotechnology]]. According to the [[Ninth Doctor]], Earth had collapsed and took centuries to recover from [[famine]], [[plague]] and misery. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Love Invasion (comic story)|The Love Invasion]]'')
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| In the [[32nd century]], Earth was a founding member of the [[Galactic Federation]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Legacy (novel)|Legacy]]'')
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| By the [[36th century]] the [[Earth Alliance]], a loose alliance of Earth and human colonies, existed. In [[3562]] the Alliance defeated the [[Knights of Velyshaa]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Sirens of Time (audio story)|The Sirens of Time]]'') The Alliance fought a [[Eminence War|war]] against [[the Eminence]]. Just as it appeared the Alliance had won, {{Macqueen}} used the Eminence to takeover Earth. His rule was overthrown by the [[Eighth Doctor]] who turned the Eminence against him and then dispersed it. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Rule of the Eminence (audio story)|Rule of the Eminence]]'')
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| In the late [[40th century]], Earth was among the "[[Big Four]]" powers in an alliance against the [[Dalek]] invasions, when it was decided to found the [[Space Security Service]] (SSS). ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Outlaw Planet (short story)|The Outlaw Planet]]'')
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| By the year [[4000]], Earth and its dominions were ruled by a [[Guardian of the Solar System]], with the Space Security Service handling military intelligence. The incumbent Guardian, [[Mavic Chen]], plotted with the Daleks to form an alliance against Earth which was exposed by the [[First Doctor]] and SSS agent [[Sara Kingdom]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)|The Daleks' Master Plan]]'') Years later, the [[Tenth Doctor]] was brought to Earth by SSS agents [[Anya Kingdom]] and [[Mark Seven]] to investigate [[George Sheldrake]] and his time tunnels. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Buying Time (audio story)|Buying Time]]'') Due to the meddling of [[the Nun]], Sheldrake’s tunnels unleashed a temporal catastrophe on Earth as different time periods collided until the Doctor was able to resolve the situation with Sheldrake’s equipment. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Wrong Woman (audio story)|The Wrong Woman]]'')
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| Mavic Chen’s descendants brought down the Galactic Federation's democracy ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Crystal Bucephalus (novel)|The Crystal Bucephalus]]'') and the Earth-ruled [[Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire]] took its place. During this time the enslavement of the [[Ood]] as a servant class occurred. ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Ood (TV story)|Planet of the Ood]]'')
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| Despite the efforts of the Earth Alliance, during [[Second Great Dalek Occupation]] Earth fell to the Daleks once again. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[["Death to the Daleks!" (audio story)|”Death to the Daleks!”]]'') In the ensuing [[Enemy-Alliance Dalek War]], the Daleks continued to occupy Earth and it eventually became their last stronghold in the Milky Way. After the Daleks and Alliance made a truce to fight the [[Alliance Dalek]]s together, [[Susan Mendes]] was taken to Earth by the [[Dalek Supreme (Invasion of the Daleks)|Dalek Supreme]] so the [[Dalek Emperor]] could be retrieved from her mind. After the retreat of the Alliance Daleks back to their universe, [[Kalendorf]] travelled to Earth to confront the Emperor, correctly inferring it was planning to break the truce as soon as it was opportune. Kalndoef initiated the [[Great Catastrophe (The Exterminators)|Great Catastrophe]] that wiped out the Dalek Empire, devastating Earth and its colonies in the process. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dalek War: Chapter Four|Dalek War: Chapter Four]]'')
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| In the [[45th century]], Earth became uninhabitable. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Plague of the Daleks (audio story)|Plague of the Daleks]]'')
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| By [[5000]] Earth was experiencing a [[Second Ice Age]] but was populated. The populace was divided into advanced [[Icelandic Alliance|national]] [[Supreme Alliance|alliances]] resulting in [[World War VI]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)|The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Butcher of Brisbane (audio story)|The Butcher of Brisbane]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Emotional Chemistry (novel)|Emotional Chemistry]]'') This time period saw the [[Great Breakout]], where humans began spreading out from Earth in great numbers. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invisible Enemy (TV story)|The Invisible Enemy]]'') According to one account, in the [[51st century]] Earth was engulfed by solar flares. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Keep (comic story)|The Keep]]'')
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| In the time period of the Doctor’s companions [[Samson Griffin|Samson]] and [[Gemma Griffin]], [[Davros]] unleashed a mutagenic virus on Earth. As it spread Davros offered his assistance to governments, eventually resulting in the creation of a new Dalek army which occupied the planet. The Eighth Doctor arrived on the occupied planet and exploited Davros’ split personality and a virus lethal to all life that Davros had created to bargain with the Daleks for their withdrawal from Earth. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Terror Firma (audio story)|Terror Firma]]'')
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| === Later events ===
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| Earth, in its later history, was abandoned numerous times by its human inhabitants, first in [[6087]] when [[solar flare]]s bombarded the planet, leaving Earth uninhabited for 10,000 years. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ark in Space (TV story)|The Ark in Space]]'') The population of Earth was evacuated in vast starships, while a small number of people were left behind aboard [[Nerva Beacon]] to begin the repopulation of the planet once conditions on the surface were suitable for life. Humans elsewhere carried on with [[Expansion|another period of colonial expansion]] under [[GalSec]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ark in Space (TV story)|The Ark in Space]]'', ''[[The Sontaran Experiment (TV story)|The Sontaran Experiment]]'') While Earth was uninhabited and damaged, it was occupied by the [[Charrl]], who renamed the world Antýkhon. Humans who had survived the flares, referred to as "Hairies", had mutated to adapt to the depleted atmosphere and soil caused by the Charrls' industrial activities. The Charrl occupation lasted some 3,497 years. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Birthright (novel)|Birthright]]'') Nerva Beacon's evacuees returned to Earth after ten thousand years had passed. They recolonised the planet. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ark in Space (TV story)|The Ark in Space]]'')
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| According to one account, by the year [[37166|37,166]], Earth had been abandoned "since the start of the third era". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Planet of Evil (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Planet of Evil]]'')
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| Some time after, Earth was visited by the [[Usurian]]s, who relocated the dying human population first to [[Mars]] and then [[Pluto]]. Generations later, humans had thrown off the yoke of Usurian exploitation and returned to Earth. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sun Makers (TV story)|The Sun Makers]]'')
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| By the year [[200000|200,000]], Earth was at its height, covered with megacities and a population of 96 billion. It was the centre of the galactic domain of the [[Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire]] that stretched across a million planets and species. The Empire had been secretly manipulated and its progress hindered by Dalek survivors of the [[Last Great Time War]], who allowed an alien known as the [[Jagrafess]] and his consort, [[the Editor]], control over the planet until they were caught and overthrown. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Long Game (TV story)|The Long Game]]'', ''[[Bad Wolf (TV story)|Bad Wolf]]'', ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]'') Earth underwent a century of social collapse and pollution before a full-scale invasion commenced in [[200100|200,100]], including a bombing campaign which disfigured the continents. The Dalek fleet was destroyed by the [[Bad Wolf (entity)|Bad Wolf entity]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]'')
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| [[File:Ravalox.jpg|thumb|left|Earth as Ravolox. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mysterious Planet (TV story)|The Mysterious Planet]]'')]]
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| About the year [[2000000|2,000,000]], Earth was relocated two light-years from its proper position by the [[Time Lord]]s to prevent the escape of aliens from [[Andromeda (constellation)|the constellation of Andromeda]] who had stolen information from [[the Matrix]] on [[Gallifrey]]. Most of the humans remaining on Earth were wiped out. Those that survived degenerated to a primitive, tribal culture. The planet came to be known as Ravolox, with Earth being completely forgotten. The inhabitants of Ravolox eventually came to know of the true nature and history of their planet and to rebuild their civilisation. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mysterious Planet (TV story)|The Mysterious Planet]]'') The prophecy of the [[Yarven|Vampire Messiah]] also used the name Ravolox for Earth. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Goth Opera (novel)|Goth Opera]]''). Although Glitz informed her about Earth being a decimated planet, [[Mel Bush]] decided to try and make her way to Earth, intending to pull its scattered populace together and rebuild; six months later, however, she'd become stuck on [[Avalone]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Head Games (novel)|Head Games]]'')
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| At some point, the planet was known by the name Tellus and was owned entirely by the mining company, [[Tellac Inc.]] During this period, the president of the company was the political leader of the planet as well. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[K9 and the Missing Planet (novel)|K9 and the Missing Planet]]'')
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| At some point in the [[far future]], Earth was a dead planet, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Voyage to Venus (audio story)|Voyage to Venus]]'') destroyed and "laid barren by wanton waste and foolhardy destruction". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallery (short story)|The Gallery]]'')
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| === Earth's destruction ===
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| [[File:Earth Destroyed1.jpg|thumb|left|Earth is destroyed for perhaps the first time. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ark (TV story)|The Ark]]'')]]
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| In the 57th [[segment of Time]], the last humans left Earth because of the increasing danger that it would fall into the [[Sol|Sun]], fleeing to [[planet]]s such as [[Refusis II]] and [[Frontios]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ark (TV story)|The Ark]]'', ''[[Frontios (TV story)|Frontios]]'') This destruction of Earth was dated circa [[10000000|10,000,000]] by ''[[The Book of the War]]'' and ''[[The Human Species: A Spotter's Guide]]'' ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'', ''[[Of the City of the Saved... (novel)|Of the City of the Saved...]]'') and circa [[12000000|12,000,000]] by some future historians. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Brakespeare Voyage (novel)|The Brakespeare Voyage]]'') In Earth's absence, humanity was deprived of a common cultural reference point and the [[posthuman]] era began. The posthuman [[Arcadian]] movement recreated Earth on 28,000 Earth-like displays, of which many were called "[[New Earth]]". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'')
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| [[File:Earthdeath.jpg|thumb|right|Earth meets its demise when the Sun engulfs it. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of the World (TV story)|The End of the World]]'')]]
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| Other accounts indicate Earth still existed billions of years later, by which time the Sun had exhausted its hydrogen supply and turned into a red giant. It was restored to a "classic" Earth by the [[National Trust]]. As the Sun grew, the National Trust financed technology to keep its expansion held back so it would not engulf the Earth. However, funding for the preservation project eventually ran out and the National trust withdrew its protection. Earth was [[Earth Death|finally destroyed by the expanding Sun]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of the World (TV story)|The End of the World]]'') in the year [[5000000000|5,000,000,000]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[New Earth (TV story)|New Earth]]'') However, at some point, humanity had settled on a planet called [[New Earth (New Earth)|New Earth]], which had a similar size, orbit, and atmosphere to Earth. According to one account, humanity had relocated to New Earth long before the destruction of Earth. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Agent Provocateur (comic story)|Agent Provocateur]]'') According to another account, the [[Tenth Doctor]] said that in 5,000,000,000, "as soon as the Earth burn[t] up", the human race, who at this point were "spread out across the stars", got nostalgic and then ''found'' New Earth after forming a big revival movement. ([[TV]]: ''[[New Earth (TV story)|New Earth]]'') Humanity outlived their original homeworld for tens of trillions of years, up until the [[end of the universe]] itself ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'', ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'') and [[City of the Saved|beyond]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Of the City of the Saved... (novel)|Of the City of the Saved...]]'', etc.)
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| According to yet another account, the end of the world saw a malevolent government hunting down all survivors of humanity, with cities such as [[London]] becoming derelict and overrun with vegetation, while [[Sol]] slowly imploded in a way that was visible from the Earth and did not immediately destroy the planet. The last two survivors not belonging to the government were [[Lucy Wilson]] and [[Hobo Kostinen]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Assessment Day (short story)|Assessment Day]]'')
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| === Alternate timelines ===
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| Earth experienced various [[alternate timeline]]s.
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| ==== In alternate 20th centuries ====
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| In a timeline accidentally created by the [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Ace]] in [[1944]], the Nazis won the [[Second World War]], resulting in Germany becoming the dominant power on Earth. In 1962 of this timeline, the regenerated Doctor tricked Nazi scientist [[Elizabeth Klein]] into travelling back in time to 1944, causing his past self and Ace to prevent this timeline coming to pass. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Colditz (audio story)|Colditz]]'', ''[[Klein's Story (audio story)|Klein’s Story]]'')
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| [[Sarah Jane Smith]] was tricked by [[the Trickster]] into travelling back in time to 1951 where she averted her parents’ deaths. This allowed the Trickster to manifest on Earth through the [[Abbot's Gateway]] and devastate the planet, enslaving the few surviving humans. Sarah Jane and her parents averted this by correcting the timeline. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith]]'')
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| In one timeline, the [[Dalek]]s found the [[Eye of Time]], invaded Earth in 1963 and wiped out humanity. This timeline was averted by the [[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[Amy Pond]], by preventing the Daleks from resurrecting their [[Dalek Emperor (City of the Daleks)|Emperor]] along with the rest of Skaro and launching the attack in the first place. ([[GAME]]: ''[[City of the Daleks (video game)|City of the Daleks]]'')
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| On one occasion, guerrilla fighters from an alternate timeline of 22nd century Earth attempted to prevent their own future and instead caused it. [[Shura]] bombed [[Auderly House]] where Sir [[Reginald Styles]] was holding the second [[World Peace Conference]], vital to preventing [[World War III]]. As a result, many world leaders were killed and a series of wars devastated the planet, killing seven-eighths of the population. By the 22nd century, the Earth was under the rule of the [[Dalek]]s. After travelling to this future, the [[Third Doctor]] and [[Jo Grant]] pieced together what had actually happened to cause the future which had previously been blamed upon Styles. After being informed of the truth, Shura sacrificed himself to blow up a Dalek attack force once Auderly House was emptied, changing the future. ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Daleks (TV story)|Day of the Daleks]]'')
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| On another occasion, the release of Sutekh in [[1911]] meant that by [[1980]] the Earth would become a desolate planet circling a dead sun. The [[Fourth Doctor]] showed this to [[Sarah Jane Smith]], and by causing Sutekh to age to death before he could escape, this timeline was averted. ([[TV]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars (TV story)|Pyramids of Mars]]'')
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| In one alternate timeline, the Earth was devastated by the Daleks of the [[Mutant Phase]] before they were killed from ingesting a pesticide. The [[Fifth Doctor]] realised that the [[Dalek Prime|Dalek Emperor]] bringing the pesticide cure back in time to the beginning of the so-called Mutant Phase created this timeline as the cure was not effective on the early stages of the mutation. The Dalek Emperor destroyed the cure and averted the Mutant Phase and this future. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Mutant Phase (audio story)|The Mutant Phase]]'')
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| In another alternate timeline created by the [[Great Old One|Elder Gods]] in the hope of destroying Earth, [[Vladimir Kryuchkov]] became the [[General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] instead of [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] in [[1985]]. On [[9 November]] [[1989]], World War III broke out between the [[United States of America|United States]] and its allies including the [[United Kingdom]] on the one hand and the [[Soviet Union]] on the other hand. Given that [[nuclear weapon]]s were used by both sides, hundreds of millions of people were killed in the conflict. This timeline was ultimately negated by the [[Seventh Doctor]] except for in a [[pocket universe]] where the Doctor trapped the two Elder Gods responsible and, accidentally, his companions [[Ace]] and [[Hex]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Protect and Survive (audio story)|Protect and Survive]]'')
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| In an alternate timeline, the Earth was a polluted world covered in a chemical slime. From this world sprang the [[haemovore]]s with the [[Ancient One]] being the last by the year [[500000|500,000]]. After [[Fenric]] brought the Ancient One to [[1943]] Earth, he attempted to get the Ancient One to fill the oceans with poison which would create this future. The [[Seventh Doctor]] convinced the Ancient One of the truth and it sacrificed itself to defeat Fenric and change its future. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Fenric (TV story)|The Curse of Fenric]]'')
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| {{Roberts|c}} opening the [[Eye of Harmony]] from [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] in [[San Francisco]] on 31 December 1999 led to Earth being sucked into the Eye at midnight. However, when [[Grace Holloway]] helped the [[Eighth Doctor]] put the TARDIS into a [[temporal orbit]], this timeline was averted. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')
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| ==== In alternate 21st centuries ====
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| In an [[Alternate timeline (Supremacy of the Cybermen)|alternate timeline]] created by [[Rassilon]] granting the [[Cyberiad]] the means to conquer all of [[history]], the [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] assimilated the [[Silurian]]s in Earth's prehistory, creating the [[Cyber-Silurian]]s, and used their technology to build a fleet of [[Cyber-Ark]]s with which they seeded the galaxy with [[Cyber-Technology]]. In [[2006]], the Cybermen invaded Earth and converted all of [[human]]ity into [[Cyber-Warrior]]s within three [[day]]s via use of the [[techno-virus]], an airborne [[cyber-conversion]] [[virus]]; as a result, the Earth was transformed into the "[[Cyber-Earth]]". The [[Ninth Doctor]], [[Rose Tyler]] and [[Captain]] [[Jack Harkness]] investigated the Cyber-Earth to ascertain how the Cybermen invaded Earth in such a time frame, as well as to recover [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] from the Cyber-Warriors' base at [[St Paul's Cathedral]]; after learning of the techno-virus from witnessing it cyber-convert Rose, the Doctor, left with no other options, attempted to rupture the [[Heart of the TARDIS]] to destroy the TARDIS and the Cyber-Earth, but the energy was siphoned away by the [[Gallifreyan Cyber Fleet]] during their invasion of [[Gallifrey]] at the end of the universe. This [[timeline]] was ultimately averted when, during the Cybermen's invasion of Gallifrey, the [[Twelfth Doctor]] and a betrayed Rassilon used the harvested [[regeneration energy]] stored in the [[Eye of Harmony]] to restore the original timeline via the Cyberiad's dominance across all of [[time]] and [[space]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'')
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| After becoming [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]], the {{Simm|n="Harold Saxon"}} incarnation of [[the Master]] orchestrated the [[Toclafane invasion]], decimating the human population of the Earth and putting the planet under his rule to use as a stepping stone to take over the universe. Within a year, the Earth was quarantined by the rest of the universe as going through "terminal extinction." After the defeat of the Master thanks to the efforts of [[Martha Jones]], Captain Jack Harkness and the [[Tenth Doctor]], this timeline was reverted and became known as [[The Year That Never Was]]. Only those on the ''[[Valiant (aircraft carrier)|Valiant]]'' when time was reversed remembered these events. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'', ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'')
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| When a member of the [[Trickster's Brigade]] made [[Donna Noble]] change a seemingly small decision in her life, it resulted in an [[Donna's World|alternate timeline]] where the Doctor had died on Christmas, 2007. Because of this, many deaths occurred that he would have otherwise stopped. These deaths included most of the population of London when a [[Titanic (spaceship)|spaceship replica of the Titanic]] crashed into the city. The timeline was put back to rights after Rose Tyler, with the help of UNIT, sent Donna back in time to ensure she made the decision to turn left instead of right and take a job at [[H.C. Clements]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Turn Left (TV story)|Turn Left]]'')
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| The [[Kovarian Chapter]] of [[the Silence]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') exploding the TARDIS in 2010 led to the [[Total event collapse|collapse of the universe]], with Earth's history being barely held together by the TARDIS as it exploded throughout history. The Doctor was able to [[Big Bang Two|reboot]] the universe by flying the [[Pandorica]] into the exploding TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'' / ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'')
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| When [[River Song]] refused to shoot the Eleventh Doctor at [[Lake Silencio]] on 22 April 2011, a [[fixed point in time]], [[River Song's World|time collapsed]], creating a timeline where all of history was happening at once. The Doctor revealed to River he was really miniaturised and hiding inside the ''[[Teselecta]]'', causing her to perform the shooting and abort this timeline. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wedding of River Song (TV story)|The Wedding of River Song]]'')
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| In their attempts to defeat the [[Tenth Doctor]], the [[Time Sentinel]]s created a timeline where Earth was destroyed in the 21st century to try and trap him. Seeing the trap for what it was, the Doctor deliberately avoided investigating this timeline. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Good Companion (comic story)|The Good Companion]]'')
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| ==== Undated alternate timeline Earths ====
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| In [[Timeline (Orphan 55)|one possible future]], [[global warming]], economic collapse, mass migration and [[nuclear war]] turned the Earth into an uninhabitable wasteland populated by the [[Dreg]]s, the mutated remnants of humanity. The Earth was declared an [[orphan planet]] and designated [[Orphan 55]]. The [[Thirteenth Doctor]] and [[Team TARDIS]] visited Orphan 55 after [[Graham O'Brien]] won a trip to the [[Tranquility Spa]]. After [[Bella (Orphan 55)|Bella]]'s [[sabotage]] put the spa in danger from the Dregs, Team TARDIS learned the truth before managing to flee the planet with the survivors. The Thirteenth Doctor told her [[companion]]s that Orphan 55 was just one possible future for the Earth and it could be avoided if humanity made the right choices. ([[TV]]: ''[[Orphan 55 (TV story)|Orphan 55]]'')
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| == Culture ==
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| Human culture was highly diverse. Natives of the Earth used a wide variety of languages, including [[Latin]], ([[TV]]: [[The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)|The Fires of Pompeii]]) [[Greek language|Greek]] and [[Hebrew]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Byzantium! (novel)|Byzantium!]]'') in the ancient times and [[English language|English]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Two Doctors (TV story)|The Two Doctors]]'') [[Mandarin]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day One (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day One]]'') and [[Russian language|Russian]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Cold War (TV story)|Cold War]]'') in the 20th and 21st centuries. Some of the Earth languages were later used on other worlds too, for example Hebrew was spoken on the human colony of [[Ha'olam]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dreamstone Moon (novel)|Dreamstone Moon]]'')
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| The Earth was home to many influential human artists, such as [[Leonardo da Vinci]] ([[TV]]: ''[[City of Death (TV story)|City of Death]]'') and [[Vincent van Gogh]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Vincent and the Doctor (TV story)|Vincent and the Doctor]]'') Influential Earth [[music]]ians included [[Ludwig van Beethoven]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Gone Too Soon (short story)|Gone Too Soon]]'') [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[My Own Private Wolfgang (audio story)|My Own Private Wolfgang]]'') and [[the Beatles]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[1963: Fanfare for the Common Men (audio story)|1963: Fanfare for the Common Men]]'')
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| === Religions ===
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| Diverse [[god|deities]] were worshipped on the planet. The ancient [[Roman]]s worshipped several [[god]]s, including [[Vulcan (god)|Vulcan]] and [[Venus (god)|Venus]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)|The Fires of Pompeii]]'') Some Earth deities were in fact advanced beings from outer space, like the [[Osiran]]s and [[Olympian]]s worshipped by the Egyptians and Greeks respectively. Eventually however, these cults started to lose their influence because of the spread of Christianity. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Byzantium! (novel)|Byzantium!]]'')
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| Without specifying the species, the [[Tenth Doctor]] said that Earth, like a million other worlds "right across the universe", had "the representation of the horned beast" in its myths and legends. [[The Beast (The Impossible Planet)|The Beast]] claimed to be this "devil", along with all of the others in every [[religion]] which had such a figure. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Satan Pit (TV story)|The Satan Pit]]'')
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| == Politics ==
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| In its early period, the Earth lacked a united planetary government, being organised into nation-states instead. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem (TV story)|The Sontaran Stratagem]]'') Many of those societies were ruled by [[king]]s, like [[Ur]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]''), [[Macedon]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mask of Tragedy (audio story)|Mask of Tragedy]]'') of the ancient era, [[France]] in the [[18th century]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)|The Girl in the Fireplace]]'') and [[England]] well into the [[21st century|21st]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Revenge of the Judoon (novel)|Revenge of the Judoon]]'') Other forms of government, like that of the [[United States of America]], which was led by a President, were however by no means unknown. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Eye of the Scorpion (audio story)|The Eye of the Scorpion]]'')
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| Earth was finally unified into a world state after the [[Thousand Day War]] against the [[Ice Warrior]]s in the late 21st century. A brief relapse into warring feudal states followed the [[Dalek]] occupation before the Earth was again united. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Legacy of the Daleks (novel)|Legacy of the Daleks]]'') It was also around this time that Earth formed the [[Alliance (Original Sin)|Alliance]] with [[Alpha Centauri (planet)|Alpha Centauri]] and other nearby systems, its first formal alliance with alien species. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Original Sin (novel)|Original Sin]]'', ''[[Lords of the Storm (novel)|Lords of the Storm]]'')
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| The United Earth government quickly became corrupt and on the payroll of powerful financial concerns like [[INITEC]], the [[Galatron Mining Corporation]], the [[Amorb|AMORB Project]] and especially [[IMC]], looking the other way as these organisations victimised indigenous species and human colonists alike on the outer worlds. ([[TV]]: ''[[Vengeance on Varos (TV story)|Vengeance on Varos]]'', ''[[Colony in Space (TV story)|Colony in Space]]'') In time the business policies of these corporations and the political and diplomatic policies of the Earth government became parallel and laid the foundations for the [[Earth Empire]]. Law and order was enforced by the [[Adjudicator]]s. Although Earth was governed by a democratically elected leader, civil liberties in the mid-third millennium were marginalised and critics of the government were frequently sent to [[the Moon]], which was converted from a civilian colony to a prison. ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'') In the last centuries of the third millennium, the Republic became an Imperial monarchy, with the Holy King (or Queen) ruling Earth and its empire. The last Holy Monarch left control of the Earth to a ruling council upon her death, shortly before the [[Solos]] Incident. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Original Sin (novel)|Original Sin]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The Mutants (TV story)|The Mutants]]'')
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| With the advent of the [[Second Ice Age]] and continuing unrest among the colonies, Earth's government collapsed at the turn of the fourth millennium. [[Feudalism]] returned on the planet and on many of its colonies. An aristocratic government remained in control of Earth when the [[Galactic Federation]] was formed in the later years of the millennium. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Peladon (TV story)|The Curse of Peladon]]'') This aristocracy gradually gave way to more democratic forms, but this new era of freedom was short-lived as the [[Solar System]] came under the sway of the [[Chen Dynasty]] after [[4000]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)|The Daleks' Master Plan]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Crystal Bucephalus (novel)|The Crystal Bucephalus]]'')
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| By [[4126]], Earth was the centre of the [[Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire]], a vast and powerful tri-galactic power. [[Ood]] [[slavery]] was common and accepted during this period. ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Ood (TV story)|Planet of the Ood]]'') A few hundred years after the [[36th century]], however, it had been replaced by the [[Earth Alliance]], a powerful Earth-centred bloc. This was the main power fighting another Dalek invasion of the galaxy, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Invasion of the Daleks (audio story)|Invasion of the Daleks]]'') though Earth ''itself'' was conquered for much of the war. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dalek War: Chapter One (audio story)|Dalek War: Chapter One]]'') When it was liberated, it became a victim of the Great Catastrophe. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dalek War: Chapter Four (audio story)|Dalek War: Chapter Four]]'')
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| After this, the nations of the Earth became completely independent once more. A [[World War VI|Sixth World War]] loomed by the year [[5000]] between the superpowers of the [[Icelandic Alliance]] and [[Supreme Alliance]]. This ended with the Supreme Alliance victorious and [[Iceland]] occupied. Other important nations at the time included the [[Australia|Commonwealth of Australia]], which itself was occupied and the [[Philippines]], which liberated Iceland and defeated the Supreme Alliance. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)|The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]'') At the same time, Earth was responsible for [[Great Breakout|a new period]] of space exploration and colonisation. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invisible Enemy (TV story)|The Invisible Enemy]]'')
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| By the [[100th century]], the Earth was facing civil wars and by the [[102nd century]] it was reformed into the [[Junta]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Synthespians™ (novel)|Synthespians™]]'')
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| Information on what forms of government existed on Earth during its later periods was scant, owing to the frequent evacuations and resettling by humanity which occurred. During Earth's period as the planet Ravolox, the few surviving humans there appeared to live in a tribal matriarchy somewhat similar to that of the ancient [[Celt]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mysterious Planet (TV story)|The Mysterious Planet]]'')
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| == Economy ==
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| Variations of [[capitalism]] and [[communism]] were practised by Earth [[human]]s in the [[20th century]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[History 101 (novel)|History 101]]'')
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| From the [[20th century|20th]] to at least the [[40th century|40th centuries]], much of Earth's economy was dependent on [[oil]], a non-renewable resource, much to the annoyance of the [[Fourth Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Zygons (TV story)|Terror of the Zygons]]'', ''[[The Infinite Quest (TV story)|The Infinite Quest]]'')
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| In [[2008]], the Earth entered a recession. [[2011|Three years later]], the Earth's economy spiralled further following [[Miracle Day|the Miracle]], leaving [[Ireland]] and [[Greece]] bankrupt. ([[TV]]: ''[[End of the Road (TV story)|End of the Road]]'', ''[[The Gathering (TV story)|The Gathering]]'')
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| Towards the end of Earth's history, [[Forest of Cheem|trees]] which traced their ancestry to the tropical rainforests had acquired sizeable fortunes, mostly in real estate. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of the World (TV story)|The End of the World]]'')
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| === Place in the universe ===
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| The [[First Doctor]] was unfamiliar with Earth prior to his departure on [[Gallifrey]]. However, his granddaughter [[Susan Foreman]] had learned of its existence and that of the solar system in her spatial cartography lessons. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Beginning (audio story)|The Beginning]]'')
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| Earth was the target for many [[alien invasion]]s. The conquest of the planet was often for one of three reasons:
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| * The expansion of empires
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| * The replacement of a homeworld
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| The [[Sontaran invasion of Earth]], as well as a previous claim to the planet, was motivated by the actions of the [[Rutan-Sontaran War]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem (TV story)|The Sontaran Stratagem]]''/''[[The Poison Sky (TV story)|The Poison Sky]]'', ''[[The Time Warrior (TV story)|The Time Warrior]]'') The [[Nimon]] sought control of Earth due to its position in space allowing for multiple expansions in their [[Great Journey of Life]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Seasons of Fear (audio story)|Seasons of Fear]]'')
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| There were invasions more subtle than a direct military action. Sometime before [[2050]], a [[Korven]] known as [[Lomax (The Bounty Hunter)|Lomax]] hijacked the [[British government]] and ruled over Great Britain. He also used the British government to gain control of many other parts of the world. Those under the British Government's control lived under a corrupt, totalitarian regime. Lomax and his subordinates were killed during their invasion attempt. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eclipse of the Korven (TV story)|The Eclipse of the Korven]]'')
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| Species that planned on turning Earth into their "New..." planets included the [[Zygon]]s ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Zygons (TV story)|Terror of the Zygons]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Sting of the Zygons (novel)|Sting of the Zygons]]''), the [[Cybermen]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Silver Nemesis (TV story)|Silver Nemesis]]''), the [[Nestene Consciousness]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]''), the [[Dalek]]s ([[TV]]: ''[[Evolution of the Daleks (TV story)|Evolution of the Daleks]]''), the [[Pyrovile]]s ([[TV]]: ''[[The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)|The Fires of Pompeii]]'') and the [[Saturnyn]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Vampires of Venice (TV story)|The Vampires of Venice]]'')
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| == Parallel universes ==
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| Numerous versions of Earth were known to exist in [[parallel universe]]s.
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| In his attempts to free himself from his exile to Earth, the [[Third Doctor]] accidentally sent himself to [[Inferno Earth|a parallel version of the planet]], one where a fascist government ruled England. This version of Earth was subsequently devastated by the [[Inferno Project]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Inferno (TV story)|Inferno]]'')
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| In a [[Known Worlds|cluster of parallel universes]] numerous [[Roma|versions of Earth]] ruled by the Roman Empire existed. During the [[War in Heaven]], they gained the technology to create links between worlds leading to them uniting as the [[Empire of Empires]]. To counter this, [[House Mirraflex]] arranged for numerous [[Germania|versions of Earth]] where the Nazis won World War II to come together into the [[Greater German Reich]]. A war between the coalitions ensued, which resulted in over a billion people dying and the victorious Empire including two thousand versions of Earth. Following the conflict, the barriers between world were reinstated. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Warlords of Utopia (novel)|Warlords of Utopia]]'') Veterans of the eternal war from a [[Roma D|Roman Earth]] later took prisoners from the Doctor’s Earth, encountering the [[Fourth Doctor]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Iron Legion (comic story)|Doctor Who and the Iron Legion]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Iron Legion (audio story)|Doctor Who and the Iron Legion]]'')
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| The [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Ace]] and [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] visited a parallel Earth where peace between humans and Silurians had been achieved, overseen by the [[United Races Intelligence Command]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Final Genesis (comic story)|Final Genesis]]'')
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| The [[Eighth Doctor]] once visited a [[Parallel universe (TV Action!)|parallel Earth]] where his life existed as a fictional TV show, ''[[Doctor Who (TV Action!)|Doctor Who]]''. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[TV Action! (comic story)|TV Action!]]'') The [[Eleventh Doctor]] later encountered a similar [[Parallel universe (The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who)|parallel Earth]] home to the TV show ''[[Doctor Who (The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who)|Doctor Who]]''. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who (comic story)|The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who]]'') On one [[Parallel universe (Deadline)|parallel Earth]], the TV show ''Doctor Who'' did not last long, to the disappointment of its creator [[Martin Bannister]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Deadline (audio story)|Deadline]]'')
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| After [[Sabbath]]'s actions caused the barriers between various parallel realities to break down, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Time Zero (novel)|Time Zero]]'') the Eighth Doctor encountered several different versions of Earth whilst trying to restore his reality, including an Earth where the computer was never invented as part of the efforts of that world's Sabbath to protect his Earth, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Domino Effect (novel)|The Domino Effect]]'') a universe where the [[Eternine|Eternines]] sought to drain Earth's energy to save themselves, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Reckless Engineering (novel)|Reckless Engineering]]'') and an Earth where time-travel tours were founded which faced invasion by an alternate race of Martians. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Last Resort (novel)|The Last Resort]]'')
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| In [[Parallel universe (Auld Mortality)|one universe]], Earth was regularly visited by [[The Doctor (Auld Mortality)|the Doctor]], who freely altered its history. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Storm of Angels (audio story)|A Storm of Angels]]'')
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| In the [[Unbound Universe]], Earth endured numerous disastrous alien invasions, fought off by an ill-equipped UNIT without the aid of the Doctor. In [[1997]], [[Unbound Doctor|the Doctor]] was exiled to Earth by the [[Time Lord (Unbound Universe)|Time Lords]] but was able to escape and resume his travels, taking [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart (Unbound Universe)|Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart]] along with him. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sympathy for the Devil (audio story)|Sympathy for the Devil]]'')
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| In [[Parallel universe (Exile)|another universe]], [[The Doctor (Exile)|the Doctor]] hid from the [[Time Lord (Exile)|Time Lords]] on Earth. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Exile (audio story)|Exile]]'')
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| One alternate version of Earth, in a reality that the [[Tenth Doctor]] dubbed "[[Pete's World]]", was visited by the Tenth Doctor, [[Rose Tyler]] and [[Mickey Smith]]. This Earth's [[Cybus Industries]] birthed its own faction of [[Cyberman|Cybermen]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[The Age of Steel (TV story)|The Age of Steel]]'') which led the [[Twelfth Doctor]] to count Earth among the many origins of his foes. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') A global conflict between humanity and Cybermen ensued, ([[GAME]]: ''[[Cyber Assault (video game)|Cyber Assault]]'', ''[[Save Paris (video game)|Save Paris]]'') resulting in them being sealed in their factories. This Earth subsequently began to experience accelerated global warming due to [[Torchwood (Pete's World)|Torchwood]]’s experiments with a breach in reality, which the Cybermen also used to invade the Earth of the Doctor’s universe. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'')
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| In her journeys throughout the [[multiverse]] to return to [[N-Space]] and find [[the Doctor]], Rose Tyler encountered at least four alternate versions of Earth. [[Parallel universe (The Endless Night)|One]] of which lost its version of [[Sol]] to the [[reality bomb]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Endless Night (audio story)|The Endless Night]]'') [[Parallel universe (The Flood)|one]] which suffered constant [[rain]] due to [[global warming]], a situation suspected to have been engineered by aliens, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Flood (RTDC audio story)|The Flood]]'') [[Parallel universe (Ghost Machines)|one]] where the [[consciousness]] of deceased humans was uploaded into machines, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Ghost Machines (audio story)|Ghost Machines]]'') and [[Parallel universe (The Last Party on Earth)|one]] where the planet faced impending destruction at the hands of planetoid [[EK56]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Last Party on Earth (audio story)|The Last Party on Earth]]'')
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| After recovering a capsule capable of travelling between universes from the [[Auctioneers]], [[UNIT]] personnel [[Osgood]] and [[Josh Carter]] visited a [[Parallel universe (False Negative)|parallel Earth]] ruled by a totalitarian regime which UNIT served, encountering their counterparts in the process. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[False Negative (audio story)|False Negative]]'')
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| In one [[Parallel dimension (Telepresence)|parallel universe]], Earth was conquered by Cybermen of the [[Cyber-Mainframe]] who used the human population as batteries. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Telepresence (audio story)|Telepresence]]'')
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| In another [[Parallel universe (Full Fathom Five)|parallel universe]], [[The Doctor (Full Fathom Five)|the Doctor]] became stranded on Earth in [[2039]] after losing his TARDIS on the [[Deep-sea Energy Exploration Project|DEEP]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Full Fathom Five (audio story)|Full Fathom Five]]'')
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| In the [[Federation universe]], Earth was part of the [[United Federation of Planets]]. In [[2367]], this Earth was nearly [[Assimilation|assimilated]] by the [[Borg Collective]] at the [[Battle of Wolf 359]] before they were routed. When the Cybermen of the [[cyber-web]] invaded this universe, the [[Eleventh Doctor]] showed [[Jean-Luc Picard]] an [[Alternate timeline (Assimilation²)|alternate timeline]] where they had claimed Earth by [[2533]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Assimilation² (comic story)|Assimilation²]]'')
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| == Behind the scenes ==
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| * The first shot of the first scene of ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'' (the first story following ''[[Doctor Who]]''{{'}}s extended hiatus) featured a dramatic zoom from Earth orbit into [[Rose Tyler]]'s apartment. A number of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' stories have since opened with this same dramatic zoom, including ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]'', ''[[The Runaway Bride (TV story)|The Runaway Bride]],'' ''[[Smith and Jones (TV story)|Smith and Jones]]'' and ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]''.
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| [[Vogsphere Inc.]] owned the [[copyright]] to "Planet Earth". ([[NOTVALID]]: ''[[Tom Baker stars in John Lloyd's lost Doctor Who adventure, The Doomsday Contract (webcast)|Tom Baker stars in John Lloyd's lost Doctor Who adventure, The Doomsday Contract]]'')
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