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[[Chris Cwej]] captured [[Yith]] for his [[Superior]]s' manufacture of their doppelgänger worlds. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The V Cwejes (short story)}}) | [[Chris Cwej]] captured [[Yith]] for his [[Superior]]s' manufacture of their doppelgänger worlds. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The V Cwejes (short story)}}) | ||
A group of [[Oldblood]] Great Houses created many "[[lesser Homeworlds]]" which fought simplified models of the War in [[bottle universe]]s and [[Oxbow reality|oxbow realities]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Prelude to a Prelude (short story)|A Prelude to a Prelude]]'') | |||
== Movement == | == Movement == | ||
''[[The Book of the War]]'' speculated that the original Homeworld could have been moved from its original location and replaced with a cloneworld. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') Six years before [[the Cataclysm]], [[the War King]] became [[Lord President|leader]] of a Homeworld which ''[[The Book of the War]]'' said was "generally perceived to be the original", and he continued in that role for over half a century. When [[Compassion]] became the first [[102-form]] [[TARDIS|timeship]] two years before the War, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') [[Romana III]] was [[War Queen]] and "Mistress of the Nine Gallifreys" on [[Romana III's Gallifrey|another Gallifrey]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Shadows of Avalon (novel)|The Shadows of Avalon]]'', ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'') | ''[[The Book of the War]]'' speculated that the original Homeworld could have been moved from its original location and replaced with a cloneworld. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') Six years before [[the Cataclysm]], [[the War King]] became [[Lord President|leader]] of a Homeworld which ''[[The Book of the War]]'' said was "generally perceived to be the original", and he continued in that role for over half a century. When [[Compassion]] became the first [[102-form]] [[TARDIS|timeship]] two years before the War, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') [[Romana III]] was [[War Queen]] and "Mistress of the Nine Gallifreys" on [[Romana III's Gallifrey|another Gallifrey]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Shadows of Avalon (novel)|The Shadows of Avalon]]'', ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'') | ||
== | == Homeworlds == | ||
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One account referred to [[the War King's Homeworld|the homeworld of "Gimlet-Eyes"]] as "the Prime Homeworld". | |||
The same account referred to [[Romana III's Gallifrey|the homeworld of "her"]] as the First Homeworld. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Love & War (short story)|page=388}} An earlier account which concerned itself with the War King's Homeworld referred to it as the "first Homeworld" ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Crimes Against History (short story)|variant=second edition}}) | |||
[[Dionus]], prior to the [[Cosmic War]], lived in the [[Third Homeworld]] with [[Susit]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Love & War (short story)}}) | |||
[[Pyke-Xi Raul]] was from the [[Sixth Homeworld]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Wringing Off (novel)|Wringing Off]]'') | [[Pyke-Xi Raul]] was from the [[Sixth Homeworld]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Wringing Off (novel)|Wringing Off]]'') | ||
[[ | Homunculette and the War King once visited [[Gallifrey Eight]], which contained [[loomstack]]s and [[chronoforge]]s to create weapons and soldiers for the Time Lords. [[De-mat Gun|D-Mat Guns]] were stored on [[Gallifrey Nine]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Taking of Planet 5 (novel)|The Taking of Planet 5]]'') | ||
[[Lord President|Archon President]] [[Scrooge (Our Finest Gifts We Bring)|Scrooge]] of [[House Macbadger]] ruled the [[507th Homeworld]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Our Finest Gifts We Bring (short story)}}) | [[Lord President|Archon President]] [[Scrooge (Our Finest Gifts We Bring)|Scrooge]] of [[House Macbadger]] ruled the [[507th Homeworld]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Our Finest Gifts We Bring (short story)}}) | ||
== Destructions == | == Destructions == | ||
In her lecture "[[The Cultural Impact of War-Time]]", [[Entarodora]] noted that more Homeworlds had been lost "than might be thought prudent". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Brakespeare Voyage (novel)|The Brakespeare Voyage]]'') | In her lecture "[[The Cultural Impact of War-Time]]", [[Entarodora]] noted that more Homeworlds had been lost "than might be thought prudent". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Brakespeare Voyage (novel)|The Brakespeare Voyage]]'') | ||
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[[War Queen]] [[Romana III's Gallifrey]] was [[Faction Paradox invasion of Gallifrey|invaded by Faction Paradox]] sometime before the [[Eleven-Day Empire]] was destroyed ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'') in the War's fiftieth year. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Shadow Play (audio story)|The Shadow Play]]'') At that time, the Faction claimed to have written that version of Gallifrey's backups out of existence, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'') although a later account implied that the War Queen's homeworld was a "mere sheath-echo". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Story So Far... (short story)}}) | [[War Queen]] [[Romana III's Gallifrey]] was [[Faction Paradox invasion of Gallifrey|invaded by Faction Paradox]] sometime before the [[Eleven-Day Empire]] was destroyed ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'') in the War's fiftieth year. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Shadow Play (audio story)|The Shadow Play]]'') At that time, the Faction claimed to have written that version of Gallifrey's backups out of existence, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'') although a later account implied that the War Queen's homeworld was a "mere sheath-echo". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Story So Far... (short story)}}) | ||
According to [[Homunculette]], most Time Lords perished in the wiping of the original Gallifrey, ([[PROSE]]: | According to [[Homunculette]], most Time Lords perished in the wiping of the original Gallifrey, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Alien Bodies (novel)}}) which occured sometime before the end of the War. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Crimes Against History (short story)|namedpart=The Fall of the Homeworld}}) By this point, the various cloneworlds formed a united front. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Crimes Against History (short story)|namedpart=The Fall of the Homeworld}}) | ||
Although an early account stated that all duplicate Gallifreys had fallen during the War, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)<!--more precise citation wanted!--> | Although an early account stated that all duplicate Gallifreys had fallen during the War, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)}}<!--more precise citation wanted!-->) the [[Base of Operations]] existed during [[V-Time]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|A Bright White Crack (short story)}}) which was believed by its inhabitants to be the [[post-War universe]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|A Bright White Crack (short story)}}) although some accounts asserted this was untrue. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Cactus and the Corpse (short story)}}, {{cs|The Peace: A Lost Primer (feature)}}) [[Gallifrey]] was also returned during the [[post-Time War universe]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)}}) | ||
Several planets appeared to be the remnants of ruined Homeworlds: the legendary world [[Ardethe]] in the [[constellation]] [[Kasterborous|Kaster Major]] was populated only by the [[Shobogan|Shabooj'm]]; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Deadfall (novel)|Deadfall]]'') the lifeless planet [[New Alexandria]] had the same coordinates as Gallifrey; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Crystal Bucephalus (novel)|The Crystal Bucephalus]]'') and [[Winkle's Wonderland]] occupied the ruins of [[Rassilon's Foundry]] toward the [[end of the universe]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]'') | Several planets appeared to be the remnants of ruined Homeworlds: the legendary world [[Ardethe]] in the [[constellation]] [[Kasterborous|Kaster Major]] was populated only by the [[Shobogan|Shabooj'm]]; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Deadfall (novel)|Deadfall]]'') the lifeless planet [[New Alexandria]] had the same coordinates as Gallifrey; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Crystal Bucephalus (novel)|The Crystal Bucephalus]]'') and [[Winkle's Wonderland]] occupied the ruins of [[Rassilon's Foundry]] toward the [[end of the universe]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]'') | ||
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As part of their preparation for the War in Heaven, the Great Houses constructed a number of cloneworlds - (PROSE: "The Nine Homeworlds" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Loading...{"namedpart":"The Nine Homeworlds","1":"The Book of the War (novel)"}) also called doppelgänger-worlds (PROSE: The V Cwejes [+]Loading...["The V Cwejes (short story)"], The Claus-Rosen Bridge [+]Loading...["The Claus-Rosen Bridge (short story)"]) and described as both "decoys" and (PROSE: "The Nine Homeworlds" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Loading...{"page":"401","namedpart":"The Nine Homeworlds","1":"The Book of the War (novel)"}, "Acanibus" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Loading...{"page":"767","namedpart":"Acanibus","1":"The Book of the War (novel)"}, Love & War [+]Loading...{"page":"338","1":"Love & War (short story)"}) "backups" - (PROSE: "The Nine Homeworlds" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Loading...{"page":"401","namedpart":"The Nine Homeworlds","1":"The Book of the War (novel)"}) as part of the Nine Gallifreys (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon [+]Loading...{"page":"13","1":"The Shadows of Avalon (novel)"} or " Nine Homeworlds Project. (PROSE: "The Nine Homeworlds" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Loading...{"namedpart":"The Nine Homeworlds","1":"The Book of the War (novel)"}) Despite this, an earlier account mentioned Gallifrey XII (PROSE: Alien Bodies [+]Loading...{"page":"96","1":"Alien Bodies (novel)"}) and a later account mentioned the 507th Homeworld; (PROSE: Our Finest Gifts We Bring [+]Loading...["Our Finest Gifts We Bring (short story)"]) The Book of the War speculated that each cloneworld may have been generating cloneworlds of its own. (PROSE: "The Nine Homeworlds" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Loading...{"namedpart":"The Nine Homeworlds","1":"The Book of the War (novel)"})
One account indicated that by the end of the Last Great Time War, hundreds of duplicate Gallifreys were used as sheer ballistic missiles. (PROSE: Revenge of the Nestene [+]Loading...["Revenge of the Nestene (short story)"])
Creation
The Nine Gallifreys project was originally planned by Greyjan the Sane (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell) and was spearheaded by House Mirraflex's Lady Armourer Mantissa and House Lineacrux four-hundred years later. (PROSE: The Book of the War)
Officially, each Homeworld was run by a caretaker House as a potential replacement if the original Homeworld were destroyed. However, many of the backup Homeworlds actually acted as decoys, with each having its own War King or War Queen and thinking it was the original.
There was a supposedly-total ban on contact between Homeworlds, but Mantissa eventually went into exile on one of the duplicates, (PROSE: The Book of the War) and by the time of the fall of Mictlan, travel between Gallifreys was often performed by the Lord President and his agents. However, even then, it was rumoured that not even the President knew which was the original. (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5)
Some Gallifreys were hidden in pocket universes; (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5 [+]Loading...{"page":"96","1":"The Taking of Planet 5 (novel)"}) one Great House (AUDIO: The Eleven Day Empire) notably created a homeworld on Christine Summerfield's Earth in a bottle universe. (PROSE: Dead Romance)
One human colony world was cryptoformed by the Great Houses into a Homeworld between 3560 and 3591, and some of its inhabitants like Verrifant were mutated into regen-inf soldiers. (PROSE: The Book of the War)
Chris Cwej captured Yith for his Superiors' manufacture of their doppelgänger worlds. (PROSE: The V Cwejes [+]Loading...["The V Cwejes (short story)"])
A group of Oldblood Great Houses created many "lesser Homeworlds" which fought simplified models of the War in bottle universes and oxbow realities. (PROSE: A Prelude to a Prelude)
Movement
The Book of the War speculated that the original Homeworld could have been moved from its original location and replaced with a cloneworld. (PROSE: The Book of the War) Six years before the Cataclysm, the War King became leader of a Homeworld which The Book of the War said was "generally perceived to be the original", and he continued in that role for over half a century. When Compassion became the first 102-form timeship two years before the War, (PROSE: The Book of the War) Romana III was War Queen and "Mistress of the Nine Gallifreys" on another Gallifrey. (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon, The Ancestor Cell)
Homeworlds
One account referred to the homeworld of "Gimlet-Eyes" as "the Prime Homeworld". The same account referred to the homeworld of "her" as the First Homeworld. (PROSE: Love & War [+]Loading...{"page":"388","1":"Love & War (short story)"} An earlier account which concerned itself with the War King's Homeworld referred to it as the "first Homeworld" (PROSE: Crimes Against History [+]Loading...{"variant":"second edition","1":"Crimes Against History (short story)"})
Dionus, prior to the Cosmic War, lived in the Third Homeworld with Susit. (PROSE: Love & War [+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)"])
Pyke-Xi Raul was from the Sixth Homeworld. (PROSE: Wringing Off)
Homunculette and the War King once visited Gallifrey Eight, which contained loomstacks and chronoforges to create weapons and soldiers for the Time Lords. D-Mat Guns were stored on Gallifrey Nine. (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5)
Archon President Scrooge of House Macbadger ruled the 507th Homeworld. (PROSE: Our Finest Gifts We Bring [+]Loading...["Our Finest Gifts We Bring (short story)"])
Destructions
In her lecture "The Cultural Impact of War-Time", Entarodora noted that more Homeworlds had been lost "than might be thought prudent". (PROSE: The Brakespeare Voyage)
The first loss of a Gallifrey occurred in the Battle of Mutter's Cluster. At the time, this brought the "official" total down to nine. (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5 [+]Loading...{"page":"115","1":"The Taking of Planet 5 (novel)"})
War Queen Romana III's Gallifrey was invaded by Faction Paradox sometime before the Eleven-Day Empire was destroyed (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell) in the War's fiftieth year. (AUDIO: The Shadow Play) At that time, the Faction claimed to have written that version of Gallifrey's backups out of existence, (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles) although a later account implied that the War Queen's homeworld was a "mere sheath-echo". (PROSE: The Story So Far... [+]Loading...["The Story So Far... (short story)"])
According to Homunculette, most Time Lords perished in the wiping of the original Gallifrey, (PROSE: Alien Bodies [+]Loading...["Alien Bodies (novel)"]) which occured sometime before the end of the War. (PROSE: "The Fall of the Homeworld" [+]Part of Crimes Against History, Loading...{"namedpart":"The Fall of the Homeworld","1":"Crimes Against History (short story)"}) By this point, the various cloneworlds formed a united front. (PROSE: "The Fall of the Homeworld" [+]Part of Crimes Against History, Loading...{"namedpart":"The Fall of the Homeworld","1":"Crimes Against History (short story)"})
Although an early account stated that all duplicate Gallifreys had fallen during the War, (PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street [+]Loading...["The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)"]) the Base of Operations existed during V-Time, (PROSE: A Bright White Crack [+]Loading...["A Bright White Crack (short story)"]) which was believed by its inhabitants to be the post-War universe, (PROSE: A Bright White Crack [+]Loading...["A Bright White Crack (short story)"]) although some accounts asserted this was untrue. (PROSE: The Cactus and the Corpse [+]Loading...["The Cactus and the Corpse (short story)"], The Peace: A Lost Primer [+]Loading...["The Peace: A Lost Primer (feature)"]) Gallifrey was also returned during the post-Time War universe. (PROSE: The Day of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)"])
Several planets appeared to be the remnants of ruined Homeworlds: the legendary world Ardethe in the constellation Kaster Major was populated only by the Shabooj'm; (PROSE: Deadfall) the lifeless planet New Alexandria had the same coordinates as Gallifrey; (PROSE: The Crystal Bucephalus) and Winkle's Wonderland occupied the ruins of Rassilon's Foundry toward the end of the universe. (AUDIO: Zagreus)
Christine Summerfield visited a ruined and deserted Homeworld after escaping her bottle universe. (PROSE: Dead Romance)
Upon mishearing its name, Fitz Kreiner thought that Gallifraxion Four was a Gallifrey. (PROSE: The Tomorrow Windows) The planet was colonised by the Clock-People, (PROSE: Out of the Box) the remains of Mathara's Faction Paradox fleet (PROSE: The Story So Far...) following the Eighth Doctor's destruction of Romana III's Gallifrey. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell)
At least one Homeworld was predicted to be destroyed upon the destruction of the Hydra-Centaurus cluster by the Grandfather's Maw around the year 60,000,000,000. (PROSE: The Brakespeare Voyage)
Despite the destructions of so many Homeworlds, Entarodora argued in her lecture that the total number of War-time deaths by Great House members was nonetheless small because the inhabitants of these other Homeworlds were "mere-sheath echoes" of a "core probability". (PROSE: The Brakespeare Voyage)
Sometime after the wiping of the original Gallifrey, Homunculette was taught the basics of escapology by War Cardinals at a training complex on Gallifrey XII. (PROSE: Alien Bodies)
According to one account, the Eighth Doctor used the Moment to end the Last Great Time War, causing Gallifrey Original to convulse and burst into flames as it was destroyed. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Time War) By one account, this was the same event as the destruction of Romana III's Gallifrey. (PROSE: The Eyeless, The Gallifrey Chronicles) However, by another account, it was the Eighth Doctor's successor, the War Doctor, who destroyed the planet, (COMIC: Sky Jacks) although most accounts claimed that the War Doctor's other selves teamed up to save the planet instead. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)
Behind the scenes
- Author Simon Bucher-Jones, who had introduced Gallifrey Eight and Gallifrey Nine in The Taking of Planet 5, originated the concept of "lesser Homeworlds" in a blog post written in reaction to The Day of the Doctor;[1] this explanation was later incorporated into The Book of the Peace Dossier. In 2022, Bucher-Jones similarly suggested that the razing of Gallifrey in Doctor Who series 12 occurred on one of the seven surviving duplicates.[2]
Footnotes
- ↑ Simon Bucher-Jones (25 November 2013). Faction Paradox Stands. SBJ's pantechnicon extravaganza.
- ↑ Simon Bucher-Jones on Twitter (11 June 2022). Archived from the original on 11 June 2022.
