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Gallifrey

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Gallifrey was the homeworld to the Gallifreyans and to the Time Lords, amongst them the Doctor. It was destroyed in the Last Great Time War.


For the Big Finish audio series see Gallifrey (audio series).

Location

Gallifrey was located in the constellation of Kasterborous, at galactic co-ordinates 10-0-11-0-0 by 0-2 from Galactic Zero Centre. (DW: Pyramids of Mars) Varying accounts were given of its position. It was said to be either located at the edge of the Mutter's Spiral galaxy (EDA: Interference: Book Two) or closer to the core. (PDA: The Devil Goblins from Neptune) It was believed to be somewhere between 30,000 (PDA: The Devil Goblins from Neptune) and 29,000 light years from Earth. (REF: Doctor Who: The Visual Dictionary)

Possibly, this discrepancy was due to the copies made of Gallifrey. (EDA: The Ancestor Cell)

Kasterborous was also known as the Seven Systems, so that Gallifrey had the alternative name, The Shining World of the Seven Systems. (DW: The Sound of Drums)

Astronomy

Gallifrey was in a binary star system, the second star seeming to rise in the south in the morning, making the mountains glow. (DW: Gridlock) The system contained five other planets (DW: The Invasion of Time), among them Karn (DW: The Brain of Morbius), Polarfrey, and an asteroid named Kasterbourous the Fibster. (NA: Lungbarrow)

Gallifrey had at least 2 large moons (IDW: Agent Provocateur), one of which was the copper-coloured Pazithi Gallifreya, which shone so brightly it could be seen during the day. (NA: Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible, Lungbarrow)

Gallifrey was duplicated eight times, both to confound its enemies and as a place of refuge. Gallifrey was still destroyed by Faction Paradox during the Second War in Heaven. (EDA: The Ancestor Cell) It was recreated (EDA: The Gallifrey Chronicles) and then destroyed a second time by the Doctor in the Last Great Time War (DW: Gridlock).

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A Vardan ship approaches Gallifrey. (DW: The Invasion of Time)

Landscape

From orbit, Gallifrey was rust-coloured, with brown lakes and grey clouds. (NA: Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible)

From the planet's surface, it boasted an orange sky and trees with silver leaves. These reflected the morning sunlight, making it look like the forests were on fire. (DW: The Sensorites, Gridlock) There were also green forests, golden fields and red deserts (NA: Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible), but overall it seems to have been a much drier world than Earth. (NA: Lungbarrow)

Known geographic features

Continents and regions

Mountains

Rivers, lakes, and oceans

Major settlements

Gallifrey's largest city--sometimes also called "Gallifrey" or "the Capitol"--was the glass-domed Citadel, home of the Time Lord Academy and most Time Lords.

Native species

Gallifreyan flora

Gallifrey had a wide variety of plant life, ranging in colour from silver to green and golden. Known plant species include the Schlenk Blossom (PDA: Island of Death) and the Madevinia aridosa (NA: Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible).

Gallifreyan fauna

Native animals of Gallifrey include flutterwings (DW: The Pirate Planet), flubbles (PDA: Island of Death), tafelshrews (NA: Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible), plumboles (BBCR: The Ghosts of N-Space) and, of course, the Gallifreyans themselves. In the past, the dinosaur-like Gargantosaurs lived on the planet. (DWM: The Stolen TARDIS) Oddly enough, before its complete annihilation from time and space, no animal had gone extinct from the planet. (TDA: The Last Dodo)

This lack of extinction was probably due to the Time Lords, who would have brought back species after they had died out.

History

See Gallifreyan history

Behind the scenes

External link

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