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Various accounts concurred that the War Chief ran away from Gallifrey in a stolen TARDIS.
Although one account had the War Chief desire the Second Doctor's TARDIS and give no indication that he possessed one of his own during their confrontation, (TV: The War Games [+]Loading...["The War Games (TV story)"]) another account of the same events saw him confirm otherwise, admitting to have stolen a TARDIS just as the Doctor had, which made them "two of a kind". (PROSE: Doctor Who and the War Games [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the War Games (novelisation)"]) Indeed, A Brief History of Time Lords, published following the Time War, claimed that the War Chief had also stolen a TARDIS and left Gallifrey. (PROSE: A Brief History of Time Lords [+]Loading...["A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)"])
"Now I understand," said the Doctor. "It’s my TARDIS that you want. But surely you have one of your own?"
The War Chief smiled. "No more mine than yours is really yours! We are both thieves, Doctor. Yes, I do have a TARDIS hidden away. But are not two better than one?"
According to one account, this TARDIS, one of only two which had ever been stolen from Gallifrey by that time; this equated it with the Master's first TARDIS, with the renegade involved in the War Games likewise being equated with the Master. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon (novelisation)"]) The Master's first TARDIS was variously identified as a Type 45 (PROSE: The Dark Path [+]Loading...["The Dark Path (novel)"]) or a Type 40 Model B. (GAME: The Legions of Death [+]Loading...["The Legions of Death (game)"])
Other accounts treated the War Chief and the Master as distinct, if similar, Time Lords. (PROSE: Divided Loyalties [+]Loading...["Divided Loyalties (novel)"], GAME: The Legions of Death [+]Loading...["The Legions of Death (game)"], etc.) In some of these accounts, the War Chief's TARDIS was identified as a Type 42, (PROSE: CIA File Extracts [+]Loading...["CIA File Extracts (novel)"], GAME: "Player's Handout" [+]Part of The Legions of Death, Loading...{"namedpart":"Player's Handout","1":"The Legions of Death (game)"}) but one of those accounts also and contradictorily referred to it as a Model 43, almost as "old and shabby" as the Doctor's Type 40, but kept in somewhat better condition. It was equipped with "a special defensive system" which, when switched on, would paralyse all humans (but not Time Lords or other nonhumans) within 30 metres of the ship.
According to this account, during the War Games affair, the War Chief had hidden his TARDIS in another time-zone. After escaping from the War Lords aboard a SIDRAT and regenerating into a new incarnation, he found his TARDIS again and went into hiding. Eventually, he reemered in Roman Britain in 43 AD with a new plot for world domination. He landed his TARDIS in the Sacred Wood between Londinium and Camulodunum, disguising it as a sacred oak tree which became the centrepiece of the "Inner Mysteries" of the cult he built up around himself as a "war god" among the local Britons, hypnotising key leaders and persuading the rest to amass an army that could stand up to Roman Emperor Claudius's legions. After his plot was foiled by a group of time-travellers which may have included any of the Third Doctor, the Colonel, Leora, and their various companions, the War Chief either lost control of his TARDIS and had to flee in one of four SIDRATs he had stashed away in its depth, forcing him to acquire another TARDIS later on; or else managed to get back to his TARDIS's controls and fled, after a gunshot from the Colonel's companion Roderick Mitchell narrowly missed him. (GAME: The Legions of Death [+]Loading...["The Legions of Death (game)"])