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File:578px-The Blue Marble.jpg Earth as seen from space |
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| Primary Name: | Earth |
| Galaxy: | Mutter's Spiral |
| System: | Sol system |
| Other Names: | Sol III; Ravolox; Terra |
Earth is the Doctor's favorite planet, located in the Sol system in Mutter's Spiral. Most of the Doctor's companions have been natives of this planet.
For most of its history, Earth had one single moon, usually referred to simply as the Moon, a rogue planet which entered the Sol system and was captured in Earth's gravitational field millions of years ago ("Doctor Who and the Silurians"). By the time of the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire, four other moons had been added to the Terran System. Whether these additional moons were artificially constructed or natural ones moved into Earth orbit is not known ("The Long Game").
Earth formed billions of years of ago, around the same time as the first conflict between the Hoothi and the Time Lords ("Love and War"). About 3 billion years ago, the consciousness of the Sou(ou)shi settled on Earth and became dormant, reawakening in the year 1968 CE ("Venusian Lullaby," "Nightshade") . Life developed fairly late in the planet's history, 400 million years ago, the process triggered by the anti-matter explosion of the last Jagaroth battle cruiser as it entered warp drive prematurely during take-off from the planet surface ("City of Death").
Various species of saurian dominated the planet until circa 65 million BCE, when a freighter from the 26th century CE time-warped to this period and exploded in the upper atmosphere ("Earthshock"). A few survived, evolving into the races later known as Silurians and Sea Devils. Another saurian race, of unknown name, predated these reptilian races by about 100,000 years ("All-Consuming Fire"). The Reign of the Reptiles came to a final end when the rogue planet which later became the Moon entered Earth's orbit, creating climatic changes which forced the reptile races into underground hibernation. Apes regarded by the reptiles as pests eventually evolved into the species known as human, given a substantial jolt forward when the Fendhal Core arrived on Earth circa 12 million BCE ("Image of the Fendhal").
