Aftermath of the Last Great Time War
The aftermath of the Last Great Time War referred to the reprecussions of the massive temporal conflict between the Time Lords of Gallifrey and Daleks of Skaro.
Until the next time
- Main article: Razing of Gallifrey
Discussing the Gallifrey Falls No More painting with Doctor Henry Black, the Curator told him it would be better described as "Gallifrey Falls No More (Until the Next Time)"; (PROSE: Dr Black) as a future incarnation of the Doctor, (COMIC: The Then and the Now) the Curator knew that strife would return to Gallifrey after the Time War. (PROSE: Dr Black, TV: The Timeless Children)
After the failure of the Final Sanction, the Time Lords cured the Master's condition and he left Gallifrey in what he later referred to as "a mutual kicking me out." (TV: The Doctor Falls) Despite trying to do good as Missy, (TV: The Doctor Falls) the Master later returned to their dark ways as the Spy Master and ravaged Gallifrey, apparently killing all Gallifreyans, after learning about the secret of the Timeless Child, much to the horror of the Thirteenth Doctor. Having made sure to preserve the corpses of the Time Lords in the event they would be useful, the Master came upon the Cyberium, the artificial intelligence of far future Cybermen which gave him the resources to convert the deceased Time Lords into an army of what he called CyberMasters.
After learning of her past as the Timeless Child, (TV: The Timeless Children) the Thirteenth Doctor began to hunt leads on a Time Lord organization known simply as the Division, who had survived in a facility located between universes and chose to unleash the Flux and the Ravagers on their original universe whilst they moved on to the next one. (TV: Survivors of the Flux) By virtue of destroying the universe in its wake, the Sontarans hoped the Flux would bring about a war that dwarfed any conflict that had come before. (TV: The Halloween Apocalypse)
However, as noted by Ohila, the Time War would remain "the deadliest conflict history will ever know". Her remark was published in a book by the Curator, (PROSE: The Day of the Doctor) who, being a future incarnation of the Doctor, (COMIC: The Then and the Now) had lived through the Flux conflict already. Nevertheless, the Sontarans' hope led the warrior race to embark on a Temporal Offensive (TV: War of the Sontarans) and the Flux Offensive.
The Doctor succeeded in saving the universe from the Flux, though not before it destroyed the assembled Dalek War Fleet as well as the Cyber-Fleet and the Sontaran fleet, (TV: The Vanquishers) with Dalek Command holding the Doctor responsible for their losses. (TV: Eve of the Daleks) Recognising their hatred for her, the Master gained the allegiance of the Daleks and the Cybermen in a plot to eliminate the Doctor and seize the Earth, with the Daleks now being aware of the Master's ransacking of Gallifrey. This was thwarted by the Doctor, though the confrontation led to both her and the Master being gravely wounded, with the former regenerating into the Fourteenth Doctor. (TV: The Power of the Doctor)
Using the Doctor Papers, the Doctor wrote a book about the end of the Time War. The Curator had told Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart about his desire to write the book, explaining he would get around the fact that he needed to use classified material by marketing the book as fiction. The various chapters were authored by incarnations of the Doctor and others. (PROSE: The Day of the Doctor)
