Great Cosmic War
The Cosmic War, a "universal war reaching across the stars", was fought between the Archons and some other party, where the whole of Time and Space had become the battlefield. (PROSE: The Dinosaur in the Snow [+]Loading...["The Dinosaur in the Snow (short story)"])
It was also known as the Cosmic Revolution, and its result on the timelines was known as the Last Great Rewrite. (PROSE: Love & War [+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)"])
Outside of the Third Universe, looking in, Yog-Sothoth wept at the horrors of the Cosmic War. (PROSE: The Book of the Snowstorm [+]Loading...["The Book of the Snowstorm (short story)"])
Nature of the opposing party
When mentioning who Los may have been allied with, Tirion mentioned Tyrants and Mammoths in contrast to Archons. (PROSE: The Dinosaur in the Snow [+]Loading...["The Dinosaur in the Snow (short story)"])
Marits, in the wake of the Cosmic War, noted that it would be easy to consider the Universe as binary: the order of the Sun Builders on one side, the chaos of their enemies, the old gods, and the Unravel on the other. (PROSE: Love & War [+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)"])
History
Origins
The Lesser Time Elementals knew of the Cosmic War "well before the first actual shot", and so accordingly prepared. (PROSE: Love & War [+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)"])
453 years before the War, one of the "broken" children of the Houses founded House Paradox, taking on the title of Grandfather Paradox. The next year, the unrest reached its zenith as a "deranged renegade", (PROSE: Crimes Against History [+]Loading...["Crimes Against History (short story)"]) the Decayed Master, murdered the sitting President through the agency of Chancellor Goth. (TV: The Deadly Assassin [+]Loading...["The Deadly Assassin (short story)"], PROSE: Crimes Against History [+]Loading...["Crimes Against History (short story)"]) With that holder of the title having been the last normal, "figurehead" President after whom other leaders began to exhibit much more individual initiative, the Bookwyrm regarded this event as "how the War started". This meant that from a certain point of view, the murder of Coloth, eons prior, which had been key to the now-Chancellor's political rise, had been the "unwitting cause première of the Great Cosmic War", (PROSE: The Cactus and the Corpse [+]Loading...["The Cactus and the Corpse (short story)"]) having occurred in the aftermath of the War Chief incident. (PROSE: War Crimes [+]Loading...["War Crimes (short story)"])
Specific events
The Hyperspace Tyrants invaded the Third Homeworld on the eve of the Cosmic War. (PROSE: Love & War [+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)"]
During the Cosmic War, Tirion of the House of the Fallen observed the timelines of the dinosaurs continually change due to a Time Anchor being misconfigured. (PROSE: The Dinosaur in the Snow [+]Loading...["The Dinosaur in the Snow (short story)"])
Scrooge (Our Finest Gifts We Bring ruled the 507th Homeworld and was Very Clever Indeed. (PROSE: "Vignette 23" [+]Part of Our Finest Gifts We Bring, Loading...{"namedpart":"Vignette 23","1":"Our Finest Gifts We Bring (short story)"}
End of the War
According to Tirion, "some said" that Los would "destroy the Cathedral of Time, its enemies, everything, even himself". (PROSE: The Dinosaur in the Snow [+]Loading...["The Dinosaur in the Snow (short story)"]) In another account, the Doctor destroyed Gallifrey Original and the whole of the Time War, although he did not die. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Time War [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Time War (short story)"])
However, the Monochrome Auteur claimed to the Goddess of Gendar (one of his previous incarnations) that he had ended the Cosmic War by using the Greater Key. (PROSE: The Two Auteurs [+]Loading...["The Two Auteurs (short story)"]) However, another account showed that he had died before the end of the War in Heaven (although he'd died before, so this in no way precluded a resurrection). (PROSE: Going Once, Going Twice [+]Loading...["Going Once, Going Twice (short story)"])
Tyron, during V-Time insisted that the Cosmic War was over, beginning to cite the Opposition before being cut off by Dionus, who believed that the War had not ended in any way that matter, for he believed that it was their people - the Superiors, the Archons - who mattered in terms of war-ending. (PROSE: Template:Our Finest Gifts We Bring (short story))
