TARDIS revocation
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Because a TARDIS was, at a conceptual level, a "licence to move", (WC: "No Child of Earth" [+]Part of Death Comes to Time, Loading...{"namedep":"No Child of Earth","1":"Death Comes to Time (webcast)"}) it was possible for one to be "revoked" by a Time Lord's spoken authority, rendering it unusable. (WC: "Death Comes to Time" [+]Part of Death Comes to Time, Loading...{"namedep":"Death Comes to Time","1":"Death Comes to Time (webcast)"})
History
In or prior to their twelfth incarnation, another member of their kind, described by Auteur as an "arrogant peacock", "revoked" their ship; the Goddess of Gendar would later question "who had given him the right" and "what authority he [had] to ground her like a disobedient child". The "debilitated" ship was locked into the form of (PROSE: The Two Auteurs [+]Loading...["The Two Auteurs (short story)"]) the Shadow Spire, a sentient, malicious tower located in a pocket of unreality. When they turned on Godfather Auteur, Faction Paradox used it as his prison, (PROSE: A Bloody (And Public) Domaine [+]Loading...["A Bloody (And Public) Domaine (short story)","A Bloody (And Public) Domaine"], Going Once, Going Twice [+]Loading...["Going Once, Going Twice (short story)"]) and Auteur, who had previously disliked the sight of his ship in its "sick" state, "learn[ed] to love" the Spire. (PROSE: The Two Auteurs [+]Loading...["The Two Auteurs (short story)"])
In one version of history, the Seventh Doctor revoked the Minister of Chance's TARDIS to force its owner to stay on Santiny and "face [him]self", after the Minister unleashed his full power and massacred the entire Canisian army in retaliation for the Canisian General Tannis ordering the death of his companion Sala. (WC: "Death Comes to Time" [+]Part of Death Comes to Time, Loading...{"namedep":"Death Comes to Time","1":"Death Comes to Time (webcast)"}) Although the Minister had left his TARDIS quite a distance away from the confrontation, in the form of a tree, (WC: "Planet of Blood" [+]Part of Death Comes to Time, Loading...{"namedep":"Planet of Blood","1":"Death Comes to Time (webcast)"}) the revocation was heralded by a crack of lightning, a white flash, and a clearly audible sound similar to that of a TARDIS materialising, but louder and briefer. Unable to reactivate his ship, (WC: "Death Comes to Time" [+]Part of Death Comes to Time, Loading...{"namedep":"Death Comes to Time","1":"Death Comes to Time (webcast)"}) the Minister's next incarnation would ultimately fall into the habit of travelling on foot through the Frost Bridge. (AUDIO: The Broken World [+]Loading...["The Broken World (audio story)"], etc.)
