Pete's World

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Pete's World was the Doctor's name for an alternate universe and home to its own Cybermen which John Lumic, the head of Cybus Industries, had created.

Overview

It is theorised that Pete's World split from our universe when Queen Victoria still went to Torchwood House in 1879. The Werewolf attacked the house and Queen Victoria was killed in this event. (REF: Doctor Who: Creatures and Demons)

It is unknown how the Torchwood Institute of Pete's World was created since in our universe, Queen Victoria created the institute after the Werewolf was defeated.

The Doctor derived the name from Pete Tyler, that universe's version of Rose Tyler's father, who in her universe had died in 1987. Time runs ahead in this universe, compared to the Doctor's universe, so that when it was 2007 in the Doctor's universe it was simultaneously three years later in Pete's World. (DW: Doomsday) The year in the main timeline during Lumic's attempted takeover, when it was 2007 in Pete's World, is unknown, but possibly 2004 if the time gap is always 3 years. (DW: Rise of the Cybermen)

London in Pete's World. (DW: Rise of the Cybermen)

Differences

Historical

Pre-Cybermen
Post-Cybermen
  • Following the Cybermen incident and the death of the British President, a People's Republic was formed in Britain with Harriet Jones as the new President. (DW: Doomsday)
  • Torchwood was infiltrated by Cybermen, who used its technology to cross dimensions. The Institute was taken over by the People's Republic when the full scale of its activities were discovered; Rose Tyler would join it. They would later go on to work at creating other ways of dimensional travel, and sent agents to 'our' Earth during the 'Stolen Earth' crisis. (DW: Turn Left, The Stolen Earth/Journey's End)
  • A global war was fought against the Cybermen, who were successfully sealed in their factories. However, debate raged about whether or not the Cybermen (as former humans) could be saved, and this gave the Cyber-race time to cross realities. (DW: Doomsday)
  • Due to the mass dimensional travel, ambient temperatures began to rise on Earth; three years on, the ice caps were melting. (DW: Doomsday)
  • By the Cybermen's invasion of our world in 2010, at least five million Humans from Pete's World were converted into Cybermen. (DW: Doomsday)

Technological

People

Deleted scenes from those episodes imply that Ricky and Jake had a romantic relationship.

History

Timeline

1982

2001

2004

2005

2007

  • 1st February - The Doctor, Rose Tyler and Mickey Smith arrive in a parallel universe that the Doctor's TARDIS was catapulted into while travelling through the Time Vortex. The TARDIS was nearly destroyed by the impact. The Doctor gave away 10 years of his life to repair the TARDIS. The first Cybermen were created by John Lumic and attacked the United Kingdom. The Doctor and his allies eventually teamed-up and destroyed the Cybermen. The Cybermen leader, their Controller (with John Lumic’s brain) perished in the destruction of his cyber-factory. After meeting his parallel counterpart Ricky Smith and being inspired by his example, Mickey decided to stay in the alternate universe to take the late Ricky's place and help fight the Cybermen. (DW: Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel)

Circa 2010

  • Mickey Smith returned to his original world and, disguised as a lab technician, investigated the Void Ship kept in Torchwood 1's headquarters. Jake Simmonds and Peter Tyler crossed over into the Doctor's universe to stop the Cyberman invasion. Jackie Tyler meets the other version of Pete Tyler for the first time and decides to stay with him. Mickey Smith, Pete and Jake return to the other world taking Jackie and Rose with them. (DW: Army of Ghosts/Doomsday)

Circa late 2010-11

  • Rose joins the parallel version of the Torchwood Institute. Jackie and Pete conceive a child and Mickey apparently takes up residence with the Tylers. (DW: Doomsday)
  • Soon after joining Torchwood and several months after Jackie becomes pregnant, Rose began receiving what appeared to be a message from the Doctor. With the support of her family, she travelled to a remote fjord in Norway, Dålig Ulv Stranden, where she was able to briefly make contact with the Doctor. Although she was able to tell him that she loved him, he was unable to respond properly before communication is lost. The exchange leaves Rose and the Doctor emotionally devastated. (DW: Doomsday)

Circa 2011-2014

  • At some point after Jackie gives birth to Tony Tyler, Rose and Torchwood begin detecting the onset of "The Darkness": the after-effects of the detonation of the Daleks' reality bomb. They accelerated their work on a "dimension cannon" device capable of transporting Rose back to her original Earth (presumably without the environmental impact of the previous device). This work was successful, and Rose made several trips to her original Earth, where time was running slower and therefore was a couple of years in the past and before the detonation of the reality bomb. It was indicated that the Dimension Cannon may have worked due to the crumbling of the walls of reality as Rose said that it hadn't worked before and the weakening may have allowed a traveller to pass through the walls. The device was also capable of measuring timelines and showed that they all converged on Donna Noble. (DW: multiple episodes Series 4)
  • After defeating the Daleks and preventing the reality bomb from detonating, the Doctor returned Rose and Jackie to the parallel Earth. Also left behind was the Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor, who began a relationship with Rose. Due to the disarming of the Reality Bomb by Donna Noble, The Darkness never occured at all and this universe was saved from destruction. (DW: Journey's End)
*Jackie does mention that Pete is on the "nursery run"; the child being at nursery school would place this at least 3 years after the birth, either 2013 or 2014.