Nine Gallifreys
In preparation for the War in Heaven, the Great Houses converted a number of planets into "backups" and "decoys". Numerous accounts referred to these as cloneworlds (PROSE: "The Nine Homeworlds" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Loading...{"namedep":"The Nine Homeworlds","1":"The Book of the War (novel)"}, etc.) and doppelgänger-worlds. (PROSE: The V Cwejes [+]Loading...["The V Cwejes (short story)",""])
The process behind this was termed "crypto-forming" by The Book of the War (PROSE: "The Nine Homeworlds" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Loading...{"namedep":"The Nine Homeworlds","1":"The Book of the War (novel)"} and referred to as "Hausforming" by Warcaptan Zauro of House Arpexia. (PROSE: Eyes [+]Loading...["Eyes (short story)"])
The project represented by this process and the cloneworlds themselves was termed the Nine Homeworlds Project (PROSE: "The Nine Homeworlds" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Loading...{"namedep":"The Nine Homeworlds","1":"The Book of the War (novel)"}) the great planetary bifurcation and the planetary obfuscation project, a process carried out by the Multiplication. (PROSE: Love & War [+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)",""])
The collection of the Homeworld itself and all of its cloneworlds were referred to as the Nine Gallifreys (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon [+]Loading...["The Shadows of Avalon (novel)",""]) or Nine Homeworlds; (PROSE: "The Nine Homeworlds" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Loading...{"namedep":"The Nine Homeworlds","1":"The Book of the War (novel)"}) despite this, an earlier account mentioned Gallifrey XII (PROSE: Alien Bodies [+]Loading...{"page":"96","1":"Alien Bodies (novel)"}), and Olivia Kagg Waldermein noted that there were "at least fourteen distinct Supreme Beings on as many recorded variants of the Morning Star" who led under the regnal name of Felixian III. (PROSE: Love & War [+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)",""]) A later account mentioned the 507th Homeworld; (PROSE: Our Finest Gifts We Bring [+]Loading...["Our Finest Gifts We Bring (short story)"]) The Book of the War speculated that each cloneworld may have been generating cloneworlds of its own. (PROSE: "The Nine Homeworlds" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Loading...{"namedep":"The Nine Homeworlds","1":"The Book of the War (novel)"})
One account indicated that by the end of the Last Great Time War, hundreds of duplicate Gallifreys were used as sheer ballistic missiles. (PROSE: Revenge of the Nestene [+]Loading...["Revenge of the Nestene (short story)"])
Creation[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Nine Gallifreys project was originally planned by Greyjan the Sane (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell) and was spearheaded by House Mirraflex's Lady Armourer Mantissa and House Lineacrux four-hundred years later. (PROSE: The Book of the War)
Officially, each Homeworld was run by a caretaker House as a potential replacement if the original Homeworld were destroyed. However, many of the backup Homeworlds actually acted as decoys, with each having its own War King or War Queen and thinking it was the original.
There was a supposedly-total ban on contact between Homeworlds, but Mantissa eventually went into exile on one of the duplicates, (PROSE: The Book of the War) and by the time of the fall of Mictlan, travel between Gallifreys was often performed by the Lord President and his agents. However, even then, it was rumoured that not even the President knew which was the original. (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5)
Some Gallifreys were hidden in pocket universes; (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5 [+]Loading...{"page":"96","1":"The Taking of Planet 5 (novel)"}) one Great House (AUDIO: The Eleven Day Empire) notably created a homeworld on Christine Summerfield's Earth in a bottle universe. (PROSE: Dead Romance)
One human colony world was cryptoformed by the Great Houses into a Homeworld between 3560 and 3591, and some of its inhabitants like Verrifant were mutated into regen-inf soldiers. (PROSE: The Book of the War)
Chris Cwej captured Yith for his Superiors' manufacture of their doppelgänger worlds. (PROSE: The V Cwejes [+]Loading...["The V Cwejes (short story)"])
A group of Oldblood Great Houses created many "lesser Homeworlds" which fought simplified models of the War in bottle universes and oxbow realities. (PROSE: A Prelude to a Prelude)
Movement[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Book of the War speculated that the original Homeworld could have been moved from its original location and replaced with a cloneworld. (PROSE: The Book of the War) Six years before the Cataclysm, the War King became leader of a Homeworld which The Book of the War said was "generally perceived to be the original", and he continued in that role for over half a century. When Compassion became the first 102-form timeship two years before the War, (PROSE: The Book of the War) Romana III was War Queen and "Mistress of the Nine Gallifreys" on another Gallifrey. (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon, The Ancestor Cell)
Homeworlds[[edit] | [edit source]]
One account referred to the homeworld of "Gimlet-Eyes" as "the Prime Homeworld". The same account referred to the homeworld of "her" as the First Homeworld. (PROSE: Love & War [+]Loading...{"page":"388","1":"Love & War (short story)"}) An earlier account which concerned itself with the War King's Homeworld referred to it as the "first Homeworld" (PROSE: Crimes Against History [+]Loading...{"variant":"second edition","1":"Crimes Against History (short story)"})
Dionus, prior to the Cosmic War, lived in the Third Homeworld with Susit. (PROSE: Love & War [+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)"])
Pyke-Xi Raul was from the Sixth Homeworld. (PROSE: Wringing Off)
Homunculette and the War King once visited Gallifrey Eight, which contained loomstacks and chronoforges to create weapons and soldiers for the Time Lords. D-Mat Guns were stored on Gallifrey Nine. (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5)
Archon President Scrooge of House Macbadger ruled the 507th Homeworld. (PROSE: Our Finest Gifts We Bring [+]Loading...["Our Finest Gifts We Bring (short story)"])
Destructions[[edit] | [edit source]]
In her lecture "The Cultural Impact of War-Time", Entarodora noted that more Homeworlds had been lost "than might be thought prudent". (PROSE: The Brakespeare Voyage)
The first loss of a Gallifrey occurred in the Battle of Mutter's Cluster. At the time, this brought the "official" total down to nine. (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5 [+]Loading...{"page":"115","1":"The Taking of Planet 5 (novel)"})
War Queen Romana III's Gallifrey was invaded by Faction Paradox sometime before the Eleven-Day Empire was destroyed (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell) in the War's fiftieth year. (AUDIO: The Shadow Play) At that time, the Faction claimed to have written that version of Gallifrey's backups out of existence, (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles) although a later account implied that the War Queen's homeworld was a "mere sheath-echo". (PROSE: The Story So Far... [+]Loading...["The Story So Far... (short story)"])
According to Homunculette, most Time Lords perished in the wiping of the original Gallifrey, (PROSE: Alien Bodies [+]Loading...["Alien Bodies (novel)"]) which occured sometime before the end of the War. (PROSE: "The Fall of the Homeworld" [+]Part of Crimes Against History, Loading...{"namedpart":"The Fall of the Homeworld","1":"Crimes Against History (short story)"}) By this point, the various cloneworlds formed a united front. (PROSE: "The Fall of the Homeworld" [+]Part of Crimes Against History, Loading...{"namedpart":"The Fall of the Homeworld","1":"Crimes Against History (short story)"})
Although an early account stated that all duplicate Gallifreys had fallen during the War, (PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street [+]Loading...["The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)"]) the Base of Operations existed during V-Time, which was believed by its inhabitants to postdate the War, (PROSE: A Bright White Crack [+]Loading...["A Bright White Crack (short story)"]) although some accounts cast doubt upon this. (PROSE: The Cactus and the Corpse [+]Loading...["The Cactus and the Corpse (short story)"], The Peace: A Lost Primer [+]Loading...["The Peace: A Lost Primer (feature)"]) Gallifrey was also returned during the post-Time War universe. (PROSE: The Day of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)"])
Several planets appeared to be the remnants of ruined Homeworlds: the legendary world Ardethe in the constellation Kaster Major was populated only by the Shabooj'm; (PROSE: Deadfall) the lifeless planet New Alexandria had the same coordinates as Gallifrey; (PROSE: The Crystal Bucephalus) and Winkle's Wonderland occupied the ruins of Rassilon's Foundry toward the end of the universe. (AUDIO: Zagreus)
Christine Summerfield visited a ruined and deserted Homeworld after escaping her bottle universe. (PROSE: Dead Romance)
Upon mishearing its name, Fitz Kreiner thought that Gallifraxion Four was a Gallifrey. (PROSE: The Tomorrow Windows) The planet was colonised by the Clock-People, (PROSE: Out of the Box) the remains of Mathara's Faction Paradox fleet (PROSE: The Story So Far...) following the Eighth Doctor's destruction of Romana III's Gallifrey. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell)
At least one Homeworld was predicted to be destroyed upon the destruction of the Hydra-Centaurus cluster by the Grandfather's Maw around the year 60,000,000,000. (PROSE: The Brakespeare Voyage)
Despite the destructions of so many Homeworlds, Entarodora argued in her lecture that the total number of War-time deaths by Great House members was nonetheless small because the inhabitants of these other Homeworlds were "mere-sheath echoes" of a "core probability". (PROSE: The Brakespeare Voyage)
Sometime after the wiping of the original Gallifrey, Homunculette was taught the basics of escapology by War Cardinals at a training complex on Gallifrey XII. (PROSE: Alien Bodies)
According to one account, the Eighth Doctor used the Moment to end the Last Great Time War, causing Gallifrey Original to convulse and burst into flames as it was destroyed. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Time War) By one account, this was the same event as the destruction of Romana III's Gallifrey. (PROSE: The Eyeless, The Gallifrey Chronicles) However, by another account, it was the Eighth Doctor's successor, the War Doctor, who destroyed the planet, (COMIC: Sky Jacks) most accounts claimed that the War Doctor's other selves teamed up to save the planet instead. (TV: The Day of the Doctor) With the Twelfth Doctor claiming this was a result of rewriting history to save it after its original destruction. (PROSE: Big Bang Generation [+]Loading...["Big Bang Generation (novel)","Big Bang Generation"]) This claim was repeated in TARDIS Type 40 Instruction Manual and Dalek Combat Training Manual. (PROSE: TARDIS Type 40 Instruction Manual [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"The Desktop Theme","page":"91","chaptnum":"V","1":"TARDIS Type 40 Instruction Manual (reference book)"}, Dalek Combat Training Manual [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"The Time War","chaptnum":"XII","1":"Dalek Combat Training Manual (reference book)"})
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Author Simon Bucher-Jones, who had introduced Gallifrey Eight and Gallifrey Nine in The Taking of Planet 5, originated the concept of "lesser Homeworlds" in a blog post written in reaction to The Day of the Doctor;[1] this explanation was later incorporated into The Book of the Peace Dossier. In 2022, Bucher-Jones similarly suggested that the razing of Gallifrey in Doctor Who series 12 occurred on one of the seven surviving duplicates.[2]
Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- ↑ Simon Bucher-Jones (25 November 2013). Faction Paradox Stands. SBJ's pantechnicon extravaganza.
- ↑ Simon Bucher-Jones on Twitter (11 June 2022). Archived from the original on 11 June 2022.
