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 to meta-historians as the Last Great Rewrite, the most recent Major Space-Time Rewrite from the perspective of Olivia Kagg Waldermein. (PROSE: Love & War [+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)"])
As the time war in which Auteur and Chris Cwej (PROSE: Dead Romance [+]Loading...["Dead Romance (novel)"], etc.) participated, ending with the Archons' destruction, (PROSE: Love & War [+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)"], The Two Auteurs [+]Loading...["The Two Auteurs (short story)"], Requiem [+]Loading...["Requiem (novel)"] etc.) it overlapped with the events attributed in other accounts to the War in Heaven (PROSE: Dead Romance [+]Loading...["Dead Romance (novel)"], Going Once, Going Twice [+]Loading...["Going Once, Going Twice (short story)"], The Ancestor Cell [+]Loading...["The Ancestor Cell (novel)"]) and the Last Great Time War. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Time War [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Time War (short story)"], etc.) In the lead up to a Dalek attack during the Time War, the War Doctor told Kruger he was "fighting a cosmic war throughout all eternity." (AUDIO: The Shadow Vortex [+]Loading...{"timestamp":"00:20:57","1":"The Shadow Vortex (audio 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[[edit] | [edit source]]
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)"])
Maritsa, 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: The Book of the Snowstorm [+]Loading...["The Book of the Snowstorm (short story)"])
History[[edit] | [edit source]]
Origins[[edit] | [edit source]]
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 (TV 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, aeons 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[[edit] | [edit source]]
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 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)"})
According to one Meta-Historian, the Morning Star had, for the longest time, only one city, the Cathedral of Time, and it was the threat of invasion during the Cosmic War which led the leaders of Archon society to construct a "Second City". (PROSE: Love & War [+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)"]) Indeed, Arcadia was the "Second City" in the final day of the Last Great Time War. (TV: The Day of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV 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: "Vignette 3" [+]Part of Our Finest Gifts We Bring, Loading...{"namedpart":"Vignette 3","1":"Our Finest Gifts We Bring (short story)"})
End of the War[[edit] | [edit source]]
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 several other accounts, the Doctor destroyed Gallifrey and the whole of the Last Great Time War, although he did not die. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Time War [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Time War (short story)"], COMIC: Sky Jacks [+]Loading...["Sky Jacks (comic story)","Sky Jacks"]) though this would later be rewritten (PROSE: Big Bang Generation [+]Loading...["Big Bang Generation (novel)"], 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)"}) so that the Doctor saved the planet instead (TV: The Day of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)","The Day of the Doctor"])
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)"]) 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)"])
Following the Last Great Rewrite, the location in the Galaxy which "previously" — in a metatemporal sense — contained the Morning Star, no longer ever had — in a linear sense — and in it's place was Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole, which according to current history always been there; there was no effect on gravity as the Morning Star already contained a naked singularity. (PROSE: Love & War [+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)"])
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