101-form
The Great Houses' attempt to create a 101-form timeship shortly before the War was a confidential and experimental project, believed to have ended in failure. Its rebellious result was the only known humanoid timeship not to be a descendant of Compassion.
It was the first attempt to create a partially-organic timeship, with a mind that could relate directly with the pilots rather than a more abstract intelligence; (PROSE: Crimes Against History [+]Loading...["Crimes Against History (short story)"], The Book of the War [+]Loading...["The Book of the War (novel)"]) the earlier attempt to create Model 51 TARDISes with personalities that the Gallifreyan pilots could relate to using a purely digital "personality matrices" had been a failure, with the ships' personalities being unstable for reasons the Gallifreyan cyberneticists never understood. (GAME: "TARDIS Model 51 Personalities" [+]Part of The Iytean Menace, Loading...{"namedpart":"TARDIS Model 51 Personalities","1":"The Iytean Menace (game)"}) The result of the experimental upgrading of a timeship was viewed as another failure, producing "such a monstrosity that it barely qualified as a timeship at all", being "utterly beyond the control of its creator". Although normal protocol would have been for the failed experiment to be destroyed, the ship's fate was unrecorded, (PROSE: Crimes Against History [+]Loading...["Crimes Against History (short story)"], The Book of the War [+]Loading...["The Book of the War (novel)"]) leading to incorrect speculation that Antipathy was the escaped 101-form. (PROSE: Of the City of the Saved... [+]Loading...["Of the City of the Saved... (novel)"])
In fact, a timeship modified to be able to take humanoid form, who was described as "family" by Compassion, (AUDIO: Sabbath Dei [+]Loading...["Sabbath Dei (audio story)"], In the Year of the Cat [+]Loading...["In the Year of the Cat (audio story)"]) who was the one and only member of the 102-form generation and widely considered the first true humanoid TARDIS, (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon [+]Loading...["The Shadows of Avalon (novel)"]) resurfacing under the alias of "Lolita". Lolita had vampiric traits and brought her own agenda to the War, manipulating the Great Houses and intending to overthrow them to institute a "new kind of history". (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Loading...["The Book of the War (novel)"], AUDIO: The Eleven Day Empire [+]Loading...["The Eleven Day Empire (audio story)"], etc.)
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Although this bit of wordplay has never been explicitly pointed out, Lolita's alias is a reference to her serial number as a timeship ("101ita").
