Advanced Research Project

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The Advanced Research Project was a scientific research project conducted by Ulysses, Larna, and Saldaamir. (PROSE: Unnatural History, The Gallifrey Chronicles)

History

The Eighth Doctor remembered being a Loomling in his family House listening to his father and Saldaamir talking about wars and "great projects." (PROSE: Unnatural History)

Ulysses, Penelope Gate, and Saldaamir studied the temporal cicatrix in the Shoal because it was useful for the project they were working on. During this time, they met Larna. When Marnal interrupted their work, they used his TARDIS's telepathic circuits to wipe his memory and deposited him on Earth in 1883 so he would not be able to jeopardise the project. (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles)

In the 1980s the Doctor helped Daniel Joyce avert a danger created by one of the experiments.

In 2001 Joyce and Larna used the cicatrix in San Francisco to conduct experiments for the Project and test their mathematical conclusions. Joyce described the Project as "cosmic stuff". By that time, they had been issuing grants to the Society for several years in exchange for "appropriate biological data" from their expeditions. (PROSE: Unnatural History)

The Advanced Research Department conducted secret research at St Oscar's University on Dellah. (PROSE: Oh No It Isn't!, et al.) In Logopolis, the problem of maintaining the Charged Vacuum Emboitements was handled by the Advanced Research Unit. The Fourth Doctor described this as "the Advanced Research Project." (TV: Logopolis, PROSE: Logopolis)

Behind the scenes

• In Lance Parkin's unproduced novel Enemy of the Daleks, it's revealed that the Doctor's father was working at Berkeley as the leader of an intergalactic alliance, which included the Klade from the Needle, who had come together to fight the Enemy and prevent Last Contact from making the War in Heaven inevitable.