Carrisent Particum timelines
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The Carrisent Particum timelines were a large group of alternate timelines, stemming from the Warrior's universe, in which the Daleks invaded Gallifrey and defeated the Time Lords in the Time War, before proceeding to conquer the rest of the universe and time itself.
While only one such timeline existed initially, multiple near-identical timelines were created as a result of the Warrior's repeated failed attempts to avert the initial timeline by destroying the Carrisent Particum, a temporal prison created by the Daleks in these timelines in order to confine the Warrior's personal timeline for all eternity, as punishment for the Fourth Doctor's attempt at averting the creation of the Daleks.
Eventually, the Warrior succeeded in sealing these timelines within the Carrisent Particum, although he failed to outright end the Time War in this manner, as he and and the Master had intended.
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In the first timeline, the Unified Skaroan Alliance conquered Gallifrey and reduced the planet to a backwater world, leading to the Daleks winning the Time War with such speed that, in the words of a memory of the Master, "there was no War." The Celestial Intervention Agency was integrated into the Skaroan Empire, with the Twin Dalek replacing Narvin as the CIA's Coordinator, which was kept secret from the rest of the Skaroan Empire. Over the next several years, the Daleks conquered the rest of the universe and seized full control over time. As a result, the Twin Dalek became time sensitive, gaining the ability to directly see "the threads of time" and sense when time was changing. Despite the Daleks' dominance as the sole species in control of time, rumours spread of the existence of resistance to their universal supremacy. The Skaroan Empire planned to follow their conquest of time with the creation of a new universe in the Daleks' image.
However in the aftermath, still craving vengeance against the Warrior for his previous incarnation's attempt at averting the creation of the Daleks, the Unified Skaroan Alliance decided to capture the Warrior and publicly place him on trial. To this end, a squad of Daleks, overseen by Commander Esk, manufactured a Carrisent Particum, a temporal prison devised by Esk to imprison the Warrior's entire personal timeline and everything connected to it, trapping him for all eternity. Before he could be captured by the Unified Skaroan Alliance, the Warrior engineered a plan with the Master to avert the Daleks' conquest of Gallifrey by destroying the Carrisent Particum at the exact moment it would imprison him, forcing the Warrior to regenerate and creating a paradox that would reverse time to the start of the Warrior's upcoming interrogation by the Celestial Intervention Agency on Skaro, albeit leaving the past Warrior with severe amnesia and requiring a future memory of the Master, released by the Warrior's regeneration, to guide the past Warrior to destroy the Particum again at the end of his trial in order to force time back further to prior to the Daleks' invasion of Gallifrey.
Shortly after Commander Esk's Daleks completed the first Carrisent Particum, another Dalek informed Esk during a briefing of the Skaroan generals that the Warrior was being interrogated by the CIA. Esk then relayed this information to the Twin Dalek, who eventually usurped her plans to send a shuttle to an alternative base and instead redirected the shuttle to the Warrior's ongoing trial. When Esk contacted the Twins and ordered them to return the shuttle to her base, a squad of Daleks relieved her of her duties before exterminating her. The Twin Dalek then arrived at the Warrior's trial and eventually ordered the use of the Carrisent Particum, only for the Warrior to blow up the Particum with a detonator at the exact moment that the Particum closed around him, triggering a vast explosion that killed the thousands of people present to witness his trial and reverting time to the start of his interrogation by the CIA.
After countless failed attempts to fully revert this timeline, resulting in countless near-identical versions of the initial Carrisent Particum timeline being sealed and destroyed inside the Particum only for the Warrior to return to the start of his interrogation by the CIA, the Warrior finally succeeded in sealing the original Carrisent Particum timeline inside the Particum, albeit by diverting from the path planned by his future self and the Master, ultimately leading to the Master being exterminated by the Twin Dalek. Upon succeeding, he returned to Gallifrey shortly before the Daleks' invasion, although he was left distressed and confused by the continued presence of a Particum in Narvin's office containing a version of himself despite seemingly averting the timeline in which the Particum was created. Despite this anomaly, he managed to ensure that the Skaroan invasion of Gallifrey failed, consequently preventing the Unified Skaroan Alliance from conquering the universe, although despite the Warrior and the Master's plans, (AUDIO: Aftershocks) the Warrior failed to outright end the Time War in this manner. (AUDIO: The Key To Key To Time)
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In The Key To Key To Time, the Warrior briefly mentions, to the White Guardian, an event called "the Expulsion of Skaro", which he claims was one of his many failed attempts to end the Time War. It is unclear if this is intended to be a reference to the Carrisent Particum timelines of Aftershocks or not, as although the name "Expulsion of Skaro" is never directly linked to the Carrisent Particum timelines, the name of the event suggests that it involved Skaro being expelled or banished in some capacity, which is, to an extent, what occurs to the planet - or at least, multiple versions of Skaro - in the Carrisent Particum timelines of Aftershocks.
