Ghost Wars

Sarah Jane Smith recognised the war between the Uvodni and the Malakh Empire as being a part of "the Ghost Wars of the Horsehead Nebula". (TV: Warriors of Kudlak)

According to one account, the overall Ghost Wars opposed the Malakh Imperium, led by the vampire king Zadok the Gory, to "basically everyone else in and around the Horsehead Nebula". The Ghost Wars were a Change War: due too many parties being time-active, it was constantly being rewritten, its history "written in palimpsest and smoke". Because of this, the Homeworld considered it permanently "ongoing" despite its being bounded in time.

At one point, the President Kodachrome, a Lord President Emeritus, "poked his head" into the Wars and was briefly killed for his trouble by Miss Garglespike. However, this only lasted for thirty-two days before another alteration to time saw him return to the Homeworld, gravely injured but alive. Other notable events in the Ghost Wars included the involvement of the Black Cauldron of Proxima Centauri, that of Phoenix King, and the death of Zadok the Gory.

The Corsair believed that the death of Zadok was a fixed historical part of the Wars. However, after his timeship the Silver Spray was drawn off-course into the heart of the Wars, in a remote village on Hoppiq Minor, the Homeworlder ended up accidentally preventing it when he failed to recognise that the scheme from Garglespike that he was foiling was geared towards the king's assassination. (PROSE: The Bloodletters) Despite this interference, Zadok's "mummified remains" were one of the exhibits at Dr Henry Fizzog's Museum of the Macabre in Sardicktown (PROSE: Honeymoon Horrors) by the time a post-Time War version of the Doctor visited the city. (TV: A Christmas Carol)