Block Transfer Computation: Difference between revisions

Block Transfer Computations could create or re-create any object or spacetime event, provided enough mathematical information was supplied. ([[DW]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'') The Computations could also re-create or even duplicate people. [[Adric]], imprisoned by [[the Master]] in a [[hadron web]], created an entire city and its people. ([[DW]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'') Living creatures, like the [[Ceccec]], could be made using Block Transfer Computation. ([[EDA]]: ''[[The Tomorrow Windows]]'') Artificial intelligences could be made as well. ([[BFA]]: ''[[Unregenerate!]]'') Block Transfer Computation could even allow [[time travel]], though it would require a quorum of 12 people. ([[BFA]]: ''[[The Boy That Time Forgot]]'')

[[Computer]]s could not do Block Transfer Computations as the calculations themselves would alter the nature of the computer; organic life forms must do the work. The Monitor's people spoke their computations aloud, for this reason. ([[DW]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'') Though they were working on technological means to use Block Transfer Computations, the [[Logopolitan]]s were destroyed before they completed it. Other civilisation that were capable of using Block Transfer Computation include the [[Time Lord]]s, the [[Axos]] and the [[Nestene Consciousness]]. ([[NA]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark]]'')

The [[Logopolitan]]s were the first to develop Block Transfer Computations. ([[NA]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark]]'') They used Block Transfer Computations to create a duplicate of the [[Pharos Project]] to maintain the [[Charged Vacuum Emboitment|CVEs]] which prevented [[entropy]] from destroying the [[universe]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'')

The [[Time Lord]]s used Block Transfer Computations to maintain the [[outer plasmic shell]] and interior configurations of [[TARDIS]]es. ([[DW]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'', [[NA]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark]]'') The [[Eighth Doctor]] used it to design the TARDIS' gardens. ([[BFA]]: ''[[Scaredy Cat]]'') They also used Block Transfer Computations to create duplicates of the [[Eye of Harmony]] to power [[Gallifrey]]an [[TARDIS|timecraft]]. ([[PDA]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'')

[[The Remote]] were known to use Block Transfer Computations. ([[EDA]]: ''[[Interference - Book One]]'') The Remote receiver of the [[Eighth Doctor]]'s companion [[Compassion]] also unintentionally processed the signals she received from [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] into Block Transfer Computations, resulting in Compassion mutating into a [[Type 102]] [[TARDIS]] ([[EDA]]: ''[[The Shadows of Avalon]]'')  

The [[Mad Mind of Bophemeral]] used Block Transfer Computations to create an army. ([[PDA]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'')

The [[Pool]] used Block Transfer Computations to create defences for itself and horrific imagery. ([[NA]]: ''[[Deceit]]'')

The [[Farrian]] stole Block Transfer technology during their conquests. They used it to open CVEs and raid [[E-Space]]. ([[CC]]: ''[[The Invasion of E-Space]]'')