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== Handling the Web of Time == | == Handling the Web of Time == | ||
When encountering people who knew them because of their ''personal'' future, which happened in the past, the [[Fifth Doctor]] told [[Tegan]] they shouldn't upset the Web of Time by not going along, during which they discovered a mummified [[Nyssa]]. The Doctor later explained that they probably couldn't prevent what happened to her, as time was already set in its course, [[crystallized time|crystallized]] along a particular web-way; since Nyssa had been mummified before they travelled back in time to prevent it, the Web of Time had already | When encountering people who knew them because of their ''personal'' future, which happened in the past, the [[Fifth Doctor]] told [[Tegan]] they shouldn't upset the Web of Time by not going along, during which they discovered a mummified [[Nyssa]]. The Doctor later explained that they probably couldn't prevent what happened to her, as time was already set in its course, [[crystallized time|crystallized]] along a particular web-way; since Nyssa had been mummified before they travelled back in time to prevent it, the Web of Time had already crystallised at that node, meaning "it might as well [have been] set in stone." He followed this by commenting that [[Blinovitch]] was right. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Sands of Time]]'') | ||
Additionally, preventing disasters could cause others to take their place. Because of the ''[[Titanic]]'' sinking, all later ships would have round-the-clock [[radio]] surveillance, enough [[lifeboat]]s, and the [[International Ice Patrol]] would be formed. Saving the ''Titanic'' would condemn the other ships to follow. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Left-Handed Hummingbird]]'') If [[Adolf Hitler]] was prevented from rising to power, a more competent man would have taken control of the [[Nazi]] party and [[World War II]] would've ended differently. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Exodus]]'') | Additionally, preventing disasters could cause others to take their place. Because of the ''[[Titanic]]'' sinking, all later ships would have round-the-clock [[radio]] surveillance, enough [[lifeboat]]s, and the [[International Ice Patrol]] would be formed. Saving the ''Titanic'' would condemn the other ships to follow. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Left-Handed Hummingbird]]'') If [[Adolf Hitler]] was prevented from rising to power, a more competent man would have taken control of the [[Nazi]] party and [[World War II]] would've ended differently. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Exodus]]'') | ||
