Fall of Gallifrey: Difference between revisions

A fragmented Dalek transmission from the Time War, one of several salvaged and recorded in ''[[The Dalek Conquests]]'' having been found echoing through [[the Void]] or squeezed through [[temporal anomaly|temporal anomalies]] and [[black hole]]s, spoke of an attack formation, the extermination of the Time Lords and an impending Dalek victory. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Dalek Conquests (audio story)|The Dalek Conquests]]'')

After centuries of conflict between the Daleks and Time Lords, an invasion fleet made up of millions of [[Dalek flying saucer|Dalek flying saucers]] laid siege to Gallifrey. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Whoniverse (novel)|The Whoniverse]]'') Despite the 400 [[Sky trench|sky trenches]] defending [[Arcadia (city)|Arcadia]], the Daleks [[Fall of Arcadia|broke through and invaded]] the second city. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Last Day (TV story)|The Last Day]]'')  

Arcadia fell to the Daleks, with the Doctor fighting on the frontlines. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'') On the battlefield one [[Time Lord soldier 1 (The Last Day)|soldier]] encountered the Doctor. The Doctor borrowed his [[fusion blaster]] and left a message for the Time Lords carved into a wall: NO MORE. He then proceeded to the [[Time Vaults]] and stole the last weapon in the [[Omega Arsenal]] - [[the Moment]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') He disappeared from the Time Lords’ observation, however they inferred that his intent was to destroy Daleks and Time Lords alike. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')  

As the Daleks approached the [[Capitol]], hundreds of Time Lords recorded their cherished memories into [[Memory lantern|memory lanterns]] and set them adrift in the Time Vortex. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Memory of Winter (audio story)|The Memory of Winter]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Memory Feast (comic story)|The Memory Feast]]'') Unable to breach the Capitol’s sky trenches, the Daleks surrounded Gallifrey and began bombarding the planet from orbit with all their remaining ships. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'')  

With the planet utterly surrounded and on the verge of destruction, the [[President of the High Council]], [[Rassilon]], grew more desperate and refused to admit defeat. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Whoniverse (novel)|The Whoniverse]]'') After [[the Visionary]] revealed two Time Lords would survive the coming fall, the Doctor and {{Simm}}, Rassilon devised the [[Ultimate Sanction]]. A link was forged with the future Master on Earth in [[2009]] by implanting a signal, a rythmn of four beats, in his mind as a child via the [[Untempered Schism]]. Rassilon then sent a [[White-Point Star]] to the Master to make the link physical, bypassing the time lock. With the signal inside him and six billion humans converted by the [[Immortality Gate]] into [[the Master Race]] to triangulate it, the Master made a connection with the Time Lords' signal. Rassilon planned to use this link to break Gallifrey out of the time lock, beginning a chain reaction which would tear the Time Vortex apart and destroy the universe entirely which would enable the Time Lords to ascend to beings of pure consciousness.   

Before proceeding, Rassilon put the Sanction to the vote of the [[High Council]]. Only two opposed; [[The Woman (The End of Time)|the woman]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') and the [[Patriarch of Stillhaven]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lords and Masters (short story)|Lords and Masters]]'') Rassilon led a delegation to Earth, flanked by four Time Lords including the two opponents, who he had kneel in shame, where he confronted the Master and the [[Tenth Doctor]]. With the time lock broken, Gallifrey itself began to manifest above Earth which the Doctor warned was just the beginning; all the terrors of the war were descending. Rassilon revealed the full extent of the plan, to even the Master’s horror. The Doctor broke the connection by shooting the White-Point Star, sending the Time Lords and Gallifrey back to the Time War. The Master decided to take revenge on Rassilon for making him a monster and attacked him, being brought back into the War with him. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'') Rassilon's battle with the Master caused him to [[Regeneration|regenerate]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Pandoric's Box (short story)|Pandoric's Box]]'') reportedly because the Master "shoved White Point Stars down his throat". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lords and Masters (short story)|Lords and Masters]]'')

The Doctor took the Moment to a [[Barn (The Day of the Doctor)|barn]] in Gallifrey's [[drylands]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') intending to activate it far from the sight of his TARDIS. The Moment arranged for a meeting with two future incarnations, the Tenth Doctor and [[Eleventh Doctor]]. After an adventure on which they negotiated peace between [[Unified Intelligence Taskforce|UNIT]] and the [[Zygon]]s, the three prepared to detonate Gallifrey together, making sure the War Doctor did not need to bear the responsibility alone. However after the Eleventh Doctor’s companion, [[Clara Oswald]], objected they reconsidered and ultimately decided against it. Inspired by the [[Stasis cube|stasis cubes]] that the Zygons had been using a suspended animation, the Eleventh Doctor came up with an alternative to the joy of his other selves.

Working with ten other incarnations, the Doctors used their TARDISes to place Gallifrey in a [[Gallifrey's pocket universe|pocket universe]]. They contacted the [[War Council]] beforehand and received [[The General|the General‘s]] reluctant approval for the plan. The Dalek fleet, which was still surrounding the planet and firing on it at a constant rate, intensified the bombardment in response to the Doctors’ activity. It was left suddenly firing on itself when Gallifrey disappeared, nearly destroying the entire Dalek race. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') The result was, in the Emperor’s words, an “inferno”. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]'')

===Aftermath===

To the rest of [[N-Space]], it looked as if the Time Lords had been destroyed as well, making it seem that the War had ended with the destruction of both factions. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') The [[Eye of Time]], which had been possessed by the Time Lords, was lost during the “Fall” of Gallifrey. The Eye later fell into the hands of the [[New Dalek Paradigm]]. ([[GAME]]: ''[[City of the Daleks (video game)|City of the Daleks]]'')