Fall of Gallifrey: Difference between revisions

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]]'')

Though the effect had been instantaneous on the Daleks, Gallifrey’s relocation took almost a day to complete, longer than the Doctor had predicted, causing the planet to burn and rage. A town on the shore of [[Lake Calasper]] was ripped apart by an earthquake. The Doctor, in all their incarnations up to the [[Ninth Doctor|Ninth]] (Minus the War Doctor), helped to get civilians trapped in dangerous situations to safety. Meanwhile in the War Room, the [[Twelfth Doctor]] entered and helped coordinate disaster relief with the General. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)|The Day of the Doctor]]'')  

Afterwards the Doctors were left unsure if they’d succeeded or not, but concluded it was better to have failed doing the right thing than succeeding at the wrong. Due to the timelines being out of sync, the first eleven incarnations involved would forget this act. This caused the Doctor to reject his war incarnation until the memories of saving Gallifrey caught up with the Eleventh Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') Until then, he remembered Gallifrey's fall as a legitimate destruction. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of the World (TV story)|The End of the World]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eyeless (novel)|The Eyeless]]'')  

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]]'')