Temple of Atropos: Difference between revisions

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=== The Dark Times ===

According to the [[Ravager (The Halloween Apocalypse)|Ravager]] [[Swarm (The Halloween Apocalypse)|Swarm]], the Temple of Atropos on the [[planet]] [[Time (planet)|Time]] was set up by [[the Division]] to end the [[Dark Times]]. This was achieved by having [[Time]] surrender to [[Space]] through the [[Mouri]], thus [[Anchoring of the thread|anchoring]] the [[Web of Time]]. Swarm and his sister, [[Azure (The Halloween Apocalypse)|Azure]], saw this as [[heresy]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Once, Upon Time (TV story)|Once, Upon Time]]'') as they worshipped the [[Eternal]] [[Time (Set Piece)|Time]], who was in fact the embodiment of time itself that had been imprisoned within the Temple of Atropos. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Vanquishers (TV story)|The Vanquishers]]'')

The [[Fugitive Doctor]] was sent on a mission by the Division to enter the Temple as part of the [[Siege of Atropos]], which had been taken over by the Ravagers, and reinstate the [[Mouri]]. Her, [[Karvanista]], and two other Divison agents achieved this by hiding the Mouri inside a [[Passenger (War of the Sontarans)|Passenger]], tricking Swarm and Azure into releasing them back to where they belonged. ([[TV]]: ''[[Once, Upon Time (TV story)|Once, Upon Time]]'') While [[Old Swarm|Swarm]] was imprisoned in a [[containment chamber]], where he would remain for all eternity, Azure was hidden within [[human]] form as [[Anna (The Halloween Apocalypse)|Anna]], where she would remain until her release prior to the arrival of [[the Flux]] on [[31 October]] [[2021]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Halloween Apocalypse (TV story)|The Halloween Apocalypse]]'')

The Mouri were subsequently [[quantum lock]]ed against Swarm and Azure to protect them. ([[TV]]: ''[[War of the Sontarans (TV story)|War of the Sontarans]]'')

The inner sanctum of the temple was damaged by the Flux, leaving two Mouri broken. [[Inston-Vee Vinder]] and [[Yasmin Khan]] found themselves in the temple, and the [[Priest Triangle]]s demanded to know if they could repair. Swarm (now [[New Swarm|renewed]]) and Azure returned to the temple and killed two more Mouri, subsituting Yaz and Vinder in their places. They lured the [[Thirteenth Doctor]], along with [[Dan Lewis]], to the temple, where they revealed what they had done. As Swarm prepared to expose Yaz and Vinder to the full force of time, ([[TV]]: ''[[War of the Sontarans (TV story)|War of the Sontarans]]'') the Doctor chose to put herself and Dan in the other broken Mouri's places, where she could control the ensuing [[time storm]] and help the surviving Mouri hide four Mouri within the [[Passenger (War of the Sontarans)|Passenger]] that Swarm and Azure had brought to the temple. The Mouri did so, repairing the temple and freeing the Doctor and her companions, however Swarm revealed that time had been broken long enough to release [[particle]]s of the [[Time Force]]. He and Azure departed, with the Doctor and her friends also leaving the temple. ([[TV]]: ''[[Once, Upon Time (TV story)|''Once, Upon Time]]'')

Swarm and Azure sought to give the Doctor as a sacrifice to their "saviour", [[Time (Set Piece)|Time]], an [[Eternal]] and the embodiment of time worshipped by the Ravagers. Time, who had been imprisoned in the Temple of Atropos since the Mouri were instated, manifested from active particles of the Time Force to scorn the Ravagers for their failure in freeing Time from Atropos, and to inform them that the final Flux event they had launched from the Division's base had been thwarted. Time punished the Ravagers, destroying them in the process, although Azure viewed it as a form of ascension. When left face to face with the Doctor, Time warned the Doctor that her time was ending, and that no [[regeneration]] or [[life]] could last forever. It reunited the Doctor, who had been fragmented into three splinters across [[spacetime]], and returned her to her [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Vanquishers (TV story)|The Vanquishers]]'')

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