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A '''reality quotient''', or '''RQ''', referred to how "real" something was. Objects native to the [[space-time continuum]] had a reality quotient of 1, where they could fully participate in events around them and make a difference. Objects with an RQ of 0.7 were still real enough to divert the course of [[history]]. Patrons of the [[Crystal Bucephalus]] were projected in [[time]] with a reality quotient of 0.5, anything less making them [[phantom]]s or [[host]]s. But at the "half real" level, 0.5 allowed the patrons to eat, drink, defecate, talk, kill, maim, marry, impregnate, etc., and then return to the Bucephalus with the [[time stream]] "none the wise," as the [[Fifth Doctor]] explained: "Too small a pebble to divert the river of [[destiny]]." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Crystal Bucephalus (novel)|The Crystal Bucephalus]]'') | A '''reality quotient''', or '''RQ''', referred to how "real" something was. Objects native to the [[space-time continuum]] had a reality quotient of 1, where they could fully participate in events around them and make a difference. Objects with an RQ of 0.7 were still real enough to divert the course of [[history]]. Patrons of the [[Crystal Bucephalus]] were projected in [[time]] with a reality quotient of 0.5, anything less making them [[phantom]]s or [[host]]s. But at the "half real" level, 0.5 allowed the patrons to eat, drink, defecate, talk, kill, maim, marry, impregnate, etc., and then return to the Bucephalus with the [[time stream]] "none the wise," as the [[Fifth Doctor]] explained: "Too small a pebble to divert the river of [[destiny]]." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Crystal Bucephalus (novel)|The Crystal Bucephalus]]'') | ||
When | When {{Ainley}} used [[The Master's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] to try and steal the [[TITAN Array]], the [[Sixth Doctor]] used [[The Doctor's TARDIS|his own TARDIS]] to put a [[time lock]] on the Array, boosting its reality quotient above 1 and embedding it deeply into the space-time continuum. As the Master's TARDIS tried to pull away, the Doctor boosted the [[time field|temporal fields]], increasing the depth of the time lock to an RQ of 3. As the [[Quantum Archangel]] created [[parallel universe]]s for all seven billion people on [[2003]] [[Earth]], the Doctor used a [[reality inhibitor]] to boost the TARDIS's reality quotient to about 10, which he explained should make the formation of parallel universes a bit tricky, even for her. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'') | ||
When [[Tromesis]] existed as two cities due to the [[sympathy engine]] and a [[meteorite]] was headed for [[Earth]], [[Zoe Heriot]] explained that the city she was trapped in had the defenses but wasn't real enough to affect it. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Apocalypse Mirror (audio story)|The Apocalypse Mirror]]'') | When [[Tromesis]] existed as two cities due to the [[sympathy engine]] and a [[meteorite]] was headed for [[Earth]], [[Zoe Heriot]] explained that the city she was trapped in had the defenses but wasn't real enough to affect it. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Apocalypse Mirror (audio story)|The Apocalypse Mirror]]'') | ||
