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=== Immediate aftermath === | === Immediate aftermath === | ||
The Flux had destroyed "many galaxies", leaving Earth at the epicentre of what remained. ([[TV]]: ''[[Survivors of the Flux (TV story)|Survivors of the Flux]]'') | The Flux had destroyed "many galaxies", leaving Earth at the epicentre of what remained. ([[TV]]: ''[[Survivors of the Flux (TV story)|Survivors of the Flux]]'') Tecteun would however note that the Doctor disrupted the Flux event "just as it came into existence." ([[TV]]: ''[[Survivors of the Flux (TV story)|Survivors of the Flux]]'') | ||
Whilst "time ran wild", various factions began attempting to assert their power in the aftermath of the Flux. On her travels, [[Bel (Once, Upon Time)|Bel]] observed the [[Dalek]]s, [[Cybermen]] and [[Sontaran]]s taking control of sectors of the galaxy. ([[TV]]: ''[[Once, Upon Time (TV story)|Once, Upon Time]]'') The Sontarans [[2021 Sontaran invasion of Earth|invaded Earth]] just before the Lupari shield came into effect, occupying [[Liverpool]] and preparing to embark on invasions throughout Earth's history, beginning in the [[Crimean War]] where they [[alternate timeline (War of the Sontarans)|rewrote history]]. The Doctor repelled their incursion in the Crimea and [[Karvanista]] rammed a [[Imperial Sontaran Time Carrier]] into the rest of the fleet in Liverpool, causing a temporal implosion which erased the Sontaran invasion from Earth. ([[TV]]: ''[[War of the Sontarans (TV story)|War of the Sontarans]]'') | Whilst "time ran wild", various factions began attempting to assert their power in the aftermath of the Flux. On her travels, [[Bel (Once, Upon Time)|Bel]] observed the [[Dalek]]s, [[Cybermen]] and [[Sontaran]]s taking control of sectors of the galaxy. ([[TV]]: ''[[Once, Upon Time (TV story)|Once, Upon Time]]'') The Sontarans [[2021 Sontaran invasion of Earth|invaded Earth]] just before the Lupari shield came into effect, occupying [[Liverpool]] and preparing to embark on invasions throughout Earth's history, beginning in the [[Crimean War]] where they [[alternate timeline (War of the Sontarans)|rewrote history]]. The Doctor repelled their incursion in the Crimea and [[Karvanista]] rammed a [[Imperial Sontaran Time Carrier]] into the rest of the fleet in Liverpool, causing a temporal implosion which erased the Sontaran invasion from Earth. ([[TV]]: ''[[War of the Sontarans (TV story)|War of the Sontarans]]'') | ||
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Swarm and Azure used the Division's technology to generate the planned second Flux event to wipe out the remaining universe, intending for the Temple of Atropos to be the last to fall, releasing [[Time]]. They planned to then rewind the destruction and play it out again repeatedly. | Swarm and Azure used the Division's technology to generate the planned second Flux event to wipe out the remaining universe, intending for the Temple of Atropos to be the last to fall, releasing [[Time]]. They planned to then rewind the destruction and play it out again repeatedly. | ||
The Sontarans' psychic command, under the leadership of [[Kragar]], used human psychics to predict where the Flux event would begin. Under the pretence of forming an alliance, they lured a Dalek and Cyberman fleet to the location, planning for their matter to resolve the Flux whilst their fleet sheltered behind the Lupari ships. The Doctor sabotaged their plan by helping Karvanista seize control of the Lupari fleet, whilst Vinder and Bel destroyed the command ship's communications to stop the Sontarans reacting in time. At the same time, at the request of the Doctor, [[the Division]]'s [[Ood]] did his best to minimize the impact of the Flux so as to make it easier to stop. The Flux destroyed the gathered fleets of Daleks, Cybermen and Sontarans, however, this proved insufficient to stop it and some of the Flux was able to make it past the Lupari shield. Following a suggestion by [[Diane (The Halloween Apocalypse)|Diane]], the Doctor put Swarm and Azure's [[Passenger form|Passenger]] in its path and the matter within the endless prison proved enough to end | The Sontarans' psychic command, under the leadership of [[Kragar]], used human psychics to predict where the Flux event would begin. Under the pretence of forming an alliance, they lured a Dalek and Cyberman fleet to the location, planning for their matter to resolve the Flux whilst their fleet sheltered behind the Lupari ships. The Doctor sabotaged their plan by helping Karvanista seize control of the Lupari fleet, whilst Vinder and Bel destroyed the command ship's communications to stop the Sontarans reacting in time. At the same time, at the request of the Doctor, [[the Division]]'s [[Ood]] did his best to minimize the impact of the Flux so as to make it easier to stop. The Flux destroyed the gathered fleets of Daleks, Cybermen and Sontarans, however, this proved insufficient to stop it and some of the Flux was able to make it past the Lupari shield. Following a suggestion by [[Diane (The Halloween Apocalypse)|Diane]], the Doctor put Swarm and Azure's [[Passenger form|Passenger]] in its path and the matter within the endless prison proved enough to end the Flux with [[Time (Set Piece)|Time]] describing the Flux as being "extinguished". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Vanquishers (TV story)|The Vanquishers]]'') | ||
One week later, Dan stated the Doctor had "saved" the universe through her actions. ([[TV]]: ''[[Eve of the Daleks (TV story)|Eve of the Daleks]]'') | One week later, Dan stated the Doctor had "saved" the universe through her actions. ([[TV]]: ''[[Eve of the Daleks (TV story)|Eve of the Daleks]]'') | ||
== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
In terms of comparisons to real-world scientific theories, the Flux appears to have many similarities to the theory of {{w|false vacuum decay}}, which describes an event which would erase the laws of nature completely. In the DWU, the Flux acts similar to [[Davros]]' [[reality bomb]], and is functionally similar to [[the Great Desolatrix]], albeit on a much larger scale. (As for comparisons to wider pop-culture, the cataclysmic event it causes is similar to DC Comics' ''Crisis on Infinite Earths'' and the Nothing from ''[[The NeverEnding Story (film)|The Neverending Story]]''.) | |||
Following the release of ''[[The Vanquishers (TV story)|The Vanquishers]]'', there has been confusion as to what the exact resolution to the Flux is within the [[Doctor Who universe]]. | Following the release of ''[[The Vanquishers (TV story)|The Vanquishers]]'', there has been some degree of confusion as to what the exact resolution to the final Flux event is within the [[Doctor Who universe]]. A [[Dalek Executioner]] in ''[[Eve of the Daleks (TV story)|Eve of the Daleks]]'' does refer to the fact that the [[Dalek War Fleet]] was destroyed in the Flux, with their mission being to hold the Thirteenth Doctor accountable for "the destruction of millions of Daleks". Thus, clearly indicating that the destruction of the Dalek, Sontaran and Cybermen fleets that occurred before the deployment of Passenger ''was not'' undone. | ||
The less speedy and less destructive nature of the final Flux event may also be attributed to the Doctor's interference alongside the [[Ood (Survivors of the Flux)|Ood]] stationed at Division HQ as in ''The Vanquishers'', the Doctor asks the Ood about their ability to "minimise the final Flux event". (To which said Ood vows to try their best and later says that they "have done all [they] can".) With regards to both Flux events, Dan Lewis notes in ''Eve of the Daleks'' that the Doctor had "saved the entire universe last week". | |||
This is supported by the Doctor's reference in ''Survivors of the Flux'' that the damage from the first Flux event "can be decompressed, uncompressed and I'm thinking, with those transport pods, this power source, reversing the polarity of the conversion plates I can stop this" | |||
What is less clear is exactly how large the impact of the first Flux event had actually been in the first place. In ''[[Survivors of the Flux (TV story)|Survivors of the Flux]]'', the Ood at Division HQ notes that the event had "destroyed many galaxies." By contrast, Tecteun remarks that the Doctor "[disrupted] the Flux, just as it came into existence." | |||
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