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== Politics == | == Politics == | ||
=== Overview === | |||
{{Simplequote|In all my travellings throughout the universe I have battled against evil, against power-mad conspirators. I should have stayed here. The oldest civilisation, decadent, degenerate and rotten to the core. Ha! Power-mad conspirators, Daleks, Sontarans, Cybermen, they're still in the nursery compared to us. Ten million years of absolute power, that's what it takes to be really corrupt.|[[Sixth Doctor]]|The Ultimate Foe (TV story)}} | |||
The [[Sixth Doctor]] once lambasted his people for their corruption. In his speech, he declared that their "ten million years of absolute power" made Time Lord society into one that was "decadent, degenerate and rotten to the core". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ultimate Foe (TV story)|The Ultimate Foe]]'') | |||
=== Domain === | === Domain === | ||
The Time Lords ruled from the planet [[Gallifrey]], where they would watch the workings of the [[universe]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') Though they once had [[Fledgling Empires|a mighty empire]] during the [[Dark Times]], the empire collapsed after the fall of the [[Pythia]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible (novel)|Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]'') | The Time Lords ruled from the planet [[Gallifrey]], where they would watch the workings of the [[universe]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') Though they once had [[Fledgling Empires|a mighty empire]] during the [[Dark Times]], the empire collapsed after the fall of the [[Pythia]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible (novel)|Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]'') | ||
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* The Time Lords were known to execute criminals by vaporisation. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'') After [[the Imperator]] led his army of followers and mercenaries on a crusade against hundreds of cultures around the [[Spiral Politic]], he was tried and publicly executed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') One account held the Second Doctor had initially been sentenced to death for his breach of the non-interference policy, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[World Game (novel)|World Game]]'') and the Fourth Doctor was threatened with vaporisation whilst accused of assassinating the President. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'') An attempted execution was actually carried out on the Fifth Doctor following a [[Warrant of Termination]] being issued by the High Council to prevent [[Omega]]'s return, however he was secretly moved to safety in [[the Matrix]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Arc of Infinity (TV story)|Arc of Infinity]]'') The [[Unbound Doctor]] later went through a similar scenario after being tried for existing in the wrong universe. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Gallifrey (audio story)|Gallifrey]]'') | * The Time Lords were known to execute criminals by vaporisation. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'') After [[the Imperator]] led his army of followers and mercenaries on a crusade against hundreds of cultures around the [[Spiral Politic]], he was tried and publicly executed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') One account held the Second Doctor had initially been sentenced to death for his breach of the non-interference policy, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[World Game (novel)|World Game]]'') and the Fourth Doctor was threatened with vaporisation whilst accused of assassinating the President. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin]]'') An attempted execution was actually carried out on the Fifth Doctor following a [[Warrant of Termination]] being issued by the High Council to prevent [[Omega]]'s return, however he was secretly moved to safety in [[the Matrix]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Arc of Infinity (TV story)|Arc of Infinity]]'') The [[Unbound Doctor]] later went through a similar scenario after being tried for existing in the wrong universe. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Gallifrey (audio story)|Gallifrey]]'') | ||
* The Time Lords could erase a subject from existence entirely. For the countless crimes [[the Master]] committed, his punishment would have been the reversal of his time stream, such that he had never existed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons]]'') A similar punishment was carried out on [[the War Lord]] for his interference in human history which led to the deaths of thousands; he (and several of his guards) were dematerialised out of existence. The [[War Lord homeworld]] had a [[force field]] placed around it. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'') Similarly the [[Imperiatrix]] [[Pandora]] was executed in such a way she’d never existed. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Lies (audio story)|Lies]]'') The [[Oubliette of Eternity]] was used to erase criminals from time, though unbeknownst to the Time Lords its victims actually became [[Neverpeople]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Neverland (audio story)|Neverland]]'') A similar device capable of erasing the target from existence, the [[Sword of Never]], was used by the [[Convocation of Oblivion]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Scratchman (novelisation)|Scratchman]]'') | * The Time Lords could erase a subject from existence entirely. For the countless crimes [[the Master]] committed, his punishment would have been the reversal of his time stream, such that he had never existed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons]]'') A similar punishment was carried out on [[the War Lord]] for his interference in human history which led to the deaths of thousands; he (and several of his guards) were dematerialised out of existence. The [[War Lord homeworld]] had a [[force field]] placed around it. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'') Similarly the [[Imperiatrix]] [[Pandora]] was executed in such a way she’d never existed. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Lies (audio story)|Lies]]'') The [[Oubliette of Eternity]] was used to erase criminals from time, though unbeknownst to the Time Lords its victims actually became [[Neverpeople]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Neverland (audio story)|Neverland]]'') A similar device capable of erasing the target from existence, the [[Sword of Never]], was used by the [[Convocation of Oblivion]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Scratchman (novelisation)|Scratchman]]'') | ||
* | * Punished Time Lords could stand in place and cover their eyes like "the [[Weeping Angel]]s of old". ([[TV]]: {{Cs|The End of Time (TV story)}}) | ||
== Leisure == | == Leisure == | ||
