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The '''Cosmic War''', a "universal war reaching across the stars", was fought between the [[ | The '''Cosmic War''', a "universal war reaching across the stars", was fought between the [[Archon]]s and some other party, where the whole of [[Time]] and [[Space]] had become the battlefield. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Dinosaur in the Snow (short story)}}) | ||
It was also known as the '''Cosmic Revolution''', and its result on the timelines was known as the '''Last Great Rewrite'''. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Love & War (short story)}}) | It was also known as the '''Cosmic Revolution''', and its result on the timelines was known as the '''Last Great Rewrite'''. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Love & War (short story)}}) | ||
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([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Dinosaur in the Snow (short story)}}) | ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Dinosaur in the Snow (short story)}}) | ||
Marits, in the wake of the Cosmic War, noted that it would be easy to consider the Universe as binary: the order of the [[Sun | Marits, in the wake of the Cosmic War, noted that it would be easy to consider the Universe as binary: the order of the [[Sun Builder]]s on one side, the chaos of their enemies, the old gods, and [[the Unravel]] on the other. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Love & War (short story)}}) | ||
== History == | == History == | ||
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The [[Lesser Time Elemental]]s knew of the Cosmic War "well before the first actual shot", and so accordingly prepared. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Love & War (short story)}}) | The [[Lesser Time Elemental]]s knew of the Cosmic War "well before the first actual shot", and so accordingly prepared. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Love & War (short story)}}) | ||
453 years before the War, one of the "broken" children of the Houses founded [[House Paradox]], taking on the title of [[Grandfather Paradox]]. The next year, the unrest reached its zenith as a "deranged renegade", ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Crimes Against History (short story)}}) the [[Decayed Master]], murdered the sitting President through the agency of Chancellor Goth. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Deadly Assassin ( | 453 years before the War, one of the "broken" children of the Houses founded [[House Paradox]], taking on the title of [[Grandfather Paradox]]. The next year, the unrest reached its zenith as a "deranged renegade", ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Crimes Against History (short story)}}) the [[Decayed Master]], murdered the sitting President through the agency of Chancellor Goth. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Deadly Assassin (TV story)}}, [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Crimes Against History (short story)}}) With that holder of the title having been the last normal, "figurehead" President after whom other leaders began to exhibit much more individual initiative, [[the Bookwyrm]] regarded this event as "how the War started". This meant that from a certain point of view, the murder of [[Coloth]], eons prior, which had been key to the now-Chancellor's political rise, had been the "unwitting cause première of the Great Cosmic War", ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Cactus and the Corpse (short story)}}) having occurred in the aftermath of [[the War Chief incident]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|War Crimes (short story)}}) | ||
=== Specific events === | === Specific events === | ||
The [[Hyperspace Tyrants]] invaded the [[Third Homeworld]] on the eve of the Cosmic War. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Love & War (short story)}} | The [[Hyperspace Tyrants]] invaded the [[Third Homeworld]] on the eve of the Cosmic War. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Love & War (short story)}} | ||
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According to [[Tirion]], "some said" that [[Los]] would "destroy the [[Cathedral of Time]], its enemies, everything, even himself". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Dinosaur in the Snow (short story)}}) In another account, [[the Doctor]] destroyed [[Gallifrey Original]] and the whole of the Time War, although he did not die. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Doctor Who and the Time War (short story)}}) | According to [[Tirion]], "some said" that [[Los]] would "destroy the [[Cathedral of Time]], its enemies, everything, even himself". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Dinosaur in the Snow (short story)}}) In another account, [[the Doctor]] destroyed [[Gallifrey Original]] and the whole of the Time War, although he did not die. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Doctor Who and the Time War (short story)}}) | ||
However, [[ | However, the [[Monochrome Auteur]] claimed to [[the Goddess of Gendar]] (one of his previous incarnations) that ''he'' had ended the Cosmic War by using the [[Greater Key]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Two Auteurs (short story)}}) However, another account showed that he had died before the end of the [[War in Heaven]] (although he'd died before, so this in no way precluded a resurrection). ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Going Once, Going Twice (short story)}}) | ||
[[Tyron (Our Finest Gifts We Bring)|Tyron]], during [[V-Time]] insisted that the Cosmic War was over, beginning to cite the Opposition before being cut off by [[Dionus]], who believed that the War had ''not'' ended in any way that matter, for he believed that it was their people - the [[Superior]]s, the [[Archon]]s - who mattered in terms of war-ending. ([[PROSE]]: {{Our Finest Gifts We Bring (short story)|namedpart=Vignette 3}}) | [[Tyron (Our Finest Gifts We Bring)|Tyron]], during [[V-Time]] insisted that the Cosmic War was over, beginning to cite the Opposition before being cut off by [[Dionus]], who believed that the War had ''not'' ended in any way that matter, for he believed that it was their people - the [[Superior]]s, the [[Archon]]s - who mattered in terms of war-ending. ([[PROSE]]: {{Our Finest Gifts We Bring (short story)|namedpart=Vignette 3}}) | ||
