The Needle

The Needle
Type:	TARDIS
Place of origin:	Time Lords
First appearance:	The Infinity Doctors
Appearances:	COMIC: Miranda

You may be looking for Needle (Red).

The Needle was an object one light-year long and fifty thousand kilometres in diameter, with one end affixed to a black hole. (PROSE: The Infinity Doctors) It eventually became the centre of a great empire at the end of the universe. (PROSE: Father Time, COMIC: Miranda)

The Needle's history often interacted with the Eighth Doctor, (PROSE: Seeing I, Unnatural History, Father Time) linking him to the life of an alternate incarnation. (PROSE: The Infinity Doctors, Father Time)

History

A section of the Needle seen from afar. (COMIC: Miranda)

The Needle had been Savar's TARDIS, but was caught by the black hole's gravitational pull and was stretched out when he tried to escape it. (PROSE: The Infinity Doctors) Savar was later retrieved by the Time Lords, eventually having his eyes returned to him as well, (PROSE: Seeing I) but his TARDIS was abandoned and it had been stripped bare. The TARDIS had been a male, and he pleaded with Savar to not abandon him when the Time Lord realised escape was impossible. (PROSE: The Infinity Doctors)

Billions of years in the future, most of the people of the universe relocated to the Needle after a great disaster. (PROSE: Father Time) In the post-War universe, the four surviving elementals created an empire centred around the Needle (COMIC: Miranda) and another Throneworld, which included planets like Endpoint. (PROSE: Hope, COMIC: Miranda) This empire decayed, eventually only ruled by the Emperor until his assassination. (PROSE: Father Time, COMIC: Miranda)

The Needle's Librarinth. (COMIC: Miranda)

The Society was based on the Needle and often interacted with the distant past. They worked with Daniel Joyce and his Advanced Research Project. One of the Society's Needle-born agents was Griffin. (PROSE: Unnatural History)

Miranda Dawkins travelled to the future and became the Empress of the Needle. Many assassination attempts were made on her life by Prefect Ferran. (COMIC: Miranda) Miranda eventually had a daughter called Zezanne on the Needle. (PROSE: Sometime Never...)

A few decades before the end of the universe, the Needle was almost completely abandoned. The Doctor travelled there in search of Ohm and met the Needle People in the Librarinth. The end of the universe was a starless, grey void. (PROSE: The Infinity Doctors)