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Post by The Doctor on Mar 20, 2014 21:44:19 GMT -5
Mobility in space and time is a huge part of Doctor Who. The whole point of the series, after all, is to be able to tell an interesting story anywhere and anywhen that strikes the fancy of the writers. The fun isn't restricted to just Time Lords, either. Plenty of species in the Whoniverse have one or more methods of time travel.
So think of this page as two separate types of resources. First, it can be used to drive an interesting plot. Second, if you're not playing a Time Lord and want to have some way to travel in time, grab this page and get inspired. Not everyone can have (or should even want to have) a vortex manipulator, after all. So find a zigma beam projector, or a malfunctioning DARDIS wreck, and go get into trouble.
PS: This is clearly a work in progress, not an exhaustive treatise on the subject. Feel free to make comments, add in new methods, and generally have fun with this.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 20, 2014 21:50:22 GMT -5
Time Lords TARDISWhen you think "time travel" in Doctor Who, you think "TARDIS". This is perfectly natural, as the show is about a Time Lord who travels through time in a Time And Relative Dimensions In Space ship that is stuck in the shape of a London Police Box. The TARDIS is iconic, and I won't waste a whole lot of time describing them here. But here are a few things to consider. The Time-Traveler's Handbook, a Cubicle 7 sourcebook for the DWAITAS RPG, postulates the following: - TARDIS models TT-01 through TT-29 are ancient TARDISes. Ships that may lack full (or any) dimensional transcendence, or chameleon circuits, or any number of features that you associate with a TARDIS. The very oldest may actually date back to the first Rassilon Presidency. If you have one, it is likely to be the only surviving representative of its series in the Spiral Politic.
- TARDIS models TT-30 through TT-59 are decommissioned TARDISes. They are decommissioned ships, frequently destined for museums, or the scrap heap, or to serve as the personal ship of a Time Lord. These ships will typically have system defects and eccentricities that make them not the most reliable of vessels, but their owners will typically lavish the same sort of care on them as collectors of classic cars.
- TARDIS models TT-60 through TT-89 are modern TARDISes. These are the kind that pre-War Time Lords on an assignment will make use of.
- TARDIS models TT-90 through TT-102 are the "War TARDISes". Any TARDIS is a weapon, from the perspective of less-advanced civilizations. A War TARDIS is a powerful war engine from the perspective of Time Lords.
Time RingsNot as well remembered as TARDISes, Time Rings are another invention of the Time Lords. Generally appearing as brass or bronze bracelets, it is not unreasonable to assume that they could be designed with chameleon circuits and made able to disguise themselves. Although outwardly much smaller than a TARDIS, one was capable of transporting the Doctor and two companions from Earth to Skaro to Earth again. It is also possible that a Time Ring was used by the Time Lord that traveled to Earth to warn the Doctor that the Master was on that world. There is no reason to assume that their range is any more limited than that of a TARDIS. The real difference would be one of comfort. SILVERsA comparatively new development from Glaurijahn, a SILVER (the name doesn't actually stand for anything) is a type of TARDIS designed and built by the Time Lords Morgaine Goodall and Jasmine Hayes. SILVERs are a combination of Time Lord and Sidhe technologies. Instead of materializing like a traditional TARDIS, a SILVER manifests a door through a reflective surface (such as a mirror or water). The ships are also more aware and active than a traditional TARDIS - the jury is still out on whether this is a bug or a feature - have a more active psychic interface than a traditional TARDIS, and a disconcerting tendency to reflect the mood and personality of their pilot and crew. |
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 20, 2014 22:04:19 GMT -5
Daleks Dalek Time CapsuleThe Dalek Time Capsule - also known, at times, as a "DARDIS" - is a Dalek imitation of a TARDIS. The ship is marginally dimensionally transcendent (that is, it is larger inside than out but arbitrarily larger) and is wholly mechanical. Because of the prohibitive difficulties inherent in obtaining fuel (the first was powered by taranium), only a few were produced. They were crude by Time Lord standards, but the first Dalek Time Capsule was fast enough and possessed enough endurance to pursue a TT-40 through the Vortex for extended periods. It is not unreasonable to assume that the Dalek Saucers of the Last Great Time War integrated elements of these Time Capsules - particularly the dimensional transcendence and time travel capabilities - into their design. Time CorridorThis is the Dalek version of the nearly ubiquitous "wormhole" (or Einstei-Rosen Bridge). It is, literally, a tunnel between two points in space-time, shrinking the effective distance between two points. The Dalek Time Corridor could easily shrink distances of tens of thousands of years and light years to minutes and miles, and could be big enough to move Battle Saucers. |
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 20, 2014 22:05:39 GMT -5
Human Waterfield MirrorsA prototype time travel device built in 18th century England, making use of static electricity and mirrors to create a wormhole. More advanced time travelling races can easily tap into signals sent by a Waterfield mirror platform, as Edward Waterfield learned when he built the prototype. Temple Anomaly GeneratorA bulky and non-portable device built in 21st century England by Connor Temple of the Anomaly Research Center (ARC). The TAG Unit could generate wormholes capable of spanning nearly a billion years and several thousand light years, and eventually served as the foundation for an early FTL drive for humanity. Vortex ManipulatorThis device, vaguely analogous to a Time Ring, is a product of the 51st century Time Agency. These devices have a maximum range of about 200,000 years before needing recharge and servicing. Zygma BeamA "dead end" of the time travel experiments of 51st century Tsan Chan, zygma beams use transmat-based technology to convert a subject to zygma energy and project them backwards (never forwards) through time - the maximum range varies with the power of the projector, but Tsan Chan never managed distances greater than about 35 centuries. Zygma beams are notoriously unstable, tending to warp and mutate the subject, and the beam must remain active and anchored until the subject is recalled. This is extremely dangerous, as zygma beams can "snap" - the resultant destruction can be like a sustained nuclear blast across the path of the beam. Top Secret USEFUL ENGINEUSEFUL ENGINE is a joint project of UNIT-UK and the UK Ministry of Defense. The roots of the project date to 1946, when Reverend Wilbert Awdry and his son Christopher stumbled across a barely functional Silurian time tunnel in a cave in Warwickshire. The Torchwood Institute originally took control of the site, but it was nearly 1979 before they had unlocked enough of the secrets of the tunnel to attempt to operate it. UNIT-UK inherited the tunnel after the Battle of Canary Wharf. Utilizing elements of cybertechnology remaining from the fallout of the Year of Ghosts, they have managed to allow human drivers to directly interface with cybernetic trains, allowing freer navigation of the tunnel network. This is still hazardous, as multiple sections of the track have been damaged over the past 65 million years. |
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 20, 2014 22:06:06 GMT -5
Unknown Time ConverterThe Time Converter is a handheld device capable of opening and closing time fissures - small rips in the fabric of the Web of Time which typically bridge two historical locations on the same world. It is of unknown origin, but has methodological similarities to the Temple Anomaly Generator. Time WindowsTime windows are doorways or portals in time that allow time travel by linking together two different points in Space & Time. Some versions can prove dangerous if left open, and may potentially cause the entire planet to become sucked into the Time Vortex. Known Time Windows- on the SS Madame de Pompadour, a starship built in the 51st century
- within the Shopkeeper's shop
- the Doctor's (and presumably most/all other) TARDISes are able to create Time Windows
Time TurnerThe Time Turner is a device capable of one-way time travel into the recent Past that resembles a golden hourglass on a necklace. The number of times one turns the hourglass corresponds to the number of hours one travels back in Time. The longest period that can be traveled back in Time without causing serious harm to the traveler, or to Time itself, is around five hours. To return to one's Present, one must simply "take the slow path". This allows the traveler to see and do more things in one day than Time would normally allow. Compared to other time travel methods, the Time Turner is considered to be quite simplistic, and perhaps, even primitive. |
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 21, 2014 8:30:08 GMT -5
Sontaran Osmic ProjectorYet another variation on the ubiquitous wormhole, the Sontaran osmic projector also incorporates a tractor beam and spy ray to allow s target to be selected and pulled to the location of the projector. The range is around 800 years, and maximum throughput is generally 400 to 500 kg, although both vary with the amount of power that can be used. |
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Post by Amelia Pond on Mar 21, 2014 11:14:48 GMT -5
Weeping Angels Touched by an AngelThe Weeping Angels move their victims backwards through Space & Time with just a touch, and in doing so, they feed off of the potential energy from the lives their victims would otherwise have led. NOTE: This is a one-way trip. For the Angels' victims to return to their Present or Future, they will need to find an alternate means of travel. |
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 25, 2014 13:43:33 GMT -5
Silurians Time TunnelsThe Silurians possessed a network of "time tunnels" - railroad-like passages through the vortex that could travel backwards through time and then be used to return to the time in which they had been constructed. Navigation of these "time tunnels" required living ships, capable of concentrating on their destination, in order to safely navigate the upper surfaces of the Vortex. These tunnels spanned from the early Triassic to within a few million years of the end of the Cretaceous.  |
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Post by Amelia Pond on Feb 5, 2015 10:52:28 GMT -5
Time ScrunchyA Time Scrunchy is a time travel device owned by Iris Wildthyme (though, it probably does not at all resemble an elastic hair tie). Panda once used her Scrunchy to travel through time, where he met several versions of Iris throughout time and space. Panda finally "tuned" the Scrunchy to take him to Hobbe's End in 1972, where he met up with his Iris once again. (from the TARDIS Wikia)
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Valeyard
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You cannot speak as though reality is a one-dimensional concept...
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My favorite villain is: ...I prefer "Byronic antihero", if you please.
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Post by Valeyard on Feb 5, 2015 18:35:21 GMT -5
Stepping through interstitial timeIf one does not technically exist here and now...then there is no reason why one should not exist... ...there and then... ...or even here... ...and there. It is somewhat more difficult for corporeal beings to achieve, naturally. I rather fancy it is one of the many ways in which I am superior to my former selves - the ability to, in the blink of an eye, walk the time-ways with as much ease as one walks the tangible world. Or even to seize an individual and pull them backward or forwards along their own personal timeline, perhaps to kill them, perhaps simply to make a point. That's not to say it's entirely impossible, though. Why, I myself first learned to do it to some small degree several lifetimes ago - and very useful it was too, on Platform One in the year 5,000,000,000.
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