Post by Rob "the Meddler" Goodfellow on Feb 9, 2013 2:12:06 GMT -5
You can blame the Meddler for this one, with some justification. Long ago - before the Last Great Time War - he had fallen in love with the Specialist, the woman who became the final Keeper of the Halls of Eileythia. And, in the final years before the War began, while still reeling from a vision of the possible destruction of Gallifrey, he promised her that - if it happened = he would save her.
He didn't.
When the inner Transduction Barriers fell, and the Daleks assaulted the Citadel, the Cybermen destroyed the Halls of Eileythia. The Keeper and the Acolytes fell before he arrived, just in time to see the last of Gallifrey's children burning.
Except for the Ark of Eileythia, which he knew nothing about.
After he finished construction of the Moment, after he escaped the holocaust that (he believed) had consumed every other Time Lord in the Spiral Politic, he fired the final shot of the War. He obliterated Mondas and Telos before they formed, leaving the compacted matter that would have become two worlds on a cenotaph he raised in the honor of his lost love. And then he crawled through the Chameleon Arch and hid from the horror of what he had made.
An Incarnation later, while traveling with Sisilaya Vulmecura, he remembered his promise. And, with no other way to keep his word, he opened the singularity and reentered the War. Trapped there by the machinations of Lord Xandavier, he was forced to ally with his alternate-time self - the Could've-Been King - to escape with the Specialist.
The Could've-Been King was the Meddler, in nearly every respect, right up to the moment when they diverged in the early days of the War. He loved the Specialist as well, but she had eyes only for the Meddler from her timeline. And so he resolved to win her love the only way he could think of.
He would give her Gallifrey.
Murdering three of the four Lords of the Seasonal Courts of the Fae and absorbing their power, the Could've-Been King searched through the worlds that could have been and almost were, and found a Gallifrey where the War never happened. Where the Doctor had led a coup against the High Council, and then transformed Gallifrey into an active power that had imposed peace and order across half the universe. And with the power of the Eye of Harmony, he tore that Gallifrey loose from it's neverborn timeline and brought it into Real Time.
Meanwhile, the Specialist had called an assembly of all the surviving Time Lords she could contact. Laying claim to the ancient throne of Gallifrey, she called on them to rebuild the Shining World. To return to the Duties and Traditions of the Homeworld. To take an active hand in the universe, policing the development of the Young Worlds to ensure that they progressed along lines approved of by the Time Lords. But when the Dreamweaver fled her vision of the future, followed by the Meddler, it broke her hearts. Disparing, she fled as well.
And before the assembled Time Lords could react to this turn of events, the new Gallifrey struck. The Chancellary Guard - led by my Lord Chancellor the Master - arrived to take all of the surviving Time Lords of Real Time into custody.
It did not go as planned.
The threads of New Lords of Time were:
He didn't.
When the inner Transduction Barriers fell, and the Daleks assaulted the Citadel, the Cybermen destroyed the Halls of Eileythia. The Keeper and the Acolytes fell before he arrived, just in time to see the last of Gallifrey's children burning.
Except for the Ark of Eileythia, which he knew nothing about.
After he finished construction of the Moment, after he escaped the holocaust that (he believed) had consumed every other Time Lord in the Spiral Politic, he fired the final shot of the War. He obliterated Mondas and Telos before they formed, leaving the compacted matter that would have become two worlds on a cenotaph he raised in the honor of his lost love. And then he crawled through the Chameleon Arch and hid from the horror of what he had made.
An Incarnation later, while traveling with Sisilaya Vulmecura, he remembered his promise. And, with no other way to keep his word, he opened the singularity and reentered the War. Trapped there by the machinations of Lord Xandavier, he was forced to ally with his alternate-time self - the Could've-Been King - to escape with the Specialist.
The Could've-Been King was the Meddler, in nearly every respect, right up to the moment when they diverged in the early days of the War. He loved the Specialist as well, but she had eyes only for the Meddler from her timeline. And so he resolved to win her love the only way he could think of.
He would give her Gallifrey.
Murdering three of the four Lords of the Seasonal Courts of the Fae and absorbing their power, the Could've-Been King searched through the worlds that could have been and almost were, and found a Gallifrey where the War never happened. Where the Doctor had led a coup against the High Council, and then transformed Gallifrey into an active power that had imposed peace and order across half the universe. And with the power of the Eye of Harmony, he tore that Gallifrey loose from it's neverborn timeline and brought it into Real Time.
Meanwhile, the Specialist had called an assembly of all the surviving Time Lords she could contact. Laying claim to the ancient throne of Gallifrey, she called on them to rebuild the Shining World. To return to the Duties and Traditions of the Homeworld. To take an active hand in the universe, policing the development of the Young Worlds to ensure that they progressed along lines approved of by the Time Lords. But when the Dreamweaver fled her vision of the future, followed by the Meddler, it broke her hearts. Disparing, she fled as well.
And before the assembled Time Lords could react to this turn of events, the new Gallifrey struck. The Chancellary Guard - led by my Lord Chancellor the Master - arrived to take all of the surviving Time Lords of Real Time into custody.
It did not go as planned.
The threads of New Lords of Time were:
- And They Bravely Ran Away, Away. This thread followed the Meddler and the Dreamweaver, minutes after leaving the Specialist's assembly. In it the Meddler and the Dreamweaver get engaged, learn of and then visit the "new" Gallifrey, and then run for their lives. Finally, after a confrontation with the Could've-Been King on Atlantis, they realize that the only way to escape "new" Gallifrey is to hide within the Chameleon Arch.
- The Three Amigos. The Doctor and the "Ebony" Master had left the Specialist's assembly even before the Dreamweaver and the Meddler, seeking to preserve the life of the Archivist. When the Doctor's TARDIS is captured by TARDISes from "new" Gallifrey, the three Time Lords and River Song are taken to the Citadel.You Can't Go HOme Again. Continuing on from "The Three Amigos", the "Ebony" Master and the Archivist are taken prisoner while buying time for the Doctor and River Song to escape. (Sadly, this thread never concluded.)
- Deadly Ground. In which - in the aftermath of the Specialist's assembly - my Lord Chancellor the Master takes the One prisoner, while Ramachulainn and Flynn Delta flee.
- Through the Fire and the Flames. Flynn Delta's TARDIS crash-lands. Ramachulainn is reunited with the Phoenix just in time for the both of them, as well as Flynn Delta and Iris Wildthyme, to be taken prisoner by the ancient Time Lord known as Omega. (This thread, sadly, never concluded.)
- Strange Allies. The cyborg Master, Jenny Smith, and the Phantom flee the Chancellary Guard in the aftermath of the Specialist's assembly. (Sadly, this thread never finished.)
- On the Run. Having escaped the Chancellary Guard, River and the Doctor find themselves in the Death Zone on Gallifrey.
- Torchwood 1938: Let Us Build Us A City. Under the effects of the Chameleon Arch, the Dreamweaver became Celia Sionach, bureau chief of the Belfast branch of the Torchwood Institute. The Meddler had become Robert Goodall, a soldier of fortune who was recruited into Torchwood and assigned to Belfast. Their working relationship was stormy, to say the least. And then they were sent to Italy.
- Torchwood 1944: The New Lords of Time. The twin children of Robert Goodall and Celia Sionach-Goodall are kidnapped agents of the Geheimnisgruppe-Schutzstaffel, who seek to use them as leverage to force the Torchwood Institute to hand over a classified archive known as the Blue Box Files. Desperate to save his children, Robert sacrifices himself to be reborn as the Meddler. This action, followed by his attempts to signal his TARDIS, lead the Chancellary Guard of "new" Gallifrey to his family. Accompanied by Amelia Pond, deposited in Belfast by a chronal quake, the House Unmade prepares to go to war.
- The Book of the Dead. The House Unmade needs Time Lords to fight "new" Gallifrey, and so they travel to a world-library to seek the recorded mind of the famous River Song. Things go... poorly.
