Gallifrey
Gallifrey is a planet that features in Doctor Who.
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History
Gallifrey was a planet located in the constellation of Kasterborus and was home to the Time Lords. (Episode: Pyramid of Mars)
Long ago, an indigenous humanoid civilisation came to develop on the planet where it grew in advancement. During this time, a prominent scientist named Tecteun piloted the first ship into deep space where she sought to explore the universe. Her travels took her many years where on one world she discovered a portal to some unknown realm. By the doorway, she found a lone child by herself and without any adult to care for her. Tecteun decided to adopt the child as her own with the two continuing their journey across space. Eventually, they decided to return to Gallifrey with the child given a place in Shobogan society. On one day, the child accidentally fell off a ledge and seemingly died from the fall. The distraught Tecteun was by her daughter's side when she was shocked to see the child's body reform in a process that was Regeneration. This saw the child come back to life and within a new somewhat older body. Afterwards, Tecteun poured her time into endless study of her daughter to learnt the secrets of Regeneration that took many years. She ultimately came to reverse engineer the process which she tested on herself thus giving herself the power of Regeneration. Tecteun then began to impart this ability on the rest of her people but in an effort to maintain control she limited the number of Regenerations to 12 such attempts. Thus, modern Time Lord society was first born and myths spoke about this being rooted in the legend of the Timeless Child. (Episode: The Timeless Children)
Within the time-locked Time War, Rassilon in desperation sought a means of escape for the Time Lords in order to prevent their impending destruction. Thus, they decided to manipulate the timeline of the Master and implant within his mind a signal that could be used in conjunction with a White-Point Star as a means of pulling Gallifrey back into the main universe above Earth. This act would have caused the Time War to spill out releasing its horrors into the universe though Rassilon had intended to cause the Time Vortex to rupture and pull apart with the Time Lords ascending into beings of pure consciousness. The process would have made them immune to the effects of time as reality collapsed on itself with this being part of Rassilon's Ultimate Sanction. The Doctor destroyed the signal receiver that anchored Gallifrey to Earth thus sending the planet back into the Time War where it was seemingly destroyed. (Episode: The End of Time)
The Master was said to had travelled to the bubble universe holding Gallifrey where he discovered a dark secret that shattered everything he knew about the Time Lords. In anger, he turned against his people and was responsible for razing the world leaving it devastated as a result. Afterwards, he told the Thirteenth Doctor to check on their home and left a recorded message for her to partially explain what had happened to Gallifrey. (Episode: Spyfall) The Master was revealed to had learnt the truth about the Timeless Child and Gallifrey history through the Matrix. This led to him embarking on a plot to destroy his world where he allied with Ashad and his army of Cybermen. Upon murdering the Time Lords, the Master came to have their corpses converted to create the CyberMasters that were posed to invade the universe. However, Ko Sharmus came to detonate the death particle which wiped out all organic life on Gallifrey thus seemingly eliminating the threat. (Episode: The Timeless Children)
Overview
One account held that it was situated on the other side of the Milky Way galaxy and was located around 250 million light years from Earth. (Movie: Doctor Who) The system containing Gallifrey was said to contain five other planets. (Episode: The Invasion of Time) The world was said to hold bright, silver-leafed trees and a burnt orange sky. (Episode: The Sensorites) The second star seemed to rise in the south in the morning causing the mountains to glow as a result. (Episode: Gridlock) As a world, it was shown to be several times larger than Earth. (Episode: The End of Time) It was described as "the Shining World of the Seven Systems". (Episode: The Sound of Drums)
Locations on Gallifrey included:
- Wild Endeavour :
- Citadel :
- Arcadia :
- Dry Lands :
- Death Zone :
- Mountains of Solace and Solitude :
- Mount Perdition :
- Untempered Schism : a natural opening in the space/time continuum where this gap in the fabric of reality allowed an individual to see the whole of the Time Vortex. (Episode: The Sound of Drums)
The wastelands around the Capitol were referred to as Outer Gallifrey by the Time Lords. (Episode: The Invasion of Time) There was a mountainous region on the planet that was known as South Gallifrey. (Episode: State of Decay)
A diamond native to the planet was the White-Point Star. (Episode: The End of Time)
Space Traffic Control was responsible for managing the arrival and departures of spaceflights to Gallifrey. (Episode: The Invasion of Time)
Inhabitants
- Tecteun : a female Shobogan scientist who lived long ago before the emergence of Time Lord society where she departed Gallifrey to explore space. Her travels led to her finding the Timeless Child and learnt of the process of Regeneration that she imparted on other inhabitants of Gallifrey. (Episode: The Timeless Children)
- Rassilon :
- Omega :
- The Doctor :
- The Master :
- The Monk :
- Rani :
- Romana :
Notes
- Gallifrey was created by Terrance Dicks and Malcolm Hulke where it featured in the setting of the Doctor Who universe.
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