Toclafane

Latest revision as of 05:32, 27 November 2024

The Toclafane are a species that feature in.

History

The Toclafane was the name given to a species of cyborgs native to the far future. Their origins were traced to 100 trillion years in the future during the final years of a dying universe where the scattered remnants of humanity exited. In an effort to survive, they sought out Utopia that was believed as a final refuge for their people but were distraught to find nothing but the darkness and coldness of space awaiting them. In those moments, mankind lost all shreds of hope and turned on themselves where they cannibalised their own bodies to create a new race of cyborgs. To better cope, they created a collective intelligence for themselves and regressed their minds to being little more than children that shared memories as they now resided in floating spherical containers holding only their heads. In this time, they were encountered by the renegade Time Lord known as the Master who had stolen the TARDIS and journeyed to their time after the time travel circuitry only allowed him to journey to that time period and the modern day. Once there, he hatched an alliance with the cybernetic remnants of mankind by offering them refuge in modern day Earth for them to conquer rather than remain in their dying future. The cybernetic species agreed and the Master came to refer to them as the Toclafane after the Gaillifreyan bogeyman in order to mask their true origins from his enemies. To allow the Toclafane to journey into the past, the Master came to modify the TARDIS into a Paradox Machine in order to allow the Toclafane to come back into the modern age and effectively kill their ancestors without erasing themselves from the timeline. He achieved this by manoeuvring himself into the position of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in his guise as Harold Saxon.

As Prime Minister of Great Britain, the Master announced he had made contact with a race of friendly aliens who offered wisdom, technology and protection in return for humanity's friendship. The Master had, by this time, converted the TARDIS into a paradox machine, allowing the six billion Toclafane to invade Earth in their own past and change their own history. (Episode: The Sound of Drums) With the Toclafane, the Master built the beginnings of a new Time Lord Empire with the army of six billion Toclafane. (Episode: Last of the Time Lords) The Toclafane invasion was a success and the Master ordered the Toclafane to remove one tenth of the population of Earth. (TV: The Sound of Drums [+]) They then subjugated humanity and forced them to build a fleet of 200,000 rockets to take over the rest of the universe. Their plans were thwarted one year after the invasion by the Doctor and his associates. Jack Harkness destroyed the paradox machine with an assault rifle. The machine's destruction reversed time to the moment it was activated, just after the US President was killed and just before the Toclafane arrived. Humanity, aside from those on the Valiant, did not remember they had been invaded. (Episode: Last of the Time Lords)

Overview

In appearance, the Toclafane were head-sized floating spheres able to move through their environment on some kind of hovering system. In reality, the spheres were the heads of humans from the year 100 trillion integrated into a dark-grey sphere-shaped metallic shell, held together with a magnetic clamp. The humans had wiring plugged into their wizened heads. The spheres were very little over a foot tall and were sealed shut. (Episode: Last of the Time Lords)

Each Toclafane had built-in life-support and teleportation systems. The shells were capable of flight and were fast and manoeuvrable, and could survive the harsh climate and temperature of space with no side-effects. Concealed within the shell were extendable razor-sharp blades and spikes, used as their up-close-and-personal weaponry. The spheres were also equipped with red laser guns that could disintegrate life forms. (Episode: The Sound of Drums) The spheres could be shot down by an electrical surge of 58.5 kiloamperes, with a transferred charge of 510 megajoules precisely. Man-made electrical barriers could be constructed to sustain the right energy level balance needed to successfully fry the technology incorporated into the Toclafane spheres, rendering them useless and making them drop to the ground, although the human head would still survive. (Episode: Last of the Time Lords)

They became a hive mind, allowing them to see the destruction of an individual as no threat. Their personality was amoral and childlike from a failed attempt to regress themselves to children; instead having rather primitive emotional traits and an enjoyment in killing their great ancestors because "it's fun". (Episode: Last of the Time Lords)

Notes

• The Toclafane were created by Russell T Davies in the third series of the revived Doctor Who series where they first appeared in the episode "The Sound of Drums" (2007).

In other media

Other

Appearances

• Doctor Who: "The Sound of Drums" (2007)

External Link

• Doctor Who Wiki Entry

This article is a stub. You can help Multiversal Omnipedia by expanding it.