Time Lords

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The Time Lords are a alien race that feature in Doctor Who.

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History

The Time Lords were a powerful time-travelling species that were native to the planet Gallifrey. (Episode: The Time Warrior)

According to legend, Rassilon with a great fleet had found the Eye of Harmony in the black void with it being returned to Gallifrey whereupon the people rejoiced at the achievement. (Episode: The Deadly Assassin)

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)

Overview

Biology

Following a regeneration, a Time Lord was able to change into a different ethnic race and gender.

They were noted for possessing at least three brain stems. (Episode: Extremis) They were capable of remarkable brain processing speeds and their nervous system was noted for being hyperconductive. (Episode: Nightmare in Silver)

Their capacity to regenerate made it incredibly difficult to kill a Time Lord. (Episode: Extremis)

Society

They were described as an immensely civilised race who controlled their environment, lived forever barring accidents and had the secret of space time travel. As a result they hardly ever used their great powers and consented to simply observe and gather knowledge. (Episode: The War Games) It was known that they stamped down on unlicensed use of time travel. (Episode: The Time Warrior)

A leading body within their society was known as the High Council that consisted of a number of High Councillors. (Episode: The Deadly Assassin) The leader of the Time Lords was an individual who held the title of Lord President. (Episode: The Five Doctors)

Under the constitution, members of the inner council had to be unanimous in their decisions during an emergency session. The relevant clause allowed them to thus overrule the decisions of the President of the Council. (Episode: The Five Doctors)

An agency within their society was the Celestial Intervention Agency (CIA) that was engaged in various operations. (Episode: The Deadly Assassin)

One item of importance in their society were small hand-held disc shaped devices known as confession dials. Once activated, the user went through an act of purification whereby they were exposed to their worst nightmares. Such was deemed their final act being the individual had their mind uploaded onto the Matrix. (Episode: The Magician's Apprentice)

Technology

Their technology could be extended to their art allowing them to make paintings that were bigger on the inside as they were a slice of real time that depicted events. (Episode: Day of the Doctor)

They were known to make use of Validium that was a living metal that was used for defensive purposes and noted for being very dangerous to use. (Episode: Silver Nemesis)

A creation of the Time Lords was the Matrix that was a computer containing Amplified Panatropic Computations as trillions of electrochemical cells operating in a continuous system. These cells operated as a repository of deceased Time Lords whose brain patterns were uploaded through an electrical scan. Its function was to monitor life in the Capitol and use its combined knowledge along with experience to generate a course of action for the Time Lords. (Episode: The Deadly Assassin) These uploaded minds in the Matrix serve as a living computer was able to predict the future, generate prophecies from algorithms and rang the Cloister bells to warn of impending catastrophes. To protect it, it created projections of the dead as Cloister Wraiths or Sliders that operated as guards and a firewall against intrusion. (Episode: Hell Bent)

Prison ships used by the Time Lords utilised the same science as their vessels which meant that these craft appeared as small human sized casings but were much larger on the inside. (Episode: Doomsday)

Time Lord engineering allowed them to rip stars from their orbit and suspend them in a permanent state of decay as the exploding star was trapped in the act of becoming a black hole. (Episode: Journey to the Centre of the Tardis) This was achieved through the use of a stellar manipulator that was able to cause a star to go supernova with this being used as a power source for time travel. (Episode: Remembrance of the Daleks) This was the basis for powering their TARDIS's with an Eye of Harmony located inside to power their operations. (Movie: Doctor Who)

Chambers designed to hold items of importance were kept within the Time Vaults. Among them was the Omega Arsenal that contained all the forbidden weapons of the Time Lords who kept them locked away. This included the Moment that was the final work of the ancients of Gallifrey with it being a weapon so powerful that it was referred to as a galaxy eater. Its operating system was noted to had become sentient and legend said that it had developed a conscience. This resulted in the Time Lords locking it away as they feared the use of a weapon that could turn against them. (Episode: Day of the Doctor)

Members

  • Rassilon :
  • Omega :
  • Borusa :
  • Morbius :
  • Doctor :
  • Master :
  • Corsair :
  • War Chief :
  • Rani :
  • Monk :
  • Androgar :

Notes

  • The Time Lords were first referenced in the Doctor Who episode "The War Games".

In other media

Audio Books

Novels

  • In Damaged Goods, the Time Lords were referenced in the setting of the Virgin New Adventures novel. A device of their civilization known as the N-Forms was shown that were able to attach themselves to objects on a molecular level where they opened dimensional rifts inside to kill their target.

Appearances

  • Doctor Who: "The War Games"
  • Doctor Who: "The Time Warrior"

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