The Supreme Alliance comes into power, with a man named Magnus Greel as its Minister of Justice. The Alliance commits a number of war crimes and is brought down by the Filipino Army at the Battle of Reykjavik, at which the Doctor is present. Greel, who has been experimenting with time travel, flees back through time to the 19th century with the Peking Homunculus. The Talons of Weng-Chiang. The Doctor turns the Gods' power back on them, freeing the Circus.
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When it is discovered that severe solar flares will soon destroy almost all life on Earth, thousands of people are chosen to go into suspended animation on space station Nerva orbiting the Earth. Also placed on Nerva are enough plant and animal samples to help repopulate the planet, and a complete record of human knowledge. Several colony ships are also sent out from Earth, in hopes of populating the universe with human life. Some of these ships eventually encounter the insect species, the Wirrn, in the Andromeda galaxy. After a thousand year war, the Wirrn are beaten and left homeless, wandering the universe in search of food and breeding grounds.