The War The War was a temporal conflict between the Great House s of the Time Lord s and their Enemy . ( PROSE : " Alien Bodies " , et al ) It did not have enough activity in one specific region or era to be given a more specific title than " the War " , ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) but it was known as the War in Heaven by some of the lesser species caught in the conflict . ( PROSE : " Alien Bodies " , " Newtons Sleep " , AUDIO : " The Eleven Day Empire " , COMIC : " Political Animals " , et al ) Several other major parties became involved in the War in a shifting configuration of alliances , notably including Faction Paradox , the Celestis , ( PROSE : " Alien Bodies " , et al ) the Remote , ( PROSE : " Interference - Book One " , et al ) the Osirian s , ( AUDIO : " Coming to Dust " , et al ) the Mal ' akh , and posthuman ity . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " , et al ) As the War progressed , the Protocols of Linearity began wearing down and elements of the conflict seeped into the pre - War era of Gallifreyan history . ( PROSE : " Alien Bodies " , " The Shadows of Avalon " ) The Eighth Doctor had numerous encounters with the " future War " , ( PROSE : " Alien Bodies " , " Unnatural History " , " Toy Story " , " The Taking of Planet 5 " , et al ) even taking on companion s originating from the War era . ( PROSE : " Interference - Book Two " ) The War also affected some of the Doctor ' s earlier incarnations , ( PROSE : " The Taking of Planet 5 " , " Verdigris " , AUDIO : " The Judgment of Sutekh " , TV : " Pyramids of Mars " ) most drastically the Third Doctor . ( PROSE : " Interference - Book Two " ) The Doctor ' s involvement in the War culminated in his eight incarnation choosing to destroy Romana III ' s Gallifrey on the eve of the War ' s outbreak , ( PROSE : " The Ancestor Cell " ) leading to him loosing all his memories and being deposited on 19th century Earth by Compassion to spend a century recovering . ( PROSE : " The Burning " , " Escape Velocity " , " Wolfsbane " , et al ) Some events occured temporally concurrent with the War while still staying mostly seperated from the conflict : the final 56 years of the City of the Saved ' s existence , ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " , " Of the City of the Saved . . . " , " A Hundred Words from a Civil War " ) Bernice Summerfield ' s life in the late 26th and early 27th centuries , ( AUDIO : " The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel " , PROSE : " Dead Romance " , " A Gallery of Pigeons " , " Predating the Predators " ) and some periods of Iris Wildthyme ' s transtemporal adventures . ( PROSE : " Library Pictures " , " The Shape of Things " , " Michael Drake " , " Panda and the Airship " , " Weapons Grade Snake Oil " ) History . Lead - up to the War . The Matrix predicted that Gallifrey would survive many attacks before falling in a war against an implacable enemy , ( PROSE : " The Gallifrey Chronicles " , " The Infinity Doctors " ) but due to the enemy ' s time - active nature , it couldn ' t make any concrete predictions . ( PROSE : " Alien Bodies " ) Last Contact was known by Larna to be the event in which the identity of the enemy would become known . ( PROSE : " The Gallifrey Chronicles " ) The enemy initially blocked off chunks of history to prevent War - era Gallifrey from contacting pre - War era Gallifrey to prepare them for the War , but as the War progressed the walls between the pre - War era and the War era thinned . ( PROSE : " Alien Bodies " ) 1152 years before the War , irregularities in the Great House s ' breeding - engine s caused four " mutations " , including the Imperator , Grandfather Paradox , and a renegade who would later become the War King . These mutations brought about the first changes on the Homeworld since its start . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) Around the beginning of this generation ' s era , Avus discovered a remnant of reality from before the anchoring of the thread and encountered the enemy in the form of Cernunnos . ( PROSE : " Cobweb and Ivory " ) About 860 years before the War , the Imperator attempted to prepare the Homeworld by creating the babel s and the Order of the Weal . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) About 400 years before the War , ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) Greyjan the Sane served as Lord President of Gallifrey for three days which coincided with part of the domain of the Eleven - Day Empire . In that time , he forsaw the War and made plans for the Nine Gallifreys to be created through crypto - forming . After predicting that the Enemy would be ancestor cell s , he committed suicide . ( PROSE : " The Ancestor Cell " ) 380 years before the War , Thessalia interrogated War - time members of Faction Paradox on Zo la Domini but was caught in a Violent Unknown Event before she could relay the information she gained to her people . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) 151 years before the War , ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) the rationality of the universe was briefly threatened by the Carnival Queen , a pre - universe being ( PROSE : " Christmas on a Rational Planet " ) with a goal identical to the Enemy ' s : ( PROSE : " Cobweb and Ivory " ) to return reality to as it was before the Time Lords imposed history onto it . The Carnival Queen was stopped by the Seventh Doctor , Chris Cwej , and Roz Forrester , but not before Gallifrey was momentarily plunged into chaos . In that time , Lady President Romana II released 300 prisoners from Shada during an epileptic fit ; one of these prisoners was Grandfather Paradox , ( PROSE : " Christmas on a Rational Planet " ) who went on to make Faction Paradox a major power in time for the War . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) Kellen cited the Etra Prime incident as the event which first foreshadowed the War , signalling that the Time Lords would need to abandon non - interference and fight to keep control of the cosmos . ( PROSE : " The Ancestor Cell " ) 36 years before the War , the War King returned to the Homeworld with knowledge of the Enemy . Four decades previously , he had warned his people of the Enemy and been ignored , but this time he was listened to , largely because the President tried to prove that the Enemy didn ' t exist and became the First Message from the Enemy . Umbaste then became the Lord President . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) 20 years before the War , ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) the Celestial Intervention Agency removed themselves from history and became the Celestis to avoid the coming conflict . ( PROSE : " Alien Bodies " , " The Taking of Planet 5 " ) When it became clear that War was inevitable , Greyjan the Sane ' s plan for the Nine Gallifreys was implemented . ( PROSE : " The Shadows of Avalon " , " The Ancestor Cell " , " The Book of the War " ) Each of these duplicates thought that it was the original , and all of them had the ability to make even more copies of themselves . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " , " The Taking of Planet 5 " ) 6 years before the War , Umbaste died and the War King became the official head of his Homeworld . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) About 2 years before the start of the War , ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) the Eighth Doctor , already aware of the coming War from being involved with it a couple times in his past , ( PROSE : " Alien Bodies " , " Unnatural History " ) took on Compassion , a Remote from Anathema , as a companion . ( PROSE : " Interference - Book Two " ) While travelling with the Doctor , Compassion absorbed signals from the Doctor ' s TARDIS and was transformed into the only Type 102 TARDIS . The Time Lords sought to capture Compassion so that she could be the mother of a new generation of Type 103 TARDISes for the War ; ( PROSE : " The Shadows of Avalon " , " The Book of the War " ) the War King ' s Homeworld was unsuccessful in doing so , ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) but a Gallifrey ruled by Romana III and already heavily affected by future events of the War was . Before this Gallifrey could be devastated by the Enemy at the start of the War , it was erased from history in an incident involving forces from near the end of the War . ( PROSE : " The Ancestor Cell " ) Outbreak of the War . On Dronid , tensions between agents of the enemy and the Great Houses gradually escalated until a member of the Great Houses went there to try to find an agreement with an enemy contact . This diplomat was killed , and the first battle of the War began . ( PROSE : " Alien Bodies " , " The Book of the War " ) The Kroton s managed to intercept a Time Lord relaying information from Dronid to the High Council . They interrogated him , learning of the War . The Krotons decided to try to gain technology from the War to aid in their own war against the Metatraxi . ( PROSE : " Alien Bodies " ) Immediately after the battle on Dronid , the enemy and the Great Houses attacked each other at many points of space - time . The first conflicts were the Thousand - Year Battles , fought on Utterlost , Kaiwar and Mohandassa . Then the enemy attempted a direct attack against the Homeworld itself , ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) which caught the Time Lords by surprise ( PROSE : " Alien Bodies " ) and destroyed many Homeworld technologies , ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) including the Sash of Rassilon , the De - mat Gun , and the Hand of Omega . ( PROSE : " Alien Bodies " ) The War quickly became a four - dimensional series of strikes and counterstrikes which Mr Qixotl described as a " temporal stalemate " . ( PROSE : " Alien Bodies " ) Early conflicts & downfall of Faction Paradox . In the 2nd year of the War , the Faction took advantage of the confusion caused by the War and sent its Remote shock - troops to attack planets significant to the Great Houses , including Simia KK98 . The Faction hoped that the Houses wouldn ' t see any connection between them and the Remote , but the Houses very easily deduced that the Faction were behind the Remote . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) The armies of the Great Houses , the Enemy , and Faction Paradox fought great battles across the surface of Mercy , killing the 150 human colonists already living there . This came to an end when one of the powers changed history so that , twenty generations before the fighting on Mercy , the Arbiturm bombed the planet with blacklight warhead s , rendering it an inhospitable wasteland . ( PROSE : " Holding Pattern " ) In the 4th year of the War , the Houses began experiments in biological technologies , creating regen - inf . The Houses also became aware of the Remonstration Bureau . In the 5th year of the War , the major powers attempted to negotiate peace with the Venue Accords . The Accords lasted one picosecond and concluded that peace was an impossibility . " The Book of the War " summarised them as " an agreement to disagree " . In response to the failure of the Accords , the Second Wave was created . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) The enemy began using anarchitect s as weapons early in the War . ( PROSE : " Alien Bodies " ) In the 6th year of the War , Devonire suffered from a severe case of paradox anxiety . Also in the 6th year of the War , the Second Wave underwent a successful campaign of sterilisation against all of the planets where the Faction had begun propagating the Remote . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) The first planet to be sterilised was Ordifica in 2596 . ( PROSE : " Interference - Book One " , " The Book of the War " ) Mathara led an evacuation of Ordifica in the " Justinian " ; Fitz Kreiner and Laura Tobin were among those onboard . Mathara deposited the evacuees on the Time Lord super - weapon Anathema in 1799 , which was on route to destroy Earth in 1997 . The Eighth Doctor , Sam Jones , and Sarah Jane Smith became involved with Anathema when it came to Earth and stopped it from fulfilling its purpose . The Doctor then took on Kode and Compassion — remembrances of Fitz and Tobin — as companion s . ( PROSE : " Interference - Book One " , " Interference - Book Two " ) In the 8th year of the War , the breakaway Thirteen - Day Republic was founded by Anastasia Romanov , but then quickly lost in the Battle of Valentine ' s Day . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " , " Warring States " ) A War veteran found asylum in the Eleven - Day Empire for a while , but they were eventually evicted as part of a Faction initiation competition led by Starch . Ceol won said competition and became a Cousin . ( PROSE : " Now or Thereabouts " ) Ceol quickly tired of the Faction and smuggled her biodata and consciousness into a new body , leaving her original to sign up for a Faction mission to Mohandassa and be wiped from history . Ceol managed to evade the Faction in her new body for a considerable period . ( PROSE : " Weapons Grade Snake Oil " ) In the 10th year of the War , Compassion met with the War King to enter an alliance that entailed opening a " second front " against the enemy . Carmen Yeh was present for this meeting , which she novelised in " Fantastical Travels in an Infinite Universe " . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) In the 11th year of the War , the Third Wave was created and the Lethean Campaign was fought , ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) temporally ravaging the planet Lethe . ( PROSE : " The Parliament of Rats " ) In the 14th year of the War , the Faction ' s Eleven - Day Empire was breached by the Clockwork Ouroboros of the Star Chamber and severely damaged , driving the Faction underground while it rebuilt the Empire and re - evaluated itself . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) The Great Houses embrace bio - diversity . As the War progressed , the Time Lords began severely altering their biology to combat the Enemy , ( PROSE : " The Taking of Planet 5 " , " The Book of the War " ) some becoming what both Justine McManus ( AUDIO : " In the Year of the Cat " ) and the Eighth Doctor described as " monsters " . ( PROSE : " The Ancestor Cell " ) While they had been experimenting with non - humanoid soldiers with the Third Wave , it was only in the 17th year of the War that the Great Houses began splicing their people with biodata from " lesser species " , creating the Fourth Wave . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) Robert Scarratt was a notable member of the Fourth Wave . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " , " The Brakespeare Voyage " ) In the 20th year of the War , the Eighth Retro War occurred . Scarratt was sent to Delphi shortly after the Battle of Thermopylae to make a sacrifice that strengthened the Eighth Earth Front . ( PROSE : " The Brakespeare Voyage " ) The timeline of the Eighth Retro War was later manipulated by One . ( PROSE : " The Taking of Planet 5 " ) In the 24th year of the War , Jendrickenses gave a speech on the Grandfather ' s Maw . ( PROSE : " The Brakespeare Voyage " ) In the 25th year of the War , the Fifth Wave was created . The Gauntlet was also founded around this time . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) Fearing the god s of Dellah , ( PROSE : " Dead Romance " ) one of the Great Houses ( AUDIO : " The Eleven Day Empire " ) led an invasion of the version of Earth in the bottle universe . Chris Cwej helped in securing the Earth and dealing with the Horror ; however , he received a fatal dose of radiation and — due to augmentations received while serving the Houses — regenerated into a new body ( PROSE : " Dead Romance " ) which was remotely shaped by House Military strategists to be suitable for a mission into Remote territory . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) Christine Summerfield was the only native of the Earth to escape ; she journeyed to the empty ruins of the Homeworld abandoned by the House who invaded her world ( PROSE : " Dead Romance " ) and she was later found and recruited by Faction Paradox . ( AUDIO : " The Eleven Day Empire " ) In the 29th year of the War , while Cwej was recovering from his regeneration during his stay at the Gauntlet , the Great Houses decided to use him in their Army of One project without his knowledge . The Cwejen were created from Chris ' timeline . In the 31st year of the War , Cwej was sent to 1999 Los Angeles to intervene with the activities of Faction Hollywood . Cwej faced off against Michael Brookhaven at the shooting of " " . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) The Chanticleer and the Hornhead s came into conflict in Samhain in 1643 , but were repelled by Michael Drake ( with a bit of help from Iris Wildthyme ) . ( PROSE : " Michael Drake " ) In the 32nd year of the War , three House Arpexia timeships were destroyed while investigating the Grandfather ' s Maw . ( PROSE : " The Brakespeare Voyage " ) Also in this year , the Fourth Wave fought an ideological crusade against the Remote , creating the Broken Remote . Mantissa led the Timebeast Assault , an attempted invasion of the City of the Saved . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) In the 35th year of the War , Robert Scarratt gave a speech to Fifth Wave trainees at the Gauntlet . ( PROSE : " The Brakespeare Voyage " ) In the 38th year of the War , the Seventh Wave was created . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) Sherlock Holmes in the War . A number of events involving Sherlock Holmes occurred in the War , all at least before conflict ' s 48th year . ( PROSE : " The Book of the Enemy " , " Of the City of the Saved . . . " ) Not too long before the War ' s 41st year , ( PROSE : " Warring States " , " Erasing Sherlock " ) the Celestis provided 21st century scientific genius Jimmy Moriarty with a method of ritualistic time travel , which he tested by sending Gillian Petra and Thomas Corkle to 1882 . Both participants were interested in Sherlock Holmes : Petra became a maid at 221B Baker Street to discretely study the detective for her criminology thesis while Corkle — on instructions from Moriarty — tried to experiment with history by preventing Holmes from becoming successful . Petra entered a romantic relationship with Holmes , accidentally changing history herself . After learning of Corkle ' s plan , Petra prevented him from severely damaging Holmes ' timeline . She then returned to her home era by harnessing the power of Krakatoa ' s eruption . ( PROSE : " Erasing Sherlock " ) Gillian Petra was recruited by the Celestis to be an Investigator . She briefly returned to Sherlock Holmes in 1890 to return a pair of his shoe s she had taken during her previous visit . ( PROSE : " Erasing Sherlock Prologue " ) Due to a Time Ring malfunction , Straxus became stranded in 1888 Ceylon with a Cwej named Septimus . They became involved with Ludwig Cooray , manipulating him to create the God Machine partially using one of Straxus ' combat chip s . After completing the God Machine , Cooray vanished and his conciousness was stored in the chip ; Sherlock Holmes and John Watson thought he was murder ed by Straxus , but were unable to find sufficent evidence . ( AUDIO : " The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel " , PROSE : " A Gallery of Pigeons " ) Straxus and Septimus continued to live on Victorian Earth . In an effort to catch the attention of the Great Houses , they founded Straxus Imperial , an auction company which they used to circulate artefacts not supposed to have been discovered until later points in history . In 1893 , while Sherlock was pretending to be dead , an emergency setting of Straxus ' Time Ring overrode Bernice Summerfield ' s Time Ring and brought her to London , where she found refuge with Mycroft Holmes . With Mycroft exposed to a time travel ler , Septimus committed a series of murders all relating to the number seven in the hopes that it would cause Mycroft to think so intensely about the concept of " seven " as to summon the Seventh Doctor through quantum mnemonics . When Bernice and Mycroft confronted Straxus and Septimus , the ripples in time caught the attention of Straxus at an earlier point in his timeline . The older Straxus was imprisoned for changing history and Septimus was taken for dissection . The younger Straxus then briefly met with Bernice in the Time Vortex . ( AUDIO : " The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel " ) Circa the mid - 1910s , Sherlock Holmes investigated " The Book of the Enemy " and was erased from history by it , his entire life becoming fiction written by Arthur Conan Doyle . ( PROSE : " The Book of the Enemy " ) War - time individuals would go on to think of Holmes as a purely fictional character , ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " , " This Town Will Never Let Us Go " , " Of the City of the Saved . . . " ) but scant evidence of his original existence survived . ( PROSE : " The Book of the Enemy " , " The Taking of Planet 5 " ) Also around this time , the Enemy fictionalised Ruritania , a gentlemen ' s club , and the Martian s and their invasion of Earth . ( PROSE : " The Book of the Enemy " ) Entrenchment & return of Faction Paradox . Around its 40th year , the War entered a phase of entrenchment . Faction Paradox returned to being a major power in the War , albeit a far subtler one than they were before . The Remote were completely independent by this time . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) The Time Lord s accepted many renegades back into their society to further War efforts . ( PROSE : " The Taking of Planet 5 " , " The Brakespeare Voyage " ) The Rani and Borusa became tutors to newly loom ed soldiers . ( PROSE : " The Taking of Planet 5 " ) As part of their hatchling project s , the High Council created clone s of several renegades , including the Master and the Rani . In a period spanning between the 22nd and 38th centuries , Father Kreiner roamed the universe hunting for renegade Time Lords and collecting their severed heads . ( PROSE : " Interference - Book One " ) At the edges of the War , the Hussar — a renegade of the Great Houses — was permitted to travel through inconsequential areas of history . The Hussar got caught in the schemes of Father Christèmas and was killed in order to create a loa . His timeship , the Kraken , joined Christèmas ' Bankside division of the Faction , which , with the newborn loa , went independent from the rest of the Eleven - Day Empire . ( PROSE : " Weapons Grade Snake Oil " ) Cousins Bertold and Ernest joined the nautical expedition of Sir George Dimchurch in 1810 in order to pervert it to delay the formulation of the theory of evolution by decades , negatively affecting the Great Houses . They created living pterodactyl s for Dimchurch to discover on New Guinea and bring back to Europe , but Dimchurch overheard them discussing their plans on the return voyage and destroyed all evidence of the pterodactyls on the ship . ( PROSE : " Wing Finger " ) House Dvora attempted to alter Earth ' s history by inspiring 16th century philosopher Giordano Bruno to become Pope and and lead Europe into an early age of rationalism and science . Father Self subverted all of Dvora ' s efforts and integrated Bruno into the Remote of Anathema . ( PROSE : " De Umbris Idearum " ) In the 44th year of the War , the Eighth Wave was created . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) When the War - time powers began using weapons which put the spirits of history in danger , the Faction sent Cousin Andraiz to Tonton Macoute ' s prison in Cyclone Tracy to find a solution , a " cure - all to time " . After gathering the necessary ingredients ( two timeships , Demi and Medea ; the reflection of an Enemy agent ; the ground bone s of House Military soldiers ; and the shadow of a Faction soldier ) , Macoute made a " cure - all " which attracted loa . However , the " cure - all " was nothing but bait , and Macoute consumed the loa to attain their god - like aspects . Before leaving Andraiz , Macoute explained that , in a way , he would be fixing the Faction ' s problem : " There ' s only one way to significantly change an ecosystem : introduce a predator . " ( PROSE : " Tonton Macoute " ) However , despite having the powers of a god , Macoute somehow died . ( PROSE : " A Hundred Words from a Civil War " ) In the 46th year of the War , a group of thirteen Great Houses renegades tried to escape the War by using Time Ring s to journey into a cluster of parallel universes where the Roman Empire never fell . The renegades created links between the universes , allowing them to unite into the Empire of Empires . House Mirraflex sent a Cwej to contain the situation ; he united all the universes where the Nazi s won World War II into the Greater German Reich and got them to go to war with the Romans . After several decades of warfare , the Romans won . In the end , a member of House Mirraflex came in and reinstated the boundaries between worlds . ( PROSE : " Warlords of Utopia " ) When Sabbath was appointed Godfather of Faction Paradox ' s military wing , he and Morlock went to 1899 England as part of a ritual and encountered Justine McManus . Morlock decided to let Justine join the Faction ( AUDIO : " Movers " , " A Labyrinth of Histories " ) and she was sent to Dronid to learn the ways of the Faction under Sanjira . During Justine ' s stay , the Celestis manipulated Sanjira into discovering the Relic — the Doctor ' s corpse — and he decided to respectfully send it into the Time Vortex , unaware of its significance . ( PROSE : " Alien Bodies " ) Justine was then summoned back to the Eleven - Day Empire ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) and sent on a mission with Manjuele to Qixotl ' s auction in the East Indies ReVit Zone to represent the Faction and re - obtain the Relic ; they failed . ( PROSE : " Alien Bodies " ) A member of the Faction named Jamie became stranded in 1990 Stevenage . ( PROSE : " Office Politics " ) Perversion of history on Dust . Nearing the 50th year of the War , Morlock of Faction Paradox developed a biodata virus which could infect the histories of individuals and transform them into members of the Faction . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) The Faction elders met in the Houses of Parliament of the Eleven - Day Empire and decided to try to infect I . M . Foreman with the virus at the moment when Foreman became the biosphere of the planet Dust in the 38th century , effectively turning Dust into a new sentient homeworld for the Faction . However , the Faction didn ' t account for the Third Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith coming to Dust ; instead of infecting Foreman , the virus was attracted to the Doctor after he was shot by a local . The Doctor regenerated and the virus took hold in his body . ( PROSE : " Interference - Book One " , " Interference - Book Two " ) With history was changed by the Third Doctor regenerating on Dust instead of in the UNIT HQ laboratory , the timelines became much more uncertain and malleable . Some regions of space - time degenerated into a series of realities which formed the Obverse . ( PROSE : " The Ancestor Cell " ) A cataclysmic war began between the inhabitants of the main universe and the inhabitants of the newly formed Obverse . The Eighth Doctor , Compassion , and Fitz Kreiner briefly became involving with the beginning of this conflict , but they were pushed away by Iris Wildthyme . Participants in ensuing war included the Galactic Federation , Dalek s , the Glass Men of Valcea , Cybermen , Steigertrude s , Draconian s , Ghillighast s , Sontaran s , Sahmbekart s , Ice Warrior s , and , according to many sources , several incarnations of the Doctor from the Eighth Doctor ' s future . ( PROSE : " The Blue Angel " ) Meercock refuges from the Obverse conflict attempted to settle on Earth in 1973 , where they encountered the Third Doctor before his altered death , along with Iris Wildthyme , Jo Grant , and Tom . ( PROSE : " Verdigris " ) The pre - War - era Time Lords of a Gallifrey led by Romana II were made aware of the War through monitoring of the Obverse conflict . Romana regenerated into a body more suitable for war ( PROSE : " The Shadows of Avalon " ) and made herself War Queen and mistress of the Nine Gallifreys . She began stockpiling weapons in the Slaughterhouse , a secret arsenal protected by a time eddy . ( PROSE : " The Ancestor Cell " ) She planned to use Bull - TARDIS es to mate with Compassion to create a new Type 103 TARDIS . Romana dispatched two of her most trusted agents , Gandar and Cavis , to capture Compassion while she transformed into a Type 102 TARDIS in Avalon . While the agents managed to almost start a nuclear war between humans and avalonians , they did not capture Compassion , who escaped with the Eighth Doctor and Fitz Kreiner . ( PROSE : " The Shadows of Avalon " ) After the Doctor installed a randomiser inside her , Compassion managed to elude the Time Lords for a considerable time , ( PROSE : " The Fall of Yquatine " , " Coldheart " , " The Space Age " ) but she was eventually found by an operative in the 19th century . ( PROSE : " The Banquo Legacy " ) Compassion and her two companions were forced to go to Romana ' s Gallifrey , where they came into contact with forces from a later point in the War . ( PROSE : " The Ancestor Cell " ) The Brakespeare fiasco . At a time around the 50th year of the War , when House Lolita was still obscure , House Lineacrux secretly organised a voyage into the Grandfather ' s Maw to retrieve Leviathan biodata for research . Entarodora was chosen to captain " The San Grael " ; she betrayed Lineacrux after going into the Maw by abandoning the mission and trying to instead found a new universe free of the War . Lineacrux recruited Robert Scarratt to captain " The Brakespeare " into the Maw , punish Entarodora , and finish her mission . Compassion witnessed a potential future where Scarratt ' s voyage was successful and the biodata research led to the Great Houses harnessing the power of the Maw to obliterate Earth from history , so she contacted Scarratt before he got on " The Brakespeare " and showed him the consequences of success . " The Brakespeare " was infiltrated by agents of the Celestis , the Enemy , Faction Paradox , and Entarodora . " The Brakespeare " s voyage ended in a disastrous meeting with " The San Grael " . A timeship containing the severed head of Scarratt escaped " The Brakespeare " and gravitated back towards the edges of the Maw , where it was found by the Great Houses in the 32nd year of the War , who learned of the entire debacle through the head ' s memories and prevented it from ever happening . ( PROSE : " The Brakespeare Voyage " ) Rise of House Lolita . In the 50th year of the War , " The Book of the War " , a guide to the first half century of the War , was published . It contained a small entry on House Lolita : an " obscure " Newblood House which had then recently allied with House Tracolix . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) Around the 52nd year of the War , ( AUDIO : " In the Year of the Cat " ) Lolita came to the Eleven - Day Empire with Ruthventracolixabaxil claiming to want to reinstate Faction Paradox as a proper Great House . Before arriving , she hired the Seventy - Ninth Sontaran Assault Corps to attack the Empire and steal material she needed to reach an agreement with the loa protecting the Empire . After communing with the loa , Lolita turned on her allies and swallowed Ruthven , the Sontaran s , and the Empire itself ; the only survivors were Cousin Eliza and Cousin Justine , who escaped in Ruthven ' s timeship . ( AUDIO : " The Eleven Day Empire " , " The Shadow Play " ) Its main powerbase lost , Faction Paradox was left fractured . As Iris Wildthyme put it , " The ashes [ of the Faction ] were scattered across the universe , the scant surviving members crawling into untraceable holes , biding their intangible blades until the pointless War [ had ] concluded . " ( PROSE : " Panda and the Airship " ) Multiple individuals wrongly believed themselves to be the last vestiges of the Faction . ( AUDIO : " Sabbath Dei " , " Movers " , PROSE : " Spinning Jenny " ) Three seperate Faction Paradox groups — all unaware of each other — survived in 21st century America , ( PROSE : " Head of State " ) including Faction Hollywood . ( PROSE : " Remake / Remodel " ) The Boulevard of Alternate Brutalities continued to operate near the end of the universe . ( PROSE : " Library Pictures " ) With the Faction out of the picture , the Great Houses began threatening the Osirian Court . In response , Sutekh brought his armies of Mal ' akh to the area around the Mediterranean Sea in the 15th century , a crucial point in history . The Great Houses sent Merytra Ellainya to influence the human s into destroying the Mal ' akh , but she was captured . The Houses were forced to agree to a peace treaty to keep history intact . In the treaty , the Houses rededicated the Faction Paradox shrine in Civita to Sutekh . ( AUDIO : " Coming to Dust " ) Most of the other Great Houses wanted to ally with Lolita after she consumed the Eleven - Day Empire . Thus with the Homeworld practically under her control , she began trying to expand her influence throughout the Spiral Politic . ( AUDIO : " Sabbath Dei " ) She planned to occupy millions of bodies in powerful positions on every important planet in every time - zone , controlling the history " like one great big nervous system " . ( AUDIO : " In the Year of the Cat " ) Lolita began with Earth in 1762 : overlaying her identity over Queen Charlotte ' s mind , putting George III in a natural time - envelope so that he wouldn ' t notice the changes in his wife , and importing from the 51st century an army of Peking Homunculi keyed to her central processor . Cousins Justine and Eliza came to 1762 and encountered Mary Culver , who was used by Compassion to inform them of Lolita ' s presence . With the help of Lord Sandwich and the Sieur d ' Eon , Eliza destroyed the homunculus army , loosening Lolita ' s hold on the era . ( AUDIO : " Sabbath Dei " , " In the Year of the Cat " ) Justine ' s actions in 1762 inspired Sabbath Dei to perform a Supplication ritual which transformed him into an agent of the Great Houses . Sabbath put Justine on trial for the crimes of Grandfather Paradox , sentencing her to finish the Grandfather ' s sentence at the Great Houses ' prison planet , ( AUDIO : " In the Year of the Cat " ) Shada . ( PROSE : " Christmas on a Rational Planet " ) Six months after Justine arrived , Compassion possessed a guard and released Demetra Kine of the Blood Coteries to cause chaos through which Justine could escape . Kine took control of the prison and attempted to take revenge on Shuncucker , another surviving member of Faction Paradox . After teaming up with Shuncucker to kill Kine , Justine escaped in a timeship just before House Military arrived to disband the riot . ( AUDIO : " Movers " , " A Labyrinth of Histories " ) In the time that Justine was imprisoned , " a lot " happened back on Earth in the 1760s . ( AUDIO : " A Labyrinth of Histories " ) Before Justine left , Compassion had been convinced that a great fight would be needed to stop Lolita from taking over Earth . ( AUDIO : " In the Year of the Cat " ) Justine returned in 1763 ; ( AUDIO : " A Labyrinth of Histories " ) by the end of that year she and Eliza were no longer in contact with Compassion and no longer worried about Lolita taking over 18th century Earth . ( AUDIO : " Coming to Dust " , " Body Politic " ) However , Compassion remained an active force in the War , in the 58th year bringing an end to the City of the Saved Civil War . ( PROSE : " God Encompasses " ) In 1763 , a group of Mal ' akh left - over from Sutekh ' s activity in the 15th century came to Italy to use an Osirian lodestone to summon Upuat . ( AUDIO : " Coming to Dust " , " The Ship of a Billion Years " ) The Celestis took control of one of the major governments on early 21st century Earth . ( PROSE : " Head of State " ) Homunculette ' s era . Homunculette came from an era of the War when the Time Lords had been fighting the War for " half a millennium " . ( PROSE : " Alien Bodies " ) The Shift casually described this time as being " years in the future " of the period covered by " The Book of the War " . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) By this time , the original Gallifrey was known to have been wiped from existence along with most of its population . ( PROSE : " Alien Bodies " ) After a Gallifrey was lost in the battle of Mutter ' s Cluster , the remaining Gallifreys ( PROSE : " The Taking of Planet 5 " ) — previously self - segregated ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) — banded together and became numbered . Gallifrey Eight was covered in loomstack s and chronoforge s which provided fodder for the War , Gallifrey Nine was used to store weapons such as D - Mat guns , ( PROSE : " The Taking of Planet 5 " ) and Gallifrey XII was used to train soldiers . ( PROSE : " Alien Bodies " ) House Military was on its Last Wave . ( PROSE : " Alien Bodies " ) Faction Paradox still had some presence in the War . The hermit was beginning to plan the complete destruction of Mictlan and the Celestis . ( PROSE : " The Taking of Planet 5 " ) Homunculette and Marie were sent on a mission by the High Council to obtain the Relic — the Doctor ' s corpse — so that its biodata could be examined to further the War effort . Homunculette saw the Relic as the final chance to win the War . After first encountering an agent of the Celestis in 2169 London , they went to Qixotl ' s auction in the East Indies ReVit Zone . Also attending the auction were Trask , representing the Celestis ; a Shift , representing the enemy ; and several other minor players from earlier points in the timeline , including the Eighth Doctor and Sam Jones . The Celestis almost gained the Relic , but the Doctor tricked them into trading the Relic to him in return for the Shift . The Doctor took the Relic to Quiescia and destroyed it . ( PROSE : " Alien Bodies " ) Sometime later , Homunculette was involved in a " disastrous " mission on Delphon where he desperately used his eyebrow s to try to get the locals to attack the Enemy . A team of twelve Time Lords — including Xenaria , Holsred , and Allopta — were sent to Antarctica in 12 , 000 , 000 BC to prepare an assault Planet 5 and capture the Fendahl so that it could be re - engineered into a " final assault weapon " for the War . Because the Celestis had used a fictional generator to bring to life the Elder Thing s from H . P . Lovecraft ' s " At the Mountains of Madness " , the Time Lords regenerated into bodies which resembled Elder Things to blend in . The Eighth Doctor , Compassion , and Fitz Kreiner came to the Time Lord base to investigate the Elder Things . The Time Lords were about to break through the temporal barrier around Planet 5 by barraging it with kamikaze War TARDIS es , but Compassion ' s presence inspired the TARDISes to try to break free of their servitude . Tachon tried to restrain the TARDISes with a D - Mat Gun and was forced to shoot the lead TARDIS , rupturing it . The damaged TARDIS spread into a time fissure stretching from 12 , 000 , 000 BC to 1999 . In the 1970s , Professor Fendelman used the energy of this time fissure to reanimate the final fragment of the Fendahl . ( PROSE : " The Taking of Planet 5 " ) The Fourth Doctor and Leela arrived at Fendelman ' s lab and prevented the Fendahl from fully manifesting . ( TV : " Image of the Fendahl " ) On a mission from the Lord President , Homunculette stationed himself in 1999 under the alias " Nathaniel Hume " to investigate the fissure and other remnants of what was going on in 12 , 000 , 000 BC . Compassion and Holsred followed the TARDIS to 1999 , where they encountered " Hume " and fought Two . Back in the past , the Eighth Doctor convinced all of TARDISes to not break the shield around Planet 5 , but one TARDIS accidentally did , unleashing the Fendahl Predator . Just as the hermit planned , the Predator was attracted to Mictlan , home of the Celestis . The Predator feasted on the Celestis , utterly destroying them . The Doctor coordinated the TARDISes into working together to push Mictlan away from the main universe so that the Predator wouldn ' t be able to return . ( PROSE : " The Taking of Planet 5 " ) The Shift managed to escape the dying Mictlan with several other Celestis servants by hijacking one of the timeships . They landed on a world at the beginning of the Spiral Politic . The Shift eventually found its way into a copy of " The Book of the War " . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) The Faction invasion of Gallifrey . By a time " towards the end of the War " , when the War had been going on for about 292 years ( PROSE : " The Gallifrey Chronicles " ) and the Celestis were " long dead " , ( PROSE : " The Ancestor Cell " ) a militaristic Faction Paradox army had developed , ( PROSE : " The Gallifrey Chronicles " ) based in the Eleven - Day Empire and led by Grandfather Paradox — to be precise , a version of the Eighth Doctor completely changed by the biodata virus , who took on the title of Grandfather Paradox . ( PROSE : " The Ancestor Cell " ) The Time Lords of this era were losing the War . ( PROSE : " The Gallifrey Chronicles " ) On one Gallifrey , misinformation camp s and carefully detonated reality bomb s were used to obscure certain truths from the majority of Gallifreyans . Biological defences created in ancient Gallifreyan history to combat the Great Vampire s and the Charon were augmented to have devastating capabilities against the enemy . ( PROSE : " The Ancestor Cell " ) Faction Paradox ' s warfleet ( PROSE : " The Gallifrey Chronicles " ) travelled to Romana III ' s Gallifrey just before the start of the War , at the same time that Compassion was forcibly taken to the planet with the Eighth Doctor and Fitz Kreiner inside of her . The pre - War - era Eighth Doctor was on the verge of being overtaken by the Faction biodata virus at that time . The Faction successfully took the Capitol by force . They resurrected Greyjan the Sane using a remembrance tank and had him take Romana ' s place as Lord President ; the nature of Greyjan ' s previous Presidency meant that Gallifrey began merging with the Eleven - Day Empire . Using their newfound control over the Web of Time , the Faction began altering the history of Romana ' s Gallifrey , erasing five of the six founders of Time Lord society and undoing the creation of the eight copies of Romana ' s Gallifrey . But there was one variable that the Faction did not account for . The Doctor ' s original TARDIS — previously devastated in the events that led to him starting to travel in Compassion — contained within it the potentiality of the timeline where the Third Doctor regenerated due to radiation from Metebelis III and was never infected with a biodata virus . The stress of containing this timeline warped the TARDIS , turning it into the vast Edifice which loomed in the sky above Gallifrey . The Eighth Doctor journeyed into the heart of the Edifice , where he had a confrontation with Grandfather Paradox . The Doctor chose to use the unstable power of the Edifice to restore the Metebelis timeline and erase Romana ' s Gallifrey from history to spare its inhabitants from the rule of Faction Paradox and the horrors of the War . ( PROSE : " The Ancestor Cell " ) The ensuing explosion eradicated the entire sector of space containing Kasterborous , and with it the Faction Paradox warfleet . ( PROSE : " The Gallifrey Chronicles " ) Compassion rescued the Eighth Doctor , Fitz , and Nivet from the destruction of Gallifrey . Compassion believed that the destruction of Romana ' s Gallifrey meant that the War was over , ( PROSE : " The Ancestor Cell " ) but both she ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " , " Of the City of the Saved . . . " , " Warring States " , " The Brakespeare Voyage " , et al ) and a later incarnation of the Doctor would go on to have further involvement in the War ( PROSE : " The Blue Angel " ) — however , after the Eighth Doctor lived through a century on Earth , he and Fitz did find themselves in a post - War universe . ( PROSE : " Father Time " , " The Adventuress of Henrietta Street " , " Sometime Never . . . " , et al ) At an earlier point in his timeline , the Eighth Doctor found himself in the War - era and tried to send a hypercube to his Gallifrey for help with a member of Faction Paradox in 2002 San Francisco . While the Doctor believed that hypercubes were impossible to intercept , the Faction Paradox member did just that . When asked how he did it , the Faction Paradox member replied , " Maybe there ' s no one home on Gallifrey . . . Or maybe the whole planet ' s being destroyed , and undestroyed , and destroyed , and you just caught them at the wrong moment . " ( PROSE : " Unnatural History " ) Mutually assured destruction of history . With no other options , the Time Lords adopted a strategy of mutually assured destruction . They created Anathema , a planetary warship with the Cold at its centre designed to destroy Earth — the Enemy ' s planet of origin — in the late 20th century and therefore destabilise the causal nexus of the universe . In order to get past Enemy defences , Ananthema was sent to Earth not with time travel , but with sub - light speed space travel along a three - billion - year route from a Time Lord base . The Time Lords then evacuated the universe ; Compassion heard rumours involving " something about a universe in a bottle " . In fact , the Time Lords stole I . M . Foreman ' s bottle universe while the Eighth Doctor was visiting her . ( PROSE : " Interference - Book Two " ) There were already Time Lords in Foreman ' s bottle universe , ( PROSE : " Interference - Book One " , " Dead Romance " ) who evacuated into their own bottle universe when the God s of Dellah began taking over their universe . Christine Summerfield theorised that the Gods were actually the Time Lords from the universe outside Foreman ' s bottle universe . ( PROSE : " Dead Romance " ) However , other sources indicated that the Gods were actually the Ferutu ( PROSE : " Twilight of the Gods " ) and that the universe invaded by the Gods was the same one that the War occurred in . ( PROSE : " The Shadows of Avalon " , " The Book of the War " , AUDIO : " The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel " , " The Eleven Day Empire " , et al ) As the warship began nearing the end of its three - billion year journey , Faction Paradox of an earlier period of the War established a Remote colony on the warship . When Anathema did finally reach Earth , it was disarmed by the Eighth Doctor . ( PROSE : " Interference - Book Two " ) The end of the War . Entarodora believed that the War would be ended by either the entire War ' s retroactive annulment , or a victory for one side so complete that it would become history . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) By one account , the War was retroactively annulled by the Eighth Doctor ' s destruction of Gallifrey . ( PROSE : " The Gallifrey Chronicles " ) Some members of the Great Houses believed that the War would end after the Seven Prophesied Heads of Severance spoke . ( PROSE : " The Brakespeare Voyage " ) In a deleted scene of " " , Baron Amatsumara said , " When the Seventh Head speaks , the War will end , and the true War will begin . " ( PROSE : " Head of State " ) In " The Book of the Truce " , Godfather Morlock wrote that the War could be ended by placing all its participants in oxbow realities . Some optimistic thinkers thought that the War would resolve itself if only a few key figures were trapped in oxbow realities . ( PROSE : " Weapons Grade Snake Oil " ) Aftermath . While several Time Lords survived the War , ( PROSE : " The Galifrey Chronicles " , " Timeless " ) the universe at large was only aware of four surviving elementals . ( PROSE : " The Adventuress of Henrietta Street " , " Trading Futures " ) These were blamed for causing the mysterious disaster that led drained the universe of energy , ( COMIC : " Miranda " ) led to whole galaxies being evacuated , and erased whole sections of the timeline . ( PROSE : " Father Time " ) They reigned over all of time and space as the Imperial Family . ( PROSE : " Father Time " ) Gallifrey was believed to be entirely destroyed , but the Capitol survived in the Kingdom of Beasts , where it had been taken by the Mal ' akh . ( PROSE : " The Adventuress of Henrietta Street " ) A few members of Faction Paradox survived the end of the War . They fought America n Freemason s for control of history at King George III ' s mammoth hunt . ( COMIC : " Political Animals " , " Bêtes Noires & Dark Horses " ) The Mayakai , a culture created in the War , survived into the post - War universe . ( COMIC : " Political Animals " , PROSE : " The Adventuress of Henrietta Street " ) Michael Drake became a hero to the people of Samhain when he repelled a War - time battle from the village in 1643 . ( PROSE : " Michael Drake " ) After his death , he was commemerated with a monument at the Samhain elder church which read , " In memory of Michael Drake who kept the war from Samhain " . ( PROSE : " Death of the Author " , " The Opera of Samhain " , " Michael Drake " , " Self Possessed " ) Sabbath Dei , an agent of the Service who briefly became a servant of the Great Houses in the War , ( AUDIO : " In the Year of the Cat " ) worked to fill the void left by the absence of Time Lords in the post - War universe . Sabbath stole the Eighth Doctor ' s second heart and gained some Time Lord abilities . ( PROSE : " The Adventuress of Henrietta Street " ) The Tenth Doctor remembered ( PROSE : " The Eyeless " ) the Eighth Doctor ' s destruction of Gallifrey . ( PROSE : " The Gallifrey Chronicles " , " The Eyeless " ) Participants . It was suggested that the War was allowed to escalate out of all proportion and the real threat to Gallifrey came from within . ( PROSE : " Warlords of Utopia " ) Indeed , the Houses of Gallifey were not above in - fighting , especially the ruling six : Mirraflex , Xianthellipse , Arpexia , Dvora , Tracolix and Lineacrux . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) It was House Lolita , though , which most ruthlessly pursued its own interests . ( AUDIO : " The Shadow Play " , " In the Year of the Cat " ) Although the conflict was primarily between the Time Lord s and the enemy , other powers became heavily involved as they sought to either evade or exploit the War . Faction Paradox ' s stance proved the most opportunistic and changeable . At times they over - ambitiously launched direct attacks on the Time Lord s ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) , at times attempted more subtle subversion of their activities ( PROSE : " Interference - Book One " ) and eventually found themselves negotiating to be reinstated as a House of Gallifrey . ( AUDIO : " The Shadow Play " ) The Remote were perhaps even more unpredictable ; their anarchistic nature utterly committed them to the overthrow of " whichever " the dominant power was at any given time . They were also unbound from linearity , resulting in Remote members like Compassion interacting with people from before the start of the War . Various posthuman groups allied themselves with the enemy . Grandfather Halfling often left the City of the Saved to participate in the War . From what they assumed was the safe vantage point of non - existence , the Celestis treated the War as a game , sometimes interfering on the Homeworld ' s behalf and sometimes supplying the enemy with weaponry . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) Technology and development . Time Lords from a later stage of the war did not have humanoid form . Only the ' Generals ' had totally humanoid forms . Type 102 TARDISes and War TARDIS es were in full use by the War . 102s were used by Time Lord agents whilst War TARDISes were utilised by Time Lords on missions . ( PROSE : " Alien Bodies " , " The Taking of Planet 5 " ) The Book of the War purported to be an encyclopedia of the War ' s first fifty years , ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) but others held that history books were anachronism s , since the forces that shaped the universe were inconceivable . ( PROSE : " Warlords of Utopia " )