Gallifreyan history The Time Lord s , the rulers of the planet Gallifrey , had a long and storied history . Their civilisation lasted billions of years , existing in the distant past at the dawn of time ( PROSE : " The Crystal Bucephalus " ) so that by the 20th century there was no sign of any civilisation on Gallifrey . ( PROSE : " Goth Opera " ) The Dark Times . The Gallifreyan s were an ancient species , one of the first humanoid species to evolve . ( PROSE : " Lucifer Rising " , TV : " The Beast Below " ) The Dalek s tried to travel back to prehistoric Gallifrey to prevent the Time Lords evolving . ( PROSE : " Engines of War " ) The Dark Times , also known as the " Old Times " or the " Age of the Pythias " , ( COMIC : " Agent Provocateur " ) were divided into the Time of Empires and the Time of Chaos . ( PROSE : " " ) The history of this period was recorded in the Black Scrolls of Rassilon , which became forbidden by the time of the Doctor . ( TV : " The Five Doctors " ) Time of Empires . Before the anchoring of the thread , the universe was unstructured and chaotic . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) There were no laws of physics , only infinity possibility . ( PROSE : " Christmas on a Rational Planet " ) During this era , Gallifreyans were known as the Shadow People , caught between the warm darkness of magic k and the cold light of science . Magick dominated Gallifreyan culture for a long time , ( PROSE : " So Vile a Sin " ) but their technological advancement was also unparalleled . ( PROSE : " A Brief History of Time Lords " ) A Time Lord emissary reminded the Fourth Doctor that Gallifrey had perfected the transmat beam when the universe was less than half its " present " size . ( TV : " Genesis of the Daleks " ) Empowered by the transmat and other techniques of interstellar travel , Gallifreyans spread throughout the universe , subjugating or shepherding all new species they encountered . They built alliances with any powers they couldn ' t conquer , creating the Fledgling Empires . ( PROSE : " A Brief History of Time Lords " ) Soon , their colonies were spread throughout the galaxy . ( PROSE : " " ) The Fledgling Empires waged a war against the Racnoss , wiping out their species ( TV : " The Runaway Bride " ) while harnessing their Huon energy for the first time machines . ( PROSE : " A Brief History of Time Lords " ) The Gallifreyans fought against the Old Ones . ( PROSE : " Interference - Book Two " ) Despite being protested by some , slave trading was common in Gallifreyan colonies . Gallifrey was ruled by the Pythia , a line of female seers who divined the future and ruled Gallifrey . They also perpetuated mysticism on Gallifrey , and were against the use of reason . After the Intuitive Revelation , telepathy was used rather than speech and few individuals kept their own personality or secrets . Many Gallifreyans worshipped the Menti Celesti . ( PROSE : " " ) Gallifreyan religious classes , including priests , monks and wardens of the church , had a high place in Gallifreyan society until after the rise of the Time Lords . ( PROSE : " Interference - Book Two " ) Anchoring of the Thread . As new cultures evolved and began to impose their own understandings and versions of meaning onto the universe , a definite framework began to emerge . Since these other species could be completely different to the people of the Homeworld , their assembled history was feared to grow unkind to the Empire . Indeed , some unclassifiable events were glimpsed in the formative future , the first time technology was developed and used to avert such events . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) The first time machine , the Time Scaphe , was powered psychic ally rather than technologically . ( PROSE : " " ) The Archons claimed that the Time Lords didn ' t discover time travel for themselves , but developed it after they declared war on the Archons and stole their technology . ( PROSE : " The Nameless City " ) To permanently fix the problem , Rassilon decided to make the universe rational . ( PROSE : " So Vile a Sin " ) By conducting the anchoring of the thread , the Homeworlder s created history with themselves at the centre . Their laws became the laws of time and physics . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) This caused whole civilisations to disappear and drove the children of Pythia to powerlessness as they lost their power of precognition . ( PROSE : " Christmas on a Rational Planet " ) The Time of Chaos began . ( PROSE : " " ) Time of Chaos . During the anchoring of the thread , ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) Rassilon accidentally opened a doorway into another universe . ( PROSE : " The Pit " ) The Great Vampire s escaped and caused mass destruction . ( TV : " State of Decay " ) The Time Lord s , led by Kopyion Liall a Mahajetsu , tried to stop them , leading to the thousand year Eternal War . They eventually pushed them back into their own universe , ( PROSE : " The Pit " ) plugging the holes with planets . ( PROSE : " Interference " ) During the Time of Chaos , validium came into use by the Time Lords . ( TV : " Silver Nemesis " ) The First Doctor took the validium with him when he left Gallifrey . ( PROSE : " A Brief History of Time Lords " ) The power of the Pythia declined and the Neo - Technologist s , led by Rassilon , rose to power . After the last Pythia committed suicide , members of the Pythian order fled to Karn and became the Sisterhood . War and chaos threatened the empire ; an ice age began and Gallifrey ' s colonies demanded their freedom . ( PROSE : " " ) When Kopyion Liall a Mahajetsu returned to Gallifrey after the war , he discovered that religion had fallen out of favour and Rassilon had risen to power . He then left to guard the final opening . ( PROSE : " The Pit " ) The Rassilon Era . The Time Lords had three main founders : the technological polymath Rassilon , ( TV : " The Deadly Assassin " ) the stellar engineer Omega , ( TV : " The Three Doctors " ) and an other . ( PROSE : " Remembrance of the Daleks " ) They lived at the same time . ( COMIC : " Star Death " , TV : " Remembrance of the Daleks " ) There were three other founders , but no one could agree who they were ; ( PROSE : " A Brief History of Time Lords " ) candidates included Apeiron , Pandak , and Eutenoyar . ( PROSE : " The Infinity Doctors " , PROSE : " The Ancestor Cell " ) Omega used two stellar manipulator s , the " hands " of Omega , to detonate a star ( TV : " Remembrance of the Daleks " , PROSE : " The Infinity Doctors " ) known as Qqaba , to create a black hole from which the Time Lords drew the power for time travel . Omega travelled into Qqaba to detonate it . Fenris , a time - travelling assassin sent by the Order of the Black Sun , sabotaged the shielding on Omega ' s ship and Omega was pulled into the newly created black hole . Through sheer force of will , Rassilon kept the Gallifreyan space station from being pulled into the black hole . He then found Fenris and banished him into the Zone of No Return . ( COMIC : " Star Death " ) Although he survived in the anti - matter universe , Omega was presumed dead . ( TV : " The Three Doctors " , AUDIO : " Omega " ) Rassilon would later use time - travel technology salvaged from Fenris ' belt to create a navigational system for TARDISes . ( COMIC : " Star Death " ) In the time of the anchoring of the thread , ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) when the Watchmaker s surrendered the creative and changeable parts of their minds , ( PROSE : " Christmas on a Rational Planet " ) the last Pythia curse d Gallifrey with sterility before killing herself . ( PROSE : " " ) To stabilise Gallifreyan society , the loom s and Great House s were created , ( PROSE : " " ) and the High Council dissolved the monasteries and churches of Gallifrey . ( PROSE : " Interference " ) Beginning of Rassilon Era . In year zero of the Rassilon Era , ( COMIC : " The Final Chapter " ) Rassilon retrieved the Eye of Harmony and stored it in a vault beneath the Time Lord capitol as a source of power . ( PROSE : " The Infinity Doctors " ) The Matrix was set up during the reign of Rassilon . Following damage to the Time Vortex , a robotic construction , Dawn 726 - Alpha Continua , was set up to repair the damage . ( COMIC : " Dawn of Time ! " ) The Game of Rassilon was a blood sport played in the Death Zone on Gallifrey using the Time Scoop . The Time Scoop relocated beings from all of time and space ( with the exception of the Dalek s and Cybermen , considered too dangerous to try to contain ) and placed them in the Death Zone to fight each other to the death . ( TV : " The Five Doctors " ) The Time Lords tried doing business with the Hoothi . The Hoothi caused a war on one of the worlds with which Gallifrey was negotiating , and later attacked Gallifrey itself using a Time Lord ambassador as a host . The Time Lords struck back with a counterattack and put the Hoothi worlds in a time loop . The Hoothi were forced to leave the galaxy . ( PROSE : " Love and War " , AUDIO : " Love and War " ) When the natives of Exclon began attacking and looting neighbouring planets , the Time Lords launched a full scale attack on Exclon and devastated it . ( PROSE : " Vorton ' s Revenge " ) The Time Lords forced the Phaeron to shut down their wormhole s . ( PROSE : " Deep Time " ) Beginning of non - interference . After dreaming of a future Time Lord empire that used its power to suppress the weak of the universe , Rassilon instituted the non - interference policy . ( COMIC : " The Final Chapter " ) It would be remembered that policy was created due to the damage that had been done by the Time Lords to other species using time travel . ( TV : " Underworld " , PROSE : " The Quantum Archangel " ) Rassilon ' s rule saw the end of the games in the Death Zone . ( TV : " The Five Doctors " ) 150 million years BC , Rassilon defied the non - interference policy and led the Time Lords against the Mad Mind of Bophemeral in the Millennium War . ( PROSE : " The Quantum Archangel " ) One legend said that despite Rassilon ' s great achievements , the Time Lords rebelled against him and imprisoned him in the Dark Tower in the Death Zone . Rassilon survived both in the tower ( TV : " The Five Doctors " ) and in the Matrix . ( COMIC : " The Tides of Time " , AUDIO : " Neverland " et al ) Eons of stability . Millennia of isolation induced a complacency among the Time Lords . Their technology and power stagnated , even as other races became more powerful and dangerous . ( TV : " The Deadly Assassin " ) Changing times . After eons of cultural stasis , irregularities appeared in the breeding - engine s , creating a generation of renegade s . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) The Imperator Presidency . One of the mutations in the Loom s was a member of House Dvora ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) named Morbius . ( TV : " The Brain of Morbius " ) He had a strong personality and endless ambition , qualities which had not been seen among the Great Houses for generations . He quickly rose to power over the High Council ( TV : " The Brain of Morbius " , " The Book of the War " ) and led the Imperator Presidency . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) He wanted the Time Lords to abandon their non - interference policy and intervene in the outside universe in their own self - interest , and he campaigned for conquest of the lesser species . He gathered an army of mercenaries to himself , making extravagant promises to them about time travel and immortality . ( TV : " The Brain of Morbius " , " The Book of the War " ) He also appointed Thessalia to lead the newly - created Order of the Weal , to prepare the Homeworld for a future war he foresaw . However , Thessalia denounced the Imperator to the High Council , ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " and he fled the planet with his army of mercenaries , wreaking havoc on the outside universe . He was eventually captured , put on trial , and executed ( TV : " The Brain of Morbius " , PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) on Karn . However , Mehendri Solon removed Morbius ' brain prior to his disintegration , ( PROSE : " Warmonger " ) and he began building a new body for Morbius . ( TV : " The Brain of Morbius " ) After Morbius ' death , his followers became known as the Cult of Morbius ( PROSE : " Warmonger " ) in year 5725 . 3 of the Rassilon Era . ( AUDIO : " Neverland " ) The cultural shift Morbius caused on Gallifrey resulted in the rise of the interventionists . ( PROSE : " Warmonger " , PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) The Doctor ' s life on Gallifrey . When the Doctor was very young , Ulysses was told by Larna , a Time Lady from the future , that the fate of Gallifrey was mixed with that of the Doctor and that the Doctor would have a part to play in its downfall . ( PROSE : " The Gallifrey Chronicles " ) After the Time Lords developed a chemical that could turn vertebrate blood into acid , the Doctor successfully campaigned for it to be banned . ( PROSE : " The Age of Ambition " ) The Doctor also convinced the Time Lords to put aside their non - interference policy and ban miniscope s from the universal market . ( TV : " Carnival of Monsters " ) Madrigor became the youngest Gallifreyan to be appointed a Time Lord . He began secretly using his TARDIS to steal from other planets . The other Time Lords discovered Madrigor ' s thievery and he was tried and found guilty . Before he could be punished , Madrigor ran away from Gallifrey and hid on Lunargov III . ( PROSE : " The Time Thief " ) According to one account , near the end of the Doctor ' s time on Gallifrey , the Master led a student revolt against President Pundat the Third . They wanted to restore " Rassilon ' s Law " by replacing Pundat with a descendant of Rassilon . After Pundat died of stress , the rebels found the last living relative of Rassilon : a seven - year old Time Lady named Larn . The students attempted a coup , but were stopped by citadel guards . During the coup , the Master managed to assassinate the new president Slann . Shortly afterwards , both the Doctor and the Master left Gallifrey . Lady Larn stowed away on the Doctor ' s TARDIS . ( PROSE : " Birth of a Renegade " ) According to another account , the Doctor and Susan left Gallifrey during a major conflict . Fearing that one of the sides would get the Hand of Omega , the Doctor and Susan stole a TARDIS and took the hand far away from Gallifrey . ( COMIC : " Time & Time Again " ) Other accounts indicate that the Doctor and Susan did not leave Gallifrey during or shortly after a major conflict . ( TV : " The Name of the Doctor " , PROSE : " Lungbarrow " , AUDIO : " The Beginning " ) The Doctor ' s missions for the CIA . Although the Second Doctor tried to avoid the Time Lords during his travels , he was forced to contact his people when he encountered a situation too difficult to sort out on his own . The renegade Magnus had allied himself with the War Lord s to collect soldiers from various battles from Earth history to create an army to conquer the universe . The Time Lords came and erased the War Lords from time . They returned all the soldiers and the Doctor ' s companions to their native times and places . The Doctor was put on trial for stealing his TARDIS and sentenced to forced regeneration and exile to Earth in the late 20th century . ( TV : " The War Games " ) The Doctor managed to negotiate with the CIA and he went for several missions for them before his exile . ( PROSE : " World Game " , " Players " ) The CIA discovered that the Second Doctor had created a paradox shortly before encountering the War Lords during a visit to London in 1688 . They sent an agent to meet with Jamie McCrimmon near the end of his life . The agent restored Jamie ' s memories and had Jamie tell the story of his visit to 1688 . The Doctor , Jamie and Zoe had met King James II shortly before the Glorious Revolution . Jamie had created an alternate timeline by encouraging James not to flee England . In the new timeline , the Doctor never met Jamie and therefore nobody encouraged James II to stay in England . The agent stabilised the timelines while the Doctor fixed history in the past . The agent then removed Jamie ' s memories of the Doctor and left . ( AUDIO : " The Glorious Revolution " ) The Doctor ' s exile had unforeseen consequences . His presence on Earth changed history when he inspired Liz Shaw to create renewable energy using alien technology . After she left the Doctor , Liz began working with the United Nations to create twenty one SunTrap stations across the planet . Helios last of the Solarians was attracted to Earth by the solar energy stations and took control of its governments . After trapping the Doctor , he shaped the population of Earth into the perfect army to get revenge on the Time Lords for destroying his species ' home Qqaba . Using technology from the Doctor ' s TARDIS , Helios ' battle fleet came to Gallifrey and burst the transduction barrier with plasma beams . The High Council of Time Lords hid from the attack in a fallout shelter and traced the invaders back to Earth . Realising their mistake , they sent the Third Doctor on a mission into his future to murder Helios before he could attack Gallifrey . The Doctor was successful and the Time Lords took him back to his " native " time with evidence of the potential future . He showed this evidence to Liz Shaw and set history back onto the correct course by convincing her to become a writer instead . The Gallifreyans became furious that their planet was almost destroyed by Time Lord meddling . The CIA redirected the revolution against the clergy . Several cardinals were executed and the Supreme Pontiff of Time was paraded around the citadel on a pike staff . Due to the Doctor ' s skill in saving Gallifrey , the CIA decided to continue to give him missions . To ensure the Doctor was kept busy between missions , they released from Shada . A messenger was sent to inform the Doctor that the Master was coming to Earth . ( PROSE : " Prisoners of the Sun " ) In year 5892 . 5 of the Rassilon Era , the Master stole information on the Doomsday Weapon from the Matrix . ( AUDIO : " Neverland " ) After he went to Uxarieus to get the weapon , the Time Lords temporarily fixed the Doctor ' s TARDIS and took him and Jo Grant to Uxarieus . The Doctor stopped the Master and destroyed weapon before it could be used . ( TV : " Colony in Space " ) The Time Lords were easily rendered helpless when Omega began to drain energy from Gallifrey , and were only saved by the intervention of the Second and Third Doctor . ( TV : " The Three Doctors " ) The Time Lords continued to give the Doctor missions after his third regeneration . After the Time Lords foresaw a future where Daleks became the dominant lifeform in the universe , they brought the Doctor , Sarah Jane Smith , and Harry Sullivan to Skaro during the creation of the Daleks . Ferain informed them that they had to stop Davros ' experiments and gave them time ring s to escape . The Doctor was unable to stop the creation of the Daleks , but still changed history by forcing Davros to rush the creation . ( TV : " Genesis of the Daleks " , PROSE : " Lungbarrow " ) Later , when the Doctor was travelling with just Sarah Jane , the Time Lords took control of his TARDIS and brought the two of them to several points in history . First , they were to taken to the planet Ecros , where they stopped the Daleks from drilling into the planet ' s core and turning it into a missile to fire at Earth . ( COMIC : " The Dalek Revenge " ) The Time Lords then directed them to Station 251 , a Bendriggan space dock which had been infected with a virus deadly to Bendriggans . The entire Bendriggan race would have landed on the station and died , but the Doctor made contact with the leading ship and saved the species . ( COMIC : " Virus " ) Finally , the Time Lords brought the Doctor and Sarah Jane to the Italian village Borosini in the summer of 1944 . There , they helped the villagers take back an entire shipment of artwork stolen by Nazi s . The Doctor brought the art into his TARDIS and returned it after the war ended . ( COMIC : " Treasure Trail " ) The CIA came to regard the Doctor as their most talented agent . When he was nearly killed on Beta Osiris , a Time Lord interfered with events and inadvertently saved the Doctor ' s life . ( PROSE : " Scarab of Death " ) The Master ' s return to Gallifrey . The Time Lords faced " the most dangerous crisis in their long history " when arranged the President ' s assassination as part of a plan to take control of the Eye of Harmony . The Eye was thought mythical , but in reality it resided underneath the Panopticon and continued to power all of Gallifrey ' s technology . The Fourth Doctor saved Gallifrey and left . ( TV : " The Deadly Assassin " ) After the Master . The Doctor ' s departure left Gallifrey in the midst of a constitutional crisis . Due to a legal technicality exploited by the Doctor , he was now technically President , the only other candidate , Goth , having been killed . For a time , Gallifrey seemed to have no President . ( TV : " The Invasion of Time " ) The Capitol was severely damaged when the Eye of Harmony was opened . Overseer Luther designed a grand reconstruction of the city . The Watchtower was built on top of the ruins of the Panoptican . The Watchtower was secretly a huge TARDIS that got its power directly from the Eye of Harmony which Luther planned to eventually use to take over Gallifrey . ( COMIC : " The Final Chapter " ) The Doctor eventually returned to claim the title as part of a plot to defeat a Vardan invasion . This invasion was a front , however , for a Sontaran invasion of Gallifrey . Although defeated , these invasions exposed weaknesses in Gallifrey ' s defences . ( TV : " The Invasion of Time " ) Gallifrey was again invaded , this time by the Dominator s , who " flooded " the Capitol with Quark s , 39 of which were destroyed by Leela and K9 Mark I . Though the Fifth Doctor would claim that there was never " any serious risk of us being conquered " , one of the Quarks was fitted with a bomb which heavily damaged the Capitol , necessitating the construction of a replacement building . ( AUDIO : " Time in Office " ) Once again , a group of Gallifreyans began pushing to make the President of Gallifrey a descendant of Rassilon . tried to use this movement to become the next president . He kidnapped Lady Larn , the last descendant of Rassilon , and allied himself with the Cybermen . He was going to gain the support of the rebels with Larn and use the Cybermen as his personal army . The Fifth Doctor stopped him before he got to Gallifrey . ( PROSE : " Birth of a Renegade " ) After years of planning their revenge , the natives of Exclon created a spacecraft strong enough to destroy the Time Lords . Using a gravity controller , they brought the Sixth Doctor ' s TARDIS to Exclon . They planned to use the Time Lords ' trust of the Doctor against them by saying that they had formed a peace treaty with the Doctor . While testing the spacecraft was being tested , it accidentally caved - in a cave in which the Doctor was being kept . He managed to escape before he could be used against the Time Lords and the natives of Exclon were all killed when the caves collapsed . ( PROSE : " Vorton ' s Revenge " ) The High Council detected violent temporal disturbances on Marinus caused by a worldshaper . They sent a Time Lord to investigate , but he was attacked by Voord . The Sixth Doctor , Peri Brown , and Frobisher followed a distress signal from his TARDIS to Marinus and found his corpse . They then left the planet , picked up Jamie McCrimmon , and returned . Jamie sacrificed his life to destroy the worldshaper and time stabilised . A group of Time Lords then came to the planet to clean up the worldshaper technology and prevent the Doctor from interfering with Cyberman history . ( COMIC : " The World Shapers " ) Later , the High Council decided to physically move Earth in order to preserve secrets stolen from the Matrix . ( TV : " The Mysterious Planet " ) These revelations caused a revolution on Gallifrey . ( TV : " The Ultimate Foe " ) By the Rassilonian year 10639 . 5 , centuries after the Capitol was redesigned by Overseer Luther , the Doctor was thought by some to be a myth . Elucidator Ziggi wrote the book " " . This group were surprised when a wounded Eighth Doctor was brought to Gallifrey by the Higher Evolutionaries with Fey Truscott - Sade and Izzy Sinclair . As the Doctor recovered , Luther decided that it was the perfect time to initiate his plan to rewrite Gallifrey ' s history . The Final Chapter assembled in the Watchtower over the old Panoptican . Draining power directly from the Eye of Harmony , the Final chapter journeyed to the Rassilonian year zero . The Doctor , Fey , Izzy , and Shayde managed to get into the Watchtower before it dematerialised . As the tower left Gallifrey it tore apart the entire Capitol . In the past , Shayde pretended to be the Doctor and jumped into the Watchtower ' s time column . He then redirected the Watchtower back to the now ruined present Gallifrey . ( COMIC : " The Final Chapter " ) Romana ' s Presidency . Romana II succeeded Flavia as Lady President ( PROSE : " Happy Endings " ) after a coup overthrew Flavia ' s government . ( AUDIO : " Lies " , " Indurgency " ) In year 6776 . 7 of the Rassilon Era , ( AUDIO : " Neverland " ) Romana was on a routine visit to Etra Prime when it disappeared . She was imprisoned there by the Dalek s for twenty years . ( AUDIO : " The Apocalypse Element " ) In year 6796 . 8 of the Rassilon Era , ( AUDIO : " Neverland " ) the Sixth Doctor arrived on Archetryx during the Archetryx Convention . Vansell was at the convention spying on the other temporal powers ' time machines . When Romana escaped the Daleks back to Gallifrey , they followed her and tricked Vansell into allowing them on the planet thinking them to be a deposition from the Monan Host . When on Gallifrey they slaughtered the Chancellery Guard as they needed the use of the Eye of Harmony , which was keyed to Evelyn Smythe ' s retina scan due to restricting the Dalek Movement around Gallifrey , in order to stop the Apocalypse Element ' s destruction of the Seriphia Galaxy this action killed all the Daleks on Gallifrey . ( AUDIO : " The Apocalypse Element " ) When Leela ' s pregnancy ended the Pythia ' s curse , Romana negotiated peace with the Sisterhood of Karn and ended the long rift that existed between them and the Time Lords . ( PROSE : " Lungbarrow " ) However , from within his tomb , the " Great Grey Eminence " was upset by the return of life to Gallifrey , so he made a pact with Faction Paradox to fold the Doctor ' s life back upon itself and undo the changes . ( PROSE : " Unnatural History " ) Rassilon ' s spirit guided the amnesiac Eighth Doctor to make " small improvements to the pattern of history , " after which Flavia was the current President and the Doctor went to travel with Sam Jones ( PROSE : " The Eight Doctors " ) rather than someone who would try to " screw " him . However , the Eighth Doctor was later able to remember both Flavia and Romana as the current President , ( PROSE : " Unnatural History " ) and he had memories of parents as well as being born of a Loom . Later , he discovered that Romana was the current President . ( PROSE : " The Shadows of Avalon " ) Anti - time crisis . On his travels , the Eighth Doctor saved Charlotte Pollard on the " R101 " . ( AUDIO : " Storm Warning " ) According to Romana and Vansell this action wouldn ' t normally have changed the Web of Time , but the Neverperson Sentris used this event to break into the universe and caused an anti - time incursion which stretched the web to its limits . Vansell set the Matrix to remembering the correct path of history . At this point the matrix was predicting only one future , Romana becoming Imperiatrix . ( AUDIO : " Neverland " ) A fleet of TARDISes began patrolling the Time Vortex to find the Doctor and Charley . ( AUDIO : " Embrace the Darkness " ) Using many Battle TARDIS es the Celestial Intervention Agency captured the Doctor and Charley and planned to use Charley as a way to enter the universe of anti - time . Vansell thought that Rassilon was in this universe and planned to bring him back . This was a ploy by Sentris as the casket containing the supposed Rassilon was an anti - time bomb , which the Neverpeople planned to detonate passed the transduction barrier , as Gallifrey was the only place in the universe that hadn ' t been tainted by anti - time . The Doctor used his TARDIS to contain the explosion . ( AUDIO : " Neverland " ) Irving Braxiatel was tasked with tracking the remnants of the Doctor ' s TARDIS , and notified Romana when it disappeared . She went with Leela into the Death Zone where she discovered a Matrix door to Rassilon ' s Foundry where she met the Doctor who was infected with zagreus . He banished himself to the Divergent Universe and Romana told him that he wouldn ' t be able to return to our universe . ( AUDIO : " Zagreus " ) Free Time Movement and the return of Pandora . Soon after on the planet Gryben , the Time Lords holding planet of unlicensed travel through the Time Vortex , the Free Time movement obtained a Timonic Fusion Device and planned to detonate it and destroy the Time Lords . The current Celestial Intervention Agency Coordinator Narvin sent Torvald and Leela there to discover its location . Whilst on this mission it was discovered that the Monan Host had agents on the planet , and if Narvin used the Battle TARDIS es in orbit to stop the escalating actions of the human Nepenthe he would have provoke the third space war . To counteract this Romana head to the planet knowing that if the TARDISes had to bomb the planet the action was just as they chose to kill their president . The Timon Fusion Device was found to be a contrivance and there was no real threat . Narvin then initiated a presidential inquiry into Romana ' s actions . ( AUDIO : " Weapon of Choice " ) Leela was then sent to investigate a temporal summit to see if it was a neutral as it was supposed to be , considering the actions of the Archetryx Convention . There Leela discovered that time was being rewritten to make the summit go smoothly . This removed the accidental death of an exotic dance by the Nekkistani ambassador Flinkstab and the murder of Pule of Unvoss . Leela told Romana of this and she arrived at the summit to expose Hossak as well as Narvin ' s actions after the Dalek attack on the Monan Host world as the Monan V ' rell was committing terrorist acts because of it . ( AUDIO : " Square One " ) By now Romana ' s inquiry was ready and Inquisitor Prime Darkel , who had previously resided over the Sixth Doctor ' s trial , was presenting the case for the prosecution . In obtaining evidence for his mistress , K9 Mark II accidentally set of a data bomb in the Matrix . It was extrapolated that Irving Braxiatel had set it there after the outcome of Project Alpha to expose Glower and the high council ' s actions in the destruction of Minyos . In discovering this information , Romana found that Braxiatel was transgressing the laws of time by conversing to his past and future selves in creating the Braxiatel Collection . ( AUDIO : " The Inquiry " ) Mephistopheles Arkadian invited Romana to France in 1939 , as she would find something useful about the Free Time movement and the CIA agent Torvald . It was also revealed to her that Andred was not dead . ( AUDIO : " A Blind Eye " ) Romana then decided to allow non - Gallifreyans to attend the Time Lord Academy much to the disdain of Darkel . It was at this time that an ancient evil from Gallifrey ' s past started to regain a presence by hijacking Narvin ' s brainwaves . As Leela was combing the catacombs after discovering that her husband was not dead , she encounter Pandora , Gallifrey ' s first Imperiatrix was manifesting itself in the Matrix . Romana had encountered Pandora in her youth and was given the Imperiatrix Imprimatur . Pandora wanted to make herself corporeal by taking over Romana ' s biogdata . K9 managed to squeeze her back into the Matrix . ( AUDIO : " Lies " ) Leela and Romana went to Davidia to recuperate , when a rogue TARDIS passed through the security barriers and a severely burnt Time Lord came out . ( AUDIO : " Spirit " ) On returning back to Gallifrey , Darkel manipulated the situation to put Castellan Wynter , who was inexperienced , in charge of the investigation of the burnt Time Lord . She also persuaded Romana to allow Braxiatel to become chancellor . Meanwhile the student Gillestes tried to poison the water in the name of Free Time , though Andred stopped her . K9 analysed the poison and found it to be the Dogma Virus . Pandora then invaded Wynter ' s mind who went mad and tried to stop her but drinking the Dogma Virus vial , crushing his hands and burning himself with K9 ' s laser becoming the burnt Time Lord he was investigating . Pandora managed to escape the matrix using Braxiatel ' s ambition , but Braxiatel stopped her . He had to be banished to stop her manifesting again , as she was still in his minf , and Darkel had his chancellorship stripped from him . ( AUDIO : " Pandora " ) Leela then started teaching at the academy as Braxiatel ' s last request . Here she taught about how to live in Time Lord society . With the new Chancellor Valyes , Darkel proceeded to try to find any ways to get the alien students of the planet . In the process she caused the death of Taylor Addison who was trying to keep his friends together throughout this time , he discovered a chamber under the Panopticon and was killed trying to find it ' s secrets . By this time Romana was conversing with Pandora , usually through K9 , to find a way to stop this insurrection . It was during one of these conversations she was briefly taken over by Pandora and killed Andred . Darkel openly challenged her presidency , and started an election . ( AUDIO : " Insurgency " ) After this challenge , there was an open terrorist attack on the alien students caused by Antimon . This gained Darkel many followers and a full high council session was called to deal with this crisis . Romana thought that the only answer was become the Imperiatrix , and become a dictator . Antimon revealed himself to be a Free Time agent and planned to kill the high council , Romana and Darkel . Romana had to free K9 of Pandora to allow him to stop the bombs , in doing this Pandora manifested herself completely through her first incarnation claimed her title back and declared civil war . ( AUDIO : " Imperiatrix " ) Romana spent most of the civil war destroying infrastructure of the capitol , on one such mission she instructed Leela and Narvin the destroy the Artron forum . After the failure of the mission , leaving Leela blind and Narvin severely injured , they fled to the outlands and to the Anomaly Vault s to find a way to defeat Pandora . In the vaults they discovered the CIA assassin Aesino and became trapped in the vaults . They escaped via the use of Braxiatel ' s transmat that K9 gave Romana to the academy . ( AUDIO : " Fractures " ) Pandora accelerated her attack by creating a technological variant of the Dogma virus . Darkel tried to trick Matthias into infecting Romana with the virus but instead infected Hallan . Romana then won the war by trapping Pandora in the Matrix and then wiping it clean . ( AUDIO : " Warfare " ) With the matrix lost to them and the technological variant of the virus infecting systems across the Capitol , Gallifrey was prone to invasion . The Sunari , Nekkistani and Warpsmiths of Phaidon took advantage of this and invaded to emancipate their students who were caught up in the war . Romana was incapacitated due to her defeat of Pandora , and Valyes became acting president and planned to resign and give the presidency to Darkel . Mathias used the situation to become de facto vice president of Gallifrey and negotiated a peace settlement . ( AUDIO : " Arbitration " ) There was a power struggle , and a presidential elections was called , with Romana , Darkel , and Matthias contesting the role . Matthias found a loophole and got Romana ' s candidacy revoked as she would have been impeached . Darkel also had Romana ' s presidency annulled up to the point Pandora escaped from the Matrix . Because of this Braxiatel returned to the planet as chancellor and became president . Darkel tried to get him to loose control of the part of Pandora in his mind , which occurred and she was killed as a result . Braxiatel then resigned and named Matthias as is successor . ( AUDIO : " Mindbomb " ) To gain capital for the planet , Matthias invited Mephistopheles Arkadian to the planet to sell of Pandora ' s temporal weaponry . Romana then started to investigate the Dogma Virus infestation , and discovered that a large proportion of the population were infected in this . Elbon was trying to find a cure . As part of the bargain with Arkadian , Romana was sent with Elbon to deliver the weapons to the buyers as they had the cure to the Dogma Virus . Meanwhile Leela and Narvin weren ' t sure about Arkadian and chased him to the Biog data Archive just when it was time scooped by Braxiatel . Braxiatel then asked for a decision on whether to use the cure for the Dogma Virus . ( AUDIO : " Panacea " ) Romana , Braxiatel , Narvin and Leela then went to the Axis to explore alternative Gallifreys for a better cure for the Dogma Virus . ( AUDIO : " Reborn " , " Disassembled " , " Annihilation " , " Forever " , " Emancipation " , " Evolution " , " Arbitration " ) They returned to the main universe after the Dalek invasion of the Gallifrey they settled on . ( AUDIO : " Extermination " ) On returning to a ruined Gallifrey , Romana encountered her next incarnation who told her that they needed to rebuild Gallifrey , and transplanted her capitol with the current one . Trying to keep the Eye of Harmony and Transduction barrier from destroying Gallifrey she accidentally killed the Unvoss i ambassador who came to the planet . When the balance between the Eye and the Barrier became unstable Romana managed to fix it but the dimensional forces started her regeneration . ( AUDIO : " Renaissance " ) This occurred in the Matrix . Romana returned to Gallifrey and discovered the state that the Dogma Virus had left the planet in . Having discovered a workable cure , she rewrote the biog data of the Time Lord s and destroyed the virus . It was during this time that Slyne , a Castellan from an alternate Gallifrey , opened the Matrix and allowed the Daleks to invade . Leela gave Romana a message from her future incarnation saying that her plan was ready . Romana lured the Daleks into the Matrix and sealed herself in there trapping herself . Narvin realised that Gallifrey would fall without her and sent Valyes to tell the Fourth Doctor to avert the creation of the Daleks . Not knowing that the Romana trapped in the Matrix was an avatar , Narvin accidentally started the Last Great Time War . ( AUDIO : " Ascension " ) War on Gallifrey . For centuries , Time Lords like Greyjan the Sane ( PROSE : " The Ancestor Cell " ) and Thessalia had been predicting that their civilisation would be ravaged by a great war . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) Matrix prophecies increasingly predicted that Gallifrey itself would be destroyed . ( PROSE : " The Infinity Doctors " , AUDIO : " The Crucible of Souls " ) After the Seventh Doctor regenerated into the Eighth , ( TV : " Doctor Who " ) these events came to pass . ( PROSE : " Alien Bodies " , TV : " The Night of the Doctor " ) Return of Omega . In Romana ' s last term in office , there was an anomaly growing in the Mutter ' s Spiral that was threatening creation . She discovered that the Adherents of Ohm were still active on Gallifrey and that they were planning the return of Omega . One of their members Tauras took Celestial Intervention Agency operative Ace to Earth and used the Hand of Omega to create a black hole to Omega ' s domain . Omega then possessed Ace , then Tauras after they entered Omega ' s domain . Narvin and Romana soon followed and discovered that Omega had escaped , using Ace ' s TARDIS . Romana , Ace and Narvin tried to follow but were trapped in the black hole until Romana was rescued by Irving Braxiatel . ( AUDIO : " Intervention Earth " ) After the return of Omega , a war devastated Gallifrey . ( AUDIO : " Enemy Lines " ) War with the enemy . Romana III created the Nine Gallifreys in preparation for Gallifrey ' s war with a foe known only as the Enemy . ( PROSE : " The Shadows of Avalon " ) Before the destruction of the Eleven - Day Empire , her Gallifrey was destroyed by the Doctor during an attack by Faction Paradox . ( PROSE : " The Ancestor Cell " ) On another Homeworld , the planet ' s fiercest renegade returned claiming that he had been tortured by a group planning to attack the Great Houses . The then - President went to the hypothesized enemy base to disprove the renegade ' s claims , but only their head came back . After Umbaste ' s brief presidency , the renegade took power and became the War King . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) The Last Great Time War . Growing hostilities between the Time Lords and the Dalek empire escalated into a war that would be remembered as the Last Great Time War . In the early days of the war , Rassilon was resurrected and instigated as the president of Gallifrey . ( PROSE : " Engines of War " ) After more than 400 years of war , ( PROSE : " Engines of War " ) the Time Lords grew mad , and sought to end time itself to free themselves from physical bodies . To avert their destruction , the Time Lords sent a four - beat signal into the Master ' s mind and then sent a White - Point Star diamond to 2009 Earth . With the drumming as a signal and the diamond as a connection , , who had survived the war , broke the Time lock at the end of the war and pulled a group of Time Lords through to Earth , and also pulled Gallifrey through . However , Gallifrey was returned to the last day of the Time War inside the Time lock when the Tenth Doctor destroyed the White - Point Star within the Nuclear Bolt that was generating the signal . ( TV : " The End of Time " ) During the Eleventh Doctor ' s timestream , he and all of his prior incarnations ( as well as his successor incarnation , unbeknownst to him ) came together to freeze Gallifrey and the surviving Time Lords in time ; and transferred Gallifrey to a pocket universe , " like a painting " , where it was safe from the Daleks , who destroyed themselves . ( TV : " The Day of the Doctor " ) Due to the memory of these events being wiped from every incarnation before the Eleventh Doctor , the Ninth Doctor believed himself responsible for the destruction of both the Time Lords and Gallifrey . ( TV : " The End of the World " , " Dalek " ) After the Time War . While the Time Lords were hiding in the pocket universe , most believed them to be dead . ( TV : " The End of the World , " et al ) Their position as keepers of the Web of Time was fought over by many time - active races , including the Cybermen , the Sontaran s , and the Unon . The Time Agency eventually asserted themselves as the new protectors of time . ( COMIC : " Weapons of Past Destruction " ) After the Eleventh Doctor ' s TARDIS was destroyed by the Silence , a number of cracks in the fabric of reality appeared in the universe . ( TV : " The Big Bang " ) The Time Lords began reaching out through a crack on the planet Trenzalore ; sending the message " Doctor who ? " in order that the Eleventh Doctor might speak his true name and return them to the universe . The message was received by a great number of species . Some came to Trenzalore to fight the Time Lords should they return . ( TV : " The Time of the Doctor " ) Others , such as the Voord , feared that the Time Lords would restore history to as it was before the Time War and hid . ( COMIC : " Four Doctors " ) Rather than restart the Time War , the Doctor refused for hundreds of years . The Time Lords did save the dying Doctor ' s life by granting him the a new cycle of regeneration s , allowing him to regenerate into the Twelfth Doctor before closing the crack and sealing themselves away in the pocket universe . ( TV : " The Time of the Doctor " ) Shortly afterwards , the Time Lords and Gallifrey left the dimension they were frozen in , returning to the universe , but were now at the extreme end of the time continuum , " for its own protection " . ( TV : " Hell Bent " ) They restored Marinus to as it was before the Time War . ( COMIC : " Four Doctors " ) They hatched a plan to get the Doctor to confess what " the Hybrid " was . Mayor Me , under Rassilon ' s orders , ( TV : " Hell Bent " ) tricked the Twelfth Doctor into having a teleport bracelet attached to his arm , and was teleported ( TV : " Face the Raven " ) inside his confession dial where he was tortured to confess what he knew about the Hybrid . Instead , he gradually tried breaking out of a wall of azbantium inside the dial through repeatedly burning his old body to create a new one . ( TV : " Heaven Sent " ) After approximately 4 . 5 billion years , ( TV : " Hell Bent " ) the Doctor broke free . ( TV : " Heaven Sent " ) Rassilon was then dethroned from his position by the Doctor and the Time Lords , and the Doctor later ran with Clara Oswald to a later period of Gallifrey in a TARDIS . ( TV : " Hell Bent " ) It was eventually revealed that after the failure of the Final Sanction , the Time Lords fixed the Master ' s " condition " stemming from his botched resurrection . He then left Gallifrey in his TARDIS in " a mutual kicking [ him ] out " . As a result of the Time Lords intervention in this way , the Master regained his health and original personality . ( TV : " The Doctor Falls " ) After the end . New Alexandria , the planet on which the Crystal Bucephalus was located , was built in the ruined remains of Gallifrey . ( PROSE : " The Crystal Bucephalus " ) So was Ardethe . ( PROSE : " Deadfall " ) Christine Summerfield wrote " Dead Romance " in the ruins of an abandoned Gallifrey after escaping the bottle universe ( PROSE : " Dead Romance " ) and before joining Faction Paradox . ( AUDIO : " The Eleven Day Empire " ) According to one account , apparently 60 billion years after 2367 AD , at the end of the universe , Gallifrey had been destroyed and Winkle ' s Wonderland had been relocated there . The Divergence made an attempt to break free at the end . ( AUDIO : " Zagreus " ) 5 minutes before " Hell " , Gallifrey was maintained by a reality bubble when Me was the only being left in the ruined Cloisters . Me watched star s die , and later left Gallifrey at the final moments before the universe ' s end with the Twelfth Doctor and Clara Oswald in a TARDIS after the Doctor ' s memory of Clara was wiped by a neural block . Clara and Me later returned to Gallifrey , " the long way around " . ( TV : " Hell Bent " ) Other realities . There were an infinite number of possible versions of Time Lord history . In every single reality , Omega became trapped in the anti - matter universe . In one history , Rassilon never existed and Omega was the sole founder of the Time Lords . In another , Rassilon was a woman and Omega ' s lover . In another , Rassilon continued to rule Gallifrey after his death from within the Matrix . ( PROSE : " The Infinity Doctors " ) In " a tiny reality " , Gallifrey was not a planet , but a diamond that drifted through space . ( AUDIO : " Zagreus " ) In an alternative timeline , Rassilon failed to finish the Eye of Harmony before his death and Gallifrey never achieved time travel . ( AUDIO : " Forever " ) In a timeline created by the Black Guardian , the Doctor never left Gallifrey and became a President . Because the Doctor never interfered with their history , the Daleks grew to become more powerful than the Time Lords . The Time Lords lived in fear of the Dalek Empire and tried to appease them . ( COMIC : " Time & Time Again " ) In another alternate timeline created by the Sirens of Time , the Knights of Velyshaa conquered Gallifrey . However , the Fifth , Sixth and Seventh Doctor s , with the help of the Temperon , averted this . ( AUDIO : " The Sirens of Time " ) In an alternate timeline where the Dalek s were peace - loving academics , the Time Lord s were on good terms with them , their President having been cured by Dalek surgeons . ( PROSE : " The Ripple Effect " ) In a timeline Timothy Dean showed John Smith to prevent him giving the Aubertide s the pod containing Time Lord biodata , the Aubertides had conquered Gallifrey . With the power of regeneration they multiplied quickly , and once they went to Gallifrey using the Doctor ' s TARDIS they took over with sheer force of numbers . A gigantic crystal memorial was constructed for Aphasia . In an attempt to get information about the Matrix Greeneye tortured the President by beginning to cut off her head , but stopping before he could prevent her from regenerating . ( PROSE : " Human Nature " )