Faction Paradox Faction Paradox , once known as House Paradox , was a time - active renegade Great House devoted to opposing to the Time Lord s ' traditional philosophy of rationality and stability . Founded by Grandfather Paradox , they were based in the Eleven - Day Empire and notably inducted members of the lesser species into their ranks and even their bloodline . They played a neutral role in the War between the Time Lord s and the enemy . ( PROSE : " Alien Bodies " , " The Book of the War " , et al . ) Most Time Lords - including the Doctor - dreaded the Faction . ( PROSE : " Alien Bodies " ) Iris Wildthyme described the Faction as " paradox - inducing psychopaths from the far future " ( PROSE : " Bafflement and Devotion " ) and " insolent children playing at being cultists , messing about with their shadows , and tying their timeline s into impractical knots " . ( PROSE : " Panda and the Airship " ) History . Origins . Grandfather Paradox , a member of the House of Lungbarrow , ( PROSE : " Christmas on a Rational Planet " ) seceded and created House Paradox about four hundred years before the War . The House was unpopular for their penchant for death fetishism ( which mocked the Great Houses ' pretension of immortality ) and due to members ' use of familial terms like " Grandfather " ( disdainful , since the Great Houses had been made sterile by the anchoring of the thread ) . Most offensive , though , was the House ' s open interest in perverting the Web of Time . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) The Doctor was in his fourth incarnation when he first started hearing rumours from Gallifrey about House Paradox . ( PROSE : " Interference " ) After the Grandfather founded the Eleven - Day Empire with the Gregorian Compact , ( PROSE : " Interference " ) he was arrested and imprisoned on the Time Lords ' prison . However , he was released during the crisis surrounding the Carnival Queen ( PROSE : " Christmas on a Rational Planet " ) and seceded House Paradox from the rest of Great House society , abandoning the Homeworld and adopting the mantle of " Faction " . They began recruiting members from the lesser species , becoming a cult on many planet s . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) After President Romana reconciled Gallifrey with the Sisterhood of Karn , lifting the Curse of Pythia , ( PROSE : " Lungbarrow " ) the Book of Lies said that , from within his tomb , the disgusted " Great Grey Eminence " made a deal with Faction Paradox to fold the Doctor ' s timeline back on itself and return Gallifreyan history to passionless sterility . The Faction agreed to do this in order to teach the Eminence the ways of paradox . ( PROSE : " Unnatural History " ) The Seventh Doctor encountered Faction Paradox near the end of his life . ( PROSE : " Alien Bodies " ) In his time , he thought of the Faction as a nuisance , obsessed with symbols , ritual , and breaking the rules . ( PROSE : " The Gallifrey Chronicles " ) Before the War . Around fifty years before the War , the Faction began acting as a criminal organisation on Dronid and around the universe . By twelve years before the War , they were freely peddling time travel technology to the lesser species . They also chose a homeworld for themselves , ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) which they thought their blood rites would protect from the Time Lords . However , the High Council wiped out most of the homeworld , ( PROSE : " Interference " ) as well as the Faction colonies on Dronid and elsewhere , ten years before the War . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) Cousin Shuncucker was one of the few survivors , and she carried Grandfather Paradox ' s shadow . ( AUDIO : " A Labyrinth of Histories " ) The leaders of Faction Paradox escaped to the Eleven - Day Empire , which became a community for the first time . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) Early in the War . From the Eleven - Day Empire , the leaders of the Faction decided to adjust their tactics and become more subtle in their interference with the lesser species , in the hopes of avoiding notice of the Great Houses . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) They began to set up voodoo cult s and secret societies throughout the universe , including the Order of the Rectangle , the Cult of the Black Sun and the Luminus . During this process , they encountered an Earth colony on the edge of human space in the 26th century where the inhabitants were all heavily connected to a medianet . The Faction , noticing that the celebrities of this world were not unlike the " loa " , infiltrated this medianet and primed it with their ideology , creating the first Remote . The High Council noticed and destroyed the colony , but the Faction rescued some followers from the planet , sending some off by themselves but bringing most to Anathema . The Faction hoped the Remote would be their front - line shock troops and help them destroy the High Council , ( PROSE : " Interference " ) but after a military failure on Simia KK98 in the second year of the War , the Faction implemented the Viewers and Listeners Protocols and set the Remote free . They also began Remote experiments in the Native American warrior tribe s . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) After Devonire failed to reconcile the Great Houses with Faction Paradox in the sixth year of the War , the Second Wave of the House Military began a campaign of sterilisation against Faction project - worlds and permanently severing the Faction ' s contact with the Remote . Only the Eleven - Day Empire stayed secure , but even there discontent began to rise ; building off of this , Cousin Anastasia founded the Thirteen - Day Republic in the War ' s eighth year . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) Rebuilding . In year 14 , the Star Chamber attacked the Empire with their analytical engine . As a result , much of the Eleven - Day Empire had to be rebuilt , and with it , Faction Paradox began its own slow rebuilding , focusing more on weapons research than defiance against the Houses . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) Involvement with the Doctor . Fifty years after the start of the War during the Cataclysm on Dronid , while the Corporation occupied the capitol , Faction Paradox tried to rebuild its powerbase in the smaller towns surrounding it , ( PROSE : " Alien Bodies " ) though the Mission there was far more concerned with ritual observance and collecting leftover time technology . It took the Faction ' s culture to religious extremes , often converting the desperate of Dronid . The Eleven - Day Empire sometimes sent new Faction recruits to serve their apprenticeship at the Mission . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) Sanjira led the Mission when the Relic was discovered there ; however , he didn ' t realise its importance and had seventeen - year - old Little Sister Justine dematerialise it into the Vortex . For sacrificing this important biodata , a spirit punished Sanjira by forcing him to kill his younger self . ( PROSE : " Alien Bodies " ) Little Sister Justine was returned from the Dronid mission - house to the Eleven - Day Empire to become a protege of the Godfathers . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) In her initiation ceremony to become Cousin , she chose a sword as her shadow - weapon and broke Faction tradition by choosing to not change her name . ( AUDIO : " The Eleven Day Empire " ) Subsequently , she was sent with Little Brother Manjuele to the mid - 21st century to reacquire the Relic at Mr Qixotl ' s auction . The Eighth Doctor was able to hi - jack the Faction ' s Shrine , which was essentially a proto - TARDIS , and use it to destroy the Kroton s before tricking the attendees at the auction into believing that the Relic had become a temporal paradox , setting up a scenario where it appeared that the Doctor had become an agent for the Celestis in his eighth incarnation when the Relic only became an agent just before his death . After failing to retrieve the Relic , ( PROSE : " Alien Bodies " ) Cousin Justine returned to the Eleven - Day Empire . ( AUDIO : " The Eleven Day Empire " ) By one account , a far future version of the Faction from near the end of the War ( PROSE : " The Gallifrey Chronicles " ) but before the fall of the Eleven - Day Empire ( PROSE : " The Ancestor Cell " ) had become an army to fight the Time Lords . From their Edifice , they attacked Gallifrey with their skulltrooper s and Uncle s . Since they had come from the future , they already knew how they would win this battle , and they were nearly impossible to fight . ( PROSE : " The Gallifrey Chronicles " ) They were led by a manifestation of Grandfather Paradox created due to the Doctor ' s infection with the biodata virus . The Eighth Doctor barely managed to defeat the Faction by draining the TARDIS of all its power by firing its ancient weapon systems , destroying the Faction and Gallifrey alike . ( PROSE : " The Ancestor Cell " ) Destruction of the Eleven - Day Empire . Fifty - two years into the War , the Sontaran s invaded the Eleven - Day Empire , planted a fusion bomb in the Stacks , and stole the Faction ' s biodata codices . Godfather Morlock guided Justine to pick up the fusion bomb with her shadow ; when it exploded , her shadow was destroyed , and Morlock granted her a replacement by helping her pick up the knife of the Act of Severence , which gave her Grandfather Paradox ' s shadow . ( AUDIO : " The Eleven Day Empire " ) Subsequently , Lolita consumed the Eleven - Day Empire , killing all members of Faction Paradox who resided there , with the exceptions of Justine and Eliza , who escaped in a timeship . ( AUDIO : " The Shadow Play " ) Cousins Shuncucker and ( AUDIO : " Movers " ) and Belle also lived after the destruction of the Eleven - Day Empire . ( PROSE : " Panda and the Airship " ) The film " " apparently foretold Lolita ' s consumption of the Empire and predicted that Godfather Sabbath would also survive . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) Cousin Isabella said there were several different versions of how the Faction was wiped out , but she was the only survivor . ( PROSE : " Spinning Jenny " ) Justine and Eliza turned to 1762 Europe for new blood , ( AUDIO : " Sabbath Dei " , COMIC : " Political Animals " ) hoping to be recognised as diplomats due to the relative recency of the Gregorian Compact . There , they took sanctuary with the Order of Saint Francis at Menmenham and became uneasy allies with Mary Culver against Lolita . ( AUDIO : " Sabbath Dei " ) Justine and Eliza eventually forged an alliance with the Osirian Court to neutralise the threats of both the demented Sutekh and of House Lolita . Sutekh ' s and Lolita ' s fates were to be bound for eternity within an Osiran pyramid , never to be released . ( AUDIO : " The Judgment of Sutekh " ) During this process , the War King attempted to reintroduce the Faction to the High Council as House Paradox , ( AUDIO : " Words from Nine Divinities " ) and Cousin Eliza became Horus . ( AUDIO : " Body Politic " ) When inducting his earlier self into the Faction , Richard Francis Burton made himself swear by " Horus , the reborn child from whose sacrifice our Faction owes its own rebirth " . ( PROSE : " Head of State " ) After the War . A few members of the Faction , led by Mother Francesca , survived the end of the War and attempted to rebuild the Faction in London , 1774 . ( COMIC : " Political Animals " ) In the City of the Saved . In the City of the Saved , the main Faction Paradox body was the Rump Parliament . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " , " Of the City of the Saved . . . " ) Undated events . Faction Paradox travelled back in time to participate in the Millennium War . ( PROSE : " The Quantum Archangel " ) Iris Wildthyme and the Shopkeeper encountered the Faction during their travels . ( PROSE : " Wildthyme and the Wolf " ) Technology . The Faction used a brand of technology which openly mocked the laws of reality , being apparently powered by a form of voodoo rather than any actual form of physics . They used a variety of travel technology , from time - travel ling shrine s mocking the basic structure of a TARDIS to massive warships converted from the skeletal remains of Daemon s . Incapable of reproducing themselves , the Faction tried to use a form of loom to create new members . While they did use the technology , it was eventually eschewed in favour of remembrance tank s and new converts rather than outright creating new acolytes . ( PROSE : " Interference " ) Godfather Morlock , one of the Faction ' s scientist thaumaturges , created devices such as the Tracking Knife , used to read the future in the entrails of animals , and the biodata virus , a repugnant creation designed to alter the timeline of the infectee so their biodata interpreted them as having been a Faction operative since " before " the infection . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) Society . Faction Paradox heavily emphasised the worship of Death and Family , both of which the Great Houses had discarded to more closely resemble god s . Paradox es were created indiscriminately and only served to exacerbate the conflict between the Homeworld and the Faction . One of their most blatant abuses of their time technology was a part of their induction rites , in which the inductee was sent in time to kill an ancestor before they had the chance to sire the descendant they came from . This created a living paradox out of the convert , making him or her harder to kill by time - based attacks . As part of their " familial " structure , the titles in the Faction were related to family titles , such as Little Brother , Little Sister , Cousin , Mother , Father , Godfather , and Godmother . The elder titles , naturally , were reserved for the senior or most experienced members . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) Inductees into the Faction from the lesser species renounced their former species for the sake of the family . ( PROSE : " Alien Bodies " ) The War King said that most members did not belong to the Homeworld by blood right , but they ' d been adopted by House Paradox and given the inherent advantages of all members of the Great Houses , so they were equal to even the members of the War Council . ( AUDIO : " Words from Nine Divinities " ) Mantra . Cousin Justine would occasionally repeat this mantra or prayer as a concentration aid to help her achieve manual tasks like opening locks . In the City of the Saved , the Rump Parliament adapted the mantra to better suit their environment . ( PROSE : " Of the City of the Saved . . . " )