Divergent Universe The Divergent Universe was a pocket universe that had no concept of time . It was home to the Divergence and other species . Rassilon kept it , among other pocket universes , inside his dungeon on Gallifrey . He considered it the most " significant " of the universes he held . ( AUDIO : " Zagreus " ) President Romana forced the Eighth Doctor to go to the Divergent Universe after he had been possessed by Zagreus . Charley Pollard made a leap of faith and joined him on his journey . History . Rassilon found the Divergence inhabiting our universe , and deduce d they would eventually surpass the Time Lord s in power . To prevent this , he used his new control over Time and Space to seal them away in their own reality . To keep them imprisoned to the End of Time , Rassilon installed a mobius loop which took all life out of that universe once every twenty to thirty millennia before regurgitating the universe in its original form . A side effect of this was the lack of Time as a linear concept within the universe — cause and effect ultimately had no meaning because no matter what happened things would always return to how they had started . Rassilon used the force of anti - time to craft a weapon capable of forever destroying the Divergence . He infected the Eighth Doctor with it , creating the Zagreus persona . However Rassilon ' s attempts to direct Zagreus failed and Zagreus hurled Rassilon into the Divergent Universe to directly confront his enemies . ( AUDIO : " Zagreus " ) Soon after , the Doctor exiled himself to the same universe to control his Zagreus persona . Rassilon extracted Zagreus from the Doctor , and then used both personas to break the cycle of destruction and recreation . ( AUDIO : " The Next Life " ) Description . Time in this universe flowed in a similar way to how it flowed in N - Space , from one moment to the next , but travel back and forth across the time stream was not possible . The inhabitants also had no understanding of the concept of time . ( AUDIO : " The Creed of the Kromon " ) One special planet , Bortresoye , was crafted by the Divergence as a " crucible world " for evolutionary experiments . Portions of many worlds were placed on it , accessed via interzone portal s . This world followed similar cycles as that of its universe , but at a vastly accelerated rate . ( AUDIO : " The Last " ) Other planets around the galaxies included Setarus and Ondrokkon ( warring neighbours ) , and Caerdroia ( the Divergence ' s main administration centre ) . ( AUDIO : " The Twilight Kingdom , Caerdroia " ) At the end of each cycle in the universe , a small blue planet would make its way through the nine galaxies , exterminating all life as it passed , per Rassilon ' s design . The Church of the Foundation worked in concert with it , preaching the doctrine " All things must die . " The universe could only end and reset once all life was extinguished . ( AUDIO : " The Next Life " ) Behind the scenes . The story arc . The term " Divergent Universe " also describes the story arc for the Eighth Doctor in audio . Broadly speaking its narrative begins in " Storm Warning " , the first Eighth Doctor audio story . This sets up the Doctor ' s transgression of the Laws of Time , which unleashes the anti - time he absorbs in " Neverland " . " The Time of the Daleks " is also a narrative precursor ; it establishes that the Daleks get caught inside the time vortex — an important point of both " Neverland " , which acts as the prologue for the arc , and " Terror Firma " , which acts as an epilogue . A strict definition of the arc , however , has it begin with the closing moments of " Zagreus " , as the Doctor and Charley exile themselves to the Divergent Universe , and continues through to the closing scene of " The Next Life " , when they return to the main universe . Other , later stories tie into the Divergent Universe arc , including C ' rizz ' s departure in " Absolution " and Charley ' s departure in " The Girl Who Never Was . " Unmade third season . The Eighth Doctor ' s time in the " divergent universe " was originally planned to go on longer than the eight audio stories produced . However , due to the series returning to television in 2005 , it was decided to end the arc early as so not to alienate any new listeners that Big Finish Productions might acquire as a result of the TV revival . Several of the Eighth Doctor audio plays released after " The Next Life " , the last story set in the " divergent universe " , were rewritten to take their new setting into account . However , some of these stories still feature remnants of ideas that seem more suited to the " divergent universe " arc , for example , the experiments and sealed off worlds as featured in " Scaredy Cat " . In an interview with fanzine " The Finished Product " , producer Gary Russell revealed that a third season of stories set within the divergent universe was planned and would likely have comprised of : A fourth and final season in the divergent universe was also planned that would have concluded with " The Next Life " .