Simia KK98 Simia KK98 was an ice planet on the frontier in time . During the War , it became one of the few Time Lord colonies . Geography . Simia KK98 was covered in ice , but it notably had a psychedelic aurora that ceaselessly lit the sky with stripes of brilliant orange , turquoise , ( PROSE : " Alien Bodies " ) and dark black . The reflections of the sky on the snow made it seem blue and gold , The sky caused hallucination s in most humanoid s , ( PROSE : " Dead Romance " ) even driving the first Gabrielidean scouting mission to the planet completely mad . To cancel this effect , neural suppressors were wired into the eyes of the human suits of the Nth Platoon . ( PROSE : " Alien Bodies " ) The planet was uninhabited before colonisation , although it did support basic fungal life . Cwej ' s employers built numerous rocky fortresses on its surface , plus one huge central city . There was a six - armed statue of Rassilon outside the fortress , which housed the entrance to a bottle universe . ( PROSE : " Dead Romance " ) The planet was located in the Simia system on the edge of the Homeworld ' s noosphere . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) History . Early in the War , the enemy thought the planet had strategic importance , so the Time Lords deployed the Nth Platoon of the Gabrielidean military to attack a small automated enemy outpost there before going to War Zone One on Dronid . They were protected by reinforced humanoid suits ( PROSE : " Alien Bodies " ) and temporally - active biodata , but the enemy found a way to sabotage the skin - suits ' thermal lock s , ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) and the entire platoon was killed by the enemy ' s combat satellite s . One soldier was visited by the Doctor , who was acting independently of the High Council and spectating the battle . After the Doctor left , enemy agents rescued the soldier and turned him into a Shift . ( PROSE : " Alien Bodies " ) Homunculette ' s House spent months sealed into silos under the permafrost of Simia KK98 , waiting for enemy probes to finish scanning the surface . They passed the time trying to stop themselves from thinking , by getting drunk or driving themselves mad . ( PROSE : " Alien Bodies " ) In the early days of Faction Paradox ' s Remote project , Simia - KK98 was the site of a battle between the Remote and forces from the Great Houses . There , the Remote attacked the arctic fortress of the occupying House agents ; however , prepared only by action - packed yet formulaic war transmissions , the Remote ' s charge embarrassingly failed as they each ran straight into the Houses ' defensive positions in the heroic assumption that a one - in - a - million chance of survival was a good set of odds . Since most of them drifted off after the first attack , there were large numbers of survivors , but as they all went their different ways , most of them were never tracked down . ( PROSE : " The Book of the War " ) Later , Simia KK98 was turned into a colony by the Great Houses for use as a hiding place if anything ever befell their homeworld . ( PROSE : " Dead Romance " ) The Time Lords kept Marie there in a box for the first decade of her life , making sure she couldn ' t move into the vortex or the physical world . ( PROSE : " Alien Bodies " )