The Void The Void was what the Time Lord s called the emptiness found between all parallel universe s , different dimensions , and other realities . It was known to the Eternal s as " ' the Howling " and to others as " Hell " . The Void contained no light or darkness . It also featured no temporal or spatial dimensions ( neither " up " nor " down " ) , but the Tenth Doctor used some spatial language to conceptualise how the Void was " in between " all the universes which were " stacked up against each other " . Even time in most senses did not actually exist there . Anyone who entered the Void could choose to let eternity pass them by : they would " exist outside the whole of creation " and would be completely unaffected by events as major as the end of their home universe or the start of another . ( TV : " Army of Ghosts " ) All material which travelled through the Void absorbed a particular type of harmless background radiation , which the Doctor called Void stuff . The longer a material had been present within the Void , the more " Void stuff " it became saturated with . ( TV : " Doomsday " ) Void life . The Tenth Doctor asserted that no life existed naturally inside the Void . This did not stop Dalek s ( led by the Cult of Skaro ) and also Cybermen ( from a parallel universe the Doctor called Pete ' s World ) from successfully crossing through it . ( TV : " Army of Ghosts " ) The Twelfth Doctor discovered that the Fracture s were beings that lived inside the Void , and compared them to antibodies for the multiverse . ( COMIC : " The Fractures " ) Chronomite s naturally traversed space - time " riptides " and the Void . ( GAME : " TARDIS " ) According to ancient Gallifreyan myth , the Mi ' en Kalarash inhabited " the wasteland between realities " . ( AUDIO : " House of Blue Fire " ) The Terrordactyl s were native to the " Great Space - Time Void " . ( GAME : " The First Adventure " ) A memory changing alien known as Adam Smith claimed to have escaped from the Void . ( TV : " Adam " ) Daleks and Cybermen in the Void . A Void Ship was a spaceship which could enter , traverse , and exit the Void into other dimensions . Even the Time Lord s believed such a vessel to be a theoretical concept only , impossible to build in reality . However , in 2007 , the Tenth Doctor identified one as the object around which Torchwood Tower had been constructed , and explained its significance to the befuddled human scientists . Soon it was discovered that this mysterious bronze sphere had been created by the elite four - member Dalek group known as the Cult of Skaro . ( TV : " Army of Ghosts " ) The Cult had used it to flee into the Void to escape the impending destruction of the Dalek Empire in the Last Great Time War . Within it , they carried the Genesis Ark , a prison ship they had stolen from the Time Lords containing millions of trapped Daleks . They hid in the Void Ship until they were confident they could open the Genesis Ark . ( TV : " Doomsday " ) The Cult ' s Void Ship caused a " breach " in the universe and an adjacent parallel universe , making travel between them possible . This allowed the Doctor ' s TARDIS ( not itself a Void ship ) to crash - land in the parallel universe , which he would later label Pete ' s World . ( TV : " Rise of the Cybermen " ) The Dalek ' s Void Ship also created an unintentional " wake " which the parallel - Earth Cybermen used to cross over . ( TV : " Army of Ghosts " ) As the Dalek force ( freed from the Genesis Ark ) began to exterminate the Cybermen army in the Battle of Canary Wharf , the Tenth Doctor widened only one side of the Void breach . Since they were saturated in Void stuff , all of the Cybermen and all but 4 of the Daleks were sucked back into it . The breach then permanently sealed itself . ( TV : " Doomsday " ) The four Daleks of the Cult of Skaro escaped being hurled into the Void by means of an emergency temporal shift to Manhattan in 1930 . ( TV : " Daleks in Manhattan " ) Trapped in the Void , the Pete ' s World Cybermen stole or scavenged two things from the Daleks who were trapped with them : intelligence about the Doctor , and a Dimension Vault . Later , the destruction of the New Dalek Empire and their reality bomb somehow triggered an unspecified cataclysm inside the Void , causing apparently all of the Time War Daleks and the Cybermen trapped there to perish . Some Cybermen were ejected from the Void beforehand , however , and used the Dimension Vault to travel to 1851 London , where they built a CyberKing . ( TV : " The Next Doctor " ) Other information . The Fifth Doctor and Nyssa became trapped in the " dimension al interface , " the " space between worlds " after escaping a collapsing time bubble . ( AUDIO : " The Eternal Summer " ) When the Eleventh Doctor was , for a time , erased from existence by stepping into the cracks , River Song described him as being condemned to the never - space , the Void between worlds . ( TV : " The Big Bang " ) One of Rassilon ' s titles was " Ravager of the Void " . ( AUDIO : " Neverland " ) The Ninth Doctor jettisoned the Matryoshka drive powering Hesguard Institute into the Void , in order to put a stop to the use , and subsequent uprising , of Sin - Eaters on criminals . ( COMIC : " Sin - Eaters " )