Bowship

Bowships, or Bow Ships, (PROSE: ) were warcraft used by the Time Lords in their war against the Great Vampires, designed by a young Rassilon.
== Armaments ==
The primary weapon of a bowship was a launcher firing a "mighty bolt of steel" capable of killing a Great Vampire if it pierced it through the heart. (Great Vampires absorbed attacks from directed energy weapons and rapidly regenerated damage from minor projectiles.) (TV: , PROSE: )
They were also equipped with stasers and thoracite arrows. (COMIC: )
== History ==
=== Against the Vampires ===
Bowships were first used during Gallifrey's war with the Great Vampires. (PROSE: ) According to the Record of Rassilon, it was Rassilon who ordered the construction of bowships. (TV: ) Rival histories suggested he may have taken the idea from someone else. (PROSE: ) One account claimed the bowships were actually first constructed by the Mithras Hives whilst Rassilon was still a Commander. (COMIC: ) Another account suggested the idea for them derived from the discoveries of General Skellis. (PROSE: )
Rassilon himself piloted a Bowship against the Great Vampires and drove them from the galaxy. (PROSE: )
Bowships were given artificial intelligence, which ultimately played against the Time Lords. Some wanted compensation before attacking a Great Vampire. (AUDIO: )
Of the almost 700 bowships that went into this war, only 34 returned. (PROSE: )
=== Later use ===
Bowships were mentioned in the Record of Rassilon. (TV: )
The Eighth Doctor encountered a Bowship near Edinburgh during the 1890s. (AUDIO: )
Bowships were time-scooped for use in the Last Great Time War. (PROSE: ) They could not prevent the Fall of Arcadia. (PROSE: )
 was exiled from Gallifrey in a Bowship, (COMIC: ) classed by the Twelfth Doctor as a shuttle. (TV: )
Arriving in the Capitol after escaping the Cyberman invasion of Karn, the Doctor, asked for the bow-ships to be scrambled, only to find Rassilon, allied with the Cybermen. (COMIC: )
A damaged Bowship crashed into Terebek, and dragged the entire asteroid along with it as it performed time jumps. Jenny managed to repair it and used it to find the Twelfth Doctor. When white holes began consuming the universe, the Ninth, Tenth and Twelfth Doctors used the bowship to travel to the Void and stop the attack at its source, totalling the bowship. (COMIC: )
Category:Vehicles
Category:Gallifreyan weapons
Category:Gallifreyan spacecraft types
Category:Military vehicles
Category:Spacecraft in the Last Great Time War