Doctor Who Expanded Universe

The **Doctor Who Expanded Universe** was a parallel reality to the prime Doctor Who Universe that was the subject of RPs, one-shots, and connected material run by YoshiDinoX, SonicHedgehogX, ghostridergirl10, and KribyStarX. It had several key differences from the Prime Universe, though travel between the two was possible.

## History

The history of the DWEU was largely the same as the Prime Universe until the key branching point, the Thirteenth Doctor’s meeting with later-companion Chris and her subsequent regeneration. Prior to this, there were a few smaller branches, namely the Eleventh Doctor’s meeting with Spirit Osiris, the first twelve incarnations of the Doctor being stranded in the trap street pocket reality of Blood Moon Pass, and the Tenth Doctor’s traveling with Aphrodite Voughstrike.

The larger difference between the Prime Universe and the Parallel Universe was that the Thirteenth Doctor regenerated into a wholly different fourteenth incarnation than in the Prime Universe, and thus the timeline completely branched. This fourteenth incarnation later regenerated into an alternate fifteenth incarnation as well—the timelines never re-synchronized.

Several key differences arose from this entire timeline branch, and the events after the twelfth series of Doctor Who were entirely changed. The Daleks were restored twice (see Dalek Empire [Defense Drone] and Dalek Empire [Post-Time War]), the Cybermen became a greater entity, run by the Cyberiad, the War in Heaven happened much later than in the Prime Universe, with this War being drastically changed in the timeline as well, and with the identity of the Enemy being widely known.

Similarly to in the Prime Universe, after the War in Heaven the Universe was drastically changed. However, while in the Prime Universe it was completely rewritten into the Prime Post-War Universe, in the Parallel Universe the timeline branched, forming two versions of reality, one where the War in Heaven never happened and one in which it did, and its effects were visible and remembered. The latter reality became the prime Parallel Universe, while the prior one soon synchronized with the Prime Prime Universe. (Confusing, I know.)

Some specific changes are noted below.

In the Prime Universe, Sherlock Holmes was erased from reality by Faction Paradox after an adventure with the Seventh Doctor, while in the Parallel, this was avoided when the Fifteenth Doctor moved Sherlock and Watson to the 21st century trap street Baker Street.

In the Prime Universe, it was unknown the true identity of the Merlin Doctor, while it was widely believed Merlin never existed. In the Parallel, Merlin existed and was a true user of magic, while the Doctor took his identity briefly to battle with Morgaine.

In the Prime, Trap Streets were just alien dwellings on Earth, and there was only one known. In the Parallel, there were many, and they actively attracted alien or anomalous entities. Four well-known trap streets were Blood Moon Pass, Camelot, Baker Street, and a small town in Oregon.

In the Prime, the beings of H.P. Lovecraft’s mythology were believed to be fictional, while possibly based on the Great Old Ones. In the Parallel, the Great Old Ones actively inserted themselves into Lovecraft’s mind using the Somnifax. This was averted by the Fifteenth Doctor and Shadow Proclamation hunter Calypso Jonze.