The Doctor

**The Doctor** was one of the principal architects of humanity’s post-history existence. She helped develop the medical procedure that granted human beings effective immortality.

## The Doctor

### Aliases

The Reaper
Tapioca
Melba Kenner
Clarissa Reyes
Virginia Galveston

## Early Life

The Doctor was born and raised on the North American continent during an Information Age era. She excelled as a student, even after the untimely death of her father in her early teen years. She graduated top of her class at university and attended medical school in a city called San Francisco. She was considering the exact direction of her future medical career when she first encountered a fissure created by the Cataclysm. After witnessing a commercial airliner disappear into a fissure, she began an increasingly focused investigation into the phenomenon—an investigation that brought her closer and closer to The Engineer. Eventually, the two would traverse a fissure and enter the Torus.

## The Plan

After journeying to the Torus, The Doctor and The Engineer discovered that the Cataclysm that had created the fissures also destroyed the planet Earth across all timelines at a point in history approximately two hundred years after their original timeline. It was the Doctor who initially intuited the nature of the Cataclysm as a phenomenon that fractured time moving backward from its point of origin, with each fissure projecting backwards to create alternate timelines that then lead up to each fissure itself (often joining the branching realities created by those fissures). When The Engineer uncovered the extent of the damage caused by the Cataclysm to preceding eras and she learned that there were likely hundreds of billions of people living in divergent timelines, it was The Doctor who suggested the core of the plan: transplanting humanity to the stable timeline after the Cataclysm.

The Doctor studied the technology and databases available in the Torus and learned the basic principles of life extension available to that era’s medical science. As she continued researching the nature of aging and the varied technological interventions to retard aging employed in different timelines, she learned about promising research from a scientist named Montes in a timeline not far removed from her own. By comparing results and consulting with different timelines’ versions of Professor Montes, The Doctor was able to develop a regimen that made it possible to extend human life spans indefinitely.

At one point, the Doctor journeyed via starship to harvest a nearby neutron star. It is unclear at what period in relative history this neutron star was close enough to Earth to harvest, but it is unlikely to have been during historical times given the duration of her travel to and from the other solar system.

## Relationship with The Engineer

The Doctor recognized the Engineer’s initial attraction to her and was interested in a romantic relationship with him in return. She enjoyed teasing and flirting with him throughout their long association.

## Alternate Versions

A version of The Doctor from an alternate timeline was recruited via the Torus to assist Taffy in at least one mission. It is unclear if this is the same version of The Doctor who is eventually settled within the shell of the World Ship as that version said she “never saved anyone” during a meeting with The Engineer. Since their timeline was proximal to a primary timeline fracture, there were only two confirmed versions of The Doctor and The Engineer, so these may have been the same version of The Doctor and she simply did not consider her brief work with Taffy during that mission important enough to be associated with The Doctor’s broader legacy and celebrity in post-history society.