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Rim Wars

The Rim Wars were a series of conflicts between Centro Systems and various governments and groups in the Rimward Territories, many in the Outer Rim. The Centro Military attacked, besieged, and/or invaded the moons of Europa, Titania, and Titan, as well as attacking the abandoned extra-solar spaceship the Magellan.

The Rim Wars were largely a long string of defeats for the Centro Military, which weakened it's perception of military supremacy across the Sol System. Centro went through three head commanders over the course of the wars:

Admiral Melinda Talon led assaults on the Magellan, and on New Alexandra on Europe. Both assaults relied heavily on ground assaults by the Centro Army and Centro Marines, and were both dramatic failures resulting in heavy casualties. Talon was demoted after her failures, and Admiral Ng was given command.

Admiral Sandra Ng led an assault on Olympic Station over the moon of Titan. Ng believed that the Centro Space Navy should lead an assault that ignored the possibilities of civilian casualties and bombard any targets. Unfortunately for her, though fortunately for the civilians, this led her to lead an entire Centro fleet into trap where they suffered huge losses of ships and personnel, including Admiral Ng and the entire crew of her flagship the Bonaparte, and most of the upper level fleet command with the exception of Rear Admiral Charles Grayson. Negotiations for the safe exit of the remaining fleet was negotiated by Grayson and Sergeant Zhang Han who led a tactical team into Olympic Station and captured the Olympian Emperor.

Commodore Cornelia Carthage was given command of the final phase of the Rim Wars: the assault on the moon Titania held by the slaver group the Vigilance. Cornelia was young and inexperienced, and given the command with limited resources and the expectation that she would fail dramatically, buying time for Centro to create a new plan and build public sympathy for the continuation of the war. However, Carthage annihilated the Vigilance, with Major Zhang Han leading the ground operations.

The massive victory allowed Carthage to leverage her power to force the Index and Olympia into submitting to Centro rule. This surprise turnaround led to skyrocketing careers for both Carthage and Zhang, as well as twenty years of unquestioned Centro supremacy until the Martian Revolution.
Quantum Whisk

The Quantum Whisk was an item that appeared to be a kitchen implement, owned by Lady Aesculapius. The whisk was purple! It could aid in finding locations, and was used by Graelyn Scythes inside the Plume Coteries' library to open a portal. ( White Canvas ) When not on her person, Aesc stored the whisk aboard her Factory of Crystal in the Sanctum.
Cá Bảy Màu

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Cousin **Cá Bảy Màu** was a human member of Faction Paradox who originated from Melbourne during the early Ghost Point period. He was genderfluid. She was part of a small Faction cabal with Axastyakis, Mullion, Hole, and Amara. Cá Bảy Màu's mask was made of fish bone. (PROSE: *What Keeps Their Lines Alive*)

For a time, Cá Bảy Màu was assigned to live in Auteur's Town along with the rest of his cabal and a few hundred more Faction agents. (PROSE: *White Canvas*)
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Talinata Softworks

Talinata Softworks was a software company founded by Heirum J. Whitehead in New Jersey on Earth in 2172. Under lead software designer Alton Dragonet, they developed the revolutionary WeN-D AI software released in 2190 that would go on to become the standard base code for nearly all future AI systems. The company's logo was designed by Whitehead's young child.

Talinata Softworks also developed Alternate Reality software and technology ( A Taste of Reality, The Night of Enitharmon's Joy.), as well as the Judicator line of robots.

Heirum J. Whitehead refusal to accept Shiori Nakatomi's founding of Centro Systems, and the complete ownership of all companies by Centro, led to his exile to Mars. Dragonet, however, stayed on Earth.

In Songbird's Dawn, Alice "Songbird" MacLeod would unearth a prototype Judicator robot to oversee the trial of Graelyn Scythes by the World Revolutionary Council.
Hole (What Keeps Their Lines Alive)

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Cousin **Hole** was a robotic member of Faction Paradox. It was made of rusty metal and clay; for hands it had wire clamps. It was created to serve tea, but over years it began to rust and break down. It had three system programs.

Hole was part of a small Faction cabal with Axastyakis, Mullion, Cá Bảy Màu, and Amara. (PROSE: *What Keeps Their Lines Alive*)

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Shiori Nakatomi

**Shiori Nakatomi** is the founder, president and CEO of Centro Systems. She was born in 2152 in Tokyo, Japan, and became interested in global politics and corporate structures at an early age. In college, she studied political science, and in graduate school, she studied business management, leading her to write her thesis on a possible merging between the two worlds. Her dream was to use global capitalism to create a company that would monopolize the market and provide resources to the people without having to worry about competition from other companies.

In 2187, at the age of 35, she founded Centro Systems and immediately began putting her plan into action. First, she monopolized the communications industry, buying out other companies and establishing subsidiaries left and right, then she moved on to other markets one by one. When she thought she had a good handle on Earth, she expanded to Mars and began supplying the domed cities there with food, water, medicines, etc. all for a price. Her ambition would not be satisfied until she had a flourishing corporate empire, and that is exactly what she built: under her leadership, Centro was untouchable, and they became an economic and political force to be reckoned with across a good portion of the solar system.
The Forgotten Heroines of 10,000 Dawns Big Takeover! (short story)

***The Forgotten Heroines of 10,000 Dawns Big Takeover!*** was the first story in the 2020 *Forgotten Heroines of 10,000 Dawns* April Fools' Day event. It was written by James Wylder.

## Plot

Pathway emerges into Dawn 5 out of a pile of trash, startling a passing Ashlyn Oswin. Before Ashlyn can get a handle on what's going on, Miranda appears as well out of one of her spray-paint portals. Tense banter about jumping into garbage piles is interrupted by the appearance of Shona, from Dawn 6, who relates that she simply happened upon a portal to another reality while out on a walk and decided to check it out.

Making their way to a café, the four women are headed off by the Tourist, an edgy-looking dimension traveller who reveals that she was the one who gathered them here today. The metafictional meddler explains that Pathway, Miranda and herself are escapees from the 10,000 Drafts, with Ashlyn and Shona also getting short-changed in the “narrative” created by “Mr Wylder”.

She invites them along on a rip-roaring adventure to make people remember them, whether or not they have to die trying, aboard the Black Pyramid, the Tourist's ship which can travel through narrative itself.e broadcasting center on the View

### Characters

* Ashlyn Oswin
* Pathway
* Miranda
* Shona
* The Tourist

#### Mentioned

* Mr Wylder
* Zeus
* Graelyn Scythes
* Lady Aesculapius
* Anne-Laure Tuduri
* Johannes Chazot

### References

* The Tourist describes herself as a member of a species called the Elders, whom she says are Draft versions of the Firmament. Another Draft variation on the same concept are the God fought by Miranda.

### Continuity

* The characters discuss PROSE: *10,000 Dawns* itself, of whose existence the Tourist is aware due to her metafictional nature.
* The Forgotten Heroines head for the View, whose broadcasting center they mean to highjack to make themselves known to the entire multiverse. The View first appeared in PROSE: *Winter's View* in 2018.

## Behind the scenes

*The Forgotten Heroines of 10,000 Dawns Big Takeover!* was released on March the 31st, 2020 for free on the *James Wylder, Writer* website. It was the first appearance in any completed *10,000 Dawns* media of Pathway, the Tourist and Miranda, all of whom were characters in early, unpublished drafts of the project that would become *10,000 Dawns*.
Mister Sprinkles

**Mister Sprinkles** is a cat owned by Graelyn Scythes. He is grey with green eyes. He is very cute. He likes listening to Mozart. He is a completely ordinary cat with no special powers, intellect, or abilities.

Mr. Sprinkles was adopted as a kitten by Graelyn as a child after her failed suicide attempt, as her therapist thought having a pet would help her. Mr. Sprinkles was her constant companion before she gave him up for adoption so she should work at Project Atlantis. Graelyn regretted this decision, and after joining Dawn, re-adopted him. He now lives on Spiral.
Xiz

The **Xiz** were an alien power in the world of Redacted Pinorva, which existed inside the 10,000 Drafts. Redacted had just foiled an invasion of them (which Uncle dealt to be a minor occurrence) when the Tourist and her Forgotten Heroines invaded their reality and caused its destruction, which was heralded, among other things, by Xiz ships crashing down from the heavens. (PROSE: *Breaking the Narrative*)
Great Assimilation

The Great Assimilation, often referred to as "The Council" after one of their two governing bodies, or TGA, is an inter-universal empire started in the 10,000 Dawns. The Great Assimilation is ruled by The Three Emperors, two humans and an alien, as well as a vast council made up of it's many member peoples. The Great Assimilation, unlike most groups inside the 10,000 Dawns, has no reservations about expanding outside it.

TGA is an extremely cosmopolitan culture, accepting anyone into their group as long as they are willing to submit to their government, and assimilate into their society. "Assimilation" is their most important virtue, with every member group adding something new and good to the collective whole, while taking on parts of TGA that benefit them, at least according to what the Council thinks is best for them.

Members of the TGA military have often been seen wearing black and gold uniforms.

Agents of TGA were present at the auction of the Book of Books in the Whoniverse where they offered the Strid a planet and place in the Assimilation in exchange for the book. The auction was thwarted by Rachel Edwards, however. (Rachel Survived)

The Great Assimilation signed and agreed to The Christmas Needle Agreement, which secured a lasting peace between the 10,000 Dawns and the Totality.

Around 2502, the Great Assimilation invaded the Prime Universe in an attempt to take over the 10,000 Dawns, their reasons for this are unknown, but their agents claim benevolence. (Death and Doubling Cubes)

Memnor was the leader of it's Intelligence Agency during their Incursion into the Prime Universe.
10,000 Drafts

The **“10,000 Drafts”** was a vernacular name for a set of unfinished universes put together by the Firmament when they began planning out the creation of the 10,000 Dawns, but which they eventually discarded. Rather than destroyed, the Drafts were locked away not “far” from the finished Dawns.

One of their inhabitants, the Tourist, somehow discovered the truth about her own existence. Dissatisfied with this state of reality, she broke out of the Drafts and into other universes, including the 10,000 Dawns, thanks to her ship the Black Pyramid, which could travel to other universe. After visiting a universe where all of the 10,000 Dawns were fiction created by James Wylder, and the various Drafts were represented as literal drafts — early story concepts developed and forgotten by Wylder, the Tourist returned to the Drafts to break out two more individuals, Pathway and Miranda. (PROSE: *The Forgotten Heroines of 10,000 Dawns Big Takeover!*)
Self Refraction (short story)

*Self Refraction* is the third story in the Lady

Aesculapius Series One Boxset. It was written by Laine Ferio. This story can be read by visiting this site.

## Synopsis

Jason Jackson, finding himself alone on the Factory of Crystal at the end of Jason and the Astronauts (Short Story), is at a loss as to what happens next when the ship's pilot alerts him that there's trouble that only Jason Jackson can solve.
Exploratory Fleet

The Exploratory Fleet was a division of the Centro Space Navy that focused on exploration, mapping, and search and rescue operations. The Exploratory Fleet is the last remaining part of the Utopian ideals that fueled the construction of the Zheng He and the Magellan. While some in the rest of the Centro Military look down on the Exploratory Fleet, it's done more to make a profit for Centro than any other division as they are constantly charting new places for Centro's mining endeavors.

While many join the Exploratory Fleet expecting adventure, many find the actual work of mapping asteroids that comprises most of their work fairly dull.

Jason Jackson was a member of the Exploratory Fleet.

Joining the Exploratory Fleet is often jokingly called "Star Fleet" by outsiders, as a reference to Star Trek's idealistic sci-fi space fleet.
Tales from the 10,000 Dawns

Tales from the 10,000 Dawns was the first 10,000 Dawns book put into print, originally as a Wizard World Comic Con exclusive. The book was later sold at other conventions as a preview of the 10,000 Dawns Project, but was later pulled from print by project head James Wylder as he was dissatisfied with the book's quality after rushing it to print to be part of the Wizard World exclusive program.

The book's stories have been or will  be all reprinted in some form in the future, most notably in Sidewinders, but also in Poor Man's Iliad and the upcoming A Red Aeneid.

it was edited by James Wylder and featured stories by Rachel Johnson, Miguel Ramirez, Josephine Smiley, Jordan Stout, Elizabeth Tock, and James Wylder. Rachel Johnson designed the cover.

## Stories

Stories Marked with (S) will be reprinted in Sidewinders, stories marked with (P) were reprinted in Poor Man's Iliad, and stories marked with (R) will be reprinted in a Red Aeneid.

* The Hell of Agreement  by James Wylder (R)

* A Magic Trick by James Wylder (R)

* Jan Khan Muu Ekhlel by James Wylder (P)

* Cornelia Carthage’s Good Shake by James Wylder (P)

* Rigged Game by Rachel Johnson (R)

* The Geru Ghara Encounter by Elizabeth Tock (R)

* Its Full of Stars by Jordan Stout and James Wylder (R)

* Playing With Fire by Miguel Ramirez

* The Adventures of Mister Sprinkles the Cat by James Wylder (S)

* Dance Dance Revolution by Rachel Johnson (R)

* The Day the Cats Spoke by James Wylder (S)

* And a Star Spun Dark by James Wylder (S)

* A Different Kind of Battlefield  by Jo Smiley

* Don Your Armor, Throw Down Your Sword by James Wylder (S)

* A Christmas Meh Raconteur by James Wylder (S)

* You’re Not Wrong if You’re Right By James Wylder (S)

* Knights and Dragons by James Wylder (S)

* Unwelcome in Nightmoore by James Wylder (S)

* Bad Friends, Better Weaponry by James Wylder (S)

* The Mask of Apollo by James Wylder (S)

* The Heaven of Discourse by James Wylder (R)

## Trivia

Notable for containing extremely early, and often poorly edited, drafts of stories that feature differences from their later reprinted versions.
Arbiter of Knives

The Arbiter of Knives is a Firmament who is in charge of the concept and existence of knives and things like knives in the 10,000 Dawns. She attempted to get the Book of Books from the Spiral Politic, but was thwarted by Rachel Edwards.

Knives was later sent to help resolve an issue on Gendar with Littlejohn of the Superiors where rogue members of The Knights of Sky had stolen an important relic under the guidance of Auteur.
The Aubrite

**The Aubrite** once tried to rewrite reality inside Redacted Pinorva's universe, which, unbeknownst to him, was actually unfinished. Later, as “Uncle”, Pinorva reminisced that the Aubrite were well worth the Voltrons, whom he disparaged as “B-movie villains at best”. (PROSE: *Breaking the Narrative*)
Doctor Who (series)

## *Doctor Who*

***Doctor Who*** is a long running multi-media series, centering around the titular television series. Its universe has crossoed over with the *10,000 Dawns* series on several occasions through spin-offs of *Doctor Who* such as *Faction Paradox* and *Cwej: The Series*.

## Synopsis

The core of the series focuses on the adventures of the titular immortal or nigh-immortal time traveller, wandering through the universe with human companions in a timeship known as the TARDIS and which (due to a faulty chameleon circuit) has the appearance of a 1960's British police box which is much bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.

## External links

* **Official *Doctor Who* website**
* ***Doctor Who* on the Tardis Data Core Wiki**
Jade Darkshadow

**Jade Darkshadow,** née Alexandrov, is an operative of the Index. She is a skilled liar and diplomat, and a known sociopath. Her preferred business is the information trade: she learned at a young age that secrets are the most valuable currency a person can have, and she became determined to gather as many of them as possible with no concern for the havoc she left in her wake. With this in mind, her primary goal is to become the most powerful person in the known universe.

Some of Jade's story has been published in *Poor Man's Iliad.*

### Childhood and Adolescence

Jade was born on Mimas, a moon of Saturn, to a refugee couple from Earth. At the age of eight, she ran away from home with her brother, Ivan, and together they started Gang Darkshadow, a gang of street children who carried out petty thefts and other minor crimes. Four years later, at age twelve, she moved her gang to the much larger moon of Titan in an attempt to conquer more territory. This turned out to be a mistake, since her brother was killed during a street battle there, launching Jade on a decade-long search for revenge.

### Adulthood

While on her revenge quest, Jade infiltrated several Rimward gangs and learned the secrets about their inner workings. Eventually, she sold these secrets to the Index in return for employment. Jade became a spy and information broker for the Index, and worked for them for several years. She worked diligently, but she had ulterior motives all along: to get closer to the Index's shadowy leader, the Librarian, in order to learn their secrets and eventually replace them at the head of the gang.

Controlling the Index became Step One in her master plan for gaining ultimate power.

### Relationships

Jade has left many broken hearts and betrayed ex-lovers in her wake over the years. One of these is Michelangelo Hypercube, with whom she had a daughter, Anya.
Jacob Black

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**Jacob Black** was a writer for *Faction Paradox* who contributed to *The Book of the Enemy* and *The Book of the Peace*. Outside of *Faction Paradox*, he has contributed to *10,000 Dawns* and given permission for characters from his *Faction Paradox* stories to appear in the *Dawns* novella *White Canvas*.

Black co-edited the 2019 charity anthology *Unbound: Adventures in Time and Space* and contributed a short story to it that featured the meeting of elements from the novel *The Infinity Doctors* and the comic story *The Tides of Time*.

## Bibliography

### *Faction Paradox*

* *A Bloody (And Public) Domaine* (in *The Book of the Enemy*)
* *The Story So Far...* (in *The Book of the Peace Dossier*)
* *Daring Initiation* (in *The Book of the Peace Dossier*)
* *Hark! The Herald Angels Sing* (in *The Book of the Peace Dossier*)
* *Going Once, Going Twice* (in *The Book of the Peace*)

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* Official Tardis Wiki account

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List of Dawns

This is a list of Dawns, or universes, that are part of or have interacted with the 10,000 Dawns.

## List

### Universes outside the 10,000 Dawns

* The Totality is the name used in the Dawns for the Whoniverse, or Spiral Politic. Residents of the 10,000 Dawns have interacted with denizens from the universe of *Doctor Who* and its spin offs, which exist as works of fiction within the Dawns.

* The “10,000 Drafts“, or simply the Drafts, are half-formed worlds rejected from the final form of the 10,000 Dawns but which retain some form of existence near them. The Tourist, Pathway and Miranda eventually managed to escape the Drafts and enter the mainstream Dawns.

* The Collective of the Retconning Crocodiles tried to infiltrate the Dawns by linking their cancerous Time Sewers to them, but were eventually repelled by the Firmament due to their interactions with the Tourist having attracted the Firmament's attention. Though it is not clear if they originated there, the Retconning Crocodiles have a connection to a different “Prime Universe” than the one of the 10,000 Dawns, in which the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids also originated.
Vo'lach Prime

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**Vo'lach Prime** was the second planet orbiting the star Sadr. It was the home of the Vo'lach. By the time Bernice Summerfield's expedition found it in the 26th century, the ecosystem had been destroyed and the Vo'lach were extinct. (PROSE: *Ghost Devices*)

In the 25th century, Frans Nils Kryptosa came to Vo'lach Prime as part of a larger investigation of "the graveyards of extinct alien races said to have visited and influenced the human race millions of years BCE" for *In Search of Ancient Mu*. (PROSE: *Down*)
Johanna Engel

**Johanna Engel** is from the Prime Universe. She was born in Munich, on Earth, and assigned male at birth. When she was a teenager, she told her parents that she was a trans woman, that she wanted to change her name to Johanna, and that she wanted to physically transition. Her parents did not allow this, so when she turned 18 she left home and cut them out of her life entirely. She traveled for a while before settling down in London, which is where she met her future wife, Maura Flanagan.

When Maura went away to fight on Mars, Johanna stayed at home and got a job in a small flower shop in London. She soon became very well respected there because she cared for the flowers with such tenderness, and because she created a space where people could forget about their troubles for a little while. Students from the anti-war movement began frequenting her flower shop just to talk with Johanna and take some time to recover from the constant protests. She began offering them tea or lemonade, and soon began keeping a refrigerator stocked in the back for them. By the time the Martian Revolution was over, Johanna was known throughout the East End of London as someone you definitely wanted to know.

After the war, Johanna became friends with Donovan MacLeod and Nathan Solano, and Maura convinced her to help them found the activist group the Working Class Heroes. Johanna's role in the Working Class Heroes was not much different from her role in the flower shop: she made sure everyone was getting what they needed, provided food and water to the protesters, and encouraged the other organizers to keep it peaceful. She became known as the "mom friend" of the Working Class Heroes.

### Relationships and Family

Johanna is a lesbian, and is in a dedicated monogamous relationship with her wife, Maura Flanagan. They have three kids together: Michael, the oldest, Nessa, the middle child, and Charlie, the youngest.
Jason Jackson

Jason Jackson is a pilot for the Exploratory Fleet of the Centro Space Navy. He traveled with Lady Aesculapius for a time, before going back to his job as a pilot. He was raised in Newcastle on Earth.

Jason frequently refers to himself as an ace pilot, a play on being both asexual and a skilled pilot.
Centro Sleeper Ship

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The Centro Sleeper Ship is the most common form of space travel in the 10,000 Dawns. Developed by Centro Systems at it's founding, back when travelers were still frozen and put to sleep for their trips across the solar system, the Sleeper was designed to be extremely sturdy, easy to repair, and adaptable. Every worst case scenario was imagined for the people who would be taking their journey asleep in the ships, and this careful engineering led to a final design so good that that while the tech inside it has been updated over the centuries, new models of the Sleeper look nearly identical to the ones that came out hundreds of years before. WeN-D AI's are often inside the main computers of Sleepers.

Sleepers can be found at every spaceport in the Solar System.

A Centro Sleeper called the Van Winkle was used during the trip to Triton that witnessed the 2227 Incident.
The Needle

**The Needle** was an object one light-year long and fifty thousand kilometres in diameter, with one end affixed to a black hole. (PROSE: *The Infinity Doctors*) It eventually became the center of a great empire at the end of the universe. (PROSE: *Father Time*, COMIC: *Miranda*)

The Needle's history often interacted with the Eighth Doctor, (PROSE: *Seeing I*, *Unnatural History, Father Time*) linking him to the life of an alternate incarnation. (PROSE: *The Infinity Doctors*, *Father Time*)

## History

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The Needle had been Savar's TARDIS, but was caught by the black hole's gravitational pull and was stretched out when he tried to escape it. (PROSE: *The Infinity Doctors*) Savar was later retrieved by the Time Lords, eventually having his eyes returned to him as well, (PROSE: *Seeing I*) but his TARDIS was abandoned and it had been stripped bare. The TARDIS had been a male, and he pleaded with Savar to not abandon him when the Time Lord realised escape was impossible. (PROSE: *The Infinity Doctors*)

Billions of years in the future, most of the people of the universe relocated to the Needle after a great disaster. (PROSE: *Father Time*) In the Post-War universe, the four surviving elementals created an empire centered around the Needle (COMIC: *Miranda*) and another Throneworld, and included planets like Endpoint. (PROSE: *Hope*, COMIC: *Miranda*) This empire decayed, eventually only ruled by the Emperor until his assassination. (PROSE: *Father Time*, COMIC: *Miranda*)

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One of the inhabitants of the Needle was Griffin, who interacted with the distant past. Daniel Joyce often worked with powers from the Needle for his Advanced Research Project. (PROSE: *Unnatural History*)

Miranda Dawkins travelled to the future and became the Empress of the Needle. Many assassination attempts were made on her life by Prefect Ferran. Miranda eventually had a daughter called Zezanne on the Needle. (COMIC: *Miranda*, PROSE: *Sometime Never...*)

The negotiation of the Christmas Needle Agreement was held on the Needle. (PROSE: *White Canvas*) Members of Dawn, the Great Assimilation, the Firmament, The Plume Coteries, the Totality, the Vo'lach, the Quoth, and the Original Mammoths were in attendance. Miranda granted asylum to The Hollow Childe and Citizen 176 on the Needle.

A few decades before the universe ended, the Needle was almost completely abandoned. The Doctor travelled there in search of Ohm. The end of the universe was a starless, grey void. (PROSE: *The Infinity Doctors*)
Rachel Survived (short story)

Art by Bri Crozier

The full text of ***Rachel Survived***

***Rachel Survived*** was the first story in *10,000 Dawns* to cross over with the *Doctor Who* universe. Written by James Wylder to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Faction Paradox, it featured the licensed use of Rachel Edwards from Andrew Hickey's *Head of State*.

## Characters

* Rachel Edwards
* Graelyn Scythes
* Archimedes Von Ahnerabe
* Johannes Englesberg III
* The Strid
* Arbiter of Eternity
* Arbiter of Knives
* Hyperion
* Galvin
* Mr. Sprinkles
* Graelyn Scythes' mother

## References

* Graelyn and Archimedes work for an organisation called Dawn, which operates in the 10,000 Dawns.
* Other groups in the 10,000 Dawns include the Great Assimilation, the Firmament, and Centro systems.

## Continuity

* Rachel sees a poster of the president. (PROSE: *Head of State*)
* Graelyn mentions the previous year's election. (PROSE: *Head of State*)
* The Book of Books, which crashed to Earth in the 18th century, tells of a War between powerful beings and the humans that interact with it. (PROSE: *Alien Bodies*, *The Book of the War*, et al.)
* The equivalent group of the Firmament in Rachel's universe have a name like "Cool Tower or something. Good Home? Exemplary Mansion?". (PROSE: *Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible*, *The Book of the War*, et al.)

## External links

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* ***Rachel Survived*** at Tardis Wiki
The Doctor

**The Doctor** was the protagonist of the television show *Doctor Who*.

Ashlyn Oswin noted that her and the Tourists' adventures seemed to echo the adventures of the Twelfth Doctor and his companion, Clara Oswald.

## Behind the Scenes

* Lady Aesculapius and the Tourist are both characters heavily inspired by the Doctor.
* While the Doctor is depicted as a fictional character in the *10,000 Dawns* universe, the universe the Doctor appears in, the Totality, has appeared in the franchise before, and the *Doctor Who* franchise has crossed over with *10,000 Dawns* multiple times.
* In *A Possible Prelude to an Ending*, there are multiple references to Lady Aesculapius possibly having met the Doctor. Namely, she paraphrases a line from the story *Hell Bent* about all stories happening and makes a note that she needs to "meet back up with you again, someday" when seeing a poster of, "a woman dashing into a blue box". However, the Doctor is never named due to the fact Arcbeatle Press does not have the license and thus this is unconfirmed.
Jhe Sang Ki

Jhe Sang Ki, AKA Kalingkata, was a Snowcutter who joined the Martian Military in the lead up to the Martian Revolution. He was born in the city of Ryuu on Mars. He was from the Prime Dawn.

He helped prevent the assassination of Zhang Han during a rally for the troops.

After the war, he joined the crew of the Hand of Glycon, and accidentally merged his consciousness with Jade Darkshadow, living for a time as the composite being Jakata.

Later in life, he married Hotaru Kowano, and had several children including Jhe Aladdin.
Faction Paradox (series)

## *Faction Paradox*

The ***Faction Paradox* series** is a standalone collection of audio, prose, and comic stories set in and around the War in Heaven and the titular Faction, both of which were introduced in Lawrence Mules' 1997 Eighth Doctor novel *Alien Bodies*. The series has officially crossed over with *10,000 Dawns* and *Lady Aesculapius* on several occasions, with various characters travelling between the 10,000 Dawns and the Totality.

## Synopsis

A terrible War in Heaven rages across Time for the control of History. On one side are the Great Houses, creators and curators of History as *we* know it; they are Elementals of Time, almost unknowable, yet petty and paranoid in their own ways. Opposite them is the Enemy, of which the less said the better. But others are caught in the web of the Time War, across Time and Space — starting with Faction Paradox, a tackily gothic voodoo-cult of time travellers who worship Grandfather Paradox and seek to bring about temporal chaos for the fun of it. …Or they *used* to, at any rate, until the War started looking to the higher-ups like a prime opportunity to seize greater power over the Universe than ever before, if only they play their cards right…

## Stories

A complete list of official *Faction Paradox* stories may be found on Tardis Wiki. This list only includes the stories which have crossed over with *10,000 Dawns*.

## External links

* ***Faction Paradox* on Tardis Wiki**
* ***Faction Paradox* on Faction Paradox Wiki**
James Wylder (The Forgotten Heroines of 10,000 Dawns)

**James Wylder** was, in one reality visited by the Tourist, a writer and “hack”.

## Biography

After escaping the 10,000 Drafts, the Tourist visited a universe where the whole of the 10,000 Dawns was only a fiction created by this Mr Wylder, whom she spitefully described as “a talentless hack who managed to get a bunch of actually talented people to team up with him to make some stories, and read them”.

While in high school, Wylder had developed the setting as that of a roleplaying game and created the fictional character of Pathway, but later abandoned the project in favour of a novel simply called *10,000 Dawns*. The protagonist was initially supposed to be Miranda, going up against the Gods, but Mr Wylder changed his mind and made her a minor character associated with Jonathan Vice.

In the final draft, the main character was Graelyn Scythes, the Gods had become the Elders and finally the Firmament, and the Tourist had been replaced with the much more colourful Lady Aesculapius. (PROSE: *The Forgotten Heroines of 10,000 Dawns Big Takeover!*)

The Tourist later claimed that her purpose in rampaging throughout the 10,000 Dawns and causing chaos was to attract the attention of “her creator”, who had “scrapped” her, Miranda and Pathway. (PROSE: *Breaking the Narrative*)

## Behind the scenes

The clear implication is that the Tourist visited the real world, or something very like it, with this James Wylder being a self-deprecating in-universe cameo of the real James Wylder.
Dawn 2,000

**Dawn 2,000** is a designation applied to one of the 10,000 Dawns.

## History

At some point before 2020, an extraterrestrial stalker infiltrated the planet and reverted the planet's technology to 18th century in order to impress Agatha Hawkings. (PROSE: *Aesthetic*) The stalker was defeated, but his race would invade the planet and a war would break out. (PROSE: *A Possible Prelude to an Ending*)

The Dawn was eventually saved from the attack after a spaceship crashed into the planet's surface. Though the official narrative was that Agatha, Robert Brick, and Sasha Billie had died in the process of saving it, due to intervention by Lady Aesculapius they survived. (PROSE: *A Possible Prelude to an Ending*)

## Notable Individuals

* Agatha Hawkings
* Robert Brick
* Sasha Billie
Black Pyramid

The **Black Pyramid**, or **the Pyramid**, was a mysterious artifact (somewhat similar to a Factory of Crystal). It was used to travel across dimensions by the Tourist, who was evasive about its origins, claiming that it was “a prototype”.

## Description

### Physical appearance

The Black Pyramid appeared on the outside as a pitch-black pyramid with green patterns traced on its surfaces. It could size-shift like a Factory of Crystal, going from the size of its mistress's fist to that of a shed or building, with a human-sized door sliding open to allow entry.

The interior was a large, black control room with gothic finishes and a catwalk which would have allowed for great camera angles of the Tourist at the controls, but didn't actually lead anywhere. (PROSE: *The Forgotten Heroines of 10,000 Dawns Big Takeover!*)

### Nature

The Tourist claimed that the Black Pyramid functioned by travelling “through narrative” rather than through conventional spacetime, which had allowed her to use the ship to escape the 10,000 Drafts. The Tourist could make it appear in front of her with a snap of her fingers, and control its size-shifting through force of will. (PROSE: *The Forgotten Heroines of 10,000 Dawns Big Takeover!*)

## Behind the scenes

The Pyramid is an early counterpart of the Factory of Crystal employed by the Tourist's behind-the-scenes descendant, Lady Aesculapius. It first appeared in a finished story in *The Forgotten Heroines of 10,000 Dawns Big Takeover!*.
Judicator

## Judicators(Dawn 3)

The Judicator of Dawn 3 (art by Annie Zhu)

**Judicators** were a line of robots was built by Talinata Softworks in Dawn 3 before its dissolution by Centro Systems.

## Nature

Notable models were the legal model, meant to act as a trial judge, and the referee model, which was given two extra arms but was otherwise identical to the legal model. The referee model was introduced after the legal model was banned from use in courts for being too fair: letting off petty criminals with slaps on the wrist, and enforcing harsh sentences on powerful men guilty of heinous crimes.

## History

In Songbird's Dawn (Dawn 3), the one and only Judicator was dismissed from usage when it condemned the entire Centro Board of DIrectors, but was was latertaken out of the Talinata ruins in New Jersey by Alice "Songbird" MacLeod, Chantelle, Jack O'Connor, Ren Yi, Shona Davis, and Trevon Lafayette to act as the trial judge for the World Revolutionary Council's prosecution of Graelyn Scythes. (PROSE: *10,000 Dawns*)

During their invasion of the 10,000 Dawns, the Collective of the Retconning Crocodiles acquired the Judicator and tried to have him try the Tourist. However, she and her companions cheated him by going back in Time and adding laws to all the Dawns' legal records saying they should be let go of under any circumstances. Thus, the Judicator acquitted the defendant and the Crocodiles' scheme was foiled. Their interference with the Dawns was later annulled by the Firmament. (PROSE: *Remembrance of the Judicator*)

A referee model named Cicero was left onboard Olympic Station after it was abandoned after the Olympics there, and later went on to be a major part of running the Oympia government on Titan. (SOURCE NEEDED)
Original Mammoths

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The **Original Mammoths** (PROSE: *White Canvas*) were the original generation of Mammoths, native to the pre-universe. They were ruled by Cernunnos and were the rulers of the painted warriors and humanity, who they created using breeding-engines. They had great psychic powers. (PROSE: *Cobweb and Ivory*)

In the pre-universe, there existed cities carved into gigantic ivory tusks where scholars and philosophers rode on the backs of steam-powered mammoth skeletons. (PROSE: *Christmas on a Rational Planet*) These cities were inhabited by the mammoths. (PROSE: *Cobweb and Ivory*)

After the Time Lords eradicated irrationality from reality and created history, (PROSE: *Christmas on a Rational Planet*) Cernunnos ordered the humans to hunt mammoths to extinction. A trace of loyalty to mammoths remained in humanity's collective memory for billions of years, and Cernunnos was eventually resurrected the posthuman era by a group led Linemica. These posthumans built a planet for the mammoths, Terra Primagenia.

Cernunnos found the remains of a pre-universe mammoth city with the unwitting help of Avus, and used it as a base to begin planning to undo the anchoring of the thread in a War against the Great Houses. (PROSE: *Cobweb and Ivory*)

In the post-War universe, Cernunnos was stranded on 1774 Earth in a weakened state. (PROSE: *The Adventuress of Henrietta Street*, *Cobweb and Ivory*, *Grass*, COMIC: *Political Animals*) As late as 1804, Thomas Jefferson believed that woolly mammoths still roamed the North American midwest and even sent an expedition to find one. (PROSE: *Grass*, *The Adventuress of Henrietta Street*)
Jeffrey Jefferson

**Jeffrey Jefferson** was an interdimensionally-infamous game show host who once hosted a music contest at the View.

## Character Overview

### Physical appearance

Jeffeson was described as “handsome, but not threateningly so”. When hosting the Battle of the Bands at the View, eh was dressed in a “modest suit of silver sequin”. (PROSE: *The Leader of the Band*)

## Biography

### Origins

Jeffrey Jefferson became unfortunately famous when he went through what he believed to be a lengthy tax assessment interview only to realise he had accidentally walked into, and aced, the audition for a job as a multiversal reality TV show host. He had, under this misapprehension, signed what turned out to be a binding long-term contract. (PROSE: *The Leader of the Band*)

### At the View

Jefferson was called upon to host a Battle of the Bands at the View in which the Gods of Warfarin and the Tourist's “Forgotten Heroines” (Pathway, Shona, Miranda and Ashlyn) entered, among others. Treyek the Thrice-Damned, Marie the Ripper and Shapeshifter Model-8 served as judges. (PROSE: *The Leader of the Band*)

## Behind the scenes

* Jeffrey Jefferson's first name is thrice misspelled as “Jeffery” in *The Leader of the Band*.
Man in Black

The Men in Black are a genetically modified hivemind group of supersoldiers and spies who provide their services to the highest bidder. They were created by by Dr. Aldair sometime around 2465.

## Biography

The Men in Black take their name from an old Earth organization. A single indiviudal has all of their body replaced with nanite technology, save for their brain, which is left intact and uploaded into a collective network. This process may be preformed with or without the indiviudal's consent. They have the ability to reshape their bodies at will.

A Man in Black had an encounter with Hickory Mallory twenty years in her past, and therefore twenty years before their creation, due to a time travel incident (Rigged Game).

A Man in Black worked with the Vigilance and Maximus Ruthridge to smugle slaves onboard the Magellan. They were later killed by Mallory (Rigged Game).

A trio of Men in Black set up a meeting with Lady Aesculapius and Blanche Combine on the Magellan in an attempt to seize posession of Lady Aesculapius' Factory of Crystal. The meeting was then interrupted byAya Rodriguez and Josie, and the four fled in the Factory (No Holidays, Please).

## Appearance

Each Man in Black shares the same physical appearance, as they dress in black suits and hooded black cloaks. A mask is worn to protect their one weak spot. This mask is ocassionally decorated by a Man in Black who still retains some of their individuality.
White Canvas (novella)

***White Canvas*** was a *10,000 Dawns* Christmas Special novella which was the second story in the series, after *Rachel Survived*, to cross over with the *Doctor Who* universe. It was released as part of *A 10,000 Dawns Christmas*.

Written by James Wylder with the permissions of Lance Parkin, Simon Bucher-Jones, Nate Bumber, Jacob Black, Niki Haringsma, and Stuart Douglas, the novella featured characters and concepts from *Faction Paradox*, the Virgin New Adventures, the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures, and *Short Trips*.

## Characters

* Graelyn Scythes
* Auteur
* F.I.D.O
* Archimedes Von Ahnerabe
* Artillo Brinzo
* Painted warriors
* Kinan Jans
* Gideon
* Hole
* Celeste Roth
* The Hollow Childe
* Lady Aesculapius
* Citizen 176
* Alice Macleod
* Jhe Aladdin
* Jack O'Conner
* Sergeant-Instructor Littlejohn
* Cá Bảy Màu
* Axastyakis
* Mullion
* Coloth
* Marissa
* Skinflint
* Manuel Salazar
* Miranda Dawkins
* Taranis
* Ambassador Galaxy Violet

## References

* Groups of the 10,000 Dawns include Dawn, the Firmament, and The Knights of Sky.
* Dawn are based in Spiral.
* Lady Aesculapius has a Quantum Whisk.
* F.I.D.O. mentions Sandifer.
* Gendar is home to the Gendar.

## Notes

* *The Gendar Conspiracy* was released after *White Canvas* as a prequel to the story, giving more detail to Littlejohn's investigation of Gendar and the Vo'lachs' actions prior to the Christmas Needle Agreement.

## Continuity

* Auteur and Gideon originate from PROSE: *A Bloody (And Public) Domaine*.
* Hole, Cá Bảy Màu, Axastyakis, and Mullion originate from PROSE: *What Keeps Their Lines Alive*.
* The painted warriors, Original Mammoths, and Plume Coteries originate from PROSE: *Cobweb and Ivory*.
* Sergeant-Instructor Littlejohn originates from PROSE: *The Short Briefing Sergeant's Tale*.
* Auteur's bookshelf has *Dracula* (PROSE: *A Bloody (And Public) Domaine*) and *Head of State*. (PROSE: *Head of State*, *Rachel Survived*)
* Auteur and Gideon refer to "the Empire". (PROSE: *Interference - Book One*, AUDIO: *The Eleven Day Empire*, et al.)
* Auteur's favourite kind of brush is made from the hair of an animal from Vo'lach Prime. (PROSE: *Ghost Devices*)
* Coloth says that he is an Ulk-Ra. (PROSE: *War Crimes*)
* Coloth briefly takes the form of a cactus-person. (PROSE: *Cobweb and Ivory*, *A Farewell to Arms*)
* The sky is orange as a hint of Auteur's homeplanet. (TV: *The Sensorites*, et al.)
* Graelyn sees Miranda Dawkins by the Berlin Wall. (PROSE: *Father Time*)
* Taranis speaks telepathically. (PROSE: *Cobweb and Ivory*)
* Graelyn and F.I.D.O visit Auteur after his skin is stolen (COMIC: *Once Upon a Time-Lord*) and help him connect with Faction Paradox. (PROSE: *Going Once, Going Twice*)
* Miranda Dawkins is the Empress of the Needle. (PROSE: *Father Time*, *Sometime Never...*, COMIC: *Miranda*)
* Miranda tells several anecdotes about her father. (PROSE: *Father Time*, *The Gallifrey Chronicles*)
* The negotiation of the Christmas Needle Agreement is attended by representatives of the Quoth (PROSE: *The Death of Art*) and the Vo'lach. (PROSE: *Ghost Devices*)

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Monsters Among Us

***Monsters Among Us*** was a free anthology published on Arcbeatle Press' website. It was released on October 31st, 2020, and was marketed as a Halloween special.

It would later appear in *Making Spirits Bright: Halloween and Winter Tales from the 10,000 Dawns* alongside *How to Survive the Winter*.
Galaxy Violet

Ambassador **Galaxy Violet** represented the Quoth at the Christmas Needle Agreement. Resembling a floating disk of purple and yellow the size of a dime, Galaxy Violet was a large group of subatomic Quoth. They thought that Miranda Dawkins was a just negotiator.

While on the Needle, Galaxy Violet briefly talked to Graelyn Scythes and remarked on the impressive turnout of representatives from throughout time and space. (PROSE: *White Canvas*)
Companions

Lady Aesculapius has had many travelling companions on her journeys, this page lists characters who traveled with Aesc, and played a significant role in her adventures. (That is, she didn't simply transport that person from place to place, or cameo.)

* Graelyn Scythes
* Archimedes Von Ahnerabe
* Coloth
* Auteur (1 Story)
* Blanche Combine
* Jason Jackson
* Nemesis (1 Story)
Wer Heart yeth

uma cyborgue líder de um grupo de mercenários muito conhecidos,conhecido por fazer de tudo e sempre se sair na melhor.

tem varias teorias sobre a historia dela,tipo ela ser um robô e ter matado uma mulher para colocar seu celebro nela,ou ela ter sido atacada e terem substituído as partes massacradas por partes robóticas,até mesmo uma historia dela ser um holograma,tudo isso é teoria mas não falam sobre a antiga historia dela,todos sabem mas parece que ela sabe oque vai acontecer antes de acontecer,a historia dela é sobre a 5 anos ela apareceu sem ser convidada em uma republica presidencial,furar o centro do rosto de todos no lugar e amarrar eles de ponta cabeça,menos o presidente que ficou amarrado pelo pescoço na sacada da republica,apos isso a policia foi atras dela e simplesmente voltaram e apagarão o nome dela do registro de crimes ela realmente pré-vê o futuro,e sempre se sai impune,os mercenários que trabalham pra ela realmente são únicos,treinado desde dos 17 anos é com implante de monstros lendários,eles são realmente inigualáveis,eles realmente trabalham por prazer,a melhor soldada é a filha de Wer Heart Y. a Fyon Heart, o pai nunca foi encontrado mas tem suspeitas que é um soldado de dentro do grupo,a filha dela na primeira missão matou todos do lugar e espancou um homem até tirar a informação que precisava e apos saber o matou,isso nos seus 13 anos,hoje ela tem 15 anos e tem um grupo próprio dentro do grupo dos Heartred,dizem que a família Heart é uma família de alienígenas mas isso é apenas teoria da conspiração.
Venus

Venus is a planet in the Sol System, and it SUCKS. It's too hot on the surface to really do anything, the winds, acid rain, and electrical storms also suck, and the one time anyone tried to build a city there? Yeah guess what it didn't go well.

Nakatomi City technically is still there, now called the City of Broken glass, but it's run by Benedict Gillen and he's not exactly the most reasonable or stable person there is. Nakatomi City was the site of an experiment by Centro that resulted in severe damage to the city, and the loss of contact with it from the outside world. Sentinel St. John and his sister Sophia St. John escaped the city together during the evacuation as children.

Above Venus is the Wright Brothers Shipyard, the biggest manmade structure in existence with a population larger than most moons. The majority of ships used in the solar system are built in it.