Planet TARDIS (planet)

## Planet TARDIS

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**Planet TARDIS** was a planet created as a result of the collision between the Seventeenth Doctor and Jayanna IX's TARDISes. It was home to the zealous Tardisites, as well as a large host of spatio-temporal mutations formed from enemies previously encountered throughout the crash victims' respective timestreams.

## Characteristics

Formed around the collision of two TARDISes, Planet TARDIS possessed many unique characteristics. Mountainous and mineral-based, its largely rocky terrain often featured scattered TARDIS components of all shapes and sizes. Areas of vegetation and life existed, but were few and far between. In close orbit of a binary star system, temperatures remained extremely high on the planet's surface, leading to the use of the planet's rich supply of TARDIS coral by the native Tardisites to build dimensionally transcendental habitats, where conditions were most optimal for the survival of their species.

Beneath the surface was a complex network of tunnels, where the dimensional leakage from the planet's core led to all manner of spatial anomalies. Here the spatio-temporal mutations thrived, flickering in and out of being, and desperate to gain a foothold in this reality. The closer one got to the core, the stronger and more recent the mutations became. Similarly echoes of the Doctor and Jayanna could be found throughout, with those closest to the core remembering their final moments and those farthest having not even faced the Skithra together. (TV: *Planet TARDIS*)

## History

Jayanna, confident that she could pilot the TARDIS better than the Doctor, challenged him to a race between their TARDISes. Disaster struck, however, when they crashed into one another, trapping their TARDISes in a loop and being themselves obliterated in the process. Over millions of years, a planet rapidly formed around the TARDIS core, developing both unusual characteristics and native lifeforms.

Natives, formed from a combination of Time Lord DNA, TARDIS components and dimensional leakage, began to inhabit the surface, revering the Doctor and Jayanna as gods and awaiting their return across countless generations. When at last the gods returned to them, reincarnated after a great release of temporal energy, the natives (dubbed "Tardisites" by Jayanna) tried to dissuade the amnesiac Doctor and Jayanna from entering the tunnels beneath the planet's surface, fearing for not only their safety but the abandonment that would follow.

Unhindered, however, the Doctor and Jayanna left, both conquering the spatio-temporal mutations and releasing their TARDISes from their eternal loop, with assistance from their past echoes. To ensure the survival of the planet and its people after leaving, the Doctor successfully transferred the energy holding the echoes, mutations and tunnels in place into the planet's mineral-rich underground, melting it down into a molten core strong enough to sustain its gravity.

Leaving the planet behind, it later came to be known as "Planet TARDIS" in honour of its origins, and the Tardisites would flourish for generations to come, never forgetting the day they came face to face with the gods that gave them life. (TV: *Planet TARDIS*)