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THE HISTORY OF THE TIME LORDS PART II
THE TIME OF LEGEND
Rassilon Omega and the Other

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     This is a Time Line of Ancient Gallfrey, based off the listed sources.  It's dating system is based off the Gallifreyan year (which is the same as Earths).  Year Zero (0) is the year that (according to DWM) Rassilon created the Eye of Harmony.  According to the FASA RPG this happened 23 years after Omega's death. 
    I have no intention of infringing on anybody's ideas or property.  This Web page should be viewed as an advertisement for all the sources that went into making it.  I plan to create a  bibliography (and eventually even citations) when I get time.
    Note: the following information contains many spoilers for the TV Series, Novels and Audios.

    The following color code and terms are used:
information from the TV Series
                    (Including the Dimensions in Time, and Universal/BCC Telemovie, Scream of the Shalka)
information from the Novels
                    (Virgin, BCC, I Who (which isn't a novel but it's source material is))
information from The Infinity Doctors and some of Cold Fusion
                  (I put  The Infinity Doctors as an 8th Doctor sidetrip.  I admit I could be wrong.)
information from deliberately created alternate version of Doctor Who
                  (The Unbound Series, Death Comes to Time [Zagreus strongly implies that DCTT is an alternate Gallifrey the Rassilon deliberatly negated])
information from 'licensed' reference sources
                    (The Technical Manual, Monsters, and The Gallifrey Chronicles)
information from 'unreliable' sources:
                    (FASA's role-playing game, the Nth Doctor, Destiny of the Doctors (I don't trust them either, but you never know))
information from unofficial sources
                    ( Lawrence Miles' books, the Benny adventures)
information from speculative sources
                    (my own speculation, and other fan speculation.  Includes ideas from sites listed on my home page.)

?                  The event occurred approximately in this interval.
??               A pretty wild guess as to when this event took place.



The Triumvirate

-23.96      (the year Omega dies / day 14 / less then 1000 years before retiring)
                Rassilon is 1st President of the High Council and sits upon the
Kasterborian Throne.  Rassilon is the first and only President to hold the title Lord High President.  Ruling the High Council (and the Supreme Council) is the Triumvirate: Rassilon, Omega, and the Other.  Rassilon and Omega are politically opposed, but despite this they are friends.  Other council memebers include Lord Griffin, Jodelex and Prydonius.

??            The beginning of "the Great Days of Rassilon."  Various species, like the Urbankans, will remember Rassilon, though some will know him as Azaron, Razlon, and Ra. 

??            (before being entombed)
                Rassilon creates the new Gallifreyan social structure in the form of an oligarchy.
  The Constitution is written, and Rassilon lays down its five principles.  However under Artical 17 of the Gallifreyan Constitution any Time Lord can declare himself a cannidate during an election.

??            (during the Great days of Rassilon)
                Rassilon lays down 5 great principles. 

-23.96?    (shortly after getting married)
                Patience's husband (Omega) is very busy rebuilding Gallifrey.
 

??            (before the Quaba mission)
                Patience and the Other begin having an affair behind Omega's back.


??             (a long time before Deadly Assassin)
                The new President pardons several prisoners as his first act in office.  This starts a tradition that will last till the time of the Doctor. 


-23.96?     (During the time of Rassilon)
                 Fordfarding is the Castellan who works under Rassilon.  He becomes legendary for his obduracy and lack of imagination. 

-23.94      (the year Omega dies / day 23)
                Omega (with Rassilon's help) finishes creating both of the Hands of Omega.  (As far as the Doctor knows) These devices are the most powerful and sophisticated remote stellar manipulators that will ever be created.  They are designed to customise stars.
  It can be considered alive and has the abbility to fly under its own power and initiative.

-23.93      (the year Omega dies / day 26)
                The Temporal Scientist Vanderkerian and Omega discover the secret of time travel (After
Vanderkerian's death Rassilon takes credit for this discovery).  Rassilon creates the Equation of Rassilon (which allows travel in a Time Corridor).

-23.93      (the year Omega dies / day 29)
                Rassilon begins planning the details of the Qqaba mission. 
Omega begins to design the Eye of Harmony.  He relizes that the energy of the Eye must be releases as an osmotic stream by shifting the Eye slightly into the future. 

-23.89      (the year Omega dies / day 43)
                The Architect Rassilon begins designing the Citadel and the rest of the Capitol. 
The Citadel is designed to be an hourglass shaped fortress.

-23.86      (the year Omega dies / before day 50)
                Rassilon raise taxes, begin funding pure research,
and begins segregated schooling. 

-23.77   
  
(the year Omega dies / day 84 / after the Curse)
                Rassilon invents the Sash of Rassilon
which uses stasis halo technology.  The person wearing it is capable of surviving in a black hole without being thrown into a parallel universe of antimatter.  It also allows the wearer to absorb energy from the Eye of Harmony giving them unlimited regenerative powers.  It will be worn by the Lord President during ceremonial events and will be regaured by some as the holiest of the relics from Rassilon's time.  It will also adjust the wear's biodata to make it easier for them to access the Matrix. 

-23.71      (the year Omega dies / after the looms / before unlimited time travel / almost certainly after the Vampires are released / day 107)
                The Biosynthesist, Thremix, proposes the concept of rengeneration
and creates the Immortality Virus. 

??             The ceremonial armor of Faction Paradox is made of the bones of Vampiric Time Lords.  The Faction claims that these are the bones of Gallifreyans from an alternate universe where the Time Lords lost the Eternal Wars.  Others claim that the contamination happened in this universe during the Eternal War and thus the bones are also derived from the same universe.  Official Time Lord history claims that no Time Lord was ever infected with the V-Factor.  The Faction Armor could be made of failed experiments in developing Regeneration.  Alternately the Armor could be the bones of future Gallifreyans who finally succumbed to the V-Factor in the Immortality Virus.

-23.68      (before Susan leaves Gallifrey / day 117 of year of the year Omega dies)
            The Legacy of Rassilon (aka the Immortality Virus) is perfected by the Biosynthesist Thremix in secret. 
Regeneration was created to extend the already amazing Gallifreyan lifespan.  The Legacy of Rassilon creates self-replicating biogenic molecules that work ceaselessly to repair and prune damaged and malformed cells.  If the body is subjected to great stress, the permanently carried self-replicated biogenic molecules rebuild the body cell by cell causing a complete Regeneration of the body (and to a lesser degree) the mind.  After 12 regenerations the biogenic molecules begin to decay naturally.  The regenerative capabilities of a Vampire and the Immortality Virus are almost identical.  Many historians suspect that Immortality Virus might have been derived from the V-Factor.  Rassilon is quite obssessed in the possibility of immortality and funds Thremix's expeirments.  Rassilon keeps the discovery secret for now but makes plans to give the Immortality Virus only to Loom-Born (which Rassilon views as the elite of Gallifreyan society).  Once the Virus is ready, all of the Loom born will have 13 lives.  A Metamorphic Symbiosis Regenerator can be used to allow someone without the Immortality Virus to regenerate.  If someone tries to clone a Time Lord the clone will not have the Immortality Virus due to there lack of a symbiotic nucleus. 

-23.7?            (before I.M. Foreman leaves Gallifrey / before Executive Action)
            Rassilon secretly shares the Immortality Virus (aka the Legacy of Rassilon) with a select group of Gallifreyans.  Some of these Gallifreyans will later try to assassinate the Special Executive.
  Regeneration was still a relatively risky procedure at this point.  While regenerating a Gallifreyan's body might incorperate any foriegn Biodata it came in contact with. 
(Thus a Gallifreyan could regenerate and find himself to be half human.)   This problem was corrected before the Doctor's time.  Omega is giving the Immortality Virus.
 
??            (before leaving Gallifey)

                I.M. Foreman will acquire the Immortality Virus.

-23.68      (the year Omega dies / day 118)
                By this point Omega is probably well liked by the people of Gallifrey while Rassilon is probably hated. 
Omega is probably planning a democratic revolt against Rassilon.

-23.66      (the year Omega dies / day 123)
                Rassilon probably plots to kill Omega.

-23.64      (After the Minyan incident / after Omega has regenerated / after several other Gallifreyans have regenerated / before the Quaba mission)
                Rassilon, Omega, and the Other contemplate the newly create Hand of Omega and the future of Gallifreyan society. 
This remote stellar manipulator has the ability to customise stars.  It can be considered alive and has the abbility to fly under its own power and initiative.

 
The interior of a Prototype TARDIS

-23.62      (the year Omega dies / day 140 / before the Anchoring of the Web)
                Rassilon finishes designing the temporal flux control for the Power Mast that will receive the power from Qqaba.  It is mounted near the Panoptican.  Techicians begin developing the Chameleon Circuit.  Technicians (including Omega) begin
designing the first (Vortex based) Proto-Time Travel Capsule. 
The Type 0 Proto-Time Travel Capsules are constructed.   These will be the first Time Travel Capsules which will use the Vortex instead of Muon based  Interstital Motive Bridges.  They are powered by Tarranium.  The First Time Travel Capsules didn’t use matter for their shells.  They were almost pure forced-matter calculation and thus were composed of the equations of pure movement, making them the essence of transport.  They are Dimensionaly Immanent (ie smaller on the inside then the outside) because they didn't use warp matrix engineering.   It’s interior resembles the interior of the “Cushing Film’s” TARDIS.  By decree of Rassilon this and all future TT Capsulses will carry certain technology - including Banshee Circuits and the ability to track a vampire based on a blood sample. 

-23.48     (the year Omega dies / day 187)
                Possibly because of the rumor that Rassilon was a Vampire
Jelen attempts a coup to remove Rassilon from power.  It fails.

-23.44     (the year Omega dies / day 203)
                The Fleet of StarBreakers and Sunskipper scouts leave for Quaba.  The flagship of the fleet is the Starbreaker Aeon.  Omega's ships is the
Starbreaker Eurydice.  Lord Griffin and Jodlex travel on board the Aeon.  Only a handful of crew of these ships is over 10 years old, the rest are Newborn from the Looms. 

-23.44      (after Omega leaves for Qqaba / day 203)
                Under Rassilon's command, General Gimel leads the Watch to arrest or kill everone who could be a threat to him. 

-23.44      (the year Omega dies / day 204) 
                Omega's fleet arrives at the
Population III Q star named Qqaba in what will be known as the Sector of Forgotten Souls.  Qqaba is located 9.6 LY from Gallifrey in the constellation of AoAs part of the future Time War the Black Sun agent Fenris the Hellbringer (from 30,000 years in the future) arrives on the Aeon and sabotages all the Starbreaker's stasis halos to prevent the Gallifreyans from ever becoming the Lords of Time. 


              "The boundaries of Time and Space have been destroyed.  No longer are we mere Gallifreyans - from this instant on, we are the Lords of Time!"
                                                                                                                                                    -Rassilon

-23.43        (almost a decade after the Curse / 2 million years before TID? / day 205 / before the Eye of Harmony / after Omega served on Gallifrey's Council)
                Omega's assistant Vandekirian
(probably operating on Rassilon's instructions) sabatoges the Eurydice's fusion engines and is killed by Omega.  According to the history books Omega cut off Vandekirian's hand and put it in the Stellar Manipulator, dubbing it the Hand of Omega.  In reality he simply used the severed hand to activate the symbiotic key to launch the Hand of Omega.  The Hand of Omega is used to destroy a star named Qqaba in a supernova which then collapes into a singularity.  The collapse kills the Solarians who live on the surface of Qqaba. While Rassilon controls the power receiving mast the Eurydice leads the other Starbreakers towards the singularity.  The combination of Fenris's damage to the stasis halos and the Vandekirian's sabotage causes part of the Eurydice to break up and Omega to be sucked through what will become a black hole and into the universe of antimatter.  The ship becomes trapped between 2 universes and appears in the middle of a field of temporal distortion every 100 years.  Rassilon repairs the stasis halos on the other Starbreakers in time to prevent their destruction.  By this point Rassilon has the (possibly magical) power to emit ElectroDirection beams from his own body.  Fenris is hurled into the Vortex.  Rassilon recovers the Time Warrior Fenris' Directional Control Time Belt which he uses to discoveres the First Secret of Chronoambulatory Egress and master directional control of time travel.  This discover will lead to the an understanding of the glorious secrets of Time.  The survivors of the mission are bombarded with chronons from the destruction of Quaba.  This Time Energy anointing mutates their DNA creating a new helix that acts as a "fast line" which extends into the fourth dimension and maps the Time Lord into the Vortex.  Once linked to the heart of space time they have access to the Power of Creation and they are capable of changing their time state by thinking the right Block-Transfer Time Equation allowing them to interact with the deep-level process of the Fourth Dimension.  This makes them the first Lords of Time and one of the very few High Evolutionary species.  In the future legands will claim that the first Time Lords were true immortals.  Mother (probably the Matrix) claims to have back engineered the Time Lord species into existance so that she would have her own point of creation.  Rassilon uses his new powers to pass a new Law of Physics which seals the naked singularity of Qqaba behind an event horiozon.  Thus the Time Lords invent the first Black Hole.  The detonation creates the Veil Nebula.  He stops irrationality from escaping and repealing the laws of physics.  This detonation provides Time Lords with the initial power source for their experiments into Time Travel.  It is equivalent to the power radiated by a thousand suns. 

-23.43       While Omega and his crew are presumed dead Omega actually survives by shear force of will (and a side effect of Rassilon creating new physical laws).  Trapped in a universe of anti-matter, he discoveres that using the power of the black hole's Singurity he can create what ever he wants using a process called Psychosynthesis.   The lonlyness and feelings of betrayal Omega feels drive him mad.

-23.43      (when Omega dies)
                Many reguard the death of Omega as the point at which the new goverment starts to go bad.

-23.43      (the year Omega dies / day 206)
               
Patience sees the Starbreakers return from Quaba.  Patience will go on to live in the House of Lungbarrow for countless generations.

-23.43      (after they have a Power Source)
               
The Type 0 TT Capsules are now operational.  They recieve their power from (what will become) the Prime Eye of Harmony (or the Time Sun as it was known at the time).  This Artron Energy is broadcast though the Vortex to the Capsules.  The Space/Time range limit for these broadcasts define the Space-Time Parameters of TARDIS operation.  By modern times the forward Time Parameter of the  is about 3,510,000,000 IR (10,000,000 AD).  This defined the outer limit of time travel. 

-23.6~     (right after Omega's death)
                Rassilon constructs the Omega Memorial on top of the Citadel (tallest tower in the Capitol).  Qqaba is renamed Omega's Black Star. 
Vandekirian is vilified by the people of Gallifrey.  Rassilon takes credit for Vandekirian's discovery of time travel.

??            The song Rassilon's Lament is written.  It will eventually be used in conjuction with the Harp of Rassilon to open a hidden passage to the Time Scoop. 

??            A Fable about Paylix the Annoyingly Curious will become popular.  However nobody knows that Paylix was infact Omega.  In the story Paylix wanted to know everything about everything.  When he does learn everything about everything the whole universe stops and (in order to restart it) Paylix was exiled to another universe.

??           (Before the first Eye of Harmony, or the First Diaspora, or the first TARDIS)
               Using the Equation of Rassilon
The Time Program creates the Labyrinth and uses it to travel in time. 
The Labyrinth is the framework beneath normal time - and will eventually become the foundation of History itself.  The Labyrinth can be used as a primitive form of time travel, involving Time Corridors.  It consist of a network of open ended time corridors that connect numerous points in space and time to a labyrinth complex of corridors.  This interior complex of corridors might have been created by the Time Lords or possibly by the Eremites before the Eye of Harmony was created.  Later the Matrix's Secure Information Dump will be stored in the Labyrinth. 

??              (before warp matrix engineering, but after time travel)
                The Tachyon is first hypothesized on the nexus world Sol III (Earth).  The discovery is taken back to Gallifrey where it is developed into Gallifreyan tachyonics.
        

-13.83          (9.6 years after Omega's death / some time before the first Otherstide)
                The Other and Rassilon watch the destruction of Qqaba when the light reaches Gallifrey.

-13               (10 years before The 4-D War)
                The Time Lady Rema-Du
(daugheter of Lord Griffin and Jodlex) Begins training to recover Fenris from the Vortex's Zone of No Return.  The High Concil wishes to interogate him about the future Time War.  All they know is that becuase of the Time Wars, an unnamed species will attack Gallifrey (probably the Fenris incident) in retaliation for the things the Time Lords will do to them before the Time Lords have even heard of them in the first place.

-3              (20 years after Quaba detonates)
                The 4-D War: The Time Lords are involved in a time war with an unknown enemy.  The Time Lady Rema-Du (daugheter of
Lord Griffin and Jodlex) and the Special Executive (Cobweb, Millenium, Wardog, and Zeitgeist) recover Fenris the Hellbringer to aid the Time Lords in the War in Four Dimensions.  They learn that the Time Lords enemy in this time war is the Order of the Black Sun and that they are based 30,000 years after the Qqaba mission.  

??             (almost certainly after the Qqaba Mission)
                Rassilon develops a new plan to provide power for Gallifrey forever using super-radiant scattering.  He begins work on creating the Eye of Harmony.

??             (before the Eye was brought to Gallifrey)
                Rassilon
created an ebonite rod known as the Rod of Rassilon (sometimes translated as the Great Key).  It allows a Time Lord to open the Eye of Harmony or access its power mast in the Panoptican.  It will be stored in the museum and only carried by the President during ceremonial occations.  


The harnassing of the Eye of Harmony

   "And Rassilon travelled into the black void with a great fleet.  Within the void, no light would shine, and nothing of that outer nature continue in being except that which existed within the Sash of Rassilon.  Now Rassilon found the Eye of Harmony, which balances all things that they may neither flux, nor wither, nor change their state in any measure.  And he caused the Eye to be brought to the world of Gallifrey, wherein he sealed this beneficence with the Great Key.  Then the people rejoiced..."
                                                                                - The Book of the Old Time

-0.22         (23 years after the death of Omega / 3,500,000,000~ BC / probably after the Qqaba mission)
                Rassilon travels to Omega's black hole (aka Qqaba) in the Sector of Forgotten Souls.  He uses Amaranths and the Sash to enter Omega's Black Star.  He then uses a dimensional rift to
removes the black hole's nucleus and brings it to a micro-universe located under the Capitol's Panoptican (assembly hall).   Once there it is named the Time-Sun.  The Dimensional Rift remains in the Sector of Forgotten Souls in the center of massive amounts of dimensional instabilities.  It still intermittently connects that region of space with the event horizon of the black hole.  Thus the black hole can still be accessed every hundred years from this point. 

??              (after the Eye of Harmony)
                The first Amaranths are built by Time Lord
Maintenance Engineers to control the side effects of black holes by imposing rationality.


The Space Time Vortex

0.00        (a few short months after the Time-Sun is installed)
                Fearing that other races might create forms of meaning and causality that are hostile to Gallifreyan society, the Time Lords decide to anchor all of causality to fit their observations.  This was done by turning the Time-Sun into the Eye of Harmony. 
Working with the wisest of the Techno-Magi, Rassilon discovered the secret of Temporal Fission
and set the Eye of Harmony an eternal dynamic equation balanced against the mass of GallifreyRassilon had to find and assemble the Key to Time to anchor the Web of Time.  At the moment the Web is anchored the High Council stands before Omega's Black Star as it is transformed into the Eye of Harmony while other Time Lords in Proto-TT Capsules wait at the extreme boundaries of what would become the Noosphere.  The broadcast limits of the Eye of Harmony set the Space/Time range limit for these TARDISes and thus define the Gallifreyan Noosphere.  While the Time Lords' control of the Weak Nuclear Force extends only to the limits of this cluster of Galaxies, the forward Time Parameter of the Noosphere is about 3,510,000,000 RE.  The backward's limit of the Noosphere is a few thousand years after the Event 0 (the Big Bang).  These defined the outer limits of time travel.  The Web of Time, within the Space-Time Vortex, is constructed by Rassilon and the Other.  The Eye of Harmony creates a Universe of Positive Time, serves as an anchor for the continuity and causality of the Universe, and lockes down the Web of Time.  The creation of the Web of Time also creates Anti-Time - the opposite of  Positive Time.  Though given an anchor about which to turn the whole of History is currently undefined and filled with possibility at this point.  The Time Lords use the Eye of Harmony's control over the Web of Time and their abbility to manipulate the Weak Nuclear Force to define the rational laws upon which it functions.  Before this point Magic was used more often then science in the Unverse.  This Intuitive Revolution destroys Irrationality and Magic and prevents White Holes from existing.  The Gallifreyans cast out the irrational parts of themselves creating Cacophony (a being irrationality and magic) who is banished from the Universe.  Cacophony is a personificaiton of a potential Kuhn Paradigm Shift which alters how the concious mind collapses mixed-state events.  This lack of belief might have caused the destruction of flying horses, dragons, unicorns, faeries, slithy toves, bread-and-butterflies and other illogical creatures.  It is likely that that this effect if retro-active, which would explain the failure of the Pythia (and other prophet)'s powers.  The only magic-related power to survive is psionics because it operates on vaugly scientific lines.
        (NOTE: The Vortex's creation by the Time Lords was stated quite clealy in NAs, but subsequent books like Quantum Archangel have show that the Vortex is the 5th dimension and the foundation of the first 4 dimensions.  This would mean that it was formed during the Big Bang.  For this reason I'm assuming that the Time Lords actually created the Web of Time within the Vortex.)

??            (at the Dawn of the Universe / billions of years before the 17th century)
             The Carrionites are a race who can use words as their science to cast massive spells.  They also can use DNA replication modules (in the shape of voodoo dolls) to control people.  (possibly an outgrowth of Faction Paradox rituals or maybe surviving bits of Cacophony).  Legend claims they eat their own husbands and children.  They used greif and suffering to enhance their magic and attack hundreds of nearby planets.  They are banished by the Eternals, imprisoned in the
into the Deep Darkness, behind the 14 stars of the Rexel Planetary configuration.

0.00         (The Moment the Eye of Harmony was activated / shortly after the founding of the Panoptican / Intuitive Revolution Night is probably not New Year's Day)
                0.0 Local Dateline
The old Gallifreyan calendar is abandoned.  Rassilon's harnessing of the Eye will become known as a galactic legend and Gallifreyan society will be regarded as utopia by many lesser species.  This would be 3,503,412,399 BC in Earth terms.

0.00          (The day that Rassilon anchors the Time Lords to the Vortex)
                The Yssgaroth make their first attack on Gallifrey, destroy some of the machinery used to create the Eye of Harmony, leaving an impossibly massive empty space sitting under the Panoptican, with only the Eye of Harmony itself at the center of the void.  This void becomes known as the Caldera.

??          (a long time before the Spiral Scratch)
               The Time Lords build the Spiral Chamber to serve as a porthole to the Spiral at the nexus of the Space-Time Vortex. 

??            Rassilon meets the Guardians.  He is informed that even as the Time Lords have authority over the Spiral Politic so to do the Guardians have authority over the Time Lords.  Rassilon  is banished because he questioned to deeply and because of the arrogance of the Time Lords.  Rassilon will keep the knowledge of the Gaurdians' supervision of the Time Lords a secret that will be passed down to each President upon his ratification.  

??            (after the Time Lords come into being?)
               There were many R.O.O. (Rassilon, Omega, and the Other) texts.  Many of these Elder Books of the Dark Time are written based on the rituals of the Gods of Ragnarok and the Eternals. 
These books contain the rites and incantations that can control the Chronovores.  The Green Book Of Gallifrey, and the the Little Black Book of Gallifrey speak of the Timewyrm,  the end of the Universe and tells of a white hole catastrophy in the future.  The Little Red Book of Gallifrey dealt with the Dark Time, magical incantations, Rassilon the Ravanger, Omega the Fallen, and the Other.  The Ancient Covenant is compact that forbids the Time Lords from reaching the Six-Fold Realm.  The Other Scrolls have a prophecy of a Time Lord who will find the Lost Scrolls of Rassion and will lead Gallifrey from darkness.  Other important texts are Our Planet's Story, The Triumphs of Rassilon, The Bones of the Dead, and the Runes of Rassilon.   One book with a cover of reptile skin had the Seal of Rassilon on it.  This book will survive until the end of the Universe and contains a last prophecy which terrifies the Doctor.   See Event 2 (in the Post Gallifrey Timeline) for what the prophecy might have said.

??             Rassilon ensures that hidden in all Gallifreyan DNA are 'killing lessons' to destroy Cacophony should she ever reappear.

??            (Probably before the first TARDIS) 
                The Time Lords invent Huon Energy for their time travel technology.  Huon particles will be used in the Heart's of their TARDIS's.
  When inert Huon Particles are safe but if given a chance to cataylise in a sentient being they become deadly.  (Its possible that Huon Particles generate Fluon Radiation).

??            The Racnoss comes to thrive on Huon Energy.

1            (1 year after the Eye of Harmony / 1 LD day 10)
                Rassilon
and Jelen create the Transduction Barriers and the Quantum Force field.  Transduction Barriers are an 10 dimensonal defense field that separates Gallifrey’s continuity and history from the rest of the universe by locating it in a Micro-Universe outside of Time.  Thus when you are on Gallifrey you are "outside" of the Universe and in Inner Time.  They block atomic sized infiltrations, all weapons fire, and kamikaze runs but can’t stop spaceships from landing.   The Lord President’s Rassilon Imprimatur and Presidential Code allow him to pass through the transduction barrier at will.  When a Timeship passes through the Transduction Barriers the effect is visible from Gallifrey’s surface.   The Quantum Force-Field serves as Gallifrey's Secondary Defense Barrier.  It protects against more conventional threats and stops ships from landing.  Anything that touches a transduction barrier will be destroyed.  It is impossible to completely disable without vaporizing Gallifrey.

??         (years after the Eye of Harmony is created / before the first Otherstide)
            The Time Lord known as the Other uses Block Transfer Mathematics to discover
transdimensional engineering (aka Warp Matrix Engineering).  This is a key discovery and the Time Lords abandon Tachyonics for Warp Matrix (transdimensional) Engineering.

??           (after Warp Matrix Engineering)
            Rassilon installs numerous dimensionally transcendental chambers in his Foundry.

??            (after the Time Lords aquire Warp Matrx Engineering)
            The Other builds an excellent Zero Room under the Junior Senate Block.

??            (after the banishing of Cacophany)
            
The only magic-related power to survive is psionics because it operates on vaugly scientific lines.  This power forms into a network of Ley Lines that cross the cosmos.  In order to maintian rationality over the people of the Universe, the Time Lords insert massive receivers into the Ley Lines to act as a distant early warning system.

0-5?       (takes a few years / after the Eye is anchored)
            Over the years the power of the Eye of Harmony grows. 
The structure of the whole planet becomes a bio-system whose biodata acts as a planet sized receiver and processor of data from the rest of the universe.  The Lords of Time observe and make predictions about Web of Time (aka History).   They use this information to make projections that map out every inch of the Universe.  They see that History is currently undefined and filled with possibility.  During this time (despite the protection of Sash of Rassilon) Rassilon suffers from gamma radiation poisioning from the Eye. 

?             (before time travel / after Block-Transfer / At the time of the Type 30)
            The Chameleon Circuit is successfull tested.


??           (when the Chameleon Circuit is being tested / but before proper time travel is invented)
            The Gallifreyans are in a "Time Race" with the Crialans of Crial to see which race can develope Time Travel first.  The Crialans were a race of telepathic bacteria that infect hosts.  The Gallifreyans stole several innovations from the Crialans.

3            (3 years after the Eye of Harmony / 3 LD)
            Rassilon creates the Great Key of Rassilon (not to be confused with the Rod of Rassilon).  This object can be used to power the
planetary defense time weapon, the D-Mat Gun.  The D-Mat gun is the ultimate Omnicalculator.  The Great Key links this quantum computer to the Eye of Harmony.  When a target is “hit” by a D-Mat gun its entire timestream (and biodata if sentient) is recorded and then all of history is rewritten so that the only difference between this Universe, and the previous one is the total absence of the target.  Objects hit with the D-Mat gun become Never-Objects existing only in the gun’s perfect memory.   It is possible that use of the D-Mat Gun is one of things that caused this period of time to be knows as the Time Lord's Darkest Age.


The Doctor's Grandaughter
3?          (6 years before leaving Gallifrey)
            Susan and her father (the Doctor's son) end up fleeing into Gallifrey's past.  Susan might have become known as Lady Larn.

3??         After insuring the safety of Susan, Patience flees Gallifrey in a ancient Prototype Time Travel Capsule that belonged to her husband (Probably the Other but possibly the Omega).  The Proto-type TT Capsule that Patience fled in was damaged and it rippes a hole in the Vortex as it traveles.  Patience ends up on the planet Salomon in the year 2,000,000 BC where she is frozen in suspended animation for approximatly 2 million years. 

??            Susan's father leaves to serve on one of the Bow Ships of Rassilon.  The Other will claim to be Susan's grandfather, and will raise Susan with the help of Mamlaurea from Tersurus.  Susan spends her whole life moving from one place to another - she has never had a real home.   

??            (before the Tepesh incident / when the Eye of Harmony is created / before or at the time of the first TARDISes / probably before Susan leaves Gallifrey)
            The symbiotic nuclei are developed b
y Rassilon.  These nuclei allow a Gallifreyan to make the
Rassilon Imprimature on a Time Travel Capsule and to allow them to withstand the energies of the Vortex.  The Rassilon Imprimiture is needed: to 'prime' a TARDIS, form a quasi-symbiotic link with the Capsule, and thus have access to all the Powers of Creation.  Beings with symbiotic nuclei and a TARDIS are known as Time Lords.  Symbiotic nuclei can given by exposing someone to a little of the power from the Eye of Harmony or by injecting them with Retro DNA serum in the form of a red liquid.  The existance of the Rassilon Imprimiture is kept secret for some time.

??            (when Time Lords first began to explore history)
                The pioneer Time Lord Astrolabus charts the Meridians of Time.  He claims to have been the first to do this and release Gallifrey from the chains of the present.

??
            (about the same time the Gallifreyans develop Time Travel / after the D-Mat Gun)
            The bacteria based Crialans develop Time Travel.  They plan to travel back in time and infect all the races in the Universe.  The Time Lords declare a Time War on them and erase them from history.  Some of the Crialans' time technolgy is stolen by the Time Lords.

?             Rassilon gains the titles Patrice of the Vortex and Ravager of the Void.

??         (before Executive Action)
             Rassilon bans weapons that are capable of killing Time Lords (except for Stasers which can by used by members of the Watch).

?           (he does this hundreds of times before the First Otherstide)
            The Other warns Rassilon that if he sanctions the use of violence against the people of Gallifrey he will leave.  He will make this warning hundreds of times before the first Otherstide.

??          The Other creates the Interventionists including the Celestial Intervention Agency (CIA) from Rassilon's personal guards.  (The Matrix might have also had a hand in their creation).  The CIA was originally formed to deal with minor issues that the Time Lords viewed as being beneath them, but they would eventualy grew to be a very powerful organization. The CIA agents of the Doctor’s time believe that the current CIA is exactly what the Other would have wanted.

7            (10 years after the The 4-D War)
            Black Sun Rising: The Time Lady Rema-Du and the Special Executive (Cobweb, Millenium, Wardog, and Zeitgeist) travel to Desrault to negotiate for mineral rights with the Sontarans and the Order of the Black Sun.  The Sontarans frame the Time Lords for the assasination of the Elder of Black Sun.  This is the catylist for the start of the Time War (also known as the War of Four Dimensions).  The Black Sun (and many others) belive that the Time Wars
are started by the Time Lords.

??            (during Susan's childhood)
            Susan watches the horrors of the Games.

??        Numerous Vampires can also be found in the Games.

8~?      
(when the Type 1 is created)
            By this time the Gallifreyan chronosphere is filled with failed prototype TTCs.  Occasionally these abandoned TTC's will become sentient and escape Gallifrey’s temporal pull and slingshot through the space/time continuum.

??            Rassilon use Warp Matrix Engineering to design the Protyon Unit for the first Time Travel Capsule.

8~?       (2,000,000 years before Ancestor Cell / a few centuries after the Eye of Harmony)
            The Scientific Elders design and build the Type 1 Time Travel Capsule in a Solar Workshop using tools such as spanners. 
The process used to create a TARDIS is one of the greatest secrets of the Time Lords.  Susan's Grandfather has never actually piloted a TARDIS though he was one of the Pioneers who helped create them.  These TT Capsules allow symbioticaly bonded Time Lords to access and use the Power of Creation.  All TT Capsules recieve their power from the Prime Eye of Harmony.  The first TARDISes are small boxes that can only hold 3-4 Time Lords.  Mother (probably the Matrix) claims to have created the Time Lords just so that all TARDISes could have a defined moment of creation.  Otherwise all the TARDISes would exist without ever having an origin. 

??           (probably after the creation of the TARDIS / before the Tepesh incident / before Executive Action)
            The Lords of Time become known as the Time Lords.

8~?       (after Patience's TTC is built but before the end of the Vampire Wars)
            Susan names the new Time Travel Capsules TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension In Space).  
The word Tardis means Timeship in Gallifreyan.

??            (when Gallifrey is young, probably after the Time Lords exist, but before the Laws of Time)
            The people of the Gallifrey use time travel against each other in petty feuds.  A mad prophet martyr accidently saw the end of the Universe.  He saw the Timewyrm destroying Rassilon, the Blue Shift of the Universe, and the escape of Fenric. 

??            (shortly before the first Otherstide / she never lives in any one place for very long)
            Susan ends up living in a two story shuttered house wedged between a seedy tavern and a memory broker's shop.
  She was probably living in the Other's estate right outside the Capitol before this point.

9??        Susan's father is killed aboard a Bow Ship during the Eternal Wars. 

9??        (right after her father dies in a Bowship)
            Susan hears her mother and father's thoughts in her head.  They tell her she was born at the instant the Pythia Cursed Gallifrey (
the Other might not believe this) and that she is the last real child on Gallifrey (the Other doesn't necessarily agree with this).

??           (during Susan's childhood)
            At this point arranged marriges are unheard of on Gallifrey.  At this point in Gallifreyan history, nobody would ever get married at the age 16. 

??             (Probably after the Web of Time is created)
                By this point Validium embodies
all the knowledge and all the power of the Time Lords.

9?        (at the time of the first Otherstide)
                By this point Susan has the Legacy of Rassilon, and the Symbiotic Nuclei
(she later operates the Master's TARDIS), and detailed understanding of the physics of Time Travel Capsules.  Susan's Grandfather has never actually piloted a TARDIS though he had a hand in its creation.

9            (right before Executive Action)
            By this point the Loom Born outnumber the Womb Born.

??            (during the time of very early TARDISes / probably before the APC Net was created)
             The Time Lords of this time are a much more paranoid race then they will become (probably because of the Time Race).  The early TARDISes had several additional defence mechanisms.  Among them was a temporal stasis field that traps unauthorized personal who enter the capsule.

??            (possibly not to long after the Curse given that Bocca has a two part name and those went out out style)
                Anton Bocca writes The Ripple Effect.  The Bocca scale of time distortion will be named after him. 

?             (shortly after the Eye of Harmony is created and at the time of the first TARDIS or TTC)
            Rassilon installs interfaces in all Time Travel Capsules that prevent them from traveling into Gallifrey's Future. 
In addition to this, Gallifrey's past is protected by powerful Temporal Baffels, Backtime Field Buffers, and Temporal Locks.

??              (millions of years ago / shortly after the Eye of Harmony is created / probably before the end of the Eternal Wars complete the Web of Time / right after Minyos was destroyed)

            The Time Lords (probably Mason and Aaron Blinovitch) relize that if any Lords of Time was to leave the Micro-Universe that holds Gallifrey (or the micro-universe within a TARDIS) then that Time Lord's connection with the Web of Time would collapse the quantum uncertainty of History.  It would crystalize the Web of Time around the Time Lord, preventing events from occuring in any other way.  Even observing the night sky directly would instantly freeze the histories of those stars back to the point at which the light first left them.  Because any direct observation (a opposed to the indirect ones made on Gallifrey or within a TARDIS) would condem countless sentients to existance or non-existance Rassilon created the first  of the Laws of Time - No Time Lord shall interfere with history as he knows it.  Rassilon also ruled that no Time Lord shall travel into Gallifrey's past.  Rassilon went on to create the other Laws of Time, based on Mason and Aaron Blinovitch's work.  No Time Lord shall interact with his own future - might be the Seventh.    Use of the D-Mat gun is forbidden by the Laws of Time.

9??     (Around when the Eye of Harmony was created / after  TTCs are invented / several thousands of years before the Doctor / early Gallifrey)
            The law is changed so that Gallifreyan Religious Class no longer have access to Time Travel, Time Lord genetic benefits, or to the Council. The High Council dissolves the Monasteries.  There was no violence involved in these reforms, but the Monks, Priests, and Wardens of the Church lost their positions of power and became little more than figure heads.  The position of the Supreme Pontiff of Time (the Time Pope) and other lower ranking Cardinals remained but they had no real powers.  A member of the religious order, I.M. Forman, begins wandering outer Gallifrey.   The use of the word "Time" by the religous orders probably refers to the Eternal named Time. 


??          (probably before the Doctrine of Non-Intervention)
            The Time Lords pledge to uphold the Laws of Time and prevent alien agression that threatens and indigenous population.

9??     The future I.M. Foreman's "Complex Event" explodes on early Gallifrey forcing all twelve incarnations of I.M. Foreman to regenerate.  I.M. Foreman finds his other twelve incarnations in the wilderness of outer Gallifrey.

9?        (shortly before fleeing Gallifrey)
            Susan tells her grandfather stories about his future - claiming he will become a great hero and grow younger as time passes.  These predictions might have been why the gaurds try to arrest the grandfather.

9.44??       (less then 54 years after the Curse)
                General Gimel attempts to overthrow Rassilon this coup fails.

9.44?             (12 years after the 4-D War / during the Womb-Loom riots / possibly centuries after the Odyssey)
            Executive Action:
  The Loom-Born rebel against the Womb-Born killing almost all of them.  There is a riot in the Capitol.
  The Watch are to search for the Spawn of the Pythia (naturally born children).  Having been attacked by Loom-Born assasins (who were working for Rassilon) the Special Executive sides with the Womb-Born during the riot. 
       NOTE: Lance Parkin has stated that the  Loom/Womb riots seen in Executive Action are different then the Loom/Womb Riots seen in at the time of Susan's birth.

The Other

9.44        (On the first Otherstide)
                Rassilon attacks the rebels in the Pythia's temple.

9.44        (Susan is 6 / day 162 / Otherstide)
                The Other grows tired of being all powerful and wanted to be a pawn in the middle of the action. 
The Other steals some of Omega's Validium and (because of the manipulation of the Black Guardian) enters the Progenitive Chamber.  It is assumed that died in the energy of the open progenitive cascades, however if reality he merges with the genetic coding of the Prime Distributors that feed all the Looms, creating the first Otherstide (aka Othersmass).  Susan is unable to get to Terserus and ends up living on the streets of the Capitol.  She sleeps in the ruins of the temple and has to sell her books (with metal covers) to survive. 

9.5??            (after his coup fails)
                General Gimel becomes the first Time Lord to be executed by vaporization
.

9.5?      (After finding his other selves)
                I.M. Foreman acquires the ability to create his Complex Event from other refugees living in the wilderness.  Most TARDISes are programmed to avoid Gallifrey’s past but I.M. Foreman’s Complex Event wasn’t “raised” to be a TARDIS so it capable of breaching the back time field buffers. 
I.M. Foreman takes the name “I.M. Foreman,” which means "I am for man."  He is not a Time Lord.  He also removes his eyes to sharpen his telepathic senses.  He takes his "Complex Event" and his future incarnations and leaves Gallifrey.  Because of I.M. Forman's lack of interference the High Council never takes action against him.

9.5?      (before Executive Action)
                The First Diaspora (aka the Diaspora, or Eremite Diaspora) occurs. 
I.M. Foreman and the others of the religious orders become the first true Gallifreyan renegades.  Once this concept is introduced to Gallifreyan culture it never goes away.  All other renegades owe their rebellion to I.M. Forman and others like him.  Some become renegades in fear of Rassilon’s new order and the Yssgaroth, but the Eremites flee because of ideological differences. 

??        The Special Executive leaves Gallifrey and become interdimensional and transtemporal mercenaries.


9.5?     
The religious Eremites make up the largest single group of the first Diaspora, with the rest being dying bloodlines and refugees.   The Eremites take a primitive Labyrinth and a Loom.  The Eremites are monastic order of ascetics led by the Black Council of Cardinals.  The Eremites refer to Rassilon as Urizen the Architect – a blind man who measures and quantifies his dung.  The Eremites believe that they are on the Hegira pilgrimage that will lead them to the Redux.  The Redux will occur during the time of Gallifrey’s greatest need and the Eremites will return home to save it.

9.6??          The Watch have special rules about four people who they are supposed to kill.  This list includes Omega (if he should ever return) and the Doctor (but only if he takes certain actions).  These are the same four Elementals that survive the Time War..

??            Mystery of the New Time is a play depicting the events leading up to the first Otherstide.  This play is performed in every House on Otherstide.  Almost all referances to the Other are removed from the official history books. 

??            (after Warp Matrix Engineering)
            Rassilon is the architect and engineer who rebuilds and redesigns the Citadel and the rest of the Capitol. 
The Citadel is designed to be a fortress.  Inside the Citadel is the Panoptican.  The dimensionally trancendental Panoptican is so vast that it has its own weather systems.  It has six black stone statues of Gallifreyan heroes - one for each College.  Rassilon's was in the North, while Omega's was on the south side of the room.  There was a competition to see which College could build the biggest statue.  This bankrupted the Scendeles College.  There is a 6 sided debating chamber with an access point to the future Eye of Harmony located in the center of the room.  The walls are covered with seats the ascend into the darkness.

??              (the earliest days of the Steller Engineers)
              The Caldera holding the Eye of Harmony is sealed.  It will not be breached for millions of years.

10.44?     (exactly one year after the first Otherstide)
                Rassilon institutes the Festival of freedom on the first Otherstide


The Doctor's Grandaughter
10.44?     (exactly one year after the first Otherstide / when Susan leaves Gallifrey / 7 years after Susan's birth / day 162)
                Lungbarrow: The Hand of Omega brings the Doctor back to Gallifrey's past to find Susan living on 
the streets of Ancient Gallifrey.  Alarms sounded because the Hand of Omega has returned.  She recognizes the Doctor as her grandfather and demands to go with him.  Susan, the Doctor, the TARDIS, and the Hand of Omega depart ancient Gallifrey. 
       Note: Depending your take on continuity they two of them might return to Gallifrey and live there for some years or maybe they return immidiatly to Gallifrey. 


??            (Before or during the Time Lord's deal with the Daleks)
             Last Contact occurs - the Time Lords encounter a species known as the Dalek for the first time.  The Daleks will eventually be responsible for the events that lead to the destruction of the Time Lords in the Last Great Time War.

??            (before "Genesis of the Daleks" from the Time Lord's POV / thousands of years before "Dead Romance" / probably during the Games)
            The Time Lords make a deal with the Daleks.  The Time Lords agreed to let the Daleks develop primitive time travel.  They also agreed not to use them in the Games.  The Daleks agreed to do (or not do) something important in return.  The Time Lords will eventually forget about there treaty with the Daleks - though they will remember that Daleks and Cybermen aren't allowed to play in the Games. 

21?          (before the creation of the Matrix)
                The Time Lords attempt to build a Wetworks Facility to store their knowledge.  This project is a failure.

22.2        (54.8 year after the curse)
                Rassilon begins
construction on the Matrix of Time (aka the Space-Time Matrix).  The Matrix's Secure Information Dump is located in the Labyrinth to protect them from changes in history.  This library is connected to every Gallifreyan outpost.  There are rumors among the Time Lords that the Matrix always existed and created the Gallifreyans just so that it would have a point of origin.  There are also some Gallifreyans who believe the Matrix controls the Time Lords.  The Mother of all TARDISes always existed and created the Gallifreyans just so it would have a point of origin.  She believes that she controls the Time Lords. 

22.2        (among the oldest data in the Matrix)
                The legend of the Timewyrm is recorded in the Matrix.

??            The Matrix records have a few unexplained warnings about the Old Ones.

?             The Garvond (it has thousands of names all variations on gjara' vont -"of darkest thought") is created and imprisoned in the Matrix.  It feeds on the fear and resentment of the Time Lords whose memories are imprisoned inside the Matrix.

106             (hundreds of years before the Minyans cast out the Time Lords / 106 years after the Curse)
                The Time Lords set themselves up as gods on the planet Minyos
(on the far side the Mutters Spiral from Sol III and within visual sight of Gallifrey's sun), Klist, Plastrodus 14, and countless other worlds. They force the Minyans to give up magic and superstition by having the Heliomancers cast out of their society and accelerating their technological development by giving them medical, scientific knowledge.  They provide them with better communications, weapons, and Metamorphic Symbiosis Regenerators which can be used to create regenerations. 

??            (when the Time Lords were young / hundreds of millions of years before the 21st century)
                The Gallifreyans colonize Drornid and Trion. 

??            (probably after the Qqaba mission)
                Rassilon becomes Over-Priest of Drornid.

127            (150 years after the Quaba Mission)
                The first dimensionally transcendental TARDISes are constructed. 

133           (after the Eye of Harmony / 156 years after the Curse)
                The Time Lords create the Gravitron, a device powered by the Eye of Harmony, that can warp time over an area of 90,000 light years.  They also invent the Magnatron which is capable of moving entire star systems billions of miles through space (and billions of years through time).


??           (after the Matrix)
                Rassilon captures a supernova that exploded near the Kastorborus Sector.  The Matrix predicted that a race would evolve in the aftermath that could threaten the Time Lords. Rassilon encases the nova in a stasis and stores it in his Foundry.

??               (shortly after the Curse)
                The end of the Old Time.


273              
(Probably after the end of the Old Time / 306 years after the Curse)
                Rassilon has The Book of the Old Time written.
This sets down the "Official" version of Time Lord History.  By the time of the Doctor, records such as these will be the oldest "reliable" historical records.  All earlier events will be regarded as legends. 

281??               (possibly 8 years after The Book of the Old Time is written)
                No insane, the pioneer Time Lord Astrolabus steals the original Book of the Old Time from Gallifrey (though several copies remain). 

??            The book The Insidium of Astrolabus is written.


469~?      (500 years before the Zagreus flashback / not long after the defeat of the Sisterhood)
                Rassilon discovered a peaceful Yssgaroth colony (which didn’t kill sentients) and destroyed it with bowships.  These colonists took humanoid forms in an attempt to escape Rassilon.  This is the begining of another Vampire War.

??            The Newborn (Loomed) Temporal Physicist Mason begins study of the effects of altering history.

??           
Chrono-Chaos Theory is developed to describe a time travelers abbility to prevent their own birth.  This would of course damage th