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THE HISTORY OF THE TIME LORDS PART II
THE TIME OF LEGEND
Rassilon Omega and the Other
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
?? 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.
-23.94
(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 Ao. As 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.
-13.83 (9.6 years after Omega's death / some time before the first Otherstide)
-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)
?? (almost certainly after the Qqaba Mission)
??
(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.

The Space Time Vortex
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?)
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)
3 (3 years after the Eye of Harmony / 3 LD)
?
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.
??
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.
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.
??
(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
(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.
9.6?? 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.
10.44?
(exactly one
year after the first Otherstide)
Rassilon institutes the Festival of
freedom on the first Otherstide
??
(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.
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.