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The Capitol of Gallifrey
THE CAPITOL OF GALLIFREY
The Capitol is considered to be Gallifrey's First City. Several Time Lords use the word Gallifrey to indicate the Capitol (and not the planet in general).
Its official name is Capitol City, but some very unreliable sources call it Sage City (possibly its name from the era of the Pythia?).Most Gallifreyans simply refer to it as "the Capitol."
The Capitol isjust north of the planet's equator, in the wastelands at the heart of the
continent of Wild Endeavor. It sits in the valley between snow the
capped mountains of Solace and Solitude. These are part of a desert mountain range that stretches to the horizon. The only thing that grows on these mountains a deep red grass. Mount Solace likely lay to the west of the Capitol, while Mount Solitude probably lays on its own to the east.
The northern base of the massive Mount Cadon (aka Mount Lung) is found around 600 miles to the south-west(just south of the nearby equator) and it dwarfs the Capitol.During the time of the Pythia there was a volcanic chasm running through the Capitol known as the Crevasse of Memories That Will
Be.Rassilon redesigned the rest of the Capitol after coming to power, and, in modern times, the remains of the Crevasse is located outside the Capitol.The Untempered Schism is located outside the Capitol to the south-west.The Capitol used to have a harbor on its east side(but the sea dried up ages ago). The Kasterborous Borealis can be seen from the Capitol, as can Mount Cadon. The Capitol was covered in snow for much of the year and might suffer from a bitter wind
from the Northern Lakes (located at least 200 miles to the north, if not more).
By Human standards the Capitol doesn't appear to be that large of a city, but
the dimensionally transcendental nature of a few of its buildings makes it the biggest and most heavily populated city on the planet. Almost all Gallifreyans live in the Capitol, giving it a population of several million(at least several thousand, possibly 8 million).After the Time War,
almost the entirety of Gallifrey’s population lives in the Capitol
city. This is only possible due to the dimensionally transcendental
nature of most of the buildings. A glass dome covers the
Capitol, which is large enough to hold its own weather systems. The shaft the Capitol sits in the middle of is bordered by a
circular white wall. Only a few of the buildings in the Capitol are dimensionally transcendental, and most of those are dedicated to use by the Time Lords.The tunnels and walkways that connect the differen towers of the Capitol are known as cloisters. It would take modern
Time Lords thousands of years to rebuild the entire Capitol, and re-create the transduction barriers.
In
Pre-Rassilite times the Capitol City was noisy and smelled of incense
smoke. Heated streets kept the city warm in the winter. But in the Rassilon Era the entire Capitol is filled with a sense of silent timelessness. Gallifrey (the Capitol?) smells of cloisters, libraries, vellum, and old excitonic circuitry. The strong and ridged gravinium is the most common building material on Gallifrey. The
floor plates have titanium rivets. Most of the walls in the
Citadel appear to be made of stone with dim green light leaking out
from the cracks in the aging walls. Marble is used extensively in the architecture. Unused corridors are filled with
dust. The architecture is filled with fountains and alcoves. Candles are very common. There are
also many gardens with their own domes. The decor of the Capitolcan be changed in the same way that a TARDIS’s desk-top theme can be changed. Gallifreyans
often to use the valuable, brass-like, machenite as the material
of choice for the interior of important rooms.
One of the functions of the Central Matrix is to monitor all events in the Capitol and predict future developments within the Capitol. There
is a dedicated Sub-Matrix which handles the basic functions of Capitol,
like transductions. The streets of the Capitol are patrolled by automated street cleaning mechanisms.
Council members use transtubes and air-cars to get around inside the Capitol. There are at least 49 External Gates that alow one to
exit the Capitol at ground level. But many Time Lords actually never leave the Capitol. Most of these metal doors haven't been
opened in a century.A small conventional spaceport can be found just outside the Capitol dome (probably the Desiree Spaceport). Time Scaphs can be found docked the Scaph Port.
The capitol is broken up into 6 numbered sectors and all the rooms are numbered (example Room 30007 in the Administrative Complex - probably Sector 3). Sectors 1-6 designate the Great Citadel and the High City towers attached to and protruding from the conical base of that
structure. Sectors 7 and 8 designated the rest of the Capitol, the New Towns outside the Citadel proper. Each of these Sectors is described below.
The Citadel of the Time Lords
THE GREAT CITADEL OF THE TIME LORDS AND THE HIGHER CITY
In the center of the Capitol (beneath the apex of the dome) is the
Great Citadel. Rassilon designed the
fortress-like Citadel and this is where all the Time Lords live.Shortly after the end of the Borusa Presidency an invasion by the Dominators severely damaged the Citadel. While it would take modern Time Lords a few centuries to completely re-build the Citadel and re-create the Eye of Harmony,
the Dominator's bomb had spared the Eye of Harmony and its Power Mast.
This alowed reconstruction to proceed much more quickly. The
first attempt involved using a specially constructed 'Capitol TARDIS'
which was designed to assist the then President, the Doctor, in
forcibly righting the wrongs of the cosmos. The Doctor refused and
trapped the capsule in a time loop. Afterwards a more tradtional
Citadel was fabricated.
The center of the Citadel is a turquoise colored hour-glass shaped tower that is designated Sector
1, while Sectors 2-6 designate the towers attached to and protruding
from the conical base of the structure. These parts of the Capitol is
known as the Higher City (to differentiate it from Mid-Town and Low Town). Sectors 7 and 8 designated the rest of the Capitol, outside the Citadel. Each of these sectors is filled with numerous cathedral like rooms of metal and glass. The Citadel is probably dimensionally transcendental andit would probably take about 73 days for one person to visit every part of the Citadel.
Omega MemorialAt the top of the structure is the Omega Memorial.
The Panoptican Hall and the Chamber of the MatrixThe Great Citadel - Sector 1: Located at the heart of Sector 1, on Level 31 of the Citadel, is the Great Gallery of the Panopticon Hall. The name of this assembly hall is derived from the Eye of Harmony's ability to observer and 'see' all of space and time, and because an 'opticon' is Gallifreyan word for a village meeting place. The six walls of this debating chamber are covered with galleries and seats that ascend into the darkness. The dimensionally transcendental hall is so vast that it has its own weather systems (including occassional rain fall)and it takes an hour to cross
the upper galleries on foot. The ceiling of the Panopticon Hall is a glass dome and its floor is made of marble. The
interior walls are designed to glow with a turquoise color when he sun
is shining on the Citadel. There is a 6 sided debating chamber located
in the center of the room. A staircase folds down alowing the President to walk from his robing room to the PresidentialDais. There is an access point to
the Power Mast of the Eye of Harmony located in this debating area of the Panopticon beneath the Presidential Dais. Due to the presence of the Power Mast, access to the Panopticon is forbidden to the general public. Except during ceremonial events, it requires the permission of an member of the Inner Council, like the Chancellor, to enter the chamber. These ceremonial events include graduation ceremonies. There is a 200 foot diameter Seal of Rassilon made of Machonite inlaid with bone-white marble that hangs
face down like a massive chandelier over the Power Mast.A display case in the Panoptican holds the Rod of Rassilon when it isn’t being carried by the President.While the details of the decor is left up to each Lord President, each wall has a black stone statue of a Gallifreyan heroes - one for each College. Though there is much debate as to who those six heroes are,
it is known that Rassilon's statue is in the north, while Omega's was
on the south side of the room. Another of the statues depitcs Artron.
There was a competition to see which College could build the biggest
statue. This bankrupted the Scendeles College.
The Hall of Rassilon
leads up to the Panoptican. A attached to it. This hall is filled with 'regenerating'
statues of important Time Lords, like Apeiron, Mutanioa, Omega, Pandak,
Pandak IV, Pandak XX, and Rassilon. On
either side of the main entrance are antechambers and robing rooms where the ceromonial
collars and robes of the Time Lords are stored. The Panoptican has a museum and a canteen (which serves bread among other things). Like Time Lords, the Citadel has two ‘hearts.’ One of these hearts appears to be theGreat
Chamber of the Matrix. Its located down a short corridor from the Panopticon.
The Matrix Chamber is in the cone shaped base of the Citadel – but not
directly centered under the tower. The Matrix Door found here
allows authorized Time
Lords access to the repository of all Time Lord knowledge. For more
information on the Matrix see The Matrix of Time A famously effective polygonal Zero Room (created by the Other) can be found in the basement of the Junior Senate Block.
President's Office, the Inner Council Conference Room,and The Great Hall of Time High City Sector 2: Sector 2 is known as the Presidential Wheelholds the Presidential Palace and the various council chambers. The President's Office and the rest of the Presidential Palace is on level 5.The Presidential Retreat is the name of the President’s office. This is the most powerful office in all of time and space.Rassilon’s Throne is in the Presidential Retreat. The Presidential
office has a massive blast screen that can retract so that one can view the rest of the Capitol.
After
the Vardan/Sontaran invasion, the security around the Presidential
palace was upgraded to be the most sophisticated bio-monitoring systems
in the cosmos.
Even when not locked down, it takes someone with at least the rank of
Captain of the Chancellery Guard's biodata and security pass to open
the doors to the Retreat. Once locked down it requires lock burners or
heavy weapondry to breach. A temporally reactive update can send a
signal back in time to update security systems undoing a breach that
has already begun. It needs presidential authority to enact. There are secret passages that use dimensional junctures to allow the President to move in secret to locations throughout the Capitol.Each President has added more and more passages connecting all parts of the Capitol (including the Omega Arsenal) to their Office.
Nested into one of the alcoves in the Presidential Palace, and located directly below the Presidential Retreat, is the Inner Council Room which was intended
to be a private area for the President to meet with the rest of the Inner Council
in secret. This room has a Matrix Portal mounted above the debating table (likely the President's 'personal' 8th Door) and a secret door that leads to the controls for the Time Scoop. This room is only used about once every thousand years and serves as a storage for lesser know artifacts of Rassilon. Normally the Inner Council meets in the
Great Hall of Time where another of the Matrix Portals is mounted.
The Chancellor's OfficeHigh City Sector 3: Sector 3 holds the Chancellor's suite and office, as well as the offices of the Chancellery Guard and the barracks for guardsmen. The Chancellery itself is located on level 5. Security Control, Interrogation Cell, Execution Room, TARDIS Holding Bay, and High Court RoomHigh City Sector 4: Sector 4 is sometimes known as the Detention Sector. The rest of the Watch work in Sector 4's Jasdisary Building which is attached to the Citadel. The Jasidary Building holds 90 stories of administration offices. There are no windows on the first 30 floors. It was designed by the architect Apeiron and completes a rotation every 58 minutes. Within the Sector 4 of the Citadel is the Security Compound where Security Control, the Castellan's office, High Court,interrogation cells, detention rooms, execution rooms, and the Oubliette Suites are located.The
luxurious Oubliette Suites are where prisoners are held (if they aren't
sent to Shada). There are holding cells beneath the Capitol with
deadlocks. There are several holding bays for timeships should a recall
and mass time scoopings be necessary. A court room can be found in the deepest bunker of the Panopticon security complex.
Panopticon Archives High City Sector 5: Sector 5 of the Citadel houses the best libraries in the cosmos. This includes the skyscraper sized computer known as the Archive Tower. It is here that the Matrix is anchored, accessed, and maintained. The Matrix is supervised from the Record’s Section by the Co-ordinator of the Matrix and the data recorders who serve under him. Also found in Sector 5 are the Panopticon Archives (with the Capitol Library), the Rothe Tower Library, and (at the top of the tower) the Endless Library. The Time Lords are meticulous record keepers and books are only miss-filed every 200 years or so. You
need a library card to borrow a book from any of the hundreds of
libraries in the Archive. The maximum time you can borrow the book
(without being fined) is 150 years. In the CapitolMuseum are display cases holding they symbols of the President as well as Pandak’s Staff. There are displays of every type of robe of state here as well.
In section of the museum devoted to the Ancient Times there are
impressive displays of the worlds controlled by the Great Vampires. There is even an Armory Museum.
Various parts of the Citadel
High City Sector 6: Sector
6 is the second largest sector in the Capitol. As its number implies,
it is directly adjacent to archives of Sector 5. Its Residential Wing
holds the offices and dormitories for all 1000 of the Time Lords
of Gallifrey. Though the Citadel towers over the other buildings in Capitol
City, the exterior isn't large enough to allow 1000 Time Lords to live
in comfort. Fortunately it's interior is dimensionally transcendental
and has at least 119 levels. The Cardinal’s Habitation Complex holds the living quarters for the Cardinals.This might be where Tower Gamma 6 is located.
The Prydonian Time Academy
Sector 6 technically extends out to coverthe entire Prydonian Time Academy. Geographically speaking, the Prydonian Academy is a self-contained city located
along the northern boarder of Southern Gallifrey at the base of the
southern slopes of Mount Cadon (Gallifrey's highest mountain). Because
this is Gallifrey's only Time Academy (the institution which bestows
the title of Time Lord) it is annexed to the Citadel using dimensional junctures. The academy city like structure covers 28 square miles. The facility lacks a dome and is open to the air. Most of thebuildings are ebony colored and fortress-like, with glass towers and turrets along the top. Covered sky-bridges interconnect them. Perfectly groomed lawns with little blue flowers surround the buildings withsand filled pathways leading between them. The majority of the buildings are dormitories, lecture halls, gymnasiums, and eateries.The academy has it's own TARDIS cradles and scaphe bays. The Black Collection is stored at this Academy and monks taking the Mystic Studies course learn dark secrets in the upper levels of its towers.Most (if not all) of the Junior Cardinals and Time Lord Councilors teach at the Academy.
The Traffic Control Room and the controls for Transduction Barriers MidTown Sector 7: Beneath the upper levels of the Citadel is Sector 7, which is known as MidTown. It extends all the way to the mountain side (either the mountain of Solace or the mountian of Solitude). There are a total of 363 towers made of white stone and goldarrayed in a circular pattern around the Presidential Wheel. Many of the towers are helical in design and many have circular gallifreyan inscriptions carved into their outer walls. There is a statue of Omega located just
outside the Citadel which dates back to the Time of Legend (making it
one of the most ancient features of the Capitol). The original Time Capsule Growth Foundry was located near this statue. Sector 7 of the Capitol is bordered by cloisters. The 53 story Communications Tower is just outside the Citadel in Sector 7. The tower holds Traffic
Control, which is one of the highest security-rated rooms in the
Capitol. Traffic Control has some of the best scanners in the entire galaxy and every ship passing through the Kasterborus Sector is carefully
monitored.Because of the location of the Power Mast on level 31 of Sector 1, Level 31 of sector 7 of the Citadel also houses the controls for the Transduction Barriers and the Quantum Force-Fields.
Time Control RoomThe Temporal Scanning HQ (with its temporal control room and temporal monitoring chamber) is
also found in Sector 7 (probably in the Communications Tower). The Main
Temporal Monitoring Chamber wraps around a massive Infinity Chamber.
Above it are public galleries. Temporal Control can use temporal guidance beam to precisely steer a TARDIS to a desired point in space and time. Traffic Control, the security
systems here are quite extensive.
There
are two huge towers in the north of the Capitol named Canonicity and
Likelihood. Both of these building are among the few that are
dimensionally transcendental. The Doctor's Trial in War Games was held in the tower of Canonicity. The tower of Likelihood might be home to the Bureau of Possible Events. Sector 7 might hold Tower Alpha 7.
MidTown has a Multi-Dimensional Art Gallery beneath the Capitol. It is filled with vast numbers
of computer created paintings from throughout Gallifrey's history, but N-Forms are no longer displayed.
Scientific research is done in the Penansulix Scientific Structure (adjacent to Sector 4's Jasidary Building).Gallifreyan laboratories include everything from
cross-dimensional wave
scanners to test tubes and Bunsen burners. The Parachronistic Chamber
(located deep in the Capitol) can regulate time distortions. Time
Lords meet in the Artron Forum to telepathically discuss and exchange
points of view. While meeting their excess artron energy is absorbed
and routed to the berthing bays to supply TARDISes. The Mortal Coil hospital complex has the best physicians in the Stellian Galaxy. These hospitaller-surgeons and thei meditechs wear high collared white robes that match the white walls of the complex. The complex has a retro-engineered Spare-Body-Parts Repository. Other buildings
include the
Meditative Sanctums of Astral Harmony, the Temandra Pleasure Gardens, Gesyevva's Fingers (colonnades), Bureau of Political Advancement, the Temple of Capitol Guilds, the Office of Public Registry, and numerous massive workshops. There
is also Pandak's Square where Presidential inaugurations are
sometimes held. Gardens are contained in their own glass domes. The War RoomDuring the Time War the following circles dedicated to the House Military's High Command can be found
in a quiet corner of the Citadel beneath Sector 7 of the Capitol. These circles also hold the Time Stream Extraction Rooms. Extraction chambers were
used to extract a subject from time in space a moment before their
death for questioning. The subject would be a fixed point in time and
they would need to be returned to the moment of their death after
questioning so that the Web of Time could be mantained. There were at
least 7 extraction chambers.The very existance of the Extraction Room and the War Room is a closely guarded secret. 4th Circle: Tactical envisioning and clairaudient intelligence. 5th Circle: Perceptual warfare. 6th Circle: Extra-sensory camouflage. 7th Circle: Primary evolutionary and terrorogical research. 8th Circle: Deep Level Conference and Bunker facilities. The Nostrom Cloisters in the lower levels serve as a presidential bolt-hole. Lowest Circle:
The War Room where the
Time War Council of the Great Houses meets
CIA Briefing RoomThe CIA's Tower (and HQ) is located in the Citadel Constraint Block (also refered to as Gallifrey Central) about 1 mile
from the Shrine of Pandak. The CIA’s tower is considered to be the safest place on Gallifrey.The CIA Tribunal meets in a room made with walls of glass blocks. The CIA enclose their labs in recursive time loops to hide them from Time Lord society. These time locks are the usual way that the Time Lords keep something from being seen or accessed by the other temporal
powers.During the War Era the
CIA used warp matrix engineering to destabilize the Citadel's
pedestrian infastructure. This allowed them to regularly shift the
Citadel Constraint Block from place to place so that no one outside the
agency knew its current temporospatial location.
Repair Shop, Dry Dimension Dockyard, and Embarkation PortLow Town Sector 8: Sector 8 is located in a cylindrical base beneath the city's spherical dome. The slums of
Low Town (sometimes call the Lower Len) has formed around the pillars that support the Capitol. Most of the city's Gallifreyans including the poor live here.The structures built around the edge of the Capitol are also considered to be part of Low Town, despite this, the Sector still receives all its power from the Capitol. Low
Town smells of wet carpet and roasted Grockleroot. Horse drawn
gravicarts move over the cobbled streets. Real fish can be
purchased here for eating. The Golden Grockle was a very rowdy tavern found there. Some old villas date back to the Old
Time and have been restored to their original form. Hidden in the lower levels are
cisterns and a shrines dedicated to the cult of Rassilon the Vampire. The cylindrical base of the Capitol also holds the Repair Shops. There
are at least 19 Dry Dimension Dockyards on under level-14 and the Time
Travel Embarkation Port located on below on under level-15. Despite
this, its difficult to find TARDIS parking in the capitol. These
landing bays can generate a dampening field that will prevent
dematerialization. Quadriggers (aka Quantum Engineer) work in the
maintenance levels of the Capitol and wear dark colored coveralls. With
the event of the Type 54 they were replaced by the less prestigious
Quantum Mechanics. During the War Era the levels beneath Sector 8 became a TARDIS Graveyards.
(because the Time Lords no longer trusted the TT Capsules to safely
make their way to the impacted dimension that held the traditional
graveyard.)
Matrix Access Point in the Vaults and a
Service Area The
foundation of the Citadel is known as the vaults. They are found in and
around the massive caldera like hole beneath the Capitol city. These
chambers date back to the Old Time. Traditionally, Time Lord bodies are interned in the Panopticon Vault 30 meters beneath the Panopticon. Hidden access shafts in Panopticon lead to foundations and the vaults.Life support for the Capitol is provided my huge recycling systems, such astachyonic recreation fabricators to create physical materials, and the Main Water Pumping Station in the vaults of the Citadel. The Pumping Station is off limits to unauthorized personnel, even Time Lords.Within the Vaults can be found the power couplings for the eastern part of the Capitol, and a fluctuating access point for the matrix. Half a mile beneath the Capitol is the city's foundations, the remains of the original Capitol, including the once regal Pazithi Cloisters and other ancient temples. At the bottom of the caldera is the vault that holds the Eye of Harmony. Buried deep underground are fallout shelters and Catacombs whose total
length (if arranged end to end) would exceed the diameter of Gallifrey (so over 24,000 miles).Temporal Projection of the Omega ArsenalThe deepest vaults of the Time Lord archives are held in an stabilized time eddy hundreds of kilometers beneath the surface. These Time Vaults hold the Time Lord’s darkest secrets and most mysterious artifacts, The Vaults
are known as the Slaughter House, and they are about the size of Albert
Hall and holds thousands ofGallifrey's deadliest weapons.The walls of the Slaughter House are white, with the stockpile stored in coded alcoves (such as Alcove 5-Δ-7-9). The existence of these Time Vaults is known only to the highest ranks.
The Time Lords constructed many weapons designed to destroy Gallifreyan
technology. Most weapons don’t need to be fired at a specific target,
instead they affect everything within a certain area. Most of Gallifrey's Validium is stored here. Validium is the Ultimate Defense for Gallifrey and is one of the most dangerous of the weapons in the Slaughter House.
The Regen-Gun is stored in these archives. It forces its victim to burn
through all their remaining regenerations a couple seconds. A temporal
grace system is capable of disabling the gun. Inside the Slaughter House is the Omega Arsenal where all the weapons that are forbidden by the Laws of Time are locked away.
One of these weapons is the Profane Virus of Rassilon. This Virus was
created by Gallifrey's greatest nano-engineer, Erkulon, as a final
resort to prevent aliens from obtaining Gallifreyan technology by
destroying all of it. It can override and reprogram any excitonic
circuitry. The
Omega Arsenal also holds the Regeneration Codex with in the Urn of
Rassilon. The Codex alows remote control of Gallifreyan Stellar
Manipulators. But the most feared weapon in the Arsenal was the Moment. The Moment can time lock entire sectors, create time fissures into and out of time locks
and different parallel universes, and break several other of the Laws of Time.Through the Great Key, the Moment became so powerful that the operating system became sentient and it developed a conscience and an intelligence. It can even influence their protector's subconscious actions,
coordinating the events of their whole life to achieve its desired
ends. For more information on the Great Key and the Moment see The Eye of Harmony
The Head of the Presidency
THE HEAD OF THE PRESIDENCY
Lord President of Gallifrey, the Inheritance of Rassilon, President of the Supreme Council,
The Lord
(or Lady) High President of the Supreme Council of Gallifrey and all of her Dominions, rules Gallifrey and has the obedience of all Colleges. The
Head of the Presidency is seen as the physical manifestation of the
Laws of Time and and avatar for the power of the Time Lords. He is the holder of the Wisdom of Rassilon, Preserver of the Matrix, Guardian of the Legacy of Omega,
(probably) the Keeper of the Legacy of Rassilon, Defender of the Laws
of Time, and Protector of Gallifrey. He is sworn to follow the
Wisdom of Rassilon and the Law of Gallifrrey. He also carries the title First Time Lord. Like
the Chancellor, the President is addressed as "Your
Excellency." When Time Lords salute the Lord President they hold
their right hand up with the palm facing outwards towards the President. The chapters that are not represented by the
current Head of the Presidency are considered to be independent, and
their Lords are often know collectively as Independents.
The Presidential Charter (likely part of the Constitution) lists the powers of the Lord President. Technically he has near absolute power, including the right to order executions, however, the Constitution states that the President cannot give orders directly to the Chancellor. However all of the President instructions must go through the Inner Council before being acted upon, andin an emergency session, the
Inner Council can override the President at any time with a unanimous vote. As Protector of Gallifrey, the President has direct control over all aspects of Gallifrey's defenses and has access to
all of Gallifrey’s defense codes. However the CIA can override him in matters of off world security. In extreme circumstances, President even has the authority to send temporally reactive
update signals back in time to update security systems
undoing a breach that has already begun. The
President is entrusted with many of Gallifrey’s most closely guarded
secrets, including Jasquig Records, the War Perceptives, the Cavox
Imperatives, and the Oubliette of a. The Black Files hold
the most sensitive of the Time Lord’s secrets. While officially
they un-exist they are infact, held in an office in the heart of an
asteroid in a pocked dimension which is a remnant of a redundant
timeline. The President is the only Time Lord that knows that the Time Lords' duty is to enforce the balance of the Guardians and that they are directly answerable to the Guardians. It is also likely that the President knows that Omega survived the detonation of the star Quaba. Up until Arc of Infinity the Presidential Code was 4544553916592.
The Presidency consists
of three Time Lords, the Lord President (or Head), and two attaches who function as secretaries, and advisors. The attaches are not allowed
to serve on the High Council. For some of Gallifrey's history it was traditional for each President to have a Presidential CAT (Calculating Animal with a Tail). This
tradition was discontinued when the Doctor was attending the Time
Academy. A small amount of the Elixir of Life (bottled by the
Sisterhood of the Flame on the world of Karn) is kept for the Lord
President in case of medical emergencies. The President has his own Presidential Personal Security Guards. The
stasers carried by these guards can not be
set for stun. At their lowest setting they will induce a regeneration
in any Gallifrey who is hit by one.
The Sash of Rassilon stays with the Lord President and is the chief symbol of office. The first time the President Elect puts on the Sash of Rassilon he is altered to become Biodata Ultra-Aware, which allows
him to predict and manipulate biodata in a way no other Time Lord can. The Lord President is, metaphysically linked with the Laws of Time. These modifications also give him the presidential bio-code which
allows him to access the Matrix and the Matrix doors. The President
is the Preserver of the Matrix and holds the Matrix
Crown which allows him direct access to the entire Matrix and its predictive abilities
(though its use
is quite stressful and thus reserved for coronations
and emergencies).
Once they don the Matrix Crown a President becomes part of the Matrix
via a living connection to Gallifrey. The President wears the Sash of Rassilon on ceremonial occasions and
carries the Rod of Rassilon. If the President was to have access to the Great Key they would have unlimited use of
the Power of the Time Lords and have complete access to all the different Universes. While the President
traditionally wears white robes, this is not required, and some prefer to wear the colors
of their chapter. The President wears the Belt of Omega. The Presidential
Palace is located on level 5 of the Citadel (see Sector 2 of the Citadel above). Inauguration of the 407th President Approximately
every thousand years the Time Lords would deliberately loom a
collection of potential leaders, one of whom would become the next Lord
President of Gallifrey. Each
President
has the right to name his successor. This is usually done at a
Resignation Day Ceremony when reading the Resignation Honors List. More
then 50 members of the Chancellery Guard will be present for a
Presidential
resignation. The Cardinals are responsible for organizing Resignation Day ceremonies.
These successors must be certified and approved by High Council election ballot, but this is generally a formality. Its almost unheard for anyone other then the named successor to win.
The tradition for this started with President Pundat who had the Constitution amended.
President Romana would have this amendment abolished and expand
presidential voting rights to the entire populace of Gallifrey. While
the chosen successor generally stands unopposed, Article 17 of the Gallifreyan Constitution, allows almost any Time Lord to declare themselves as a candidate during an election. The
only exception being a former president who was impeached. However most
Time Lords serve on the High Council before becoming Lord President.All voting for a presidential election occurs in the Capitol (this might mean that only the Time Lords get to vote for the President).
During the time between a Presidential Resignation and the formal ordination of the President-Elect, the Chancellor carries the title of Over-Chancellor and the High Council is know as the Supreme Council (as it has supreme power for that period).It
should be noted that without a sitting President the Supreme Council
technically can not ratify anything. However this law has been known to
be deliberately overlooked.
If the President knows they are going to absent for a time, they can nominate another Time Lord (usually a former retired president or the Chancellor), to serve as a Deputy or Acting President. The Cardinals cannot over-rule this nomination. The In Absentia in Chaotica Protocol (which
was created during the reign of Pandak II) state that if an
catastrophic emergency occurs when the Lord President is off-world then
the current (or former) High Council member located in the most
advantageous position to deal with the crisis becomes the
Acting-President for the duration of the crisis (or until the President
returns). If time permits, the Gallifreyan Constitution allows the High Council to appoint a Time Lord to serve as Acting President. This
appointment must be ratified by the Chancellor. If the Lord President
still lives but is absent then the Council have the power to formally
remove him from office, allowing an election to occur.
Should a president resign or die without naming a successor, an election must be held within 48 hours. Despite
the urgency to decide upon a President-Elect, it normally takes years
to plan and assemble a Presidential Ordination. President-elects do not
obtain full access to the powers of the Head of the Presidency, most
notably full access to the Matrix, until this ceremony is complete. The
Ordination traditionally takes place in the Panopticon, but some have
chose Pandak's Square for their ceremony. Presidential Ordinations, and other formal ceremonies such as the appointment of a Chancellor, are lead by Gold Usher
(also known as the Dromeain Archibaptirx). The handing over of the
Sash from the previous president to the new one is the key symbolic and
legal moment of the transfer of power. At all such appointments Gold Usher will rap his staff down three times. Once for wisdom, once for honor, and once for tradition. Computers paint pictures of every Presidential Ordination. It is an old and inviolable tradition for a new President to forgive and pardon all political prisoners as his first act in office.
A sitting Lord President can not be indicted or put on trial, but Presidents can be impeached by a vote of no-confidence from the High Council. A President can be called to give evidence in judicial investigation.
After a certain amount of time (at least 900 years) President's face mandatory retirement. If you have served as President before, you must regenerate before serving again.Even after he leaves office, an ex-president keeps the biodata modifications, (including the link to the Laws of Time) the Sash granted him. Ex-presidents appear to retain
the right to access the Matrix's predictive abilities and call for Presidential Inquires. As of President Flavia there have been 412 Presidents of Gallifrey.
ORDINAL-GENERAL
Auld Mortality
The title of Ordinal-General is given to the Gallifreyan who
has been chosen to become the next Auld Mortality after his final
Deathday. When he dies, his spectral form takes on a ghostly form and
becomes Auld Mortality. This dark spectral presence haunts the current
President of Gallifrey, reminding him that life and power is fleeting
and that this death is certain. Computers paint pictures of every
Presidential Ordination. Auld Mortality can be seen lurking in the
shadows of each of these pictures. Ordinal-Generals have no staff, and
no office. The existence of Auld Mortality is known only to the Head of
the Presidency.
The Lord Burner
LORD BURNER
The
Lord Burner is the secret personal assassin of the Lord President. If a
President so desires, he can issue burn edicts into the Matrix. This
edict is then relayed directly into the mind of the Burner, who will assassinate whoever the edict tells him to. Burn Edicts are
believed to be ceremonial, but in reality the Lord Burner still acts on
behalf of many Lord Presidents. Only two people have ever survived a
Burn Edict - Braxiatel and the Doctor.
POLICY ADJUSTMENT BUREAU
The PAB use time rings to travel back in time and alert the Lord
President when they are about to make a decision that will have
negative consequences. The activities of the PAB are, by necessity, a
violation of the Laws of Time. In extreme circumstances, President even has the authority to send temporally reactive
update signals back in time using the PAB to update security systems
undoing a breach that has already begun. While this organization has existed for
several generations, the official, and unofficial records do not
acknowledge the existence of the Policy Adjustment Bureau and only the
President has access to their findings or awareness of their existence.
There is also no mention of the Bureau in the Black Files. The Doctor
shuts down the Bureau shortly after the end of the Borusa Presidency.
Prydonian Chancellor
THE LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR OF ALL GALLIFREY
The Lord High Chancellor of All Gallifrey serves as the head of the Chancellery and the administrative head of the government. He handles the day to day matters of the Citadel and the various Councils. This
includes maintain the separation of powers by resolving issues of
jurisdiction between various officials and agencies.The
Chancellor represents and speaks for the Inner Council to the rest of
the High Council. Its very likely that the Chancellor is head of the judiciary
and the Time Academy.One of his jobs is to limit the power of the Lord President. The Constitution states that the President cannot give direct orders the Chancellor, instead
such instructions must first be approved by the Inner Council. The Chancellor is also responsible for holding the Great Key in secret. Like the President, he is addressed as "Your Excellency" and has his own honor guard.During the terms of a weak-willed President, the Chancellor can effectively end up running the planet. The Chancellor is appointed by the High Council and ratified by the President. Ever
since the Morbius Crisis, it has been mandatory that the High Chancellor
is always a member of the same Chapter as the President. After a Presidential Resignation, but before the new President-Elect is sworn in, the Chancellor carries the title of Over-Chancellor.
Traditionally the post of Vice-President was
separate from the post of Chancellor, however in the modern era the
Chancellor also handles the powers Vice-President. The
Vice-President (and, in the modern era the Chancellor) is usually the
Presidential Representative to Non-Gallifreyan Dignitaries and is
responsible for representing the President to other Time Aware Races.
Thus the Chancellor generally possesses the Ambassadorial TARDIS. These Royal Timeships have a Regeneration Facility that can pull your mind into a computer while the body is restored. There
is generally one time aware species in every civilized sector of the
Milky Way. This is true for almost every millenium. The Vice-President (and, in the modern era the Chancellor) serves as Gallifrey's Security Secretary, overseeing the Chancellery Gaurd, the Castellan and the Watch. As head of the Chancellery he has his own Personal Security Guards. He is also responsible for coodinating the Watch with the CIA. In the modern era, the Co-ordinator of the CIA reports directly to the Chancellor. The robes the Chancellor wears are traditionally the color of their chapter but with golden trim. In
the decades right before the Time War the position of Chancellor would
be broken up into Vice-President, Chancellor of Time Past, Chancellor
of Time Present, Chancellor of Parallel, and Chancellor of Time Future.
Since Chancellors are also the official Ambassadors of Gallifrey each
of these new Chancellor's is probably tasked with representing the
Great Houses to the temporal powers of the past, future, and parallel
realities. Rassilon would replace the position with the office of Prime Minister for early years of the Time War before restoring it.
The Inner Council in the Great Hall of Time and the Inner Council Room
THE INNER COUNCIL
The Inner Council is made up of the
High Offices of Gallifrey, that is Lord President, the Chancellor (Vice-President) and the
High
Cardinals.
Together, these most senior Time Lords of the Inner Council
represent the most powerful of the Great Houses of Gallifrey.Traditionally there are only
5 members of the Inner Council, but,
throughout
Gallifrey's History the number has ranged from 3 to 7. President Borusa
decried that the Castellan be included on the Council. Despite the various elections and appointments, the actual Houses represented on the Inner Council rarely change, and it is
very rare for any Newblood House to be represented at all. In most cases, members of the Inner Council are between 6,000 and 10,000 years old.
The Inner Council interacts directly with the Head of the Presidency, and carries his orders to the rest of the Time Lords. During Emergency Sessions, the Inner Council can override the President's authority with a unanimous vote,
for example, Chapter 14, paragraph 6 of the Constitution states - If the president is emotionally compromised by diplomatic
circumstances, the Inner Council can vote in favor of military action without his or her final approval. Every 150 years the entire Inner Council will renew
their Vows of Reaffirmation to the Dromeian Archibaptrix. This
ceremony confirms the council’s allegiance to Gallifrey. Normally the Inner Council meets in the
Great Hall of Time where one of the Matrix Portals is mounted in it. But nested into one of the alcoves in the Presidential Palace is a the Inner Council Room which was intended
to be a private area for the President to meet with the rest of the Inner Council
in secret. Like the Great Hall of Time, this room has a Matrix Portal mounted above the debating table. This room is only used about once every thousand years and serves as a storage for lesser know artifacts of Rassilon. Only Inner Council members can authorize the unsealing of the Panoptican Hall.
The High Council at a Presidential Ordination and the Seal of the High Council
THE HIGH COUNCIL OF THE TIME LORDS OF GALLIFREY
The Twenty-Four, The Supreme Council
The High Council is made up of the Inner Council and the19 Cardinals appointed by the Parliament, for a total membership of 24. Indeed the council is sometimes know simply as 'The Twenty-Four.' Traditionally
these appointments were given to those Cardinals who had served the
longest in Parliament (though sometimes a Time Lord would refuse the
job). These Time Lords are generally
between 3,000 and 8,000 years old and it is very rare for a Time Lord to achieve a position on the council at less then 2000 years of age.The positions of the Chancellor and the other Prime/Lord Cardinals are ratified by the other members of the High Council and confirmed by the President. The
counsellors generally serve until retirement, but they can be removed
by the Lord President or by a 1/3 petition by all the Time Lords.
Below the High Cardinals of the Inner Council are the six Prime Cardinals (one for each chapter),
and 11Lord Cardinals.Later the positions of Keeper (aka Coordinator) of the Matrix, and Castellan (commands the Chancellery Guard and the Watch) were made non-voting members of the Council. Since Castellans
aren't always Time Lords this is the
only way a non-Time Lord can serve on the Council.High Council members are forbidden from serving in the Parliament or on the Supreme Court during their term as counsellors.Chapter Cardinals do not serve on the High Council. Aliens are never allowed to serve on the High Council.
The
councilors usually meet in the circular High Council Chamber of
Congress. The more important a councilor is the closer to the ground
level of the chamber they will be seated. High-benchers are consider to
be insignificant. The High Council sets policy and is responsible for most of the daily decisions that affecte the world. These
Cardinals supervise various committees and organizations and the
co-ordinators of those groups report to the council. This includes
Surgeon General, Gold Usher, the Keeper of the Matrix, and the
Inquisitors. A sub-committee of the High Council oversees the Temporal Scanning Service at Temporal Scanning HQ. The Honorable Central Population Directory (which handles matters concerning the Looms) is another sub-committee that is under High Council
control.The Celestial Intervention Agency that - in theory - is under the High Council's supervision, but, in practice, the CIA's reports directly to the Chancellor. It is rumored that 2/3rds of the High Council has been bribed or blackmailed by the CIA.
In
the times between the resignation of the former Lord President and the
swearing in of the new one the High Council is know as the Supreme
Council, as it has supreme power for that period. It
should be noted that without a sitting President the Supreme Council
technically can not ratify anything. However this law has been known to
be deliberately overlooked.
Every member of the High Council carries a Badge of Office. Security
systems for High Council technology relies on having the correct
biodata codes. A TARDIS with High Council Protocol privileges can break
through the lower level transduction barriers.However most High Councilors are too busy with affairs of state to ever leave Gallifrey in their TARDISes. Data cores of High Council rulings have their casings color coded by the Chapter whose President is currently in power.
The
Time Lord Intelligentsia
THE PARLIAMENT The Ruling Houses, the College of Cardinals
Any
Time Lord can declare himself to be a candidate for the Parliament, but
membership is only conferred by petition of 1/3 of the Time Lord
community. Only the most well respected will be able to gain such support. The Cardinals generally serve until retirement, but they can be removed by the Lord President or by a 1/3 vote of the Time Lord community.
The Surgeon-General is a member of the Parliament, as are the Chapter Cardinals (who lead the Chapters), Under Cardinals, Junior Cardinals, the High Gold Usher, Inquisitors and other Senators. Also included are the Inquisitors who make up the Supreme
Court of the Guardians of Gallifreyan Law. Most of the time the current President's Chapter will be the most well represented Chapter on the Council. The
Parliament is only convened when issues of great import are to be
discussed and decided (such as the passing of laws and amendments to
the Constitution). Most of the time
the High Council handles matters.The High
Gold Usher decides who can speak at meetings of Parliament. The more important a member, is the closer
to the ground level of the council chamber they will be seated. High-benchers
are consider to be insignificant. One of the duties of the Cardinals is organizing Resignation Day ceremonies.The
Parliament appoints 19 of the members of the High Council from its own
ranks. The most experienced of the Parliament are generally chosen to
become Prime (or High) Cardinals on the council, but they must step down from Parliament to take up that new position. The combined mental powers of these Time Lords allow them to take mental control of any Time Lord (even ex-presidents).
The Citadel's Cardinal’s Habitation Complex holds the living quarters for the Cardinals. Most Junior Cardinals teach at the Academy as well as pursue advanced research projects. All of them are still considered to be scientists and they continue to spend millennia working on their individual research
projects.
Time Lords and Ladies of the
Scendeles(?), Prydonian, Patrexes,
and Arcalian Chapters
THE CHAPTERS OF THE TIME LORDS
Gallifreyan society is organized into six Chapters or Colleges. These Chapters are politico-economic factions (or clans), each of which is led by their own Council of Cardinals. Every Chapter is represented on the High Council by at least one Cardinal Prime. The six chapters are based on the six founders of Gallifrey: Rassilon (Prydon), Apeiron (a warrior), Omega, the Other,
Pandak the First (the second President) and Professor Artron (or perhaps Lord Patrex, there is much debate among Time Lords as to the accuracy of this list).Each chapter's Council of Cardinals meet in its Chapterhouse. The Chapterhouses are also known by color, so Prydon is sometimes called the Scarlet Chapterhouse, and Arcal the Green
Chapterhouse.The Prydonian Chapter House has a statue of an Owl (the symbol of Rassilon) outside its entrance.
Each Chapter has their own Academy. Most of the members of each chapter embody certain traits. A Gallifreyan's initial chapter is chosen based on their personality and talents at age 8.
Upon graduation from an Academy a Gallifrey is given the opportunity to change their Chapter.
But afterwards Gallifreyan customs forbid a person changing allegiances to another Chapter. Each Chapter has 100 full Time Lords for a total of 600. Their are also about 400 Apprentice and Junior
Grade Time
Lords at any given time. Each Chapter has a Chapterhouse. The chapters
that are not represented by the current Head of the Presidency are
considered to be independent, and their Lords are often know as
Independents. Time Lords can give their words as either a Time Lord or as a Prydonian. Such oaths are taken very seriously. It is traditional for Gallifreyans who change their chapter at graduation, to continue to wear the original colors of
their academy.
It should be noted that plebeians (non-Time Lord) are not bound by the color coding of the chapters with respect to
dress. Gallifreyans who become Investigators for the CIA lose all rank and connection to their colleges.
Black and white robes appear to indicate Gallifreyans who are not currently aliened with a particular Chapter. Black appears to indicate an allegiance to no chapter while white might indicate allegiance to all chapters. Jesters on Gallifrey wear multicolored clothes (perhaps this indicates confusion?)
The Seal of the Prydonian Chapter
The Six Cardinal Colleges
Prydon Chapter: The Prydonians wear scarlet, orange, and gold.
Most have long sallow faces with beaked noses. They are known to be plotters, decision makers, and liars.
They also tend to be talented with learning other languages. This Chapter holds the most politically powerful
Houses and for this reason receives more advanced Rassilon Imprimaturs than the lower chapters. The Prydon Chapter has produced more Presidents then all the other Chapters combined. They have also produced more renegades then the other chapters. This Chapter was founded by Rassilon.
Arcal Chapter: Arcalians wear green
and brown robes. This is the second most powerful chapter and for this reason receives more advanced Rassilon Imprimaturs then the lower chapters. This faction was dedicated to science and
technical expertise, and holds many of Gallifrey foremost scientists and temporal engineers. There is an Arcalian Council for Temporal Research.
While they love to study it, most Arcalians dislike actually interacting with the outside universe, and rarely leave their TARDISes when off world.
Even on Gallifrey they tend to be quite solitary. Arcalians are known for always siding with the winning side of any political debate. This Chapter was probably founded by Omega.
Patrex Chapter: The Patrexes wear heliotrope and burgundy robes. The Patrexes are an order of artists, aesthetes,
librarians, and philosophers who see artistic value in everything (even pain and suffering).
Many of them have advanced telepathic abilities. They are know for the far away looks they carry on their faces, but most lack any true imagination. Adventure does not come easily to members of the Patrexes Chapter. This chapter struggled to maintain its quota of 100 full Time Lords and is
a minor player in Time Lord politics. The Patrexian Numbers serve as a
numerical base to everything they create. They are know for obsessively
cataloging everything. The few Patrexes who do rise to the first rank
(such as the rich and powerful Tebediatroculozan) are well respected for their mental prowess. One of the duties
of the Patrexes might scanning into the future as far as was possible. Space-Traffic Control is considered to be a good job for Patrexes who long to learn about life outside of Gallifrey. Practically everything they create is beautiful
but pointless. This Chapter was founded by Lord Patrex.
Cerulean Chapter: Their colors are a subdued
light blue and they have little political power. Probably Green in policy. This chapter is made of either academicians or bureaucrats.
Drome Chapter: The Dromeian colors are probably silver-gray and they have little political power. Probably similar to Social Democrats. This chapter is made of either academicians or bureaucrats.
Scendeles Chapter: Their colors are quite subdued - probably light yellow - and they have little political power. This chapter is made of either academicians or bureaucrats.
Exterior and
Interior of a Great House
RASSILON'S GREAT HOUSES
Every Gallifreyan is born into one of Rassilon’s Houses. Each Gallifreyan begins life as a cousin of their House. There are well over 18 houses.
The family of each House is lead by its Kithriarch. Kithriarchs
are usualy appointed by the previous Kithriarch before their final
death day. Every house is also registered under a specific chapter – though its cousins are not bound by this. This
designation might be chosen by the house’s Kithriarch, but could also
be based on which chapter the majority of that house’s cousins are
members of.Under the Worshipful and Ancient Law of Gallifrey, a member of any House can give up the protection of their House and
become the Kithriarch of a new House with a new Chapterhouse and Loom. The founder of a new House carries the title
Grandfather. A Renegade Time Lord traditionally renounces his name and his house. The
physical houses are cryptoformed and sentient. They are the oldest living things on the planet.
Their roots extend deep into the ground beneath them. The interior of a House and its furniture are designed to a massive
scale to give newly loomed Gallifreyans a chance to feel like childrene.
The artificially animated furniture needs to be house trained,
otherwise it will tend to chase people around. The paintings whisper at
passing cousins. The Druges
are massive automated humanoid servants who can be found throughout the
house. They answer to the Housekeeper, but serve both the cousins of
the house and the house itself. Each one
is composed of a basic servitor eidolon surounded by non-living
syncretic matter that appears to be varnished wood. Some Time Lords
were know to take Druges with them in their TARDIS to serve them when
they were off-world.
Each House
has a loomshed which holds its loom. The Honorable Central Population Directory defines the quota of cousins alowed for each
House's loom. This loom has a unique genetic core to loom its cousins. This creates a template that standardizes the
abilities
and blood of everyone loomling of that family. In the pre-Time War era there are between 3 and 9 million Gallifreyans. Each House has a Housekeeper who's is bonded/married to
their house. This is accomplished by taking the vow "I shall serve you might and main, mortar and mortice. I shall guard your bounds, your chattels and your progeny from Loom to Tomb."
and receiving a wooden ring to wear. This ring will burn to ash if the
Housekeeper loses the trust of their house. The Housekeeper
is responsible for maintaining the house and its wooded Druges.
They can use the mirrors of the house to see into any room.
OLDBLOOD HOUSES
The Oldblood Houses are the Founding Houses plus the houses created at the beginning of the Time of Legend by Rassilon
right after the Intuitive Revolution. The eyes of the Older House are flecked with purple.
Old Times: Founding Exo Houses
The Founding Exo Houses are the houses that date all the way back to the Dark Times (before the Time Lords). Of the many of these Houses that once existed only five
or six still exist in the modern era. The ones that died out might
still be found in the fictional writings of beings throughout the
Universe. Cousins of these Houses command significantly more
respect than members of later ones.
House of Blyledge: The House of Blyledge was ancient even before the time of Rassilon. Blyledge is one of
the senior houses in the Prydon Chapter of Glorious Gallifrey. The House of Blyledge is an angular small dark building
that is older than the hill it sits on. It has a walled garden of silver trees in its center and is within visual
sight of the Capitol. Family members often wear blue clothes and thus the House might be a member of the the Cerulean Chapter. Amnoni Distuyssor Lorizhon and Patience came from this House.
House of Firebrand: One of the Houses that pre-dated the Rassilon. It is located on or near Mt. Cadon (so approximately 900 miles to the south-west of the Capitol). This
house is probably extinct in the modern era.
House of Rassilon (originally Fordfarding): Probably the oldest houses that survived the Intuitive Revolution. Rassilon’s House has gardens with trimmed hedges and gravelled driveways. It isn't far from the Capitol. Quennesander Olyesti Pekkary,
Olyes Dryanasor, Dryana Shylvarsor, Shylvar Karyesti, and Rassilon came from this house. By the time of the Doctor this house still had several cousins, but Susan is the last known womb-born decendent.
House of Goodlight: One of the Houses that pre-dated the Rassilon. It is not near Mt. Cadon. This house is
probably extinct in the modern era.
House of Heartshaven: The House of Heartshaven pre-dates
the House of Rassilon. It is located on or near Mt. Cadon (so approximately 900
miles to the south-west of the Capitol). Hartshaven has a vineyard and
makes Hartshaven Wine – which is considered some of the finest wine on
Gallifrey. For
this reason the House has a very well stocked and heavily reinforced
wine cellar. The newblood House of Dvora was probably spawned out of
House Heartshaven. Cousins include: Romanadvoratrelundar.
House of Jadedreamers: One of the Houses that predates the Intuitive Revolution. Some of its family were
members of the Sisterhood of Karn.
House of Lineacrux: The least active of the Founding Houses, known only for their expertise in Gallifreyan
history and laws. All of its cousins have the appearance of extremely old and senile Gallifreyans who passively
observe society around them. The truth of the matter is that the Lineacrux cousins are some of the most powerful
and influential members of Gallifreyan society. Their decrepit appearance is merely an act designed to lull others
into ignoring them. They observe and (when consulted) offer their opinion in almost all gatherings of Gallifreyan
society.
House of Lungbarrow: This Oldblood House was
reformed in response to the curse
and thus is arguably one of the original five or six Founding Houses from the time of Rassilon. The crest
of Lungbarrow is two silver leafed trees whose branches reach over and intertwine. 45 cousins are allotted to the
house of Lungbarrow.
By the time of the Doctor, records will indicate that the Omega was an ancestor of the House of Lungbarrow, but
the House tends to produce Prydonians. While still considered to be a
house of wealth and privilege, in the last several thousand years it
has fallen from favor, with its highest-ranking member holding a title
of Ordinal General. About 350 years after the looming of the Doctor,
the House was deleted from History for exceed its Loom Quota. It was
reinstated 673 years later. The actual
Chapterhouse is located in the southern gallifrey mountain ranges, over 900 miles to the south-west of the Capitol and about two days walk from Rassilon's Rampart (so about 80 miles). does overlooks the river Cadonflood. A forest of silver leafed trees stretch from the House to the river Cadonflood
at the base of the valley.
The House is perched halfway up Mount Lung (more formally known as Mount Cadon) on the west side. For the most part no Family members come to
the House of Lungbarrow, except for loomings and tombings.
A hired hermit lived behind the house. The river right next to the Hermit's home floods frequently
(this might be Cadonflood?). Southern Gallifrey is considered quite wild and beautiful, but does occasionally
suffer blizzards. There is a cellar full of Draconian Wine in the chapterhouse. The house was removed from the official
directory and buried around the time that the Doctor met Susan. The
house was destroyed shortly before the Doctor's regeneration into his
8th incarnation. Many of the surviving cousins ended up being recruited by Faction Paradox. A partial list of the Lungbarrow Cousins:
Omega
Almund
Arkhew
Bob? (possibly the 17th cousin loomed after Satthralope?)
Celesia
Chovor (the Various)
DeRoosifa
The Doctor
Farg
Glospinninymortheras (Cellular Eugenics specialist and possibly CIA)
Innocet
Irving Braxiatel (claims to be the Doctor's Brother)
Jobiska
Luton
Mable (the Doctor's aunt)
Maljamin
Owis (was the Doctor's Replacment after he was disinherited)
Quencessetianobayolocaturgrathadeyyilungbarrowmas (Ordinal-General to the President and 422nd Kithriarch)
Rynde (Epicural Overseer)
Salpash
Satthralope (Housekeeper of Chapterhouse Lungbarrow)
Tulgel
House of Warpsmith: One of the Houses that pre-dated the Rassilon. It is not near Mt. Cadon. This house is
probably extinct in the modern era.
House of Arpexia: The cousins of this house are Gallifrey’s only scientific fundamentalists. They place
great faith reason and logic as the solution to all problems and shun emotion. They have been conducting research
for research’s sake for millions of years. This house was responsible for the unstable Babels. They’ve
produced many experimental Time Travel Capsules over the eons, but their technology tends to be over complicated.
House of Bluewood: A relatively minor house. It was sometimes represented by K-9 in negotiations with other Time Lords.
House of Brightshore: House
know for their political power, wealth, and sense of supercilious
entitlement, but not the intellect of its cousins. It produces a
lot of Prydonians. President Liviacaralis is a cousin of this house.
House of Dellatrovellas: One of the oldest and most powerful Houses. Time Lady Serenadellatrovella was a cousin
of this house. Tebediatroculozan was probably from it as well.
House of Dooclare: A
house that Lord Brolin was part of that took in Susan as Lady Larn
Findooclare. The house might have also taken in the Doctor after
he was semantectomed from the House of Lungbarrow.
House of Jurisprudence: Inquisitor Darkelatraquistahastrad (aka Darkel) is a cousin of this house.
House of Meddhoran: Like most houses, all of this house's cousins have their house name imbeded in their full name.
House of Mirraflex: A minor oldblood House that produced most of Gallifrey’s generals, enforcers, and
strategists. Its cousins are known for being aggressive and ruthless defenders of the Laws of Time. They have nothing
but disdain for the Lesser Species and are know for their sense of supercilious entitlement. Their
Loom was known for being particularly versatile. Most of their cousins
do not trust members of New Blood Houses, especially Xianthellipse. The
House was founded by General Mirraflex after the beginning of the
Eternal Wars, who structured it as an esoteric martial lodge.
House of Nechronmancy: Nechronmancers don’t believe in the passage of time and don’t acknowledge
their gender or their names. They’ve deleted most of the records of their House and are viewed as pariahs among
Time Lord society. They are capable altering time states in ways that would be impossible for any other Time Lord.
During the War these deep engineers collected Highest Entropy Matter (HEM) from dead time states (where the universe
had reached thermal equilibrium and history/time has ceased to flow).
House of Scarlet: Almost certainly a House associated with the Prydon Chapter.
House of Stillhaven: A
House associated with the Prydon Chapter. During the Last Great
Time War the patriarch of this house opposed the Ultimate
Sanction. As punishment the cousins of this house had their
memories erased and were used in experiments.
House of Wetrix
House of Wherewithal:A
decrepit old House in the mountains of Southern Gallifrey that had
hundreds of stories. This house had no interest in Gallifreyan
traditions. Most of the cousins are female, including Baba, and the three headed hydra-creature Faith, Hope, Susan. Lilith (aka
Iris Wildthyme) was adopted
into this house.
NEWBLOOD HOUSES
There are very few Newblood houses (relative to the number of Oldblood Houses) and their cousins tend to be quite eccentric.
Unlike the Oldbloods, most of their cousins have the ability to precisely control their regenerations. All of them
were founded no more than 10,000 years before the Doctor was loomed.
House of Dvora (aka House of Devouring Hounds): The first of the
Newblood houses, House of Dvora was created 10,000 years before the looming of the Doctor.
Its Grandfather was probably from the House of Heartshaven. Their Cousins view themselves as destined to publicly
lead and control. Dvora
is the only Newblood House whose power equals the Five Founding Houses.
They are ruthlessly practical and open to using violent methods, but
strive to appear impersonal and passionless. They have seven elite
operatives who undertake secret missions for them. Originally associated with the Patrex chapter they later allied with the Prydonians. Cousins include:
Morbius the Imperator
Ruathadvorophrenaltid is probably a cousin of this house.
Romanadvoratrelundar of the House of Heartshaven, is the inheritor of the House of Dvora.
House of Lolita: A
house founded by the 101-form timeship Lolita during the early years of
the Time War. Its founding grandmother was destroyed less then a
century into the War, but she had at least two children before this
happened.
House of Oakdown: This Newblood House of Oakdown is
allied with the Prydon Chapter and is one of the most respected and noble Houses on Gallifrey.
This House produced the Master and the Master's Father
(almost certainly Marnal the Crusader). Its estates were located on Mount Perdition, less then a two day walk from Mount Solace (so less then 80 miles). The hillsides were covered
in fields of red grass.
House of Paradox: This House was founded by a cousin of Lungbarrow and conducted illegal experiments on Non-Linear Time. The
Grandfather also begins to experiment with lesser species reproductive methods and begins wearing armor made of the
bones of Yssgaroth infected Time Lords. It was reformed into Faction Paradox and exiled from Gallif0rey.
House of Tracolix: A minor Newblood House that is known for subtly trying to exploit every change that occurs
in Gallifreyan society. They are arrogant, reckless, and ambitious. Their willingness to follow any passing fashion
gives their cousins more versatility then those of other Houses.
House of Xianthellipse: A minor Newblood House known for its understanding of biology and biodata.
Its cousins appear to view the Prydon Chapter with disdain for they never wear scarlet.
SERVITOR AND CARETAKER HOUSES
Below the Time Lords are the Plebeian Classes (non Time Lord). This ancillary staff and their families live in the rest
of the Capitol. They are Watch guards, technicians, artisans, cleaners, engineers, cooks, and musicians. MidTown is between the Capitol and LowTown. Low Town is the society of poor that has formed in the foundations of the
Capitol. The Low Towners call Time Lords Timeys while the Gallifreyan elite refer to
New Age Time Lord dropouts who live in Low Town as Shobogans. The Shobogans are know for being trouble makers and vandals. They have their own form of writing, and often inscribe the words 'Bad Wolf' on walls and pavements. Their Houses are ruled by a Castellan (or Chatelaine if the Gallifreyan is female). During the pre-War era there are between 3 and 9 million Gallifreyans. But the Pythia's Curse fades shortly before the
Time War starts, allowing natural reproduction to occur. The population reached billions, andby the end of the Time War there were approximately 2,470,000,000 children on Gallifrey.
House of Catherion: A
now extinct House whose chapterhouse is looked after by a caretaker
line. In the War era the chapterhouse's great hall is known as the Hall
of Faces because the cousins were killed by a rogue Babel.
House of Everston: Romanadvoratrelundar is custodian of this House.
House of Ixion: This
House is located on the southern edge of the civilized portion of
Gallifrey, and just north of the southern mountain range. Indeed, it is
the southern-most House on Gallifrey. Its original Family left
during the first Diaspora leaving only a
line of caretakers to watch after the House. Millions of years later
Morbius chose it as the Headquarters for the Order of the Weal and made
one of the caretakers, Chatelaine Thessalia, head of the organization.
Its “cousins” were malcontents from larger Houses who were combat
trained. Despite this training most of their duties were
administrative. They Loom of Ixion was never used but rumor has it that
they tampered with other House’s Looms to produced mutants and
renegades.
House of Deeptreeredlooms:The Prydon affiliated Newblood House of Redlooms
is a servitor-class houses that has been producing military ordinals (who serve in the
Prydonian Watch) for a very long time. It is a family of loyal mavericks who have defeated a dozen Time Lord traitors. The cousins of this house often tell loomlings
stories about vampires.
House of Shadow: There
are rumors and heresies of the existence of a Shadow House which hold
Gallifreyans whose regenerations have failed in some way. These
included regenerations that had only regenerated half of the body,
regenerations where the body was changed but not the brain,
regenerations that turned the subject inside out, regenerations that
reverted the Gallifreyan into a time-tot and other monstrous
variations. Also within this house the Black Nurseries hold mutated and
paradoxical childrene (including those who over 20 years old). The
advances in Gallifreyan science over the last several thousand years
have almost completely eliminated such problems, and there is no
evidence that the Shadow House ever existed. However the Doctor felt
that that it almost certainly existed in the past (and possibly in the
present before history was changed to remove it). If the Shadow House
did exist the the Valeyard was probably one of its cousins.
House of Urquineath: The
maven house of inconsequence and holder of naught. Antigone and
the Hussar were cousins of this House. All of its cousins had
purple-flecked eyes. Hussar lost all of the house's holdings through
gambling around the time House Paradox was founded. House
Urquineath was extinct by the time of the Last
Great Time War in Heaven.
The Watcher Milady
THE DEPARTMENT OF THE WATCHERS
One
of the first steps the Time Lords took after realizing how dangerous it
could be if other worlds invented time travel was to create the
Department of the Watchers. The department was tasked with sending its
Watchers into the field to try spot any dangerous time travel. Chapter 9 was tasked with monitoring and confronting other species that threatened to break the laws of time. However
it is very rare for a Watcher to be authorized to interfere. The
Department of the Watchers used to have a seal that was an image of a
Watcher gazing out over a stunning land (or space) scape. The exact
nature of the view varied from depiction to depiction.
Watchers aren’t technically (Senior?) Time Lords (are their TARDISes technically loaners?). But they have graduated from the Time
Academy. Originally Watchers had to be strictly celibate. But, by the
time of the modern era, this rule had been relaxed to allow short
affairs. Every Watcher answers to the Advisor of the Department of the
Watchers, who can be found at the HQ on the foggy side of Gallifrey.
However all intervensions must be approved by Control. For the majority
of the time, Watchers simply travel the cosmos observing and recording.
They have access to the most advanced TARDISes availible. A Watcher’s
TARDIS can remotely tap into some restricted governmental computer
records on the worlds it visits. Only once every few centuries, when
timelyness is vital, will Control even contact a Watcher.
Watchers
have access to state-of-the-art TARDISes. The constables have the right
to take control and even to nullify any stolen TARDIS (and its
operator), if they don’t surrender. Control Orders have been issued by
Chapter 9 for all stolen TARDISes. This, combined with their enhanced
symbiotic prints, allow them to override a thief’s control of a stolen
TARDIS simply by being inside its control room.
At
the time the Department was created, Gallifrey’s ability to remotely
monitor temporal activity in the rest of the cosmos is quite limited.
But as Gallifrey abbility to scan the universe increases, the
usefulness of the Department will decrease. The budget was cut for the
Watchers working in the field. Most Watchers now travel alone with no
other crewmembers in their TARDISes. In the modern era, there few remaining
Watchers and the
Department is considered to be merely ceramonial. Many argued that
the organization was no longer nessecary.
THE ORDER OF THE WEAL
Organization
founded by President Morbius and based at House Ixion. It was tasked to
ensure Gallifreyan culture survived, but tended to be radically
proactive in carrying out this goal. It viewed all historical records
as suspect and trusted only what they could directly sense and
comprehend. The Order was led by Chatelaine Thessalia, had about 170
members and access to 4 TARDISes. Its members were malcontents from
larger Houses who were combat trained by the Order. Despite this
training, most of their duties were administrative. Their elite guard wear
black and gold instead of the usual red. The CIA eventually assumed all
the responsibilities of the Order.
Lord
Ferain of the CIA and their Headquarters
THE CELESTIAL INTERVENTION AGENCY
The CIA, the Celestials
The Time Lords are pledged to uphold the Laws of Time. As part of this, Rassilon
decreed that the people of Gallifrey must defend their manifest destiny
to govern universal history. The interventionist organizations are responsible for protecting history and intervening when it was deemed nessecary. While official history attributes the creation of these intervensionist groups to the Other, the truth appears to be that that the Matrix manipulated events to ensure their existance.The Celestial Intervention Agency (CIA) was originally formed to deal with minor issues that the Time Lords viewed as being beneath them. What would become known as the CIA, was originally staffed by Rassilon's personal guards (known as the Garda in some records). At the time of its founding (the Time of Legend), the group called itself the Division. It served for the glory of Gallifrey, but knowledge of its existance was kept from virtualy everyone. The interventionists carefully monitor other species research into time travel and act to prevent unauthorized
time travel. They alsodefending indigenous lesser species from aggression from Time Active aliens. Rassilon
also gave them the authority to stop any threats to that future. The interventionists prefer conspiracy and manipulation to open confrontation.Their motto is "They story changes, the ending remains the same." In other words, you can do what ever you need to as
long as recorded history remains the same.Eventually the organization came to believe that the Web of Time should be adjusted whenever
it suited the needs of the Time Lords. Unfortunately, the Time Lords are, in reality, a very fearful people, and anything the don’t understand is perceived
as a threat to themselves. The CIA tended to over react to such things without bothering to consult the Supreme Court. The CIA has been known to destroy all life on a temporal nexus world in order to prevent the Matrix records, or other ancient artifacts
of Rassilon, from falling into the hands of another species. Irconically, the CIA agents of the modern era believe that
the agency's form and function is exactly what the Other would have
wanted it to be. Originallythe very existance of the Divsion was kept completely secret from the people of Gallifrey. Even in the modern era it’s
virtually impossible for most Gallifreyans (and even Junior Time Lords) to learn anything about the Celestial Interverntion Agency beyond its name. There are only a
few references to their interventions in libraries and most of the Division's Matrix records have been redacted.They are sometimes known as the Celestials by the plebian classes. It is rumored that 2/3rds of the High Council has been bribed or blackmailed by the CIA (the Doctor believes it's more
like 1/2), making it the most influential of the various interventionist
movements. The physical leaders of the Agency is the Tribunal (also
know as the Dark Council). The Tribunal is made up of the First Speaker (also
known as the Director or Chief Coordinator), the Second Speaker (Deputy Coordinator) and
the Third Speaker (Sub-Coordinator).The Chief Coordinator of the CIA knows several secret
codes which allow control of the Transduction Barriers, the
presidential files, and the contents of time vaults (inclduing the Omega Arsenal). The Chief Coordinator outranks the Castellan but the Lord President has final say on matters of jurisdiction.
Originally the interventionists reported directly to the High Council and was under their supervision, with the President being the nominal head of the CIA. But, the Constitution was amended so thatthey reported directly to the Chancellor, so as to provide the President and the High Council with plausible
deniability. The CIA eventually
grew to be a very powerful organization and, in practice, the CIA's actions are only limited by the Chancellor and the Lord President.Unbeknownst to even the Tribunal, the CIA is secretly manipulated and controlled by the Matrix Lords (Rassilon, Morvane, and Bedevere) from within the Matrix. The
Vortex Operations Unit was responsible for scanning the vortex for
temporal anomalies. Chapter 9 was tasked with monitoring and
confronting other species that threatened to break the laws of time.The Allegiance Command Cell was another a branch of the CIA.
The CIA is obsessed with titles and positions. These include Chief Coordinator (First Speaker / Director), Deputy Coordinator (Second Speaker), Sub-Coordinator (Third Speaker), Inquisitor, Investigator, Field Agent, Captain, Commander, Constable, Under-Assassin, Special Time-Space Troopers (ST-ST) and Junior Monitor. The CIA numbers its investigators. The higher the number the higher
the rank of the Investigator. Particularly honorable and couragous agents for the Division are awarded a Service Medal made of chronotelluric alloy. The strong entanglements of the alloy makes the medal very trackable. Time Lords can't apply to work in the Division. Most CIA field missions are performed by Apprentice Grade Time Lords who are generally between 100, and 1,200 years old. CIA Investigators loose all traditional rank and connections to their colleges when
they join the agency. However their bio-data extract will never mention that they are affiliated with the CIA.The CIA prefers conspiracy and manipulation to open confrontation.
Their agents are trained in Smallest Effective Change Principles and are skilled in the arts of subterfuge, but receive little instruction in
diplomacy.CIA Agents in training practice their marksmanship on Staser Ranges, but are not given much training in hand-to-hand combat. Most of their time is spend studying and attending lectures about alien worlds, though they also
are taught about many of Gallifrey's secrets from the past. Their HQ is located in the Citadel Constraint Block and is sometimes referred
to as Gallifrey Central. The CIA will enclose their labs in recursive time loops to hide them from Time Lord society. These time locks are the usual way that the Time Lords keep something from being seen or accessed by the other temporal
powers.To
ensure that information is not intercepted, the CIA Co-ordinator will
sometimes input data and logs directly into the Matrix Datebanks. To insure the existence of back up
copies, top secret message sent from Gallifrey to agents are routed
through the TARDIS closest to the receiver (they are of course
encoded). In emergencies, they will teleport Secure Delivery Capsules (SDC) to the current coordinates of the agent. These capsules are virtually impossible to open if you are not the intended recipient. CIA robes are simpler than other governmental robes and usually either gray or black and/or white. Black and white robes appear to indicate Gallifreyans who are not currently aligned with a particular Chapter. CIA Field Agents in the traditionally wear black robes with tight black hoods. These
robes are equipped with Personal Camouflage Devices with a wardrobe
circuit that can make them appear to be wearing any of a complete wardrobes of outfits.
This perception filter can be overcome by people with psychic ability.
The CIA’s Special Time-Space Troopers wear elongated collars in
addition to the black robes and tight hoods. In addition to the robes, they also have rings with perception filters that can make them
effectively invisible, or appear as a member of the local time
zone. Field agents are equipped with details histories, false identification, documents of authority, Psychic Paper (a CIA invention), and currency for various temporal nexus points. Like
all Time Lords in the field, they carry galactic compasses. CIA
lock burners a powerful enough to breach presidential security locks. Most CIA missions are performed by Apprentice Grade Time Lords with Time Rings. However, since unregistered TARDISes are much more difficult for Gallifrey to monitor, the CIA always makes sure to have a few unregistered TARDISes on hand. A Division TARDIS has short range
telepathically triggered, teleport that will retrieve the agent (and
anyone they are touching). They are equiped with a Chameleon Arch. Most
TARDISes used by the CIA's Field Agents have enhanced Recall Circuits
and remote self-destruct systems. If an agent is uncovered while in the field
by the other temporal powers the High Council will deny that the agent works for the CIA.When
field agents lose access to their own TARDIS in the field an Extraction
TARDIS is sent to pick them up. However agent who failed a mission is
likely to be exiled or sentenced to Shada. Typical Time Lord weapons don’t need to be fired, instead
they affect everything within a certain area. The CIA has been known to change history by manipulating the genes of a race by having their agents interbreed with various races. This is done
to direct genetic drift between one bio-system and another or to reduce their aggressiveness. In extreme circumstances, Telepathic Thought Projection (TTP) is sometimes used to try to remotely override the will of members of lesser species to get them to act as the CIA wishes.
Unfortunately these telepathic commands can often be detected by other telepaths in the area, and it usually pretty
obvious that the controlled subject is acting abnormally.
For theses reasons the TTP is rarely used for more then a few minutes. Preparations for a telepathic intervention are extensive and often require temporally suspending the targeted time
zone
in a time bubble while they are completed. While Time Lords are capable of moving
and perceiving the bubble all others will be frozen in time. They even have the ability to freeze time on Gallifrey.
Because of their powers, the CIA believes that
Time Lords should always present themselves as Gods to the lesser species. This is known as a Class 2 Intervention. The Division considers the meeting of multiple incarnations of the same Gallifreyan to be an abomination. Despite being against law,many agents celebrate being able to eat various foods
from the outside universe. Article
57, Subsection 12 of the Shadow Proclamation is titled “Jurisdiction of
the Celestial Intervention Agency.” Viewing any records classified by this
subsection requires the approval of the Castellan. Like the Shadow Proclamation, the Division would sometimes employ Judoon forces.
Control Orders have been issued by
Chapter 9 for all stolen TARDISes. It constable the right to take
control and even to nullify any stolen TARDIS (and its operator), if
they don’t surrender. CIA agents have enhanced symbiotic prints
that will allow them to override a thief’s control of a stolen TARDIS
simply by being inside its control room.
In theory, the Supreme Court was responsible for judging non-Gallifreyan time active species or individuals who had
violated the Laws of Time. These
trials would be held on the CIA's Time Station, Zenobia. But in
practice, once the agency decided to imprison someone, not even the
Lord President can overturn their judgment. It is standard CIA protocol that any member of a lesser
species who is transported through time and space by a Time Lord should
have their memory wiped and be returned to their native time zone. It should be noted that Gallifreyan memory wiping techniques aren't totally reliable and the memories will often reappear as dreams. Field Agents
tend to go through a life-span approximately every 150 years and there is no particular stigman about returning from a mission in a new body. Members can’t retire from the Division and most remain with the organization until their final death day. They have funerals for their agents (and apparently for their human companions as well).
Validium shaped into the statue of a Human
VALIDIUM
The Ultimate Defense for Gallifrey
Validium is often used by the Time Lords to defend Gallifrey from potential threats. This ultimate defense for Gallifrey was created by Omega, Rassilon, and the Other. Validium is a very flexible and elastic living metal
with DNA. It becomes sentient when it achieves critical mass (probably about 300 kg). Its soul function is to cause destruction. It is capable of shaping planets and can probably travel through time. It might also be able to turn items into water or other elements. It can read people’s intentions and actions like a book and can choose protectors.Validium influences peoples subconscious actions and generates an aura of chaos that causes violence and destruction
on any world it passes near. Despite these capabilities the metal itself is no more ridged per volume then most types of cloth.
It can shape itself into whatever its owner asks it to be. Validium is probably used to create the Cold - A substance that exists as a liquid gateway/buffer between the Normal
Space and the Yssgaroth-Space of the Vampires. Validium might be related to the Casts or the N-Forms. Most of Gallifrey's Validium is stored in the Slaughter House beneath the Capitol. This gives the CIA the power to delete entire planets without leaving the Capitol,
there is no need for the Validium to ever be taken off world.
The Chancellery Guard
THE CHAPTERHOUSE GUARD
The Chancellery Guard, Chancery Guard, the Watch
The Watch represents Gallifrey’s only real “army." but really it functions more as a police force for the planet. Each
of the six chapters maintain their own chapterhouse branch of the
Watch. The uniform of these soldiers are the color of their
chapter. The chapter repesented by the current Lord President determines which of these chapterhouse have the honor of being the Chancellery Gaurd of the Capitol. Which means that the scarlet clad Prydonians generally protect the Capitol.The Chancellery Guard battalion is barracked in the Citadel. The Capitol have all had more then two centuries of experience. While the Cheif Coordinator of the CIA was responsible for handeling off-world threats, the Castellan of the Citadel was responsible for dealing with threats on Gallifrey and protecting the Lord President.
The powers of this position were outlined in the Constitution. In
situations where the responsibilities of the CIA and the Castellan
might overlap the Lord President had the power to select who had
authority. The Castellan is selected by the Parliment. Because of the boredom of Gallifrey's virtually crime free society, this position changes hands often, and is often held by a non-Time Lord
(probably due to a lack of any Lord desiring the position). Most Castellans are between 800 and 6,000 years old.The Gallifreyan serving as Castellan was known as the Chatelaine when the position was held by a female Gallifreyan (service in the Chancellery Guard is considered to be male work so its rare for a female to attain this position).The position is also possibly known as Magistrate under certain circumstances.President Borusa decried that that the Castellan was a non-voting member of the High and Inner Council. He also made the Castellan third in line of succession after the President and the Chancellor.The Watch are supervised from Security Control. From his
office, the Castellan has access to 86,346 other computer systems
throughout Gallifrey. They have access to the Inquistion's Grey, White, and Black Files. Beneath the Castellan of the Citadel were the six Deputy Castellans (also known as Chapterhouse Castellans) who oversaw the chapterhouse gaurd of their chapter. Beneath them, each branch was directly lead by a Commander of the Gaurd who had several captains, lieutenants, sergeants, and corporals under his command.
The majority of the Watch is made up of male Gallifreyans from servitor-class houses. Some of the guards are Time Lords. Most of these are Gallifreyans who desire a more exciting life. It is possible for these houses to buy their Gallifreyan a commission.All of the personel attend a
Police Academy where they are trained in
crowd control, investigation, martial arts, and how to resist the mind probe. They are the only ones allowed
to carry weapons in the Capitol and were issued with bio-data security passes. Despite this, the Watch has little combat ability and most lack any real fighting skills.
The Watch provides security guard duty,ceremonial escorts for important Time Lords, patrols the city, investigates crimes, and interrogates suspects. Besides security,
the Watch's other duties
include dealing with labor disputes with the Shobogans, and ensuring
the maintenance and redecoration of the Citadel. With forewarning, the Watch can set up a
temporal-grace field in any area in the Citadel. Gallifrey has very little crime and the need for a constabulary force is limited. Few crimes rise above vandalism
or the violation of minor laws. Most, if not all, Gallifreyans and Time Lords believe Gallifrey to be
a just and fair society, but cases of Time Lords bribing members of the Watch are not uncommon. Due to their boredom, the Watch tends to respond overly aggressively to any
violation they encounter. They are considered to be brutal, and quick to make assumptions rather than gathering all the facts.
The Watch can use torture on murder suspects, but needs special authority from the council to use the Mind Probe. As long as one answers every question and tells the truth, a properly programed Mind Probe causes no damage or pain. But if not properly set, a Mind Probe could fry the mind of a lesser species. On
full power, Gallifreyan Mind Probe can take everything a Gallifreyan
knows, ripping a resistant mind from its brain, thought by
thought. This leaves the brain burned out and the body in a
vegetative state. Under Romana's Presidency both torture and
the Mind Probe were made illegal.
When
Rassilon was resurrected at the beginning of the Time War he used the
Drylands Precedent to dissolve the the Watch and the position of the
Castellan. The soldiers were reorganized into the Interior Defence
Unit. By the end of the War Rassilon had re-instated the Citadel Gaurd
and title of Castellan.
An Inquisitor and a Valeyard
GALLIFREYAN JUSTICE
The Inquistion
The bureaucracy that makes up Gallifrey's jucical system is know as the Inquistion. Every Gallifreyan trial and inquiry is overseen by an Inquisitor who wears a red sash
of authority.His white robes probably indicate that he has no loyalty to any one chapter. The Inquisitor is the only one who can call witnesses.While their legal system does have bailiffs and witnesses, there are no juries. A Bronze Usher assists the Inquisitor in ensuring protocal is followed.The Valeyard serves as the learned court prosecutor. Valeyards are also responsible for drafting laws for the council. When court is not in session, the Valeyards can be found in the Inquisitor’s Offices. Again, the Valeyard's black and white robes probably indicate that he has no loyalty to any one chapter.Unlike many human courts, Gallifreyan justice tends to work very quickly - often reahing a verdict in a matter of days. Among the Inquisition, the Supreme
Court of Guardians of Gallifreyan Law is made up of 15 cardinal-judges who are selected by the High Council. It is forbidden to serve
on the High Council and the Supreme Court at the same time. These guardians wear gold and silver robes. Chancellery guards accompany these Inquisitors whenever she leaves the Capitol.
Among the guardians the Inquisitor Prime (aka the Inquisitor General)
has supreme authority over interpretations of Gallifreyan Law. The Supreme Court also has the right to judge non-Gallifreyan time active species or individuals.
The
Inquisition keeps a set of 3 files on all the people who catch its
attention. The Grey File holds those who are being investigated, are
currently on trial, or whose sentencing has not yet been rendered. The
Black File holds the details of subjects who have been found guilty and
sentenced, while the White File records who has been found innocent,
pardoned, suspended the sentence of, or consider to be reformed. The
Castellan has access to all three of these files.
While most cases are only observed by officers of the Watch, in cases where a Time Lord is on trial the entire Supreme Court will witness the trial. In this capacity they
are sometimes known as 'the Grey Council' and handle matters ranging from
Time Lords caught sending notes to their younger self to violation of the First Law of Time.It
is even possible for the accused to be held responsible for actions and
statements that the Matrix predicts that he will make in his future. These guardians act as advisors
and moderators for the Inquisitor to assist in rendering a verdict. Due to frequent bribery, it is unusual for a Time Lord for a Time Lord to ever be put on trial unless the matter involves breaking
the Laws of Time. After the events of The Deadly Assassin, the Keeper of Matrix was always retained to provide evidence from the Matrix.The event of the Ravalox Incident lead to a mandate that all Matrix projections had to be backed up by physical evidence
and witness testimony. By the end of the Time War, trials were rarely used to determine what happened, but instead
the investigation focused on the morality and motivation behind the accused's actions.
Prisoner undergoing the Mindprobe, and execution
Punishments authorized by the Worshipful and Ancient Law of Gallifrey
"We but administer. You are imprisoned not by this Court, but by the power of the Law."
- Traditional Inquisitor statement when passing Sentence
Temporonic
Biodata Tag (received by all convicted criminal Time Lords)
Takes the form of a biodata tattoo in the form of a serpent dragon on their right arm.
This tattoo is keyed into the subject's entire bio-field and links them to the courts though his own biodata strands.
Gallifreyan prisoners wear gray jumpsuits.
Mind Block
Blocks specific memories or skills using chemicals that break down memory acids.
Gallifreyan memory wiping techniques aren't totally reliable and the memories will often reappear as dreams.
Exile to the Wild-Lands
This is the standard punishment for Gallifreyans who commit criminal acts. Most Gallifreyans consider it to be
a horrifying punishment.
Exile from Gallifrey without a fully functional TARDIS
Exile is always accompanied by a Forced Regeneration.
A common practice often viewed as being worse then death.
At one point, hacking the Matrix was a crime that resulted a prison sentence of 500 years
of exile. This could be reduced to 200 years with good behavior.
Theft of a TARDIS has only one penalty: death
(of one body) and exile. A Fetch Squad is responsible for returning stolen TARDIS.
Often used for violations of one of the Major (first 3) Laws of Time.
Misuse of a TARDIS often resulted in this punishment. Time meddlers, responsible for minor violations of the Laws
of Time were often exiled.
Violent criminals,
who refuse to become outsiders or hermits, were often exiled.
The Disciplinary Forced Regeneration
(probably regarded as a type of death sentence)
Considered to be a punishment for relatively minor crimes
For conduct unbecoming a Time Lord??
Requires the approval by the High Council
Mandatory punishment for unauthorized use of a Time Capsule (usually included exile as well)
Indefinite Imprisonment in their own TARDIS
The subject's only escape is to activate the de-materialization switch with will remove them from History turning
them into a neverperson.
Identity Alteration via Biodata Amendment
Retro-active gene manipulation to make a new person who would not commit the crime.
A sentence handed out by the Supreme Court.
Used on aliens who are caught spying on the Time Lords.
Removal of the Time Lord's symbiotic nuclei
Reserved for Time Lords.
Without a nuclei they no longer a Lord of Time nor can they operate Gallifreyan time travel capsules.
Confiscation of Remaining Lives via Biodata Amendment
Can be done to confiscate or transfer future incarnations to another Gallifreyan
Reserved for major violations of the First Law of Time.
A Time Lord who destroys an entire species forfeits all his remaining lives.
Execution by Vaporisation via a Warrant of Termination
High Treason and assassination of a President are both punishable by vaporization
Major violations of the 1st
(as well as the second and third) Law of Time
(such as aggravated temporal interference) are punished by vaporisation.
Committing an unauthorized Class 2 Intervention (such as setting one's self up as a god of a lesser species)
Hacking into the Matrix (originally this offense carried a standard sentence of only 500 years in prison)
Executions are carried out at the Place of Termination inside a
molecular dispersal chamber with a termination tube. The
subject is first vaporised and then the remains of the criminal are
dispersed through time and space to the nine corners of the universe. This process takes about 40 seconds.
Afterward vaporisation, all records of the Time Lord's existence are deleted.
As of Arc of Infinity, Morbius was the only Time Lord to be executed.
Sentenced In Perpetuity to be frozen within Shada, an Oubliette, or a Phantom Sun
Often used for violations of one of the Major (first 3) Laws of Time.
Used on criminals (regardless of species) whose existence is viewed as a threat to Gallifrey.
Used on criminals that went places forbidden by the Time Lords or discovered information forbidden by the Time
Lords.
Time Looping a World (reserved for punishing an entire species)
A sentence handed out by the Supreme Court for species that attempt to violate one
of the Major (first 3) Laws of Time.
A sentence of 150,000 years imprisonment is standard for a species misusing temporal powers on the scale the Legions
did.
Unhappening from History
The
Time Lords can reverse a person's time stream to remove them from
history so that nobody will ever remember they existed.
Gross and extreme violations of the Laws of Time can lead to a Time Lord receiving this scentence.
Used for aliens who are caught spying on the Time Lords.
The Oubliette of Eternity can be used on entire speciesremoving entire worlds from the Web of Time, but this is very rarely done.
Carried out using an Omnicalculator (such as D-Mat gun or the Oubliette of Eternity)
As this punishment is a violation of the First Law of Time it is only enacted in secret by the President or (more often) the CIA.
Gallifreyan Technicians
THE CIVIL SERVICE
Ranks that can be held by Non-Time Lords include Castellan, Ordinal-Generals, Ordinals. The Junior Senate is made up
of the Junior Senators, and might be an institution of common Gallifreyans. A famously effective polygonal Zero Room can be found in the basement of the Junior Senate Block. Other organizations include: The Council of the Great Mother, Bureau of Loomographic Records, Causal Archive Record
Office, Matrician Bench of Ordnance Surveyists (monitors the locations of houses
and cities), Brotherhood of Kithriarchs, the Space/Time Accessions Bureau, the Central Office of Temporal Observation, Hospitaller-Surgeons
(handle medical issues, considered to be the finest doctors in the
galaxy), and the Almoner Crest (whose function has been lost to
history).
