Tardis Adventures: Appendix
Time Lord History
List of Time Lords

John Langebin and Jim Thomas' Time Lord history

                  HISTORY OF DOCTOR WHO

In the constellation of Kasterborus, at galactic coordinates
ten-zero-eleven-zero-zero by zero-two from galactic zero
center lies Gallifrey - The Planet of the Time-Lords.  On
Gallifrey lives an immensely intelligent and highly civil-
ized race.  Gallifreyans have an unique endowment - the
ability to regenerate their bodies, to prevent premature
death.  At such times they take on a completely new physical
appearance.  Gallifreyans may regenerate as many as twelve
times in one lifetime. The Master is the only Time Lord that
has regenerated more than 12 times.

Even more important than this ability however, are the
Gallifreyans' many extraordinary discoveries.  They have
opened the doors to the time barrier and unlocked the secret
of travel through the fifth dimension.  It is upon that
secret that the tradition of the Time-Lords has been
founded.

The Time-Lords monitor all the happenings and events that
occur in time and space.  They train at their respective
academies depending on their chapters of which there are
three: the Arcalians, the Patrexes, and the Prydonians.

Legends speak of Omega, a great and gifted time engineer,
who created the super-nova explosion which in time became
the Crab Nebula.  This gave the Gallifreyans the power they
needed to develop the time travel capsules called TARDIS
(Time And Relative Dimensions In Space).

Rassilon, the original leader of the Time-Lords, captured a
black hole which provided the Time-Lords with a constant,
stable power source to perfect their researches.  It was
Rassilon who created the symbols of power held by the presi-
dent of the High Council: The Matrix, a link to the Ampli-
fied Panatropic Complex (APC net), the computer which con-
tains the memories of all the Time-Lords who ever lived;
The Sash which protects the wearer from the energies of the
black hole;  The Rod and Great Key which are used in harnes-
sing the energies of the black hole.

The early Time-Lords used their powers to try to help the
people of the planet Minyos develop their civilization;

despite these efforts, though, the Minyans destroyed each
other in nuclear wars.  Only then did the Time-Lords realize
the potential harm of their discoveries.  They instituted
laws governing time travel, limiting themselves to the role
of observers.  They vowed only to interfere in the affairs
of other cultures in the most extreme cases of injustice.

Throughout Time-Lord history there have been those who have
left Gallifrey to pursue their own ideas and ambitions.
Among these 'Renegade' Time-Lords are names such as K'Anpo,
who lived on Earth as a Tibetan monk, and Drax, the builder
of Mentalis, a giant computer on the planet Zeos.

By far the most dangerous is the Master, an evil and avari-
cious Time-Lord whose lust for power has allied him to some
of the most ruthless elements in the universe.  A deadly
hypnotist, his trademark is murder and his favorite weapon a
gun which compresses his victims atoms, leaving doll size
corpses.

Most extraordinary of all the Time-Lords is the Doctor.
Bored with the laws of non-intervention, he rejected the
teachings and principles of his tutor, Cardinal Borusa, and
those of the academy, and left Gallifrey with his grand-
daughter in a stolen (borrowed) TARDIS to explore!

War Chief, too, rejected the Time Lords principles, and
sought to build an invincible army to conquer the galaxy.
(The Doctor stopped him only to be placed on trial by the
Time Lords and sentenced to be Earth bound with a memory
block on his knowledge of Dematerilization).

The Most powerful Time Lord is Salyavin, who was though to
be imprisoned on Shada, the secret Time Lord prison planet.
Salyavin held the power to imprint his mind on any sentient
being, thereby gaining control of said being.  Salyavin,
however, was hiding, incognito, on the planet Earth.  Dis-
guised as Professor Chronotis, he concealed the book of the
Ancient Law of Gallifrey, until he gave it to the Doctor to
be returned to the Time Lords.

Morbius was once a high ranking Time Lord, but became a
cosmic villain.  This Time Lord renegade was thought to be
executed by the time lords, but his living brain was somehow
stolen and a new body was being prepared for Morbuis' re-
generation.  (Again, the Doctor intervened and ended Morbius
for good).

The Time Lords who stayed on Gallifrey to continue their
culture were also tempted by over zealous glory.  Borusa,
who taught the principles of nonintervention with ferverent
belief, went on to become castellan, then president, but
sought to gain the complete power of Rasilon just so he
could continue forever to guide his people. His misguided
intentions led him to be imprisoned with other dilluded Time
Lords on the tomb of Rassilon.

(Information about Borusa, Morbius, War Chief, and Salyavin
were added by Jim Thomas of RSVP.  Original author is un-
known.  Last update was March 17, 1985.  Please send any

updates to the RSVP BBS FIDO #425)


				John Langbein


James Armstrong's list of Time Lords

A list of Time Lords appearing on Doctor Who:
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Time Lord			Stories
_________			_______

The Doctor			All but Mission to the Unknown
Susan Foreman			An Unearthly Child-The Dalek Invasion of Earth
				The Five Doctors
The Monk			The Time Meddler
				The Dalek Masterplan
The War Chief			The War Games
The Master			Terror of the Autons
				The Mind of Evil
				The Claws of Axos
				Colony in Space
				The Daemons
				The Sea Devils
				The Time Monster
				Frontier in Space
				The Deadly Assassin
				The Keeper of Traken
				Logopolis
				Castrovalva
				Timeflight
				The King's Demons
				The Five Doctors
				Planet of Fire
				The Mark of the Rani
				The Trial of a Time Lord
Omega				The Three Doctors
				Arc of Infinity
Cho-Je/K'Anpo			Planet of the Spiders
Morbius				The Brian of Morbius
Borusa				The Deadly Assassin
				The Invasion of Time
				Arc of Infinity
				The Five Doctors
Romana				The Ribos Operation-Warrior's Gate
				The Five Doctors
Drax				The Armageddon Factor
Professor Chronitis/Salyavin	Shada
Skagra				Shada
Azmael				The Twin Dilemma
The Rani			The Mark of the Rani
				Time and the Rani
Various on Gallifrey		The War Games
				The Three Doctors
				The Deadly Assassin
				The Invasion of Time
				The Arc of Infinity
				The Five Doctors
Various off Gallifrey		The Trial of a Time Lord
Various giving assignments	Terror of the Autons
				The Genesis of the Daleks
-- 
James C. Armstrong, Jnr.	(nicmad,ulysses,ihnp4)!terminus!nyssa