Siege of Trenzalore

The Siege of Trenzalore was a conflict which lasted for more than 300 years initiated by a message broadcast through time and space that no one could understand.

The Papal Mainframe arrived at Trenzalore first and, recognising the significance of the message, created a force field around the planet to protect the small village there. Unknown to them, Weeping Angels had already arrived and hidden in the snow planetside. By the time the Doctor arrived hundreds of starships had gathered, including Daleks, Cybermen, Sontarans and Silurians. Mother Superious Tasha Lem assisted the Doctor and Clara Oswald reaching the planet.

When the broadcast was revealed to be a message from Gallifrey, trapped in a pocket universe and emanating through a crack in time and space, the Doctor refused to leave the planet to be destroyed by his enemies in space, all of whom would seek the destruction of the Time Lords. However, he also wouldn't bring the Time Lords back through the crack, fearing the Last Great Time War would start anew. Tasha Lem, changing the faith of the Papal Mainframe into one of silence (to prevent the Doctor saying his name, bringing the Time Lords back and restarting the Time War), initiated the Siege of Trenzalore.

Over the next three centuries each of the Doctor's enemies tried various means of penetrating the force field created by the Church of Silence, each time defeated by the Doctor's ingenuity. The Daleks, however, turned their attention to the Church itself, assaulting the Mainframe and penetrating the field afterwards, followed by the Cybermen. Allying himself with the Confessional Priests now known as the Silents, the Doctor repelled each attack, and after three centuries all but the Daleks had either been destroyed or had retreated. The Doctor, dying of old age by this time, made ready to sacrifice himself to the Daleks when he was granted a new regeneration cycle by the Time Lords through the crack in time, and used his excess regeneration energy to destroy the Daleks, effectively ending the siege. (TV: The Time of the Doctor)