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In her lecture "The Cultural Impact of War-Time", Entarodora noted that more Homeworlds had been lost "than might be thought prudent". (PROSE: The Brakespeare Voyage) After one was lost in the battle of Mutter's Cluster, the remaining Gallifreys (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5) — previously self-segregated (PROSE: The Book of the War) — banded together and became numbered. Gallifrey Eight was covered in loomstacks and chronoforges which provided fodder for the War, Gallifrey Nine was used to store weapons such as D-Mat guns, (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5) and Gallifrey XII was used to train soldiers. (PROSE: Alien Bodies)

Qixotl's auction
A few years before the War's 50th, (PROSE: Alien Bodies, The Book of the War) Sabbath was appointed Godfather of Faction Paradox's military wing. He and Morlock went to 1899 England to kill Fiora Venn as part of a ritual and encountered Justine McManus. Morlock decided to let Justine join the Faction (AUDIO: Movers, A Labyrinth of Histories) and she was sent to Dronid to learn under Sanjira.

During Justine's stay, the Celestis manipulated Sanjira into discovering the Relic — the Doctor's corpse — and he decided to respectfully send it into the Time Vortex, unaware of its significance. (PROSE: Alien Bodies) Justine was then summoned back to the Eleven-Day Empire (PROSE: The Book of the War) and sent on a mission with Manjuele to Qixotl's auction to represent the Faction.

Qixotl's auction for the Relic was held in the Unthinkable City on Earth in 2069. Qixotl invited UNISYC, who sent Kathleen Bregman and Joseph Armitage Kortez; the enemy, who sent the Shift; the Celestis, who sent Trask; Faction Paradox, who sent Justine and Manjuele; and the Time Lords, who sent Homunculette and Marie from several centuries in the future of the War. Qixotl also invited the Daleks, but the Krotons overpowered the Dalek representatives and took their place. The final (uninvited) participants were the Eighth Doctor and Sam Jones.

The Celestis almost gained the Relic, but the Doctor tricked them into trading the Relic to him in return for the Shift. The Doctor took the Relic to Quiescia and destroyed it with a thermosystron bomb. (PROSE: Alien Bodies)

Rise of House Lolita
"With only one member it seems unlikely that House Lolita will be making a great impact on Homeworld politics in the immediate future."

- The Book of the War

In the 50th year of the War, The Book of the War, a guide to the first half century of the War, was published. It contained a small entry on House Lolita: an "obscure" Newblood House which had then recently allied with House Tracolix. (PROSE: The Book of the War)

Godfather Morlock, head of the Eleven-Day Empire's Bio-Research Wing, used a tracking-knife to examine the corpse of Vlad III. Among several potential timelines, he saw one where, with the assistance of a woman named Lilith, Dracula survived his trip to London and infiltrated the British Empire with a fashionable new breed of vampirism. This potential timeline was blocked off at the Ghost Point by a brigade of enemy timeships. Gideon stole the phonograph where Morlock described his findings, and, with the help of the loa, Auteur used it as inspiration for his writings. (PROSE: A Bloody (And Public) Domaine)

Around the 52nd year of the War, (AUDIO: In the Year of the Cat) Lolita came to the Eleven-Day Empire with Ruthventracolixabaxil claiming to want to reinstate Faction Paradox as a proper Great House. Before arriving, she hired the Seventy-Ninth Sontaran Assault Corps to attack the Empire and steal material she needed to reach an agreement with the loa protecting the Empire. After communing with the loa, Lolita turned on her allies and swallowed Ruthven, the Sontarans, and the Empire itself; the only survivors were Cousin Eliza and Cousin Justine, who escaped in Ruthven's timeship. (AUDIO: The Eleven Day Empire, The Shadow Play)

Its main powerbase lost, Faction Paradox was left fractured. As Iris Wildthyme put it, "The ashes [of the Faction] were scattered across the universe, the scant surviving members crawling into untraceable holes, biding their intangible blades until the pointless War [had] concluded." (PROSE: Panda and the Airship) Multiple individuals wrongly believed themselves to be the last vestiges of the Faction. (AUDIO: Sabbath Dei, Movers, PROSE: Spinning Jenny) Three separate Faction Paradox groups — all unaware of each other — survived in 21st century America, (PROSE: Head of State) including Faction Hollywood. (PROSE: Remake/Remodel) The Boulevard of Alternate Brutalities continued to operate near the end of the universe. (PROSE: Library Pictures)

With the Faction out of the picture, the Great Houses began threatening the Osirian Court. In response, Sutekh brought his armies of Mal'akh to the area around the Mediterranean Sea in the 15th century, a crucial point in history. The Great Houses sent Merytra Ellainya to influence the humans into destroying the Mal'akh, but she was captured. The Houses were forced to agree to a peace treaty to keep history intact. In the treaty, the Houses rededicated the Faction Paradox shrine in Civita to Sutekh. (AUDIO: Coming to Dust) After Sutekh killed his brother Osiris, he smashed the shrine's remembrance tanks and buried his corpse underneath. Osiris' biodata spread into the infant inhabitants of the tanks, (AUDIO: The Ship of a Billion Years) upwards into the Tree of Filth, and out into the bugs of the hours (AUDIO: Coming to Dust) and throughout the Italian countryside. (AUDIO: The Ship of a Billion Years, Body Politic) Corwyn Marne and his wife Astarte took a baby from one of the tanks and adopted it as his daughter. (AUDIO: The Ship of a Billion Years)

After Lolita ended the Eleven-Day Empire, most of the other Great Houses wanted to ally with her. With the Homeworld practically under her control, she began trying to expand her influence throughout the Spiral Politic. (AUDIO: Sabbath Dei) She planned to occupy millions of bodies in powerful positions on every important planet in every time-zone, controlling the history "like one great big nervous system". (AUDIO: In the Year of the Cat)

Lolita began with Earth in 1762, overlaying her identity over Queen Charlotte's mind, putting George III in a natural-time envelope so that he wouldn't notice the changes in his wife, and importing from the 51st century an army of Peking Homunculi keyed to her central processor. Cousins Justine and Eliza came to 1762 and encountered Mary Culver, who was used by Compassion to inform them of Lolita's presence. With the help of Lord Sandwich and the Sieur d'Eon, Eliza destroyed the homunculus army, loosening Lolita's hold on the era. (AUDIO: Sabbath Dei, In the Year of the Cat)

Lolita also tried to take control of history in 21st century America, where, as libertarian Arizona Congresswoman Lola Denison, she orchestrated Matt Nelson's Presidential campaign. While he still lost the Democratic Party nomination, as the patterns of the Spiral Politic would suggest, instead of his campaign dwindling, he founded the Radical Party and chose Lola as his Vice Presidential candidate. Lolita also gave Richard Francis Burton The Thousand and Second Night while he traveled in Arabia (PROSE: Head of State) in the 1840s; (PROSE: The Book of the War) the story contained a prophecy that would inspire Dave Larsen to assassinate Nelson at his inauguration.

At the time, several of the minor Wartime powers had influences on 21st century Earth: there were at least three Faction Paradox groups, all unaware of each other, and the Celestis had control of one of the major governments. When the slope of Earth's history, which had been flat (PROSE: Head of State) since the Ghost Point at the start of the century, (PROSE: The Book of the War, This Town Will Never Let Us Go) started to bend upwards, one of the major Wartime powers sent an agent to investigate. The agent tracked the disruption to Nelson's campaign, but when Lolita discovered them, she turned them into a Shift. The Shift tried persuading Larsen to kill Lola instead by telling him about Lolita's murders of young women along the campaign trail, but Larsen only became more determined. After he killed Nelson, Lola Denison became President and announced the Caldera Project, through which she intended to reshape history by drilling into the caldera (PROSE: Head of State) hidden under Earth's crust. (PROSE: Head of State, Interference - Book One)

In 1762, Sabbath Dei was inspired by Cousin Justine's actions to perform a supplication ritual which transformed him into an agent of the Great Houses. Sabbath put Justine on trial for the crimes of Grandfather Paradox, sentencing her to finish the Grandfather's sentence at the Great Houses' prison planet, (AUDIO: In the Year of the Cat) Shada. (PROSE: Christmas on a Rational Planet) Six months after Justine was imprisoned, Compassion possessed a guard and released Demetra Kine of the Blood Coteries to cause chaos through which Justine could escape. Kine took control of the prison and attempted to take revenge on Shuncucker, another surviving member of Faction Paradox. After teaming up with Shuncucker to kill Kine, Justine escaped in a timeship just before House Military arrived to disband the riot. (AUDIO: Movers, A Labyrinth of Histories)

In the time that Justine was in prison, "a lot" happened back on Earth in the 1760s. (AUDIO: A Labyrinth of Histories) Before Justine left, Compassion had been convinced that a great fight would be needed to stop Lolita from taking over Earth. (AUDIO: In the Year of the Cat) Justine returned in 1763; (AUDIO: A Labyrinth of Histories) by the end of that year she and Eliza were no longer in contact with Compassion and no longer worried about Lolita taking over 18th century Earth. (AUDIO: Coming to Dust, Body Politic) However, Compassion remained an active force in the War, in the 58th year bringing an end to the City of the Saved Civil War. (PROSE: God Encompasses)

The Fifth Planet Gambit
At a time that the Shift described as "years in the future" of the period covered by The Book of the War, (PROSE: The Book of the War) a team of twelve Time Lords — including Xenaria, Holsred, and Allopta — were sent to Antarctica in 12,000,000 BC to prepare an assault Planet 5 and capture the Fendahl so that it could be re-engineered into a "final assault weapon" for the War. Because the Celestis had used a fictional generator to bring to life the Elder Things from H. P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness, the Time Lords regenerated into bodies which resembled Elder Things to blend in. The Eighth Doctor, Compassion, and Fitz Kreiner came to the Time Lord base to investigate the Elder Things. The Time Lords were about to break through the temporal barrier around Planet 5 by barraging it with kamikaze War TARDISes, but Compassion's presence inspired the TARDISes to try to break free of their servitude. Tachon tried to restrain the TARDISes with a D-Mat Gun and was forced to shoot the lead TARDIS, rupturing it.

The damaged TARDIS spread into a time fissure stretching from 12,000,000 BC to 1999. In the 1970s, Professor Fendelman used the energy of this time fissure to reanimate the final fragment of the Fendahl. (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5) The Fourth Doctor and Leela arrived at Fendelman's lab and prevented the Fendahl from fully manifesting. (TV: Image of the Fendahl) On a mission from the Lord President, Homunculette stationed himself in 1999 under the alias "Nathaniel Hume" to investigate the fissure and other remnants of what was going on in 12,000,000 BC. Compassion and Holsred followed the TARDIS to 1999, where they encountered "Hume" and fought Two.

Back in the past, the Eighth Doctor convinced all the TARDISes to not break the shield around Planet 5, but one TARDIS accidentally did, unleashing the Fendahl Predator. Just as the hermit planned, the Predator was attracted to Mictlan, home of the Celestis. The Predator feasted on the Celestis, utterly destroying them. The Doctor coordinated the TARDISes into working together to push Mictlan away from the main universe so that the Predator wouldn't be able to return. (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5) The Shift managed to escape the dying Mictlan with several other Celestis servants by hijacking one of the timeships. They landed on a world at the beginning of the Spiral Politic. The Shift eventually found its way into a copy of The Book of the War. (PROSE: The Book of the War)

Following the failed Gambit, Xenaria was regarded as a war hero and given the honorary title "Xenaria Who Survived". (PROSE: Pre-narrative Briefings)

At some point, Homunculette was involved in a "disastrous" mission on Delphon where he desperately used his eyebrows to try to get the locals to attack the Enemy. (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5)

Sutekh
In 1763, a group of Mal'akh, left-over from Sutekh's activity in the 15th century and led by Merytra Ellainya, came to Italy to use an Osirian lodestone to open a time tunnel (AUDIO: Coming to Dust) to Upuat. (AUDIO: The Ship of a Billion Years) Members of the Society of Sigismondo di Rimini summoned Justine and Eliza to help them deal with the Mal'akh, and they successfully stopped Ellainya; however, after Corwyn Marne took Justine and Eliza to the defiled Faction shrine in Civita, Justine allowed Merytra to open the corridor, and she herself travelled through it to the Ship of a Billion Years. (AUDIO: Coming to Dust)

Eliza collected fragments of Osiris' scattered biodata while, as a diplomat in the Osirian Court, Justine recruited Anubis to build a new body for Osiris with a remembrance tank. Lolita told Sutekh about Justine's plan, and he sent the Ship of a Billion Years to destroy them at Anubis' laboratory; realising that she had run out of time to collect the final pieces of biodata, Eliza sacrificed herself to become the host for Osiris' resurrection. However, since the Homeworlder diplomat Mortega was also being threatened, the War King rescued them with the 59th Time Fleet. During this confrontation, Lolita snuck into the laboratory and contributed some of her own biodata to the resurrecting Osiris. (AUDIO: Body Politic)

Osiris' resurrection within Eliza's body was completed and he was accepted by the Osirian Court as "Horus". Horus overpowered Sutekh using his power derived from Lolita's biodata. Lolita planned to rule the Osirian Court through Horus.

The War King brought Justine back to the Homeworld and tried to give her House Paradox's old seat on the War Council, but Lolita challenged the War King's judgment, rallying public support behind her. As Justine fled the Homeworld, Lolita killed the King and became War Queen. (AUDIO: Words from Nine Divinities)

After Sutekh and Horus both agreed that the Osirian throne would go to the victor of a time war, (AUDIO: Ozymandias) Justine and Horus worked together to capture Sutekh and Lolita in a temporal trap that ended with Sutekh's imprisonment in a pyramid and Horus' death after using his army of 700 Osirians to "deal with" Lolita. After this, he told Justine that she would no longer be a problem for them. Indeed, this time war was partially fought on 18th century Earth, (AUDIO: The Judgment of Sutekh) where Compassion previously predicted the last stand against House Lolita would be made. (AUDIO: Sabbath Dei)

When inducting his earlier self into the Faction, Richard Francis Burton made himself swear by "Horus, the reborn child from whose sacrifice our Faction owes its own rebirth". (PROSE: Head of State)

The Faction invasion of Gallifrey
By a time "towards the end of the War", when the War had been going on for about 292 years (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles) and the Celestis were "long dead", (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell) a militaristic Faction Paradox army had developed, (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles) basing themselves in the Eleven-Day Empire before its destruction, (AUDIO: The Shadow Play) and led by Grandfather Paradox — to be precise, a version of the Eighth Doctor completely changed by the biodata virus, who took on the title of Grandfather Paradox. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell)

The Time Lords of this era were losing the War. (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles) On one Gallifrey, misinformation camps and carefully detonated reality bombs were used to obscure certain truths from the majority of Gallifreyans. Biological defences created in ancient Gallifreyan history to combat the Great Vampires and the Charon were augmented to have devastating capabilities against the enemy. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell)


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At an earlier point in his timeline, the Eighth Doctor found himself in the War-era and tried to send a hypercube to his Gallifrey for help with a member of Faction Paradox in 2002 San Francisco. While the Doctor believed that hypercubes were impossible to intercept, the Faction Paradox member did just that. When asked how he did it, the Faction Paradox member replied, "Maybe there's no one home on Gallifrey... Or maybe the whole planet's being destroyed, and undestroyed, and destroyed, and you just caught them at the wrong moment." (PROSE: Unnatural History)

Mutually assured destruction of history
At a time when the Time Lords had been fighting the War for "half a millennium", the House Military was on its Last Wave. By this time, the original Gallifrey was known to have been wiped from existence, along with most of its population.

In this era, the High Council sent Homunculette and Marie on a mission to obtain the Relic so that its biodata could be examined to further the War effort. Homunculette saw the Relic as the final chance to win the War. After first encountering an agent of the Celestis in 2169 London, they went to Qixotl's auction. They failed to secure the Relic, and it was destroyed. (PROSE: Alien Bodies)

With no other options, the Time Lords adopted a strategy of mutually assured destruction. They created Anathema, a planetary warship with the Cold at its centre designed to destroy Earth — the Enemy's planet of origin — in the late 20th century and therefore destabilise the causal nexus of the universe. In order to get past Enemy defences, Ananthema was sent to Earth not with time travel, but with sub-light speed space travel along a three-billion-year route from a Time Lord base.

The Time Lords then evacuated the universe; Compassion heard rumours involving "something about a universe in a bottle". In fact, the Time Lords stole I.M. Foreman's bottle universe while the Eighth Doctor was visiting her. (PROSE: Interference - Book Two) There were already Time Lords in Foreman's bottle universe, (PROSE: Interference - Book One, Dead Romance) who evacuated into their own bottle universe when the Gods of Dellah began taking over their universe. Christine Summerfield theorised that the Gods were actually the Time Lords from the universe outside Foreman's bottle universe. (PROSE: Dead Romance) However, other sources indicated that the Gods were actually the Ferutu (PROSE: Twilight of the Gods) and that the universe invaded by the Gods was the same one in which the War occurred. (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon, The Book of the War, AUDIO: The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel, The Eleven Day Empire, et al.)

As the warship began nearing the end of its three-billion year journey, Faction Paradox of an earlier period of the War established a Remote colony on the warship. When Anathema did finally reach Earth, it was disarmed by the Eighth Doctor. (PROSE: Interference - Book Two)