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Biology
Time Lords (or Ladies) are Higher Evolutionaries who walk in eternity and are the self-appointed guardians of both Time and History. While they are considered to be the oldest and most mighty of the Universe's civilizations the Time Lords view themselves as academicians and observers who are devoted to a life of service to History. They are always on time, for to be late or early for any event is unthinkable. 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 for a total of 1,000 Time Lords. Of the 1,000 only about 12 are female. Technically speaking only Gallifreyans who have a Time Travel Capsule can hold the title of Time Lord. Sentients who time travel are thought to have Temporally Active Biodata, because they have the power to chronoform themselves. This means that they truely have free will. All stable forms of time travel require re-writing of the traveler’s biodata. Time travel makes sentients vunerable to the influence of poweful transtemporal beings who exist outside of linear time. These beings will try to force the time traveler to become their agent/servent. It is for this reason any species that wants to become a stable, time-active race must change itself into another species. Gallifreyans who attend the Academies have their Biodata modified (especially their DNA) by anointing them with Time Energies from the Eye of Harmony while they are still Initiates. This alters the Initiate's DNA, creating the symbiotic nucleatides, a fourth helix of DNA, and the other capabilites making the Gallifreyan a Time Lord. Time Lord abbilites can also be added to a subject's biodata by injecting them with Retro DNA serum in the form of a red liquid. The initiates gain the rank of Junior Grade Time Lords at this point. Extensive exposure to a Time Lord might cause a human to become "infected" with Time Lord DNA in some way. The effects of this would not be obvious to a human. All Time Lords have Symbiotic Atomic Nuclei which is needed to 'prime' a Time Travel Capsules, form a quasi-symbiotic link with the Capsule, and to prevent the Capsule from molecularly detabilizing in the Vortex. This self-regenerating genetic link in known as the Rassilon Imprimature. They serve a similar function with Time Rings and other transtemporal technology. The atomic nuclei serves as a genetic key to the Vortex. It holds the Dematerilializtion Codes nessecary to create a Molecular Stabilisation System. Without this system a Capsule would be destroyed by the Vortex after several hundred years. The semi-instinctual neural-link between a TARDIS and its operator is almost sexual in its intimacy. Some believe a TARDIS provides a sense of companionship for a Time Lord in much the same way that a husband or wife does for their spouse. For whatever reason, sex is completely irrelevant to most Time Lords. A side effect of the full link is that a Time Lord is constantly sending small temporal waves throughout the Universe that can be used by Gallifrey to track a Time Lords space-time travels. The Nuclei might be located in a Time Lord's hearts. The Symbiotic Nuclei cannot be removed from a Time Lord without killing them. They can be permanently deactivated by the right type of mutagen. Such a deactivation would eliminate a Time Lord's powers and his abbility to regenerate. The modification causes them to grow a "time brain" (probably connected to the temporal lobes) under the frontal lobes of their brains making them time sensitive. An organ in their hypothalamus allows Time Lords to perceive the higher dimensions by reciting the right equations. The abnormalites of a Time Lord's brain show clearly in an X-ray. In all Time Lords have 27 different senses and all but the first five are related to time. Some of these senses will make a Time Lord dizzy and nausious when exposed to temporal disturbances. These senses grow more accute the more times a Time Lord crosses the Time-Fields in a TARDIS. One of these allows them to sense an object's relative age. Another allows some some incarnations to read a person's biodata (such as their future history) just by looking at them. They can identify older TARDISes as TT Capsules regaurdless of their disguse and often tell the Type and general condition of the Capsule as well. They have Time Lord Topographical Sense which allows them to remember any path they have taken (this might work by tracing their own biodata). To use their Topographical Sense they must however remember to store the path they took. Some Time Lords can measure rooms down to the centimeter by eyesight alone. Their Time Brain also gives them enhanced temporal perception, and resistance to chrono-instability. A mechanism inside Time Lord Biodata allows them to sense distortions in the biodata of others and see (though not identify) other peoples time traces. In other words they can tell when someone's personal history has been altered. These senses will induce a strong sense of prejudice and revulsion if they detect someone who is immortal because they have become fixed in time and space. Time Lords are "History Proofed" which gives them superior abbilites to remeber alternate timelines (in most species they are little more then dreams) and can usualy remember previous versions of history books (that they just read). They might have their sense of shame psyco-surgically removed. Their understanding of the 4th dimension is mathematical and not instictual. Strong magnetic fields give their skin goosebumps. A Junior Time Lord's heart (or one of his hearts if a Newblood) serves as a link (via the TARDIS) to Gallifrey, and the Prime Eye of Harmony in a way that not even the Time Lords totaly understand. This link ensures the Time Lords survial and "integrity" while they travel the Universe. Without this anchoring, a Time Lord who leaves Gallifrey will die in less than 2 centuries. This link provides limited access to the Power of Creation, allowing Junior Grade Time Lords to make minor uses of the power (see below for more info). While a Triple Helix of DNA is nessecary for regneration a Time Lord DNA has quadruple helix. The fourth helix is a "fast line" which extends (via a TARDIS) into the fourth dimension and maps the Time Lord into the Space-Time Vortex (the fifth dimension) with Block-Transfer Numbers. Because of this, the Vortex is an integral part of Time Lord biology and culture. Once linked to the heart of space time their TARDISes give them access to the Power of Creation and they are capable of changing their time state by thinking the right Block-Transfer Time Equation allowing them to interact with the deep-level process of the Fourth Dimension. This the greatest of the Time Lord powers and might be related to Quantum Mnemonics or Omega's power of Psychosynthesis. The Osiran Sutekh was one of the few beings whose power might exceed all the Time Lords. However by the year 2966 AD the Sisterhood of the Flame on Karn claim to be the only other race whose mental powers are to equal the Time Lords. This power is such Time Lords who leave Gallifrey (or the micro-universe of a TARDIS) will, just by observing, crystalizes the mimetic structure of local History preventing events from occuring any other way and creating a single continuity. The more time a Time Lord spends traveling in the Vortex the more artron energy they will build up in their bodies. Experienced Time Lords can work apparent miracles by manipulating Time (the 4th Dimension) through their access to the dimension of thought and conciousness that serves foundation of the Universe (the 5th dimension). Some Time Lords can (when in the right state of mind) temporairly shift objects (or themselves) out of space, and levitate their bodies. The power held by a single Time Lord is limited by both the age (or possibly experiance) of the Time Lord, the moral code of the Time Lord, and by the total number of Time Lords in existance at that point. The more Time Lords the more spread out the Power of Creation is and the less powerful each individual is. The Power is dispersed among all the Time Lords to prevent one single Time Lord from taking over the Universe. Using their Reflex Links they might be capable of unifying the Time Lords to use all of the Power at once. It is possible that there unified minds would create a powerful block-transfer processor that could create almost any space-time event desired. If their were only seven Time Lords left it would be possible for an young Time Lord to destroy a starship with a thought. If only a single Time Lord existed he would be able to travel through time and space just by thinking about it and his every movement would alter history whether he wanted to or not. Under the right circumstances they might be able to shoot death rays out of their eyes. Time Lords keep History (aka the Web of Time) largely unchanging merely by existing. Indeed they are so intertwined with the universe that they are a part of the Laws of Time and Space. They consider is their primary purpose to serve Time. As Higher Evolutionaries, Time Lords have a complex of a pseudo-precognitive powers. Despite superficial appearances the Universe is not random but instead follows a complex four dimensional pattern. Time Lords can see this pattern and thus can predict the future with an astonishing degree of accuracy. They can perceive (in a vague way) the full history of the biodata of others. The Doctor has always had a knack for telling when society was out of phase or when evil was present. This could be a Time Lord gift, but if it is its not one that other Time Lords aknowledge. This Power of Creation should never be used on a large scale. For to do so would be to bend and corrupt time causing damage to the physical laws of the universe The larger the use of the power the more devestating the rips in space-time that form as a side effect. Among the most destructive of these temporal disturbances is the formation of many new black holes and the increase in power of previously existing ones. This damaged might be caused because the alternate universe created by the Power has such temporal momentum that it achieves escape velocity and thus halves the life of the entire universe. The only time a large scale use would be acceptable would be to prevent the power from falling into the hands of a single Time Lord. Time Lords are forbidden to fall in love or develop other strong affections for lesser species because the emotional attachment could cause them to use their terrible powers. If a Time Lord is to interact with lesser species it is recomended they form a series of short shallow short term relationships to avoid stronger attachments. Because of the danger of using their power the the Laws of Time are built into a Time Lord's genetic modifications; so Time Lords know them instinctually. These genetic modifications allow them to "think" in 4 dimensions, which is necessary to truly understand the Laws of Time. If a Time Lord is going to be tempted to break the Laws of Time, the violator will experience severe long term memory problems and some pain, months to years before the temptation. At the moment of temptation the Time Lord will feel large parts of his personality being blocked and disabled. These retroactive responses are programmed into the genetic modifications to make it extreamly difficult for a Time Lord to break the Laws of Time. Once a Time Lord learns to overcome these blocks they become fairly easy to ignore. Time Lords are programmed to panic if they think that there’s something wrong with the Space-Time Continuum. Minor and major temporal paradoxes give them headaches. In addition to pattern-recognition systems are encoded into the genetic memories of the Time Lords' unborn young they have multidimensional killing responses hidden in their biodata that allows them to fight their ancient enemies from the Time Wars. Time Lords used to be shielded to the Blinovitch Limitation Effect but the Time Lords removed this shield to stop violations of the First Law of Time. Their biodata can't be rewritten by an outside source (This might be the second biggest lie in Time Lord History). If released within the Vortex Time Lords trained to used a Vortex-Walking trance can, with the aid of a Vortex Tunnel, travel through space and time under their own power. Some Time Lords have Internal Chronometry abilities. This allows them to know the time down to a nanosecond (the Doctor can’t do this). Other Time Lords have deep-time memory, which allows them to clearly remember the original version of their history even after their personal past has been deliberately changed. Graduates of the Academy were given Reflex Links in there brains which connect them to the Time Lord Intelligentsia. This link can be used across space and time. A Time Lord would be able to detect the existance of other Time Lords (even if they are slightly out of sync with his timeline). This would allow a Time Lords to know if all the Time Lords in the cosmos had been killed. The right type or Ro Wave broadcasts could be used to hide a Time Lord. The Reflex Link can be used to unify all 1000 Time Lords. This might allow the Intelligentsia access to the full Power of Creation. Time Lords who exiled lose the ability to contact other Time Lords across space and time. They are however still capable of using the Reflex Link if another Time Lord Contacts them. The dreams of a Time Lord are visions that are free of the shadows of matter. Thus they can provide information about the world outside of the range of their senses and can be premonitions about the future. Some Time Lords get random premonitions of the future while concious. Time Lords who have nightmares (a very rare occurance) or near-death states sometimes make deals with them, sometimes to become their Champions. Time Lords metabolize alcohol very quickly so it is almost impossible for them to become drunk. Some Time Lords have very fine control over the rate at which they metabolize alcohol and special meditations allow a Time Lord to regulate their metabolism making inebriation possible. Prior to a regeneration it is not uncommon for Time Lords to unconciously generate alternate future versions of themselves in a proto-plasmic pupate stage. These beings are called Watchers. The Watchers are insubstantial but can communicate and act on their own. If a Time Lord's mental power are very well developed they can even create a fully interactive stable future incarnation (this is probably a violation of the first Law of Time). These type of projections might be called a tulpa. In either case Watcher will last untill the regeneration occurs. Unconciously created Watchers are very rare but can be caused precipitated by damage to the Causal Nexus. With about 3000 years (or less) of meditation a Time Lord can turn himself into a being of pure energy and move at the speed of light. But this is forbidden by the Dimensional Ethics Committee. Like all life forms that reside in the first 5 dimensions Time Lords are incapable of observing the 6-11th dimensions. The only way most Time Lords can cope with their near infinite power is to be so narrow-minded and dull-witted that they never realize the power they have. The Doctor claims that after living in the Capitol for a few thousand years a Time Lord completely loses their personality. Indeed, in order to keep the Web of Time stable it is necessary for the Time Lords to be steady and unchanging. It is for this reason that culture change and natural reproduction are forbidden to ensure stability. Time Lords are forbidden to fall in love or developing other strong affections for lesser species. It’s possible that Time Lord biodata actually changes and mutates the biodata of lesser species who interact with them. All Time Lords take their responsibility to Time very seriously and know that if there was any danger that they would be used by an alien force to threaten Time then the other Time Lords would shut down the victum's personal timeline and place it in the Axis. For this reason every Time Lord that leaves Gallifrey knows they are considered to be expendable. Because of this, only the most eccentric or arrogent Time Lords will voluntairly leave their homeworld. Time Lords who travel the cosmos regularly are encouraged to take a companion from among the lesser speices to serve as something of a moral concience. A visionary Time Lord is rare and a stable visionary Time Lord is even rarer. Time Lord dementias are much worse then Alzheimers Disease. All Time Lords have a dark side to their minds called the Dark Design. When a Time Lord goes mad a storm of the Dark Design covers their brains. Insane Time Lords are usually quielty locked away in institutions. It is not unusual for inventive Time Lords to go mad and indeed all the truly great Time Lords went mad: (Omega, Rassilon, Borusa, the Master, Morbius. . . etc). Any Time Lord who has access to the power of the heart of the Vortex would become a vengeful god. They cease being Time Lords when they have used up all 12 of their regenerations. Retired Time Lords are not permitted to own TARDISes but possilby have the option of living off Gallifrey if they choose. Old Time Lords often get their tenses muddled. Because the minds (or souls) Time Lords are stored in the APC after death they don't fear death. For this reason Time Lords are expected to face death with dignity. Their bodies are sometimes interned in the Panoptican Vault 30 meters beneath the Panoptican. Time Lord bodies are telepathicaly active due to residual psychic power. If a Time Lord dies within his TARDIS while in his final incarnation his body will fade away as the TARDIS stores his essance. The Artron Energy released into the Vortex by the death of a Time Lord would be enough to drag Earth's moon out of orbit and crash into the planet.

Life Cycle
I will not be addressing the particulars of reproduction here; this entry is more a consideration of aging and death. Most importantly, I will discuss the concept of regeneration.

Longevity seems to be an inherent quality of the species. A Gallifreyan could live five hundred years or more before dying of old age. But those who have earned the rank of Time Lord have something extra, and that is regeneration. Should the body be injured beyond repair, microscopic robots within the cells will actually create a new one in its place. The physical appearance will be completely changed. My friend is unable to control this process, but he has told me of a Time Lady he knew who actually changed her appearance several times during a single regeneration before choosing her own final form. She did not seem to suffer any ill effects, either, though my friend was very disoriented for the first day afterward.

I am uncertain whether the robots have to be activated consciously. My friend was unconscious and had, in fact, been dead long enough to be taken to the morgue before he regenerated.

The big picture here is that death is much less common on Gallifrey than on Earth. It doesn't happen every day, and among the Time Lords, final death doesn't even happen every year. Because they face a lot of danger in their travels, very few make it to the potential age of six thousand years, but conversely, very few live less than one thousand.

There are many factors within their physiology that protect them from many of the causes of death in humans. I will discuss them in greater detail within the entry for the relevant organ system, but for now I can say they include the redundant cardiovascular system, respiratory bypass, a fully active thymus gland, and a long history of genetic engineering to eliminate inherited diseases.

The most common cause of death of the first twelve lives is injury while visiting another time or place; most will retire to Gallifrey to make their final life last.

Of course, when an entire species can live so long, they would quickly become overpopulated unless either they sent much of the population to colonize other worlds - which they have not done - or if the birth rate were similarly low. And yet, that is not something likely to happen through the normal course of evolution; it had to be induced in some way. I suspect genetic engineering. I will address the mechanism of their decreased birth rate when I detail the reproductive system.

Technology
TARDISes are the space and time travel ships of the Time Lords of the planet Gallifrey. Capable of dematerializing from their current location and rematerializing on any planet in the universe and at any point in that planet's history, the TARDISes are in many ways the heart of the Time Lords' technology and culture. The name TARDIS is an acronym that stands for Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space, and the word Tardis means Time-Ship. The plural of TARDIS is still debated by Time Lords but for the purposes of this paper will be written TARDISes.

Like its name implies, a TARDIS is a machine for investigating Time and Relative Dimensions In Space. As such they are primarily used as research platforms for gathering historical data about the universe. TARDISes are specifically designed to never change history. As such they can blend in to their environment by changing their exterior appearance. They can appear as a tree, a door, or (in one particularly infamous instance) a Metropolitan Police Telephone Box. Regardless of their exterior size their interior is a vast array of corridors, control rooms, living quarters, and storage rooms capable of holding thousands if necessary. This apparent discontinuity in interior versus exterior size is achieved by making the exterior doors of the TARDIS a dimensional gateway to a micro-universe. Since the interior isn't located anywhere near the exterior a TARDIS is immune to almost any external attack.

History
Unknown

Trivia
She Married Draco Malfoy Then they had eight kids together