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Faction Paradox (series)#History
The War in Heaven and its major players, from the humanoid Type 103 TARDISes to the Celestis to the Faction Paradox itself, were first introduced in Lawrence Miles' 1997 Eighth Doctor novel Alien Bodies. At the time, Miles never intended for the War to become a large arc, but after he learned that Kate Orman and Jon Blum were planning to include the Faction in their novel Unnatural History, he felt justified to explore them more in his 1999 two-part novel Interference, which further developed Faction Paradox and introduced the Remote. However, after Interference received an unfavorable review in DWM 281, Miles felt he had "lost [his] mandate" and resigned from writing Doctor Who to instead work on a Faction Paradox series.

By the year 2000, BBV Productions had agreed to develop a Faction Paradox Protocols series of audio stories; the first installment, The Eleven Day Empire, was released in October 2001. These audios introduced several concepts that would later become staples of the Faction Paradox range, such as the Faction's shadow-weapons and alternate names like "Great Houses" for the Time Lords or "timeships" for TARDISes. Miles described this as the continuation of the reinvention that he began in Alien Bodies: as he explored more of the mechanics of the War, the War-era Time Lords evolved further and further away from the regular Time Lords until they became something completely different.

This process would not be fully fulfilled until the writing of The Book of the War, book intended to be a standalone companion to the BBV audios. As Miles collected, edited, and synthesized stories from nine other authors into a "guidebook to a series that doesn't exist yet", he developed the War as a setting with the scale and appearance of science fiction, but without any of the props ("warp drives and aliens and space marines").

"The Faction's universe is on the surface an SF universe, but it works on the same principles as traditional folklore. It's all very feudal. There are, or were, 'people' who ran history - 'history' being a way for us to deal with the world around us - and these 'people' are generally nameless and faceless, but with the attitude of an aristocratic upper class. Ruling Houses, in effect.

At some point these Houses engaged in a war with an equally inscrutable enemy, and the war intersected - still intersects - human history like a biblical, impacting on humanity but without direct human involvement. Usually. So that makes Faction Paradox a Prometheus among the Titans, it's a splinter-group halfway between the elite and humanity, which believes in (a) introducing its principles to the "collaterals" caught in the crossfire... that's us, essentially... and (b) interfering in the plans of the Houses whenever possible."

- Lawrence Miles

The Book of the War was published in September 2002 by Mad Norwegian Press, and it was such a success that, in December of that year, Mad Norwegian announced that it was beginning a Miles-edited series of standalone Faction Paradox novels. Despite the name, these novels did not specifically focus on Faction Paradox.

Each of the novels contain stand-alone stories, painted against the immense backdrop of the FACTION PARADOX universe.

Starting in September of 2003, BBV Productions transitioned their previously anthology-style Audio Adventures in Time & Space range to exclusively focus on The Faction Paradox Protocols audios. However, BBV ended its audio branch in 2004 with A Labyrinth of Histories. Miles, impressed by the quality of actors in the Kaldor City audio series, reached out to Magic Bullet Productions to continue the Faction Paradox audios; though the resultant True History of Faction Paradox series was designed as a stand-alone release, it featured the characters Justine, Eliza, and Lolita from the Protocols audios. The first True History audio was released in July 2005, and the series continued until the sixth and final story was released on 23 November 2009.

The Mad Norwegian Press novel series continued until, in September 2006, Lars Pearson announced that the return of Doctor Who to television had focused fans' attentions elsewhere, so the Faction Paradox novels would end with Erasing Sherlock that December. However, the following July, the New Zealand-based publisher Random Static announced they would be continuing the Faction Paradox novel line with Newtons Sleep, eventually published 12 January 2008.