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"‘They’re aliens,’ Alsa said impatiently. ‘If they’re not the people who built the Fortress, are these the aliens that the Fortress was built to fight?’

‘No.’

‘So they’re a fourth lot?’

‘Third, surely…’

‘The ones who built the Fortress. The ones they were fighting. You.’

‘Ah. Well, yes, then they’re a fourth lot.’"

- The Eyeless

Isn't this basically saying that the Doctor himself was completely separate from all parties involved, which would make it not about the Daleks and the Time Lords? The Daleks were fighting the Doctor as well, which would make only three "lots". Doesn't seem like the best example from the book to me.

The part that strikes me is that Daleks are actually mentioned in the book, when he goes through recent memories he's had, including Racnoss, Lazarus, yada yada. My point here is that, if the Fortress and the weapon were meant to have been used against the Daleks, why wouldn't that just be mentioned? There's clearly no rights issues here, otherwise they wouldn't be mentioned at all in the book. Another little addition to this is how the words "time war" are not even mentioned in the book. Since the Time War was such a big part of the mythos in this era, I would have thought the weapon would have been said to be from the Time War if that was the intention.

With this book being published by the BBC themselves, we shouldn't need to be reading through the text to see what true intentions were behind the content within. They are the copyright holders: Time War, Daleks, the Doctor, the lot. The writer of Don't Step on the Grass clearly had permission to write about the Moment in reference to the De-Mat Gun, and expand on how the Time War ended. It seems strange to me that Parkin didn't if that was his intention.