Minyan

The Minyans were a species of near-Humans who encountered the early Time Lords shortly after they had developed time travel.

History
The Time Lords gave advanced technology to the Minyans, who as a result regarded them as gods.

At some point, the Minyans turned on the Time Lords and forced them off the planet. The Minyans also fought a nuclear war.


 * The chronology of this remains unknown. We do not know if the nuclear war happened before or after the Minyans turned against their "gods".

At the time that the Doctor and Leela encountered them, the Minyans had fought a nuclear war and doomed the species to extinction. A starship, the R1C had gone into space to search for another Minyan ship, the P7E, which contained a race bank which possessed the genes of the Minyans in hopes of re-vitalizing the species. Some of the Minyans on the R1C regarded the Doctor with respect, others loathed him as a result of the Time Lords' actions. An onboard computer recognized the re-materialization sound of the TARDIS as that made by "the time ships of the gods".

With the Doctor's help, the Minyans in the R1C located the descendants of the crew of the P7E, as well as the race banks and headed for Minyos II, three hundred and seventy years journey away. (DW: Underworld)

Effect on the Time Lords
The self-destruction of the Minyans prompted the Time Lord Non-interference Policy. (DW: Underworld)

Technology
Like the Time Lords, the Minyans could enable themselves an effectively unlimited number of physical regenerate by mechanical means, though it did nothing to alleviate the suffering of body or mind. The crew of the R1C utilized regeneration to survive the length of the journey. Jackson, By the time they reached the end of their quest, the crew had regenerated a thousand times.

The Minyans also developed the pacification gun, though too late to prevent the war from occuring. (DW: Underworld)