Tardis

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Tardis
Tardis

The Great Houses' attempt to create a 101-form timeship shortly before the War was a confidential and experimental project, believed to have ended in failure. Its rebellious result was the only known humanoid timeship not to be a descendant of Compassion.

It was the first attempt to create a partially-organic timeship, with a mind that could relate directly with the pilots rather than a more abstract intelligence; (PROSE: Crimes Against History [+]Lawrence Miles, The Spiral Politic Database (2001-2002)., The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) the earlier attempt to create Model 51 TARDISes with personalities that the Gallifreyan pilots could relate to using a purely digital "personality matrices" had been a failure, with the ships' personalities being unstable for reasons the Gallifreyan cyberneticists never understood. (GAME: "TARDIS Model 51 Personalities" [+]Part of The Iytean Menace, J. Andrew Keith, The Doctor Who Role Playing Game (FASA, 1985). The result of the experimental upgrading of a timeship was viewed as another failure, producing "such a monstrosity that it barely qualified as a timeship at all", being "utterly beyond the control of its creator". Although normal protocol would have been for the failed experiment to be destroyed, the ship's fate was unrecorded, (PROSE: Crimes Against History [+]Lawrence Miles, The Spiral Politic Database (2001-2002)., The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) leading to incorrect speculation that Antipathy was the escaped 101-form. (PROSE: Of the City of the Saved... [+]Philip Purser-Hallard, Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2004).)

In fact, a timeship modified to be able to take humanoid form, who was described as "family" by Compassion, (AUDIO: Sabbath Dei [+]Lawrence Miles, The Faction Paradox Protocols (BBV Productions, 2003)., In the Year of the Cat [+]Lawrence Miles, The Faction Paradox Protocols (BBV Productions, 2003).) who was the one and only member of the 102-form generation and widely considered the first true humanoid TARDIS, (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon [+]Paul Cornell, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2000).) resurfacing under the alias of "Lolita". Lolita had vampiric traits and brought her own agenda to the War, manipulating the Great Houses and intending to overthrow them to institute a "new kind of history". (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002)., AUDIO: The Eleven Day Empire [+]Lawrence Miles, The Faction Paradox Protocols (BBV Productions, 2001)., etc.)

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Although this bit of wordplay has never been explicitly pointed out, Lolita's alias is a reference to her serial number as a timeship ("101ita").

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