View source for Chris Cwej's Superiors

{{cleanup|Needs to be cleaned up to be about the ambiguities about whether Chris's Superiors are the species in general vs. a specific faction/group; as it stands it's set up like a species page that's still unsure that "the Superiors"-qua-species are really the Time Lords}}"The '''Superiors''' were one title by which the powerful masters of [[Chris Cwej]] were known, alongside other names such as '''the Shadow People''', '''the [[Great House|House]]-Dwellers''', '''the Lords of [[Jewel (planet)|Jewel]]''', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Bright White Crack (short story)|A Bright White Crack]]'') '''Race of Temporal Supremacy''', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Ring Theory (short story)|Ring Theory]]'') and, more informally, '''Those Lot Up There'''. They held domain over the [[Linear Universe]] from their [[Base of Operations]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Bright White Crack (short story)|A Bright White Crack]]'') In truth, his masters were none other than the [[Great House]]s ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'', et al.) of the [[Time Lord]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dying Days (novel)|The Dying Days]]'') Indeed, the term "mysterious superiors" was sometimes used to refer to the people of [[the Doctor]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Revenge of the Cybermen (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Revenge of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[Verdigris (novel)|Verdigris]]'') and [[Iris Wildthyme]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[From Wildthyme with Love (novel)|From Wildthyme with Love]]'', ''[[The Wildthyme Effect (short story)|The Wildthyme Effect]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Iris Wildthyme and the Land of Wonder (audio story)|Iris Wildthyme and the Land of Wonder]]'')

== Nature ==
[[Chris Cwej]] thought of his Superiors as "the most complex pan-dimensional beings [[the Totality]] had ever produced". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Bright White Crack (short story)|A Bright White Crack]]'') The [[Time Lord]]s and the Superiors appeared were the same group; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Rebel Rebel (short story)|Rebel Rebel]]'', ''[[The Face of the Enemy (novel)|The Face of the Enemy]]'') [[Koschei]] was described as a Superior in one account ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Rebel Rebel (short story)|Rebel Rebel]]'') and as a Time Lord in another. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Face of the Enemy (novel)|The Face of the Enemy]]'')

Indeed, [[Dionus]] once stated that members of the [[Great House]]s had a "need to be Superior" seeded into "every morsel" of the [[Loom|breeding engines]] that "churned out" new members of their kind, making them "corrupt from birth", ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Eternal Escape (audio story)|Eternal Escape]]'') with [[Rassilon]] also deeming the Time Lords a quintessential "superior species". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Homecoming (audio story)|Homecoming]]'')

== Culture ==
Having been responsible for [[Anchoring of the thread|the creation]] of the [[Linear Universe]], they were notoriously unwilling to let any other species of cultures within their dominion recreate the scientific principles that gave them their power, as it would allow those [[lesser species|lesser beings]] to challenge their rule. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Bright White Crack (short story)|A Bright White Crack]]'')

== History ==
=== Early history ===
[[Chris Cwej]] knew his Superiors played an immense part in the [[universe]]: they [[anchoring of the thread|created]] the [[Linear Universe]] and "wove Their likenesses into the [[biology]] of every being". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Bright White Crack (short story)|A Bright White Crack]]'')

=== Using Chris Cwej as their agent ===
{{section stub}}The Superiors used [[Chris Cwej]] as their agent, having "stripped his flesh away" and turned him into an electronic consciousness whom they could reincarnate on cue. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Bright White Crack (short story)|A Bright White Crack]]'')

They once sent Cwej to the [[Psychosphere (psychic layer)|Psychosphere]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Collective Unconscious (short story)|Collective Unconscious]]'')

=== Undated events ===
The [[Third Doctor]] was sometimes sent on missions across [[time]] and [[space]] by his "mysterious superiors", the [[Time Lord]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Verdigris (novel)|Verdigris]]'')

[[Iris Wildthyme]] had "mysterious superiors" who once tried to make [[Panda]] their [[Supreme Being]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[From Wildthyme with Love (novel)|From Wildthyme with Love]]'') Iris once lied to [[Alice Liddell]] that they had to stop travelling together because Iris' mysterious superiors would disapprove of the changes to history. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Wildthyme Effect (short story)|The Wildthyme Effect]]'')

When Panda travelled with [[Iris Wildthyme#Jane Fonda|a future incarnation of Iris]], he began to suspect that she had blown up her mysterious superiors at the end of the [[Tim War]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[From Wildthyme with Love (novel)|From Wildthyme with Love]]'') The [[far future]] ruins of the Superiors' citadel was surrounded by destroyed [[Cyberon]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Rebel Rebel (short story)|Rebel Rebel]]'')

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