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The Omega Arsenal was a collection of forbidden weapons locked in the Time Vaults on Gallifrey, (TV: The Day of the Doctor) beneath the Capitol near the planet's core. (PROSE: The Day of the Doctor [+]Steven Moffat, adapted from The Day of the Doctor (Steven Moffat), Target novelisations (Target Books, 2018)., A Brief History of Time Lords [+]Steve Tribe, BBC Books (2017).)

Rassilon locked the Moment away in the Omega Arsenal after he deployed it against the Nestenes. (PROSE: Pandoric's Box [+]Richard Dinnick, Myths & Legends (BBC Books, 2017).) It was kept in the deepest time vault, Time Vault Zero, for billions of years. (PROSE: The Day of the Doctor [+]Steven Moffat, adapted from The Day of the Doctor (Steven Moffat), Target novelisations (Target Books, 2018).)

Huxley speculated that weapons used by the Great Houses during the War in Heaven — such as the "Greater Key" — would in the Peace be taken back to "some impregnable arsenal". (PROSE: A Farewell to Arms [+]Nate Bumber, The Book of the Peace (Faction Paradox, 2018).)

The Tear of Isha, which was used to collapse black holes was kept in the Arsenal, (PROSE: Engines of War [+]George Mann, BBC New Series tie-in novels (BBC Books, 2014).) as was a weapon capable of generating a Null Zone, (AUDIO:The Heart of the Battle [+]Nicholas Briggs, Only the Monstrous (The War Doctor, Big Finish Productions, 2015).) the Orphaned Hour, (COMIC: Strange Loops [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) and the anima device. (AUDIO: A Thing of Guile [+]Phil Mulryne, Infernal Devices (The War Doctor, Big Finish Productions, 2016).) Sentient life forms were also kept in the Arsenal, including a Dreadshade. (AUDIO: Dreadshade [+]Lisa McMullin, The Eighth Doctor: Time War: Volume Four (The Eighth Doctor: Time War, Big Finish Productions, 2020).)

Over the course of the Last Great Time War, the Time Lords used all the weapons in the Arsenal against the Daleks save the Moment. (TV: The Day of the Doctor [+]Steven Moffat, 50th Anniversary Specials (BBC One, 2013).) The Twelve was placed in stasis in the Arsenal after the Uzmal incident, however she managed to orchestrate an escape by manipulating the Dreadshade and also freed all the sentients. While the Eighth Doctor and Bliss were able to smuggle the Dreadshade back to her homeworld, the other sentients were recaptured and returned to the Arsenal. (AUDIO: Dreadshade [+]Lisa McMullin, The Eighth Doctor: Time War: Volume Four (The Eighth Doctor: Time War, Big Finish Productions, 2020).) On the last day of the War, the War Doctor tricked the War Council into opening Time Vault Zero, so he could claim the Moment. (TV: The Day of the Doctor [+]Steven Moffat, adapted from The Day of the Doctor (Steven Moffat), Target novelisations (Target Books, 2018).; PROSE: The Day of the Doctor [+]Steven Moffat, adapted from The Day of the Doctor (Steven Moffat), Target novelisations (Target Books, 2018).)

Arriving in the Capitol after escaping the Cyberman invasion of Karn, the Twelfth Doctor called for the Arsenal to be opened, only to be met by Rassilon, allied with the Cyberiad. (COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen [+]George Mann and Cavan Scott, Titan summer events (Titan Comics, 2016).)

Behind the scenes[]

The "Fourth Dimension" feature on the BBC's Doctor Who website suggests that the Omega Arsenal is a reference to Omega.[1]

Footnotes[]

  1. The Doctor Who Team. The Day of the Doctor - Fourth Dimension. Retrieved on 18 March 2014.
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