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The War was a temporal conflict between the Great Houses of the Time Lords and their Enemy. (PROSE: Alien Bodies [+]Lawrence Miles, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1997)., et al.) It did not have enough activity in one specific region or era to be given a more specific title than "the War", (PROSE: "Causalities of War" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) but it was called the War in Heaven by lesser species caught in the conflict. (PROSE: Alien Bodies [+]Lawrence Miles, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1997)., et al.) During V-Time, Chris Cwej's Superiors also referred to it as W-Time, using the letter's shape to illustrate its cosmic symmetry. (PROSE: The V Cwejes [+]Tyche McPhee Letts, Down the Middle (Cwej: The Series, Arcbeatle Press, 2020).) The Bookwyrm referred to it as the Cosmic War or the Great Cosmic War. (PROSE: The Cactus and the Corpse [+]Aristide Twain, Horrors of Arcbeatle (Auteur, Arcbeatle Press, 2023).)

Several other major parties became involved in the War in a shifting configuration of alliances, notably including Faction Paradox, the Celestis, (PROSE: Alien Bodies [+]Lawrence Miles, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1997)., et al.) the Remote, (PROSE: Interference [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW., et al.) the Osirians, (AUDIO: Coming to Dust [+]Lawrence Miles, The True History of Faction Paradox (Magic Bullet Productions, 2005)., et al.) the Mal'akh, posthumanity, (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002)., et al.) and a species of xenophobic mutants. (PROSE: Pre-narrative Briefings [+]Simon Bucher-Jones, The Book of the Enemy (Faction Paradox, Obverse Books, 2018).)

As the War progressed, the Protocols of Linearity began wearing down and elements of the conflict seeped into the pre-War era of Gallifreyan history. (PROSE: Alien Bodies [+]Lawrence Miles, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1997)., The Shadows of Avalon [+]Paul Cornell, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2000).) The Eighth Doctor had numerous encounters with the "future War", (PROSE: Alien Bodies [+]Lawrence Miles, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1997)., Unnatural History [+]Jonathan Blum and Kate Orman, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1999)., Toy Story [+]Lawrence Miles, Faction Paradox short stories (Mad Norwegian Press, 2004)., The Taking of Planet 5 [+]Simon Bucher-Jones and Mark Clapham, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1999)., et al.) even taking on companions originating from the War era. (PROSE: Interference [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) The War also affected some of the Doctor's earlier incarnations, (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5 [+]Simon Bucher-Jones and Mark Clapham, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1999)., Verdigris [+]Paul Magrs, BBC Past Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2000)., AUDIO: The Judgment of Sutekh [+]Lawrence Miles, The True History of Faction Paradox (Magic Bullet Productions, 2009)., TV: Pyramids of Mars [+]Stephen Harris, Doctor Who season 13 (BBC1, 1975).) most drastically the Third Doctor. (PROSE: Interference [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) The Doctor's involvement in the War culminated in his eighth incarnation choosing to destroy Romana III's Gallifrey on the eve of the War's outbreak, (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell [+]Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2000).) leading to him losing all his memories and being deposited on 19th century Earth by Compassion to spend a century recovering. (PROSE: The Burning [+]Justin Richards, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2000)., Escape Velocity [+]Colin Brake, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2001)., Wolfsbane [+]Jacqueline Rayner, BBC Past Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2003)., et al.)

Some events occurred temporally concurrent with the War while still staying mostly separated from the conflict: the final 56 years of the City of the Saved's existence, (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002)., Of the City of the Saved... [+]Philip Purser-Hallard, Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2004)., A Hundred Words from a Civil War [+]Philip Purser-Hallard, et al., A Romance in Twelve Parts (Faction Paradox, Obverse Books, 2011)., God Encompasses [+]Philip Purser-Hallard, The City of the Saved (Obverse Books, 2015).) Bernice Summerfield's life in the late 26th and early 27th centuries, (AUDIO: The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel [+]Jim Smith, Bernice Summerfield: Single Releases (Big Finish Productions, 2008)., PROSE: Dead Romance [+]Lawrence Miles, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1999)., A Gallery of Pigeons [+]Jim Smith, Secret Histories (Bernice Summerfield short stories, Big Finish Productions, 2009)., Predating the Predators [+]Philip Purser-Hallard, The Vampire Curse (Bernice Summerfield short stories, Big Finish Productions, 2008).) and some periods of Iris Wildthyme's transtemporal adventures. (PROSE: The Blue Angel [+]Paul Magrs and Jeremy Hoad, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1999)., Library Pictures [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW., The Shape of Things [+]Stuart Douglas, Ms Wildthyme & Friends Investigate (Iris Wildthyme, Obverse Books, 2010)., Michael Drake [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW., Panda and the Airship [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW., Weapons Grade Snake Oil [+]Blair Bidmead, Faction Paradox (Obverse Books, 2017).)

History[]

Lead-up to the War[]

Main article: War prediction

The Matrix predicted that Gallifrey would survive many attacks before falling in a war against an implacable Enemy, (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles [+]Lance Parkin, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2005)., The Infinity Doctors [+]Lance Parkin, BBC Books (1998).) but due to the Enemy's time-active nature, it couldn't make any concrete predictions. (PROSE: Alien Bodies [+]Lawrence Miles, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1997).) Last Contact was known by Larna to be the event in which the identity of the Enemy would become known. (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles [+]Lance Parkin, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2005).) The Enemy's identity was actually constantly shifting. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell [+]Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2000).)

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The Master and the Doctor, renegades of Gallifrey (TV: The Mind of Evil [+]Don Houghton, Doctor Who season 8 (BBC1, 1971).)

1152 years before the War, irregularities in the Great Houses' breeding-engines, (PROSE: "The Imperator Presidency" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) evidently including the errant biodata of the Other, (PROSE: Crimes Against History [+]Lawrence Miles, The Spiral Politic Database (2001-2002)., Lungbarrow [+]Marc Platt, adapted from Lungbarrow, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1997).) caused a series of "mutations" to come into existence. These primarily included the four that were the Imperator; Grandfather Paradox; a renegade who would later become the War King; and one other. (PROSE: "The Imperator Presidency" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) Though highly unreliable about his own past, Auteur once suggested he too was "a bit of" L'Autre. (PROSE: The Cactus and the Corpse [+]Aristide Twain, Horrors of Arcbeatle (Auteur, Arcbeatle Press, 2023).) The mutations in this "affected generation" brought about the first changes on the Homeworld since its founding. (PROSE: "The Imperator Presidency" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) Around the beginning of this generation's era, "Avus" discovered a remnant of reality from before the anchoring of the thread and encountered the enemy in the form of Cernunnos. (PROSE: Cobweb and Ivory [+]Nate Bumber, The Book of the Enemy (Faction Paradox, 2018).)

The cat people, oracles to the Houses, began going into hiding in fear of the future. The cultural void left by their absence came to be filled by insane and renegade members of the Great Houses. (PROSE: The Return of the King [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

About 880 years before the War, the Imperator attempted to prepare the Homeworld for conflict by starting the Catherion Imprimiture and founding the Order of the Weal (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) to be led by his cousin, (PROSE: The Return of the King [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) Thessalia. The Imprimature produced eight babels, but it was ended when one babel slaughtered House Catherion. It was imprisoned under the Order's headquarters in House Ixion, (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) where Thessalia consulted with it about the upcoming War. (PROSE: The Return of the King [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW., Newtons Sleep [+]Daniel O'Mahony, Faction Paradox novels (Random Static, 2008).)

453 years before the War, one of the other "broken" children of the Houses founded House Paradox, taking on the title of Grandfather Paradox. The next year, the unrest reached its zenith as a "deranged renegade", (PROSE: Crimes Against History [+]Lawrence Miles, The Spiral Politic Database (2001-2002).) the Decayed Master, murdered the sitting President through the agency of Chancellor Goth. (TV: The Deadly Assassin [+]Robert Holmes, Doctor Who season 14 (BBC1, 1976)., PROSE: Crimes Against History [+]Lawrence Miles, The Spiral Politic Database (2001-2002).) With that holder of the title having been the last normal, "figurehead" President after whom other leaders began to exhibit much more individual initiative, the Bookwyrm regarded this event as "how the War started". This meant that from a certain point of view, the murder of Coloth, eons prior, which had been key to the now-Chancellor's political rise, had been the "unwitting cause première of the Great Cosmic War", (PROSE: The Cactus and the Corpse [+]Aristide Twain, Horrors of Arcbeatle (Auteur, Arcbeatle Press, 2023).) having occurred in the aftermath of the War Chief incident. (PROSE: War Crimes [+]Simon Bucher-Jones, Short Trips (Short Trips short stories, 1998).)

About 400 years before the War, (PROSE: Crimes Against History [+]Lawrence Miles, The Spiral Politic Database (2001-2002)., "The Nine Gallifreys" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) Greyjan the Sane served as Lord President of Gallifrey for three years. In that time, he foresaw the War and made plans for the Nine Gallifreys to be created through crypto-forming. After predicting that the Enemy would be ancestor cells, he committed suicide. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell [+]Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2000).)

Signing of Gregorian Compact

The signing of the Gregorian Compact. (COMIC: Political Animals [+]Lawrence Miles, Faction Paradox (2003) (Image Comics, 2003).)

396 years before the War, (PROSE: "The Timeline" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) during Greyjan the Sane's Presidency, (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell [+]Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2000).) the newly-formed House Paradox negotiated with the British government in 1752 to obtain the 11 days lost when the British converted to the Gregorian calendar. These days formed the Eleven-Day Empire. (PROSE: Interference - Book One [+]Lawrence Miles, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1999)., "The Eleven-Day Empire" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002)., et al.) The Gazetteer considered the negotiations to be humanity's first official involvement in the War in Heaven. (COMIC: Political Animals [+]Lawrence Miles, Faction Paradox (2003) (Image Comics, 2003).) At the time of the calendar changeover, the Eleven-Day Empire was witnessed by many Londoners, including Sabbath Dei, (COMIC: Bêtes Noires & Dark Horses [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) a future War-time participant. (AUDIO: Sabbath Dei [+]Lawrence Miles, The Faction Paradox Protocols (BBV Productions, 2003).)

392 years before the War, (PROSE: "The Timeline" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) Cardinal Thorac attempted to establish a powerbase on Dronid to overthrow the High Council. The Council responded with an attack of ignorance and Thorac was dragged back to Gallifrey, leaving behind Time Lord technology on Dronid. (PROSE: Alien Bodies [+]Lawrence Miles, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1997)., "The Beginning of the War" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002)., Shada [+]Gareth Roberts, adapted from Shada (Douglas Adams), BBC Books novelisations (BBC Books, 2012).) In the aftermath of the Dronid event, other potentially dangerous renegades were imprisoned, including Grandfather Paradox. (PROSE: "The Timeline" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).)

The Enemy initially blocked off chunks of history to prevent War-era Gallifrey from contacting pre-War era Gallifrey to prepare them for the War, but as the War progressed the walls between the pre-War era and the War era thinned. (PROSE: Alien Bodies [+]Lawrence Miles, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1997).)

Thessalia

Chateline Thessalia of the Order of the Weal. (PROSE: "Order of the Weal" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).)

380 years before the War, agents of the Order of the Weal encountered War-time members of Faction Paradox (PROSE: "The Timeline" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) through a breach in the Protocols of Linearity caused by a Violent Unknown Event on Zo la Domini. (PROSE: "Zo La Domini" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) Frightened that the babel's previously-unconfirmed predictions appeared accurate, (PROSE: Newtons Sleep [+]Daniel O'Mahony, Faction Paradox novels (Random Static, 2008).) Thessalia travelled to a planet on the frontier in time (PROSE: "Zo La Domini" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) and released the babel, theoretically under her control. However, it overpowered her and escaped to 17th century Earth, where it planned to convert humanity's history into a weapon against the Adversary. (PROSE: Newtons Sleep [+]Daniel O'Mahony, Faction Paradox novels (Random Static, 2008).)

About 155 years before the War, the idea of hybridisation began to emerge on the Homeworld. The Great Houses' timeships began changing in a manner similar to evolution. (PROSE: "The Timeline" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) One timeship, Lolita, had her owner modify her so that she could become humanoid. At a time closer to the War's beginning, Lolita met with her sister on a forest world and tried to convince the sister to join her in preparing for the War. (PROSE: Toy Story [+]Lawrence Miles, Faction Paradox short stories (Mad Norwegian Press, 2004).)

The war's coming, and nothing's going to stop it. Us against them, our pilots against their pilots. Even Mother isn't going to come out of this without a few bruises. This isn't a historical war. You do realise that, don't you? This isn't about territory, or power, or anything like that. It's a war of fundamentals. The enemy's going to change everything, if it can. Even if the Homeworld wins, there'll be... oh, huge amounts of disruption. Disruption at every level.Lolita [src]

Christmas on a Rational Planet cover art

The Carnival Queen's irrationality manifests in 1799 America. (PROSE: Christmas on a Rational Planet [+]Lawrence Miles, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).)

Around 150 years before the War, (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell [+]Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2000)., "The Timeline" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) the rationality of the universe was briefly threatened by the Carnival Queen, a pre-Anchoring being (PROSE: Christmas on a Rational Planet [+]Lawrence Miles, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).) with a goal identical to the Enemy's: (PROSE: Cobweb and Ivory [+]Nate Bumber, The Book of the Enemy (Faction Paradox, 2018).) to return reality to as it was before the Time Lords imposed their Web of Time onto it. The Carnival Queen was stopped by the Seventh Doctor, Chris Cwej, and Roz Forrester, but not before Gallifrey was momentarily plunged into chaos. (PROSE: Christmas on a Rational Planet [+]Lawrence Miles, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).) In that time, the recently-elected (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell [+]Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2000).) Lady President Romana had an epileptic fit and released 300 prisoners from Shada; one of these prisoners was Grandfather Paradox, (PROSE: Christmas on a Rational Planet [+]Lawrence Miles, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).) who went on to make Faction Paradox a major power in time for the War (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) before erasing himself from history. (PROSE: Interference - Book One [+]Lawrence Miles, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1999)., The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).)

Romana's presidency brought many changes to Gallifrey and stirred the stagnant culture. (PROSE: Happy Endings [+]Paul Cornell, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996)., Lungbarrow [+]Marc Platt, adapted from Lungbarrow, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1997).) David Foreman, a "Watchmaker" from this era, was one of the many notably influenced by this liberalism. (PROSE: Ghost Devices [+]Simon Bucher-Jones, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1997).) During her presidency, however, the Dalek Empire launched its first invasion of Gallifrey through the Etra Prime incident. (AUDIO: The Apocalypse Element [+]Stephen Cole, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2000).) Kellen cited the incident as the event which first foreshadowed the War, signalling that the Time Lords would need to abandon non-interference and fight to keep control of the cosmos. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell [+]Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2000).)

Black Dalek (The Apocalypse Element)

When the Daleks invaded Gallifrey, (AUDIO: The Apocalypse Element [+]Stephen Cole, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2000).) Kellen believed it proved the Time Lords needed to abandon the non-interference policy. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell [+]Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2000).)

According to the Book of Lies, (PROSE: Unnatural History [+]Jonathan Blum and Kate Orman, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1999).) after President Romana's reconciliation with the Sisterhood of Karn, (PROSE: Lungbarrow [+]Marc Platt, adapted from Lungbarrow, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1997).) the Great Grey Eminence made a deal with Faction Paradox to undo the changes and restore his preferred order to Gallifrey (PROSE: Unnatural History [+]Jonathan Blum and Kate Orman, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1999).) by manipulating the timeline of the newly-regenerated Eighth Doctor. (PROSE: The Eight Doctors [+]Terrance Dicks, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1997)., Unnatural History [+]Jonathan Blum and Kate Orman, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1999).) Subsequently, the Eighth Doctor was uncertain if Romana or Flavia was President. (PROSE: Unnatural History [+]Jonathan Blum and Kate Orman, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1999).) When the Closed Session occurred roughly seventy-five years before the War, the Homeworld was led by a nondescript and stagnant Presidency. (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).)

36 years before the War, the future War King returned to the Homeworld with knowledge of the Enemy. This time he was listened to, largely because the President's attempt to prove that the enemy didn't exist, the Faraway Declaration, resulted in the First Message from the Enemy. Umbaste then assumed the Presidency. (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).)

Around 20 years before the War, (PROSE: "The Timeline" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) the Celestial Intervention Agency removed themselves from history and became the Celestis to avoid the coming conflict. (PROSE: Alien Bodies [+]Lawrence Miles, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1997)., The Taking of Planet 5 [+]Simon Bucher-Jones and Mark Clapham, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1999).) In the first explicit encounter between humanity and one of the major War-time powers, (PROSE: "The Timeline" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) the Celestis realm of Mictlan was accidentally summoned to the town of Gragov by Vlad III's creation of the Forest of the Impaled in 1461. (PROSE: "Tirgoviste" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002)., "Gragov" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).)

When all possible timelines began being destroyed by Randolph Bane's abuse of the Doctor's amaranth, the universe's higher powers refused to do anything because they were focused on preparing for "some imminent Big War", leaving it to be fixed by Chris Cwej, Bernice Summerfield, Jason Kane, and the Schirron Dream crew. (PROSE: Oblivion [+]Dave Stone, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1998).)

When it became clear that War was inevitable, Greyjan the Sane's plan for the Nine Gallifreys was implemented. (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon [+]Paul Cornell, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2000)., The Ancestor Cell [+]Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2000)., "The Nine Homeworlds" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) Each of these duplicates thought that it was the original, and all of them had the ability to make even more copies of themselves. (PROSE: "The Nine Homeworlds" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002)., The Taking of Planet 5 [+]Simon Bucher-Jones and Mark Clapham, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1999).) Each Homeworld was a "sheath echo" of one "core probability", (PROSE: The Brakespeare Voyage [+]Simon Bucher-Jones and Jonathan Dennis, Faction Paradox (Obverse Books, 2013).) with similar attributes but often with different histories and rulers. One Homeworld was led by Umbaste and the future War King. (PROSE: "The War King" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002)., et al.) Romana's Presidency continued on a cloneworld Gallifrey located in Kasterborous that believed it was the original, creating eight cloneworlds of its own. (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon [+]Paul Cornell, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2000)., The Ancestor Cell [+]Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2000)., The Story So Far... [+]Jayce Black, The Book of the Peace (Faction Paradox, Obverse Books, 2018).)

Around ten years before the War, Faction Paradox was freely peddling time travel technology to the lesser species. They had also chosen a homeworld for themselves, (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) which they thought their blood rites were protecting from the Time Lords. However, the High Council wiped out most of the homeworld, (PROSE: Interference - Book One [+]Lawrence Miles, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1999).) as well as the Faction colonies on Dronid and elsewhere. The leaders of the Faction escaped to the Eleven-Day Empire, which became a community for the first time; (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) Cousin Shuncucker, carrier of Grandfather Paradox's shadow, believed herself to be the last scion of the Faction homeworld. (AUDIO: A Labyrinth of Histories [+]Lawrence Miles, The Faction Paradox Protocols (BBV Productions, 2004).)

After the destruction of their homeworld, the Faction began infiltrating cultures throughout the universe, setting up cults and secret societies like the Order of the Rectangle, the Cult of the Black Sun, and the Luminus so they could secretly give time technology to the lesser species. (PROSE: Interference - Book One [+]Lawrence Miles, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1999).) Supreme Order of the Rectangle member Robert Hay would later orchestrate the Gunpowder Plot in the hopes of putting the brotherhood in charge of Britain; (PROSE: The Plotters [+]Gareth Roberts, Virgin Missing Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).) the Luminus ruled multiple planets for centuries, including Olleril and Argos; (PROSE: Tragedy Day [+]Gareth Roberts, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1994).) and the Order of the Black Sun would go on to wage a time war against Rassilon and the early Gallifreyans. (COMIC: Star Death [+]Alan Moore, DWM backup comic stories (Marvel Comics, 1980)., 4-D War [+]Alan Moore, DWM backup comic stories (Marvel Comics, 1981).) The Faction also started creating the Remote in various posthuman colonies including Ordifica. (PROSE: Interference - Book One [+]Lawrence Miles, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1999)., The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).)

6 years before the War, Umbaste died and the War King became the official head of his Homeworld. (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).)

Compassion

Compassion, the one and only Type 102 TARDIS. (PROSE: "Laura Tobin" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).)

About 2 years before the start of the War, (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) the Eighth Doctor, already aware of the coming War from having encountered it in his his past, (PROSE: Alien Bodies [+]Lawrence Miles, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1997)., Unnatural History [+]Jonathan Blum and Kate Orman, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1999).) took on Compassion, a Remote from Anathema, as a companion. (PROSE: Interference - Book One [+]Lawrence Miles, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1999).) While travelling with the Doctor, Compassion absorbed signals from the Doctor's TARDIS and was transformed into the first and only Type 102 TARDIS. The Time Lords sought to capture Compassion so that she could be the mother of a new generation of Type 103 TARDISes for the War; (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon [+]Paul Cornell, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2000)., The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) the War King's Homeworld was unsuccessful in doing so, (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) but a Gallifrey ruled by Romana III and already heavily affected by future events of the War was. Before this Gallifrey could be devastated by the Enemy at the start of the War, it was erased from history in an incident involving forces from near the end of the War. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell [+]Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2000).)

The War[]

Outbreak of the War[]

Main article: The Event
Main article: The Cataclysm
This section's awfully stubby.

Missing information from The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002). about build-up to Dronid and the First Wave.

In the decade before the War, tensions gradually escalated between the Great Houses and enemy agents on Dronid, disguised as the criminal organisation (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) InCorporate. (PROSE: Alien Bodies [+]Lawrence Miles, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1997).) Days before the fighting began, a particularly interventionist member of the Great Houses, (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) the Doctor, (PROSE: Alien Bodies [+]Lawrence Miles, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1997).) went to the planet to try to find an agreement with an enemy contact. The Book of the War recorded that this diplomat was killed as the first battle of the War began, (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) although Qixotl thought there was more to the story of his death. (PROSE: Alien Bodies [+]Lawrence Miles, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1997).)

The Krotons managed to intercept a Time Lord relaying information from Dronid to the High Council. In their interrogation of him, they learned of the War and decided to try to gain technology from it to aid in their own war against the Metatraxi. (PROSE: Alien Bodies [+]Lawrence Miles, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1997).)

Riots occurred on one Homeworld at the start of the War. (PROSE: The Short Briefing Sergeant's Tale [+]Simon Bucher-Jones, The Book of the Enemy (Faction Paradox, 2018).)

Shortly after the fighting began on Dronid, the world processor engines activated and destroyed the surface of the planet. The fighting moved on to the Thousand-Year Battles, fought on Utterlost, Kaiwar and Mohandassa. Then the enemy attempted a direct attack against the Homeworld itself, (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) which caught the Time Lords by surprise (PROSE: Alien Bodies [+]Lawrence Miles, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1997).) and destroyed many Homeworld technologies, (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) including the Sash of Rassilon, the De-mat Gun, and the Hand of Omega. (PROSE: Alien Bodies [+]Lawrence Miles, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1997).) However, thanks to the War King's preparations, the prophecies of Gallifrey's destruction were avoided. (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).)

The War quickly became a four-dimensional series of strikes and counterstrikes which Mr Qixotl described as a "temporal stalemate". (PROSE: Alien Bodies [+]Lawrence Miles, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1997).)

Early conflicts & downfall of Faction Paradox[]

Formosii crop

The Immaculata Formosii, an infamous posthuman who allied with several powers at the beginning of the War. (PROSE: "Lesser Species" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).)

In the 2nd year of the War, the Faction took advantage of the confusion caused by the War and sent its Remote shock-troops to attack planets significant to the Great Houses, including Simia-KK98. The Faction hoped that the Houses wouldn't see any connection between them and the Remote, but the Houses very easily deduced that the Faction were behind the attacks. (PROSE: "The Timeline" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).)

In the initial phase of the conflict, planets such as Nibo were used as staging posts for Superior forces. Time Engines were embedded into these planets to creates pockets of reality outside of normal spacetime. (PROSE: The Mushroom at the End of the Universe [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

The armies of the Great Houses, the Enemy, and Faction Paradox fought great battles across the surface of Mercy, killing the 150 human colonists already living there. This came to an end when one of the powers changed history so that, twenty generations before the fighting on Mercy, the Arbiturm bombed the planet with blacklight warheads, rendering it an inhospitable wasteland. (PROSE: Holding Pattern [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

Goralschai of the First Wave was involved in many early battles of the War: the Ganda Mnemma campaigns, in which Godfather Shuck was captured; the rout of the Raithaduine cultists; the Llammas IV campaign; and the Spike, a conflict against the Enemy over the Vault of Heaven. Soldiers of the Great Houses also fought a campaign on Aloophoa. (PROSE: Against Nature [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

In the 4th year of the War, the Houses began experiments in biological technologies, creating regen-inf. The Houses also became aware of the Remonstration Bureau. (PROSE: "The Timeline" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).)

Enabled with Celestis technology, the enemy began using anarchitects as weapons early in the War. (PROSE: Alien Bodies [+]Lawrence Miles, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1997).)

In the 5th year of the War, (PROSE: "The Timeline" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) the major powers of the War attempted to negotiate peace in the Venue Accords. The Accords lasted one picosecond and concluded that peace was an impossibility. The Book of the War summarised them as "an agreement to disagree". (PROSE: "Venue Accords" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) In response to the failure of the Accords, the Second Wave was created. (PROSE: "The Timeline" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).)

On the Infernal Sphere, Baphomet obtained information on Thaumoctopus memeticus' origins, leading to him being murdered by a T. memeticus in the form of Thelema. (PROSE: T. memeticus: A Morphology [+]Philip Purser-Hallard, The Book of the Enemy (Faction Paradox, 2018).) The Dæmons faced a "private Götterdämmerung", with many of them dying in gigantic battle mode. The Faction unearthed a Dæmon skeleton from Dæmos and converted it into a warship. (PROSE: Interference - Book One [+]Lawrence Miles, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1999).)

Devonire

Academician Devonire shortly before his incarceration. (PROSE: "The Great Houses" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).)

In the 6th year of the War, (PROSE: "The Timeline" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) Devonire attempted to make peace between the Great Houses and Faction Paradox by finding Grandfather Paradox's missing arm. (PROSE: "Academician Devonire" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) After a deal with the Immaculata Formosii on Kaiwar resulted in Devonire acquiring his own severed arm from the future, (PROSE: "Kaiwar" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) he was stricken with a severe case of paradox anxiety and imprisoned. (PROSE: "Academician Devonire" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).)

Later in the 6th year of the War, the Second Wave underwent a successful campaign of sterilisation against all of the planets where the Faction had begun propagating the Remote. (PROSE: "The Timeline" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) The first planet sterilised was Ordifica in 2596. (PROSE: Interference - Book One [+]Lawrence Miles, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1999)., "Ordifica" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) Mathara led an evacuation of Ordifica in the Justinian; Fitz Kreiner and Laura Tobin were among those onboard. Mathara deposited the evacuees on the Time Lord super-weapon Anathema in 1799, which was on route to destroy Earth in 1997. (PROSE: Interference [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

Newtons Sleep cover art

Two Pilots of the Pilots' Coterie manifest at Salomon's House before Nate Silver and Faction Paradox. (PROSE: Newtons Sleep [+]Daniel O'Mahony, Faction Paradox novels (Random Static, 2008).)

As the Faction was busy retreating from the Second Wave, a pre-War-Era babel hid within Isaac Newton's timeline and attempted to rewrite human history into a weapon against the Adversary. Detecting that posthuman civilisation could be replaced with a "constant sacrifice of fresh bodies and fresh blood" in service of the Great Houses, the Pilots' Coterie used praxis to send three pilots — including Erasmus — to the 17th century to recruit Nate Silver as an instrument to prevent the babel's interference. A small Faction mission led by Mother Sphinx became involved to ensure that the Gregorian Compact wasn't written out of history; they recruited Greenaway to spy on Silver. Larissa followed the babel and, after an encounter with the Faction, hid within Aphra Behn's timeline. The involved parties all gathered at Saloman's House in 1671, where the babel escaped unharmed due to Larissa mistaking Silver to be the babel's host. A second confrontation occurred in 1683, when the babel attempted to install Silver as an immortal puppet leading the Service: Larissa stabbed Newton with her continuity needle, forcing out the babel so it could be defeated by Erasmus. Silver stopped the needle from erasing Newton from history and the Faction conducted rituals to heal time. (PROSE: Newtons Sleep [+]Daniel O'Mahony, Faction Paradox novels (Random Static, 2008).)

Circa the 6th year of the War, (AUDIO: In the Year of the Cat [+]Lawrence Miles, The Faction Paradox Protocols (BBV Productions, 2003).) 46 years before the major breakout at the Great Houses prison-planet, the Blood Coteries illegally manipulated the biodata of Demetra Kine and four shadow-weapon-proof warriors, resulting in all five being imprisoned by the Great Houses. This was so they could get revenge against Shuncucker when the prison inevitably had a breakout. (AUDIO: A Labyrinth of Histories [+]Lawrence Miles, The Faction Paradox Protocols (BBV Productions, 2004).)

Sometime in the early War Era, House Arpexia conducted the "jungle children" experiment to see how Homeworlder biodata would be changed by being raised by humans. Kaspar Hauser was placed in Nuremberg in 1828, but though German's timeline began to reshape around him, he was relatively unchanged. Shortly after Entarodora was brought into the project, the experiment was ended and Hauser was killed. (PROSE: "Jungle Children" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) His name was later used for the unrelated phenomenon of temporally-displaced Hauserkinder, who became increasingly common during the War. (PROSE: "Hauserkinder" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).)

Father Dyavol

Father Dyavol of the Thirteen-Day Republic, previously known as "Grigori Rasputin". (PROSE: "Father-Twice-Removed Dyavol" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).)

In the 8th year of the War, the breakaway Thirteen-Day Republic was founded by Anastasia Romanov (PROSE: "The Timeline" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) but quickly lost in the Battle of Valentine's Day. (PROSE: "The Thirteen-Day Republic" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002)., Warring States [+]Mags L. Halliday, Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2005).) On Anathema, Mathara took Fitz Kreiner back with her to the Eleven-Day Empire, though he left behind a remembranced version of himself. Kreiner quickly rose to the rank of Father before being put in charge of one of the last Remote colonies, shortly before it was cut off from the Empire. (PROSE: Interference - Book One [+]Lawrence Miles, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1999).)

House Dvora attempted to alter Earth's history by inspiring 16th century philosopher Giordano Bruno to become Pope and and lead Europe into an early age of rationalism and science. Father Self subverted all of Dvora's efforts and integrated Bruno into the Remote of Anathema. (PROSE: De Umbris Idearum [+]Philip Purser-Hallard, Burning with Optimism's Flames (Faction Paradox, Obverse Books, 2013).)

After several generations had passed on Anathema, it arrived near Earth in 1997. The Eighth Doctor, Sam Jones, and Sarah Jane Smith became involved with it and and stopped it from fulfilling its purpose. The Doctor then took on Kode and Compassionremembrances of Fitz and Tobin — as companions. While most of the Remote stayed on Anathema, (PROSE: Interference [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) some migrated to Earth, forming a small cult in 21st century California. (PROSE: De Umbris Idearum [+]Philip Purser-Hallard, Burning with Optimism's Flames (Faction Paradox, Obverse Books, 2013).)

Faction Paradox armour

An armoured member of Faction Paradox. (PROSE: "Armour" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).)

A War veteran found asylum in the Eleven-Day Empire for a while, but they were eventually evicted as part of a Faction initiation competition led by Starch. Ceol won said competition and became a Cousin. (PROSE: Now or Thereabouts [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) Despite being involved in a "cultural exchange" with Theo Possible, (PROSE: Party Kill Accelerator! [+]Blair Bidmead, The Panda Book of Horror (2009).) Ceol quickly tired of the Faction and smuggled her biodata and consciousness into a new body, leaving her original to sign up for a Faction mission to Mohandassa and be wiped from history. Ceol managed to evade the Faction in her new body for a considerable period of time. (PROSE: Weapons Grade Snake Oil [+]Blair Bidmead, Faction Paradox (Obverse Books, 2017).)

In the 10th year of the War, (PROSE: "The Timeline" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) Compassion met with the War King to form an alliance that entailed opening a "second front" against the enemy. Carmen Yeh was present for this meeting, which she novelised in Fantastical Travels in an Infinite Universe. (PROSE: "Appendix III" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).)

In the 11th year of the War, the Third Wave was created. (PROSE: "The Timeline" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) The last campaign of the Second Wave saw the usage of the three remaining babels against enemy forces on the planet Lethe. The campaign ended when an unknown assassin euthanised the babels' lobotomised operators and the babels were torn apart on the battlefield. (PROSE: "Lethean Campaign" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) The Time Lords left the planet ravaged by time fractures. The Fifth Doctor and Nyssa visited Lethe and found a powerful validium staff there. (PROSE: The Parliament of Rats [+]Daniel O'Mahony, Short Trips (Short Trips short stories, 1998).)

In the 14th year of the War, the Faction's Eleven-Day Empire was breached by the analytical engine of the Star Chamber and severely damaged, driving the Faction underground while it rebuilt the Empire and re-evaluated itself. (PROSE: "The Timeline" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).)

The Great Houses embrace bio-diversity[]

We of the Great Houses used to think of ourselves as virtually celestial, things of pure intellect and reason. But this War has made us rather more ... carnal.The War King [src]

Entarodora

One of Time Strategist Entarodora's less formal bodies. (PROSE: "House Military" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).)

As the War progressed, the Time Lords began severely altering their biology to combat the Enemy, (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5 [+]Simon Bucher-Jones and Mark Clapham, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1999)., The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) some becoming what both Justine McManus (AUDIO: In the Year of the Cat [+]Lawrence Miles, The Faction Paradox Protocols (BBV Productions, 2003).) and the Eighth Doctor described as "monsters". (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell [+]Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2000).) While they had been experimenting with non-humanoid soldiers with the Third Wave, (PROSE: "Waves of the House Military" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) it was only in the 17th year of the War (PROSE: "The Timeline" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) that the Great Houses began splicing their people with biodata from "lesser species", creating the Fourth Wave. (PROSE: "Waves of the House Military" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).)

The Time Lords accepted many renegades back into their society to further War efforts. (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5 [+]Simon Bucher-Jones and Mark Clapham, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1999)., The Brakespeare Voyage [+]Simon Bucher-Jones and Jonathan Dennis, Faction Paradox (Obverse Books, 2013).) The Rani and Borusa became tutors to newly loomed soldiers. (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5 [+]Simon Bucher-Jones and Mark Clapham, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1999).) As part of their hatchling projects, the High Council created clones of several renegades, including the Master and the Rani. In a period spanning between the 22nd and 38th centuries, Father Kreiner roamed the universe hunting for renegade Time Lords and collecting their severed heads. (PROSE: Interference - Book One [+]Lawrence Miles, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1999).)

Influenced by the Celestis and weary of the changes going through Homeworld society, Goralschai put into a motion a complicated plan to destroy the universe. He assembled a Quincunx out of Primo de la Vega, Todd Calavero, Gedarra, Emiousha, and Momacani, all made from the loom of House Meddhoran but scattered apart in history so as to not alert the Great Houses. He used Faction technology to place House Meddhoran in the Netherweald, its connection to the Caldera temporarily rewriting the laws of the universe along Mexica beliefs. The Immaculata tried to disrupt Goralschai's plans but was killed. By Goralschai's design, the Quincunx gathered at Huixachtepetl in 1506 to be forced into the New Fire Ceremony. Goralschai was at the centre of the Ceremony, pulling out Momacani's heart to become a living embodiment of Xiuhtecuhtli. Goralschai was unable to use his newfound godhood to destroy reality; confined by the purpose of the Ceremony, all he could do was sacrifice himself to cause the cyclical renewal of the universe. (PROSE: Against Nature [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

Timebeast Assault

One of Mantissa's Timebeasts devours Snakefell District. (PROSE: "The Timebeast Assault" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).)

In the 18th year of the War, Mantissa led the Timebeast Assault, a failed invasion of the City of the Saved involving the assistance of the City's mayor. (PROSE: "The Timebeast Assault" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).)

Robert Scarratt quickly became a notable member of the Fourth Wave. His earliest victory was preventing an uprising at a posthuman world which provided House Xianthellipse with praxis. At another early point in Scarratt's military career, (PROSE: "Robert Scarratt" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) he met the Enemy in open parley on Utterlost. (PROSE: The Brakespeare Voyage [+]Simon Bucher-Jones and Jonathan Dennis, Faction Paradox (Obverse Books, 2013).)

In the 20th year of the War, the Eighth Retro War occurred. Scarratt was sent to Delphi in 279 BC to make a sacrifice that strengthened the Eighth Earth Front. (PROSE: The Brakespeare Voyage [+]Simon Bucher-Jones and Jonathan Dennis, Faction Paradox (Obverse Books, 2013).) The timeline of the Eighth Retro War was later manipulated by One. (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5 [+]Simon Bucher-Jones and Mark Clapham, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1999).)

Sergeant-instructor Littlejohn once gave a speech to a young batch of Fourth Wave soldiers, telling them that Tardigrades were connected to the Enemy. (PROSE: The Short Briefing Sergeant's Tale [+]Simon Bucher-Jones, The Book of the Enemy (Faction Paradox, 2018).)

In the 24th year of the War, Jendrickenses gave a speech on the Grandfather's Maw. (PROSE: The Brakespeare Voyage [+]Simon Bucher-Jones and Jonathan Dennis, Faction Paradox (Obverse Books, 2013).)

In the 25th year of the War, the Fifth Wave was created. The Gauntlet was also founded around this time. (PROSE: "The Timeline" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).)

Chris Cwej in the War[]

Sphinx (Dead Romance)

Christine Summerfield's photograph of a Sphinx on the bottle universe Earth during the invasion. (PROSE: Dead Romance [+]Lawrence Miles, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1999).)

Hiding from the gods of Dellah, (PROSE: Dead Romance [+]Lawrence Miles, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1999).) one of the Great Houses (AUDIO: The Eleven Day Empire [+]Lawrence Miles, The Faction Paradox Protocols (BBV Productions, 2001).) led an invasion of the version of 1970 Earth in the Sphinxes' bottle universe. Chris Cwej, a brainwashed former companion of the "Evil Renegade", helped in securing the Earth and dealing with the Horror. Christine Summerfield was the only native of the Earth to escape; she journeyed to the empty ruins of the Homeworld abandoned by the House who invaded her world (PROSE: Dead Romance [+]Lawrence Miles, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1999).) and was later found and recruited by Faction Paradox. (AUDIO: The Eleven Day Empire [+]Lawrence Miles, The Faction Paradox Protocols (BBV Productions, 2001).)

Cwej was exposed to fatal levels of radiation in the final stage of the bottle universe invasion. (PROSE: Dead Romance [+]Lawrence Miles, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1999).) His masters were initially fine with leaving him to die, but Irving Braxiatel heard about the situation and requested they save Cwej. With the help of a Great Houses monk, Cwej regenerated into a new body (PROSE: Tears of the Oracle [+]Justin Richards, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1999).) which was remotely shaped by House Military strategists to be resistant to the Fat. (PROSE: "The Fat" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) The first thing Cwej did in his new body was going on a mission to Paracletes in 2596 to recover data from Edward Watkinson's expedition to the planet. (PROSE: Tears of the Oracle [+]Justin Richards, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1999).)

Cwejen uncropped

Three of House Military's Cwejen. (PROSE: "Cwejen" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).)

In the 29th year of the War, (PROSE: "The Timeline" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) while Cwej was recovering from his regeneration during his stay at the Gauntlet, the Great Houses decided to use him in their Army of One project without his knowledge. The Cwejen were created from Chris' timeline. (PROSE: "Christopher Rodonanté Cwej" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).)

In his new body, Cwej returned to 2596 to help defeat a Dellan God which merged with Absolam Sleed. (PROSE: Return to the Fractured Planet [+]Dave Stone, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1999).)

On the 30th anniversary of the War, Entarodora gave the "Monsters" Coda to the Fifth Wave. (PROSE: "The 'Monsters' Coda" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).)

Twilight of the Gods Tehke statue

An unfinished statue of Tehke on Dellah during the All-High Gods' invasion. (PROSE: Twilight of the Gods [+]Mark Clapham and Jon de Burgh Miller, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1999).)

Fearing reality would be re-formed by the Ferutu who escaped their dying universe and became All-High Gods, Cwej's masters in the bottle universe allied with the People of the Worldsphere. Cwej partnered with Clarence, then met with with Irving Braxiatel, Bernice Summerfield, and Jason Kane at KS-159 in 2596. On Dellah, fighting broke out among the Gods and Tehke (PROSE: Twilight of the Gods [+]Mark Clapham and Jon de Burgh Miller, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1999).) — a god favoured by the Lord Celestial Smoked Mirror (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5 [+]Simon Bucher-Jones and Mark Clapham, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1999).) — rose to dominance. Tehke betrayed the other Ferutu by either killing them or keeping them trapped in the dying universe. Cwej, Clarence, Summerfield, and Kane went to Dellah, banished Tehke back to the Ferutu's universe, and prevented the rest of the Ferutu from evacuating; in the process, Cwej was physically regressed back to his original body, albeit at age 13. Even after the Ferutu danger was over, Cwej's masters remained in the bottle universe and the People stayed locked in their Worldsphere. (PROSE: Twilight of the Gods [+]Mark Clapham and Jon de Burgh Miller, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1999).)

Michael Brookhaven with shadow

Michael Brookhaven, 20th century leader of Faction Hollywood. (PROSE: "Michael Brookhaven" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).)

In the 31st year of the War, Cwej — now in a mature version of his original body — went on a mission to 1999 Los Angeles to intervene with the activities of Faction Hollywood. Cwej faced off against Michael Brookhaven at the shooting of Mujun: The Ghost Kingdom, which was filmed with a Celestis meme-mine. After Cwej dueled with Brookhaven at the climax of the film, the Enemy manifested as an Ainu God and caused Brookhaven's apparent demise. Before leaving, the God said, "All the six need re-costuming, and then the story can begin and end as scripted." (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) The plot of Mujun: The Ghost Kingdom greatly resembled the future destruction of the Eleven-Day Empire (which occurred about 20 War Era years later), with its six main characters being very similar to six key individuals involved in the Empire's fall. (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)., The Shadow Play [+]Lawrence Miles, The Faction Paradox Protocols (BBV Productions, 2001).)

Nearing the entrenchment phase[]

As the War progressed through its fourth decade, direct combat began being dropped by the Great Houses for more psychological tactics based upon principles of subversion and "cultural impregnation". (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).)

By the 32nd year of the War, the Eight Day Week had occurred and battles had been fought at Pentralaxia and Cuchailan's Rift. (PROSE: The Brakespeare Voyage [+]Simon Bucher-Jones and Jonathan Dennis, Faction Paradox (Obverse Books, 2013).) In this year, the Fourth Wave fought an ideological crusade against the Remote of Fallahal using the Jallama Reed and New Young Gods transmissions, creating the Broken Remote. (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).)

Robert Scarratt

Robert Scarratt, the "golden success story" of the Fourth Wave. (PROSE: "Robert Scarratt" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).)

Also in the 32nd year, three House Arpexia timeships were destroyed while investigating the Grandfather's Maw. Jendrickenses, Minkosa, and Philetes were sent to investigate the disastrous investigation. In one iteration of history, the severed head of Robert Scarratt from a future point in the War was discovered at the Maw. To prevent the timeline seen in the memories of the future Scarratt, the Great Houses imprisoned Scarratt until after the time when he would have lost his head. (PROSE: The Brakespeare Voyage [+]Simon Bucher-Jones and Jonathan Dennis, Faction Paradox (Obverse Books, 2013).)

Having acquired KS-159 during the All-High God crisis, (PROSE: Tears of the Oracle [+]Justin Richards, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1999).) Irving Braxiatel founded the Braxiatel Collection. (PROSE: The Doomsday Manuscript [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW., et al.) Based in the 2600s, Braxiatel began severely manipulating local history with the end goal of building a new Homeworld for his people, (AUDIO: Resurrecting the Past [+]Eddie Robson, Bernice Summerfield: Single Releases (Big Finish Productions, 2010).) a Great House (AUDIO: The Shadow Play [+]Lawrence Miles, The Faction Paradox Protocols (BBV Productions, 2001).) who had retreated into a bottle universe to escape the Ferutu. (PROSE: Tears of the Oracle [+]Justin Richards, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1999).) The War-time Great Houses were aware of Braxiatel's actions; when Bernice Summerfield asked Straxus if his people had any plans to stop Braxiatel, he said, "I'm afraid I can't comment. If something needs to be done, it will be done." (AUDIO: The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel [+]Jim Smith, Bernice Summerfield: Single Releases (Big Finish Productions, 2008).)

X-12 was assigned to a posting in 1880s Germany, a crucial War nexus. He was captured by an Enemy representative and exposed to a short children's story (PROSE: Pre-narrative Briefings [+]Simon Bucher-Jones, The Book of the Enemy (Faction Paradox, Obverse Books, 2018).) by Wilhelm Liebnecht about an ambitious king becoming a puppet to a legion of spiders, a metaphor for the Great Houses being overthrown from within by the Enemy. X-12 was rescued by a regen-inf. (PROSE: The Map and the Spiders [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

In the 35th year of the War, Robert Scarratt gave a speech to Fifth Wave trainees at the Gauntlet. (PROSE: The Brakespeare Voyage [+]Simon Bucher-Jones and Jonathan Dennis, Faction Paradox (Obverse Books, 2013).) Around this time, Scarratt conducted a series of apportation exercises on pre-time-aware Earth, including one with Elisabeth Canning in 1753. (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).)

Predicting that Tagonique would become the hub of an advanced galactic empire allied with the Enemy, House Arpexia sent three artificial agents, Dephresis, Anhedra, and Jarks, to interfere with the technological development of the Tagoniqui. The agents manipulated Mesquividas into building a device which killed the planet's Prime Minister and brought genuine magic to Tagonique. Mired in superstition and magic, the Tagoniqui never allied with the Enemy and were erased from existence several decades later due to the universe imposing rationality onto them. (PROSE: Alchemy [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

In the 38th year of the War, the Seventh Wave was created. After the Seventh Retro War, the War entered a period of entrenchment. (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).)

Sherlock Holmes in the War[]

A number of events involving Sherlock Holmes occurred in the War, all at least before the conflict's 48th year. (PROSE: The Book of the Enemy [+]Andrew Hickey, The Book of the Enemy (Faction Paradox, Obverse Books, 2018)., Of the City of the Saved... [+]Philip Purser-Hallard, Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2004).)

Erasing Sherlock Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes during his time with Gillian Petra. (PROSE: Erasing Sherlock [+]Kelly Hale, Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2006).)

Not too long before the War's 41st year, (PROSE: Warring States [+]Mags L. Halliday, Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2005)., Erasing Sherlock [+]Kelly Hale, Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2006).) the Celestis provided 21st century scientific genius Jimmy Moriarty with a method of ritualistic time travel, which he tested by sending Gillian Petra and Thomas Corkle to 1882. Both participants were interested in Sherlock Holmes: Petra became a maid at 221B Baker Street to discreetly study the detective for her criminology thesis while Corkle — on instructions from Moriarty — tried to experiment with history by preventing Holmes from becoming successful. Petra entered a romantic relationship with Holmes, accidentally changing history herself. After learning of Corkle's plan, Petra prevented him from severely damaging Holmes' timeline. She then returned to her home era by harnessing the power of Krakatoa's eruption. (PROSE: Erasing Sherlock [+]Kelly Hale, Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2006).)

Gillian Petra was recruited by the Celestis to be an Investigator. She briefly returned to Sherlock Holmes in 1890 to return a pair of his shoes she had taken during her previous visit. (PROSE: Prologue to Erasing Sherlock [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

Due to a Time Ring malfunction, Straxus became stranded in 1888 Ceylon with a Cwej named Septimus. They became involved with Ludwig Cooray, manipulating him to create the God Machine partially using one of Straxus' combat chips. After completing the God Machine, Cooray vanished and his conciousness was stored in the chip; Sherlock Holmes and John Watson thought he was murdered by Straxus, but were unable to find sufficent evidence. (AUDIO: The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel [+]Jim Smith, Bernice Summerfield: Single Releases (Big Finish Productions, 2008)., PROSE: A Gallery of Pigeons [+]Jim Smith, Secret Histories (Bernice Summerfield short stories, Big Finish Productions, 2009).)

Straxus and Septimus continued to live on Victorian Earth. In an effort to catch the attention of the Great Houses, they founded Straxus Imperial, an auction company which they used to circulate artefacts not supposed to have been discovered until later points in history.

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Bernice Summerfield and Mycroft Holmes examine the body of a police officer murdered by Septimus. (AUDIO: The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel [+]Jim Smith, Bernice Summerfield: Single Releases (Big Finish Productions, 2008).)

In 1893, while Sherlock was pretending to be dead, an emergency setting of Straxus' Time Ring overrode Bernice Summerfield's Time Ring and brought her to London, where she found refuge with Mycroft Holmes. With Mycroft exposed to a time traveller, Septimus committed a series of murders all relating to the number seven in the hopes that it would cause Mycroft to think so intensely about the concept of "seven" as to summon the Seventh Doctor through quantum mnemonics. When Bernice and Mycroft confronted Straxus and Septimus, the ripples in time caught the attention of Straxus at an earlier point in his timeline. The older Straxus was imprisoned for changing history and Septimus was taken for dissection. The younger Straxus then briefly met with Bernice in the Time Vortex. (AUDIO: The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel [+]Jim Smith, Bernice Summerfield: Single Releases (Big Finish Productions, 2008).)

Circa the mid-1910s, Sherlock Holmes investigated The Book of the Enemy and was erased from history by it, his entire life becoming fiction written by Arthur Conan Doyle. (PROSE: The Book of the Enemy [+]Andrew Hickey, The Book of the Enemy (Faction Paradox, Obverse Books, 2018).) War-time individuals would go on to think of Holmes as a purely fictional character, (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002)., This Town Will Never Let Us Go [+]Lawrence Miles, Faction Paradox (Mad Norwegian Press, 2003)., Of the City of the Saved... [+]Philip Purser-Hallard, Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2004).) but scant evidence of his original existence survived. (PROSE: The Book of the Enemy [+]Andrew Hickey, The Book of the Enemy (Faction Paradox, Obverse Books, 2018)., The Taking of Planet 5 [+]Simon Bucher-Jones and Mark Clapham, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1999).) Also around this time, the Enemy fictionalised Ruritania, a gentlemen's club, and the Martians and their invasion of Earth. (PROSE: The Book of the Enemy [+]Andrew Hickey, The Book of the Enemy (Faction Paradox, Obverse Books, 2018).)

Return of Faction Paradox[]

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Missing info from Warring States [+]Mags L. Halliday, Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2005). and A Story of the Peace [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.

Around its 40th year, the War entered a phase of entrenchment. Faction Paradox returned to being a major power in the War, albeit a far subtler one than they were before. The Remote were completely independent by this time. (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) The Faction was recruiting new members from planets as varied as Salostopus and Lurma. (PROSE: Alien Bodies [+]Lawrence Miles, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1997).)

A member of the Faction named Jamie became stranded in 1990 Stevenage and attempted to get back to the Eleven-Day Empire by creating and sacrificing a Matryoska Gestalt. (PROSE: Office Politics [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) Another member of Faction Paradox known as the "Blood Witch" was stuck in England at an earlier point in Earth's history; she erased from time thirteen people — including Drostan — to make a portal back to the Empire. (PROSE: Storyteller [+]Matt Kimpton, A Romance in Twelve Parts (Faction Paradox, Obverse Books, 2011).)

Liberating Earth cover art

Triphis with a typewriter and the chronomasticon on primitive Earth. (PROSE: Liberating Earth [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

Piloting her ship to Earth in the mid-third millennium BCE, Triphis used the chronomasticon with Tefen to play with the planet's history and make dozens of alternate timelines where Earth was ruled by different types of aliens, including mermaids, mutant pigeons, intelligent cosmic rays, gods from parallel dimensions, (PROSE: Playing for Time [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) Gorgons, (PROSE: Dreamer in the Dark [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) shades, (PROSE: Annie's Arms [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) Kyalites, (PROSE: The Mountains are Higher at Home [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) Jalaxians, (PROSE: Judy's War [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) Medusae, Krykkani, (PROSE: Red Rover Red Rover [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) Víkingrs, (PROSE: The Víkingr Mystique [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) and the Nova. (PROSE: Life of Julia [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) The final timeline to be created was one where the War-time manipulation of Native American tribes resulted in Yellow Bird using Faction techniques to summon an army of ghost warriors at Wounded Knee in 1890, beginning a new era of North America being taken back by its indigenous peoples. (PROSE: Project Thunderbird [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) The changes in history were noticed by the War King and Enigma Tree, (PROSE: Judy's War [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) along with some time sensitives (PROSE: Red Rover Red Rover [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) and many former companions of the "Evil Renegade". (PROSE: Judy's War [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) An angelic being unwound time so that Triphis never obtained her ship and none of the history-warping events surrounding the chronomasticon happened. (PROSE: Playing for Time [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

Cousins Bertold and Ernest joined the nautical expedition of Sir George Dimchurch in 1810 in order to pervert it to delay the formulation of the theory of evolution by decades, negatively affecting the Great Houses. They created living pterodactyls for Dimchurch to discover on New Guinea and bring back to Europe, but Dimchurch overheard them discussing their plans on the return voyage and destroyed all evidence of the pterodactyls on the ship. (PROSE: Wing Finger [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

In the 44th year of the War, the Eighth Wave was created. (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).)

The Kraken (Weapons Grade Snake Oil)

Cousin Cecelia of Faction Paradox, who greatly aided Christèmas. (PROSE: Weapons Grade Snake Oil [+]Blair Bidmead, Faction Paradox (Obverse Books, 2017).)

At the edges of the War, the Hussar — a renegade of the Great Houses — was permitted to travel through inconsequential areas of history. The Hussar got caught in the schemes of Father Christèmas and was killed at Serendipity Keep in order to create a loa. His timeship, the Kraken, joined Christèmas' Bankside division of the Faction, which, with the newborn loa, went independent from the rest of the Eleven-Day Empire. (PROSE: Weapons Grade Snake Oil [+]Blair Bidmead, Faction Paradox (Obverse Books, 2017).)

At the behest of Godfather Stendec, Cousins Mace and Braquemard came to The Presidency's Head to psychometrically examine eight artefacts: the thermal projector used by Kotdel during an Enemy encounter on Cretaceous Earth, George Stillsome's hat, Philemon Smallcoate's glasses, the DVD case of the Collection of Necessary Secrets' copy of Monsters of the Deep, the wooden bell used by Thelema during the Enemy incursion at the Infernal Sphere, a burnt mangrove twig from the Enemy's attack on the Greenworld, Bobby's cell phone, and the Venusian translator used by Héloïse d'Argenteuil. Through this, they learned of Thaumoctopus memeticus, an aspect of the Enemy. Their understanding allowed a memeticus to manifest, taking over Mace's body and killing Braquemard. Thus, the Enemy had full access to the Stacks and the Faction technically had their first Enemy specimen. (PROSE: T. memeticus: A Morphology [+]Philip Purser-Hallard, The Book of the Enemy (Faction Paradox, 2018).)

Trna, Martayne, and Zeller of Faction Paradox worked together to put Hitchbot in 2010s Philadelphia as a lure for the Compound, an aspect of the Enemy. Six of the Compound went on a mission to decapitate Hitchbot to "allow the disorderly incorrect timeline to proceed". All but one were captured by Trna and Martayne. The survivor, alone and confused, returned to the Compound lair in a hidden sector of space-time at One Liberty Place, revealing the lair's location to the Faction. Some of the data gained by the Faction was given to the Great Houses and the captured Compound creatures were given to Godfather Stendec. (PROSE: Houses of Cards [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

The Faction were involved in "an incident" with Iris Wildthyme and the Shopkeeper. (PROSE: Wildthyme and the Wolf [+]Graham Tedesco-Blair, The Perennial Miss Wildthyme (Iris Wildthyme, 2015).)

When the War-time powers began using weapons which put the spirits of history in danger, the Faction sent Cousin Andraiz to Tonton Macoute's prison in Cyclone Tracy to find a solution, a "cure-all to time". After gathering the necessary ingredients (two timeships, Demi and Medea; the reflection of an Enemy agent; the ground bones of House Military soldiers; and the shadow of a Faction soldier), Macoute made a "cure-all" which attracted loa. However, the "cure-all" was nothing but bait, and Macoute consumed the loa to attain their god-like aspects. Before leaving Andraiz, Macoute explained that, in a way, he would be fixing the Faction's problem: "There's only one way to significantly change an ecosystem: introduce a predator." (PROSE: Tonton Macoute [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) However, despite having the powers of a god, Macoute somehow died. (PROSE: A Hundred Words from a Civil War [+]Philip Purser-Hallard, et al., A Romance in Twelve Parts (Faction Paradox, Obverse Books, 2011).)

Cousins Jezebella, Darius, and Fen visited the post-apocalyptic ruins of Kent after it was ravaged by a battle of the War involving the army of the Seventh Son of the Seventh Sun. They encountered Vermis Superior collecting bodies for young Vermis Superior to feed on. Jezebella and Darius were killed and added to the food pile. Fen then witnessed the Were-Crows feeding on the adult Vermis Superior and becoming the final aspect of the Enemy. (PROSE: Life-Cycle [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

Other conflicts in the War[]

As the War is a war throughout all history, then the War never 'ends'. As such, all smaller scale conflicts are, in a sense, merely an extension of this 'True' War. On one level, local conflicts can be seen as echoes of the hostilities, latent throughout the structure of history itself. But, there is also some hard evidence of smaller scale conflicts, and in some cases, even individual combatants, being co-opted by the various War Powers for their own ends.The Great Houses And Us [src]

On 14 April 1643, two armies of Hornheads and Chanticleers declared the Hain Valley to be a battlefield of the War in Heaven, and they began to clear the newly-formed town of Samhain. Despite the imposition of a time lock on the area, the Shopkeeper and the "Wor Iris" were able to help the newly-elected mayor Michael Drake defeat the armies by swallowing them whole. (PROSE: Michael Drake [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) After letting the war pour into him, Drake became quite a difficult man. (PROSE: Self Possessed [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) After his death, he was commemorated with a monument at the Samhain elder church which read, "In memory of Michael Drake who kept the war from Samhain". (PROSE: Death of the Author [+]Jay Eales, The Perennial Miss Wildthyme (Iris Wildthyme, Obverse Books, 2015)., The Opera of Samhain [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW., Michael Drake [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW., Self Possessed [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

Either by chance or Enemy design, a lone Cwej piloting a 70-Form timeship crashed on an isolated planet in an empty far future era. The damage to the timeship interacted with the unique nature of Chris Cwej's timeline to create a crude version of Cwejen creation, with every attempted dematerialisation rending the fabric of time to create three basic Cwejen. Stranded on this planet for an unimaginable length, the original Cwej eventually resorted to founding a society of Cwejen dependent on cannibalism. This society would only encounter the outside world after the War ended. (PROSE: The Ursine Brood [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

Marcus Americanius Scriptor

Marcus Americanius Scriptor, a primary player in the war between the Empire of Empires and the Greater German Reich. (PROSE: Warlords of Utopia [+]Lance Parkin, Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2004).)

In the 46th year of the War, a group of thirteen Great Houses renegades tried to escape the War by using Time Rings to journey into a cluster of parallel universes where the Roman Empire never fell. The renegades created links between the universes, allowing them to unite into the Empire of Empires. House Mirraflex sent a Cwej to contain the situation; he united all the universes where the Nazis won World War II into the Greater German Reich, (PROSE: Warlords of Utopia [+]Lance Parkin, Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2004).) created by the Great Houses years earlier as the Second Time Front, (PROSE: The Brakespeare Voyage [+]Simon Bucher-Jones and Jonathan Dennis, Faction Paradox (Obverse Books, 2013).) and convinced them to go to war with the Romans. After several decades of warfare, the Romans, led by Marcus Americanius Scriptor, were victorious over the Germans. In the end, a member of House Mirraflex came in and reinstated the boundaries between worlds. (PROSE: Warlords of Utopia [+]Lance Parkin, Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2004).) House Lineacrux would later claim credit for the Roman victory. (PROSE: The Brakespeare Voyage [+]Simon Bucher-Jones and Jonathan Dennis, Faction Paradox (Obverse Books, 2013).)

World War II was the last stand of the Star Chamber, but the Churchill Index discussing their involvement was lost. The Book of the War mentioned an entry about the Index in its discussion of the enemy, but it was apparently retro-erased from the book by a Violent Unknown Event, alongside entries about "Miss Hiroshima" and the Gods of the Ainu. (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).)

After an encounter in her youth with the Mal'akh Olena, (PROSE: Predating the Predators [+]Philip Purser-Hallard, The Vampire Curse (Bernice Summerfield short stories, Big Finish Productions, 2008).) Imogen Tantry became interested in spreading the Catholic faith to groups like the Mal'akh and the Remote. (PROSE: De Umbris Idearum [+]Philip Purser-Hallard, Burning with Optimism's Flames (Faction Paradox, Obverse Books, 2013).) However, after becoming Pope, she began the Beatrician Crusade against the Mal'akh, and in the encyclical De umbris idearum she advocated the brainwashing of Remote into Catholic shock troopers. (PROSE: De Umbris Idearum [+]Philip Purser-Hallard, Burning with Optimism's Flames (Faction Paradox, Obverse Books, 2013).)

The frontier in time was the edge of the Great Houses' noosphere, beyond which lay worlds, people, and events which the Homeworld did not or could not understand. Several so-called frontier worlds were situated on the frontier. (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) Aurichall was one planet which lay on the boundary between the noospheres. It was located in the Amazolian system, (PROSE: The Blue Scream of Death [+]Tyche McPhee Letts, Cyberon (Arcbeatle Press, 2020).) where Avus had encountered the Enemy in a praxis vision before the War. (PROSE: Cobweb and Ivory [+]Nate Bumber, The Book of the Enemy (Faction Paradox, 2018).) The grinding of the rival noospheres on Aurichall produced a volcano which spewed the praxis-range nootropic Cyberon. (PROSE: The Blue Scream of Death [+]Tyche McPhee Letts, Cyberon (Arcbeatle Press, 2020).) When consumed in large doses, the Cyberon fluid would connect its host to a hive mind which sought to "liberate" individuals and species by "converting" their bodies to run on Cyberon fluid. (PROSE: Cyberon [+]James Hornby, Cyberon (Arcbeatle Press, 2020)., et al.) These converted "Cyberons" waged a lengthy war of conquest against the Earth Alliance until the early 31st century. (PROSE: Flight of the Cyberons [+]James Hornby, Cyberon (Arcbeatle Press, 2020).) Aurichall and its residents, including the Cyberon King, were destroyed in 2989. Until 2992, (COMIC: Before the Storm [+]Leopold Agnew, Cyberon (BBV Productions, 2023).) the Cyberons were instead led by Dracula, (AUDIO: Curse of the Cyberons [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) who according to a separate account had been resurrected by Lilith to lead the Enemy. (PROSE: A Bloody (And Public) Domaine [+]Jayce Black, The Book of the Enemy (Faction Paradox, Obverse Books, 2018).)

Another frontier world was the Uptime Gate to the City of the Saved. (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) In the War's 48th year, a Civil War began in the City of the Saved. (PROSE: Of the City of the Saved... [+]Philip Purser-Hallard, Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2004).) It lasted for ten years (PROSE: A Hundred Words from a Civil War [+]Philip Purser-Hallard, et al., A Romance in Twelve Parts (Faction Paradox, Obverse Books, 2011).) and ended in the City's destruction. (PROSE: God Encompasses [+]Philip Purser-Hallard, The City of the Saved (Obverse Books, 2015).)

Deindum

The Deindum declared war on the universe, beginning what became known as the Deindum War. (PROSE: Present Danger [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

While planning to restore his people to the planet Maximediras, Irving Braxiatel became aware of the Deindum, a future species who would learn the secret of time travel and could rival his own people. He tried to prevent their creation by severely manipulating the timeline of Bernice Summerfield, who seemed to be accidentally instrumental in the creation of the Deindum. (AUDIO: Resurrecting the Past [+]Eddie Robson, Bernice Summerfield: Single Releases (Big Finish Productions, 2010).) However, these efforts only made the Deindum more aggressive and paranoid, and they travelled back and began an invasion of the galaxy to protect their own history and ensure their creation. Braxiatel led a galaxy-wide resistance against the Deindum, but they nonetheless conquered the universe and wiped out the human race. (PROSE: Present Danger [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) However, Bernice and Braxiatel engineered a war between the future and past Deindum, causing them to destroy themselves before they developed time travel. Though in the process, Braxiatel was shot dead by a Deindum soldier, (AUDIO: Escaping the Future [+]Eddie Robson, Bernice Summerfield: Single Releases (Big Finish Productions, 2010).) the scheme reduced the Deindum to a small group of skirmishers without much will to fight; after the Battle of the Pakhar Shipyards, the war was considered won. Some destroyed planets came back without any knowledge of their destruction, and the Braxiatel Collection vanished without a trace. (PROSE: Adorable Illusion [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

In 2157, an alien race began their invasion of Earth. (PROSE: Lucifer Rising [+]Jim Mortimore and Andy Lane, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1993).) The first invaders attacked London, herding the local politicians into Parliament Square to be exterminated. As the invaders wiped out scattered cities as a demonstration of their superiority, Earth society collapsed overnight. (PROSE: Alien Bodies [+]Lawrence Miles, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1997).) Izzy Ring and her brother P.J. lived in a work camp run by the Invaders in California. The invasion ended nearly ten years after it began when a timeship exploded in London in an event later called "the Source". Though the explosion destroyed the Invaders, it also fragmented the timeship's inhabitants throughout time, and temporal shrapnel created saints throughout the world. Time-sensitive Revelators named these saints and gave them stories, which were spread by the Humanist Church through films; each viewing imbued audience belief into a new interpretation of the saint. Homogeny and Hegemony, seeking to regain their permanence and join the Empire, recruited these "possibilities", but none of them could manage time in the way that was needed, so Hegemony and Homogeny tried convincing Izzy Ring to kill "Caroline" and create a paradox that would please their superiors. However, P.J. stopped Izzy by sacrificing himself to become a saint. Their plan defeated, Homogeny and Hegemony themselves became saints in Trafalgar Square. (PROSE: A Star's View of Caroline [+]Sarah Hadley, Faction Paradox short stories (2013).)

This Town Will Never Let Us Go cover art

Inangela Marrero in an alleyway plastered with Faction Paradox posters, minutes before the place will be obliterated in a "rocket attack". (PROSE: Prologue to This Town Will Never Let Us Go [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

The War in Heaven began severely intersecting with Earth's timeline in 1999, when nightly "rocket attacks" began erasing things from history. By 2001, "Faction Paradox" had become a fashionable household name. On a day when a controversial Tiffany Korta interview caused outrage across the world, (PROSE: This Town Will Never Let Us Go [+]Lawrence Miles, Faction Paradox (Mad Norwegian Press, 2003).) the Universal Machine (PROSE: Of the City of the Saved... [+]Philip Purser-Hallard, Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2004).) nearly manifested as a timeship which crashed in a field near a British town and rooted itself to human culture. Manipulated by the War-time powers including an agent of the Celestis, Valentine Bregman constructed a Red Uranium atomic bomb. Bregman journeyed into the crashed timeship with Inangela Marrero and Horror and planted the bomb. The bomb detonated, preventing the manifestation and creating the Ghost Point by damaging human culture. (PROSE: This Town Will Never Let Us Go [+]Lawrence Miles, Faction Paradox (Mad Norwegian Press, 2003).) The Universal Machine didn't get another chance to manifest for over 300 billion years. (PROSE: Of the City of the Saved... [+]Philip Purser-Hallard, Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2004).)

Perversion of history[]

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Over the War's fifth decade, the conflict reached full entrenchment. In her lecture "The Cultural Impact of War-Time", Entarodora noted that more Homeworlds had been lost "than might be thought prudent". (PROSE: The Brakespeare Voyage [+]Simon Bucher-Jones and Jonathan Dennis, Faction Paradox (Obverse Books, 2013).) After one was lost in the battle of Mutter's Cluster, the remaining Gallifreys (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5 [+]Simon Bucher-Jones and Mark Clapham, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1999).) — previously self-segregated (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) — banded together and became numbered. Gallifrey Eight was covered in loomstacks and chronoforges which provided fodder for the War, Gallifrey Nine was used to store weapons such as D-Mat guns, (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5 [+]Simon Bucher-Jones and Mark Clapham, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1999).) and Gallifrey XII was used to train soldiers, including Homunculette. (PROSE: Alien Bodies [+]Lawrence Miles, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1997).)

The Brakespeare Voyage Captain No-One

Captain No-one, the concept of The Brakespeare's rightful captain. (PROSE: The Brakespeare Voyage [+]Simon Bucher-Jones and Jonathan Dennis, Faction Paradox (Obverse Books, 2013).)

Around the 50th year of the War, House Lineacrux secretly organised a voyage into the Grandfather's Maw to retrieve Leviathan biodata for research. Entarodora was chosen to captain The San Grael; she betrayed Lineacrux after going into the Maw by abandoning the mission and trying to instead found a new universe free of the War. Lineacrux recruited Robert Scarratt to captain The Brakespeare into the Maw, punish Entarodora, and finish her mission. Compassion witnessed a potential future where Scarratt's voyage was successful and the biodata research led to the Great Houses harnessing the power of the Maw to obliterate Earth from history, so she contacted Scarratt before he got on The Brakespeare and showed him the consequences of success.

The Brakespeare was infiltrated by agents of the Celestis, the Enemy, Faction Paradox, and Entarodora. The Brakespeare's voyage ended in a disastrous meeting with The San Grael. A timeship containing the severed head of Scarratt escaped The Brakespeare and gravitated back towards the edges of the Maw, where it was found by the Great Houses in the 32nd year of the War, who learned of the entire debacle through the head's memories and prevented it from ever happening. (PROSE: The Brakespeare Voyage [+]Simon Bucher-Jones and Jonathan Dennis, Faction Paradox (Obverse Books, 2013).) Despite being definitely and definitively dead, with his corpse located in 27th century Vienna, Scarratt joined Faction Paradox as Little Brother Ratas de la Cicatriz. (PROSE: Pre-narrative Briefings [+]Simon Bucher-Jones, The Book of the Enemy (Faction Paradox, Obverse Books, 2018).)

Around the same time, Sabbath was appointed Godfather of Faction Paradox's Military Wing. He and Godfather Morlock went to 1899 England to kill Fiora Venn as part of a ritual and encountered Justine McManus. Morlock decided to let Justine join the Faction (AUDIO: Movers [+]Lawrence Miles, The Faction Paradox Protocols (BBV Productions, 2003)., A Labyrinth of Histories [+]Lawrence Miles, The Faction Paradox Protocols (BBV Productions, 2004).) and she was sent to Dronid to learn under Sanjira.

The Relic biodata

The biodata of the Relic. (PROSE: Alien Bodies [+]Lawrence Miles, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1997).)

During Justine's stay, Celestis agents in the Corporation manipulated Sanjira into discovering the Relicthe Doctor's corpse — and he decided to respectfully send it into the Time Vortex, unaware of its significance. It travelled to Earth, where the United States of America put it in the Toy Store; following the 22nd century Dalek invasion, it was moved to the Black Man's store in 2169 London. He sold it to Qixotl, who set up an auction for it in the Unthinkable City on Earth in 2069. (PROSE: Alien Bodies [+]Lawrence Miles, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1997).)

In the 50th year of the War, Justine was summoned from Dronid back to the Eleven-Day Empire (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) and sent with Manjuele to represent the Faction at Qixotl's auction. Also invited were UNISYC, who sent Kathleen Bregman and Joseph Armitage Kortez; the enemy, who sent the Shift; the Celestis, who sent Trask; and the Time Lords, who sent Homunculette and Marie from several centuries in the future of the War. Qixotl also invited the Daleks, but the Krotons overpowered the Dalek representatives and took their place.

The final, uninvited participants at the auction were the Eighth Doctor and Sam Jones, who were severely breaking the Laws of Time by attending. Though the Celestis almost gained the Relic, the Doctor tricked them into trading it to him in return for the Shift. The Doctor took the Relic to Quiescia and destroyed it with a thermosystron bomb. (PROSE: Alien Bodies [+]Lawrence Miles, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1997).) Having failed her mission, Cousin Justine returned to the Eleven-Day Empire. (AUDIO: The Eleven Day Empire [+]Lawrence Miles, The Faction Paradox Protocols (BBV Productions, 2001).)

In the Houses of Parliament of the Eleven-Day Empire, the Faction elders decided to try to create a new sentient homeworld for the Faction by sending a warship to the moment when I.M. Foreman became the biosphere of the planet Dust in the 38th century and infecting him with the biodata virus (PROSE: Interference [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) developed by Godfather Morlock a few years prior. (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) However, the Faction didn't account for the Third Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith coming to Dust; instead of infecting Foreman, the virus was attracted to the Doctor after he was shot by a local. The Doctor regenerated and the virus took hold in his body. (PROSE: Interference - Book One [+]Lawrence Miles, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1999).)

As a result, the Doctor never stopped the Eight Legs from conquering the universe. (PROSE: The Blue Angel [+]Paul Magrs and Jeremy Hoad, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1999)., The Ancestor Cell [+]Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2000).)

The Blue Angel cover art

Icarus, a native of the Obverse and one of the first casualties of the Obverse war. (PROSE: The Blue Angel [+]Paul Magrs and Jeremy Hoad, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1999).)

With history changing because the Third Doctor regenerated on Dust rather than in the UNIT HQ laboratory, the timelines became much more uncertain and malleable. Some regions of space-time degenerated into a series of realities which formed the Obverse. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell [+]Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2000).) The Celestis later constructed the Enclave, (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5 [+]Simon Bucher-Jones and Mark Clapham, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1999).) a pocket galaxy of different races and cultures that separated the Obverse from the universe. A cataclysmic war began between the inhabitants of the main universe and the inhabitants of the Enclave. The Eighth Doctor, Compassion, and Fitz Kreiner briefly became involved with the beginning of this conflict, but they were pushed away by Iris Wildthyme. Participants in ensuing war included the Galactic Federation, Daleks, the Glass Men of Valcea, Cybermen, Steigertrudes, Draconians, Ghillighasts, Sontarans, Sahmbekarts, Ice Warriors, and, according to many sources, several incarnations of the Doctor from the Eighth Doctor's future. (PROSE: The Blue Angel [+]Paul Magrs and Jeremy Hoad, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1999).) Meercock refugees from the Enclave conflict attempted to settle on Earth in 1973, where they encountered the Third Doctor before his altered death, along with Iris Wildthyme, Jo Grant, and Tom. (PROSE: Verdigris [+]Paul Magrs, BBC Past Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2000).) Iris would claim to be from the Obverse itself (PROSE: The Blue Angel [+]Paul Magrs and Jeremy Hoad, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1999).) when not claiming to be a Gallifreyan. (PROSE: The Scarlet Empress [+]Paul Magrs, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1998)., Verdigris [+]Paul Magrs, BBC Past Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2000).) Outside of the War, the Obverse interacted with the outside universe during many of Iris' adventures. (PROSE: The Dreadful Flap [+]Paul Magrs, Iris Wildthyme and the Celestial Omnibus (Iris Wildthyme, 2009)., Future Legend [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW., Wildthyme Beyond! [+]Paul Magrs, Iris Wildthyme (Snowbooks Ltd, 2012).)

The pre-War-era Time Lords of a cloneworld Gallifrey (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell [+]Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2000)., The Story So Far... [+]Jayce Black, The Book of the Peace (Faction Paradox, Obverse Books, 2018).) led by Romana II became aware of the War through monitoring of the Obverse and the conflict in the Enclave. Romana regenerated into a body more suitable for war (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon [+]Paul Cornell, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2000).) and made herself War Queen and mistress of the Nine Gallifreys. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell [+]Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2000).) In preparation for Gallifrey's "darkest hour", (AUDIO: Luna Romana [+]Matt Fitton, The Companion Chronicles (Big Finish Productions, 2014).) she began stockpiling weapons in the Slaughterhouse, a secret arsenal protected by a time eddy, (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell [+]Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2000).) and she cleared whole sections of the planet to start building Battle TARDISes. (AUDIO: Luna Romana [+]Matt Fitton, The Companion Chronicles (Big Finish Productions, 2014).) She planned to use Bull-TARDISes to mate with Compassion to create a new Type 103 TARDIS.

The Shadows of Avalon cover image

A Dragon from Avalon attacks a plane carrying nuclear bombs. (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon [+]Paul Cornell, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2000).)

Romana dispatched two of her most trusted agents, Gandar and Cavis, to capture Compassion while she transformed into a Type 102 TARDIS in Avalon. While the agents managed to almost start a nuclear war between humans and avalonians, they did not capture Compassion, who escaped with the Eighth Doctor and Fitz Kreiner. (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon [+]Paul Cornell, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2000).)

After the Doctor installed a randomiser inside her, Compassion managed to elude the Time Lords for a considerable time, (PROSE: The Fall of Yquatine [+]Nick Walters, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2000)., Coldheart [+]Trevor Baxendale, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2000)., The Space Age [+]Steve Lyons, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2000).) but she was eventually found by an operative in the 19th century. (PROSE: The Banquo Legacy [+]Andy Lane and Justin Richards, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2000).) Compassion and her two companions were forced to go to Romana's Gallifrey, where they came into contact with forces from a later point in the War. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell [+]Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2000).)

Rise of House Lolita[]

With only one member it seems unlikely that House Lolita will be making a great impact on Homeworld politics in the immediate future.The Book of the War [src]

In the 50th year of the War, The Book of the War, a guide to the first half century of the War, was published. It contained a small entry on House Lolita: an "obscure" Newblood House which had then recently allied with House Tracolix. (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).)

Godfather Morlock, head of the Eleven-Day Empire's Bio-Research Wing, used a tracking-knife to examine the corpse of Vlad III. Among several potential timelines, he saw one where, with the assistance of a woman named Lilith, Dracula survived his trip to London and infiltrated the British Empire with a fashionable new breed of vampirism. This potential timeline was blocked off at the Ghost Point by a brigade of enemy timeships. Gideon stole the phonograph where Morlock described his findings, and, with the help of the loa, Auteur used it as inspiration for his writings. (PROSE: A Bloody And Public Domaine [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

The Shadow Play cover art

The Seventy-Ninth Sontaran Assault Corps invade the Eleven-Day Empire. (AUDIO: The Shadow Play [+]Lawrence Miles, The Faction Paradox Protocols (BBV Productions, 2001).)

Around the 52nd year of the War, (AUDIO: In the Year of the Cat [+]Lawrence Miles, The Faction Paradox Protocols (BBV Productions, 2003).) Lolita came to the Eleven-Day Empire with Ruthventracolixabaxil claiming to want to reinstate Faction Paradox as a proper Great House. Before arriving, she hired the Seventy-Ninth Sontaran Assault Corps to attack the Empire and steal material she needed to reach an agreement with the loa protecting the Empire. After communing with the loa, Lolita turned on her allies and swallowed Ruthven, the Sontarans, and the Empire itself; the only survivors were Cousin Eliza and Cousin Justine, who escaped in Ruthven's timeship. (AUDIO: The Eleven Day Empire [+]Lawrence Miles, The Faction Paradox Protocols (BBV Productions, 2001)., The Shadow Play [+]Lawrence Miles, The Faction Paradox Protocols (BBV Productions, 2001).)

Its main powerbase lost, Faction Paradox was left fractured. As Iris Wildthyme put it, "The ashes [of the Faction] were scattered across the universe, the scant surviving members crawling into untraceable holes, biding their intangible blades until the pointless War [had] concluded." (PROSE: Panda and the Airship [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) Surviving groups included the inhabitants of the Shadow Spire, Mother Mathara's army, (PROSE: The Story So Far... [+]Jayce Black, The Book of the Peace (Faction Paradox, Obverse Books, 2018).) and the Boulevard of Alternate Brutalities. (PROSE: Library Pictures [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) Three separate Faction Paradox groups — all unaware of each other — survived in 21st century America. (PROSE: Head of State [+]Andrew Hickey, Faction Paradox novels (Obverse Books, 2015).) Multiple individuals wrongly believed themselves to be the last vestiges of the Faction. (AUDIO: Sabbath Dei [+]Lawrence Miles, The Faction Paradox Protocols (BBV Productions, 2003)., Movers [+]Lawrence Miles, The Faction Paradox Protocols (BBV Productions, 2003)., PROSE: Spinning Jenny [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

The Ship of a Billion Years Sutekh

Sutekh of the Osirian Court looks down on Earth. (AUDIO: The Ship of a Billion Years [+]Lawrence Miles, The True History of Faction Paradox (Magic Bullet Productions, 2006).)

With the Faction out of the picture, the Great Houses began threatening the Osirian Court. In response, Sutekh brought his armies of Mal'akh to the area around the Mediterranean Sea in the 15th century, a crucial point in history. The Great Houses sent Merytra Ellainya to influence the humans into destroying the Mal'akh, but she was captured. The Houses were forced to agree to a peace treaty to keep history intact. In the treaty, the Houses rededicated the Faction Paradox shrine in Civita to Sutekh. (AUDIO: Coming to Dust [+]Lawrence Miles, The True History of Faction Paradox (Magic Bullet Productions, 2005).) After Sutekh killed his brother Osiris, he smashed the shrine's remembrance tanks and buried his corpse underneath. Osiris' biodata spread into the infant inhabitants of the tanks, (AUDIO: The Ship of a Billion Years [+]Lawrence Miles, The True History of Faction Paradox (Magic Bullet Productions, 2006).) upwards into the Tree of Filth, and out into the bugs of the hours (AUDIO: Coming to Dust [+]Lawrence Miles, The True History of Faction Paradox (Magic Bullet Productions, 2005).) and throughout the Italian countryside. (AUDIO: The Ship of a Billion Years [+]Lawrence Miles, The True History of Faction Paradox (Magic Bullet Productions, 2006)., Body Politic [+]Lawrence Miles, The True History of Faction Paradox (Magic Bullet Productions, 2008).) Corwyn Marne and his wife Astarte took a baby from one of the tanks and adopted it as his daughter. (AUDIO: The Ship of a Billion Years [+]Lawrence Miles, The True History of Faction Paradox (Magic Bullet Productions, 2006).)

After Lolita ended the Eleven-Day Empire, most of the other Great Houses wanted to ally with her. With the Homeworld practically under her control, she began trying to expand her influence throughout the Spiral Politic. (AUDIO: Sabbath Dei [+]Lawrence Miles, The Faction Paradox Protocols (BBV Productions, 2003).) She planned to occupy millions of bodies in powerful positions on every important planet in every time-zone, controlling the history "like one great big nervous system". (AUDIO: In the Year of the Cat [+]Lawrence Miles, The Faction Paradox Protocols (BBV Productions, 2003).)

In the Year of the Cat Peking Homunculi

House Lolita's army of Peking Homunculi. (AUDIO: In the Year of the Cat [+]Lawrence Miles, The Faction Paradox Protocols (BBV Productions, 2003).)

Lolita began with Earth in 1762, overlaying her identity over Queen Charlotte's mind, putting George III in a natural-time envelope so that he wouldn't notice the changes in his wife, and importing from the 51st century an army of Peking Homunculi keyed to her central processor. Cousins Justine and Eliza came to 1762 and encountered Mary Culver, who was used by Compassion to inform them of Lolita's presence. With the help of Lord Sandwich and the Sieur d'Eon, Eliza destroyed the homunculus army, loosening Lolita's hold on the era. (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).)

Lolita also tried to take control of history in 21st century America, where, as libertarian Arizona Congresswoman Lola Denison, she orchestrated Matt Nelson's Presidential campaign. While he still lost the Democratic Party nomination, as the patterns of the Spiral Politic would suggest, instead of his campaign dwindling, he founded the Radical Party and chose Lola as his Vice Presidential candidate. Lolita also gave Richard Francis Burton The Thousand and Second Night while he travelled in Arabia (PROSE: Head of State [+]Andrew Hickey, Faction Paradox novels (Obverse Books, 2015).) in the 1840s; (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) the story contained a prophecy that would inspire Dave Larsen to assassinate Nelson at his inauguration.

At the time, several of the minor Wartime powers had influences on 21st century Earth: there were at least three Faction Paradox groups, all unaware of each other, and the Celestis had control of one of the major governments. When the slope of Earth's history, which had been flat (PROSE: Head of State [+]Andrew Hickey, Faction Paradox novels (Obverse Books, 2015).) since the Ghost Point at the start of the century, (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002)., This Town Will Never Let Us Go [+]Lawrence Miles, Faction Paradox (Mad Norwegian Press, 2003).) started to bend upwards, one of the major Wartime powers sent an agent to investigate. The agent tracked the disruption to Nelson's campaign, but when Lolita discovered them, she turned them into a Shift. The Shift tried persuading Larsen to kill Lola instead by telling him about Lolita's murders of young women along the campaign trail, but Larsen only became more determined. After he killed Nelson, Lola Denison became President and announced the Caldera Project, through which she intended to reshape history by drilling into the caldera (PROSE: Head of State [+]Andrew Hickey, Faction Paradox novels (Obverse Books, 2015).) hidden under Earth's crust. (PROSE: Head of State [+]Andrew Hickey, Faction Paradox novels (Obverse Books, 2015)., Interference - Book One [+]Lawrence Miles, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1999).)

The following year on Earth, a number of books which had been buried since falling to Earth as a meteor in the 18th century were unearthed. They included the infinite Book of Books as well as a cache of entirely accurate books about the war which originated in another reality where it was fiction. Learning of this, multiple war powers including people with robes and people with masks, as well as people with "silver jumpsuits", to the New York Public Library to retrieve the books and gain possession of the intelligence they contained. However, the books were also sought after by people from the 10,000 Dawns, including spies from the Great Assimilation and the Arbiter of Knives, a high-ranking member of the Firmament, who were to their reality as the Houses were to this one.

The latter's agent responsible for watching out for interlopers from beyond the war's universe was bribed by the Arbiter to overlook events in the temporal orbit of Rachel Edwards (who was covering the books' discovery for her newspaper) for a few days, allowing the Arbiter to gain entry into the Library. There, she incapacitated the war powers' agent, negating their resurrective abilities so long as she was in the room — with the exception of the Strid, an opportunistic body-snatching species who had gotten to the books before anyone else. In the end, however, Rachel prevented the books from being acquired by any of the parties present, forcing the interdimensional visitors to retreat. Before she left, the Arbiter warned her that the Houses would probably track her down and erase her memory of these events; in expectation of this, she wrote them down and hid many copies in various places around her home and the city. (PROSE: Rachel Survived [+]James Wylder, 10,000 Dawns stories featuring DWU elements (Arcbeatle Press, 2017).)

In 1762, Sabbath Dei was inspired by Cousin Justine's actions to perform a supplication ritual which transformed him into an agent of the Great Houses. Sabbath put Justine on trial for the crimes of Grandfather Paradox, sentencing her to finish the Grandfather's sentence at the Great Houses' prison planet, (AUDIO: In the Year of the Cat [+]Lawrence Miles, The Faction Paradox Protocols (BBV Productions, 2003).) Shada. (PROSE: Christmas on a Rational Planet [+]Lawrence Miles, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).) Six months after Justine was imprisoned, Compassion possessed a guard and released Demetra Kine of the Blood Coteries to cause chaos through which Justine could escape. Kine took control of the prison and attempted to take revenge on Shuncucker, another surviving member of Faction Paradox. After teaming up with Shuncucker to kill Kine, Justine escaped in a timeship just before House Military arrived to disband the riot. (AUDIO: Movers [+]Lawrence Miles, The Faction Paradox Protocols (BBV Productions, 2003)., A Labyrinth of Histories [+]Lawrence Miles, The Faction Paradox Protocols (BBV Productions, 2004).)

In the time that Justine was in prison, "a lot" happened back on Earth in the 1760s. (AUDIO: A Labyrinth of Histories [+]Lawrence Miles, The Faction Paradox Protocols (BBV Productions, 2004).) Before Justine left, Compassion had been convinced that a great fight would be needed to stop Lolita from taking over Earth. (AUDIO: In the Year of the Cat [+]Lawrence Miles, The Faction Paradox Protocols (BBV Productions, 2003).) Justine returned in 1763; (AUDIO: A Labyrinth of Histories [+]Lawrence Miles, The Faction Paradox Protocols (BBV Productions, 2004).) by the end of that year she and Eliza were no longer in contact with Compassion and no longer worried about Lolita taking over 18th century Earth. (AUDIO: Coming to Dust [+]Lawrence Miles, The True History of Faction Paradox (Magic Bullet Productions, 2005)., Body Politic [+]Lawrence Miles, The True History of Faction Paradox (Magic Bullet Productions, 2008).) However, Compassion remained an active force in the War, in the 58th year bringing an end to the City of the Saved Civil War. (PROSE: God Encompasses [+]Philip Purser-Hallard, The City of the Saved (Obverse Books, 2015).)

The Fifth Planet Gambit[]

Main article: Fifth Planet Gambit

At a time that the Shift described as "years in the future" of the period covered by The Book of the War, (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) a team of twelve Time Lords — including Xenaria, Holsred, and Allopta — were sent to Antarctica in 12,000,000 BC to prepare an assault Planet 5 and capture the Fendahl so that it could be re-engineered into a "final assault weapon" for the War. Because the Celestis had used a fictional generator to bring to life the Elder Things from H. P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness, the Time Lords regenerated into bodies which resembled Elder Things to blend in. The Eighth Doctor, Compassion, and Fitz Kreiner came to the Time Lord base to investigate the Elder Things. The Time Lords were about to break through the temporal barrier around Planet 5 by barraging it with kamikaze War TARDISes, but Compassion's presence inspired the TARDISes to try to break free of their servitude. Tachon tried to restrain the TARDISes with a D-Mat Gun and was forced to shoot the lead TARDIS, rupturing it.

Fendahlcore

Thea Ransome possessed by the final fragment of the Fendahl. (TV: Image of the Fendahl [+]Chris Boucher, Doctor Who season 15 (BBC1, 1977).)

The damaged TARDIS spread into a time fissure stretching from 12,000,000 BC to 1999. In the 1970s, Professor Fendelman used the energy of this time fissure to reanimate the final fragment of the Fendahl. (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5 [+]Simon Bucher-Jones and Mark Clapham, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1999).) The Fourth Doctor and Leela arrived at Fendelman's lab and prevented the Fendahl from fully manifesting. They dumped the Fendahl fragment in Canthares, (TV: Image of the Fendahl [+]Chris Boucher, Doctor Who season 15 (BBC1, 1977).) where, by some accounts, it was found by Daleks and re-encountered by the Eighth Doctor and Lucie Miller. (AUDIO: The Dalek Trap [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW., Island of the Fendahl [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) Another account indicated it drifted to Kaldor and caused the destruction of Kaldor City; (AUDIO: Checkmate [+]Alan Stevens, Kaldor City (Magic Bullet Productions, 2003).) although, the Eighth Doctor suspected that Liv Chenka's return to Kaldor changed history, (AUDIO: Escape from Kaldor [+]Matt Fitton, Ravenous 2 (The Eighth Doctor Adventures: Ravenous, Big Finish Productions, 2018).) and another account of that period of Kaldor history suggested that it was not destroyed by the Fendahl. (AUDIO: The Robots of Life [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW., et al.)

Freshly returned from a disastrous mission on Delphon, where he desperately used his eyebrows to try to get the locals to attack the Enemy, Homunculette was sent by the Lord President to station himself in 1999 under the alias "Nathaniel Hume" to investigate the fissure and other remnants of what was going on in 12,000,000 BC. Compassion and Holsred followed the TARDIS to 1999, where they encountered "Hume" and fought Two.

Back in the past, the Eighth Doctor convinced all the TARDISes to not break the shield around Planet 5, but one TARDIS accidentally did, unleashing the Fendahl Predator. Just as the hermit planned, the Predator was attracted to Mictlan, home of the Celestis. The Predator feasted on the Celestis, utterly destroying them. The Doctor coordinated the TARDISes into working together to push Mictlan away from the main universe so that the Predator wouldn't be able to return. (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5 [+]Simon Bucher-Jones and Mark Clapham, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1999).) The Shift managed to escape the dying Mictlan with several other Celestis servants by hijacking one of the timeships. They landed on a world at the beginning of the Spiral Politic. The Shift eventually found its way into a copy of The Book of the War. (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).)

Following the failed Gambit, Xenaria was regarded as a war hero and given the honorary title "Xenaria Who Survived". (PROSE: Pre-narrative Briefings [+]Simon Bucher-Jones, The Book of the Enemy (Faction Paradox, Obverse Books, 2018).)

Fall of Sutekh[]

In 1763, a group of Mal'akh left-over from Sutekh's activity in the 15th century were led by Merytra Ellainya to Italy to use an Osirian lodestone to open a time tunnel (AUDIO: Coming to Dust [+]Lawrence Miles, The True History of Faction Paradox (Magic Bullet Productions, 2005).) to Upuat. (AUDIO: The Ship of a Billion Years [+]Lawrence Miles, The True History of Faction Paradox (Magic Bullet Productions, 2006).) Members of the Society of Sigismondo di Rimini summoned Justine and Eliza to help them deal with the Mal'akh, and they successfully stopped Ellainya; however, after Corwyn Marne took Justine and Eliza to the defiled Faction shrine in Civita, Justine allowed Merytra to open the corridor, and she herself travelled through it to the Ship of a Billion Years. (AUDIO: Coming to Dust [+]Lawrence Miles, The True History of Faction Paradox (Magic Bullet Productions, 2005).)

War King

The War King of the Great Houses. (PROSE: "The War King" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).)

Eliza collected fragments of Osiris' scattered biodata while, as a diplomat in the Osirian Court, Justine recruited Anubis to build a new body for Osiris with a remembrance tank. Lolita told Sutekh about Justine's plan, and he sent the Ship of a Billion Years to destroy them at Anubis' laboratory; realising that she had run out of time to collect the final pieces of biodata, Eliza sacrificed herself to become the host for Osiris' resurrection. However, since the Homeworlder diplomat Mortega was also being threatened, the War King rescued them with the 59th Time Fleet. During this confrontation, Lolita snuck into the laboratory and contributed some of her own biodata to the resurrecting Osiris. (AUDIO: Body Politic [+]Lawrence Miles, The True History of Faction Paradox (Magic Bullet Productions, 2008).)

Words from Nine Divinities Horus

Horus, a hybrid of Osiris and Cousin Eliza. (AUDIO: Words from Nine Divinities [+]Lawrence Miles, The True History of Faction Paradox (Magic Bullet Productions, 2008).)

Osiris' resurrection within Eliza's body was completed and he was accepted by the Osirian Court as "Horus". Horus overpowered Sutekh using his power derived from Lolita's biodata. Lolita planned to rule the Osirian Court through Horus.

The War King brought Justine back to the Homeworld and tried to give her House Paradox's old seat on the War Council, but Lolita challenged the War King's judgement, rallying public support behind her. As Justine fled the Homeworld, Lolita devoured the King and became War Queen. (AUDIO: Words from Nine Divinities [+]Lawrence Miles, The True History of Faction Paradox (Magic Bullet Productions, 2008).) The King would later attempt to escape Lolita's interior using Sabbath Dei, but did not succeed. (AUDIO: Sabbath and the King [+]Aristide Twain, BBV's Faction Paradox audio stories (BBV Productions, 2021).)

Pyramids of Mars

Sutekh's imprisonment. (TV: Pyramids of Mars [+]Stephen Harris, Doctor Who season 13 (BBC1, 1975).)

After Sutekh and Horus both agreed that the Osirian throne would go to the victor of a time war, (AUDIO: Ozymandias [+]Lawrence Miles, The True History of Faction Paradox (Magic Bullet Productions, 2009).) Justine and Horus worked together to capture Sutekh and Lolita in a temporal trap that ended with Sutekh's imprisonment in a pyramid and Horus' death after using his army of 700 Osirians to "deal with" Lolita. After this, he told Justine that she would no longer be a problem for them. Indeed, this time war was partially fought on 18th century Earth, (AUDIO: The Judgment of Sutekh [+]Lawrence Miles, The True History of Faction Paradox (Magic Bullet Productions, 2009).) where Compassion previously predicted the last stand against House Lolita would be made. (AUDIO: Sabbath Dei [+]Lawrence Miles, The Faction Paradox Protocols (BBV Productions, 2003).)

Faction resurgences & the Nambiro threat[]

Main article: The Armistice

Justine found a new home for Faction Paradox in the aftermath of Elizabeth Howkins and James Braddock's experience in Strines. (PROSE: Spinning Jenny [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) When inducting his earlier self into the Faction, Richard Francis Burton made himself swear by "Horus, the reborn child from whose sacrifice our Faction owes its own rebirth". (PROSE: Head of State [+]Andrew Hickey, Faction Paradox novels (Obverse Books, 2015).)

The Nambiro developed a taste for paradox energy after their homeplanet was drenched in the fallout of a ruptured timeship, leading them to begin hunting down members of the Faction. After capturing some Nambiro to learn of their motives and capabilities, the Faction decided to fight the Nambiro traps with a larger trap of their own, the Armistice.

Faction agents disguised as acting troupes were sent across the galaxy to spread news of the Peace. (PROSE: The End of the Beginning [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) One such troupe consisting of Mullion, Amara, Axastyakis, Hole, and Cá Bảy Màu were tasked by their Elders with reconstituting three individuals by speaking their words. The words were actually from the troupe's personal future, when they were torn apart by internal conflict and the survivors were killed by Nambiro. (PROSE: What Keeps Their Lines Alive [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) The Faction also experimented with technology to alter the perceptions of millions at once (PROSE: The End of the Beginning [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) using a Remote colony world. This secret project was overseen by Satyavan, who had ulterior motives in resurrecting his civilisation of origin which was erased from time. Satyavan refused to report of the technology's success to the Faction, and many Faction agents were sent to the planet and killed by Remote. Mirze investigated, learned that Satyavan was the pawn of "lost souls" resembling shadows who had been erased from time and wished to return, and took his place as overseer. (PROSE: Jukebox [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

Ice Warriors on the Ice Warrior Hive (Empress of Mars)

The Ice Warrior Hives of Mars, (TV: Empress of Mars [+]Mark Gatiss, Doctor Who series 10 (BBC One, 2017).) which were threatened by the temporal chaos of War. (PROSE: Going Once, Going Twice [+]Jayce Black, The Book of the Peace (Faction Paradox, 2018).)

Mars was left in temporal turmoil by the battle between Sutekh and Horus, as well as experiments by the Great Houses and the influence of The Book of the Enemy. As a result, the Ice Warriors found themselves fighting for historical existence. (PROSE: Going Once, Going Twice [+]Jayce Black, The Book of the Peace (Faction Paradox, 2018).) Several were recruited by Faction Paradox (PROSE: Interference [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) including Gustav, who fled from the chaos of Mars. (PROSE: Going Once, Going Twice [+]Jayce Black, The Book of the Peace (Faction Paradox, 2018).)

Thousands of Life's angels began spreading news of the War's end to "mortals and immortals alike", at one point appearing before Intrepid, Kifah, and Gustav at the Shadow Spire. (PROSE: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) Sometime after this, the Battle of Cratosi Fields was fought. (PROSE: Going Once, Going Twice [+]Jayce Black, The Book of the Peace (Faction Paradox, 2018).) Cortalian held the First Auction in Heaven on Kratoam, which ended in chaos when Kifah and Gustav unleashed the Frozen Battle of Cratosi Fields and Auteur tried to become beyond time by merging with Apep. (PROSE: Going Once, Going Twice [+]Jayce Black, The Book of the Peace (Faction Paradox, 2018).) Sponsored by the Nambiro, (PROSE: A Shift in Focus [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) Huxley sent Wade, Nezf, Tabrenilsodvoravitas, and a shift to a Great Houses base on RMS in the Amazolian system to steal the "Greater Key", where they all died in an encounter with an Enemy conceptual predator. (PROSE: A Farewell to Arms [+]Nate Bumber, The Book of the Peace (Faction Paradox, 2018).)

A Nambiro the Faction had trapped in a dead-time containment field on Dust was released and tricked by Cousin Persephone into seeking The Book of the Peace. (PROSE: And To Dust We Shall Return [+]Alexandra Marchon, The Book of the Peace (Faction Paradox, Obverse Books, 2018).) The Nambiro arrived in a Faction-made simulation based on The Yagé Letters and encountered a faux William Burroughs. Prevented from extensively examining The Book of the Peace by Burroughs, the Nambiro was left convinced the armistice was real even though it knew no details. (PROSE: The Ugly Spirit [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW., A Man Lays Dying [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) It reported back to its people, who then believed that with the War over Faction Paradox were the last remained source of paradox energy. (PROSE: The End of the Beginning [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) The Faction proceeded to hold a ritual to get all its members to gather on Dust (PROSE: War During Peacetime [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) so that the Nambiro would swarm there. While the Nambiro were distracted, Z'akbo Eji harnessed the Paradox Eater to change the Nambiro's history so that they never came to hunger for paradox energy. The Nambiro on Dust all became paradoxes themselves and destroyed each other in a storm of cannibalism. Thus, the purpose of the Armistice was fulfilled. (PROSE: The End of the Beginning [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

The Faction invasion of Gallifrey[]

At a time "towards the end of the War", when the War had been going on for about 292 years (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles [+]Lance Parkin, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2005).) and the Celestis were "long dead", (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell [+]Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2000).) there arrived a militaristic Faction Paradox warfleet led by Mathara (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles [+]Lance Parkin, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2005).) coming from the destruction of the Eleven-Day Empire in the War's past, bringing with them a piece of the Empire and a "false" Grandfather Paradox (PROSE: The Story So Far... [+]Jayce Black, The Book of the Peace (Faction Paradox, Obverse Books, 2018).) — to be precise, a version of the Eighth Doctor completely changed by the biodata virus, who took on the title of Grandfather Paradox. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell [+]Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2000).)

The Time Lords of this era were losing the War. (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles [+]Lance Parkin, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2005).) On one Gallifrey, misinformation camps and carefully detonated reality bombs were used to obscure certain truths from the majority of Gallifreyans. Biological defences created in ancient Gallifreyan history to combat the Great Vampires and the Charon were augmented to have devastating capabilities against the enemy. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell [+]Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2000).)

Faction Paradox's warfleet (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles [+]Lance Parkin, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2005).) travelled to Romana III's Gallifrey just before the start of the War, at the same time that Compassion was forcibly taken to the planet with the Eighth Doctor and Fitz Kreiner inside of her. The pre-War-era Eighth Doctor was on the verge of being overtaken by the Faction biodata virus at that time. The Faction successfully took the Capitol by force. They resurrected Greyjan the Sane using a remembrance tank and had him take Romana's place as Lord President; the nature of Greyjan's previous Presidency meant that Gallifrey began merging with the Eleven-Day Empire. Using their newfound control over the Web of Time, the Faction began altering the history of Romana's Gallifrey, erasing five of the six founders of Time Lord society and undoing the creation of the eight copies of Romana's Gallifrey.

Edifice

The Edifice in the sky of Romana III's Gallifrey. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell [+]Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2000).)

But there was one variable that the Faction did not account for. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell [+]Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2000).) The Doctor's original TARDIS — previously devastated (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon [+]Paul Cornell, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2000).) by Lolita (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).) in the events that led to the Doctor starting to travel in Compassion — contained within it the potentiality of the timeline where the Third Doctor regenerated due to radiation from Metebelis III and was never infected with a biodata virus. The stress of containing this timeline warped the TARDIS, turning it into the vast Edifice which loomed in the sky above Gallifrey. The Eighth Doctor journeyed into the heart of the Edifice, where he had a confrontation with Grandfather Paradox. The Doctor chose to use the unstable power of the Edifice to restore the Metebelis timeline and erase Romana's Gallifrey from history to spare its inhabitants from the rule of Faction Paradox and the horrors of the War. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell [+]Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2000).) The ensuing explosion eradicated the entire sector of space containing Kasterborous, and with it the Faction Paradox warfleet. (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles [+]Lance Parkin, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2005).)

All the surviving natives of the destroyed planet either fled to other cloneworlds or fell from the War to be among the lesser species, their timelines rotting and their second hearts decaying (PROSE: The Story So Far... [+]Jayce Black, The Book of the Peace (Faction Paradox, Obverse Books, 2018).) due to their connection to a dead world. (PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street [+]Lawrence Miles, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2001).) Compassion rescued the Eighth Doctor, Fitz, and Nivet from the destruction of Gallifrey. She believed that the destruction of Romana's Gallifrey meant that the War was over, (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell [+]Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2000).) but would have significant further involvement in the War. (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002)., Of the City of the Saved... [+]Philip Purser-Hallard, Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2004)., The Brakespeare Voyage [+]Simon Bucher-Jones and Jonathan Dennis, Faction Paradox (Obverse Books, 2013)., et al.) The Eighth Doctor then lived through a century on Earth, after which he and Fitz found themselves in a post-War universe. (PROSE: Father Time [+]Lance Parkin, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2001)., The Adventuress of Henrietta Street [+]Lawrence Miles, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2001)., Sometime Never...