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{{short description|Fictional conflict}}
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| caption = The Time Lord Citadel in ruins on the last day of the War.
| date = Throughout time
| place = [[Time Vortex (Doctor Who)|Time Vortex]]<br>[[Gallifrey]]<br>[[Skaro]]
| result = Mutual destruction of [[Time Lord]]s and [[Dalek]]s<br>Destruction of [[Gallifrey]], [[Skaro]] and other planets
| combatant1 = [[Time Lord]]s
| combatant2 = [[Dalek Empire]]
| commander1 = Time Lord Council<br>[[Rassilon]]<br>[[Doctor (Doctor Who)|The Doctor]]<br>[[Master (Doctor Who)|The Master]]
| commander2 = [[Dalek variants#Dalek Emperor|Dalek Emperor]]<br>[[Cult of Skaro]]<br>[[Davros]]
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| strength2 =
| casualties1 = All the Time Lords, except for the Doctor and Master
| casualties2 = 10 million Dalek ships
| survivors1 = The Doctor, The Master
| survivors2 = Dalek Emperor
}}
The '''Time War''', more specifically called '''The Last Great Time War''', is a conflict within the fictional [[Whoniverse|universe]] of the long-running British [[science fiction on television|science fiction television]] series ''[[Doctor Who]]''. The conflict pitted the [[Time Lord]]s against the [[Dalek]]s and culminated in the mutual destruction of both races, caused by [[Doctor (Doctor Who)|the Doctor]].


The '''Time War''', also called '''the Last Great Time War''',<ref name="Dalek">{{Cite episode |title=Dalek |episode-link=Dalek (Doctor Who episode) |series=Doctor Who |series-link=Doctor Who |first=Robert (writer) |last=Shearman |author-link=Robert Shearman |first2=Joe (director) |last2=Ahearne |author-link2=Joe Ahearne |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC One]] |date=30 April 2005 |series-no=1 |number=6 }}</ref> is a conflict within the fictional [[Whoniverse|universe]] of the British [[science fiction on television|science fiction television]] series ''[[Doctor Who]]''. The war occurs between the events of the [[Doctor Who (1996 film)|1996 film]] and the [[Doctor Who (series 1)|2005 revived series]], with the [[Time Lord]]s fighting the [[Dalek]]s until the apparent mutual destruction of both races. The war was frequently mentioned when the show returned, but was not directly seen until the show's 50th anniversary special.
The war has been frequently mentioned and alluded to since the series return to television in 2005, but the events and progression have never been fully explained. Short comments in various episodes act as hints, but the war was not thoroughly talked about until the [[Last of the Time Lords|2007 series finale]]. The two-part special ''[[The End of Time]]'' (2009) provided further information.

Over the course of several episodes, the conflict is only implied by short clues and comments, particularly the discussion in the 2007 episode "[[The Sound of Drums]]", and part two of the 2010 episode "[[The End of Time (Doctor Who)|The End of Time]]". The Time War is finally depicted in the 50th anniversary special "[[The Day of the Doctor]]", featuring the climax of the final battle and the Time Lords' fate.


==The Last Great Time War==
==The Last Great Time War==
===Background===
According to executive producer [[Russell T Davies]], the [[Time Lord]]s of [[Gallifrey]] pursued a policy of non-intervention but also protected the [[Time vortex (Doctor Who)|time vortex]]. Under that objective, they intervened in two previous "Time Wars": the first was a skirmish between the Halldons (a race mentioned in the [[Terry Nation]] story ''We Are the Daleks'' from the ''[[Radio Times]]'' 10th Anniversary Special, 1973) and the Eternals (''[[Enlightenment (Doctor Who)|Enlightenment]]''), the second the slaughter of the Omnicraven Uprising.<ref name="Meet">Russell T Davies, "Meet the Doctor", in: ''Doctor Who Annual 2006'', [[Panini Comics|Panini]], Tunbridge Wells (2005), which provides some additional background information on the Time War as seen in the television series, also mentioning in passing events depicted in the novels, audios, and comic strips.</ref> The Time Lords had also used their time travel to retroactively destroy the Charon race before it even existed.<ref name="skypirates">
David Stone. ''Sky Pirates!'' Virgin Publishing Ltd. (1995), p. 39.</ref>


===Origins===
===Origins===
The Last Great Time War pitted the [[Time Lord]]s themselves against the [[Dalek]]s of [[Skaro]].<ref name="Dalek"/> The specific incident that sparked the conflict remains unclear, but according to executive producer [[Russell T Davies]], the origins dated back to the encounters of [[Doctor (Doctor Who)|the Doctor]] with the Daleks. In ''[[Genesis of the Daleks]]'' (1975), the Time Lords – having foreseen the possibility of the Daleks conquering the universe – send the [[Fourth Doctor]] into the past in an attempt to avert the Daleks' creation, or affect their development to make them less aggressive.<ref>Russell T Davies in ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]''. Similar information is given in the Dalek ''Monster File'' on the ''Doctor Who'' website.</ref>
The Last Great Time War pitted the [[Time Lord]]s of [[Gallifrey]] against the [[Dalek]]s of [[Skaro]]. The specific incident that sparked the conflict remains unclear, but according to executive producer [[Russell T Davies]], the origins dated back to conflicts between [[Doctor (Doctor Who)|the Doctor]] and the Daleks. In ''[[Genesis of the Daleks]]'' (1975), the Time Lords—having foreseen the possibility of the Daleks conquering the universe—send the [[Fourth Doctor]] into the past in an attempt to avert the Daleks' creation, to affect their development to make them less aggressive, or discover an inherent weakness they could exploit.<ref>{{Citation | first = Russell T | last = Davies | title = [[Doctor Who Confidential]]}}</ref><ref name="Gizmodo">{{cite web |title=The Timey-Wimey History of Doctor Who‘s Time War |last=Whitbrook|first=James|website=[[Gizmodo]] |date=17 June 2020|access-date=19 November 2024|url=https://gizmodo.com/the-timey-wimey-history-of-doctor-whos-time-war-1843986630}}</ref>


In retaliation to this ultimately unsuccessful mission, the Daleks attempt to infiltrate the High Council of the Time Lords with duplicates of the [[Fifth Doctor]] in ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks]]'' (1984), followed by an open declaration of hostilities by one of the Dalek Emperors in ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]'' (1988).<ref name="Meet"/>
In retaliation for this ultimately unsuccessful mission, the Daleks attempt to infiltrate the High Council of the Time Lords with duplicates of the [[Fifth Doctor]] in ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks]]'' (1984), followed by an open declaration of hostilities by one of the Dalek Emperors in ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]'' (1988).<ref name = "Gizmodo" />


The Time War officially began with the extinction of several time-traveling powers allied with the Time Lords known as the Temporal Powers. With the Temporal Powers being wiped out one-by-one, the Time Lords formally declared war with the Daleks.<ref name = "Gizmodo" />
Two specific events led up to the outbreak of the war: A peace treaty was attempted by President [[Romana]] under the "Act of Master Restitution" (a possible reference to the otherwise-unexplained trial of [[Master (Doctor Who)|the Master]] on [[Skaro]] at the beginning of the [[Doctor Who (1996)|1996 television movie]]). This attempt was followed by the "Etra Prime Incident" (''[[The Apocalypse Element]]''), which some say "began the escalation of events". Weapons used by the Time Lords included [[History of the Time Lords#On screen|Bowships]], Black Hole Carriers and N-Forms (the last from Davies' 1996 New Adventures novel ''[[Damaged Goods (Doctor Who novel)|Damaged Goods]]''), while the Daleks wielded "the full might of the Deathsmiths of Goth" (from the comic strip story ''Black Legacy'' by [[Alan Moore]] and [[David Lloyd (comic artist)|David Lloyd]], in ''[[Doctor Who Magazine|Doctor Who Weekly]]'' #35-#38 (1980), and launched a massive fleet into the vortex (possibly in ''[[The Time of the Daleks]]'').<ref name="Meet"/>


===Progression===
===Progression===
The 'duration' and extent of the War has been unclear, with the Daleks vanishing out of time and space to fight the War, would indicate that it is not waged in normal [[space-time]].<ref name="Gizmodo" /> Nonetheless, there was fighting in a sufficient bulk of the cosmos, including on the planet Gallifrey.<ref name="dotd">{{Cite episode |title=The Day of the Doctor |episode-link=The Day of the Doctor |series=Doctor Who |series-link=Doctor Who |first=Steven (writer) |last=Moffat |author-link=Steven Moffat |first2=Nick (director) |last2=Hurran |author-link2=Nick Hurran |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC One]] |date=23 November 2013 }}</ref> The Doctor claims to have fought on the front lines and was present at the Fall of Arcadia, Gallifrey's second city.<ref name="dotd"/><ref name="doomsday">{{Cite episode |title=Doomsday |episode-link=Doomsday (Doctor Who) |series=Doctor Who |series-link=Doctor Who |first=Russell T (writer) |last=Davies |author-link=Russell T Davies |first2=Graeme (director) |last2=Harper |author-link2=Graeme Harper |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC One]] |date=8 July 2006 |series-no=2 |number=13 }}</ref>


The [[Eighth Doctor]] at first was a [[conscientious objector]], instead working to help where he could. His attempt to save a woman from a spaceship crashing towards the planet Karn fails, when she refuses his aid because he is a Time Lord, apparently believing that the Time Lords had become just as destructive as the Daleks. The Doctor is killed in the crash, but is temporarily restored to life by the Sisterhood of Karn, who finally convince him to fight for the sake of the universe. They further offer an elixir that would control his regeneration. The Doctor accepts, remarking that there was no need for a Doctor in a universe consumed by war, and regenerates into the [[War Doctor]].<ref name="Gizmodo" />
The 'duration' of the war remains unclear, with figures ranging from at least several years to thirty thousand years, though such numbers are tentative, as time itself was bent and mutilated by the effects of the war. Several races with issues with the Time Lords, e.g. the [[Sontarans]], wished to participate but were forbidden to do so (apparently by the Daleks).<ref>''[[The Sontaran Stratagem]]/''[[The Poison Sky]]'' (2008).</ref>


[[Davros]], the creator of the Daleks, also fights during the war after his creations rehabilitated him to a leadership position. In the first year of the War, Davros' command ship is seemingly destroyed. Unbeknownst to the Doctor, who had tried to save him, Davros is rescued by [[Cult of Skaro#Dalek Caan|Dalek Caan]], via an emergency temporal shift.<ref name="Gizmodo" />
The Doctor fought on the front lines and was present at the Fall of [[List of Doctor Who planets#A|Arcadia]].<ref>According to the [[Tenth Doctor]] in ''[[Doomsday (Doctor Who)|Doomsday]]'' (2006).</ref>


The war results in countless millions dying endless deaths, as time travel is used by both sides to reverse battles that caused massive fatalities on both sides.<ref name="end of time">{{cite serial |title=[[The End of Time (Doctor Who)|The End of Time]] |episode=Part Two |series=Doctor Who |series-link=Doctor Who |first=Russell T (writer) |last=Davies |author-link=Russell T Davies |first2=Euros (director) |last2=Lyn |author-link2=Euros Lyn |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC One]] |date=1 January 2010 }}</ref> These excesses of temporal warfare eventually leads to the whole of the conflict becoming "time-locked", so that no time traveller could go back into it.<ref name="stolen">{{Cite episode |title=The Stolen Earth |episode-link=The Stolen Earth |series=Doctor Who |series-link=Doctor Who |first=Russell T (writer) |last=Davies |author-link=Russell T Davies |first2=Graeme (director) |last2=Harper |author-link2=Graeme Harper |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC One]] |date=28 June 2008 |series-no=4 |number=12 }}</ref> The Doctor describes the final days of the war as "hell".<ref name="end of time"/>
[[Davros]], the creator of the Daleks, also fought during the war after his creations, which had turned against him during ''[[Genesis of the Daleks]]'', rehabilitated him to a leadership position. In the first year of the War, Davros' command ship was apparently destroyed at the Gates of Elysium after flying into the jaws of the Nightmare Child. Unbeknownst to the Doctor, who had tried to save him, Davros was rescued by [[Cult of Skaro#Dalek Caan|Dalek Caan]], who had escaped the events of ''[[Evolution of the Daleks]]'' (2007) via an emergency temporal shift.<ref name="stolen">''[[The Stolen Earth]]''/''[[Journey's End (Doctor Who)|Journey's End]]'' (2008).</ref>


As the war progresses, the Time Lords become increasingly aggressive and unscrupulous. Growing in desperation, they access and use a cache of forbidden doomsday weapons known as the Omega Arsenal, save one: "the Moment".<ref name="dotd"/> Moreover, they resurrect [[Master (Doctor Who)|the Master]], a renegade Time Lord and nemesis to the Doctor, as they believe him to be the "perfect warrior for a time war". However, after the [[Dalek variants#Dalek Emperor|Dalek Emperor]] gained control of the Cruciform, the Master deserted his post.<ref name="drums">{{Cite episode |title=The Sound of Drums |episode-link=The Sound of Drums |series=Doctor Who |series-link=Doctor Who |first=Russell T (writer) |last=Davies |author-link=Russell T Davies |first2=Colin (director) |last2=Teague |author-link2=Colin Teague |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC One]] |date=23 June 2007 |series-no=3 |number=12 }}</ref>
The war resulted in countless millions dying endless deaths, as time travel was used by both sides to reverse battles that caused massive fatalities on both sides.<ref name="end">''[[The End of Time]]'' (2009).</ref> These excesses of time warfare eventually led to the whole of the conflict becoming "time-locked", so that no time traveller could go back into it.<ref>This is mentioned during ''[[The Stolen Earth]]'', and was also touched upon in ''[[The Fires of Pompeii]]''. See also [[Blinovitch Limitation Effect]].</ref> The Doctor described the final days of the war as "hell", with "the Skaro Degradations, the Horde of Travesties, the Nightmare Child, the Could-Have-Been King with his army of Meanwhiles and Never-Weres" constituting particularly disturbing developments, all of which have not yet been specified further.<ref name="end"/>


Leadership among the Time Lords remained vague during the earlier phase of the war. Ultimately, [[Rassilon]], founder of the Time Lord society and its time travel technology, is resurrected to assume leadership as Lord President.<ref name="Gizmodo" /> Refusing the possibility of his civilisation being destroyed by the Daleks, Rassilon prepares a doomsday scenario. It included sacrificing all of time itself, thereby destroying the Daleks and all life in the universe. The Time Lords themselves would have transcended into a non-corporeal collective consciousness that would be the only sentient form of life in existence. The Time Lords, apparently hardened by the horrors of war, give near-unanimous support for this plan – only two Time Lords dissented when the issue is put to a full vote.<ref name="end of time"/>
As the war progressed the Time Lords became increasingly aggressive and unscrupulous. At one point, they resurrected [[Master (Doctor Who)|the Master]], renegade Time Lord and nemesis to the Doctor, as they believed him to be the "perfect warrior for a time war". In fact, it's implied that they gave him a full new set of regenerations as was done to all Time Lords fighting in the war, and that the eye of harmony could be used as a means to gain more regenerations. However, after the [[Dalek variants#Dalek Emperor|Dalek Emperor]] gained control of the Cruciform, the Master deserted his post, used the [[Chameleon Arch#C|chameleon arch]] to disguise himself as a human and escaped to a time period shortly before the end of the universe. Genetically a human, he escaped the destruction of all Time Lords as well as detection by the Doctor – who was unaware of his resurrection in the first place. The Master also remained ignorant of the latter phase and outcome of the war.<ref name="drums"/>


While the High Council continues to lead Time Lord society during the war, a separate War Council is tasked with overseeing the war itself, as well as Gallifrey's defences. The War Council is led by an unknown Time Lord general. During the last days of the Time War, the War Council apparently becomes disillusioned with the High Council.<ref name="dotd"/>
Leadership among the Time Lords remained vague during the earlier phase of the war. Especially the role of the Doctor's former companion, [[Romana]] – President of the Time Lords according to later novels, audio dramas and comic series – was avoided. Ultimately, [[Rassilon]] himself, founder of the Time Lord Society and its time travel technology, returned from the grave to re-assume leadership (possibly using the resurrection gauntlets where one fell through the rift out of the time lock). Refusing the possibility of his civilisation being destroyed by the Daleks, Rassilon prepared a doomsday scenario, the so-called "Ultimate Sanction". This genocidal scheme included sacrificing all of time itself, thereby destroying the Daleks and all life in the universe. The Time Lords themselves would have transcended into a non-corporeal collective consciousness that would be the only sentient form of life in existence. The Time Lords, apparently hardened by the horrors of war, gave near-unanimous support for this plan.<ref name="end"/><ref>{{Cite episode
| title = The End of Time, Part Two
| episodelink = The End of Time
| url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pk7ls
| accessdate = 1 January 2011
| series = Doctor Who
| serieslink = Doctor Who
| credits = Executive producer and writer: [[Russell T Davies|Davies, Russell T]]; Executive producer: [[Julie Gardner|Gardner, Julie]]; Director: [[Euros Lyn|Lyn, Euros]]; Producer: [[Tracie Simpson|Simpson, Tracie]]; Starring: [[Bernard Cribbins|Cribbins, Bernard]], [[David Tennant|Tennant, David]], et al.
| network = [[British Broadcasting Corporation]]
| station = [[BBC One]]
| airdate = 1 January 2010
| seriesno = 4
| number = 18
| minutes = ''circa'' 1 minute.
}}</ref>


===Conclusion===
===Conclusion===
On the last day of the Time War, the Daleks launched what is said to be their biggest attack ever on Gallifrey. Dalek forces captured the city of Arcadia, then laid siege to the capital itself. The War Doctor stole an ancient Gallifreyan weapon known as the Moment, and intended to reduce Gallifrey into "rocks and dust" with the inferno wiping out the Dalek fleet.<ref name="dotd"/>


Rassilon and his fellow councillors attempt to escape the Time Lock by retroactively planting a four-note drumbeat into the Master's brain as a child and cause his descent into madness. From there, once the signal is made tangible enough, a Whitepoint Star, a diamond only found on Gallifrey, is used to create a link between the final day of the Time War and Earth so the Master could release Gallifrey from the Time Lock. The plan ultimately fails, as the Doctor destroyed the diamond link and the Master apparently sacrificed his life to take revenge on Rassilon, sending the Time Lords back to their apparent doom.<ref name="end of time"/>
The Time War concluded with the mutual destruction of both belligerents and their respective planets. The Dalek fleet – reportedly ten million ships – was destroyed by the Doctor.<ref name="Dalek">''[[Dalek (Doctor Who episode)|Dalek]]'' (2005)</ref> Gallifrey is first described as having "burned" like Earth of the far future, and is "rocks and dust" as a result of the war,<ref name="endworld">''[[The End of the World (Doctor Who)|The End of the World]]'' (2005)</ref> but then the Doctor admits that Time Lords and Daleks both burned together<ref name="Dalek"/> and that he personally ended the war, in an act which caused the Time Lords, the Daleks and Gallifrey to burn.<ref name="drums">. He also admits he flew his own Tardis alone at the Dalek fleet as it advanced on Gallifrey and caused an unspecified event which led to the entire Dalek fleet crashing into Gallifrey destroying both.
''[[Utopia (Doctor Who)|Utopia]]''/''[[The Sound of Drums]]''/''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'' (2007).</ref> The Doctor was, therefore, responsible for destroying his home planet.<ref name="drums"/> He is called "the killer of his own kind" by the [[List of Doctor Who villains#Beast|beast of the Pit]].<ref>''[[The Satan Pit]]'' (2006).</ref>


However, as "the Moment" had a will of its own, it showed the War Doctor an alternative solution and ultimately enabled the first thirteen incarnations of the Doctor, to gather to save Gallifrey by freezing it in time and removing it from the universe. The sudden disappearance of Gallifrey left the Daleks firing upon and subsequently annihilating themselves, while the Time Lords remained; albeit powerless and forgotten.<ref name="Gizmodo"/>
The specifics and what prompted the Doctor to such drastic measures were ultimately revealed in ''[[The End of Time]]'' (2009): The Doctor had discovered a way to end the war, described as "the Moment", when he became aware of Rassilon's "Ultimate Sanction".<ref name="end"/> It remains unclear whether "the Moment" would always have resulted in the destruction of both antagonists together or whether the Doctor could have simply used it to destroy the Daleks and chose to destroy the Time Lords as well to prevent Rassilon's scheme. The [[Ninth Doctor]] apparently faced a similar situation in [[The Parting of the Ways]] when he creates a Delta Wave to destroy the [[Dalek]]s. When the wave was charged, The Doctor realised that it would not distinguish between Human and Dalek. Firing the Delta Wave would have resulted in the mutual destruction of both the Daleks and Humans (similar to the situation he faced at "the Moment").


As the War Doctor regenerates into the [[Ninth Doctor]], his memory of saving Gallifrey is wiped as a means for his timeline to correct itself, leaving the Doctor with the belief he had in fact used the Moment to destroy Gallifrey, the Time Lords, and the Daleks. The Doctor is haunted with the false knowledge of his home planet's demise,<ref name="Gizmodo"/> with even some of his enemies using that guilt against him.<ref name="drums"/><ref>{{Cite episode |title=The Satan Pit |episode-link=The Satan Pit |series=Doctor Who |series-link=Doctor Who |first=Matt (writer) |last=Jones |author-link=Matt Jones (writer) |first2=James (director) |last2=Strong |author-link2=James Strong (director) |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC One]] |date=10 June 2006 |series-no=2 |number=9 }}</ref>
By this point, the entire period of war had become "time locked", so that no time traveller could enter or exit it.<ref name="stolen"/><ref name="end"/> In knowledge of this and the threat posed by the Doctor's possession of "the Moment," Rassilon and his fellow councillors tried to escape the Lock by retroactively planting a four note drumbeat (the rhythm of a Time Lord's [[heart]]beats) into the Master's brain (the sound of which eventually drove the Master insane) and use a Whitepoint Star, a diamond only found on Gallifrey{{Citation needed|date=March 2011}}, to create a link between the final hours of the Time War and present-day Earth. The Master could therefore bring Gallifrey and the Time Lords out of the Time Lock and into the present. The plan ultimately failed, as the Doctor destroyed the diamond link and the Master apparently sacrificed his life, sending the Time Lords back to their apparent doom.<ref name="end"/>

===Aftermath===
Throughout [[Doctor Who (series 5)|series 5]], the [[Eleventh Doctor]] encounters cracks in "the skin of the universe".<ref name="eleventh hour">{{Cite episode |title=The Eleventh Hour |episode-link=The Eleventh Hour (Doctor Who) |series=Doctor Who |first=Steven (writer) |last=Moffat |author-link=Steven Moffat |first2=Adam (director) |last2=Smith |author-link2=Adam Smith (director) |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC One]] |date=3 April 2010 |series-no=5 |number=1 }}</ref><ref name="flesh">{{Cite episode |title=Flesh and Stone |episode-link=Flesh and Stone |series=Doctor Who |series-link=Doctor Who |first=Steven (writer) |last=Moffat |author-link=Steven Moffat |first2=Adam (director) |last2=Smith |author-link2=Adam Smith (director) |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC One]] |date=1 May 2010 |series-no=5 |number=5 }}</ref><ref name="cold blood">{{Cite episode |title=Cold Blood |episode-link=Cold Blood (Doctor Who) |series=Doctor Who |series-link=Doctor Who |first=Chris (writer) |last=Chibnall |author-link=Chris Chibnall |first2=Ashley (director) |last2=Way |author-link2=Ashley Way |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC One]] |date=29 May 2010 |series-no=5 |number=9 }}</ref><ref name="pandorica">{{Cite episode |title=The Pandorica Opens |episode-link=The Pandorica Opens |series=Doctor Who |series-link=Doctor Who |first=Steven (writer) |last=Moffat |author-link=Steven Moffat |first2=Toby (director) |last2=Haynes |author-link2=Toby Haynes |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC One]] |date=19 June 2010 |series-no=5 |number=12 }}</ref> The Doctor learns that the cracks, which erase those they consume from history, are a result of the [[Silence (Doctor Who)|Silence]] causing the Doctor's TARDIS to explode on 26 June 2010.<ref name="totd">{{Cite episode |title=The Time of the Doctor |episode-link=The Time of the Doctor |series=Doctor Who |series-link=Doctor Who |first=Steven (writer) |last=Moffat |author-link=Steven Moffat |first2=Jamie (director) |last2=Payne |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC One]] |date=25 December 2013 }}</ref> During the events of "[[The Time of the Doctor]]", the Doctor discovers one remaining crack on the planet Trenzalore, through which the Time Lords transmit the First Question: "Doctor Who?". The intention is for the Doctor to give his true name, which will verify to the Time Lords it is safe for them to return to the universe.<ref name="Gizmodo"/>

Fleets of various races, some being former War participants, gathered in Trenzalore's orbit to either prevent the Doctor from speaking his name, or resume the War if the Time Lords return. The Church of the Papal Mainframe undergoes a faith change into the Church of the Silence as a dedication to keeping the peace,<ref name="totd"/> with a rogue chapter led by [[Madame Kovarian]] unknowingly causing the events in series 5 and [[Doctor Who (series 6)|6]] and leading to the Doctor's arrival on Trenzalore.<ref name="totd"/><ref name="pandorica"/><ref>{{Cite episode |title=The Impossible Astronaut |episode-link=The Impossible Astronaut |series=Doctor Who |series-link=Doctor Who |first=Steven (writer) |last=Moffat |author-link=Steven Moffat |first2=Toby (director) |last2=Haynes |author-link2=Toby Haynes |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC One]] |date=23 April 2011 |series-no=6 |number=1 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite episode |title=A Good Man Goes to War |episode-link=A Good Man Goes to War |series=Doctor Who |series-link=Doctor Who |first=Steven (writer) |last=Moffat |author-link=Steven Moffat |first2=Peter (director) |last2=Hoar |author-link2=Peter Hoar |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC One]] |date=4 June 2011 |series-no=6 |number=7 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite episode |title=The Wedding of River Song |episode-link=The Wedding of River Song |series=Doctor Who |series-link=Doctor Who |first=Steven (writer) |last=Moffat |author-link=Steven Moffat |first2=Jeremy (director) |last2=Webb |author-link2=Jeremy Webb |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC One]] |date=1 October 2011 |series-no=6 |number=13 }}</ref> In the end, the Time Lords remain in exile and close the remaining crack, but not before granting the Doctor, old and weary from his years protecting Trenzalore, a new cycle of regenerations, which allow him to destroy the Dalek fleet surrounding the planet.<ref name="totd"/>


==Consequences==
==Consequences==
===Demise of the Time Lords===
Following the destruction of both Daleks and Time Lords, the Doctor is believed to be the last of his race. The destruction of the Time Lords also had a profound impact on time travel. In the 2006 episode ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]'' when [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor]], [[Rose Tyler]] and [[Mickey Smith]] are trapped in an alternative reality, the Doctor explains that, when the
Time Lords were around, travel between parallel universes was less difficult but, with their demise, the paths between worlds are now closed.<ref>''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]/[[The Age of Steel]]'' (2006).</ref> The Time Lords also could prevent or repair [[physical paradox|paradoxes]] such as the one created by Rose in an attempt to save her father's life in a traffic accident. After the Time Lords' demise, such a paradox summons the terrifying [[List of Doctor Who monsters and aliens#Reaper|Reapers]], who descended to "sterilise the wound" in time by devouring everything in sight.<ref>''[[Father's Day (Doctor Who)|Father's Day]]'' (2005).</ref>


===Removal of the Time Lords===
Because of the destruction of Gallifrey and the Time Lords, the Doctor does not encounter other time-travelling Time Lords. It has been stated in the past{{Citation needed|date=August 2010}} that there are locks on TARDISes that prevent travel into Gallifrey's past. The time lock, along with the danger of creating a paradox, also prevents the Doctor from going back in time and saving the Time Lords, the dangers of which the Doctor is acutely aware. He warns another character against trying to alter his own timeline as such meddling would "destroy two-thirds of the universe"<ref>''[[Blink (Doctor Who)|Blink]]'' (2007).</ref> and resists an offer by the Skasis Paradigm, which would have given him the ability to reorder the universe and allowed him to stop the war.<ref name="school">''[[School Reunion (Doctor Who)|School Reunion]]'' (2006).</ref> The time lock did not prevent the Doctor from meeting one of his prior incarnations in the mini-episode [[Time Crash]].
In the 2006 episode "[[Rise of the Cybermen]]" when the [[Tenth Doctor]], [[Rose Tyler]] and [[Mickey Smith]] are trapped in an alternate reality, the Doctor explains that, when the Time Lords were around, travel between parallel universes is less difficult but, with their demise, the paths between worlds are now closed.<ref>{{Cite episode |title=Rise of the Cybermen |episode-link=Rise of the Cybermen |series=Doctor Who |series-link=Doctor Who |first=Tom (writer) |last=MacRae |author-link= Tom MacRae |first2=Graeme (director) |last2=Harper |author-link2=Graeme Harper |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC One]] |date=13 May 2006 |series-no=2 |number=4 }}</ref> The Time Lords could also prevent or repair [[physical paradox|paradoxes]] such as the one created by Rose in an attempt to save her father's life in a traffic accident.<ref>{{Cite episode |title=Father's Day |episode-link=Father's Day (Doctor Who) |series=Doctor Who |series-link=Doctor Who |first=Paul (writer) |last=Cornell |author-link=Paul Cornell |first2=Joe (director) |last2=Ahearne |author-link2=Joe Ahearne |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC One]] |date=14 May 2005 |series-no=1 |number=8 }}</ref>


===Remnants of the Daleks===
===Remnants of the Daleks===
{{See|Dalek#Revived series}}

Dalek survivors of the war appeared regularly across many episodes,<ref name="Gizmodo"/> until the Daleks trick the [[Eleventh Doctor]] into activating a Progenitor device which creates a [[Dalek variants#New Paradigm Daleks|new "Paradigm"]] of Daleks that destroy the previous Daleks and escape through time, forming a new race of Daleks.<ref>{{Cite episode |title=Victory of the Daleks |episode-link=Victory of the Daleks |series=Doctor Who |series-link=Doctor Who |first=Mark (writer) |last=Gatiss |author-link=Mark Gatiss |first2=Andrew (director) |last2=Gunn |author-link2=Andrew Gunn (director) |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC One]] |date=17 April 2010 |series-no=5 |number=3 }}</ref>
Despite the Doctor's efforts, not all Daleks perished in the war. The [[Ninth Doctor]] encounters a single, dysfunctional Dalek in a museum<ref name="Dalek"/> and later discovers that the [[Dalek variants#Dalek Emperor|Dalek Emperor]] himself had also survived, and had gone on to build a whole new Dalek race, using the organic material of human cadavers by completely rewriting their DNA. The destruction of the Emperor and his fleet at the conclusion of the 2005 series by a [[Time vortex (Doctor Who)|time vortex]]-augmented [[Rose Tyler]] is accompanied by her declaration that "the Time War ends".<ref name="parting">'''[[Bad Wolf]]''/''[[The Parting of the Ways]]'' (2005).</ref>

The elite [[Dalek variants#Cult of Skaro|Cult of Skaro]] also survived by fleeing into the [[List of Doctor Who planets#Others|Void]] between dimensions and survived the original end of the Time War, taking with them the [[List of Doctor Who items#G|Genesis Ark]], a Time Lord prison ship containing millions of Daleks. The new Dalek army released from the Ark is eventually sucked back into the Void, due to the actions of the [[Tenth Doctor]], but the specially-equipped cult members use an "emergency temporal shift" to escape that fate. They reappear in 1930 in New York. While three Daleks are killed, the fourth, Dalek Caan, escapes through another emergency temporal shift.<ref>''[[Daleks in Manhattan]]''/''[[Evolution of the Daleks]]'' (2007).</ref> He returns to the Time War and, at the cost of his sanity, rescues the Daleks' creator, Davros. Davros subsequently uses cells from his own body to create a new [[Dalek Empire]] and keeps Caan close at his side because of the latter's prophetic abilities. However, Caan manipulated Davros to help the Doctor and [[Donna Noble]] defeat the Daleks.<ref name="stolen"/>

One ship however escaped that defeat (Exactly how these Daleks survived the events of ''Journey's End'' is unknown), and after falling through time, picked up a trace of a Progenitor and tricked the Doctor into activating it for them during [[World War II]] which created a new Dalek Paradigm.


===Survival of the Master===
===Survival of the Master===
After the Time War, the Doctor is convinced that he is the only surviving Time Lord, saying that he would know of any others if they had survived.<ref name="Dalek"/> The Doctor later encounters a man named Professor Yana who is revealed to be [[Master (Doctor Who)|the Master]]. The Master had been hiding in human form at the end of the universe using a [[List of Doctor Who items#C|Chameleon Arch]], having escaped the destruction of both the Time Lords and the Daleks. By taking human form, he avoided detection by the Doctor, who was apparently unaware of his nemesis' resurrection during the Time War. The Master had remained ignorant of the latter phase and outcome of the war until he emerged from hiding, when he is told by the Doctor many years later.<ref name="utopia">{{Cite episode |title=Utopia |episode-link=Utopia (Doctor Who) |series=Doctor Who |series-link=Doctor Who |first=Russell T (writer) |last=Davies |author-link=Russell T Davies |first2=Graeme (director) |last2=Harper |author-link2=Graeme Harper |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC One]] |date=16 June 2007 |series-no=3 |number=11 }}</ref><ref name="drums"/>

After the Time War, the Doctor is convinced that he is the only surviving Time Lord, saying that he would know of any others if they had survived.<ref name="Dalek"/> The last words of the [[Face of Boe]] were "You are not alone".<ref>''[[Gridlock (Doctor Who)|Gridlock]]'' (2007).</ref> The cryptic statement is explained when the Doctor encounters a Professor Yana (Yana being a cryptic message to the Doctor- You Are Not Alone. Possibly a coincidence) , who is revealed to be [[Master (Doctor Who)|the Master]]. The Master had been hiding in human form at the end of the universe using a [[List of Doctor Who items#C|Chameleon Arch]], he had escaped both the destruction of all Time Lords and Daleks, and detection by the Doctor, who was unaware of his nemesis' resurrection during the Time War in the first place.<ref name="drums"/>


===Impact on other species===
===Impact on other species===
The timelines of other races and planets shifted without the inhabitants of the worlds affected being aware of the [[Retroactive continuity|changes in history]], as they were a part of them (presumably including Humans). Most affected were the [[List of Doctor Who villains#Animus|Greater Animus]], which died,<ref name="Meet"/> the [[Auton|Nestene consciousness]], which lost its homeworld and its protein-source planets, prompting it to another invasion of Earth,<ref>''[[Rose (Doctor Who)|Rose]]'' (2005).</ref> the [[Eternal (Doctor Who)|Eternals]], who apparently fled this reality in despair<ref name="Meet"/> and the [[List of Doctor Who monsters and aliens#Gelth|Gelth]], who lost their physical form and were reduced to gaseous beings. The Gelth described the war's impact as "invisible to lower species but devastating to higher forms",<ref name="Unquiet">''[[The Unquiet Dead]]'' (2005).</ref> such as the [[List of Doctor Who monsters and aliens#Forest of Cheem|Forest of Cheem]], which was distraught at the bloodshed.<ref name="Meet"/> It is also is said to have destroyed the unnamed race that [[List of Doctor Who universe creatures and aliens #Eve|Eve]] originated from.
The timelines of other races and planets shift without the inhabitants of the worlds affected being aware of the [[Retroactive continuity|changes in history]], as they were a part of them. Most affected were the [[Zygon]]s, who lost their home planet, Zygor, and attempted to conquer Earth for its resources;<ref name="dotd"/> the [[Eternal (Doctor Who)|Eternals]], and the [[List of Doctor Who universe creatures and aliens (0–9, A–G)#Gelth|Gelth]], who lost their physical form and were reduced to gaseous beings, who attempted to possess human corpses in 1869 using a [[Rift (Whoniverse)|Time Rift]] in [[Cardiff]].


==The Time War and continuity==
==The Time War and continuity==


The Time War also provides a convenient in-story explanation for any contradictions in series continuity: for example, writer [[Paul Cornell]] has suggested that Earth's destruction by an expanding sun in ''The End of the World'' five billion years hence, as opposed to the original depiction of its demise around the year 10,000,000 AD in ''[[The Ark (Doctor Who)|The Ark]]'' (1966) can be attributed to changes in history due to the War.<ref name="Cornell">Paul Cornell, "[http://paulcornell.blogspot.com/2007/02/canonicity-in-doctor-who.html Canonicity in Doctor Who]". ''Paul Cornell's House of Awkwardness'' (2007-02-10).</ref> [[Steven Moffat]], writer and later executive producer for ''Doctor Who'', has gone further, arguing that "a television series which embraces both the ideas of parallel universes and the concept of changing time can't have a continuity error – it's impossible for ''Doctor Who'' to get it wrong, because we can just say 'he changed time – it's a time ripple from the Time War{{' "}}.<ref>[[Steven Moffat]], ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRK4XSJXtQQ&feature=related Doctor Who Panel Part 5]'', [[Comic-Con International]], San Diego 2008.</ref><ref>[[BBC News]], ''[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7531310.stm Moffat promises new Who monsters]'' (2008-07-29).</ref>
The Time War provides a convenient in-story explanation for any contradictions in series continuity: for example, writer [[Paul Cornell]] has suggested that Earth's destruction by an expanding sun in "The End of the World" five billion years hence, as opposed to the original depiction of its demise around the year 10,000,000 AD in ''[[The Ark (Doctor Who)|The Ark]]'' (1966), can be attributed to changes in history due to the war.<ref name="Cornell">{{cite web |url=http://www.paulcornell.com/2007/02/canonicity-in-doctor-who/ |title=Canonicity in Doctor Who |last1=Cornell |first1=Paul |author-link=Paul Cornell |date=10 February 2007 |access-date=14 March 2015}}</ref> [[Steven Moffat]], writer and later executive producer for ''Doctor Who'', has gone further, arguing that "a television series which embraces both the ideas of parallel universes and the concept of changing time can't have a continuity error—it's impossible for ''Doctor Who'' to get it wrong, because we can just say 'he changed time—it's a time ripple from the Time War{{' "}}.<ref>[[Steven Moffat]], ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRK4XSJXtQQ Doctor Who Panel Part 5]'', [[Comic-Con International]], San Diego 2008.</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7531310.stm |title=Moffat promises new Who monsters |date=29 July 2008 |work=[[BBC News]] |access-date=14 March 2015}}</ref>


==Time Wars in spin-off media==
==Time Wars in spin-off media==


The Last Great Time War and previous time wars also feature in various Doctor Who spin-off media. The [[Whoniverse#Inclusion and continuity|relationship to the ongoing story of the television series]] is open to interpretation.
The Last Great Time War also features in various Doctor Who spin-off media.

===Eighth Doctor Adventures (The War in Heaven)===
In a [[story arc]] stretching through several of the [[Eighth Doctor Adventures]] novels, the Doctor learns that, at some point in his personal future, a war will be fought between the Time Lords and an unnamed enemy. [[Russell T Davies]] commented that there is no connection between the war of the books and the Time War of the television series, comparing the wars with Earth's two World Wars. He also said that he was "usually happy for old and new fans to invent the Complete History of the Doctor in their heads, completely free of the production team's hot and heavy hands".<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Davies |first=Russell T |author-link=Russell T Davies |date=25 May 2005 |title=The Evasion of Time |magazine=[[Doctor Who Magazine]] |location=Tunbridge Wells |publisher=[[Panini Comics|Panini Publishing Ltd]] |issue=356 |pages=66–67 }}</ref>


===''Gallifrey'' audio series===
===''Gallifrey'' audio series===
The sixth series of ''Gallifrey'' features the Daleks invading Gallifrey,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/gallifrey-vi-cover-released |title=Gallifrey VI Cover Released |date=12 July 2013 |website=[[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]] |access-date=14 March 2015 }}{{Dead link|date=August 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> but this invasion is undone thanks to Lord President Romana, Leela, K9 and Narvin, aided by Romana's future self. The ninth series more directly featured the Time War with Romana and Leela playing key roles,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/gallifrey-time-war-1682 |title=GALLIFREY: TIME WAR |date=16 June 2017 |website=[[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]] |access-date=29 June 2017 |archive-date=7 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107024201/https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/gallifrey-time-war-1682 |url-status=dead }}</ref> including Leela being sent on a mission with the [[Derek Jacobi]] Master, and the resurrection of Rassilon through a complex Time Lord project that allowed Rassilon's consciousness to take over the body of another Time Lord.
''[[Gallifrey (audio series)|Gallifrey]]'' is the umbrella title of a series of audio plays by [[Big Finish Productions]], set on Gallifrey during Romana's tenure as President. In ''[[Gallifrey: Panacea]]'', the final chapter of the third series, the Time Lord [[Irving Braxiatel]] speaks of "rumours out there in the big wide universe – more than rumours, in fact – that something's coming to Gallifrey, something worse than you could possibly imagine".


===''Dark Eyes''===
Because of these rumours, Braxiatel engineers the removal of the Time Lord biodata archive from Gallifrey, in order that the Time Lords might someday be restored after their planet meets its doom. Former Big Finish producer [[Gary Russell]] indicated in a forum posting on ''[[Outpost Gallifrey]]'' that this was a reference to the television series' Time War.<ref>Gary Russell, "[http://www.gallifreyone.net/forum/showpost.php?p=2886596& Gallifrey 3.5: Panacea]", ''Outpost Gallifrey'' (2006-09-03). Requires registation to view.</ref>
The ''[[Dark Eyes (audio drama)|Dark Eyes]]'' audio series is also in effect a lead up to the Last Great Time War from the Doctor's perspective, the first series being a complex plan by the Daleks to erase the Time Lords from existence.<ref>{{cite serial |title=[[Dark Eyes (audio drama)|Dark Eyes]] |series=Doctor Who: Dark Eyes |series-link=List of Doctor Who audio dramas by Big Finish#Dark Eyes |first=Nicholas (writer/director) |last=Briggs |author-link=Nicholas Briggs |publisher=[[Big Finish Productions]] |date=November 2012 }}</ref> ''[[Dark Eyes 2]]'' also sees the resurrection of the Master in preparation for the war.<ref>{{cite serial |title=[[Dark Eyes 2]] |series=Doctor Who: Dark Eyes |series-link=List of Doctor Who audio dramas by Big Finish#Dark Eyes |first=Nicholas (writer/director) |last=Briggs |author-link=Nicholas Briggs |first2=Alan |last2=Barnes |author-link2=Alan Barnes (writer) |first3=Matt (writers) |last3=Fitton |author-link3=Matt Fitton |publisher=[[Big Finish Productions]] |date=February 2014 }}</ref>


===''Engines of War''===
The later [[Companion Chronicles]] audio story, ''[[The Catalyst (Doctor Who audio)|The Catalyst]]'', implies that [[Leela (Doctor Who)|Leela]] survived the Time War; she mentions that her adopted homeworld no longer exists and she ages rapidly due to the Time Lords no longer being able to keep her young.
Written by [[George Mann (writer)|George Mann]], this novel features the [[War Doctor]] and is set in the Time War. During the novel, the War Doctor and his new companion Cinder discover that the Daleks intend to use the temporal anomalies of a rift in time in the Moldox system, to develop a weapon that could completely erase Gallifrey and the Time Lords from history, with Rassilon's plan to stop the Dalek plot involving the destruction of the rift and all inhabited planets around it. The Doctor sabotages Rassilon's plan and uses the energy of the rift to erase the Daleks' scheme, but the actions of a Time Lord agent result in Cinder's death, leaving the War Doctor resolved to end the war once and for all as he recognises how far his people have fallen in the name of victory.<ref name="Gizmodo" />


===Eighth Doctor Adventures===
===''The War Doctor'' audio series===
''[[The War Doctor (audio drama series)|The War Doctor]]'' series was produced by [[Big Finish Productions]] following [[John Hurt]]'s role as the [[War Doctor]] in “[[The Day of the Doctor]]”. Hurt reprised his role alongside [[Jacqueline Pearce]] as Cardinal Ollistra, who frequently sends the War Doctor on missions to give the [[Time Lords]] the upper hand over the [[Daleks]]. Following Hurt's death, the series ended after four volumes in February 2017.
In a [[story arc]] stretching through several of the [[Eighth Doctor Adventures]], sometime in the Doctor's future, a war is fought between the Time Lords and an unnamed Enemy, the [[Eighth Doctor]] becoming involved in the events of the war during the events of ''[[Alien Bodies]]'', when he unintentionally becomes involved in an auction for the body of his future self due to his biodata codes being the only means of accessing dangerous Time Lord secrets, and ''[[The Taking of Planet 5]]'', where he must stop a group of future Time Lords from releasing the monstrous [[List of Doctor Who monsters and aliens#Fendahl|Fendahl]] in an attempt to use it as a weapon. In this story arc, Gallifrey is also destroyed as a result of the Eighth Doctor attempting to prevent the war from beginning as the Enemy begin their first assault in- having learned that he unintentionally provoked the War-, believing that it would be better for the Time Lords to die now rather than experience a war that would dehumanise them to the point of becoming monsters which all evidence suggests they could not win (''[[The Ancestor Cell]]'', 2000). This cataclysm also creates an [[event horizon]] in time that prevents anyone from entering Gallifrey's relative past or travelling from it to the present or future. The last Eighth Doctor Adventures novel, ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (2005 novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'', establishes that the Doctor has the ability to restore the planet and its inhabitants, having downloaded the contents of the [[Matrix (Doctor Who)|Matrix]] into his subconscious mind in the minutes before Gallifrey's destruction, albeit at the cost of his own memories. The novel ends without revealing if he does indeed do this, although the [[Ninth Doctor]]'s clear knowledge of his past suggests that he was at least able to restore his memories before his regeneration.
A follow-up series was subsequently launched featuring the [[Eighth Doctor]] and set during the early years of the Time War.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/doctor-who-the-war-doctor |title=DOCTOR WHO: THE WAR DOCTOR |date=5 October 2015 |website=[[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]] |access-date=2 March 2017 |archive-date=19 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240119222433/https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/doctor-who-the-war-doctor |url-status=dead }}</ref>


===''The Eighth Doctor: The Time War'' audio series===
[[Russell T Davies]], executive producer of the series, commented that there is no connection between the War of the books and the Time War of the television series, comparing Gallifrey being destroyed twice with Earth's two World Wars. He also said that he was "usually happy for old and new fans to invent the Complete History of the Doctor in their heads, completely free of the production team's hot and heavy hands".<ref>Russell T Davies, "The Evasion of Time". ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' #356 (2005), p. 66–67.</ref>
With the announcement of ''The War Doctor'', [[Big Finish Productions]] also announced a prequel box set featuring the [[Eighth Doctor]] during the early days of the conflict, later expanded into a four-volume series.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/the-big-finish-sunday-digest |title=ANOTHER BIG FINISH WEEK - AND MORE EIGHTH DOCTOR CONFIRMED! |date=28 May 2017 |website=[[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]] |access-date=30 June 2017 |archive-date=27 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171027063443/https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/the-big-finish-sunday-digest |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Paul McGann]] reprised his role with [[Rakhee Thakrar]] playing Bliss, his new companion.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/new-companion-announcement |title=NEW COMPANION ANNOUNCEMENT! |date=5 June 2017 |website=[[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]] |access-date=30 June 2017 |archive-date=9 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170709153959/https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/new-companion-announcement |url-status=dead }}</ref> The third volume also features the return of the [[Valeyard]], who is recruited by the Time Lords attempt to be a soldier in the War after he is 'recreated' through an accident when the Doctor uses a transmat while carrying a device that can manipulate biology.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-time-war-3-1675|title=3. Doctor Who: Time War 3 - Doctor Who - the Eighth Doctor Adventures - Big Finish|access-date=24 June 2019|archive-date=24 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190624164152/https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-time-war-3-1675|url-status=dead}}</ref>


===''The War Master'' audio series===
Despite this unequivocal statement, writer [[Lance Parkin]] speculated in an essay that the two destructions of Gallifrey may be the same event seen from two different perspectives, with the Eighth Doctor present twice (and both times responsible for the planet's destruction). This is supported due to the novels' destruction of Gallifrey involving an evil future version of the Eighth Doctor as the leader of the invading force, with the events leading to Gallifrey's destruction being triggered by the Doctor's attempt to prevent that future from coming to pass.<ref>Lance Parkin, Lars Pearson (ed.), ''AHistory: An Unauthorised History of the Doctor Who Universe''. Mad Norwegian Press, Des Moines (2006), p. 292–293.</ref>
[[The War Master (audio drama series)|The War Master]] series was released in December 2017. The release features [[Derek Jacobi]] reprising his role as [[The Master (Doctor Who)#Professor Yana and Harold Saxon|The Master]] from the 2007 episode "[[Utopia (Doctor Who)|Utopia]]" and follows the character during the Time War.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/coming-soon-tales-from-new-earth-gallifrey-time-war-and-the-return-of-the-war-master |title=DEREK JACOBI RETURNS AS THE WAR MASTER! |date=16 June 2017 |website=[[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]] |access-date=28 June 2017 |archive-date=7 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107005217/https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/coming-soon-tales-from-new-earth-gallifrey-time-war-and-the-return-of-the-war-master |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Another version of the Eighth Doctor Adventures' War, referred to as the "War in Heaven", also appears in the ''[[Faction Paradox]]'' novels conceived by [[Lawrence Miles]].

===''Doctor Who'' comic strip===
In three comic strip stories written by [[Alan Moore]] in 1979, the Time Lords, assisted by [[Special Executive|The Special Executive]], fight a time war early in their history against the "Order of the Black Sun", based some thirty thousand years in their future.<ref name="moore">[[Alan Moore]], "Star Death", ''[[Doctor Who Magazine|Doctor Who Weekly]]'' #47 (1979). Alan Moore, "The 4-D War", ''Doctor Who Weekly'' #51 (1979). Alan Moore, "Black Sun Rising", ''Doctor Who Weekly'' #57 (1979). See ''[http://comicbookdb.com/storyarc.php?ID=2142 Comic Book Database]''.</ref>

The first strike of the war, from the Time Lords' point of view, is when a Black Sun agent travels back in time, and attacks the Time Lords just as they are about to turn the star Qqaba into a power source for their time experiments. This also causes the apparent demise of the stellar engineer [[Omega (Doctor Who)|Omega]]. The Time Lords do not know why the Black Sun (whom they had never encountered before the attack) should have wanted to strike at them, and surmise that it was for something they had yet to do.<ref name="moore"/> Years later, at a diplomatic conference, a representative of the Order is murdered by the [[Sontaran]]s, and the murder is blamed on the Time Lords. This provides the motivation for the war's beginnings, as from the Order's point of view, the Time Lords are the ones who strike first.<ref name="moore"/>

===''The Forgotten''===

In the [[IDW Publishing|IDW]] comic miniseries ''The Forgotten'', the [[Tenth Doctor]] recounts to [[Martha Jones]] a story from the [[Eighth Doctor]]'s participation in the Time War. The Eighth Doctor was imprisoned by a race of robots for several weeks on a planet in the middle of the war, before teaming up with a [[List of Doctor Who monsters and aliens#Malmooth|Malmooth]] fellow prisoner and faking his death in order to escape. It is revealed his capture was staged by him so that he could acquire the [[List of Doctor Who items#G|Great Key]] he needed to arm a modified [[List of Doctor Who items#De-mat gun|De-Mat Gun]] that could be used to seal the [[Medusa Cascade]]. The Tenth Doctor further implies that the Eighth Doctor died, alone and companionless, at the end of the Time War.


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The Time War, also called the Last Great Time War,[1] is a conflict within the fictional universe of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The war occurs between the events of the 1996 film and the 2005 revived series, with the Time Lords fighting the Daleks until the apparent mutual destruction of both races. The war was frequently mentioned when the show returned, but was not directly seen until the show's 50th anniversary special.

Over the course of several episodes, the conflict is only implied by short clues and comments, particularly the discussion in the 2007 episode "The Sound of Drums", and part two of the 2010 episode "The End of Time". The Time War is finally depicted in the 50th anniversary special "The Day of the Doctor", featuring the climax of the final battle and the Time Lords' fate.

The Last Great Time War

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Origins

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The Last Great Time War pitted the Time Lords of Gallifrey against the Daleks of Skaro. The specific incident that sparked the conflict remains unclear, but according to executive producer Russell T Davies, the origins dated back to conflicts between the Doctor and the Daleks. In Genesis of the Daleks (1975), the Time Lords—having foreseen the possibility of the Daleks conquering the universe—send the Fourth Doctor into the past in an attempt to avert the Daleks' creation, to affect their development to make them less aggressive, or discover an inherent weakness they could exploit.[2][3]

In retaliation for this ultimately unsuccessful mission, the Daleks attempt to infiltrate the High Council of the Time Lords with duplicates of the Fifth Doctor in Resurrection of the Daleks (1984), followed by an open declaration of hostilities by one of the Dalek Emperors in Remembrance of the Daleks (1988).[3]

The Time War officially began with the extinction of several time-traveling powers allied with the Time Lords known as the Temporal Powers. With the Temporal Powers being wiped out one-by-one, the Time Lords formally declared war with the Daleks.[3]

Progression

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The 'duration' and extent of the War has been unclear, with the Daleks vanishing out of time and space to fight the War, would indicate that it is not waged in normal space-time.[3] Nonetheless, there was fighting in a sufficient bulk of the cosmos, including on the planet Gallifrey.[4] The Doctor claims to have fought on the front lines and was present at the Fall of Arcadia, Gallifrey's second city.[4][5]

The Eighth Doctor at first was a conscientious objector, instead working to help where he could. His attempt to save a woman from a spaceship crashing towards the planet Karn fails, when she refuses his aid because he is a Time Lord, apparently believing that the Time Lords had become just as destructive as the Daleks. The Doctor is killed in the crash, but is temporarily restored to life by the Sisterhood of Karn, who finally convince him to fight for the sake of the universe. They further offer an elixir that would control his regeneration. The Doctor accepts, remarking that there was no need for a Doctor in a universe consumed by war, and regenerates into the War Doctor.[3]

Davros, the creator of the Daleks, also fights during the war after his creations rehabilitated him to a leadership position. In the first year of the War, Davros' command ship is seemingly destroyed. Unbeknownst to the Doctor, who had tried to save him, Davros is rescued by Dalek Caan, via an emergency temporal shift.[3]

The war results in countless millions dying endless deaths, as time travel is used by both sides to reverse battles that caused massive fatalities on both sides.[6] These excesses of temporal warfare eventually leads to the whole of the conflict becoming "time-locked", so that no time traveller could go back into it.[7] The Doctor describes the final days of the war as "hell".[6]

As the war progresses, the Time Lords become increasingly aggressive and unscrupulous. Growing in desperation, they access and use a cache of forbidden doomsday weapons known as the Omega Arsenal, save one: "the Moment".[4] Moreover, they resurrect the Master, a renegade Time Lord and nemesis to the Doctor, as they believe him to be the "perfect warrior for a time war". However, after the Dalek Emperor gained control of the Cruciform, the Master deserted his post.[8]

Leadership among the Time Lords remained vague during the earlier phase of the war. Ultimately, Rassilon, founder of the Time Lord society and its time travel technology, is resurrected to assume leadership as Lord President.[3] Refusing the possibility of his civilisation being destroyed by the Daleks, Rassilon prepares a doomsday scenario. It included sacrificing all of time itself, thereby destroying the Daleks and all life in the universe. The Time Lords themselves would have transcended into a non-corporeal collective consciousness that would be the only sentient form of life in existence. The Time Lords, apparently hardened by the horrors of war, give near-unanimous support for this plan – only two Time Lords dissented when the issue is put to a full vote.[6]

While the High Council continues to lead Time Lord society during the war, a separate War Council is tasked with overseeing the war itself, as well as Gallifrey's defences. The War Council is led by an unknown Time Lord general. During the last days of the Time War, the War Council apparently becomes disillusioned with the High Council.[4]

Conclusion

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On the last day of the Time War, the Daleks launched what is said to be their biggest attack ever on Gallifrey. Dalek forces captured the city of Arcadia, then laid siege to the capital itself. The War Doctor stole an ancient Gallifreyan weapon known as the Moment, and intended to reduce Gallifrey into "rocks and dust" with the inferno wiping out the Dalek fleet.[4]

Rassilon and his fellow councillors attempt to escape the Time Lock by retroactively planting a four-note drumbeat into the Master's brain as a child and cause his descent into madness. From there, once the signal is made tangible enough, a Whitepoint Star, a diamond only found on Gallifrey, is used to create a link between the final day of the Time War and Earth so the Master could release Gallifrey from the Time Lock. The plan ultimately fails, as the Doctor destroyed the diamond link and the Master apparently sacrificed his life to take revenge on Rassilon, sending the Time Lords back to their apparent doom.[6]

However, as "the Moment" had a will of its own, it showed the War Doctor an alternative solution and ultimately enabled the first thirteen incarnations of the Doctor, to gather to save Gallifrey by freezing it in time and removing it from the universe. The sudden disappearance of Gallifrey left the Daleks firing upon and subsequently annihilating themselves, while the Time Lords remained; albeit powerless and forgotten.[3]

As the War Doctor regenerates into the Ninth Doctor, his memory of saving Gallifrey is wiped as a means for his timeline to correct itself, leaving the Doctor with the belief he had in fact used the Moment to destroy Gallifrey, the Time Lords, and the Daleks. The Doctor is haunted with the false knowledge of his home planet's demise,[3] with even some of his enemies using that guilt against him.[8][9]

Aftermath

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Throughout series 5, the Eleventh Doctor encounters cracks in "the skin of the universe".[10][11][12][13] The Doctor learns that the cracks, which erase those they consume from history, are a result of the Silence causing the Doctor's TARDIS to explode on 26 June 2010.[14] During the events of "The Time of the Doctor", the Doctor discovers one remaining crack on the planet Trenzalore, through which the Time Lords transmit the First Question: "Doctor Who?". The intention is for the Doctor to give his true name, which will verify to the Time Lords it is safe for them to return to the universe.[3]

Fleets of various races, some being former War participants, gathered in Trenzalore's orbit to either prevent the Doctor from speaking his name, or resume the War if the Time Lords return. The Church of the Papal Mainframe undergoes a faith change into the Church of the Silence as a dedication to keeping the peace,[14] with a rogue chapter led by Madame Kovarian unknowingly causing the events in series 5 and 6 and leading to the Doctor's arrival on Trenzalore.[14][13][15][16][17] In the end, the Time Lords remain in exile and close the remaining crack, but not before granting the Doctor, old and weary from his years protecting Trenzalore, a new cycle of regenerations, which allow him to destroy the Dalek fleet surrounding the planet.[14]

Consequences

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Removal of the Time Lords

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In the 2006 episode "Rise of the Cybermen" when the Tenth Doctor, Rose Tyler and Mickey Smith are trapped in an alternate reality, the Doctor explains that, when the Time Lords were around, travel between parallel universes is less difficult but, with their demise, the paths between worlds are now closed.[18] The Time Lords could also prevent or repair paradoxes such as the one created by Rose in an attempt to save her father's life in a traffic accident.[19]

Remnants of the Daleks

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Further information: Dalek § Revived series

Dalek survivors of the war appeared regularly across many episodes,[3] until the Daleks trick the Eleventh Doctor into activating a Progenitor device which creates a new "Paradigm" of Daleks that destroy the previous Daleks and escape through time, forming a new race of Daleks.[20]

Survival of the Master

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After the Time War, the Doctor is convinced that he is the only surviving Time Lord, saying that he would know of any others if they had survived.[1] The Doctor later encounters a man named Professor Yana who is revealed to be the Master. The Master had been hiding in human form at the end of the universe using a Chameleon Arch, having escaped the destruction of both the Time Lords and the Daleks. By taking human form, he avoided detection by the Doctor, who was apparently unaware of his nemesis' resurrection during the Time War. The Master had remained ignorant of the latter phase and outcome of the war until he emerged from hiding, when he is told by the Doctor many years later.[21][8]

Impact on other species

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The timelines of other races and planets shift without the inhabitants of the worlds affected being aware of the changes in history, as they were a part of them. Most affected were the Zygons, who lost their home planet, Zygor, and attempted to conquer Earth for its resources;[4] the Eternals, and the Gelth, who lost their physical form and were reduced to gaseous beings, who attempted to possess human corpses in 1869 using a Time Rift in Cardiff.

The Time War and continuity

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The Time War provides a convenient in-story explanation for any contradictions in series continuity: for example, writer Paul Cornell has suggested that Earth's destruction by an expanding sun in "The End of the World" five billion years hence, as opposed to the original depiction of its demise around the year 10,000,000 AD in The Ark (1966), can be attributed to changes in history due to the war.[22] Steven Moffat, writer and later executive producer for Doctor Who, has gone further, arguing that "a television series which embraces both the ideas of parallel universes and the concept of changing time can't have a continuity error—it's impossible for Doctor Who to get it wrong, because we can just say 'he changed time—it's a time ripple from the Time War'".[23][24]

Time Wars in spin-off media

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The Last Great Time War also features in various Doctor Who spin-off media.

Eighth Doctor Adventures (The War in Heaven)

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In a story arc stretching through several of the Eighth Doctor Adventures novels, the Doctor learns that, at some point in his personal future, a war will be fought between the Time Lords and an unnamed enemy. Russell T Davies commented that there is no connection between the war of the books and the Time War of the television series, comparing the wars with Earth's two World Wars. He also said that he was "usually happy for old and new fans to invent the Complete History of the Doctor in their heads, completely free of the production team's hot and heavy hands".[25]

Gallifrey audio series

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The sixth series of Gallifrey features the Daleks invading Gallifrey,[26] but this invasion is undone thanks to Lord President Romana, Leela, K9 and Narvin, aided by Romana's future self. The ninth series more directly featured the Time War with Romana and Leela playing key roles,[27] including Leela being sent on a mission with the Derek Jacobi Master, and the resurrection of Rassilon through a complex Time Lord project that allowed Rassilon's consciousness to take over the body of another Time Lord.

Dark Eyes

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The Dark Eyes audio series is also in effect a lead up to the Last Great Time War from the Doctor's perspective, the first series being a complex plan by the Daleks to erase the Time Lords from existence.[28] Dark Eyes 2 also sees the resurrection of the Master in preparation for the war.[29]

Engines of War

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Written by George Mann, this novel features the War Doctor and is set in the Time War. During the novel, the War Doctor and his new companion Cinder discover that the Daleks intend to use the temporal anomalies of a rift in time in the Moldox system, to develop a weapon that could completely erase Gallifrey and the Time Lords from history, with Rassilon's plan to stop the Dalek plot involving the destruction of the rift and all inhabited planets around it. The Doctor sabotages Rassilon's plan and uses the energy of the rift to erase the Daleks' scheme, but the actions of a Time Lord agent result in Cinder's death, leaving the War Doctor resolved to end the war once and for all as he recognises how far his people have fallen in the name of victory.[3]

The War Doctor audio series

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The War Doctor series was produced by Big Finish Productions following John Hurt's role as the War Doctor in “The Day of the Doctor”. Hurt reprised his role alongside Jacqueline Pearce as Cardinal Ollistra, who frequently sends the War Doctor on missions to give the Time Lords the upper hand over the Daleks. Following Hurt's death, the series ended after four volumes in February 2017. A follow-up series was subsequently launched featuring the Eighth Doctor and set during the early years of the Time War.[30]

The Eighth Doctor: The Time War audio series

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With the announcement of The War Doctor, Big Finish Productions also announced a prequel box set featuring the Eighth Doctor during the early days of the conflict, later expanded into a four-volume series.[31] Paul McGann reprised his role with Rakhee Thakrar playing Bliss, his new companion.[32] The third volume also features the return of the Valeyard, who is recruited by the Time Lords attempt to be a soldier in the War after he is 'recreated' through an accident when the Doctor uses a transmat while carrying a device that can manipulate biology.[33]

The War Master audio series

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The War Master series was released in December 2017. The release features Derek Jacobi reprising his role as The Master from the 2007 episode "Utopia" and follows the character during the Time War.[34]

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