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Metabaron — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:34:12 CST

Newapocrypha is a Doctor Who Wiki site, set up as a resource covering every aspect of expanded continuity, references, speculation and role-playing. We are not interested in defining canon, but instead seek to draw together the many fictional facts presented by Doctor Who and its spin-offs since 1963, considering the implications of their inclusion as part of a coherent fictional universe. It is meant to enhance your enjoyment of one of the best fictional universes ever created.

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Newapocrypha is proud to host a new open game project set in and around the Doctor Who universe.

Based on the world's most popular role-playing game, The Whoniverse provides a complete set of role-playing rules and resources, available free and online.

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Shelf Life - The Craig Hinton Memorial Anthology

Metabaron — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 04:19:39 CST

Welcome to the home page for Shelf Life, the Craig Hinton Memorial Anthology, an unofficial collection of illustrated fiction inspired by the Doctor Who fiction of Craig Hinton, and dedicated to his memory. All profits will be donated to the BRITISH HEART FOUNDATION.

Craig, who passed away on 3rd December 2006, was best known for his Doctor Who spin-off works, which included the novels The Crystal Bucephalus, Millennial Rites, GodEngine, The Quantum Archangel and Synthespians, as well as the Excelis Decays audio play. He is known as the originator of "fanwank", a term based on the overt use of continuity references in his stories.

Such was the love and affection felt for Craig in the world of Doctor Who that many of his friends and fans felt the need to do something special to remember him by. The result of that need has now been realised in the form of Shelf Life, which contains stories from people all around the world, writers and ordinary fans alike.

With so many contributions, and so many first-time writers, it has taken the best part of two years to bring this project to fruition. With slipping deadlines fluctuating between his birthdays and the anniversaries of his death, we're finally in a position to make our tribute available.

The first batch of books has just arrived, and as you can see from the picture, they're of a similar style and format to the BBC Books hardbacks - but bigger (a lot bigger).

Shelf Life is currently available in two formats - as an electronic .PDF file (available by email or on CD) and as the 624-page perfect bound hardback book.

Ordering details will be posted here shortly.

Contributions from: John Aggs, James Ambuehl, William Andrews, Peter Anghelides, Jon Arnold, Chris Askham, Andy Baker, Allan Bednar, Simon Bucher Jones, Damon Cavalchini, Andrew Cheverton, Peet Clack, Roger Clark, D’Israeli, Jonathon Dalton, Alec Daniels, Vince Danks, Darren Douglas, Stuart A Douglas, Jay Eales, Paul Ebbs, Garen Ewing, Josceline Fenton, Toby Ford, Simon A Forward, Roger Gibson, Brian Gorman, Steve Graeme, Matthew Griffiths, Allan Harvey, Steve Hatcher, Craig Hinton, Laura Howell, Mike Juniper, Tim Keable, Andy Lane, Roger Langridge, Robbie Langton, Andrew K Lawston, Jen Leavesley, Yishan Li, Marvin Mann, David McIntee, Chris McKeon, Ant Mercer, Mark Michalowski, Adrian Middleton, Fiona Moore, Mike Morgan, Jim Mortimore, Bevis Musson, Peter Neville, Lee O’Connor, Daniel O’Mahony, Kate Orman, Caroline Parkinson, Paul Peart-Smith, Stephen Prestwood, Pete Rajski, Graeme Neil Reid, Natalie Sandells, Rachel Simpson Hutchens, Dale Smith, Oli Smith, Rachel Steffan, Alan Stevens, Daniel Tessier, Christer Van, Emma Vieceli, Nick Wallace, Dave Whittam, Terry Wiley, Dave Windett

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Break in Service

Metabaron — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:14:43 CST

Saturday, October 27th 2007.

There's not been much activity on the site from me in the last few weeks, and there certainly won't be much between now and the end of November. There are several reasons for this:

The editing of Shelf Life, the Craig Hinton fan anthology, is drawing to a close;
I've been focusing on a new role-playing game, Don't Panic!, based on The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy;
I'll be writing a NaNoWriMo entry, The Monochromatic Man, throughout the month of November.

In the mean time, Newapocrypha has necessarily plummetted in the wetpaint site rankings. It's a pity, but it's only temporary. I'm sure we'll turn it around over Christmas and the New Year.

In the mean time, we have the Sarah Jane Adventures and November 10th's Children in Need special, Time Crash, to look forward to. Written by Stephen Moffat, it's sadly now referred to only as a scene rather than as a story, which suggests only 5-10 minutes of air-time. With released pictures showing the older Davison in costume sans wig, there's clearly no attempt being made to make him look younger, so I expect continuity forums to be rife with speculation immediately afterwards.

As it's a continuity conundrum Craig Hinton would have relished, I may put something in Shelf Life.

Anyway, my treat of the month is a link to 3 Doctors appearing in 1985's Children in Need:

All text contained within Psychopomp and Circumstance is copyright © Adrian Middleton, 2007. All thoughts and opinions expressed within the confines of this thread are those of the author and do not, in any way, reflect the views or opinions of any other group or individual connected with the newapocrypha site.

Psychopomp and Circumstance

Metabaron — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:45:48 CDT

Welcome to Metabaron's Doctor Who Blog. This will be an occasional insight into the mind of the fool who set up the New Apocrypha website as a means of pampering his strange and eclectic obsession with the world of Doctor Who.

Who is
Metabaron?

Metabaron's

Non-Who Blog

Who else

Blogs here?

Why Psychopomp and Circumstance? Well, its the subtitle of a religio-rom-pol-phil-fan-com novel that I once half-wrote. I say half-wrote because I stopped writing to start a millennial religio-rom-pol-phil-fan-com about three months before the millennium.

Which I didn't finish in time.

In fact, my writing - the obsession which drives me most - has had a checquered history that's often been compromised by one of my other obsessions (usually games design or Doctor Who). Like many, I dabbled with New Adventures submissions in the early 90s, but ultimately shot myself in the foot through my career as a fanzine editor. I backed away from the whole gig before the BBC Books came along - largely because (a) I got sidetracked by family issues, and (b) I earned more money in the day job.

Which brings me to the blog and the wiki. I have a blog elsewhere, and I'm here instead because I hate posting there about Doctor Who if I can help it. As for the wiki, content management has finally caught up with my expectations. Wetpaint allows me to do with a wiki what I did with the fanzines I used to edit in the 1990s.

Now all I have to do is see if I can find an audience.

Date
Title
Tags

Saturday, October 27th
Break in Service
Children in Need, Don't Panic, NaNoWriMo, Shelf Life, Time Crash

Sunday, October 7th
Beyond the Box
Christmas, Don't Panic, fanzines, OpenID

Sunday, September 16th
The Gap Year, Part II
fanzines, Patrick Stewart, Rumours, Series 5

Monday, September 6th
The Gap Year
Series 5

Sunday, August 26th
Islands of Them and Us
kate orman

Tuesday, August 22nd
The Two or More Doctors
Series 4

Friday, August 10th
The Wants List
Series 4

Monday, July 30th
Canon Balls
canon, paul cornell

Sunday, July 29
Club Comicana
IDW, comics

Sunday, July 22
Strange Matters

All text contained within Psychopomp and Circumstance is copyright © Adrian Middleton, 2007. All thoughts and opinions expressed within the confines of this thread are those of the author and do not, in any way, reflect the views or opinions of any other group or individual connected with the newapocrypha site.

Beyond the Box

Metabaron — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:10:21 CDT

Sunday, October 7th 2007.

There is life beyond Doctor Who.

The resurgence of the show and with it the boom in the fan scene takes me back to the 1990s, when my fanzine duties (see my last blog, well over a fortnight ago) became so overwhelming that I had to take a very long break.

Imagine it, juggling a day job and family with the production of between 2 and 4 fanzines per month, co-running a relatively big fan club and, in particular, one of its monthly meeting venues, desperately trying to get your book pitches accepted, and.... anyway, you get the picture.

It was, of course, never meant to be like that. It just creeps up on you and suddenly all other interests are squeezed to one side. This time, its different. A decade on and the world wide web lets me publish more content online than I could ever have imagined back in 199~. It's taken a while, but I've embraced it. Although I've not quite managed growing my audience yet - choosing to put my blog here instead of on a social networking site like Livejournal means people have to actively seek it out, and I've been so busy creating content I haven't stopped to think abut promoting it.

Furthermore, people don't like joining new websites if they can link to their existing one. I'm the same, which is partly why I'm here on a content aggregator site that can pull stuff from other places and can be seen in public, but which needs a little bit of commitment to sign up to.

Fortunately, there's this new thing called OpenID, which both my blog at Livejournal and Wetpaint here are signed up to. If you use a lot of open source or social networking sites, then OpenID allows you to log in to everywhere with a consistent password. So if you do sign up to wetpaint, once you're here you can slip in and out on one identity.

Anyway, this latest entry is a plug for non-Who stuff - the stuff beyond the Blue Box, so to speak.

First up, the Don't Panic! wiki. I'm pretty pleased that in a short space of time I've not just put together a content-rich Hitchhikers' Guide website, but that it hosts an already-playable, near-finished role-playing game which I think captures a lot of the atmosphere of the Douglas Adams universe really well. But then I would say that, wouldn't I?

I'm also toying with the idea of setting up some other interest-based wikis, particularly relating to Octobriana, a favourite character of mine, and maybe one or two completely original things which I shan't reveal just yet (in the old days I would have told you, raised your expectations, and then crashed and burned).

The other news, of course, is why I've been less active on Newapocrypha for the last month: Shelf Life, the fan anthology dedicated to the memory of my friend Craig Hinton, who died on 23rd December 2007. Etiting should finish in early November, which gives me one heck of a challenge to get the book out immediately afterwards.

In the mean time, check out my other wiki, sign-up here, sign-up with OpenID, and get participating.

Anyway, Christmas is around the corner, the merchandise is flooding into the shops, so here's a little funny from Dead Ringers to get you in the mood...

Discussion Threads

Metabaron — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:52:41 CDT

Ths page has been set aside for general discussions not covered by other site pages.

The Gap Year, Part II

Metabaron — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 05:22:37 CDT

Sunday, September 16th 2007.

I've been wondering some more, and had some thoughts and feedback from a few friends on my last post, and its got me reminiscing for the days of my former fanzine, Rumours.

For those not in the know, Rumours was a fortnightly fanzine I edited waaay back (1993-1996), which had a bit of a mixed reputation. Aside from Dreamwatch, I think it was the only news-oriented Who fanzine around. Well, I say news, it was mostly rumour and speculation (and was always labelled as such), and 75% of the stuff reported never came to pass. But the other 25% was pure gold.

Anyway, my blog sparked some gossip and rumour just like the good old days. So I thought instead of commenting in general, it would be nice to just share some new rumours with everybody.

First, that the three-stories in 2009 will be David Tennant's 'departure arc' - three linked stories designed to hand over to the eleventh Doctor. This means (as reported in the press and commented on by DT) that Tennant won't be around for Series 5.

The next bit of rumour is that another reason for the gap. It wasn't just negotiated to keep Tennant until 2009, but also to secure his replacement, who would not be available for filming until... 2009.

This suggests quite a big name, which I think is as it should be next time around. Now the US market has been broken open the next Doctor needs to be someone who can crack it wide open.

The name in the frame?

Patrick Stewart

Now I'd be the first to dismiss Stewart as the fanboy's wet dream, but it does make a good deal of sense. Other than some possible voiceover work for the Wolverine and Magneto movies, Stewart has no longstanding serial commtments. Trek is returning to its roots, and he has expressed no desire to follow the Shatner path of perpetual returns.

Its also interestng to note that a series with Stewart was ITV's knee-jerk response to the return of Doctor Who in 2005.

Both Stewart and Tennant will be at the RSC together which is a great publicity driver for all concerned. Also, Stewart has demonstrated his ability to commit to a serial (7 years of Trek is a major commitment), although with his theatre work and age (he is 67 - in 2010 he will be 70) I'd expect him to negotiate for a less punishing schedule than Ecclestone and Tennant have achieved.

A semi-hiatus and a test of the new arc format with fewer episodes would certainly make sense if someone like Stewart were the Beeb's objective. Think the reality of Doctor Who is that it is the most demanding homebrew show on Television today.

OK, so Russell T Davies said he couldn't see a future Doctor over 40. Well, there are easy answers to that. Davies has lied before for the sake of preserving his plans, and as an over-40 himself I'd struggle to believe that was a genuine view. Also, by the end of Series 4 it looks like we'll see multiple companions - Freema, Tom McInnery and possibly Catherine Tate.

Stewart has gone on record as stating his preference for ensemble productions, and it has to be said that Doctor Who has already gained a reputation as the best 'family' show (although its a long trek down from Yorkshire to Cardiff).

Multiple companions was of course the traditional crutch for older Doctors, and a young healthy ensemble with an older mentor is a proven format, and in a way it has been set up by having the much older Derek Jacobi precede the arrival of John Simm as the Master.

Of course, this is just a rumour. And I still find myself pretty sceptical. Not being ageist, taking on such a demanding lead role at 70 would be a brave thing. Older parts are common for ensemble shows, or pensioner-focused shows, but action-adventure?

The character of the Doctor has been turned into a superhero since the days of William Hartnell, who himself left the role at the age of 58. Without returning to the Hartnellian stereotype, I'd find it hard for the Doctor's alien physiogromy not to be called upon during the course of his adventures.

If the logic of all of this is sound, even if the casting of Stewart is dubious, then it does open things up for who else could be in the frame.

Bill Nighy has been mooted before, but although he's a known face, he's hardly a major draw in the US.

Antony Head has the profile, but his appearance as the Headmaster was much more high profile than, say, Colin Baker's Maxil (not that that would bother Russell), and if the Ripper series wasn't a further obstancle he'd be a good person to have on board if there was a plan to get Joss Whedon on board as the showrunner to take over from RTD.

Alan Rickman again springs to mind - he has cult followings, a history with the BBC, and Severus Snape will continue to be high profile into 2010 and beyond. Rickman is also keep to shrug off the villain stereotype (he hasn't playe one since 1991) and Doctor Who would achieve that for him.

Then there's James Purefoy, who got quite a good profile in the HBO-produced Rome, and it suits the kind of characters he likes to play.

Of course, if Stewart does turn out to be the Doctor, he'll have to do the Yorkshire accent.

Rassilon

Metabaron — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 13:50:53 CDT

Rassilon was the legendary founding father of Time Lord society on Gallifrey.

Much of his early life is subject to myth and speculation, and the time before he created the Time Lords is known as the Time of Legend. In all of his incarnations he is portrayed as a larger than life character who considers himself to be the highest authority in all things. He is judgemental, quick to anger and uncompromising, but his knowledge and wisdom are rarely challenged.

While official accounts portray him as a wise and benevolent leader, other tales portray a ruthless and selfish dictator who stole the credit for his many artifacts and who exploited the deaths of those closest to him.

Created by	Robert Holmes; portrayed by Richard Matthews & Don Warrington
Gender	Male
Age	3.5 billion
Species	Gallifreyan (Time Lord)
First Appearance	The Five Doctors (first mentioned in The Deadly Assassin)
Native Time & Place	Gallifrey, Year 0 onwards
Aliases	Arsilon; As Ra; Ras or Rass; Urizen the Architect
Occupation(s)	Solar Engineer, Leader of the Opposition, Founder and Lord High President of the Time Lords
Membership(s)	Neo-Technologists, The Council of Higher Evolutionaries, The Matrix Lords, The Time Lords
Affiliation(s)	The Doctor, The Kro'Ka, Omega, The Other, Rassilon's Cat, Shayde
Enemies	The Divergents, The Doctor, The Great Old Ones, The Pythia, Thrift, Vampires, The Yssgaroth
Known relatives	Haclav Agusti Prydonius (cousin), Peylix (cousin), Quennesander Olyesti Pekkary (nephew), Susan Foreman (last scion)
Base of Operations	Gallifrey, The Matrix and The Divergence
Other Appearances	Remembrance of the Daleks (novelisation), Legacy of Gallifrey, Gallifrey Chronicles, Cat's Cradle:Time's Crucible, The Tides of Time, The Stockbridge Horror, The Final Chapter, Seasons of Fear (off-stage), Neverland, Zagreus, The Next Life, Interference

Rassilon has appeared in several different bodies or incarnations, although it is not certain that these are the result of traditional Time Lord regenerations or other means.

The Five Rassilons

The First Rassilon	Rassilon the Vampire	President Rassilon
Matrix Lord Rassilon	Rassilon Reborn

History

In Gallifreyan myth, Rassilon fulfils the same role as Moses does in Jewish and Christian literature. He is the wise lawgiver about whom there are many contradictory myths and legends. The son of a suet shredder, no tales of his childhood have yet been recounted, although it is likely that he was born in one of the three minute cities (possibly Onasti). His birth name may have been Rassil Onasti Prydonius, although his rejection of family names during the Intuitive Revelation makes this attribution apocryphal. He may have been born into the House of Fordfarding, where he was brought up alongside his cousins Peylix and Haclav Agusti Prydonius. As one of the four founders of Gallifrey he is attributed with the creation of the Prydonian Chapter.

The earliest stories of Rassilon establish him as a man of great passions (such as when he won his factotum and manservant Thrift as a prize in a marketpace brawl) as well as being a leading scientist and academic who rose to a position of seniority within Gallifrey's scientific elite. This led to him becoming a political figurehead and leader of the Neo-Technologists, who opposed the rule of the 258th Pythia. As such he is credited with bringing the Intuitive Revelation to Gallifrey, replacing a culture of superstition and magic with an age of science and reason.

During the early days of his rulership, Rassilon maintained an office above the west wing of the Academia Library. Like his contemporary Omega, Rassilon was a stellar engineer responsible for a number of time travel experiments which would later form the basis for time lord culture. Together with Omega and another, unnamed hero of Gallifrey, Rassilon presided a ruling Triumvirate. However, as a figurehead for revolution he found himself blamed for bringing the Pythia's Curse down upon the people of Gallifrey, and found his researches diverted into finding a means of preventing his people's extinction.

There are rumours that Rassilon left no stone unturned in his quest for survival, waging against many races and plundering their darkest secrets. Some say he was marked by the Menti Celesti, Gallifrey's Gods, while others believe he became a vampire. Still others suspect that he went mad. Whatever the truth may be, he returned stronger an more resolute, bringing with him the secret of regeneration. He retired from politics to return to his time travel experiments.

Once in power Rassilon took an active interest in architecture, and was responsible for the commissioning of many iconic landmarks across the Capitol. This interest resulted in the creation of a number of hyperdimensional constructs including the Death Zone, the Foundry and the Matrix.

Collaborating with Omega, he developed the technology that would make his people lords of time. In the wake of Omega's death, Rassilon captured and stabilized the black hole that came to be known as the Eye of Harmony, whose energies used to place Gallifrey at the centre of the Web of Time and to grant the power to travel through time.

As the consequences of Rassilon's actions became clear, Gallifrey was plunged into a series of conflicts across time and space. It is uncertain how many conflicts there were, or with whom, but at the end Rassilon decided to took control of Gallifrey again, declaring himself to be the first Lord President.

During this period - known as the Dark Time - many of the Grand Artifacts were created, and Rassilon's disregard for the opinions of others led to political tensions. Rassilon's last folly was known as the Game of Rassilon, in which time-scooped warriors drawn from all over time and space were pitted against each other to fight to the death. It was rumored that the High Council forced him back into retirement. Moving away from the Capitol, Rassilon secreted himself away in the Foundry for many years, where he returned into his research. Here he developed one last piece of technology - the Matrix - before building his own memorial, the Tower of Rassilon. His rare appearances had led many to presume that he was already dead, and when he eventually disappeared a sarcophagus was placed in the Tomb.

Like the Matrix Lords whose home he had constructed, Rassilon's consciousness lived on inside the Matrix, through which he maintained links with successive Presidents and also with the enlightened representatives of the most highly evolved races of the universe. Keeping a watchful eye upon the universe, he continued to exert his influence through various agents that included Shayde and the Doctor.

Eventually Rassilon's continued physical presence was uncovered by the eighth Doctor and President Romana, who also exposed evidence of Rassilon's darker side - of his crimes against the races of the universe now known as the divergents and of the xenophobic zeal he used to ensure that Gallifreyans were the dominant life form in the universe.

In an act of self-sacrifice, the Doctor banished both himself and Rassilon into the Divergence, an artificial universe built to house Rassilon's enemies. While the Doctor managed to return, Rassilon's fate remains unknown.

The Legends of Rassilon do hint at his final doom. It is said that once, long ago, "one mad prophet martyr journeyed too far and saw the Timewyrm. He saw it in a timeline that he could not be sure of, devouring Rassilon or his shade, during the Blue Shift, that time of final conflict when Fenric shall slip his chains and the evil of the worlds shall rebound back on them in war."

Influence

Rassilon almost single handedly established the traditions which were followed by Gallifreyan society since the fall of the Pythia. Perhaps by stealing credit from his peers, Rassilon was largely responsible for his own legend, presenting himself not as the short man he was in reality, but as a giant of great stature whose actions are central to the creation of the Time Lords.

Oaths are sworn in his name, having been corrupted into curses and profanities such as "Rassilon's Death!", Rassilon's Ghost!", "Rassilon's Rod!" and "For Rassilon's Sake!" .

Festivals such as Rassilon's Flag Day (the Gallifreyan festival of liberation from the Pythia's regime) are celebrated, whilst the symbols of Rassilon - the Gallifreyan Owl (his totem animal) and the Great Seal of Rassilon - are revered and represented, along with his visage, in many forms of traditional architecture.

The finest wine on Gallifrey has come to be be known as Rassilons Red, so-called because it may have been his favourite.

His legends have inspired the birth of several Rassilite cults and religions. To the Eremites he is Urizen the Architect – the blind man who measures and quantifies his dung, while deep in the lower levels of the Capitol the secretive Cult of Rassilon the Vampire worships a version of Rassilon who defeated his enemies by becoming like them. Many secret followers of Rassilon act as his agents on Gallifrey, ascending to take their seats among the Matrix Lords when they die.

Another Legend involving Rassilon is that of the Other, a member of the ruling triumvirate also known as Rassilon's Cat. The greatest legend of his legends lies in the mystery of his death, and the belief that he achieved the secret of perpetual regeneration - true immortality unfettered by the restraints of Gallifreyan technology.

Architecture of Rassilon

The Grand Hall of Rassilon	The Foundry
The Panopticon	Rassilon's Rampart
Rassilon's Star	Rassilon's Wheel
The Tower of Rassilon (Tomb of Rassilon)

The Great Artifacts

The Demat Gun	The Great Key
The Great Seal	The Rod of Rassilon
The Sash of Rassilon

Inventions of Rassilon

Bastards of Rassilon

Bowships

The Foxtrot of Rassilon

The Legacy of Rassilon (Regeneration)

The Matrix

The Profane Virus of Rassilon

Time Scoop

The Web of Time

Lesser Artifacts of Rassilon

The Black Scrolls of Rassilon	The Coronet of Rassilon	The Harp of Rassilon
The Horns of Rassilon (Sign of Rassilon)	The Key of Rassilon	The Loom of Rassilon's Mouse
The Ring of Rassilon	The Other Ring of Rassilon	The Runes of Rassilon
The Seal of Rassilon	The Star of Rassilon	The Sword of Rassilon

Edicts of Rassilon

The Directive of Rassilon	The Equation of Rassilon	The Game of Rassilon
The Laws of Time	The Pact of Rassilon	The Rassilon Imprimature
The Record of Rassilon	The Rule of Rassilon	The Scrolls of Rassilon
The Seven Strictures of Rassilon	The Triumphs of Rassilon

Quantum Mnemonics

Metabaron — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 13:20:19 CDT

Quantum mnemonics are a set of tools used to manipulate the fabric of time and space.

The principle behind quantum mnemonics is that the universe can be reprogrammed if you know the right code, but that the code requires processing of such a high order that only the most advanced races in the universe can (a) write it, and (b) memorise it.

Any being that can perceive a mathematical model of the universe in its head is capable of altering its fabric, but performing such a function is a one-time event. Quantum mnemonics are shortcuts that turn the full code into a universal "macro" which can be applied when needed by someone who understands the fundamental principles.

Quantum mnemonics tend to come in three forms - symbolic, mimetic, and oral.
A symbolic mnemonic is a sign or seal known as a vever (taken from the vodun word for a religious sigil). Once scribed the vever is permanent, and can be activated only by someone whose mind is trained to understand the mathematical nature of the universe.

Oral or mimetic mnemonics are embedded idea committed to memory. They are harder to create and more limited in scope than vevers. Those able to create them tend to use words (hence oral) or hand gestures (mimesis) to focus their thoughts, resulting in a single effect which resembles spellcasting.

Quantum mnemonics were created by Adrian Middleton for an unpublished Doctor Who novel, The Fugue, and first appeared in print in the fanzine Apocrypha in 1993. They were used by Craig Hinton in his second novel, Millennial Rites, in 1995. Mimesis was introduced by Lance Parkin in his novel Cold Fusion, published in 1996.

Quantum Mnemonics on-screen

Quantum mnemonics have not, to date, appeared on-screen (having first been used in Virgin's New Adventures), although the Doctor Who story School Reunion by Toby Whitehouse refers to the Skasas Paradigm, which would appear to be the way of thinking needed to manipulate the fabric of time and space (thereby unlocking the power of quantum mnemonics).

Direct manipulation of time and space (albeit inside a black hole) is demonstrated in The Three Doctors, where it is called psychosynthesis. This ability is referred to in the audio Death Comes to Time by Colin Meek as "the power of the fourth".

Block transfer computations, seen in Logopolis, would appear to be the long form calculation for which quantum mnemonics provide a shortcut.

The History of Quantum Mnemonics

Quantum mnemonics were originally used by the Great Old Ones that occupied a previous universe, and were the means by which Yog Sothoth (aka The Great Intelligence) originally transported them into the current universe. The black hole by which they entered the universe is synonymous with the original Azathoth.

The secret of quantum mnemonics was discovered by Rassilon, and was instrumental in creating both the web of time and the Great Seals and Covenants used to imprison the Great Old Ones.

When the Time Lords originally surveyed the universe, they used navigational markers known as tychomnemonic arrays. These devices can, in emergencies, be used to trigger hidden powers that can turn Time Lords into killing machines.

The vevers used to store Quantum Mnemonics are recorded in certain books known to have been available in the Library of St. John the Beheaded around the turn of the millennium.

The Physics of Quantum Mnemonics

Quantum mnemonics have no basis in real science, but represent the means by which an intelligent race can exert its influence upon the nature of the universe (in accordance with the anthropic principle).

Any civilisation capable of understanding and using quantum mnemonics would be capable or a "technological singularity event", allowing that race to shape the laws of the universe to its own ends. They work by triggering a predetermined mathematical formula which must be understood by the user for the mnemonic to work. This formula rewrites the local laws of space and time, but in doing so creates a singularity - a hole in the fabric of time and space. Most singularities created by this process evaporate quickly as their information is synthesized into a new form by the controlling mind (hence the term psychosynthesis).

Quantum Mnemonics in role-playing

Game Mechanics

OGL	FASA	Time Lord

Warpsmiths

Metabaron — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 13:03:33 CDT

The Warpsmiths of Phaidon are one of the few time active races in the universe, and are thought to second in power only to the Time Lords themselves. The race is named after its members’ ability to warp themselves - teleporting themselves or others instantaneously to any point in the universe.

Humanoid in form, the Phaidon were pale-skinned creatures with only three fingers to each hand and four nostrils. Like the Gallifreyans, they were a long-lived species who encouraged the belief that they were immortal. Individuals lived for millennia, allowing Phaidon to forge a major political union known as the Confederacy of the Gulf Worlds.

Like Gallifrey, Phaidon was cursed with a plague of sterility that forced its people to find a means of surviving. They did so by creating the Warpsmiths – four black, armoured, giants.

As the original Phaidon race died out, the Black Warpsmiths secured the future of the Confederacy. They created vast bank of warp batteries that power subdermal warp circuitry, implanting it at birth into a cadre of human-sized clones. This circuitry has made the Warpsmiths masters of speed, teleportation and quantum mathematics, removing the need for conventional spacecraft.

The Warpsmiths of Phaidon are divided into strict castes defined by the colour of their skin – the Red Warpsmiths are artisans and scientists who tend to the hearts of stars and maintain the Warpsmith’s technological advantage; the White Warpsmiths are a corps of warriors; the Grey Warpsmiths are politicians and diplomats, and the Blue Warpsmiths are artists, dancers, painters and bureaucrats.

Millennia ago, one of the Black Warpsmiths ascended to a higher existence, becoming a destructive, god-like entity. In the wake of his disappearance, the other Black Warpsmiths passed into legend, following a destructive quest they know will lead to their destructon.

Back on Phaidon, the Warpsmiths used their great power to enforce a code to lend support to those worlds and cultures less technologically or biologically advanced than themselves. This policy was replaced with one of non-intervention following a major political and territorial conflict with the Qys, a race of parasitic shapeshifters. After four galactic wars, their conflict settled into a cold war that lasted centuries, ending in stalemate during the final days of Earth’s 20th Century. They have signatories in a number of major galactic treaties including the Peace Accord of Dressilius (with the Qys) and the Archetryx Convention (with the other temporal powers of the universe).

Seen as cold and aloof, the Warpsmiths are renowned for their stoic calm, which belies the ruthless efficiency of their martial skills.

Warpsmith Appearances

Warpsmith Biology

Warpsmith Technology

Warpsmiths and Roleplaying

It is important to remember that the Warpsmiths began as a race of beings who interacted with superheroes, capable of working alongside Marvelman, one of the most powerful and godlike heroes in comicbook history. Their powers are awesome but can be limited by the confines of small, up-close adventures.

Game Statistics

OGL

FASA

Time Lord

Warpsmiths were created by Alan Moore and Garry Leach in 1982, and are ©Garry Leach, Alan Moore 2007.

Meeps

Metabaron — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 12:57:13 CDT

Hailing from the Wrarth Galaxy, the Meeps were once a peaceful race of wide-eyed innocents more interested in hopping and skipping than in waging war. Their sun, however, was a neutron star imbued with strange properties, and when their homeworld's orbit shifted, their world was exposed to high levels of radiation, and their nature was forever changed.

In their home galaxy, under the rule of Beep the Most High, the Meeps declared a Star Krieg which resulted in the conquest and slaughter of a thousand worlds. Only when the Wrarth Star Council authorized retaliation did a Star Alliance track down and destroy the Meep Armada at the Battle of Yarras. Since then, most of the surviving Meeps were tracked down and prosecuted for war crimes, but a few survive, relying on their wits and their cute exterior to find refuge all over the universe.

Meeps resemble small, round, furry marsupials with saucer-sized eyes and big pointy ears. They have a thick coat of fur and an innocent demeanour which belies their true nature. They exploit their cute appearance as a sort of behavioural camouflage, and they are easily mistaken for harmless animals. When alone, Meeps refrain from exposing their violent nature, and most fatalities caused result from ignorant but well-meaning tourists who attempt to pet or adopt them.

Meep Appearances

Meep Biology

Meep Technology

Meeps and Roleplaying

Game Statistics

OGL

FASA

Time Lord

Alien Races

Metabaron — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 12:54:51 CDT

The Doctor Who universe is rich with diverse forms of life which populate it.

A

Absorbaloffs; Alpha Centaurans; Althracians; Alzarians; Androgums; Arcateen (Butterfly People); Arcturans; Argolins; Aridians; Autons; Axons

B

Bandrils; Bane; Bannermen; Boemena; Brudyac

C

Carrionites; Chameleons; Cheetah People; Chelonians; Chimerons; Chronovores; Chula; Chumblies; Cryons; Cybermats; Cybermen

D

Daemons; Daleks; Darklings; Demonic Fairies; Didonians; Dogon; Dominators; Draconians; Drahvin; Drashigs; Droon

E

Ergons; Eternals; Exxilons

F

Fendahleen; Fendahl Predators; Fleshsmiths; Foamasi; Forest of Cheem; Futurekind

G

Gallifreyans; Gastropods; Gaztaks; Gelth; Gonds; Graske

H

Haemovores; Hoix; Horda

I

Ice Lords; Ice Warriors; Isolus

J

Jacondans; Jagaroth; Jagrafess; Judoon

K

Kaleds; Kamelions; Karfelons; Kinda; Kraals; Krillitanes; Kroll (Lesser); Kroll (Greater); Krotons; Krynoids

L

Lakertyans; Lobri; Logopolitans; Lurmans

M

Macra; Malevilus; Mandrills; Marshmen; Marshspiders; Mechanoids; Meeps; Megara; Melkene; Menoptera; Mentiads; Mentors; Mirebeasts; Mogarians; Monans; Monoids; Morestrans; Morlox; Movellans; Mutos; Myrka

N

Naglons; Navarinos; Nekkistani; New Humans; Nimon;

O

Ogri; Ogrons; Ogron Lords; Ood; Optera; Orgasmatons (Sex Gas)

P

Pakhar; Pel; Phaester Osirans; Pig Men; Plasmavores; Porg; Primords

Q

Quarks; Qwevvils; Qys

R

Racnoss; Raston Robots; Raxacoricofallapatorians; Reapers; Refusians; Rills; Robomen; Robots (Dum); Robots (Voc); Robots (Supervoc); Robots (Ultravoc); Rutans

S

Sea Devils; Seaweed; Selachians; Sensorites; Servicers; Shades; Shalka; Shrivenzales; Silurians; Sisters of Plenitude; Slabs; Slythers; Solonians; Sontarans; Spiridons; Stigorax; Swampies; Sycorax

T

Tapeworm Parasites; Terileptils; Terradonians; Tetraps; Thals; Tharils; Tigellans; Time Lords; Time Wraiths; Toclafane; Tractators; Trakenites; Trions; Tythonians; Tzun

U

Urbankans; Usurians;

V

Vampires; Vanir; Vardans; Varga Plants; Varosians; Vervoids; Vogans; Voord; Vortisaurs

W

Warpsmiths; Waterhive; Weevils; Werewolves; Wirrrn; Wolfweed; Wolves of Fenric; Wrarth

X

Xeraphin; Xerons

Y

Yeti;

Z

Zarbi; Zolfa-Thurans; Zygons

Warpsmiths (OGL)

Metabaron — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 12:53:37 CDT

Species Traits

Subdermal Circuitry (Su): The source of a Warpsmith’s power is the subdermal circuitry implanted into his skin at birth. This lattice draws its energies directly from powerful warp batteries on their homeworld, to which each Warpsmith is connected via warp ellipse. As long as this circuitry is functional, a Warpsmith is capable of the following:

1. Energy Touch (Ex):

2. Multi-Attack (Ex): ….

3. Warp Speed (Ex): ….

4. Warp Pocket (Ex):

5. Warp Sense (Ex): …

6. Warp Teleport (Su): Warpsmiths can teleport to any unshielded location in the universe, so long as they know or can calculate where it is.

Teleportation Difficulty

Dermal Armour (Ex): To protect their subdermal circuitry all Warpsmiths wear a thin film of gold and black armour which vaguely resembles that of a Samurai Warrior.

Immunities (Ex): Warpsmiths are immune to radiation.

Warpsmith Templates

White Warpsmith (Warrior):

Red Warpsmith (Artisan):

Grey Warpsmith (Diplomat):

Blue Warpsmith (Aesthete):

Advancement: by caste
Progress level: 9

Equipment

Body Wardrobe – …

Warp Sword – …

Multi Tool – …

The Doctor

Metabaron — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 10:38:07 CDT

[insert description here]

Created by

Sidney Newman; principally portrayed by William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant.

Gender
Male

Age
Not known

Species
Gallifreyan (Time Lord)

First Appearance
An Unearthly Child

Native Place
Gallifrey

Native Time
Rassilon Era

Aliases
Grandfather

Occupation(s)
Teacher, Time Lord, President, Time's Champion

Membership(s)
The Prydonian Chapter, The Fraction, UNIT.

Affiliation(s)

Enemies

Known relatives
Susan Foreman (granddaughter)

Base of Operations
The TARDIS (plus Lungbarrow, The Capitol, Foreman's Yard, UNIT HQ, Earth (1889-2001) )

Other Appearances

History

Links

Roleplaying Statistics

D20

FASA

Time Lord

History

The First Doctor
The Second Doctor
The Third Doctor

The Fourth Doctor
The Fifth Doctor
The Sixth Doctor

The Seventh Doctor
The Eighth Doctor
The Ninth Doctor

The Tenth Doctor
The Valeyard
Other Doctors

Unbound Doctors
Fanon Doctors

Links

Doctor Who

Metabaron — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 09:53:16 CDT

Doctor Who is the name of the British science fiction drama series that was first broadcast on November 23rd 1963, and follows the adventures of the time-traveller known as The Doctor.

To date, Doctor Who has been produced for television in three distinct versions:

The classic series, running from 1963 to 1989, lasted some 26 seasons, spanning the adventures of seven different incarnations of the Doctor, played by William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker and, finally, Sylvester McCoy.

The TV movie, a joint production between Fox Television, Universal Studios and the BBC, was first broadcast in the US on June 14th 1996, starred Paul McGann as the eighth Doctor. Despite hopes that it might result in the commissioning of further stories, an ongoing series did not follow.

Finally, the new series, launched on the 26th March 2005, introduced Christopher Eccleston as the ninth and David Tennant as the tenth Doctor. With a fifth season confirmed, the series is considered to be more popular than either of its predecessors.

The series spawned 2 motion pictures starring Peter Cushing in 1965 and 1966 and a number of unmade motion pictures and other TV projects.

Doctor Who the Brand

Beyond the small screen, the Doctor Who brand has been successfully exploited in a number of media (two motion pictures plus animations, books, comics, audios, radio broadcasts and webcasts) and across a number of commercial franchises. Throughout its history, the logo used by the current TV series has been adopted by merchandise, although with the launch of a new series in 2005 a new approach was taken. The new series logo is used only to promote merchandise directly associated with the current TV show, while the logo in use prior to the new series has been retained for merchandise making use of characters and situations relating to the classic series and the 1996 TV movie.

Dr Who and the TARDIS are ©BBC 1963, 2007; All other material is copyright ©2007 its respective authors. Unless otherwise stated all authors assert their write to be identified as such.

Battles in Time: Exterminator Set

Metabaron — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 09:28:36 CDT

001	The Tenth Doctor	Rare
002	The Empty Child	Common
003	Robot Spider	Common
004	Coffa	Common
005	Chained Dalek	Common
006	The Editor	Common
007	Gelth Ambassador Blue	Super-Rare
008	Adam Mitchell	Common
009	Gwyneth bridging the rift	Common
010	Slitheen Blon Fel Fotch Pasameer-Day	Super-Rare
011	Mr Pakoo	Common
012	Mickey Smith	Common
013	Anne Droid	Common
014	Henry Van Statten	Common
015	Jackie Tyler	Common
016	Charles Dickens	Common
017	Hovering Dalek	Rare
018	Auton Bride	Common
019	Nurse Zombie Inactive	Common
020	Harriet Jones	Common
021	Face of Boe	Common
022	Scholar	Common
023	Dr Constantine	Common
024	Lynda Moss	Common
025	Oliver Charles	Common
026	Nancy	Common
027	Margaret Blaine	Common
028	Cathici Satini Khadeni	Common
029	Cassandra's Surgeon 1	Common
030	Imperial Dalek Guard 1	Super-Rare
031	Child Auton	Common
032	Pete Tyler	Common
033	Pig Pilot	Common
034	Simmons	Common
035	Mrs Peace Zombie	Rare
036	Platform 1 Staff	Common
037	Gelth Ambassador Red	Super-Rare
038	Rose Tyler	Rare
039	Gwyneth (normal)	Common
040	Jabe	Rare
041	Auton Mickey's Head	Common
042	Captain Jack	Rare
043	Mutated Dalek	Rare
044	Mr Sneed Zombie	Common
045	General Asquith	Common
046	Male Programme	Common
047	Reaper	Common
048	Raffalo	Common
049	Joseph Green	Common
050	Robot Spider Group	Common
051	Controller (under Dalek control)	Common
052	Damaged Dalek	Common
053	Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe	Common
054	Cassandra's Surgeon 2	Common
055	Suki Macrae Cantrell (Eva Saint Julienne)	Common
056	Lady Cassandra O'Brien Dot Delta Seventeen	Rare
057	The Steward	Common
058	Female Programmer	Common
059	Nestene Consciousness	Common
060	The Moxx of Balhoon	Rare
061	Nurse Zombie	Common
062	Controller (free of Dalek control)	Common
063	Lute	Common
064	Male Auton	Common
065	Mrs Pakoo	Common
066	Chula Zombie	Common
067	Sycorax	Super-Rare
068	Dalek	Rare
069	Cal 'Sparkplug' MacMannovich	Common
070	Slitheen Sip Fel Fotch Pasameer-Day	Super-Rare
071	The Dalek Emperor (full casing)	Super-Rare
072	Antiplastic	Common
073	Gas Leak	Rare
074	TARDIS	Ultra-Rare
075	Code 9	Common
076	Forcefield	Rare
077	Security Scan	Common
078	Sonic Screwdriver	Rare
079	Unlimited Credit	Common
080	Pickled Eggs	Super-Rare
081	Regeneration	Ultra-Rare
082	Satellite 5	Common
083	Platform One	Common
084	Skinsuit	Ultra-Rare
085	Dalek Buster	Ultra-Rare
086	Werewolf Power	Ultra-Rare
087	Krillitane Evolution	Ultra-Rare
088	Milo	Common
089	Pilot Fish Group	Common
090	Sarah Jane Smith	Common
091	Diseased Woman	Common
092	King Louise XV	Common
093	Sycorax Warrior	Common
094	Krillitane 1	Rare
095	Captain Reynolds	Common
096	Harriet Jones PM	Common
097	Werewolf	Common
098	Hop Pyleen Brother 1	Common
099	K-9 Attack Mode	Common
100	Father Angelo	Common
101	Arthur the Horse	Common
102	Info-Spike Nurse	Common
103	Frau Clovis	Common
104	Scholar 2	Common
105	Clockwork Woman 1	Common
106	Mr Parsons	Common
107	Sycorax Leader	Common
108	Warrior Monk	Common
109	Hop Pyleen Brother 2	Common

110	Kenny	Common
111	Matron Casp	Rare
112	Flora	Common
113	Pilot Fish 1	Common
114	Rodrick	Common
115	Robot Eye	Common
116	Lady Isobel MacLeish	Common
117	Pilot Fish 2	Common
118	Indra Ganesh	Common
119	Imperial Dalek Guard 2	Rare
120	Novice Hame	Common
121	Ghosts	Common
122	Adherents of the Repeated Meme	Common
123	Jake Simmonds	Common
124	The Host	Common
125	Diseased Man	Super-Rare
126	Jackie Tyler (from a parallel universe)	Common
127	Reinette	Common
128	TARDIS Key	Common
129	Mr Redpath Zombie	Common
130	Clockwork Man	Common
131	Scottish Steward	Common
132	Mr Wagner	Common
133	President	Common
134	Alex	Common
135	Parallel Pete Tyler	Rare
136	Laser Cutter Dalek	Common
137	Major Blake	Common
138	Clockwork Woman 2	Common
139	Cyber Leader	Rare
140	The Beast	Common
141	Ambassador 1	Common
142	Mrs Moore	Common
143	The Wire	Common
144	Broken K-9	Common
145	Mr Sneed	Common
146	Cal's Companion	Common
147	Headmaster Finch	Common
148	Danny Llewellyn	Common
149	Trine-E	Common
150	Sir Robert MacLeish	Common
151	Dr Constantine Chula Zombie	Common
152	Ambassador 2	Common
153	Magpie	Common
154	Krillitane 2	Common
155	Eddie Connolly	Common
156	Cyberman Group	Rare
157	Scooti Manista	Common
158	Ood Group	Common
159	Ricky Smith	Common
160	School Children	Common
161	Zu-Zana	Common
162	Cybus Victim	Common
163	Tommy Connolly	Common
164	Toby Possessed	Rare
165	Mr Crane	Common
166	Killer Christmas Tree	Common
167	Krillitane 3	Common
168	Sanctuary Base Six Guard 1	Common
169	Cyber Controller	Super-Rare
170	Possessed Ood 1	Common
171	Sister Jatt	Common
172	Sycorax Group	Common
173	Crabtree	Common
174	Zachary Cross Flane	Common
175	Frozen Suki	Common
176	Info-spiked Adam	Common
177	9th Doctor	Rare
178	Graske	Rare
179	Cure all	Common
180	Victor Kennedy	Common
181	Cyberman attacking	Rare
182	Diana Goddard	Common
183	Slitheen Egg	Common
184	Imperial Dalek Guard Group	Rare
185	Possessed Ood 2	Common
186	Yvonne Hartman	Common
187	Unmasked Clockwork Man	Common
188	The Hoix	Common
189	Bridget Sinclair	Common
190	Nina	Common
191	Emperor Dalek Mutant	Common
192	Dinner Lady	Common
193	Detective Inspector Bishop	Common
194	Ida Scott	Common
195	Queen Victoria	Common
196	Reaper Group	Common
197	Mr Skinner	Common
198	Ill Doctor	Common
199	Fixed K-9	RARE
200	White Patient	COMMON
201	Pilot Fish 3	COMMON
202	Slitheen Group	COMMON
203	Mr Skinner Absorbed	COMMON
204	Cyberman Electro-Attack	RARE
205	Toby Zed	COMMON
206	Scholar 3	COMMON
207	Exterminate	COMMON
208	Broken Clock	COMMON
209	Dalek Invasion	COMMON
210	Musical Weapon	COMMON
211	Sycorax Whip	COMMON
212	Possessed Drawing	COMMON
213	Info-Spiked Cathica	COMMON
214	John Lumic	COMMON
215	Scholar 4	COMMON
216	Dalek Thay	COMMON
217	Slitheen Ship	COMMON
218	Koh-I-Noor Diamond	COMMON
219	New Earth Hospital	COMMON
220	Jack's Ship	COMMON
221	Krillitane Oil	COMMON
222	Cassandra as a Human	COMMON
223	Possessed Ood 3	COMMON
224	Cyberman in pain	COMMON
225	Elton Pope	COMMON
226	Duke of Manhattan	COMMON
227	Dalek Caan	COMMON
228	Kel	COMMON
229	Slitheen 1	COMMON
230	Torchwood Scientist 1	COMMON
231	Chip	COMMON
232	Danny Bartock	COMMON
233	Cyberman	COMMON
234	Chloe Webber	COMMON
235	Ood	COMMON
236	Transporter	COMMON
237	Dr Rajesh Singh	COMMON
238	Abzorbaloff	RARE
239	Cassandra as Chip	COMMON
240	Dalek Rabe	COMMON
241	Jefferson	COMMON
242	Adeola	COMMON
243	Slitheen 2	COMMON
244	Faceless Person	COMMON
245	Matt	COMMON
246	Cyber Controller On The Move	COMMON
247	WWII Bomb	COMMON
248	Sycorax Ship	COMMON
249	Basic: 0	COMMON
250	Torchwood ID	COMMON
251	Newsfeed	COMMON
252	Trish Webber	COMMON
253	Ursula Blake	COMMON
254	Sanctuary Base Six Guard 2	COMMON
255	Dalek Sec	RARE
256	Gareth	COMMON
257	Torchwood Scientist 2	COMMON
258	The Wire Feeding	COMMON
259	Auton Attack	COMMON
260	The Beast	COMMON
261	SS Madame de Pompadour	COMMON
262	Sycorax Sword	COMMON
263	Slash Attack	COMMON
264	Victor Kennedy's Cane	COMMON
265	3D glasses	COMMON
266	Body Swap	COMMON
267	Clockwork Weapon	COMMON
268	Mobile Phone	COMMON
269	Nanogenes	COMMON
270	Full Moon	COMMON
271	Lumic's Airship	COMMON
272	Wolf Vision	COMMON
273	Sucker Attack	COMMON
274	Airships	COMMON
275	Genesis Ark	COMMON
276	Time Vortex Doctor	RARE
277	Graske Group	COMMON
278	Clockwork Woman 3	COMMON
279	Frozen Cyber Army	COMMON
280	Cassandra as Rose	COMMON
281	Gas Mask	COMMON
282	Magna Clamp	COMMON
283	Dalek Vision	RARE
284	Dalek Uncovered	ULTRA-RARE
285	Mark of the Beast	COMMON
286	Trapped Slitheen	COMMON
287	Forest of Cheem	COMMON
288	Cyber Army	COMMON
289	Rose Tyler with Fire Extinquisher	COMMON
290	Genesis Ark Daleks	COMMON
291	Beastly Possession	ULTRA-RARE
292	Cyber Smasher	RARE
293	Ood Power	RARE
294	Rocket Ship	COMMON
295	Bad Wolf	SUPER-RARE
296	Yvonne Hartman Cyber Rebel	RARE
297	Diseased Group	COMMON
298	Clive Finch	COMMON
299	10th Doctor with Sonic Screwdriver	RARE
300	Graske 2	SUPER-RARE
301	Clockwork Teleport	SUPER-RARE
302	Prison of the Beast	COMMON
303	Cyber Brain	COMMON
304	Final Broadcast	RARE
305	Gelth Possession	COMMON
306	Legion of the Beast	COMMON
307	Jake Simmonds Parallel Soldier	COMMON
308	Rita Connolly	COMMON
309	Cat Nurse Group	COMMON
310	Margaret Blaine Unmasking	COMMON
311	Black Hole	COMMON
312	Cyber Slicing Machine	COMMON
313	Krillitane Chips	COMMON
314	Clockwork Injection	COMMON
315	Hand Print Activation	COMMON
316	Parallel Soldier	COMMON
317	Clockwork Robot Group	COMMON
318	Rose Tyler Krillitane Oil	COMMON
319	The Beast on Fire	SUPER-RARE
320	Cult of Skaro	RARE
321	Mistletoe	COMMON
322	Cybus Communicator	COMMON
323	Disguise	RARE
324	Temporal Rift	COMMON
325	Fire Extinguisher	COMMON
326	Matron Casp (Infected)	COMMON
327	Scholar Group	COMMON
328	Donna Noble	COMMON
329	Sycorax Army	COMMON
330	Bliss	COMMON
331	Torchwood	RARE
332	Hologram	SUPER-RARE
333	Cave Painting	COMMON
334	Danger of Infection	COMMON
335	Dalek Shield	COMMON
336	Auton Deactivated	COMMON
337	Cyber Leader Blast Attack	COMMON
338	10th Doctor Ghostbusting	COMMON
339	Racnoss Empress Attacking	RARE
340	Rose Tyler Trapped by the Wire	COMMON
341	Disease Pod	COMMON
342	Cyber Buster	ULTRA-RARE
343	Ood Possession	COMMON
344	Telescope Light Chamber	COMMON
345	Self Destruct	COMMON
346	Lance Bennett	COMMON
347	Jabe Using her Scanner	COMMON
348	Pilot Fish Unmasked	COMMON
349	Destroyed Dalek	COMMON
350	The Doctor Space Explorer	COMMON
351	Energy Source	COMMON
352	Skasas Paradigm	COMMON
353	Beast Hologram	SUPER-RARE
354	Sycorax Unmasking	ULTRA-RARE
355	Double Extermination	COMMON
356	Cyberghosts	RARE
357	Pilot Fish Group Unmasked	COMMON
358	Cassandra Drying Out	COMMON
359	Sycorax Slave	COMMON
360	Ursula Blake Absorbed	COMMON
361	Slitheen Zapper	RARE
362	Tractor Beam	COMMON
363	Huon Particles	RARE
364	Energy Ball	COMMON
365	Biodamper	COMMON
366	Racnoss Empress	COMMON
367	Dalek Underwater Mode	COMMON
368	Gelth Zombie Attack	COMMON
369	Pilot Fish Under Racnoss Control	COMMON
370	Sip Fel Fotch Pasameer-Day Slitheen Unmasking	COMMON
371	Sycorax Mask	COMMON
372	Bauble Bombs	COMMON
373	TARDIS Crash	COMMON
374	Cyberman Defeater	COMMON
375	Martha Jones	RARE

Battles in Time

Metabaron — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 06:46:14 CDT

Doctor Who: Battles in Time (BIT) is a fortnightly card collectors magazine produced by GE Fabbri Ltd to support the collectible trading card game of the same name. A trial run of 7 issues was launched in April 2006 in the West Country and Grampian regions of the UK, followed by a nationwide launch from issue 1 on 20th September 2006. Intended to run for 52 issues, it is aimed at 10-14 year olds, and publishes regular colour comic strips and an occasional series of 2 page articles chronicling different battles in time, some of which are not mentioned anywhere else.

The first set of trading cards released was the Exterminator Set (covering Rose-The Christmas Invasion, released on 20/09/06), followed by the Annihilator Set (covering up to The Runaway Bride, released on 23/02/07). From issue 12 composite Exterminator & Annihilator booster were given away with each issue.

A Dalek vs. Cybermen Special issue released on 16/05/07 introduced a new non-collectible card set. In issue 22 the release of a third set was announced.

Production Notes: All strips from issue 1 are 4 pages of full colour. The first six issues form a single storyline based on The End of the World.

Issue/Theme	Title	Creators	Regulars	Battle
Issue 1	Growing Terror Part One	Script: Steve Cole Art: John Ross	10th Doctor Rose Tyler	Invasion Earth:2164
Issue 2	Hyperstar Rising Part Two	Script: Steve Cole Art: John Ross	10th Doctor Rose Tyler	N/A
Issue 3	Death Race Five Billion Part Three	Script: Steve Cole Art: John Ross	10th Doctor Rose Tyler	The Battle for the Planet Mechanus
Issue 4	The Macrobe Menace Part Four	Script: Steve Cole Art: John Ross	10th Doctor Rose Tyler	N/A
Issue 5	The Hunt of Doom Part Five	Script: Steve Cole Art: John Ross	10th Doctor Rose Tyler	Battle of Armageddos
Issue 6	Reunion of Fear Part Six	Script: Steve Cole Art: John Ross	10th Doctor Rose Tyler	N/A
Issue 7	The Glutonoid Menace	Script: Jason Loborik Art: Lee Sullivan	10th Doctor Rose Tyler	The Battle for Raxas
Issue 8	The Power of the Cybermen Part One	Script: Steve Cole Art: Lee Sullivan	10th Doctor Jayne Kadett	N/A
Issue 9	Drones of Doom Part Two	Script: Steve Cole Art: Lee Sullivan	10th Doctor Jayne Kadett	The Battle for Phijax III
Issue 10	Enemy Mine Part Three	Script: Steve Cole Art: Lee Sullivan	10th Doctor Jayne Kadett	N/A
Issue 11	Time of the Cybermen Part Four	Script: Steve Cole Art: Lee Sullivan	10th Doctor Jayne Kadett	Bermuda Triangle Incident
Issue 12	Beneath the Skin Part One	Script: Steve Cole Art: Lee Sullivan	10th Doctor	N/A
Issue 13	The Sky Below Part Two	Script: Steve Cole Art: Lee Sullivan	10th Doctor	Clash of the Titans
Issue 14	Beyond the Sea Part Three	Script: Steve Cole Art: Lee Sullivan	10th Doctor	N/A
Issue 15	Lonely Planet Part Four	Script: Steve Cole Art: Lee Sullivan	10th Doctor	Creation of the Daleks
Issue 16	Plague Panic	Script: Claire Lister Art: Lee Sullivan	10th Doctor	N/A
Issue 17	Exhausting Evil	Script: Claire Lister Art: Lee Sullivan	10th Doctor Martha Jones	Battle for Pultonia 7
Issue 18	Wrath of the Warrior Part One	Script: Steve Cole Art: Lee Sullivan	10th Doctor Martha Jones	N/A
Issue 19	The Screaming Prison Part Two	Script: Steve Cole Art: Lee Sullivan	10th Doctor Martha Jones	Pirates from the Sky!
Issue 20	Force and Fury Part Three	Script: Steve Cole Art: Lee Sullivan	10th Doctor Martha Jones	N/A
Issue 21	Warriors' Revenge Part Four	Script: Steve Cole Art: Lee Sullivan	10th Doctor Martha Jones	Sea Bed Struggle
Issue 22	Head Start Part One	Script: Mike Tucker Art: Lee Sullivan	10th Doctor Martha Jones	N/A
Issue 23	Jewel of the Vile Part Two	Script: Mike Tucker Art: Lee Sullivan	10th Doctor Martha Jones
Issue 24	Lock, Stocks and Barrel Part Three	Script: Mike Tucker Art: Lee Sullivan	10th Doctor Martha Jones	N/A
Issue 25	End Game Part Four	Script: Mike Tucker Art: Lee Sullivan	10th Doctor Martha Jones	Floating Fortress
Issue 26	The Millennium Blag Part One	Script: Steve Cole Art: Lee Sullivan	10th Doctor Martha Jones	N/A
Issue 27	Second Wave Part Two	Script: Steve Cole Art: Lee Sullivan	10th Doctor Martha Jones	Prehistoric Peril
Issue 28	tbc Part Three	Script: Steve Cole Art: Lee Sullivan	10th Doctor Martha Jones	N/A

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The Gap Year

Metabaron — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:55:32 CDT

Monday, September 3rd 2007.

Some not entirely unexpected news about David Tennant and Doctor Who in 2009 and 2010.

Its something I've previously speculated about with friends, and in my mind deferring series five by a year is a pretty shrewd move. Year on year we've had casting speculations conflicting with reassurances that David Tennant was in the show for the long haul. Paranoid fan-fears that the Doctor was going to run out of regenerations (not something we ever heard when the original series was on-air) didn't help, and today's announcement is easily the most reassuring one yet.

The obvious reason for the gap year (with three specials it's not quite a hiatus) - allowing David Tennant and Russell T Davies to continue being involved - is interestingly not why I was expecting this particular piece of news.

If you break Doctor Who down into stories rather than episodes, Tennant will have been in some 47 stories by the end of Series Five: five or six more stories than Tom Baker. So even without being the longest serving Doctor, he sets a new record, even without even half of the air-time that Tom Baker achieved.

So, besides the obvious, why do I think the hiatus makes sense?

1) Familiarity Breeds contempt: Let's face it, by the end of Season 4 Russell's star is in danger of being on the wane. He needs time to pursue personal projects outside of Doctor Who to sustain his current 'midas touch' reputation. If his last stories are 90-minute specials, he'll be more likely to go out on a high than pushing out the four-or-five tone episodes he produces.

2) Absence makes the heart grow fonder: Mainstream event series like Morse and Prime Suspect pull in higher ratings because they are seen as specials. Bigger names can be attracted, more in-depth stories can be produced, and a different budget model can be used. It also provides a test-bed for an alternate format next time the series faces cancellation.

3) Money, money, money: Specials not assigned to a season are more likely to get extras of their own and can be released around the £20-25 mark, which usually generates better sales in the DVD release market. At the moment Who DVD sales are split between those who by stand-alone releases and those who buy full seasons (the overlap may well be marginal). This will make DVD performance look ore impressive, giving Who DVDs the chance to last longer than a week in the number one slot.

4) Change, my dear: The speculation about both Russell and David Tennant leaving isn't going to go away, and I'm not sure that either will last the entire fifth series. This allows for a carefully planned handover and a phased shift in format to accommodate whoever takes over from Davies. It mitigates the introduction of a new team against the press backlash quite nicely, and it gives the show real room to breathe.

5) Going to the movies: This gives Russell the chance to try his hand at the motion picture format before the possibility of a motion picture is explored. Or, it could mean that there are actually plans for a cinematic Doctor Who movie in 2009. If we assume that the stories planned for 2009 are stand-alone stand-alone, then a stand-alone movie with David Tennant becomes a real possibility, and it means that the usual BBC requirement for protecting the license-payers ability to enjoy its serials at no cost is preserved.

6) Merchandising heaven: I expect 2009 will be a big year for merchandising. The more goodies to sustain the show's presence and to fuel fan interest with less on-screen input the better. And if past-Doctor novels haven't been relaunched by 2008, this will be a good time for them to do so.

By day my job includes project management, and there is a term we use for publicly-funded projects: "sustainable exit strategy". Doctor Who is already profitable, but it needs to be as healthy as possible by the end of Russell T Davies' run on the show: the condition he leaves it in is what he will be judged upon, and not the fanfare of the show's return. By outlining the long-term future of the franchise BBC Wales can do the following:

Secure long term investment from other funding partners (longer contracts, better deals etc.), independent of US netowrk decisions, for example.
Synchronise overseas broadcasts (it may not happen, but launching the show in the US, Canada, Australia and the UK at the same time makes a lot of commercial sense)
Book guest stars long in advance, securing better commitments.
Review the script commissioning model (more on this below).

My final bullet - script comissioning - is an important one. It's acknowledged that development time is critical, that Russell currently writes far too many episodes of the show, and that there are some big names who'd like to write episodes but don't have the time. We've already seen a Stephen Fry story evaporate. Creating a long lead on stories and perhaps increasing the number of possible commissions vs. the number of actual stories (like the Beeb did on the original series) could have a massive impact on the quality and diersity of stories produced.

Fans and press alike have already spotted the Series by Series formula (the historical character one, the Doctor-lite one, the old friend/enemy one, the two part finale) and by season four these may feel a little tired.

Tis is easily the healthiest long term news the show has had, coming as it does in the midst of a golden age. I'm sure the Pixley Archive will show that this is a strategically self-imposed break-and-review rather than the result of budgetary considerations, and that it will leave the future of Doctor Who stronger and more promising than the BBC-imposed hiatus of the 1980s.

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Incarnation

Metabaron — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:47:41 CDT

The term incarnation was originally used to describe the physical manifestation of a supernatural force or divine being, and was commonly used to describe the process of reincarnation - the reappearance of a soul on Earth in a new physical form.

The progression of an entity from one body to another was adopted for Doctor by Barry Letts when he took over as producer in 1970. His keen interest in Buddhism led to the use of the term 'incarnation' as a way of differentiating each of the Doctor's bodies, but not on-screen. The term was first used in the Target novelisation of the Three Doctors by Terrance Dicks (citation needed).

On-screen the term regeneration is used to mean incarnation from The Planet of Spiders onwards.

An incarnation has therefore come to mean that stage of a Time Lord's life as defined by the physical body he inhabits. Incarnations therefore tend to be numbered from one to thirteen, reflecting the number of lives a Time Lord has.

The First Doctor	The Second Doctor	The Third Doctor
The Fourth Doctor	The Fifth Doctor	The Sixth Doctor
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Saturday, October 27th	Break in Service	Children in Need, Don't Panic, NaNoWriMo, Shelf Life, Time Crash
Sunday, October 7th	Beyond the Box	Christmas, Don't Panic, fanzines, OpenID
Sunday, September 16th	The Gap Year, Part II	fanzines, Patrick Stewart, Rumours, Series 5
Monday, September 6th	The Gap Year	Series 5
Sunday, August 26th	Islands of Them and Us	kate orman
Tuesday, August 22nd	The Two or More Doctors	Series 4
Friday, August 10th	The Wants List	Series 4
Monday, July 30th	Canon Balls	canon, paul cornell
Sunday, July 29	Club Comicana	IDW, comics
Sunday, July 22	Strange Matters

Bastards of Rassilon	Bowships
The Foxtrot of Rassilon	The Legacy of Rassilon (Regeneration)
The Matrix	The Profane Virus of Rassilon
Time Scoop	The Web of Time

Created by	Sidney Newman; principally portrayed by William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant.
Gender	Male
Age	Not known
Species	Gallifreyan (Time Lord)
First Appearance	An Unearthly Child
Native Place	Gallifrey
Native Time	Rassilon Era
Aliases	Grandfather
Occupation(s)	Teacher, Time Lord, President, Time's Champion
Membership(s)	The Prydonian Chapter, The Fraction, UNIT.
Affiliation(s)
Enemies
Known relatives	Susan Foreman (granddaughter)
Base of Operations	The TARDIS (plus Lungbarrow, The Capitol, Foreman's Yard, UNIT HQ, Earth (1889-2001) )
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