Foreman Bible (Swj fanwank)

  FOREMAN
Series Bible – Character Bios, Background Information, Lore and Metatext

Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Cast and Characters
◦Main  Characters
◦Supporting Cast
◦Recurring Villains
2. Setting and Scenarios
◦Gallifrey
◦Skaro
◦UNIT
◦Time Travel as Setting
◦Intergalactic Politics (circa 21st Century)
◦The Future (including notes on Earth)
3. A Brief History of The Doctor
◦Lungbarrow
◦The Academy Years
◦Renegade
◦Return
◦The War in Heaven
◦Exile
4. The Laws of Space and Time
◦The Laws of Time
◦The Multiverse
◦The Upper Dimensions
◦The Bleed, the Void, and Hypertime
5. Storytelling
◦Serials, Side-Stories, and Spinoffs
◦Story and Character
◦Background, History, and how to Make it Count
◦Themes and Thematics
◦… There are No Rules

Introduction
Welcome to Blackveil Entertainment's FOREMAN, a ground-up reboot of the BBC's venerable Doctor Who
property. Unlicensed, unauthorised, unofficial – but very, very exciting. In FOREMAN, Blackveil seeks to
synthesise fifty years of scattered storytelling into an entirely new (but often familiar) universe. More than
anything else, what will make FOREMAN stand out is the two-pronged approach it's taking. Despite bearing
a fully-developed Canon before the outset, FOREMAN is 'Open Source'. Anyone who wants to be involved
need only shoot Blackveil HQ an idea – and chances are, we'll take it.
Branching across at least three major mediums (film, audio-drama, and sequential art), FOREMAN aims to
avoid budgetary limits to stories by working as flexibly as possible in an array of styles. It is also my hope
that FOREMAN will avoid the deeply problematic storylines and storytelling of more recent seasons of Who.
FOREMAN should, in the end, be about things. There should be meaning and themes and ideas behind the
stories and characters.
With this in mind, I have created a number of documents. Some of them, like this, are more-or-less
accessible to all. Some are top-secret. Thus far there are solid ideas in place for a full six seasons in the life
of our First Doctor, charting a journey from charismatic exile to lovestruck wastrel to much, much darker
places and back. Each Season will be constructed in two Blocs of seven serials – single stories split into
episodic instalments - and each Season will be constructed around a driving theme.
This is Season One, the very beginning, and I think it is fitting that a series with so much potential to explore
real and meaningful stories begins by focusing on Stories themselves. The central themes for Season One are
Narratives, Folklore, Identity and The Power of Stories.
And with our diverse cast and our willingness to experiment, I think we can take those themes to very
exciting places.
If you're reading this, it probably means I've hired you. Or 'hired' you, if you prefer. So keep reading. Start
exploring.
FOREMAN is coming, and it's all up to you.
Jack Miles – Chief Creative Officer, Blackveil Entertainment
10/12/14

1. Cast and Characters
Main Characters
The Doctor (played by Jack Miles)
Approximately 300 years old, the Doctor hails from the planet Gallifrey. Brilliant even by
the standards of his race, the Doctor is also deeply troubled – a widower, a war survivor, and
an orphan, he carries deep scars from his long life. If he is to be defined by anything, it is his
love of freedom and his lust for life. He watched his father disappear into the skies and was
raised with his siblings by his mother in a crumbling mansion, and ever since then he has
dreamed of escape, of a life lived to the fullest and one that enriches others.
Since the end of the War in Heaven, the Doctor has been a self-defined exile from his
homeworld, wandering the universe alone in his outdated TARDIS – a TARDIS that once
belonged to his childhood hero and Academy tutor, Borusa (also known as the Corsair). He
follows a simple code of ethics as he travels, intervening where intervention is necessary and
doing good with every step. He refuses to bear arms and carries only a Sonic Screwdriver, an
omnipurpose tool that cannot kill or wound – although he is a practised master in Venusian
Akido, a potent multi-species martial art.
Best defined as a man of action, the Doctor can be stern and taciturn, meting out
punishments unto the wicked and rescuing the disenfranchised and the weak. At his core, the
Doctor is a pure and noble soul who cannot stand to see the individual or lowly suffer at the
hands of the conglomerate or the powerful. His patience is vast but easily lost, his temper
terrifying and potent. Deeply cunning but honest to a fault, the Doctor works behind the
scenes of history to ensure freedom, justice, and hope can thrive in the cold but beautiful
universe.
Of all the planets, Earth is his favourite. It sparkles in a way nothing else can, that little blue
world, those delicate, powerful human beings. He embraces the culture with both hands,
carries the banner of humanity to every place he goes. What the Doctor loves is embodied in
Earth and its potential.
Kind, clever, calculating and capricious, the Doctor is a bruised and angry soul that fights
against his injuries in an effort to do good. He is a light in the darkness, but he will never
believe it – as far as he is concerned, he is a vulnerable, flawed being acting out against the
cosmos. He may be right.
But it doesn't stop him from being a good man. And it cannot stop him from falling in love
again.
Nirvi Chandratreya (played by Claudia Boleyn)
A politics student – third-year as of 2015 – Nirvi Chandratreya's history is saturated in
change and transition. Her father emigrated from India as a young man in the 1980's, her
mother as a child in the 70's. Their strong belief in Islam was enriching and uplifting, and
Nirvi and her sister grew up in a happy home.
Inspired by her parents courage – especially the outspoken Feminism of her mother – Nirvi
immersed herself in literature. She grew up strong-willed and unflappable, a Feminist
defined by her belief in intersectionality and her despise for oppression in all forms. She
entered Politics hoping to affect real change on the world, full of fire and fury.
But it didn't last. Shortly after starting her studies, Nirvi realised that she no longer had faith
– that she did, in fact, believe in no God at all. With this newfound Atheism, Nirvi felt she
had lost contact with her roots – with her last real connection to her heritage beyond the
colour of her skin. It shook her, and she lost her sense of belonging.
Since then, Nirvi has been fighting for a special kind of recognition – from some 'Other' – to
help her redefine herself. She has lost none of her courage or confidence, but her newly-lost
sense of identity has left her feeling hollowed-out, and where once she was fiery and fierce
she is now brittle and prone to snapping. Her family and friends support her endlessly, but
she cannot quite accept it without that final, transient affirmation. Nirvi Chandratreya knows
who she is supposed to be, but not who she is anymore, and while she believes in her causes
and their truth, she no longer quite believes in herself.
Despite this, she is still every bit as strong as before. She is intelligent and articulate, well-
read and with a deep well of compassion. Her brittleness makes her intimidating – she has no

time for fools, for nonsense, or for the kind of culture she hates, and where the Doctor is a
slow-burning explosion Nirvi is a firecracker, snapping at the dictators of the universe and
cheering for the underdog with the kind of passion only the young and righteous can muster.
While her self-belief has cracked, Nirvi is still her own entity, possessed of so much agency
and fire one could overlook her vulnerability.
What Nirvi wants is to find out who she is meant to be – and if other people help her with
that, so be it. If it changes her in the process? That's okay, too. And if she falls in love...?
She doesn't know the answer to that, yet.
Andrew Westfield (played by Leo Knowles)
Andrew Westfield, 26, is an up-and-coming boffin at U.N.I.T – the United Nations
Intelligence Taskforce. Raised singlehandedly by his mother (with some help from his Uncle
Teddy), Andrew is defined by his dedication to his pursuits and interests. He can be
fastidious, anal-retentive, stubborn, overly-focused on minor details and a true-blue stick-in-
the-mud – Andrew is a man who likes order, routine, and a cup of tea at precise two-hour
intervals. After being caught up in the Millennium Bug Affair of 1999, Andrew became
obsessed with extraterrestrials and began a campaign to draw the attention of UNIT, which
succeeded when he hacked a major database and replaced their files with cat gifs.
But the Bug Affair involved the mysterious Doctor, and Andrew became more obsessed with
him than anything else. The resident expert on UNIT's 'Fugitive Nil', Andrew meticulously
catalogued and compiled the Doctor's history on Earth, desperate for another meeting with
the man. Perhaps driven by his lonely childhood or his uncle's passing interest in the stars,
Andrew became a hard-working and recognised figure in the UNIT headquarters and a
personal friend of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart.
Andrew is, at all times, a passionate and driven figure. His taste for rules and routines may
define him, but he is no stranger to improvisation and has full UNIT field training. A crack
shot and a fine strategist, Andrew brings his regimented mind to combat with gusto. While
he is pragmatic and frequently favours authority, he is no coward and knows, at the end of
the day, which side he is on. He can be panicked easily and prone to fluster, but his golden
heart wins true and Andrew can always be counted on to pull through and be a steadfast
friend in calm or troubled waters.
Supporting Characters
Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart (played by George Porter)
Born some time in the 1980's, Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart is the only child of
legendary UNIT founder General St. John Lethbridge-Stewart and follows his fathers
footsteps with gusto. A bold and inspiring presence, the Brigadier is the epitome of British
militaria – stiff upper lip, no-nonsense, and a father to his men. Openly homosexual, with
two adopted daughters, the Brigadier has no time for discrimination of any kind and finds a
kindred spirit in many of the aliens who pass his way as Commanding Officer of UNIT UK.
The Brigadier may be a staunch supporter of Queen and Country, but he is in no way bound
by the rules. He has no issue with bending or outright breaking them when it is necessary for
the greater good or betterment of the suffering. Through his warm nature and his strong
principles, both Andrew and the Doctor find the Brigadier a firm friend and a fine ally. In
command of the overall operations of UNIT's UK branch, the Brigadier will take every step
necessary to ensure the safety of the British population, be they alien or terrestrial.
Strong-willed, courageous, and rather fond of a pint, the Brigadier's iron will is all but
unbreakable. He may take risks or defy protocol to solve problems, but this is no mere
insubordination – at his core, Alistair is a man who will never sacrifice his integrity.
Alex Starling (played by Kevin Smyth)
Alex Starling is Nirvi's University housemate and former boyfriend. A transgender man,
Alex has fought long and hard to own and discover his identity and has emerged a fiery
young man. Something of a party animal, Alex and Nirvi broke up over his wanton thrill-
seeking, but have since remained very close – and both would do anything for the other.
Instrumental in defeating the invasion of Axos, Alex now sits at the sidelines as the Doctor
and Nirvi travel the universe. He is a companion without the travel, refusing to abandon terra
firma but utterly delighted by the Doctor and his adventures. Real danger is not something

Alex seeks, but he will stand his ground if it comes for him.
More than anything, Alex is still Nirvi's emotional rock. He is there to listen when the darker
aspects of the cosmos are getting to her, and he is there to tell the Doctor off when he goes
too far or makes mistakes. Endlessly compassionate, if rather selfish in his actions, Alex is a
good man and will stand by Nirvi no matter what. Right now, he's happy knowing she's on
adventures with someone else who cares as much as him.
Irving Braxatiel (played by Charlie Powell)
The Doctor's younger sibling – genderfluid, and so frequently either male or female – goes
by the deliberately ridiculous name of Irving Braxatiel. Where the Doctor is an open rebel
without a cause, Irving prefers the quiet life and their rebellion manifests in little acts of
insubordination against their employer, the Celestial Intervention Agency of Gallifrey.
Having passed their exams with excellent marks, Irving was quickly snapped up by this elite
group of Time Lords and has worked with them for roughly 150 years.
Irving has established Earth as their 'hub' for CIA operations, and their equipment includes a
well-furnished estate with dimensionally transcendent architecture, allowing them to curate
the Braxatiel Collection. This huge array of artefacts from across space and time serves as
Irving's hobby and a useful method of calling their big brother in to have a chat – nothing
gets the Doctor to pop over like an unidentifiable piece of kit.
Using their position, Irving keeps tabs on the Doctor and keeps him up-to-date on current
Time Lord politics. They have abused their power several times to keep the Doctor out of
prison or to use him as a less-prohibited proxy. Despite the vast power the CIA grants them,
Irving ultimately cannot act without a sanction. They remain, therefore, a little in the
background, quietly working to make Earth, and the universe at large, a better place and the
Doctor's life easier.
Suzar Chandratreya
Nirvi's father, Suzar emigrated from India during the 1980's. Originally a terrific
stockbroker, Suzar later moved onto consultancy and has supervised and assisted dozens of
businesses. He is shrewd and clever, with very little time for the prejudices of the Western
world or his own – though he is still rather traditional and very nostalgic for home. His
stubbornness and distrust of white Anglophones has left him quite concerned for the ultimate
fate of his daughters. He can see that the two are both culturally adrift and does not want
them to lose their identities or suffer the indignity of homogenisation. Despite that, he is
always compassionate and always listening – even if his longing for peace and quiet means
he will often keep his own concerns to himself.
Netra Chandratreya
Nirvi's mother, a first-generation British-Indian. Spirited but loving in every way, Netra
glides through life with a kind of mellow conviction. Her faith is her rock – a modernist take
on Islam that she summarises thusly: 'Allah doesn't judge you for what you believe, or who
you love. He judges you if you're a dick'. Having grown up in Britain, Netra sees India with
a strange half-nostalgia, thinking of it as a house but not a home, and so she has no issue
with the cultural melange her daughters inhabit. Strongly feminist and forever outspoken,
Netra holds her family together through thick and thin via sheer benign will.
Yamini Chandratreya
Nirvi's little sister. Fifteen years old and utterly wired, 'Mini' inhabits the heady world of the
now – everything is an adventure in its own way, worth preserving in Instagrams and Vines.
She runs a baking blog with a thousand subscribers. She draws pictures of cats eating the
Prime Minister. She's also easily bored, extremely flippant, and not actually very interested
in anything for very long. She can't quite understand her sister's activism or her mother's
passionate words – things that take that much effort to support just aren't worth it to her. But
she still cares, in her own way, and she can throw a helluva tantrum when she has to.
Theodore 'Teddy' Bradshaw
Andrew's uncle, Teddy Bradshaw is a country gent, born and bred. Well-off and comfortable,
Teddy gave vast swathes of the last two decades to help bring up Andrew in the absence of
his father. Andrew's mother, Lillian, was always there for Teddy in their youth – he returned

the favour by doting on the frail, introverted boy and indulging in their mutual hobby of
stargazing.
When Teddy was a boy, he and a group of friends saw a star fall from the sky, and ever since
they have been united by their fascination with 'alliens', as they call them. This sweet and
enduring little club meet every Wednesday at The Double Barrel pub and Andrew was often
present growing up. Teddy, always benevolent in the broadest way, turned his nephew into
something of a mascot.
Teddy is best described as dear but dim. While he is well-educated, he lacks a certain
sharpness that his sister and her son carry. Still, he is a perfectly likeable, affable man with a
strong spirit.
Recurring Villains
The Daleks
Monstrous creatures from the planet Skaro, the Daleks are the horrific byproduct of a
prolonged and ugly civil war. When a small territorial dispute mutated into a planet-wide
conflict, a segment of Skarosian society hid away in the bunker-city of Kaled to plot and
plan. These 'Kaleds' became a frightening fascistic society, and when their greatest mind
discovered that the nuclear-chemical war would reduce their species to helpless freaks, she
resolved to change the outcome.
The Daleks have thus been re-engineered, pre-mutated in centuries long past to be ruthless,
nigh-emotionless genocidal supremacists. The Dalek itself is a near-helpless squid-like
creature, but they are wrapped from birth in terrible War Machines – mobile tanks and life-
support systems made from nigh-indestructible bonded polycarbide and armed with weapons
designed to kill in the most painful way. Until the Doctor and his companions appeared on
Skaro and broke into Kaled, the Daleks believed that the war was over and they were alone
in the universe. Now, they know the stars are teeming with lifeforms that repulse them on
deep, primal levels – for Daleks are conditioned to the core to believe they are the supreme
beings. Everything else is sickness.
Their society is rigidly segregated into two Classes, further split into eight Castes. The
Lower Classes are their rank-and-file workers: silver Drones that toil endlessly, blue
Scientists studying sick theorems, green Strategists who plot their nightmarish campaigns,
and red Soldiers, killing millions on the field of war. The High Classes represent the elite of
Dalek society: orange Bureaucrats, keeping society ordered, bronze Chancellors to debate
and mold the Dalek Empire, purple Judges meting out justice to enemies of the state, and
ivory Supremes to represent the mighty Emperor.
The Daleks hate endlessly and without question. Their lives are agony and their society sick,
but theirs is the supreme way of living, the purest genetic paradigm. They will spread across
the universe like antibodies, clearing it of the plague of inferior life.
The Master
Once, he was Koschei of Oakdown. But his obsession with the Doctor, his oldest friend and
secret love, turned him into a predator. Koschei died and the Master was born in a grand
flash of light.
Deeply consumed by his need for the Doctor's love, the Master led a bloody campaign
throughout the Seven Systems and was sentenced to eternity in a Time Lord prison – an
Oubliette, hanging from the Cruciform in the Shada complex. He has stewed, immobile, for
centuries. And his rage has only grown.
Since his genesis, the Master has been defined by singular emotions. He is deeply disturbed
and mercurial, switching from one extreme to another in moments. At times, he is ice-cold
and merciless and at others he is furious and manic. Emotions consume him from the inside-
out, but they cannot cancel his brilliance nor stop his obsession. He will master the Doctor's
hearts or else burn the universe to the ground. There will be no compromise.
The Master's mind is all but unparalleled – he passed his Time Lord exams with flying
colours and flies an advanced Type 100 TARDIS single-handedly. With his laser focus and
utter disregard for other life forms or consequences, he can enact master-strokes ad
infinitum, fiendishly complex plots that all serve his singular purpose. He is cruel, fearless,
callous and capricious. He is all but unstoppable. If he has any weakness, it is the same thing
that makes him so deadly.

At his core, he is vulnerable and fragile. The Master is emotionally stunted and volatile, but
his wants are simple and understandable. Something, somewhere, broke his mind, and ever
since he has been lashing out without understanding why. The Doctor mourns for his friend,
who he loved with all his hearts, and will do whatever he can to save him. It may be a
Sisyphean Task, but he cannot stop anymore than the Master will stop trying to have him for
his own.
SKYWATCH
SKYWATCH is the new face of mankind's hatred. Pure xenophobes, SKYWATCH formed in
the late 1990's in response to a spike in alien activity on Earth and has spent the best part of
that time slowly infecting organisations like UNIT and extraterrestrial contractors like
Torchwood and International Electromatics. Their modus operandi is simple and virulent –
Earth is for Earthlings. They know no creed or colour, only humanity, and to emphasise this
their active agents wear frightening three-quarter masks to erase and unify their features.
Armed with equipment cobbled together from stolen or reverse-engineered alien technology,
SKYWATCH is beginning to mobilise in the face of growing alien communities and public
awareness of their presence on Earth. No longer resigned to the shadows, SKYWATCH is
now an open, violent terrorist organisation dedicated to 'purifying' the Earth.
Their command structure is oblique, structured around interplay of Tarot and other
superstitious metaphors. Their intent is to transform themselves into something mythological
– a secular boogeyman to scare away the filthy aliens.
i. The Ingénue
The Ingénue, Alicia Blackthorne, is the utter pinnacle of the SKYWATCH chain of
command. Nothing is done or organised without her input, her say-so, her genesis.
Once, she was rich and frivolous – but something happened to her and she has since
become the faceless, reclusive leader of this terrible organisation. Forever encased in
a full mask and surrounded by information, the Ingénue strikes in a dozen places
when her enemies expect only one. She is fiercely brilliant and a genuine
sadomasochist, obsessed with pain and pleasure as much as she is wiping out what
she views as a malignant occupation of Earth. She is frosty and flippant in the way
only the very rich can be, completely unconcerned with the cost of things so long as
the 'greater good' is served.
She is also possessed of strange powers over technology and energy, and a hypnotic
voice that can sway the weak-minded. These are the true power behind the success
of SKYWATCH, having allowed her to seduce thousands to the cause and
manipulate the information travelling the world. Her secret shame is that these
powers were granted to her by the White Guardian – an extraterrestrial in their own
right.
ii. Hamilton Scobie
Son of Major General Patrick Scobie, liaison to UNIT – and last in the line of this
proud military family – Hamilton Scobie was a research scientist until he
encountered Axos, a hive-mind from the depths of space. Axos poured itself into his
mind and Hamilton became cripplingly addicted to the presence of it. His impressive
intellect exploded and he performed incredible design work to create Axos'
'Ascension Engine', which would have enabled the creature to ascend into fourth-
dimensional consciousness at the cost of the solar system.
Promised an especial life in the aftermath of Ascension and rapidly approaching
pure narcissism, Hamilton was left despondent after Axos reformed and was trapped
in a time loop due to the intervention of the Doctor and Nirvi. Shortly after his
arrest, Hamilton was recruited by SKWATCH and has since turned his ragged-but-
brilliant mind to designing new weaponry and equipment for the group. Since his
downfall, he has nothing but contempt for aliens and buys into SKYWATCH's
xenophobic philosophies with frightening gusto. He kills wantonly now, possessed
of a disregard for human and alien life that can only be described as disturbing. Even
the Ingénue treats him with a degree of caution and disdain.
iii. Roberto Estevez

Roberto spent a long time travelling. His mother and father were military and he
spent his youth trotting the globe with them, going from base to base. When he
joined UNIT, he was delighted to discover the sheer diversity of alien life on Earth...
Until an incident that left dozens of human civilians injured.
Roberto didn't realise he hated the aliens after that – not until SKYWATCH had
found him, and he'd found a helmet on his doorstep. Now he believes in the cause,
even if the methods can repulse him. He is a brilliant agent, so utterly unassuming
and likeable that he has worked his way into the good books of many high-ranking
agents. Most recently, he has embarked on a several-month campaign to seduce
Andrew Westfield, a project at which he has succeeded outright.
His feelings for Andrew are conflicted – a legitimate attraction spiralling out of a
cover-job. But he has still stolen vital intelligence and was directly responsible for
the success of the first major SKYWATCH attack on UNIT, achieved using
documents he stole from Andrew after their frequent trysts. He is not a bad person,
necessarily, but he is too comfortable with the actions of bad people and too deeply
tied to them to be forgiven easily. Even if he truly cares for Andrew, he has used him
and abused his trust.
That will only end badly for both of them.
The Guardians
The White and Black Guardians hail from the fifth-dimension – the highest inhabited area of
reality. If the first three dimensions constitute space, and the fourth is time, the Guardians
realm is metaphysics, the place where consciousness yokes the fundamental forces of the
universe.
Because of their immense cosmic presence, the Guardians (a twinned pair from a collective
of six) interact with the material universe as one might with a drawing or story. Time, to
them, is immaterial and they may manifest simultaneously across many points of history –
and as their world is based on ideas and symbology, they are subject to infinite variations of
the same thematic narratives, endlessly repeated throughout their lives.
The White Guardian represents Order, and the Black Guardian represents Chaos. As the two
concepts exist in perpetual struggle, the White and Black Guardians play a complex game of
cosmic chess, with beings from the lower dimensions as their pawns and playthings. Existing
outside Time, they have seen the Doctor's significance to the Universe and have both chosen
him as a crucial piece in the current game – and ever since that decision, they have fought
for him, for ownership of his soul.
They have entered our reality at countless points, both as literal manifestations (appearing
different to each individual) and as embodiments of their touch: Pawns, like ethereal
soldiers, advancing to act out their ends. In their dedication to winning the Doctor, they have
constructed a grand play, infiltrated Gallifreyan mythology as a fairytale. In this story, they
are two brothers at war over the Key to Time, fighting for control of history until the Key
was shattered into six and scattered throughout time and space – but in truth, the Key is their
own creation, a gateway that can project a three-dimensional being onto five-dimensional
space.
When the Doctor assembles the Key, the Guardians will be waiting. They will judge him and
his friends, they will make their advance, and they will force him to make a choice between
them. With their utterly inexplicable morals and rules and their vast, frightening power, it
will take every ounce of courage that the Doctor, Nirvi and Andrew possess to stop them.

2. Setting and Scenarios
Gallifrey
Gallifrey is the heart of the Seven Systems – a collective of worlds in the Constellation of
Kasterberous. The people of Gallifrey are among the oldest, wisest species in all the Universe, given
the gift of Time Travel centuries ago by their founders. This world shines like a jewel, covered in
domed cities of twisting spires and fiery red grass. Dotted about the landscape are mansions and
cottages, tiny moons orbiting the cities as their suns.
In ancient times, a student and a lord - Omega and Rassilon - founded modern Gallifreyan society.
Using Omega's theories and Rassilon's resources, the pair turned the star Qqaba into a black hole and
captured the singularity in a device they called the Panopticon. Although Omega was lost in the
explosion, Rassilon used the unlimited potential of the singularity, dubbed the Eye of Harmony, and
gave Gallifrey infinite power. Soon afterwards, he turned the Eye on itself and opened a gap in Space
and Time – the Untempered Schism had come to Gallifrey, and with it the secrets of Time Travel.
In the millenia since, Gallifrey has become a proud, powerful world. Their society is split into two
classes, with the regular population distinguished from those given access to the Untempered
Schism. These Time Lords study in Academies, of which there are many chapters, and dedicate their
lives to the maintenance of the Web of Time – an artificial construct developed to help safeguard
history. The species as a whole possesses incredible powers and a unique biology that allows them to
regenerate from otherwise-fatal injuries a staggering twelve times. Their lifespans thus cover
thousands of years. Time Lords also acquire time-sensitivity upon initiation to the Academies, where
they are stood before the Schism until they can stand no more.
To police his species, Rassilon implemented a form of population control – all of Gallifrey donated
their DNA to the Looms, which would stitch new infants out of the genetic samples. Biological
reproduction was outlawed, and though it has returned in recent times there is a kind of apartheid
towards the biologically conceived. There is even a slur: 'wormhole', referring to the presence of a
navel lacked by the Loomed Gallifreyans.
Since the time of Rassilon, influential and wealthy Gallifreyans have formed Great and Noble
Houses. Populated by both Time Lords and standard civilians alike, these Houses are possessed of
enormous social mobility and can be considered the true 'upper class' of Gallifrey. Very little would
have been accomplished by the Time Lords without the financial and political means of the Great
and Noble Houses, and little would remain of them without the assistance of the Time Lords.
Despite all this social stratification, Gallifrey is a staggering society with unrivalled technology and
knowledge. They are so dedicated are they to their roles as 'sentinels of history' that they abide by the
Policies of Non-Intervention, forbidding Time Lords from visiting events without explicit
permission. Their policing of Time is distant and cold. Even the Celestial Intervention Agency,
founded to directly engage in chronological hotspots, operate using memory-proof uniforms and
leave as soon as their work is done.
In the Doctor's lifetime, Gallifrey has undergone undeniable change. When a vampiric species called
the Shroud emerged from a dying universe the Time Lords went to war and built fleets of Bowships,
manned by Time Lord warriors. When the War in Heaven ended at the Battle of Yggdrasil Point, the
Shroud were all but extinct and Gallifrey unstable – which lead to Civil War among the
disenfranchised and the elite. All this happened as recently as thirty years ago, relative to the Doctor.
Gallifrey is a melting pot – so old is their society and so enlightened their culture that hundreds of
faiths and ways of life mingle on the city streets. Monks and soul-singers are as common as
scientists, the lines between magic and science blurred beyond recognition. Currently ruled by an
elected High Council, the planet continues to inspire and protect lesser species with a detached
aloofness. It is, in the end, this utter coldness that repulsed the Doctor and caused him to leave.
Notable Locations Include
 A. Continent of Wild Endeavour ~ largest landmass on Gallifrey. Beautiful and divided into
several temperate zones. Most populous area of the planet.
 I. The Citadel of the Time Lords ~ centre of Time Lord society. Large enough to be
considered a city all on its own. Split into multiple districts categorised by the fields of
study or systems of belief and large residential sectors. Dominated by the central spire, a
huge temple-come-university where the most prestigious Time Lords live and work.

 a. The Spire ~ central point of Time Lord work. The most important Time Lords reside
here and make decisions of monumental importance. Below the main tower lies the
spherical Panopticon – the massive, ancient machine that harnesses the Eye of
Harmony and gives the planet power. One may walk through the Panopticon and
never realise they were inside a machine at all, so great is the size and scale of it.
 II. The Waste Lands ~ salted earth beyond the Citadel of the Time Lords, burned and scored
in forgotten wars. The Citadel was put here by Rassilon to make a statement – several
statements. The Citadel is at once a jewel in the most inhospitable place on Gallifrey, and
nearly impossible to reach without a craft: the unattainable but perpetually-longed-for
dream.
 III.Solace and Solitude ~ the tallest and shortest mountains on Gallifrey, Solace and
Solitude sit equidistant from the Citadel. At the peak of Solace sits the Oakdown
Observatory, a space/time telescope used by Gallifreyans to see far, far into the universe.
At the base of Solitude sits the Untempered Schism.
 a. The Untempered Schism ~ a neat hole in the fabric of the Universe, the Untempered
Schism was opened millenia ago by Rassilon. It is self-sustaining and harmless, but
to look into it is to become enmeshed in the nature of Time. When initiated into their
Academies, Time Lord initiates are brought here – only eight years old – and forced
to look upon the Schism until their senses are expanded and they become time-
sensitive. It is said that one can tell the nature of a Time Lord by how they reacted to
this awakening...
 IV. Pythia's Mount ~ a great hill, large enough to be partially forested and have land
belonging to the Great and Noble Houses of Lungbarrow and Oakdown.
 a. The Lungbarrow Estate ~ ancestral home of the Great and Noble House of
Lungbarrow. Once among the proudest and most respected of the Houses,
Lungbarrow was long ago disgraced by scandal and has fallen on hard times.
Despite the respect the name still commands, their estate is overgrown and their
manor house crumbling, their members almost entirely offworld or dead. When the
last patriarch of Lungbarrow fled, disgusted and frustrated by the circumstances of
his life, he abandoned his wife and two children and has not been seen since. The
children, on the other hand, grew up to become the Doctor and Irving Braxatiel.
Though the estate has been abandoned since the Civil War, there are always rumours
that something lurks within.
 b. The Oakdown Estate ~ on the opposite side of Pythia's Mount sits the sprawling
Oakdown Estate. A relatively new House, Oakdown became legendary when their
Matriarch designed and funded the Oakdown Observatory on Mt. Solace. In the
centuries since they have been considered an upright and reputable House. Their
single heir, Koschei, was the Doctor's only friend for many years and they
considered their estates mutual homes. Oakdown have been shunned by Time Lord
society since the downfall of Koschei and the rise of the Master, but their estate
remains as orderly as ever – only now it is frightening, not welcoming.
 B. The Fortune Archipelago ~ a series of islands running parallel to the south-west face of Wild
Endeavour on the Tethyl Ocean. The majority are small and uninhabited, but the largest of
them is home to Arcadia, Gallifrey's capital – the islands that orbit it, the Arcadian Cluster,
are likewise home to influential Gallifreyan Houses. To the far south of the Archipelago is a
pair of islands perpetually surrounded by storms and foul seas.
 I. Arcadia ~ capital city of Gallifrey, distinct from the Citadel of the Time Lords. The
Gallifreyan government holds seat here, an elected body consisting of fifty percent
Councillors and fifty percent Gallifreyan representatives, evenly mixing civilian interest
with the needs of the Time Lords. A colossal metropolis, living like the Citadel in a
climate dome, Arcadia is a swarming centre of trade, arts, entertainment and technology,
joined to the mainland of Wild Endeavour by a bridge so large it is supported by
antigravity generators.


 II. The Arcadian Cluster ~ ten smaller islands located in tight orbit around Arcadia itself.
Each of these has long been owned by any number of Great and Noble Houses and used
for any array of purposes. Currently, three belong to the House of Lilixia and are used as
an ahistorical wildlife preserve, while the remainder are kept by Houses as their personal
estates.
 III.The Death Zone ~ the islands to the furthest south of the Archipelago, the Death Zone is
permanently enveloped in frightening storms so strong they produce an electromagnetic
field that interferes with TARDIS flight. This is no accident – the Death Zone was once
home to the War Games, a long and bloody social experiment developed by Rassilon to
map the development of lesser species. Inactive Time Eddies litter the twin islands (one
huge, one much smaller, both surrounded by rock faces) that would, when triggered,
draw disparate species from throughout history to wage war on each other. When
Rassilon died, he had his tomb placed here, safe from grave-robbers, and the Games
have been silent ever since. All that remains are the storms and rumours that surround
the islands.
 C.  The Academy Chapters ~ the Time Lord Academy is not one institution but many schools,
dotted all over the Continent of Wild Endeavour. Several of these noble Chapters are
described below:
 I. The Prydonian Chapter ~ situated at the base of Mount Prydon, the Prydonian Chapter
prides itself on producing cunning, clever Time Lords. It educates broadly on all
subjects, treating education as one would a TARDIS – begin small, and allow the subject
to grow deeper and 'bigger on the inside'. There are no set studies besides the necessities
of Time Lord scholarship. Despite these lenient ideals, the Prydonian is among the most
prestigious of Chapters and is fiercely draconian. Corporal punishment is common and
there are no shortages of dropouts. The Prydonian is prestigious because anyone may
exel there, but they must try to do so.
 II. The Tethylimic Chapter ~ floating on the great Tethyl Ocean, the Tethylimic Chapter
produces Time Lords of great political heft. Its focuses are the laws of Gallifrey and the
Laws of Time, and Time Lords here become staunch authoritarians known for their utter
mastery of legal workings. Besides law, the Tethylimic focuses on other rigid subjects –
great physicists and mathematicians emerge from this Chapter. Like all the Academy, the
Tethylimic can be ferocious and unforgiving, but it is believed that a fast tongue wins
over the Professors here much easier than you would espect.
 III.The Arcadian Chapter ~ sitting at the centre of Arcadia, the great city of Gallifrey, the
Arcadian Chapter is considered unorthodox. Its focus is the myriad faiths and
philosophies of Gallifrey, seeking to better master Time through mastery of the self.
Some Time Lords derisively call their practices 'witchcraft', but the Arcadian continues
regardless, producing brilliant philosophers, mentalists and theologians.
 IV. The Braxatiel Chapter ~ curving over the great river Brax is the Braxatiel Chapter, the
most austere and forbidding of all Gallifreyan Academies. Theirs is, by special
permission, the education of future Celestial Interventionists and Web-Keepers, and the
building houses the central office of the CIA. They teach students how to interfere,
meddle, and co-ordinate the flow of time. They are selective and secretive, but there has
never been a Braxatiel who was not a brilliant and principled member of the most crucial
parts of Time Lord life.
Skaro
Skaro was once as many worlds are – green and fertile, with a burgeoning sentient species of upright,
bilaterally symmetrical beings. They had not yet looked to the stars or entertained the idea that
intelligent life lived elsewhere in the universe. As far as native Skarenes knew, they were the only
conscious life that existed. One day, over a thousand years ago, the decision was made to change
that. A rocket was prepared and would be launched from a hilltop between the cities of Thal and
Kaled, a brave experiment to see the stars, a new age for Skaro.
There was a disagreement. Something small and petty mutated into something fierce and angry, and


suddenly there were gunshots, missiles, and the whole of Skaro was consumed by total war. The two
factions hated each other so strongly that escalation happened almost daily, until the Year of Fire saw
an endless atomic and chemical bombardment that turned the forests to stone and burned the skies.
There was a ceasefire, a generation of Cold War, and one last day of ugly fighting... And then silence.
In the millennium since then, there has been a change on Skaro. The world is still bleached and
burnt, but in the ruins of the city of Thal the survivors grew tall and proud. Thals by name and near-
immortal, this new species became total pacifists and nurtured a beautiful grove in the city walls. In
Kaled, something else grew – something sick and twisted and utterly hateful. The Daleks slept in the
domed city, believing they were alone, waiting to discover there was a whole universe to slaughter...
Notable Locations Include
 A. Naterren
The supercontinent of Skaro. Huge and unbroken, Naterren spreads for thousands of
miles in all directions, enveloped by the Cusickray Ocean. It has been forever
changed by the war between Thal and Kaled – the soil is so irradiated it can fuel
some starships. The land is black and ashen and the few creatures that have endured
are all feral, savage things suited to this dead planet.
 I. Kaled
On the north face of a hilltop sits Kaled, the domed city of the Daleks. In the
time of the Skarenes Kaled was a special city dedicated to scientific pursuits
and discovery, domed to capture the sunlight. The whole city is a power
generator, and the Daleks within are freely empowered by the electricity
running through the floors. Impenetrable, the dome was unharmed by the
war and thus the Daleks have no idea that anything exists beyond the walls.
They have transformed the city into a fortress, using the old passageways
and streets to move between huge facilities dedicated to their crusade.
 II. Thal
The capital of art and culture on Skaro, Thal was utterly devastated by the final
strike of the war, which neutralised their blast shields and reduced the city to rubble.
In the thousand years since the interaction of mutagenic chemicals and radiation has
produced a lush garden within the city walls, cared for by the descendants of the
Thals – now beautiful, biologically-immortal humanoids. Though they are sterile, the
Thals cannot die unless killed, and thus are total pacifists on every level.
 III.The Petrified Forest
Once lush and green, the Llxiian Forest was turned to stone in the war and has stood
immobile ever since. Strange creatures lurk here, camouflaged as rock and dust, but
nothing lives on the vegetation – it is kill or be killed.
 IV. The Plague River
This river has snaked through Naterre for centuries, and the war did not change that
– but what once was fresh and clear is now full of monsters, the water black and
toxic. Only what already lives there survives near it.
 V. The Screaming Mountain
In the war, this mountain was hollowed-out and turned into a weapons stockpile by
the combatants. A huge portion of it was detonated during the last day, leaving a
great hole in the stone like a screaming mouth. There are still stockpiles left
untouched, but none dare approach a mountain that screams in anguish.
U.N.I.T
The United Nations Intelligence Taskforce – UNIT – was founded in the late 1960's by a collective
of scientists and military experts in response to a series of extraterrestrial incursions. Technically a
well-kept secret, UNIT keeps its work quiet and masquerades as a moderately-useful intelligence
organisation. A significant number of UNIT policies were outlined by the first leader of UNIT UK,
General St. John Lethbridge-Stewart, who was inspired by his occasional meetings with the Doctor.
UNIT now operates in hundreds of countries worldwide and in conjunction with specialist
contractors like Torchwood and International Electromatics to reverse-engineer and otherwise

manage alien technology and integrate ET's into the general population.
UNIT's central HQ is located in Geneva, but UNIT UK, based in Cheltenham, is frequently a
forerunner in most operations due to the unusually large alien population of the country. They keep
armed Guardsmen on watch at all hours in addition to running a vast research and development
division and maintaining contact with the multiple alien communities hidden away in major cities.
UNIT hires agents right out of A-Level and University, based entirely on secret aptitude tests
secreted in standard examinations. Older members are either well-established or hired from
intelligence groups across the globe, and UNIT agents can expect to transfer between four or five
countries during their long careers – it is very hard to leave UNIT without signing extremely potent
gag orders.
 A. UNIT HQ
Located in the town of Cheltenham, UNIT HQ piggybacks on the GCHQ facilities to
monitor communications and contact the secure alien communities across the UK. The
building masquerades as an abandoned fire station, but is in truth a vast underground
complex with many floors, backed by a Perception Filter developed from the Great
Intelligence incursions in 1972.
 I. The White Archive
All technology that UNIT confiscates first goes to the White Archive, where it is
studied and security checked. Items that sit here do not stay for very long – they are
either returned to their owners or transferred to contractors for further study and
reverse-engineering. Anything deemed outright dangerous to the safety of human/ET
populations is transferred to the Black Archive.
 II. The Black Archive
The Black Archive is UNIT's 'forbidden arsenal.' Items here are considered a serious
and active threat to the populations of Earth and are thus put under 'black watch' – a
semi-stasis state that ensures their functions no longer operate for as long as they
remain in the Archive. High-ranking UNIT scientists are permitted to study any
single item here for periods of up to six months, at which point their work is
integrated into the Van Statten Library and the item returned to black watch.
 III. The Van Statten Library
UNIT has amassed a great deal of insight and research in the past fifty years.
Subsequently, the information is kept in both digital and physical format in the Van
Statten Library – named for the colossally wealthy alien enthusiast Henry Van
Statten Sr., who funded the digitisation of the information and the construction of the
Library itself. Charting many floors and thousands of topics, the Van Statten Library
is considered by many to be the peak of UNIT's achievements, a beacon of
knowledge to benefit mankind and their allies.
 IV. The Holding Cells
Not every extraterrestrial is an ally. To combat this, UNIT America developed a
specialist dwarf star alloy compound to construct holding cells. When exposed to an
electrical charge these rooms seal perfectly, becoming utterly impenetrable. These
cells were considered useless until UNIT India developed an atmospheric converter
system – ever since, they have been standard issue, the converters keeping the
internal air supply 100% breathable for the inhabitants. Dangerous aliens and even
anti-UNIT terrorists are kept in cells until negotiations conclude, but some remain
hostile and are thus kept in the lower levels indefinitely.
Time Travel as Setting
The way the Doctor, Nirvi and Andrew travel through time and space bears some discussion.
Beyond understanding the Laws of Time (outlined in Section Four), it is important to appreciate how
access to the TARDIS changes the way one interacts with the universe. Essentially, visiting
anywhere is as easy as it is to, say, pop out to get the milk from the corner shop. It is seamless,
effortless, and life-changing. Space/Time Travel is the setting of Foreman. There is always an option
to go somewhere else, to experience something different. It is crucial that you seize this opportunity


and set your stories at any point in time, in any place in space – to use the themes of the series as a
whole and of your story specifically to choose or invent the right place and time for it to be. There is
no limit to where the stories can go beyond the fictional laws in place, and I urge you to choose your
locations and time periods to suit the story, not the other way around.

Intergalactic Politics(circa 21st Century)
The world of Foreman is much bigger than Earth. This is vitally important – even before mankind
colonises the stars there are thousands of civilisations straddling vast expanses of the big black
beyond. Earth is considered a backwater, a moderate zone of neutrality which currently poses little
threat or interest beyond the particular needs or demands of individuals or species. Those that are
time-sensitive, however, see the importance humankind will have in the future and may make
decisions based on that. Below are a range of useful concepts and elements that are true of
intergalactic politics, both on and off Earth, during the 21st Century.
 A. Earth
Neutral zone. UNIT's interaction with alien races has led to Earth being declared a political
refuge. It is illegal under the terms of the Shadow Proclamation and the Rassilon Oversight
to declare or pursue war with or on Earth. There are currently 206 alien communities hidden
on the planet, with several significant establishments in the UK and America. Alien
inhabitants of Earth are registered with both UNIT and the Shadow Proclamation as
protected residents and are either integrated with human communities or alien outposts.
Regardless, they are beholden to Earth laws and additional extraterrestrial oversight and their
use of technology is carefully monitored. There is a pilot scheme in several countries to
develop mixed-species communities, which are currently kept top-secret but are considered a
remarkable success.
However, Earth's position as a neutral planet is under threat from SKYWATCH, the
xenophobic terrorist group. This is considered an 'Earth matter' but if they become a serious
threat the Proclamation will have no choice but to directly intervene – if they threaten to
destabilise the Web of Time, the Rassilon Oversight will have no choice but to dispatch the
CIA. Earth will become a vital planet in the near future, and humanity will be one of the
most important species in the universe. Anything that threatens this threatens the stability of
time as a whole.
 B. Mars
Mars – known to the native inhabitants as Kh'aph – saw a sentient species evolve roughly
one million years ahead of mankind. Their world was cold and frozen but the species
endured and flourished unabashed. Salam-Akh are a proud warrior race with deeply-held
principles and devotion to each other. An attack on one is an attack on all, and they live
without compromise to reflect a universe they see as unyeilding. This was their undoing, and
the Salam-Akh, known to the wider universe as Ice Warriors, saw their world boil and burn
from the Greenhouse Effect. The species fractured almost 100,000 years ago, with many
going into stasis and the remainder leaving on huge ships, embarking on a grand exodus. The
Burning has left the race embittered and nomadic, but those still active visit the planet
regularly to ensure its sanctity, and the safety of the thousands of Ice Warriors who remain
entombed in stasis below ground. They have not taken the arrival of human probes well.

 C. The Sontaran/Rutan War
For as long as either race can remember, the Sontarans and Rutans have been at war. There is
no longer a reason or purpose to it – the war defines both species completely. The Rutans are
a species of mobile gel-brains, reproducing by diffusion and armed by pouring themselves
into specialist mobile suits, while the Sontarans clone their best genetic stock to produce
legions of elite killers. Neither side eats or sleeps, feeding themselves with technological
aides, and they sprawl across an arm of the galaxy in their endless conflict. They are both
considered dangerous by the Shadow Proclamation, but harmless by the Rassilon Oversight.
Their war spills onto countless uninvolved worlds and ousts innocent species from their
homes – trillions of individuals are refugees from the longest, most pointless, most perfect
war in the galaxy.


 D. The Shadow Proclamation
The Shadow Proclamation is an independent force responsible for monitoring and policing
peace and security in the populated universe. Formed in response to a conflict some
centuries ago, it is respected and followed by the vast majority of sentient space-faring
species. They prohibit damaging the development of lesser species and forbid the growth of
one species to damage another – beyond this they mediate as peacemakers or armed police,
sometimes participating in wars and sometimes neutralising them. The Shadow Proclamation
operates out of a decimated planet, their facility holding together the largest chunks to
remind all of their solemn purpose. This facility is remarkably designed, with the Time
Lords volunteering sophisticated equipment to allow it to rock back and forth on a
space/time axis and so give the Proclamation the power to intervene almost instantenously
and with some degree of foresight. Their police forces include a number of specialist species,
with the plodding Judoon as their blunt instrument and the one-eyed Atraxi as their wardens.
The Shadow Proclamation has specific treaties signed with UNIT and by extension the
United Nations. These are designed to keep Earth both a safe haven for extraterrestrial
visitors and to prevent it from becoming a target. Considering Earth's immense value as a
neutral zone, breaking the Terra Treaties is taken extremely seriously.
 E. The Rassilon Oversight
Not merely content with observing from Gallifrey, the Time Lords instituted the Rassilon
Oversight to maintain a better sense of control of history. The Oversight functions as a
special branch of the Time Lords, keeping track of conflicts and the development of time-
sensitive technology to keep the Web of Time healthy. When events threaten a stable history,
the CIA is dispatched to directly interfere and push things onto the right path – if the
Oversight directly summons the Intervention Agency, it is likely that individuals will simply
disappear from history.
 F. Earth Addendum – Homo Reptilia
Besides the presence of Homo Sapiens, Earth is also occupied by another major sentient
lifeform – the ancient Homo Reptilia. These humanoid reptiles were significant during the
Mesozoic Era, evolving some time in the late Jurassic and remaining dominant for millions
of years. Detecting the imminent K2 extinction, Homo Reptilia placed themselves in deep
hibernation within subterranean cities and have remained more-or-less undisturbed ever
since. There have been numerous encounters with humankind, however, and the older
species is not entirely happy with the presence of another. Conflicts are all but inevitable and
almost impossible to solve.

The Future (including notes on Earth)
The Future is, of course, a very big place. There should be no real limitations on what can and cannot
be done in future-set stories, but to ensure consistency in stories and to help you come up with more
ideas and concepts, a rough outline of the millenia ahead can be found below. It is by no means
comprehensive, and organised chronologically, roughly by Century or epoch.
21st-22nd Century
The Thals escape Skaro and begin a nomadic lifestyle in space.
The Daleks emerge from Kaled and begin to attack nearby planets.
The Sontaran//Rutan War approaches a stalemate.
UNIT publicly declares the existence of extraterrestrial life and the presence of ET
communities on Earth.
The Braxatiel Collection is opened to the public.
Despite best efforts, a Dalek time-ship arrives and the Daleks attempt to conquer Earth pre-
emptively. They are repelled by UNIT, the Doctor, and his companions.
Information on the Daleks is swiftly erased by Dalek malware.
A multiversal Convergence occurs, linking Earth to Mondas. Cybermen successfully cross-
over before the Convergence ceases and a Cyber-Bore is released into space.
Brazilian scientists collaborate with Japanese mechanics and produce the first intelligent
household robot. This rapidly becomes popular and many variations develop.
Tesla becomes the most popular automotive manufacturer. Contracts with software designers

result in self-driving cars running on clean electricity.
Cellular phone technology reaches a peak – headsets containing microphones, cameras,
operating systems and visual technology are worn by upwards of 50% of the global
population.
India develops the first space colony and subsequently establishes a research base on the
Moon.
China invades both North and South Korea – the United Nations is forced to intervene and
for the first time, extraterrestrials are openly involved in human conflict.
Tobacco is banned in the United Kingdom. Soon afterwards, this becomes true of most
countries.
New, safer recreational drugs are developed that render previous drug trades obsolete. These
are soon legalised and become popular recreational tools.
22nd-23rd Century
First-ever human colony is established on Mars.
Earth's 'neutral' status is revoked by necessity – it is now considered more of a space village.
It remains a safe haven for many extraterrestrials.
Humanoid and non-humanoid robots are now common. These are possessed of sophisticated
operating systems derived from search engine matrices, but are not sentient – nor are they
yet sapient.
The vast majority of human beings now carry permanent connections to the Internet and
communications networks via the latest generations of headset.
Crime rates are falling, but the wage disparity grows ever-larger. America's economy
flounders as South America, the Indian Subcontinent and parts of East Asia flourish.
Native Martians react to human occupation and besiege the colony. The intervention of the
Shadow Proclamation leads to a treaty between species.
The Martian/Terran Treaty leads to the development of a lightspeed-capable spaceship –
humankind explores the stars.
A Shadow Proclamation embassy is established in independent Hawaii.
America, desperate for resources, annexes Canada – the Second American Civil War begins.
The Second American Civil War spirals out of control. Fifty-two countries are involved
worldwide.
New York is hit with the human race's third-ever atomic attack. The city is levelled. Nuclear
Weapons are finally outlawed as the war ends.
The Shadow Proclamation assists in the policing of the Nuclear Weapons policies.
Martian technology, plus additional ET assistance, allows the worldwide distribution of
sustainable energy.
New York begins reconstruction. America yields Canada – several other States are 'released'
to the Native American population.
Robotic intelligence continues to evolve, yielding the first sapient machines. Androids –
humanoid robots using personality matrices over their operating systems – soon appear.
23rd-25th Century
Daleks now occupy every planet in the Skarene System. Fatalistic cults have emerged among
survivors, worshipping the Daleks as agents of the Devil.
Earth experiences the lingering effects of climate change despite best efforts in the previous
centuries. Millions die and a memorial is engraved on the Moon.
A time-travelling squadron of assassins arrive from the 30th Century. They attempt to prevent
the launch of the first 'space-liner' – a spacecraft fast enough to support full crew and
passengers – in order to cancel out a future conflict.
Their failure introduces time-travel technology to human scientists and creates an
Ontological Paradox. The CIA are dispatched to 'clean up'.
Sontaran/Rutan War flares up again. An entire solar system is used to fuel a Rutan
superweapon, leaving the species branded as war criminals by The Shadow Proclamation.
Homo Reptilia populations awaken occasionally. Conflicts are common, but peaceful
integration is not rare.
New New York becomes the capital city of the United Nations – now the dominant world
authority. The Shadow Proclamation embassy moves there.

Human colonies are established on many worlds. Out of the climate tragedy, cybernetic
enhancement  and surgery begins to become more common, having previously remained
niche.
Time-travel technology is inevitably developed from the remnants of the assassin attack. It is
carefully policed.
Androids and robots are now truly distinct. Androids come in many varying levels of
'human-like', with the most popular appearing familiar-but-mechanical. There is very little
acceptance of truly human-looking androids.
The Cyber-Bore is activated by human colonists on the planet Telos. The entire planet is
occupied and cyberformed, the mission presumed lost.
25th-30th Century
Daleks begin leaving the Skarene System. The Shadow Proclamation first becomes aware of
their presence.
The Time Lords take notice of the Daleks and dispatch agents to interfere in their history.
The human race arrives at The Shadow Proclamation proper and is formally inducted. The
United Nations reforms as the Terra Union.
The Terra Union forms the Time Agency to keep track of time-travel technology and police
its use. Agents are secretly recruited by the CIA.
Human colonies across the galaxy now number in the hundreds. Some multi-species worlds
now count humans among them.
The Terra Union is now the top level of a global governmental authority. The planet is
predominantly peaceful and socialist. Local government has been replaced by self-organised
groups, maintained by the TU.
Dalek worship is found across thirty different star systems. Dalek Cultists are almost as
feared as the Daleks themselves, and Dalek worship is considered a dangerous activity by
both the Proclamation and Oversight.
Human colonists encounter the Daleks and Dalek Cultists, leading to a virulent strain of
Dalek Worship in human societies. The species remains unknown to humankind at large –
most colonists are exterminated.
Cybernetics are becoming popular and commonplace. The human race has virtually
eradicated sickness, and soon useful implants are widespread.
The Sontarans attack a human/Martian colony to claim resources. Human/Martian relations
begin to deteriorate.
Human/Martian relations collapse at a summit and the species dissolve their treaties. The
species go to war.
A small group of human Dalek Cultists travel back in time to sabotage human/Martian
relations, under the guise of a mission of mercy. They fail, leaving their technology in the
past.
An archaeological expedition to Telos reactivates the dormant Cyberman population. The
explorers are converted and the Cybermen begin an exodus, seeking new populations to
convert and resources to harvest.
30th-40th Century
The Daleks engage in repeated attacks on fringe systems. Each campaign sees them expand
their territory. Anti-Dalek weaponry is devised by the Shadow Proclamation and the Rassilon
Oversight, but no advances are made beyond this.
The Sontaran/Rutan and Human/Martian wars overlap as territories become contested. Ruta
III is destroyed by a Martian clan, who are subsequently exiled by the rest of the species.
Cybermen overwhelm the borders of a human colony sector and the human race at large
becomes aware of them. Treaties and Accords are signed between Humans, Martians, and
Sontarans to fend off the Cybermen – the Cyber-Wars begin.
A human/Martian hybrid is elected to the highest position in human politics. Tensions
between the two species finally cool.
The Reptilia population of Earth campaign for their own colony worlds. After some debate,
this is granted and the colony ships divided up between species.
The Cyber-Wars have caused Dalek Cultists to go into recline. Though they are still present
throughout Dalek and post-Dalek territories, the human strain of Skarene fanaticism fades

into obscurity.
Cyber-prejudice means that cybernetics become less common. New forms of modification
are developed, enabling gene-splicing and the first true technorganics – biological
technology, wetware.
Wetware revolutionises the android industry. Soon, visually-human androids are commonly
accepted, and their personality matrices and AI become ever more complex. Robots benefit
similarly. Sapience is introduced to domestic robots, a decision which causes some
controversy.
As the Cyber-Wars rage on, the Sun shifts into a new cycle. The entire Solar System is
threatened by Solar Flares.
An emergency motion is signed and the human race abandons Earth. Homo Reptilia split
into an occupying force and a migrant population. Single and mixed-species ships take the
majority of both races off-planet.
The human custodians of Earth are placed in deep cryo-stasis aboard the Nerva Beacon, an
orbital 'ark' containing genetic samples of all flora and fauna, as well as a complete digital
library of human and Reptilia culture and literature. The Beacon is operated by the most
advanced operating system yet developed – when activated, it immediately becomes sentient
and dedicates itself to the safety of the cargo.
The Martian population has no issue – they either return to their stasis or remain in space.
The evacuation of Earth turns the Cyber-War in favour of the Cybermen. The Sontarans
abandon the campaign and hundreds of senior officers commit ritualistic suicide, disgraced.
Forced into a desperate situation, the Human/Martian Alliance contacts the Rutans and uses
their superweapon to annhilate the majority of Cyberman planets.
The human and Martian race are blacklisted by The Shadow Proclamation and those in space
become reclusive and nomadic.
The Nerva Beacon begins building second-generation AI. These become custodians,
assisting in the care of humankind and their kin.
40th-50th Century
Human travellers encounter the Thals. For the first time, humanity at large knows of the
Daleks.
Before mankind can prepare, Daleks begin a new, gigantic campaign and obliterate a
hundred colony worlds. Martians, Humans, Reptilia and Thals form a new front to combat
the Dalek menace.
Dalek Cultists across the universe become feared and renowned. The Shadow Proclamation
is forced to recognise Skarene Fanaticism as a legitimate religious order.
Human Dalek Cultists re-emerge, gnawing at the Worldless Alliance from the inside.
Sacrificial orgies and pogroms become their raison d’etre.
The Worldless Alliance perform guerilla raids on Dalek strongholds, beating the species
back for the first time in thousands of years. Dalek Cultists are captured and treated
humanely in a desperate attempt to break their fanatic self-hatred. They respond by
committing mass suicide.
The Daleks respond by developing new kinds of soldier – genetic degenerates become
Special Weapons Daleks, living and dying in superpowered mobile guns.
The Shadow Proclamation re-inducts the species from the Sol system and the fight against
the Daleks becomes galactic.
Dalek Cultists begin to die out as worshippers suffer epiphanies and abandon the religion.
Fanatic High Priests develop a plan to preserve the cult, and introduce dormant Dalek
chromosomes into the genetics of their worshippers. The Dalek Factor will remain in sectors
of the human race for the rest of time.
An error in the AI cripples the Nerva Beacon and leaves the population on-board in stasis,
even though the flares have passed. The Reptilia on Earth continue to maintain the planet.
The sentient androids and robots on board begin repairs.
The Daleks perform a grand feint – the fleet perform kamikaze attacks on the hub worlds of
the Shadow Proclamation while Progenitor Ships  soft-crash on other planets, waiting to be
activated.
50th-100th Century

The species of the Sol System have forgotten Earth, which now exists as a kind of whispered
legend.
The Martians maintain their alliances but break off from the Sol fleets and occupy their own
planets.
Likewise, humans and Silurians occupy shared and single worlds. All three species become
significant members of the Shadow Proclamation.
Nerva Beacon is repaired and finally awakens.
Humanity returns to Earth to find it healthy, with the burnt-out old cities now occupied by
further-evolved species from Old Earth. Dominant among these species is a kind of cat,
possessed of problem-solving intelligence and a rudimentary thumb.
The Nerva Refugees adopt the neo-felines – but do not domesticate them. Nerva activates its
secondary function, beaming a message to inform the evacuees that Earth is safe.
The next-generation androids and robots cohabit with humankind.
The message is responded to by Sontarans, who seek to occupy. Artificial and mankind repel
them.
The vast majority of the human race either lives on colony worlds, mixed-species worlds, or
starships.
100th-200th Century
Cybermen reappear, drawn by the Nerva Beacon from the depths of space. They attack
Earth. They are tracked by the Shadow Proclamation.
The Cyberman invasion is stopped by the arrival of the Shadow Proclamation fleet. Earth is
rediscovered and the neo-felines introduced to the species at large.
Human beings have by this point evolved to a point of near-perfect health. There are
numerous offshoots of the species, but their appearance remains remarkably stable thanks to
gene-splicing and wetware cybernetics.
Earth is renovated, transformed into the hubworld for what is dubbed the Great and
Bountiful Sol Collectiva.
The Collectiva unites the disparate colony worlds of the three major Sol species, plus
sentient machines, and absorbs the Shadow Proclamation by popular vote – the human race
is now the centre of all intergalactic politics.
Archaeological digs on hundreds of worlds begin to turn up identical artefacts that are older
than any known civilisation.
The Rassilon Oversight investigates these but can find nothing beyond their identical nature.
The digs continue unabated until interest fades.
The Cybermen, reduced to scavengers, remain a persistent problem and skirmishes with
them are not uncommon. Whole worlds are lost and saved every galactic year.
The first Dalek Progenitor is activated by unsuspecting human colonists. The Daleks are
once again a present danger to all life in the universe.
200th-500th Century
Individuals express new interest in the strange artefacts found across the cosmos. These
scientists come together and establish the Toberman Foundation to study them in more
detail. They are considered a fringe group and are widely scorned.
The culmination of second-generation AI and wetware is the first-ever 'synthetic' – a
biological android, both sentient and sapient. Soon, synthetics overtake androids as the
dominant breed of humanoid machine.
A faction of synthetics secede and occupy the Moon. They leave the memorial untouched but
otherwise settle.
The Lunar synthetics successfully create their own AI - Luna. It, in turn, produces a second
generation of synthetics – even more indistinguishable from humans.
Luna,and Nerva Beacon engage in communication. They anticipate singularity within two
hundred years and secretly modify the Sol Collective's networks to ensure safe transferral.
Wetware cybernetics and wetware synthetic parts are virtually indistinguishable. The only
notable difference is their inability to biologically reproduce.
Some synthetic groups on the border worlds become notably militant and violent. They
appear to reject their creators and believe in a kind of deity. These synthetics revolt and
escape on their own ships, becoming pirate zealots.

Neo-felines are now companion animals across the galaxies. Their intelligence and dexterity
continues to develop as they are used to assist with many everyday tasks.
The Toberman Foundation makes a discovery on an uninhabited border world. They are
never heard from again.
The Singularity occurs. A human mind is connected to a synthetic brain – the entire species
becomes connected digitally virtually overnight.
Singularity enables the development of reproduction-capable synthetics. As they can
reproduce with human beings, the species are absorbed into each other. Human beings will
remain technical cyborgs for the rest of their history.
500th-1000th Century
No longer restrained by genetics, humankind freely interbreeds with thousands of species.
New strains emerge regularly.
Neo-felines continue to develop. The species is now widely considered sapient and many
have developed bipedal gait.
Daleks conclude their quiet campaign and ravage the universe out of three-hundred-and-
thirty different worlds. With them comes the re-emergence of Dalek Cults, the Dalek Factor
activated. Tens of billions of humans turn into Dalek agents. Worse still, the Dalek Factor
has subtly influenced the development of the human race, and vital infrastructure turns out to
be vulnerable to Dalek attack.
The human race now engages in war with itself, while the Daleks rapidly occupy hundreds
of worlds. The Shadow Proclamation collapses, leaving the universe lawless – a period that
will come to be known as the Dark Times.
The Daleks are turned back when the Human Factor is introduced to their own species.
Daleks begin to question themselves and the species plunges into civil war, abandoning their
conquest to fight themselves.
When the Dalek Emperor is exterminated, the Daleks soon become all but extinct. Only the
Progenitors and scattered groups of pure and humanised Daleks remain.
With the Daleks gone, the universe begins to pull itself together.
Earth falls into a particularly troubled period – without the Proclamation to maintain it, the
human race loses contact with the Singularity. Hardship returns to Earth, the human race,
and the species it lives with.
In this new universe, most sentient species wander the cosmos, integrating freely and living
on what remains from the Bountiful Sol Collective.
Barter culture becomes dominant for the first time in millenia.
This is now a place for travellers, prospectors, scavengers and explorers. Despite the
hardship, the universe is a big place again.
Humanity becomes nostalgic for the time when they were the dominant species in the
universe. Singularity becomes a distant memory, remembered as the touch of God.
1000th Century
Studying the Singularity and the work of the Toberman Foundation, a multi-species group
decides to travel to the 'First Planet' and find God.


3. A Brief History of the Doctor
The Doctor is somewhere around 360 years old at the beginning of FOREMAN. He has lived a long, storied
life and suffered immeasurably – he has lost loved ones, broken his codes of honour and seen his world fall
into Civil War. Notably, his experiences have left him with a distinct Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and a
number of serious anxiety issues, in addition to his carrying many painful memories. It has been a good life,
but a hard one – and it is covered below.

Lungbarrow
The Doctor during a time of great civil unrest on Gallifrey. Not the first natural birth in the House of
Lungbarrow, the Doctor's conception and delivery were still kept secret. His father was the Heir to
the House of Lungbarrow – his Grandfather, the Patriarch, had recently announced his intent to
secede from Time Lord society and found an anarchist sect dubbed 'The Faction Paradox'. The
Faction were dedicated to the Patriarch of Lungbarrow and soon came to worship him as a
patriarchal god, Grandfather Paradox. Their ideals were simplistic and terrifying: utter annihilation
of the Web of Time and pursuit of Total Event Collapse, the end of causality and chronology.
In the light of his father's lunatic ambition, the Heir hid himself and his wife away until the Celestial
Intervention Agency banished the Faction into the Void. The House of Lungbarrow was disgraced,
and Time Lord and Gallifreyan alike looked upon the Heir and his family with utter disdain.
The Doctor, then, grew up in the crumbling manor of the House of Lungbarrow on Pythia's Mount,
alone until the arrival of his younger sibling – and always lonely. He was an isolated and excluded
boy, left alone in the cold and the dark by other children. The precocious boy buried himself in
books, especially the Chronicles of the Corsair, a Time Lord explorer from his Grandfather's
generation. He became fascinated by starships and TARDISes, collecting models and sketching them
endlessly.
But the Heir – now the Patriarch – of the House of Lungbarrow was bitter and angry. He had grown
up at the height of the House's power and now had nothing to show for it but a mouldering estate and
two pariah children. He had been born for more than this, he deserved more than this, and his family
deserved more than this... But he could not give it to them. One morning, the last Patriarch of the
House of Lungbarrow packed a bag and left his home to steal aboard a freight ship. The Doctor,
woken by the sounds of movement, ran after his father. He only ever saw the rocket sail into the sky.
No-one ever saw the Patriarch again.
The Doctor almost abandoned his dreams. He threw away his collections and would likely have
wasted away had he not met Koschei of Oakdown, the boy who lived on the other side of the hill.
Together these lonely boys - disillusioned with the nature of Gallifrey and rejected by their peers –
redefined themselves. They brought out the best in each other, their prodigious intellects blossoming
and their love for each other immeasurable and pure. Neither boy believed his affections were
returned in full, but they remained friends, pining away in silence until the Academy came.
The Academy Years
The Doctor and Koschei were the same age, and so the Academy came for them at the same time. It
was inevitable that these brilliant young children of Great and Noble Houses would be taken away,
but even so the Doctor wept – unwilling to leave his mother and sibling alone in that huge, empty
house.
But he was taken all the same. Both boys would enter the Prydonian Chapter, following their
ancestors. Both boys would be walked, in their own time, to look into the Untempered Schism until
they became time-sensitive. When the Doctor's time came, he stood longer than any other child had
dared... And then he ran away so fast that he could not be caught until the next morning.
Entry tests were taken. The Doctor here earned his first nickname, when he passed a fundamentally
unpassable exam with a perfect score, the Theta Sigma, and earned a reputation before his very first
day. The name would stick with him for a very long time, and soon Theta Sigma had become a
central figure in a group of ten promising students –  wily Drax, scholarly Jelpax, charismatic
Magnus, soulful Millenia, jovial Mortimus, brave Rallon, reclusive Ushas, and calculating Vansell –
they, together with Theta Sigma and Koschei, became known as the Deca.
And the Deca they remained, for almost all their time at the Academy. Theta Sigma rebelled at every
opportunity, and they often joined him. A certain disregard for the rules defined them and their strong
friendships held them together, and all of them at many points faced the frightening corporal

punishments of the Prydonian Chapter. Magnus was isolated for over a year. Jelpax was forbidden to
speak aloud outside of classes multiple times. Drax and Theta Sigma both had the fingers of their
subordinate hands broken... Beyond those exceptional moments, all of them knew the sound of the
disciplinarian Grazer – a low powered laser that would strip layers of flesh from the back or palms.
But the Deca stayed strong. Throughout their years at the Prydonian, they were mentored by Borusa
– Theta Sigma's childhood idol the Corsair, retired and settled into a comfortable teaching position.
Borusa saw in every member of the Deca a huge well of potential to reshape Gallifrey, and he
encouraged them to explore their ideologies and experiment in their studies. To Theta Sigma, he
became a father figure – a bond that began when Theta Sigma lied to a teacher to spare Koschei a
serious punishment and was rewarded for his courage with a newly-made Sigil of Lungbarrow, an
heirloom he would have otherwise never had.
There were changes in the Deca as their final years at the Academy approached. Perhaps their
disintegration began when Rallon suffered a crippling injury and was forced to regenerate. Perhaps it
was when this new, female Rallon began a romance with Millenia, who had always loved them.
Perhaps it was with Ushas, who seduced Theta Sigma, Mortimus and Magnus in turn and played
them against each other – an experiment for her BioPsychology studies as much as it was a genuine
exploration of her feelings for them. No-one in the group could say for sure, least of all Koschei. He
found himself increasingly distant from his friends as he prepared for the Rassilon Imprimatur, the
final series of examinations that would determine whether the Initiates would graduate.
Embroiled as he was in the infighting among the Deca, his confusing feelings for Ushas and
Koschei, and an increasing disdain for his studies and the stifling Time Lord society, Theta Sigma
failed the Imprimatur where the rest of the Deca passed and were inducted as Time Lords. Koschei,
who had scored a Triple-First, took his old friend for a consolatory drink. There, Theta Sigma
decided to do something audacious.
Renegade
Theta Sigma had an idea – to run away. Sharing his plan with Koschei, the two agreed to escape
Gallifrey together in a TARDIS. Theta Sigma visited Borusa to appeal for a second examination, and
stole his old TARDIS key when the old man wasn't looking. Koschei, meanwhile, used his new
privileges to 'take a closer look' at the Corsair's TARDIS in the Prydonian Museum. When the two
regrouped, it was simple enough to unlock the TARDIS and run.
This escape was no doubt helped by the TARDIS itself. Possessed of psychic connections to their
pilots, the Corsair's TARDIS had developed something of a personality and longed to travel again. In
Theta Sigma, it saw a familiar spark of adventure and very willingly allowed itself to be stolen –
disabling all the security protocols that would otherwise have alerted the guards. Once away, Theta
Sigma made another decision: as he had no title given to him, he would choose one himself. He
would be the Doctor, the man who made people better.
Koschei and the Doctor travelled together for almost a hundred years. They were fugitives from
Gallifrey and simply didn't care, because they were happy in each other's company and had a whole
universe to explore. They ran headlong into danger and saved many lives. They were free, and they
were both still utterly in love with each other – and still, neither would dare tell the other so. The
Doctor strove to do good deeds to win Koschei's hearts. He had run away, he knew, because  he did
not want to lose him to the Time Lords; just as Koschei had run away so he would not lose the
Doctor when he assumed his duties.
Koschei grew jealous. He had been a rich and spoiled child, no matter how lonely, and he could not
process what he saw as the Doctor's rejection. He looked out at the Universe and saw only
distractions, billions of meaningless things keeping his Doctor from seeing him, holding him, loving
him.
So Koschei killed himself.
He stole away from the TARDIS and put a bullet in his brain. Koschei of Oakdown – the soulful,
sensitive boy who had loved the Doctor – died, was swallowed up by regenerative light and emerged
as someone else. That someone vowed to destroy any obstacle to their great romance with the
Doctor, to do everything and anything to have their hearts in their hands. To master him.
The Master cut a bloody path through the Seven Systems, skirting dangerously close to Gallifrey as
they committed serial genocide to get the Doctor's attention. When the Doctor came looking for
them, they battled across twenty-one worlds until the Master disappeared into the night. Running
across history and leaving devastation in their wake, the Master obtained an Entropic Bomb and
planned to unleash quantum nihilism on the Doctor's favourite world: Earth. The Doctor chased them

to Tunguska, Russia, in 1906, where they duelled one last time atop the Master's orbital platform
until the Doctor threw the Master to the ground below before riding the bomb and safely disarming
it, resulting in a harmless plasma pulse.
When he awakened in the snow, the Doctor handcuffed the Master and took them to the one place he
had hoped to never go again – Gallifrey.
Return
The Doctor's TARDIS materialised in the Waste Lands, and the Doctor carried the Master's
restrained body across the bleached, barren soil. When he collapsed at the gates of the Citadel both
were taken by Borusa, now a senator, and cadre of armed guards to be imprisoned. Both would be
tried for sedition. But only one would be tried for serial genocide, for heresy, for the highest crimes
the Time Lords could imagine.
The Doctor - only the Doctor - testified against the Master in the High Court and at trial's end the
Master was sentenced to Oblivion. Taken to the Shada Complex, a prison on a desert asteroid, they
were:
Restrained by the neck and arms to a two-by-two platform, standing straight and unable to
move.
Contained in an Oubliette – a dimensionally transcendent prison the size of a small pendant.
Stored, in their Oubliette, in the Cruciform – the storage facility for the most terrible
Gallifreyan criminals – to think about their actions until the end of the universe.
The Doctor, meanwhile, was pardoned for his rebellion in exchange for his testimonial and heroic
stand against the Master.
Returning to the long-abandoned Lungbarrow Estate, the Doctor lived very quietly, brooding on the
downfall of the person he loved so much. He wrote treatises on the corruption and inadequacies of
Gallifreyan society and published them anonymously across a range of journals. Borusa would check
in on him once a month, but their meetings were short and terse – the Doctor simply harboured too
much anger at society, seeing in it the seeds of whatever dissonance transformed Koschei into the
Master. Infrequently, Drax or Irving would be able to coax him out of his shell and he would be
dragged into an opera or solstice party or classy pub.
It was at one of these sojourns that the Doctor met Mercy. A Time Lord and a little older than he was,
Mercy was already a renowned figure – a military genius and an outspoken social crusader, Mercy
had used her studies at the Arcadian Chapter to create an entirely new form of social science that
was, at the core, indistinguishable from magic. The two encountered each other during a street party
and immediately disliked each other: the reclusive, notorious iconoclast and the respected martial
academic.
It was only natural that they would fall in love. Mercy and the Doctor began a romance that was as
intense as it was pure, with grand demonstrations of love mingling with the simplest expressions of
affection. When he confessed his feelings, he wrote it in a constellation. When she proposed, it was
by catching a diamond in a meteor shower. The wedding was a quiet ceremony on the grounds of the
Lungbarrow Estate, attended by only a handful of family and friends.
A daughter soon followed, and the Doctor found himself more and more directly engaged with Time
Lord society. Mercy rekindled his enthusiasm and optimism and took him to meetings he truly had
no business being in – but none could deny his utter brilliance and his frightening depth of insight.
They were posed to start a transformation that would remake Gallifrey for the better.
Until the monsters came.
The War in Heaven
They were refugees from a dying universe, crossing over in a multiversal Convergence. In the heat
death of their reality, species evolved to survive on the barest resources – on the atomic forces that
held matter together. They were shapeless, formless, held together by a nebulous Quantum Heart,
and shared a group consciousness organised by elite Queens.
The Time Lords called them the Shroud.
Energy flowed through the shadow-stuff of a Shroud and coalesced in their Quantum Hearts, but
their bodies were innately transformable and their minds unified. A single Shroud could envelop any
reasonably-sized life-form and consume the bonds in their atoms, leaving nothing behind. Together,
the horde could wrap around whole worlds.

The Time Lords reacted to the Shroud's presence quickly and decisively. A State of Emergency was
declared and the Rassilon Oversight reshuffled into a War Cabinet in collaboration with the Shadow
Proclamation – over a hundred species had entered what would become known as the War in
Heaven, the Universe against the Shroud.
Mercy was called into active duty, and the Doctor followed. He was granted the rank of Time Lord
and attached to her legion as an Agent Provocateur: all-purpose ranking officer, like a sentient Swiss
army-knife, equipped with an experimental Sonic Screwdriver. Mercy's Legion would defend the
furthest outpost of the united species, Yggdrasil Point.
They remained there for fifty years. The Doctor travelled throughout the attached system, doing
whatever he could to help the cause as Mercy commanded the Legion in thousands of pitched battles.
The Time Lords developed frightening new technology to fight the vampiric Shroud. Casters - wrist-
mounted devices to launch dark matter into their Quantum Hearts and so destroy them - and
Bowships, gigantic space-faring dark matter firing mechanisms with a skeleton crew to destroy the
colossal aggregate Shroud.
Yggdrasil Point never fell. The Shroud could not penetrate their defences or outmatch Mercy's
Legion, and certainly stood no match against Mercy and her roguish husband. But as the War raged
on, the Multiverse kept turning – and another Convergence was due.
Mercy knew this, watched her Orrery with uneasy eyes. She hid the truth from everybody, even the
Doctor, and waited for what would come: a new army of Shroud, millions strong, spilling into the
Universe for one whole, terrible day. She drew plans, dreadful plans.
On the last day of the War in Heaven, the Doctor was dispatched to the fringes of Yggdrasil point.
There, he watched Mercy and her Legion fly every last Bowship in a suicide run, eradicating the
Shroud in their own Universe as the Convergence took place. He watched as their orbital satellites
plunged to the ground and burned, killing millions more of the monstrous vampires. He listened as
Mercy said her goodbyes on the communicator. And he woke alone in the wreckage.
There was no TARDIS. No fast ships remained. And there were Shroud who had survived and made
it through the barricades. The Doctor took his Caster and his Screwdriver and walked across a
galaxy, killing every Shroud in his path. It took him almost twenty years, but he returned to Gallifrey
at last.
And he saw it burning.
Exile
As the War in Heaven raged on, Gallifrey's resources were spread thinner and thinner. The Time
Lords assumed greater control of Gallifreyan politics and infrastructure to maintain the war machine
and ordinary Gallifreyans – even some Time Lords – found themselves suddenly destitute and
desperate for the first time in over ten-thousand years of the species.
And in the middle of it all, a girl was born to the House of Lungbarrow. Granddaughter to the Doctor
and Mercy, Susan of the Great and Noble House of Lungbarrow grew up on stories about her
grandparents, the iconoclasts, the rebels, the dissidents. She idolised this pair of Time Lords she had
never met and took every ideal they had to heart, becoming rebellious and outspoken as only a child
can be.
In the final days of the War in Heaven there was a Shroud attack on Gallifrey. The monsters were
repelled, but the casualties were high and included Susan's parents. She was orphaned and alone on a
Gallifrey that, while celebrating the end of the War, was now in dire straits and she watched as the
Time Lords declared outright domination of the planet to reorder things.
She rejected it all outright. Would her grandfather have stood for this? Would her grandmother?
Susan was sure they would not, and that they would endorse what she chose to do: recruiting
thousands of the disenfranchised, Susan became the leader and figurehead of a rebel group that
incited the Gallifreyan Civil War. She was barely thirty.
The Civil War between the Free Gallifreyans and the Old Time Lords lasted until the Doctor's return.
At once captured by Susan's agents and introduced to his granddaughter, the Doctor was horrified at
the fighting and quickly dissolved Susan's rebel group while instituting new laws on the Council of
Time Lords. He then collected his TARDIS and attempted to flee the planet before his only
descendant was arrested, but failed. Susan was placed in an Oubliette and the Doctor was left alone.
There was nothing left for him on Gallifrey. No family, no loved ones. No society he cared for. He
could not handle the responsibility of rebuilding Gallifrey, and left that in the hands of people he
trusted as, once again, the Doctor took his TARDIS and left Gallifrey behind in self-imposed exile.
He has travelled ever since, a solitary figure with a haunted past. Across history on a billion worlds

he is a legendary figure, a hero and an icon – but he cannot agree with it. In his hearts he knows only
too well that his behaviour is a pathological attempt to repay the debt he feels he owes to the
Universe, and even if his good deeds help him sleep at night, the guilt eats away at him. Alone in his
TARDIS, the Doctor can only see himself as a wretched, dangerous man, no matter how many lives
he saves.

4. The Laws of Space and Time
The Laws of Time
Section One: Glossary
Time travel is possible.
Therefore, there are rules, consequences and orders of operation. Time-travel can cause problems
and issues with regards to causality, the flow of history and the state of the universe at large.
That is not to say you should not do it, because time-travel is a barrel of laughs if you get it right.
This section is designed to explore the RULES AND REGULATIONS of time-travel in
FOREMAN'S universe – and the easiest way to do that is to start by defining some terms.
TRAVELLER – a TRAVELLER is any entity that has gone either forward or backwards in
history.
RESIDENT – any entity present by default at a POINT on any TIMELINE.
CAPSULE – a self-contained time-travel unit, capable of transporting one or more
TRAVELLERS between any point in history.
POINT – a place in time and space where a CAPSULE has arrived with one or more
TRAVELLERS.
TIMELINE – the flow of cause-and-effect throughout history. Can be either -
 PERSONAL – the TIMELINE of any specific individual or group
UNIVERSAL – the TIMELINE of a larger, broader set (for example, a planet or species)
COMPLEX – the TIMELINE of an individual or group of TRAVELLERS -a PERSONAL
TIMELINE that crosses UNIVERSAL or PERSONAL TIMELINES in a non-sequential
manner.
DIVERGENCE – a point where the TIMELINE is broken and the original sequence of
cause-and-effect is no longer true.
SPLINTER – new TIMELINE resulting from a DIVERGENCE.
 LIVE SPLINTER – one where time is stable and the new TIMELINE may continue
uninterrupted.
 DEAD SPLINTER – one where time is unstable and the new TIMELINE will eventually
dissolve.
CO-EXISTENTS – TRAVELLERS or memories of TRAVELLERS existing side-by-side
with contradictory ones as a result of DIVERGENCES or SPLINTERS.
ANOMALY – an ANOMALY is an item that survives a SPLINTER in a TIMELINE. For
example, a TRAVELLER who neutralises their existence but remains present in a DEAD
SPLINTER is considered ANOMALOUS.
NULLIFICATION – an effect of time-travel wherein an entity, object, TIMELINE or similar
simply never happened.  The thing in question never was and acquires a quantum probability
of zero.
BLINOVITCH LIMITATION EFFECT – or 'PRINCIPLE OF CHANGED TIME'. As
electrons 'want' to be in proximity to protons, the Universe 'wants' to remain simple and in
good working order. BLINOVITCH'S EFFECT defines a 'universal principle' in which
'ripples' from DIVERGENCES are reduced on an exponential scale the further one goes
from the POINT. This prevents inexplicable-but-traceable changes elsewhere.
PARADOX (see Section Three) – a DIVERGENCE wherein a TRAVELLER performs an
action that would neutralise their own presence. Creates a DEAD SPLINTER and eventually
EVENT COLLAPSE.
INEVITABLE POINT – a moment in time where a SPLINTER catches up with the origin of
the DIVERGENCE. In a LIVE SPLINTER this results in UNIFICATION, and in a DEAD

SPLINTER triggers EVENT COLLAPSE.
UNIFICATION – the point where safe changes to a TIMELINE meet the pre-existing
POINT. Changes are then absorbed and small ANOMALIES may result.
EVENT COLLAPSE – time falls apart. Usually the result of a PARADOX and a DEAD
SPLINTER, EVENT COLLAPSE is the point where a broken TIMELINE resolves itself by
simply 'undoing'. Not good for the general health of the universe.
STILL POINT – moments in UNIVERSAL TIMELINES where nothing critical occurs
chronologically – the chronological equivalent of a lazy Sunday afternoon, where nothing of
consequence occurs. STILL POINTS are therefore easy positions from which to tangle
TIMELINES and therefore create FIXED POINTS.
FIXED POINT (see Section Four) – a POINT where multiple TRAVELLERS have observed
or taken part in events. FIXED POINTS should not be changed. Breaking a FIXED POINT
results in catastrophic SPLINTERING of TIMELINES and TOTAL EVENT COLLAPSE
ensues.
TOTAL EVENT COLLAPSE – time inverts, undoes, goes to lunch. Events tied into the
TRAVELLERS present at a broken FIXED POINT are cancelled out in total defiance of
normal TIMELINES on both a PERSONAL and UNIVERSAL scale, resulting in a CLASS
X APOCALYPSE (e.g. complete annihilation of the LOCAL MULTIVERSE)
Section Two: Explicit Rules (General)
1. TRAVELLERS are protected from the impact of non-paradoxial changes to the TIMELINE.
Memories etc. remain intact or co-exist with new ones. This is a BLINOVITCH EFFECT
that helps avoid PARADOXES.
2. The BLINOVITCH LIMITATION EFFECT prevents a 'Butterfly' of changes expanding
from a POINT. TRAVELLERS may freely interact with RESIDENTS without wide-ranging
consequences, and the EFFECT will intervene. A byproduct of the EFFECT is that identical
TRAVELLERS from different POINTS in their PERSONAL TIMELINE will produce a
harmful energy discharge on contact.
3. In time-travel, any TRAVELLER is responsible for the FACTS and DETAILS of their
TIMELINE and the TIMELINE of others. The difference between a FACT and DETAIL is
whether they motivate a TRAVELLER to visit a POINT. If the motivating factor (FACT)
remains the same, the DETAILS may change without PARADOX. In essence, a PARADOX
is a POINT where a TRAVELLER changes the FACTS. Time-travel in general inevitably
changes the DETAILS. (See the Christmas Carol Model under Section Three: Paradoxes)
4. CAPSULES are the most useful form of time-travel. A TRAVELLER may also utilise a
machine or similar, but without the self-contained nature of a CAPSULE, no POINT further
in the past than the creation of the machine may be visited – otherwise, where else would
they go?
Section Three: Paradoxes
PARADOXES, as defined above, are the product of DIVERGENCES in TIMELINES, either
PERSONAL or UNIVERSAL, wherein the TRAVELLER cancels out their own actions. This creates
a DEAD SPLINTER and nullifies the original TIMELINE, eventually resulting in EVENT
COLLAPSE. This is a bad thing. The easiest model of a PARADOX is the 'GRANDFATHER
MODEL', defined below.
The Grandfather Model:
1. A TRAVELLER visits a POINT in history where their grandfather is alive and their parent
has yet to be conceived.
2. The TRAVELLER either deliberately or inadvertently kills said grandfather. This results in a
DIVERGENCE.
3. As the TRAVELLER's original TIMELINE is averted, the original TIMELINE and universe

they came from is NULLIFIED from the point they travelled back. Meanwhile, the
TIMELINE where their grandfather is killed becomes a DEAD SPLINTER.
4. The TRAVELLER becomes an ANOMALY – technically, they cannot and should not exist,
but they remain so until an INEVITABLE POINT is reached.
5. The DEAD SPLINTER carries on 'as normal', with events proceeding in a changed fashion
until the INEVITABLE POINT.
6. As time closes in on an INEVITABLE POINT,  ANOMALIES begin to stack up as the
TIMELINE starts to decay. These may be noticed as 'Continuity Errors' or slip by as deja vu
and similar.
7. The INEVITABLE POINT is reached when the TIMELINE corroborates with the POINT
that the TRAVELLER should have left to create the DIVERGENCE. However, as the
RESIDENT TRAVELLER does not exist and the existing one is an ANOMALY, the DEAD
SPLINTER cannot be created.
8. EVENT COLLAPSE results from an INEVITABLE POINT in a PARADOX. The DEAD
SPLINTER cannot exist past it and therefore simply falls apart and is undone. Inevitably,
this spirals out of control and swallows the universe.
Fixing A Paradox
1. PARADOXES are not completely unsolveable.
2. Every RESIDENT and TRAVELLER involved in the creation of a PARADOX – that is, the
RESIDENTS of the DEAD SPLINTER and the TRAVELLER(S) who cause the
DIVERGENCE – are incapable of resolving it. Their existence is dependent on the
PARADOX.
3. TRAVELLERS who are not involved in a PARADOX are independent of the effects and
therefore may be able to avert it. Similarly, ANOMALIES related to the original TIMELINE
that are not the TRAVELLER(S) responsible may be used to resolve the changes.
4. In essence, TRAVELLERS and ANOMALIES present at a POINT prior to, analogous to, or
at the DIVERGENCE may avert or resolve the changes to the TIMELINE, resulting in a
third, stable TIMELINE with events more-or-less identical to the original.
5. The eventual culmination of changes results in a cause-and-effect wherein the PARADOXES
are no longer so and the final TIMELINE is an acceptable process.
The Christmas Carol Model
There are points where TIMELINE changes do not result in PARADOXES but do change the course
of the described events. Referred to using the NuWho episode A Christmas Carol, the cumulative
effect of time-travel can result in a DIVERGENCE without causing SPLINTERS or ANOMALIES.
1. The TRAVELLER encounters an obstacle.
2. The TRAVELLER interferes with local TIMELINES to change the circumstances
surrounding the obstacle in an attempt to avert it.
3. These DIVERGENCES are cumulative and would result in a PARADOX.
4. However, the end result of the DIVERGENCES produce a similar-but-distinct obstacle and
therefore still merit the initial TRAVEL. The DETAILS have been changed, but not the
FACTS.
Most time-travel events proceed along lines like this – however, they may not involve a specific or
changed obstacle. Safe time-travel involves changes to DETAILS and sometimes even FACTS in a
fashion that avoids NEUTRALISING of TIMELINES, RESIDENTS, POINTS and TRAVELLERS.
Section Four: Fixed Points
A FIXED POINT in time is a result of a complex interlacing of individual TIMELINES, be they
PERSONAL or UNIVERSAL.  When more than one set of TRAVELLER(S) are present at a POINT,
be they participating or observing, their COMPLEX TIMELINES become entwined and a FIXED

POINT is created. FIXED POINTS are multifaceted space/time events that depend on the correct
cause-and-effect of multiple COMPLEX and PERSONAL/UNIVERSAL TIMELINES. To defy a
FIXED POINT is to trigger TOTAL EVENT COLLAPSE, defined below:
1. FIXED POINT occurs. Multiple COMPLEX TIMELINES interact at a single POINT. Said
POINT becomes dependent on these TIMELINES.
2. FIXED POINT is defied. Immediately, the TIMELINES involved accumulate
DIVERGENCES, SPLINTERS, ANOMALIES, INEVITABLE POINTS and PARADOXES.
The effect is similar to firing a bolt into a glass sheet – sudden, intense spider-web cracking.
3. Within picoseconds, the chain of chronological corruption results in TOTAL EVENT
COLLAPSE.
4. TOTAL EVENT COLLAPSE ensues – an eternal, not-repeating expression of the entirety of
the involved TIMELINES occurring simultaneously and without cohesion. The
TRAVELLERS at the 'eye' of the TEC (that is, the ones either responsible for the defiance of
the FIXED POINT or the ones involved in it) will become ANOMALIES and retain
ANOMALOUS memories and experience and therefore should be able to resolve it.
5. If TOTAL EVENT COLLAPSE remains unresolved, early heat death ensues from inevitable,
early-onset desanguination.
Resolving Total Event Collapse
TOTAL EVENT COLLAPSE is a complicated and outright nightmarish event, but it is not
inescapable when triggered. The participating TRAVELLERS, with their retained and
ANOMALOUS memories and experiences, can repair the FIXED POINT by re-instigating the
events of the FIXED POINT. During TOTAL EVENT COLLAPSE, time becomes ephemeral as the
COMPLEX TIMELINES involved orbit the still-functioning FIXED POINT (a metaphysical 'eye of
the storm'). As no actual time-travel is used, the TRAVELLERS involved may move throughout the
TEC and reach the FIXED POINT, which remains static and unchanged, and re-create the events.
The Multiverse
In the beginning, there was NOTHING. The endless empty space they called the VOID moved in an
elliptical throughout HYPERTIME, the highest level of existence. In counter-orbit was
POTENTIAL, the BLEED, the ultimate expression of possibility.
VOID and BLEED collided on their ellipticals and the VOID was contaminated – a flaw in the un-
space of the VOID full of the POTENTIAL of the BLEED. POTENTIALITY drove the flaw to
become a crack, become a spider-web of endless variations on the original. The flaw was the FIRST
UNIVERSE, an explosion of POTENTIAL into NOTHING that birthed matter, antimatter, time,
space and the fundamental forces. POTENTIALITY forced the flaw to expand. Each new detail was
a NEW UNIVERSE, a new variation on the original flaw.
So came the moment where the VOID and the BLEED collapsed and the cracks in the flaw became
independent pieces in HYPERTIME, spinning in their own orbits throughout VOID UN-SPACE and
BLEED-SPACE. The pieces came together and arranged into the MULTIVERSE – infinite
possibilities expressed in infinite UNIVERSES, dancing about each other in an ordered COSMIC
ORBITAL.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Expand that onto the level of causality and
one can understand the MULTIVERSE – an array of ALTERNATE UNIVERSES (or BRANES)
moving in complex orbits through a BULK composed of the VOID and BLEED. Any given event
can result in the creation of another UNIVERSE where the opposite result occurred, meaning the
ORBITAL is theoretically limitless. Described below are the essential terms of the MULTIVERSE
and an outline of its behaviour.
Glossary
HYPERTIME – transcendent superstructure at the highest level of reality. Contains the
COSMIC ORBITAL in addition to countless other MULTIVERSE arrangements and
fundamental super-forces. Some theorists believe HYPERTIME is itself a contained

structure, observed from the outside by unknown consciousnesses.
MULTIVERSE – an arrangement of universes, derived from a single Big Bang event and
expanding outwards in countless variations. Potentially, billions of MULTIVERSES exist in
ordered structures throughout HYPERTIME.
COSMIC ORBITAL – the local MULTIVERSE. Contains the Foreman Universe, the
original Whoniverse, the Expanded Whoniverse and variations thereof, including Pete's
World, the Mondas Universe, and the Shroud Universe.
UNIVERSE – self-contained interaction of VOID and BLEED. The interaction of
POTENTIALITY and NOTHING creates the stuff that UNIVERSES are made of, and holds
them together as fundamental forces. UNIVERSES are connected by the VOID and held
together by the BLEED, suspended in both of them as BRANES in a BULK.
VOID/NOTHING – an expression of absolute zero, the VOID is one of many super-forces
that exist in HYPERTIME. The VOID is NOTHING, a total emptiness without time, matter,
energy or conventional forces. A collision between the VOID and the BLEED contaminated
the VOID with POTENTIALITY and created a flaw from the interaction of the purest
expression of possibility and zero – the first UNIVERSE, which rapidly developed into the
MULTIVERSE until the VOID and BLEED collapsed into each other and became the
medium in which the MULTIVERSE is suspended. The VOID is now characterised as the
UN-SPACE between UNIVERSES, and must be travelled through to cross them outside of
CONVERGENCES.
BLEED/POTENTIAL – an expression of possibility, the BLEED is the polar opposite of the
VOID and likewise moves through HYPERTIME. The collision between POTENTIALITY
and NOTHING created the MULTIVERSE, and the interaction of the BLEED and VOID
creates the stuff of UNIVERSES. Matter, antimatter, energy, force – all these things are
created from the mixture of the two. Within the MULTIVERSE, BLEED-SPACE exists in a
chaotic form that connects all points in Time, more commonly referred to as the TIME
VORTEX, and must be travelled through to move through Time in a non-linear fashion.
BRANE and BULK – conventional understanding of the structure of the MULTIVERSE.
UNIVERSES are characterised as BRANES, a substance containing within it all the forces
and matter that cohere as a UNIVERSE. The VOID UN-SPACE and BLEED-SPACE are
characterised as BULKS, the realm of strange super-forces that hold the BRANES in orbital
structures. In theory, all MULTIVERSES, local or otherwise, function similarly but with
distinct super-forces and BULKS in play.
CONVERGENCE – the COSMIC ORBITAL sees countless UNIVERSES move in ordered
ellipticals. It is only natural, then, that these paths sometimes see MULTIVERSAL
CONVERGENCES where one UNIVERSE directly passes through another. At these
moments, the UNIVERSES occupy the same BRANE and objects can cross between either
UNIVERSE at points of exceptional weakness, small rips in the skin of the BRANE. This is
a generally harmless procedure and a natural part of the cycle of the MULTIVERSE at large
– a greater force akin to the BLINOVITCH EFFECT keeps all items in the MULTIVERSE
relatively consistent, and those that cross-over during CONVERGENCES do so
simultaneously with their counterparts. CONVERGENCES usually occur on closely-
connected UNIVERSES very near to each other in the ORBITAL, but aberrant
CONVERGENCES with rogue UNIVERSES are entirely possible and much more
dangerous.
MUSICIA UNIVERSALIS – the MUSIC OF THE SPHERES. Higher-dimensional beings
and time-sensitive species such as the Time Lords and the Guardians have observed that the
MULTIVERSE obeys on all dimensional levels a kind of harmonic balance. When the
staggeringly complex equation calculating this balance was completed by the Time Lords,
they discovered that the UNIVERSE, MULTIVERSE and even HYPERTIME move and
function almost like singing bowls – the cosmos is a song, and all things in it from the atom
upwards contribute voices and notes to the MUSIC OF THE SPHERES. One higher-
dimensional levels, MUSICIA UNIVERSALIS can be heard quite clearly, can be written


down and understood, and can even be interfered with in some ways. This is a natural effect
of the metaphysical nature of the upper dimensions.

The Upper Dimensions
The human race – and almost every other species inhabiting the physical universe – exists in three
dimensions. Length, breadth, and depth define their worlds and they move through these in a non-
linear fashion. But above those three dimensions are at least two more: Time, the fourth dimension,
and Calabi-Yau space, the fifth. For the majority of species, Time flows around them, forwards. They
age and develop towards the future, with the past behind them and inaccessible. Species or
individuals that are Time-sensitive can perceive the flow of Time on themselves and those around
them and detect chronological hotspots as one might sense someone standing behind them.
The Fifth dimension, referred to by theorists as Calabi-Yau space, is the point where physics and
metaphysics are reconciled. Here, the conscious thought of those inhabiting the lower four
dimensions become potent, and the fundamental forces (gravity, strong and weak nuclear force,
electromagnetism) are unified and yoked by consciousness. In essence, a significant portion of the
Universe at large is held together by the thoughts and dreams of sentient species. In the Fifth
dimension belief and narrative are absolute, and the native residents are strange archetypal entities
given substance and structure by the narrative forms of the lower dimensions. They exist in a series
of eternally-repeating story structures where each repetition contains tiny variations on a theme.
In the Fifth dimension, one is given power by word and deed, not physical strength. It is entirely
possible, for example, to lay claim to another's 'soul' – in the Fifth dimension, this represents their
irreducible identity and the sum value of their actions, including their presence in the memory of
others. In the same way, games take on an utmost importance here, and the god-children of the Fifth
dimension are completely bound by the rules and mechanics of gameplay. It can be difficult to
understand this from a three-dimensional perspective, but it is best summarised as this: in the Fifth
dimension, the Laws of Physics are replaced by the specific Rules we sentients apply to stories,
games, and belief systems.
As one sees a two-dimensional object, the inhabitants of Calabi-Yau space see the inhabitants of
three-dimensional reality. It is no issue for them to interact with many points in time simultaneously
or to travel vast distances in single motions. However their impression onto space ensnares them in
the trappings of the physical universe like a Chinese Finger Trap, and it becomes increasingly
difficult to utilise their vast metaphysical power the more space and time they exist in.

The Bleed, the Void, and Hypertime
The Multiverse was born out of the interaction of the Bleed and Void, and when those two planes
collapsed into each other they became essential elements of the Multiversal fabric. The Cosmic
Orbital moves throughout a suspension of Bleed-space and Void un-space within Hypertime.
The Bleed, as a manifestation of Potential, progress, energy and motion, permeates the Multiverse
and drives all things forwards as the Time Vortex. Those who travel through time in a non-linear
fashion do so by shunting out of their physical universe and travelling through Bleed-space – a
hazardous experience without the proper safety buffers. It is entirely possible to open stable passages
into Bleed-space and even capture samples of it.
The Void, the literal form of Nothing, is the substance that divides the individual Universes within
the Cosmic Orbital. Void un-space is a hellish experience where Time does not truly exist and
consciousness becomes immaterial in the utter absence of functional metaphysics. The only way to
safely travel the Void is during Multiversal Convergences or else using specialised – and purely
hypothetical – Voidships that would prevent contamination from Nothing.
Hypertime is the highest known point in Reality, the uber-Bulk that carries all the myriad Branes like
Void, Bleed, and countless other examples. It stretches far beyond understanding and likely has no
edge. One does not truly travel through Hypertime – it is conceptually impossible to exit your local
Multiverse – but if one did so they would discover a virtually endless series of Multiverses and raw
super-forces. It has been theorised by some that the whole of Hypertime is itself a contained

medium, observed from the outside by some immeasurably powerful beings. If this is true,
Hypertime's super-forces and the proliferation of Multiverses is the result of the directives of these
observers.