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THE HISTORY OF THE TIME LORDS PART I
THE DARK TIME
Event Zero and Ancient Gallifrey

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     This is a Time Line of Ancient Gallfrey, based off the listed sources. It's dating system is based off the Gallifreyan year (which is the same as Earths).  Year Zero (0) is the year that (according to DWM) Rassilon created the Eye of Harmony.  According to the FASA RPG this happened 23 years after Omega's death.  
    I have no intention of infringing on anybody's ideas or property.  This Web page should be viewed as an advertisement for all the sources that went into making it.  I plan to create a  bibliography (and eventually even citations) when I get time.
    Note: the following information contains many spoilers for the TV Series, Novels and Audios.

    The following color code and terms are used:
information from the TV Series
                    (Including the Dimensions in Time, and Universal/BCC Telemovie, Scream of the Shalka)
information from the Novels
                    (Virgin, BCC, I Who (which isn't a novel but it's source material is))
information from The Infinity Doctors and some of Cold Fusion
                  (I put  The Infinity Doctors as 8th Doctor sidetrip.  I admit I could be wrong.)
information from deliberately created alternate version of Doctor Who
                  (The Unbound Series, Death Comes to Time [Zagreus strongly implies that DCTT is an alternate Gallifrey the Rassilon deliberatly negated])
information from 'licensed' reference sources
                    (The Technical Manual, Monsters, and The Gallifrey Chronicles)
information from 'unreliable' sources:
                    (FASA's role-playing game, the Nth Doctor, Destiny of the Doctors (I don't trust them either, but you never know))
information from unofficial sources
                    ( Lawrence Miles' books, the Benny adventures)
information from speculative sources
                    (my own speculation, and other fan speculation.  Includes ideas from sites listed on my home page.)

?                  The event occurred approximately in this interval.
??               A pretty wild guess as to when this event took place.


   
"The secret of the Universe is wonderfully liberating.  It's as if there were no boundaries at all.  Like that song.  On a clear day you can see forever?  The state of mind is just the clear day, the secret is forever."

                                                                                                                             -The Doctor


--        &nnbsp;                     (before the beginning of all beginnings)
                Only two forces exist - Good and Evil

--                              (before Time, Light, Space, and Matter, before the Cataclysm, and before the Doctor's Universe)
                The Beast claims to have been imprisoned by the Disciples of Light.  The Doctor beleives that no life could have existed at this point.  

-50,000,000,000      (50 billion years before Modern Gallifrey / Before the formation of the Multiverse)
                The Cataclysm??: An Ur-Universe
forms in the first Big Bang.  Time is born as is matter and space.  The forces of Good and Evil shatter leaving only echos.  This Universe was “open” and expanded until heat death and beyond.  Secondary universes bud off from the Ur-Universe.  The Ur-Univers is like a series of russian dolls.  Inside each universe is another.  This budding process is probably an act of deliberate creation by sentient beings.  It occurs throughout the Ur-Universe, producing a sea of isolated universes.  The lifeforms, called Intercreationals, are composed of these universes exist and in this sea.  These Swimmers are far more powerful than Chronovores (and Gaurdians) and can destroy universes by touching them. 


Doctor Who?

“Always the same.”
                            -The Doctor

??        A random fluctuation of energy creates a Big Bang, which produces the Normal-Space Universe.  This Universe begins collapsing and expanding over billions of years.  One of the physical constants of this universe might be the Doctor as he appears in several very different Universes that were spawned at the same time as this one.  It should be noted the Brigadier, Liz Shaw, and Benton all appear in other universes and thus are also constants.  The Great Old One, Fenric, believed that the Doctor was a Great Old One.  The Kingmaker claims  that the Doctor is able to transcend death because ideas cannot die.  This implies that the Doctor is conceptual entity.  The Doctor exists in 3 forms: the Other, the Renegade, and Guardian of Justice and Morality.  In every cycle the Universe goes through, the Doctor begins as the Other, becomes the Renegade, and eventually evolves into the Guardian of Justice and Morality.


Hastur the Unspeakable

--                          (The Beginning of all Beginnings)
                Hastur the Unspeakable
(Fenric) is formed out of the anti-life impulses inherent in the new Universe.   He will become a Great Old One and will be responsible for the creation of the Fendahl.

--                           (The Time before Time)
                The Seven Shadows are created.  They will later be put into a flask and used to imprison Fenric. 

--             After an unknown number of cycles, the gestalt entity known as the Nestene Consciousness or Shub-Niggurath comes into existence.

    "For there was Time before this; and there was Being before this; and there was Space before this.  And there were Things Damned in that place, and there were Things Remarkable"
                                                                              -The Book of the Old Time

--                             The Shub-Niggurath (Nestene Consciousness) and perhaps other beings (probably Nyarlathotep) survived the creation of the previous Universe.  In this Universe, space was green instead of black, and stars looked like giant doughnuts.  There are Time Lords in this universe.  The Shub-Niggurath becomes the Director of the CIA of this Universes Time Lords.  She holds sway over this universe.

-12,000,000,000       (shortly before the Cathedral was built)
                            The Grey Man's People observe the evolution of the First Humanoids in a star system 30,000,000,000 light years from Sol.

-12,000,000,000       (15 billion years before the 20th century)
                               They Grey Man builds the Cathedral Metahedron.  This Cathedral will survive into the next universe. 

--                            A war breaks out involving the previous Daleks and the previous Key to Time.  Relizing that the end of this Universe is upon them, the Old Time Lords of the previous universe shunt themselves into a parallel universe (with a slightly longer lifespan) to escape this destruction. They become the Great Old Ones.  None of them remember the previous Universe.  The sentient void left in the old universe will become the Dark when it reforms (after the Big Bang).

-10,000,000,000        (13,500,017,903 BC / pretty close to exactly 10,000,000 years before the Qqaba mission / at least 3 or 4 cycles after the Shub-Niggurath appear existence)                           
                              
Event 0 - During the war three of the Guardians of this Universe (who will become the Gods of Ragnarok) caused the end of the Universe by creating instabilites in one of the engins of a massive Timestation.  In response to this the Timestation's single large humanoid pilot ejects fuel from the unstable engine.  This ejected fuel from the is a condensed monoblock of matter that detonates when another timeship (from the next Universe), named the Vipod Mor, materializes at its center creating the Big Bang.  The Big bang knocks the Timestation into the future and leaves it floating at the precise center of the Universe.  Mutter's Stellian Spiral Galaxy will form around the Timestation and it will later be given the name Terminus by Terminus Incorperated.  The Time Lords will refer to the Big Bang as the Kinetic Dance.
        Note: the idea that the Timestation came from the previous Universe is from the script for Terminus. 

-10,000,000,000        (right after the Big Bang)
                The 11 dimensions begin to solidify from the chaos.  The three spatial (dimensions 1-3) and two temporal  dimensions (4-5) form first.  The remaining 6 dimensions curled up to become the Six-Fold Realm (aka Calabai-Yau Space).  The Space-Time Vortex (dimension 5) is also known as the Astral Plane and Two of the dimension might be named Possibility and Imagination.  The realites of other dimensions can manefest themselves in the N-Space universe as works of fiction.  There are 4 forces in the universe, Gravity, Electromagnetism, Strong Nuclear, and Weak Nuclear.  It is the Weak Nuclear Force which allows the existance of the 5th Dimension.  The universe has 9 corners.  Some minor Paradoxes form within the first picosecond of the Universe's existence. 
Causality is largely structureless at this point. 

THE ELEVEN DIMENSIONAL UNIVERSE
Number Dimension              Color   Gaurdian                        Key to Time
1             Length                      N/A      N/A                                N/A    
2             Width                       N/A      N/A                                N/A    
3             Height                      N/A      N/A                                N/A    
4             Time/Thought           N/A      N/A                                N/A    
5             Space-T. Vortex      N/A      N/A                                N/A    
            ??                            White    Structure / Order / Light   1 Segment
7             ??                            Black    Chaos/Darkness/Entropy  2 Segment
            ??                            Red       Justice/Morality/Doctor    3 Segment
9             ??                            Azure     Equilibrium                      4 Segment
10           Imagination              Crystal   Toymaker / Dreams         5 Segment
11           Possiblity                 Gold       Sentience/Life                 6 Segment


-10,000,000,000            (At the time of the Big Bang)
                The beginning of the Old Time.  The Old time will last untill arround the time the Time Lord society is founded. 

-10,000,000,000            (moments after the Big Bang)
                The Great Old ones enter this new Universe
through the Blind Idiot God of Chaos known as Azathoth (a sentient black hole), aka Ezu, the Gate of a Million Spheres.  They emerge to discover they have amazing powers in this universe. 



The Guardians of Light, Chaos, Dreams and Justice?

-10,000,000,000            (Earlier then the Time Lord historical records reach)
                The Great Old Ones
that were High Council of the Old Time Lords become an integral part of the new Universe.  They become the Council of Guardians.  There are six Gauridans: Light (Structure / White), Chaos (Entropy / Black), Justice (Red), Dreams (the Toymaker/Crystal), Equilibrium (Azure), and Life (Gold).  Together they are the Six-Fold God.  They are essential for cosmic balance because they serve as conduits through which the fundamental essence of the Universe can act.  On of there jobs is to ensure that the Time Lords do not abuse their abbilites to manipulate the Weak Nuclear Force.  A balance between ridged order and total chaos is needed to ensure a dynamic living cosmos.  For this reason the Guardians can only act in unison otherwise cosmic balance will be upset and they answer only to the Greater Old Ones.  The Guardians nurture the early civilizations of the universe.  They can only contact lower primates when the primate's brain has been knocked into an altered state.  Among the Time Lords, only those who have served (or are serving) as President know of the true nature of the Gaurdians.  The Gaurdian of Structure appears less likely to lie then the Gaurdian of Chaos.  Other transendental beings include the Chronovores, the Eternals, Sirens of Time, the Time Vortex Wraiths (which number in the billions), and the Temporon.  Vortisaurs are scavengers that inhabit the 5th Dimension and feed on temporal energy.  They are uncomfortable in the 3 dimensional universe but can survive for some time.   These beings exist in the Six-Fold Realm (Dimensions #6-11 aka the Center of Time) or the Space-Time Vortex (Dimension 5).  The member of the Old Time Lord High Council known as the Renegade enters this Universe and becomes the Other.  He will eventually become the The Red Guardian of Justice.   The Great Old One, Hastur the Unspeakable, believed that the Doctor was a Great Old One.


The Key to Time

?                                (before Electra and Prometheus)
                The Key to Time is created
out of a nearly industructable artficially matricized structure consisting of a substance with a variable atomic weight that borders on magical.  It holds the elemental force of the Universe.  This abstract material embodies the fundamental nature of the universe and is sometimes used by the Guardians to communicate with lower lifeforms.  This material was also used to create the Crystal of Kronos and Enlightenment.  The Key is a perfect cube (6x6x6) made of six parts.  These segments maintain the equilibrium of Time itself.  The sixth segment is the most important of the set.  The Key represents the powers of the Six-Fold God (aka the six Guardians).  The Guardians use the compleate Key to maintain universal balance between order and chaos.  Any being that has the complete Key has absolute power over every partical in the Unvierse.  The Key to Time might be a form of Time Manipulator?  To prevent any one being from having this much power the six segments of the Key are disguised and scattered to specific points in space and time.  If one has 5 of the 6 segments a temporary segment can be made out of specific materials.  Chronodyne is 74% compatible and can put the whole Universe into a 3 second time-loop for 3.25 minutes before the Chronodyne burns out.   


The Gods of Ragnarok

-10,000,000,000        Three of the Guardians from the previous Universe become the Gods of Ragnarok (Raag, Nah, and Rok).  They have relatively little power in this universe and exist in a bubble of their own universal laws.  They later create the Land of Fiction.  The other three Guardians from the previous Universe become the Arma, Gedd, and Onn.  One of these last three was the Renegade from the previous universe.  


Yog-Sothoth, Lloigor, and Shub-Niggurath

-10,000,000,000             The other Great Old Ones (Old Time Lords from the Previous Universe) become the Transient Beings (or Sub-Gaurdians).  The greatest and darkest is Nyarlathotep.  Other Great Old Ones include the Time Lord military stratagist Yog-Sothoth (the Great Intelligence which lives in the Astral Plane known as the Vortex), Senior Watcher Lloigor (Animus), Dagon, Azathoth, Cthulu, Director of the CIA Shub-Niggurath (whose daughter will become the Nestene Conciousness), Hastur the Unspeakable (Fenric), Melefescent, and Gog (Gog and Magog).  Of the Great Old Ones, both Hastur the Unspeakable (Fenric), and the Shub-Niggurath (Nestene Consciousness) survive the creation of this Universe just as they survived the last.  Most if not all lose their memories from the previous universe.

NOTE: There is some evidence to support the idea that the Doctor Who takes place in the same Universe as the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.  Most notably the book Origins of the Universe by Oolon Coluphid appears to exist in both franchises.  However the Earth is destroy in every single timeline in the book Mostly Harmless which means that something more complex than just an alternate timeline is separating the two Multiverses. 

-10,000,000,000            The Transendental Beings are bound by the Great and Ancient Covenants.

-10,000,000,000        The Chronovores (aka Kronovores) were created by the Council of Guardians on the artifical planet Darkheart.  The Chronovores used a nearby neutron star to create the Darkheart Feeding system.  It allowed them to sustain themselves with the raw energy of stars while they learned to evolve into two transcendental beings. 
 , but at the time of their birth, the Chronivores fail to meet the Council's standards.  They are considered to be vampires (because of their feeding habits) and are segregated from the Eternals to become the Dark Caste.

    The Chronovores live in the Space Time Vortex but feed in off the Lux Aeterna in the Six-Fold Realm. They exist as six-dimensional polymorphic lattices of non-baryonic matter (such as photinos and chronons), bound by superstrings.  Their life-energies are inimical to humanoid existance.  They feed on time (specifically chronons) and are essential to the ecology of the Universe.   They prefer to devour temporal paradoxes, parallel universes, and other time problems.  Though they are above the laws of the universe and are magic personified they work to maintain the laws of physics by removing the stresses and strain on the laws.   They are led by their Matriarch, Lillith.  The Reapers appear to be a sub-type of chronovore (they do feed on time).  They cauterize temporal paradoxes preventing the the damage from turing into universe wide changes in History.  

-10,000,000,000       (after the Chronivores are created)
                Eternals:
The Eternals have existed since they were created by the Council of Guardians.  They were abandoned by their parents at the beginning of this Universe.  They exist outside Time in the Domain of Eternity as six-dimensional polymorphic lattices of photinos and chronons, bound by superstrings.  The Guardians seek fullfillment through the Eternals and the Eternals seek fullfilment through the thoughts of Ephemerals and feed on imagination.  The Patriarch of the Eternals is Sadok.  Other Eternals appear to be the Gallifreyan Gods
Pain, Death, Time, Light, and Life.  Every Eternal has a mortal Champion.  The Council of Guardians and other Old Gods will often arrange games and tournaments for the Eternals.  The Eternals are cousins of the Chronivores.  The Temporon is a distant cousin of the Chronivores.

-10,000,000,000       (near the beginning of the Universe)
             The Weeping Angels (aka Creatures of the Abstract, the Lonely Assassins) come into being.  Their physiology is quantum-locked meaning that when any sentient being observes them it crystalizes history freezing them in place.  They can't even look at each other.  These hunters change history by sending their victiums back in time and then feeding on the potential temporal energy that makes up the original timeline.  Not even the Time Lords know where they come from but their feeding habbits, appearance, and abbility to shift people through time indicated that they are almost certainly another cousin to the Chronovores. 

?                            (the dawn of time)
                The Eternal Elektra and the Chronivore Prometheus conceive a child in defiance of the Ancient Covenants.  That child, Kronos is the greatest of the Chronivores.  He is imprisoned in the Crystal of Kronos by the Council of Guardians.

-10,000,000,000?   (from HOU)
                The Gods of Ragnarok and the Eternals wrote down the rituals that constrain the Chronivores.  The Daemons eventualy copy these texts.

-10,000,000,000    (The bigg bang / earlier than a TARDIS can safely go)
                The Old Ones exist, including Valdemar

??                           (before the Time Lords)
                The energy beings known as the Constructors of Destiny come into existance.  They might also be know as the Halldons. 

-9,999,997,000??      (a few millennia after coming into being)
                The Celestial Toymaker grows bored with nurturing the early civilizations of the universe, and startes to destroy them instead.  He eventually founds distraction in the world of games.

-9,999,996,500??        (Possibly the coordinates given by the Master to Head of the Presidency / 13,500,014,400 BC)
               
The Gods of Ragnarok (Raag, Nah, and Rok) create the Land of Fiction.

-9,999,996,500??        (Possibly the coordinates given by the Master to Head of the Presidency / 13,500,014,400 BC)
               
All naturally evolving life in the Universe descended from a single Ancestor Cell that existied in a time zone of formative continuum outside the Noosphere of a normal TARDIS's capabilities.  These cells were not the first living things.  But the organisms that evolved from them were.  These organisms spawned all naturally evolving (ie non-deliberate) life in the Universe before they died out.  While the first living cells died out, the Ancestor Cells remained and over the next several billion years it feeds on the time pollution from various TT Capsules. 

-9,999,996,500~        (3,500 years after Event 0 / 13,500,014,400 BC)
                  This time zone of formative continuum is the location where the Head of the Presidency traveled in search of the Enemy.  Though outside the Noosphere of a normal TARDIS's capabilities, the expedition was expected to be successful.  The President never returned. The Ancestor Cells are drawn to Gallifrey by I.M. Foreman's Universe-in-a-Bottle.  The Time Lords will spend much of the Last Great Time War beleiving that this Ancestor Cells are the Enemy. 

-5,110,000,000       (4.6 billion years before life evolves / 8,112,027,893 BC)
                Gallifrey's system formed relatively early in galactic history.
  It is one of the first of what will eventually be 650 million systems with planets that have G-Type enviroments (ie Earth-like).  It is located very near the center of Mutter's Spiral. (TID implies it is located very near the edge of the Mutters Spiral.)

-5,000,000,000       (5 billion years before the 1980s)
                A star supernovas creating the gas cloud that will eventualy form Earth Sun.

-3,000,000,000      (6,502,027,893 BC)
                Gallifrey's sun ingnites.

-1,500,000,000      (5,000,000,000 BC Timelink / 6,500,000,000 before the Eye of Harmony from HOU??)
                Castrovalva:
Event 1 occurs.  Mutter's Stellian Spiral Galaxy (aka the Milky Way) forms.  It will be named after a famous Gallifreyan explorer named Mutter Stellian.  

-1,500,000,000      (5 billion years before 4663 AD)
                Skaro's sun ignites.

-1,500,000,000      The Sol system's sun ignites.  Sol is located in Sector 8023 of the Third Quadrant of Mutter's Stellian Spiral Galaxy.

-1,100,000,000           (during the Dark Times / 4.6 billion years before the 20th century / probably when Gallifrey had an Empire)
                   The Racnoss are are species of carnivores and omivores who devoure entire planets (prossibly related to the Great Vampires).  The empires of the universe (including the Gallifreyans) went to war with the Racnoss and all but destroyed them. A fleeing Racnoss ship becomes the center of the planet Earth as if forms.  (Since Rassilon comes to power in 3.5 billion BC, its possible that the Time Lords traveled back in time to help in this war)

-600,000,000        (600 million years before the Eye of Harmony / 4,012,027,893 BC)
                Life from the Ancestor Cell arrives on Gallifrey and begins to evolve. 
These lifeforms move quickly up the evolutionary ladder.  The planet might have been very much like Alzarius from E-Space and possibly had a mistfall every 50 years.

??            The Stolen TARDIS: The Saurian Age exists on Gallifrey.  These great lizards will continue to exist untill the Time of Legend. 

-11,010,007           The last Population III star, Qqaba, ignites.

-10,000,000??       (1-5 billion of years before 2003 AD)
                The ancestors of the Constructors of Destiny (one of the first Great Races to appear) guide and instruct the more primative races of the Universe.

-10,000,000?     ;   (Prehistoric Gallifrey) 
               
Neanderthal Gallifreyans evolve.  Before this event causality was largely structureless.  Because they are the first sentient beings to evolve naturally from the Ancestor Cell they have a direct effect on all of the Space-Time Continuum.  Only sentient beings can collapse quantum phenomenon and crystallize history.  Biodata is a space time map of this crystallization, thus only sentient beings (organic or technological) have biodata.  It is a form of “time DNA” which defines a sentient being's reach/span in space as well as time.  As a sentient observes the quantum flux of the universe, he collapses the uncertainties into facts.  Thus it is the perception of the universe that defines it – making the meaning of the universe its primary foundation.  As a sentient lives, he creates strands of meaning and understanding that mark out all he sees perceives.  These are his bio-data strands.  The Gallifreyans are beings made of Biodata and they are the first to impose “meaning” on the universe by their observations.  The Constructors of Destiny modify the Gallifreyan Neanderthals to fulfill their destiny.  These Neanderthals did not evolve from anything embarrassing (like apes).  The Gallifreyans create the first civilization as we understand the term. 

-10,000,000?       Null-Space (N-Space) isn’t part of the space time continuum, but it is coterminous to the Normal Space-Time Continuum.  Every sentient being has a parallel N-Body leaves their corporal body at the moment of death.  This N-body travels through Null Space to reach the Light.  However if the sentient is still attached to the real world, usually through excessive negative emotions, then the N-Body will become trapped in Null Space in its attempts to keep return to the real world.  Most of these N-bodies eventually realize their mistake and continue on.  The Doctor speculates that the nightmares of beings in Null-Space might have become the Great Vampires.  According to some legends the N-bodies that continue on might become Eternals.  This light that the souls travel too might be the City of the Saved.


-10,000,000       (3,512,027,893 BC / ?????)
               
The first Gallifreyans
(one of the first Great Races) evolved.   They are the first sentient humanoids to appear in the Universe.  As such their morphic fields increase the chances of humanoids evolving on other planets.   Morphic fields don't follow the normal rules of the universe and are so complex that that a living minde is required to compute their mathmatics.  These war-like humanoids called themselves Gallifreyans, which means "they that walk in shadows."  As these early Gallifreyans observed the Universe they set down laws to predict its actions.  In doing so, their Observations physically began to create the rules by which the Universe operated.  It is possible that early Gallifreyans might have developed a way of measuring time instinctively as a survival trait.  This could explain why the species is later obsessed with conquering Time. 

??            The Khorlthochloi are one of the oldest races in the Galaxy.  They guide developing speices and eventually ascended to a higher dimension.  The Doctor believes that the Khorlthochloi's acheivements outweigh even Rassilon's.  Other ancient races are the Spraxis Jelloids.

-7,508,850           (502,000 years before manned spaceflight)
                The beginnings of Gallifreyan civilization.
  The early Gallifreyans build numerous walled cities all over the planet.            

-8,014,500        (4250 years before hyperdrive)
                The enter the Bronze and then the Iron Ages.
  The early Gallifreyans had many wars, periods of regression, and periods of progress.  Telepathy becomes common among Gallifreyans.  Each city develops its own Academia to train these telepathes.  The Academia's are run by Priests of the Menti Celesti .    The Menti Celesti are Gallifreyan Gods and are made up of Pain, Death, and Time (aka the daughter of the Timewyrm).   The Gallifreyan Gods have the following colors attributed to them:  Red and Black for Pain, White for Death, and a shifting Gray color for Time.  Prayer to the gods is usualy conducted by individuals in a privet setting.  The Menti Celesti are abstract universal conceptual entities, a non-corporeal beings that can control time, and fate.  Early in their history the Gallifreyans came to believe that if they killed all the evil people in the universe then the good people who remained would become evil.  Light can not exist without darkness.  If evil were destroyed then good would vanish as well.  Sin is not a concepts that can be found in Gallifreyan culture.

-8,013,900        (3650 before hyperdrive)
                The walled cities of Gallifrey become the capitols of various city states that are ruled by City Warlords.  

-8,013,800        (3550 years before hyperdrive)
               The abbilty to see the future becomes an abbilty that can only be attained by female telepaths.  In the City of Prydos the Order of the Sisterhood gains such power and foresight that it comes to dominate the cities of Gallifrey's southern continent. 

-8,011,500        (1250 years before hyperdrive)
                The Age of the Pythias beings with the rule of City by the First Pythia.  She is also The Symbol of the planet's fertility, Mouthpiece of the Gods, and Guardian of the Great Book of Future Legends.  To see the future, a Pythia sits in a wicker cage in the Cavern of Prophecy, under the adytum of Temple.  She is suspended over the Crevasse of Memories That Will Be.  The smoky vapors allow her to acheive the state of clairvoyant and the state of clairaudiant.  Attendants of the Pythian Order wear rust red robes.  Pythian seers eat fish tongues.  The Court of Principals governs under the Pythia.  The Councilors of this court form a meritocracy.  This City often suffers from a bitter wind from the Northern Lakes.

??             The Book of Future Legends might have predicted that a vampire would be entombed on Ravalox and rise to lead his people as the Vampire Messiah.

??                      (After the First Pythia comes to power but before hyperdrive)
                Gallifrey moves quickly through the Bronze, Iron , and Steel Ages.

-8,010,890      &      (640 years before hyperdrive)
                Gallifrey quickly moves from steam to nuclear power.  The atmosphere becomes quite polluted. 

-8,010,850          (600 years before Hyperdrive)
                The Gallifreyans develop manned space flight and interplanetary probes.

-8,010,550           (300 years before Hyperdrive)
                The first Pythia unifies the entire planet Gallifrey under her rule. 

-8,010,650           (200 years after space flight)
                The Gallifreyans launch the first manned interstellar probe.

-8,010,250            (10,250 years before the Empire)
                The Gallifreyans develop hyperdrive.

-8,010,000        (millions of years befor TID / 250 after hyperdrive)
           
    The City of Gallifrey (which will become the Capitol) is reconstructed by order of the Pythia.  It  is a hodge-podge of various architectural styles.  The buildings are made of stone and are decorated with sculpted bird wings and curlicues.  Archways and overwalks are tangled with pillars.  The City is protected by the Council Police.  The Pythia's temple is in the west district of the City.  Devotions take place in the temple in the evening.  The City often suffers from a bitter wind from the Northern Lakes.

??                           (before The Five Doctors)
            The City/Capitol might be named Gallifrey. 

-8,000,000             (They've had absolute power for 10,000,000 years / 10 million years before TID) 
                The
Time of Empire begins when the first Pythia creates the Gallifreyan Empire.  The Pythia is the Guardian, Embodiment, and Crown of the Gallifreyan Empire.  The Chancellery Watch is formed as part of the Council Police.

-4,580,000??             The Epiphany Scrolls of Soneuramos are entrusted to the 217th Pythia in the sacred Firelake of Rag-Fraish.

-3,990,000??            The 254th Pythia declare that all technology should be abandoned (or maybe technological advances are forbidden).

-3,420,000??            (During time of the 290th Pythia)
                The Gallifreyans split into two major factions: The Colonialist (who belive that Gallifrey's eco-system has been killed and they should begin again on a new world), and the Restorationists (who believe that the planet can be brought back to life).  The 290th Pythia favors both factions with ships and funding to accomplish their goals.  Many of the colony ships that left Gallifrey ended up becoming "lost" and founding several of that Galaxy's ancient humanoid civilizations.  This could include the Union of Traken, the Logopolitans, and the Elders???

-3,420,000??            (before the Rassilon Era / billions of years before the 20th century / at the time of the Colonialist and Restorationists)
                The beginning of the the Dark Time.  The Pythia call this era
the Bright Past.  It will last untill the beginning of the Rassilon Era.

-1,850,000??            (during the time of the 389 Pythia)
                The 389th Pythia orders that massive fleet be constructed and sent into space to annex all civilizations of beauty or sophistication into the Glorius Gallifreyan Empire.  This becomes known as the War of Enlightenment.
  The Legendary Hero Ao gives the 389th Pythia a jeweled talisman.

??               The Consellation of Ao is named after the famous Hero Ao (or maybe this happend the other way arround?).


??              Gallifreyan Heroes fight campaigns against the Gryffnae, lacustrine Sattisar, and the Batworms of the Asteroid Achipelego. 

-1,640,000    (During the time of the 430rd Pythia)
                The 403rd Pythia decrees that all prisoners of war shall be transported to Gallifrey,
and forced to fight each other to survive.  The survivors would gain their freedom.  This became known as the Games.  Death Zone (or Forbidden Zone) is created
in a valley in the southern hemisphere as an arena for the Games.  The games are considered holy and serve as an outlet for the stresses of the telepathic group mind of Gallifreyans.  Gallifreyans watch these Games on their Public Access Channels.  The Death Zone is about the size of North Wales and is surrounded by a powerful forcefield that can trap even a TARDIS. 

-10,000                  The Logistomancer of A32K foresees an Empire of  Logic that lasts for 10,000 years.

-5,023~         (before Time's Crucible / 5000 years before the Quaba mission)
                By this time, Gallifrey is the center of the mighty Gallifreyan Empire.
The culture is similar to Earth's Hellenic Greece period.  The Gallifreyan Empire focuses most of its energies on exploring undeveloped planets.  It encompasses: Ezmion VI, Pen-Shoza, Jagdagian, Oshakarm, the Star Grellades, Mirphak 2, Drornid (or Dronid), the Aubert Cluster and many others.  The Gallifreyans convince all alien races to view them as  gods.  Gallifrey has a population in the millions at this point.  The Empire is governed by a Pythia.  The Pythia is the Guardian, Embodiment, and Crown of the Gallifreyan Empire.  She is also The Symbol of the planet's fertility, Mouthpiece of the Gods, and Guardian of the Great Book of Future Legends.  They see their heritage as the Bright Past.  To see the future, a Pythia sits in a wicker cage in the Cavern of Prophecy, under the adytum of Temple.  She is suspended over the Crevasse of Memories That Will Be.  The smoky vapors allow her to acheive the state of clairvoyant and the state of clairaudiant.  Attendants of the Pythian Order wear rust red robes.  Pythian seers eat fish tongues.  The Court of Principals governs under the Pythia.  The Court has a Council made up of 100 Councilors (which includes at least one Cardinal).  Gallifreyans are educated at the Academia which is located in the City's Olmesian Quarter. The Academia is controlled by the Court of Principals.  It teaches philosophy and strategy sports, swordplay, and military maneuvers.  Very little emphesis is made on recording and documenting thier own history.  Students are called cadets and live in barrack rooms.  Military Cadets are called Young Heroes.  Military Officers are called Heroes.  The Watch continues to act as the police force.  People who are stoned have their heads put on pikes.  People who are convicted of minor crimes work at the suet factories.  Gallifreyans have abolished racism.  Treazants are the form of currency used.  The Gallifreyans speak and write Old High Gallifreyan (10,000,000 letters in alphabet), and Middle Gallifreyan. The nobles of Gallifrey have estates in South Gallifrey.   The superstitious people worship the Menti Celesti (heavenly minds) as Gods.  These Gods are Time, Death, and Pain.  Ancient Gallifreyans belive that Evil can be used to repell Evil. 

-5,000                     (3rd Century Gallifrey dating)
                The great philosopher Pelatov writes Pelatov's Collected Sageries.

??              Astrafoils begin being used for space travel.


The Other

??                  The member of the previous universe's High Council known as the Renegade enters this Universe and becomes the Other.  The Other's father might have been the Doctor.  The Other will become Patience's future lover.  Patience's grandaughter Susan will be related to Rassilon.  The Other might have been a CAT (Calculating Animal with a Tail).  According to the "Scrolls of Rassilon" the Other is a renegade/criminal Time Lord from well after the Time of Legend.  Some say he had powers that exceeded any that Rassilon may have had. Others believe he was not of Gallifrey at all.  Some say he never served on the High Council at all.  He might have been one of the "Morbius Doctors."  The only thing which is consistant in all the myths is the title by which he is known: "The Other."  It is known that he was rather short, has thin legs, black hair, and often wears a black cloak with a hood.  He doesn't look like any of the first 7 Doctors (Hartnell-Mccoy).  By the time of the first Otherstide the Other will still claim he can not regenerate and Rassilon will still belive him.  Asside from the traditional incarnations the Doctor has at least two other bodies/identities.  On of these is the Other.  The remaining identity might be a referance to the Guardian of Justice, or the Morbis Doctors....

??           The Other has a vast estate right outside the Capitol.  It looked like a giant rose garden from 1913 AD Earth. 

??              (during the Old Time)
                There was a theory that stated that if all the magic of the universe became science and everything about everything was understood then all the science and technology of the universe would fail.

??                           (probably earlier then 4,000,000 BC / before Time Travel / possibly less then 240,000 years before the 1980s AD/ Must be after the Racnoss ship forms the nucleus of Earth)
                The humanoid Laima live on the
drab, and, hot planet Trion (located near the center of Mutter's Spiral, about 20,000 light years from earth).  The word "Laimee" means happiness.  They  have great knowledge and power and discover the secret of Unified Field Theory, which gave them the ability to travel through time and to alternate universes.  But to traverse these dimensions, they needed to stop the gravitational constant from decreasing.  Desiring to travel to the next highest Universe (a dimension of Thought), they create the Gravity Generator Control Unit and place it on Earth.  It stops the decay of the Gravitational Constant and stabilizes it at 6.672x10^-11  N (m/kg)^2 throughout the universe.  This Gravity Generator makes physics operate differently around Earth (thus it took humans a long time to discover FTL drive) and attracts the attentions of several other races.  This is the catalyst for the hundreds of alien invasions that Earth experiences throughout the Human Era.  The Matrix also predicts that near the end of the Universe (Event 2), the Time Travel Technology of the Tellurians (Humans), will surpass the Time Lords.  All of this makes Earth an important Nexus World (like Solos, Tylers Folly, and possibly Gallifrey).  Many Time Lords will keep a close eye on Earth for these reasons, though some Time Lords (including the Doctor in his 6th incarnation) don't know that the Gravity Control Unit is on Earth.
       The Earth's gravity control unit might be buried beneath the Indian ocean's gravity distortion (this is a real distortion that cause a deformation in the ocean)
Or it might be located at stone henge which is where the Monk built a monument and it was the first place Tanis seized when he attacked.  

??                          (after the Gravity Control Unit is operational)
                For thousands of years Gallifreyans based their technology on idea that gravity affects all temporal phenomenon.


Logopolis

??              (aeons.billions of years before 1982 / before the Time Lords / after the Gallifreyans evolve)
                Due to a tailored virus,
entropy begins inceasing at an accelerated rate.  The people of Logopolis being using the Block Transfer Computation to save the Universe from Heat Death.  They drain entropy into Charged Vacuum Embodiments.  This stops the destruction of the Universe by preventing the Emerald Wave of Entropy.  In this way the planet Logopolis becomes one of the anchoring points for the entire causal nexus.  The people of Logopolis are driven not by individual need but by mathematical necessity. 

??              (after the people of Logopolis exist)
                The Constructors of Destiny
have a better understanding of Block-Transfer Computations than the people of Logopolis.


Omega and the Seal of Omega

-200~?             (he doesn't expect to live more then a century after the detonation of Quaba)
                Palix the
Gallifreyan is born.  He will later be know as Omega the Greatest Hero Gallifrey ever.  Omega and Rassilon will form and lead different Chaptershouses but Omega is Rassilon's cousin.  

 -136.3           (169 years before the the Curse)
                    The 508th Pythia begins her rule.  She has a mask like face, streaked with gold, and long grey hair coiled with silver wire.  She reeks of wood smoke and wears blue furs with dangling talismans.

 -133             The siege begins on the Winter Star.

??                  (when the Time Lords are young / before the end of Games)
                    The Raston series robots are created by a race that has been arround long before the Time Lords came into existance.  The devoted themselves to building super weapons and then vanished, leaving robots with many different fuctions.

 ??                 (a long time before the Curse)
                    T
he 508th Pythia foresees the point when the veil of Time will not be breached by thought but instead will be physically traveled.  She instigates the Time Program.  The Time Program is an Academia project. 

-153               (130 years before the Qqaba Mission)
                   
Taranium is discovered and mined from Gallifrey's moon Pazithi.  This rare element will be essential to Gallifreyan temporal science.  Gallifreyan temporal science is based on the fact that revolution-induced gravity exists and affects all temporal manipulation.



The Dark Tower

-153                   (the days before Rassilon / well before the Curse / probably before Susan leaves Gallifrey / at least few centuries after the Eye of Harmony / the same year as Taranium is discovered on Pazithi)
                    The Time Scoop,
which uses psychic powers and Taranium, is created.  Using Transmission of Matter Through Interstitial Time (aka a purely muon based drive) the Time Scoop creates Interstital Motive Bridges that collect items and aliens from across time and space and bring them to Gallifrey.  But the trip is strictly one way.  Time Scoops have only a 39.7% chance of being able to scoop a TARDIS.  Races throughout the cosmos are kidnapped using the Time Scoop and forced to fight in the Games for the entertainment of the Time Lords.  The Dark Tower (or the Great Tower)  is located in the center of the Death Zone.  Raston Warrior Robots are know to be used extensively in the Games.  It will eventually be known as the Time Scoop of Rassilon. 

??                   (before the time of Rassilon / probably after the Time Program started)
                    Bio-
Data-Extracts are taken from Gallifreyans (such as Omega).


??                   (before the Universe was half the size it is in 1000 AD / about 6,800,000,000 BC)
                    The Time Lords surpass transmats.


Rassilon

-130~??             (he is young when he fights the Vampires)
                    Rassilon (full name Rassil Onasti Prydonius is born.
  Rassilon's father is a suet shredder.  His House is a member of the Prydon Chapter.  He is probably a member of the House of Fordfarding.    Rassilon is considered to be the single greatest figure in Time Lord History and the Father of Gallifrey.  His symbol will be an owl.  Rassilon is short even for a male, but the Time Lords of the future will believe that Rassilon was very tall, wore bodystockings, and had well developed muscles.  Omega and Rassilon will form and lead different Chaptershouses but Omega is Rassilon's cousin. 

??                     (he outranks Amnoni)
                  Quennesander Olyesti Pekkary of the House of Fordfarding is born.  He is Rassilon's nephew
.

-120??       Amnoni Distuyssor Lorizhon, oldest daughter of  the ancient House of Blyledge is born.  Amnoni might have been one of the daughters of the Doctor and Old Patience.  She eventually becomes Second Officer of the Chronoscaphe.  Blyledge is one of the senior houses in the Prydon Chapter of Glorious Gallifrey.  The House of Blyledge is an angular small dark building that is older than the hill it sits on.  It has a walled garden of silver trees in its center and is within visual sight of the Capitol. 

-110~?            (she was young when the Revolution took place, several "generations" before the 'Infinity Doctor' was born)
                Patience is born.  She is a Gallifreyan with dark hair, green eyes, and freckles on her shoulders.  There is a birth mark on her foot.  Her DNA is of the same ancestry, but different then the Doctors.  She is born from the House of Blyledge, one of the senior houses in the Prydon Chapter of Glorious Gallifrey.  She might have become a member of the Pythia's Order and thus be immune to the Curse? 

-110~?           (right before he becomes Omega)
                 Palix (Omega) hides a Warp Ellipse Field Generator in his desk - which gives him 3 years to compleate a 3 hour examination.  His teacher, Cardinal Louvis chooses not to punish him. 

-110~?           (before turning in the paper)
                Palix (aka
Omega) discovers that to make unlimited time travel possible a nearly endless power source will be needed.
  He develops the Genfranies(sp??) Theory of Temporal Aging based on a theory created by a lesser species.  The theory states that time itself ages and becomes more curved.  If one could control the oldest part of Time then one could control and map out all of history.  He knows the oldest part of time is in the Sector of Forgotten Souls (probably where the Terminus Timestation is located) and belives that detonating a star in that sector would give the Gallifreyans control of History.

-110~?           (before the revolution / when Omega is at the Academy)
                Student Palix (soon to be Omega) turns in his Cronological Studies paper on
the Genfranies(sp??) Theory of Temporal Aging into Cardinal Louvis.  Louvis is so offended by Palix ignoring his teachings and worried about how dangerous the theory is that he gives Palix the lowest possible grade ever given at the Academy - Omega.  No one in the history of thhe Academy has ever scored this low and Palix goes from being a nobody to being famous for his score of Omega.  Palix becomes known universaly by the name Omega.

?                    (long before she meets the Doctor)
                      Patience meets Omega.

??                   Young Patience and Omega fall in love.

??                   (probably before entry into the Vortex)

                One of the earliest Time Lords, Omega, discoveres De-materialization Theory and
learns to make Dematerialization Circuits using the steady state micro-welding technique developed by the Lamadines.

??                   Palix (Omega) becomes a Time Plumber.  His job might have been to remove temporal energy from the vortex tubes. 

??                   (a while before the Qqaba mission)
                The Temporal Scientist named
Vanderkerian begins working with Omega.  They become good friends.

??                   The first Prototype Space-Time Capsules capable of traveling in the Vortex are launched with Gallifreyan Womprats as crew.  These capsules can only enter and leave the Space-Time Vortex not travel through time.  They exist in the Vortex and require power to leave it.

-102               (102 years before the Eye of Harmony)
                The first Space-Time craft capable of carrying a Gallifreyan into the Vortex is constructed by Palix (aka Omega).  Palix (aka Omega) is the first Gallifreyan to survive the Space-Time Vortex. 

-102?        Patience's lover is a pioneer among the Time Lords.  He becomes one of the first Time Lords to enter the Space-Time Vortex after its discovery.  By the time of the Doctor, no one remembers this pioneer's name.  Nobody will remeber what Omega's real name was.

??                  (more then a week before the Qqaba mission)
                The Popuation III Q star Qqaba (also known as
Jartus) is discovered by Omega in the Sector of Forgotten Soul (the area of of Mutter's Spiral where the fabric of time is the oldest).  This area is located 9.6 LY from Gallifrey in the constellation of Ao, in the Veil Nebula and will become known as the Sector of Forgotten Souls.  Omega reconfigures the star to prevent its imminant death.

-70~?            (he is barely an adult in Time's Crucible)
                Vael Voryunsti Sheverell is born in his family's home in Soonwell Valley (about 500 leagues from The City).  He comes from a family of merchants.  He has older sisters who later marry and have children of their own.

??             The Pythia, having foreseen that the next ruler of Gallifrey will be a male, chooses Vael Voryunsti Sheverellas as her successor.  She has the Academia single Vael out for special treatment, which is good because he didn't fit in at the Academia.  He was the only one to study Time Theory and he failed his final assessments.  Vael was a Temporal Physicist.  He got the Highest exam quota ever in Temporal Manifold Physics.

-57                (the time right before the Pythia's curse / 24 years before the curse)
                The Time of Chaos begins.  The Neo-Technologists begin opposing the Old Order and the Pythia.  They believe the technology was a useful tool, and not a a nescessary evil (as describe by the Pythia).  The saw themselves as heralding the Age of Reason and want to free all slaves and have the government provide free food for everyone. 
Rassilon becomes the leader of the Neo-Technologists.  Rassilon is a supporter of reason as opposed to the Pythia's superstition.

-57               (probably the year of the Curse / 24 years berfore the Curse)
                The Gallifreyan Colony worlds begin demanding independence.


-43              (10 years before the Curse)
                Rassilon wins his freeman servant, the Tersurran Factotum named Thrift, for a few treazants in a market place brawl game.

-42               (9 years before the Curse)
                Rassilon renounces the rest of his name (as a protest againt the Pythia) and from this point on is known only as Rassilon. 

??                 
(shortly before the lover gets a seat on the Supreme Council / after or at the same time as the Time of Chaos begins / probably before the Time Scaphe launches) 
                Patience's lover is hailed as a hero upon his return from the Odyssey.  
Omega marries Patience on the day of his return to Gallifrey. 

??            Omega also rebels in the name of science.  Omega is also considered to be the first real scientist of the Gallifreyan people.

??             Despite just getting married, Patience's husband spends most of his time 'shaping a new future' for Gallifrey.

 -38~                 (a few years before the fall of the Pythia)
                Workers (slaves) from the Star Grellades cease to be sold by Pen-Shoza.  However workers from Oshakarm continue to be sold.

-36.7                 (4 years before the Curse)
                Shonnzi is born.  He has red hair and before he grows up he is gifted in piloting a ship through the Astral Vortex.

-36.5                 (3 years before the Launch)
                The Chronauts begin training for their first mission on the Time Scaphe by doing hundreds of simulations.  The Crew consists of Captain Quennesander Olyesti Pekkary, first son of the House of Fordfarding (his mother is Olyes Dryanasor, grandmother Dryana Shylvarsor, great grandmother Shylvar Karyesti.  His uncle is Rassilon.), Second Officer Amnoni Distuyssor Lorizhon oldest daughter of the ancient House of Blyledge, Regulator Chesperl, Reogus Telleem Lacott (the Battery), Quantum Theorist Taspar and the one year old Pilot Shonnzi.

-35                     (35 years before the Curse)
                Construction begins on the first Time Scaph. 
The Time Scaphe is made of real matter but uses forced-matter calculation to travel in time.  It is powered by the mental artron energy of its Chronaut Crew. 

?                         Amnoni plans to have children after the launch of the Time Scaphe.  She is also named as the next Kithriarch of the House of Blyledge.

??                  During the Time War the Time Lords created the several TARDIS to use as tools to try to free the Fendal.  The surviving TARDISes become the the Sphinxs who a know as the Kings of Space.  The Sphinxes absorb energy from other dimensions and excrete raw space-time.   The Kings of Space are a male and female Sphinx who are the parents of all the others.  One is black and one is white.  Having no interest in the other Gods they set themselves up in an area of space on the opposite side of Mutter's Stellian Spiral from Sol III.  This area is called Sphinx Space.  They get a bunch of human worshippers to take care of their little Sphinxes.

-33.3                  (1 year before the Curse / day 0)
                Haclav Agusti Prydonius is a mighty Hero and Space Voyager. He has black hair and his ship is the Apollaten.  He returns from overthrowing the reign of a marauding Sphinx on the distant world of Thule.  Of all the augurers within the nine corners of the Universe, the Sphinx sees the farthest.  It is rumored that this event fulfilled one of the Future Legends.  At this point Prydonius dislikes Rassilon's political views.  The Pythia has Taspar killed in what appears to be a freak skimmer accident, and the Pythia has Vael Voryunsti Sheverell replace him on the Time Scaphe's Crew.   Vael supports the Neo-Technologsts, but agrees to be the Pythia's agent because he wants to rule Gallifrey.

-34~                (1 year before the Curse)
                The Pythia abolishes sales taxes on slave trade

-34~               (1 year before the Curse)
                There are riots and two public stonings in the cities in the South.

-34                 (1 year before the Curse / day 61)
                The Time Scaphe is launched. 
The first Temporal Transportation System (aka time machine) to use the Space-Time Vortex is called the Time Scaphe or Chronoscaphe.  The first time travel is planned to be ninety minutes in the Astral Vortex, and ninety days into the future.

-33                  (3 years before getting funding for the Hand of Omega project)
                With Omega's support, Rassilon begins conducting preliminary research into mapping an controling History.

?                     Omega begins calling Rassilon 'Rass.'

??                   Omega becomes the first Solar Engineer.  He and future solor engineers will be scoffed at for their interest in providing for Gallifrey over exploring the Universe.  Omega is also considered to be the first real scientist of the Gallifreyan people. 

??                   A solar engineer discovers that the square root of negative three is impossible to calculate.  They have Gallifreyan biological engineers create a creature that has that knowlege breed into it.  It instinctualy know what was possible and impossible and could thus prevent inventors and theorists from wasting their time for foolish projects.  It is known as a Calculating Animal with a Tail (CAT) and was the Gallifreyan Empire's greatest acheivement to date.  Cats become the symbol of intelligence in Gallifreyan culture.  It should be noted that Rassilon's CAT described in the "Legacy of Gallifrey" is almost certainly the Other. 

??                   The Gallifreyan science vessel known as the Starkiller Class is designed.  A few hundred Starkillers can turn a star into black hole.  They might have been golden corkscrew shaped vessels.

??                   (after Omega became the first Solar Engineer) 
                Rassilon works  in the office above the west wing of the Academia Library. 
At this point, Rassilon is primarily regarded as an great architect and a Stellar Engineer.  Rassilon is a scientist and has an impeccable political record.  He plans to make the Gallifreyans Lords of Time. 


The Yssgaroth Vampire King

??                      (possibly before the Pythia puts restrictions on the fleets / a long time before the Qqaba mission / over 2.3 million years before the 20th century / the Dawn of History / when Rassilon is young / when the continuum is new)
                Rassilon decides to harnass a black hole as a power source for Gallifreyan time travel.  This would supply the Gallifreyans with power for centuries. 
Omega serving as his engineer but the Other is not part of this mission.  Despite not having developed a Stellar Manipulator, Rassilon takes a fleet of hundreds of Starkillers and tests his theory by exploding a device within a yellow star.  The star collapses into a black hole.  This punched a hole in the Space-Time Vortex that served as a foundation for the star.  It creates a gap in history itself.  The Yssgaroth, who existed in a 'dark universe' (the extra-continuual alter-matter state of the Vortex’s Under-History), invaded Normal-Space by the thousands.  The Yssgaroth are Old Ones/Elder Gods.  They might be a distillation of the nightmares from Null-Space or they Time Lords from the dark universe who (since they are history incarnate) contaminate this universe's history simply by interacting with this universe's Time Lords.  This contaminaiton takes the form of the V-Factor.  The explosion creates a dent in the space-time continuium which opens dimensional holes throughout the galaxy.  The Yssgaroth (or Great) Vampires use these holes to enter N-Space (Normal Space) and swarm across what would become the Spiral Politic.  The Yssgaroth (aka Great Vampires aka Giant Vampires) are servants of the beings in the other Universe.  The Yssgaroth (who might be one single gestalt lifeform) are an anathema to all forms of life and meaning.  Their only (apparent) ambition is to cause pain and despair. The Yssgaroth enslave and destroy whole star systems killing trillions.  Their symbols include a bloody thorn bush overrunning a planet, a bleeding, eyeless lamb on a divine throne, and a ski