How long was the time war?

The Time Wars were a collections of time wars fought between the early Time Lords and other races that were developing time travel, (PROSE: Sky Pirates!) lasting 30,000 years. (PROSE: The Infinity Doctors) The Time Lords destroyed one such race, the Charon, before they even existed.

When did the Time War start?

The "Time War" (note that the event is more accurately "The Last Great Time War", as there have been at least two others) was introduced in the first episode, Rose, of the 2005 Doctor Who season featuring the 9th Doctor, but the events of the war itself involve earlier incarnations of the Doctor.

How old was the Doctor during the Time War?

The "900" discrepancy

The discrepancy was finally addressed in the short story Doctor Who and the Time War released in 2020, which explained that in the Last Great Time War the Doctor was aged and de-aged multiple times. Eventually "feeling around one thousand" by the end of the War, he rounded his age down to 900.

Who ended the Time War?

In this context, the President formulated 'the Final Sanction' which would destroy all creation and elevate the Time Lords into beings of pure consciousness. When the War Doctor learned of this plan, he stole 'the Moment', and used it to destroy Gallifrey and the Daleks to end the Time War.

How many Time Lords survived the Time War?

Some say this act was the beginning of the Time War. We may never know for certain, but whatever its genesis, the outcome of this epic conflict was horrifying and only two Time Lords survived - the Doctor and the Master.

Doctor Who: The Complete Story of 'The Time War'

What is the Doctor's real name?

John Smith. The Doctor's most common alias (apart from the Doctor, obviously), this is his standard pseudonym on Earth.

Is the Doctor the last Time Lord?

He has experienced the cutting-off (the end of experience, i.e. "death") of every other timeline of every other Gallifreyan who lived while he was alive, and as we go forward in his own timeline, no new Gallifreyans can be born. So in this sense, The Doctor is indeed the last of the Time Lords.

How many died in the Time War?

In the last act of the Time War, when the Doctor (apparently) wiped out both the Time Lords and the Daleks, 2.47 billion Gallifreyan children were lost.

How did Doctor Who survive the Time War?

The Doctor was killed in the crash, but was restored to life temporarily by the Sisterhood of Karn, who finally convinced him that for the sake of the universe, he had to take a stand and fight. They further offered an elixir that would control his regeneration and allow him to take a form best suited for the task.

How long did the Doctor spend in the Time War?

Early time wars of Gallifrey

lasting 30,000 years. (PROSE: The Infinity Doctors) The Time Lords destroyed one such race, the Charon, before they even existed. Another unnamed species which was eliminated created the reality bomb.

What are female Time Lords called?

As last year's Christmas Special revealed, Broadchurch star Jodie Whittaker has taken on the role of the Thirteenth Doctor – and we couldn't be more excited for her adventures starting later this year. But some fans slightly baulked at a female Time Lord, or Time Lady if you will.

Are the Time Lords still alive?

As established in episode 2 of season 12, "Spyfall Part 2," the Master burned Gallifrey, killing all the Time Lords there.

How long do Time Lords live?

Well, the way I see it, at least from the point of view as it's presented, is each timelord life gets around about 80-100 years, so they age normally, if a timelord regenerates due to injury (as every doctor bar Hartnell) has, the "extra years" stack up into the next regeneration, so they could potentially live twice ...

Why is the Time War time locked?

The entirety of the Time War and Gallifrey's history was it in a time lock, Gallifrey was locked so as to prevent the Daleks from going back on time preventing Time Lords from coming into being, the war itself was locked away to heal the damage done to the web of time in addition to preventing the evils from escaping.

How do you lose a Time War?

This Is How You Lose the Time War is a 2019 science fiction epistolary novel by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. It was first published by Simon and Schuster. It won the BSFA Award for Best Shorter Fiction, the Nebula Award for Best Novella of 2019 and the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novella.

How did the Master survive the Time War?

As we see in the Series 3 episode Utopia, the Master survived the Time War using a Chameleon Arch which rewrote his DNA to make him a Human.

Is Clara the Doctor's daughter?

Clara is the future child of the Doctor and River who's had her memory erased. The two Time Lords must be up to something on their nights away from River's prison cell.

Why do the Time Lords hate the Doctor?

The Daleks are genetically programmed to consider themselves the supreme beings in the universe, and they never forgot that moment of vulnerability, hating the Doctor for being - in their view - superior to them.

What killed the Time Lords?

At the start of the 2005 television series, Gallifrey was thought to have been destroyed and the Time Lords functionally extinct as a result of a mutually destructive Time War with the Dalek race; the Ninth Doctor describes his planet as "just rocks and dust" in "The End of the World" (2005), and mentions in "Dalek" ( ...

What is the most violent war in history?

World War II

The war pitted the Allies and the Axis power in the deadliest war in history, and was responsible for the deaths of over 70 million people. Known for its genocidal campaign against the Jewish people, the war was also responsible for the deaths of more than 50 million civilians.

What was the deadliest war ever?

By far the most costly war in terms of human life was World War II (1939–45), in which the total number of fatalities, including battle deaths and civilians of all countries, is estimated to have been 56.4 million, assuming 26.6 million Soviet fatalities and 7.8 million Chinese civilians were killed.

What did the Doctor whisper to Martha?

It is revealed that when the Doctor whispered to Martha in the previous episode, he said: "Use the countdown." Docherty's betrayal was planned — engineered by Martha so that she would be brought on board the Valiant to rejoin the Doctor.

Why do Time Lords have two hearts?

One, it's exactly that, a coincidence, and both races – whatever the Timeless Child is, and the Shobogans of Gallifrey – have two hearts. Two, the genetic experiments Tecteun conducted to derive regeneration from the Timeless Child altered the Time Lords to have two hearts too.

How do Time Lords reproduce?

The TL;DR is that in non-screen materials Gallifreyan reproduction is largely aided by cloning-like technology, but that this seems to be contradicted by some on-screen evidence that they reproduce more like we do. At very least cloning is possible, as with the Doctor's daughter.