Tuesday 17 April 2012

Gallifrey (my home planet)


 (info from wiki )

Gallifrey was the homeworld of the Time Lords, amongst them the Doctor and the Master. It was destroyed in the Last Great Time War. (DW: Dalek) The literal translation of Gallifrey was "They that walk in the shadows".

Location: Gallifrey was located in the constellation of Kasterborous, at galactic co-ordinates 10-0-11-0-0 by 0-2 from Galactic Zero Centre. Several accounts placed it more or less at the centre of its galaxy. Indeed, I.M. Foreman once specified to the the Doctor that it wasn't in "the exact dead centre, but it's as close as you can get without ending up in a black hole". This meant that it was far from Earth, which was on the edge of the Milky Way. It was believed to be about 30,000 light years from Earth After the Last Great Time War, the Time Lords attempted to bring back Gallifrey, moving it very close to Earth, which would be destroyed in the process. This attempt was stopped by the Tenth Doctor and the Master with help from the Doctor's companion Wilfred Mott and aliens Addams and Rossiter. Gallifrey materializes next to Earth. Kasterborous was also known as the Seven Systems, and Gallifrey had the alternative name, "the Shining World of the Seven Systems".

Astronomy: Gallifrey was in a binary star system. The second star seeming to rise in the south in the morning, making the mountains glow. The main star was large and golden red. The system contained five other planets, among them Karn, Polarfrey, and an asteroid named Kasterbourous the Fibster. Gallifrey had at least two large moons and a ring system, similar to Saturn in our solar system. One of the moons was the copper-coloured Pazithi Gallifreya, which shone so brightly it could be seen during the day. Gallifrey was duplicated eight times by a process known as Crypto-forming to create the Nine Gallifreys. It was used both to confound its enemies and as a place of refuge. Gallifrey was still destroyed by the Eighth Doctor (following involvement from Faction Paradox) during the Second War in Heaven. It was recreated and then destroyed a second time by the Doctor in the Last Great Time War.

 Landscape: From orbit, Gallifrey was rust-coloured, with brown lakes and grey clouds. Following the Last Great Time War, it was still rust and brown coloured, but had a more volcanically active appearance. From the planet's surface, it boasted an orange sky and trees with silver leaves. These reflected the morning sunlight, making it look like the forests were on fire. There were also green forests, golden fields and red deserts, but overall it seems to have been a much drier world than Earth. The Sixth Doctor once declared the climate to be "like the Serengeti all year round".

 Known geographic features:

Continents/regions: Wild Endeavour - The Capitol was located here The Death Zone - The Tomb of Rassilon was located here Southern Gallifrey

 Mountains: Mount Cadon, Mount Lung, Mount Perdition, The Never Ending Mountains of Solace and Solitude Possibly two separate mountains, possibly the name of a mountain range. It/They were near the Capitol. If they are two separate mountains then the Capitol laid between them: "between the mountains of Solace and Solitude"

 Rivers, lakes, and oceans: Cadonflood River, Lake Abydos Major settlements: The Capitol (sometimes also called "Gallifrey" or "the Citadel") was Gallifrey's largest city, the home of the Time Lord Academy and most of the Time Lords. Olyesti The Capitol. Native species:

Gallifreyan flora: Gallifrey had a wide variety of plant life, ranging in colour from silver to green and golden. Known plant species include the Schlenk Blossom, ulanda and the Madevinia aridosa. The Master's father's estate was lush with red grass.

Gallifreyan fauna: Animals native to Gallifrey include flutterwings, trunkikes, yaddlefish, flubbles, tafelshrews: Time's Crucible), plumboles, rovies, mice, cats and, of course, the Gallifreyans themselves. In the past, the dinosaur-like Gargantosaurs lived on the planet. Oddly enough, before its complete annihilation from time and space, no animal had gone extinct from the planet. This lack of extinction was probably due to the Time Lords, who likely brought back species before they had died out.

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