Lords of Time.
By TimeTraveller-1900.
"All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension. Transuranic heavy elements may not be used where there is life. Medium atomic weights are available: Gold, Lead, Copper, Jet, Diamond, Radium, Sapphire, Silver and Steel. Sapphire and Steel have been assigned."
It began during the Time War when a group of Time Lords who felt they could never win against the Daleks decided to restart and rebuild in a totally different universe. Hacking into the Matrix, they learnt about the Void Ship theory, and gathering families and race banks and plans, they left the fighting in secret. As they passed through the Void and into the space between parallels, this group of Time Lords planned to travel to a world much like their own, and rebuild the Time Lords from scratch.
Heading for the Big Bang of the parallel universe, the group of Time Lords entered the new universe and were in effect born alongside the new reality.
Once they began exploring the new reality, the group of Time Lords originally planned on finding the Gallifrey of this new universe and making contact with them. But when they arrived, they discovered that Gallifrey did not exist in this new reality.
According to their limited temporal abilities in this new reality, which was because of the slight differences in the Laws of Physics, the Time Lords discovered many of the races of their actual reality were in the future.
Rutans.
Sontarans.
Dominators.
Cybermen.
Ice Warriors.
Mara.
Zygons.
Monan Host.
Draconians.
Nekkistani.
There was even a version of the Logopolitans in this universe, and from what the Time Lords were able to gather, the Logopolitans' equivalent didn't use Block Transfer computations, but something much more powerful, and if the Time Lords were to rebuild their golden civilisation, they would need to adapt.
But the most chilling, they detected the presence of the Daleks in the future
Alarmed by this notion and the prospect of recreating the Time War in this new universe, the Time Lords began to make plans. Forced to settle quickly and colonise a totally different planet, the Time Lords began the process of rebuilding their civilisation in this universe. Knowing that if they did have to fight against the Daleks again, they needed to be ready and prepared for the fight, they would need to become the Lords of Time in this universe. Lacking the knowledge of Rassilon despite the fact the ancient legendary Time Lord was nothing more than a proven tyrant, and unable to find this universe's version of the Time Vortex, the Time Lords constructed a vast warp tunnel generator within hyperspace and after harnessing the power of an alternative timeline, which was considerably easier than understanding all of the secrets of the Eye of Harmony, which had been closed off in the Matrix thanks to Rassilon, to power it. This new time tunnel allowed the Time Lords to become the lords of time of the new universe, defining the cosmos' physical and spatial and temporal laws at the same time. With the tunnel, the Time Lords discovered that aside from a few differences, the histories between this world and their original universe were still the same, but they had become Lords of Time.
But something was wrong with time in this universe, something which jeopardised the Time Lord's plans. Originally they had planned to take a more interventionist stance, and adjust history to their designs, but as they began exploring history in the new universe and mapping it out in their new form of the Matrix, the Time Lords discovered something strange, horrific and alarming.
Time in this reality was filled with strange interdimensional beings who were constantly looking for weak points in the fabric of reality, where they would take things.
As if that was not bad enough, Time itself was more malignant, as it had a tendency to snatch people or objects, or otherwise freeze them or put objects of people into time loops that were near impossible to break. The Time Lords spent much of their time trying to prevent these breakages as they began research into a new form of TARDIS, and they learnt the breaks were being caused by the presence of something old within a modern setting, for instance, an old, transitional nursery rhyme in a modern house, or an ancient photograph, or a house decorated with antiques.
For reasons that the Time Lords found strange and hard to understand, time broke easily like a hammer lightly thumping glass, splintering it. They came to the conclusion after years of observation, that the reason why this happened was that the creatures were constantly trying to break out into the real universe.
Concerned by this, the Time Lords looked at how their arrival had affected the universe. They discovered while their new time tunnel could help them travel through time and space, it would help the aliens emerge into the universe and cause harm on a causal level.
The Time Lords, unwilling to let their dominion over time in any reality be taken from them, decided to create a new time tunnel, this time in another alternate reality linked to the one they were in once they had discovered that the different reality would make it difficult and virtually impossible for the aliens to break through. For 500 years since their arrival in this universe, the Time Lords had evolved their technology and their science, so they had begun using time travel again using a different timeline to limit the breakages, but they were still a problem and they needed to be addressed.
The new High Council came up with a new form of Time Agent, one with unique powers, such as being able to transport themselves through history and having the means to see the shatterpoints. Codenamed after atomic weights and alloys while programmed with the power of reality which mimicked some of their properties, the Time Agents sought out the shatter points and sealed them while the Time Lords watched and made small changes to history, as carefully as they dared.
And they created their best agents, Sapphire and Steel.
