The 11th Professor's Adventures - The Timelords of Old

The Timelords.

Once thought to be one of the most powerful and insular races in the home universe, the watchers of time who saw everything from their grand citadel on the planet Gallifrey in the constellation of Kasterbourous, who locked themselves away never to interfere after they saw the damage they were doing to the universe after their many years of interfering in the early days, when the universe was young.

Some would think that the Timelords were the closest things to gods, some would think that they looked in on the races of old, protecting the natural evolution of time.

It was all a lie.

The “grand” race of time watchers and protectors of peace, were nothing more than salvagers who took from the many races of the universe, modified them to their own purposes, and then went to war against any race who threatened their superiority by using underhanded tactics, outright military action, or if everything else was unusable, they used their secret force of “The Division” to meddle in the events of planets, people, and who knows what else and where else.

From the ancient race of the Archons, a race of blackened tendril-like blobs, the Timelords took the seeds of traveling machines with which they used to grow and create their own TARDIS machines.

The temporal codes that Omega claimed to have built and rebuilt which led to his stellar manipulator device were stolen from multiple unknown races, erased from time as to hide the truth about the truth to his formulae.

Regeneration, which gave our race 13 lives to better and observe the temporal differences and the very time vortex which we called home, was stolen from an innocent child who knew nothing about the Shobogans and their life of salvaging from the higher races in order to survive.

Even when it came to protecting their secrets, the Timelords led themselves to war from many a foe, like the Racnoss and their coalition when they tried to usurp power away from the Timelords and their own alliances, or the Great Vampires when they learned of the way that the Timelords used to cheat death.

All of this.

All of the bloodshed, all of the stealing and backhanded tactics, when one comes down to it, does not fall upon the simple timelord who only wished to learn and join what they believed to be an elite order on our planet, to learn and experience and see the universe from their watching post…

This falls upon the three Founders of our society, who lied, cheated, stole, manipulated, and outright killed in order to protect the secrets and the rotten and rusty pedestal they built our very society upon.

It also falls upon those who remain to take the things that were left behind and use them to truly better the universe, and universes beyond, to follow the message they wished to embed within us about what “we truly were.”