Ship's Log | To Boldly Go

Alaska was beautiful. Much more my sort of climate than many of these places on Earth and we saw some animals that I've never seen before but read about on the PADD back on the ship. I think I liked that a lot better than I would the Hawaii place.

Being back on earth has been awesome. I never thought I'd see her again I suppose it's good I didn't get the chance to go back to Florida, though. Walking around my home when all the people I knew would be gone - that'd be a hell of an experience.

Anyway, being here in the future is pretty frelling cool.

Posted via Journaler.

Since apparently there's propaganda out there for all to pretend they're some kind of authority for the world I have lived on for millennia, and demand from those of you who know better, which in this case means less, I'll elaborate.

Gallifrey is a planet in another galaxy, free from the constraints of Time.

It is known as the Shining World of the Seven Systems by the more poetic of our number, which, you may have gathered, I am not among.

The primary city is known only as the Capitol. Perhaps it had some other name when it was initially founded - well before your sun could be called a star. Not much is known about the early times of Gallifrey - known, 'imaginatively', as 'The Dark Times'. But we know that it was controlled by the Pythia - a matriarchy that controlled its populace by holding science hostage, rebranding it as 'magic' that could only be mastered by the Sisterhood.

Then Rassilon, Omega and the Other came along to break the code of silence and engineer time travel and Time Lords, setting down the Laws of Time. The details are sketchy and up for debate, but we know eventually Rassilon turned tyrant, Omega got himself trapped in an antimatter universe and the Other committed suicide into the looms. I don't want to get into looms, but sufficed to say it's likely my entire people contain some element of the Other in their DNA as a result.

The legacy of this era is impossible to exaggerate to our world. We still quote the laws, have the relics and quote Rassilon in every coronation of president and we still answer to what they've done, millennia later. Rassilon and Omega have turned up in person, which brings a whole new meaning to 'outstaying their welcome'.

The organisation I work for, the Celestial Intervention Agency or CIA, was founded in these times and we're tasked to defend and tend to the Web of Time, removing paradoxes and representing Gallifrey's interests. Even though I'm here, my primary loyalty remains with Gallifrey and always will.

Not everyone on Gallifrey becomes a Time Lord. I suppose it's a kind of class system, Time Lords are tasked with more global issues. You are required to study for over a century at least, if not longer, depending on your desired course. Aliens have become Time Lords, humans included. When you live among us, your aging process has been slowed long enough to enable you to complete the course and do something other than promptly die of old age.

It's not something I've been entirely comfortable with, new as it has been in my time, but the results have been... adequate, if occasionally explosive.

I suppose I'll answer questions, assuming you're not about to be as idiotic about it as you were on my last message.

This planet is beautiful.

And I have to admit, not being reviled for how I look is refreshing

Wormtail

Looks like we're down to just us. I'd even take Remus as an old man over you. Brilliant, huh?