#time wars

One day I'll be able to write that story

Aeons ago -the birth, life and death of suns and systems from the subjective now -the humanoid race of Gallifreyans achieved some degree of mastery over space and time. These Time Lords, as they styled themselves with some accuracy if not exactly humility, had the innate advantage of being the first sentient beings (so far as sentience can be recognized in humanoid terms) to do so. From their point of view -from their now -the whole vast panoply of galactic history insofar as it applied to organic life was malleable. They could bend it to their will. Any emergent race that might evolve a similar mastery of space-time was judiciously nipped in the bud -not through any sense of cruelty, the Time Lords assured themselves, but for the simple, pragmatic reason that by definition there could be but a single Supreme Power in any one universe. This era of Gallifreyan history became retroactively known as the Time Wars, and during that segment of subjective Gallifreyan timeline entire future species and whole orders of species were eradicated.