The War King's Rise Timeline
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Timeline (Devised using: The Book of the War, Liberating Earth, Mr Bumber's Crimes against Humanity timelines).
?: The War King traveling as Yardley James with human Judy Collins as a companion: visiting the first Glastonbury Festival, getting involved in unspecified three assasinations, fighting a genetic enchanced human, and spending time in multiple prisons across time and space due to his criminal actions past and present, (including cattle rustling and robbing at least one bank to raise Yellowcake purchase funds). However at some point during her biological early twentys he discovered a terrible truth about the universe's history after which he drops Miss Collins off before going to Gallifrey 1, (later 8) to warn his people about the Enemy.
80.B.T.W.: The War King returns to Galifrey against all expectations, infiltrates the Presidential chambers killing at least three members of the Chancellory Guard, and cornering the Head of the Presidency for 15 minutes in an attempt to warn him of the War, failing to get him to take any preventative action before leaving again. The remarkably stoic President dismisses his claims and bans public dicussion despite talk of an imminent catastrophe, (the incident was however an foundation shattering experience for him).
75.B.T.W.: The War King returns to Gallifrey and surrendering himself to judgement for his crimes, (he is the second biggest criminal, his criminal record fulling two data coils) seeking no clemency despite the sentence of retro anullment only asking to address a High Council closed session. The Presidency refuses but it's veto is insufficient and so refuses to attend. The War King gives the High Council a report on the war and the enemy, (which serves as their first true acknowledgement of the conflict and inkling as to enemy's possible identity) urging diplomatic contact before leaving to, "prepare other fields of interaction", (probably developing military and armament protocols and technologies, including planning for the 1st Battle of Dronid as diplomacy was not his strong suite). The High Council keeps an eye on him and the enemy but the Presidency vindictively sabotages all attempts at diplomacy.
35.B.T.W.: The War King returns to Galifrey to share his developed protocols and technologies but is kidnapped by the Chancellory Guard immediately after his .T.T. capsule dematerialises under orders from the Presidency. The Presidency then calls an unprecendented meeting open to all, "signficant" Houses designed to eliminate any belief in the War and humiliate the War King who is restrained. The President announces his intention to found a colony on the Enemy's supposed homeworld, (no one knows where he got the coordinates form) and then have the War King vapourised upon his return leaving Umbaste in charge for the 5 days. Only the literal head of the President returned to maybe the sound of a .T.T. capsule dematerialising, (later examination discovered it had travelled back to the dawn of time and somehow been kept alive for entirely the lifespan of the universe, before being allowed to die and then transported back to the Homeworld). The War King simply steps out of the restraint completely healthy, reads out the message placed in the ex President's mouth and calls for a private High Council meeting. An appalled Umbaste is officially declared President but is basically the known puppet ruler for the War King, (purely because The War King refused due to his criminal past) who is given the title of, "The Magistrate" and serious war preperations begin. The War King focuses on overseeing the creation and development of the proper House Military prefering it's company to that of the academians, visiting each wave as they are created thus endearing himself to them.
6.B.T.W.: Tired of his non position and perhaps wanting to be as useful as the War King, President Umbaste exercised his right to visit the Caldera alone opening his biodata to it by dropping his protective bio-imprimaturs in an attempt to utilise an known erractic menthod of gaining future insight entering into a fugue state in which his biodata was no longer rooted on Gallifrey and his pysche became lost in the history meta struture. If the War King had known he would have tried to stop him.
5.B.T.W.: President Umbaste's pysche returns but he constantly repeats a single word, (translated into English without time active connotations as, "one"). After a several days officially he regains enough of his faculties to disintergate himself, unoffically it seems likely that a senior member of House Mirraflex mercy killed him. Upon his death Umbaste's Presidency officially ends and the War King agrees to succeed him taking on the position's responsibilities but not the title.
Notes He wanted Yellowcake, (a crucial nuclear bomb component) for some unspecified purpose during his travels. He was able to detect, (eg: Sight, feeling, or scanner) that something was wrong with the anchoring and it has something to do with the Enemy. The discovery instills such a sense of urgency that he decides to go to Gallifrey immediately instead of later using timetravel. His cornering of the Presidency to impress a serious warning on them is very Doctor like. He wasn't expected to return due to being considered dead after his execution, (as The Master) by the Daleks. He seems to be the only one who seems to truely care about his extensive criminal record. No mention is made of when or if he supplied the Faraway co-ordinates to the Presidency. The President's intended vapourisation of the War King is another sign of how desperate and made he is as it's against the consitution. The sound of a .T.T. capsule maybe indicates the use of D-mat technology or it's association with timetravel is so engrained some of those assembled imagined it. He doesn't seem to have immediately informed them who/what the enemy was, "first… inkling as to the enemy's identity"? Why keep it secret Maybe he was unsure or it was still too much for them to think through yet? Maybe part of endearing himself to the fourth wave was giving them the secifications of his old gadgets? The meaning of, "One" is unknown. It could be the One being in .E.D.A. Alien Bodies but it's unlikely to be the Celesitis Investigator. Umbaste's pysche went through the Untempred Schism in the Caldera leaving ghis body a shell implying that Timelords can exist as pure consciousness? The War King's comments during his speech regarding rearning their titles may explain why the Chapter level of formal pomp and circumstance disappeared. Two Heads of the Presidency, one was decapitated the other sepearted his biodata from being rooted in Gallifey's soil.
