It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time

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It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time 118.3[179]
Before Everything Changed: As Things Changed

 

AlphaOmega went to the ArkCore with grim triumph. The decoy attack on the ArkCore, of the Arkzone, was something he had hoped would happen. He had used it to discover the identities of the traitor Timesages. Chronos had not been one of them but had kept back knowledge from AlphaOmega, as had other Timesages. Less than half of the Timesages were not being punished and were given rewards for loyalty; the old carrot and stick approach though not all getting the rewards really deserved them; it was politics, and the official appearance of process, that was important.

 

Some Timesages 'vanished' and AlphaOmega would not speak of what happened to them. Instead he announced a major reformation of the internal structure of those who dwelt in the GrandTARDIS. It was a reformation that would be given over to a large convention that would have some restrictions imposed by him along with his guidance. AlphaOmega had always preferred being in solid control and the change of approach was a big surprise.

 

The 'internal threat' in the GrandTARDIS had not ended and AlphaOmega admitted that even he was not fully aware of its nature. The GrandTARDIS had incorporated into itself a whole ancient AraComplex when the ancient AraMind of that complex had itself stated that this was a 'good idea'. It had communicated with AlphaOmega secretly and had informed him that something 'dark, evil and ancient' was inside itself. The AraMind had become partly melded into the GrandTARDIS mentality, being semiautonomous to it, and the Arkzone, including the ArkCore, that was part of the GrandAraComplex as it came to be called.

 

A great deal of information was gained by many, in the GrandTARDIS, who had been refused it before. So much new information was gained that the ArkCore University was founded just to try to study it.

 

The stream of people into the GrandTARDIS grew larger and more steady thanks to the support of AlphaOmega and the mysterious ETE Faction along with others.

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It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time 119.1[180]
Before Everything Changed: As Things Changed

 

Professor Quartermass was a genius and a lesser immortal. He had changed his name through out his centuries of life, going back to the Ancient Greek Citystates, but had finally become Quartermass for three false generations of himself.

 

Quartermass' true nature had been known by the British Government for over two centuries. Quartermass was part of the World League of Guardians (once called the Extraordinary League of Gentlemen) that included the lesser immortals of the Invisible Man, Jeckle-Hyde, Sherlock Holmes, Doctor Watson, the Pale Widow, Calamity Jane, Lara Clofft, Modesty Blaise, the Phantom, Tarzan, the Queen's Avengers and others.

 

The 'changes' taking place to reality brought the group into existence, making them part of history, along with many others and not all of those were good.

 

The World League of Guardians transferred to the GrandTARDIS and took with them many other people, other life and much else. They did so with the blessing of a dying British nation-state who sent many people with them. Other nation-states did the same including the USA, the Republic of Ireland, France, Nigeria, Canada, Australia, India and Japan.

 

The World League of Guardians recruited Robbie, and his people, along with the KaySisters, TaySisters and their people. Soon others were joining such as Timelords, and their people, Arkfolk of many kinds.

 

The search for impostor-infiltrators began, on the advise of AlphaOmega and the mysterious ETE Faction. In surprising short time they were being uncovered, were being prosecuted, were being dealt with in various ways. Some were recruited, some ended up working in secured areas where they contributed to Arkzone prosperity in exchange for fairly good lives. Too many ended up being terminated because there were not the resources to keep them. The GrandTARDIS had a massive amount of status-capsules, and other forms of status life storage, but the great majority of those were full while the others had to be kept for emergencies.

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It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time 119.2[181]
Before Everything Changed: As Things Changed

 

The impostor-infiltrators that were executed were totally dangerous entities that would have had to have been placed in extremely secure sites and even then there would be a good chance they would escape. AlphaOmega personally oversaw their executions as a statement that he took responsibility for their deaths but so did others, so as to share that responsibility; nine individuals pressed nine, execution buttons, with AlphaOmega at the center of that nine.

 

Too many impostor-infiltrators escaped and yet those escapes left a trail that could be followed, with difficulty, into the Shadowzone of the GrandTARDIS. The Shadowzone was a place that not even AlphaOmega had any real influence on. It was supposed to be totally secured, and sealed up, which begged many urgent questions.

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It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time 120.1[182]
It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time

 

Outside, of the GrandTARDIS, the world was going through a wide range of changes, a large number of which most humans seemed oblivious of. Few were aware that the world began to steadily grow bigger in volume, with out gravity becoming heavier. The opposite was true when it came to gripper vines in England, dinosaurs in the Amazon, carnivore apes in Africa, the great loch monster in Scotland and much else.

 

While many humans could, and were, being sent to Sanctum and, less so, to the GrandTARDIS, most could not be sent. Reasons for this were hard to understand even by some of the most ancient, wise and smart entities in that situation; those that could, would not, could not, speak of it at time timespace.

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It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time 121.1[183]
It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time

 

It was the Twisting, of timespace, that began though it had ended long before. It was the way of the Twisting that both were true for it was a distortion of timespace, of the natural laws of physics as they really were.

 

The GrandTARDIS was launched away through timespace, taking many and much with it.

 

Sanctum became sealed up away from the Twisting, removed from it.

 

The Twisting was near impossible to describe, to explain, to understand and the least aware of it were those caught totally in its grasp.

 

From the OldEarth would arise the NewEarth but was that the end of the Twisting?

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'Before Everything Changed: As Things Changed' has ended.

'GrandTARDIS Troubles' has started.

 

Subtitles to be used:

It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time (same as the Title above)

A Far More Hidden and Alien Struggle

Choosing a Dark Path

GrandTARDIS Troubles

Junglenam Scattered War

Researching the Obvious

Timelords in Conflict

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It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time 122.1[184]

Researching the Obvious

 

From the growing AraComplex, the search for answers began to deeply question deep assumptions long held about the world. People became aware of how blind people were to many factors that should have been obvious.

 

Such as the Great Barrier Walls that cut off the Known Ordered World from the rest of the Terran Overworld, that plunged so deep that they even cut off the Terran Labyrinth. There was also the Grand Barrier Floor that cut off the Terran Labyrinth from the Terran Underworld below. The Havenlander claim to have 'colonies' in part of the Underworld seemed dubious but they had never spoken of them as being like other colonies of theirs.

 

What really did lay below the Polar Domes?

 

Empress Amanda took others with her to meet the Empress that was the Prime of all thirteen Empresses, who was one of those few who met the Havenlander Emperor on a consistent basis. Relatively few got to meet him at all.

 

Empress Evatane, her public name, was tall and elegantly beautiful being also ancient. She sat in a big elegant throne of ancient appearance that was also very hitech in nature. It was also ancient but had been internally adapted with Havenlander practicality. It was obvious that she had physical features in common with Amanda but they were linked clones so that made sense.

 

She spoke, even as she studied the group before her with calm sharp eyes. "Empress Amanda you have brought before me the Eternal Seeker, in one of it's mortal aspects. What does the Eternal Seeker wish to know? Perhaps all of the Havenlanders' secrets."

 

Armstrong smiled quietly. "Yes, if that is what it takes to fulfill my task at hand. No, if it is not necessary to do so, at least not all of your secrets."

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It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time 122.2[185]

Researching the Obvious

 

The Empress nodded. "In truth we, the Empress, in our 13 forms do not have access to all such secrets. We have found it more necessary, and efficient, not to know them. We make sure that the real Havenlands are cared for as 'one director, three coordinators and nine supervisors' of our poor scattered, often secretive, Empire. Many of those secrets will be reveal as the Havenlanders largely abandon this world and migrate to the world of Haventasa, our true home world with its own world-bubble, here in the Sol System. The Sealands, the Skylands, of this world are in truth ships in their own right and will be the means of taking most of our local people, and much else, to Haventasa."

 

Amanda spoke out. "Will we reveal to Terran humans that we are not actually the same kind of humans as they are?"

 

Evatane nodded. "It will be interesting to observe the reaction, of Terran humans, to the many secrets that will be revealed. Perhaps they will be in shock, perhaps they will be pleased that we are as 'alien' as they suspected we were, perhaps they will be happy most of us are leaving, perhaps they will be sad or angry."

 

Amanda nodded. "Their reaction could be extreme, especially when they learn what is beneath the domes and in much of the Terran Underworld. The true size of our population will stun them, I suspect."

 

Graham Maharg was suddenly there, almost as if he had always been there. He stood next to Scully and Mulder. "Over 100 billion people, most of them not human, not even the kind of humans that you are."

 

Scully was visibly shocked. "We have learned that the NewEarth is greatly bigger than the OldEarth, but where are they?"

 

Captain Jack Harkness spoke out. "Beyond the Great Barrier Walls?"

 

Evatane smiled at Jack. "The unnaturally undying man who 'seduced' one of we Empresses, being Empress Jewelliana, has pointed in the right direction. Most Havenlanders are in one quarter of the world, as it really is, unstable and ever threatening to break. The Great Boundary Walls not only separate the Greater Zones but help keep them stabilized. If they Greater Zones would meet directly, there would be terrible results."

 

Graham Maharg nodded. "Most terrible indeed and not just for this realm. The Lunar Underworld, Terran Underworld and other underworlds of other worlds, all wrap around coreworlds but those coreworlds are one coreworld, the Coreworld."

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It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time 122.3[186]

Researching the Obvious

 

Jack snorted. "This 'unnaturally undying man' has been to the Coreworld with Doctor Time, known often as the 'Doctor'. It was a very brief and intensely 'interesting' time. We were almost utterly destroyed by the 'thing of things' that we encountered there. The Doctor drove it off using an ancient artefact of some kind. Then we escaped. Why he went there, why he took me there with him, he did not say but he gave me a generous reward for going with him; he let me use the DocTARDIS ultimate virtual reality network to have fun in a world of pleasures."

 

The Eternal Guardian spoke with a tone of bemusement. "No need to go into details, Jack! The Doctor did not use the artefact to drive back the 'thing of things' but you did so. The Great Enemy can not stand to be even near you."

 

Jack shook his head. "I am not sure whether to take that as an insult or a compliment."

 

Graham Maharg smiled at Jack. "It was just an observation. What happened to you, Jack, happened for a very excellent reason, but you are not the only one like you in existence, far from it; a couple you secretly know of but only a copy of many. The undead are repelled by your kind."

 

Jack nodded. "Well that is good. Are you suggesting that the 'thing of things' is undead?"

 

Graham Maharg nodded. "The 'thing of things' is undead and it is the Great Enemy. The Great Enemy was the Grand Celestial Godhood of the last Greater Cycle of the Multiverse. It is undead but in a unique fashion that makes it extremely dangerous and yet oddly vulnerable at the same time. Doctor Time used that ancient artefact to gain some vital knowledge that indicated the the Great Enemy has begun the process of escaping from its very ancient prison of the Coreworld. The oddity of that is that the Great Enemy long ago became content to remain inside the Coreworld; so what has changed?"

 

Gwen, of Torchwood, who had been quietly standing beside Jack, spoke. "Is it alone in the Coreworld; could something else be influencing it, in some way, to have it trying to escape."

 

The Eternal Seeker responded. "That is exactly what we True Eternals, of Eternium, have suspected to be the case for a very very long time."

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It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time 122.4[187]

Researching the Obvious

 

The Prime Empress, of the Havenlands, spoke. "I will make arrangements so that I might take you before the Emperor of the Havenlands. You will be taken through a series of preparation stages before you are allowed to meet His Majesty, may GodGoddess have mercy upon his soul."

 

Then she spoke again, after an obvious pause as if considering what she would say again. "The polar domes cover great horrors. The northern one has one kind of horror and the southern one has another but they are both of the undead. The superhumans, metahumans, both patrol the dome outer structures, intricate webworks of fortifications and structural reinforcements. This is necessary for the actual domes are under constant attack and are weakening. This has only been happening since the Great Enemy began to try to escape from the Coreworld. I do not know details of what lies inside the domes. Perhaps I have said too much already."

 

The old fashioned dressed girl child stood there, the Eternal One, with the Scarecrow, the TinWoodman and the Cowardly Lion plus her dog Toto. Or so would many identify the group. She spoke quietly but her voice carried easily to all. "No, you have spoken well. If anything you need to say more, you need to learn more and you need to break the bonds that have been secretly sown in your mind by one that you have trusted and loved. We will go and see the Havenlands Emperor now, with out the preparations that are actually designed to conceal the truth, to allow further deception to be carried out."

 

The Empress, the one on the throne, looked shocked and then disturbed.

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