Editing Time Lord (section)

==Technology==
Paradoxically, although the Time Lords are a scientifically and technologically advanced race, the civilisation is so old that key pieces of their technology have become shrouded in legend and myth. {{citation needed|date=March 2015}} In the spin-off fiction, {{citation needed|date=March 2015}} an edict and general aversion against exploring Gallifrey's past also contributes to this. Accordingly, until the Master rediscovers it, the Time Lords forgot that the location of the Eye of Harmony is beneath their capital. {{citation needed|date=March 2015}} They also treated such ceremonial symbols as the Key and Sash of Rassilon as mere historical curiosities, being unaware of their true function. {{citation needed|date=March 2015}}

In the revived series, there were instances in which evil alien species have stolen Time Lord technology for their own purposes but such is its complexity that they are unable to operate it, as illustrated in "[[Doomsday (Doctor Who)|Doomsday]]" when the Genesis Ark was stolen by the Daleks and even they could not open it. Furthermore, the Genesis Ark was just one Time Lord prison that held millions of Daleks, demonstrating "bigger on the inside than it is on the outside" Time Lord technology.<ref>{{Cite episode |title=Doomsday |episode-link=Doomsday (Doctor Who) |series=Doctor Who |series-link=Doctor Who |first=Russell T (writer) |last=Davies |author-link=Russell T Davies |first2=Graeme (director) |last2=Harper |author-link2=Graeme Harper |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC One]] |date=8 July 2006 |series-no=2 |number=13 }}</ref>{{sfn|Donaghy|2014|p=162}} The classic series also makes reference to the inability of other races to successfully use Time Lord technology, with ''[[The Two Doctors]]'' <ref name="Two Doctors"/> stating that even if a race managed to copy and build their own TARDISes, they would be ripped apart by the molecular stresses of time travel as all TARDISes have a fail-deadly approach to unauthorised use unless primed with a Rassilon Imprimatur, creating a symbiotic link to a specific Time Lord.

During the final hours of the Time War, the High Council of Gallifrey refer to defenses called 'Sky Trenches' which appear to be at least somewhat effective against invading Daleks and/or their ships, as seen in "[[The Day of the Doctor]]".<ref name="dotd"/>

TARDISes are characterised not just by their ability to travel in time, but also their dimensionally transcendent nature. A TARDIS' interior spaces exist in a different dimension from its exterior, allowing it to appear to be bigger on the inside. The Doctor states that transdimensional engineering was a key Time Lord discovery in ''[[The Robots of Death]]''.{{sfn|Donaghy|2014|p=37}}<ref>{{cite serial |title=[[The Robots of Death]] |series=Doctor Who |series-link=Doctor Who |first=Chris (writer) |last=Boucher |author-link=Chris Boucher (writer)|first2=Michael E. (director) |last2=Briant |author-link2=Michael E. Briant |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC1]] |date=29 January – 19 February 1977 }}</ref> The Doctor states in "[[The Impossible Planet]]" that TARDISes are grown, not made.<ref>{{Cite episode |title=The Impossible Planet |episode-link=The Impossible Planet |series=Doctor Who |series-link=Doctor Who |first=Matt (writer) |last=Jones |author-link=Matt Jones (writer) |first2=James (director) |last2=Strong |author-link2=James Strong (director) |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC One]] |date=3 June 2006 |series-no=2 |number=8 }}</ref> It is seen in "[[The Name of the Doctor]]" <ref>{{Cite episode |title=The Name of the Doctor |episode-link=The Name of the Doctor |series=Doctor Who |series-link=Doctor Who |first=Steven (writer) |last=Moffat |author-link=Steven Moffat |first2=Saul (director) |last2=Metzstein |author-link2=Saul Metzstein |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC One]] |date=18 May 2013 |series-no=7 |number=13 }}</ref> that as a TARDIS dies, its 'dimension dams' can break down causing a 'size leak' wherein the exterior dimensions of a TARDIS begin to expand to match its inner dimensions.

Fitting their generally defensive nature, Time Lord weapons technology is rarely seen, other than the [[staser]] hand weapons used by the Guard within the Capitol.

Standard TARDISes do not generally seem to use any on-board weaponry, although War or Battle TARDISes (armed with "time torpedoes" that freeze their target in time) have appeared in the spin-off media. {{citation needed|date=March 2015}} In the novels, {{citation needed|date=March 2015}} the [[Eighth Doctor]]'s companion [[Compassion (Doctor Who)|Compassion]], a living TARDIS, has enough firepower to annihilate other TARDISes. In the serial ''[[Castrovalva (Doctor Who)|Castrovalva]]'',<ref name="Castrovalva"/> the Master's TARDIS is equipped with an energy field that he uses to temporarily disable or stun several human security guards outside the vessel.

One exception to the Time Lords' defensive weaponry is the de-mat gun (or dematerialisation gun). The de-mat gun is a weapon of mass destruction that removes its target from space-time altogether, as seen in ''[[The Invasion of Time]]''.<ref name="The Invasion of Time"/> The de-mat gun was created in Rassilon's time and is a closely guarded secret; the knowledge to create one is kept in the Matrix and is available only to the President. To make sure this knowledge is not abused, the only way to arm a de-mat gun is by means of the Great Key of Rassilon, whose location is only known to the Chancellor. As a means of extreme sanction, the Time Lords have also been known to place whole planets into time-loops, isolating them from the universe in one repeating moment of time {{citation needed|date=March 2015}} as well as hurling planets from one galaxy to another using a weapon referred only as a [[Cavity magnetron|magnetron]] in ''[[The Trial of a Time Lord]]''.<ref name="The Trial of a Time Lord"/>

In the ''Doctor Who Annual 2006'',<ref>{{cite book | last1 = Davies | first1 = Russell T | author-link = Russell T Davies | last2 = Hickman | first2 = Clayton | author-link2 = Clayton Hickman  | title = Doctor Who Annual 2006 | publisher=Panini Publishing. |date=August 2005
 | isbn =  978-1-904419-73-0 }}</ref> a section by Russell T Davies says that during the [[Time War (Doctor Who)|Time War]], the Time Lords used Bowships (used against the Great Vampires in an ancient war), Black Hole Carriers and N-Forms (war machines first mentioned in the [[Virgin New Adventures]] novel ''[[Damaged Goods (Davies novel)|Damaged Goods]]'',<ref>{{cite book | last = Davies | first = Russell T | author-link = Russell T Davies | title = Damaged Goods | title-link= Damaged Goods (Davies novel) | publisher=[[Virgin Books]] | series = [[Virgin New Adventures]] |date=October 1996 | isbn = 0-426-20483-2 }}</ref> written by Davies).

In "The End of Time",<ref name="end of time two"/>{{sfn|Donaghy|2014|p=159}} Rassilon is shown wearing a gauntlet with several powers, primarily the ability to disintegrate a target and the ability to reverse changes made to the human race by the Master. When Rassilon throws the white point star into the hologram of the Earth, the diamond is able to arrive at the planet by following the Master's signal, travelling through the time-locked war to the post-war universe.

Gallifreyan paintings were unique in that they were in 3D, as they acted as snapshots of a single moment in time by use of stasis cubes. This meant that they could be used as rudimentary time travel, by freezing a person inside a painting and then letting them out at the required point in time. An example of this is ''Gallifrey Falls No More'' as seen in "[[The Day of the Doctor]]".<ref name="dotd"/>

===The Moment===
The Moment was claimed by the Time Lords to be the most powerful weapon in the Universe and capable of destroying entire galaxies. The Moment was locked in Gallifrey's Time Vaults, specifically in the Omega Arsenal. The Moment is so powerful that the weapon's operating system became sentient, leading the Time Lords to wonder "How do you use a weapon when it can stand in judgement of you?" and that "only one man would be mad enough to try it". In the 50th anniversary special "[[The Day of the Doctor]]", the War Doctor breaks into the Omega Arsenal, steals the Moment and is about to destroy both Time Lords and Daleks alike to stop the Time War before the Moment engineers a meeting with his succeeding regenerations to convince him otherwise.<ref name="dotd"/>{{sfn|Donaghy|2014|p=163}}

===Messaging Hypercube===
Time lords have a telepathic technology which allows the user to send their thoughts enclosed in a cube-shaped object. It was first introduced in [[The War Games]] episode 9, where the Doctor used it to request help from the Time Lords.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://whatculture.com/tv/doctor-who-10-bizarre-powers-you-forgot-the-doctor-has?page=4 | title=Doctor Who: 10 Bizarre Powers You Forgot the Doctor Has | date=24 August 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.therpf.com/forums/threads/timelord-emergency-messaging-system-doctor-who-season-6-the-doctors-wife.115937/ | title='Timelord Emergency Messaging System' Doctor Who Season 6: 'The Doctor's Wife' | date=15 May 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://whobackwhen.com/c050-war-games/ | title=C050 the War Games | date=8 January 2017 }}</ref>

===Eye of Harmony===
Another impressive example of Time Lord technology is the Eye of Harmony, a repurposed [[black hole]] [[Gravitational singularity|singularity]] contained within the instrumentality below the Panopticon. This is the source of their power and the anchor of the Web of Time itself, created by Rassilon and the co-founders of Time Lord society in the distant past. {{citation needed|date=March 2015}} The Time Lords were accomplished stellar engineers and could control the development of stars with devices like the Hand of Omega, which was shown to be capable of forcing a star to go supernova. {{citation needed|date=March 2015}} The Eye of Harmony exists within the Doctor's TARDIS as a collapsing star suspended in a permanent state of decay, hence harnessing the potential energy of a collapse that would never occur.<ref>{{Cite episode |title=Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS |episode-link=Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS |series=Doctor Who |series-link=Doctor Who |first=Steve (writer) |last=Thompson |author-link=Stephen Thompson (writer) |first2=Mat (director) |last2=King |author-link2=Mat King |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC One]] |date=27 April 2013 |series-no=7 |number=10 }}</ref> Whether these are all aspects of the Eye of Harmony on Gallifrey or individual stars in their own right is not made clear on screen.{{Refn|group=note|According to ''Doctor Who: How to Be a Time Lord: Official Guide'', the Eye of Harmony within "each TARDIS" is described as a "section" of the Eye.{{sfn|Donaghy|2014|p=37}}}}