Reasons you should read Down the Middle
You should read Down the Middle (a prose collection of short stories starring Chris Cwej, agent of Gallifrey) because...
Post-War Gallifrey! (Now if you think the War in Heaven and The Last Great Time War are separate conflicts, this is post War in Heaven, but still)
Also explorations of how the War effected other parts of the universe
We get to watch Chris get traumatized and depressed!
We actually get to see Chris again full stop, and finally follow up to the setup they gave the character in Faction Paradox.
We explore in depth the repercussions of the fact that the Time Lords made infinite Time Clones of a random dude
Chris gains two sidekicks, Larles and Kwol. They're gay, they tried to destroy Earth in a parallel universe, and they have eight arms and zero brain cells between the two of them.
We get to see the Time Lords mostly through their various non-Gallifreyan agents, and it shows a new side of them while also being pretty much what you'd expect
Iris Wildthyme shows up for a story.
Chris calls Gallifrey the Base Of Operations, so he can abbreviate it to "BOO"
It's this book which is crucial to my argument that Gallifrey wasn't actually destroyed by the Master
One of the Time Clones is trans, and she's dating a human-Gallifreyan hybrid, whose Time Lord biodata doner was Romana.
Also in absolute seriousness, if you do read Down the Middle, be aware that its first story is garbage but trust me it gets so much better after that. If you want a smaller package, it got split into three smaller collections: Living Memory, Dying to Forget, and Uprising. Uprising is the best by far in my opinion.