#e-space

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Galactic Gazetteer: Alzarius

Type: earthlike planet

Location: Coordinates -10 0 -11 00 by 0 -2 from Galactic Centre, in E-Space (Exo-Space/Time Continuum)

Inhabitants: Alzarians, Marshmen, spiders

Famous inhabitants: Adric

Visited by: the Fourth Doctor, Romana II and K9

First appearance: Full Circle (1980)

Fun fact: Alzarius occupies the exact inverse of Gallifrey's coordinates, occupying the equivalent position in the negative universe of E-Space.

Another fun fact: life on Alzarius grew, healed and mutated quickly, allowing spiders to evolve into Marshmen and the Marshmen to evolve into humanoids, who took the place of the Terradonians who crashed their starliner on the planet.

Fun fact 3: every fifty years, Alzarius is drawn away from its sun by a neighbouring planet. The cooling starts an event called Mistfall which kicks off the evolutionary cycle again.

[chazbabylonisapathologicalliar]

Not sure how I feel about this “Adventures in a Pocket Universe” prequel, what’s with all the renaming? 

[leda74]

Just how dense is the planet Alzarius? In Full Circle, Romana and Adric had the following exchange: ROMANA: Adric, is there any machinery on your planet that could lift the TARDIS? ADRIC: How heavy is it? ROMANA: Five times ten to the six kilos in your gravity. (For our non-metric readers, that's a shade over 11 million pounds) Of course, we know from both earlier and later events (in Marco Polo and Time-Flight, for example) that the TARDIS is nowhere near as heavy as this in Earth's gravity; in Marco Polo, it was easily carried away in a wooden cart, and in Time-Flight, it is transported on a standard forklift truck, most of which are not rated to carry more than about 2,000 kilos. It's clear from this that Alzarius's gravitational pull is immense; and, unless the laws of physics in E-space are radically different to those of our own (and there's no compelling evidence to suggest that they are), the only conclusion is that Alzarius is both very massive and very dense. Further evidence for this is that if the planet's crust were not of extremely high density, the TARDIS - a 5 million kilo object with a footprint of no more than two square metres - would punch a hole clean through it. Yes, this is the kind of thing I think about when the insomnia really bites down hard.

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ohhhh right this is why I don’t drink alcohol I feel like a sad sack of shit

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sorry I just was making a post and when writing the tags one from some time in the past ten years popped up saying “but I’m not a girl so”

Oh how times change

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