Week 12: Labyrinths

I thought the Eremites were the book Cenobites not the movie ones.

Biodata
Best simple description is, "Time .D.N.A.".
An information strand that runs through all four physical dimensions as they move along their timeline. The, "true" shape of an individual's life. The reading procedures are difficult and require an extensive amount of technology but it enables the viewer to see every aspect of the individual's entire history.
A sentient being's, "invisible and inconceivable but nonetheless very very real", "intangible greater self", (mass of collapsed possibilities and transtemporal information or, "meaning mass") that dictates their relationship with history, the mundane four physical dimensions part of their existance being a relatively unimportant cursor.
In quantum terms only minds capable of true comprehension, (collapsing probability states and thus making sense out of the choatic subatomic universe) are biodata dependent.
Biodata may evolve in a way, the major power's biodata influencing that of the lesser species. (The First Diaspora spreading Gallifreyan biodata throughout the galaxy had the same effect to that of humanity's spread out of Africa).
The Timelord's linear nature means it's easier for them to read past biodata then future biodata making reliable predictions, (of events outside of Gallifrey) an inexact science.
Biodata manipulation maybe a major part of the Timelord's timetravel technology.
Artificial intelligences have smaller, (thinner?) biodata strands, the first being Charles Babbage's Analytical engine.
Use Lawrence Miles as the visual reference for .R.B.Nevitz? It seems appropriate.
Did the anchoring erase biodata aswell as the physical dimensional cursors of those that didn't conform?

Voodoo Charter
The Knight Immortal might be a future tech recreation of Da Vinci's Knight robot? It would fit in with the decadence aesthetic.

Venue Accords
5.D.T.W.
Lasted less then a picosecond.
Attendees: Timelords, the enemy reps, and The Remote. They never met face to face.
Architects are unknown but their human representative suggests the City of the Saved.
The Venue was a small galaxy sized .T.T. capsule like spacetime event. The Master Accords formed part of it's transmutive architecture processing their agendas and secret desires and correlating it into a peace agreement.
Fell apart after the Master Accords were revealed: The Timelords were aggrieved by the Venue's seemingly .T.T. capsule like nature and feared a security breach, the enemy didn't want peace, and the Remote didn't care leaving behind a ship killer anarchitect, (which remained dormant showing that the Venue wasn't as .T.T. capsule like as the Timelord's thought). There was a later fear that the Accords was an attempt by it;s architects to gain an advantage in the War for themselves.


What did we learn about the enemy?
89.Established lines of communication through the Labyrinth.
90.Reps trapped in the Labyrinth happily formed temporary truces with Timelord agents as their fear of it trumped their hatred.
91.It fought with virulent animosity during the early war.
92.Destroys Labyrinth entrances as soon as they are found.
93.Recruited the assassin automation, "The Knight Immortal" after he was expelled from the Remonstration Bureau, (thought destroyed during the Lethean Campaign to everyone's relief).
94.Agreed to the Voodoo Charter, (an acknowledgement that War with the Remonstration Bureau is unlikely).
95.Is content to ignore small time travel technology abuses.
96.Didn't want peace. 

An eremite is a “religious recluse”; a cenobite is a “a monk who lives in a religious community”. I think the term of “eremite” was chosen as a similarly-antiquated near-synonym to the original “cenobite”, more than in allusion to any other established Who or FP ‘Hermits’…

K'anpo Rimpoche is definitely meant to be the Doctor's mentor mentioned in The Time Monster, although so was Azmael in The Twin Dilemma. I.M. Foreman is somebody else entirely, with whom the Doctor does not appear to have been acquainted prior to Interference, despite also being a defrocked Gallifreyan monk; in fact, the Doctor briefly tells Foreman about K'anpo. 

In The Taking of Planet Five, there is yet another Gallifreyan calling himself a Hermit who becomes the last surviving Celestis (aside from “One”), as was brushed upon in another thread. Whether he is the same Hermit as K'anpo is a matter of some contention.

I don't think the Time's Crucible mention is meant to imply that Sosotris was a Gallifreyan — just that she “already” existed on the Earth of the pre-Anchoring reality, an was in psychic contact with the Pythias. Are we meant to infer that the Sosotris of anchored reality is one of those cursed few who remember their existence in the prior state of reality, in much the same way a select few remember the War and the Homeworld in the Post-War Universe? Maybe so!

"But, dear boy, this was before time…"

This set of entries ended up feeling quite disconnected to me. You've got the stuff about the Eremites and all that, then some stuff about Mrs Foyle, then a bit more stuck on the end. The Labyrinth feels a lot less prominent than I was expecting.

Biodata's a cool concept. The entry opens by talking about how it is common to all concious entities and ends talking about how AIs such as the Analytical Engine have biodata, meaning that AIs are concious which I find interesting.

The entry on Faction Precursors was quite dissapointing to me as it was almost all about the Eremites. While this is interesting, I was hoping for more of an overview of precursor groups.

What is so unexpected about Felicity Mamoulian's teeth intrigues me more than it probably should.

I'm suprised that no-one else has noticed that the Labyrinths entry is in the wrong place: it is located immediately before the "Ll" section heading rather than after it. Is this a genuine mistake or does it have deeper meaning? Could it be symbolic of how the Labyrinths were lost or how you can become lost inside them?

Another out of order thing is that this section is alphabetical apart from the Voodoo Charter and Venue Accords. Again, I'm not sure if this holds any significance.

I feel like I'm missing a joke here. What is it about this entry being out of order that is funny?