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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 3644951" data-attributes="member: 18280">Other Time Travel VehiclesThe TARDIS is a form of TT (Time Travel) Capsule.  Several other forms of time travel exist.  Gallifreyan technology included four:* SIDRAT:  The SIDRAT was a primitive form of TT Capsule.  The term “SIDRAT” stands for Space and Inter-Dimensional Robot All-purpose Transporter.  It was larger on the inside than on the outside, but its dimensions were far more limited than those of TARDISes.  They were controlled via remote control, and could usually only be set for one specific journey between two points in time and space.  Resetting a SIDRAT requires a DC 20 TARDIS Systems check, and takes 20 minutes. * Time Ring:  A Time Ring allows the user to travel instantaneously without a capsule to any point in space or time.  However, the user’s destination must be pre-programmed or remotely controlled.  Few Time Rings have survived the Time War.  Those that have require a DC 30 Sciences (Temporal Sciences) skill check to reprogram, as well as a TARDIS Systems skill check to set coordinates. * Time Scoop:  The ultimate remotely controlled time travel device, the Gallifreyan Time Scoop was used in the ancient Dark Times by the Time Lords to kidnap beings from all over the universe.  These beings were then sent to the Death Zone (a pocket dimension on Gallifrey technically outside of time and space) to fight and kill each other for the Time Lords’ amusement.  The Time Scoop was eventually sealed off – some say on the orders of Rassilon – and supposedly forgotten by the Time Lords.  Knowledge of the Time Scoop was kept in the Black Scrolls of Rassilon.  In fact, the Time Scoop was never forgotten, although the High Council of Gallifrey rarely used it.  When the 2nd Doctor was tried by the Time Lords, he requested that the Time Lords use their abilities to return thousands of human soldiers to their proper eras and locations on Earth.  The Time Scoop was the only thing capable of doing so.  Later, the High Council authorized use of the Time Scoop to bring three of the Doctor’s incarnations together to defeat Omega.  Still later, the Time Lords used the Time Scoop to intercept the 4th Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith during a transmat, sending them to ancient Skaro to prevent the creation of the Daleks.  This led to the Daleks’ creator, Davros, learning about the Time Lords…and thereby to the Time War. That the Time Scoop still existed became more widely known when President Borussa kidnapped three incarnations of the Doctor and several of his associates, sending them to the Death Zone in order to breach the Dark Tower and the Tomb of Rassilon.  The 4th Doctor became trapped in a space-time eddy within the Scoop.  The 5th Doctor, endangered by the removal of his previous incarnations from space and time, followed them into the Death Zone.  President Borussa, then in his last incarnation, hoped to gain the secret of immortality from Rassilon, and became a living stone figure on the side of Rassilon’s Tomb. The Celestial Intervention Agency used the Time Scoop to send the 2nd Doctor and his companions on several missions for the High Council, effectively distorting his personal continuity. Finally, the Time Lords used the Time Scoop in the Time War.  It was presumably destroyed with Gallifrey. * Prison Ship:  In the Time Wars, the Time Lords created several remote control prison ships.  Like TARDISes, the prison ships were larger on the inside than on the outside, and were thus able to hold thousands of Daleks.  They were designed to transport and hold Daleks collected with the Time Scoop and would only open by the touch of a creature who had ambient artron energy (usually gained through time travel).In addition to the time travel technology of the Time Lords, there have been several other civilizations that have created time travel.  Some other methods of time travel include:* Time Corridor:  Used by the Daleks, the people of Varos (the Timelash), and others, a time corridor (or time tunnel) is a protected path through the Space-Time Vortex that leads directly from two separate points in space and time. * Time Vector Generator:  Used by the human Time Agents of the far future, as well as some aliens (such as the Family of Blood), the Time Vector Generator is worn on the wrist or wired into another machine (such as a spaceship).  A Time Vector Generator can be used to follow another time machine, or it can be used to attempt a simple trip (such as that from a Time Ring).  It is difficult to set properly, often arriving before or after the desired time period. * Other Time Machines:  There are other creatures and species that have created time machines, including the TARDIS-like time machines of the Daleks and those used by future humans (such as the Time Patrol).  Most alien time machines are not bigger on the inside than on the outside, and are considerably more primitive that TARDISes. * Space-Time Teleportation:  There are a number of species that can set up a limited form of Time Scoop, effectively allowing a transmat between two points in space and time.  Even humans, in Operation Golden Age, were able to create a limited form of Time Scoop. * Natural Ability:  Some creatures have a natural ability to transport themselves across time, or across both space and time.</blockquote>

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