TARDIS

Tardis Tardis Background //Tardis (Time and relative dimensions in space), TT Type 40 Mark 3 Tardis.// The Tardis has a chameleon circut. A chameleon circuit is a device inside the Tardis that changes the shell the blend into the surroundings. The Tardis transported to London 1963 and was transformed in to a Police Box, a type of phone booth used by police to keep criminals and call for back up. The chameleon circuit broke soon afterwards leaving the Tardis stuck in the shape of "the Box". The type 40 Tardis in which the Doctor uses was, in fact, taken from the Doctors home planet Gallifrey. I say taken because the Doctor only intended to barrow the Tardis and go explore the universe. The Tardis was no longer being used and was held in a museum. When the Doctor found the Tardis it was open ,and later the Tardis explains that of course she was open "she wanted to see the universe so she stole a Time Lord and ran away."

Tardis Exterior As I have already explained the Tardis holds the outer shape of a London police box. The Tardis is actually incorrect. A real London police box opens by pulling. The words on the door say "PULL TO OPEN" yet the Tardis pushes to open. A flaw in the series involves the small details about London police boxes that few people know about. In the Christmas special of 2011 "The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe" the Doctor asks a main character Madge Arwell if she could bring him to a police box. He does this hoping that it is his Tardis. In fact the police box he enters isn't correct. The flaw is that a real police box would open out the way and have two sets of doors. The one he enters opens inwards and has only one set of doors, like the Tardis. This is the updated outside in the new seasons of Doctor Who Tardis Interior The Tardis interior as implied in the name, Time and Relative Dimension in Space, is a relative indention. The Tardis is made up of advanced technology made by the Time Lords, the species of aliens that originate from the planet Gallifrey in which the Doctor is part of, one of those technologies, "Time Lord Technology" or,"Time Lord Physics" or,"Time Lord Science," is the ability to be bigger on the inside. The Tardis is actually a lot bigger on the inside proven by the fact that it is a relative dimension. When the Doctor gets a new companion one of the first thing the do is gawk at the size and exclaim ,"It's bigger on the inside!" This is a feature that proves most useful to the Doctor because although it is a relative dimension it isn't like ours. It isn't made up of planets and solar systems(that we know of). It actually is made up of corridors and rooms. some of the rooms specified in the show include living quarters, a power station disguised as an art gallery, study, greenhouse, a bathroom down each of the three corridors that branch from the main control room, a library, a swimming pool(although in the start of the 11th doctor the swimming pool is in the library and is then moved), a medical bay, several "squash courts"(squash is a racket sport played with one team similar to racket ball), and many brick walled storage rooms. The Doctor has freedom to move around the rooms in order to fit his needs. He also has the ability to jettison, or as it is refereed to later in the show as "deleting," rooms to gain extra thrust to force through to other universes as he does in "The Doctor's Wife." The Tardis is living thing. The main control console contains the "heart of the Tardis" as it is refereed to. This "heart" is, basically, all of time and space kept under the cover of the hexagonal console. In the finally of the 9th Doctor Rose, the Doctors companion, pries the console open and stares into the "heart" absorbing all of time and space. She then uses the extreme power to destroy the Dalek Empire(see Dalek) and begins to burn up. The Doctor then kisses her absorbing the energy and dies. He then regenerates into the 10th(see Regeneration). The Tardis consciousness is the "brain" of the Tardis. I the 11th Doctor episode "The Doctor's Wife" the Tardis consciousness is ripped from the console and placed into a "flesh" body as she calls it. The Tardis rooms also include the archived past(and future) control rooms. The Tardis being a time machine can do this. This is a picture of the control console in the 9th and 10th Doctor's seasons. Tardis Controls The Tardis is controlled be a series of telepathic circuits. The Doctor actually prefers to pilot it manually. The thing with manually piloting the Tardis is that it is designed to be operated by 6 people. Therefore, this manually driving causes the Doctor to seem as if he is frantically running around the console aimlessly flipping switches in order to keep the vessel stable. He does this mainly for fun. We know this because when River Song, a large character in the 11th Doctor's life, climbs aboard the Tardis and begins to help "drive" she tells him to hit the stabilizers. He then instinctively tells her that there aren't any stabilizers and says that the buttons she is referring to don't do anything. She presses the button the Tardis stops jerking about and the Doctor calls them "blue boringers."

Other Tardis Systems The Tardis has many special systems and defenses that help it function, besides the obvious ones use directly for time travel. The Tardis is surrounded in a (nearly) impenetrable shied. This is sometimes doubted because the exterior seems to be made of wood. This shield is called the tribophysical waveform macro kenetic extapolator (extrapolator shielding), a very powerful shield the can hold off almost anything but a Dalek empire at the pinnacle of its rule. Another defense is the temporal grace, a device that prevents weapons from being used in the control room, this system used to be a key feature to the Tardis but it broke long ago and the Doctor neglected fixing it ;he sometimes uses this as a "clever lie," as he calls it, to trick people to not trying weapons. Also included in the defenses is a nameless device whose function is to prevent the Tardis from colliding will other things in the time vortex(namely other Tardises). This was once left down and caused an alien spaceship called the Titanic to collide and smash through the wall of the Tardis control room. Some special devices included in the Tardis is a device refereed to as "Time Lord Gift" that gets inside your mind and automatically translates it to the language of the listener creating the illusion that all aliens speak English. This "gift" also translates writing. It is, although, limited by not being able to translate Gallifreyan, the language of the Time Lords. The Tardis has the ability to "tow" things. With aid of the super computer named Mr.Smith the Tardis once "towed" the earth back to its proper place in the universe. One of the most fascinating features of the Tardis is the chameleon arch. The chameleon arch is a helmet-like device that hangs down from the ceiling. When plugged into a Time Lords' fob watch it literally changes every cell in their body to whichever species they chose only to be returned to Time Lord when the reopen the watch.

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