eighthdoctor: the-doctor-wtf: spaceprincess-nyssa: I tried to figure out the Gallifreyan Hierarchy,
eighthdoctor:the-doctor-wtf:spaceprincess-nyssa:I tried to figure out the Gallifreyan Hierarchy, and this is what I came up with.This is in no ways official, it’s just speculation, but I think it’s accurate??? If I missed something, feel free to tell meOkay, something I’ve been wondering… Are all Galifreyans Time Lords? Or are just some of them? I haven’t watched enough old Who to know.The indication is that no, not all Gallifreyans are Time Lords.From The Deadly Assassin:ENGIN: Apparently he is or was at one time a member of that noble Chapter. SPANDRELL: How can you tell? ENGIN: Well, the biog data extracts of Time Lords are colour coded according to Chapter. SPANDRELL: I didn’t know that. ENGIN: No? Well, your duties usually involve you with more plebian classes, don’t they, Castellan. SPANDRELL: A Prydonian renegade, eh? I have to refer this to Chancellor Goth.Quite ignoring the infodump we’re getting, it seems like Spandrell isn’t a Time Lord, and he’s usually involved in duties that don’t involve Time Lords, else he’d know. So there are a lot of people who aren’t Time Lords, and some of them are fairly high up.From The Invasion of Time:RODAN: Why bother? That’s their affair. LEELA: That’s whose affair? RODAN: The guards and the Time Lords. All the boring people. Do you know, I’ve passed the Seventh Grade and I’m nothing more than a glorified traffic guard? LEELA: Then you are a guard! So Rodan is neither a Time Lord nor a guard (in the sense of a police force or a military), and this is apparently not an unusual thing.NESBIN: Gallifrey invaded? Nonsense. That’s impossible. LEELA: How do you know? You’re not a Time Lord. NESBIN: Oh, but we are, or rather, we were until we decided to drop out. LEELA: What is drop out? You fell? NESBIN: All that peace and eternal tranquillity. We decided to get back to nature out here.And some Time Lords can stop being Time Lords.DOCTOR: I know. I’ve been there. You haven’t. There’s no record in the Matrix of any president knowing the whereabouts of the Great Key. So who does? Not the Castellan, he’s just a jumped up guard. But who guards the guards?Back briefly to the Castellan to point out that he’s a guard, not a Time Lord or any other caste.Arc of Infinity:TALOR: What is it? DAMON: Someone’s transmitting the biodata extract of one of the Time Lords. It’s always hard to extrapolate from phrasing, but the indication here is that Damon is not a Time Lord (else he should have said “one of our biodata extracts”). For more information on Gallifrey’s caste system, Charamei has a fabulous meta that starts here -- source link
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