#President Romanadvoratrelundar

[lerios]

also wow Romana is COMICALLY corrupt lmao. like queen i love you but holy shit

"i dont have friends, just allies" yes bitch, because you keep elevating your only friends to political positions and destroying laws so that you can force your point on your pet causes 😭

2 episodes ago she was making dodgy backroom deals with known criminals because She Wanted To and anything is permissible to her if She Wants To. she knows Brax is committing 24/7 crime and its fine because her besties can do whatever they want. no shit she's a good candidate to become imperiatrix, she fundamentally sees no real issue with herself having ultimate power, that's practically what she's already doing lmao 🙃

like bestie WHAT is wrong with you. i went into this series expecting the main personal problem to be Narvin being a wet pathetic neurotic babyman but god Romana is a legitimate fucking car crash already (politically and otherwise)

[downtofragglerock]

Thinking about how kind of insane Romana's journey is

Ok so imagine that you're a recent college grad, did very well, high honors, stem major with a polysci minor or something like that

And then, like very shortly after you graduate, a literal god kidnaps you and puts you on a fetch quest where the continued existence of the spacetime continuum is on the line.

This is not as big of a deal for you compared to someone else, as you come from a society that deals with time stuff on the regs. Granted, the stakes at play are pretty damn dire, but again, you majored in the sciences of your society, which have advanced to the point of being viewed as borderline sorcery to most other civilizations

You're assigned a partner for this, another member of your society. This makes sense, while you're up for the task, having another person equally qualified will probably make the whole thing easier.

Only the guy the literal god gets for your partner is the biggest weirdo your society has ever produced. He barely graduated every school he was in and currently lives out of an old busted up van that he stole literal lifetimes ago and also barely works.

But you go along anyway and start the fetch quest. On the final leg, you end up encountering a woman that you just become enraptured with, though you'll never externalize this at the time, nor examine why you, a woman, may be feeling the things you're feeling about this other woman.

The fetch quest is over and time is saved and all that, but you're still traveling in the busted up van with this absolute freak, although his charm has grown on you. You're still fixated on that woman though, to the point where you self induce complete cellular remixing to become an exact body double of that woman. You don't examine why exactly you did this.

You keep traveling with the weirdo, and you're really starting to like his shtick, so much that you resolve to start aping it, only better (certainly with better dress sense at the very least), and hey, maybe you don't wanna go home, at least for a bit.

Eventually you two get trapped in a parallel dimension, you accidentally pick up an annoying teenage boy, but you don't have to deal with him for very long, as when your weirdo friend finally figures out how to get out of there, you stay behind to help some furries or something. You'll get back on your own time. Also you took the robot dog with you (he had a robot dog this entire time).

Some time passes and you eventually not only make it back to your own reality, but also your home. You end up meeting another woman who your weirdo friend hung out with before you met him, and she also triggers those feeling you had that last time made you commit the ultimate form of identity fraud.

But no time to ruminate on any of those unexplored things, you run for president, and win. Congratulations, you are now in charge of your entire society after what timescale-wise basically amounted to taking a slightly longer than normal gap year after graduating from college.

That is the tale of Romanadvoratrelundar, aka Romana, aka Fred

[the-worms-in-your-bones]

‘Lord president of the high council of the time lords. Romanadvoratrelundar of the house of heartshaven’

[natequarter]

the academy is a boarding school from hell, it's eton that kills. please indulge in the vision of the hallowed halls of the academy, grand and echoing, full of students but devoid of life. one lonely child wanders its halls: romanadvoratrelundar, currently mana, someday lord president romana. she has friends, but they don't exist. she has friends; someday they will try to kill her, all three of her sole friend. she has a friend; that friend hates her. her teachers say she will someday be good; not great, but impressive. doomed to intelligence, cursed to lack that spark of imagination that makes the time lords great. her house is dying and her past is marred by civil war and dictatorship; if she isn't careful, her future will go the same way.

and she's lonely.

she's so lonely.

[braxiatel-the-collector]

Attention, citizens of Gallifrey.

I have returned from my diplomatic trip off-world, and I have news of much import for you all.

Ever since the arrival of @homunculetteofgallifrey I have had very specific concerns. From comments he has made, Homunculette appears to have come from a reality where Gallifrey has technology in excess of our own, but where terrible events have transpired.

Under my authority as High Chancellor, I sent several casts through the multiverse in an attempt to find Homunculette's Gallifrey and answers on where he came from. Their reports were coalited on asteroid KS-159 and smuggled back to me in a shipment Peledonian statues. I then cross-referenced my findings with certain oracles at my disposal, as well as the Matrix. I do not know if I found Homonculette's homeworld. But I found something far more concerning. In every reality I examined, Gallifrey falls in a disastrous war with an equally powerful enemy - the nature of this enemy varies by reality, but our fall is a constant.

However, I found one other constant. In every reality I investigated, Gallifrey had stood alone. A power above all others. To protect ourselves against the oncoming war - dare I say, to prevent it altogether - Gallifrey needs allies. Gallifrey needs friends.

This is the information I was armed with as I left Gallifrey for the emergency diplomatic meeting of the Temporal Powers that sought to address the brief war - and yes, I do call it for what it was - between our world and that of the Monan Host. The details of the new treaty will be revealed in full elsewhere, but Gallifrey can not afford to maintain its technological superiority. The secrets we have hoarded for ten thousand years are already being shared amongst the new United Temporal Power. For those of you who fear this leading to reprisals, I will tell you that there are safeguards connected to the Matrix itself using my biodata as a medium of transfer. This, I believe, was the cause of the instability that @coordinatorofthecia detected, and it should no longer be an issue. As for the safeguards, our technology being used against us will simply cease to have existed. And in any case, with the amount of goodwill that Gallifrey has just earned, I can say with confidence that these safeguards are precautions against an unlikely eventuality.

Of course, if anything were to happen to my biodata, or if I were to be expelled from my role as High Chancellor prematurely, then Gallifrey would be left without the safeguards preventing our friends from turning against us. But given my stature, this seems rather unlikely, and I will ensure that someone equally qualified is prepared to inherit my new... responsibilities once I have finished my term of office.

One other immediate consequence of the new treaty is protections for any members of the United Temporal Power. This gives more formal legal protection to the very important students at the Academy. And as humans are one of the newer members among our rank, this will give more formalized legal standing to the humans employed at the Capitol. @celestial-intervention-ace, @presidential-bodyguard, and @professor-bernice-summerfield, I have taken the liberty of preparing the necessary legal documents for all three of you. Kindly stop by my office to pick them up.

I know this is a large change, but trust me when I tell you that this is the very change Gallifrey needs to survive the future! We will stand stronger shoulder to shoulder with the other life forms of the universe who have unlocked the secrets of time.

And I must finish this announcement by following through with my promise to the High Monan that I made at the treaty table. I, High Chancellor of All Gallifrey Irving Braxiatel, move in support of @darkel-for-president's vote of no confidence against @official-imperatrix Romanadvoratrelundar.

Good day.

[stopmyhearts]

I'll do proper list round-ups at the end of the series, but Lies had so many gems about what Narvin calls Romana, so I have to show you:

our dear Madam President: 1

the wretched President: 1

my President: 1

President Romana: 1

the President: 8

our President: 1

Romanadvoratrelundar: 1

Madam President: 1

President: 1

not only have we actually using her name, we have her full name, and we have the first instance of My President, although it is very sarcastic

[the-oracle-of-the-lost]

wip ask/tag game, i would like to know about your "Pure Trash" wip. for fun:3

from this wip ask game

okay so idk why i called the doc "Pure Trash" because it's actually a pretty solid concept even if it would take so long to write that it'll probably never come into fruition but the idea is a re-write of new who where Romana was the last of the Time Lords instead of the Doctor (not an original concept by far but still fun to think about).

i only really outlined s1 but essentially the conceit is that Romana (still Romana II), much like Nine, is convinced that she didn't deserve to live through the end of the War but ends up finding the Doctor's TARDIS and starts to play as the Doctor to remember how to be a hero and get away from all of her War-related guilt but the lies she's told to both herself and Rose start to unfurl around The End of the World where she's recognized as the former President of Gallifrey and really crumble during Dalek and The Parting of Ways where it's revealed that she helped start this horrific War she's always alluding to.

i don't have much properly written (and what i do have written isn't the best quality because it's a few years old), so it's mostly just vague planning and a few pieces of dialogue, but i'd imagine her relationship to Rose would be a little different – playing into Romana's tendency to emotionally shut down and be a lot more numb to death and more willing to make hard calls than the Doctor while Rose is a lot less willing to trust her after finding out how much of Romana's heroism comes down to pretending to be someone else.

i'd also think Romana, like the Doctor, is still exasperated with Jack but more because he treats temporal intervention so cavalierly and less because of the romantic jealously (Romana and Rose still have the kiss in The Parting of Ways but their relationship in general is much less romantic than Rose & the Doctor). but they end up both gaining mutual respect for each other more than Jack & the Doctor ever really did (and Romana does not abandon him at the end of the season! though i have yet to work out the implications of that.)

anyways the one bit i have worked out that i'm still happy with is Romana confronting the Dalek Emperor at the end of The Parting of Ways because it's such a wonderful pairing with Romana's character all throughout Gallifrey and would be a wonderful way for Romana II's story to end:

EMPEROR: BECOME A DALEK. THE LAST OF THE TIME LORDS IS TO BECOME THE GREAT EXTERMINATOR. ROMANA: [quietly] The Destroyer of Worlds. EMPEROR: SO WHAT TO YOU DECIDE? COWARD OR KILLER? MADAM PRESIDENT. ROMANA: [grips the device and still speaks quietly] If I press this button, it will be far from the worst thing I have done in the name of peace. You speak of godhood… I’ve killed so many others who have claimed that title. I’ve also killed innocent people and innocent worlds to bring peace. And I’ve seen what the Daleks are capable of first hand. I think one planet is such a small cost to end you forever. EMPEROR: YOU HAVE CHOSEN DEATH. ROMANA: Oh so many times. I’ve tried to sacrifice my life in the name of peace more than I can remember. But… I think it was chosen for me. It was chosen by you when you claimed me as your prisoner and death has haunted me ever since. You really would be getting the fate you deserve because you pushed me to do this. Before Etra Prime, or even before the war, I would never have done this – this cold blooded murder.  EMPEROR: EVEN YOU ADMIT DALEK SUPREMACY. I MADE YOU WHAT YOU ARE. ROMANA: And that is why I would never press that button again. [drops the device] You did make me a killer. You made me the person who ended the Time War. But I will deny you ownership of me. I am not Unit 117. I am not a killer. I am Romanadvoratrelundar and I say no. I make my own future.

[presidentdisastraofgallifrey]

The Apocalypse Element liveblog

Wait, twenty time powers? How many planets have time travel and interstellar political power? I thought Gallifrey regulated this

Ok I need to know how they Doctor knows Vansell! They don't like each other but Vansell covers for him before he knows there's an emergency to take care of. And they connect psychically. Twice!

No one should ever be able to say "there is no cause for alarm" in this show. Ever!

Note to self for fics: 50 planets represented when Etra Prime vanished, 500 workers there studying the element, 300 dead recovered

"I quite understand" says man who understands nothing

IT'S THE MOMENT! "Oh, Romana" kills me. At this point, from his perspective, he hasn't heard from her since she left in Warriors Gate

And then he's immediately so angry over it, because he would have done anything and they've barely tried

But OH that's fair because FIFTY powerful groups lost leaders/representatives and it's taken TWENTY YEARS to have a conference about it

Evelyn does actually have a valid point about space minutes here

"For which I cannot apologize enough, so I shan't even start" lol

I do enjoy the daleks being a surprise to the characters but not to the audience

"Then the daleks must possess Etra Prime" How is this a surprise to anyone??

"You expect me to open the wells to a- to an outsider?" she was 100% going to say Time Lord there

The Doctor's main motivation here is to find out what happened to her <3

Ewwwww the daleks sound so squishy and slimy whyyyy

Romana's speech here kills me every time she is SO not ok!!!!

But also this place wasn't built as a prison, so I wonder what her cell used to be

I know this doesn't line up with Lungbarrow, but I like the idea that she went home and went back to going by Romanadvoratrelundar, until she met Vrint here and said Romana just for convenience. Then the first person she meets is the Doctor, and then she keeps using Romana for some connection to who she used to be

The way she clings to her dignity and incredulity <3

Oh, she just CANNOT turn off her curiosity

Vansell is awfully casual with telepathy for a Time Lord

And he's taking orders from the Doctor now!

Ohh, the way her voice breaks when the Doctor talks about not having a moment to lose!

She had to save herself and she shouldn't have had to...

She's so scared and he's so concerned and doing his best to protect her even though he won't say that out loud <3

Love this guy--no one wants to be President of Gallifrey

Oof, they've always been anti-refugee. No wonder the Monans already hate them by the start of Gallifrey

"It's more important to not be seen interfering than to rescue refugees" and "it's wrong to take advantage of these refugees for their tech" manage to coexist in this guy's head

Ooh, damn, the Doctor prioritizing his own planet over going back to help Archetryx

All the doors are based on retinal scans--and this will never come up again. Do you think they took them out after this?

The Doctor falling back into his routine of rushing between emergencies with no time to stop and think and Evelyn showing more concern for Romana than he does :'(

"I'm too old and, frankly, too important to take orders from you anymore" <3

"Complacency, middle name of most Time Lords" amazing

lmao imagining a bunch of Time Lords suddenly trapped in their apartments not even knowing the daleks are here

Daleks aren't big on doing controlled experiments first, are they?

"We have to remain objective, stay detached" is really the first sign that Romana's worldview no longer matches up with the Doctor's

"Must you anthropomorphize every piece of machinery you come across?" Yes, yes he must

I do feel bad for this President- this is a foolish plan, but (1) he was genuinely kind to Romana, (2) he IS trying to save the universe, and (3) it was sort of Evelyn's fault that his plan didn't work

I choose to believe that Romana is angry instead of panicking for this whole story because she's running on adrenaline, and she WILL collapse immediately after this

He tried to sneak away without saying goodbye, how dare :'(

"We'll never be defenseless again" oh, sweetie

But also she totally means they're going to start keeping a standing army, right?

[morally-grey-girlbosses]

Propaganda under the cut.

Romanadvoratrelundar:

Was the Doctor's companion, then became president of Gallifrey. Romana is simply THE girlboss, she has to try to get her political agenda through, she is president of a whole planet, she annoys all her political adversaries SO MUCH for her unorthodox views. She is extremely confident in herself and does what she deems right even when nobody else wants her to. Power comes naturally to her and she uses it unhesitatingly.

Rouge the Bat:

All the worlds jewels are hers to have! She’s so selfish I love her. She loves stealing the chaos and master emeralds just cause they’re pretty. She’s so fun to watch. She’s besties with an escaped immortal amnesiac government experiment and a giant robot made only to kill who now wants to kill his creator because he didn’t get respect. She has a girlfriend in sonic x. She’s not truly loyal to any side other than her own.

[liviacaralis]

Lord High Chancellor Liviacaralistradecimavera (or Lady Livia Caralis, for short), sometimes Acting or current Lord President of Gallifrey, a former architect of House Brightshore who pursued a career in politics to bring a voice to the silent majority of Arcadia and now acts as a member of the Opposition to Romanadvoratrelundar's Presidency within the High and Inner Councils

[adventure-showdown]

What is your favourite Doctor Who story?

TOURNAMENT MASTERPOST

synopses and propaganda under the cut

Partners in Crime

Synopsis

Donna Noble is determined to find the Tenth Doctor again — even if it means braving the villainous Miss Foster. But when the alien threat escalates out of control, can Donna find her Time Lord before the March of the Adipose begins at last?

Propaganda no propaganda submitted

Lungbarrow

Synopsis

"Nonsense, child", retorted the Doctor. "Grandfather indeed! I've never seen you before in my life!"

All is not well on Gallifrey. Chris Cwej is having someone else's nightmares. Ace is talking to herself. So is K9. Leela has stumbled on a murderous family conspiracy. And the beleaguered Lady President, Romanadvoratrelundar, foresees one of the most tumultuous events in her planet's history.

At the root of all is an ancient and terrible place, the House of Lungbarrow in the southern mountains of Gallifrey. Something momentous is happening there. But the House has inexplicably gone missing.

673 years ago the Doctor left his family in that forgotten House. Abandoned, disgraced and resentful, they have waited. And now he's home at last.

In this, the Seventh Doctor's final New Adventure, he faces a threat that could uncover the greatest secret of them all.

Propaganda

Is it good? No. But damn if it doesn't cause some good fandom fights. #LoomRights (@eighthdoctor )

cornerstone of weird doctor who lore and jokes about looms (anonymous)

[gallifreyinstituteforlearning]

Where do you stand on the long term political ramifications of the Dalek/Time Lord alliance created via the act of Master Restitution by Lord President Romanadvoratrelundar and letter reaffirmed and strengthened by Chris Cwej in approximately to 28th Year of the War in Heaven around the same time as the Time Lord/People Non Aggression pact was strengthened into an alliance both the People and the Daleks where given advanced Time Travel Technology, in what way would you say that this has effect the state of the Spiral Politic in the Year since?

[INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS]

From: Human Liaison for Sol 3 To: Shaplinortyovatshuagu, Regional Liaison for Mutter's Spiral Subject: Clarification Required on Earth Blog Inquiry

Dear Shaplinortyovatshuagu, I have received this question on the Earth blog; please could you advise a response? Warm regards, Human Liaison for Sol 3

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From: Shaplinortyovatshuagu, Regional Liaison for Mutter's Spiral To: Human Liaison for Sol 3 Subject: Re: Clarification Required on Earth Blog Inquiry

Do what you must. Shaplinortyovatshuagu

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From: Human Liaison for Sol 3 To: Shaplinortyovatshuagu, Regional Liaison for Mutter's Spiral Subject: Re: Clarification Required on Earth Blog Inquiry

As flattered as I am to be invited to respond on Gallifreyan political discourse, my expertise is in biology, linguistics, and societal Gallifrey. I can only hope your infinitely greater judgment might spare a crumb of guidance for this humble human.

Yours, Human Liaison for Sol 3

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Your support in this matter has been nothing short of revelatory. I will treasure the cut-and-paste wisdom you have bestowed upon me.

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[gallifreyquotes]

ROMANA: I am Lady Romanadvoratrelundar, President of the Supreme Council of Gallifrey and all her dominions, holder of the wisdom of Rassilon, preserver of the Matrix, guardian of the legacy of Omega. But you can call me Romana.

[natequarter]

BRAXIATEL: I hear nothing other than an intelligent, well-connected student wasting her time, and mine, trying to fight the inescapable. Come on, let’s head back. I’ll tell whichever dreary Cardinal that is no-doubt waiting for us that I took you on a… field trip, and we got lost.

ROMANA I: Why?

BRAXIATEL: Why what?

ROMANA I: Why get yourself into trouble on my behalf?

BRAXIATEL: Because you remind me of... someone I used to know. Hotheaded, arrogant, self-assured… They used to call me the Icicle during my terrible time here. What do they call you?

ROMANA I: The Ice Maiden.

BRAXIATEL: [Chuckles] See? Things never change.

***

A renegade and exile from the Houses in the Pre-War era, he was part of the first generation of the Homeworld to produce renegades: indeed, he may have been spawned by the same flaws in the Houses’ breeding-engines which produced was part of the first generation of even more legendary transgressions like the Imperator Presidency and the Grandfather of House Paradox. But while the Imperator led a crusade in the name of military conquest, and the Grandfather seemed to have a rather more philosophical agenda for subverting the ruling Houses’ authority, the young War King was a bored, amoral outlaw, dedicated to his own desires above all else, meddling in the affairs of the lesser species for no other reasons than power, personal gratification and perhaps even casual amusement.

[...]

He was notorious for hiring, manipulating and seducing a variety of lesser species, many of them mercenary or megalomaniac in nature, and it’s possible that it was through his association with them that he became aware of the imminent War… the first step in his gradual (and quite legal) rise to power.

***

ROMANA: I am Romanadvoratrelundar, mortal heir to the House of Heartshaven, inheritor of the House of Dvora, and custodian of the House of Everston, and I command—!

***

In the brief period before a species loses its interest in its evolutionary surroundings, it’s relatively common for societies to be categorised as tribal, and for the ruling body to be seen as either an alpha-male among primates or as a dominant predator among lesser animals. While for the Great Houses such ideas have mostly been forgotten, a number still cling, oddly, to House Dvora: the House of Devouring Hounds.

This isn’t a metaphor for a House at the top of the food chain, a rare, vicious, rampaging beast. It’s an emblem of controlled, concerted, voracious power. Neither gauche nor hide-bound, the members of House Dvora look out across the landscape of the Homeworld from the comfortable position of an established pack predator. They are not careless. They are sombre, they are sane, they are pre-eminently practical. What they grip, they hold. When not deployed in the field their personas are icy, untouchable and ironic, but they can when necessary adopt any passion.

It’s not surprising, then, that it may be the House which exercises the greatest real power.

***

ROMANA: I am aware that my policies have not been entirely favourable with you all, but Gallifrey must not fall back on itself and become insular. We have the greatest knowledge of time in this part of the galaxy, and we must not be seen to create a monopoly. That only isolates us from those cultures who are capable of using time responsibly. So, I will not step down as President, despite these deaths, despite the opposition to my ideologies, because that is a regressive step for Gallifrey. We cannot linger in our past or, regardless of how much we know, time will overtake us. [...] I have thought about this long and hard, and to me, it seems the only way forward. As is my right, as is stated as ancient edict in the Book of the Old Time, I, Romanadvoratrelundar, claim the title of Imperiatrix of Gallifrey and declare my rule as such to begin immediately.

DARKEL: [Laughing] You cannot claim yourself Imperiatrix. It is a legend from the Old Time, nothing more. There’s no legality upheld in that title! Will you, the High Council of Gallifrey, ratify this? The ramblings of a woman mad for power? Her very bloodline desires war!

***

The Great Houses have, according to their own doctrine, observed and maintained the meta-structure of history for ten million years: a number so round that many feel it must have been picked by the Houses out of thin air, a purely arbitrary figure chosen just to suggest “a very long time”. True or not, it’s unquestionable that for aeons before the War the Houses themselves existed in a state of almost total stasis. There was no natural reproduction on the Homeworld; no death, other than the slowest, greyest and least spectacular kind; no argument, no injustice, no progress and very little actual culture. And yet around a millennium before the War began, tiny imperfections began to appear in the great status quo, defects in Homeworld society which would eventually culminate in the War itself. How did this happen?

[...]

Things took a startling turn for the worse around three hundred years later, during the cataclysmic Imperator Presidency, the first shockingly direct contact with the outside universe in living memory. House Dvora was a House of respect, its bloodline one of the cornerstones of the ruling six, and yet this seemingly reasonable bloodline had produced Imperator: the brutal, mono-maniacal God-Emperor who tore through the polite barriers between the Homeworld and the rest of history to lead a realpolitik crusade into the outside universe. He demanded involvement in the affairs of the lesser species; he demanded a pre-emptive re-forming of the Spiral Politic; he demanded that the Protocols should be ripped from the Homeworld, and that history should be adapted to suit the Houses’ own needs, particularly (it was implied) the needs of House Dvora. He actively recruited from the lesser species, not actually welcoming them into his bloodline but using them as extensions of his will, playing on their expectations that the rulers of the Houses would be inscrutable, unstoppable Gods. That he developed a cult of personality around himself wasn’t as shocking as the fact that he had such a personality.

***

WYNTER: That cannot happen. Our job goes back aeons. To change the role, to dispense with it, would take change in the law.

NARVIN: Of course. And with Braxiatel, Lebine, and the rest of the Council in her pocket, getting laws changed would be... oh, about as difficult as changing the oldest law about allowing aliens into the Academy. Think on that, Wynter.

[doctordefinitearticle]

Hello, this is Lady President Romanadvoratrelundar, please stop giving humans knowledge they're not supposed to learn till centuries later. I do not want to be a typical time lord but please, just listen to me for once, Doctor.

No thanks! Not today!

[stopmyhearts]

Lady President Romanadvoratrelundar of Gallifrey settled back into the chair behind the big desk with a little toss of her hair. She patted the ornate chair arms and smiled sweetly at the stocky man who stood impassively by the office door. ‘What an enormous and well-appointed chair it is, Castellan Spandrell. I can almost see why somebody would want to be President.’ ‘It is not too late to change your mind, Lady President,’ Spandrell rumbled. ‘The election was a very close thing. Or so I would guess. I am not officially allowed to know.’ ‘So?’ Romana pushed a stray hair back from her brow. Fifty-three per cent to forty-seven. A surprise result.’ He sighed deeply. ‘Which means, of course, that it should not be a surprise to anybody. The Interventionists were seen in the lobbies.’ ‘I promised a kinder, gentler Gallifrey. They expect me to involve the Time Lords in the affairs of the universe. Should I?’

I love to see early president Romana