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New Earth was a planet colonised by the New Earth Empire in the far future.
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Astronomical data[[edit] | [edit source]]
New Earth was chosen for colonisation because it had the same water, diameter, orbit, and atmosphere and terrain as the original Earth. (WC: The Secret of Novice Hame [+]Loading...["The Secret of Novice Hame (webcast)"]) New Earth had at least two large moons or planets in its vicinity, visible in the sky. Apple-grass grew on the planet.
Landmarks of New Earth included New New York, which was actually the fifteenth New York, and the New New York Hospital, a hospital run by the Sisters of Plenitude. (TV: New Earth [+]Loading...["New Earth (TV story)"]) There was also a New Atlantic and a New New Jersey somewhere on the planet, as well as Fire Island. (TV: Gridlock [+]Loading...["Gridlock (TV story)"])
Location[[edit] | [edit source]]
In one account, the Tenth Doctor identified Galaxy M87 as the location of New Earth upon his first visit to the planet; (TV: New Earth [+]Loading...["New Earth (TV story)"]) this claim was reiterated by other sources. (PROSE: New Earth [+]Loading...{"page":"50","1":"New Earth (AE short story)"}, 13 things you need to know about the future [+]Loading...{"page":"5","1":"13 things you need to know about the future (feature)"}, "Cat People of New Earth" [+]Part of 100 Scariest Monsters, Loading...{"page":"140","namedep":"Cat People of New Earth","1":"100 Scariest Monsters (reference book)"}, Professor Helen Clay [+]Loading...{"page":"69","1":"Professor Helen Clay (short story)"}, GAME: "New Earth" [+]Part of A Brief History of Space and Time, Loading...{"page":"214","namedpart":"New Earth","1":"A Brief History of Space and Time (game)"}) The Eleventh Doctor wrote in his Doctionary, in the entry for the Macra, that the species was known to be the "scourge of Galaxy M87". (PROSE: "Not So Nice 'People', and Aliens and Monsters and Things" [+]Part of The Official Doctionary, Loading...{"page":"106","namedep":"Not So Nice 'People', and Aliens and Monsters and Things","1":"The Official Doctionary (novel)"})
The Tenth Doctor, in another account, instead claimed that New Earth was located 50,000 lightyears from the original Earth, (TV: Gridlock [+]Loading...["Gridlock (TV story)"], PROSE: The Visual Dictionary [+]Loading...{"page":"84","1":"The Visual Dictionary (2010 reference book)"}) despite the fact that the Mutter's Spiral was, according to some accounts, approximately one hundred thousand light-years in diameter, (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Invasion from Space [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Invasion from Space (novel)"], The Eyeless [+]Loading...["The Eyeless (novel)"]) and according to the Eighth Doctor in another, was at least two hundred fifty million light-years in diameter. (TV: Doctor Who [+]Loading...["Doctor Who (TV story)"]) M87, accordingly, was located 54,000,000 light years away from Sol. (PROSE: Cosmology of the Universal Island and M31 Group [+]Loading...{"page":"4","1":"Cosmology of the Universal Island and M31 Group (feature)"}) Despite this discrepancy, several accounts posited that the galaxy M87 was located 50,000 lightyears from Earth. (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Everything Has Its Time","page":"184","chaptnum":"5","1":"The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"}, Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia [+]Loading...{"page":"243","1":"Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (2007 reference book)"})
However, in E. Mariner's 2346 paper Cosmology of the Universe Island and M31 Group, the author actually clarified in a footnote that the idea that M87 was located 50,000 from Sol was an erroneous claim created by "questionable sources", although they did note that M87 was in proximity to Milkdromeda. (PROSE: Cosmology of the Universal Island and M31 Group [+]Loading...{"page":"4","1":"Cosmology of the Universal Island and M31 Group (feature)"})
In another account, the Sixth Doctor told Melanie Bush that they were in the M87 galaxy when arriving on New Earth despite having previously told her that they were travelling to the M57 galaxy; to assuage her confusion, he explained that the M87 and M57 galaxies were the same location, but from different perspectives (those being from the Galactic Centre or the Great Beyond). (PROSE: Fairy Tale of New New York [+]Loading...{"page":"147","1":"Fairy Tale of New New York (short story)"})
History[[edit] | [edit source]]
After the destruction of Earth by the sun's expansion in the year 5,000,000,000, one group of posthuman survivors, called the Arcadians, became nostalgic towards Earth and created a "big revival movement" to preserve old Earth's ways and humans, cats, dogs, birds and spiderkind moved to the planet. (WC: The Secret of Novice Hame) They recreated Earth on 28,000 Earth-like planets, including New Earth. (TV: New Earth, PROSE: The Book of the War) According to another account, this happened at least before 4,999,999,740, when New Earth was the capital of the New Earth Empire. (COMIC: Agent Provocateur) Dorcas Lethebridge-Stuart was one of the founders of New Earth. (PROSE: Legacies)
In 5,000,000,012, Helen Clay started the Testimony Foundation, designed to save people from death. The Foundation would take people near death and implant their memories into glass bodies, allowing them to live as a glass person. (TV: Twice Upon a Time)
In 5,000,000,016, a declaration of independence was signed in the New United States on New Earth. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary)
In the year 5,000,000,023, the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler visited the New New York Hospital on New Earth when the Doctor received a plea to go there on the psychic paper from the Face of Boe. After learning of the two's arrival, Cassandra O'Brien.Δ17 overrode the hospital lift and made Rose descend to the hospital basement, where she had been hiding out since the destruction of Earth. There, Cassandra took over Rose's body using a psychograft. After the Doctor and Cassandra discovered that the Sisters of Plenitude at the hospital were growing new humans to cure all viruses and diseases, Cassandra released some of these diseased humans onto the Sisters, and they in turn freed the others and began to attack the hospital. The Doctor, with the help of Cassandra in Rose's body, released a medicine to cure the humans. The remaining Sisters were arrested by the NNYPD and Cassandra passed into the body of her clone, Chip, before dying in the arms of her past self. (TV: New Earth)
At one point in 5,000,000,023, the Eleventh Doctor's TARDIS landed on New Earth with Amy Pond and Rory Williams. As this happened, the boundaries of time merged, resulting in a policeman, Roman soldier, Viking, an Ancient Greek, an Ancient Egyptian, a caveman, and a seal being present among a crowd of Catkind. Chip, Cassandra, and the Face of Boe were also present to witness this. (GRAPHIC: New Earth [+]Loading...["New Earth (illustration)"])
In 5,000,000,029, a deadly, airborne virus mutated from an addictive mood drug and spread across New Earth. The New New York Undercity was sealed off to protect the surviving population, and New Earth was placed under a quarantine set to last one-hundred years. The virus subsequently wiped out the entire population of New Earth, save Novice Hame, the Face of Boe and those in the New New York Undercity, within seven minutes flat, and eventually perished itself.
In 5,000,000,053, the Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones arrived in the Undercity. Martha was kidnapped and trapped on the Motorway, an underground traffic route that was supposed to take people to the surface. Since above-ground was sealed off, the Motorway was essentially an endless circuit of traffic. At the bottom of the Motorway, sustained by the accumulating exhaust gases of the cars, were Macra, who would attack any car that they came across. Taken from the Undercity by Novice Hame, the Doctor met the Face of Boe one last time. Boe died by using his life energy to open the roof of the Motorway so that the population could live on the surface once more. (TV: Gridlock)
In that same year, Rose-the-Cat piloted the TARDIS to New Earth, where she caught a fish. (COMIC: A Rose by Any Other Name)
Hame would go on to become its Senator and then Vice President and later, Feline Imperator of the New Earth Order. At some point, suspecting that New Earth was, in fact, a complex trap, Hame travelled below New Earth's surface and discovered something that validated her concerns, though did not disclose it before her death. (WC: The Secret of Novice Hame)
In 6,000,000,000, a Billennium Celebration was held in New New York. A time traveller's diary's entry for 31 December cited this as being among the best New Year's Eve parties to attend. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary [+]Loading...["Time Traveller's Diary (novel)"])
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
New Earth appears in the online game Doctor In A Dash [+]Loading...["Doctor In A Dash (video game)"] as the setting of Level 2 where, as with all levels, the Doctor's TARDIS (the player) races against a Dalek flying saucer, a Judoon rocket, and a Slitheen craft to find a Space-Time Manipulator. The cars of New New York act as obstacles to the ships.
New Earth was the base location for a series of levels in Worlds in Time, an online multi-player game featuring the Eleventh Doctor.
New Earth [+]Loading...["New Earth (TV story)"] has the Tenth Doctor state that the planet is in the galaxy M87 (Messier 87), in reality approximately 55.3 million light years from Earth, however Gridlock [+]Loading...["Gridlock (TV story)"] subsequently has the Doctor claim New Earth is only 50 thousand light years away which would place it well within the bounds of the Milky Way Galaxy. Some sources nonetheless fail to address the discrepency and claim M87 to be 50 thousand light years away.
M57 (Messier 57), despite being claimed as the location of New Earth and the same galaxy as M87 in Fairy Tale of New New York [+]Loading...["Fairy Tale of New New York (short story)"], is in reality a stellar remnant known as the Ring Nebula and not a galaxy at all.