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Faction Paradox
Faction Paradox is a fictional time travelling cult/rebel group/organized crime syndicate, originally created by the author Lawrence Miles. The Faction's belief-system as portrayed has some similarities to voodoo, and is sometimes described as such. The family/organization were originally featured as recurring antagonists in the BBC ''Doctor Who'' Eighth Doctor Adventures novels, but have since featured in their own continuing tales. Although the ''Faction Paradox'' stories outside of the BBC Books share situations and characters in common with the ''Doctor Who'' universe, the two continuities are presented as similar but distinct.
==Overview==
The ''Faction Paradox'' universe is centered on the "War in Heaven", a history-spanning conflict between the "Great Houses" and the "Enemy". Originally a subplot in the Eighth Doctor Adventures, the War features characters and concepts evolved from the original ''Doctor Who'' set-up, in several cases with names changed or obscured for reasons literary (most of the groups or items mentioned are described in rather different terms with a different emphasis on certain aspects) and legal (the Faction and The Enemy are Miles's creations, but other elements are not — thus the Great Houses are the new series' equivalent to ''Doctor Whos Time Lords). Faction Paradox themselves are ''not'' the Enemy, and play a relatively small, neutral part in the War, willing to act against both sides in their own interests. Lawrence Miles has described them as "a ritualistic time-travelling guerrilla organisation".
The semi-mythical founder of Faction Paradox is Grandfather Paradox, named after the grandfather paradox of time travel theory. Originally a member of the Great Houses himself, the Grandfather created a new group after he became frustrated with the ways of the Great Houses. Faction Paradox therefore takes a good deal of pleasure in irritating the Great Houses, and many of their traditions and rituals are aligned in direct opposition to the way the Great Houses do things. Their time machines are bigger on the inside, in much the same way as TARDISes are, and the titles its members use such as 'Cousin' reference family units which the Great Houses have lost since they became sterile. In the BBC novel ''The Ancestor Cell'', it is indicated that Grandfather Paradox may be an alternate future form of the Doctor, but this book is explicitly ''not'' part of the independent Faction Paradox canon. This BBC-only version of the Grandfather is followed up in ''The Gallifrey Chronicles'' by Lance Parkin which states that Grandfather Paradox is ''everyone's'' possible future self, and according to Gallifreyan myth, he was a Time Lord who acted out the grandfather paradox.
Faction Paradox also take a perverse pride in causing time paradoxes (something that is against the laws of the Great Houses) and achieving impossible or absurd effects for their own sake. For instance, they typically wear ritual skull masks which are in fact the skulls of creatures that, in the Great Houses' version of history, never existed. Their stronghold on Earth exists in a version of London, within what they call "The Eleven-Day Empire", bought from the British government in 1752. In that year, the British Empire first adopted the Gregorian calendar, and in so doing had to correct their dating scheme by 11 days (2 September 1752 being followed by 14 September 1752). Faction Paradox claimed the missing 11 days as their base (even though, logically, only the numbering scheme changed and no days were actually "missing").
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