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TARDIS Pathways to Conditional States Control System

A complex navigational subsystem of the TARDIS, this system governs the ship's ability to traverse conditional states of matter and probability. The Doctor accesses it as part of their desperate plan, recognizing its capability to guide the TARDIS through the extreme stress of materializing underwater without catastrophic failure. Its controls appear as an array of glowing pathways and calibration nodes, responding to the Doctor's urgent adjustments.
2 appearances

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

2 moments
S18E26 · Logopolis Part 2
Doctor reveals Master's second TARDIS

The pathways to conditional states are closed from seven to seventeen as the Doctor navigates the ship through a narrow band between material and aqueous states, balancing precision against annihilation.

Before: Previously open and stable; now culled to emergency parameters to survive submersion.
After: Temporarily restricted to critical thresholds, leaving only the narrowest margin of survival during materialization.
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S18E26 · Logopolis Part 2
Doctor sets underwater trap for Master

The TARDIS Pathways to Conditional States Control System is methodically closed by Adric from seven to seventeen, severing probabilistic routes that could lead to divergent timelines under stress. This deliberate constriction ensures the TARDIS remains singularly directed toward London’s river, reducing temporal entropy and focusing the trap’s parameters within perceptible reality.

Before: Governing multiple conditional states with strain lines across its pathways, responsive to erratic Cloister Bell pulses
After: Closed to most pathways, narrowing the ship’s operational envelope to the high-risk Thames materialization point
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