Compassion (Doctor Who)
Template:Doctorwhocharacter Compassion is a fictional character in the Eighth Doctor Adventures novels based upon the British science fiction television series, Doctor Who. Compassion was originally from a people known as the Remote. The Eighth Doctor met her in the novel Interference, Book One by Lawrence Miles, and she went on to become one of his companions. The canonicity of the novels, like other Doctor Who spin-off media, is unclear.
Template:Spoiler The Remote have the ability to pick up transmitted signals, and when Compassion had travelled in the TARDIS for some time, the signals of the Doctor's time machine began to cause her to turn into a living TARDIS. The Doctor had previously encountered a living TARDIS (in the novel Alien Bodies by Lawrence Miles) which came from his relative future. When Compassion began to evolve, the Time Lords realised that she was meant to be the prototype of the future Type 102 TARDISes and sought to capture her in attempt to create that new class of time ship. They also believed that she might have the ability to close the Eye of Harmony on Gallifrey, the Time Lord homeworld.
Compassion parted company with the Doctor and Fitz at the end of The Ancestor Cell after the Eighth Doctor had destroyed Gallifrey to avert a future war. The aftermath of that act rendered the Doctor amnesiac and Compassion left him in the 19th century (along with an embryonic TARDIS, the size of a matchbox, which took roughly a century to grow back to its initial police box size) to recover. She next left Fitz at the beginning of the 21st century, to await the Doctor's eventual recovery. She then flew away towards the stars and has not been seen since.
Gallifrey and the Time Lords were presumably restored some time after. During the events of 2005 series episode The End of the World (and later Dalek), the Ninth Doctor claimed that Gallifrey, the Time Lords and their TARDISes had been destroyed in a Time War. Whether or not Compassion was likewise destroyed has yet to be revealed.