"Accessing Palman Virtual Intelligence Entry on the Gallifreyans. . . Please Wait.""Database Temporal Shielding currently at Sixty-Nine percent.""There have been two-hundred and seventy seven unauthorized deletion requests since you have last logged in."
The story of the timelords begins with the Palman Colony Ship Gallifrey, one of the first palman colony ships to leave the homeworld.
The vessel was thrown backwards in time, apparently all the way to the beginning, when the mycelial network first began to branch out from the 'seed'.
The Dominant race of the planet Gallifrey in the galaxy Kasterberous, Gallifreyans were one of the first sentient humanoid races in the universe and have created one of the most powerful civilizations that ever existed, The Gallifreyan's 'became what they did" through prolonged exposure to the time vortex.
According to the Eleventh Doctor, this took billions of years for the people of Gallifrey and that "[it] didn't just happen." and while humans, palmans and others of their Zorski group can pick up some abilities it is either temporary or needs immediate treatment or it will kill the less evolved lifeforms.
The people of Gallifrey had mastered the most complex of sciences while many races still sheltered from predators in caves, they are renowned across the universe as scientists and intellectuals. During a darker, more barbarous time in the planet's past, Time Lords enjoyed watching time-displaced individuals from different worlds across the universe fight to the death in a dedicated area called the Death Zone, but that practice had been entirely abandoned by the modern day.