Gallifrey

[beccaelizabeth]

Am reading a thing that says that on Gallifrey Time Lords were at the top of the class pyramid.
Did we ever get evidence there was a rest of a class pyramid?
Or are the Time Lords of Gallifrey pretty much all of it?

Comments

[kickair8p]

Last-minute-of-lunch posting, so sorry for the lack of detail, but I remember some 4thDoc eps on Galifrey involving their version of a cop investigating some deaths -- he said he wasn't a Time Lord. Those eps also had dissidents living primitively outside of the city.

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[jesuswasbatman]

Two different stories - the investigator who apparently isn't a Time Lord is in "Deadly Assassin", in which there's a reference to "Shobogans" who are apparently some kind of lower-class hooligan. The dissidents living outside the Citadel are in "Invasion of Time", but the implication there is that they are actual Time Lords who rejected polite society.

[jess goodwin (from livejournal.com)]

If I remember right, Gallifrey was organized along the same lines as Plato's Republic: a ruling elite of philosopher-kings, a none-too-bright military caste, and then all the ordinary folks, who Plato reckoned weren't worth writing about. I recall vague references to the plebian types a couple times, but of course, we never got to meet them, because Doctor Who writers were evidently in agreement with Plato.

And of course, there were the Outsiders, who rejected Gallifrey's caste system altogether.