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From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
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Subject: Re: how many Romana's are there?
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Date: Mon, 17-Mar-86 15:18:52 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 17 15:18:52 1986
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Reply-To: @looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd. Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

>The White Guardian only needed to have Time stopped for a short time
>to adjust the balance of the Universe.  When the Doctor assembled
>the Key for a short time, that gave the White Guardian the opening
>he needed to do his task.  After that, the Doctor got rid of the Key,
>partially because it was no longer needed, partially because he
>didn't want it around to tempt him with its power, partially
>because he and Romana felt it was cruel to, for example, keep
>Princess Astra as a lump of crystal for all time, and partially so
>someone (such as the Black Guardian) couldn't simply beat on the Doctor
>and get the fully
>assembled Key for themselves-- can you imagine how long even the
>Doctor would last once word got round that he had the fully
>assembled Key to Time in his possession?

Quite a while - forever, if he wanted to!

But on another note, there is some speculation that the creature who
sent the Doctor on the quest was not the White guardian, but the Black one.
We know that the Guardians have the power to appear in any form, including
that of their opposite.  As evidence, consider the veiled threat the Guardian
in The Ribos Operation makes to the Doctor.  "If you don't take up this mission,
then nothing will happen to you... ever!"  This could be interpreted as
meaning death.  It could also just mean no more missions.

Of course there is other evidence that it *was* the real White Guardian.
The Doctor and He seem to know each other in Enlightenment.  Of course at
this time the Guardians have no class or cool like the one in the Ribos
Operation.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473