Compassion (aka Laura Tobin) 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. The Eighth Doctor was the name given to the eighth incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... (21st century - 22nd century - 23rd century - other centuries) The twenty-second century comprises, for some, the years 2101 to 2200. ... A fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction. ... The Eighth Doctor Adventures (sometimes abbreviated as EDA or referred to as the EDAs) are a series of spin off novels based on the long running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who and published under the BBC Books imprint. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... List of Doctor Who serials Doctor Who audio releases Doctor Who spin-offs - includes a discussion of the many novelisations and original novels based on the series History of Doctor Who The Doctor (Doctor Who) List of supporting characters in Doctor Who, including villains and aliens List of robots in... The Eighth Doctor was the name given to the eighth incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... Lawrence Miles (born 1972 in Middlesex) is a science-fiction author best known for his work on original Doctor Who novels (both for the Virgin New Adventures and BBC Books series), and the subsequent spin-off Faction Paradox. ... In the context of fiction, the canon of a fictional universe comprises those novels, stories, films, etc. ... Doctor Who spin-offs refers to material created outside of, but related to, the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

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. The Third Doctor emerging from the TARDIS (from the 1970 serial Spearhead from Space). ... Lawrence Miles (born 1972 in Middlesex) is a science-fiction author best known for his work on original Doctor Who novels (both for the Virgin New Adventures and BBC Books series), and the subsequent spin-off Faction Paradox. ... The Time Lords are a fictional race of humanoids, originating on the planet Gallifrey, seen in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The TARDISs Eye of Harmony, from the 1996 Doctor Who television movie, Enemy Within. ... A Vardan spaceship approaches Gallifrey from space (from The Invasion of Time). ...

Compassion parted company with the Doctor and Fitz at the end of The Ancestor Cell by Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole, 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, although it is strongly hinted that the character of Madame Xing in Halflife by Mark Michalowski is Compassion in disguise. Stephen Cole is the presenter of the short television series, Click Online, and a regular newsreader on BBC World. ... Amnesia is a condition in which memory is disturbed. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... 20th century British police call box, similar to that used in Doctor Who A police box is a telephone kiosk or callbox for use by members of the police. ... In calendars based on the Christian Era or Common Era, such as the Gregorian calendar, the 21st century is the current century, as of this writing. ...

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. The End of the World is an episode in the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who that was first broadcast on April 2, 2005. ... Dalek is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who that was first broadcast on April 30, 2005. ... The Ninth Doctor refers to the ninth official incarnation of the fictional character known as the Doctor, in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... The Time War is an event referred to on several occasions in the 2005 series of the long running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...