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Wouldn't that be the definition of "playing with fire"? As smart as the Master/Missy is, I think putting her in even a substantially disabled TARDIS would be asking for trouble.
It's precisely how the Doctor was exiled to earth. And she stayed locked in. Everything about the vault screams Tardis.
Oh yeah, no doubt it was probably Timelord tech, though how that group got hold of any TL tech would be interesting to know.
If it was a TARDIS, it could've been one of the Master's 2 or 3 TARDII.
Though with the Doctor's exile, they also removed knowledge from him relating to time travel and TARDIS operation, etc.
I had the impression the Vault was constructed by the Fatality Index as part of their full-service execution. It sounded like she went there right after Skarro (though, to be fair, it's sounded like the Master went right to a lot of places that later turned out to involve meandering paths), and she'd mislaid her TARDIS by that point.
On the other hand, they could've modified a TARDIS into a locked Time-Lord security-coffin, just like the Master used a TARDIS to make a Paradox Machine.
On the other hand, they could've modified a TARDIS into a locked Time-Lord security-coffin, just like the Master used a TARDIS to make a Paradox Machine.
It was bigger on the inside, and different, looked like iron wrought Victorian buildings...like the inside of the unconfirmed Tardis in Invasion of time, could be moved through space and time, had Time Lord locks.....and we know Missy always carries a spare demat circuit because of her changing the timeline with a thump. The doctor always seems to be about for the Masters funerals and executions. Funny that.
I think Moffat is clever enough and familiar enough with all of the canon and apocrypha that some of these things were deliberate. After all...it's the third Doctors exile that leads to him having something of a healed relationship with Gallifrey, including something less of a renegade status.
There may have been some few scraps salvaged by other races after the Time War. The Daleks' Genesis Ark used "Time Lord science" in "Doomsday." In fact, the Daleks were using bigger-on-the-inside time/space machines as far back as "The Chase." There have also been other groups developing TARDIS-like technology here & there. The Time Lords were very concerned about the time travel experiments of Kartz & Reimer in "The Two Doctors." The Doctor referred to the alien spaceship in "The Lodger" as being a crude attempt by someone to build their own TARDIS. (I think "Day of the Moon" implied that the ship from "The Lodger" was leftover by the Silence after they were driven from Earth, although that doesn't particularly fit with how it was depicted in "The Lodger.")
My point is that TARDIS-like technology isn't quite as exclusive to the Time Lords as they might want you to believe.
Given the Doctor starts to inspect the remains of the ship's pilot before being distracted and the corpse is promptly forgotten, yeah, I'd say it's a Silence ship.
The Doctor also speculates (very, very quickly) upon entering the ship in "Day of the Moon" that it's the same ship, and the incipient encounter will result in it being damaged and flying out-of-control through time until it crashes into Craig's apartment.
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