Text from Army of Ghosts (Which I think lends more to the idea that it isn't a TL creation. Only the Genesis Ark is a TL prison ship):
RAJESH Fascinating, isn't it? It upsets people because it gives off... nothing. It is... absent.
YVONNE Well, Doctor?
THE DOCTOR This is a Void Ship.
YVONNE And what is that?
THE DOCTOR (folding away his specs, sounding worried) Well, it's impossible for starters. I always thought it was just a theory, but... it's a vessel designed to exist outside time and space. Travelling through the Void.
He sits down on the bottom step, Yvonne and Rajesh crowding him.
RAJESH And what's 'the Void'?
THE DOCTOR The space between dimensions. There's all sorts of realities around us, different dimensions - billions of parallel universes all stacked up against each other. The Void is the space in-between. Containing absolutely nothing. Imagine that - nothing. No light, no dark, no up, no down. No life. No time. Without end. My people called it the Void, the Eternals call it the Howling. But some people call it Hell.
RAJESH But someone built the sphere. What for? Why go there?
THE DOCTOR To explore. To escape. You could sit inside that thing and eternity would pass you by. The Big Bang... end of the Universe, start of the next, wouldn't even touch the sides. You'd exist outside the whole of creation.
Thank you very much! She turned out to be more right than I was, which makes me oddly proud, given I'm the one who pimped her (ok, dragged her kicking and screaming ;)) on DW.
RAJESH
Fascinating, isn't it? It upsets people because it gives off... nothing. It is... absent.
YVONNE
Well, Doctor?
THE DOCTOR
This is a Void Ship.
YVONNE
And what is that?
THE DOCTOR (folding away his specs, sounding worried)
Well, it's impossible for starters. I always thought it was just a theory, but... it's a vessel designed to exist outside time and space. Travelling through the Void.
He sits down on the bottom step, Yvonne and Rajesh crowding him.
RAJESH
And what's 'the Void'?
THE DOCTOR
The space between dimensions. There's all sorts of realities around us, different dimensions - billions of parallel universes all stacked up against each other. The Void is the space in-between. Containing absolutely nothing. Imagine that - nothing. No light, no dark, no up, no down. No life. No time. Without end. My people called it the Void, the Eternals call it the Howling. But some people call it Hell.
RAJESH
But someone built the sphere. What for? Why go there?
THE DOCTOR
To explore. To escape. You could sit inside that thing and eternity would pass you by. The Big Bang... end of the Universe, start of the next, wouldn't even touch the sides. You'd exist outside the whole of creation.
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