Introduction:

Another Version of Dalek History

What follows is my personal take on Dalek history as it has been presented in the Doctor Who television series and the Big
Finish Production's CDs. It is not intended to be the definitive end to this entire topic. It is important however, before engaging
in a tome of this size, that the reader be aware of certain personal views in regards to my reconstruction of the Dalek's history. I
tend to disagree with the "official" BBC history of the Daleks as printed in several books, including The Official Doctor Who and
the Daleks Book by John Peel. I feel the order of accounts that have been presented within the "official" order of events distort
some of the historical facts in regards to the Daleks' encounters with The Doctor, as well as the physical changes and advances in
the Daleks themselves. Therefore if you take Dalek history according to the varying dates mentioned within the episodes and
then place these episodes within chronological order, one ends up with a convoluted history that makes no logical sense. For
example, according to the BBC, the official chronology of the Dalek episodes are as follows:

Genesis of the Daleks

The Daleks (a.k.a. The Dead Planet)
Dalek Invasion of Earth
Frontier in Space
Planet of the Daleks
The Chase
Power of the Daleks
Day of the Daleks
Destiny of the Daleks
Resurrection of the Daleks
Death to the Daleks
Revelation of the Daleks
The Dalek Master Plan
Remembrance of the Daleks
Evil of the Daleks
The problem with this order however, is that it contradicts events which appeared within the actual episodes of the series,
and thus goes against canon. For example, according to the BBC's official history, the Third Doctor's encounter with the Daleks
in "Planet of the Daleks" occurs before the Second Doctor's encounter with them in "Power of the Daleks" and "Evil of the
Daleks." Yet it is very obvious in "Day of the Daleks" (which the BBC lists as taking place after "Planet of the Daleks" by the way)
that the Daleks do not recognize the Doctor in his third incarnation, even though, according to BBC order, they had already
encountered the Third Doctor on Spiridon. In fact, it has recently been pointed out on the BBC's Official Doctor Who web site
that a scene where the Gold Dalek tells the Third Doctor that all the "humanized" Daleks have been defeated, was cut from "Day
of the Daleks" for reasons of time. This small deletion however, clearly places the events from "Day of the Daleks" after those in
"Evil of the Daleks."
In addition the BBC's history does not take into account the various physical changes in Dalek appearances and advances in
their technologies over the years. The ability to travel on metal flooring only, as established in "The Dead Planet" was
supplanted first by a radar disc mounted to the travel machine's back, and then by solar slats mounted around the machine's
mid-section. The BBC's history however, has them evolving backwards. The first Daleks form "Genesis" employing the mid-
section slats and de-evolving to the "powered from the floor of their city" versions. Therefore I find it necessary (and more
logical) to draft their history in the order of their appearances during the program. Beginning with the events portrayed in "The
Dead Planet" and ending with the most recent Dalek Empire audio adventures, as well as some of the books, but a word on
those a bit later.
In addition, I will try to work in one or two of the Doctor Who stage productions which featured the Daleks, as well as
certain aspects of the Dalek comics, especially the TV 21 Comics which were popular in the 1960s. If possible, events depicted in
the various "Dalek Annuals," as well as comics and other "appearances" will be included in the history. However as research
material on these adventures is limited, the reader will forgive me if I miss some important points. I should also point out that in
the original version of this history (which appeared on rec.arts.drwho), I tried to work in the events from John Peel's novels "War
of the Daleks," and "Legacy of the Daleks." I have decided however, that with the release of Big Finish Production's "Dalek
Empire" series, the events in these fine books becomes, if not impossible, very difficult to account for. So I hope the reader will
forgive me if I decide to ignore, or at the very least play down, these events all together.
It should also be noted that I will be taking the events depicted in "Genesis of the Daleks" somewhat lightly. I have always
felt that the creation and extreme over use of Davros belittled the Daleks instead of enhancing them. In this respect the events
occurring in "Genesis" will be chronicled, but the focus on Davros will be downplay. It should also be noted that the
involvement of The Doctor, Sara and Harry will be omitted, taking the approach that the Daleks had to be created at least once
before the TimeLords sent the Doctor and his party back to interfere with them. I will also be referring to the Kaleds by their
original name, again drawing from the original script. Where appropriate I will work in the aspects of the novelization versions
of the stories rather than the television scripts, as in some cases I feel that the novel plot's correct, or at least improved on, short
comings in the televised versions. Therefore the events which occurred in "The Dalek Invasion of Earth" will represent another
group of Daleks located from a different city on Skaro chronology after the events in "The Dead Planet" (as opposed to the
Doctor's explanation that these Daleks come from "an earlier time" in Dalek history).
Finally, it is important to remember that the history of any fictional character, especially a character that has spanned
almost 40 years, is subject to the passage of time, and the whims of the writer. Terry Nation himself penned at least four
different versions of the Dalek's creation (see Davros, Daleks and the Question of Their Origins), and by the mid-1960s had
intended to bring the Daleks to American television (writing their final end in "Evil of the Daleks"), thus withdrawing the rights of
the BBC to use them. The same goes for the dating within some of the episodes. Dates like A.D. 4000, referred to in stories like
"The Dalek Master Plan" will be, again like the John Peel books, either outright ignored or extremely downplayed, as it was
impossible for the production team at that time to foresee the series lasting 40 some odd years. Therefore I will try to fit all the
episodes within the time frame consistent with Dalek (and Earth), on screen technology. Of course I would appreciate feed back
on this as well as your own personal input. Thanks!

Chapter One
The Dal/Thal War

Any historian, whether researching the history of real or fictional events, relies on information which inevitably changes
over time. When basing a history on a historical character, new information and foresight makes one revise, or in some cases
rewrite that entire history. The same can be said for fictional characters as well. The history as presented here is based on
events depicted in both "The Dead Planet" and "Genesis of the Daleks," although preference is given to the origins as
established in the first story. As for the rise of the Thal and Dal nations, the ideological split between them, and the beginnings
of the Dal/Thal War, all is based on conjecture drawn from human history, human nature, and clues presented in both a fore
mentioned stories. It is not the end all of that history, and as readers of previous versions of this history know, is will not be the
last. Finally, while Davros is mentioned here in this chapter, he is severely down played, as I feel the original origin story allows
for better, and more interesting turn of events. -JRR.

Map of Skaro

Skaro, the twelfth planet in a solar system several light years from Earth. While human life on Earth was in it's earliest of
stages, civilization on Skaro had risen to it's highest. Two major nations have risen to the pinnacle of world power. The Thals, a
warlike and aggressive race, and the Dals, a nation of scientist and artists. The two peoples were as different in their ideologies
as the ancient Roman Empire was to that of the democracy of Athens in ancient Greece. Other nations also existed on Skaro,
several, too small and weak to stand on their own, were quickly conquered by the Thals. The leaders of the other nations, like
the Kaleds, for their own protection and survival, quickly aligned themselves with the Dal nation.
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For years these two nations competed for the limited resources the single continent had to offer. While the Dals believed in
helping their fellow neighbors, the Thals were content with taking what they wanted. Year after year the two countries engaged
in a "Cold War," forming alliances, disputing over territory, spying on each other, and manuvering for the perfect military
advantage over the other. Soon however, tensions between the two nations were at a breaking point, and war seemed
inevitable. Diplomats from both sides first met in the Dal capital city, located along the Dramman River in the western part of
the continent, and then in the Thal capital, located towards the north near the Drammankin mountain range. But negotiations
went nowhere, as each side was unwilling, or unable to give in to the other's demands. As diplomatic relations between the two
nations broke down, war ensued.
The actual fighting began as a small conventional conflict started over a stretch of land along the southern tip of the
Drammankin mountain range, with each side throwing men and equipment at each other. The Thals expected a quick victory;
after all, their race was the "superior" one. The Dals too, expected the fighting to be short; as they had knowledge and liberty on
their side. Year after year each side tried to push home an advantage. Year after year each side found themselves pushed back
into a stalemate. The stretch of land that they had been fighting over, once fertile and plentiful, was slowly turned into a
wasteland.
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As tensions continued to mount, and victory eluded both sides, the Thals decide to end their problem with the Dals once
and for all. They escalated the conflict into a full-scale nuclear and biological war. Within months, most of the planet's cities
and towns were destroyed, and the war came to a grinding halt. No fighting ensued for almost one hundred years, as centers of
communication and industries came to a grinding halt. In space, both Thal and Dal outposts were abandoned and forgotten.
This was the first one hundred and twenty years of the Dal/Thal War.
Editor's note: "The Daleks" established that there were two major races on Skaro; the Thals, and the race the Daleks evolved
from; the Dals. In addition it is also established that these "races" were completely opposed in ideology to each other, and we
may assume that the Thal rise to power mirrored the rise of Nazism in 1930s Europe. However "Genesis of the Daleks"
establishes the name of the race from which the Daleks came from as Kaled. In keeping with the original origin story however, it
is not unreasonable to think of the Kaled people as allies of the Dals, much in the same way Britain and the United States are
allies today. Regardless of their names however, the first story suggests that it was the Thals who took on an aggressive mantle,
with the Dals (or Kaleds) playing the role of defendants.

The war had not ended and over the next hundred years occasional out breaks of fighting erupted from time to time along
the boarders, but radiation released into the atmosphere began to slowly cause mutations among the newborn children on both
sides. As the years past, each side blamed and accused the other for the plight on their children, yet neither side was willing to
end their aggression and the war waged on. Thal ideology, dedicated to the purity and superiority of their race, forced into
extermination camps hundreds of mutated children and their parents. But as the number of the afflicted kept increasing, the
Thal government realized the cost involved in the extermination camps, and so began to exile their sick into the wastelands of
Skaro.
Dal scientists too, were concerned with the damage their nuclear and biological weapons had caused, especially to the
planetary gene pool as a whole. But unlike their Thal counter-parts, Dal scientists began research on ways of reversing the
effects of the mutations, not only on the planet's population, but on the entire planet's plant and animal life as well. But soon
they discovered that the damage caused by the radiation was far too server, and that a search for a way to "cure" the effects
were a futile effort. The damage had been done; the mutations could not be reversed. So with a bleak future before them, the
Dal people slowly began to accept their fate. The Thals on the other hand, obsessed with their conquest, continued to push
home what they thought was their advantage, and the fighting continued. This was the next one hundred and sixty years of the
Dal/Thal War.
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Year after year the fighting continued, and the mutations increased. Soon the Dals found themselves fighting a two front
war. The first was the all important task of defeating of the Thals. The second and more important, was the survival of their
own race. Realizing that the radiation levels of the planet were increasing, the Dals began a program experimenting with the
concept of a travel/survival suit, which would protect their descendants from the mutating effects of the radiation and preserve
their race. Setting up several survival centers below the streets of their remaining cities, and powered by static electricity, these
survival units operated as fallout shelters and research centers. In addition an experimental bunker, designed to both
experiment on the mutation process itself and develop weapons to end the war, was set up in the Dal countryside, located deep
below the scared surface of the planet. Under the direction of the Dal's chief administrator Zolfian, many different weapon as
well as survival designs were worked on and tried, and soon a Dal scientists named Yarvelling developed the concept of the
Dalek machine. At first, these machines were awkward devices, consisting of mechanical arms and claws mounted on a rounded
base. But slowly, as the years passed, the basic design of the Dalek machine came about. Realizing however, that these
machines must not only provide a means for which their mutated form could survive and move about, Yarvelling insisted that
the machines should be equipped with a means to protect itself. This was the next fifty years of the Dal/Thal war.
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As generation after generation passed, and the mutations increased, the ideology of the Dals began to mimic that of the
Thals, turning towards the purity of their race. The Dals, originally scientist and artist, had become hardened by the years of
fighting, and began to adopt the ways of their enemies. Basic freedoms were restricted, free expression crushed, and the sole
goal of all Dal citizens became the survival of their race. As more generations passed, the old Dal republican political system
broke down, replaced by one very similar to the Thals.
As more years passed, both nations found it is necessary to construct domed capital centers for their governments, as the
levels of radiation in the atmosphere continued to increase. Meanwhile scientists working in both the Dal cities and the bunker
began the final design on the Dalek travel machine. Concerned however over successive Thal attacks, the Dal government
relocated most of it's top Dal and Kaled scientists to the bunker, assigning a young but brilliant Kaled scientist named Davros as
Chief Scientist (Yarvelling having passed away some 50 odd years before). As the war waged on, each side utilized every means
possible to win. This was the next one hundred years of the war.
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The war had raged for over 500 years with no end in sight, and Skaro was in ruins. As the population of the planet
decreased, fighting became centered to isolated squabbles fought in the wastelands with the most primitive of weapons.
Soldiers, armed with radiation detectors and gas masks, patrolled the countryside killing anyone, and anything they came across.
The Dal government was a shadow of it's former self, and began to consider any alternative to ending the war. In this respect,
they passed almost total military control to the Scientific Elite under the command of Davros (now crippled by a Thal atomic
attack). Working at the bunker, the scientists were charged with the tasks of producing enough weapons to end the war, but as
the previous years had proven, that task was futile. Davros however, bitter from his disability and now totally obsessed with the
work Yarvelling had begin many years before, soon turned the elite's total attention to the survival of their race. Basing the new
travel machines design on his own life support system (which had extended his life span), Davros began experimenting on the
mutated DNA of the Dal people. This naturally angered the Dal government, but they were powerless to act. Or at least Davros
thought that was the case.
As the years passed on however, the Dal government became increasingly concerned over the enormous power that Davros
and the Special Guard in the bunker was beginning to carry. In the hopes of breaking this power, the Dal government ordered
all research in the Bunker to stop as an investigation into the work being carried out was launched. In the Bunker however, a
new Dal ideology, that they and only they, the scientists, were the superior race, had become an obsession. Forested by Davros,
the idea of their work being halted and loosing to the Thals horrified them, and the decision was quickly made to betray the Dal
government. Contacting the Thal government under the guise of offering peace, Davros provided the Thals with the defense
plan to the Dal dome. With victory in sight, the Thals launched their last missile at the Dal City, destroying the Dal government
in a single blow.
Chaos quickly ensued within Dal society. With no central government, the Dal nation fell apart, and the surviving cities
began to develop their own plans for survival. Most of the inhabitants locked themselves in their survival centers deep within
the planet's bowels. Only the Special Guard of the bunker remained active within the Dal military. Utilizing specially adapted
travel machines; they launched a counter attack on the Thal command center. The Thals, lulled off guard by the prospects of
peace, were totally unprepared for this new attack, which proved totally successful. The Dalek machines destroyed the
remaining Thal government. In one final counter-attack to halt the Special Guard's attack, the last of the Thal forces besieged
the bunker and sealed its entrance tunnel, trapping the surviving scientist within.
With their government gone, their resources exhausted and faced with defeat over the destruction of the bunker, the
remaining Dals in the old capital city encased themselves in their Dalek machines for good, then launched one last neutron
bomb. The radiation released destroyed most of the remaining life on the planet, including most of the mutations and surviving
Thals. Gathering as much of their technology as they could carry, the surviving Thals made for the outer reaches of the
Skardoian continent in hopes of surviving. This was the last forty years of the Dal/Thal war.
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Years passed and the radiation had taken its toll on the Thal survivors. Settled in a small valley shielded from the effects of
the war, mutation after mutation convinced the Thals to concentrate their efforts in developing an anti-radiation drug. Relying
on what remained of their technology and history, and now with their attention no longer focused on war, Thal scientists finally
developed an anti-radiation drug. Although it did not repair the genetic damage the war had caused to their DNA, it provide
protection from the radioactive fallout, and allowed their DNA, over time, to repair itself. Although it took many generations,
the Thal race mutated into perfect human specimens.
The Dals however, had spent the years monitoring the radiation levels of the planet, protected by the Dalek travel machines
designed by Yarvelling and Davros. Trapped without the benefits of anti-radiation drugs or the last advances made by their
comrades in the Bunker, the Dal race became accustomed to radiation, and soon their very existence relied on it. Slowly
developing their own customs and social structure, they soon forgot their Dal origins and adopted the machine name of "Dalek"
as their official race. While the Thals concentrated on cultivating land to produce food for their people, the Dal people, now
Daleks, relied on the machines and equipment in their survival chambers. Nutrition was gained through artificial means, and
reproduction through In-vitro fertilization became the standard practice, as their bodies slowly lost the ability to live outside
their Dalek casings. Convinced that they were the only survivors on the planet, they looked forward to the day the radiation
levels would drop low enough for them to leave their city and reclaim their planet. Their rich history as artist and scientists, was
lost to the confines of time. This was the first five hundred years after the war.

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Fifteen hundred years had passed since the beginning of the Dal/Thal War, and drought experienced in their valley had
caused the Thals, now farmers, to explore the planet in search of fertile lands. They had searched for several years, and their
wanderings finally brought them to the outskirts of the old Dal capital, just as a blue Police Box materialized in the forest
surrounding the city.

Chapter Two
The Dead Planet - The Dalek/Thal War

There are many interesting aspects of Dalek society that viewers of the television program have always had to wonder
about, i.e. how do they eat (or do they eat), how do they reproduce, are there in fact two sexes, etc. Readers should understand
that I do not hold with the BBC's notion that the Daleks simply clone themselves, or grow new Daleks in vats, regardless of this
aspect of their biology being referred to within the series. The cloning explanation puts them in the same class as the
Sontorians, and diminishes their motives in regard to that respect (it is simple to say they are evil because they were all cloned
from an evil original). In addition it is not to far a strength of the imagination to in-vission a small room or chamber, filled with
radiation, where the Dalek can go, release its machine's locking clamps, and "stretch it's legs" so to speak. In fact we are show in
the very first Dalek story that the Dal mutant does in fact have limbs (or at least arms), and twice we are shown humans (first
Ian, in "The Daleks" and then Rebec, in "Planet of the Daleks"), climb into the machine and operate it. Thus the mutant must
have something of the basic human form. It is important to remember however, that for the author writing a television play
these points are of little importance to the plot (just like we never needed to see the toilets on the Enterprise to know that they
were there!).
The early years of Dalek history when taken within the context of the program is very limited. Neither Terry Nation, or the
BBC, could have foreseen just how popular these pepper pods from Skaro would be with the viewing public, and so when Nation
penned "The Dead Planet," he had every intention of seeing their demise at the end of episode seven as the final act for the
Daleks. When he was asked by the BBC to submit a second Dalek story for the show's second season he was faced with a
dilemma. How could he bring back the creatures he so definitely killed off the year before? Of course when writing a story
about a time machine the answer was obvious. Place the events in the second Dalek story chronology before the events of the
first. This of course created a slight continuity problem, as the Daleks in the new serial had to move around the landscape of
21st century Earth, yet their "descendants" on Skaro were confined to the limits of their city. Of course the answer was to place
a radar dish on the Dalek's back and explain that they were receiving broadcast power to move around. This creates a dilemma
however, within Dalek evolution. If earlier Daleks could movie around using broadcast power, then why hadn't the "Dead
Planet" Daleks use this method to leave their city and exterminate the Thals? But more on that later.
A quick word about the dating of events. I have chosen A.D. 2174 as the date in which to set "Dalek Invasion of Earth" as
Craddock explains to Ian and the Doctor (in the second episode), that the meteorites which devastated Earth had first appeared
"tens years ago." Thus the desk calendar the Doctor finds in the warehouse, dated 2164 A.D., must date from the beginning of
the invasion, after all, if the Daleks occupied our planet six months after meteorites, who would continue to print calendars after
most of society had been wiped out by the plagues? I will also be inserting into the history certain aspects from the two Dalek
films as well as the various novels, especially in regards to the method behind the Dalek resurrection after "The Daleks" and the
magnetic aspects of their defeat for "Dalek Invasion of Earth." Interesting enough it was the film version's "magnetic" aspects of
the Dalek's defeat on Earth which was included in "Genesis of the Daleks" when the 4th Doctor relays the Dalek defeat to
Davros.
Finally, I will once again be drawing most of the "historical" material from the original version of the Dalek's creation as
portrayed in "The Dead Planet." Although I am not totally abandoning the concept of Davros, I will be downplaying his role, as
I've personally felt that the character was overused in the series. In addition I had toyed with the idea of explaining the Dalek's
resurrection after "The Dead Planet" by chronicling the events presented in the stage play "The Curse of the Daleks." Written by
David Whitaker and Terry Nation as a link between the first two Dalek stories, it premiered at the Wyndham Theater on
December 21st, 1965. The plot of the play however, involved the starship "Starfinder" in the year A.D. 2179 returning to Earth
when the ship is forced to land on Skaro for repairs. The crew meets the descendants of the original Thals, who inform the Earth
crew that the Daleks have been inactive for fifty years. Two prisoners, Sline and Ladiver, believe they can use the Daleks to
make good their escape, and reactivate them, unleashing their deadly force once again on Skaro. The problem with including it
within the history depends on which order you place the first two Dalek stories. If one were to take Dalek chronology in an
order where "Dalek Invasion" takes place before "Dead Planet," then the possible arrival of an Earth ship on Skaro a mere five
years after the Dalek defeat on Earth is possible, if not plausible. Unfortunately the Earth crew in the story refer to the Daleks as
"robots," and seem to have no prior knowledge of them (suggesting that the events take place before the Earth invasion). This
seems highly unlikely considering the fact that the Daleks were masters of Earth for ten years beginning in 2164. Of course if
one looks at Dalek history with events in "The Dead Planet" as taking place before "Dalek Invasion of Earth," then the conflict
this story causes because of the 2164 date established in "Dalek Invasion of Earth" leads one to drop the idea of including it
completely. Enjoy! -JRR

Having left their valley in search of fertile lands, the Thals arrived in the petrified forest just outside the old Dal capital.
Unaware that the Dal people, now Daleks, had also survived the war, the Thals set up their camp. In addition, four visitors to
Skaro had just arrived in the TARDIS, The Doctor, his granddaughter Susan, and schoolteachers Ian Chesterton and Barbara
Wright. In the old Dal City the Daleks were alerted that something had survived outside their city, as their Ranger Scopes had
picked up movement within the petrified forest. Long believing that they were the only survivors on the planet, they were
shocked to learn that the Thals had survived. They were even more shocked when their detectors indicated that someone, or
something had entered their city walls. They were convinced that it must be the Thals (in reality it is The Doctor and his
companions). The Daleks had long abandoned the upper sections of their city, as most of it's features were designed for the
comforts of humanoid creatures. Although still limited by the equipment built by their ancestors, the Daleks had made several
modifications to their survival chambers to accommodate the Dalek machines. But despite its disuse, the upper sections of the
city was theirs, and as the memory of the war lingered long in their minds, the Thals were not welcome to it. Quickly the ruling
council came to the conclusion that the intruders must be destroyed. However the Daleks also realized that if the Thals had
survived without the protection of travel machines, they must have developed a drug which warded off the effects of the
radiation. The Daleks desperately wanted this drug, and so a plan to trapped the intruders was devised...
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 The Doctor, Susan, Barbara and Ian begin to explore the petrified forest. The Doctor realizes that the destruction of the
surface must have been caused by nuclear war. Their exploration brings them to the outskirts of a large modern city. The city
seems abandoned, and while the Doctor wishes to explore further Ian convinces the others to return to the TARDIS. While back
in the TARDIS a strange knocking is heard in the control room, but when the travelers exit the time machine all they find is a
small box lying on the ground. Barbara, as well as Susan, wants to leave, but the Doctor sabotages his own ship as a way to
convince the others to explore the planet. Hoping to find the equipment needed to repair the TARDIS, the time travelers are
trapped while exploring the remains of the old Dal capital city.

The time travelers are suffering from radiation sickness, and Susan is sent back into the forest to bring back the anti-
radiation drugs left for the them by the Thals. A Thal, Alydon, tells Susan that his race is starving. She asks the Daleks to help
but they take some of the drug to use on themselves and set a trap for the Thals. It is hoped that with the drug the Daleks will
be able to get rid of their travel machines, leave their city, and destroy the Thals; thus having the planet all to themselves.
Realizing that the Dalek machine draws static electrical power from the floor of their city, the Doctor and his companions use a
cloak to isolate one of the machines from the floor. Escaping from their cell the travelers learn that the Daleks are planning to
ambush the Thals. They warn the Thals, but not before the Thal leader, Temmosus, is killed. The Doctor and his companions
return to the TARDIS, only to learn that a part of the Doctor’s ship has been left in the city (the Doctor having sabotaged his own
ship as a way to convince the others to explore the planet). Realizing that they will need help to regain their equipment, Ian
plans to re-enter the Dalek city. But the Thals, who were once warriors and now pacifist, refuse to fight. Pleading with the Thals
and showing them the danger the Daleks pose to them, Ian convinces Alydon that there are some things worth fighting for, and
the Thals agree to help them.

Splitting their party in two, The Doctor and Ian lead the Thals in a counterattack on the Daleks. One will attack the city
through the swamps and caves, the other, lead by the Doctor, will attack the city’s defenses. Meanwhile, within the Dalek city,
the Daleks learn that the drug used by the Thals to ward off radiation is deadly to them. Realizing that they need radiation to
survive, the Daleks plan to expose Skaro’s atmosphere to radiation from their nuclear reactors. This of course, will destroy all
other life on the planet.

In the forest, The Doctor and Susan lead a party of Thals into the city to disrupt the Dalek Ranger Scopes, but they are
captured by the Daleks. Meanwhile Ian and Barbara lead a party of Thals through the mountains and enter the city from behind.
Breaking into the city the time travelers and the Thals attack the Dalek control room moments before the Dalek reactors fire
radiation into the atmosphere. As the Thals attack the Dalek control room, they manage to damage the Dalek power supply
deep within the city's underground chambers. Immediately, the Dalek machines come to a halt. Pleading with the Doctor to
restore their power, the Daleks expire, as all power is finally eliminated. The Daleks have been defeated. As the Thals gather
their wounded, the Doctor and Ian examine the injector capsule to insure that no radiation has been released into the
atmosphere. Believing that the Dalek menace has passed, the time travelers leave Skaro.
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The Thals began to re-build their civilization, utilizing as much of the Dalek technology their scientist could understand.
Slowly, the surfaces of Skaro were reclaimed, as the Thals cultivated the land and began to build towns, and then small cities.
Heeding the Doctor's advice, they did not try to occupy the Dal City, and left its technologies behind in the hopes of leading a
simpler life. But The Doctor's assumption that all the Daleks were destroyed was wrong, as not all of the travel machines were
knocked out when the city's power supply was destroyed. During the war the Dals had built many underground survival
chambers, and deep within the lowest levels of the survival chambers of another city, in sections that housed the labs and
engineering equipment, powered by their own power source, some of the Daleks had survived. Knowing of the defeat of their
Dalek counterparts in the Dal capital, these Daleks wanted revenge. However this small ban of about 100 were no match for the
growing Thal civilization, and so they decided to wait.
Slowly over time they began to rebuild their numbers, and a new, more determined Dalek race was born. But all was not
well within this new Dalek society. Of the original 100 survivors, a rift had formed between them centered over their defeat at
the hands of the Thals. Several of these original survivors believed that the cause of their defeat at the hands of the Thals was
due to the lack of a hierarchy within Dalek society; the need for a ruling class. Since the end of the Dal/Thal war the surviving
daleks had ruled themselves by council, much in the way their Dal ancestors had ruled themselves. While the concept of
freedom and individuality were totally alien to them, the need for a strong ruling class was not seen as necessary. There was no
Emperor in dalek society. But now some of the survivors saw the need to create one. In addition, they were not so willing to
hand over power to a new generation of Daleks. Thus several of the surviving core Daleks formed themselves into an elite
command force, which took responsibility for the ruling of their race. Not all Daleks agree, but the new elite moved swiftly to
secure their positions and within twenty-five years had replaced the surviving members of the original ruling council. Setting
themselves up as Supreme Daleks, their commands were to be followed without question, and to drive their superiority home,
they had their casings changed from the silver of their fellow Daleks, to slightly larger black casings. The new rulers of the Dalek
race were determined to re-create why they thought was the old Dal empire (never fully realizing that it was the Thals who were
the original aggressors). But first they had to insure the survival of the Dalek race.
Being brilliant scientists, the Daleks quickly realized the limitations of only being able to travel on the metal floors of their
city, and one of the first duties of the new Supreme Council was to set about experimenting with all sorts of power sources.
Building on the records of experiments conducted both in the old Dal cities and in the Bunker, several methods for increased
mobility were explored, including ways of pulling static power directly out of the atmosphere by fitting the travel machine with
static collecting shoulder slats. But time was of the essence, the Thal civilization was ever expanding, and so they settled on the
simplest course of action available to them; the transmission of static power directly to the travel machine by way of collection
dishes. Fitting several experimental collector discs to the back of their travel machines, the Daleks left their cities for the first
time in over a thousand years. Their first target, a small Thal settlement on the outskirts of the old Dal capital.
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The Thals were completely taken off guard, especially as they had considered the Daleks destroyed over a hundred years
before. Although the Thal settlement was wiped out, word of the attack quickly reached the new Thal capital. After hundreds of
years, fighting once again broke out on the surface of Skaro. But where the Daleks numbered in the few hundreds, the Thals had
grown into a thriving civilization of thousands. Although technologically inferior to the Daleks and still basically farmers, the
Thals outnumbered the Daleks, and soon the war that the Daleks had hoped to win quickly, the Thals had turned into a route.
The Supreme Council, realizing that without new resources Skaro would hold nothing for their race, began referring to the
archives within their vast capital city, in the hopes of finding some way to defeat the Thals.
Meanwhile Dalek advances were met by Thal counter attacks. Faced with another thousand year war before them, Dalek
scientists began surveying the hundreds of planetary systems that their Dal ancestors had explored using their Ranger Scopes. It
was hoped that out in the vastness of space, the Daleks would find the resources they needed to defeat the Thals. The war
waged on for years and the planet was once again thrown into turmoil. Based on the scientific core's findings however, the
Supreme Council developed a plan that would see the salvation of the Dalek race. If the Daleks could not conquer Skaro, they
would find another planet to conquer. But this new planet would not just be the new home of the Daleks, but a new base of
operation for moving out into the galaxy.
For the past fifty years the Daleks had been using some of their resources on rebuilding the spacecraft's left behind by their
ancestors. Slowly, despite their loses to the Thals, they moved out into the solar system, reoccupying the old Dal bases on the
outer planets, and experimenting with faster than light drives. Armed with biological weapons re-created from the days of the
Dal/Thal War, the Daleks were ready to conquer space. But they still needed the perfect planet in which to conquer, and soon,
the Supreme Council found the planet they were looking for. It was a small planet, roughly the same size as Skaro, in close
proximity to Skaro, and holding a biosphere similar to Skaro's before the wars. More importantly it was rich in resources, and
has the perfect feature for the Daleks to use: it's magnetic core could be removed and replaced with a power unit, thus the
Daleks could pilot the planet back to Skaro and occupy it. With the planet chosen the Dalek invasion fleet headed out into
space.

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In A.D. 2164, Earth Time, the Daleks began bombarding the Earth's surface with meteorites contaminated with their
biological weapons. As the population died off from plague, Dalek ships swooped down onto the planet and destroyed it's major
cities. After six short months, the Dalek invasion of Earth was complete. With the human population subjugated as a work
force, the Daleks were ready to extract the magnetic core from the planet. They soon learned however, that the fissure they
wished to use to withdraw the core was within the meeting points of the Earth's magnetic fields. Strong magnetic fields were
dangerous to the Dalek machine. For one thing, it would disrupt the steady flow of static power the Dalek received to it's
collector disc, and thus kill the occupant. It also played havoc with the machine's guidance systems, making it impossible to
control. Determined not to be swayed however, and armed with a combination of Earth and Skaro technologies, the Daleks
began to robotize some of the humans, while forcing the others to work in the Dalek mines. Back on Skaro, as steady supply of
raw material looted from Earth began to arrive, the Daleks began to hold out against Thal advances. With the Dalek cities
temporality secured from attack, the slow process of removing the Earth's core began.
The Thals in the meantime, continued to attack the Daleks wherever and whenever possible, but as time passed on, most of
the Dalek force migrated to Earth, and the small number of Daleks left on Skaro easily out matched, and out gunned the
surviving Thals. By 2174 Earth Time, the Daleks were almost at completion of their project and ready to remove the Earth's
core. Quite unnoticed, on the banks of the Tames River, under the protection of an old dilapidated bridge, a small blue box with
a flashing light on it's top materialized. The TARDIS has finally returned to Earth, and the Daleks were about to experience their
second encounter with The Doctor.

Chapter Three
The Dalek Invasion of Earth - Tomb of the Daleks
 When Doctor Who first broadcasts in the early 1960s, no one associated with the production could have foreseen the
program continuing for almost 40 years. It is important to remember that writers of the various stories presented in the
program during that time were only concerned with following continuity up until that point. With that in mind, we come to a
section of Dalek history that there are no television stories to draw from, and most of what I've written is drawn from simple
conjecture about said history. Certain facts we can easily assume based upon the changes in physical design of the Daleks. As
the Daleks evolved from “The Dead Planet” through “Dalek Invasion” through “The Chase,” Raymond Cusick (who had not
worked on the previous Dalek story), needed a way to increase the mobility of the Daleks without having the rather poor looking
radar dish stuck to their backs. Thus the current design of Daleks featuring the shoulder slats was invented. If the program had
only run a few more years then simply assuming that Dalek scientists simply improved on the "radar dish" design to the
"shoulder slats" design would have been natural. But the program did not end in the 1960s and by the mid 1970s we are faced
with the events in “Genesis of the Daleks” featuring first generation Daleks currently fitted with shoulder slats. This of course
creates one of the greatest continuity points within the programs history; had the Daleks evolved backwards being completely
mobile but then loosing their ability to travel anywhere? Were Davros' Daleks, the ones described by the 4th Doctor as
"primitive, but unmistakably a Dalek," originally designed with the shoulder slats and then, over time, eventually lost them? The
latter makes on sense. This is why I’ve chosen to "fill-in" some of the finer points of this time period in Dalek history and depict
the opening of the Bunker (containing Davros’ body, and his final version of the Daleks). By placing this event as occurring after
the events in “Dalek Invasion of Earth,” we can account for the change in Dalek design while connecting the original origin story
with that presented in “Genesis.”
The Dalek invasion of Earth was nearing completion. After ten years of labor the bomb, which would extract the Earth's
magnetic core, was about to be lowered into the mine shaft, and released. Unfortunately the Daleks had not counted on the
interference of The Doctor, and in fact at this point in their history his presence was hardly known to them.

Attempting to return Ian and Barbara to their own time the TARDIS lands in 2174 London. The time travelers find the city
abandoned, and soon are surprised to find that the Earth has been invaded by Daleks. The Doctor and Ian are captured while
Barbara and Susan hook up with a resistance group. The Doctor is almost robotised, but is freed when the resistance attack the
Dalek ship, using an new type of explosive. The "bombs" prove useless against Dalek casings but during the attack Susan and a
resistance fighter named David manage to get the Doctor away. Ian however is unable to escape, and finds himself trapped
aboard the Dalek ship. Barbara is separated from Susan and makes her way across the horrors of occupied London with the
help of Jenny, a resistance fighter, and Dortmun, the crippled head of the resistance.

The Doctor in the meantime has decided to head for the Dalek's vast mining complex in Bedforshire, hoping to find the
secret of the Dalek invasion there. The Doctor, Susan and David barely escape London before the Daleks destroy it. Barbara,
guessing that the Doctor would head for the Dalek mine, begins to trek across the devastated English landscape, with Jenny in
tow (Dortmun having sacrificed himself so they could get away). They seek refuge in an old farm house, only to be turned over
to the Daleks by the houses occupants.

At the Dalek mine, Ian, having escaped from the Dalek ship, stumbles through the Dalek tunnels and into the operation
room where the Daleks are preparing their explosive device. On the outskirts of the mine workings the Doctor, Susan, David and
Tyler, another resistance fighter, survey the Dalek base. The Doctor quickly works out the means in which the Daleks are
powering themselves (when not drawing power from the floors of their base). He sends Susan and David to destroy the Dalek's
transmitting unit, and once destroyed, the Daleks on Earth become helpless, as static power is no longer transmitted to their
machines.

Though alarmed by the loss of it's forces on Earth, the Dalek Supreme is content with the knowledge that soon the entire
Earth will be theirs to populate. But the Dalek plan is about to crumble. Having diverted the Dalek explosive device down an old
mine shaft that adjoins the Dalek shaft, Ian joins Barbara (who had started a RoboMan revolt against the Daleks), The Doctor,
Susan, David and Tyler on the hilltop over looking the Dalek's mine workings. The device, upon it's detonation, releases the
Earth's magnet force and the Daleks still on the surface are pulled into the center of the mine shaft causing a massive explosion.
The Dalek Saucers, unable to break free from the magnetic field created, are destroyed as their entire base is engulfed in a
volcanic explosion. Turning towards Tyler, the Doctor comments on a once in a lifetime event, a volcanic explosion in England!
In Earth orbit, on board the Dalek mother ship, the Dalek Supreme watches in disbelief.

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The Daleks were severely weakened by their losses on Earth. Not only were their plans to occupy the Earth ruined, but also
the steady supplies of raw materials from Earth ended. They were further hampered by continuous Thal attacks. Having
deployed most of the Dalek force on Earth, the Thals took the opportunity to strike back at the Daleks again and again. Over the
next few years raids on several of the Dalek outposts caused great delays in the shipment of Dalek raw materials, and a raiding
party was able to destroy an entire Dalek weapons storehouse.
Deciding to address the Thal issue once and for all, the Supreme Council began to formulate a plan to once again increase
the radiation levels of the planet, which had been steadily decreasing over time. Construction of a neutron bomb began again,
but just as their plans were nearing completion, the unthinkable happened. Skaro was invaded!

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The Morok’s were a race of warriors, not unlike the Thals had originally been. But unlike the events which had played out
on Skaro (where Thal aggression caused the destruction of the planet), the Morok’s had conquered their world, and were now
conquering space. Their space fleets had cut a path across the galaxy that no force could stop, and Skaro was the next system in
their path. Although limited in natural resources, Skaro presented a strong strategic outpost for the Morok Empire. And so they
attacked. Conquest of the planet was swift. The Thals met the invaders valiantly, defending themselves with every man, women
and child. In the first wave nearly seventy percent of the Thal population perished during the fighting. The survivors were
forced to work as slave labor. And soon, the entire Thal nation was subjugated.
The Dalek feared even worse. Severely weakened by their defeat on Earth, the few reaming Daleks were no match for
Morok technology. Armed with the single mindedness of Dalek supremacy, the Daleks did not understand the concept of
surrender. Wave after wave of Dalek forces attacked the Morok beachhead, only to be crushed by superior weapons. Within
three Skardoian months most of the Daleks were completely wiped out, and the hand full that had survived sealed themselves
off in the deepest recesses of the planet. The only indication that the Dalek race had ever existed were the several empty Dalek
casings that were shipped off to the Morok Space Museum on Xeros. In their hidden survival chambers, the few remaining
Daleks waited, but for all practical purposes the Dalek race had ceased to exist.

Editor's Note: Most of this can be considered conjecture, but the evidence is there if one looks for it. It is established in "The
Space Museum" that the Moroks once controlled a great empire, and that no system stood in their path. We are also shown a
Dalek casing in their museum, indicating that the Moroks, at the very least, encountered the Daleks at one time. Now if we are
to assume that the Daleks would not easily allow one of their numbers to be captured, it is not unreasonable to assume that
while blazing a path across the galaxy, the Moroks encountered Skaro and conquered it. This would also explain the
disappearance of the original Dalek design, as they are replaced by the current versions that were trapped in the Bunker.

The Morok’s took full advantage of the old Dalek cities, occupying and rebuilding them one by one. The surviving Thals
acted as servants and Skaro soon became a thriving spaceport for the alien conquerors. As the years passed, the Thals slowly
begin to understand the functions and design of Morok technology. Soon they became accepted in Morok society as a servant
class. But as it had always been with all great empires, the Morok race grew lazy and content. As economic strains caused them
to give up more and more of their empire, Skaro’s importance began to diminish. The population of Morok’s stationed on Skaro
slowly dwindled. After 200 years of submission, and armed with the technology of their captors, the Thals turned upon their
masters, and drove them off the planet. Skaro was finally in the hands of the Thals, and the Thals alone.

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The Thals took full advantage of their situation. Re-occupying the Dalek cities, utilizing the technologies left behind by the
Moroks, a new Golden Age graced the Thal people. Art, science and music all advanced under the rein of he Thals. Sickness and
famine, all are stamped from the face of Skaro. Soon their scientists discovered the fundamental components of propulsion
drive and the Thals began exploring outer space. For the Thal people there had been no better time, and the memory of the
Daleks faded into the realm of myth. For 300 years the Thals knew perfect peace, and the society that The Doctor had
predicated so many years ago outside the Dalek City came to pass. But it was all about to come to a sudden and terrible end.
An earthquake in the southern Skardoian dessert unearthed a pair of large metal doors and Thal scientist dated the
structure at being close to 2500 years old. This sent a tremor of excitement throughout the Thal world. Finally, a link to their
past, lost in the confines of time, could be explored. With great fanfare the great doors in the dessert were opened. Scientists,
as well as politicians and media personal, crammed into the small chamber that had remained sealed for so long. The chamber
itself was empty, a small bare room, with no lights, no windows and no real artifacts were found. All the furnishings, if there
ever were any, had long since decayed. Scattered around the floor were some remains of papers and documents, most of the
writing on their pages long since faded. But what interested the scientists the most, soon becoming the very center of attention,
were the large set of doors directly across from the main entrance. The room contained an inner chamber! Specialized
equipment was brought in to determine the layout of the chambers. They indicated that the chambers beneath are vast and
buried deep within the Skardoian surface. However the connecting corridor just beyond the second set of doors had caved in,
making it impossible to gain access.
Obsessed with discovering a link to their past a plan was quickly formulated to excavate the tunnel in hopes of reaching the
hidden chambers inside, as a debate began in the Thal government on what exactly to do with the treasures inside. Based on
carbon dating, scientists discovered that the chambers were sealed over 2000 years ago. They quickly proclaimed that they
have found the Tomb of the Daleks, and predict unimaginable technology waited for them inside. Great teams of engineers and
government officials were assembled as the excavation began.
Week after week passed as hundreds of Thals worked to remove the debris from the caved in access tunnel. As the
wreckage was brought up, some scientists commented that the debris appeared to have been deliberately caused, and that
explosion fractures could be found in the structure of the rubble. But the promise of reconnecting with their ancestral past
drove the Thals on, and soon a large trench, ever widening and deepening, cus across the landscape. After several months of
excavations the inner most doors of the “tombs” were reached. The Thals were about to open the Bunker! With the entire
planet watching, the great doors of the bunker were slowly slid open.
Like the explorers of the Egyptian tombs on Earth in the 1920's, the Thals swarmed into each chamber of the bunker,
examining and recording every detail of what they found. Where sections of the complex were blocked by rock falls, they
brought in excavating equipment. Where the light were too dim to work by, they set up temporary work lights on tripods. Days
turn into weeks as they penetrated ever deeper, down one level to another. An intricate system for cataloging each artifact was
set up in a central staging center, and the Thals slowly became aquatinted with their rich past. Debates abounded on what
should be done with their new found information, as the Thal people experienced a cultural reawakening. But as the Thals
slowly explored each level of the Bunker, each penetration brought them come closer and closer to disaster. As exploration of
the third level was completed, the Thals unsealed the access doors to the fourth level. A captive audience watched as the lift
panels slowly began to slide open, when suddenly they exploded in a rain of fragments. Pouring out of the fourth level, blasters
blazing, were the Daleks! The excited mood of the Thals quickly turned to alarm, as more and more people were killed.

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When the Thal army had sealed the bunker 2000 years before, the surviving Dal scientists continued experimenting on the
mutations their race was evolving into. But the elite guard, formed by Davros and comprised mostly of enhanced mutants in
Dalek casings, wanted to avenge their race, and had little patience for scientific study. Turning on the scientist and destroying
most of them (including Davros), they turned the bunker into a Dalek factory, producing and improving on the Dalek machines.
Fitted with the experimental static collectors around the machines shoulder section, these Daleks were no longer confined to
the metal surface of their cities. For years, unable to clear the access tunnel, which held them prisoner, and cut off from contact
with their Dalek counterparts on the surface, the Daleks planned and improved themselves. Eventually they came to realize that
if they were ever to rejoin the surviving Daleks on the surface, they needed to conserve their energy supplies. And so the Daleks
ceased activity and settled down for the long wait.
In unsealing the outer doors of the Bunker, the Thals had awakened the surviving Daleks, and these Daleks, like their
ancestors, wanted Skaro for their own. Before the stunned watchers of the entire planet, the scientists, politicians and media
personal, were all exterminated on mass. Within weeks of the opening of the Bunker the Thals and Daleks were once again at
war, only this time the Daleks had the upper hand. After years of fighting the Thals were driven off the surface of Skaro.

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Occupying the Dalek cities, the Daleks quickly began reacquainting themselves with the events of the past 2000 years. They
discovered their defeat at the hands of the Thals outside their old capital city. They discovered their their defeat on Earth, and
the invasion of Skaro by the Moroks. They learned of the few remaining Daleks which had hid themselves away after the Morok
invasion, and they learned of the technological advances made by the Thals. They learned everything they could learn about
their past, and it was while examining this data that the Dalek Prime, one of the original scientist who had worked along side
Davros, noticed an oddity within the Dalek records. Recorded in their history, both during their defeat in the old Dal capital and
on the planet Earth, reference was made to a person known only as “Doctor.” These records also made some reference to this
“Doctor” having created and built a time machine. Totally illogical the Dalek Supreme though to itself. Time travel was
impossible! And yet this “Doctor” was there, both when the Thals defeated the Daleks on Skaro, and on Earth. As hundreds of
years had passed between these two events, and as the records from the Earth expedition indicated that humans only had a life
span of about 80 years, this “Doctor’s” claims of time travel must be true. Armed with the arrogance that if this “human” could
do it so could the Daleks, the Dalek Prime ordered the experimentation in temporal distortions. If the Daleks were ever going to
conquer the Universe, this Doctor would have to be eliminated.

Chapter Four
The Chase - The Dalek Master Plan

1965 saw the Daleks leap from the small screen and onto the big one, as "Doctor Who and the Daleks," starring Peter
Cushing premiered in London theaters. The film, loosely based on the first Dalek story, follows the adventures of Earth scientist
Dr. Who (who invented the TARDIS in his back yard), and his granddaughters Susan and Barbara as they, and Barbara's boyfriend
Ian, travel in the TARDIS to the un-named planet of the Daleks. For the production new larger versions of the TV originals were
constructed, and these were quickly "borrowed" by the BBC to fill the ranks of their television counter-parts. On the small
screen The Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara were about to encounter the Daleks for the third time. "The Chase," is an ambitious
production, taking the time travelers all over time and space in an attempt to escape from the Daleks' own time machine.
Several "locations" were used to represent the different times and places, including the TARDIS' first arrival in America, via the
top of the Empire State Building in New York City. For the production four new Dalek props were constructed, all featuring the
standard shoulder-slats around the mid section which have become the norm ever since. It was Ray Cusick, the original designer
of the Daleks, who came up with the "static/solar collectors" as a means of replacing the rather poorly looking radar dish which
had been used in "Dalek Invasion of Earth" as a way to explain the Daleks' increased mobility (Cusick was not the designer for
that serial). "The Chase" also featured the introduction of the Mechonoids, large robot creatures which would eventually
become the Daleks' main nemesis in the "TV 21" comics. Put into the script, as late producer Dennis Spooner explained it,
because "Terry...hoped he'd make few quick quid out of them," the overall size of the props proved impossible to work with
within the confines of the BBC studios, and so all future plans for them to return were dropped.
"The Chase" would be followed the next year with the overly ambitious 12 part serial "Dalek Master Plan." Commissioned
because "the Director of BBC Drama's mother loved the Daleks," or so the story goes, this twelve part episode was written by
both Terry Nation (episodes 1 - 5 & 7) and Dennis Spooner (episodes 6, 8 - 12) and featured not only the Daleks as the main
antagonist, but the Meddling Monk, a renegade from the Doctor's home planet (at this point in the series history both the
Doctor's past, as well as the race name of TimeLords had yet to be created). Unfortunately only two of the twelve episodes
survived the BBC's purging of their archives in the early 1970s. As the story no longer exists in complete video form, it was
necessary to rely on the four available sources from which to re-constructed events. The first is the recently released CD of the
audio soundtrack, the second being the novelization by John Peel. This was followed by the existing footage presented on
“Daleks-The Early Years," finally drawing on certain aspects in reconstructing its history from both “The Programme Guide” by
Jean-Marc Lofficier and “The Daleks: A History from BBC Video” book, which accompanied the video release of “The
Chase/Remembrance of the Daleks.” Finally it was necessary to make one minor change in regards to “Master Plan’s” overall
story, and that relates to the date of the episode being set in the year A.D. 4000. With the release of the audio version of "The
Dalek Master Plan" a very interesting situation has come up. In the one-part episode "Mission to the Unknown" (the prequel to
"Master Plan"), Marc Cory asks Gordon Lowery if he had ever heard of the Daleks. Gordon responds, "the Daleks invaded Earth
a thousand years ago." Therefore we now have two conflicting dates, 3164 (1,000 years after the invasion of 2164), as
established in "Mission to the Unknown," and 4000 as established in "Master Plan." Assuming that the Space Special Security
Service would not wait 826 years to investigate Cory's disappearance, and given that 826 years is more than enough time for the
Daleks to complete the Time Destructor, it became necessary to overlook the dates in both episodes and place the events
"several hundred years" after the invasion of 2164. This has, however, cased some concern in fan circles, but just as the Daleks
are synonymous with Doctor Who, so are continuity problems (The Doctor in the same episode mentions that the Dalek invasion
of Earth was defeated in 2157, seven years before it began!). Whichever date one wishes to use however, it is the intention to
show that Dalek stories take place one after the other in broadcast order.

With the Thals driven off the planet, the surviving Daleks began rebuilding their civilization. Of the original Daleks sealed in
the Bunker thousands of years before, a pecking order, or chain of command was set up, not unlike the command structure that
had been established before the Morok invasion. But where the Daleks of old were rued by a Dalek Supreme and a governing
council, the new Dalek society was highly structured. At the top, was the Dalek Prime, descended from one of the original top
advisors of the old Dal government. Under him was the Supreme Council, followed by the science and technological divisions.
Commander Daleks, encased in black travel machines, were given the tasks of overseeing all off world operations. At the very
bottom of the social structure were the worker units. Their only purpose was to serve the Dalek race.
Building on their own, as well as left over Morok technology, the Daleks quickly rebuilt their cities, and began the
reconstruction of their space fleet. They were soon ready to blazed a path of glory across an unsuspecting galaxy. One after
another, smaller planetary systems (already weaken by the Morok invasion), fell to the Dalek ever expanding empire. Skaro
became the seat of a mighty empire, and the Dalek Prime sat at it's head.
But all was not well within Dalek society, and the future plans of the Dalek Empire were threatened by one thing, The
Doctor. Despite this “humans” interference on two occasions, and while he had not been detected during any of their current
expansion activities, the Dalek Prime feared that this “Doc-tor” could return at any time to put a stop to their plans. He had to
be stopped, and this time the Daleks would be ready for him. In addition to their expansion out into the universe, the Daleks
had continued to experiment on temporal engineering and time distortion. Thanks in part to the information left by the Moroks
(as well as their own special abilities), Dalek experiments into time travel soon paid off. The Daleks had unlocked the secrets of
time. But not without great cost.
Experiments using static drives created instabilities within the vortex, resulting in an entire Dalek work-unit being
accelerated in time to the point of decay. It was therefore obvious that static power, the heart of Dalek technology, could not
be used. Several other power sources tested also resulted in similar, if not near fatal failure. When an entire Dalek
experimental block was vaporized, or to be more precise, pull into the vortex, the Supreme Council realized that time travel was
not possible. But then the Daleks discovered Taranium, an off-shoot material produced from their invasion of Earth. This
stabilized the vortex, and Dalek time experiments took a great leap forward. Taranium however, was in limited supply on Skaro,
but the Supreme Council knew where they could get an unlimited amount; the Earth's solar system!
A re-invasion of Earth was out of the question. Since their invasion in the 22nd century, Earth had grown into a vast empire,
and the Daleks were not in any position to stand against it. But the Dalek Prime knew human nature, and understood the
concept of greed. It was surprising to the Daleks at the number of humanoid species that inhabited the planets throughout the
galaxy. Sure they themselves had been human once, but the Dalek people saw themselves as having evolved into a purer state
of being. In dealing with their conquered opponents, they quickly learned that certain humans, when the conditions were right,
would do anything to get out of the pain and suffering the Daleks caused. Anything, even to the point of betraying their own
kind. With this in mind the Dalek Prime realized that the Earth threatened several smaller empires, which stood to lose a lot of
their own influence if the Federation expanded, and that by playing on these fears, as well as the fear of being conquered by the
Daleks, he could manipulate them into an alliance. But how to take advantage of this was the Dalek problem.
As their fleets spread across the galaxy, it was easy to persuade the leaders of the other empires to form an alliance with
them against Earth. But even with these alliances, the Earth Federation was still too powerful to attack, and the Dalek plan to
eliminate Earth was doomed to fail unless some way of weakening the Earth's defenses could be found. The answer presented
itself, of all places, from within the Earth Federation itself. The Earth Federation had broadcast the recent events concerning the
choosing of a new leader for the Federation Council. Constantly monitoring these transmissions, the Daleks soon noticed the
attention a human named Mavic Chen had been receiving during his campaign to become this elected head of the Earth
Federation. While the concept of elections were deemed unnecessary to the Daleks, they had no need for a President, the drive
and ambition which pushed a human to obtain such a position was something knew they could exploit. Judging by the zealous
nature in which Chen had pursued his election, the Dalek Prime knew they had found a human they could strike a deal with.
Catering towards the lust for power humans possessed, the Daleks secured a deal with this Mavic Chen. As the first stages of
their Master Plan were going into effect, monitoring stations set up to explore the time vortex reported that they had located
the TARDIS. The Daleks were about to deal with the Doctor.
Mustering as much Taranium as they themselves could mine, Dalek scientists completed construction on the first Dalek
Time Capsule. Ranger Scope equipment indicated that the Doctor’s time machine, “TARDIS” was located on the planet Xeros.
Fitting, the Dalek Prime though to itself, that the destruction of their greatest enemy would occur on one of the last surviving
planets of their old invaders, the Moroks. With their orders given, the Dalek task force set off after The Doctor. Content with the
knowledge that the Task Force would soon capture and kill The Doctor, the Supreme Council continued to organize it's plans to
defeat the Earth Federation.
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As the Doctor fiddles with a Time/Space Visualizer the time travelers picked-up from the space museum on Xeros, the
TARDIS slowly makes it way through the vortex. As the Doctor gets the Visualizer to work, each of his companions take a turn
looking in on events of the past. Ian picks Abraham Lincoln's speech at Gettysburg while Barbara is interested in seeing
Shakespeare at Queen Elisabeth's court. Vicki, the TARDIS' newest traveling companion (Susan, the Doctor's granddaughter,
having stayed in 22nd century London with David), picks a 1965 performance of The Beatles. Soon however, the TARDIS lands
on the desert planet of Aridius, where the explores decide to stay for a while. As Ian and Vicki explore, Barbara and the Doctor
take in the sun. Soon they realize that the Doctor had forgotten to turn off the Visualizer, and as Barbara adjusts the controls in
the hopes of shutting down the machine, the dreaded sounds of the Daleks come screeching out of the speaker. It appears that
Barbara had tuned the Visualizer into Skaro, and the Doctor and her witness the Daleks depart in their time machine to hunt
them down.
Meanwhile Ian and Vicki have stumbled into the city of the Aridians, aquatic people whose planet had been drying up.
Attacked by a Mire Beast, a carnivorous life form which had invaded the city in search of food, the pair are caught in an
explosion designed to trapped the Mire Beasts in the parts of the city they already inhabit. Ian is knocked out, and Vicki goes in
search of help. On the surface, the Doctor and Barbara are caught in a sand storm, and loose the location of the TARDIS. As the
sand storm ends, the Doctor is horrified to see that the Daleks are already on Aridius. The Dalek attack squad uncovers the
TARDIS, but it proves impervious to Dalek attack. The Daleks then give the people of Aridius an ultimatum; turn over the time
travelers or be exterminated. The Aridians agree, and are about to hand over the Doctor and Barbara (who had stumbled upon
two Aridians outside the entrance to the city), when Vicki appears seeking help for Ian. At that moment a Mire Beast breaks
through a closed off doorway, causing the Aridians to flee in panic.
In the tunnels leading to the surface Ian has recovered and discovered the TARDIS being guarded by a Dalek. Setting a trap,
he is joined by the others, who help lure the Dalek over the edge and down into the tunnels. As the remaining members of the
Dalek attack squad arrive, the time travelers dash into the TARDIS and dematerialize. The Daleks depart Aridius in their time
machine to follow the Doctor.

In the council room the Doctor discovers that the Dalek time machine is following the TARDIS. A frantic chase through the
Cosmos begins. After a brief encounter on the 86st floor of the Empire State Building, the TARDIS materializes on the deck of
the Marie Celeste. Taken for a stowaway, Barbara escapes back into the TARDIS just moments before the Dalek time machine
arrives on the ship (the crew leap into the sea at the sight of the Daleks). The TARDIS then lands in what appears to be a Gothic
castle. Exploring the travelers encounter a ghost, a witch, Frankenstein and Dracula. Convinced that they have arrived in a
dimension of the human mind, the Doctor is convinced that the Daleks could not follow them. The TARDIS has in reality, landed
in an amusement park house of Dracula and Frankenstein. The Daleks arrive and attack both the time travelers as well as the
automated amusement props. This shorts out the computer of the Frankenstein prop, which begins to attack the Daleks. Ian,
Barbara and the Doctor escape in the TARDIS but Vicki is forgotten in the confusion. She stows away on board the Dalek and
sees the Daleks create a robot double of the Doctor.

Back in the TARDIS the Doctor is finishing his work on a device which will short out the Daleks' static power supplies, when
they realize that they've left Vicki behind. Realizing that when they next land they will have to fight it out, the time travelers
prepare for battle. The TARDIS finally lands on the planet Mechanus, with the Dalek time machine a few moments behind. Vicki
manages to sneak out of the Dalek ship in time to warn Ian about the robot Doctor. Mimicking the voice of the Daleks, the
Doctor confuses the robot and then destroys it. Setting themselves up in a cave for protection, the travelers are taken prisoner
by the Mechanoids (forgotten robots sent to the planet to get it ready for colonization). In the Mechanoid city they meet Steven
Taylor, an astronaut from Earth who crashed on Mechanus years before. The Daleks follow the time travelers into the city,
where the Doctor sets off the static control device, which overloads the Dalek's power circuits. The remaining Daleks and
Mechanoids fight and destroy each other as The Doctor and his party escape. Finding the Dalek Time Capsule in the forest not
far from the TARDIS, Ian and Barbara use it to get back to their own time.

Editor's Note: It is in "The Chase" that we first see the Daleks ability to creature realistic looking humanoid robots. This
technology would later be refined and reused in "Resurrection of the Daleks," in the form of the Dalek duplicates. Several of the
Aaru Daleks built for the film were lent to the BBC for use in the episode. As the film version were slightly larger than their TV
counterparts, the bases were removed, leaving them totally static. While this did bring the Aaru Daleks down to the proper
height, there still were several noticeable differences, especially as the domes for the Aaru Daleks were colored a medium blue
(which looked almost black in B&W), featured the larger head bulbs, and the mid sections did not feature the new shoulder slats
(the first film featuring Daleks with the original shoulder bands). For the Dalek time machine the set was constructed to suggest
a two level ship. However the poor construction, the over use of blowup photograph cut-outs, and the rather poorly painted
swirl used on the ship's walls, all combined to give the interior of the Dalek time machine a rather silly look. In addition other
slight problems plague the production, including a Dalek prop clearly visible in Frankenstein's lab (before the Daleks even
arrived), and cameras sitting on the jungle set (see upper right hand section of the photograph above).

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Back on Skaro the Dalek Prime's plans were proceeding as scheduled. Ever since the invasion of 2164 AD, Earth has been on
constant vigil against Dalek activities. With the help of its off world colonies, Earth reached out into the heavens, establishing
alliances with most of it's galactic neighbors to rebuild itself. However, in the hundred of years since the invasion, Earth has
become content in the knowledge that their off world alliances were strong, and that the Federation fleet was unbeatable. The
Dalek problem would take second seat to an advancing Earth empire, interested in the exploration and exploitation of the
universe. Negotiations with Chen were intense, as the Federation leader, pompously given the title “Guardian of the Solar
System,” needed strong convincing. Why should he form an alliance with the Daleks when Earth's empire was so vast? But the
Dalek Council, promising great power and wealth, convinced Chen that the expansion is only weakening the alliances Earth had,
and that he himself, held no real power within the Federation. Ambition, and a conceited belief that he himself could control
the Daleks, convinced Chen to betray the alliance. Armed with a new supply of taranium provided to them by Chen, the Daleks
began construction on their greatest weapon, The Time Destructor.
However, word soon reached Skaro that the Dalek Task Force dispatched to destroy the Doctor had been eliminated on the
planet Mechanus. The Dalek Time Capsule is traced back to 20th century England, where it is soon destroyed. Unable to
understand the defeat of it's units, the Supreme Council orders a task force to investigate Mechanus. But of more concern to
the Dalek Prime is the fact that The Doctor, the Dalek's greatest enemy, was still alive. It was now important to accelerate their
plans with Chen. Choosing the planet Kembel as the point from which to launch their invasion, the Daleks began constructing
several bases for the housing of a Dalek army. In addition, Dalek biotechnology was employed to insure the security of the
planet until the task force was at full strength. Mutating the DNA of some of the plant life on Skaro, the Daleks created the
Varga plant. Mobil, these plants seek out animal life forms, infecting them with their own DNA. The results were that the
infected life form slowly mutates into a Varga.
With Kembel protected from intrusion by the Vargas, the Daleks began amassing the greatest invasion force ever
assembled. With the Taranium core to power it, and the Time Destructor almost complete, the Daleks were poised to eliminate
the Earth Federation, and over run the galaxy. As Dalek scientist continued to work on the invasion force, word leaked back to
Earth's Space Security Service of the Dalek's activities. Still considered a minor menace by the Earth Federation, a small
exploration force, lead by Marc Cory, was dispatched by the SSS to investigate. Unfortunately Cory's crew were infected by the
Varga plants as they try to infiltrate the Kembel establishments, and Cory himself was exterminated while trying to get a
message back to his superiors.
 Back on Earth, the sudden loss of Cory concerned the heads of Space Security, who immediately sent a request for
advanced forces to investigate the planet Kembel. Unfortunately the report fell on the deaf ears of Federation President Mavic
Chen. With Federation forces delayed, everything was proceeding to the Dalek Prime's satisfaction. But then word reaches
Skaro that the Kembel base had been infiltrated, that the Taranium core had been stolen, and that the Doctor was the one
responsible.

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Many months after the death of Cory, the Doctor, Steven and Katarina, the Doctor's current traveling companions, land on
Kembel to find a new expedition from Earth led by Space Security Agent Bret Vyon. Avoiding the Varga plants, the Doctor finds
Cory's tape and he and Vyon decide to warn Earth of the impending Dalek invasion. Breaking into the Dalek base, the Doctor
steals the taranium core, but the time travelers are unable to alert Earth, as Chen has had them branded as traitors. Escaping in
Chen's space craft, the fugitives land on the prison planet of Desperus, where Kirksen, a prisoner, breaks into the ship and takes
Katarina hostage.

Kirksen wants Vyon to return to Kembel, and the Doctor and Steven see no other choice. Katarina however, knows that to
return to Kembel is a death sentence, and so sacrifices herself, by opening the airlock, to save the others. Arriving on Earth Vyon
is killed by his sister Sara Kingdom, who believes Chen's stories that her brother was working for the Daleks. Pursuing the Doctor
and Steven, the three stumble into a TransMat experiment, and are accidentally transported to the planet Mira, home of the
invisible Visians. The Doctor convinces Sara that it was Chen who betrayed the Earth Alliance, and Sara agrees to help the
Doctor and Steven, just as the Daleks land a ship on Mira to retake the core. However unable to fire at the time travelers for
fear of damaging the core, Steven and Sara manage to hijack the ship, and the three begin to return to Earth. The Daleks
however force the ship to land on Kembel, where the Doctor is forced to turn over the core before escaping into the TARDIS. Or
at least the Daleks think it's the core, the Doctor having made up a fake one while on the Dalek ship.
Desperate to regain the taranium core, the Black Dalek radios to Skaro for a Dalek Time Capsule to be sent to Kembel. Once
again the Daleks pursue the Doctor through time and space, landing in England of 1965, and then Hollywood of the 1920s,
where Steven and Sara are asked to star in pictures.

Meanwhile, a renegade from the Doctor's own planet, know only as The Monk, lures the Doctor to the volcanic planet
Tigus, where he hopes to strand the time travelers. The Doctor foils his plan, and soon the Doctor, followed by The Monk, and
the Daleks, arrive on Earth during the construction of the Great Pyramids. Capturing Sara, Steven and The Monk, the Doctor is
forced to turn over the real core to Chen. The Daleks return to Kembel, where they plan to activate the Time Destructor. They
imprison their allies and exterminate Chen. Arriving in the TARDIS, Steven and Sara free the prisoners, while the Doctor breaks
into Dalek Control and activates the Time Destructor...

Chapter Five
The Dalek/Mechanoid Wars - Evil of the Daleks

Continuity, whether referring to a real historical event, or events created in fiction, is always something the historian needs
to worry about. It is especially an taxing master when trying to chronicle the fictional events of a television programme as
extensive as Doctor Who. Of course Doctor Who has never been a series much concerned with continuity, and the programme
is rife with continuity flaws. Putting aside the obvious flaws in dates which have already been discussed in the last chapter,
examples abound throughout the series' 40 odd years. Surely the Doctor would not have left an important device like the Hand
of Omega sitting in a London mortuary for 800 odd years (relative to his time), nor would he have programmed it to destroy
Skaro. And of course the Doctor has had only eight incarnations (as of this writing) despite us seeing several "Doctors" existing
before the 1st Doctor. Yet in both "Remembrance of the Daleks" and "The Brain of Morbius" we are shown these events. The
reason I bring this up? Because it is impossible to take every single aspect of a fictional character (television, audios, books,
comics, etc.) and work it into one coherent history without cutting out, or fixing some of the "flaws." Some things have to be
changed. And while every fan can argue what should and should not be eliminated, it is the author who must give way to his
own convictions, and prejudices. Which brings us to our current chapter. Re-creating Dalek history based on stories which no
longer exist in televise form can be a bit tricky, and a lot of "fitting" needs to be done. Fortunately for us, both “Power of the
Daleks,” and “Evil of the Daleks” exist in novelization form, as well as audio re-issues. And, at least for “Power of the Daleks,” a
re-constructed video release utilizing telesnaps running over the original soundtrack has been circulating around fan circles for
years. This gives us a bases on which to base, and more importantly for our proposes, place the events within the Dalek
timeline.
Finally, in the hopes of being as complete as possible, I have included in this installment as much of the story lines I've
deemed possible from the Dalek TV21, as well as Marvel comics. While I know this is far from complete, it does, in a small way,
reflect this part of Dalek history.
 ...With the Time Destructor engaged, the surface of Kembel begins to deteriorate. As time passes before the Doctor’s eyes
in a mater of seconds, all life on Kembel withers and vanishes. The Dalek casings begin rusting and collapsing, the creatures
inside withering away. As the Doctor is helped into the TARDIS by Steven, Sara's body, trapped outside, withers away. The
surface of the planet Kembel has been reduced to dust...

In the Dalek control room on Skaro the Supreme Council looked on in alarm. The loss of the Time Destructor and the units
on Kembel placed the Daleks in a very veracious position. Facing retaliation from their enemies and exploitation from their
former allies, the members of the Supreme Council watched events unfold with concern. Realizing that the need had arisen for
one strong voice to guide the Daleks, a power struggle began within Dalek society. Supporters of the Supreme Council wanted
desperately to hold onto power, and placed the blame for their continual losses on the working units (as well as the Doctor's
interventions). But despite the blame being shifted toward them, the working units resisted this notion. Generations of
conditioning had indoctrinated within them the "fact" that the Dalek race was invincible. If blame was to be placed, then it must
rest solely within the Supreme Council. The resulting conflict split Dalek society into two factions; those who support and
Supreme Council, and those who wanted a new order. While full scale war between the factions was nearly avoided, the
resulting year of arguing gave the Dalek Prime the chance it needed to secure it position. Having experimented on itself to
enhance it's own mental powers, the Dalek Prime emerged from the conflict as the Dalek Emperor. Completely encased within
the survival chambers of the Dalek City, the Dalek Prime, now Emperor became absolute ruler of Dalek society. Exterminating all
rivals and pushing aside the Supreme Council, the Emperor secured the obedience of the entire race.
In the hope of salvaging their already weakened situation, and despite the disarray of the Dalek fleet, the Emperor ordered
the surviving members of the Supreme Council to proceed with the invasion of the Galaxy. In an all out attack, the Daleks
invaded the Milky Way, focusing their attention on the Earth's solar system. Thus, the first Dalek War began. But the odds and
the timing, were not on their favor. The Earth Alliance, now aware of the Dalek threat posed by Chen's defection, was ready for
the Dalek fleet. Realizing that the key to victory was in destroying Earth's power, but unable to attack the Earth directly due to
the geomagnetic forces released during their invasion of 2164, the Dalek fleet aimed their assaults at the Earth defenses on
Mars and Venus. Their plan was simple, control these planets (and their orbital paths), and Earth is cut off from the rest of the
solar system, and the galaxy.
However now fully aware of the Dalek threat, Earth scientists devised a plan with allowed a virus to attack the insulation of
a Dalek's electrical system. Positioned on orbital military stations within the Martian orbital plane to defend the solar system,
Earth Battle Cruisers quickly intercepted the Dalek fleet, deployed the virus, and routed the Dalek saucers, pushing them out of
the solar system. As the Dalek fleet tried to regroup they moved aimlessly through the void. The exploited races, victims of the
Dalek conquest, seized their opportunity and took their revenge. On the planet Hyperon in the Venusion system, long exploited
for the mineral wealth of their world, the Hyperoians attacked the Dalek fleet with a vengeance. Their rockets, composed of a
metal completely resistant to Dalek firepower, completely destroyed the Dalek task force. Unable to control these worlds, the
Daleks turned their attention to the planet Anhaut, but were defeated when the Anhautians developed a weapon which
attacked the Dalek's neural net.

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Meanwhile, the Dalek force sent to the planet Mechanus to investigate their defeat, had encountered the surviving
Mechanoids. Determining that it was the Mechanoids which interfered with their plans to destroy the Doctor, the Daleks attack
at once. Programmed for self-defense, the Mechanoids registered the Daleks as hostile, and war ensued. Determined to
wipeout their enemies, the Mechanoids launched a counter attack on the Daleks, thus marking the beginning of the
Dalek/Mechanoid Wars. For years the two massive powers battled each other, drawing into the conflict most of the races
located on the rim of the Milky Way.
On the planet Avega, the Daleks are drawn into a heated conflict with the vegetal Amarylls in the hopes of gaining access to
Avegaian space and establishing bases from which to destroy the Mechanoids. The Amarylls, fierce warriors, were not prepared
to lose their planet to the Daleks, and fought to the last man. Unable to conquer this planet, the Daleks opted to eventually
destroy it, but this took a massive toll on Dalek resources and weakened their lines against the Mechanoids.
In their attempts to gain access to new sources of raw materials and weapons, the Daleks invaded the planet Phryne, while
at the same time attempted to use a rogue planet named Skardal against the Mechanoid strong hold. Yet with each Dalek
conquest Mechanoid counter advances pushed them back. Victory seemed within the Dalek's grasps when the Daleks attacked
the planet Solturis, where a human traitor offered them the key to the deadly Pentra Ray,. But soon a mysterious radioactive
dust cloud attacked the Daleks, and their plans were once again pushed back. Finally, weaken by their constant struggles with
the Mechanoids, their alliances with their few remaining allies crumbled. Forced to abandon their crippled bases and space
crafts, the surviving Daleks made one last stab at victory. Deploying escape pods (in reality miniature Dalek regeneration bases
armed with Dalek time technology), these waiting "time bombs" drifted through the vastness of space. With planetary defenses
depleted Skaro was once again invaded, but the invaders, the Mostrons, although determined to wipe the Dalek race from the
universe, were defeated by Dalek sacrifices in battle, and surface volcanic eruptions caused by Dalek scientists in a last ditch
effort to rid the surface of the invaders.
 The Dalek/Mechanoid War was over, and the Daleks had survived, but Skaro was once again a wasteland. In space, several
of the Dalek escape "capsules" time slip back into the past, crashing on un-colonized planets like Vulcan, where the Daleks
immediately entered into hibernation, waiting for the time of re-activation. On Skaro the Dalek Empire had been shaken, but
not destroyed. Rebounding from their defeat at the hands of the Mechanoids, the Daleks quickly began rebuilding their
damaged cities.
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Meanwhile, with the Daleks occupied and the immediate threat to Earth over, the Earth Alliance began re-colonizing the
outer systems, including the planet Vulcan. As the years passed the Earth Federation slowly spread across the galaxy, and
colonies were established on planets like Solos and Gathwyr. On Vulcan, colonist terra-forming the surface excavated the
mercury swamps, and discovered the Dalek escape capsule. Bring it to the lab of the colony's Chief Scientist, Lesterson, they
discover three inanimate "robots" inside. Robots, Lesterson plans no reactivating and using as servants.

Editor's Note: "Power of the Daleks" could take place within any point on the Dalek timeline, as the Daleks trapped in the
capsule have no contact with Skaro. In addition the date of the story (as given in Jean-Marc Lofficier's "Programme Guide"),
suggest that it is the year 2020 A.D. This however does not match previous established facts from "Dalek Invasion of Earth." In
that story Earth is only just venturing out into the solar system by 2164 when the Daleks invade (surely if a vast Earth Empire had
been established 144 years before, would they not have countered the invasion?). Another argument for placing the story after
the events of "Dalek Master Plan" is that, 1) the Dalek machine itself is the current modern type with the shoulder slats (not the
collector disc which feature in "Dalek Invasion of Earth"), and 2) the Daleks seem to know the Doctor (even though he had just
regenerated for the first time). While I have implied that it is possible that these "capsules" traveled back into 2020 AD, the
major problem occurs however, when one looks at the events in "The Chase" and "Evil of the Daleks." In "The Chase" the Daleks
are after the 1st Doctor, for defeating their plans to invade Earth, as well as Ian, Barbara and Susan (the robot Doctor mistakes
Vicki for Susan, allowing Ian to tell the real Doctor from the fake). If the Daleks had encountered the 2nd Doctor 144 years
before the Earth invasion, then why would they not also be after his second incarnation for their destruction on Vulcan? In "Evil
of the Daleks" not only is the 2nd Doctor known to the Daleks (indicating that they've encountered him before), but Jamie is
also. Since Jamie joined the Doctor on his voyages after the events depicted in "Power," it is logical to assume that the latter
story follows the first, and that the date of 2020 reflects another one of those continuity points that the writers seemed to care
little about.

Back on Skaro, the Emperor realizes that if Dalek plans are to succeed in the future then the fundamental nature of the
Daleks themselves would have to be changed. Understanding that their weakness in regards to encountering humanoid
cultures stemmed from a lack of cunning (because of the creatures they had mutated into), a plan is organized to revert the
Dalek race back towards the humanoid species they once were. To this end the Emperor assigned the Dalek Science Division the
task of isolating the “human factor,” the cunning and ingenuity which had allowed the humanoid species to defeat them. Daleks
scientist examined the problem, realizing that it was something within human nature itself which affected the unpredictable
ways humans reacted, and thus allowed the humans to defeat them.

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...Meanwhile, back on the planet Vulcan, a newly regenerated Doctor is mistaken for the Earth Examiner, and brought into
the colony along with Ben and Polly, the Doctor's current traveling companions. Ben does not believe this new "Doctor" is in
fact the old Doctor, but Polly is more willing to accept it. The Doctor however, is interested in the experiments Lesterson has
been carrying out on the mysterious capsule the colony discovered buried in the mercury swaps. In the dead of night, he opens
the capsule only to discover, to his horror, that his fears have been confirmed. Daleks are inside. The Doctor is further intrigued
when he realizes that one of the Daleks had already been removed. The next day the Doctor, still posing as the Earth Examiner,
discovers that Lesterson has already begun reactivating the Daleks, who seem docile and obedient. They do however, seem to
recognize and harbor hostility towards the Doctor.

The Doctor demands that the Daleks be destroyed, but rebels hopping to overthrow the colony's governor decide to use
them for their own ends. Seizing control of the Daleks, they rearm the creatures and use them to overthrow the governor.
With their forces in control, the rebels place the Daleks in charge of security. In fact the colony has already been infiltrated by
Daleks, who have secretly set up a reproduction plant - on a conveyor belt system - within the capsule and plan to exterminate
all Humans. Lesterson, never believing that the Daleks posed a threat, discovers their plans. He is driven mad however, by the
reality of what part he had played in all of it. The Daleks in the meantime, have set up static cables throughout the colony to
provide static power to their collectors, and thus power their newly born army. But the Doctor finds their static power source
and, turning it up, overloads the Dalek neural net, the creatures inside their travel machines burning up in agony.

Editor's Note: "Power of the Daleks" re-establishes that the Daleks need static electricity to power their travel machines, as the
Daleks are desperate to finish laying the cables before they make their final move on the colony. There is much conjecture as to
why the Daleks recognize the Doctor seeing that he had just regenerated. It is never explained in the episode. One argument is
that the Daleks had already encountered the 2nd Doctor earlier in their timeline when they encounter him on Vulcan (first time
for the second Doctor second time for the Daleks?). Another possibility is that the Daleks were able to detect the Doctor's two
hearts, indicating to them (based on their previous encounters) that this must be the Doctor. But as this little oddity of the
Doctor's anatomy had yet been established in the series, this possibility seems unlikely. The most logical explanation is the
simple fact that seeing how this was the first time the character regenerated, and not knowing whether this gamble would pay
off, the inclusion of the Daleks in the story guarantied success. And having the Daleks recognize Patrick Troughton as "The
Doctor" allowed the viewer to better accept him in the role. After all, "if the Daleks recognized Troughton as the Doctor, who
are we to argue?"

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Back on Skaro, the scientists realized that to isolate the “human factor” the Daleks will have to experiment on humans
themselves. This of course, presented a great problem, for the Earth Federation had grown in strength since the Kembel
incident. But then the Daleks made a remarkable discovery. While repairs on their temporal equipment were proceeding the
Daleks discovered that temporal experimentation's were being conducted on Earth in the 1860's. What was more amazing than
the experiments themselves, was the fact that the experiments seemed to be carried out using static power. This gave the
Daleks something to shoot for. Static power was at the very nature of Dalek existence, to harness static power instead of their
reliance on Taranium would free up Dalek time experiments. Establishing a corridor within the vortex, the Emperor ordered a
task force to invade 19th century Earth and secure this technology. Not only would they have the opportunity to exploit these
experiments, but also 19th century humans posed no threat to Dalek technology.
In the middle of the English countryside, on a warm summer afternoon, Edward Waterfield and Theodore Maxtible were
horrified to see machine creatures emerge from their time cabinet. Seizing Waterfield’s daughter Victoria, the Daleks began
their preparations to isolate the “human factor.” But as the experiments were about to begin the Daleks traced the TARDIS to
1966 England. A plan quickly formed in the Emperor's mind. If the Daleks could trap the Doctor, they could use him to infect
mankind with the “Dalek factor,” total obedience and loyalty to the Emperor itself. In the event that the “human factor” could
not be isolated, then mankind would be changed throughout time. Supplying a temporal transporter from Maxtible’s house to
1966 England, and forcing Waterfield to travel forward to that time, the Daleks put their plan into operation.

While returning Ben and Polly to their own time, the TARDIS is stolen from Gatwick Airport and driven off in a lorry. The
Doctor and Jamie (who joined the TARDIS crew a while back), follow it to a Victorianna antique shop owned by an Edward
Waterfield. The Doctor quickly realizes that all of the "antiques" in the shop are new, and suspects that Waterfield has found a
way of traveling through time. Waterfield however, has set a trap for the time travelers, and transports them back 100 years to
Maxtible's home. There the Doctor learns of Maxtible's time experiments, and the appearance of the Daleks in the middle of
them. Trapped, the Daleks force the Doctor to run an experiment on Jamie, ordering him to record every emotion Jamie shows
in his attempts to rescue Victoria. Once completed, the readings present the Daleks with the "human factor." But the plan
backfires as the three experimental Daleks exposed to the "human factor" adopt playful attitudes instead of human cunning. All
are recalled to Skaro, and the Daleks destroy Maxtible's house to cover their presence in the 1800s.

On Skaro the Emperor reveals the true purpose of the experiments, to infect the human race with the "Dalek factor." The
Doctor is passed through a machine to expose him to the "Dalek factor," which he will take back to Earth and turn it's
inhabitants into Dalek-like creatures. However the Doctor is unaffected, for he is not human, and instead manages to humanize
several of the Daleks. Soon the "humanized" Daleks begin to question the orders of the Emperor, and civil war erupts on Skaro.
Maxtible, infected with the "Dalek factor" and mentally turned into a Dalek-like creature, is killed, and Victoria's farther saves
the Doctor at the cost of his own life. The time travelers depart whilst the war rages on...

Chapter Six
Civil War & Rebirth - Day of The Daleks

When “Evil of the Daleks” finished broadcasting on July 1st, 1967, it was originally Terry Nation’s intention that this would
be the last Doctor Who Dalek story. Terry had hoped to ‘spin off’ the Daleks into their own television series in America, having
worked successfully on shows like “The Avengers.” While the prospect never worked out, after ‘Evil of the Daleks,’ Terry’s
machine creatures would not appear again in Doctor Who for five years. ‘Evil’ also marked a turning point in Dalek history.
After ‘Evil,’ the Daleks would never again regain their former screen glory, as budget restrains, dilapidated props, and poor
stories made their appearance seem down right silly at times. Ambitious stories like “Planet of the Daleks,” “Resurrection of the
Daleks” and “Remembrance of the Daleks,” while attempting to recapture the original feel of the 60's episodes, could not over
shadow the damage done in stories like “Day of the Daleks,” “Destiny of the Daleks,” and “Revelation of the Daleks.”
Never is this poor treatment more evident than in their much herald return story “Day of the Daleks.” Quickly added to the
original story line about time travelers from the future returning to the 20th century to prevent the Third World War, the
handling of their inclusion added little to enhance their appearance. The first problem occurred when it was discovered that
there were only three Dalek props in working order. With filming now being done in color, it was decided to give the Daleks a
new paint scheme. Abandoning the 60s silver color, the production department decided to paint two of the props a dark gray,
and the final prop gold (retaining the notion of a Dalek commander). Instead of the sensor balls on the skirt panels being blue,
black was decided for all three units. While this color scheme made the Daleks look impressive in color, it also made it painfully
obvious that there were only three Daleks in the entire story. And although various camera cuts tried to give the impression of a
Dalek army, it became clear (especially during the attack on Styles’ house), that only three Daleks existed. The novelization of
this story however, works much better, with the Gold Dalek replaced by the Black Dalek and story points, such as the way the
Ogrons are depicted, developing much easier. In addition the underground guerrilla movement is presented as a much more
organized organization. Unfortunately budget restrains were not the only reason the Daleks suffered after the 1960's. While
the next story in the Pertwee era, “Planet of the Daleks” was a much improved story, the eventual introduction of Davros in
“Genesis of the Daleks” sealed the Daleks fate to become second fiddle.

...As the fighting continued, humanized Daleks, converted to the “human factor” by the Doctor, pressed home their
advantage against the Emperor's forces. Desperate to regain control, the Emperor ordered all Dalek forces on Skaro to quell the
rebellion and fighting spread across the planet. Theodore Maxtible, infected by the Dalek-factor, is killed in the fighting, as is
Edward Waterfield saving the Doctor’s life. Free from the Daleks, the Doctor, Jamie and Victoria headed for the TARDIS. Having
gained access to the inner chamber, Humanized Daleks made their final move to overthrow the Emperor. Protected by his elite
guard, the final battle for Skaro was played out in the Emperor's chamber. Dalek against Dalek fired their weapons. Dalek
casings exploded in flames as Dalek mutants fell squirming, dead on the floor. Seeing that the battle was hopeless, the
Emperor's elite guards began to retreat. No longer protected, the Emperor itself was attacked and destroyed. All order broke
down within Dalek Society, and when the fighting was finally over, only the Doctor and his party remained alive on Skaro. The
Daleks had been totally destroyed. Or had they…?

In space, the Earth Federation targeted the few remaining remnants of the Dalek fleet. Without directives from Skaro
Control most of the Dalek ships were destroyed. Deep in the far reaches of space, on insignificant planets far off the normally
traveled space lanes, a few Dalek outposts survived. These small mineral bases, occupied by no more than 100 Daleks in each,
slowly shut down, the Daleks entered a state of suspension to avoid detection. Throughout the Federation, when Dalek ships
were encountered floating in the void by Federation patrols, they are quickly overlooked as the relicts of a past age. For the first
time in years, the galaxy was free of the Daleks.

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An eerie silence settled over Skaro. Black gray smoke shrouded the surface, as a reddish glow from the fires still burning,
flickered in the night sky. Littered across the landscape, the rotting corpses of Dalek mutants lye next to rusting Dalek casings.
The Dalek cities, once massive white towers of technology and design, lay in ruin. Only a few scattered areas of forest remain,
the mutant life forms, which inhabited them, were all but gone. Out of this grayness, arriving completely unnoticed, a small
rounded-shaped spacecraft lowered itself through the smoke to the surface of the planet. Its approach was hardly stable, and it
almost crashed rather than landed on the surface. Opening the air-lock hatch slowly, a tall humanoid figure encased in a space
pressure suit, slowly stepped down onto the charred ground. Looking around and checking his equipment, the figure slowly
raised the visor over his helmet. His bluish eyes looked out over the debris through locks of thick blonde hair. The Thals had
returned to re-claim Skaro. Since the Dalek conquest (after the opening of the Bunker), the Thals had established themselves on
several of the smaller inhabitable planets within the Skaroian system. Barely able to survive on these barren, hostile worlds, the
Thals now returned to their home world, determined to remain for good.
The Thals rebuilt their civilization on Skaro with concerned modesty. Believing that the Dalek threat could never be truly
over, they concentrated on developing their society in secret, building on their military skills. Raiding the ruins of the Dalek
cities the Thal’s slowly revived their society. Enhancing their technologies they raced across the Skaroian surface establishing
settlements wherever the soil was strong enough to support life. As their settlements multiplied, the Thals took great care to
keep their activities hidden from the Earth Federation. Weary of all alien life forms, the Thals did not wish to draw attention to
themselves. On Earth, the Federation's influence expanded, as more and more sections of the galaxy were explored. Skaro,
with its Thal civilization hidden, was soon forgotten.

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Having survived the attack by the Humanized Daleks created by The Doctor, the remaining Daleks found that their life
support systems, and their power supplies were too badly damaged to survive. Deep in the bowls of their ruined cities,
discarding their travel machines and locked in survival chambers, the Dalek mutants waited. Driven by an even greater need to
avenge themselves on the galaxy, the surviving members of their race formed a new and more fanatical order. Convinced that
their failures were due in part to what they now consider to be the “compassion” they’ve shown to lesser races, the Daleks
decided to never again show any type of regard towards the lesser races. In addition, their respect for the confines of temporal
physics were also disregarded. Becoming even more fanatical than their Dalek ancestors, the Daleks would now do whatever it
took to win.
The remaining Daleks formed themselves into a new Supreme Council, no longer content with controlling the other races;
they were now driven to exterminate them all. As the years pass, the surviving Daleks slowly multiplied, and they soon
concentrated their efforts in creating improved weapons and enhanced travel machines (capable of surviving the strongest
attack). With most of their original Silver travel machines destroyed, Dalek scientists developed new enhanced ways of utilizing
power. No longer dependent on static power to drive their machines, newer and better travel machines were created. Satisfied
with their work, the Supreme Council encased themselves in Black and Gold casings, while the worker units are given enhanced
Gray units. In addition to advanced mobility and weaponry, the new Gray units no longer depended on manual control of the
machine, the units, through their onboard computers, directly interact with the Dalek mutant inside. After several decades the
Dalek race was ready to be reborn.
Advancing from their survival chambers, the Daleks set off to once again claim Skaro. Although convinced of their ultimate
superiority the Daleks had to exercise caution so as not to be discovered by the Earth Federation. Upon their reemergence, the
Daleks immediately attacked a Thal installation, which had been built on the site of the old Dalek capital. Overwhelming the
small Thal force stationed there, the Daleks abandoned any idea of rebuilding on the surface of the planet. Instead, they
concentrated their efforts on fortifying the underground sections of their city. The Thals countered with an attack of their own,
but the Dalek stronghold was too powerful and a stalemate ensued. Knowing that their future was limited unless they could re-
establish new sources of supply, the Daleks transmitted their command codes to the remaining Dalek bases hidden throughout
the galaxy, reactivating them.
With Dalek units reviving throughout space, the Daleks turned their attention towards two goals, destroying any of the
Humanized Daleks that had survived, and destroying the Earth Federation. The first part of their plan proved relatively easy, as
they quickly discovered that few if any of the Humanized Daleks have survived the Civil War. The second part of their plan
however, would not be so simple. Federation forces had grown strong during the time the Daleks had been rebuilding
themselves. An all out invasion of the galaxy was sure to fail. Nor could they attempt a sneak attack on Earth itself.
Geomagnetic force released during their 2164 invasion made re-conquest of the planet impossible. But the Daleks were no
longer concerned with the impossible and only with the means to their own ends. Pouring over plan after plan that the scientific
elite presented, the Supreme Council settled on an extreme idea. The Daleks would alter history. Scanning the records stolen
from Earth during their occupation, the Supreme Council discovered a tension point in the late 20th century, when human
civilization was on the brink of a total war. This would be the situation the Daleks would take advantage of.
Preparations began immediately to alter the course of human history. Dalek scientists develop the means to transfer an
explosive devise through a time corridor within the vortex, which would explode at the critical moment in Earth’s history. This
would alter the course of human events, the Daleks would invade in the 21st century, the original invasion of 2164 would never
happen, and the geomagnetic forces, which destroyed the Dalek invasion force the first time, would never be released. But the
simple re-directing of the flow of history would not be enough if the Dalek plan were to be a success. They first had to secure
that the diversion of the timeline would not affect Dalek history. After all, if the Daleks altered earth history, they were also
altering their own. Working on the problem, Dalek scientists soon developed and installed temporal dampening buffers. When
activated, these devices allow the Daleks to alter certain points in history without affecting their own time stream. Armed with
their temporal devices, the Daleks prepared to alter Earth’s past.

Editor’s Note: We know that the Daleks have temporal engineering skills similar to those of the TimeLords (the Dalek time
capsule is bigger on the inside than the outside). We must also assume that any changes made to Earth’s past must ultimately
effect their own timeline, therefore the presents of “time buffers” is not unreasonable. We know that the TimeLords have
similar devices which prevent a TARDIS from traveling into Gallifrey’s past or future, and while these are hinted at in “Invasion of
Time” it is established in “The Three Doctors,” “The Five Doctors,” and “The Two Doctors” that travel across ones own timeline
requires enormous amounts of energy. Evidences of this is also provided by the fact that each time the Doctor visits his home
planet it is in chronological order, with the last time he had visited being mentioned. (See, “The Doctor, and Travel Within His
Own Time”).

Meanwhile, the newly reactivated units in the Dalek outer bases began to send back to Skaro the much needed raw
materials need for the reconquest the galaxy. Operating in secret, to avoid detection by the earth Federation, Dalek forces soon
approached the number they had been at before the Civil War. As the daleks slowly spread across the isolated sections of the
galaxy it was reported back to Dalek Control that they had discovered of an ape-like race living on one of the planets in the outer
systems. This was a race the Daleks could easily exploit. The Ogron race was a simple race capable of being trained into a
fighting force. Training them to act as police guards, the Daleks would not make the same ‘robotizing’ mistakes they had made
during their first invasion of Earth. Now brute force would be used to subjugate the humans. With all aspects of their plans in
place, with the temporal buffers switched on, the Daleks sent their explosive device through the vortex.
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Sir Reginald Styles and the other delegates from Earth's major powers were sitting around the conference table at Austerly
House when an explosion ripped through the structure. Styles and the other delegates were instantly killed, and nation after
nation began blaming each other for the disaster. The resulting war that took place on Earth brought about a hundred years of
killing and destruction to the surface of the planet. Seven-eights of the human population was wiped out, and Earth’s great cities
were turned to rubble. The surviving humans were reduced to the levels of animals, living in holes in the ground, starving. Their
opportunity set, the Daleks swooped down on Earth once again. Unable to resists, most of the population was forced to labor in
the Dalek factories; those too weak to work were exterminated. Resistance forces attempted to counter the Dalek invasion, but
were soon hunted down by the Ogron “police” force and destroyed. Any attempt to overthrow the Daleks became futile, as
Earth was raped of its resources and mineral wealth. Transferred back to Skaro in Dalek time ships, the Daleks began to slowly
rebuild their empire. Planets, which were protected by the Earth Federation, were now open to Dalek invasion, as the Daleks
swept across the galaxy.
Back on Earth, as the Dalek occupation continued generation after generation, the resistance groups became more and
more fanatical. Realizing that the Daleks have time travel technology, they seized on a plan to change history themselves.
Attacking Dalek Control and stealing their time-corridor technology, the resistance settled on a plan to return to 20th century
England and kill the man their history books said was responsible for starting the wars, Sir Reginald Styles.

Sitting in his study at Austerly House, diving through the endless papers which still littered his desk, Sir Reginald Styles
wished he could do nothing more than get some sleep. But the future of the world depended on his efforts to quell the
escalating conflicts. Suddenly, a gust of wind blows the study's large bay windows open. Strange, Sir Reginald thinks to himself,
he sworn he had locked those doors. Rising wearily from his seat, Sir Reginald walks over to the windows intent on shutting
them again. Suddenly, totally unexpected and without warning, a man dress in a combat uniform grabs Sir Reginald by the
throat and forces him to the floor. Picking up a strange gun, the guerilla points the barrel at Sir Reginald’s head, then vanishes
into thin air. Alarmed by the disturbance, Styles’ secretary Miss Paget, rushes into the room only to find Sir Reginald fumbling
on the floor, muttering something about ghost...

…UNIT (the United Nations Intelligence Task Force), is monitoring the world situation when word reaches Brigadier
Lethbridge-Stewart about the incident at Styles' house. Ordered to investigate, the Doctor (now exiled on Earth and in his third
incarnation), and his current assistant Jo Grant, wait inside his house; while Styles is in China arranging for the Chinese
delegation to attend the peace talks. The Doctor hopes to see if these “ghost” will make a second appearance. The guerillas
from the 22nd century attack again, capturing Jo and the Doctor, who they mistake for Styles. Jo is accidentally transported into
the 22nd century, and is lulled by the Controller, a human working for the Daleks, to gain information. Concerned over what the
rebels are trying to do, the Daleks realize they must send Ogrons back in time to attack the house.

During the attack the guerillas escape, leaving one of their number, Shura (who went to contact their base camp and never
returned), behind. They transport themselves back to their 22nd century world taking the Doctor with them. Captured by the
Ogrons, the Doctor discovers the future is ruled by the Daleks. The Daleks however, are concerned that their greatest enemy,
the "Doc-tor" is reported in the 22nd century time zone. Not recognizing his current appearance however, the Daleks submit
the TimeLord to the Mind Probe machine, forcing his to reveal his past lives. Meanwhile the guerillas have learned that the
Doctor is the one man the Daleks fear, and so a plan is devised to rescue him from Dalek Control. They attack the base,
managing to catch the Ogrons off guard, rescuing both the Doctor and Jo. Back in the ruins if London, the guerillas explain to the
Doctor that they are after Styles because in the 20th century he murdered world leaders, starting a world war, which enabled
the Daleks to conquer the Earth. They want to prevent this. The Doctor realizes however, that the real murderer was a guerilla
sent to kill Styles, Shura! Knowing how to repair things, The Doctor and Jo return to the 20th century, but the Daleks follow…

...Back at Austerly House, the Brigadier is arguing with Sir Reginald in the entrance hall. The Doctor and Jo had suddenly
reappeared insisting that their was a bomb in the house and that the house needed to be evacuated. From the RT unit at the
Brigadier’s side Sgt. Benton reports that they are unable to hold the machine creatures that have appeared by the canal.
Overriding Styles' authority, the delegates are quickly rushed from the house into the waiting automobiles. Down in the old coal
cellar, the Doctor tries to convince a feverish Shura that Styles was not responsible for starting the wars. Shura does not believe
him, until he hears the Daleks entering the house. Convinced that there is no way of rigging a timer to the Dalek explosive,
Shura insists on detonating the bomb himself. The Doctor and Jo race up the stairs from the cellar and out of the house. As the
Daleks enter Styles’ house, Shura sets off the Dalek bomb. The house goes up in a traffic explosion; the Ogrons and Dalek units
inside are destroyed. The Doctor informs Sir Reginald that his peace talks have been given a second chance.

Editors Note: There are many continuity questions that come up based on this episode. The official BBC history, as presented in
John Peel’s “The Official Doctor Who and the Daleks Book,” places “Day of the Daleks” as taking place after “Planet of the
Daleks,” but before events in “Evil of the Daleks,” which the BBC list as the last Dalek story ever. The facts within the episode,
however, contradict this order. First, the Daleks do not recognize The Doctor in his third incarnation, and in fact, at the end of
episode three, the Daleks have The Doctor in their Mind Probe machine trying to determine his identity. If they had in fact
encountered the Third Doctor previously in “Planet of the Daleks,” then this scene would not have been necessary (the episode
ends with images of the Second and then the First Doctor’s face appearing on a screen). Next, at the beginning of episode four,
once convinced of his identity, the Daleks inform the Doctor that they have used their time travel technology to chance the past
and invade Earth again. A scene was filmed but trimmed from this sequence (for time restrictions), where the Gold Dalek also
informs The Doctor that they have exterminated all of the “humanized” Daleks, which he had created. This statement clearly
places the events in “Day of the Daleks” after those from “Evil,” establishing that the latter story could not be the very last Dalek
story.

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On Skaro the Supreme Council is once again amazed by their defeat at the hands of The Doctor. Temporal disturbance
caused by the re-setting of the time lines damaged the Daleks’ vortex controls, making Dalek time-corridor travel, for a time,
impossible. Although protected by the temporal buffers on Skaro, the Dalek Empire established throughout the galaxy fades
into nothingness as the timeline is restored. The Supreme Council ponders their possibilities, but with the steady supply of
materials from Earth cut off, not to mention the reappearance of the Earth Federation, the Dalek’s choices were slim. Then
while repairing the temporal buffers, without warning, Dalek scientists picked up a disturbance in the time vortex. A TARDIS was
heading towards Skaro. This was impossible; the Supreme Council could not believe that the Doctor would be arrogant enough
to revisit Skaro. Quickly the Dalek city was placed on immediate alert, and as Daleks surrounded the targeted landing area, a tall
black shaped object materialized out of the vortex. The door to the time capsule opened, and The Master stepped from his
TARDIS.

Chapter Seven
Frontier in Space - Planet of the Daleks

The much herald return of the Daleks after a five year absence from the program in "Day of the Daleks" was not greeted
with high scores by most of the programs staunchest fans. While the overall story was sound one and well suited for the Daleks,
the overall poor production values add to the rather obviously small Dalek force (the BBC had only three working Dalek props for
that production, all painted three separate colors), made the episode look rather silly. Fortunately for the next story, the
problems that plagued the previous one were quickly overcome. “Frontier in Space/Planet of the Daleks” creates a 12 part story
arc that returned the Dalek's on screen presence to their 1960's glory. It was a much anticipated return of the Doctor’s greatest
enemy.
The teaming of the Daleks and the Master was a great innovation, allowing the Doctor to spar with the original Master for
the last time, as Roger Delgado died in June 1973. Keeping the Daleks hidden throughout the first half of the story added to the
mystery, and their appearance at the end of part six of "Frontier in Space" was a great surprise. While the before mentioned
three Daleks (one gray, one dark gray and one gold) from “Day of the Daleks” make their appearance at the end of “Frontier,”
the concluding “Planet” story line presented four newly constructed, and painted Daleks, which were added to the ranks of the
other three, which also received new paint jobs. In addition an Aaru film prop (which had been presented to Terry Nation and
used in the episode as the Dalek Supreme) made its second television appearance outfitted with jam jars for dome lights and a
flashlight for the eyepiece! The first appearance was during "The Chase" where two Daleks sporting dark domes can be seen in
the Dalek time capsule (standing next to the lift with the card board Dalek on it), to boost up their ranks. Astute views will also
notice the absence of shoulder slats (these Daleks were from the first film) and base sections, the latter being removed to make
the film props the same height as their TV counter-parts.
"Frontier/Planet” also established the connection between The Master and The Daleks that author Terrance Dicks used in
his New Adventure novel “The Eight Doctors,” to explain the situation presented in the Doctor Who FOX television movie
(unofficially titled, "The Enemy Within"). Having the Master’s “trial & execution” presented as an elaborate ploy by both the
Daleks and The Master to trap the Doctor, answers the question from the TV movie as to why the Daleks did not just
exterminate the Doctor as soon as he arrived on Skaro to collect The Master’s “ashes.” In addition the Master's defeat at the
end of "Frontier" can establish the reason for his horrible condition in “The Deadly Assassin,” as it was caused by The Daleks
“exterminating” him after his failure. This is a much better explanation than the one used in the televised episode where it is
explained that he just “used up” his regenerations. In addition the “extermination” explanation is much better that John Peel’s
explanation in “Legacy of the Daleks” where the Doctor’s granddaughter Susan is the cause for his condition. Although John’s
version does answer the question of where Susan is regarding Earth’s future history after David has died and she regenerated.
For the purposes of this tome however, it has been decided to leave this question of the Master’s fate alone for a while, as both
version (The Daleks caused it; Susan caused it), have merit.

As soon as The Master has stepped from his TARDIS the Daleks immediately arrested and transported him to a holding cell
deep within the lower chambers of Central Command. Not exactly sure if this was the Doctor or not, and completely weary of
all other races, the Supreme Council was not ready to accept this “Master’s” claims that he and he alone could bring the Daleks
ultimate power. Locking him in one of the security cells deep within the Dalek City, the Master was left to wait, while Dalek
scientists began a through examination of his TARDIS. Besides, the Daleks had more pressing problems at the moment.
Weakened when their time travel technology had been damaged by the Doctor (when he destroyed the alternate Earth
timeline), the Thals, who had been living on the outer planets of the Skaroian system, were amassing a force on their outer
frontiers. This was seen as a small problem for the Supreme Council, for Dalek forces were confidant that their numbers could
easily defeat the Thals. But soon the Thals began to attack several of the Dalek's establishments, and the Supreme Council was
faced with engaging once again, in a full-scale war with their ancestral enemies.
This however was not the only problem the daleks had to face. With the destruction of the alternate timeline, the earth
Federation returned as a serious threat to Dalek control of the galaxy. Looking for any development that would give them the
advantage, the Dalek scientific expeditions began searching their corner of the galaxy for anything that might give them the
advantage. Reports soon reached Skaro, via one of these expeditions, that the inhabitants of the planet Spiridon had developed
the technology to bend light around any object, thus perfecting individualized cloaking technology. This was something that the
Daleks could definitely use. The claims of this “Master” were unimportant for the moment, for the Supreme Council knew that
had to take advantage of this discovery. Quickly amassing a small fleet, the Daleks set off towards Spiridon.
Although an extremely hostile planet, the people of the planet Spiridon were basically peaceful. Never interested in the
mysteries of space, Spiridoian society turned their sciences toward survival on their hostile planet. What resulted was an artistic
joining of art and science in all their endeavors. Their cities were monuments to simplicity, yet functional in artistic design.
Although developing this cloaking device, they held no aggressive tendencies, and maintained little to no planetary defenses.
From high orbit above the planet, and without any warning, the Dalek fleet bombarded the surface of Spiridon with the bacteria
bombs which had served them so well in the past. Almost immediately all animal life was wiped out. Dalek attack ships
swooped down onto the Spiridoian surface, destroying all of the major cities. As soon as Dalek saucers landed on the surface of
the planet, Dalek scientists quickly began investigating the Spiridoian cloaking technology. After a few short months, all
resistance on the planet was subjugated, and Spiridon belonged to the Daleks. Armed with the Spiridoians as a new slave work
force, the Daleks quickly began to take full advantage of their new position. Concerned over the Earth Federation learning of
their presence, they quickly entombed themselves deep within the planet's surface, setting up their command base several
miles under the ruins of the Spiridoian capital city. Secured in the knowledge that the Earth forces had no idea of their conquest
of the planet, the Daleks began exploring the surface of the planet, searching for any and all raw materials that could be looted
and taken back to Skaro. As ship after ship full of plunder left the planet surface, scientists began to investigate Spiridon's
strange liquid ice core. Soon their scientists realized that Spiridon would be the perfect point from which to launch a new
conquest of the galaxy. Although the Thal threat still existed on Skaro, once again the Daleks turned their attention to the
conquest of the galaxy.
For the Thals, life on the outer planets was harsh. Survival on a day to day bases was a constant struggle. And yet, the
events of the past few years had brought hope to their nation. With Dalek space and time technology severely damaged by the
re-setting of the timelines, the Thals took the advantage to re-establish themselves in the isolated sections of the Drammankin
mountains. From there, they carried out a series of successive raids on Dalek installations.

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Throughout the galaxy the Earth Federation had begun to fragment. As the Federation expanded further into the galaxy it
became more and more impossible to quell corruption and misuse of authority along the outer fringes. As had been the case
with Rome over 4,000 years earlier, Federation policy makers struggled with the impossible task of administrating to over 100
billion life forms. Added to this the attacks on Federation outpost by bandit raiders from Galaxy 5, tensions between the
Federation members were high, and something had to give. The breaking point came during negotiations with the newly
encountered Draconian Empire.
The Draconians, a reptile like race, had been exploring their half of the Milky Way galaxy for as long as the humans from
Earth had been. An honorable and noble people, they were as nervous and mistrusting as the humans were when their two
great space fleets eventually encountered each other. Not sure what to make of each other, it was decided that a negotiating
team should from each side should meet to "introduce" themselves to each other. A mistake in judgment however, during that
first encounter resulted in the destruction of the Draconian ambassador's flagship, and war broke out. As Earth and Draconian
ships volleyed shots at each other, smaller republics within the Earth Federation 'chafed at the bit' for independence. Soon the
armed conflict came to and end, with each side agreeing to a frontier zone between the two respective empires. On Skaro, the
Daleks followed the conflict with great interest. The Dalek Prime knew that both Draconia and Earth were the two strongest
power bases in the galaxy, but if both should destroy each other, then the way would be cleared for a Dalek conquest.

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Sitting in his cell almost forgotten, The Master secretly followed the activities between Earth and Draconia with keen
interest. Soon, he knew the Daleks would be coming to see him. Meanwhile all was not going well for the Dalek scientists
assigned to unlock the secrets of the Master’s TARDIS. Having taken several weeks to just gain access to the craft, accessing the
ships systems proved impossible. Although their conquest of Spiridon had gone well (the Dalek task force stationed their was
soon approaching 10,000), the Supreme Council knew that every time they were about to achieve a major victory, the Doctor
would show up to ruin their plans. In addition the Thal problem had begun to get out of hand, as several successful raids on
Dalek outposts had secured for the Thals the secrets of Dalek trans-warp technology for their space fleet. If they were fully to
understand the secrets of the 4th dimension, find a final solution to the Thal question, and stop the Doctor, the Daleks would
finally have to deal with this Master. Armed with a team of their best scientists, the Dalek Supreme headed to the detention
area to question their prisoner.
Completely expecting the situation, the Master impressed the Dalek Supreme by revealing his entire knowledge of the
current situation between Earth and Draconia. Arguing with the Supreme Council that he and he alone could insure war
between the two empires, the Master convinced the Daleks that he could now play his part, and as a gesture of his good
intentions, he offered the Daleks the secrets of the TimeLords. Desperate to get their suckers on these secrets, they agreed to a
partnership. The Master proved true to his word, providing the Daleks with confidential information on the TimeLords,
regeneration, and the Doctor. Then he turned his attention to Dalek time technology, showing Dalek scientists how to improve
on their time corridor devices, and temporal scanners. He even went so far as to re-engineer their temporal barriers, placing
Skaro in a similar state of temporal grace as his home planet of Gallifrey. Armed with this new technology, the Daleks were
ready to conquer the universe!

Editor’s Note: We know that much of this is major conjecture, but this situation can be supported by facts within the series. We
know that the Master was working with the Daleks in “Frontier in Space,” and we also know that he had stolen several
important and confidential information from the Matrix on Gallifrey (see “Colony in Space”). In addition, after “Genesis of the
Daleks” the Daleks seem to know a lot about the Doctor, regeneration (Davros is not surprised at the Doctor's appearance in
"Resurrection"), and the TimeLords. They can even track the TARDIS in the vortex (okay something they could do during "The
Chase"), and trap it in a time corridor (something they could not do in "The Chase"). Since it is established in “Frontier in Space”
that the Master intends to control the Daleks, it is not unreasonable to believe that his ego would allow him to arm the Daleks
with all this information and technology, as he never saw them as a threat to his plans in the first place.

Assigned a unit of Ogron troops to command, The Master was given the responsibility of escalating the war between Earth
and Draconia. Despite his help with their technology, the Supreme Council still did not completely trust him. To insure his
complete loyalty, the Supreme Council held his TARDIS. The Master however, was not about to allow these “tin boxes” to hold
the upper hand, but knew that he just needed to bide his time before striking at his “allies.” Requisitioning ships and supplies,
and accompanied by his Ogron troops, the Master established his base of operation on the Ogron home planet, which was
located deep within Draconian space. Armed with a special hypnotic device of his own design (which caused humans to see
Draconians and Draconians to see humans), the Master ordered his Ogron troops to begin attacking cargo vessels of both sides
along the frontier. As the Master expected, tensions between the two empires mounted, as each side accused the other of
breaking the peace. On Spiridon, the Daleks continued amassing their invasion army, held in cryo-suspension to conserve
power. Spiridoian cloaking technology proved however, to be too costly to maintain, as the magnetic forces needed to bend
light around the travel machine destroyed the Dalek mutant inside. Unit after unit, fitted with the technology, suffered from
what Dalek scientists named “light wave sickens.” As it had been on Earth in 2174, magnetic forces were still deadly to Daleks.
Yet despite the ineffectiveness of the cloaking devices, Spiridon still sat at the perfect strategic position from which to launch
attacks on both empires. All the Daleks needed to do was wait.

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In the far reaches of space, an Earth cargo vessel slowly makes it way through the void. Just as the ship begins to enter
hyper space, a small rotating blue box appears in it's path. Jumping out of hyper space to avoid a collision, the crew notices that
the blue box has mysteriously disappeared. In the cargo hole, accompanied by a low grinding noise, the Doctor’s TARDIS
materializes...

…Almost immediately the ship is attacked by another vessel. As the Doctor and Jo emerge from the cargo hold the crew
‘see’ them as their enemies, the Draconians, the alien humanoid race rivaling Earth for control of the galaxy. The Doctor and Jo,
however, see the true face of the attackers: Ogrons! The Ogrons overpower the crew and steal its cargo, including the TARDIS.
A rescue ship, responding to the cargo crew's distress call, takes the Doctor and Jo back to Earth, where they are accused of
being Draconian spies. The Doctor protest their innocence, but neither the President of the earth Federation, nor the Draconian
ambassador believe him. Meanwhile tensions on Earth are running high, as the people demand war with Draconia. The
Draconian ambassador however, believes that the Doctor is an agent of General Williams, whom he believes wishes to start
another war with Draconia (it was Williams who had started the first war). Hoping to prove that the Doctor is, in reality, working
for General Williams, the Draconians arrange for an escape. The Doctor however has no luck convincing his Draconian captors
of the truth either.

The prison break of the Doctor by the Draconians convinces the President that he is, in fact a Draconian spy, and upon his
recapture he is exile to the Moon prison colony, where he is almost killed. But the Master, who had discovered the Doctor’s
TARDIS among the “loot” of the cargo ship, poses as a security officer and convinces the President to release both Jo and the
Doctor into his custody. While transporting his two prisoners back to his base, the three are captured by the Draconians, who
believe them to be agents’ provocateur from Earth.
On Draconia however, the Doctor is known, having helped cure a space plague while in his first incarnation. He pleads with
the Emperor to convince him that it is not Earth attacking Draconian ships, but the Emperor is not convinced. After an Ogron
attack on the Emperor's throne room, in which the Master escapes, The Doctor succeeds in convincing the Draconians of the
truth. On their way to inform Earth’s authorities of the deception, the Ogrons attack, and Jo is recaptured by the Master. Taken
to the bleak terrifying Ogron planet, the Master sets a trap for the Doctor.

Back on Earth the Doctor convinces both the President and General Williams of the truth. Lead by General Williams, the
Doctor heads toward the Ogron planet in the hopes of rescuing Jo. On their arrival however they are captured by the Master
and the true masterminds behind the whole plot: The Daleks! The Gold Dalek, who had been assigned by the Supreme Council
to monitor the Master's progress, reports back to Skaro that war should soon be breaking out between Earth and Draconia.
Satisfied, the Council then orders the Gold Dalek to proceed to Spiridon and report on the Dalek army there. Meanwhile the
Doctor, Jo, General Williams and the Draconian ambassador are all locked in cells waiting to learn their fate. Using the Master’s
hypnotic device however (which Jo had managed to steal from the renegade TimeLord), the Doctor scares off his Ogron guards
and he and the group escape. General Williams and the Draconian ambassador flee to warn Earth of the Dalek plot as Jo and the
Doctor head for the TARDIS. They are ambushed by the Master and his Ogron troops, but the Doctor switches on the hypnotic
device placing the Ogrons in a state of panic. They scatter wildly and the Doctor and Jo rush into the TARDIS, but not before the
Doctor is severely wounded by the Master.

Upon arrival on Spiridon the Gold Dalek finds everything proceeding as planned, and begins to continue its tour of Dalek
installations. Before leaving Spiridon however, the Gold Dalek radios Skaro that the Dalek task force of 10,000 is ready for
activation. Unknown to the Daleks, the radio message is intercepted by the Thals.

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...Although severely wounded, the Doctor manages to send a message to the TimeLords (asking that they send the TARDIS
after the Gold Dalek's ship), before falling into a coma. Escaping from the Ogron planet, the TARDIS materializes on the planet
Spiridon. The Doctor has not yet recovered and Jo does not know of his recuperative powers. Setting out alone to find help, she
is amazed at the varying life forms living on the planet. While examining one of the planets, her hand is sprayed by one of the
plants with a fome-like substance. Continuing to explore she stumbles upon a crashed spaceship, it's pilot dead it the controls.
Frightened, she soon learns that the ship belongs to old allies of the TimeLord, the Thals, who are on a suicide mission to destroy
the Daleks. Imploring the Thals to help the Doctor, Jo stays behind in the ship, only to discover that she has contracted a fungal
disease (growing from her hand and up her arm). Overwhelmed by the infection she passes out.
Meanwhile, Taron, the Thal expedition second-in-command, tells the Doctor, now recovered, that there are thousands of
Daleks on Spiridon, immobilized by cold but ready to become an army and conquer the Galaxy (with the unwilling help of the
Spiridon’s invisibility). While heading back to the Thals ship to recover Jo they are intersected by a Dalek patrol. Stunning the
Doctor the Daleks destroy the spacecraft, the Doctor believing Jo still inside. Saddened and unable to act, the Doctor is lead off
by the Daleks to Dalek Control. Jo however is not dead, having been rescued and cured by a friendly but invisible Spiridon
named Wester.

Inside the Dalek base, the Doctor is locked in a cell with Codal, a Thal scientist who has also been captured. On the surface
another Thal ship arrives but crashes on landing. The second ship was bringing news that the Dalek task force has reached
10,000. Determined to stop the Daleks, Taron orders a two front attack on Dalek Control, one group attacking the main
entrance, the other attacking through the ice tunnels. Back in the Dalek base the Doctor and Codal manage to escape, by
constructing a device which scrambles the Dalek machine's control circuits. Penetrating the Dalek base, the Doctor meets up
with Taron and his attack group. Exploring the lower sections of the city they soon discover the whereabouts of the Dalek army.
Meanwhile Jo, with the help of Wester, has sneaked into Dalek Control with the hope of finding the Doctor. She soon
realizes this is hopeless and decides to follow two Daleks as they attempt to locate the Thal store of explosives. In the lower
sections of the city the Daleks have located the Doctor and his party, who escape extermination by floating up a ventilation shaft
(the Doctor making a make-shift parasol). In the forest Jo and the Doctor are reunited, the Doctor is surprised to see that his
friend had survived. The Doctor then convinces Taron that they must keep the Dalek army from being activated, and a plan is
formed to attack Dalek Control.

At Dalek Command, concern over the inability to capture the Doctor and his Thal allies convinces the Supreme Council to
unleash a biological weapon that will kill all life, plant and animal, on the surface. To insure the safety of the Dalek task force,
the Dalek commander orders that all Daleks and Spiridon slave workers are to report to command to receive an immunity to the
bacteria.
Out in the forest, the Doctor, Jo and the Thals lure two Daleks into the icy waters of one of Spiridon's ice pools, the sudden
drop in temperature killing the Dalek mutants. With Rebec inside one of the Dalek machines and Taron, the Doctor and Codal
disguised in the cloaks the Spiridonians wear to ward off the cold, the group enter Dalek Control just as the bacteria is ready to
be released. Before the Doctor can act, the container containing the virus is smashed inside the Dalek laboratory, trapping the
Dalek scientists inside (the Daleks had not completed immunizing their work force yet). Jo's friend Wester had entered the lab
and given his life for his people. In the confusion the Doctor and Thals rush to the lower sections of the city. The Doctor's
determined to keep the Dalek army from activating.

Concerned over the set backs caused by the Doctor and the Thals, the Dalek Supreme arrives on Spiridon to supervise the
reactivating of their army. But the Doctor succeeds in planting a bomb in a fissure in the wall of the main chamber, reactivating
an ice volcano. The rising ice refreezes and destroys the entire Dalek army, destroying the Dalek base and trapping the Dalek
Supreme. With the Dalek threat to the galaxy ended, the Thals return to Skaro using the Dalek Supreme's spaceship, and the
Doctor takes Jo back to the 20th century.
Editor’s Note: The official BBC “history” places “Planet of the Daleks,” before the events in “Day of the Daleks” and “Evil of the
Daleks.” We feel that this placement is impossible, as the Daleks have no knowledge of the 3rd Doctor in “Day of the Daleks,”
and they should if indeed they had encountered him before in "Planet of the Daleks." We have also read some accounts that
place this story as taking place before “The Dead Planet,” suggesting that the city bound Daleks shown in the first story are all
that are left after the Dalek Civil War. But this also is impossible. In "Planet of the Daleks" the Thals know of the Doctor as
"something out of [their] legends," where he and three companions, Barbara, Ian and Susan, helped the Thals defeat the Daleks
long ago. It is our guess that the confusion in the placement of these episodes comes from the Doctor's guess that he and Jo
have arrived in the 26th Century. Another example of the production teams arbitrarily choosing of dates in which to set the
adventures.

Chapter Eight
Death to the Daleks - Seven Keys to Doomsday

June of 1974 was an interesting time for Doctor Who. Jon Pertwee, the longest serving Doctor at that point had left the
program, and the search for a new Doctor to replace him was on. Although Tom Baker would eventually appear in the role of
the Timelord in December, the TV hiatus between Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker saw the second Dalek stage play produced for the
Christmas season. And as news of Tom Bakers casting had yet to be announced ("Robot" was filmed soon after "Planet of the
Spiders"), it was a simple matter to cast a different actor in the part of the Doctor. And so, one early December morning in 1974,
at the Adelphi Theater in London, Trevor Martin, dressed in Pertwee’s outfit (suggesting that he had just regenerated), stumbled
out of the TARDIS, and “Doctor Who and the Daleks in Seven Keys to Doomsday” began. The story was written by outgoing
script editor Terrance Dicks, and established many of the plot points that Dicks would re-use in his “Brain of Morbius” story for
Tom Baker. The play ran for four weeks before touring the country until April 1975, but due to IRA bomb threats in London at
that time attendance at Christmas plays were very poor. Of course it would not be keeping with “canon” to suggest that there
was another Doctor between Pertwee and Baker, and as with the two Doctor Who films, I have simply taken the plot points
from the stage production and changed it to fit the Third Doctor and Sarah Jane. I hope you enjoy! –JRR

With both the Dalek Supreme and the Dalek task-force stranded on Spiridon, the Dalek plan to invade the Earth Federation
had been delayed, but not defeated. From the planet's surface, the Dalek Supreme radioed to the orbiting transport crafts to
send a rescue ship. A rescue shuttle was dispatched, and the Dalek Supreme returned to Skaro as salvage operations began to
un-earth the buried army.
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On Skaro the Thals celebrated their victory, unaware of the fate that the Daleks had in store for them. Frustrated with their
own (as well as The Master's), failure, the Supreme Council decided that their only remaining course of action was genocide! If
the Daleks could not conquer all life forms in the galaxy, then they would exterminate them. But first, they had to take care of
The Master! As part of his plan to earn the Daleks trust, The Master had provided the Daleks with a storehouse of technological
advances, and a wealth of information; all stolen from the Matrix on Gallifrey. Using the temporal scanning devices that he
himself gave to them, the Daleks tracked down the Master's TARDIS, trapping it on the planet Tersurus. Under-estimating their
resolve, The Master was totally unprepared for the Dalek attack. Using their temporal engineering skills the Dalek task-force
trapped the Master's TARDIS in a relative temporal loop, trapping him for all time. Or so they though.

Editor's Note: After his appearance in "Frontier In Space" actor Roger Delgado was killed in an auto accident while filming in
Spain. The character of The Master would not be seen again in Doctor Who until the Tom Baker episode "The Deadly Assassin,"
where he was portrayed in a decaying form by Peter Pratt. There have been many explanations to account for the Master's
condition. The on air explanation was that he had just used up his 12 regeneration's and was just at the end of his life. When
Terrance Dicks novelized the story he explained The Master's condition as a result of forced regeneration by the Master's own
doing for disguises. Recently John Peel put forward an interesting explanation in his novel "Legacy of the Daleks," where The
Master returns to 22nd century Earth 30 years after the Dalek Invasion. There he reactivates a Dalek factory (referred to in the
story as a Dalek Artifact) in order to steal a Dalek transmuter. Susan, now working for Earth Security as a Peace Officer, is sent to
investigate and encounters the Master (as well as her grandfather in his 8th incarnation). David is killed by the Master who
steals the transmuter and forces Susan into his TARDIS, not knowing that she too is a TimeLord. Over come with grief and anger
at the death of her husband, Susan uses the telepathic circuits of the Master's TARDIS to attack him, then shooting him with the
Tissue Compression Eliminator, which causes the transmuter to explode, destroying the Master's body. Susan leaves the Master
on Tersurus (where Goth finds him) and takes off in the Master's TARDIS. While an interesting plot (and explaining what
happened to Susan), the story has far to many continuity flaws, and it is easier to just invasion that the Daleks hunted down the
Master and "exterminated" him for his failure to start the Earth/Draconian war.

Now with The Master out of the way the Daleks began work on their plan to rid the universe of all other life forms save their
own. To that end they began working on two separate courses of attack. The first was an expansion of their viral technologies,
which they had originally used to subjugate Earth and recently attempted to use on Spiridon. Dalek scientists began working to
re-engineer their bio-weapons, creating the ultimate virus. The second line of attack concerned information provided to the
Daleks by The Master. The Daleks now attacked that information with a vengeance, amassing reams of data on temporal
physics, Timelord physiology, and universal theory. It was through these efforts that they learned of the planet Karn. According
to the Timelord data banks, the inhabitants of Karn had destroyed themselves thousands of years past by creating an ultimate
weapon. This device, when activated, could drain all the living energy from everything in its path. Powered by the Crystals of All
Power, the inhabitants had used the weapon, turning Karn into a wasteland. The only surviving creatures, according to the
databank, were a spices known as the Clawrantulars. Realizing that this race was no mach for the Daleks, plans were made to
invade Karn and secure this weapon.
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Meanwhile, on Spiridon, Dalek units charged with the recovery of the Dalek army soon realized that the task was
impossible. Abandoning the planet to the remaining Spirdoians, the task force headed back towards Skaro. However, while in
deep space, the Dalek ships were attacked by an unknown force and destroyed, leaving only debris for the Federation Patrol
ships to ponder over. Back on Skaro, scientists had completed the re engineering of their viral infection. This new strain was
totally infectious and lethal, but unlike the version produced on Spiridon, it would not infect the Dalek mutant. Now ready for
tests, the Daleks released the virus into the Skaroian atmosphere. Within days the Thal population began to die. Sickness and
death ran rapid through Thal society; the few remaining Thal cities became ghost towns, as the bodies of the dead piled higher
and higher. The Thals were once again driven off the planet, and retreated to the bases set up long ago on the outer planets.
Satisfied with the results of the test, the Dalek Prime ordered the infestation of the Earth Federation. Armed with the virus, a
small Dalek patrol ship left Skaro and headed out towards the outer rim of Federation territory. Loyal to the point of obsession,
the three Daleks piloting the ship were ordered to crash onto the surface of the remote Federation trading outpost, Kryron. The
crash drew the attention of the SSS, and investigators at the crash site were unknowingly infected with the Dalek virus.
Returning to the outpost headquarters with their findings, the investigation teams unwillingly transmitted the virus to out going
transport ships. Carrying cargo, minerals and the infection, the cargo ships spread the Dalek virus throughout the Federation.
Soon an unknown disease infected outpost after outpost along the outer rim, and a plague quickly swept through the outer
systems.
On Skaro the Dalek Prime was pleased that the plan was proceeding as expected. Although concerned by the loss of the
Spiridon expedition, the outer worlds of the Federation were falling to the virus. Dalek estimates put the fall of the Federation
at four years. At that point the entire Federation would have weaken enough so that conquest would be possible. The Daleks
once again began building a space fleet. As system after system fell victim to the Dalek plague, Federation scientists were
unable to discover the source, let alone the cure of the virus. Soon it looked as if the inner worlds were about to succumb to the
infection too. All outlook for the Federation was grim, until one day, while working desperately to find a cure, a scientists
stationed on one of the outer system planets discovered that the mineral parrinium, when processed, could be used as an
antidote as well as granting immunity to the virus. But parrinium was rare on Earth, and the outlook of producing enough serum
was grim. Fortunately a survey satellite scanning uncharted systems along the Draconian/Federation frontier detected a large
supply of parrinium on the desolate planet Exxilon, home of a savagely hostile and degenerate race.
A Marine Space Corps medical unit was dispatched at once, but soon ran into trouble when all power to their ship was
suddenly drained as they approached the planet. Managing to land, the crew was immediately attacked by the Exxilons and
their captain was wounded. Forced to set up a temporary base, the remaining crew began the slow process of mining the
parrinium by hand, while constantly keeping a look out for hostile attacks. Back on Skaro the Dalek Prime realized that the
discovery of parrinium could upset the Dalek plan. But instead of being upset by this new development, the Dalek Prime saw
this as a way to further Dalek control in the galaxy. A special Dalek task force was dispatched to Exxilon, their orders simple,
under the guise that the Daleks themselves were suffering from the same plague, the task force was to secure the parrinium, kill
the Earth medical force and then infect the planet with the virus (thus making it useless as a source of parrinium). The Supreme
Council, instead of using force to control the galaxy, would blackmail the Federation into submission. Plans were complete and
soon the Dalek force left Skaro, on Exxilon however, the Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith, his new traveling companion, arrived...

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…On Exxilon, the Exxilons have rejected all technology since their perfect, automated City expelled them. The Doctor and
Sarah are on their way to a holiday on Florana when the TARDIS is forced to land on the surface, drained of its power. While
exploring their surrounding the Doctor is captured by the Exxilons and taken prisoner. The natives also try to capture Sarah, but
she manages to fend off one of her attackers and finds herself wandering around the alien planet. Meanwhile the Doctor is
rescued by a Marine Space Corps' medical force which had been set to the planet to mine parrinium. Their leader, Commander
Stewart was wounded in an attack by the natives and so Lieutenant Peter Hamilton has taken charge. Meanwhile Sarah has
wandered towards the ancient city, where is captured by the Exxilons, who worship the City, and is sentenced to death by the
High Priest.

Back at the medical unit's base, the Doctor is told about the space plague which has ravaged the outer systems and is about
to suggest a way out of their situation when the sounds of the Earth relief ship is heard. Excited by the prospect of being
rescued Hamilton, the Doctor and the rest of the medical unit, Dan Galloway, Jill Tarrant and Richard Railton, race to the landing
site, leaving Commander Stewart alone. At the landing site they soon discover, to their horror, that the ship that has just landed
is not from Earth, but from Skaro. The Daleks exit their ship gun sticks blazing. But the Daleks are affected by the same power
loss that has stranded the TARDIS and the Earth ship, and the Daleks find their weapons useless. Claiming that several of their
own planets are suffering from the same plague, an uneasy alliance is formed between all parties brokered by the Doctor, who
warns the medical unit not to trust them. On there was back to the mine workings the group is attacked and Hamilton is killed.
The Daleks try to exterminate their attackers but the noise from their useless guns only anger the Exxilons who attack and
destroy a Dalek unit. All are captured by the Exxilons and are brought to their temple just as Sarah is about to be sacrificed.
Attacking the High Priest, the Doctor is subdued and all are placed in a cell.
Back at the Dalek ship, the reaming Daleks perfect a projectile weapon which is then mounted in place of their normal gun
stick. The weapon proves effective when two natives try and attack the Dalek ship and are immediately gunned down. Rearmed
the Daleks set out to conquer the planet. Back in the cave both the Doctor and Sarah are about to be sacrificed, but escape
down a tunnel just as several Daleks, now armed with the projectile weapons, enter the temple firing.

While exploring the tunnel system the Doctor and Sarah encounter Bellal, a friendly Exxilon who is a member of a
breakaway group that no longer worships the City. The Doctor realizes that it is the city that is the cause of the planet wide
power drain and convinces Bellal to help him break into the City. On the surface the Daleks have forced both the Exxilons and
the medical unit personal to mine for the parrinium, while a special force investigates the city. With Sarah's help, Jill steals the
parrinium from the Daleks and loads it onto her ship. Inside the city, the Daleks are close behind the Doctor and Bellal, who
must pass a series of test created by the City’s in order to pass through into the control center. Once there the city intends to
add them to it's library of knowledge. Rewiring the major circuits of the main computer however, the Doctor manages to
destroy the computer’s higher brain functions and the City begins to crumble. With power restored the Daleks reveal their real
plan and depart. Galloway, who was willing to do anything to get the parrinium, sacrifices his life to blow up the Dalek
spaceship, saving the precious antidote for Humanity…
Editor's Note: When episode one of "Death to the Daleks" was first aired on February 23rd, 1974 television audiences saw the
Daleks restored to their silver look not used since "Evil of the Daleks" aired in 1967. For this story the three working props on
hand at the BBC were repainted and fitted with new gun-sticks, representing the Dalek's ability to think their way out of the
problems presented in the story. In addition the Dalek Saucer seen in this episode is based on earlier designs, giving the
production an air of uniformity with the 60s stories.

...When the Dalek ship exploded as it left Exxilon's orbit, the Federation received the much needed parrinium, and was able
to stop the Dalek plague. The Dalek plan to invade the galaxy was once again delayed, but only for a short while. Soon reports
reached the Dalek Prime that the Dalek task force sent to Karn has successfully secured the planet, and that the race of
Clawrantulars have been completely subjugated.

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Meanwhile the activity of the Daleks had drawn the interests of the TimeLords. Since coming to their attention during the
Doctor’s trial on Gallifrey (the Second Doctor mentions his battles with the Daleks during his trial), the TimeLords had taken a
modest interest in their activities. Wishing to remain true to their doctrine of non-interference, they had hardly interfered with
Dalek plans. Even when information was provided to them that The Master had turned over several of their secrets to the
Daleks, they chose not to see this as serious enough to break their sacred laws. But recent events in galactic history had shown
the TimeLords that the Daleks were becoming a very dangerous race. Scrutinizing them a little more closely they noticed that
the Daleks had taken a sudden interest in the ruins on the planet Karn. Quickly they discovered their plans to harness the power
of the Crystals of Karn. This, the TimeLords were not about to allow, and the Celestial Intervention Agency was called into
session. Realizing that the Doctor was familiar with Karn they contacted him...

…Karn is a ruined planet, once the center of a great empire. The inhabitants had quarreled and the empire had died in
flames. The Doctor, who had taken one crystal during a previous visit to the planet, now shows the crystal to Sarah, and
explains to her that they must find six more exactly like it. While on the surface they meet Jedak, Tara and Garm, survivors of a
mysterious alien attack.

Editor’s Note: As the original play was produced during the TV hiatus between Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker, the Doctor was
given two new companions Jenny and Jimmy, who are sitting in the audience at the opening of the play and rush up on stage to
help the newly regenerated Doctor. I have replaced them here with Sarah so not to confuse the continuity within the program.

The ferocious Clawrantulars roam the planet, but the adventures manage to find two more crystals. Garm has the second
and the third the Doctor finds in the ruins. While heading deeper into the ruins they are attacked by the Clawrantulars and
Garm is killed, but not before they discover the fourth crystal. Inside the city, the only remaining piece of technology that
remains working is the Master Computer, which learns of the alien intrusion and becomes interested in them. Learning what
they are looking for the computer shows them that it has one of the crystals, but was programmed by the Masters of Karn to kill
any who try to assemble the Crystal of All Power. It also reveals that one of the Grand Masters still lives. The Doctor confuses
the computer allowing them to escape with its crystal.
The Doctor suspects that the Masters of Karn broke up the Great Crystal to prevent its misuse. Realizing that the
Clawrantulars are working for someone who wants to reassemble it, the Doctor hopes to convince the last Master that it is
better left with the TimeLords for safekeeping. Jedak finds another crystal, making a total of six (though the first is safe in the
TARDIS). Realizing that they need the Doctor if they are to assemble all seven crystals, the Daleks reveal themselves. To escape,
the Doctor sends Jedak and Tara off in one direction to try to find the Great Hall, while he and Sarah head off in another. The
Doctor confronts the Grand Master and is forced to fight a mental duel with him for the final crystal. The Doctor wins. The
Daleks arrive wanting the crystals, so the Doctor scatters six of them and the Daleks are distracted long enough for him and
Sarah to escape to the TARDIS.
The Daleks need the final crystal, and know that the Doctor will try to get the others back. Jedak stages a mock attack to
occupy the Daleks. The Doctor manages to kill the guard Dalek and Sarah takes its place inside the travel machine. Getting them
into the Dalek base Sarah is captured and taken to the Black Dalek.

Editor’s Note: In the original play Jenny is taken to the Emperor Dalek, who is heard but not seen. However I have chosen to
replace him here with the Black Dalek because it was established in "Evil of the Daleks" that the Emperor was destroyed during
the Civil War, and in fact is not mentioned again in the series until "Remembrance of the Daleks," where it is revealed that
Davros has taken over that mantle.

The Doctor discovers that Tara has been telling the Daleks what has been happening. They have captured her brother,
Marko, and threatened to kill him unless she helps them. The doctor and his companions rescue Sarah and Marko, who know
the Dalek plan to reactivate the Ultimate Weapon. The Doctor slips into the room where it is stored but the Daleks attack.
Marko is killed and the rest captured. To save them, the Doctor is forced to turn over the final crystal, but he has used the
TARDIS to change its molecular structure. With the seven Crystal of All Power assembled the Daleks activate the weapon. The
Ultimate Weapon blows up, destroying the Daleks. The Doctor and Sarah escape, taking Jedak and Tara back to their home
world.

In Dalek Central Control on Skaro, the Dalek Prime and Dalek Supreme pondered over their loss once again at the hands of
the Doctor. It was decided that if Dalek plans were to move forward then the Doctor must be eliminated once and for all. With
orders given to the scientific units, the Daleks began to enhance their temporal technologies so that they could not only be able
to track the Doctor’s presence within the vortex, as they had done so before ("The Chase"), but also divert or possibly capture
his TARDIS. As work began on enhancing their temporal barriers a problem was quickly discovered. Someone or something was
attempting to alter Dalek history. All of Skaro was put on high alert as the Daleks prepared to face their greatest challenge,
interference with their very genesis by the TimeLords!

Chapter Nine
Genesis of the Daleks - The Vortex Crystal

There is a theory that says that if time travel were possible, it would be impossible to change the major events of history.
That while it might be possible to change the small events (keep someone from dying in an auto accident, prevent someone
from getting on a doom airliner, etc.); it would be impossible to alter major ones. The major events, the theory goes, are so
ingrained within the “Web of Time,” to use a phrase from the series, that they are unchangeable. Therefore if one could, let’s
say, travel back to the early 20th century when Hitler was still a boy, it would be impossible to kill him. History, the universe,
God, nature, whatever you wished to call it would prevent you undermining the flow of time. The gun would jam, you’d be
arrested, you’d die in an auto accident, something would keep you from killing Hitler, and history would move on.
With this in mind it is not unreasonable to establish that regardless of the TimeLords intervention to prevent the Daleks
creation, it was bound to fail. “Genesis of the Daleks” is one of the finest stories ever filmed for “Doctor Who.” It was conceived
when then leaving producer Barry Letts and script editor Terrance Dicks rejected Terry Nation’s submitted 12th season script as
being “too much like his previous stories written for Jon Pertwee.” It was Letts who suggested that Nation depict the creation of
the Daleks, a suggestion that the writer was more than happy to produce.
Nation had twice before rewritten the Daleks origins (see Davros, Daleks and the Questions of Their Origins), but instead of
reusing any of these, Nation decided to once again pen a different version, while trying not to contradict the original version.
Unfortunately the task of not contradicting his original story written 11 years before proved to be an impossible one, and
“Genesis of the Daleks” does indeed change several of the points that were established in “The Daleks.” One of the more
obvious was the changing of the Daleks original species name from Dal to Kaled. This was done to allow Kaled to be an anagram
of Dalek (a fact the Doctor mentions in the episode). Another was allowing the Daleks total mobility upon the Skardoian surface
where it was first established that they could originally move only along the metal floors of their cities (drawing power from the
floor). Of course the most glaring change came in the creation of Davros, the twisted, brilliant scientist who creates the
creatures of hate. “The Daleks” had established that the mutative process that changed the Dals had taken hundreds of years,
with the travel machines being used to “protect” the Dals from the radiation. “Genesis” establishes that Davros himself
genetically engineered the Dalek mutants.
 For the re-telling of the story here I have decided not to stick to the literal synopsis of “Genesis of the Daleks,” but have
taken certain aspects from both the original television version of “The Daleks,” while touching on their creation as established in
the TV21 comics. Therefore the reader should not be surprised to see references to the Kaleds and Dals, as well as the scientist
Yarvelling, who was the Dalek creator in the comics. -JRR

Skaro. A thousand years ago.

The surface of the planet lies in ruin. The once majestic cities, their towers reaching towards the sky, their museums crammed
with generation after generation of learning, all are rubble on the ground. Once lush forests, vast fields, mighty rivers, all lie
dying, caked with decay. A thousand years of war has taken its toll on the planet, and hardly anything survives. On a small
battlefield just west of the Drammankin mountain range, two figures, clocked in long black robes, survey the devastation. They
are TimeLords from the planet Gallifrey, and they have traveled back to this point in the universe’s history to advert total
destruction. But they do not agree these two travelers in the fourth dimension. For thousands of years, every since the days of
Rassilon, the TimeLords have been contented to watch the events of time unfold, never interfering, never meddling in other’s
affairs. Ever since their encounter with the Minyans, where TimeLord interference brought the end of an entire civilization, they
have done nothing but watched the injustices of the universe. Now they were about to break their greatest laws, their greatest
traditions, and the two could not agree.
For years, ever since they became aware of their existence, the TimeLords have watched the Daleks. The petty actions of
this mutated race were of little concern to Gallifrey. But upon the Daleks attempts to reassemble the Karn Keys of Doom, the
TimeLords could no longer just sit back and take no notice. Scanning the time streams and employing the power of the Matrix,
they foresaw a time when the Daleks would eliminate all other forms of life in the universe, and become the dominant species.
This they just could not allow. And so, after much debate, it was agreed. They would return to a time just before the Daleks
were created. At best, they would alter their development so that they evolved into less aggressive creatures. At worst,
genocide would be the only course left open to them. Of course, when the TimeLords said, “they would return,” they of course,
meant The Doctor. And so, after agreeing upon the course of action, after seeing that the space and time coordinates were
correct, the second TimeLord leaves the first on that rocky plane, and sends word back to Gallifrey to send for the Doctor.

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…Having recently regenerated, the Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith, and Harry Sullivan (their newest traveling companion) have
recently defeated a plot by the Sontarans to invade Earth in the far future. Intersecting the transmat beam returning the time
travelers to the space station where the TARDIS was waiting, the TimeLords send them to the planet Skaro at a time when the
war between the Thals and Dals is reaching its final stage. The Doctor’s mission is to prevent the birth of the dreaded Daleks,
who evolved out of this war. The Doctor of course refuses to cooperate, complaining that he was tired of the constant
interference by the TimeLords into his lives. But his fellow TimeLord convinces the Doctor of the importance of the mission and
he reluctantly agrees. Hunted by both sides in this war-torn world, the Doctor and Harry are separated from Sarah and
eventually become prisoners of the Kaleds, allies of the Dal nation. Taken to "The Bunker," a special underground scientific base
set up by the Dal government to create weapons to end the war, the pair are searched, and the Time Ring which the TimeLords
have given the Doctor that will return them to the TARDIS, is confiscated. The pair are then passed along to Ronson for
interrogation, and it is while undergoing this interrogation that the pair encounter Davros, the brilliant Kaled scientist who was
crippled when a Thal atomic shell hit his lab.

Editor's Note: It is never mentioned in the episode how Davros became crippled, however Terrance Dicks in his novelization of
the story has Ronson tell the Doctor about the atomic shell. Another interesting point which is ignored in both the episode and
book is when Davros first introduces a "Mark III travel machine," to the waiting scientist. As the Dalek enters the Doctor
mentions to Harry, "a Dalek, primitive, but unmistakably a Dalek." The problem is that this "primitive Dalek" is a standard gray
model (one of three the BBC used for shooting) complete with shoulder slats, rounded dome lights and an irs in the middle of
the eye-stalk. The effect would have worked much better if the production team had re-designed the Daleks to look more like
their early 60s counterparts.

Davros was one of the leading Kaled scientists, and had worked closely with the top Dal scientist Yarvelling, to the develop a
travel machine to house the creature into which their race, genetically mutated by centuries of warfare, would eventually
evolve. But where Yarvelling (who had passed away some 50 years before) worked in the Dal Capital City and was content with
insuring the survival of his race, Davros had become obsessed by his own creations, and thus engineered into them destructive
powers and a ruthless intelligence, which were not part of the original design. These travel machines are destined to become
the Daleks!
Meanwhile Sarah, who was captured in the wastelands and mistaken for a muto (the name given to the genetically wounded),
has been taken to the Thal dome and forced to work loading explosives into the nose cone of their last great rocket. With it, the
Thals hope to shatter the Kaled City dome and win the war. Sarah leads a revolt, and almost escapes with the help of a muto
named Sevrin. But the two are captured and forced returned to the work.

Back in the Bunker the Doctor soon learns that Ronson and other members of the scientific elite are concerned by Davros' work.
Taking advantage of this the Doctor convinces Ronson to help Harry and himself escape. Escaping from the Bunker through a
ventilation duct, the Doctor and Harry cross the wastelands towards the Kaled Dome and warn the Kaled government of Davros’
intentions. It is at this meeting that they learn of Sarah's capture at the hands of the Thals, and the two set off to rescue her.

At the Bunker, Davros is ordered by the Kaled government to stop all experiments until a full investigation into his work
can be conducted. Davros agrees, but in his determination to preserve the Daleks, helps the Thals to destroy his own people.
While exploring the Thal Dome in search of Sarah, the Doctor and harry discover Davros and Nider (his assistant) conversing with
the leaders of the Thal government. davros has given the Thals the formula that will weaken the Kaled dome, and armed with
this information, they prepare to set off their super-missile. Breaking into the rocket control area the Doctor and harry rescue
Sarah, and the Doctor sends the two off to warn the Kaleds as he tries to sabotage the missile. Despite the Doctor’s efforts to
sabotage the rocket, the Thals launch their missile and destroy the Kaled City. The Doctor is devastated believing that he has
sent Harry and sarah to their deaths. back in the Bunker, Davros and the surviving scientist watch the destruction of their city is
stunned disbelief. Vowing revenge, Davros uses the Daleks, now fully operational, to first kill Ronson, who he knows helped the
doctor escape, and then to attack the Thal Dome. As the Doctor exits the Thal city he witnesses the Daleks begin their mission
to wipe out the Thals.

In the Dal Capital however, news of the destruction of their Kaled allies brings despair to the Dal government, and a final
plan is put into action. Meanwhile, the Doctor, heading back toward the Bunker in the hopes of completing his mission, run into
Sarah and Harry, who never made it to the Kaled dome. The three return through the ventilation duct only to be captured by
Davros, who had just foiled the first step in a plan to overthrow him. Wiring Sarah and Harry to torture devices, the Doctor is
forced to tell Davros of every future Dalek defeat. Davros, who had believed that no life existed outside of the Skardoian
system, becomes even more obsessed with making the Daleks all-powerful, and insuring his own survival. But Davros has
underestimated the resolve of the scientists who are horrified by the work they are doing and believe his work is immoral.
Helping the time travelers to escape, the Doctor helps to lead a revolt against Davros is doing. However he refuses to destroy
the Daleks when he has the chance on the grounds that it would be genocide. Confronted by the revolting scientists, Davros
pretends to give in, but he is only buying time for his Daleks to return from the Thal Dome. As Davros confronts his captors, the
Doctor, Sarah and Harry reclaim the Time Ring and follow Nider to Davros' office, where the Doctor forces Nider to hand over
the tape containing all the future information on the Daleks. As the Doctor uses a Dalek Blaster to destroy the tape Nider runs
from the room locking the time travelers in the office. Activating a monitor screen which looks onto the main lab, the three are
horrified to see Davros use the Daleks to destroy those remaining Kaled and Dals who oppose him.

Out in the wastelands, some Thals have survived, and they plan to blow-up the entrance to the Bunker. Sevrin however,
insist on finding Sarah first, and sets off into the Bunker. Finding the time travelers locked in Davros' office, Sevrin releases them
and the group run for their lives with the Daleks in close pursuit. Just making it to the entrance, the Thals set off their bombs,
entombing Davros in the fortified bunker, which has become his final refuge. Here the Daleks turn on Davros, first killing Nider,
then the remaining loyal scientists, and finally turning on him. Davros desperately tries to activate the self destruction device,
but the Daleks destroy him. Sarah believes they have failed in their mission, but the Doctor tells her that even from the Daleks a
greater good will eventually emerge. Whisked away from Skaro by the Time Ring, the travelers disappear...

Faced with defeat over the destruction of the Bunker, the remaining Dal survivors in the old capital retreat to the survival
chambers deep under the city, then launch one last neutron bomb. The radiation released destroys most of the remaining life
on the planet, including most of the mutations and surviving Thals. Using machines (built as weapons of war by Yarvelling) as a
travel device and sort of mobile home, the surviving Dals believe they have escaped the effects of the radiation. In the
wastelands, gathering as much of their technology as they could carry, the surviving Thals make for the outer reaches of the
Skardoian continent in the hopes of surviving.

Editor's Note: At the end of “Genesis of the Daleks” the Doctor mentions to Sarah that they have delayed Dalek plans by 1,000
years. We know however that this, in fact, cannot be the case. Altering Dalek history would also mean altering the Doctor’s
own history, as surly if the Daleks had been delayed 1,000 years then they would not have been in any condition to present a
threat to the Thals when the Doctor, Barbara, Ian and Susan first encountered them outside the Dal City. In addition if one
accepts John Peel’s account that the Daleks seen in the first story were of a different type from those in the Bunker (Peel
suggests that those were Mark I machines, built and abandoned by Davros before he designed the Mark IIIs), then altering the
timeline would mean that all events which take place after “The Daleks” would still have been delayed, and the Doctor would
not have encountered them on Earth in 2164, on Vulcan, on Spiridon, etc. What one can assume however, and this is major
conjecture, is that the only effect of the Doctor’s interference was directly related to the survival of Davros. It is established in
the first episode that the people of Skaro had no knowledge of other life in the universe until the TimeLord and the humans
arrived. Armed with this knowledge it is not unreasonable to believe that Davros, obsessed with the Daleks becoming all-
powerful, took steps to insure his own survival and quickly refitted into his life support unit a cryo device. According to Terry
Nation it was originally intended at the end of episode six to show a single light still flashing on Davros’ chair, indicating that he
had survived being “exterminated,” but the scene was cut at the last minute. Either way it is not unreasonable to assume that
up until the Doctor’s interference Davros had originally been killed, but now survived.

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Skaro. The present day.

Skaro is on full alert. All Dalek installations, all Dalek bases, all Dalek cities, are on heightened security. The TimeLords have
attempted to interfere with Dalek history. In Dalek Central Command the Dalek Prime examines the reams of readouts and
information placed before him. All the evidence points to a temporal transgression into Skaro’s past. And yet, the Dalek Prime
knows that nothing has changed. Building on the technology procured from The Master, Dalek temporal scanners register the
interference, but also indicate that Dalek history has not been altered. The Dalek Prime however, is not taking any chances.
With Skaro kept on heightened alert, the Dalek Prime orders all scientific units not engaged with the conquest of the galaxy to
begin an intensified investigation into Skaro’s past. The littlest thing, the most minor of alterations from known established
history, are to be reported to him at once.
All throughout the Dalek's territories scientific units begin pouring through hundreds and hundreds of data spheres, re-
examining their history. Vast computer complexes throughout their empire stream year after year after year of Dal, Thal and
Kaled history. The Dal/Thal war is gone over, the Thal attack on The Bunker, Yarvelling’s development of the travel machine,
Davros’ attempts at genetic alterations, the explosion of the Neutron bomb, all of their history is closely examined. All is gone
over, and throughout all of it, nothing is changed. Except for one small detail. In an obscure reference to one of Davros’
experiments, the Doctor is mentioned! This causes a panic throughout the Supreme Council. The Dalek Prime is livid. If the
Doctor can travel into Skaro’s past once to try and destroy the Daleks, what is to keep him from doing it a second time? The
Doctor, the Dalek Prime realizes, must be stopped once and for all.
The Dalek Prime quickly orders that all temporal scanning devices be trained on locating the Doctor’s TARDIS. In addition,
Dalek scientists begin the construction of a Time Probe. The Dalek plan would be simple, using their scanners and the Time
Probe, they would rip into and through the Time Vortex to intercept where the Doctor’s TARDIS was about to materialize. Once
that point was located they would move into position, and as the TARDIS materialized, exterminate the Doctor. Unfortunately
although the plan was a sound one, the Daleks were not prepared for what they found. As they begin their temporal scanning,
they quickly discover an abnormality, a kind of inverse wave-form that suggest great power. Intrigued, the Daleks focus the
Time Probe onto the wave.

The storm that rages through the vortex horrified the Dalek scientists. Wave after wave of time distortion threaten to
destroy the very fabric of space-time. Although divided as to the very nature of the disturbance (some Dalek scientists believed
that this was a natural occurrence, while others an unnatural one) one thing seemed certain, the storm seemed bent on sucking
the universe into some kind of entropic whirlpool. Determined to fine the cause of the distortions they soon discovered that
the inverse wave-form, which was creating the disturbance, was centered on the planet Gathwyr.
Earth colonized Gathwyr during its imperial period. Originally a mining colony, it had been abandoned for centuries as the
Earth Federation slowly broke apart. The inhabitants, while slipping back technology a bit without Federation influence, did
manage to develop a fairly advanced civilization. Somehow, the people of Gathwyr have learned to manipulate time, and their
experiments were now a direct threat to Dalek plans. Arriving in one of their typical assault ships, Dalek task forces quickly
destroy the coastal cities of Gathwyr, subduing the human population. With their ship safely secured within an underground
cavern, the Daleks set themselves up as the Master’s of Gathwyr, and begin their search for the cause of the temporal
distortion.

Editor’s Note: There have been many Doctor Who adventures both presented in book and comic form. During the mid-1980s
several tabletop and role-playing games made their appearance both in Great Britain and America. “Doctor Who and the Vortex
Crystal” was written by William H. Keith Jr. and published by FASA Corporation in 1986 (producers of the popular: "The Doctor
Who Role Playing Game"). The book was a Solo-Play Adventure Game, which required the reader to make certain decisions
while reading the story. This would affect the course of events and eventual out come. Thereby the story is never exactly the
same twice. In addition, like popular role-playing games of the time, the reader was required to gather clues, improve skills and
engage in conflicts which were determined either by the roll of a dice, or by randomly flipping through the pages of the book
(which all had numbers placed in their upper corners). The Doctor is portrayed in his fourth incarnation and his companions for
the story are Sarah Jane Smith and Harry Sullivan (a second book/game, “Doctor Who and the Rebel’s Gamble” featured the
Sixth Doctor and Peri). This would place the story as taking place after “Revenge of the Cybermen” but before “Terror of the
Zygons” as Harry leaves the TARDIS at the latter story. The cover artwork features a nicely done painting of the Doctor (in his
burgundy outfit!) and Sarah, overlaid by a scene of Daleks attacking the pair. This unfortunately ruins the so called "secret” of
the invaders of Gathwyr, as the reader already knows it is the Daleks. I have included it here as part of the history for two
reasons. First, it is a good story, drawing many of the plot elements from the actual series and past episodes. Second, it does
represent the only encounter by the Fourth Doctor with the Daleks without Davros. The synopsis of the story is based on several
“played” variations tied together.

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…While traveling back toward 20th century Earth, the Doctor, Sarah and Harry encounter a storm within the vortex.
Alarmed by the severity of the disturbance, the Doctor programs the TARDIS to trace the source of the disruption. Landing on
Gathwyr, the time travelers soon discover the remains of 100 bodies laid out over a charred battlefield. All are dressed in battle
uniforms and were killed by high-energy weapons. Exploring the fog-shrouded landscape further, the three are captured by the
security forces of General Kolav. The Doctor manages to escape, but Sarah and Harry are led off to the city fortress of Tharesti.
Knowing that he must rescue his companions and still discover the source of the temporal disturbance, the Doctor decides to
seek the help of the rebel group, whose soldiers he and his companions had discovered dead on the Great Plains. Led by Latham,
the Doctor learns that Gathwyr has been invaded, and that these “Masters,” have spent the last few years exploring the site of
the legendary Eternal City.
Intrigued, the Doctor learns that for hundreds of years the legends of Gathwyr tell of a mysterious lost city, the Eternal City,
which only appears in the mountains every few years. The inhabitants are supposed to have great powers, controlling nature
itself. Hoping that either these invaders, or the inhabitants of this Eternal City hold the answer to the time distortions (and
wanting to find Harry and Sarah), the Doctor convinces the rebels to help him sneak into Tharesti. Lead through a cave system
that connects to the back of the city by a young rebel named Elanin, the Doctor is captured (Elanin is working for Kolav, who is
holding the boy’s family), and taken to the Tower of the Masters. Locked in a small medieval like cell, the Doctor is about to be
interrogated by Kolav and his security men, only to be interrupted by the true face of the invaders of Gathwyr, the Daleks!

The Daleks quickly take the Doctor onboard their spaceship, but the do not exterminate him. Instead they offer him a deal.
The Daleks too have been led to Gathwyr by the same temporal disturbances, but unable to find the source themselves, the
Daleks want the Doctor to help them. If he cooperates, they inform him, he and his companions will be free to leave Gathwyr.
Knowing that he cannot trust them, the Doctor makes a break for freedom while still inside the Dalek ship. Exploring the cargo
bays he soon discovers several Dalek casings in extreme stages of decay. Exploring further the Doctor locates the engine room,
where he manages to sabotage the propulsion unit before he is re-captured. Again however, he is not exterminated, as the
Daleks simply repeat their offer. Realizing that whatever is powerful enough to frighten the Daleks into aligning themselves with
a TimeLord must be very dangerous, and knowing that his companions are hostages, the Doctor agrees to their plan.
Escorted aboard a trans-solar disc, the Doctor and several Daleks head out towards the badlands west of the city of Tharesti.
Sitting in the middle of high peaks is a perfectly circular desolate valley, littered with shards of crumbled stone and patches of
scrub vegetation. Scattered along the floor of the valley are the remains of a Dalek army, all decaying and worn, several
hundreds of years old. The Doctor is amazed to discover that Daleks have been on Gathwyr for hundreds of years, and wonders
why Latham failed to mention this fact. The Daleks however, inform him that the patrol is only a few days old. Only then does
the Doctor realize the severity of the situation. Something or someone on this planet is able to accelerate time. Knowing that he
will find no answers here, the Doctor convinces the Daleks to return him to his TARDIS. With Sarah and Harry as hostages
against the Doctor escaping, the Daleks agree.

On board the TARDIS, the Doctor materializes back within the valley close to the location of temporal disturbance, where he
witnesses a Dalek patrol being withered and aged by a time storm. The strange perfectly circular shape of the valley suggests to
the Doctor that this is the location of the Eternal City, but where was it? Realizing that the city itself has been taken out of time,
the Doctor reprograms the TARDIS to materialize two seconds ahead of “now’ in the space-time vortex. The TARDIS lands in the
center of a gleaming crystal metropolis.
Exploring the temple-like building at the center of the city the Doctor is captured by the Servants of the Vortex Crystal and
brought before the alter, a two-meter tall column of polished crystal housing a Kronovore, a creature who lives within the vortex
itself. The Doctor quickly remembers his encounter with Kronos, a Kronovore used by The Master to destroy Atlantis. Forced to
engage in a mental battle of wills, the Doctor learns that this Kronovore, Kali, trapped within the crystal for thousands of years
and discovered by the first colonist of the planet, is using the Dalek’s temporal scanning devices as a beachhead to gain its
freedom. It is of no concern to Kali if the universe is in danger.
Weakened by Kali’s attacks, the Doctor gathers the last of his strength, and makes one final mental attack. This stuns Kali,
who is unprepared for the TimeLord’s mental powers, giving the Doctor enough time to escape to the TARDIS. Regaining its wits,
Kali begins to gather temporal forces to attack the TARDIS, but once inside, the Doctor creates a time loop around the temple,
trapping Kali. With Kali’s power broken, the Eternal City returns to the normal universe, but it has aged millennia in that return,
and has instantly crumbled to dust.

With the threat to the universe averted, the Doctor materializes the TARDIS in the center of the rebel camp. There is a rush
of activity as the Doctor learns of their intentions to attack the city of Tharesti (it seems a raiding party has returned with a
number of bombs). The Doctor informs Latham that an all out attack on Dalek defenses would be suicide, and convinces him
and his men to attack the Daleks from within. Taking a small raiding party armed with high explosives into the TARDIS, the
Doctor materializes onboard the Dalek spaceship within a few feet of the Dalek Bridge. As the rebels attack, the Doctor frees
Sarah and Harry, then aids in the destruction of the power unit controlling the force field around the city. Latham and the rest
of his army rust into the city. Learning that most of the Dalek forces have already been destroyed by Kali’s time distortions, the
travelers depart, leaving Latham and his men to finish off the few remaining Daleks.
Chapter Ten
The Movellan/Dalek Wars - Destiny of the Daleks

“Destiny of the Daleks” first aired on September 1st, 1979. It marked the return of the Doctor’s greatest adversaries after a
five year absence. Besides suffering from the obvious lack of budget, "Destiny of the Daleks" presents us with a very interesting
point in Dalek history. From a purely historical point in the programs history, "Destiny" presents us with the only time the 4th
Doctor encounters the Daleks within their current time line, allowing the Daleks knowledge of his 4th incarnation. The problem
one encounters with "Destiny" however, is placing the actual events in the televised episode within Dalek history. Are the
events in "Destiny" soon after their last encounter with the Third Doctor? Or soon after the events in "Genesis?"
In the episode the Doctor clearly states that the Daleks had ravaged Skaro and abandoned it, and in fact, in “Remembrance
of the Daleks” the 7th Doctor also comments that the Daleks are returning to Skaro. But it is hard to envision the Daleks ever
actually leaving Skaro, thought a mass exodus may have taken place during their war against the Movellans. So the problem
that arises with “Destiny” is, when exactly does the story takes place. If we are to take a literal account that the consequences
in "Genesis" are true, then the Daleks remained buried within the Bunker for almost 1000 years. Therefore Davros, pushed off
to the side somewhere, remained in suspension all that time. If in fact that was the case then surely wouldn't one of the Daleks
have noticed that his body was not decaying? Would they have not investigated his life support unit? Or are we to assume that
they just piled the bodies (including Davros) into some disused section of the Bunker and forgot about them? The episode itself
gives no indication of this, and implies that the Daleks ravaged the Bunker and escaped soon after the events in “Genesis.” Of
course is it possible that the Daleks used their time technology to travel back into their own past to retrieve Davros soon after
the events in "Genesis." That might explain why Davros' systems were able to survive, why Skaro seemed devastated, and why
the radiation levels were so high when the Doctor and Romana showed up. Unfortunately this theory would then dictate that
the current Daleks would encounter their ancestors trapped in the Bunker. After all, if they arrived after the original Daleks
escaped from the Bunker, then based on events from "The Dead Planet" through "Planet of the Daleks," we know that the
Daleks were still on Skaro. Surly one of these Daleks would have noticed a group of Daleks from the future running around the
old Kaled City. In addition if we assume that the Daleks did in fact travel back into their past to retrieve Davros, then how did
the Movellans follow them? Are we to assume that the Movellans too, have time travel capabilities?
This would be the last Dalek story penned by Terry Nation, and his inclusion of Davros mirrors his vision to give the Daleks a
spokesmen. Terry had always said that he never intended to kill Davros off, and while the re-introduction of Davros provides an
interesting twist in the plot, "Destiny" marks what many consider to be a turning point for the Daleks as an adversary. The poor
condition of the Dalek props themselves, linked with not too spectacular special effects and poor production values only adds to
fact that from this point on in the show's history, the Daleks take second place to Davros. -JRR

With the Vortex Crystal destroyed, the Dalek Prime ordered the re-commencement of Dalek time probe experiments within
the Vortex. The loss of the expedition on Gathwyr and the interference by the Doctor were of little concern to him at the
moment. The Doctor did, after all, solve the problem of the time distortions, and the losses of so many Dalek units were
acceptable ones. For the Daleks, they would soon learn how to track the TARDIS’ movements, and soon trap the Doctor.

In space, the Dalek fleet continued to put pressure on both Earth and Draconian terrorizes, as planets along the borders fell
to their forces. On the ancient world of Anhaut, a Dalek raiding party was secretly smuggled onto the planet. The task force of
25 Daleks almost destroyed the civilization this time, before being stopped by the same telepathic weapon which destroyed the
Dalek's first invasion 800 years before. Yet with each minor set back the Daleks made great gains. Soon, the Dalek Empire
began to control more and more of the galaxy.
Back on Earth, concern over the ever increasing Dalek advances was causing pressure to be placed on the Federation Council.
Most humans began to question the very need for the Federation, their argument being that since Earth provides the military
might which protects the Federation, Earth should have a bigger say in what goes on in that Federation. The New Earth System,
as it came to be called, was quickly set up alone the outer rim of Federation space. They believed that the current losses to the
Daleks were directly linked to “alien pacifist element” which existed within the council. The Federation Council of course, was
opposed to this notion, and developed a number of plans they had hoped will appease the New Earth System followers, and give
them an edge against the Daleks.
Working with long-range matter transmitters, Federation scientist and tacticians developed the concept of the Dalek Killer,
or D-K for short. Criminals, convicted of the most serious crimes, were given a choice; death, or become a D-K. Using these
open-ended long-range transmat beams, D-Ks were transported deep within Dalek territory. Their mission was a simple one; act
as guerillas and kill as many Daleks as possible before being killed themselves. Although a minor annoyance to the Daleks, the
D-Ks did give Earth a slight tactical advantage. Yet despite the work of the D-Ks, the Daleks continued to push their advantage,
and worlds like Werelok soon fell to their might. Yet as xenophobic fears continued to grow on Earth, the Daleks seized on an
opportunity to attack the Federation. Taking genetic material from several of their conquered races and using their recently
subjugated Werelok slaves as an attack force, the Daleks invaded the New Earth System territories. Their plan, to use the
system as a staging point, and breeding ground for a new Dalek race. Unfortunately before the operation could be completed,
the task force was destroyed.
Editor's note: In the mid-1970s "Doctor Who Weekly" began running a regular comic series featuring the 4th Doctor. Eventually
the magazine evolved into "Doctor Who Monthly" (now Doctor Who Magazine) and several of the comics were reprinted for
release in America beginning October 1984. As would be expected, several of these stories featured the Daleks, the most
notable being "Abslom Daak: Dalek Killer." Unfortunately the "Abslom Daak" installments were the only serious treatments the
Daleks would get in the series.
For example, the story for "Return of the Daleks" centered on film producer Glax's intention to make a picture about the
Dalek invasion of his home planet Anhaut, and their defeat at the hands of their greatest general Nor-Din, 800 years in the past.
Unbeknown to him, an Anhaut woman named Kuay, who has been enslaved by the Daleks, smuggles a Dalek task force onto the
planet, and the Daleks attack as filming begins. When Anhaut's army is unable to stop the Daleks, Glax and his lead actor Hok
Nepo head out into the dessert to try and find the weapon Nor-Din used to defeat the Daleks 800 years before. Kuay follows
them, leading the Dalek task force to Glax and Hok Nepo's position. The Daleks are eventually defeated when Kuay breaks the
mental control the Daleks have over her and uses the weapon created by Nor-Din, which destroys the Dalek's neural
connections. Unfortunately the weapon also drains her life-force and she dies. While this story was at least treated with some
respect, the next installment, 'Doctor Who and the Dogs of Doom," was not.
The story featured the 4th Doctor, K-9, and Sharon's (the Doctor's traveling companion for the comics) involvement with the
New Earth System (a planetary system on the other side of the galaxy). The system's planets, with names such as Davy Crockett,
Queen Victoria, New Yugoslavia, etc., are being attacked by the Werelok's; wolf-like creatures which have the ability to turn their
victims into other Wereloks. The TARDIS arrives on the cargo carrier Spacehog just as it's being attacked. With the help of K-9
the Werelok's are driven off the ship, but not before the Werelok leader, Brill, infects the Doctor. The Doctor turns into a
Werelok and attacks Sharon. Gaining control of himself the Doctor locks himself in the TARDIS to work on a cure. He cures
himself in time to learn that the true "masters" of the Wereloks are the Daleks. The Daleks destroy both Queen Victoria and
New Yugoslavia, and New Earth realizes that they have no way of stopping them. The Doctor convinces the New Earth
government to allow him to infiltrate the Dalek ship and work from the inside. With the Werelok leader Brill, who the Doctor
hypnotized into believing he is on their side, the TARDIS materializes onboard the Dalek ship, where the Doctor and Brill are
immediately captured. There the Doctor learns that the Daleks have been capturing several of the more viscous races in the
galaxy and holding them in a giant zoo. Their intentions are to sterilize the New Earth system and use it as a breeding ground for
a new Dalek race. A race which will be genetically enhanced with the best attributes of their captured creatures. K-9, who had
accompanied the Doctor and Brill attacks the Daleks, releasing the captured creatures. The creatures immediately turn on the
Daleks! The Doctor then uses the TARDIS to trap the Dalek task force and their Werelok warriors in a time loop, saving the New
Earth system.
It could be claimed that "Doctor Who and the Dogs of Doom" takes place before the events in the "Key to Time" series (thus
allowing for the Doctor and K-9 to have another traveling companion before Romana), and while the basic concept behind the
story was well though out, the execution of the story was too child-like, and filled with way too many continuity points for
serious inclusion here.

Meanwhile, in Dalek Central Control, the Supreme Council was becoming aware that a number of Dalek deep space patrols
had gone missing. Since only a small percentage of these can be attributed to Earth or Draconian forces, the Dalek Supreme
ordered an immediate investigation, dispatching a Dalek task force towards the rim of Dalek/Draconian space. As the task force
approached the last transmitted position of their patrols, they were attacked by unknown forces.
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On the outer rim of Draconian space a small undignified planet orbited a small white star. The planet, once the home of a
very advanced humanoid like species, was dead. The star, which had burnt out thousands of years earlier, had destroyed all
organic life that existed on the planet. Only the technology survived. And while the robots took on the tall handsome
appearance of their long dead creators, they were nothing like the peace loving Movellan race that spawned them. With the
knowledge of their creators and convinced of their own superiority, the Movellans intended to bring order to the galaxy, and put
an end to the illogical rule of organic life. Armed with the space crafts of their creators, the Movellans lashed out into space, and
stumbled right into Dalek advance forces.

Editor's Note: It is of course possible that the Movellans, having created the perfect robot, were destroyed by their creations,
their creations finding organic life too illogical to survive. It is never explained how the Movellans developed, where they
originated from or who created then (although John Peel has some interesting theories). It is only established in the series that
they are perfect examples of the humanoid form, they are robotic and that they too want to conquer the galaxy. We are
assuming however, that their form must mimic the form of their creators (why would you make an advanced robot that did not
look like you?), and that since it is the robots who are venturing out into the universe, then their creators must be dead.

The Dalek task force put up a terrific fight, but the Movellans forces were their equals. Each fleet out maneuvered each
other, striking sever blows on each other's bases. Time and time again the battle lines moved toward Skardoian, and then
Movellan space, as both fleets encountered heavy loses. Finally realizing the futility of the situation both fleets retreated to
establish better positions.
The news of this new threat enraged the Supreme Council, as no one race was supposed to challenge the supremacy of the
Daleks. The Dalek fleet, once earmarked for the invasion of the galaxy, was now committed to exterminating the Movellans. A
great exodus was about to be undertaken by Dalek society. Gathering all of their forces, the Daleks abandoned Skaro on mass,
leaving only a small expeditionary force behind. Lead by the Dalek Prime, who seized this opportunity to declare himself the
new Emperor, the Dalek task force headed towards the Draconian boarder.
The Movellan fleet also waited on mass for the Daleks. And as the two space fleets approached within firing range of each
other, only a few shots were fired. And then nothing happened. Dalek and Movellan battle computers, analyzing the situation
to provide the moment of greatest advantage, crippled both forces in a logical impasse. For hundreds of years the battle fleets
just floated in space, poised at each other, but never firing a single shot.

On Earth, the break-up of the Federation continued slowly, as more purist groups, loyal to the human race and the human
race alone, insisted that a new empire be born. As the Earth Empire slowly replaced the old Federation, the Dalek threat was
forgotten, as little notice was given to two space fleets staring at each other along the outer rim of the galaxy. as more years
past, Both Dalek and Movellan forces became desperate to find an advantage. As each fleet's moves were countered by the
other, the Supreme Council, unable to provide an answer to the problem, was destroyed, and a new Supreme Council, inheriting
the stalemate, tried desperately to come up with ways to break the impasse. Each move was planned and re-planned, only to
be countered by the Movellan force.
Looking for a clue from their previous conquests, the new Supreme Council began to realize that the answers to this
problem may lie in the past. Once again they re-examined the old Dal archives, and it is in these archive, hidden and forgotten
for thousands of years, that the Daleks made an important discovery. One of the chief scientists in charge of the Bunker, a Kaled
named Davros, who had performed genetic experiments during the war, might still be alive! The records indicated that his life
support system (which had been moved into an unused section of the Bunker along with several other Dal scientist bodies) had
been equipped with an experimental suspension system used for deep space travel. From this information the Emperor is
convinced that this Davros' life support unit was still functioning after all this time. If the Daleks could find Davros and revive
him, they could use him to break the impasse. But records from their Dal days were scare, as most of the plans to the planet's
original layout had been destroyed. The Daleks had a general idea of where the Bunker was located, but not how to retrieve
Davros. But as this seemed their only hope, the Daleks knew they had to try.
From deep space, a Dalek task force was ordered back to Skaro. Supplied with prisoners taken in Dalek raids on old
Federation outposts, the Dalek task force was ordered to search for the Bunker. Un-noticed by the Daleks, a Movellan space
ship had followed them. On Earth, the Federation had faded away to be replaced by the Earth Empire. Convinced of their
superiority, humans now spread across the galaxy exploiting the other species.
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On Skaro, the Daleks begin their search for the Bunker. A small expeditionary force locates the old Thal workings (from
when the Thals had opened the Bunker) and reactivates it. Fortuity for the Daleks, the old equipment and lighting systems are
still working. Although the collapsed entrance sections were cleared by the Thals hundred of years ago, the Daleks must still dig
their way through the rock and slate of the Skaroian crust in order to reach their objective, the third level. The third, or main
level was the location which housed all the laboratories, and where, hundreds of years ago, the surviving Daleks exterminated
the Dal and Kaled scientists who worked with them. It is on the third level that the Daleks hope to find their objective; the Kaled
scientist, Davros. Out along the frontier the Dalek fleet remained locked in a stalemate with the Movellan force.

…In order to escape the Black Guardian the Doctor fits the TARDIS with a randomizer, a device wired into the navigation
system, which will randomly choose the ships destination (and thus keep the Black Guardian from finding them). As the Doctor
tinkers with K-9’s circuits, Romana, the Doctor’s current traveling companion who also happens to be a TimeLord, regenerates,
adopting the likeness of Princess Astra of Atrios. Relying on the randomizer the TARDIS lands on the desolate planet of Skaro,
although the Doctor is unaware of this. Intrigued by evidence of drilling operations deep underground the Doctor and Romana
explore the remains of an old city.

While investigating, the Doctor is trapped in a collapsed building, and Romana returns to the TARDIS to get K-9. On her way
the drilling causes an earthquake, which buries the TARDIS. Meanwhile the Doctor is rescued by the Movellans, a race of
beautiful humanoids led by Commander Sharrel. Taken to their spacecraft for questioning the Doctor discovers that he is once
again on Skaro, and that the Movellans are at war with the Daleks. Meanwhile Romana, returning to the city to find the Doctor
missing, is captured by the Daleks, and put to work with the other enslaved humans working on Skaro for some unknown
purpose.
An escaped prisoner, Tyssan, is captured by Movellan scouts, and leads the Doctor and the Movellans to the Daleks
underground control center. There the Doctor discovers that they are in the remains of the old Kaled dome, and that the Daleks
are drilling into the Bunker. The Doctor has a bad feeling about what the Daleks are looking for, but is unable to explain his fears
to his companions, as they are discovered by the Daleks. Chased through the tunnels the Doctor discovers the body of Lan,
Commander Sharrel’s second-in-command, who was guarding the tunnels but killed by the Daleks. Before he can examine the
body he is rushed away by Sharrel. Once back on the surface the Doctor finds Romana, who has escaped from the Dalek's mine
by stopping her hearts and pretending to be dead.
 Knowing of a direct way into the Bunker from the city, the Doctor, leads Romana, Tyssan and Agella, another Movellan,
into the Bunker where they discover what the Daleks were seeking all the time: Davros. Suddenly the drilling starts up again and
the roof caves in, burying Agella in debris. Having been kept alive by his life-support system Davros revives and the Doctor takes
him prisoner. Unable to get Davros back to the Movellan ship the Doctor sends Romana to seek Commander Sharrel's help.
While he waits he informs Davros of the history of the universe since he's been asleep, but Davros is only interested in ranting
about his future conquests. Meanwhile the Daleks have discovered the Doctor's hiding place, and begin exterminating prisoners
until the Doctor surrenders. Wiring an explosive device to Davros' chair, the Doctor escapes as the Daleks rescue Davros. Back
on the Movellan ship, Romana learns that Commander Sharrel already knows about Davros, and plans to capture the Doctor.
Insisting that he tell her how he knows about Davros, Romana is shocked to see both Agella and Lan, both alive again. Romana
is quickly taken prisoner. Using her as bait, the Movellans capture the Doctor, who has figured out that the Movellans are a race
of robots, intent on the conquest of the galaxy themselves.

Aboard their ship the Doctor and Romana learn that the Movellans are merciless and logical, and that they have been
fighting the Daleks for centuries, but a stalemate has been reached. The Daleks need Davros to gain an advantage and the
Movellans plan to use the Doctor. Satisfied with the Doctor’s capture, the Movellans plan to destroy the surface of Skaro by
setting off the Nova Device. Once activated, the Nova Device will burn off Skaro's atmosphere. Back in the Dalek control
chamber Davros has armed several Daleks with explosives, their mission, to destroy the Movellan ship.

Meanwhile Tyssan, who has learned how to re-program each Movellan from the Doctor, leads the escaped slaves in an
attack on the Movellan ship. Although over powered, the Doctor used a sonic device (a dog whistle) to jam the Movellan control
network, thus deactivating them. The Doctor then departs to deal with Davros. Soon however, Romana realizes that
Commander Sharrel is missing, and that he must be trying to activate the Nova Device. She sets out after him, managing to
deactivate Sharrel only moments before he sets off the device. Back at the Movellan ship, the Dalek task force begins its attack.

Entering the Dalek base, the Doctor is confronted by the Dalek commander, who is the only Dalek left to guard Davros.
Using the few remaining bombs in the command center, the Doctor destroys the Dalek and forces Davros into detonating his
task force before they are in position. Tyssan takes Davros prisoner back to Earth as the Doctor and Romana uncover the
TARDIS and leave Skaro…

Editors Note: There are several changes made within “Destiny of the Daleks” especially when compared to “Genesis.”
Throughout the story it is inferred that the Daleks are tunneling through the ruins of “their old city,” and the Bunker and Kaled
Dome so prominent in “Genesis of the Daleks” are never mentioned. The Daleks are also referred to as robots by the Doctor,
inferring that all aspects of their physical form have been replaced. Of all the problems facing this episode one of the most
glaring problems with “Destiny of the Daleks” are the poor production values. The Daleks themselves, for instance, are in their
worst possible condition and several quick and noticeable repairs had to be performed (like drilling dowels into the dome
sections to keep the dome in place). The most obvious problem with the production however, is the very noticeable placement
of stage lights throughout the Dalek underground set (these are tri-pod mounted lights with the power cord hanging off the back
commonly used in a photographers studio). An example of this is most notable at the end of episode one in the scene right after
Romana has fallen down the shaft and is examining the wall. The set light (power cord and all) sits right in front of her, clearly in
the shot, shinning right onto her face. As to why the director allowed such shots to be included may forever be a mystery. It
could be argued that the Daleks had placed these lights there as they excavated the tunnels, but the room in which Romana
finds herself in has not yet been entered by the Daleks (who break through the wall in what is at first an impressive scene, but
quickly falls apart as being stupid upon close examination. Could they not find the door?). I have however, come up with the
theory that the lights are in fact left over from the time that the Thals first excavated The Bunker, and that the Dalek control
room itself was the main staging area originally used by the Thal archaeologists. The problem with this theory however, is that
while this may support the argument that it was the Thals who released the Daleks from the Bunker in the first place, it would
also suggest that Thal technology was very, very, good (if they had created a lighting system which still worked after thousands
of years).

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News of the capture of Davros, a scientist claiming to be the creator of the Daleks, sent political shock waves throughout
the galaxy. Several of the outer federations, as well as the Draconian Empire itself, demanded extradition rights so that Davros
could stand trial for war crimes. The debate became so heated that, and fears at an attempt to kidnap or assassinate Davros
were so strong that the SSS was forced to deploy two task forces to escort the ship carrying Davros back to Earth. Eventually it
was agreed that a tribunal of several worlds will convene on Earth, and Davros was immediately put on trial.
As the only surviving Skaroian scientist, he was accused of war crimes against not only Earth, but also all of galactic creation.
Refusing any council or representation, witness after witness came forward from several of the outer worlds to give testimony
against the Dalek crimes. Davros continued to give no defense, convinced of his own superiority. His only statement amounted
to the right of the Dal and Kaled races for self preservation, and the natural tendency and right for the mutant strain of the
Daleks to rule over others. Watch throughout the Empire, Davros' trial did not last long, and the evil genus was sentenced to
indefinite cryo suspension.
Out in space, the Daleks followed the proceedings with disdained interest, fully aware that there was nothing they could
do. The constant stalemate between the Dalek and Movellan fleets made a rescue raid on the Earth impossible. Upon his
conviction Davros was transferred to a prison station deep within Earth space, locked in suspension. For the Daleks, at least for
the moment, Davros was no longer a concern. What was of immediate concern was the capture of the Doctor. For too long the
Doctor had been a problem to the Daleks, and this most recent interference with the retrieval of Davros once again pushed
home the need to destroy him. Although Dalek time corridor experiments had continued during the Movellan War, they were
far from complete. However Dalek time probes had improved over time, and the Supreme Council was convinced that they
could now not only track, but also capture the TARDIS.
Returning to Skaro with a small force, the Emperor ordered the activation of the Time Probe. Soon the TARDIS was detected
within the vortex. Fine-tuning their probes, the Daleks quickly try to snare the TARDIS within a time corridor. But the attempt
failed, and the TARDIS, instead of becoming trapped within the corridor, bounced off of it. It dropped out of the vortex
somewhere in the 22nd century time zone. The location; Earth during the Dalek invasion. This at first caused little concern for
the Emperor, until a radio message from the fleet brought disturbing news.

Chapter Eleven
The Mutant Phase - Resurrection of the Daleks

The problem with time travel, ever since H.G. Wells came up with the concept in “The Time Machine,” is that no matter how
hard one tries, eventually one finds oneself faced with what has now become know as a time paradox. And the problem with
time paradoxes is that they, on the most part, never make sense. Let’s take “The Time Machine” itself for instance. As Mr.
Well’s machine was static (traveling through time only and not space), surly as his time traveler moved back from the future into
his own present, he would encounter his own self moving forward in time? For example, if I were to stand in one position in my
apartment, and travel forward a number of years, and then, without changing that position, move backwards in time to my
starting date, wouldn’t I encounter myself traveling forward in time (as The Beatles did in "Yellow Submarine")? In the 2002 film
version of “The Time Machine,” we are shown a scene of the end of the world devastated by Morlocks. Determined to prevent
this, the time traveler decides to return to the world of the Eloi and help them create a better life. It is suggested that his efforts
will create a better future. However if he succeeds, and events of the future are changed, then would he not “see” a different
future when he finally arrives millions of years ahead? Sure it could be argued that he had already seen the future, but if he
changes the past then surly he must alter the future. Now let’s say that the future he now travels to is the perfect paradise he
had been looking for. Might he now choose to stay in that time? And if he does decide to stay in that time, never returning to
the time of the Eloi, has he not just altered the past? Having never traveled back to help the Eloi, has he not in fact destroyed
the future he helped to create? Time paradoxes like these inevitably exist in every time travel story ever written and Doctor
Who is no stranger to them (surely if the Time Lords could send the Second Doctor on a mission in “The Two Doctors” they could
have just as easily arrested him then, instead of waiting for him to reveal his position in the “War Games").
The other problem with a time paradox is that once it has corrected itself, the events of that paradox cease to exist. And if
they cease to exist, did they ever really take place at all? Which brings us to our first Big Finish Audio production, ‘The Mutant
Phase,” written by Nicholas Briggs. The story concerns a paradox, created by the Dalek’s attempts to trap the TARDIS in a time
corridor. The events in the story eventually work themselves out, and the course of history (or the web of time as the 8th
Doctor would put it), is restored. It is interesting that Big Finish decided to release their fist Dalek Empire audio series in reverse
order, chronicling a story of the Seventh Doctor’s encounter with the Daleks first, then the Sixth’s and finally the Fifth. While
both the Sixth and Seventh Doctor’s encounters fit nicely within the history of the televised program, the Fifth Doctor’s
encounter exists only within the confines of this time paradox, and technically, since the paradox works itself out, never really
happened. At least from the Daleks point-of-view. -JRR
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With Davros securely in the hands of the Earth Empire, the Dalek and Movellan space fleets continued to via with each
other for the best possible position, each totally impotent. As Dalek strategist tried desperately to break the impasse, Dalek
attempts to trap the Doctor’s TARDIS within a time corridor fail (the TARDIS having bounced off it and landing on 22nd century
Earth). The Supreme Council showed little concern at their loss in capturing the Doctor, and returned their attention to winning
the Movellan War. Unnoticed however, something strange was beginning to happen to the Dalek race.
Within the boundaries of Dalek space, a lone outpost monitored communications between the Earth and Draconian
Empires, radioing any and all information gained back to Dalek Central Control in space. Only a small force led by the Emperor
remained on Skaro at this time. And yet all was not well with the Daleks units stationed at the outpost. A strange and unknown
disease had broken out among the Daleks, and slowly, the Daleks began to change. At first the changes were hardly noticeable,
slurred speech and movement. But then the Dal mutant slowly began to loose its ability to control the Dalek machine itself,
until finally, all cerebral and physical control broke down, as the Daleks went insane. Dalek medics quickly tried to contain the
disease, but they too became infected, and soon all word from the outpost was lost. Quickly this “sickness” began to spread, as
more and more parts of the Empire fell to the disease.
Back in Dalek Central Command however, little concern was given to the loss of a few outposts, until word reached the
Supreme Council that both the Dalek and Movellan fleets have been suddenly wiped out! The Emperor immediately ordered all
of Dalek society on high alert, as plans were made to counter and destroy this new menace. But soon it became apparent that
there was no defense, for the enemy which decimated the Dalek fleet, the enemy which destroyed the Movellans, the enemy
which was currently ripping a path of destruction across the galaxy, were Daleks themselves. Only these Daleks no longer
resembled any Dalek that had ever lived. Mutated way beyond their already mutated humanoid form, these Daleks were insect-
like, followed a hive mentality, and were completely deadly to the touch. No matter how hard Dalek scientists tried, the sickness
that caused this mutation continued to spread, and more and more Daleks succumbed to it. Soon all of the Dalek Empire, and
Skaro itself was at risk. The Mutant Phase had begun.
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…In the 43rd century, the Thal deep space exploration ship Dyoni, is examining the devastation wrought along the various
space trade routes. Professor Ptolem is amazed at the extent of destruction, as world after world that the ship visits are totally
destroyed. Suddenly, the ship’s long-range scanners pick up what is believed to be a massive planet-size life form heading their
way. As it draws near Ptolem and Ganatus, the ship’s commander, realizes that the life form is in reality 100 billion individual
creatures swarming together and moving at super light speed. Unable to avoid the swarm and caught in the swarm's wake, the
Dyoni is dragged across the galaxy arriving in orbit around Skaro. As Ptolem and Ganatus watch, the creatures completely
disappear.

Having bounced off the Dalek time corridor the Doctor, now in his Fifth incarnation and Nyssa, his traveling companion, find
themselves in a wasp infested wheat field in 22nd century America, where Nyssa is stung by a wasp. The Doctor is desperate to
leave at once, knowing that the world of the 22nd century is ruled by the Daleks. But before he and Nyssa can return to the ship
a RoboMan confronts them. The Doctor tries to talk his way out of capture, but the RoboMan, confused and totally loyal to his
masters, quickly summons a Dalek. The Dalek, arriving on a Trans-Solar Disc, confronts the TimeLord. Taking advantage of the
Dalek’s battle-damaged condition however, the time travelers escape into the TARDIS, only to dematerialize and be caught
within the time corridor.

Several years have passed, and Professor Ptolem braves the frozen wastelands that have become 43rd century Earth. The
Thal mission is to take soil samples, and help the few remaining humans living in underground survival chambers. Back on the
Dyoni, Ganatus informs Ptolem that the Doctor has been traced to Earth in the 22nd century time zone. Monitoring the vortex,
Ptolem and Ganatus watch as the TARDIS leaves the 22nd century time zone and is dragged by the time corridor towards their
ship in the 43rd century. Anticipating the Doctor’s arrival, a Dalek time capsule materializes onboard the Dyoni, and Ptolem and
Ganatus greet their allies.

The Doctor however, attempts to re-materialize the TARDIS in an attempt to alter the ship’s coordinates and materialize
away from the waiting Daleks. Succeeding in his attempt, the TARDIS materializes within the humans' survival chamber. Back
onboard the Dyoni, the Daleks are alerted to the Doctor’s escape, but before they can act, one of their numbers begins to
mutate. The remaining Daleks wish to destroy their infected comrade, but Professor Ptolem insists that the creature be taken
for study.

Within the human's bunker, the Doctor and Nyssa meet Albert, Delores, and Professor Karl Hendryk, who informs the
Doctor of the Earth’s destruction at the hands of "The Swarm." When inquiring as to how the creatures were defeated, Hendryk
informs the Doctor that they just suddenly died off, but not before “sucking the life” out of the planet. Elsewhere in the bunker
Nyssa discovers that Albert is working for the Daleks, who has informed the Daleks of the Doctors whereabouts.
On Skaro, the last vestige of Dalek control is under siege. Mutated Daleks continue to invade the confines of the Dalek city,
and nothing the Supreme Conical tries seems to work, as the creatures are able to absorb all energies focused against them.
Desperate to find an answer, the Dalek Supreme orders the immediate capture of the Doctor.
Editor’s Note: Although not directly mentioned, it is suggested that a considerable amount of time has passed between the time
the ‘Dyoni’ was first dragged to Skaro and it’s arrival on Earth, as the Thals are working with the Daleks to find a cure. This is the
first time the Thals are used in the series since their last appearance in “Planet of the Daleks,” back in 1974. The presence of
their exploration ship suggests that their race had survived, alas not on Skaro.
 Out on the surface, Ptolem, Ganatus and a Dalek task force enter the human’s bunker and capture the Doctor. Albert,
Delores, and Hendryk are exterminated, and the Daleks threaten Nyssa unless the Doctor agrees to return to Skaro with them.
Back on the Thal ship, the Dalek continues to mutate into the insect-like creature. Breaking from its containment chamber, it
proceeds to attack the ship, and the Doctor is forced to take the Thals and Daleks into the TARDIS.
With the Daleks in control of his TARDIS, Ptolem informs the Doctor of the recent events in Dalek history, and how Earth
was the only planet in which the creatures had died. The Daleks want the Doctor to discover why the creatures died on Earth,
and if possible, to eliminate the Mutant Phase. Somehow the Doctor senses that these events are wrong, but agrees to help out
in the hopes of discovering exactly what is going on. Arriving on Skaro the Doctor is taken to see the Emperor, but not before
asking Ptolem to examine Nyssa’s sting wound. Learning of the exact nature of the mutation from the Emperor, the Doctor
discovers that the genetic mutation first appeared in the Dalek DNA record during their invasion of Earth in 2164 A.D. The
Emperor wants the Doctor to return to the Dalek invasion and prevent the infection from occurring.

Ptolem in the meantime has learned that the wasp that stung Nyssa has deposited eggs and genetic material inside the
wound, suggesting to him how the mutation started in the first place. Suddenly Dalek defense barriers begin to fail, and the
mutant creatures break into the capital. Agreeing to alter the past, the Doctor, Nyssa, Ptolem and Ganatus escape in the TARDIS
as the Emperor orders the destruction of Skaro. Within the vortex, the time ship experiences time lag, but only the Doctor and
Nyssa notice it. Nyssa soon discovers why the Swarm died on Earth, as their genetic material made them susceptible to a
pesticide in the Earth’s soil, DK-50, which was used on Earth to destroy the large swams of wasps which had grown un-checked
after the Dalek invasion.

Arriving on 22nd century Earth, the Doctor soon discovers that the Dalek that was first infected with the wasp DNA was the
one that had confronted him and Nyssa in the wheat field. Realizing that a temporal paradox was created by the Dalek’s
attempts to trap the TARDIS (the 5th Doctor's TARDIS should never have been in 22nd century America), the Doctor believes
that the paradox will work itself out. The Emperor has other plans however. Transferring his consciousness into Ganatus’ body
before ordering Skaro’s destruction, the Doctor and Emperor are captured by 22nd century Daleks and taken to the Dalek base.
There the Emperor, inside of Ganatus’ body, tries to convince the Daleks to use chemical DK-50 on the infected Dalek. The
Doctor however, realizes that it is the exact act that caused the Mutant Phase in the first place. It seems that the 22nd century
Daleks had originally detected the wasp DNA and were about to remove it, when the Emperor interfered and insisted that they
use the chemical instead. The result was that the mutation was allowed to spread through the Dalek race (the DK-50 being
useless). Ptolem however, has created a genetic retro virus. Although it would not work on the mutated Daleks of the 43rd
century, now, in the 22nd century, it should wipe the entire Dalek race out.
The Doctor in the meantime is trying to convince the Emperor that his insistence on the Daleks using the DK-50 is what
caused the mutant phase to begin, but to no avail. Ptolem attempts to use the retro virus, and the Daleks, not believing that this
"human" is in reality their emperor, decide to exterminate everyone on the spot. Suddenly both the Doctor and Nyssa
experience the time lag effect again, as the stress of the current series of events causes the time paradox to reset itself. Erasing
the events of the mutant phase completely, and with history set right, the Doctor and Nyssa escape in the TARDIS.

Editor’s Note: There are several points in “The Mutant Phase” which are never clearly explained. Although one can accept that
the destruction wrought by the creatures was the reason behind Professor Ptolem’s agreement to work with the Daleks, we are
never told how Albert came to be a Dalek agent, or how the Emperor was able to set up his mental link with Ganatus. In
addition it is never revealed as to how the Emperor was able to "transfer” his consciousness into Ganatus, or from whom he had
learned the technology to do so. Chronologically “The Mutant Phase” sees the return of the Emperor, which contradicts with
the series, as all episodes from “Destiny” on, the Daleks are referred to as being ruled by the Dalek Supreme. In addition, the
Emperor, in an attempt to convince the Daleks of his identity, informs the Daleks of the 22nd century that it was he who devised
the invasion of Earth. This of course would be impossible as 1) the Daleks had no emperor at the time of their Earth invasion,
and 2), even if they did, that emperor was killed during the Dalek civil wars, as depicted in “Evil of the Daleks.” Big Finish did
however, do a very excellent job in depicting the differences between the “Invasion Earth” and current, or “Resurrection”
Daleks. The “invasion” Daleks voices being somewhat slower and lower in tone, and the sound of their gun sticks being taken
from the 1964 era. Since the events in “The Mutant Phase” reset themselves at the end of the story (as the time paradox
worked itself out), events from the Daleks point-of-view would return to a point just after Davros was taken prisoner and
returned to Earth.

Deep Space: The Earth/Draconian Frontier - 43rd Century

With Davros securely in the hands of the Earth forces, the Dalek and Movellan space fleets continued to play cat-and-mouse
with each other for the best possible position, each totally impotent. It looked like the war would continue unabated for years.
As Dalek strategists tried desperately to break the impasse, Dalek attempts to trap the Doctor’s TARDIS within a time corridor
fail, but this was only their first attempt, and there would be others. As the years past however, both sides began to gain insight
into each other’s technological advancements, as raiding parties captured and destroy each other’s bases and scout ships. For
the Movellan High Command, it was able to gain valuable access into Dalek technological advancements. Discovering the basis
of Dalek biotechnology, the Movellans began re-engineering the Dalek's own viruses, which the Daleks had used on so many
races time and time again.
Despite the fact that their battle computers could still not out match those of the Daleks, the Movellans launched their
attack utilizing their bio-weapons. The Dalek battle computers of course, countered each attack, and Movellan losses were high.
But one attack group did succeed in releasing their virus and infecting the Dalek troops. The infection quickly ravaged the Dalek
task force, and then began spreading out to the other Dalek forces. Panic griped the Dalek nation, and to protect themselves
from the infestation, the Supreme Council quickly joined the Emperor on Skaro, where the rulers of the Dalek race locked
themselves in the deepest bowls of their survival bunkers. One after another, Dalek outposts fell pray to the virus, and Movellan
forces swept deep into the galaxy. In the three hundred years since the war first began however (and the 90 years since davros'
imprisonment), the Earth Federation had slowly given way to the Earth Empire. Determined and far more ruthless, the Empire
was more than ready for any invasion of their territory. Completely out matched, the Movellan forces were completely wiped
out.

Editor’s Note: In “Resurrection of the Daleks” Lytton informs Davros of the Daleks defeat in the Movellan War. Yet despite this
fact, and despite the fact that the Movellans had made it perfectly clear in “Destiny of the Daleks,” that they intended to invade
the galaxy, they are never heard from in the series again. Allowing one to assume that the Earth Empire or someone else, wiped
their invasion fleet out.

On Skaro the Dalek Prime realizes that current Dalek technologies cannot hope to cope with the infection. The Daleks are
once again faced with total annihilation and something has to be done. The first step was to order the dispersing of the entire
Dalek task force to the extreme reaches of the galaxy, in the hope of limiting the spread of the infection. Then, utilizing
mercenary troops assembled from several of the outer system planets, the Daleks began amassing samples of the Movellan
virus to experiment on. Concerned however, with a possible outbreak of the virus on Skaro, the Emperor ordered the canisters
containing the virus to be transported through a time corridor to 20th century Earth for safekeeping. Dalek engineers then had
limited amounts of the virus transported to secure bases throughout the empire for which they could experiment on. Soon
however it became apparent that there was no cure for the Movellan disease.
Faced with the total extermination of their race, and desperate to re-claim their power base, the Emperor resorted to one,
final all out effort to re-establish Dalek supremacy in the Universe. First, the Daleks would free Davros, although a desperate
move, and the Emperor knew it, Davros was the only surviving scientist from their past. He and he alone totally understood the
nature of the Dalek genetic code. Pretending that they would serve him again, Davros would be tricked into finding a cure to the
infection. When that was done, he would be exterminated. Second, as a way to re-establish their supply lines from Earth, key
political figures of the 20th century would be duplicated using the same bio-mechanical technology used to create the robot of
the First Doctor years ago. With the political centers of the Earth controlled, the Dalek invasion of 2164 would not fail, despite
the intervention of the Doctor. And finally, the Daleks would use their time corridor technology to trap the TARDIS and
duplicate the Doctor and his companions. Then, under Dalek control, the duplicated Doctor would return to Gallifrey and
assassinate the High Council of the TimeLords. The Daleks would then seize the secret of time.
Amassing their humanoid tasks force, a Dalek battle cruiser headed out towards the space station where Davros had been
kept prisoner, while Dalek scientists on Skaro located and isolated the Doctor’s TARDIS within the vortex...
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…On 20th century Earth, a rag tag group of soldiers burst from a warehouse, desperately trying to escape, before being
gunned down by a pair of British policemen. The police captain, a Commander Lytton, activates a control, and he and the bodies
“beam” away. In the far future, the Doctor, Tegan and Turlough (his current traveling companions), are just leaving the planet
Frontios, when the TARDIS is caught within the Dalek time corridor. The time corridor drags the travelers to the 20th century
London docks, where the Doctor and his companions, meet Stien, the only surviving soldier who had escaped from the Dalek
battleship in the future. Stein warns the Doctor of danger in the warehouse, but the Doctor insists on getting to the bottom of
things. As the Doctor begins to explore the empty warehouse, Turlough mysteriously disappears.

Back in the future, under the command of the Black Dalek, Commander Lytton and his mercenaries have just taken over
the space prison where Davros has been kept frozen for 90 years. Freeing Davros, Lytton informs him of the Dalek defeat, and
the Dalek need for him to neutralize the virus created by the Movellans. Despite the Black Dalek's insistence to head back to
Skaro, Davros insist on working on the space station, and a lab is quickly set up in the ship’s Medical Bay.
Back on 20th century Earth, an Army Bomb Disposal Squad (under the command of Col. Archer), is sent to the warehouse
believing that the canisters of Movellan viruses are unexploded bombs. They confront the Doctor and Stien. Meanwhile
Turlough has been accidentally transported onboard the Dalek ship, escaping moments before a Dalek is sent back to the
warehouse to capture the Doctor. On Earth, the Dalek materializes in front of a shocked Doctor and military men. The Dalek
quickly begins to "exterminate" the soldiers, but with the Doctor's help, the Army is able to destroy the Dalek. Tegan however,
has been injured in the fight. Determined to get to the bottom of whatever the Daleks are up to, Archer tries to contact
headquarters, but is unable to because of interference caused by the time corridor. Leaving the Doctor in charge he goes out
into the street in the attempt to make the call, only to be confronted by Lytton's "police."
The Doctor however, has his own problems, as the Dalek mutant, not quite dead, attacks one of the soldiers. Searching
the warehouse the creature is found and finally killed. Determined to rescue Turlough and get to the bottom of things, the
Doctor decides to return to the TARDIS and board the Dalek ship. Stien agrees to go with him.

On the space station, guarded by Dalek and duplicate troopers, Davros continues his research. However, unbeknownst to
the Supreme Council, Davros has made plans to insure his place at the head of the Dalek political system. When first revived
back in the Bunker on Skaro, Davros gained access to the Dalek bio-weapons files. Making improvements on a drug the Daleks
themselves were developing to control minds, Davros had the technology grafted into his life support system. By using the drug,
Davros is able to gain control over some of the Dalek forces protecting him on the space station.

Editor’s Note: It is never explained in the episode how or why Davros suddenly has a syringe type device grafted into his chair
that allows him to control both humanoid and Dalek minds. One assumes that he would not have been allowed to work on such
a device while awaiting trail on Earth, or that he somehow devised the device while in status, so he must have developed it
while still on Skaro waiting for the Dalek task force to pick him up.

Arriving on the Dalek ship, Stien reveals himself to be a Dalek duplicate, and the Doctor is taken prisoner. Lead to the
duplication chamber the Daleks begin their plans to duplicate the Doctor. Meanwhile Turlough has been captured by Styles,
Mercer, and the few remaining survivors of the space station’s crew. Desperate to stop the Daleks, Styles attempts to activate
the station’s self-destruct device, but is unable to complete it’s programming, as Lytton and his troops show up. Searching for
the entrance to the Dalek’s time corridor, Turlough and Mercer escape the slaughter.

Convincing Stien to embrace his humanity and resist the Dalek programming, the Doctor is released from the Dalek
duplication machine. On 20th century Earth, Tegan, who is concerned over the way the soldiers have been acting (the soldiers
having been killed off one by one and replaced by duplicates), tries to escape, only to be captured and sent through the time
corridor to the Dalek ship. There she encounters Turlough and Mercer, and the three quickly meet up with the Doctor. Sending
Turlough and Tegan back to Earth in the TARDIS, the Doctor, with Stein and Mercer in tow, confronts Davros. He is however,
unable to kill him. He looses his chance at a second go when Stien and Mercer are attacked by some of Lytton’s men. Mercer is
killed and Stien, who blames himself for Mercer's death, is seriously wounded.

With a number of duplicate and Dalek troops now loyal to him, Davros intends to overthrow his benefactors and seize
control of Skaro using the Movellan virus as an ultimate weapon. Ordering a unit of Daleks to return to 20th century Earth and
secure the TARDIS, Davros releases the Movellan virus onboard the space station with the hopes that it will destroy all the
Daleks not currently under his control. The Black Dalek however, had accounted for Davros' deception, after all it figured;
Davros was a Kaled, an inferior and un-trustworthy humanoid. Ordering Lytton and his men to follow and destroy Davros’
Daleks on Earth, an execution squad is sent to the station’s medical lab to kill Davros. Unfortunately the Movellan virus does it
work, and the Daleks sent to kill Davros are destroyed.

Back on Earth, both Davros’ Daleks and those loyal to the Black Dalek wage a merciless war within the confines of the
warehouse. Escaping the Dalek ship via the time corridor, the Doctor opens one of the Movellan virus cylinders from the
ground, using the virus to kill off both sides of Daleks. As the Daleks begin to die Lytton escapes out into 20th century London.
On the space station, Davros quickly learns that while he, himself, is immune to the effects of the virus, his life support
system is not, and it begins to break down. Impossible as it may seem to him, the mutated parts of his Kaled biology, more
Dalek-like than Davros would ever admit, falls to the infection. Davros barely makes it to the station’s escape pod before Stien,
who had been lamenting over his loyalties, activates the self-destruct system. The explosion destroys both the station and the
Dalek ship. On Earth, tired of all the violence, Tegan decides to leave the TARDIS crew.

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Davros was dead, or at least it seemed that way, but back on Skaro this was unimportant. Building on the research Davros
had completed on the prison station, Dalek scientist began to work on an immunity to the Movellan virus. Despite the loss of a
Dalek task force and Lytton and his men, Davros had served the Daleks once again. Expanding on Davros' work in micro
biotechnology, Dalek scientists quickly found the genetic flaw in their own DNA, which allowed the virus to attack them. Davros'
expertise in genetic engineering had served them by redesigning their basic DNA, and Dalek scientists quickly expanded on the
results. The genetic re-structuring that would insure Dalek survival was soon found, and the Daleks soon developed the
immunity they desperately needed. Davros was no longer important to them, and the Dalek Prime quickly ordered the
dispersing of the genetic code to all Dalek forces in exile.

Chapter Twelve
Davros - Revelation of the Daleks

The last years of Doctor Who had, unfortunately, some of the best, and some of the worst stories in the series entire
history. Concentrating on improving the special effects, the complexities of the plots, which had served the series so well in the
past, began to suffer, and the Dalek stories were not immune. By the time "Resurrection of The Daleks" was broadcast, the
program had become flashy enough to hope that The Daleks would return to their former screen presence. In many aspects the
new Dalek design lived up to expectations, and in fact the new metal grey color with the silver shoulder section quickly became
my personal favorite. However by this time in the series's history it was becoming obvious that John Nathan-Turner's vision for
the program had grown stale. While the Daleks themselves looked good, the plot of "Resurrection" only served to continue
their move towards second fiddle to Davros, and the trend would only continue. Of the two remaining televised stories,
“Revelation of the Daleks,” and “Remembrance of the Daleks” (completing the “R” Trilogy), “Revelation” is by far the worst of
the two. Once again, at the insistence of Terry Nation, the production team was forced to place Davros into the story, despite
the fact that the character was quite died at the end of “Resurrection,” and had long over-stayed his welcome. Deciding
however to script the story from Davros’ point-of-view may have been it’s only saving grace. The episode is a Davros story and
not a Dalek one, the Daleks, or at least the “real” Daleks, are totally oblivious to Davros’ actives until the very end. “Revelation”
marked, for the first time in the series, the character of Davros being played by the same actor, and Terry Malloy, once again,
gives a fine performance in the role. Finally, as with “The Mutant Phase,” Big Finish Productions has attempted to “fill in the
gaps,” so to speak, and tie together several of the events that were depicted in the last two stories together. It is there fore
important for the reader to remember while examining the rest of this tome, that most of the history from this point on is based
on the Big Finish audio dramas, and as they are constantly being produced (for various Doctors), this history may need from time
to time a bit of tweaking. -JRR

Davros was dead, and the Doctor had escaped once again, but these events were unimportant to the Supreme Council. The
cure to the Movellian virus had been found, and the Dalek race was slowly coming back to life. The Dalek Prime quickly turned
its attention back to the conquest of the Universe. As more and more of Dalek society recovered, the inner council realized that
they needed to expand their thinking if they were going to defeat both Earth’s forces, as well as the Doctor.
Yet as the Dalek Prime and its closest advisors were formulating their plans, all was not well on the Dalek home world.
Dissention, which had raised its ugly head from time to time within Dalek society, began to fester once more. Dalek worker
forces, concerned over the constant failures of the inner council, begin to believe that the Dalek Prime’s vision for the direction
of their race was un-true to the Dalek’s destiny. They, like the Emperor himself, began to believe that the Dalek Prime was un-fit
to command. However, unlike the Emperor, who had no dough in his abilities to command the worker units, begin to believe
that Davros might have been their one last hope.

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...On the outer edges of Earth's frontier, on the home world of Trans Allied Incorporated (TAI), the Doctor, now in his sixth
incarnation, has been summoned by his journalist friend Willis to investigate plans by TAI to close down it mining operations all
throughout the Earth Empire. Considering that the mines are very profitable, and that their closure would put billions of people
out of work, Willis is determined to get to the bottom of things. Having left Peri, his recent traveling companion at a botany
convention, Willis, the Doctor, and Kimberley Todd, a technician for TAI, begin to explore ways of entering the TAI dome.
Suddenly the trio is alerted by the sounds of an approaching spacecraft, and are surprised when the hillside opens to revel a
secret space hanger. Rushing in through the hanger doors, the three secure themselves behind some packing crates in the
hopes of discovering exactly what is going on. The Doctor is surprised to discover that the spacecraft is in reality a raiding ship,
just back from acquiring some cargo somewhere. He is even more surprised when he sees that the “cargo” that this raiding ship
is carrying is the emaciated body of Davros. Throwing all caution to the wind, the Doctor jumps out from his hiding place to
confront the raiding ship’s crew. He is, naturally, surrounded by armed security personal, and as Davros’ body is taken away he
is approached by Arnold Baynes, the richest man within the Earth Empire and CEO of Trans Allied Incorporated. The Doctor
confronts Baynes about the dangers Davros can pose and accuses him of working with the Daleks. But Baynes informs the
Doctor that the Daleks have not been active in this part of the galaxy for almost 100 years, and that his interests in Davros is
purely historic. Taken to the medical facilities the Doctor meets Dr. Lorraine Baynes, an expert on Dalek society and author of
several books both examining, and apologizing for, Dalek culture.

Meanwhile, Willis and Kimberley, forgotten for the moment by the Doctor, are attempting to find their way out of the
hanger when they stumble upon a series of tunnels leading deep under the dome. While exploring they discover a secret
production facility. The facility seems to be automated, and upon closer inspection they discover that the assembly line is
producing robots.
 Back at the medical facilities Davros has awaken, and confronts the Doctor. Baynes however, has other plans, and they do
not include allowing the old rivalry between Davros and the Doctor to be rekindled. He offers Davros a job, explaining that the
human race has reached the limits of the Milky Way galaxy, and he wants Davros to help in the development of new navigation
computers, which will allow mankind to reach other galaxies. Davros aggress, seeing this as an opportunity to redeem himself.
The Doctor is not fooled, and offers his assistance instead. Faced with two geniuses offering to help, Baynes decides to allow the
pair to work together.

Editor’s Note: In the actual series the one and only encounter the Sixth Doctor has with Davros is within Tranquil Repose, in
“Revelation of the Daleks.” It is never explained however, how Davros knows of the Doctor’s current incarnation, but thanks to
Big Finish, this story nicely ties things together.

The next morning the Doctor arrives at the lab only to discover that Davros, who had arrived hours earlier, has completed
the circuit boards they were to work on. The Doctor however, sabotages it, and sets about constructing his own version using
Davros as his assistant. Within the hour the new circuit board is completed, and Davros is invited to take lunch with Dr. Lorraine
Baynes, while Arnold Baynes offers the Doctor a tour of the dome. Baynes does not trust the Doctor and is determined to find
out what he is up to. In their suite, Dr. Lorraine Baynes is fascinated by Davros, and informs him that she wishes to author his
biography. Davros is amused, and begins to describe his life to her, including the workings of his chair, and his unnecessary
practice of having to eat. Lorraine explains that famine is a major problem for the outer worlds, and it is at this point that
Davros begins to form a plan on how to solve that problem.

At the computer center the Doctor runs into Kimberly, who informs him of what she and Willis have discovered. Later that
night the Doctor, Willis and Kimberly sneak down into the production facility, only to discover all work has been halted. Upon
examining one of the robots that had been taken off line, the Doctor is surprised to see the circuit he had created just hours
before fitted into the robot's central processor. Unfortunately while replacing the access panel he accidentally reactivates that
robot, which immediately attacks the Doctor and his companions.

Meanwhile Davros is meeting with Arnold Baynes, to discuss the food shortages and economic systems of the Earth Empire,
when Baynes receives a report about the trouble in the production facility. Davros suspects that whatever troubles are
occurring in the tunnels under the dome the Doctor must be behind them. Baynes leaves Davros and arrives with a security
crew at the production facility just as the robot bears down on the Doctor. The security crew destroys the robot as Willis and
Kimberly sneak out. Back in his quarters Lorraine discovers that Davros has figured out an equation that would allow him to
accurately predict the galactic stock market. Lorraine encourages Davros to use the equation, but for some reason Davros
seems uninterested and melancholy.

Editor’s Note: One of the more interesting aspects to “Davros” is the fact that it is two stories in one. Davros' life on Sakro
before and immediately following his accident is presented in a series of “Flash-backs.” It is through these sequences that we
learn a little more about Davros’ early life, and loves! Of special note is the performance of Terry Malloy, who, in the flashback
sequences, sounds almost exactly as Michael Wisher did when he first created the character for “Genesis of the Daleks.”

The next morning the Doctor awakens to learn that TAI stock has risen sharply at the news of Davros’ employment. Back in
their quarters Baynes and his wife are discussing with Davros the prospects of having the Doctor deported. Lorraine however, is
not convinced that the Doctor poses only a minor threat, and wants to see him, and his journalist friend, dead. Davros does not
agree, stating that the Doctor is more of a threat as a free agent than being monitored within the dome. He suggests to Baynes
that the Doctor act as his assistant in solving the galactic food problem, and Baynes agrees. The Doctor however is still
convinced that Davros is working towards his own goals.
Later that day Davros visits Willis giving him an atomic device he claims he discovered Baynes was producing, in violation of
intergalactic treaties. He also informs Willis that he is only interested in helping the less fortunate within Earth’s empire, and
wants to see people like Baynes and TAI destroyed. To prove his point Davros reviles his stock market equation to Willis, and
lays out his plans to destroy the corporations by revealing his equation to the entire population of the galaxy. Willis informs
Davros that this would create economic chaos, but Davros insists that he has a plan to restore order. Davros’ plan however, is
very much like the plan he laid-out on Skaro, several thousands of years ago. This however, appalls Willis.

In the workshop Baynes and the Doctor are waiting for Davros to arrive when Willis contacts the Doctor insisting on speaking
with him. Baynes is very interested is hearing what the Doctor’s friend has to say, and accompanies him to the meeting. While
the two head down to the tunnels, Davros meets Kimberly in the computer center, requesting her help in uploading files to the
computer network. As Kimberly moves off to the control panels Lorraine enters wishing to speak to Davros. Deep within the
tunnels of the city Willis informs the Doctor and Baynes of Davros’ plans, but Baynes still refuses to believe that Davros has not
changed his ways. The Doctor tries in vane to convince the TAI chairman, but is suddenly interrupted by the sound of Davros’
voice. Davros has been monitoring their conversation through a radio link he had fitted within the atomic device he gave Willis
as evidence against Baynes. Davros now confesses that it was he who created the device, and intends to set it off, killing Baynes,
Willis, and especially the Doctor. As the Doctor moves to drop the bomb down one of the mining shafts, it goes off. Back in the
computer center Davros assumes the position of CEO and orders Kimberly to seal off the room and transmit his stock market
equation to the galaxy. Meanwhile the radiation from the explosion is threatening to kill all the people within the dome.
In the tunnels Willis and Baynes have survived, as has the Doctor, although neither party is aware of the others survival.
Concerned however over the report Willis is intending to file when he gets out of the tunnels, Baynes pushes the young
journalist off the edge of the rock face they were clinging too. Moving along the rock face, Baynes soon runs into the Doctor,
who informs him (via information gained via a bio-implant all visitors to the dome recieve) that Davros has seized control of TAI.
The two head to the surface, just as Davros begins his economic plan to take control of the galaxy. Breaking into the dome,
using the Doctor’s TARDIS, Baynes heads off to confront Davros. Finding him in the computer center Baynes, expecting the
Doctor to defeat Davros, offers the Kaled scientist a plan of escape in return for the stock market equation. Davros however has
no need for Baynes, and kills him using an electrical discharge from his chair (focused through his one “good” arm). Now Davros’
plans begin to fall apart, as the Doctor destroys the communications terminal, preventing Davros from sending his equation.
Davros, threatening Kimberly with a poison injector, moves off to the hanger bay, intending to use Baynes’ escape ship to both
escape, and transmit the equation. The Doctor follows, confronting Davros outside the ship, but is unable to stop him from
dragging Kimberly into the ship. As the ship leaves the hanger Lorraine informs the Doctor that they can control the ship while it
is still within the atmosphere. On the flight deck Davros interfaces his chair’s computer with that of the ship’s, gaining control
from the Doctor. Kimberly desperately implores the Doctor to destroy the ship, but he refuses to place her life in danger.
Grabbing the injector from Davros, Kimberly injects herself. Now the Doctor has no reason not to destroy the craft, and
programs it to head towards the surface of the planet. With Davros desperately struggling to regain control, the ship plunges
towards the surface and explodes. But somehow the Doctor does not believe Davros is dead.
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On Skaro, the Daleks were completely unaware of the events that took place between Davros and the TAI corporation. As far as
they were concerned their creator was dead, and plans continued on the conquest of the universe. News however, soon
reached the Supreme Conical, in the form of TAI press releases, that Davros had in fact survived, and the Dalek Prime ordered an
immediate investigation into the matter. This further angered the Emperor, and political tensions continued to grow between
the various Dalek factions. The situation was becoming desperate, and soon the Emperor realized that Sakro might not be the
most resolute place from which to secure its power base. What was needed was a new base of operations, one in which the
Earth Empire knew nothing about. Something outside the boundaries of Earth’s influence. Something outside the Milky Way
itself.
Meanwhile in deep space, Davros, as the Doctor had predicted, had survived the explosion of Baynes' ship, though he was
barely alive. After floating in the void in the craft's escape pod for several years the pod was eventually salvaged by a space
freighter from the planet Necros. The ruthless industrialist Kara, who was determined to take advantage of the famine that was
plaguing the outer worlds of the Earth Empire and line her pockets, owned the freighter.
Necros was known throughout the galaxy as the planet of eternal peace, and contained two major industries, a vast
industrial complex to manufacture food products, and Tranquil Repose, a mortuary where, under the management of Jobel,
dying millionaires and politicians are preserved in cryogenic suspension until a cure for what killed them could be found. Upon
arriving on Necros Kara's technicians quickly discovered that the pod contained the near dead body of Davros. Armed with this
fact and knowing Davros was a wanted fugitive a scheme quickly formed in Kara's mind on how to turn this discovery to her
advantage.
Revived, Davros quickly assessed the situation. He knew that the authorities of the Earth Empire would be looking for him
(he must have known that the Doctor would not suspect he was dead), as well as the Daleks, as he was sure that news of his
working for TAI had reached Skaro. He also realized that his Stock Market Equation would be useless now, (he was sure the
Doctor had also seen to that), and that his plan for economic control of the galaxy was now impossible. He also realized that if
he were going to keep out of the hands of the authorities he would need allies, and who better than the women whose ambition
was almost as great as his own.
Davros approached Kara with a plan that, as he promised, would make them both rich. Knowing that the outer worlds were
desperate for food, any food, he would now put into operation a plan that he had formulated while working for TAI. The fact
that fate had landed him on Necros were "raw material" was so abundant was seen by Davros as divine intervention. Setting
himself up within the confines of Tranquil Repose, Davros would assume the mantle of "The Great Healer," and soon he began
producing the process in which Kara’s company began manufacturing food. The plan worked, and famine swiftly became a thing
of the past. As the outer worlds were thankful, and the “Great Healer’s” name was praised, Kara’s coffers fill to overflowing. Yet
still Davros did not feel safe. The Daleks were certainly looking for him, but his greatests fear was that the Doctor could turn up
at any time.
Back on Skaro news of Davros' dealings with TAI had indeed reached the inner conical, and the search for Davros continued,
as did the Emperor’s plan to relocate the power base of the Daleks. Streams of data were looked into as Dalek scientists
formulated plan after plan on how to accomplish the Emperor’s task. Each plan had one drawback or another, and it soon
seemed that achieving their goals would be impossible. Once again, the knowledge of the TimeLords (provided to them by The
Master) would be their salvation.
As the years past on Necros, Davros realized that it was not his destiny to sit, like a spider, within the bowels of Tranquil
Repose. He was determined to regain the control that was rightfully his, take command of the creatures he had helped to
create, and get his revenge on the Doctor. Knowing however that he could not simply “win” the Daleks over with arguments, he
began to build his own Dalek army, slowly re-manufacturing new Dalek travel machines. To pilot these new travel machines, he
began experimenting on the bodies in cryogenic freeze, re-engineering their DNA and mutating the inhabitants into Dal mutants.
A new breed of Daleks slowly began to emerge, completely loyal to Davros. For Davros, the Daleks would never betray him
again, but first he would deal with the meddling Doctor...
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...The President of the Galactic Federation is heading for Necros to attend the laying in state of his late wife, and all of
Tranquil Repose is on high alert. As the technicians and morticians prepare for his arrive the TARDIS materializes a few miles
from the mortuary. The Doctor is there to pay his respects to his late friend, Professor Arthur Stengos, however the news of his
death sets off in the Doctor’s mind the possibility of a trap. As the Doctor and Peri head towards Tranquil Repose, a mutant,
who informs the Doctor that he is the product of the “Great Healer’s” experimentations, attacks the pair. The Doctor’s fears of a
trap seem confirmed.

Meanwhile two rebels break into Tranquil Repose with the intention of body snatching. One of the rebels is Natasha,
Stengos’ daughter, who is suspicious of her father’s death. Upon reaching his cryo tube the two discover that it is empty, and
Natasha is determined to find her father’s body. Davros, who has been monitoring the pairs exploits, orders Takis and Lilt, two
embalmers, to capture the two. A chase ensues and Natasha and her companion escape through the catacombs, which litter the
lower sections of the mortuary. Deep underground, the two stumble into an incubation chamber, and Natasha discovers her
father’s body, or at least what is left of it. Davros has taken the head of Stengos and mutated it into a Dal mutant. Encased
within a glass housing, the mutation grows before Natasha's horrified eyes. Pleading with his daughter to kill him, Natasha
levels her blaster and destroys the casing, only to be soon captured by Takis, Lilt and the security forces soon afterwards.

At her production plant Kara has grown tired of Davros’ demands, and intends to put an end to their partnership. She hires
Orcini, a former Knight of the Order of Oberon, to assassinate Davros. Giving him a radio transmitter she informs Orcini to radio
her when Davros is dead in order for her to move against his supporters. Orcini is suspicious but agrees to the plan and he and
his squire Bostock head out to Tranquil Repose.
Having been forced to climb over the complex’s wall, the Doctor and Peri find themselves in the Garden of Fond Memory,
only to discover that a statue has been erected depicting the Doctor in his current incarnation. As the Doctor examines the
statue it tumbles and falls, apparently crushing him. Panicking, Peri rushes to help the Doctor only to be consoled by Jobel, who
finds the Doctor’s grieving companion very attractive. The Doctor however, is not dead, the statue having been a simple plaster
“joke,” to which the Doctor intends to get to the bottom of. Deep within his chambers, Davros, whose body appears to have
degenerated, watches from within a life support case, enjoying the spectacle.

In the main reception room the Doctor is confronting Tasambeker regarding the statue of him. Tasambeker is one of Jobel’s
students. She is also in love with the aging mortician (although he has no desires on her). Believing that the Doctor was
interested in planning his own interment, she shows them the various packages one may purchase, including a package that
includes daily updates by a very earth-like D.J. Peri finds the D.J funny, and requests to meet him, while the Doctor insists on
seeing the “Great Healer.” As Peri is lead by Jobel to the D.J.’s sound room, the Doctor is taken into the corridor, only to be
confronted by Davros’ new Daleks.

Out on the surface, Orcini attacks and destroys one of Davros’ Daleks, alerting the “Great Healer” to his presence. Knowing
that he can no longer trust Kara, Davros orders a pair of Daleks to Kara’s production plant. Entering her office and killing Kara’s
secretary, the two Daleks force the industrial giant to accompany them. Meanwhile Jobel is overseen plotting with Takis and Lilt
to overthrow Davros, and Davros orders Tasambeker, who is jealous of Jobel’s many affairs, to kill him. Instead she tries to warn
him, but when the mortician revokes her warning as an unwanted advance, she kills him, fleeing from the scene only to be
exterminated by the Daleks.

Back in the catacombs, Orcini frees the Doctor, Natasha and her companion, ordering the trio to leave at once. The Doctor
sends Natasha to destroy the incubation chamber while he follows Orcini. The two succeed in setting the incubation tanks to
overload, but are killed by a Dalek just as the room explodes. Davros in the meantime orders his Daleks to seize control of the
mortuary. Seeing the Daleks sweep through the corridors, Peri and the D.J. warn the president’s ship, which is schedule to arrive
on Necros within the hour. As the message is received the two are soon attacked by Davros’ Daleks, and the D.J. is killed. Peri is
taken prisoner. Hearing this battle over the complex’s public address system, the Doctor rushes to help his companion, only to
be captured by the Daleks himself.
 In his chamber, Orcini and Bostock attack Davros, appearing to kill the Kaled scientist. Orcini however suspects something is
wrong, as he fears the kill was too easy. The two are soon confronted by the real Davros, who quickly subdues both men. Kara
is now brought before Davros, who confronts her with Orcini. Kara of course fanes ignorance, but when Orcini begins to punch
in the code to activate the “radio transmitter,” Kara informs him that it is in fact a bomb. Chastising Orcini for his failure, the
Knight slips a knife from within his sleeve and kills the plotting industrialist.
Editor’s Note: It is never satisfactory explained in the episode why Davros is seen just as a head within a large glass jar. The on
screen explanation is that having suspected Kara of plotting against him he created, or cloned (?) this head in the hopes of
drawing off the assassins. However would Kara not already know that Davros’ body was perfectly all right? Of course the real
reason for this ploy was to allow the television audience to believe that Davros had in fact suffered serious damage at the hands
of the Movellian virus.

Back in the main reception room Takis and Lilt welcome the arrival of very special visitors. The Daleks, having been
contacted by Takis, have arrived from Skaro to take Davros prisoner. Back in his control room, Davros confronts the Doctor,
informing him of what he has been doing with the “people” of Tranquil Repose. Having turned the best and brightest into
Daleks, the rest have been transformed into the protein, which has fed the galaxy. As Davros is about to activate his new Dalek
army Bostock fires his blaster at him, blowing off his hand. A Dalek quickly exterminates him, but before Davros can react, the
real Daleks sweep into the control chamber and arrest their creator. Davros however offers the Doctor in exchange for his
freedom, but the Daleks do not recognize the TimeLord in his current incarnation, and take Davros to their ship. Destroying
their Dalek guard using a grenade, Orcini used the bomb Kara had given him to destroy Davros’ Daleks. Unfortunately the blast
misses the Daleks ship, which leaves the planet with Davros for Skaro. The Doctor, realizing that the galaxy is dependant on the
protein Davros created, shows Takis and Lilt how to produce the substance from a plant that grows wild on the surface.

The History of the Daleks

The Final Chapter: Remembrance of The Daleks - War of The Daleks
by John Rocco Roberto
Daleks created by Terry Nation
Dalek design by Raymond Cusick

When "Remembrance of The Daleks" first air here in the United States word had
already gotten out on what a fine production it was. Upon seeing the story
"fine" was an understatement. Finally the Daleks returned to their old screen
glory! What especially made the story interesting was how Ben Aaronovitch
hid the sutle plot points within the story. I remember thinking that Davros
forces should have been white instead of grey, mistakenly believing that the
girl sitting in the battle computer was in fact Davros. Only after it was
reviled that it was in fact the little girl that I realized that it as Davros
in the pressure-cooker ( as we called it), marking the scene where he reveals
himself to the Doctor one of the best in the series. Of course the story did
have its draw backs, but this was mainly due to the foolish attempts to
re-introduce mystery into the Doctor's character. Sure it is plausible to
think that the Doctor left Gallifrey with the Hand of Omega, but the fact that
he left it sitting there for almost 500 years is a bit to take (remember, the
First Doctor was only around 270 and the 7th Doctor 950 years old). Sure one
could argue that when the Doctor (either in his 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.
incarnation) returned to collected it, he was told that he already had, and
therefore knew that one of his future selves picked it up. But that's asking a
lot to believe. Other wise "Remembrance" is one of the shinning stories from
the McCoy era ad was a fitting way to end the Daleks on screen presences.
Unfortunately the same can not be said for their first novelized adventure.
"War of the Daleks" was a book which I picked up with great anticipation.
"Finally," I though, "we're finally going to find out how Skaro survived."
Especially as it was featured in the opening scene of the Fox feature. While I
did in fact love the basic story line in "War," the notion that the Daleks
discovered Davros' attempts to gain control of the Hand of Omega, subsequently
destroyed Skaro with it, so they therefore "moved" Davros to a Skaro type
planet and fooled him, and the Doctor, into believing he was on Skaro,
therefore making everything which happened since "Destiny" was a well
calculated plan, is stretching things a bit. Surely it would have been easier
to just kill Davros instead of "reprogramming" his memories as the book
suggest. While Mr. Peel attempts to explain how Skaro can still exist to be
featured in the Fox film by this notion, a far easier way could of been
developed to explain this (somewhat in the same fashion that Terrance Dicks
explained The Master/Dalek trap set for the Doctor in the Fox film). I will
attempt in this final chapter to tie all these ends together, and would
appreciate any and all comments on how I did. Again I will be steering clear
of the events portrayed in "Legacy of the Daleks," as we have already passed
that point in our history. I'll end by just saying that I in no way wished to
imply that my version here is the final word on Dalek history, and I'm sure
that I could have done a much better job at it had I'd been a better writer.
There was a lot of detail I left out simply because I could not find the time
(or energy) to write it. Davros' trial on Earth could surely been expanded on,
as well as the notion of the Dalek/Mechonoid War. I also believed in the
notion that the Daleks were more human than the series ever let on. I firmly
believe that the Daleks do in fact eat, sleep and engage in intercourse to
reproduce. The mere fact that they are basically organic trapped in the metal
shell makes them more frightening than the "grown from clones" embryos the
series portrayed them to be. It would have been interesting if we'd been shown
scenes of Daleks entering high radiation areas on Skaro, releasing their
locking clamps, and stepping out for a stretch, so to speak. Either way the
Daleks remain one of Sic/Fi's most interesting villains and I just hope I did
them justice here with this history. Thank you for reading! -JRR

Davros is taken back to Skaro to strand trial. His crime, attempting to

subvert the Dalek political system and seize control of Skaro. Davros
continues to claim he has the right to rule over them. That as one of the
original inhabitants of Skaro, he and he alone understood the destiny planed
out for the Daleks. The Supreme Council counter Davros' clams by stating that
they were the natural order to evolve out of the Dal mutation, and that his
involvement with their evolution was minimal. After days of deliberation
Davros is sentenced to death. But some of the Dalek elite argue that he should
be spared to work towards the improvement of the Dalek race, in particular, to
find a reversal of the genetic degradation which is effecting the Daleks.
Although knowing that nothing good would come of it, the Dalek Prime orders
Davros and his life support chair to be fitted with an explosive device, and
sealed away in the lower survival chambers of the Dalek capital. Guarded by an
elite security force Davros is put to work. But factions tiring of the Supreme
Council rule begin to plot to free Davros. Understanding that Davros needs
subjects to experiment on these Daleks volunteer to under go experiments on
their genetic make up. Davros slowly begins to transform these Daleks into
bionic super creatures. Slowly he replaces their vestigial limbs with
mechanical ones, and designs new travel machines, more powerful than the Mk 3
currently in use. But the Dalek Prime does not completely trust Davros, and
his every move is monitored.
Unfortunately for the Dalek Prime, the notion of dis-loyalty within Dalek
society is foreign to it. Growing dis-satisfaction within the Daleks over
their constant set backs, has given rise to an entire force of Daleks loyal to
Davros. Davros' new superior Daleks seize control of the survival chambers and
civil war amongst the Daleks once again ensues. Davros declares himself
Empior, and the Daleks are divided into two factions. Imperial Daleks,
bionicly enhanced, encased in new white colored Mk 4 travel machines, follow
Davros. Davros himself has designed a new life support system fitting for his
new title, which totally encases and protects his humanoid form. Armed with
newer weapons, the Imperial forces quickly gain control of the Dalek Capital,
as the regular Dalek forces are pushed back to their outer cities. Determined
to regain their capital and stop Davros once and for all the Dalek Prime orders
a full scale attack on the Imperial forces. The two forces begin a series of
wars which rake a path of destruction across Skaro for twenty years. Armed
with newer weapons and casings, the Imperial forces slowly out gun the Renegade
Daleks, as they were now called. Davros' dream of becoming supreme ruler over
Skaro is about to find fruitration as the Dalek Prime and its elite guard flee
Skaro in the last remaining time capsule. With the Supreme Council in exile,
the Imperial forces now rule Skaro. Determined to make the Daleks the supreme
force in the universe Davros begins re-engineering their time corridor
technology. Abandoning taranium as a power source, Imperial scientist begin to
look for new energy supplies.

On the outer worlds of the Skaroian system, the Thals have monitored the
situation on Skaro. Although their forces are small when compared to the
Daleks, the civil war has given them the opportunity to exploit the weakness in
the Daleks planetary defenses. From their bases on the outer moons the Thals
launch their attack, as thousands after thousands of troops land on Skaro.
Their immediate objective is to capture the Dalek Capital, and destroy the
Emperor. The Imperial forces are not prepared to counter such a massive
attack, especially having just defeated the Renegade factions. Realizing that
the Daleks desperately need a new supply of energy to support their ever
growing needs, Davros begins to experiment with the notion of controlling
Skaro's sun. Believing he could follow the Time Lords example, Davros begins s
plans to turn the sun into a energy source for Dalek time experiments.

Somewhere in time and space, The Doctor, now in his 7th incarnation, learns of
the Dalek plan to convert Skaro's sun into a power source for time travel.
With such an unlimited power supply, The Doctor realizes that the Daleks could
become unstoppable. Many years ago, when he and Susan first left Gallifrey, he
had taken a solar re-engineering device called The Hand of Omega. Intent on
burring the device on Earth as way of "getting back" at the Time Lords, he now
realizes how the device could be used to stop the Daleks once and for all. As
he's never gone to collect the device The doctor realizes that it should be
exactly where he had left it. 1963 London. Allowing the Daleks to learn about
the device, the Doctor sets the TARDIS controls for 1963 Earth...

Skaro's sun goes nova. Skaro, its accompanying 18 planets, the Thal strong
holds on the outer moons, are all destroyed. Watching from within the time
vortex, the Dalek Prime and its elite guard monitor the situation from the
confines of the last remaining time capsule. The worst fears of the Dalek
Prime had been realized, Davros had brought about the destruction of the
Daleks, but the Dalek Primes was going to rectify the situation. Loyal to the
Dalek race to the end, the Dalek Prime orders what it knows will be its own
destruction. With the capsule's time controls set in motion, the Dalek capsule
slips out of the time vortex and materializes right in the path of the oncoming
Hand of Omega. The Time Lord device strikes the capsule head on, and the
taranium core which powers the capsule explodes. The resulting explosion gives
the impression that Skaro's sun has gone nova. The sun is disturbed, large
solar flares jump across its surface, its magnetic field is disrupted, but it
is not destroyed. The radiation released from the encounter devastates Skaro,
but the planet survives. On Earth, and on the Imperial Dalek ship, Skaro
appears to have been destroyed, the Hand of Omega returns to destroy the ship.
Davros ejects in an escape pod moments before the ship is destroyed, but as far
as The Doctor, and the universe is concerned, Skaro is no more. On Skaro the
Imperial Dalek forces, the Dalek cities, the Thal troops, in fact everything
which is on the surface, is eliminated by the solar back fire. The surface of
the planet is serialized, but the underground sections, the places where the
Renegade factions are in exile, survive. The Daleks will rise again.

I end here because the events which follow are conjecture. Surly Skaro had to
survive because it would not be possible for The Master to stand trial there
and thus try to trap the Doctor if it had not. In addition Skaro could not be
the battle field of a Thal/Dalek war had the system been destroyed. As far as
the "after" adventures of the Doctor since the series was canceled, Terrance
Dicks' explanation of the Master's plot in "The Eight Doctors" to explain the
events in the Fox movie works quite nicely. For those who had not read it, the
Master has gained control of bio-technology which allows the "soul" of one
person to be transferred to the body of another by means of the slug/snake like
creature. After perfecting it to suit his own personal needs he materializes
on Skaro and forms a plan to trap The Doctor using the Daleks help. They
manufacture the "trial" and then request the Doctor return The Master's ashes
to Gallifrey. Why the Doctor would fall for such a plan (and in fact just
waltz up to the Daleks to accept The Master's ashes), is a plot hole I don't
think anyone could fix. John Peel's explanation of how Skaro survived (because
it was a fake Skaro the Daleks created to fool Davros) also leaves much to be
desired. The notion of fooling Davros was one thing, but to take in the Doctor
as well is pushing it! However if we accept my version, and allow the Dalek
Prime to taunt the Doctor with the "fake Skaro" explanation as a way to get at
the Doctor, then the story seems plausible Finally I was going to continue
right up until "War" but decided to end it here as I could not do this tome any
more justice. It would have been fun to explore the Dalek rise from the
destruction laid upon Skaro by The Hand of Omega, as well as explore the Daleks
relationship with The Master upon his return. But as I've said, this tome has
run long enough and I'm personally "burned out" by this point. Again I thank
everyone who read it and hoped you found it enjoyable. I will eventually be
posting the entire tome on my web site (www.kaijufan.com), but will also be
happy to e-mail it as a text file to anyone who wants it. My e-mail address is
Kaij...@aol.com. Again thank you for reading! -John Rocco Roberto

Reference:
Haining, Peter; Doctor Who: A Celebration; 1983
Pell, John & Nation, Terry; The Official Doctor Who and The Daleks Book; 1988
Lofficier, Jean-Marc; Doctor Who: The Programme Guide; 1989
Pixley, Andrew; The Daleks: A History from BBC Video; 1993

Text and Concept ©1999 Visagraph Films International/John Rocco Roberto

Doctor Who © 1963, 1999 British Broadcasting Company