The Daleks' Timeline

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-At the end of the Thousand Year War on Skaro, the Daleks are created by Davros who orchestrates the annihilation of both sides for his new race to rise. The Daleks turn on him but are entombed in the Kaled bunker by surviving Thals. Entombed, the Daleks persist, (Genesis of the Daleks) eventually building a number of cities on Skaro. (Return to Skaro) One such city is discovered centuries later by the First Doctor and co, (The Daleks) inadvertently alerting the Daleks to existence of alien life (The Lights of Skaro) and the survival of the Thals. The Thals manage to overrun the city and shut it down. (The Daleks) The city is briefly reactivated during a complex temporal event caused by Ace’s attempt to time lock Skaro. (Random Ghosts, The Lights of Skaro) The Thals eventually settle in the overthrown city, and are revisited by the First Doctor fifty years later who exposes a plot by surviving Daleks to regain control. (Return to Skaro) Daleks in other cities eventually learn of these encounters and the survival of the Thals.

-Led by the Emperor, who for propaganda purposes claims to be the first Dalek ever created by “Yarvelling”, the Daleks of the other cities develop space time and begin a spacefaring empire, coming into conflict with Mechonoids. The Daleks are intrigued by humanity and eventually locate Earth. (The Dalek Chronicles) After a failed invasion of Earth’s system, (Return of the Elders) the Daleks collaborate with the Voord against humanity but are foiled by the Doctor. (Doctor Who and the Daleks)

-In the mid 22nd century, the Daleks use a space plague to weaken humanity and invade Earth. They occupy the planet for about a decade, until the arrival of the First Doctor (who wrongly believes this takes place before his first encounter with the Daleks) leads to their overthrow. (The Dalek Invasion of Earth) Decades later the Daleks discover the damage time-displaced Dalek Time Controller, sending a distress signal which the Monk answers. Forging an alliance with the Monk, the Time Controller rallies the Daleks for a second occupation of Earth, this time to turn it into a time-travelling plague planet. After some months, this occupation fails due to the efforts of Lucie Miller and Alex Campbell. (Lucie Miller, To the Death)

-In the 23rd century, Davros (from a later period of Dalek history) arrives via a stolen time ring and leads the Daleks against humanity again. (Dalek Attack) During this campaign, the Daleks attack the colony on Phobos. (An Incident Concerning the Continual Bombardment of Phobos Colony) The Time Lords send the Doctor to stop Davros’ meddling in history, resulting in the campaign failing and Davros being placed in suspended animation until he reaches his proper time zone again. (Dalek Attack)

-By 2400, Skaro has become a wandering planet somehow, and ends up in Earth’s solar system. The Emperor orchestrates a war against humanity but after 9 years the Daleks are forced to agree to peace with humanity and are disarmed. (The Dalek Annuals) During the disarmed period in 2430, the Daleks attempt to take over the New Earth system with the aid of Werelox. (The Dogs of Doom)

-Originally, the disarmed period lasts two centuries until a rogue planet threatened Skaro, which caused humanity to allow the Daleks’ rearmament, (The Dalek Annuals) however the Master alters history by enabling the Daleks to rearm early and instigating Operation Divide and Conquer in 2540. In preparation for his plan to put the empires of Earth and Draconia at war, the Daleks assemble an army of 10,000 drones on Spiridon, the largest army ever assembled in the Dalek Empire’s history. The plot is exposed by the Third Doctor & Jo, and he contacts the Time Lords who direct him to Spiridon where he aids a Thal expedition. The Doctor, Jo and Thals entomb the army in ice. (Frontier in Space, Planet of the Daleks)

-The exposure of Operation Divide and Conquer leads to Earth and Draconia waging the Second Dalek War against the Daleks. (Love and War) After decades of conflict, during which infamous Dalek Killer Abslom Daak wages his one-man campaign, (Abslom Daak...Dalek Killer, Star Tigers, Nemesis of the Daleks) the Daleks become increasingly desperate and turn to time travel. A Supreme attempts to exploit the Cathedral of Contemplation but is foiled by the Tenth and Fourth Doctors (Out of Time) and Dalek X oversees attempts to manipulate the rift at the Arkheon Threshold. His plot is defeated by the Tenth Doctor and the resources lost leads to the collapse of the Dalek war effort. (Prisoner of the Daleks)

-In the aftermath of the Second Dalek War, the weakened Daleks continue time travel experiments to attempt to alter history. Renegade Time Lord Shazar assists them in developing a fleet of TARDISes, though it is destroyed by the machinations of the High Council and the Fourth Doctor. (Return of the Daleks) Using the knowledge gained from Shazar, the Daleks begin a campaign across time. Numerous Dalek expeditions are encountered in the 20th century by the Third Doctor, who prevents them changing history. (Sub Zero, The Planet of the Daleks, Glorious Goodwood) Another expedition is defeated in 2025 by the Fourth Doctor & Leela. (Energy of the Daleks) In retaliation for the Daleks’ meddling in history, the Time Lords direct the Fourth Doctor & Sarah Jane to overthrow the Dalek occupation of Ercos. (The Dalek Revenge)

-In the ensuing centuries, the Daleks are a diminished force. They form a failed alliance with Cuthbert (The Dalek Contract, The Final Phase) and end up at war with the Cyberman. (Heliotrope Bouquet) The war ends with the Daleks destroying New Mondas. (Cyber Crisis)

-In the 40th century, the Dalek Empire rises to prominence again, coming into conflict with the Space Security Service (SSS) and the Anti-Dalek Force. (The Dalek Outer Space Book, The Destroyers) The Daleks occupy Winter during this period, using the colony to produce new Daleks. (The Dalek Occupation of Winter) After malfunctions which undermine Dalek strategies, the Emperor’s casing is overhauled. (The Dalek Outer Space Book) Before taking up his new casing, the Emperor decides to improve himself by going to the front lines under the classification “Genetic Variant Two-One-Zero”. He encounters the Doctor’s companion Steven Taylor during a prison escort mission and they work together to survive after the prison ship crashes. Impressed by Steven’s behaviour, the Emperor returns to Skaro to take up his new casing and vows to investigate the Human Factor. (Across The Darkened City)

-In 4000, the Black Dalek devises an ambitious gambit to defeat the Second Human Empire by uniting Outer Galactic powers into an alliance against Earth and building the Time Destructor on Kembel. The alliance crumbles and the Time Destructor plot is exposed by the SSS and the First Doctor, who turns the Destructor against the Daleks on Kembel. (Mission to the Unknown, The Daleks’ Master Plan) A war between the Daleks and the SSS ensues, (Dalek Universe) during which the Daleks invade the Galactic Federation in the 4010s. (Legacy)  

-In the aftermath of the Dalek War, the Daleks make a failed attempt to exploit a space plague by claiming the only cure on Exxilon. (Death to the Daleks) Years later they return to Exxilon after the plague mutates to infect Daleks but are repelled again. (Dalek Universe)

-The Emperor oversees experiments with the Human Factor, embroiling the Second Doctor. He exposes several Daleks to the Human Factor, inciting a civil war on Skaro which he believes will be the final end of the Daleks. (The Evil of the Daleks) The rebellion fails, (Bringer of Darkness) with the Emperor surviving. (The Lights of Skaro) The humanised Daleks flee in a saucer and settle on Kryol (Children of the Revolution) whilst the Emperor’s Daleks begin to rebuild the empire. (Bringer of Darkness, Fear of the Daleks)

-The Daleks turn to time travel once more, studying human history (Empire of the Daleks) and exploiting a paradox to invade Earth in the 21st century, which is undone by the Third Doctor averting the paradox. (Day of the Daleks)

-Circa the 43rd century, (The Mutant Phase) the Daleks embark on a grand campaign to build a new empire. They raid the library on Kar-Charrat and unleash the Apocalypse Element and attack the Temporal Powers to destroy and rebirth the Seriphia Galaxy. (The Genocide Machine, The Apocalypse Element) Afterwards President Romana negotiates a peace treaty, giving the Daleks the Master in return for cession of hostilities towards the Temporal Powers. In accordance with the treaty, the Daleks let the Seventh Doctor collect the Master’s remains from Skaro following his execution. (The Movie) The Emperor leads a fleet to detonate a time fissure in the Time Vortex to imprint themselves onto history. The Vortex expedition becomes trapped in a time loop, (The Time of the Daleks) but is eventually released by the Time Lords. (Neverland)

-From their power base in Seriphia, the Daleks embark on their largest campaign yet; the Second Great Dalek Occupation. The Dalek Empire systematically conquers the Milky Way, forcing the Earth Alliance into retreat. Susan Mendes is recruited by the Emperor and Supreme to be the “Angel of Mercy” to improve slave efficiency through hope and allowed to be accompanied by Kalendorf. (Invasion of the Daleks, The Human Factor) The Scientific Division returns to Spiridon to recover the army and research invisibility, capturing the Seventh Doctor when he surrenders to save Kalendorf. (Return of the Daleks) After Earth falls, Susan instigates a slave rebellion by triggering telepathic programming Kalendorf had impressed on every slave they met. The rebellion throws the Dalek Empire into chaos. (“Death to the Daleks!”) The Doctor, knowing history is on track, escapes Spiridon, infecting all the Daleks there with fatal Light Wave Sickness. (Return of the Daleks) The Emperor uses the chaos of the rebellion to reach Project Infinity and contacts Daleks of a parallel universe who have conquered their universe. The parallel Daleks are horrified by their counterparts and join forces with the Earth Alliance. (Project Infinity)

-After six years, the Allied forces reduce the Dalek Empire’s presence in Mutter’s Spiral to Earth’s system however Kalendorf devises a truce with the Daleks to turn on parallel Daleks, regarding them as a benevolent dictatorship. The Daleks and Earth Alliance fight together for years, until the parallel Daleks retreat believing the conflict will otherwise result in all life in Mutter’s Spiral being destroyed. Before the Daleks can break the fragile truce, Kalendorf initiates the Great Catastrophe, causing Dalek technology across the Empire to self-destruct. The Emperor and Supreme are killed and most of the Dalek Empire is wiped out. (Dalek War) After the Catastrophe, the Dalek Empire is split in two. One remnant in Seriphia is led by a new Supreme Dalek (The Demons) and another in the Milky Way is led a new Emperor. (Emperor of the Daleks!)

-The Milky Way remnant comes into conflict with the Movellans. Trapped in a stalemate due to both sides’ reliance on logical battle computers, the Daleks recover Davros from Skaro. A rival Movellan expedition and a human slave revolt instigated by the Fourth Doctor causes the mission to fail and Davros is taken into human custody. (Destiny of the Daleks) The Movellan War continues for another 90 years, during which the Daleks briefly capture and duplicate the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa (Alien Heart, Dalek Soul) and a group of Daleks are timescooped to the Death Zone, (The Five Doctors, The Five Companions) until the Movellans devise a virus to attack Dalek casings. Defeated, the Daleks seek Davros again so he can devise a cure however he deems his creations failures and turns against them. (Resurrection of the Daleks)

-After stealing a time ring, Davros travels back in time in hopes of changing his creations’ history for the better. His campaign is foiled by the Doctor and he is frozen in time. (Dalek Attack) Davros is reawakened in his proper time by Lorraine Barnes. After a failed attempt to exploit her company, (Davros) Davros makes his way to Necros. Under the guise of the “Great Healer”, He manufactures a new race of Daleks. The Emperor’s Daleks learn of this and an expedition is sent to capture Davros. (Revelation of the Daleks) Davros is brought before a Supreme on Skaro. After a show of loyalty by exposing a Thal spy, and consideration of interviews conducted en route, (I, Davros) the Supreme names him a leader of the Daleks, elevating him to the Supreme Council. (The Davros Mission)

-Davros’ presence on the Supreme Council causes a schism among the Daleks due to his lack of commitment to Dalek purity. The situation is exacerbated when a failed scheme of the Emperor’s results in the Seventh Doctor devastating Skaro with a time storm, (We are the Daleks) undermining his authority. After Davros returns to Necros to retrieve two surviving Daleks of his design, a Supreme orchestrates the crash of his transport ship on Lethe. Davros survives and establishes himself among the human colonists there, creating the Juggernauts based on old Mechonoids there. The Supreme subsequently recruits the Sixth Doctor to find Davros and invades once the Doctor confirms Davros’ survival, battling his Juggernauts. Davros is seemingly destroyed during the battle, (The Juggernauts) however he survives somehow and is brought back to Skaro. To reunite the increasingly divided Daleks behind his leadership, the Emperor puts Davros on a show trial for his creation of the Necros Daleks and the Juggernauts. The Sixth and Seventh Doctors conspire to rescue Davros and take him to Spiridon where he converts the Dalek army to his leadership. Davros’ Daleks invade Skaro and exterminate the Emperor. Davros is proclaimed the new Emperor of the Daleks, (Emperor of the Daleks!) however the Dalek Prime and one Supreme refuse to yield and lead a splinter Renegade faction against him. (Remembrance of the Daleks, War of the Daleks)  

-During the Civil War, Emperor Davros leads the Imperial faction to interfere with the Battle of Waterloo (The Curse of Davros) and the Renegades destroy another impure faction of Daleks created on Red Rocket Rising. (Blood of the Daleks) The Civil War culminates when both factions attempt to claim the Hand of Omega in Shoreditch in 1963. The Imperials defeat the Renegade expedition and claim the Hand, however the Seventh Doctor pre-programmed it to annihilate Skaro and the Imperial Fleet, though Emperor Davros escapes in an escape pod. (Remembrance of the Daleks)

-Davros manages to reach Imperial Daleks on Azimuth but is forced to flee again in a time machine, (Daleks Among Us) becoming stranded in the Time Vortex. He escapes to Earth by exploiting the Eighth Doctor and uses his companions to spread a mutagenic virus, creating a new Imperial army. He withdraws from Earth, (Terror Firma) and comes into conflict with the Renegades again, reigniting the Civil War. After the new Imperial army is defeated, the Dalek Prime (who for propaganda purposes claims to have been the first Dalek and original Emperor all along) arranges for Davros to be brought to Antalin (which for propaganda purposes the Prime claims is actually the original Skaro) for a final trial which exposes Davros loyalists within the Renegades. The Eighth Doctor is embroiled in these events and the Prime arranges for a Dalek factory ship to be attached to his TARDIS as an insurance policy. The Doctor escapes as a battle rages between Renegades and Davros loyalists after which Davros is seemingly executed (actually transmitted to safety by a loyalist spider Dalek). The Doctor jettisons the factory ship, (War of the Daleks) and it ends up on Vulcan where the Daleks attempt to takeover the human colony but are defeated by the Second Doctor. (The Power of the Daleks) The Prime is eventually trapped into a time loop by four incarnations of the Doctor, (The Four Doctors) leaving the Renegades leaderless. At the same time, with Davros lost, an Imperial Supreme exterminates his rival supremes and takes over the remains of the Imperial faction. (Time Lord Victorious)

-Approximately 2500 years after the Catastrophe, the Seriphia remnant re-enters the Milky Way and occupies the Border Worlds by exploiting the crisis caused by the NFS Plague, which the Daleks created. (Dalek War, The Exterminators, The Healers, The Survivors, The Demons, The Warriors, The Future)

-The Imperial Supreme reunites all the Dalek factions (Imperial, Renegade and Seriphia) together into the Restoration Empire and becomes Emperor. To harken back to the original Empire he has Skaro restored, adopts a casing similar to the first Emperor and the original silver colour scheme of the drones brought back. (Time Lord Victorious) The new united Dalek Empire enters a cold war with the Galactic Union. (Mutually Assured Survival) Davros is eventually allowed back into the fold. (The Wintertime Paradox)

-The Restoration Empire develops advanced time travel. They alter history in the 27th century by sponsoring the Fifth Axis to attempt to claim Irving Braxiatel’s TARDIS. (Death and the Daleks) A Time Controller assumes leadership of temporal missions, including travelling back in time to 2233 to hunt down the Master, (Master!) but is lost after a failed raid on Amyethst. (Patient Zero) It later resurfaces leading its own faction of Daleks and is defeated by a Supreme, who orders for it’s remains to be used to create a new Time Strategist. (Dark Eyes)

-Originally, the Restoration Empire begins to target Gallifrey at this point however this course of events is altered by fluctuations caused by the Tenth Doctor’s alterations in the Dark Times. The Daleks instead become embroiled in the Kotturuh crisis and their attempt to exploit the crisis to destroy Gallifrey in the Dark Times fails. (Time Lord Victorious) The Daleks begin to target Gallifrey, sponsoring Free Time and invading the Axis to plunder alternate Gallifreys. Their invasion of Gallifrey via the Matrix is foiled by Romana. (Extermination, Ascension) With a time war looming, the Emperor creates the Cult of Skaro. (Birth of a Legend) The Daleks continue to attack the Temporal Powers and after the Fall of Phaidon, the Time Lords officially declare the Time War against the Daleks. (Time War)

-The Time War rages for an eternity. The Emperor and his Time Strategist oversee campaigns across space and time, (Time War, Agents of Chaos, Casualties of War) Davros is lost to the Nightmare Child, (The Third Wise Man) the Master briefly usurps Dalek history and is subsequent pursued (Anti-Genesis, Only the Good) and the secret societies of the Voltatix Cabal and Eternity Circle devise ever darker ideas. (Eleventh Doctor Year 2, Engines of War) The Cult of Skaro flees in a Void Ship. (Doomsday) Eventually Skaro is scorched (City of the Daleks) and the Empire itself lost, however the Daleks break the defences of Gallifrey itself and lay siege to its second city, Arcadia. (The Last Day) Unable to breach the Capitol’s defences, all Dalek forces surround and bombard the planet from orbit. Thirteen Doctors together move Gallifrey into a pocket universe, annihilating the Daleks in their own crossfire. (The Day of the Doctor)

-Scattered survivors persist: a single Dalek drone crashes to Earth, ending up in the collection of Henry Van Statten; (Dalek) the Emperor survives in his flagship and builds a new army in 200,000, eventually attempting to conquer Earth in 200,100; (Bad Wolf, The Parting of the Ways) another single survivor resurfaces on Earth; (I am a Dalek) and a faction resurfaces in the 22nd century. (Carnage Zoo, Flight and Fury, The Living Ghosts, Extermination of the Daleks)

-The Cult of Skaro returns to the universe in 2007 Earth. There they fight the Cybermen that had invaded in their wake, and unleash millions of Daleks from the Genesis Ark. The Doctor opens up their breach in reality, causing all Daleks to be pulled in the Void between universes. (Army of Ghosts, Doomsday) The Cult escape to 1930 Manhattan via temporal shifts and turns to experimenting to create new human Daleks. The Doctor meddles in the Final Experiment, causing the human Daleks to turn on them. (Daleks in Manhattan, Evolution of the Daleks) The last survivor of the Cult, Caan, escapes via temporal shift and rescues Davros from the Time War. Davros builds a new race of Daleks from his own cells and they build the New Dalek Empire in the Medusa Cascade, constructing a Reality Bomb from 27 planets relocated there. The Reality Bomb’s detonation is foiled and the Metacrisis Doctor destroys the Daleks. (The Stolen Earth, Journey’s End)

-A final group of survivors use a progenitor to build a new Paradigm, which begins to build a new empire. (Victory of the Daleks) Their attempts to rebuild include trying to activate the Eye of Time (City of the Daleks), attacking Space Security Service facilities in the 41st Century (The Only Good Dalek), attempting to retrieve a time axis from the SS Lucy Gray (Return to Earth, Evacuation Earth), attempting to study a time engine, (The Mazes of Time) manipulating a segment of the Eternity Clock, (The Eternity Clock) experimenting on Earth during World War I (The Dalek Project) and sponsoring the Sunlight Worlds in a scheme of turning them into new Skaros. (The Dalek Generation)

-The Paradigm eventually establishes a fledgling empire, led by a Parliament of Daleks (Asylum of the Daleks) and come into conflict with humanity (Into the Dalek) and the Movellans. (The Pilot) The Daleks take part in the centuries long Siege of Trenzalore, succeeding in defeating the Church of the Silence and the Doctor. As they close in on the Doctor, he receives a new regeneration cycle which he uses to destroy the Dalek forces on Trenzalore. (The Time of the Doctor) Davros is retrieved and given command of a contingent of Daleks to rebuild Skaro, where he attempts to lure the Doctor to fulfil the Hybrid Prophecy utilising his own waning health in the scheme. Davros is successfully renewed but the new city perishes in the aftermath of the experiment. (The Magician’s Apprentice, The Witch’s Familiar)

-A reconnaissance scout sent through time crashes on Earth in the 9th century and is defeated by an alliance of tribes. In the 21st century it reawakens after being exposed to UV light and builds a casing. It is defeated by the Thirteenth Doctor, (Resolution) however it’s remains are retrieved and exploited, leading to a new race of Daleks rising. As they begin a takeover of Earth, the Thirteenth Doctor lures a Dalek Death Squad to Earth to purge the impure Daleks and then disposes of them in a self-destructing TARDIS. (Revolution of the Daleks)