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Post by sherlock on Jan 19, 2018 1:10:49 GMT
I love the little bit of cause and effect between Dalek Empire and Destiny of the Daleks. It's always taken as rote that something happened post- Genesis to lock the Daleks in their war with the Movellans and Empire certainly feels strong enough to have caused it. I wonder if the Great Catastrophe never happened in the pre-interference timeline? Possibly, certainly in Return of the Daleks the Doctor places a lot of emphasis in ensuring Kalendorf fulfills his role in history, suggesting the Catastrophe is of huge importance to the timelines. |
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Post by sherlock on Jan 19, 2018 1:28:15 GMT
Just re-read this thread's earlier discussions of the Genesis of Evil origin, so just figured I'd throw my throughts out there. The unique part of The Dalek Chronicles strips is that they are from the Daleks' point of view, the recurring leads are all Daleks. Therefore I'd suggest Genesis of Evil is the Daleks' own telling of their creation. In it a freak disaster from space (a meteorite storm) causes the netueonic detonation that devastates Skaro and the only survivors are Dalek Mutants-leading to the credence to their dogma of them being naturally the superior species since they were the only survivors of this cataclysm. Yarvelling, the Daleks' creator by this telling, unlike Davros is not scarred or deformed, removing any ideas of impurity in the Daleks' beginning.
Therefore Genesis of Evil is a propaganda piece by the Daleks' to shore up their claims of being superior. Genesis of the Daleks is the actual version of what happened, and notably (by my timeline at least) the Daleks don't acknowledge Davros at all until they're at their lowest point (post-Catastrophe, whilst locked in the Movellan War). Perhaps without the fourth Doctor's interference in Genesis they'd have never acknowledged Davros, thus never triggering the civil war which nearly destroyed them.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2018 5:19:52 GMT
Just re-read this thread's earlier discussions of the Genesis of Evil origin, so just figured I'd throw my throughts out there. The unique part of The Dalek Chronicles strips is that they are from the Daleks' point of view, the recurring leads are all Daleks. Therefore I'd suggest Genesis of Evil is the Daleks' own telling of their creation. In it a freak disaster from space (a meteorite storm) causes the netueonic detonation that devastates Skaro and the only survivors are Dalek Mutants-leading to the credence to their dogma of them being naturally the superior species since they were the only survivors of this cataclysm. Yarvelling, the Daleks' creator by this telling, unlike Davros is not scarred or deformed, removing any ideas of impurity in the Daleks' beginning. Therefore Genesis of Evil is a propaganda piece by the Daleks' to shore up their claims of being superior. Genesis of the Daleks is the actual version of what happened, and notably (by my timeline at least) the Daleks don't acknowledge Davros at all until they're at their lowest point (post-Catastrophe, whilst locked in the Movellan War). Perhaps without the fourth Doctor's interference in Genesis they'd have never acknowledged Davros, thus never triggering the civil war which nearly destroyed them. I've had exactly the same thought. The Daleks feel like a species that would be very fond of tweaking their own official history to fit the intent of the current regime; the Emperor largely displacing Davros as the founder of their society. I wrote a Watsonian university paper on it accessible here, after rereading The Dalek Book. Any excuse to write about those old annuals really. I'm very fond of Zeg, we don't hear very much of him at all in most references to other Dalek stories. The worker who went toe-to-toe against the Emperor. |
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Post by fitzoliverj on Jan 21, 2018 10:30:21 GMT
There's been some interesting stuff out about early Dalek material, particularly in "Vworp Vworp". There's certainly a suggestion that the Daleks weren't being portrayed as definitively evil until they became regular returnees on television - in the comics and annuals, they might be ruthless or antagonistic, but not actually wicked.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2018 23:08:05 GMT
There's been some interesting stuff out about early Dalek material, particularly in "Vworp Vworp". There's certainly a suggestion that the Daleks weren't being portrayed as definitively evil until they became regular returnees on television - in the comics and annuals, they might be ruthless or antagonistic, but not actually wicked. Love Vworp Vworp, I wish I'd been quick enough to buy the first issue. Someone once described the original Dalek comics as "schizophrenic" and it's not too far from the truth given the Daleks' portrayal nowadays. One week you're rooting for the Daleks' enemies as they make their escape from Skaro. Another, you're rooting for the Daleks as they battle a rust plague engulphing their city. In one particularly memorable instance, a Dalek withholds knowledge from his peers about an infiltrator, Jeff Stone, at large in the city and has to be interrogated. The Emperor even forgoes the extermination of a victorious human populous because Skaro itself is in jeopardy. They're geared towards war, there's no question of that. These are the conquerors and the enslavers, but not the annihilators and exterminators. Not yet. Not in the first couple of stories, at least. It's really easy to imagine these early Daleks actually having a society of their own. Ceremonies, rallies, even maybe art dedicated to their one goal of conquest. They're deadly, but not vindictive, per se. Pragmatic, might actually be the best word for it. They're the creatures of stories like The Daleks' Master Plan and The Evil of the Daleks, who use people to get what they want rather than just killing them outright. |
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Post by sherlock on Dec 2, 2019 21:43:31 GMT
I’ve been revisiting the Daleks’ timeline recently. I’ve broken up the Annuals into individual stories and included pretty much every story (except John and Gillian comics, as The Land of Happy Endings implies those are the Doctor’s dreams). There’s a few tales from the 2017 Dalek anthology missing, as their wiki entries have barely any details and I don’t own the book myself. Edit-Oh this might have turned into my longest post yet. Beginnings on Skaro: At the end of the Thousand Year War, the Daleks are born. Centuries later, a chance visit by the Doctor alerts them to the existence of life on other worlds. The Magician’s Apprentice/The Witch’s Familiar Innocence Purity Corruption -Davros Guilt Davros Genesis Genesis of the Daleks;Genesis of Evil;We are the Daleks! The Daleks Random Ghosts The Lights of Skaro Return to Skaro The Message of Mystery The Daleks Destroy The Zomites First Dalek Empire: Led by the Emperor, the Daleks research space flight and begin an interstellar empire. As they explore and conquer, the Daleks come into conflict with the Mechanoids and learn of humanity. Power Play Duel of the Daleks The Armaryll Challenge The Penta Ray Factor Plague of Death The Menace of the Monstrons Eve of War The Archives of Phryne The Rogue Planet Impasse The Terrorkon Harvest Legacy of Yesteryear Shadow of Humanity The Emissaries of Jevo Return of the Elders The Defeat of the Daleks The Daleks are Foiled Doctor Who and the Daleks First Great Dalek Occupation: At the height of their first Empire, the Daleks invade Earth in the 2150s and occupy it for a decade. A rebellion drives them from Earth and, after a brief reprise under the leadership of the time-displaced Time Controller in the 2190s, the Empire declines and humanity confines the Daleks to Skaro. GodEngine The Mutant Phase Masters of Earth The Dalek Invasion of Earth Legacy of the Daleks Lucie Miller/To the Death The Curse of the Daleks 23rd Century Campaign: Using a stolen time ring, Davros travels back in time to lead the Daleks on a new campaign. The Time Lords despatch the Doctor and Ace who stop his alterations to history. An Incident Concerning the Continual Bombardment of the Phobos Colony Dalek Attack Dalek War of the 25th Century: In 2400, the Emperor launches a new campaign to conquer humanity, having Skaro itself relocated to the Solar System. After 9 years of conflict, the Daleks negotiate peace and give up most of their weapons. Invasion of the Daleks Red for Danger The Oil Well The Secret of the Mountain City of the Daleks The Humanoids The Small Defender Monsters of Gurnian Break-Through The Super Sub Diamond Dust Battle for the Moon Inter-Wars: Whilst disarmed, the Daleks employ the Werelox to attempt an invasion in the New Earth system. A century after their defeat, the Emperor negotiated the return of the Daleks’ weapons to destroy a rogue planet and resolves to begin conquest again. The Dogs of Doom The Mechanical Planet The Secret Struggle Treasure of the Daleks The Five-Leaved Clover The Invisible Invaders The Log of “Gypsy Joe” Poison of the Daleks Dalek War of the 26th Century: In 2540, the Daleks conspire with the Master to provoke war between Earth and Draconia. After the conspiracy is exposed, a new Dalek War erupts. After decades of conflict, the Daleks lose. Frontier in Space Planet of the Daleks The Conquest of Far Abslom Daak...Dalek Killer! Star Tigers Nemesis of the Daleks Enemy of the Daleks Out of Time Prisoner of the Daleks Post-Wars: The Daleks are greatly diminished in the wake of the Wars. After collaborating with renegade Time Lord Shazar, the Daleks advance their time travel capabilities and make numerous unsuccessful attempts to alter history. During this period the Daleks also work with Cuthbert and the Conglomerate and come into conflict with the Cybermen. Death to the Daleks Return of the Daleks The Disintegrator *Sub Zero The Planet of the Daleks The Threat From Beneath Glorious Goodwood Energy of the Daleks The Dalek Revenge The Dalek Contract/The Final Phase The Elite Heliotrope Bouquet Cyber Crisis Revived Dalek Empire: In the 40th Century, the Daleks meet new military successes and come into conflict with the Space Security Service and the Anti-Dalek Force. The Emperor faces challenges from within the Dalek elite and resolves to improve itself, testing itself after crashing on the planet Shade. In 4000, the Black Dalek spearheads an attempt to topple the Human Empire by forming an alliance with outer galactic powers and constructing the Time Destructor on Kembel. The Space Museum The Chase The World That Waits The Dalek Occupation of Winter The Dalek Trap The Outlaw Planet Sara Kingdom: Space Security Agent The Living Death The Secret of the Emperor Across the Darkened City The Brain Tappers Terror Task Force Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate! Planet of Serpents Flood!!! Timechase The Doomsday Machine Report from an Unknown Planet The Fugitive The Castaway The Seeds of Destruction Assassination Squad The Destroyers Mission to the Unknown The Daleks’ Master Plan -The Sontarans The Eighth Wonder of the World Civil War: The Emperor’s experiments with the Human Factor results in an uprising of Human Factor-affected Daleks after the Doctor manipulates the experiments. The Evil of the Daleks The Lights of Skaro Bringer of Darkness Children of the Revolution Fear of the Daleks Second Great Dalek Occupation: The Daleks launch a grand campaign circa the 43rd Century; raiding the library at Kar-Charrat, attacking the Temporal Powers at Etra Prime and Archetryx, deploying the Apocalypse Element in the Seriphia Galaxy and attempting to destroy the Time Vortex. This culminates in the Second Great Dalek Occupation, where the Daleks invade the Milky Way and occupy most of it for nearly a decade. The Angel of Mercy undermines the new Dalek Empire from within via a slave revolt and Project Infinity unleashes zealous Daleks from a parallel universe who attack the prime Daleks. After the war reaches a truce, Kalendorf initiates the Great Catastrophe, wiping out most of the Dalek Empire and killing the Emperor. The Genocide Machine The Apocalypse Element The TV Movie The Time of the Daleks -Seasons of Fear Invasion of the Daleks -Kalendorf Natalie’s Diary The Human Factor “Death to the Daleks!” -Alby -Private Investigations -Suz -The Best Joke I Ever Told -Hide and Seek -Return of the Daleks -The Fearless Return of the Daleks Project Infinity The Demons Dalek War Post-Catastrophe: -Milky Way Remnant: A remnant of the Dalek Empire persists in the Milky Way, led by a new Emperor based on Skaro. The remnant comes into conflict with the Movellans circa the 50th Century, which the Movellan win by developing a virus to attack Dalek casings, and falls into civil war after Davros attempts to impose his control and the Emperor is exterminated. The Movellan virus and civil war leaves this remnant all-but completely destroyed. Museum Peace Plague of the Daleks Order of the Daleks Destiny of the Daleks Alien Heart/Dalek Soul The Five Doctors The Five Companions Resurrection of the Daleks Davros Revelation of the Daleks The Davros Mission -Innocence -Purity -Guilt Emissary of the Daleks The Ultimate Adventure We are the Daleks The Juggernauts Emperor of the Daleks! -Up Above The Gods The Curse of Davros Blood of the Daleks The Shoreditch Intervention Time & Time Again Remembrance of the Daleks -In Remembrance -The Lights of Skaro Daleks Among Us Metamorphosis Fire and Brimstone The Next Life Terror Firma Brotherhood of the Daleks War of the Daleks The Power of the Daleks The Four Doctors -Seriphia Remnant: Another remnant of the Dalek Empire survives the Catastrophe in Seriphia, led by a new Dalek Supreme. The remnant rebuilds unopposed and infiltrates the Milky Way approximately 2000 years after the Catastrophe, using the NFS Plague to break the Border Worlds away from the Galactic Union and then seize control under the pretext of offering treatment. The Demons Dalek War The Exterminators The Healers The Survivors The Demons The Warriors The Future Mutually Assured Survival Temporal Power: United and led by a new Emperor, the Daleks develop their time travel technology to rival that of the Time Lords and begin to plot against the Temporal Powers and Gallifrey itself. Death and the Daleks The Dalek Trap Patient Zero Dark Eyes: The Traitor Dark Eyes: Eyes of the Master Dark Eyes: The Monster of Montmartre Dark Eyes: Master of the Daleks Dark Eyes: Eye of Darkness Good Night, Sweet Ladies Arbitration Extermination Ascension Mission to Galacton Birth of a Legend Last Great Time War: The War between the Time Lords and the Daleks across all of time and space. In the end the Dalek Empire itself is lost however the Dalek fleet breaks Gallifrey’s defences and destroys Arcadia. As the fleet lays sieges the final defences of the planet, thirteen incarnations of the Doctor act to move Gallifrey into a pocket universe, annihilating the Daleks in their own crossfire. Time War: Soldier Obscura The Third Wise Man Anti-Genesis: Shockwave Anti-Genesis: He Who Wins Only the Good: Beneath The Viscoid Time War: Desperate Measures Only the Good: The Good Master Time War: Unity Sphere of Influence The Shoreditch Intervention Time War: The Starship of Theseus Time War: Echoes of War Time War: The Conscript Time War: One Life Time War: The Lords of Terror Time War: Planet of the Ogrons Time War: Jonah Time War: In the Garden of Death Time War: Jonah Time War: The Famished Lands Time War: Fugitive in Time Time War: The War Valeyard The Sontaran Ordeal Ambush Lost Patrol Only the Monstrous: The Innocent Only the Monstrous: The Thousand Worlds Only the Monstrous: The Heart of the Battle Infernal Devices: A Thing of Guile Infernal Devices: The Neverwhen Four Doctors Agents of Chaos: The Shadow Vortex Agents of Chaos: The Eternity Cage Agents of Chaos: Eye of Harmony Casualties of War: Pretty Lies Casualties of War: The Lady of Obsidian Casualties of War: The Enigma Dimension Decoy The Stranger The Bidding War Engines of War The Last Day The Day of the Doctor Post-Time War: Scattered survivors of the Daleks persist after the cataclysm. -Lost Soldier: Dalek -Emperor: Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways -Lost Scout: I Am A Dalek -Unknown: Carnage Zoo/Flight and Fury/The Living Ghosts/Extermination of the Daleks -Cult of Skaro: Army of Ghosts/Doomsday -Tardisode 13 Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks New Dalek Empire: Rescued from the Time War by the last survivor of the Cult of Skaro, Davros builds a new Dalek Empire in the Medusa Cascade and plots to destroy reality itself. The Stolen Earth/Journey’s End -The Waters of Mars New Dalek Paradigm: A trio of survivors use a progenitor to create a new Paradigm of pure Daleks. The Paradigm begins again and eventually builds a new Dalek Empire under the leadership of a Parliament of Daleks. The new Empire comes into conflict with old foes, humanity and the Movellans. The Beast Below Victory of the Daleks City of the Daleks Return to Earth Evacuation Earth The Mazes of Time The Only Good Dalek Living History The Wedding of River Song The Dalek Project The Dalek Generation Asylum of the Daleks Encounters: The Dalek Transaction The Time of the Doctor Into the Dalek The Doctor and the Dalek The Magician’s Apprentice/The Witch’s Familiar Abduction The Pilot Harvest of the Daleks Resolution Twice Upon a Time Negated Timelines: -The Master of the Daleks: Anti-Genesis: The Master’s Dalek Plan Anti-Genesis: Shockwave Anti-Genesis: He Who Wins -1903 Dalek Invasion of Earth: Jubilee -Greylish: Renaissance of the Daleks -Time Destructor: Daughter of the Gods -Styles Paradox: Day of the Daleks -Mutant Phase: The Mutant Phase -Anti-Time: Neverland -Kotris: Dark Eyes: The Great War Dark Eyes: Fugitives Dark Eyes: Tangled Web Dark Eyes: X and the Daleks -Skaro Reborn: City of the Daleks -Total Event Collapse: The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang -New Emperor: The Eternity Clock Parallel Universes: Fire and Brimstone Project Infinity Dalek War Masters of War |
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Post by sherlock on Aug 27, 2020 12:52:15 GMT
Unusually Out of Time provides a clear timeline placement for the Daleks. They originate from the Second Dalek War in the 26th Century, which is the war that broke out after Frontier in Space and has already appeared in the Abslom Daak comics and Prisoner of the Daleks.
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Post by themeddlingmonk on Aug 27, 2020 12:55:07 GMT
Unusually Out of Time provides a clear timeline placement for the Daleks. They originate from the Second Dalek War in the 26th Century, which is the war that broke out after Frontier in Space and has already appeared in the Abslom Daak comics and Prisoner of the Daleks. Was there a more specific placement? I didn’t pick up on one so I just placed it after Prisoner of the Daleks as that also features bronze Daleks and presumably would’ve already happened in the Tenth Doctor's timeline too. Not that the Doctor had to experience those events in chronological order. |
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Post by sherlock on Aug 27, 2020 12:57:54 GMT
Unusually Out of Time provides a clear timeline placement for the Daleks. They originate from the Second Dalek War in the 26th Century, which is the war that broke out after Frontier in Space and has already appeared in the Abslom Daak comics and Prisoner of the Daleks. Was there a more specific placement? I didn’t pick up on one so I just placed it after Prisoner of the Daleks as that also features bronze Daleks and presumably would’ve already happened in the Tenth Doctor's timeline too. Not that the Doctor had to experience those events in chronological order. Nothing really specific. It is perhaps notable that the cover depicts a combination of classic and bronze Daleks. As Prisoner establishes the Daleks were using the bronze design by that point in the Second Dalek War, it’s possible Out of Time is prior to that whilst they’re transitioning between designs. Edit-Also a quick glance on Prisoner’s wiki page suggests that it’s ending actually causes the climax of the Second Dalek War. |
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Post by themeddlingmonk on Aug 27, 2020 13:12:58 GMT
Was there a more specific placement? I didn’t pick up on one so I just placed it after Prisoner of the Daleks as that also features bronze Daleks and presumably would’ve already happened in the Tenth Doctor's timeline too. Not that the Doctor had to experience those events in chronological order. Nothing really specific. It is perhaps notable that the cover depicts a combination of classic and bronze Daleks. As Prisoner establishes the Daleks were using the bronze design by that point in the Second Dalek War, it’s possible Out of Time is prior to that whilst they’re transitioning between designs. Edit-Also a quick glance on Prisoner’s wiki page suggests that it’s ending actually causes the climax of the Second Dalek War. Ah, that makes sense then. Before Prisoner of the Daleks it is then. |
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Post by sherlock on May 7, 2021 9:14:29 GMT
So I’ve written up a history of the Daleks post-TLV, involving no small amount of head canon to make it work. It’s a bit long so I’ve put in spoiler section. Dalek Universe may yet throw a spanner in works but oh well. {Spoiler}
Head canon in bold.
-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) |
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Post by sherlock on Oct 13, 2021 13:38:58 GMT
So I’ve written up a history of the Daleks post-TLV, involving no small amount of head canon to make it work. It’s a bit long so I’ve put in spoiler section. Dalek Universe may yet throw a spanner in works but oh well. {Spoiler}
Head canon in bold.
-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) Happily Dalek Universe doesn’t break this. If anything I’d argue it vindicates if. To elaborate would require spoilers. |
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