Editing A Brief History of the Daleks (short story)

{{title dab away}}
{{real world}}
{{Infobox Story
|main character   = [[Anke Von Grisel]]
|enemy            = [[Dalek]]s
|writer           = [[Paul Lang]]
|format           = Online short story
}}
{{prose stub}}
'''''A Brief History of the Daleks''''' was an online article published on the official ''[[Doctor Who]]'' website as a catch up for the televised history of the [[Dalek]] [[species]] before ''[[Revolution of the Daleks (TV story)|Revolution of the Daleks]]''. By covering the chronological story of the Daleks, the article has a loose narrative that enables it to be covered on this wiki.

== Publisher's summary ==
There's one deadly menace that has haunted the Doctor throughout all the Time Lord's lives. Every time the Doctor defeats the Daleks, they just turn up again, deadlier than ever.

But do you know what went on every single time the Doctor and the Daleks have clashed? Here's a handy catch-up…

== Plot ==
The [[Dalek]]s are the most recurring of [[the Doctor]]'s many enemies. Their encounters date back to when the [[First Doctor]] and his [[companion]]s, [[Ian Chesterton|Ian]], [[Barbara Wright|Barbara]], and [[Susan Foreman|Susan]], [[Thal-Dalek battle|ventured]] into their [[Dalek City|city]] hundreds of years after a devastating [[Neutronic war|war]] fought on Skaro. Enraged that they are stuck within [[Casing|travel machines]], while their [[Thal]] neighbors have returned to a [[humanoid]] form, the Daleks move to [[Extermination|exterminate]] their fellow [[Skarosian]]s in an act of revenge. However, as the Daleks relied on [[static electricity]], the Doctor's intervention appears to spell the end of the Daleks once he switches off their power supply.

In truth, however, the Daleks survived. After the Daleks [[2150s Dalek invasion of Earth|invaded]] the [[Earth]] in the [[22nd century]], the Doctor arrives and is forced to combat their [[Project Degravitate|scheme to turn Earth into a mobile base]]. An even more ambitious plot, however, comes when the Daleks devise their own [[DARDIS|time machine]] to [[Mechonoid Incident|pursue the Doctor]]. Luckily for the Doctor, the Daleks chasing him are caught up in a battle with the robotic [[Mechanoid]]s. Their battle ends with both sides destroying each other.

Sadly for the Doctor, his next battle with the exterminators exacts a heavy toll. [[Katarina|Two]] [[Sara Kingdom|friends]] are lost during the Daleks' plot to conquer the universe with the [[Time Destructor]] superweapon. The Daleks involved in the plot met their end as well, being reduced to [[embryo]]s by the very superweapon they intended to use. The [[Second Doctor]] encounters the Daleks immediately after his [[regeneration]]: a trio of powerless Daleks are [[Vulcan Incident|found]] on the colony world of [[Vulcan]], where the colonists hope to use the Daleks as [[Slavery|slave]] labor despite the Doctor's warnings. Soon enough, the three Daleks boost their numbers by establishing a production line.

However, the Daleks' repeated defeats force the exterminators to re-examine their tactics to better ensure they can emerge victorious in their wars against the rest of the universe. Turning their focus on the very essence of [[human]]ity, the Daleks pin their hopes on the [[human factor]], which they force the Doctor to research. With that, the Daleks also hope to distill and spread [[Dalek factor|their own factor]] to humanity. However, the Daleks granted the human factor are regarded as impure by the rest of the Daleks, kicking off a [[Dalek Civil War]] between the [[humanised Dalek]] and "pure" Daleks. The "[[Operation Human Factor|Dalek Factor fiaso]]" thus forces the Daleks to "lay low for a while".

The Daleks return to force in a [[Time Paradox Incident|complicated temporal plot]] that human fighters and the [[Third Doctor]] both become involved within. During this scheme, the Daleks also employ [[Ogron]]s, who served as strong yet stupid muscle. The Ogrons are seen again "soon after" when [[The Master (Terror of the Autons)|the Master]] and the Daleks [[Operation Divide and Conquer|attempt to manipulate]] the [[Earth Empire]] and [[Draconian Empire]] into war. At the same time, the Daleks have [[Spiridon army|a force of 12,000]] in frozen hibernation on [[Spiridon]]. The Doctor, however, [[Spiridon campaign|further freezes]] this army to delay any hope of releasing them for battle. The Third Doctor later [[Exxilon Gambit|encounters]] stranded humans and Daleks alike on [[Exxilon]]. There, losing power forces the Daleks to rely on "old-school bullet-based guns".

When the [[Fourth Doctor]] is [[Genesis Incident|sent back in time]] to the [[Creation of the Daleks|Daleks' genesis]] during the [[Thousand Year War]], he watches as [[Davros]] unveils the [[Mark III Travel Machine]] and rebrands them as the Daleks. However, the Daleks soon turn on their creator. Luckily for Davros, he was actually left in suspended animation and was "resurrected" by the Daleks during their [[Dalek-Movellan War|stalemate of a war]] with the robotic [[Movellan]]s. With the Daleks hoping Davros could use his imagination to free them from the stalemate, the Movellans hope to make the Doctor do the same for them. Ultimately, however, it is an [[Movellan virus|anti-Dalek tissue virus]] created by the Movellans that ends the war.

Eager for a cure, the Daleks again free Davros from suspended animation. Davros instead works to create a new force of Daleks who will obey him because the originals had once betrayed him. A "[[Duplicate Incident|massive dust-up]]" ensues instead, with Davros appearing to die thanks to the Movellan virus. In reality, Davros survives and eventually makes his way to [[Necros]], where he works as "the Great Healer" to create a [[Necros Dalek|new breed of Dalek]] out of the deceased. The [[Sixth Doctor]] [[Necros Incident|journeys]] to Necros and is surprised to find Davros.

In [[1960]]s [[London]], so-called [[Imperial Dalek]]s and [[Renegade Dalek]]s [[Shoreditch Incident|clash]] over purity. The [[Dalek Emperor]] of the Imperials reveals himself to the [[Seventh Doctor]]: it is an even more insane Davros, who tries to use the [[Time Lord]]s' [[Hand of Omega]] for his own ends. However, the weapon instead backfires, destroying Davros, all of his Imperials, his mothership, and even Skaro. One can only hope the Thals were not present on the world. Afterward, not much is heard from the Doctor because he is "dragged off" to join the [[Last Great Time War]]. With the Daleks and Time Lords fighting and all of [[creation]] at stake, the Doctor resolves to [[Fall of Gallifrey|destroy both the exterminators and his own people]], seemingly destroying all the Daleks once and for all.

The [[Ninth Doctor]] learns the Daleks have survived the War when he [[Battle of GeoComTex|encounters]] a [[Metaltron|surviving Dalek]] contained within billionare [[Henry van Statten]]'s alien collection. Extracting [[artron energy]] from the Doctor's companion [[Rose Tyler|Rose]] to revive itself, the Dalek finds itself grabbling with human emotions. The Dalek [[Suicide|destroys itself]] rather than deal with this. Soon, the Doctor also [[Battle of the Game Station|learns that]] the [[Dalek Emperor in the Last Great Time War|Dalek Emperor]] of the War has also survived and built a [[Dalek Fleet|fleet]] of two hundred [[Dalek flying saucer]]s, granting it a fighting force of nearly half a million Daleks. The [[Tenth Doctor]] also [[Battle of Canary Wharf|encounters]] a [[Void Ship]] in the possession of [[Torchwood]], paving the way for the return of the [[Cult of Skaro]], who escape with [[temporal shift]]s.

The Cult and the Doctor [[Invasion of Manhattan|cross paths]] in [[1930]]s [[New York City]], where [[Dalek Sec]] tries to lead the cult to abandon their "pure" forms and become [[Human-Dalek]] [[hybrid]]s. The rest of the Cult, however, kill their commander after declaring him unfit to command. [[Dalek Jast]] and [[Dalek Thay]] are then destroyed by the other Dalek-human hybrids they created, forcing the last of the Cult, [[Dalek Caan]], to escape in a temporal shift. The next the Doctor knows of the Daleks comes when he unexpectedly reunites with Davros, who has been rescued from the Time War and re-created the Daleks using cells of his own body. Aboard the [[Crucible]], Davros is now working to [[Planetary Relocation Incident|destroy all non-Dalek life]] with a [[reality bomb]]. The ungrateful Daleks have left him locked with "[[The Vault (The Stolen Earth)|a vault]]" with the insane Caan. The destruction of the Crucible appears to mark the ends of both Caan and Davros.

The [[Eleventh Doctor]] first encounters the Daleks when "a few clapped-out old units" have entered [[British]] service under [[Winston Churchill]], claiming to be "[[Ironside Project|Metaltron]]s" invented by [[Edwin Bracewell|a human scientist]]. The Daleks are actually [[Ironside Incident|manipulating]] the Doctor to unlock a [[progenitor]], creating a [[New Dalek Paradigm]] of pure Daleks. Two of these pure units, however, are soon [[Total Collapse Event Incident|reduced to stone]] in the [[total event collapse]], only for the Doctor's [[Big Bang Two|restoration of the universe]] to resurrect the Paradigm Daleks with it. The Doctor is later [[Asylum Incident|forced]] by the Daleks to enter the [[Dalek Asylum]], where [[Asylum Dalek|insane Daleks]] have a chance to escape. He also unites with two of his previous selves, the Tenth Doctor and the [[War Doctor]], to rewrite history on the last day of the Time War, saving [[Gallifrey]] from destruction by moving it to a [[Gallifrey's pocket universe|pocket universe]]. The attacking Daleks, meanwhile, are [[Old circular firing-squad gag|destroyed in their own crossfire]].

When the Time Lords try to escape the pocket universe through a [[crack in time]] on [[Trenzalore]], the Daleks and numerous other threats converge above the planet, resulting in the Doctor and his gathered enemies waiting out the [[Siege of Trenzalore]]. Aware that the Doctor is on his last life, the Daleks hope to simply outlive their great enemy, only for the Time Lords to grant the Doctor a new cycle of regenerations. The Doctor uses his excess [[regneration energy]] to destroy the Dalek Fleet. The ensuing [[Twelfth Doctor]] has his first encounter with the exterminators when he [[Good Dalek Incident|meets]] a very rare sight: a "good" Dalek nicknamed [[Rusty (Into the Dalek)|Rusty]]. When he seals up a radiation leak within Rusty, the good Dalek returns to its evil ways.

Davros, meanwhile, has also survived and returned to a rebuilt Skaro. Dying of old age, he requests to see the Doctor [[Hybrid Incident|one last time]] and exploits his enemy's compassion, stealing regeneration energy from the Doctor to heal himself and power up the Daleks on Skaro. The [[Thirteenth Doctor]] later has her [[Recon Scout Incident|first encounter]] with the Daleks upon meeting a [[reconnaissance scout]] stranded on Earth since the [[9th century]]. Without its casing, the [[Dalek mutant]] puppeteers the body of an [[archaeologist]], [[Lin (Resolution)|Lin]], and uses her to build itself a new casing.

Aside from these encounters, other incidents include [[Bill Potts]]' "baptism of fire" when she encountered Daleks and Movellans, the First Doctor and Susan's [[Game of Rassilon (The Five Doctors)|run in]] with an [[Dalek (The Five Doctors)|upset Dalek]] in the [[Death Zone]], the [[Dalek (Hell Bent)|Dalek]] who became trapped in the [[Cloisters|Matrix Cloisters]], the Eleventh Doctor's [[Breach of the Dalek data core|breach]] of a [[Supreme Dalek (The Wedding of River Song)|Dalek Supreme]], and when [[Adelaide Brooke]] survived a Dalek during their 2008 invasion.

== Characters ==
* [[The Doctor]]
* [[Dalek]]s
* [[Ian Chesterton]]
* [[Barbara Wright]]
* [[Susan Foreman]]
* [[Katarina]]
* [[Sara Kingdom]]
* [[Davros]]
* [[Henry van Statten]]
* [[Rose Tyler]]
* [[Winston Churchill]]
* [[Edwin Bracewell]]
* [[Amy Pond]]
* [[Rory Williams]]
* [[Lin (Resolution)|Lin]]
* [[Bill Potts]]
* [[Adelaide Brooke]]

== References ==
* Davros gave the [[Mark III Travel Machine]] the much "snappier" Dalek name with an "eye on marketing potential".

== Notes ==
* With the exception of ''[[Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks]]'' understandably being placed at the [[Creation of the Daleks|start]] of the [[Daleks' timeline]], this story is notable for placing Dalek stories in their televised order as their timeline order, whereas other sources attempt to mix what order the events occur in.
* The story says the [[Ironside Project|Ironside Daleks]] referred to themselves as "Metaltrons".
* This story claims the [[Planetary Relocation Incident]] occurred in [[2008]].

== Continuity ==
''To be added''

== External links ==
* [https://www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-features/a-brief-history-of-the-daleks '''A Brief History of the Daleks''' on doctorwho.tv]

{{TitleSort}}
[[Category:Web-based Doctor Who short stories]]
[[Category:Dalek short stories]]