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The '''Dalek Battle Computer''' was a computer interface the Daleks used. The [[Renegade Dalek]]s placed one on [[Earth]] in [[November]] [[1963]]. As this Battle Computer required a [[human]] interface to act as a creative intelligence, [[Judith Winters|a young child]] was selected and conditioned to obey the Daleks.
A '''battle computer''' was a machine intelligence that guided the forces of the [[Dalek]]s and the [[Movellan]]s during the [[Dalek-Movellan War]].


The Dalek Battle Computer was similar in shape to a Dalek. When it was used on [[Earth]] in [[1963]] during the [[Shoreditch Incident]] it was black and silver and had a [[Judith Winters|young girl]] sitting in it. The young girl was under the Daleks' control and operated the Dalek Battle Computer. While connected to the Computer, she was able to fire deadly bolts of [[electricity]] from her hands. ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'').
With both forces following a logical machine outcome, the war lasted for centuries with not a single shot fired as both sides were equally matched. In order to win, each side sought an advantage over the other. The [[Dalek Empire]] reawakened their creator, [[Davros]], who programmed their computers to provide them that advantage.


The [[Seventh Incursion Squad]] consulted a Dalek Battle Computer to find a way to defeat the [[Mechanoid]]s on [[Magella]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Birth of a Legend]]'')
The Movellans, discovering this, demanded that the [[Fourth Doctor]] program their computers likewise in order to defeat their Dalek foes. ([[TV]]: ''[[Destiny of the Daleks]]'')
 
== Behind the scenes ==
* The voice of the Dalek Battle Computer was supplied by [[John Leeson]], best known as the voice of [[K9]].


Later, the Daleks began plugging humans — preferably children — into their battle computers, using their imaginations to bolster the battle computer's strategies. ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]'')
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Revision as of 19:01, 29 November 2015

A battle computer was a machine intelligence that guided the forces of the Daleks and the Movellans during the Dalek-Movellan War.

With both forces following a logical machine outcome, the war lasted for centuries with not a single shot fired as both sides were equally matched. In order to win, each side sought an advantage over the other. The Dalek Empire reawakened their creator, Davros, who programmed their computers to provide them that advantage.

The Movellans, discovering this, demanded that the Fourth Doctor program their computers likewise in order to defeat their Dalek foes. (TV: Destiny of the Daleks)

Later, the Daleks began plugging humans — preferably children — into their battle computers, using their imaginations to bolster the battle computer's strategies. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks)

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