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 |result   = {{il|[[Thal]] pyrrhic victory|[[Creation of the Daleks]]|Skaro contaminated by [[radiation]]|Many native species on Skaro mutate and/or go extinct|Near extinction of  [[Kaled]]s|Thals  relocate to [[New Davius]]}}
 |side1    = [[Thal]]s
-|side2    = [[Kaled]]s/[[Dalek]]s
+|side2    = [[Kaled]]s, [[humanoid Dalek]]s, [[Dalek]]s
 |leader1  = Thal supreme council
-|leader2  = The [[Supremo]], [[Military Elite]], [[Scientific Elite]], [[Davros]]
+|leader2  = [[Zolfian]], the [[Supremo]], [[Military Elite]], [[Scientific Elite]], [[Davros]]
 |strength =
 }}{{you may|neutronic war}}
-The '''Thousand Year War''' pitted the two indigenous peoples of [[Skaro]], the [[Kaled]]s and the [[Thal]]s, against one another. The conflict ravaged the [[planet]] with [[radiation]], forcing the remaining combatants to live within domed cities. The war created a third race of sorts in the [[Muto]]s, who were made outcasts due to their disfigurement. Even as the cause of the war was lost to [[memory]], both sides remained committed to victory - and the Kaleds achieved a scientific breakthrough when [[Davros]] [[Creation of the Daleks|engineered]] the [[Dalek]]s.
+The '''Thousand Year War''', or '''Neutronic War''', pitted the two indigenous peoples of [[Skaro]] against one another. The conflict ravaged the [[planet]] with [[radiation]], forcing the remaining combatants to live within domed cities. The war created a third race of sorts in the [[Muto]]s, who were made outcasts due to their disfigurement.
+Even as the cause of the war was lost to [[memory]], both sides remained committed to victory - only for both to be almost completely annihilated, with the [[Thal]]s surviving only as small bands of peasants and their enemies [[Creation of the Dalek|devolving]] into the inhuman [[Dalek]]s.
 == History ==
+=== Participants ===
+[[File:Humanoid Daleks.jpg|thumb|left|The ruling council of the [[humanoid Dalek]]s plan the destruction of the [[Thal]]s. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Genesis of Evil (comic story)|Genesis of Evil]]'')]]The War which devastated Skaro was fought between the [[Thal]]s and the ancestors of the [[Dalek]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]'') The identity of the latter species was debated: most accounts identified the Thals' enemies as the [[Kaled]]s, ([[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Davros (audio story)|Davros]]'', et alt.) but others referred to [[humanoid Dalek|a race of humanoids]] already called "Daleks". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Genesis of Evil (comic story)|Genesis of Evil]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]'') The post-War Thals believed that the Daleks' forefathers and their enemies had been the [[Dal (species)|Dals]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]'')
 === Causes ===
-By the latter stages of the war, neither the Kaleds nor the Thals could remember why it had started. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Davros (audio story)|Davros]]'')
+By the latter stages of the war, neither the [[Kaled]]s nor the [[Thal]]s could remember why it had started. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Davros (audio story)|Davros]]'')
+The [[First Doctor]] discovered evidence to suggest that the Thals had originally been the oppressors of the peaceful [[humanoid Dalek|Dalek forebears]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]'') Historians speculated that the Kaleds had turned bitter, and, seeing the Thals build the [[Thal Dome]] to make their capital impregnable, had [[Kaled Dome|followed suit]], leading to a cold war of sorts. It was, however, impossible to know for sure whether the actual first act of the War had been the Thal aggression the Kaleds feared, or a preemptive strike on the Thals by the Kaleds. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)|Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe]]'')
+However, a different account claimed that the [[Thal]]s had inhabited the continent of [[Davius]], far away from the [[humanoid Dalek]]s' home on [[Dalazar]], across the [[Ocean of Ooze]], and that they had been peaceful and agreeable. The [[War Minister of the Daleks]], [[Zolfian]], had wished to destroy the Thals out of sheer [[xenophobia]], a sentiment shared by some of his people but not by their leader, the pacifist [[Drenz]].
+After the discovery of large amounts of pure [[cobalt]] in the [[Radiation Range]], the Daleks had been able to manufacture a "mighty" [[neutron bomb]] with which to intimidate, or even [[extermination|exterminate]] the Thals. When Drenz opposed the project, he was assassinated by Zolfian, who also had the great scientist [[Yarvelling]] create [[Dalek War Machine]]s. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Genesis of Evil (comic story)|Genesis of Evil]]'') Events similar to this account were dismissed by human historians as distorted myths. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)|Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe]]'')
+=== Further fighting ===
 By the time that the [[Fourth Doctor]] visited [[Skaro]] on a mission to prevent the creation of the [[Dalek]]s, the [[Thal]]s and [[Kaled]]s lived in two domed cities overlooking a polluted wasteland marked by discarded war machines, corpses, and [[minefield|minefields]]. The [[Scientific Elite]], headed by [[Davros]] and his assistant [[Nyder]], and a [[Military Elite]] hoped to create weapons that would finally bring victory. The use of [[nuclear weapon|nuclear]], chemical and biological weapons had led to genetic mutations among both Thals and Kaleds, disparagingly referred to as [[Muto]]s. The Mutos were driven out by the Thals and the Kaleds to keep their races pure.
-By this time both sides had become so desperate for soldiers that they were deploying boys in their early teens on the battlefield and the chief Kaled commander, [[Ravon|General Ravon]], was a young man in his early twenties. ([[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks]]'')
+By this time both sides had become so desperate for soldiers that they were deploying boys in their early teens on the battlefield and the chief Kaled commander, [[Ravon|General Ravon]], was a young man in his early twenties.
-=== Weapons and technology ===
 An [[Anachronism|anachronistic]] mixture of technologies on the battlefield showed a society which had devolved rather than evolved, with combatants using energy weapons alongside rifles and machine guns and engaging in trench warfare as in [[Earth]]'s early [[20th century]] with minefields, barbed wire, and gas shells being used frequently during engagements. Their uniforms were frequently mismatched - soldiers could be seen wearing modern combat jackets made of synthetic fibre with other articles of uniform made of leather.
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 === Conclusion ===
-Davros gave the Thals information to allow them to breach the Kaled Dome, causing massive casualties amongst Davros' own people.
+==== Extermination of the Kaleds ====
+Foreseeing that the only way forward for his kind was to accelerate their evolutions into the machine [[Dalek]]s, [[Davros]] gave the Thals information to allow them to breach the [[Kaled Dome]], causing massive casualties amongst Davros' own people. This provided a rationale for the Kaleds in turn to set the [[Creation of the Daleks|newly created]] [[Dalek]]s against the Thals. At last, a Thal rocket destroyed the Kaled Dome. Thals, led by [[Bettan]] and Mutos, led by [[Sevrin]], joined to fight against the Daleks emerging from the ruined Kaled city. The Daleks were forced back into Davros's bunker and imprisoned there for "a thousand years" by the [[Fourth Doctor]], although their [[Dalek Prime|leader and oldest member]] vowed they would one day reemerge. ([[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks]]'')
-This provided a rationale for the Kaleds in turn to set the [[Creation of the Daleks|newly created]] [[Dalek]]s against the Thals. At last, a Thal rocket destroyed the Kaled Dome. Thals, led by [[Bettan]] and Mutos, led by [[Sevrin]], joined to fight against the Daleks emerging from the ruined Kaled city. ([[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks]]'')
+==== Detonation of the neutron bomb ====
+The surviving Thals saw no difference between these new machine-Daleks holed up in their ruined city and their ancient enemies, and massed forces to continue the War. Learning of this danger, the Daleks detonated a [[neutron bomb]] which instantly wiped out nearly all life on the planet [[Skaro]], and left it so irradiated the Daleks remained confined in their [[Dalek City|city]] for fear of succumbing to [[radiation poisoning]] themselves. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)| The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe]]'')
-The records held by the Daleks and the Thals from over five hundred years after the war ended were heavily corrupted, describing the war as just a quick [[neutronic war]], and not lasting for centuries. According to [[Alydon]], Skaro, which Alydon described as "a great world, full of ideas and art and invention", was destroyed in one day. ([[TV]]: "[[The Expedition]]") One Dalek claimed that after the neutronic war, the Daleks' "[[Dal (species)|forefathers]]" [[retire]]d into the [[Dalek City]], and protected themselves from the fallout inside their machines. ([[TV]]: "[[The Survivors (episode)|The Survivors]]")
+According to another account, there never was an actual ''Thousand''-Year War: before either side could genuinely begin fighting, a freak [[meteor shower]] had hit the factory in which the [[humanoid Dalek]]s had created the neutron bomb. Detonating in the heart of the Dalek capital, the neutron bomb annihilated most life on Skaro in a single day, leaving the humanoid Daleks more or less extinct, the Thals as a scrambling band of survivors without access to higher technologies, and a [[Dalek|new race of mutated Daleks]] alive on Skaro's surface to settle inside Yarvelling's War Machines, repurposed as [[casing]]s. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Genesis of Evil (comic story)|Genesis of Evil]]'') According to the [[Thal]] [[Alydon]], five hundred years later, Skaro, which Alydon described as "a great world, full of ideas and art and invention", had been destroyed in one day. ([[TV]]: "[[The Expedition]]")
 === Legacy ===
 Beyond the existence of the [[Dalek]]s and near-destruction of [[Skaro]] as an inhabitable world, ([[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks]]'', ''[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]'') the War also had a much more mundane aftereffect, namely the publication of the popular [[Earth]] [[science fiction]] [[book|novel]] ''[[World War Skaro]]'' by [[the Doctor]]'s former [[companion]] [[Sarah Jane Smith]],  ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Roving Reporter (short story)|The Roving Reporter]]'') as, being a time-traveller, she had been privileged to witness the near-end of the Thousand Year War with the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks]]'')