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The '''New Dalek Paradigm''', who organised themselves into a state known as the '''Dalek Empire''' like the [[Dalek Empire|empire of old]],{{fact}} and were also known as the Daleks' "'''New Master Race'''", ([[TV]]: {{cs|Symphony of the Daleks (TV story)}}) were a restored form of the [[Dalek]] [[Species|race]] following their near-destruction during the [[Last Great Time War]]. Purebred Daleks [[Ironside Incident|initially created]] by a [[Progenitor]] device, which made use of pure Dalek [[DNA]] in contrast to the previous [[New Dalek Empire]], they swept into [[N-Space|the universe]] and replenished their numbers. As the original members of the Paradigm began to suffer defeats, however, the Dalek Empire they established grew to reject them, with the [[reinvention of the Dalek Empire]] robbing the Paradigm of its influence. In time, the Paradigm seemed to vanish from the [[resurrected Dalek Empire]].

Said midsection was coloured grey, as were the neck, base and sensor globes (with the exception being the [[Eternal Dalek]], whose globes were coloured black). Additionally, the [[Dalek eyestalk]] of the new officer class seemed to contain an organic, bloodshot eyeball instead of anything truly electronic. The most drastic changes, however, were the replacing of the grating in the "neck" region with four tapered discs and the replacement of the rear sensor globes with a broad, protruding compartment that gave the new designs a hunchbacked appearance compared to previous and subsequent designs. These larger casings ([[TV]]: ''[[Victory of the Daleks (TV story)|Victory of the Daleks]]'') were denoted as "Type IX" by the [[Time Lord]]s, who observed that the [[back panel|panel on the back]] contained hardware to extend the Dalek's functional capabilities whilst the organic materials introduced into the eye served to enhance its sensitivity. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (reference book)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'')

This new casing initially served as the sole design of the Paradigm Empire, ([[GAME]]: ''[[City of the Daleks (video game)|City of the Daleks]]'', ''[[The Eternity Clock (video game)|The Eternity Clock]]'') but would later be restricted to higher-ranking Daleks as the earlier [[Bronze Dalek|bronze Type VIII design]] eventually returned. When the Paradigm [[Reinvention of the Dalek Empire|lost its power]] over the Dalek Empire after a series of defeats at the hands of the [[Eleventh Doctor]], the ensuing [[resurrected Dalek Empire]] was operated under the [[Parliament of the Daleks]] instead of the Paradigm. The [[Prime Minister of the Daleks]] deemed the bronze drone model more likely provoke the most [[fear]] across [[the universe]]. Around this time, the newer model was also modified, slimming down the back panel and now sporting a metallic colour finish. ([[TV]]: ''[[Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)|Asylum of the Daleks]]''; [[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]]'')

While the new Drone Dalek design was mass-produced initially, ([[GAME]]: ''[[City of the Daleks (video game)|City of the Daleks]]'', ''[[Return to Earth (video game)|Return to Earth]]'', ''[[The Eternity Clock (video game)|The Eternity Clock]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Only Good Dalek (comic story)|The Only Good Dalek]]'') the New Paradigm began to make heavier use of [[Bronze Dalek]]s as time went by. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dalek Generation (novel)|The Dalek Generation]]'') With the [[Reinvention of the Dalek Empire|fall of the Paradigm]], the Daleks formally went back to using the bronze Time War models as the shells for their basic drones. In the [[resurrected Dalek Empire]], the [[Drone Dalek (New Dalek Paradigm)|Paradigm Drone]] casing was promoted to an officer class ([[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]]'') but remained greatly outnumbered by the bronze army. ([[TV]]: ''[[Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)|Asylum of the Daleks]]'')

During the [[Last Great Time War]], the [[Dalek Time Strategist (The Shadow Vortex)|Dalek Time Strategist]] noted that the nemesis of the [[Dalek]] race, [[the Doctor]], was deeply connected with their history, mentioning the yet to be formed New Paradigm as an example. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Restoration of the Daleks (audio story)|Restoration of the Daleks]]'') Through the extrapolations of [[the Matrix]], the Time War-era [[Time Lord]]s also foresaw the establishment of the New Dalek Paradigm, the unique casings of which were denoted as "Type IX" in the ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual]]''. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (reference book)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'')

In their record of Dalek activity in linear history, the Time Lords indicated that the New Dalek Paradigm was based in the "[[far future]]" following the pre-[[Time War]] [[Hand of Omega Incident]], which itself followed the [[47th century]] [[Necros Incident]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (reference book)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'')

The Daleks joined the [[Pandorica Alliance]] to imprison the Eleventh Doctor in the [[Pandorica]] in [[102]] to save the [[universe]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'') leading to the Total Collapse Event Incident. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (reference book)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'') As the Doctor was not responsible for the [[total event collapse]] as they thought, the Daleks, along with almost the rest of the universe, were destroyed, leaving only two [[Stone Dalek]]s, one of which hindered the Doctor and his companions' efforts to save the universe in [[1996]]. Nevertheless, they were successful and the whole of reality, including the Daleks, were restored. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'')

=== The Sunlight Worlds ===

When a [[human]] [[starliner]], the ''[[Alaska (spacecraft)|Alaska]]'', crash-landed on the [[Dalek Asylum]] [[planet]], the security of the insane Daleks contained there was compromised. Fearing what would happen if these Daleks were to escape, the Prime Minister ordered the abduction of the Doctor, whom he called the [[Aliases of the Doctor|Predator of the Daleks]]. He would be sent to the Asylum to lower its impenetrable [[force field]] so the Daleks could destroy their deranged brethren, despite their wish to preserve them and their "beautiful" hatred. Understanding that the Doctor was best assisted by his [[companion]]s, his most recent ones, [[Amy Pond]] and [[Rory Williams]], were abducted as well.

This sudden gap in the Daleks' knowledge brought confusion and doubt to the Empire, stalling their war efforts as they attempted to discover who the identity of the enemy who had foiled them so many times past. ([[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 Eternal developed a theory of an unknown “predator of the Daleks”. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Last Stand of Miss Valarie Lockwood (audio story)|The Last Stand of Miss Valarie Lockwood]]'')

 

 

 

 

The Scientist used its last moments to deduce the truth of the Arkheon device, enabling the Supreme to take control from the Doctor and planned to use the device to enable invasions across the universe. Unknown to the Daleks, the Doctor had anticipated this and allowed them to conquer the universe, as it was actually another construct of the Arkheon device. Once the Daleks had conquered the entire fake universe, he allowed the Parliament to capture him whilst Valarie and Roanna infected the device with the [[Darinthian Blight]]. As the Daleks controlled all currency in the device’s universe, the Blight killed all the Daleks, including the Supreme. The Doctor suspected however that some Daleks would have survived. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Victory of the Doctor (audio story)|Victory of the Doctor]]'')

 

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The 2010 redesign of the Daleks attracted much criticism from hundreds of angered fans.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/2937261/Redesigned-Daleks-look-like-toys-say-angry-Doctor-Who-fans.html |title=New-look coloured Daleks 'like toys' |date of source=19 April 2010 |website name=The Sun |accessdate=6 July 2013}}</ref> [[Mark Gatiss]], who wrote their debut episode, ''[[Victory of the Daleks (TV story)|Victory of the Daleks]]'' acknowledged the controversial nature of this redesign in his [[in-vision commentary]] on the DVD box set. In conversation with principal Dalek voice artist [[Nicholas Briggs]], and [[Dalek operator]] [[Barnaby Edwards]], he opined that the new shape of the Daleks, especially in the dorsal region, was not particularly to his liking. Briggs agreed, but, with Edwards, swiftly noted that in their experience of taking the new Daleks on live exhibition to the public, British kids, for the most part, loved the new design. The decision was revisited in [[DWM 431]] with critics voicing their opinions on the design. A comparison was made with the bronze Daleks that had come before them, but without a conclusion as to which was the better-made. Steven Moffat finally settled the controversy when he stated in an interview that he would be keeping the bronze Daleks as the standard soldiers, and the Paradigm variants would be in charge of them as an "officer class".

This was first seen on-screen in ''[[Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)|Asylum of the Daleks]]''. Later stories, like the comic story ''[[The Dalek Project (comic story)|The Dalek Project]]'', the novel ''[[The Dalek Generation (novel)|The Dalek Generation]]'', and the television story ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'', would follow this example to even greater lengths. Between these three stories, ''The Dalek Generation'', as a novel the least visual of the three, is the only one to feature an appearance by any 2010 Dalek, specifically the Supreme Dalek, and even this is kept to a small cameo. When asked by [[David Hobday]] why these Daleks had not been seen in recent years, [[Nicholas Pegg]] clarified that the poor reception to them was the deciding factor. Since the release of ''The Dalek Generation'', no TV story {{as of|2023|11|lc=y}} has ever shown a Dalek of the kind introduced in ''Victory of the Daleks'' again, and the Daleks once associated with the first RTD era were the main Daleks throughout the remainder of Moffat's production era and the [[Chris Chibnall]] era,{{note|Neither the [[Scout Dalek]] nor the [[Defence Drone]]s are regular soldiers.}} with no Paradigm Daleks making on-screen appearances alongside Daleks of other eras in ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'' or ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]''. Significantly, a Supreme Dalek model ''did'' appear in the two-parter, but it was the [[Dalek Supreme Type E|Supreme Dalek design]] which was [[Supreme Dalek (The Stolen Earth)|seen in]] ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]'' and ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'' instead of [[Supreme Dalek (New Dalek Paradigm)|the one]] from ''Victory of the Daleks''.

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*''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'' (alongside its prequel ''[[The Last Day (TV story)|The Last Day]]'') is the only story to feature the Daleks in any medium during [[Matt Smith]]'s run as the [[Eleventh Doctor]] that did not involve the New Dalek Paradigm. The New Dalek Paradigm was intended to reintroduce a permanent Dalek establishment so that Dalek stories no longer had to feature Dalek survivors of the Time War, as they had done during the first time [[Russell T Davies]] was [[head writer]].