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|origin          = [[Skaro]]
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|first           = Doctor Who and the Daleks (short story)
|first mention cs = Dalek Planetarium (comic story)
|voice actor      = Nicholas Briggs
|first cs        = Invasion of the Daleks (comic story)
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The '''Dalek Emperor''' was the supreme ruler of the [[Dalek Empire]], commanding the [[Dalek]] race and the planet [[Skaro]].
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"'''[[Dalek]] [[Emperor]]'''" — also "'''Emperor Dalek'''" or "'''Emperor of the Daleks'''" — was the title held by the supreme ruler of the [[Dalek Empire]] and, later in their history, the [[New Dalek Paradigm]], commanding the [[Dalek]] race and the planet [[Skaro]].


== History ==
== Nature ==
=== Dalek Prime ===
The title of Dalek Emperor was the highest possible in the hierarchy of the [[Dalek Empire]]. Although a given society of Daleks could have only one Emperor, it was not uncommon for several Emperors to coexist in the universe at any one time, provided they were in charge of distinct Dalek forces; while having little contact with one another in all cases, the Emperors would not necessarily be mutually hostile. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Dalek Problem (novel)}})
One of the first [[Dalek]]s, who exterminated [[Davros]] and proclaimed the Daleks' future victory over the universe ([[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks]]''), assumed the role of [[Dalek Prime]] (later Dalek Emperor) and would continue to act as the Emperor throughout Dalek history. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[War of the Daleks]]'')


[[File:GoldE.JPG|left|thumb|The Golden Emperor. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Rogue Planet]]'')]]
At first, "Dalek Emperor" was nominally an elected position with a mandate of one year; every [[Skaro-year]], all the Daleks on [[Skaro]] would convene and ceremonially elect their Emperor and [[Warlord (title)|Warlord]]. However, no Daleks ever dared to question the supremacy of the [[Dalek Prime|Golden Emperor]], and thus he and the [[Black Dalek Leader|Black Dalek]] are reelected as Emperor and Warlord year after year. When [[Commander (The Secret of the Emperor)|one lone Dalek Commander]] finally spoke out against the Golden Emperor, he had the Black Dalek disintegrate the Commander and [[Red Extra-Galactic Squadron|its entire squadron]] on sight. Thereafter, the Emperor ruled unquestioned. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Secret of the Emperor (comic story)}})


=== The Golden Emperor ===
Emperor Daleks were typically the oldest and wisest living members of their race, and resided within unique casings. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Dalek Problem (novel)}}) Some Imperial-class casings were huge, static and lacked weapons, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Dalek Problem (novel)}}, [[TV]]: {{cs|The Evil of the Daleks (TV story)}}) while another, more mobile type was characterised by an inflated [[dome]] and some amount of [[gold]] colouring. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)}}, [[COMIC]]: {{cs|Genesis of Evil (comic story)}}, {{cs|Defender of the Daleks (comic story)}})
After the [[neutronic war]] that devastated [[Skaro]], the [[Kaled mutant|mutants]] had survived in the casings. The only [[humanoid Dalek]] survivors of the war, [[Yarvelling]] and the warlord [[Zolfian]] encountered a Dalek which persuaded them to build more Dalek casings for their mutated descendants. Before the last two humanoid Daleks died, a special casing was built for the Emperor to reflect its new rank, made of [[Flidor]] [[gold]], [[quartz]] and [[Arkellis]] flower sap. The [[Golden Emperor]]<ref>''[[AHistory]]'' mistakenly claims that the Dalek Emperor in this form is never referred to in story as Golden Emperor.</ref> was slightly shorter than the other Daleks, with a disproportionately large spheroid head section rendered in gold rather than grey. It also had three globes on each panel unlike other Daleks. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Genesis of Evil]]'')


=== The Emperor within the Dalek City ===
When the Empire found itself devoid of an Emperor, the usual procedure was for a [[Supreme Dalek]] to rise to the rank of Emperor, upgrading to a new [[casing]] in the process, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Dalek Problem (novel)}}, {{cs|The Restoration Empire (short story)}}, [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Davros Mission (audio story)}}) [[Extermination|exterminating]] the rest of the [[Dalek Council|Supreme Council]] if need be so as to assert dominance. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Restoration Empire (short story)}}) However, it was also possible for individuals to be made Emperor by popular acclaim of the Council, as was, according to one account, the case of [[Davros]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Davros Mission (audio story)}}) Alternatively, both Davros and the [[Dalek Prime]] were shown in some accounts to have become the Emperors of large Dalek factions whose very creation they had overseen, meaning the new Daleks were born loyal to the Emperor in question. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Genesis of Evil (comic story)}}, {{cs|Emperor of the Daleks! (comic story)}}; [[TV]]: {{cs|The Parting of the Ways (TV story)}})
[[File: Evilofthedaleks title.jpg|right|thumb|The Emperor within the Dalek City. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Evil of the Daleks]]'')]]
The [[Dalek Emperor (The Evil of the Daleks)|next known incarnation]] of the Emperor remained in an enormous, immobile, conical shell plugged into a corner of the control room in the [[Dalek City]] on [[Skaro]]. It was connected to the wall by tubes, and spoke in an echoing voice.


This Emperor tried to win the wars by blackmailing the [[Second Doctor]]. He ordered the Daleks to capture the Doctor so that they could force him to conduct research into the [[Human Factor]]. This would unlock the secrets of the [[Dalek Factor]] which was to be spread throughout all areas of human history, giving all humans the mentality of a Dalek and preventing the [[Great War (The Evil of the Daleks)|Great War]] from ever happening. He was seemingly destroyed by a [[Dalek Civil War|civil war]] between [[humanised Dalek]]s and un-altered Daleks. However, a light was seen blinking on its casing at the end, indicating some kind of activity. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Evil of the Daleks]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Evil of the Daleks (novelisation)|The Evil of the Daleks]]'')
== Holders ==
=== The Dalek Prime ===
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[[File:Dalek Emperror.jpg|thumb|left|The Golden Emperor of the Daleks. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Penta Ray Factor (comic story)}})]]
The [[Dalek Prime]], or "Golden Emperor", was the first [[Dalek mutant]] to have climbed into a [[Dalek War Machine]], ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Genesis of Evil (comic story)}}) or, in other accounts, was the Dalek who had fired on [[Davros]] and made a proclamation on behalf of the other entombed Daleks that they would "prepare, grow stronger, and, when the time is right, emerge as the supreme rulers of the Universe". ([[TV]]: {{cs|Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)}}) It proclaimed itself the Emperor of the newly-created [[Dalek]] race. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Genesis of Evil (comic story)}})


The Emperor survived when his forces began rebuilding, resulting in the emergence of a [[Dalek hierarchy|new command structure]] involving [[Dalek drone|grey Dalek drones]] and [[Gold Dalek|Gold Supreme Daleks]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Daleks (TV story)|Day of the Daleks]]'')
The Prime would continue to hold the position throughout his life, occupying several different casings, ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Evil of the Daleks (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Parting of the Ways (TV story)}}) although during and immediately following the [[Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War]], it was referred to as simply "the Dalek Prime" by [[Renegade Dalek|its side of the War]] — as the opposing side, the [[Imperial Dalek]]s, referred to their leader [[Davros]] as "the Dalek Emperor". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|War of the Daleks (novel)}}) When they crossed paths with the Dalek Prime again, he was recognised as "the" Emperor of the Daleks by the [[Eighth Doctor]] ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Restoration of the Daleks (audio story)}}) and the [[Ninth Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Parting of the Ways (TV story)}})


Shortly after this, the Emperor met [[Bernice Summerfield]], whom the Emperor questioned on why the Civil War had occurred. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lights of Skaro (audio story)|The Lights of Skaro]]'')
=== Emperor Zeg ===
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[[File:Zeg Now I Am Emperor Duel of the Daleks.jpg|thumb|Zeg declares himself the new Emperor. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Duel of the Daleks (comic story)}})]]
[[Zeg]] was an early [[Dalek]] [[scientist]] who serendipitously discovered the secret of [[metalert]]. Having been granted a [[casing]] that was invulnerable to all weaponry known to its race, Zeg was effectively invincible and declared himself the new Emperor, hoping to unseat the [[Dalek Prime|Golden Emperor]]. Recognising that both Daleks had a claim to the title, as Zeg lacked provable intelligence but the Golden Emperor lacked provable strength, the [[Brain Machine]] ordered that a [[duel]] be fought between them to demonstrate who was truly superior. Through guile, the Golden Emperor defeated and killed Zeg, cementing his status as Emperor once more. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Duel of the Daleks (comic story)}})


=== Davros as Emperor ===
=== Emperor of the Exterminators ===
[[Davros]] was made the Emperor of the [[Imperial Dalek]] faction of the Daleks during the [[Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War]]. He was encased in a customised Dalek casing with a dome top which could open and close, his body below his head and shoulders covered in a mass of tubing and cables, implying he had greatly deteriorated physically. He was last seen heading for an [[escape pod]] just before his ship was destroyed in the wake of the [[supernova]] (set off by the [[Hand of Omega]]) that consumed Skaro. ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]'') Later, Davros' increasingly unstable mind was obliterated by a totally Dalek personality, that of the Emperor. This new Emperor took command of Davros' [[Dalek]]s and departed. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Terror Firma]]'')
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After the Golden Emperor left Skaro with the [[Dalek Fleet]], so as to lead the Daleks' first planetary conquests, ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Amaryll Challenge (comic story)}}) some of the Daleks left on Skaro decided to create an independent Empire of their own. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Alien Bodies (novel)}}) This faction, who called themselves the [[Exterminator Dalek]]s, were planet-bound, believing that the Dalek should concentrate on finishing the complete annihilation of the [[Thal]]s before they tried to conquer other worlds. The Exterminators gave themselves an [[Emperor of the Exterminators|Emperor]], who resided in the [[Dalek City]] until it was overtaken by a Thal commando who wiped out the Exterminators. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Dalek Problem (novel)}})


=== Emperor of the Dalek Empire ===
=== 23rd century Emperor ===
When the Daleks launched an invasion of the Milky Way from the [[Seriphia Galaxy]], the [[Dalek Emperor (The Genocide Machine)|Dalek Emperor]] was in command. While it successfully conquered much of the galaxy, its real goal was [[Project Infinity]]. It intended to summon Daleks from another reality. When those Daleks turned out to be appalled by genocide, the Emperor was captured by the [[Earth Alliance]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[["Death to the Daleks!"]]'', ''[[Project Infinity (audio story)|Project Infinity]]'') but transmitted its [[consciousness]] into a human, [[Susan Mendes]], to continue the war. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dalek War: Chapter One]]'') It erased her consciousness and intended to use her form to con the galaxy into lowering its guard; however, a psychic trap caused the remnants of Mendes to awaken and trigger the destruction of all Dalek technology, removing  the Emperor from its human host. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dalek War: Chapter Four]]'')
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[[File:Armored Dalek Emperor from Dalek Attack.jpg|thumb|left|The Dalek Emperor shortly before its death. ([[GAME]]: {{cs|Dalek Attack (video game)}})]]
[[Dalek Emperor (Dalek Attack)|One Dalek Emperor]] ruled [[Skaro]] in [[2254]]. It possessed a bronze-coloured casing with a bulbous head and large cannon-like gunsticks. Allied with [[Davros]] rather than opposed to him, the Emperor presided over a short-lived [[2254 Dalek invasion of Earth|Dalek invasion]] of [[Earth]] which was put to an end by the [[Seventh Doctor]]. Shortly after the failure of the invasion, the Doctor was sent to Skaro by the [[Time Lord]]s to retrieve a sacred [[Time Ring]] stolen by [[Davros]], and, facing the Emperor, caused its destruction with [[the Doctor's sonic screwdriver|his screwdriver]]. ([[GAME]]: {{cs|Dalek Attack (video game)}})


=== During the Time War ===
=== Emperor before the Movellan War ===
The [[Dalek Emperor (The Parting of the Ways)|Emperor]] in its original form resided in [[Kaalann]] on [[Skaro]]. ([[GAME]]: ''[[City of the Daleks (video game)|City of the Daleks]]'') He formed the [[Cult of Skaro]], a group above and beyond the Emperor himself, created to "think as the enemy thinks" and "imagine" new ways to find victory. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'') During the early part of the War it was informed by the [[Dalek Time Strategist]] about [[Project Revenant]]. [[Romana II]] tried to convince him to stop the war as it would involve both sides being destroyed as a result. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Desperate Measures (audio story)|Desperate Measures]]'') Because of [[The Master|the Master's]] activation of the [[Heavenly Paradigm]], the Emperor took control of the [[Cruciform]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Heavenly Paradigm (audio story)|The Heavenly Paradigm]]'') Towards the end of the War, the Emperor oversaw the creation of the [[Eternity Circle]], and was present when they created the [[Temporal Cannon]] to use against the Time Lords. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Engines of War (novel)|Engines of War]]'') When Skaro was devastated, the Emperor was thought to have been killed. ([[GAME]]: ''[[City of the Daleks (video game)|City of the Daleks]]'')
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According to the [[Celestial Intervention Agency]]'s research, just before the [[Dalek-Movellan War]], the [[Dalek Empire]] governed such a large part of the universe that it had to be divided in two portions ruled by two different Emperors, who had very little contact with one another. While the [[Dalek Prime|original Emperor]] remained on Skaro, another existed on the other side of what became the [[Movellan]] lines. This Emperor was destroyed by the Movellans when war was declared between them and the Daleks, leaving the Empire under the aegis of a single Emperor once again; however, the Skaro-based Emperor struggled to keep track of the Dalek forces formerly under its counterpart's dominion, which harmed the Daleks' strategies during the Movellan War. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Dalek Problem (novel)}})


The Dalek Emperor was aboard its [[Dalek flying saucer|saucer]] flagship when all the incarnations of the Doctor up to the Twelfth moved Gallifrey to a pocket universe on the last day of the Time War, the assembled Dalek fleet ended up firing on itself through the space Gallifrey once occupied (an event which was presumed to have been the activation of [[the Moment]]) ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]''); as such, the Emperor was believed to have died with the rest of its species, but this was mistaken. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]'')
=== Davros ===
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[[File:Dalek Emperor Davros.jpg|thumb|right|Davros (right) as the Dalek Emperor. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)}})]]
While dormant following his own [[Dalek]]s' attempt to [[Extermination|exterminate]] him, [[Davros]], the Daleks' own creator, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)}}) began to reflect that the Daleks would need him as "their Emperor" to reach their full potential and destroy "all opposition". ([[WC]]: {{cs|Risen (webcast)}}) After awakening and meeting Daleks in the flesh shortly thereafter, however, it was the title of [[Supreme Commander]] which he claimed. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Destiny of the Daleks (TV story)}})


==== Surviving the Time War ====
On [[Necros]], the [[Sixth Doctor]] suggested that Davros intended to become Emperor of the [[Necros Dalek|new race of Daleks]] that he created in opposition to those who followed the [[Black Dalek Leader|Supreme Dalek]] ([[TV]]: {{cs|Revelation of the Daleks (TV story)}}) and its master, the [[Dalek Prime]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Emperor of the Daleks! (comic story)}}, [[PROSE]]: {{cs|War of the Daleks (novel)}}) Indeed, Davros, after taking control of Skaro, became Emperor of what were now the [[Imperial Dalek]]s, sparking the [[Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War]], although accounts differed as to the circumstances of this event. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Emperor of the Daleks! (comic story)}}, [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Davros Mission (audio story)}}) Either as a direct consequence of being elected to the rank of Emperor ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Davros Mission (audio story)}}) or because he had been gravely wounded by [[Abslom Daak]], ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Emperor of the Daleks! (comic story)}}) he was encased in a [[Davros' casing|customised Dalek casing]] with a round [[dome]] top which could open and close, his body below his head and shoulders covered in a mass of tubing and cables, suggesting he had greatly deteriorated physically. He was last seen heading for an [[escape pod]] just before his ship was destroyed in the wake of the [[supernova]] (set off by the [[Hand of Omega]]) that consumed Skaro. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)}})
[[File:Dalek Emperor.jpg|thumb|The Dalek Emperor confronts the [[Ninth Doctor]] after the Time War. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways]]'')]]
The Emperor's lone ship barely survived the Time War, falling through time in a heavily damaged state. The nine-metre tall Emperor's new casing had the appearance of its mutant revealed floating in a transparent tank of liquid, topped by a giant-sized Dalek dome, complete with eyestalk, flanked by panels of armour dotted by Dalek "bumps" with a ring-shaped "throne" on the bottom. It went into seclusion at the edge of the [[Solar system]] "damaged but rebuilding" during the [[Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire]]. Circa [[199,909]], it secretly installed the [[Jagrafess]] aboard [[Satellite Five]] to play the "long game" of slowly manipulating humans and re-establishing the Dalek species and fleet. A hundred years after the Jagrafess was killed, in the year [[200,100]], the Emperor was still using Satellite Five (now renamed the "Game Station") to manipulate humanity and conceal his fleet. ([[TV]]: ''[[Bad Wolf (TV story)|Bad Wolf]]'') The Emperor secretly used [[transmat]] technology aboard the space station to kidnap humans for nearly two hundred years. The kidnapped humans were harvested for their genetic material, and "one cell in a billion" was used to rebuild a new race of Daleks ([[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]'') numbering roughly half a million aboard a fleet of 200 ships. ([[TV]]: ''[[Bad Wolf (TV story)|Bad Wolf]]'') Because the Emperor had recreated the [[Dalek]] race, it saw itself as a [[god]] and immortal and so was worshipped by the new Daleks. These and other religious concepts such as blasphemy were new to Dalek psychology. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]'')


The Emperor's pawn aboard Satellite Five, the [[Controller (Bad Wolf)|Controller]], hated her masters and [[transmat]]ted the [[Ninth Doctor]] aboard the Game Station to help defeat them. ([[TV]]: ''[[Bad Wolf (TV story)|Bad Wolf]]'') When he encountered the Emperor and his new religiously fanatical Daleks, the Doctor surmised that they were driven insane both because they isolated themselves for so long, but also because they were in denial of the fact that they were part human. The Daleks killed almost everyone aboard Satellite Five, and they attacked Earth, bombing millions of people, to transform it into the Emperor's "temple". Shortly afterwards, the Doctor turned down his chance to use an uncalibrated [[delta wave]] to destroy all nearby life, human and Dalek alike. The Emperor thought he was victorious, but he and his entire fleet were atomised by [[Rose Tyler]] after she had absorbed the energies of the time vortex and became the [[Bad Wolf (entity)|Bad Wolf]] [[temporal paradox]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]'')
Later, according to one account, Davros' increasingly unstable mind caused him to be overtaken by a totally Dalek personality, with him forgetting who he originally was and answering only to the name of Dalek Emperor. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Terror Firma (audio story)}}) Still not remembering his name, the Dalek Emperor who had once been Davros began to occupy a casing strikingly similar to the [[Dalek Prime]]'s, adding an [[Dalek eyestalk|eyestalk]] to the spherical [[dome|dome section]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Nemesis of the Daleks (comic story)}})


=== The Progenitor Dalek Emperor ===
By the outbreak of the [[Last Great Time War]], Davros was back to his pre-Emperor persona and form as he joined the conflict for his "children", ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Father of the Daleks (short story)}}, [[TV]]: {{cs|The Stolen Earth (TV story)}}/{{cs|Journey's End (TV story)}}) who were now led by a [[Dalek Emperor in the Last Great Time War|different Emperor]] ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Birth of a Legend (short story)}}, [[TV]]: {{cs|The Parting of the Ways (TV story)}}) whose own identity was in dispute, though some accounts claimed that he was the resurrected original Emperor. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Restoration of the Daleks (audio story)}}, [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)}})
[[File:Dalek Emperor (City of the Daleks).jpg|thumb|right|[[Amy Pond]] and [[Eleventh Doctor|the Eleventh Doctor]] face the Emperor ([[GAME]]: ''[[City of the Daleks (video game)|City of the Daleks]]'')]]
When the [[New Dalek Paradigm]] went back to the ruined Skaro, they created a new [[Dalek Emperor (City of the Daleks)|Emperor Dalek]], reusing the shell of the old one, albeit with new paint. His blue colouring suggests he was a [[Strategist Dalek]], had ties to that role or was the mastermind of all of the Daleks' plans for universal conquest. When the [[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[Amy Pond]] travelled back in time to when Skaro was devastated and before the new Daleks arrived with the [[Eye of Time]], they erased the Daleks' alterations and Kaalann was left abandoned. The new Emperor was never created as a result. ([[GAME]]: ''[[City of the Daleks (video game)|City of the Daleks]]'')
[[File:Emperer_Dalek_Boss.jpg|thumb|left|[[River Song]] attacks the Dalek Emperor. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Eternity Clock (video game)|The Eternity Clock]]'')]]
When the [[New Dalek Paradigm]] took control of Earth in [[2106]], they were led by a new [[Dalek Emperor (The Eternity Clock)|Emperor Dalek]]. This Emperor was different from the Time War Emperor, as it was coloured purple, was able to form a sphere and its weaponry was much larger. This new Emperor wanted to completely change time by using a piece of the Eternity Clock, and remove [[Gallifrey]] from existence; the Daleks would then become the new Lords of Time. The [[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[River Song]] were able to remove the piece of the Eternity Clock from the Dalek's possession, foiling the Emperor's plans and undoing the Dalek invasion of Earth. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Eternity Clock]]'')


The Daleks later established a [[Parliament of the Daleks|Parliament]], and were led by a [[Prime Minister of the Daleks|Prime Minister]] instead of an Emperor. ([[TV]]: ''[[Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)|Asylum of the Daleks]]'')
During the Time War, an [[Davros (Palindrome)|alternative Davros]] created by the [[Dalek Time Strategist (The Shadow Vortex)|Dalek Time Strategist]] as a substitute after the apparent death of the original, who had access to the memories of all versions of Davros across the [[multiverse]], once mocked this Time War Emperor with the knowledge that although in this universe they were bitter rivals, there were possible timelines where the two of them were one and the same. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Restoration of the Daleks (audio story)}})


== Other references ==
=== The Emperor of the Restoration ===
In an [[alternate timeline]], the Dalek Emperor placed its mind into a [[Thal]] and travelled back in time to warn the Daleks of a great catastrophe that would devastate their race. He realised he had caused the alternate timeline and prevented it, thus erasing himself from existence. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Mutant Phase]]'')
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[[File:Emperor of the Restoration in The Last Message.jpg|thumb|left|The Emperor of the Restoration. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Last Message (short story)}})]]
According to some accounts, the [[Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War]] ended with the pyrrhic victory of the [[Imperial Dalek]]s, despite the flight of their leader [[Davros]], while the [[Renegade Dalek]]s were completely exterminated. These accounts alleged that a new Emperor then took charge of the remaining Dalek forces, creating a [[Restoration Empire|new Empire]] on [[Skaro]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)}}, {{cs|The Restoration Empire (short story)}}) Post-[[Time War]] historians believed Davros' successor had orchestrated the [[Etra Prime Incident]], an attempted invasion of [[Gallifrey]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)}})
 
The most aggressive Dalek Emperor on record ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Secrets of Time Lord Victorious (short story)}}) and originally a [[Supreme Dalek]] and member of Emperor Davros's [[Dalek Council|Supreme Council]], this Dalek was known as the [[Emperor of the Restoration]]. He adopted a casing similar to the original [[Dalek Prime|Golden Emperor]]'s and overhauled Dalek hierarchy to bring it more in line with its glorious path, trying to turn the tide and make the Dalek Empire a universe-wide threat to the "lesser races" once again. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Restoration Empire (short story)}}) He later led the Daleks into the [[Last Great Time War]], trying to fulfil Davros's old ambition for the Daleks to become "the Lords of Time" instead of the [[Gallifreyan]]s. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)}}, {{cs|The Restoration Empire (short story)}})
 
According to other accounts, however, the Dalek Emperor who took control of [[Skaro]] at the close of the Civil War was instead the [[Dalek Prime]], erstwhile leader of the [[Renegade Dalek]]s, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|War of the Daleks (novel)}}) and it was also he (albeit after death and resurrection) who would later lead the Daleks in the Time War. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Restoration of the Daleks (audio story)}})
 
The Restoration Empire, and its Emperor, was later brought back after the Time War ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Defender of the Daleks (comic story)}}) by fluctuations in time caused when the [[Tenth Doctor]] poisoned the [[Kotturuh]] in the [[Dark Times]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Guide to the Dark Times (short story)}}, {{cs|The Knight, The Fool and The Dead (novel)}}) The Emperor learnt of the attack on history, and the Doctor‘s involvement, from a message sent by the [[Dalek (A Dalek Awakens)|only surviving Dalek]] of a Time Squad that had yet to be sent back in time. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Last Message (short story)}}) He ordered the invasion of [[Islos]] to seize [[Archive of Islos|the Archive]], which resulted in the unleashing of [[The Entity (The Archive of Islos)|the Entity]] against the Daleks. ([[WC]]: {{cs|The Archive of Islos (webcast)}}, {{cs|The Sentinel of the Fifth Galaxy (webcast)}}) The Emperor later oversaw the war against the [[Hond]] ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Defender of the Daleks (comic story)}}) and sent the [[Dalek Time Squad|Time Squad]] to rectify the temporal fluctuations to the Daleks’ benefit. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Guide to the Dark Times (short story)}})
 
=== The Dalek Prime Strategist ===
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[[File:Dalek Prime Strategist casing.jpg|thumb|The Dalek Prime Strategist on [[Skaro]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Defender of the Daleks (comic story)}})]]
After the [[Evacuation of Skaro]], an event in the temporally-altered reign of the [[Emperor of the Restoration]], the [[Dalek Prime Strategist]] was dispatched to the [[Fifth Galaxy]] to reawaken an army of 10,000 dormant [[Red Dalek]]s to fight [[The Entity (The Archive of Islos)|the Entity]]. Upon arriving on the planet where the army was hidden in stasis, the Strategist activated the [[The Sentinel of the Fifth Galaxy|Sentinel]] android and told it to take him to "''my army''". The Sentinel immediately acknowledged the Dalek Prime Strategist as "Emperor", to the Strategist's shock.
 
Although the Strategist told the Sentinel that there must be a flaw in its programming, it persisted in addressing him as "Emperor". After successfully reviving the backup Dalek army, the Sentinel revealed that it had in fact been taken over by the Entity. The Sentinel told the Strategist that although its primary intent was to destroy the Daleks, finding a more reasonable leader for the species than the current Emperor would also be an acceptable solution. Thus, it had changed the programming of all the dormant Daleks, who indeed began addressing the Dalek Prime Strategist as their Emperor as they woke.
 
The Strategist wavered, but ultimately decided to sacrifice the army rather than rebel against the Emperor of the Restoration. The Entity thus fell back to controlling the reawakened army itself and leading in an ultimately-futile assault on the main Dalek forces. However, when asked by the Emperor if there was truly no way the disaster could have been avoided, the Strategist answered that there was a way, but it "would not have been acceptable... to ''you''". ([[WC]]: {{cs|The Sentinel of the Fifth Galaxy (webcast)}})
 
By the time of the Restoration Empire Daleks' temporally-abnormal war with the [[Hond]], the Strategist was still subservient to the Emperor of the Restoration. However, the [[Tenth Doctor]], when conversing with the Strategist, correctly divined that he was upset that the Golden Emperor of the Restoration outranked him despite being younger and less experienced than he was. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Defender of the Daleks (comic story)}})
 
After escaping the [[Dark Times]], the Strategist was planning out a Dalek [[Last Great Time War|Time War against the Time Lords]], and believed it may have to depose the current Emperor and take his place, if he proved unsuitable to the purpose of leading the Daleks in such a conflict. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Exit Strategy (short story)}})
 
=== In the Time War ===
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[[File:Dalek Emperor.jpg|thumb|left|"The God of All Daleks". ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Parting of the Ways (TV story)}})]]
The identity of the [[Dalek Emperor in the Last Great Time War|Dalek Emperor]] in the [[Last Great Time War]] was up to some debate: some accounts suggested that he was the Emperor of the Restoration, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)}}) while others stated that he was a resurrected form of the [[Dalek Prime|original Dalek Emperor]] and erstwhile-instigator of the [[Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War|civil war against Davros]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Restoration of the Daleks (audio story)}}) One account acknowledged the existence of the Emperor of the Resurrection but suggested that the [[Dalek Prime Strategist]] intended to become the Emperor in time for the Daleks' war against the [[Time Lord]]s to begin. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Exit Strategy (short story)}})
 
As recorded in the ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'', the Time Lords identified the Emperor who oversaw [[Operation Human Factor]] as "[[The Emperor Type I]]". Whilst acknowledging [[Davros]]' stint as [[Davros' casing|Emperor]] of the [[Imperial Dalek]]s, it was the Emperor of the Time War who the Time Lords marked as "The Emperor Type II". Though the "Type I" was thought destroyed in the [[Dalek Civil War]], the Time Lords acknowledged the possibility that, given the Daleks extraordinarily long [[lifespan]], the organic part was retrieved and eventually "formed the basis" of the Emperor that took the Daleks into the Time War. The Time Lords were also aware of documents which suggested that the Emperor originally occupied a smaller casing which resembled that used by Davros, but considered them to be apocryphal; the Emperor of the Restoration was also acknowledged as a separate "anomaly" in Dalek history. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Dalek Combat Training Manual (reference book)}})
 
However, there was widespread agreement that a Dalek Emperor other than [[Davros]] ([[TV]]: {{cs|Journey's End (TV story)}}) was the ultimate authority of the [[Dalek Empire]] throughout the better part of the [[Last Great Time War]], up until the very last day. After falling through time ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Parting of the Ways (TV story)}}) and [[the Void]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Whoniverse (novel)}}) the Emperor, who had developed delusions of [[god]]hood and proclaimed himself "the God of All Daleks", attempted to recreate a new Dalek race from harvested [[human]]s on [[Satellite Five]]. This scheme was foiled by the [[Ninth Doctor]], [[Jack Harkness]] and [[Rose Tyler]], with Rose using the powers of the [[Bad Wolf (entity)|Bad Wolf entity]] to finally obliterate the Emperor, ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Parting of the Ways (TV story)}}) "[taking] the [[Time Vortex]] and pour[ing] it into his head, and turning him into [[dust]]". ([[TV]]: {{cs|Doomsday (TV story)}})
 
=== The New Dalek Paradigm's Emperors and beyond ===
[[File:Dalek Emperor (City of the Daleks).jpg|thumb|The Dalek Emperor in its throne room. ([[GAME]]: {{cs|City of the Daleks (video game)}})|alt=]]
When the [[New Dalek Paradigm]] went back to the ruined Skaro, they created a new [[Dalek Emperor (City of the Daleks)|Emperor Dalek]], reusing the shell of the old one, albeit with new paint. His blue colouring suggests he was a [[Strategist Dalek]], had ties to that role or was the mastermind of all of the Daleks' plans for universal conquest. When the [[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[Amy Pond]] travelled back in time to when Skaro was devastated and before the new Daleks arrived with the [[Eye of Time]], they erased the Daleks' alterations and Kaalann was left abandoned. The new Emperor was never created as a result. ([[GAME]]: {{cs|City of the Daleks (video game)}})
 
When the [[New Dalek Paradigm]] took control of Earth in [[2106]], they were led by a new [[Dalek Emperor (The Eternity Clock)|Emperor Dalek]]. This Emperor was different from the Time War Emperor, as it was coloured purple, was able to form a sphere and its weaponry was much larger. This new Emperor wanted to completely change time by using a piece of the Eternity Clock, and remove [[Gallifrey]] from existence; the Daleks would then become the new Lords of Time. The [[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[River Song]] were able to remove the piece of the Eternity Clock from the Dalek's possession, foiling the Emperor's plans and undoing the Dalek invasion of Earth. ([[GAME]]: {{cs|The Eternity Clock (video game)}})
 
[[File:Emperer Dalek Boss.jpg|thumb|left|[[River Song]] attacks the Dalek Emperor. ([[GAME]]: {{cs|The Eternity Clock (video game)}})]]
Under the [[reinvention of the Dalek Empire]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)}}) the Daleks established a [[Parliament of the Daleks|Parliament]] which took decisions for the whole of Dalek-kind under the leadership of a [[Prime Minister of the Daleks|Prime Minister]]. When the [[Eleventh Doctor]] and his [[companion]]s were summoned to the Parliament's ship, no Emperor was in evidence; ([[TV]]: {{cs|Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)}}) indeed, the [[Time Lord]]s were aware that the Prime Minister superseded the position of Emperor. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Dalek Combat Training Manual (reference book)}}) After the fall of the Parliament, the New Dalek Paradigm's first [[Supreme Dalek (Victory of the Daleks)|Supreme Dalek]] took control of the Empire.
 
The Parliament was ultimately wiped out when their ship, the ''[[Nacrana Va Hateen]]'', was destroyed by the [[Eleventh Doctor]] using the additional [[regeneration energy]] provided to him by the Time Lords, ending the [[Siege of Trenzalore]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)}}, [[TV]]: {{cs|The Time of the Doctor (TV story)}}) When Skaro was made the centre of the empire, a red [[Supreme Dalek (The Magician's Apprentice)|Supreme Dalek]], identical to that which led the [[New Dalek Empire]], commanded operations. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)}}/{{cs|The Witch's Familiar (TV story)}})
 
[[File:Dalek Emperor (The Twelfth Doctor's been Hijacked!).jpg|thumb|right|The [[Dalek Emperor (The Twelfth Doctor's been Timejacked!)|Dalek Emperor]] reflected by the [[Twelfth Doctor]]. ([[WC]]: {{cs|The Twelfth Doctor's been Timejacked! (webcast)}})]]
The [[Twelfth Doctor]] knew that a [[Dalek Emperor (The Twelfth Doctor's been Timejacked!)|Dalek Emperor]] had again taken over leadership of the Daleks by the time he took over someone's [[phone]] to send them a message, displaying an image of an emperor using the same casing ([[WC]]: {{cs|The Twelfth Doctor's been Timejacked! (webcast)}}) as the ruler who led the Daleks through the Time War. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Parting of the Ways (TV story)}}) According to him, the Daleks and their emperor had launched a plot to use the [[internet]] to convert the people of the [[21st century]] into [[Dalek drone]]s, which was something he needed to put a stop to sooner or later. ([[WC]]: {{cs|The Twelfth Doctor's been Timejacked! (webcast)}})
 
During the [[1966 Dalek invasion of Earth]], the [[Fourteenth Doctor]] pondered whether an Emperor or Supreme Dalek was commanding the operation. In truth, it was the [[Supreme Dalek (Liberation of the Daleks)|latter]]. Soon enough, however, he would learn he was in a simulacrum created by the [[Dalek Dome]] entertainment company from the dreams of real Dalek mutants, which soon boiled out of control; not wanting to be destroyed, and also wanting to save her fellow [[psychoplasmic construct]]s, [[Georgy Gold]] ventured into the [[Golden City Zone]] and told its [[Golden Emperor (Liberation of the Daleks)|Golden Emperor]] they were fake beings. The Emperor resolved to bring its army into reality and conquer it, much to Gold's horror. To fuel its plan, the other zones in the Dalek Dome would be destroyed to bring the Golden Emperor's army into reality. The Doctor ventured into the [[Type I Dalek Emperor's psychoscape]], where he created the [[Dalek Alliance]] between the various fake Dalek rulers to oppose the Golden Emperor. In the end, all Daleks [[2323 Dalek invasion of Earth|venturing into reality]] were destroyed. All the Dalek mutants returned to sleep. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Liberation of the Daleks (comic story)}})


A Dalek Emperor composed the plan to send [[the Master]] to divide the humans and [[Draconian]]s, and gave him a squad of [[Ogron]]s to complete his task. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Dalek Conquests (audio story)|The Dalek Conquests]]'')
=== Undated Emperors ===
{{Section stub|[[The Emperor Dalek's New Clothes (short story)]]}}
A [[Dalek Emperor (The Novel of the Film)|Dalek Emperor]] tried {{Tipple}}, who was consequently exterminated by the [[Dalek Prelature]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Novel of the Film (novelisation)}})


== Personality ==
A "[[Dalek Puppet Emperor (Meet the Doctor)|Dalek Puppet Emperor]]" was known to have declared his hostility to the [[High Council]] of the [[Time Lord]]s at some point prior to the official beginning of the [[Last Great Time War]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Meet the Doctor (DWAN 2006 short story)}})
As the supreme ruler of the Daleks, the Emperor showed a very domineering attitude, barking orders with confidence, and had perhaps the most individual personality of his species. Like all Daleks, he was very racist towards other species and believed in the superiority of his race above all else. The [[Dalek Emperor (The Parting of the Ways)|Emperor]] who encountered the [[Ninth Doctor]] used very degrading and infuriating terms when discussing how it had recreated the Dalek race following the Time War's end. This act brought about the most profound change in his mindset and personality, as it caused the Emperor to think of himself as an immortal god, with his "brethren" (creations) worshiping him as such. Because of this, he arrogantly believed he couldn't be hurt, which led to his demise. The Emperor was very deluded about its Dalek race, claiming it had "cultivated pure and blessed Dalek", and called [[Rose Tyler]]'s statement that they were half human blasphemy, when in fact he himself was the only pure Dalek present. Unique among Daleks, the Emperor was one of the few Daleks to display a sense of humour, as he playfully chided the [[Ninth Doctor]] when the latter was threatening to use a Delta Wave to destroy him, saying he'd enjoy to see the Doctor become just like him, "The Great Exterminator". Having dealt with him in the past and witnessed his capabilities, the Emperor notably did not underestimate the Doctor's intellect and acknowledged the fact that his old enemy had nearly destroyed the Dalek race at the end of the Time War. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]'')


In an [[alternate timeline]], the Dalek Emperor, possessing [[Ganatus (The Mutant Phase)|Ganatus]]'s body, listened to the [[Fifth Doctor]] not to change the past and he and the [[Mutant Phase]] were erased from existence. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Mutant Phase (audio story)|The Mutant Phase]]'')
Sometime succeeding the [[Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War]], the ruling Dalek Emperor decided that [[war]] was an expensive and inefficient means of conquest, instead expanding the [[Dalek Empire]]'s influence through manipulations of other planets' economy. When the [[Seventh Doctor]] discovered this scheme and frustrated their efforts on Earth, the Emperor attempted to have him executed before the [[Supreme Council]] before the Doctor brought the [[Zenos Corporation]] to Skaro, turning its weapons against the [[Dalek City]]. While the Emperor managed to coordinate some of his forces, the [[time acceleration]] ravaged his casing. Left near death, the Emperor was literally deposed by [[human]] collaborator [[Celia Dunthorpe]] who installed herself as [[prime minister]] of the Daleks. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|We Are The Daleks (audio story)}})


During the invasion of Mutter's Spiral, the Dalek Emperor showed an interest in Susan Mendes and Project Infinity. He told the Supreme Dalek that they were the only ones with access of the Kar-Charrat information and would kill her only on his command. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Invasion of the Daleks (audio story)|Invasion of the Daleks]]'', ''[[The Human Factor (audio story)|The Human Factor]]'', ''[[Project Infinity (audio story)|Project Infinity]]'')
A group of Daleks attempting to extract Earth’s [[Telluric energy]] in [[1963]] contacted an Emperor to report their progress. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Stuff of Legend (audio story)}})


When the [[New Dalek Paradigm]] rebuilt [[Kaalann]] and altered time with the [[Eye of Time]], a blue [[Dalek Emperor (City of the Daleks)|Dalek Emperor]] recognised the [[Eleventh Doctor]] and declared the Daleks would be the masters of time and the universe. He told the Doctor that he would not take orders and asked the Doctor to fear the Eye of Time. The Dalek Emperor told him and [[Amy Pond|Amy]] that the Daleks were the new Time Lords and ordered the Daleks to stop them when they jumped to the Eye. ([[GAME]]: ''[[City of the Daleks (video game)|City of the Daleks]]'')
== Other universes ==
In a possible reality that only existed because of [[anti-time]], [[Imperiatrix]] [[Romana]] denied the Emperor Dalek's demand to remove its fleet from a [[temporal pocket]] in the [[Time Vortex]], instead proclaiming she would to destroy it and the remaining Dalek battalions. Though the Emperor asked for mercy, Romana had the fleet annihilated, to the horror of the [[Eighth Doctor]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Neverland (audio story)}})


A purple [[Dalek Emperor (The Eternity Clock)|Dalek Emperor]] led the New Dalek Paradigm's invasion of Earth in [[2106]] using a piece of the [[Eternity Clock]]. He declared that the Eleventh Doctor's era would end and that the Time Lords were no more. The Dalek Emperor told the Doctor that [[Gallifrey]] would never exist. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Eternity Clock (video game)|The Eternity Clock]]'')
In [[the Daft Dimension]], the gold-cased Dalek Emperor gave a [[television|televised]] [[Emperor's speech|speech]] which was watched by [[Ebeneezer Davros]], and the [[Dalek's family (The Daft Dimension 546)|Dalek family]] on [[Christmas Day]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Daft Dimension (DWM 546 comic story)|''The Daft Dimension'' 546}})


[[File:Dalek Emporer Lego Dimensions.jpg|thumb|right|The Dalek Emperor as he appears in ''LEGO Dimensions''.]]
== Other references ==
The [[Sixth Doctor]] objected to [[Jack Harkness]] [[marry]]ing [[Callista]] while posing as him, likening the situation to a marriage with the Dalek Emperor. Jack countered by pointing out that the Doctor was still fighting the [[Dalek]]s, and used a hypothetical romance with [[Davros]] to taunt him. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Piece of Mind (audio story)}}) The [[Twelfth Doctor]] once joked that the Dalek Emperor was not as threatening as "your average [[mobile phone]] [[sales assistant]]" ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Blood Cell (novel)}}) and later remarked that the [[internet]] had the same level of "wit, ego, and hatred" as the Emperor. ([[WC]]: {{cs|The Twelfth Doctor's been Timejacked! (webcast)}})
 
The position of [[Dalek Puppet Emperor]] also existed. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Meet the Doctor (DWAN 2006 short story)}}) By one account, if a Dalek Emperor died, a [[Supreme Dalek]] would normally take its place. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Dalek Problem (novel)}})


== Behind the scenes ==
== Behind the scenes ==
According to the [[Tardis:Valid sources|non-narrative]] material ''[[The Dalek Handbook]]'', the Emperor in the Dalek City survived the [[Great Civil War]] and would revamp the Dalek command structure, as well as focus his strategies on rewriting the Dalek timeline.
=== Invalid sources ===
[[File:Dalek Emporer Lego Dimensions.jpg|thumb|left|The Dalek Emperor as he appears in ''LEGO Dimensions''.]]
Long before the [[Sixth Doctor]] suggested that [[Davros]] could become Emperor of the Daleks in ''[[Revelation of the Daleks (TV story)|Revelation of the Daleks]]'', the original second volume of ''[[The Doctor Who Programme Guide]]'' (1981) suggested that [[Emperor Type I|the Emperor]] seen in ''[[The Evil of the Daleks (TV story)|The Evil of the Daleks]]'' was not only the "last Emperor Dalek", indicating the existence of a [[Golden Emperor|predecessor]], but also "the final incarnation" of Davros before his Daleks were usurped by the [[Humanised Dalek]]s created by the [[Second Doctor]].
 
''[[The Terrestrial Index]]'' (1991), which stated that the [[Dalek Civil War]] was in fact the [[Final End]] of the Daleks, continued the claim that the ''Evil'' Emperor was the final form of Davros, achieved by self-inflicted [[mutation]]s long following the so-called [[destruction of Skaro]]. Incidentally, ''[[Terror Firma (audio story)|Terror Firma]]'' would depict an Emperor Davros now with elements of ''The Evil of the Daleks'' casing.
 
A {{PAGENAME}} (identical in voice and appearance to [[Dalek Emperor (The Parting of the Ways)|the one]] in ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]'', though it is not confirmed to be the same individual) acts as a secondary villain in ''[[LEGO Dimensions (video game)|LEGO Dimensions]]'', where he is voiced by [[Nicholas Briggs]]. In the video game's story, he is unaware that some of his [[Dalek]]s have been recruited by [[w:c:lego-dimensions:Lord Vortech|Lord Vortech]] to aid him in his conquest of the multiverse, but he is aware of mysterious happenings involving cross-dimensional travel, and has acquired one of the Keystones for himself (the Scale, which allows him to enlarge or shrink himself and other Daleks at will). Believing the goings-on to be the fault of the [[Twelfth Doctor]], he captures the game's protagonists, Batman, Wyldstyle and Gandalf, to try and find out the Doctor's plans, but ends up getting shrunk to mouse-size by the Scale at the end of the ensuing boss battle. The iteration used by Davros in ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'' appears in a DLC level, and the iteration seen in ''[[The Evil of the Daleks (TV story)|The Evil of the Daleks]]'' appears in a secret area in a level pack themed off ''The Goonies''.
 
''[[The Discontinuity Guide]]'' suggests that, whilst undergoing [[interrogation]] during his [[Genesis Incident|incursion into Dalek history]], the [[Fourth Doctor]] had told [[Davros]] of the [[Human Factor Incident]], which involved a [[Dalek Prime|Dalek Emperor]], and so influenced the Dalek creator to later name himself Emperor of the [[Imperial Dalek]]s.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/dalekhistory2.shtml BBC.co.uk 'Discontinuity Guide' article on '''Dalek History: Part Two''' in the original series of ''Doctor Who'']</ref>
 
=== Other matters ===
* Similar to [[Dalek Supreme]]/[[Supreme Dalek]], the terms "Dalek Emperor" and "Emperor Dalek" are used interchangeably across media. "Dalek Emperor" is used in ''The Sound of Drums'', while "Emperor Dalek" is used in ''The History of the Daleks'', ''Remembrance of the Daleks'', ''Nemesis of the Daleks'', ''Dalek Attack'', ''The Mutant Phase'', ''The Time of the Daleks'', ''Neverland'', ''City of the Daleks'' and ''Night Terrors''. ''The Evil of the Daleks'' simply used the term "Emperor", while the [[Ninth Doctor]] identifies the "Emperor of the Daleks" in ''The Parting of the Ways''.
* Depending on the player's progress, "Dalek Emperor" is a potential rank for the [[Metaltron]] to attain in the [[video game]] [[GAME]]: ''[[The Last Dalek (video game)|The Last Dalek]]''.
* The 2005 releases of the television story ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]'', which introduced the [[Dalek Emperor in the Last Great Time War]], and the audio story ''[[Terror Firma (audio story)|Terror Firma]]'', in which [[Davros]]'s original personality gave way to "the Emperor", gave rise to a theory which suggested that Davros was destined to become the Emperor seen in ''The Parting of the Ways''. This was acknowledged by ''[[AHistory]]'', which noted that this theory was officially denied by [[Big Finish]]. Davros's return in ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]'' and subsequent stories firmly established that Davros and the War Emperor were separate individuals and that Davros had returned to his original personality by the [[Last Great Time War]].


The {{PAGENAME}} is a minor villain in ''[[LEGO Dimensions (video game)|LEGO Dimensions]]''.
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"Dalek Emperor" — also "Emperor Dalek" or "Emperor of the Daleks" — was the title held by the supreme ruler of the Dalek Empire and, later in their history, the New Dalek Paradigm, commanding the Dalek race and the planet Skaro.

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The title of Dalek Emperor was the highest possible in the hierarchy of the Dalek Empire. Although a given society of Daleks could have only one Emperor, it was not uncommon for several Emperors to coexist in the universe at any one time, provided they were in charge of distinct Dalek forces; while having little contact with one another in all cases, the Emperors would not necessarily be mutually hostile. (PROSE: The Dalek Problem [+]Loading...["The Dalek Problem (novel)"])

At first, "Dalek Emperor" was nominally an elected position with a mandate of one year; every Skaro-year, all the Daleks on Skaro would convene and ceremonially elect their Emperor and Warlord. However, no Daleks ever dared to question the supremacy of the Golden Emperor, and thus he and the Black Dalek are reelected as Emperor and Warlord year after year. When one lone Dalek Commander finally spoke out against the Golden Emperor, he had the Black Dalek disintegrate the Commander and its entire squadron on sight. Thereafter, the Emperor ruled unquestioned. (COMIC: The Secret of the Emperor [+]Loading...["The Secret of the Emperor (comic story)"])

Emperor Daleks were typically the oldest and wisest living members of their race, and resided within unique casings. (PROSE: The Dalek Problem [+]Loading...["The Dalek Problem (novel)"]) Some Imperial-class casings were huge, static and lacked weapons, (PROSE: The Dalek Problem [+]Loading...["The Dalek Problem (novel)"], TV: The Evil of the Daleks [+]Loading...["The Evil of the Daleks (TV story)"]) while another, more mobile type was characterised by an inflated dome and some amount of gold colouring. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)"], COMIC: Genesis of Evil [+]Loading...["Genesis of Evil (comic story)"], Defender of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Defender of the Daleks (comic story)"])

When the Empire found itself devoid of an Emperor, the usual procedure was for a Supreme Dalek to rise to the rank of Emperor, upgrading to a new casing in the process, (PROSE: The Dalek Problem [+]Loading...["The Dalek Problem (novel)"], The Restoration Empire [+]Loading...["The Restoration Empire (short story)"], AUDIO: The Davros Mission [+]Loading...["The Davros Mission (audio story)"]) exterminating the rest of the Supreme Council if need be so as to assert dominance. (PROSE: The Restoration Empire [+]Loading...["The Restoration Empire (short story)"]) However, it was also possible for individuals to be made Emperor by popular acclaim of the Council, as was, according to one account, the case of Davros. (AUDIO: The Davros Mission [+]Loading...["The Davros Mission (audio story)"]) Alternatively, both Davros and the Dalek Prime were shown in some accounts to have become the Emperors of large Dalek factions whose very creation they had overseen, meaning the new Daleks were born loyal to the Emperor in question. (COMIC: Genesis of Evil [+]Loading...["Genesis of Evil (comic story)"], Emperor of the Daleks! [+]Loading...["Emperor of the Daleks! (comic story)"]; TV: The Parting of the Ways [+]Loading...["The Parting of the Ways (TV story)"])

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The Dalek Prime[[edit] | [edit source]]

Main article: Dalek Prime
The Golden Emperor of the Daleks. (COMIC: The Penta Ray Factor [+]Loading...["The Penta Ray Factor (comic story)"])

The Dalek Prime, or "Golden Emperor", was the first Dalek mutant to have climbed into a Dalek War Machine, (COMIC: Genesis of Evil [+]Loading...["Genesis of Evil (comic story)"]) or, in other accounts, was the Dalek who had fired on Davros and made a proclamation on behalf of the other entombed Daleks that they would "prepare, grow stronger, and, when the time is right, emerge as the supreme rulers of the Universe". (TV: Genesis of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)"]) It proclaimed itself the Emperor of the newly-created Dalek race. (COMIC: Genesis of Evil [+]Loading...["Genesis of Evil (comic story)"])

The Prime would continue to hold the position throughout his life, occupying several different casings, (TV: The Evil of the Daleks [+]Loading...["The Evil of the Daleks (TV story)"], The Parting of the Ways [+]Loading...["The Parting of the Ways (TV story)"]) although during and immediately following the Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War, it was referred to as simply "the Dalek Prime" by its side of the War — as the opposing side, the Imperial Daleks, referred to their leader Davros as "the Dalek Emperor". (PROSE: War of the Daleks [+]Loading...["War of the Daleks (novel)"]) When they crossed paths with the Dalek Prime again, he was recognised as "the" Emperor of the Daleks by the Eighth Doctor (AUDIO: Restoration of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Restoration of the Daleks (audio story)"]) and the Ninth Doctor. (TV: The Parting of the Ways [+]Loading...["The Parting of the Ways (TV story)"])

Emperor Zeg[[edit] | [edit source]]

Main article: Zeg
Zeg declares himself the new Emperor. (COMIC: Duel of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Duel of the Daleks (comic story)"])

Zeg was an early Dalek scientist who serendipitously discovered the secret of metalert. Having been granted a casing that was invulnerable to all weaponry known to its race, Zeg was effectively invincible and declared himself the new Emperor, hoping to unseat the Golden Emperor. Recognising that both Daleks had a claim to the title, as Zeg lacked provable intelligence but the Golden Emperor lacked provable strength, the Brain Machine ordered that a duel be fought between them to demonstrate who was truly superior. Through guile, the Golden Emperor defeated and killed Zeg, cementing his status as Emperor once more. (COMIC: Duel of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Duel of the Daleks (comic story)"])

Emperor of the Exterminators[[edit] | [edit source]]

Main article: Emperor of the Exterminators

After the Golden Emperor left Skaro with the Dalek Fleet, so as to lead the Daleks' first planetary conquests, (COMIC: The Amaryll Challenge [+]Loading...["The Amaryll Challenge (comic story)"]) some of the Daleks left on Skaro decided to create an independent Empire of their own. (PROSE: Alien Bodies [+]Loading...["Alien Bodies (novel)"]) This faction, who called themselves the Exterminator Daleks, were planet-bound, believing that the Dalek should concentrate on finishing the complete annihilation of the Thals before they tried to conquer other worlds. The Exterminators gave themselves an Emperor, who resided in the Dalek City until it was overtaken by a Thal commando who wiped out the Exterminators. (PROSE: The Dalek Problem [+]Loading...["The Dalek Problem (novel)"])

23rd century Emperor[[edit] | [edit source]]

Main article: Dalek Emperor (Dalek Attack)
The Dalek Emperor shortly before its death. (GAME: Dalek Attack [+]Loading...["Dalek Attack (video game)"])

One Dalek Emperor ruled Skaro in 2254. It possessed a bronze-coloured casing with a bulbous head and large cannon-like gunsticks. Allied with Davros rather than opposed to him, the Emperor presided over a short-lived Dalek invasion of Earth which was put to an end by the Seventh Doctor. Shortly after the failure of the invasion, the Doctor was sent to Skaro by the Time Lords to retrieve a sacred Time Ring stolen by Davros, and, facing the Emperor, caused its destruction with his screwdriver. (GAME: Dalek Attack [+]Loading...["Dalek Attack (video game)"])

Emperor before the Movellan War[[edit] | [edit source]]

Main article: Emperor Dalek (The Dalek Problem)

According to the Celestial Intervention Agency's research, just before the Dalek-Movellan War, the Dalek Empire governed such a large part of the universe that it had to be divided in two portions ruled by two different Emperors, who had very little contact with one another. While the original Emperor remained on Skaro, another existed on the other side of what became the Movellan lines. This Emperor was destroyed by the Movellans when war was declared between them and the Daleks, leaving the Empire under the aegis of a single Emperor once again; however, the Skaro-based Emperor struggled to keep track of the Dalek forces formerly under its counterpart's dominion, which harmed the Daleks' strategies during the Movellan War. (PROSE: The Dalek Problem [+]Loading...["The Dalek Problem (novel)"])

Davros[[edit] | [edit source]]

Main article: Davros
Davros (right) as the Dalek Emperor. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)"])

While dormant following his own Daleks' attempt to exterminate him, Davros, the Daleks' own creator, (TV: Genesis of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)"]) began to reflect that the Daleks would need him as "their Emperor" to reach their full potential and destroy "all opposition". (WC: Risen [+]Loading...["Risen (webcast)"]) After awakening and meeting Daleks in the flesh shortly thereafter, however, it was the title of Supreme Commander which he claimed. (TV: Destiny of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Destiny of the Daleks (TV story)"])

On Necros, the Sixth Doctor suggested that Davros intended to become Emperor of the new race of Daleks that he created in opposition to those who followed the Supreme Dalek (TV: Revelation of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Revelation of the Daleks (TV story)"]) and its master, the Dalek Prime. (COMIC: Emperor of the Daleks! [+]Loading...["Emperor of the Daleks! (comic story)"], PROSE: War of the Daleks [+]Loading...["War of the Daleks (novel)"]) Indeed, Davros, after taking control of Skaro, became Emperor of what were now the Imperial Daleks, sparking the Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War, although accounts differed as to the circumstances of this event. (COMIC: Emperor of the Daleks! [+]Loading...["Emperor of the Daleks! (comic story)"], AUDIO: The Davros Mission [+]Loading...["The Davros Mission (audio story)"]) Either as a direct consequence of being elected to the rank of Emperor (AUDIO: The Davros Mission [+]Loading...["The Davros Mission (audio story)"]) or because he had been gravely wounded by Abslom Daak, (COMIC: Emperor of the Daleks! [+]Loading...["Emperor of the Daleks! (comic story)"]) he was encased in a customised Dalek casing with a round dome top which could open and close, his body below his head and shoulders covered in a mass of tubing and cables, suggesting he had greatly deteriorated physically. He was last seen heading for an escape pod just before his ship was destroyed in the wake of the supernova (set off by the Hand of Omega) that consumed Skaro. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)"])

Later, according to one account, Davros' increasingly unstable mind caused him to be overtaken by a totally Dalek personality, with him forgetting who he originally was and answering only to the name of Dalek Emperor. (AUDIO: Terror Firma [+]Loading...["Terror Firma (audio story)"]) Still not remembering his name, the Dalek Emperor who had once been Davros began to occupy a casing strikingly similar to the Dalek Prime's, adding an eyestalk to the spherical dome section. (COMIC: Nemesis of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Nemesis of the Daleks (comic story)"])

By the outbreak of the Last Great Time War, Davros was back to his pre-Emperor persona and form as he joined the conflict for his "children", (PROSE: Father of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Father of the Daleks (short story)"], TV: The Stolen Earth [+]Loading...["The Stolen Earth (TV story)"]/Journey's End [+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"]) who were now led by a different Emperor (PROSE: Birth of a Legend [+]Loading...["Birth of a Legend (short story)"], TV: The Parting of the Ways [+]Loading...["The Parting of the Ways (TV story)"]) whose own identity was in dispute, though some accounts claimed that he was the resurrected original Emperor. (AUDIO: Restoration of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Restoration of the Daleks (audio story)"], PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe [+]Loading...["Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)"])

During the Time War, an alternative Davros created by the Dalek Time Strategist as a substitute after the apparent death of the original, who had access to the memories of all versions of Davros across the multiverse, once mocked this Time War Emperor with the knowledge that although in this universe they were bitter rivals, there were possible timelines where the two of them were one and the same. (AUDIO: Restoration of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Restoration of the Daleks (audio story)"])

The Emperor of the Restoration[[edit] | [edit source]]

Main article: Emperor of the Restoration
The Emperor of the Restoration. (PROSE: The Last Message [+]Loading...["The Last Message (short story)"])

According to some accounts, the Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War ended with the pyrrhic victory of the Imperial Daleks, despite the flight of their leader Davros, while the Renegade Daleks were completely exterminated. These accounts alleged that a new Emperor then took charge of the remaining Dalek forces, creating a new Empire on Skaro. (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe [+]Loading...["Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)"], The Restoration Empire [+]Loading...["The Restoration Empire (short story)"]) Post-Time War historians believed Davros' successor had orchestrated the Etra Prime Incident, an attempted invasion of Gallifrey. (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe [+]Loading...["Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)"])

The most aggressive Dalek Emperor on record (PROSE: Secrets of Time Lord Victorious [+]Loading...["Secrets of Time Lord Victorious (short story)"]) and originally a Supreme Dalek and member of Emperor Davros's Supreme Council, this Dalek was known as the Emperor of the Restoration. He adopted a casing similar to the original Golden Emperor's and overhauled Dalek hierarchy to bring it more in line with its glorious path, trying to turn the tide and make the Dalek Empire a universe-wide threat to the "lesser races" once again. (PROSE: The Restoration Empire [+]Loading...["The Restoration Empire (short story)"]) He later led the Daleks into the Last Great Time War, trying to fulfil Davros's old ambition for the Daleks to become "the Lords of Time" instead of the Gallifreyans. (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe [+]Loading...["Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)"], The Restoration Empire [+]Loading...["The Restoration Empire (short story)"])

According to other accounts, however, the Dalek Emperor who took control of Skaro at the close of the Civil War was instead the Dalek Prime, erstwhile leader of the Renegade Daleks, (PROSE: War of the Daleks [+]Loading...["War of the Daleks (novel)"]) and it was also he (albeit after death and resurrection) who would later lead the Daleks in the Time War. (AUDIO: Restoration of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Restoration of the Daleks (audio story)"])

The Restoration Empire, and its Emperor, was later brought back after the Time War (COMIC: Defender of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Defender of the Daleks (comic story)"]) by fluctuations in time caused when the Tenth Doctor poisoned the Kotturuh in the Dark Times. (PROSE: The Guide to the Dark Times [+]Loading...["The Guide to the Dark Times (short story)"], The Knight, The Fool and The Dead [+]Loading...["The Knight, The Fool and The Dead (novel)"]) The Emperor learnt of the attack on history, and the Doctor‘s involvement, from a message sent by the only surviving Dalek of a Time Squad that had yet to be sent back in time. (PROSE: The Last Message [+]Loading...["The Last Message (short story)"]) He ordered the invasion of Islos to seize the Archive, which resulted in the unleashing of the Entity against the Daleks. (WC: The Archive of Islos [+]Loading...["The Archive of Islos (webcast)"], The Sentinel of the Fifth Galaxy [+]Loading...["The Sentinel of the Fifth Galaxy (webcast)"]) The Emperor later oversaw the war against the Hond (COMIC: Defender of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Defender of the Daleks (comic story)"]) and sent the Time Squad to rectify the temporal fluctuations to the Daleks’ benefit. (PROSE: The Guide to the Dark Times [+]Loading...["The Guide to the Dark Times (short story)"])

The Dalek Prime Strategist[[edit] | [edit source]]

Main article: Dalek Prime Strategist
The Dalek Prime Strategist on Skaro. (COMIC: Defender of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Defender of the Daleks (comic story)"])

After the Evacuation of Skaro, an event in the temporally-altered reign of the Emperor of the Restoration, the Dalek Prime Strategist was dispatched to the Fifth Galaxy to reawaken an army of 10,000 dormant Red Daleks to fight the Entity. Upon arriving on the planet where the army was hidden in stasis, the Strategist activated the Sentinel android and told it to take him to "my army". The Sentinel immediately acknowledged the Dalek Prime Strategist as "Emperor", to the Strategist's shock.

Although the Strategist told the Sentinel that there must be a flaw in its programming, it persisted in addressing him as "Emperor". After successfully reviving the backup Dalek army, the Sentinel revealed that it had in fact been taken over by the Entity. The Sentinel told the Strategist that although its primary intent was to destroy the Daleks, finding a more reasonable leader for the species than the current Emperor would also be an acceptable solution. Thus, it had changed the programming of all the dormant Daleks, who indeed began addressing the Dalek Prime Strategist as their Emperor as they woke.

The Strategist wavered, but ultimately decided to sacrifice the army rather than rebel against the Emperor of the Restoration. The Entity thus fell back to controlling the reawakened army itself and leading in an ultimately-futile assault on the main Dalek forces. However, when asked by the Emperor if there was truly no way the disaster could have been avoided, the Strategist answered that there was a way, but it "would not have been acceptable... to you". (WC: The Sentinel of the Fifth Galaxy [+]Loading...["The Sentinel of the Fifth Galaxy (webcast)"])

By the time of the Restoration Empire Daleks' temporally-abnormal war with the Hond, the Strategist was still subservient to the Emperor of the Restoration. However, the Tenth Doctor, when conversing with the Strategist, correctly divined that he was upset that the Golden Emperor of the Restoration outranked him despite being younger and less experienced than he was. (COMIC: Defender of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Defender of the Daleks (comic story)"])

After escaping the Dark Times, the Strategist was planning out a Dalek Time War against the Time Lords, and believed it may have to depose the current Emperor and take his place, if he proved unsuitable to the purpose of leading the Daleks in such a conflict. (PROSE: Exit Strategy [+]Loading...["Exit Strategy (short story)"])

In the Time War[[edit] | [edit source]]

Main article: Dalek Emperor in the Last Great Time War
"The God of All Daleks". (TV: The Parting of the Ways [+]Loading...["The Parting of the Ways (TV story)"])

The identity of the Dalek Emperor in the Last Great Time War was up to some debate: some accounts suggested that he was the Emperor of the Restoration, (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe [+]Loading...["Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)"]) while others stated that he was a resurrected form of the original Dalek Emperor and erstwhile-instigator of the civil war against Davros. (AUDIO: Restoration of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Restoration of the Daleks (audio story)"]) One account acknowledged the existence of the Emperor of the Resurrection but suggested that the Dalek Prime Strategist intended to become the Emperor in time for the Daleks' war against the Time Lords to begin. (PROSE: Exit Strategy [+]Loading...["Exit Strategy (short story)"])

As recorded in the Dalek Combat Training Manual, the Time Lords identified the Emperor who oversaw Operation Human Factor as "The Emperor Type I". Whilst acknowledging Davros' stint as Emperor of the Imperial Daleks, it was the Emperor of the Time War who the Time Lords marked as "The Emperor Type II". Though the "Type I" was thought destroyed in the Dalek Civil War, the Time Lords acknowledged the possibility that, given the Daleks extraordinarily long lifespan, the organic part was retrieved and eventually "formed the basis" of the Emperor that took the Daleks into the Time War. The Time Lords were also aware of documents which suggested that the Emperor originally occupied a smaller casing which resembled that used by Davros, but considered them to be apocryphal; the Emperor of the Restoration was also acknowledged as a separate "anomaly" in Dalek history. (PROSE: Dalek Combat Training Manual [+]Loading...["Dalek Combat Training Manual (reference book)"])

However, there was widespread agreement that a Dalek Emperor other than Davros (TV: Journey's End [+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"]) was the ultimate authority of the Dalek Empire throughout the better part of the Last Great Time War, up until the very last day. After falling through time (TV: The Parting of the Ways [+]Loading...["The Parting of the Ways (TV story)"]) and the Void, (PROSE: The Whoniverse [+]Loading...["The Whoniverse (novel)"]) the Emperor, who had developed delusions of godhood and proclaimed himself "the God of All Daleks", attempted to recreate a new Dalek race from harvested humans on Satellite Five. This scheme was foiled by the Ninth Doctor, Jack Harkness and Rose Tyler, with Rose using the powers of the Bad Wolf entity to finally obliterate the Emperor, (TV: The Parting of the Ways [+]Loading...["The Parting of the Ways (TV story)"]) "[taking] the Time Vortex and pour[ing] it into his head, and turning him into dust". (TV: Doomsday [+]Loading...["Doomsday (TV story)"])

The New Dalek Paradigm's Emperors and beyond[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Dalek Emperor in its throne room. (GAME: City of the Daleks [+]Loading...["City of the Daleks (video game)"])

When the New Dalek Paradigm went back to the ruined Skaro, they created a new Emperor Dalek, reusing the shell of the old one, albeit with new paint. His blue colouring suggests he was a Strategist Dalek, had ties to that role or was the mastermind of all of the Daleks' plans for universal conquest. When the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond travelled back in time to when Skaro was devastated and before the new Daleks arrived with the Eye of Time, they erased the Daleks' alterations and Kaalann was left abandoned. The new Emperor was never created as a result. (GAME: City of the Daleks [+]Loading...["City of the Daleks (video game)"])

When the New Dalek Paradigm took control of Earth in 2106, they were led by a new Emperor Dalek. This Emperor was different from the Time War Emperor, as it was coloured purple, was able to form a sphere and its weaponry was much larger. This new Emperor wanted to completely change time by using a piece of the Eternity Clock, and remove Gallifrey from existence; the Daleks would then become the new Lords of Time. The Eleventh Doctor and River Song were able to remove the piece of the Eternity Clock from the Dalek's possession, foiling the Emperor's plans and undoing the Dalek invasion of Earth. (GAME: The Eternity Clock [+]Loading...["The Eternity Clock (video game)"])

River Song attacks the Dalek Emperor. (GAME: The Eternity Clock [+]Loading...["The Eternity Clock (video game)"])

Under the reinvention of the Dalek Empire, (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe [+]Loading...["Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)"]) the Daleks established a Parliament which took decisions for the whole of Dalek-kind under the leadership of a Prime Minister. When the Eleventh Doctor and his companions were summoned to the Parliament's ship, no Emperor was in evidence; (TV: Asylum of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)"]) indeed, the Time Lords were aware that the Prime Minister superseded the position of Emperor. (PROSE: Dalek Combat Training Manual [+]Loading...["Dalek Combat Training Manual (reference book)"]) After the fall of the Parliament, the New Dalek Paradigm's first Supreme Dalek took control of the Empire.

The Parliament was ultimately wiped out when their ship, the Nacrana Va Hateen, was destroyed by the Eleventh Doctor using the additional regeneration energy provided to him by the Time Lords, ending the Siege of Trenzalore. (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe [+]Loading...["Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)"], TV: The Time of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Time of the Doctor (TV story)"]) When Skaro was made the centre of the empire, a red Supreme Dalek, identical to that which led the New Dalek Empire, commanded operations. (TV: The Magician's Apprentice [+]Loading...["The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)"]/The Witch's Familiar [+]Loading...["The Witch's Familiar (TV story)"])

The Dalek Emperor reflected by the Twelfth Doctor. (WC: The Twelfth Doctor's been Timejacked! [+]Loading...["The Twelfth Doctor's been Timejacked! (webcast)"])

The Twelfth Doctor knew that a Dalek Emperor had again taken over leadership of the Daleks by the time he took over someone's phone to send them a message, displaying an image of an emperor using the same casing (WC: The Twelfth Doctor's been Timejacked! [+]Loading...["The Twelfth Doctor's been Timejacked! (webcast)"]) as the ruler who led the Daleks through the Time War. (TV: The Parting of the Ways [+]Loading...["The Parting of the Ways (TV story)"]) According to him, the Daleks and their emperor had launched a plot to use the internet to convert the people of the 21st century into Dalek drones, which was something he needed to put a stop to sooner or later. (WC: The Twelfth Doctor's been Timejacked! [+]Loading...["The Twelfth Doctor's been Timejacked! (webcast)"])

During the 1966 Dalek invasion of Earth, the Fourteenth Doctor pondered whether an Emperor or Supreme Dalek was commanding the operation. In truth, it was the latter. Soon enough, however, he would learn he was in a simulacrum created by the Dalek Dome entertainment company from the dreams of real Dalek mutants, which soon boiled out of control; not wanting to be destroyed, and also wanting to save her fellow psychoplasmic constructs, Georgy Gold ventured into the Golden City Zone and told its Golden Emperor they were fake beings. The Emperor resolved to bring its army into reality and conquer it, much to Gold's horror. To fuel its plan, the other zones in the Dalek Dome would be destroyed to bring the Golden Emperor's army into reality. The Doctor ventured into the Type I Dalek Emperor's psychoscape, where he created the Dalek Alliance between the various fake Dalek rulers to oppose the Golden Emperor. In the end, all Daleks venturing into reality were destroyed. All the Dalek mutants returned to sleep. (COMIC: Liberation of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Liberation of the Daleks (comic story)"])

Undated Emperors[[edit] | [edit source]]

A Dalek Emperor tried the Old Master, who was consequently exterminated by the Dalek Prelature. (PROSE: The Novel of the Film [+]Loading...["The Novel of the Film (novelisation)"])

A "Dalek Puppet Emperor" was known to have declared his hostility to the High Council of the Time Lords at some point prior to the official beginning of the Last Great Time War. (PROSE: Meet the Doctor [+]Loading...["Meet the Doctor (DWAN 2006 short story)"])

Sometime succeeding the Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War, the ruling Dalek Emperor decided that war was an expensive and inefficient means of conquest, instead expanding the Dalek Empire's influence through manipulations of other planets' economy. When the Seventh Doctor discovered this scheme and frustrated their efforts on Earth, the Emperor attempted to have him executed before the Supreme Council before the Doctor brought the Zenos Corporation to Skaro, turning its weapons against the Dalek City. While the Emperor managed to coordinate some of his forces, the time acceleration ravaged his casing. Left near death, the Emperor was literally deposed by human collaborator Celia Dunthorpe who installed herself as prime minister of the Daleks. (AUDIO: We Are The Daleks [+]Loading...["We Are The Daleks (audio story)"])

A group of Daleks attempting to extract Earth’s Telluric energy in 1963 contacted an Emperor to report their progress. (AUDIO: The Stuff of Legend [+]Loading...["The Stuff of Legend (audio story)"])

Other universes[[edit] | [edit source]]

In a possible reality that only existed because of anti-time, Imperiatrix Romana denied the Emperor Dalek's demand to remove its fleet from a temporal pocket in the Time Vortex, instead proclaiming she would to destroy it and the remaining Dalek battalions. Though the Emperor asked for mercy, Romana had the fleet annihilated, to the horror of the Eighth Doctor. (AUDIO: Neverland [+]Loading...["Neverland (audio story)"])

In the Daft Dimension, the gold-cased Dalek Emperor gave a televised speech which was watched by Ebeneezer Davros, and the Dalek family on Christmas Day. (COMIC: The Daft Dimension 546 [+]Loading...["The Daft Dimension (DWM 546 comic story)","''The Daft Dimension'' 546"])

Other references[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Sixth Doctor objected to Jack Harkness marrying Callista while posing as him, likening the situation to a marriage with the Dalek Emperor. Jack countered by pointing out that the Doctor was still fighting the Daleks, and used a hypothetical romance with Davros to taunt him. (AUDIO: Piece of Mind [+]Loading...["Piece of Mind (audio story)"]) The Twelfth Doctor once joked that the Dalek Emperor was not as threatening as "your average mobile phone sales assistant" (PROSE: The Blood Cell [+]Loading...["The Blood Cell (novel)"]) and later remarked that the internet had the same level of "wit, ego, and hatred" as the Emperor. (WC: The Twelfth Doctor's been Timejacked! [+]Loading...["The Twelfth Doctor's been Timejacked! (webcast)"])

The position of Dalek Puppet Emperor also existed. (PROSE: Meet the Doctor [+]Loading...["Meet the Doctor (DWAN 2006 short story)"]) By one account, if a Dalek Emperor died, a Supreme Dalek would normally take its place. (PROSE: The Dalek Problem [+]Loading...["The Dalek Problem (novel)"])

Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Invalid sources[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Dalek Emperor as he appears in LEGO Dimensions.

Long before the Sixth Doctor suggested that Davros could become Emperor of the Daleks in Revelation of the Daleks, the original second volume of The Doctor Who Programme Guide (1981) suggested that the Emperor seen in The Evil of the Daleks was not only the "last Emperor Dalek", indicating the existence of a predecessor, but also "the final incarnation" of Davros before his Daleks were usurped by the Humanised Daleks created by the Second Doctor.

The Terrestrial Index (1991), which stated that the Dalek Civil War was in fact the Final End of the Daleks, continued the claim that the Evil Emperor was the final form of Davros, achieved by self-inflicted mutations long following the so-called destruction of Skaro. Incidentally, Terror Firma would depict an Emperor Davros now with elements of The Evil of the Daleks casing.

A Dalek Emperor (identical in voice and appearance to the one in The Parting of the Ways, though it is not confirmed to be the same individual) acts as a secondary villain in LEGO Dimensions, where he is voiced by Nicholas Briggs. In the video game's story, he is unaware that some of his Daleks have been recruited by Lord Vortech to aid him in his conquest of the multiverse, but he is aware of mysterious happenings involving cross-dimensional travel, and has acquired one of the Keystones for himself (the Scale, which allows him to enlarge or shrink himself and other Daleks at will). Believing the goings-on to be the fault of the Twelfth Doctor, he captures the game's protagonists, Batman, Wyldstyle and Gandalf, to try and find out the Doctor's plans, but ends up getting shrunk to mouse-size by the Scale at the end of the ensuing boss battle. The iteration used by Davros in Remembrance of the Daleks appears in a DLC level, and the iteration seen in The Evil of the Daleks appears in a secret area in a level pack themed off The Goonies.

The Discontinuity Guide suggests that, whilst undergoing interrogation during his incursion into Dalek history, the Fourth Doctor had told Davros of the Human Factor Incident, which involved a Dalek Emperor, and so influenced the Dalek creator to later name himself Emperor of the Imperial Daleks.[1]

Other matters[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Similar to Dalek Supreme/Supreme Dalek, the terms "Dalek Emperor" and "Emperor Dalek" are used interchangeably across media. "Dalek Emperor" is used in The Sound of Drums, while "Emperor Dalek" is used in The History of the Daleks, Remembrance of the Daleks, Nemesis of the Daleks, Dalek Attack, The Mutant Phase, The Time of the Daleks, Neverland, City of the Daleks and Night Terrors. The Evil of the Daleks simply used the term "Emperor", while the Ninth Doctor identifies the "Emperor of the Daleks" in The Parting of the Ways.
  • Depending on the player's progress, "Dalek Emperor" is a potential rank for the Metaltron to attain in the video game GAME: The Last Dalek.
  • The 2005 releases of the television story The Parting of the Ways, which introduced the Dalek Emperor in the Last Great Time War, and the audio story Terror Firma, in which Davros's original personality gave way to "the Emperor", gave rise to a theory which suggested that Davros was destined to become the Emperor seen in The Parting of the Ways. This was acknowledged by AHistory, which noted that this theory was officially denied by Big Finish. Davros's return in The Stolen Earth and subsequent stories firmly established that Davros and the War Emperor were separate individuals and that Davros had returned to his original personality by the Last Great Time War.

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Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ BBC.co.uk 'Discontinuity Guide' article on Dalek History: Part Two in the original series of Doctor Who
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