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{{Infobox Conflict
|Conflict name = 22nd century Dalek invasion of Earth
|aka              = First Dalek War<br />[[Project Degravitate]]
|part of = Dalek conquest era
|image            = Dalek saucer.jpg
|date = [[2157]] - [[2167]]
|part of           = [[Dalek Wars]]
|location = [[Earth]]
|date             = [[2154]]-[[2164|64]] or [[2157]]-[[2167|67]] (I); [[2180s]]-[[2190s|90s]] (II)
|result = [[Human]] victory
|location         = [[Earth]]
|combatants = <ul><li>[[Dalek]]s</li><li>[[Human]]s</li></ul>
|result           = [[Human]] victory
|commanders = <ul><li>[[Dalek Supreme]]</li><li>Human resistance force</li></ul>
|side1            = [[Dalek]]s
|strength = Unknown
|side2            = [[Human]]s
}}
|leader1          = [[Supreme Controller (The Dalek Invasion of Earth)|Supreme Controller]], [[Red Dalek (Susan and the Daleks)|Red Dalek]] (I); [[Dalek Time Controller]]  (II)
|leader2          = [[Dortmun]], [[First Doctor]]/[[Dr. Who]] (I); [[Susan Foreman|Susan Campbell]], [[Lucie Miller]], [[Eighth Doctor]] (II)
|strength1        = [[Dalek Earthforce]], [[Robomen]]
|strength2        = [[Rebels of London]], resistance groups
|first            = The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)
|appearances      = [[2150s Dalek invasion of Earth/Appearances|'''''see list''''']]
}}{{dab page|First Dalek War (disambiguation)}}
The '''2150s Dalek invasion of Earth''', sometimes known as the '''First Dalek War''' ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Prelude Deceit (short story)}}) or the '''Seventeen Years Invasion''', ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Previously On... The Multiverse (short story)}}) was a conflict between [[human]]ity and the [[Dalek]]s, consisting of Dalek attacks on human [[colony|colonies]] followed by a decade-long occupation of [[Earth]] in the [[2150s]] and [[2160s|60s]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)}}, etc.) To the Daleks, the invasion was a means for '''[[Project Degravitate]]'''. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Doctor Who and the Dalek Invasion of Earth (novelisation)}}, [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Dalek Conquests (audio story)}})


One of the major events relating to [[Dalek]]s and [[Human]]s was the '''22nd century Dalek invasion of Earth'''.
Whilst being aware of an [[Battle of Hope Valley|reconnaissance scout mission 1,300 years earlier]], the [[Time Lord]]s regarded this century attack as the "first attempt" and the "initial invasion" of Earth from the Daleks' perspective. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (reference book)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'')


==History==
== Dating ==
The [[Dalek]]s invaded [[Earth]] in [[2157]], first bombarding the planet with plague-bearing meteorites. The majority of the population of [[Africa]], [[Asia]] and [[South America]] died before [[human]]s could find a cure, despite the fact that a counter-virus providing limited immunity had already been released into the population ([[DW]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'', [[NA]]: ''[[Lucifer Rising]]''). At some point, [[New York City]] also would also fall. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Chase]]'')
Accounts differed on the dating of the invasion. During the adventure which led to the Doctor and his [[companion]]s putting an end to the invasion, the [[First Doctor]] and [[Ian Chesterton]] found a [[calendar]] for the year [[2164]] in an abandoned building. ([[TV]]: {{cite source|The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|namedep=World's End (1)|n=World's End}}) Some accounts suggested that the TARDIS had indeed landed in that year, ([[AUDIO]]: {{cite source|Masters of Earth (audio story)}}) but upon entering the abandoned room, the Doctor had remarked on the musty smell and speculated that no one had been there for "years", concludng that the calendar could only establish the current [[century]] with any certainty. ([[TV]]: {{cite source|The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|namedep=World's End (1)|n=World's End}})


After six months, the Daleks landed [[flying saucer|saucers]] with the command saucer led by a [[Black Dalek]]. The Daleks subjugated the [[human]]s and converted the most intelligent into cybernetically-controlled slaves known as [[Robomen]]. The Daleks commenced a mining operation in [[Bedfordshire]] in order to reach the Earth's [[magnetic core]], replace it with a propulsion system, and turn the whole planet into a massive spacecraft. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'')
Indeed, some accounts suggested that the Daleks ''landed'' on Earth in 2164, thereafter beginning their years-long occupation. ([[PROSE]]: {{cite source|The History of the Daleks (short story)}}, {{cite source|Invasion Earth: 2164 (short story)}}, [[AUDIO]]: {{cite source|Whatever Happened to Susan Foreman? (audio story)}}) A wealth of accounts, however, tended to hold that the invasion had been ongoing for some years by 2164, whenever it had ended; and in fact, that it started in the [[2150s]].


These events would cause difficulties for human colonists, who were dependent, to a degree, on communication with and support from Earth. ([[NA]]: ''[[Lucifer Rising]]'')
One account dated the Dalek invasion to "[[2150]] [[AD]]". ([[TV]]: {{cite source|Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (theatrical film)}}) A close retelling of this account suggested that the entire invasion had lasted less than a single year, as the Doctor had been spurred to travel to 2150 Earth by records he had found in [[3000]] that acknowledged the Daleks' invasion of Earth in the year 2150, then ended up foiling the Daleks on [[14 April]] [[2150]] precisely. ([[COMIC]]: {{cite source|Daleks, invasión a la Tierra año 2150 (comic story)}}) However, these two accounts depicted a [[Dr. Who (Dr. Who and the Daleks)|mustache-sporting Doctor]] as the one who defeated the Daleks, ([[TV]]: {{cite source|Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (theatrical film)}}, [[COMIC]]: {{cite source|Daleks, invasión a la Tierra año 2150 (comic story)}}) instead of the conventional clean-shaven [[First Doctor]] of other tellings, ([[TV]]: {{cite source|The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)}}) and indeed, that version of events was regarded as a distinct "version of history" by the ''[[Dalek Survival Guide]]'' relative to the one which featured the First Doctor; the Daleks' attempted do-over of the invasion in [[Alternate timeline (Day of the Daleks)|the alternate timeline]] foiled by the [[Third Doctor]] was recorded as yet a third such "version of history". ([[PROSE]]: {{cite source|Dalek Survival Guide (novel)}})


Throughout this period the Daleks operated a blockade of the Solar system in order to prevent Earth's colonies from attempting to liberate their homeworld. ([[NA]]: ''[[GodEngine]]'')
At any rate, one account showed the Daleks as being already in the process of conquering the [[solar system]] by [[2156]]. ([[GAME]]: {{cite source|The Legions of Death (game)}})


::''The invasion possibly ocurred during an earlier period of Dalek history as the Daleks, at that point had receiver dishes built into their casings to receive broadcast power for their survival. Earlier Daleks had had to rely on [[static electricity]] in the floors of the [[Dalek City]].''
In contrast, several linked accounts claimed that the Daleks' invasion of the solar system, the spreading of a [[plague]] on [[Earth]], and the eventual ground invasion all occurred over the course of the year [[2157]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cite source|Lucifer Rising (novel)}}, {{cite source|GodEngine (novel)}})


In the late [[2160s]], most probably [[2167]], definitely after [[2164]], [[First Doctor|the Doctor]], his companions and resistance fighters based in [[London]] (who included [[David Campbell]]) were able to sabotage the Dalek mine workings and destroy the centre of Dalek operations on Earth. In the aftermath of this the Daleks withdrew from the planet. The Doctor's grand-daughter, [[Susan Foreman]] decided to remain in this time period with David. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'').
According to a handful of dissenting accounts, the Dalek invasion took place in the [[21st century]], ([[TV]]: {{cite source|Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)}}, [[PROSE]]: {{cite source|Doctor Who and the Crusaders (novelisation)}}, {{cite source|The Evil of the Daleks (novelisation)}}) with the [[First Doctor]] remembering leaving [[Susan Foreman]] in "the 21st century" just after the event, ([[PROSE]]: {{cite source|Doctor Who and the Crusaders (novelisation)}}) and the [[Fourth Doctor]] dating it to the year [[2000]] when summarising future Dalek defeats to [[Davros]]. ([[TV]]: {{cite source|Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)}})


Tortured by [[Davros]] to reveal to him the Daleks' past defeats, [[Fourth Doctor|the Doctor]] recounted this invasion, with some inaccurate information, saying that the invasion happened in the year [[2000]] and that the magnetic properties of the Earth's core itself helped to defeat the Daleks, as well as the determination of human resistance fighters. ([[DW]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks]]''.)
== History ==
=== Foreseeing ===
In [[1903]], after receiving a wealth of information from the future, [[Grigori Rasputin]] foresaw, among other things, the [[First Doctor]], [[Ian Chesterton]], [[Barbara Wright]] and [[Susan Foreman]] battling "strange beings" who had invaded Earth in the future. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Wanderer (audio story)|The Wanderer]]'')


::''In a separate timeline, the Daleks also invaded Earth from the future after [[World War III]], [[nuclear war]] involving many nations, which happened in the late [[20th century]]. However, the [[temporal paradox]] that enabled the nuclear war to occur was resolved and the timeline anulled. ([[DW]]: [[Day of the Daleks]])''
=== Origins ===
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According to one account, the early Daleks knew of the existence of other [[planet]]s even though a lack of [[spaceship|space travel]] confined them to [[Skaro]]. When [[Kest]], a [[Krattorian]] [[slave]] [[trader]], landed on the planet, the Daleks were able to acquire from him the plans to create their own spacecrafts. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Power Play (comic story)|Power Play]]'') Going with a [[Dalek flying saucer|flying saucer]] design, the Daleks invaded [[Alvega]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Amaryll Challenge (comic story)|The Amaryll Challenge]]'') [[Solturis]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Penta Ray Factor (comic story)|The Penta Ray Factor]]'') and [[Phryne]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Archives of Phryne (comic story)|The Archives of Phryne]]'') with plans for other planets such as [[Oric]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Eve of War (comic story)|Eve of War]]'') According to another account, the Daleks first learned about life existing on other worlds due to the [[First Doctor]]'s [[Thal-Dalek battle|visit]] to Skaro. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lights of Skaro (audio story)|The Lights of Skaro]]'')


==Behind the Scenes==
The existence of Earth, however, managed to elude the Daleks for a time, the planet long being their blind spot. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Legacy of Yesteryear (comic story)|Legacy of Yesteryear]]'', ''[[The Road to Conflict (comic story)|The Road to Conflict]]'') Nevertheless, they did know of the existence of humans and tensions began to rise. In one instance, [[One in a Million Dalek|a Dalek created with human-like qualities]] seized control from the [[Golden Emperor]] and began to teach the Daleks that beauty was a strength. To solve the problem, the Emperor likened the strength of beauty to [[flower]]s, which withered and died. Beauty therefore did not last which meant it could not be a source of strength and was for human beings. The Emperor had the rebel Dalek destroyed and issued a new Dalek order, stating that humans were to be destroyed. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Shadow of Humanity (comic story)|Shadow of Humanity]]'') The Daleks also faced what they called the human spirit in the [[humanoid]] [[species]] from the planet [[Jevo]]. Although they were destroyed, the Emperor wondered how the Daleks would fare against such a resilient spirit in "the all-out war on all human beings... everywhere." ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Emissaries of Jevo (comic story)|The Emissaries of Jevo]]'')
The non-canonical film ''[[Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D]]'' gives a somewhat different account of these events.


[[Category:Earth-based conflicts]]
Long following the mid-22th century invasion from the Daleks' perspective, they would attack Earth on several occasions earlier in its history, most noticeably in the [[Planetary Relocation Incident]]. However, the [[Time Lord]]s were aware that [[Big Bang Two]] caused subtle changes in [[Earth's timeline]] which would remove the memory of incidents such as this invasion; as such, humanity at large would still be ignorant of the Daleks. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (reference book)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'') Indeed, most humans were left unable to remember that the aliens had invaded their world, though [[GH (The Mandela Effect, Or Monsters on the Streets of London)|one theorist]], whose memories of the Daleks from the [[Battle of Canary Wharf]] were vague despite his clear memories of the "[[Cybusman|steel soldiers]]" present on that day, found that their friends, briefly, had slight recognition on their faces whenever he described the battle, only for their friends to lose that recognition in seconds. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Mandela Effect, Or Monsters on the Streets of London (short story)|The Mandela Effect, Or Monsters on the Streets of London]]'')
 
Humanity remained unaware the Daleks were plotting against them. By the late [[21st century]], humans had experienced the [[Break-out]] and possessed a number of colonies beyond Earth. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Prelude Deceit (short story)|Prelude Deceit]]'') Years prior to the invasion, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Power of the Daleks (novelisation)|The Power of the Daleks]]'') the human colonists on [[Vulcan (The Power of the Daleks)|Vulcan]] were threatened by a [[Vulcan Incident|smaller-scale Dalek attack]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Power of the Daleks (TV story)|The Power of the Daleks]]'') However, by [[2136]], both Vulcan and the Daleks were considered little more than legends. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Murder Game (novel)|The Murder Game]]'')
 
An Earth-made ship, the ''[[Starmaker]]'', was pounded by a [[meteor storm]] and forced to land on Skaro. The Daleks destroyed the ship. The only survivors were [[Captain]] [[Flint Fleet]] and two children, siblings [[Tom (The Road to Conflict)|Tom]] and [[Jennie (The Road to Conflict)|Jennie]], who escaped in a Dalek saucer to warn Earth of the danger posed by the Daleks. Among the wreckage of the ''Starmaker'', the Daleks found the remains of a piece of [[paper]] which revealed to them the existence and location of Earth. The Emperor declared that the Daleks would search for Earth and conquer it. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Road to Conflict (comic story)|The Road to Conflict]]'') When the Daleks [[2060s Dalek invasion of Earth|first ventured into the Sol System]], their fleet was initially repelled by Earth forces led by [[Commander]] [[Trent (Return of the Elders)|Trent]] with the help of the [[Elder (species)|Elders]]. The Emperor, the [[Black Dalek Leader|Black Dalek]] and the [[Red Dalek]] escaped and resolved to return. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Return of the Elders (comic story)|Return of the Elders]]'')
 
Confronting a [[simulacrum]] of the [[Golden Emperor (Liberation of the Daleks)|Golden Emperor]], the [[Fourteenth Doctor]] told him that he was based on [[TV Century 21 (in-universe)|children's books]] from the 21st century, "before the invasion", a time when most [[Earth people]] believed the Daleks to be a [[myth]] like [[Bigfoot]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Liberation of the Daleks (comic story)}})
 
=== Planning ===
According to one account, a [[researcher (Whatever Happened to Susan Foreman?)|researcher]] learnt from [[Susan Foreman]] that the invasion was waged by Daleks who had travelled back from the "[[far distant future]]" using a [[DARDIS|TARDIS]] of their own. Having been [[Thal-Dalek battle|defeated]] on [[Skaro]] by the [[Thal]]s led by [[Ian Chesterton]], their intent was to wreak [[revenge]] on Ian's [[human|people]] or, better still, prevent Ian himself from being [[born]] by going into the [[past]]. However, they were unable to go any further back than [[2164]] due to a leak in their [[fluid link]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Whatever Happened to Susan Foreman? (audio story)|Whatever Happened to Susan Foreman?]]'')
 
According to another account, the Daleks participating in the invasion on the ground knew nothing of [[time travel]], although the technology was beginning to be studied on [[Skaro]] at the time. The [[Dalek Prime|Dalek Emperor]] personally formulated the plan for the invasion of Earth and its subsequent transformation into a planet-sized spaceship, choosing [[Bedfordshire]] as the area for the primary mining operations meant to drill into the Earth's core and replace it with an interstellar [[engine]]. Once the plan was complete, he gave the order to begin the invasion of Earth. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Mutant Phase (audio story)|The Mutant Phase]]'')
 
=== Attacks on Earth colonies ===
By one account, the invasion began in [[2157]] with mysterious attacks on [[Sifranos]] in the [[Arcturus sector]] (a [[moon]] of Sifranos was destroyed, one billion settlers being massacred), [[Azure (Nightmare of Eden)|Azure]], [[Qartopholos]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lucifer Rising (novel)|Lucifer Rising]]'') and [[Mars]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks]]'') These were followed by the [[plague]] attacks directly on [[Earth]] while the [[Dalek Fleet]] massed near [[Epsilon Eridani]]. With the colonies destroyed, Earth could expect no assistance from them when the Daleks invaded Earth in [[2158]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lucifer Rising (novel)|Lucifer Rising]]'') The Daleks operated a blockade of the [[Solar system]] to prevent Earth's colonies from attempting to liberate their homeworld. The colonies experienced many problems from the occupation, as they were dependent, to a degree, on communication with and support from Earth. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[GodEngine (novel)|GodEngine]]'', ''[[Lucifer Rising (novel)|Lucifer Rising]]'') Later in 2157, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[GodEngine (novel)|GodEngine]]'') the Daleks attempted to invade Mars. However, the inhabitants developed a genetically-engineered virus that attacked their spacecrafts' wiring, meaning that this invasion attempt had failed. ([[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[GodEngine (novel)|GodEngine]]'')
 
Another account suggested that as part of their invasion plan of the solar system, the Daleks reached [[Mars]] in [[2156]]. They attempted to conquer the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] colony of [[Nova Leningrad]], but found the base defences too hard to take down and decided to get in through guile by highjacking a supply ship, which went back and forth every six months to pick up mineral ores from a penal planetoid in the [[asteroid belt]] while leaving supplies to the prisoner exiled to the planetoid, former [[revolutionary]] [[Mikhyl Nevenskoi]]. Consequently, the Daleks attacked the planetoid in order to prepare an ambush for the supply ship. However, they were defeated by Nevenskoi with the help fo the [[Time Lady]] [[Leora]], who knew that the Mars colony had to survive into a later era of the invasion to send assistance to Earth-based resistance groups for established history to proceed. She subsequently took Mikhyl on as a [[companion]] to save him from death by starvation, knowing that Nova Leningrad would cease to send supply ships to the planetoid due to the strain of the Dalek siege. ([[GAME]]: {{cite source|The Legions of Death (game)}})
 
=== Plague on Earth and arrival of the Daleks ===
The beginning of the invasion of Earth proper was variously dated to [[2150]], ([[TV]]: {{cite source|Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (theatrical film)}}) [[2157]] ([[PROSE]]: {{cite source|Lucifer Rising (novel)}}, {{cite source|Invasion Earth: 2164 (short story)}}) or [[2162]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cite source|Whatever Happened to Susan Foreman? (audio story)}}) One showed the invasion of the solar system to have already been underway by [[2156]] without elaboration. ([[GAME]]: {{cite source|The Legions of Death (game)}})
 
[[File:Baker trapped.jpg|thumb|left|A small percent of Earth's population survived the meteorites and plague, leaving survivors for the Daleks to enslave or kill once they landed on Earth ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'')]]The invasion began when Earth was bombarded with [[meteorite]]s. At first this was thought the result of a [[cosmic storm]], but shortly after things had returned to normal, people started dying of a new plague sent by the Daleks via the meteorites. The majority of the population of [[Africa]], [[Asia]] and [[South America]] died before [[human]]s could find a cure. ([[TV]]: {{cite source|The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)}})
 
By one account, some [[human]]s were immune to the plague, because the [[Seventh Doctor]] had given to [[Piper O'Rourke]] a counter-virus that conferred immunity to make sure that there would be humans left to help his [[First Doctor|first incarnation]] defeat the invasion. ([[PROSE]]: {{cite source|Lucifer Rising (novel)}}) With the Earth now heavily weakened, the Daleks arrived to complete their conquest, with humanity unable to respond with any power as [[Dalek flying saucer]]s filled the skies. ([[PROSE]]: {{cite source|Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)}}) The [[Black Fleet]] took part in the invasion. ([[PROSE]]: {{cite source|GodEngine (novel)}})
 
The [[Terran Security Forces]] were easily defeated by the Daleks, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Final Sanction (novel)|The Final Sanction]]'') who arrived in their flying saucers to reveal the Earth was outgunned. Quickly, the Daleks moved to wipe out the Earth's [[politician]]s, exterminating many in [[Parliament Square]] in London. After the Daleks demanded the planet surrender, some politician locked themselves away in the [[Houses of Parliament]] in an attempt to remain safe, only to be burned alive when the Daleks lit the buildings ablaze. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'') The Houses of Parliament were left abandoned. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[After the Daleks (audio story)|After the Daleks]]'')
 
[[Iris Wildthyme]] visited [[Putney Common]] during the invasion. When a saucer landed on the Common, Iris and her friends were among the first to throw homemade bombs at it. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[From Wildthyme with Love (novel)|From Wildthyme with Love]]'')
 
According to one account, the invaders were [[hover position|flying]] [[bronze Dalek]]s. Six months after the initial incident, in [[2164]], the Daleks landed saucers on Earth. The Black Dalek led from the Command Saucer. One of these saucers attacked [[London]]. The British government put all their best defences into battle against the Daleks, sending the [[Royal Air Force|Air Force]]'s [[helicopter]]s and fighters to attack the Dalek ship. [[Tank]]s fought across the streets, and the [[Royal Navy|Navy]] fought with [[gunboat]]s. The humans were persistent, destroying many Daleks, but in a matter of days the Daleks subjugated the humans and converted the most intelligent into Robomen. Later, the Doctor's involvement had led to the Daleks retreating. ([[PROSE]]: {{cite source|Invasion Earth: 2164 (short story)}})
 
[[File:Nelson's Column.jpg|thumb|right|The Daleks occupy [[London]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'')]]
At some point, [[New York City]] was completely destroyed. [[London]], on the other hand, though one of the locations where the Daleks landed, was merely occupied and remained relatively intact ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'') despite losing most of its population. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'') Additionally, the city suffered some of the worst attacks since [[the Blitz]] and the [[1944]] [[V1 flying bomb|V1]] and [[V2 rocket|V2]] attacks by the [[Nazi]]s during [[World War II]], with the Daleks reducing many areas to gravel. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Illegal Alien (novel)|Illegal Alien]]'') Some areas of the city became infested with [[wolf|wolves]], with a "danger zone" being identified wherein it was unsafe to live. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[When the Wolves Came (short story)|When the Wolves Came]]'') [[St Paul's Cathedral]] survived the invasion as well as the first four world wars. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Frostfire (audio story)|Frostfire]]'') [[Paris]] was invaded by the Daleks on 8th April [[2164]], with historical monuments destroyed including [[Notre Dame de Paris|Notre Dame Cathedral]] and the [[Louvre]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Watchers (audio story)|Watchers]]'')
 
=== Occupation ===
[[File:French Dalek illustration.jpg|thumb|left|The Daleks used propaganda posters to encourage human populations to submit to their rule. ([[GRAPHIC]]: {{cite source|French Dalek (illustration)}})]]With Earth conquered, the majority of the Daleks departed, leaving a comparatively small [[Dalek Earthforce]] behind. Assisted by the [[Roboman|Robomen]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Whoniverse (novel)|The Whoniverse]]'') the Daleks held the Earth for about ten years. During the occupation period, small groups of human resistance fighters continued to exist. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'') A [[Red Dalek (Susan and the Daleks)|Red Dalek]] had authority over the [[Silver Dalek]] [[Dalek drone|drones]] in [[Trafalgar Square]] and personally led patrols. An older [[Susan Foreman]] once arrived in the occupation while travelling in [[the Doctor's TARDIS]]. She escaped but was followed through [[time]] by a [[Blue Chrono-Dalek]] deployed after her by the Red Dalek. ([[TV]]: ''[[Susan and the Daleks (TV story)|Susan and the Daleks]]'')
 
Posters were put up across the world, preaching obeisance to the Daleks, in native languages of the human populations, such as [[French (language)|French]]. ([[GRAPHIC]]: {{cite source|French Dalek (illustration)}})
 
In occupied London, the Daleks raided the [[Ministry of Defence]] [[vault]]s and scanned their records for the Daleks as a matter of precaution, considering the possibility that the humans had developed stealth weapons to be used against them. Though they found no such weapons, they became aware of two human contacts with the future Daleks, the [[Time Paradox Incident|Styles business]] and the [[Hand of Omega]], which would [[Shoreditch Incident|destroy]] [[Skaro]] after it was acquired by [[Davros]]. The Daleks, who had believed that Davros was dead, were concerned by this revelation. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[War of the Daleks (novel)|War of the Daleks]]'')
 
In [[Dorset]], the [[Tilly Whim Tunnels]] were used by the resistance to evade the Daleks until, three years into the occupation, the Daleks wiped out all Dorset life with an unknown chemical weapon. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Curator's Egg (audio story)|The Curator's Egg]]'')
 
The [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Peri Brown]] landed in [[2163]]. The Daleks were unfamiliar with the Doctor, thinking he was a human. The Doctor was interrogated by a [[Black Dalek]]. He foiled the Daleks' plan to unleash a [[Varga plant]] [[virus]]. The Doctor and Peri also defeated the [[Roboman Elite]] and erased any record of his involvement afterwards but the invasion continued to ensure the [[First Doctor]] finally put an end to it. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Masters of Earth (audio story)|Masters of Earth]]'')
 
=== Liberation ===
As they had always planned to, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Whoniverse (novel)|The Whoniverse]]'') the Daleks commenced a mining operation in [[Bedfordshire]] in order to reach the Earth's [[magnetic core]], replace it with a propulsion system, and turn the whole planet into a massive spacecraft to conquer the galaxy. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'')
 
In [[2167]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Mutant Phase (audio story)|The Mutant Phase]]'') the [[First Doctor]] and his [[companion]]s arrived in occupied [[London]]. Shortly afterward, the Daleks announced that they would destroy London. The leader of the [[rebels of London]], [[Dortmun]], had been developing explosives and initiated an attack on the Daleks' saucer at [[Helipad Chelsea]]. Although the attack liberated several prisoners of the Daleks, the bombs did not work effectively against the Daleks, leading to several casualties. [[Ian Chesterton]], who had accompanied the freedom fighters, remained on the saucer as it travelled to Bedfordshire.
 
Following the saucer attack, the Dalek Supreme Command issued an order for the destruction of what remained of London using firebombs. One of these firebombs was placed near one of the resistance base entrances, which the Doctor, [[Susan Foreman|Susan]] and [[David Campbell]] were hiding beside. David spotted the bomb soon after, and was able to disable it by using acid from Dortmun's bombs to burn through the casing and remove the internal mechanism of the firebomb. Some of the resistance fighters, including the Doctor, Susan, and David, from London to the site of the Daleks' mining operation at Bedfordshire. [[Barbara Wright]] and [[Jenny Chaplin|Jenny]] also, independently, made their way towards Bedfordshire, but were captured.
 
[[File:Dalekinvasion 603.jpg|thumb|left|The [[First Doctor]] stands in defiance of the Daleks ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'')]]
They all, however, assisted in the final destruction of the centre of Dalek operations on Earth, with Barbara taking control of Dalek communications to order the Robomen to turn on their masters. Robomen and slaves alike rebelled against the Daleks, who were left immobilised in their tracks after the Doctor overloaded their systems, while the command saucer was destroyed by lava as the mining operation collapsed. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'') Some did display the ability to move but without control, leaving these Invaders to scream and plead for help from within their shells until they crashed and died.<ref name="Star's View of Caroline explanation">''[[A Star's View of Caroline (short story)|A Star's View of Caroline]]'' is set in the aftermath of the ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'' but does not have the copyright to directly address the concepts involved in the story. As such, the Daleks are called "the Invaders" to avoid copyright issues. Furthermore, "[[Caroline (A Star's View of Caroline)|Caroline]]" is implied to actually be [[Susan Foreman]], while [[Homogeny]] and [[Hegemony (A Star's View of Caroline)|Hegemony]] seem to be alternate versions of [[Ian Chesterton]] and [[Barbara Wright]].</ref> ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Star's View of Caroline (short story)|A Star's View of Caroline]]'') Quickly, the surviving Daleks withdrew from the planet. Susan decided to remain in this time period with David. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'')
 
In "[[Dr. Who's reality (Dr. Who and the Daleks)|version of history B]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Survival Guide (novel)|Dalek Survival Guide]]'') it was "[[Dr. Who]]" who arrived to counter the Dalek occupation. ([[TV]]: ''[[Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (theatrical film)|Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.]]''; [[COMIC]]: ''[[Daleks, invasión a la Tierra año 2150 (comic story)|Daleks, invasión a la Tierra año 2150]]'') [[Iris Wildthyme]] also once claimed she had ended the invasion with her companion [[Jeremy (Party Fears Two)|Jeremy]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Scarlet Empress (novel)|The Scarlet Empress]]'') According to one account, the First Doctor and Susan had also disarmed a [[bomb]] in London during their time fighting the invasion. The [[Twelfth Doctor]] and [[Clara Oswald]] wound up during the events of the invasion after they jumped into a portal created by a [[time fly]] at the hands of [[Ethel (A Stitch in Time)|Ethel]]. They were chased by time flies and Daleks, equipped with [[Bronze Dalek|bronze casings]], alike but were able to explode them using the bomb. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[A Stitch in Time (CC comic story)|A Stitch in Time]]'')
 
=== Legacy ===
==== Aftermath for humanity ====
[[File:Dalek After The Daleks.jpg|thumb|right|[[Dalek (After the Daleks)|The last survivor]] of the [[Dalek Earthforce]] before its demise ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[After the Daleks (audio story)|After the Daleks]]'')]]
The remains of the Invaders littered the cities they had once occupied; with their flabby bodies left dead and falling to dust, their metal shells were left rusted and cracked, leaving the Invader's remains open for humanity to wreck in revenge.<ref name="Star's View of Caroline explanation" /> ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Star's View of Caroline (short story)|A Star's View of Caroline]]'') [[Dalek (After the Daleks)|One Dalek]] survived the invasion and bargained with former collaborator [[Marcus Bray]] to deliver it to a [[Dalek flying saucer]] so it could escape, only for him to publicly execute it to win favour with the humans. Bray then led a witch hunt against [[Susan Foreman]], only for her and her allies to trick him into revealing his working for the Daleks. Following Bray's death, Susan set the saucer to [[self-destruct]]. On a broad scale, it was estimated that the invasion had sent Earth's technological development, including the development of [[time travel]] and [[ganger]] technology, back 200 years. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[After the Daleks (audio story)|After the Daleks]]'')
 
The invasion killed about two-thirds of Earth's population. The [[Moonbase (An Earthly Child)|Moonbase]] was cut off from the planet and the moon colonists were trapped on the satellite. About twenty years later the liberation, humans had grown [[Xenophobia|xenophobic]] about aliens, rejecting [[Dalek technology]] in public burnings and regressing the level of the planet's technology by about two centuries. An [[Earth Council]] was in charge, handling the reconstruction. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[An Earthly Child (audio story)|An Earthly Child]]'') Whilst many communities active throughout the Invader's occupation had survived using fear and despair to fuel their actions, those who started to rebuild the Earth after a decade of being under occupation found relics of their past society, including charred buildings, machines that were half broken, [[advert]]s for [[cereal]]s, [[calendar]]s, and human remains. <ref name="Star's View of Caroline explanation" /> ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Star's View of Caroline (short story)|A Star's View of Caroline]]'')
 
In [[2169]], [[Homunculette]] and [[Marie (Alien Bodies)|Marie]] visited the ruins of the [[House of Commons]] to buy [[The Relic (Alien Bodies)|the Relic]] from the [[Black Man (Alien Bodies)|Black Man]], who was selling remnants from the [[Toy Store]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'')
 
[[P.J. Ring]] became a [[Revelator]] and later a [[saint]] after being exposed to [[the Source (A Star's View of Caroline)|the Source]] during the end of the invasion. Also present during this time was a woman going by the name "[[Caroline (A Star's View of Caroline)|Caroline]]", who had previously been to [[Skaro|the Invader's homeworld]] and been brought to this century by her "grandfather". She reflected that "one day" she "[would] get back" to him. She also encountered two temporal uncertainties, going by the names [[Homogeny]] and [[Hegemony (A Star's View of Caroline)|Hegemony]], who tried to use her to become "certain" in time.<ref name="Star's View of Caroline explanation" /> ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Star's View of Caroline (short story)|A Star's View of Caroline]]'')
 
During the invasion, humans dumped a lot of their dead into the [[River Thames]], leaving the corpses as food for the blackwater parasites. Two years after the end of the invasion, the river was still filled with chemical sludge ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'') and sticky red [[algae]] that the Invaders fed to their aquatic pets. Even decades later, the Thames was still completely abandoned.<ref name="Star's View of Caroline explanation" /> ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Star's View of Caroline (short story)|A Star's View of Caroline]]'')
 
Survival became increasingly difficult due to wild animals roaming the streets. [[Simon (When the Wolves Came)|Simon]] encountered a pack of [[wolf|wolves]] on the streets when scavenging for food, but survived by finding the TARDIS and using its [[telepathic circuits]] to seek help from the [[Twelfth Doctor]] and [[Clara Oswald|Clara]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[When the Wolves Came (short story)|When the Wolves Came]]'')
 
With the Daleks gone, humans on Earth fought amongst themselves in the [[Intercity Wars]] which "sparked and spat" across the planet for decades until volunteer members of Earth's nearest [[colony|colonies]] returned to bring it back into order by force. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Janus Conjunction (novel)|The Janus Conjuction]]'')
 
In [[2199]], a Dalek research facility, [[DA-17]], remained intact. The [[Eighth Doctor]] and Susan were trapped along with {{Delgado}} and new Daleks were produced by the hatchery. They attempted to conquer [[England]] but were destroyed when DA-17 exploded. By this point, there were still [[Slyther]]s in the [[forest]]s around [[London]] where they would attack anyone who wandered into their paths. Dedicated knights hunted and killed them. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Legacy of the Daleks (novel)|Legacy of the Daleks]]'')
 
Despite these losses, the invasion was usually viewed as a cutoff point between early humanity that was bound to Earth and their first steps onto the intergalactic scene; humans began to embark on frequent great exoduses to the stars after this point and the [[Miracle (species)|Miracles]] were born during that time. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Previously On... The Multiverse (short story)}})
 
==== Aftermath for the Daleks ====
[[File:Dalek saucer wreck.jpg|thumb|Following the liberation of Earth, the Daleks faced resistance from other subjugated species. ([[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]]'')]]
The events of this invasion were recounted in the book, ''[[The Rise and Fall of Earth's Empire]]'', by [[Layten Halkovich]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Secret Lives of Monsters (short story)|The Secret Lives of Monsters]]'') In the [[post-Time War universe]], this incident was covered as a part of known Dalek history in ''[[The Dalek Conquests]]'', a documentary which was itself produced following the [[Van Statten Incident]] on [[Earth]] in [[2012]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Dalek Conquests (audio story)|The Dalek Conquests]]'')
 
News of the Daleks' repulsion from Earth quickly spread across the [[Dalek Empire]], leading other subjugated races to rise up against 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]]'') Following the liberation of Earth, the Daleks began to use Robomen less after their heavy use on the occupied planet failed to prevent the human victory. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dalek Problem (novel)|The Dalek Problem]]'')
 
According to the ''[[Dalek Survival Guide]]'', it was following the failure of the 2150s Dalek invasion of Earth that the Daleks began using [[Ogron]]s as [[shock troops]]; the guide suggested that the Ogrons' natural [[stupidity]] made them easier to control than humans and so eliminated the need for the time-consuming [[robotisation]] process. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Survival Guide (novel)|Dalek Survival Guide]]'') Indeed, the Ogrons were serving the Daleks by the time of [[Operation Divide and Conquer]] in [[2540]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'') and in their [[time travel]]-based [[Time Paradox Incident|occupation]] of 22nd century Earth. ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Daleks (TV story)|Day of the Daleks]]'') The use of Ogrons in fact originated in the later [[Last Great Time War]], the [[Overseer (Planet of the Ogrons)|Overseer]] having inserted them into [[pre-Time War universe|pre-Time War]] Dalek history. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Planet of the Ogrons (audio story)|Planet of the Ogrons]]'')
 
The Daleks eventually identified the First Doctor and his [[companion]]s and discovered their key role in "delay[ing]" the conquest of Earth. A squad of Daleks embarked from Skaro in a [[Dalek time machine (The Chase)|time machine]] on a [[Mechonoid Incident|mission]] to [[Assassination|assassinate]] them. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Chase (TV story)|The Chase]]'') The [[Time Lord]]s indicated that the deployment of the time machine occurred relatively shortly following the liberation of Earth, within the 22nd century. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (reference book)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'')
 
Forced by [[Davros]] to reveal to him the Daleks' future defeats during the [[Genesis Incident]], the [[Fourth Doctor]] recounted an invasion of Earth, possibly an inaccurate version of these events. He stated that the invasion occurred in the year [[2000]] and that the magnetic properties of Earth's core itself helped to defeat the Daleks, as well as the determination of human resistance fighters. ([[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks]]'')
 
==== Reprise ====
{{main|Second 22nd century Dalek invasion}}
In the late [[2180s]], the [[Dalek Time Controller]] organised a second invasion of the planet. The Daleks were helped by the [[Time Lord]] known as [[the Monk]], who brought on Earth a plague that killed and affected a number of people. The Monk was promised to be allowed to plunder the art treasures of the planet in return for his technical expertise. The Monk made three major contributions to the invasion; firstly, he repaired the Dalek Time Controller when it was blasted back through the [[Time Vortex]], and was in a state of decay beyond the Daleks ability to repair. Secondly, the Monk was personally responsible for unleashing a virus into Earth's atmosphere which was beyond the humans' ability to stop it, killing millions and weakening the planet ready for the upcoming invasion. Lastly, the Monk provided the resistance with the technical ability to hack into Dalek transmissions during a final attempt to end the invasion, but he betrayed them to the Daleks.
 
The master plan was to pilot the Earth with a [[time warp engine]], which would have become a plague planet teeming with the [[Amethyst Viral Containment Station|Amethyst]] [[virus]]es, through time and space, infecting entire planets. The invasion was stopped by the [[Eighth Doctor]], thanks to the sacrifice of [[Lucie Miller]] and [[Alex Campbell]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Lucie Miller (audio story)|Lucie Miller]]'' / ''[[To the Death (audio story)|To the Death]]'')
 
In the aftermath of the invasions, many humans remained paranoid about another alien incursion and took to carrying weapons on their person. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[All Hands on Deck (audio story)|All Hands on Deck]]'')
 
Following the second invasion, Susan made her home in a block of flats which had once been [[Coal Hill School]]. Despite the Doctor's efforts to distract her, Susan found that she had been sent [[Hypercube]] messages from the [[Time Lord]]s, who were engaged in a time war against the Daleks. Citing her participation in the resistance against the two Dalek invasions on Earth as well as reasoning that the Daleks would ultimately return should the Time Lords fall, Susan decided to accept their request and join the war despite the Doctor's protest, summoning a [[Battle TARDIS (All Hands on Deck)|TARDIS]] to collect her. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[All Hands on Deck (audio story)|All Hands on Deck]]'')
 
By another account Susan was still on Earth fifty years after the first invasion, encountering the [[Thirteenth Doctor]] as she was on her way to a pyre of Dalek technology. The Doctor showed her the remains of a dead Dalek, which Susan could take out her anger on. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Fellow Traveller (short story)|Fellow Traveller]]'')
 
==== Further legacy ====
By the beginning of the [[23rd century]], the invasion remained a source of much anxiety on Earth as governments tried to rebuild. With government approval, a powerful cartel of Earth conglomerates offered to rebuild and invest in the [[Terran Security Forces]] which grew into a huge [[army]] within five years. This army was used to combat the [[Selachian]]s when their expanding power on the galactic market threatened that of Earth, and by [[2204]], they had all but destroyed the last outposts of the [[Selachian Empire]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Final Sanction (novel)|The Final Sanction]]'')
 
By one account, mankind had regained their former strength within fifty years of the liberation of Earth. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The History of the Daleks (short story)|The History of the Daleks]]'')
 
By [[2233]] corporations dominated Earth, whilst fear of a new invasion drove new scientific research, such as that conducted by [[Drake Interplanetary]]. The ruins of [[St Paul's Cathedral]] had been pulled down by this time which [[Magnus Drake]] disagreed with, believing it should have stood as a monument to how close humanity had come to destruction. In [[April]], {{Roberts|c}} manipulated scientist [[Lila Kreeg]] to release him from the [[Time Vortex]]. With her aid he took over Drake Interplentary, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Faustian (audio story)|Faustian]]'') and turned it into the most powerful company on Earth. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Prey (audio story)|Prey]]'')
 
In 2233, the Daleks [[2223 Dalek invasion of Earth|returned to Earth]]. A single saucer landed in London under the command of a [[Dalek Supreme (Vengeance)|Dalek Supreme]], accompanied by the [[Dalek Time Controller|Dalek Litigator]] who was using the invasion to hunt down {{Roberts}}. The Master massacred the Daleks, such that the Litigator contacted the [[Parliament of the Daleks|Dalek Parliament]] who ordered the invasion be abandoned. The Master killed the Supreme and forced the Litigator to flee by [[temporal shift]], taking the saucer for himself and planning to use it to devastate Earth as he departed. He was stopped by Lila and [[Vienna Salvatori]] who sent the saucer, and the remnants of its Dalek crew, into the Time Vortex with him onboard. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Vengeance (audio story)|Vengeance]]'')
 
By [[2323]], [[Dalek Studies]] was a field of academia. During that year, the 22nd century invasion was displayed in the [[Dalek Dome]] as one of the greatest moments in Dalek history. The [[Fourteenth Doctor]] was horrified to see the Dalek Dome turn the suffering the Daleks spread as an inspiration for attractions. Soon, events boiled out of control into the [[2323 Dalek invasion of Earth]], after which the Doctor left the fate of the Dalek Dome in the hands of [[Georgette Gold]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Liberation of the Daleks (comic story)|Liberation of the Daleks]]'')
 
[[Vicki Pallister]] learned about the invasion from the [[history]] [[book]]s in her native time period of the [[25th century]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Space Museum (TV story)|The Space Museum]]'', ''[[The Chase (TV story)|The Chase]]'')
 
In [[2540]], the Daleks waged [[Second Dalek War|another war]] against humanity and made a push for Earth's [[solar system]] [[2545|five years later]]. Though the Daleks briefly [[Battle of Mars|seized]] [[Mars]], only a few biogenic weapons managed to get as far as Earth. Ultimately, the Daleks failed to launch a new Earth invasion before they pushed back to their own space. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Beige Planet Mars (novel)|Beige Planet Mars]]'')
 
By [[Steven Taylor]]'s native time period, [[New York City]] had yet to be rebuilt in its entirety. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Salvation (novel)|Salvation]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Return of the Rocket Men (audio story)|Return of the Rocket Men]]'')
 
In the [[year]] [[4000]], [[Gordon Lowery]] was aware that the Daleks had invaded Earth "a couple of times, and were beaten back" before leaving [[the galaxy]] [[31st century|a thousand years or more earlier]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Mission to the Unknown (novelisation)|Mission to the Unknown]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Mission to the Unknown (TV story)|Mission to the Unknown]]'') That year, when the [[Dalek Empire]] sought to [[Time Destructor Incident|strike]] from [[Kembel]] and destroy the [[Solar System]], the First Doctor urged [[Bret Vyon]] to contact Earth and tell them to look into the invasion of 2157, hopeful that history would show them the way to defeat the Daleks again. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)|The Daleks' Master Plan]]'')
 
After their memory of the Doctor was [[Asylum Incident|wiped]] from the [[Pathweb]] for a time, the Daleks forgot, amongst other incidents, who had liberated Earth in the 22nd century. ([[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]]'')
 
Sometime after [[2022]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Power of the Doctor (TV story)}}) [[Ian Chesterton]] told the [[companion support group]] of his adventure with the world of giant ants. After Ian's passing, the group reminsced about Ian and his tales, including one involving the [[22nd century]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Loose Ends 5: Ian Memoriam (short story)}})
 
== Other realities ==
In a divergent timeline, a Dalek in [[Kansas]] in [[2158]], severely damaged by resistance forces, was stung by a parasitic [[wasp]] and implanted with eggs. The Daleks adjusted with a minor [[gene]]tic change to counteract the eggs. Thousands of years later the genetic change resulted in the [[Mutant Phase]], transforming the Daleks into nearly indestructible interstellar insects. The timeline was destroyed when the [[Fifth Doctor]] stopped the [[Dalek Emperor (The Evil of the Daleks)|Dalek Emperor]] from implementing an ineffective pesticide. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Mutant Phase (audio story)|The Mutant Phase]]'')
 
In a timeline created in which {{Pratt}} used a [[conceptual bomb]] to prevent the Doctor from leaving [[Gallifrey]], the Dalek occupation was never repelled. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Light at the End (audio story)|The Light at the End]]'')
 
== Behind the scenes ==
* Published in 1991, ''[[The Terrestrial Index]]'' stated that the plan for the 22nd century Dalek invasion started in [[2160s|2160]] with the [[Dalek Plague]] before the Daleks conquered Earth in [[2164]], with the planet ultimately being liberated in 2167. This conflict is identified as the First Dalek War, the first of a series of human-focused [[Dalek Wars]], followed by the [[Third Dalek War#Behind the scenes|Second Dalek War]], the [[Second Dalek War#Behind the scenes|Third Dalek War]], and the [[Time Destructor Incident|Fourth Dalek War]].
* ''[[Masters of Earth (audio story)|Masters of Earth]]'' dates the invasion between the years [[2154]] and 2164 (with the initial meteor bombardment occurring circa [[2152]]) based on the calendar the Doctor and Ian find in ''The Dalek Invasion of Earth''. Additionally, [[Ben Jackson|Ben]] remembers the Doctor mentioning the invasion of 2164 in the audio story ''[[The Forbidden Time (audio story)|The Forbidden Time]]''. This is at odds with the dating in ''[[Lucifer Rising (novel)|Lucifer Rising]]'' of the invasion in the ten years between 2157 and 2167, and with the title of the [[Peter Cushing]] version of the story, ''[[Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (theatrical film)|Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.]]'', which evidently posited that the invasion took place in the year [[2150]].
* ''[[The Discontinuity Guide]]'' also claimed this was "mankind's first major encounter with the Daleks", following the earlier [[Vulcan Incident]], took place in 2164. Following their defeat, the Daleks' completed their [[time travel]] program and [[Time Paradox Incident|successfully invaded Earth]] in the late [[21st century]], only for their work to be undone by the [[Third Doctor]].<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/dalekhistory1.shtml BBC.co.uk 'Discontinuity Guide' article on '''Dalek History: Part One''' in the original series of ''Doctor Who'']</ref> It is further noted that, since the [[Fourth Doctor]] inadvertently [[Genesis Incident|changed Dalek history]] so that [[Davros]] survived, this event would have occurred vastly differently if it happened at all in the new [[timeline]].<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/dalekhistory1.shtml BBC.co.uk 'Discontinuity Guide' article on '''Dalek History: Part Two''' in the original series of ''Doctor Who'']</ref> Other sources disagree on whether the Fourth Doctor's actions altered time.
* The third edition of ''[[AHistory]]'' speculates that the events of ''[[Legacy of the Daleks (novel)|Legacy of the Daleks]]'' became an [[alternate timeline]] when {{Garden}} and the [[Dalek Time Controller]] rewrote history to enable a second Dalek invasion in the 2180s, as seen in ''[[Lucie Miller (audio story)|Lucie Miller]]'' and ''[[To the Death (audio story)|To the Death]]'', but admits that this doesn't explain how Susan can have a child with David, or how [[the Master]] ended up on [[Tersurus]] in {{Pratt|n=his decayed form}}.
* ''[[The Dalek Handbook]]'' suggests that, if the Doctor was truthful in saying that he set back Dalek history a thousand years, then Earth would not have been invaded until [[32nd century|3157]] in the new timeline.
 
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The 2150s Dalek invasion of Earth, sometimes known as the First Dalek War (PROSE: Prelude Deceit [+]Loading...["Prelude Deceit (short story)"]) or the Seventeen Years Invasion, (PROSE: Previously On... The Multiverse [+]Loading...["Previously On... The Multiverse (short story)"]) was a conflict between humanity and the Daleks, consisting of Dalek attacks on human colonies followed by a decade-long occupation of Earth in the 2150s and 60s. (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth [+]Loading...["The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)"], etc.) To the Daleks, the invasion was a means for Project Degravitate. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Dalek Invasion of Earth [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Dalek Invasion of Earth (novelisation)"], AUDIO: The Dalek Conquests [+]Loading...["The Dalek Conquests (audio story)"])

Whilst being aware of an reconnaissance scout mission 1,300 years earlier, the Time Lords regarded this century attack as the "first attempt" and the "initial invasion" of Earth from the Daleks' perspective. (PROSE: Dalek Combat Training Manual)

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Accounts differed on the dating of the invasion. During the adventure which led to the Doctor and his companions putting an end to the invasion, the First Doctor and Ian Chesterton found a calendar for the year 2164 in an abandoned building. (TV: "World's End" [+]Part of The Dalek Invasion of Earth, Loading...{"n":"World's End","namedep":"World's End (1)","1":"The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)"}) Some accounts suggested that the TARDIS had indeed landed in that year, (AUDIO: Masters of Earth [+]Loading...["Masters of Earth (audio story)"]) but upon entering the abandoned room, the Doctor had remarked on the musty smell and speculated that no one had been there for "years", concludng that the calendar could only establish the current century with any certainty. (TV: "World's End" [+]Part of The Dalek Invasion of Earth, Loading...{"n":"World's End","namedep":"World's End (1)","1":"The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)"})

Indeed, some accounts suggested that the Daleks landed on Earth in 2164, thereafter beginning their years-long occupation. (PROSE: The History of the Daleks [+]Loading...["The History of the Daleks (short story)"], Invasion Earth: 2164 [+]Loading...["Invasion Earth: 2164 (short story)"], AUDIO: Whatever Happened to Susan Foreman? [+]Loading...["Whatever Happened to Susan Foreman? (audio story)"]) A wealth of accounts, however, tended to hold that the invasion had been ongoing for some years by 2164, whenever it had ended; and in fact, that it started in the 2150s.

One account dated the Dalek invasion to "2150 AD". (TV: Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. [+]Loading...["Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (theatrical film)"]) A close retelling of this account suggested that the entire invasion had lasted less than a single year, as the Doctor had been spurred to travel to 2150 Earth by records he had found in 3000 that acknowledged the Daleks' invasion of Earth in the year 2150, then ended up foiling the Daleks on 14 April 2150 precisely. (COMIC: Daleks, invasión a la Tierra año 2150 [+]Loading...["Daleks, invasión a la Tierra año 2150 (comic story)"]) However, these two accounts depicted a mustache-sporting Doctor as the one who defeated the Daleks, (TV: Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. [+]Loading...["Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (theatrical film)"], COMIC: Daleks, invasión a la Tierra año 2150 [+]Loading...["Daleks, invasión a la Tierra año 2150 (comic story)"]) instead of the conventional clean-shaven First Doctor of other tellings, (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth [+]Loading...["The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)"]) and indeed, that version of events was regarded as a distinct "version of history" by the Dalek Survival Guide relative to the one which featured the First Doctor; the Daleks' attempted do-over of the invasion in the alternate timeline foiled by the Third Doctor was recorded as yet a third such "version of history". (PROSE: Dalek Survival Guide [+]Loading...["Dalek Survival Guide (novel)"])

At any rate, one account showed the Daleks as being already in the process of conquering the solar system by 2156. (GAME: The Legions of Death [+]Loading...["The Legions of Death (game)"])

In contrast, several linked accounts claimed that the Daleks' invasion of the solar system, the spreading of a plague on Earth, and the eventual ground invasion all occurred over the course of the year 2157. (PROSE: Lucifer Rising [+]Loading...["Lucifer Rising (novel)"], GodEngine [+]Loading...["GodEngine (novel)"])

According to a handful of dissenting accounts, the Dalek invasion took place in the 21st century, (TV: Genesis of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)"], PROSE: Doctor Who and the Crusaders [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Crusaders (novelisation)"], The Evil of the Daleks [+]Loading...["The Evil of the Daleks (novelisation)"]) with the First Doctor remembering leaving Susan Foreman in "the 21st century" just after the event, (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Crusaders [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Crusaders (novelisation)"]) and the Fourth Doctor dating it to the year 2000 when summarising future Dalek defeats to Davros. (TV: Genesis of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)"])

History[[edit] | [edit source]]

Foreseeing[[edit] | [edit source]]

In 1903, after receiving a wealth of information from the future, Grigori Rasputin foresaw, among other things, the First Doctor, Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright and Susan Foreman battling "strange beings" who had invaded Earth in the future. (AUDIO: The Wanderer)

Origins[[edit] | [edit source]]

Main article: 2060s Dalek invasion of Earth

According to one account, the early Daleks knew of the existence of other planets even though a lack of space travel confined them to Skaro. When Kest, a Krattorian slave trader, landed on the planet, the Daleks were able to acquire from him the plans to create their own spacecrafts. (COMIC: Power Play) Going with a flying saucer design, the Daleks invaded Alvega, (COMIC: The Amaryll Challenge) Solturis, (COMIC: The Penta Ray Factor) and Phryne, (COMIC: The Archives of Phryne) with plans for other planets such as Oric. (COMIC: Eve of War) According to another account, the Daleks first learned about life existing on other worlds due to the First Doctor's visit to Skaro. (AUDIO: The Lights of Skaro)

The existence of Earth, however, managed to elude the Daleks for a time, the planet long being their blind spot. (COMIC: Legacy of Yesteryear, The Road to Conflict) Nevertheless, they did know of the existence of humans and tensions began to rise. In one instance, a Dalek created with human-like qualities seized control from the Golden Emperor and began to teach the Daleks that beauty was a strength. To solve the problem, the Emperor likened the strength of beauty to flowers, which withered and died. Beauty therefore did not last which meant it could not be a source of strength and was for human beings. The Emperor had the rebel Dalek destroyed and issued a new Dalek order, stating that humans were to be destroyed. (COMIC: Shadow of Humanity) The Daleks also faced what they called the human spirit in the humanoid species from the planet Jevo. Although they were destroyed, the Emperor wondered how the Daleks would fare against such a resilient spirit in "the all-out war on all human beings... everywhere." (COMIC: The Emissaries of Jevo)

Long following the mid-22th century invasion from the Daleks' perspective, they would attack Earth on several occasions earlier in its history, most noticeably in the Planetary Relocation Incident. However, the Time Lords were aware that Big Bang Two caused subtle changes in Earth's timeline which would remove the memory of incidents such as this invasion; as such, humanity at large would still be ignorant of the Daleks. (PROSE: Dalek Combat Training Manual) Indeed, most humans were left unable to remember that the aliens had invaded their world, though one theorist, whose memories of the Daleks from the Battle of Canary Wharf were vague despite his clear memories of the "steel soldiers" present on that day, found that their friends, briefly, had slight recognition on their faces whenever he described the battle, only for their friends to lose that recognition in seconds. (PROSE: The Mandela Effect, Or Monsters on the Streets of London)

Humanity remained unaware the Daleks were plotting against them. By the late 21st century, humans had experienced the Break-out and possessed a number of colonies beyond Earth. (PROSE: Prelude Deceit) Years prior to the invasion, (PROSE: The Power of the Daleks) the human colonists on Vulcan were threatened by a smaller-scale Dalek attack. (TV: The Power of the Daleks) However, by 2136, both Vulcan and the Daleks were considered little more than legends. (PROSE: The Murder Game)

An Earth-made ship, the Starmaker, was pounded by a meteor storm and forced to land on Skaro. The Daleks destroyed the ship. The only survivors were Captain Flint Fleet and two children, siblings Tom and Jennie, who escaped in a Dalek saucer to warn Earth of the danger posed by the Daleks. Among the wreckage of the Starmaker, the Daleks found the remains of a piece of paper which revealed to them the existence and location of Earth. The Emperor declared that the Daleks would search for Earth and conquer it. (COMIC: The Road to Conflict) When the Daleks first ventured into the Sol System, their fleet was initially repelled by Earth forces led by Commander Trent with the help of the Elders. The Emperor, the Black Dalek and the Red Dalek escaped and resolved to return. (COMIC: Return of the Elders)

Confronting a simulacrum of the Golden Emperor, the Fourteenth Doctor told him that he was based on children's books from the 21st century, "before the invasion", a time when most Earth people believed the Daleks to be a myth like Bigfoot. (COMIC: Liberation of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Liberation of the Daleks (comic story)"])

Planning[[edit] | [edit source]]

According to one account, a researcher learnt from Susan Foreman that the invasion was waged by Daleks who had travelled back from the "far distant future" using a TARDIS of their own. Having been defeated on Skaro by the Thals led by Ian Chesterton, their intent was to wreak revenge on Ian's people or, better still, prevent Ian himself from being born by going into the past. However, they were unable to go any further back than 2164 due to a leak in their fluid link. (AUDIO: Whatever Happened to Susan Foreman?)

According to another account, the Daleks participating in the invasion on the ground knew nothing of time travel, although the technology was beginning to be studied on Skaro at the time. The Dalek Emperor personally formulated the plan for the invasion of Earth and its subsequent transformation into a planet-sized spaceship, choosing Bedfordshire as the area for the primary mining operations meant to drill into the Earth's core and replace it with an interstellar engine. Once the plan was complete, he gave the order to begin the invasion of Earth. (AUDIO: The Mutant Phase)

Attacks on Earth colonies[[edit] | [edit source]]

By one account, the invasion began in 2157 with mysterious attacks on Sifranos in the Arcturus sector (a moon of Sifranos was destroyed, one billion settlers being massacred), Azure, Qartopholos, (PROSE: Lucifer Rising) and Mars. (TV: Genesis of the Daleks) These were followed by the plague attacks directly on Earth while the Dalek Fleet massed near Epsilon Eridani. With the colonies destroyed, Earth could expect no assistance from them when the Daleks invaded Earth in 2158. (PROSE: Lucifer Rising) The Daleks operated a blockade of the Solar system to prevent Earth's colonies from attempting to liberate their homeworld. The colonies experienced many problems from the occupation, as they were dependent, to a degree, on communication with and support from Earth. (PROSE: GodEngine, Lucifer Rising) Later in 2157, (PROSE: GodEngine) the Daleks attempted to invade Mars. However, the inhabitants developed a genetically-engineered virus that attacked their spacecrafts' wiring, meaning that this invasion attempt had failed. (TV: Genesis of the Daleks, PROSE: GodEngine)

Another account suggested that as part of their invasion plan of the solar system, the Daleks reached Mars in 2156. They attempted to conquer the Soviet colony of Nova Leningrad, but found the base defences too hard to take down and decided to get in through guile by highjacking a supply ship, which went back and forth every six months to pick up mineral ores from a penal planetoid in the asteroid belt while leaving supplies to the prisoner exiled to the planetoid, former revolutionary Mikhyl Nevenskoi. Consequently, the Daleks attacked the planetoid in order to prepare an ambush for the supply ship. However, they were defeated by Nevenskoi with the help fo the Time Lady Leora, who knew that the Mars colony had to survive into a later era of the invasion to send assistance to Earth-based resistance groups for established history to proceed. She subsequently took Mikhyl on as a companion to save him from death by starvation, knowing that Nova Leningrad would cease to send supply ships to the planetoid due to the strain of the Dalek siege. (GAME: The Legions of Death [+]Loading...["The Legions of Death (game)"])

Plague on Earth and arrival of the Daleks[[edit] | [edit source]]

The beginning of the invasion of Earth proper was variously dated to 2150, (TV: Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. [+]Loading...["Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (theatrical film)"]) 2157 (PROSE: Lucifer Rising [+]Loading...["Lucifer Rising (novel)"], Invasion Earth: 2164 [+]Loading...["Invasion Earth: 2164 (short story)"]) or 2162. (AUDIO: Whatever Happened to Susan Foreman? [+]Loading...["Whatever Happened to Susan Foreman? (audio story)"]) One showed the invasion of the solar system to have already been underway by 2156 without elaboration. (GAME: The Legions of Death [+]Loading...["The Legions of Death (game)"])

A small percent of Earth's population survived the meteorites and plague, leaving survivors for the Daleks to enslave or kill once they landed on Earth (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth)

The invasion began when Earth was bombarded with meteorites. At first this was thought the result of a cosmic storm, but shortly after things had returned to normal, people started dying of a new plague sent by the Daleks via the meteorites. The majority of the population of Africa, Asia and South America died before humans could find a cure. (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth [+]Loading...["The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)"])

By one account, some humans were immune to the plague, because the Seventh Doctor had given to Piper O'Rourke a counter-virus that conferred immunity to make sure that there would be humans left to help his first incarnation defeat the invasion. (PROSE: Lucifer Rising [+]Loading...["Lucifer Rising (novel)"]) With the Earth now heavily weakened, the Daleks arrived to complete their conquest, with humanity unable to respond with any power as Dalek flying saucers filled the skies. (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 Black Fleet took part in the invasion. (PROSE: GodEngine [+]Loading...["GodEngine (novel)"])

The Terran Security Forces were easily defeated by the Daleks, (PROSE: The Final Sanction) who arrived in their flying saucers to reveal the Earth was outgunned. Quickly, the Daleks moved to wipe out the Earth's politicians, exterminating many in Parliament Square in London. After the Daleks demanded the planet surrender, some politician locked themselves away in the Houses of Parliament in an attempt to remain safe, only to be burned alive when the Daleks lit the buildings ablaze. (PROSE: Alien Bodies) The Houses of Parliament were left abandoned. (AUDIO: After the Daleks)

Iris Wildthyme visited Putney Common during the invasion. When a saucer landed on the Common, Iris and her friends were among the first to throw homemade bombs at it. (PROSE: From Wildthyme with Love)

According to one account, the invaders were flying bronze Daleks. Six months after the initial incident, in 2164, the Daleks landed saucers on Earth. The Black Dalek led from the Command Saucer. One of these saucers attacked London. The British government put all their best defences into battle against the Daleks, sending the Air Force's helicopters and fighters to attack the Dalek ship. Tanks fought across the streets, and the Navy fought with gunboats. The humans were persistent, destroying many Daleks, but in a matter of days the Daleks subjugated the humans and converted the most intelligent into Robomen. Later, the Doctor's involvement had led to the Daleks retreating. (PROSE: Invasion Earth: 2164 [+]Loading...["Invasion Earth: 2164 (short story)"])

The Daleks occupy London (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth)

At some point, New York City was completely destroyed. London, on the other hand, though one of the locations where the Daleks landed, was merely occupied and remained relatively intact (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth) despite losing most of its population. (PROSE: Alien Bodies) Additionally, the city suffered some of the worst attacks since the Blitz and the 1944 V1 and V2 attacks by the Nazis during World War II, with the Daleks reducing many areas to gravel. (PROSE: Illegal Alien) Some areas of the city became infested with wolves, with a "danger zone" being identified wherein it was unsafe to live. (PROSE: When the Wolves Came) St Paul's Cathedral survived the invasion as well as the first four world wars. (AUDIO: Frostfire) Paris was invaded by the Daleks on 8th April 2164, with historical monuments destroyed including Notre Dame Cathedral and the Louvre. (AUDIO: Watchers)

Occupation[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Daleks used propaganda posters to encourage human populations to submit to their rule. (GRAPHIC: French Dalek [+]Loading...["French Dalek (illustration)"])

With Earth conquered, the majority of the Daleks departed, leaving a comparatively small Dalek Earthforce behind. Assisted by the Robomen, (PROSE: The Whoniverse) the Daleks held the Earth for about ten years. During the occupation period, small groups of human resistance fighters continued to exist. (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth) A Red Dalek had authority over the Silver Dalek drones in Trafalgar Square and personally led patrols. An older Susan Foreman once arrived in the occupation while travelling in the Doctor's TARDIS. She escaped but was followed through time by a Blue Chrono-Dalek deployed after her by the Red Dalek. (TV: Susan and the Daleks)

Posters were put up across the world, preaching obeisance to the Daleks, in native languages of the human populations, such as French. (GRAPHIC: French Dalek [+]Loading...["French Dalek (illustration)"])

In occupied London, the Daleks raided the Ministry of Defence vaults and scanned their records for the Daleks as a matter of precaution, considering the possibility that the humans had developed stealth weapons to be used against them. Though they found no such weapons, they became aware of two human contacts with the future Daleks, the Styles business and the Hand of Omega, which would destroy Skaro after it was acquired by Davros. The Daleks, who had believed that Davros was dead, were concerned by this revelation. (PROSE: War of the Daleks)

In Dorset, the Tilly Whim Tunnels were used by the resistance to evade the Daleks until, three years into the occupation, the Daleks wiped out all Dorset life with an unknown chemical weapon. (AUDIO: The Curator's Egg)

The Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown landed in 2163. The Daleks were unfamiliar with the Doctor, thinking he was a human. The Doctor was interrogated by a Black Dalek. He foiled the Daleks' plan to unleash a Varga plant virus. The Doctor and Peri also defeated the Roboman Elite and erased any record of his involvement afterwards but the invasion continued to ensure the First Doctor finally put an end to it. (AUDIO: Masters of Earth)

Liberation[[edit] | [edit source]]

As they had always planned to, (PROSE: The Whoniverse) the Daleks commenced a mining operation in Bedfordshire in order to reach the Earth's magnetic core, replace it with a propulsion system, and turn the whole planet into a massive spacecraft to conquer the galaxy. (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth)

In 2167, (AUDIO: The Mutant Phase) the First Doctor and his companions arrived in occupied London. Shortly afterward, the Daleks announced that they would destroy London. The leader of the rebels of London, Dortmun, had been developing explosives and initiated an attack on the Daleks' saucer at Helipad Chelsea. Although the attack liberated several prisoners of the Daleks, the bombs did not work effectively against the Daleks, leading to several casualties. Ian Chesterton, who had accompanied the freedom fighters, remained on the saucer as it travelled to Bedfordshire.

Following the saucer attack, the Dalek Supreme Command issued an order for the destruction of what remained of London using firebombs. One of these firebombs was placed near one of the resistance base entrances, which the Doctor, Susan and David Campbell were hiding beside. David spotted the bomb soon after, and was able to disable it by using acid from Dortmun's bombs to burn through the casing and remove the internal mechanism of the firebomb. Some of the resistance fighters, including the Doctor, Susan, and David, from London to the site of the Daleks' mining operation at Bedfordshire. Barbara Wright and Jenny also, independently, made their way towards Bedfordshire, but were captured.

The First Doctor stands in defiance of the Daleks (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth)

They all, however, assisted in the final destruction of the centre of Dalek operations on Earth, with Barbara taking control of Dalek communications to order the Robomen to turn on their masters. Robomen and slaves alike rebelled against the Daleks, who were left immobilised in their tracks after the Doctor overloaded their systems, while the command saucer was destroyed by lava as the mining operation collapsed. (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth) Some did display the ability to move but without control, leaving these Invaders to scream and plead for help from within their shells until they crashed and died.[1] (PROSE: A Star's View of Caroline) Quickly, the surviving Daleks withdrew from the planet. Susan decided to remain in this time period with David. (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth)

In "version of history B, (PROSE: Dalek Survival Guide) it was "Dr. Who" who arrived to counter the Dalek occupation. (TV: Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.; COMIC: Daleks, invasión a la Tierra año 2150) Iris Wildthyme also once claimed she had ended the invasion with her companion Jeremy. (PROSE: The Scarlet Empress) According to one account, the First Doctor and Susan had also disarmed a bomb in London during their time fighting the invasion. The Twelfth Doctor and Clara Oswald wound up during the events of the invasion after they jumped into a portal created by a time fly at the hands of Ethel. They were chased by time flies and Daleks, equipped with bronze casings, alike but were able to explode them using the bomb. (COMIC: A Stitch in Time)

Legacy[[edit] | [edit source]]

Aftermath for humanity[[edit] | [edit source]]

The last survivor of the Dalek Earthforce before its demise (AUDIO: After the Daleks)

The remains of the Invaders littered the cities they had once occupied; with their flabby bodies left dead and falling to dust, their metal shells were left rusted and cracked, leaving the Invader's remains open for humanity to wreck in revenge.[1] (PROSE: A Star's View of Caroline) One Dalek survived the invasion and bargained with former collaborator Marcus Bray to deliver it to a Dalek flying saucer so it could escape, only for him to publicly execute it to win favour with the humans. Bray then led a witch hunt against Susan Foreman, only for her and her allies to trick him into revealing his working for the Daleks. Following Bray's death, Susan set the saucer to self-destruct. On a broad scale, it was estimated that the invasion had sent Earth's technological development, including the development of time travel and ganger technology, back 200 years. (AUDIO: After the Daleks)

The invasion killed about two-thirds of Earth's population. The Moonbase was cut off from the planet and the moon colonists were trapped on the satellite. About twenty years later the liberation, humans had grown xenophobic about aliens, rejecting Dalek technology in public burnings and regressing the level of the planet's technology by about two centuries. An Earth Council was in charge, handling the reconstruction. (AUDIO: An Earthly Child) Whilst many communities active throughout the Invader's occupation had survived using fear and despair to fuel their actions, those who started to rebuild the Earth after a decade of being under occupation found relics of their past society, including charred buildings, machines that were half broken, adverts for cereals, calendars, and human remains. [1] (PROSE: A Star's View of Caroline)

In 2169, Homunculette and Marie visited the ruins of the House of Commons to buy the Relic from the Black Man, who was selling remnants from the Toy Store. (PROSE: Alien Bodies)

P.J. Ring became a Revelator and later a saint after being exposed to the Source during the end of the invasion. Also present during this time was a woman going by the name "Caroline", who had previously been to the Invader's homeworld and been brought to this century by her "grandfather". She reflected that "one day" she "[would] get back" to him. She also encountered two temporal uncertainties, going by the names Homogeny and Hegemony, who tried to use her to become "certain" in time.[1] (PROSE: A Star's View of Caroline)

During the invasion, humans dumped a lot of their dead into the River Thames, leaving the corpses as food for the blackwater parasites. Two years after the end of the invasion, the river was still filled with chemical sludge (PROSE: Alien Bodies) and sticky red algae that the Invaders fed to their aquatic pets. Even decades later, the Thames was still completely abandoned.[1] (PROSE: A Star's View of Caroline)

Survival became increasingly difficult due to wild animals roaming the streets. Simon encountered a pack of wolves on the streets when scavenging for food, but survived by finding the TARDIS and using its telepathic circuits to seek help from the Twelfth Doctor and Clara. (PROSE: When the Wolves Came)

With the Daleks gone, humans on Earth fought amongst themselves in the Intercity Wars which "sparked and spat" across the planet for decades until volunteer members of Earth's nearest colonies returned to bring it back into order by force. (PROSE: The Janus Conjuction)

In 2199, a Dalek research facility, DA-17, remained intact. The Eighth Doctor and Susan were trapped along with the Master and new Daleks were produced by the hatchery. They attempted to conquer England but were destroyed when DA-17 exploded. By this point, there were still Slythers in the forests around London where they would attack anyone who wandered into their paths. Dedicated knights hunted and killed them. (PROSE: Legacy of the Daleks)

Despite these losses, the invasion was usually viewed as a cutoff point between early humanity that was bound to Earth and their first steps onto the intergalactic scene; humans began to embark on frequent great exoduses to the stars after this point and the Miracles were born during that time. (PROSE: Previously On... The Multiverse [+]Loading...["Previously On... The Multiverse (short story)"])

Aftermath for the Daleks[[edit] | [edit source]]

Following the liberation of Earth, the Daleks faced resistance from other subjugated species. (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe)

The events of this invasion were recounted in the book, The Rise and Fall of Earth's Empire, by Layten Halkovich. (PROSE: The Secret Lives of Monsters) In the post-Time War universe, this incident was covered as a part of known Dalek history in The Dalek Conquests, a documentary which was itself produced following the Van Statten Incident on Earth in 2012. (AUDIO: The Dalek Conquests)

News of the Daleks' repulsion from Earth quickly spread across the Dalek Empire, leading other subjugated races to rise up against the Daleks. (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe) Following the liberation of Earth, the Daleks began to use Robomen less after their heavy use on the occupied planet failed to prevent the human victory. (PROSE: The Dalek Problem)

According to the Dalek Survival Guide, it was following the failure of the 2150s Dalek invasion of Earth that the Daleks began using Ogrons as shock troops; the guide suggested that the Ogrons' natural stupidity made them easier to control than humans and so eliminated the need for the time-consuming robotisation process. (PROSE: Dalek Survival Guide) Indeed, the Ogrons were serving the Daleks by the time of Operation Divide and Conquer in 2540, (TV: Frontier in Space) and in their time travel-based occupation of 22nd century Earth. (TV: Day of the Daleks) The use of Ogrons in fact originated in the later Last Great Time War, the Overseer having inserted them into pre-Time War Dalek history. (AUDIO: Planet of the Ogrons)

The Daleks eventually identified the First Doctor and his companions and discovered their key role in "delay[ing]" the conquest of Earth. A squad of Daleks embarked from Skaro in a time machine on a mission to assassinate them. (TV: The Chase) The Time Lords indicated that the deployment of the time machine occurred relatively shortly following the liberation of Earth, within the 22nd century. (PROSE: Dalek Combat Training Manual)

Forced by Davros to reveal to him the Daleks' future defeats during the Genesis Incident, the Fourth Doctor recounted an invasion of Earth, possibly an inaccurate version of these events. He stated that the invasion occurred in the year 2000 and that the magnetic properties of Earth's core itself helped to defeat the Daleks, as well as the determination of human resistance fighters. (TV: Genesis of the Daleks)

Reprise[[edit] | [edit source]]

Main article: Second 22nd century Dalek invasion

In the late 2180s, the Dalek Time Controller organised a second invasion of the planet. The Daleks were helped by the Time Lord known as the Monk, who brought on Earth a plague that killed and affected a number of people. The Monk was promised to be allowed to plunder the art treasures of the planet in return for his technical expertise. The Monk made three major contributions to the invasion; firstly, he repaired the Dalek Time Controller when it was blasted back through the Time Vortex, and was in a state of decay beyond the Daleks ability to repair. Secondly, the Monk was personally responsible for unleashing a virus into Earth's atmosphere which was beyond the humans' ability to stop it, killing millions and weakening the planet ready for the upcoming invasion. Lastly, the Monk provided the resistance with the technical ability to hack into Dalek transmissions during a final attempt to end the invasion, but he betrayed them to the Daleks.

The master plan was to pilot the Earth with a time warp engine, which would have become a plague planet teeming with the Amethyst viruses, through time and space, infecting entire planets. The invasion was stopped by the Eighth Doctor, thanks to the sacrifice of Lucie Miller and Alex Campbell. (AUDIO: Lucie Miller / To the Death)

In the aftermath of the invasions, many humans remained paranoid about another alien incursion and took to carrying weapons on their person. (AUDIO: All Hands on Deck)

Following the second invasion, Susan made her home in a block of flats which had once been Coal Hill School. Despite the Doctor's efforts to distract her, Susan found that she had been sent Hypercube messages from the Time Lords, who were engaged in a time war against the Daleks. Citing her participation in the resistance against the two Dalek invasions on Earth as well as reasoning that the Daleks would ultimately return should the Time Lords fall, Susan decided to accept their request and join the war despite the Doctor's protest, summoning a TARDIS to collect her. (AUDIO: All Hands on Deck)

By another account Susan was still on Earth fifty years after the first invasion, encountering the Thirteenth Doctor as she was on her way to a pyre of Dalek technology. The Doctor showed her the remains of a dead Dalek, which Susan could take out her anger on. (PROSE: Fellow Traveller)

Further legacy[[edit] | [edit source]]

By the beginning of the 23rd century, the invasion remained a source of much anxiety on Earth as governments tried to rebuild. With government approval, a powerful cartel of Earth conglomerates offered to rebuild and invest in the Terran Security Forces which grew into a huge army within five years. This army was used to combat the Selachians when their expanding power on the galactic market threatened that of Earth, and by 2204, they had all but destroyed the last outposts of the Selachian Empire. (PROSE: The Final Sanction)

By one account, mankind had regained their former strength within fifty years of the liberation of Earth. (PROSE: The History of the Daleks)

By 2233 corporations dominated Earth, whilst fear of a new invasion drove new scientific research, such as that conducted by Drake Interplanetary. The ruins of St Paul's Cathedral had been pulled down by this time which Magnus Drake disagreed with, believing it should have stood as a monument to how close humanity had come to destruction. In April, The Bruce Master manipulated scientist Lila Kreeg to release him from the Time Vortex. With her aid he took over Drake Interplentary, (AUDIO: Faustian) and turned it into the most powerful company on Earth. (AUDIO: Prey)

In 2233, the Daleks returned to Earth. A single saucer landed in London under the command of a Dalek Supreme, accompanied by the Dalek Litigator who was using the invasion to hunt down the Bruce Master. The Master massacred the Daleks, such that the Litigator contacted the Dalek Parliament who ordered the invasion be abandoned. The Master killed the Supreme and forced the Litigator to flee by temporal shift, taking the saucer for himself and planning to use it to devastate Earth as he departed. He was stopped by Lila and Vienna Salvatori who sent the saucer, and the remnants of its Dalek crew, into the Time Vortex with him onboard. (AUDIO: Vengeance)

By 2323, Dalek Studies was a field of academia. During that year, the 22nd century invasion was displayed in the Dalek Dome as one of the greatest moments in Dalek history. The Fourteenth Doctor was horrified to see the Dalek Dome turn the suffering the Daleks spread as an inspiration for attractions. Soon, events boiled out of control into the 2323 Dalek invasion of Earth, after which the Doctor left the fate of the Dalek Dome in the hands of Georgette Gold. (COMIC: Liberation of the Daleks)

Vicki Pallister learned about the invasion from the history books in her native time period of the 25th century. (TV: The Space Museum, The Chase)

In 2540, the Daleks waged another war against humanity and made a push for Earth's solar system five years later. Though the Daleks briefly seized Mars, only a few biogenic weapons managed to get as far as Earth. Ultimately, the Daleks failed to launch a new Earth invasion before they pushed back to their own space. (PROSE: Beige Planet Mars)

By Steven Taylor's native time period, New York City had yet to be rebuilt in its entirety. (PROSE: Salvation; AUDIO: Return of the Rocket Men)

In the year 4000, Gordon Lowery was aware that the Daleks had invaded Earth "a couple of times, and were beaten back" before leaving the galaxy a thousand years or more earlier. (PROSE: Mission to the Unknown, TV: Mission to the Unknown) That year, when the Dalek Empire sought to strike from Kembel and destroy the Solar System, the First Doctor urged Bret Vyon to contact Earth and tell them to look into the invasion of 2157, hopeful that history would show them the way to defeat the Daleks again. (TV: The Daleks' Master Plan)

After their memory of the Doctor was wiped from the Pathweb for a time, the Daleks forgot, amongst other incidents, who had liberated Earth in the 22nd century. (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe)

Sometime after 2022, (TV: The Power of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Power of the Doctor (TV story)"]) Ian Chesterton told the companion support group of his adventure with the world of giant ants. After Ian's passing, the group reminsced about Ian and his tales, including one involving the 22nd century. (PROSE: Loose Ends 5: Ian Memoriam [+]Loading...["Loose Ends 5: Ian Memoriam (short story)"])

Other realities[[edit] | [edit source]]

In a divergent timeline, a Dalek in Kansas in 2158, severely damaged by resistance forces, was stung by a parasitic wasp and implanted with eggs. The Daleks adjusted with a minor genetic change to counteract the eggs. Thousands of years later the genetic change resulted in the Mutant Phase, transforming the Daleks into nearly indestructible interstellar insects. The timeline was destroyed when the Fifth Doctor stopped the Dalek Emperor from implementing an ineffective pesticide. (AUDIO: The Mutant Phase)

In a timeline created in which the Decayed Master used a conceptual bomb to prevent the Doctor from leaving Gallifrey, the Dalek occupation was never repelled. (AUDIO: The Light at the End)

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

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 A Star's View of Caroline is set in the aftermath of the The Dalek Invasion of Earth but does not have the copyright to directly address the concepts involved in the story. As such, the Daleks are called "the Invaders" to avoid copyright issues. Furthermore, "Caroline" is implied to actually be Susan Foreman, while Homogeny and Hegemony seem to be alternate versions of Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright.
  2. ↑ BBC.co.uk 'Discontinuity Guide' article on Dalek History: Part One in the original series of Doctor Who
  3. ↑ BBC.co.uk 'Discontinuity Guide' article on Dalek History: Part Two in the original series of Doctor Who
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