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|image = [[Image:New_Dalek_Empire.jpg|250px]]
|image             = New Dalek Empire.jpg
|Conflict name = Dalek Invasion of Earth (2009)
|part of          = Aftermath of the [[Last Great Time War]]
|date = [[June]] [[2009]]
|date              = [[2000s]]<ref name=eight>Though {{cs|The Stolen Earth (TV story)}} and {{cs|Journey's End (TV story)}} themselves do not give a date for the episodes or the surrounding era, [[TV]]: {{cs|The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)}}, [[TV]]: {{cs|The Waters of Mars (TV story)}}, [[PROSE]]: ''[[A Brief History of the Daleks (short story)|A Brief History of the Daleks]]'', and [[AUDIO]]: ''[[SOS (audio story)|SOS]]'' place this time as [[2008]], while [[PROSE]]: ''[[Beautiful Chaos (novel)|Beautiful Chaos]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Ghosts of the Northern Line (comic story)|Ghosts of the Northern Line]]'' and [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Secret Lives of Monsters (short story)|The Secret Lives of Monsters]]'' instead put it in [[2009]].</ref>
|location = [[Earth]], ''[[Crucible]]'', possibly other parts of the [[Medusa Cascade]]
|location          = [[Earth]]<br>''[[Crucible]]''
|result = Pyrrhic Human Victory:<br><ul><li>Destruction of the New Dalek Empire and Crucible but with many Humans dead</li><li>Closing of [[the Void]]</li></ul>
|result            = {{il|[[Human]] victory|Destruction of the [[New Dalek Empire]] and ''[[Crucible]]''|Closing of [[the Void]]|Death of [[Harriet Jones]]|[[Tenth Doctor]] undergoes and [[Tenth Doctor's siphoned regeneration|aborts]] [[regeneration]]|Birth of [[Meta-Crisis Doctor]]|[[Rose Tyler]] and Meta-Crisis Doctor return to [[Pete's World]] together|[[Mickey Smith]] returns to [[the Doctor's universe]]|[[Donna Noble]] is accidentally turned into a [[Human-Time Lord Meta-Crisis|human Time Lord]]|Donna's memories of the Doctor are erased to save her life}}
|combatants = <ul><li>[[Human]]s (mostly [[UNIT]] and [[Torchwood Three]])</li><li>[[New Dalek Empire]]</li></ul>
|side1            = [[Human]]s<br>[[The Doctor]]
|commanders = <ul><li>General [[Sanchez]], Cpt. [[Jack Harkness]], [[Harriet Jones]], [[Tenth Doctor|The Doctor]]</li><li>[[Supreme Dalek (New Dalek Empire)|Supreme Dalek]], [[Davros]]</li></ul>
|side2            = [[New Dalek Empire]]
|strength = <ul><li>At least several thousand Humans</li><li>200 [[Dalek Flying Saucer|Dalek Saucers]], at least several thousand [[Dalek]]s</li></ul>
|leader1          = [[Harriet Jones]]<br>[[Jack Harkness|Captain Jack]]<br>[[Tenth Doctor]]<br>[[Sarah Jane Smith]]
}}
|leader2          = [[Supreme Dalek (The Stolen Earth)|Supreme One]]<br>[[Davros]]<br>[[Dalek Caan]]
|strength1        = [[Torchwood Three]]<br>[[Bannerman Road gang]]<br>[[Torchwood (Pete's World)|Parallel Torchwood]]<br>[[Mr Copper Foundation]]<br>[[Children of Time]]
|strength2        = Billions of Daleks
|clip = Calling the Doctor - Doctor Who - BBC
|clip2 = The two Doctors become three! - Doctor Who - BBC
|clip3 = Close Encounter With a Dalek - Doctor Who - The Waters of Mars - BBC
}}{{dab page|Dalek invasion}}
The event known to the [[Time Lord]]s as the '''Planetary Relocation Incident''', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (reference book)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'') and referred to as the '''Stolen Earth scenario''' by [[Intersol]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Ghosts of the Northern Line (comic story)|Ghosts of the Northern Line]]'') was a [[Time war|temporal]] [[war]] fought between the [[New Dalek Empire]] and other races — mostly [[human]]s in the aftermath of the [[Last Great Time War]] inside the [[Medusa Cascade]] in a tiny [[temporal pocket|pocket of time]] that was put one second out of sync with the rest of [[the universe]] in the late [[2000s]].<ref name=eight/>


Nevertheless, the presence of the [[Time field|cracks in time]] led to the public invasions since 2006 being erased from Earth's history, ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Pandorica Opens (TV story)}}) with the Dalek invasion scrubbed out of existence. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Victory of the Daleks (TV story)}}) The [[Eleventh Doctor]] eventually [[Big Bang Two|closed]] the cracks, allowing for the restoration of things lost to them. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Big Bang (TV story)}}) Though various people still were unfamiliar with aliens, ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Woman Who Fell to Earth (TV story)}}) some individuals were able to [[history-proofing|subconsciously recognise]] them, despite not retaining direct memories. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Recruits (audio story)}})


The '''2009 Dalek invasion of Earth''' was a war fought between the [[New Dalek Empire]] and other races - mostly [[Human]]s - in the [[Medusa Cascade]]. It was fought in the Medusa Cascade in a pocket dimension that was put one second out of sync with the rest of the [[Universe]], in 2009.
== History ==
=== A day to come ===
Through the projections of [[the Matrix]], the [[Time War]]-era [[Time Lord]]s learnt of these events which they considered the Daleks' most diabolical plan yet. They were concerned that Davros was once again working with his creations, yet they were alarmed even more by how a single bronze Dalek, even if it had enhanced mental capacity, was able to break through a time lock. The Time Lords began to investigate the matter. Despite foreseeing how the encounter ended, the Time Lords noted that moving the Earth was one of their own tactics, having done so during the [[Ravolox Protocols|Ravolox affair]]. Therefore, they realized the Daleks were willing to employ their own tactics against them. Furthermore, the fact that the Daleks managed to move the Earth without devastating the planetary [[biosphere]] proved to the Gallifreyans that their enemy had better technology than their own. The ways through which the New Dalek Empire moved entire planets thus became a matter that they began to urgently study. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (reference book)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'')


==History==
=== Background ===
===Background===
In the first year of the [[Last Great Time War]], [[Davros]]'s command ship flew into the jaws of the [[Nightmare Child]] at the [[Gates of Elysium]]. He was rescued by [[Dalek Caan]], the last survivor of the [[Cult of Skaro]]; after activating an emergency [[time travel|temporal shift]], Caan entered the [[time-lock]]ed Time War - "flew into the wild and fire", as he put it - and rescued his creator. Caan went mad and gained psychic abilities following this event; it is unclear whether it was the act of breaking the time lock, or entering the War, that caused this.
{{quote|Welcome to my new empire, Doctor.|Davros|The Stolen Earth}}
During the first year of the [[Last Great Time War]], [[Davros]]'s command ship flew into the jaws of the [[Nightmare Child]] at the [[Gates of Elysium]]. Davros, however, was rescued by [[Dalek Caan]]. Caan was the last surviving member of the [[Cult of Skaro]], which had been destroyed during the events of [[Evolution of the Daleks]] post-Time War in [[1930]]. After activating an emergency [[time travel|temporal shift]], Caan managed to enter the timelocked Time War and rescue his creator, losing his mind and gaining psychic abilities in the process of flying "into the wind and flame". ([[DW]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]'')


Davros made Caan his prophet, and set to work reviving the [[Dalek Empire]] of before the Time War. After building the ''[[Crucible]]'', restoring the [[Dalek Fleet]] to 200 ships, and creating thousands of [[Dalek]]s with the [[Kaled mutant]]s inside grown from the cells of his own body, Davros set to work with creating a [[Reality Bomb]]. This superweapon was to destroy all of reality in every universe (except the Crucible), leaving Daleks as the only species in existence. ([[DW]]: ''[[Journey's End]]'')
Davros made Caan his prophet and set to work reviving the [[Dalek Empire]] of before the Time War. After building the [[Crucible]], restoring the [[Dalek Fleet]] to two hundred ships and creating thousands of [[Dalek]]s with the [[Kaled mutant]]s inside grown from the cells of his own body, self-mutilating himself until his ribcage and vital organs were exposed, ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Stolen Earth (TV story)}}) Davros set to work creating a [[reality bomb]]. This superweapon was to destroy all of reality in every universe except the Crucible, leaving Daleks the only species in existence. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Journey's End (TV story)}})


To power the Reality Bomb, 26 [[planet]]s and one [[moon]] were stolen from various times and places across the universe so that their gravitational fields, once aligned, could act as a gigantic engine. These included [[Earth]], which brought the problem to [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor]]'s attention. The [[Shadow Proclamation]], after the Doctor's visit to them, wanted to go to war with the unknown (to them) perpetrators of this event. However, the Doctor did not wish for a full-scale war, and left for the Medusa Cascade itself.
To power the reality bomb, twenty-six [[planet]]s and one [[moon]] were stolen from times and places across the universe so their gravitational fields, once aligned, would act as a gigantic engine. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Stolen Earth (TV story)}} / {{cs|Journey's End (TV story)}}) These included [[Earth]], which brought the problem to the [[Tenth Doctor]]'s attention. The [[Shadow Proclamation]], after the Doctor's visit to them, wanted to go to war with the as yet unknown perpetrators of this event. However, the Doctor did not wish for a full-scale war and left for the Medusa Cascade. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Stolen Earth (TV story)}})


===Invasion of Earth===
=== Invasion of Earth ===
{{Quote|We have waited long for this ultimate destiny. Now the Daleks are the masters of Earth!|The Supreme One|The Stolen Earth}}
[[File:The Stolen Earth 156-1-.jpg|thumb|left|The Fleet. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Journey's End (TV story)}})]]
Not long after the planets were brought into the Cascade, the Dalek Fleet attacked. Most of the efforts seemed to go to Earth. The [[Unified Intelligence Taskforce]] and the armies of Earth fought back, but were no match for the Dalek onslaught and were quickly slaughtered. The  UNIT [[aircraft carrier]] ''[[Valiant (aircraft carrier)|Valiant]]'' was overwhelmed almost immediately, the RAF retreated over North Africa, and military bases across the planet were attacked and personnel exterminated, although [[Martha Jones]] used [[Project Indigo]] to teleport away with an [[Osterhagen Key]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Stolen Earth (TV story)}}) [[New York]] was reduced to ruins. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Secret Lives of Monsters (novel)|The Secret Lives of Monsters]]'')


When the ''Valiant'' was forced over heavily populated areas, the decision was taken to land on empty farmland, avoiding a further loss of life. However, the attack still continued. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Battle of the Valiant (short story)|The Battle of the Valiant]]'') [[Captain]] [[Marion Price]] was in command of the ''Valiant'' at the time of its destruction. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[UNIT History (short story)|UNIT History]]'')


Soon afterward, the [[Commander General]] of the [[United Nations]] unconditionally surrendered Earth to the Daleks. A [[subwave network]], created by the [[Mr Copper Foundation]] and developed by [[Harriet Jones]], former [[British Prime Minister]], was used by Harriet to try to contact the Doctor. While the Daleks attacked Harriet's house, killing her, Harriet, Torchwood, Martha and [[Sarah Jane Smith]] (with the help of [[Mr Smith]]) transmitted a message to the Doctor, helping him find the location of the stolen Earth. The Daleks traced the signal and attacked Torchwood. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Stolen Earth (TV story)}})


[[File:The_Stolen_Earth_156-1-.jpg|thumb|left|250px|The Fleet]]
The Doctor arrived as the Dalek assault continued. Thanks to a [[time lock]] in the [[Torchwood Three|Torchwood Hub]], the Torchwood team survived the attack on them. Sarah Jane, trying to find the Doctor, was found by Daleks but saved by dimension-hopping [[Mickey Smith]], [[Rose Tyler]] and [[Jackie Tyler]]. When Rose and the Doctor reunited, he was shot by a Dalek. Jack quickly teleported to them, destroying the Dalek. Jack, Donna and Rose then helped the Doctor back to the TARDIS and watched him prepare to regenerate. However, the Doctor managed to abort the process by channelling the energy into his severed [[The Tenth Doctor's hand|hand]] - thus using up his eleventh regeneration. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Time of the Doctor (TV story)}}) They surrendered to the Daleks to find the Doctor, who had been taken prisoner with [[Donna Noble]], [[Jack Harkness]] and [[Rose Tyler]] and taken to the Crucible. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Journey's End (TV story)}})
Not long after the planets were brought into the Cascade, the Dalek Fleet attacked. Most of the efforts seemed to go to Earth. The [[Unified Intelligence Taskforce]] and the other armies of Earth fought back, but were no match for the Dalek onslaught and were quickly slaughtered. The "[[Valiant]]" was destroyed nearly immediately, the [[British Prime Minister]] Aubrey Fairchild was killed, the RAF retreated over North Africa and military bases across the planet were attacked and personnel exterminated, although [[Martha Jones]] successfully used [[Project Indigo]] to teleport away with the [[Osterhagen Key]].


Other worlds out of the 27 were inhabited, and would have presumably put up a resistance, although these invasions were not shown.
=== Reality Bomb ===
[[File:Reality bomb full size.jpg|thumb|right|The Bomb. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Journey's End (TV story)}})]]
The Daleks, using Davros' plans, had created a weapon called the [[reality bomb]]. Powered by the twenty-seven planets the Daleks had stolen, this ultimate weapon was capable of literally reducing the entire universe to nothing. They ran a test of the bomb on a small group of human prisoners, including Sarah Jane Smith, Mickey Smith and Jackie Tyler. Mickey and Sarah Jane escaped to a side chamber and Jackie teleported to it with her dimension jump just before the weapon was tested.


A [[subwave network]], made by the [[Mr Copper Foundation]] and used by [[Harriet Jones]], former [[British Prime Minister]], was used in an attempt to contact the Doctor. While the Daleks attacked Harriet's house, killing her, and then attacked [[Torchwood 3]], Harriet, Torchwood, Martha and [[Sarah Jane Smith]] (with the help of [[Mr Smith]]) transmitted a message to the Doctor, helping him to find the location of the stolen Earth. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]'')
This saved them from being reduced to atoms. This terrible weapon would wipe out all life in every universe. In [[Pete's World]], a universe which the Doctor said was further ahead in time than his, the reality bomb had already put out the stars. Meanwhile, the Daleks captured and tried to destroy the TARDIS with Donna Noble still inside. The regenerative energy in the Doctor's severed hand triggered a [[Human-Time Lord Meta-Crisis|Meta-Crisis]] in conjunction with Donna Noble. A new version of the Tenth Doctor was produced. This [[Meta-Crisis Doctor]] and Donna escaped in the TARDIS, which everyone else thought destroyed in the [[Z-Neutrino]] core. They prepared to turn the reality bomb on the Daleks themselves.


The Doctor found the stolen Earth and arrived, while meanwhile the Dalek assault continued. Thanks to a [[time lock]] in the [[Torchwood Hub]], the Torchwood team survived the Dalek attack. Sarah Jane, trying to find the Doctor, was found by Daleks but saved by dimension-hopping [[Mickey Smith]] and [[Jackie Tyler]], who then surrendered to the Daleks to find the Doctor, who had been taken prisoner along with, [[Donna Noble]], [[Jack Harkness]] and [[Rose Tyler]] and taken to the "Crucible". ([[DW]]: ''[[Journey's End]]'')
Sarah Jane, Mickey, Jackie and Captain Jack threatened to detonate a [[warp star]] to destroy the Crucible if the Daleks did not back down and Martha Jones threatened to destroy the Earth with the [[Osterhagen Project]] to make the required twenty-seven planets twenty-six if the same thing wasn't done, but the Daleks teleported them all to [[The Vault (The Stolen Earth)|the Vault]] and trapped them there with the Doctor and Rose. The Meta-Crisis Doctor and Donna arrived in the TARDIS to put their own plan into action, but were quickly stopped by Davros, who zapped them with his electricity-shooting prosthetic hand.


===Reality Bomb===
For a moment all seemed lost. However, the shock that Donna had received caused her Time Lord side to activate. She had become part-Time Lord when the Meta-Crisis Doctor was created, causing her to gain the Doctor's intelligence. She manually deactivated the reality bomb by closing off all of the [[Z-Neutrino]] energy relay loops using an [[internalised synchronous back-feed reversal loop]], disabled the Daleks' weapons and systems by locking their weaponry in a [[self-replicating energy blindfold matrix]] through [[macrotransmission of a K-filter wavelength]] and creating a [[trip stitch circuit-breaker]] in the [[psycho-kinetic threshold manipulator]]. She also released the others from their cells. The Doctor was reminded of his and Donna's [[Revolution of the Ood|encounter]] with the [[Ood]], whom referred to [[the DoctorDonna]], coming to understand that they had [[precognition|seen this coming]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Journey's End (TV story)}})
{{quote|This is my ultimate victory Doctor! The destruction of reality ITSELF!|Davros|Journey's End}}


=== Destruction of the Crucible ===
[[File:S4 13 aud 05-1-.jpg|thumb|left|Davros' last words to the Doctor. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Journey's End (TV story)}})]]
With the reality bomb disabled and Dalek controls malfunctioning, the Doctor's companions got rid of all of the Daleks in the Crucible. Mickey held off Davros with Rose's gun. The two Doctors and Donna started returning all twenty-seven planets to where they belonged, but the Supreme Dalek descended to the Vault and attacked, disabling the machinery before Jack killed him. All of the planets but Earth had been returned, but the Doctor readied the TARDIS to tow it back. The Doctors also realised that Dalek Caan had been manipulating everything to destroy the Daleks. With his warped mind no longer truly Dalek, he had realised how evil they were. Goaded by Dalek Caan and knowing the Daleks had sufficient numbers to take the universe by force without the reality bomb, the Meta-Crisis Doctor used the control panel to overload all of the Daleks' Dalekanium and blast it back, destroying the Daleks and their ships and blowing up the Crucible.


The two Doctors and their companions escaped in the TARDIS. Although the Doctor offered, Davros refused to come with them and suffered an unknown fate when the Crucible blew up, along with Dalek Caan. With the help of [[Mr Smith]], [[K9 Mark IV|K9]], [[Ianto Jones|Ianto]] and [[Gwen Cooper|Gwen]], the Doctor towed the Earth back to where it belonged with Sarah Jane, Mickey, Rose, Martha and Jack acting as co-pilots in the TARDIS. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Journey's End (TV story)}}) Unknown to them, a [[Dalek flying saucer]] and its crew of three Daleks ([[TV]]: {{cs|Victory of the Daleks (TV story)}}) survived the fall of the New Empire, ([[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]]'') once again giving the Daleks the [[Ironside Project|chance]] to [[New Dalek Paradigm|rebuild]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Victory of the Daleks (TV story)}})


[[File:Reality_bomb_full_size.jpg|thumb|250px|right|The Bomb]]
== Aftermath and legacy ==
The Daleks, using Davros' plans, created a weapon known as the [[Reality bomb]] which would destroy everything, even parallel universes. This weapon was powered by the 27 planets the Daleks had stolen, which included Earth. The Daleks had stolen these planets so that together they could power it. The Daleks ran a test of the bomb concentrated on a small group of human prisoners, including Sarah Jane Smith, Mickey Smith and Jackie Tyler. Mickey and Sarah Jane managed to escape to a side chamber and Jackie managed to teleport to it with her Dimension Jump once it recharged just before the weapon was tested.
=== The reality bomb and the Void ===
The effects of the reality bomb broke down the Void, destroying the millions of [[Dalek]]s and [[Cyberman (Pete's World)|Cybermen]] that were previously trapped there in the [[Battle of Canary Wharf]]. However, a small portion of Cybermen fell to [[Victorian era]] London around [[December]] [[1851]]. They were later stopped by the Tenth Doctor, who sent them into the time vortex, where they disintegrated. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Next Doctor (TV story)}})


This protected them from being reduced to atoms. This terrible weapon would wipe out all life in every universe. In [[Pete's World]] (which the Doctor said is further ahead in time than our world) the stars had already gone out due to the Reality Bomb destroying them. Meanwhile the Daleks captured and tried to destroy the TARDIS with Donna Noble still inside. They would have succeeded if not for the regenerative energy in the Doctor's severed hand triggering a [[Time Lord#Meta-Crisis|Meta-Crisis]] in conjunction with Donna Noble in which a new version of the Tenth Doctor was produced. This new [[Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor|Meta-Crisis Doctor]] and Donna escaped in the TARDIS (which the Daleks and everyone else thought destroyed) and prepared to turn the Reality Bomb on the Daleks themselves.
More groups of Cybermen, however, also apparently managed to escape the Void and went on to develop space travel, allowing them to begin expanding again. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Pandorica Opens (TV story)}}, [[GAME]]: ''[[Return to Earth (video game)|Return to Earth]]'') It was even speculated that the Cybus Cybermen active in the Doctor's universe eventually met their native [[Parallel universe|cousins]], the Cybermen of [[Mondasian]] evolution. Allying together, the two Cyber-races formed into a stronger force, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Whoniverse (novel)|The Whoniverse]]'') with the ensuing [[Cyber Legion]]s making use of Cybus [[Cyber-body|Cyber-bodies]] without a "[[C]]" on their chest ([[TV]]: {{cs|A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)}}) and some retaining that Cybus logo. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Nightmare in Silver (TV story)}}) In Pete's World itself, as the reality bomb was stopped, dimensional retroclosure restored the damage and sealed the Void again. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Journey's End (TV story)}})


Sarah Jane, Mickey, Jackie and Captain Jack threatened to detonate a [[warp star]] which would destroy the Crucible if the Daleks did not back down, and Martha Jones threatened to destroy the Earth with the [[Osterhagen Project]] (to make the required 27 planets 26) if the same thing wasn't done, but the Daleks teleported them all to the Vault and trapped them there with the Doctor and Rose. The Meta-Crisis Doctor and Donna then arrived in the TARDIS to put their own plan into action but were quickly foiled by Davros, who zapped them with his electricity-shooting prosthetic hand.
=== Effect on Earth ===
[[Trinity Wells]] reported on the Earth being stolen. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Driving Miss Wells (audio story)|Driving Miss Wells]]'') By September [[2009]], at least half of Earth accepted the existence of alien life, while the other half were in denial. The events, combined with other invasions, led to an increase in [[suicide]] from crises of faith. [[British Prime Minister|Prime Minister]] [[Brian Green]] was left fatalistic by the invasion. ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day One (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day One]]'')


For a moment all seemed lost, however the electric shock that Donna had received caused her Time Lord side to activate. She had been part-Time Lord when the Meta-Crisis Doctor was created, causing her to gain the Doctor's intelligence. She manually deactivated the Reality Bomb, disabled the the Daleks and released the others by using some controls with the "gut instinct" of a human and the intelligence of a Time Lord.
The events of this invasion were recounted in ''[[Daleks - Invasion Earth]]'', by [[Christian Peterson]]. The frontpiece to the book depicted the Daleks amid a burning city. Peterson also speculated that the Cult of Skaro may have been actively involved in the invasion, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Secret Lives of Monsters (novel)|The Secret Lives of Monsters]]'') which was somewhat true due to Caan's role in the New Dalek Empire, but incorrectly ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Stolen Earth (TV story)}}) guessed that the cult's actions at [[Canary Wharf]] may have been a fact-finding operation as a prelude to the proper invasion. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Secret Lives of Monsters (novel)|The Secret Lives of Monsters]]'')


===Destruction of the Crucible===
When [[Clyde Langer]] admitted to his father that he fought aliens, [[Paul Langer|Paul]] used the Daleks as a frame of reference. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mark of the Berserker (TV story)|The Mark of the Berserker]]'')
{{quote|Never forget Doctor, you did this! I name you forever; ''YOU'' are the Destroyer of Worlds!|Davros' Last Words|Journey's End}}


[[Adelaide Brooke]], commander of the first mission to colonise [[Mars]] in the [[2050s]], was a little girl at the time of the attack on Earth. Both her parents were lost and presumed killed. Her father's last words to her were to stay inside. She did, but [[Dalek (The Waters of Mars)|a hovering Dalek]] approached her house. It saw Adelaide, but, apparently realising she was a fixed point in time, did not exterminate her; ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Waters of Mars (TV story)}}) the [[Time Lord]]s guessed this Dalek, despite being part of a campaign that called for a universal doomsday, believed the temporal affects of killing Brooke before the reality bomb went off could derail the ongoing invasion. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (reference book)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'') This encounter with an alien inspired her to explore in space. According to the Tenth Doctor, Brooke's exploration of Mars, destined to end with her death, not only inspired generations of her family to reach beyond Earth, but also had a major impact on the human race leaving the confines of Earth. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Waters of Mars (TV story)}})


Following its destruction, the ''[[Valiant (aircraft carrier)|Valiant]]'' was replaced by a new [[Valiant-class|''Valiant''-class]] aircraft carrier, one of multiple planned [[sister ship]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[UNIT History (short story)|UNIT History]]'') Indeed, the [[Twelfth Doctor]] and [[Kate Stewart]] acknowledged the existence of what the former called "[[Cloudbase]]" during the [[3W Institute Affair]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Death in Heaven (TV story)}})


[[File:S4_13_aud_05-1-.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Davros' last words to the Doctor]]
The Eleventh Doctor realised something was wrong with [[Amy Pond]]'s memories/timeline when she didn't recognise the Daleks. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Victory of the Daleks (TV story)}})
With the Reality Bomb disabled and Dalek controls malfunctioning, the Doctor's companions got rid of all of the nearby Daleks and Mickey held off Davros with Rose's gun. The two Doctors and Donna started returning all 27 planets to where they belonged, but the Supreme Dalek descended to the Vault and attacked, disabling the machinery before Jack managed to kill him. All of the planets but Earth had been returned, but the Doctor made preparations to use the TARDIS to tow it back. The Doctors also realised that Dalek Caan had been manipulating everything to lead to the end of the Daleks as, after rescuing Davros, with his warped mind not being truly Dalek he had realised how evil they were and needed to be stopped. Goaded on by Dalek Caan, and knowing the Daleks had sufficient force of numbers to take the universe by force, even without the Reality Bomb, the Meta-Crisis Doctor used the control panel to overload all of the Daleks' Dalekanium and blast it back destroying the Daleks and their ships and causing the Crucible to start to blow up.


The two Doctors and their companions escaped in the TARDIS, and although the Doctor offered, Davros refused to come with them and presumably died when the Crucible blew up along with Dalek Caan and all of the remaining Daleks. With the help of [[Mr. Smith]], [[K-9]] and the Torchwood crew, the Doctor was able to tow the Earth back to where it belonged with Sarah Jane, Mickey, Rose, Martha and Jack acting as co-pilots on the TARDIS. ([[DW]]: ''[[Journey's End]]'')
=== Across time and space ===
The [[lost moon of Poosh]] reappeared on [[10 April]] [[5993]], ruining the [[career]]s of [[academic]]s who had spent their [[life|lives]] [[looking]] for it. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Time Traveller's Diary (novel)|Time Traveller's Diary]]'')


==Aftermath and Legacy==
=== The Doctor and his companions ===
The effects of the reality bomb broke down the Void, releasing the Cybermen who were previously locked away inside ([[DW]]: ''[[Doomsday]]''), where they fell to Victorian era London at Christmas 1851. They were later stopped by the Tenth Doctor, who sent them into the Time Vortex, where they harmlessly disintergrated. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Next Doctor]]'')
Due to the creation of his half-human clone, this left the Doctor with a final regeneration in his first cycle. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Time of the Doctor (TV story)}}) This event caused the Doctor to lose all of his companions: Martha and Jack returned to their normal lives with Mickey joining them as he no longer had anything to tie him to [[Pete's World]]. Sarah Jane also returned to her family, the Doctor returned Jackie to Pete's World where he left Rose against her wishes, but left the Meta-Crisis Doctor with her who, due to being half-human, would be able to live a normal life with her. However, while Donna was willing to stay with him, having a Time Lord mind overwhelmed her and the Doctor was forced to erase all knowledge of his existence from her mind and return her to her family. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Journey's End (TV story)}}) As a result, the Doctor originally chose not to have any permanent companions anymore, but then later ignored this, taking on [[Heather McCrimmon]], [[Gabby Gonzalez]] and [[Cindy Wu]] and, after his regeneration into the [[Eleventh Doctor]], [[Amy Pond]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Planet of the Dead (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Eleventh Hour (TV story)}}, ''[[COMIC]]: ''[[The Chromosome Connection (comic story)|The Chromosome Connection]]'', ''[[The Arts in Space (comic story)|The Arts in Space]], [[Arena of Fear (comic story)|Arena of Fear]]'')


While the Doctor believed that all the Daleks to have been destroyed, one ship and three Daleks survived and escaped through time to [[1941]]. While one of them waited in the badly damaged [[Dalek Flying Saucer|Saucer]] positioned behind [[The Moon]], the other two came to [[Earth]] and used an [[Android]] who was programmed to believe he was a [[Edwin Bracewell|human]] who created the Daleks (refered to as [[Ironside Project|Ironsides]]) for use as [[United Kingdom|Britain]]'s secret weapon in [[World War II]] so [[Winston Churchill]] could bring [[Eleventh Doctor|the Doctor]] to them. When the Doctor came one month later he was an incarnation not recognised by the Daleks but he soon revealed himself and the "Ironsides" revealed their true intentions and teleported back to their ship. The Doctor then followed them in [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]], where the Daleks used the last [[Progenitor]] device which created 5 superior Daleks who then exterminated the three old ones. When their attempt to destroy London and then the Earth failed the new Daleks used a [[time corridor]] to escape and rebuild. ([[DW]]: ''[[Victory of the Daleks]]'')
=== State in the timeline ===
Despite the impact the invasion had on the people of Earth, the [[Eleventh Doctor]] discovered that his companion, [[Amy Pond]], despite being from [[2010]], knew nothing of it. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Victory of the Daleks (TV story)}}) The Doctor later linked this to the nature of the [[time field]], a form of crack or entity that had erased people and events like this from history by unwriting their/its existence. When the cracks erased an event from history, the change to history was usually minor. In some cases, the consequences of the event still remained. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Flesh and Stone (TV story)}}) Following the [[Total Collapse Event Incident]], the Doctor initiated [[Big Bang Two]] to "reboot" the universe, resulting in the return of individuals who had been erased by the cracks such as Amy's [[Tabetha Pond|mother]] and [[Augustus Pond|father]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Big Bang (TV story)}}) However, through the extrapolations of [[the Matrix]], the [[Time War]]-era [[Time Lord]]s became aware that [[Big Bang Two]] would cause subtle changes to Earth's timeline, citing the later [[2021 Dalek civil war]] as evidence that, at large, humans of the 21st century remained unaware of the Daleks. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (reference book)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'')


Shortly after the invasion, come September 2009, at least half of Earth accepted the existence of alien life, while the other half were in denial. The events, combined with other invasions, would lead to an increase in suicide due to crisis of faith. ([[TW]]: ''[[Children of Earth]]'')
The Doctor, the Daleks, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Victory of the Daleks (TV story)}}) and Davros all remembered the invasion. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)}}) Being amongst the memories of Dalek destruction showcased by the [[Twelfth Doctor]] and [[Clara Oswald]], [[Rusty (Into the Dalek)|Rusty]] the Dalek knew of the invasion. ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'') Davros also had footage of the Doctor during the invasion. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)}}) Additionally, the book ''[[The Secret Lives of Monsters]]'' chronicled both the invasion and the earlier Battle of Canary Wharf. According to the book, the Dalek occupation scarred millions of people forever, and there was an ever-present fear that the Daleks would return. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Secret Lives of Monsters (short story)|The Secret Lives of Monsters]]'')


Future historical figure [[Adelaide Brooke]], commander of the first mission to colonise [[Mars]] in the 2050s, was a little girl at the time of the attack on Earth. Both her parents were lost, and presumed killed. Her father's last words to her were to stay inside. She did so, however a Dalek later approached her house. It saw Adelaide, but realising she was a fixed point in time, did not exterminate her. According to the Doctor, Brooke's exploration of Mars (destined to end with her death) not only inspired generations of Brookes to reach beyond Earth, but also had a major impact on the human race leaving the confines of Earth. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Waters of Mars]]'')
In line with the Time Lords' projections, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (reference book)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'') the [[Twelfth Doctor]]'s companion [[Bill Potts]], who was from the year [[2017]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|Knock Knock (TV story)}}) was unaware of what Daleks were. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Pilot (TV story)}}) The [[Thirteenth Doctor]]'s friends [[Graham O'Brien|Graham]] and [[Grace O'Brien]], [[Ryan Sinclair]] and [[Yasmin Khan]] as well as [[Karl Wright]], despite being from [[2018]], were unfamiliar with aliens. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Woman Who Fell to Earth (TV story)}}) Graham, Ryan and Yaz likewise were surprised when the Doctor told them about her towing [[Earth]] back in place. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos (TV story)}}) They also didn't recognise the shape of the [[Dalek (Resolution)|Dalek]] [[Reconnaissance scout|recon scout]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Resolution (TV story)}})


Despite the impact the invasion had on the people of Earth, [[Eleventh Doctor|the Doctor]] discovered that his companion, [[Amy Pond]], despite being from 2010, knew nothing of it ([[DW]]: ''[[Victory of the Daleks]]''). He later linked this to to the nature of the [[Time Field]], a form of crack or entity that, one of which, can erase both people and events from history by unwriting their/its existence. This event was seemingly unwriten from time, much to the Eleventh Doctor's suprise, and explained for him why no one remembered the [[CyberKing]] walking over London ([[DW]]: ''[[The Next Doctor]]''). When the cracks erase an event from history, it is known that the change to history is only minor, if nothing at all. In some cases, the consequences of the event still remain. ([[DW]]: ''[[Flesh and Stone]]''). Since the conclusion of the Time Field arc resulted in the restoration of things lost to the cracks ([[DW]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]''), it can be safely assumed that this event has been restored to history.
However, the [[Anti-Dalek Force]] still knew of the invasion, recounting it in ''[[The Stolen Earth]]'', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The New Dalek Paradigm (short story)|The New Dalek Paradigm]]'') as did [[Book (The Whoniverse)|a book]] chronicling the history of [[the universe]], which included information on the invasion. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Whoniverse (novel)|The Whoniverse]]'') The [[Testimony Foundation]], which came from the era of [[New Earth]], had audio of Davros from the fall of the ''Crucible''. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Twice Upon a Time (TV story)}})
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[[Category:21st century Earth-based conflicts]]
Indeed, the Daleks did again attack 21st century Earth, as a force of [[Death Squad Dalek]]s attacked in [[2021]] upon being summoned by the [[Thirteenth Doctor]] to [[2021 Dalek civil war|deal with]] the [[New Dalek Army]]. The Death Squad Daleks had also known to expect resistance from 21st century Earth. [[Jack Robertson]], who did not recognise the word "Dalek," and the citizens of the United Kingdom were not familiar with the design of the [[Defence Drone]]s. Even following the 2021 attack, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Revolution of the Daleks (TV story)}}) [[Dan Lewis]], [[Sarah (Eve of the Daleks)|Sarah]] and [[Nick (Eve of the Daleks)|Nick]] did not recognise the Daleks. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Eve of the Daleks (TV story)}}) Likewise, in [[2012]], the Dalek named "[[Metaltron]]" by [[Henry van Statten]] could not find any information about the Daleks on Earth. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Dalek (TV story)}})
 
When [[Cleo Proctor]] found an inactive [[Dalek (Recruits)|Dalek]] within a [[UNIT warehouse]], she was [[history-proofing|instinctively scared of it]] despite not knowing what it was, feeling as though she had seen it before. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Recruits (audio story)}}) The [[Twelfth Doctor]] noted that humanity had a great power in being able to forget past problems, instead placing what they learned into "fairy stories". ([[TV]]: {{cs|In the Forest of the Night (TV story)}}) By 2021, examples of [[alien]]s on Earth were considered examples of the [[Mandela Effect]], as only some people could remember them. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Mandela Effect, Or Monsters on the Streets of London (short story)|The Mandela Effect, Or Monsters on the Streets of London]]'') [[Yvonne Hartman (Pete's World)|Yvonne Hartman]] remembered the invasion, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Five People You Kill in Middlesbrough (audio story)|The Five People You Kill in Middlesbrough]]'') as did [[Dorothy McShane]] and [[St John Colchester]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Red List (audio story)|The Red List]]'') [[Stew Ferguson]], who lost his job as milkman that day, remembered when planets appeared in the sky over Earth. [[Sylvia Noble]] also remembered the invasion. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Star Beast (novelisation)}})
 
== Behind the scenes ==
''[[The Writer's Tale]]'' revealed a draft for {{cs|The Stolen Earth (TV story)}} featuring an ultimately excised exchange between the [[Tenth Doctor]] and [[Donna Noble]] concerning the [[solar system]], the Doctor explaining that the spontaneous disappearance of the [[Earth]] would eventually cause all the other [[planet]]s to shift and the solar system itself to fall apart, with Donna exclaiming that she did not care about [[Jupiter]]. The Doctor claimed that a [[gravity]] [[echo]] kept the [[orbit]]s intact temporarily, leaving [[7 (number)|seven]] [[hour]]s before the system would collapse.
 
Explaining how [[Henry van Statten]] was unfamiliar with the [[Dalek]] he named [[Metaltron]], ''[[The Time Traveller's Almanac]]'' suggested that the [[Van Statten Incident]] took place in a [[timeline]] where the [[Cult of Skaro]] did not emerge from [[the Sphere]] resulting in the [[Earth]] not having been transported to the [[Medusa Cascade]] since the [[personal timeline]]s of both [[The Doctor's time stream|the Doctor]] and the [[Daleks' timeline|Dalek race]] had not progressed to the point where those events occurred.
 
According to ''[[The Dalek Handbook]]'', the three [[Ironside Project|Daleks]] which created and were subsequently destroyed by the [[New Dalek Paradigm]] in {{cs|Victory of the Daleks (TV story)}} were survivors of the 2009 Dalek invasion of Earth. An in-universe book, ''[[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]]'', later confirmed this was the case.
 
''[[Special Daleks (short story)|Special Daleks]]'', a [[1994 (releases)|1994]] short story in [[DWPM 1]], was the first source to mention a 21st century Dalek invasion of Earth, though [[Marcus Hearn]] had no way of knowing, at the time, that such an event would actually be depicted on television a decade later — nor does it seem likely that [[Russell T Davies]] intentionally referenced ''Special Daleks'' in plotting out the [[Series 4 (Doctor Who 2005)|Series 4]] finale. All the same, Hearn correctly predicted that the invasion would be overseen by a [[Supreme Dalek]].
 
== Footnotes ==
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The event known to the Time Lords as the Planetary Relocation Incident, (PROSE: Dalek Combat Training Manual) and referred to as the Stolen Earth scenario by Intersol, (COMIC: Ghosts of the Northern Line) was a temporal war fought between the New Dalek Empire and other races — mostly humans in the aftermath of the Last Great Time War inside the Medusa Cascade in a tiny pocket of time that was put one second out of sync with the rest of the universe in the late 2000s.[1]

Nevertheless, the presence of the cracks in time led to the public invasions since 2006 being erased from Earth's history, (TV: The Pandorica Opens [+]Loading...["The Pandorica Opens (TV story)"]) with the Dalek invasion scrubbed out of existence. (TV: Victory of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Victory of the Daleks (TV story)"]) The Eleventh Doctor eventually closed the cracks, allowing for the restoration of things lost to them. (TV: The Big Bang [+]Loading...["The Big Bang (TV story)"]) Though various people still were unfamiliar with aliens, (TV: The Woman Who Fell to Earth [+]Loading...["The Woman Who Fell to Earth (TV story)"]) some individuals were able to subconsciously recognise them, despite not retaining direct memories. (AUDIO: Recruits [+]Loading...["Recruits (audio story)"])

History[[edit] | [edit source]]

A day to come[[edit] | [edit source]]

Through the projections of the Matrix, the Time War-era Time Lords learnt of these events which they considered the Daleks' most diabolical plan yet. They were concerned that Davros was once again working with his creations, yet they were alarmed even more by how a single bronze Dalek, even if it had enhanced mental capacity, was able to break through a time lock. The Time Lords began to investigate the matter. Despite foreseeing how the encounter ended, the Time Lords noted that moving the Earth was one of their own tactics, having done so during the Ravolox affair. Therefore, they realized the Daleks were willing to employ their own tactics against them. Furthermore, the fact that the Daleks managed to move the Earth without devastating the planetary biosphere proved to the Gallifreyans that their enemy had better technology than their own. The ways through which the New Dalek Empire moved entire planets thus became a matter that they began to urgently study. (PROSE: Dalek Combat Training Manual)

Background[[edit] | [edit source]]

In the first year of the Last Great Time War, Davros's command ship flew into the jaws of the Nightmare Child at the Gates of Elysium. He was rescued by Dalek Caan, the last survivor of the Cult of Skaro; after activating an emergency temporal shift, Caan entered the time-locked Time War - "flew into the wild and fire", as he put it - and rescued his creator. Caan went mad and gained psychic abilities following this event; it is unclear whether it was the act of breaking the time lock, or entering the War, that caused this.

Davros made Caan his prophet and set to work reviving the Dalek Empire of before the Time War. After building the Crucible, restoring the Dalek Fleet to two hundred ships and creating thousands of Daleks with the Kaled mutants inside grown from the cells of his own body, self-mutilating himself until his ribcage and vital organs were exposed, (TV: The Stolen Earth [+]Loading...["The Stolen Earth (TV story)"]) Davros set to work creating a reality bomb. This superweapon was to destroy all of reality in every universe except the Crucible, leaving Daleks the only species in existence. (TV: Journey's End [+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"])

To power the reality bomb, twenty-six planets and one moon were stolen from times and places across the universe so their gravitational fields, once aligned, would act as a gigantic engine. (TV: The Stolen Earth [+]Loading...["The Stolen Earth (TV story)"] / Journey's End [+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"]) These included Earth, which brought the problem to the Tenth Doctor's attention. The Shadow Proclamation, after the Doctor's visit to them, wanted to go to war with the as yet unknown perpetrators of this event. However, the Doctor did not wish for a full-scale war and left for the Medusa Cascade. (TV: The Stolen Earth [+]Loading...["The Stolen Earth (TV story)"])

Invasion of Earth[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Fleet. (TV: Journey's End [+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"])

Not long after the planets were brought into the Cascade, the Dalek Fleet attacked. Most of the efforts seemed to go to Earth. The Unified Intelligence Taskforce and the armies of Earth fought back, but were no match for the Dalek onslaught and were quickly slaughtered. The UNIT aircraft carrier Valiant was overwhelmed almost immediately, the RAF retreated over North Africa, and military bases across the planet were attacked and personnel exterminated, although Martha Jones used Project Indigo to teleport away with an Osterhagen Key. (TV: The Stolen Earth [+]Loading...["The Stolen Earth (TV story)"]) New York was reduced to ruins. (PROSE: The Secret Lives of Monsters)

When the Valiant was forced over heavily populated areas, the decision was taken to land on empty farmland, avoiding a further loss of life. However, the attack still continued. (PROSE: The Battle of the Valiant) Captain Marion Price was in command of the Valiant at the time of its destruction. (PROSE: UNIT History)

Soon afterward, the Commander General of the United Nations unconditionally surrendered Earth to the Daleks. A subwave network, created by the Mr Copper Foundation and developed by Harriet Jones, former British Prime Minister, was used by Harriet to try to contact the Doctor. While the Daleks attacked Harriet's house, killing her, Harriet, Torchwood, Martha and Sarah Jane Smith (with the help of Mr Smith) transmitted a message to the Doctor, helping him find the location of the stolen Earth. The Daleks traced the signal and attacked Torchwood. (TV: The Stolen Earth [+]Loading...["The Stolen Earth (TV story)"])

The Doctor arrived as the Dalek assault continued. Thanks to a time lock in the Torchwood Hub, the Torchwood team survived the attack on them. Sarah Jane, trying to find the Doctor, was found by Daleks but saved by dimension-hopping Mickey Smith, Rose Tyler and Jackie Tyler. When Rose and the Doctor reunited, he was shot by a Dalek. Jack quickly teleported to them, destroying the Dalek. Jack, Donna and Rose then helped the Doctor back to the TARDIS and watched him prepare to regenerate. However, the Doctor managed to abort the process by channelling the energy into his severed hand - thus using up his eleventh regeneration. (TV: The Time of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Time of the Doctor (TV story)"]) They surrendered to the Daleks to find the Doctor, who had been taken prisoner with Donna Noble, Jack Harkness and Rose Tyler and taken to the Crucible. (TV: Journey's End [+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"])

Reality Bomb[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Bomb. (TV: Journey's End [+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"])

The Daleks, using Davros' plans, had created a weapon called the reality bomb. Powered by the twenty-seven planets the Daleks had stolen, this ultimate weapon was capable of literally reducing the entire universe to nothing. They ran a test of the bomb on a small group of human prisoners, including Sarah Jane Smith, Mickey Smith and Jackie Tyler. Mickey and Sarah Jane escaped to a side chamber and Jackie teleported to it with her dimension jump just before the weapon was tested.

This saved them from being reduced to atoms. This terrible weapon would wipe out all life in every universe. In Pete's World, a universe which the Doctor said was further ahead in time than his, the reality bomb had already put out the stars. Meanwhile, the Daleks captured and tried to destroy the TARDIS with Donna Noble still inside. The regenerative energy in the Doctor's severed hand triggered a Meta-Crisis in conjunction with Donna Noble. A new version of the Tenth Doctor was produced. This Meta-Crisis Doctor and Donna escaped in the TARDIS, which everyone else thought destroyed in the Z-Neutrino core. They prepared to turn the reality bomb on the Daleks themselves.

Sarah Jane, Mickey, Jackie and Captain Jack threatened to detonate a warp star to destroy the Crucible if the Daleks did not back down and Martha Jones threatened to destroy the Earth with the Osterhagen Project to make the required twenty-seven planets twenty-six if the same thing wasn't done, but the Daleks teleported them all to the Vault and trapped them there with the Doctor and Rose. The Meta-Crisis Doctor and Donna arrived in the TARDIS to put their own plan into action, but were quickly stopped by Davros, who zapped them with his electricity-shooting prosthetic hand.

For a moment all seemed lost. However, the shock that Donna had received caused her Time Lord side to activate. She had become part-Time Lord when the Meta-Crisis Doctor was created, causing her to gain the Doctor's intelligence. She manually deactivated the reality bomb by closing off all of the Z-Neutrino energy relay loops using an internalised synchronous back-feed reversal loop, disabled the Daleks' weapons and systems by locking their weaponry in a self-replicating energy blindfold matrix through macrotransmission of a K-filter wavelength and creating a trip stitch circuit-breaker in the psycho-kinetic threshold manipulator. She also released the others from their cells. The Doctor was reminded of his and Donna's encounter with the Ood, whom referred to the DoctorDonna, coming to understand that they had seen this coming. (TV: Journey's End [+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"])

Destruction of the Crucible[[edit] | [edit source]]

Davros' last words to the Doctor. (TV: Journey's End [+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"])

With the reality bomb disabled and Dalek controls malfunctioning, the Doctor's companions got rid of all of the Daleks in the Crucible. Mickey held off Davros with Rose's gun. The two Doctors and Donna started returning all twenty-seven planets to where they belonged, but the Supreme Dalek descended to the Vault and attacked, disabling the machinery before Jack killed him. All of the planets but Earth had been returned, but the Doctor readied the TARDIS to tow it back. The Doctors also realised that Dalek Caan had been manipulating everything to destroy the Daleks. With his warped mind no longer truly Dalek, he had realised how evil they were. Goaded by Dalek Caan and knowing the Daleks had sufficient numbers to take the universe by force without the reality bomb, the Meta-Crisis Doctor used the control panel to overload all of the Daleks' Dalekanium and blast it back, destroying the Daleks and their ships and blowing up the Crucible.

The two Doctors and their companions escaped in the TARDIS. Although the Doctor offered, Davros refused to come with them and suffered an unknown fate when the Crucible blew up, along with Dalek Caan. With the help of Mr Smith, K9, Ianto and Gwen, the Doctor towed the Earth back to where it belonged with Sarah Jane, Mickey, Rose, Martha and Jack acting as co-pilots in the TARDIS. (TV: Journey's End [+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"]) Unknown to them, a Dalek flying saucer and its crew of three Daleks (TV: Victory of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Victory of the Daleks (TV story)"]) survived the fall of the New Empire, (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe) once again giving the Daleks the chance to rebuild. (TV: Victory of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Victory of the Daleks (TV story)"])

Aftermath and legacy[[edit] | [edit source]]

The reality bomb and the Void[[edit] | [edit source]]

The effects of the reality bomb broke down the Void, destroying the millions of Daleks and Cybermen that were previously trapped there in the Battle of Canary Wharf. However, a small portion of Cybermen fell to Victorian era London around December 1851. They were later stopped by the Tenth Doctor, who sent them into the time vortex, where they disintegrated. (TV: The Next Doctor [+]Loading...["The Next Doctor (TV story)"])

More groups of Cybermen, however, also apparently managed to escape the Void and went on to develop space travel, allowing them to begin expanding again. (TV: The Pandorica Opens [+]Loading...["The Pandorica Opens (TV story)"], GAME: Return to Earth) It was even speculated that the Cybus Cybermen active in the Doctor's universe eventually met their native cousins, the Cybermen of Mondasian evolution. Allying together, the two Cyber-races formed into a stronger force, (PROSE: The Whoniverse) with the ensuing Cyber Legions making use of Cybus Cyber-bodies without a "C" on their chest (TV: A Good Man Goes to War [+]Loading...["A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)"]) and some retaining that Cybus logo. (TV: Nightmare in Silver [+]Loading...["Nightmare in Silver (TV story)"]) In Pete's World itself, as the reality bomb was stopped, dimensional retroclosure restored the damage and sealed the Void again. (TV: Journey's End [+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"])

Effect on Earth[[edit] | [edit source]]

Trinity Wells reported on the Earth being stolen. (AUDIO: Driving Miss Wells) By September 2009, at least half of Earth accepted the existence of alien life, while the other half were in denial. The events, combined with other invasions, led to an increase in suicide from crises of faith. Prime Minister Brian Green was left fatalistic by the invasion. (TV: Children of Earth: Day One)

The events of this invasion were recounted in Daleks - Invasion Earth, by Christian Peterson. The frontpiece to the book depicted the Daleks amid a burning city. Peterson also speculated that the Cult of Skaro may have been actively involved in the invasion, (PROSE: The Secret Lives of Monsters) which was somewhat true due to Caan's role in the New Dalek Empire, but incorrectly (TV: The Stolen Earth [+]Loading...["The Stolen Earth (TV story)"]) guessed that the cult's actions at Canary Wharf may have been a fact-finding operation as a prelude to the proper invasion. (PROSE: The Secret Lives of Monsters)

When Clyde Langer admitted to his father that he fought aliens, Paul used the Daleks as a frame of reference. (TV: The Mark of the Berserker)

Adelaide Brooke, commander of the first mission to colonise Mars in the 2050s, was a little girl at the time of the attack on Earth. Both her parents were lost and presumed killed. Her father's last words to her were to stay inside. She did, but a hovering Dalek approached her house. It saw Adelaide, but, apparently realising she was a fixed point in time, did not exterminate her; (TV: The Waters of Mars [+]Loading...["The Waters of Mars (TV story)"]) the Time Lords guessed this Dalek, despite being part of a campaign that called for a universal doomsday, believed the temporal affects of killing Brooke before the reality bomb went off could derail the ongoing invasion. (PROSE: Dalek Combat Training Manual) This encounter with an alien inspired her to explore in space. According to the Tenth Doctor, Brooke's exploration of Mars, destined to end with her death, not only inspired generations of her family to reach beyond Earth, but also had a major impact on the human race leaving the confines of Earth. (TV: The Waters of Mars [+]Loading...["The Waters of Mars (TV story)"])

Following its destruction, the Valiant was replaced by a new Valiant-class aircraft carrier, one of multiple planned sister ships. (PROSE: UNIT History) Indeed, the Twelfth Doctor and Kate Stewart acknowledged the existence of what the former called "Cloudbase" during the 3W Institute Affair. (TV: Death in Heaven [+]Loading...["Death in Heaven (TV story)"])

The Eleventh Doctor realised something was wrong with Amy Pond's memories/timeline when she didn't recognise the Daleks. (TV: Victory of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Victory of the Daleks (TV story)"])

Across time and space[[edit] | [edit source]]

The lost moon of Poosh reappeared on 10 April 5993, ruining the careers of academics who had spent their lives looking for it. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary)

The Doctor and his companions[[edit] | [edit source]]

Due to the creation of his half-human clone, this left the Doctor with a final regeneration in his first cycle. (TV: The Time of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Time of the Doctor (TV story)"]) This event caused the Doctor to lose all of his companions: Martha and Jack returned to their normal lives with Mickey joining them as he no longer had anything to tie him to Pete's World. Sarah Jane also returned to her family, the Doctor returned Jackie to Pete's World where he left Rose against her wishes, but left the Meta-Crisis Doctor with her who, due to being half-human, would be able to live a normal life with her. However, while Donna was willing to stay with him, having a Time Lord mind overwhelmed her and the Doctor was forced to erase all knowledge of his existence from her mind and return her to her family. (TV: Journey's End [+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"]) As a result, the Doctor originally chose not to have any permanent companions anymore, but then later ignored this, taking on Heather McCrimmon, Gabby Gonzalez and Cindy Wu and, after his regeneration into the Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond. (TV: Planet of the Dead [+]Loading...["Planet of the Dead (TV story)"], The Eleventh Hour [+]Loading...["The Eleventh Hour (TV story)"], COMIC: The Chromosome Connection, The Arts in Space, Arena of Fear)

State in the timeline[[edit] | [edit source]]

Despite the impact the invasion had on the people of Earth, the Eleventh Doctor discovered that his companion, Amy Pond, despite being from 2010, knew nothing of it. (TV: Victory of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Victory of the Daleks (TV story)"]) The Doctor later linked this to the nature of the time field, a form of crack or entity that had erased people and events like this from history by unwriting their/its existence. When the cracks erased an event from history, the change to history was usually minor. In some cases, the consequences of the event still remained. (TV: Flesh and Stone [+]Loading...["Flesh and Stone (TV story)"]) Following the Total Collapse Event Incident, the Doctor initiated Big Bang Two to "reboot" the universe, resulting in the return of individuals who had been erased by the cracks such as Amy's mother and father. (TV: The Big Bang [+]Loading...["The Big Bang (TV story)"]) However, through the extrapolations of the Matrix, the Time War-era Time Lords became aware that Big Bang Two would cause subtle changes to Earth's timeline, citing the later 2021 Dalek civil war as evidence that, at large, humans of the 21st century remained unaware of the Daleks. (PROSE: Dalek Combat Training Manual)

The Doctor, the Daleks, (TV: Victory of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Victory of the Daleks (TV story)"]) and Davros all remembered the invasion. (TV: The Magician's Apprentice [+]Loading...["The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)"]) Being amongst the memories of Dalek destruction showcased by the Twelfth Doctor and Clara Oswald, Rusty the Dalek knew of the invasion. (TV: Into the Dalek) Davros also had footage of the Doctor during the invasion. (TV: The Magician's Apprentice [+]Loading...["The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)"]) Additionally, the book The Secret Lives of Monsters chronicled both the invasion and the earlier Battle of Canary Wharf. According to the book, the Dalek occupation scarred millions of people forever, and there was an ever-present fear that the Daleks would return. (PROSE: The Secret Lives of Monsters)

In line with the Time Lords' projections, (PROSE: Dalek Combat Training Manual) the Twelfth Doctor's companion Bill Potts, who was from the year 2017, (TV: Knock Knock [+]Loading...["Knock Knock (TV story)"]) was unaware of what Daleks were. (TV: The Pilot [+]Loading...["The Pilot (TV story)"]) The Thirteenth Doctor's friends Graham and Grace O'Brien, Ryan Sinclair and Yasmin Khan as well as Karl Wright, despite being from 2018, were unfamiliar with aliens. (TV: The Woman Who Fell to Earth [+]Loading...["The Woman Who Fell to Earth (TV story)"]) Graham, Ryan and Yaz likewise were surprised when the Doctor told them about her towing Earth back in place. (TV: The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos [+]Loading...["The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos (TV story)"]) They also didn't recognise the shape of the Dalek recon scout. (TV: Resolution [+]Loading...["Resolution (TV story)"])

However, the Anti-Dalek Force still knew of the invasion, recounting it in The Stolen Earth, (PROSE: The New Dalek Paradigm) as did a book chronicling the history of the universe, which included information on the invasion. (PROSE: The Whoniverse) The Testimony Foundation, which came from the era of New Earth, had audio of Davros from the fall of the Crucible. (TV: Twice Upon a Time [+]Loading...["Twice Upon a Time (TV story)"])

Indeed, the Daleks did again attack 21st century Earth, as a force of Death Squad Daleks attacked in 2021 upon being summoned by the Thirteenth Doctor to deal with the New Dalek Army. The Death Squad Daleks had also known to expect resistance from 21st century Earth. Jack Robertson, who did not recognise the word "Dalek," and the citizens of the United Kingdom were not familiar with the design of the Defence Drones. Even following the 2021 attack, (TV: Revolution of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Revolution of the Daleks (TV story)"]) Dan Lewis, Sarah and Nick did not recognise the Daleks. (TV: Eve of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Eve of the Daleks (TV story)"]) Likewise, in 2012, the Dalek named "Metaltron" by Henry van Statten could not find any information about the Daleks on Earth. (TV: Dalek [+]Loading...["Dalek (TV story)"])

When Cleo Proctor found an inactive Dalek within a UNIT warehouse, she was instinctively scared of it despite not knowing what it was, feeling as though she had seen it before. (AUDIO: Recruits [+]Loading...["Recruits (audio story)"]) The Twelfth Doctor noted that humanity had a great power in being able to forget past problems, instead placing what they learned into "fairy stories". (TV: In the Forest of the Night [+]Loading...["In the Forest of the Night (TV story)"]) By 2021, examples of aliens on Earth were considered examples of the Mandela Effect, as only some people could remember them. (PROSE: The Mandela Effect, Or Monsters on the Streets of London) Yvonne Hartman remembered the invasion, (AUDIO: The Five People You Kill in Middlesbrough) as did Dorothy McShane and St John Colchester. (AUDIO: The Red List) Stew Ferguson, who lost his job as milkman that day, remembered when planets appeared in the sky over Earth. Sylvia Noble also remembered the invasion. (PROSE: The Star Beast [+]Loading...["The Star Beast (novelisation)"])

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

The Writer's Tale revealed a draft for The Stolen Earth [+]Loading...["The Stolen Earth (TV story)"] featuring an ultimately excised exchange between the Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble concerning the solar system, the Doctor explaining that the spontaneous disappearance of the Earth would eventually cause all the other planets to shift and the solar system itself to fall apart, with Donna exclaiming that she did not care about Jupiter. The Doctor claimed that a gravity echo kept the orbits intact temporarily, leaving seven hours before the system would collapse.

Explaining how Henry van Statten was unfamiliar with the Dalek he named Metaltron, The Time Traveller's Almanac suggested that the Van Statten Incident took place in a timeline where the Cult of Skaro did not emerge from the Sphere resulting in the Earth not having been transported to the Medusa Cascade since the personal timelines of both the Doctor and the Dalek race had not progressed to the point where those events occurred.

According to The Dalek Handbook, the three Daleks which created and were subsequently destroyed by the New Dalek Paradigm in Victory of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Victory of the Daleks (TV story)"] were survivors of the 2009 Dalek invasion of Earth. An in-universe book, Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe, later confirmed this was the case.

Special Daleks, a 1994 short story in DWPM 1, was the first source to mention a 21st century Dalek invasion of Earth, though Marcus Hearn had no way of knowing, at the time, that such an event would actually be depicted on television a decade later — nor does it seem likely that Russell T Davies intentionally referenced Special Daleks in plotting out the Series 4 finale. All the same, Hearn correctly predicted that the invasion would be overseen by a Supreme Dalek.

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Though The Stolen Earth [+]Loading...["The Stolen Earth (TV story)"] and Journey's End [+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"] themselves do not give a date for the episodes or the surrounding era, TV: The Fires of Pompeii [+]Loading...["The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)"], TV: The Waters of Mars [+]Loading...["The Waters of Mars (TV story)"], PROSE: A Brief History of the Daleks, and AUDIO: SOS place this time as 2008, while PROSE: Beautiful Chaos, COMIC: Ghosts of the Northern Line and PROSE: The Secret Lives of Monsters instead put it in 2009.
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