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| {{Infobox Conflict
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| |name = Last Great Time War
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| |aka = The Time War
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| |image = Time War.JPG
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| |date = Throughout [[time]]
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| |location = [[Gallifrey]], [[Skaro]], [[Arcadia]]
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| |result = {{il|Mutual destruction of [[Time Lord]]s and [[Dalek]]s|Destruction of [[Gallifrey]]}}
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| |side1 = [[Dalek Empire]]
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| |side2 = [[Time Lord]]s
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| |leader1 = [[Dalek Emperor]], [[Davros]]
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| |leader2 = [[Rassilon]]
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| |strength1 = 10 million ships
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| |strength2 = Over a million [[Battle TARDIS]]es
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| }}
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| {{You may|Time war|n1=the general concept of a time war}}
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| The '''Time War''' — or the '''Last Great Time War''' — was the war between mighty races, the [[Time Lord]]s and the [[Dalek]]s, "for the sake of all creation". It resulted in the destruction of [[Gallifrey]], leaving only two (known) Time Lords and a small number of Daleks as survivors.
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| == The war ==
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| === The beginning ===
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| The Time Lords predicted that in one possible [[timeline]], the Daleks would "destroy all other life forms and make themselves the dominant creature in the [[universe]]." The [[Time Lord]] [[Ferain]] sent the [[Fourth Doctor]] on a mission to [[Skaro]] during the [[Thousand Year War]] with certain objectives:
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| * If possible, to avert the [[creation of the Daleks]]
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| * Otherwise to alter their development and make them less aggressive
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| * To find some intrinsic flaw or weakness to exploit in the Daleks
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| The Doctor believed he might have set back the history of the Daleks for a thousand years. ([[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks]]'') This step led the Daleks to go to war with the Time Lords. ([[WC]]: ''[[Captain Jack's Monster Files]]: [[Dalek]]'', [[COMIC]]:'' [[Hunters of the Burning Stone (comic story)|Hunters of the Burning Stone]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Dalek Conquests (audio story)|The Dalek Conquests]]'')
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| In revenge of the Time Lords plot to destroy them, the Daleks attempted to create a duplicate of the Doctor to send to [[Gallifrey]] and assassinate the High Council of the Time Lords. ([[TV]]: ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks (TV story)|Resurrection of the Daleks]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Dalek Conquests (audio story)|The Dalek Conquests]]'')
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| The final Dalek attempt to attack the Time Lords involved the [[Hand of Omega]], which [[Davros]] attempted to use to make the Daleks have mastery over time like the Time Lords. The [[Seventh Doctor]] tricked Davros into using the Hand of Omega to destroy Skaro's sun. ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Dalek Conquests (audio story)|The Dalek Conquests]]'') | | John Hurt plays The Ninth Incarnation of the time lord known as The Doctor, an incarnation forgotten during The Time War and he will appear in the anniversary... |
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| After this, the Daleks next step was to start a war with the Time Lords. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Dalek Conquests (audio story)|The Dalek Conquests]]'')
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| === The conflict ===
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| The main force was made of a fleet of [[Dalek flying saucer]]s, which had a total of ten million, and they unleashed the full might of the [[Deathsmiths of Goth]]. The Time Lords used over a million [[Battle TARDIS]]es. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Peacemaker (novel)|Peacemaker]]'')
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| [[File:GallifreyDuringTimeWar.png|left|thumb|The start of the War. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Agent Provocateur]]'')]]
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| The [[Eighth Doctor]] joined the [[Time Lord]]s in the fight against the Daleks after witnessing the death of a child at the hands of a [[Dalek]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Museum Peace]]'') The [[Sontaran]]s told legends of [[the Doctor]] leading Time Lords into battle. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem (TV story)|The Sontaran Stratagem]]'')
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| In the first year, [[Davros]] was killed at the [[Gates of Elysium]] when his [[Davros' command ship|command ship]] flew into the jaws of the [[Nightmare Child]]. The Doctor tried to save him, but failed. Eventually, [[Caan]], the last survivor of the Cult Of Skaro, [[temporal shift|time shifted]] back into the war and saved Davros from the [[time-lock]]ed event at the cost of his own sanity, bringing him into the post-war universe. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]'', ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'')
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| During the war, the entire chain of [[Hotel Historia]] was destroyed, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Hotel Historia (comic story)|Hotel Historia]]'') [[Polymos]] was destroyed, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dust of Ages]]'') and [[Kolox]] was destroyed, leaving behind the [[Kolox Nebula]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Skrawn Inheritance]]'') Another of the battlefields was [[Arcadia]], where the Doctor fought. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'') At the heart of the war, millions were killed and brought back to life every second. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
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| The Time Lords resurrected [[the Master]], believing him an excellent soldier. The Master was at the [[Cruciform]], but when the [[Dalek Emperor]] took control of it, he ran in fear. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'') Later in the war, [[Rassilon]] was [[Lord President|President]] and led the battle to save Gallifrey. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
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| [[File:Gallifrey time war.jpg|right|thumb|[[Gallifrey]] during the final days of the War ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')]]
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| Towards the end of the war, the Daleks sent a capsule to [[Earth]] in the year [[70]] to spread the [[Dalek Factor]] amongst [[human]]s. The capsule's engine exploded and the Dalek was killed soon after impact. It released only a small amount of the Dalek Factor, leading to only one in five hundred million humans having it. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[I am a Dalek]]'')
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| === Conclusion ===
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| By the end of the war, President Rassilon was so desperate he proposed the [[Ultimate Sanction]]. The Time Lords would become creatures of pure consciousness and all of creation would be destroyed. Other horrors and terrors seen in the final days of the war (including the Daleks) were the [[Nightmare Child]], the [[Skaro Degradations]], the [[Horde of Travesties]] and the [[Could've Been King]] with his [[Army of Meanwhiles and Neverweres]]. The [[Tenth Doctor]] described the war's final days as "hell." ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
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| [[File:Gallifrey Destroyed.png|thumb|left|Gallifrey's destruction. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Agent Provocateur]]'')]]
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| In the final days of the War, the [[Eighth Doctor]] tried to regain [[the Great Key]], which had been stolen by unknown forces. After being imprisoned for a month, with the help of [[Chantir]], he overpowered the [[prison guard (The Forgotten)|guards]] and escaped with the key. With the key, he believed that the [[De-mat Gun]] could be replicated and the [[Medusa Cascade]] closed. The Doctor planned to modify the gun so that instead of it removing an individual from time and space, it would remove millions. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Forgotten]]'') This modified De-Mat Gun became [[the Moment]], the weapon that would destroy Gallifrey. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Don't Step on the Grass]]'')
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| Learning the Doctor possessed the Moment, on the last day of the war, the Time Lord High Council tried to escape the time lock by implanting a signal in the mind of the Master when he was a boy and sending a [[diamond]] called a [[White-Point Star]] to [[Earth]] in [[2009]], where {{Simm}} had escaped to. With the signal inside the older Master and six billion humans converted by the [[Immortality Gate]] into [[the Master Race]] to triangulate it, the Master made a connection with the Time Lords' signal.
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| Five Time Lords, including Rassilon and [[the Woman]], escaped to Earth in 2009, where [[Gallifrey]] itself started to return and everything from the war could escape. The Tenth Doctor, who had already ended the war some time before, broke the connection by shooting the White-Point Star; the Time Lords, Gallifrey, and the Master vanished in a burst of white light and were sent, according to the Tenth Doctor, "back into [the] hell" of the Time War.
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| Knowing of Rassilon's plot to destroy time, a younger incarnation of the Doctor used the Moment to end the war. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
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| With the exception of a very few survivors, the Time Lords and the Daleks disappeared from time and space. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]'', ''[[The Parting of the Ways]]'', ''[[Army of Ghosts]]''/''[[Doomsday]]'')
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| Gallifrey was destroyed in a silent flash as bright as a sun. Its annihilation was so profound it stretched deep into the past and far into the future. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eyeless]]'') The [[Cruciform]] fell when Gallifrey was destroyed. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Forgotten]]'') The blast was so powerful the universe convulsed as planets, systems and galaxies were obliterated. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Agent Provocateur]]'')
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| When the Doctor used the Moment, the war was [[time lock]]ed, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Don't Step on the Grass]]'') making it (in theory, or at least according to the Tenth Doctor) impossible to revisit the events; [[Dalek Caan]], however, somehow entered, albeit at the cost of his sanity. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]'')
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| The Ninth Doctor explained to Rose that even saving one man who "wasn't supposed to be alive" affected the whole of time. The Doctor rhetorically asked Rose whether she believed that the thought hadn't occurred to him to go back and save his people and planet. While the Ninth Doctor did not reference the Time Lock, he certainly knew attempting to save his people would have grave consequences. ([[TV]]: ''[[Father's Day]]'')
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| According to the Tenth Doctor, the time lock prevented him going back and saving his people. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Fires of Pompeii]]'')
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| == Aftermath ==
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| The war was mostly invisible to "lower species", but devastating to [[time-aware]] "higher" ones. The [[Time Lord]]s were thought of as myths by higher species like the [[Forest of Cheem]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of the World (TV story)|The End of the World]]'', ''[[The Stolen Earth]]'')
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| * The [[Nestene Consciousness]]'s food stock planet was destroyed. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'')
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| * The [[Gelth]] lost their physical bodies because of the war. They were reduced to gaseous forms. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Unquiet Dead]]'')
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| * Though the [[Sontaran]]s ''were'' aware of the war, they weren't allowed to take part ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem]]''), as opposed to the [[Graxnix]] who were one of the lowest races to take part. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Hotel Historia (comic story)|Hotel Historia]]'')
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| * [[Eve (The Mad Woman in the Attic)|Eve]]'s species was wiped out in the Last Great Time War. ([[TV]]: [[SJAF 2|''SJAF'' 2]])
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| The destruction of the Time Lords created a vacuum that may have left history more vulnerable to change. The [[Ninth Doctor|Ninth]] and [[Tenth Doctor]]s explained to [[Rose Tyler]] and [[Donna Noble]] that time was in flux and history could change instantly — a big change from the way it had been. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Unquiet Dead (TV story)|The Unquiet Dead]]'', ''[[The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)|The Fires of Pompeii]]'', ''[[The Unicorn and the Wasp (TV story)|The Unicorn and the Wasp]]'')
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| The most dramatic demonstration of this was when Rose created a [[temporal paradox]] by crossing her own time stream to save her father, [[Peter Tyler|Pete]], just before his death in a traffic accident. This summoned the [[Reaper]]s, who descended to sterilise the "wound" in time by devouring everything in sight. The Ninth Doctor said that if the Time Lords had been still around, they could have held back the Reapers and prevented or repaired the paradox. ([[TV]]: ''[[Father's Day]]'')
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| As well, the Tenth Doctor noted that when the Time Lords were around, travel between [[Parallel universe|parallel worlds]] was less difficult. With their demise, the paths between worlds were closed. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]'')
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| [[File:The History of the Time War2.jpg|thumb|The Doctor would later hold a book detailing the events of the Time War in the TARDIS' Library]]
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| === Known survivors ===
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| [[File:Dalek Emperor.jpg|right|thumb|The [[Dalek Emperor]], one of the survivors of the war ([[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways]]'')]]
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| ==== Gallifrey inhabitants ====
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| * [[The Doctor]]; he stated in his [[Ninth Doctor|ninth body]] that if any other Time Lords lived, he would have sensed their presence. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]'')
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| * [[The Master]] survived by travelling to the year [[100,000,000,000,000|100 trillion]], and having used a [[Chameleon Arch]] to become the human Professor Yana to escape the war. His use of the arch prevented the Doctor from sensing his existence. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')
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| * Whilst not a Time Lord, [[Leela]] was a resident of the Capitol on Gallifrey. She survived for at least a short time after the destruction of Gallifrey. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Catalyst]]'')
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| * [[K9 Mark I]] survived the destruction of Gallifrey before travelling through time to the year [[2050]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Regeneration (TV story)|Regeneration]])''
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| ==== Daleks ====
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| * A [[Metaltron|single Dalek]] survived and crashed on [[Ascension Island]] on [[Earth]] in [[1962]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]'')
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| * The [[Dalek Emperor]] also survived. He had [[time travel|fallen through time]] to approximately the 2,000th century. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways]]'')
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| * The Daleks sent a [[time capsule]] to [[70]] [[AD]] [[Earth]] in order to spread the Dalek Factor amongst the humans. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[I am a Dalek]]'')
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| * The [[Cult of Skaro]] and the Daleks imprisoned in the [[Genesis Ark]] escaped the attentions of the Bad Wolf, having left the universe for [[the Void]] before the end of the war. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday]]'')
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| * A group of Daleks that appeared to be Time War era appeared in the [[22nd century]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Living Ghosts]]'', ''[[Extermination of the Daleks]]'')
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| * Several Daleks who had survived several pre-Time War encounters with the Doctor on the planets [[Kembel]], [[Spiridon]], [[Exxilon]], [[Aridius]] and [[Vulcan (The Power of the Daleks)|Vulcan]] resided in the [[Dalek Asylum]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)|Asylum of the Daleks]]'')
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| ==== Others ====
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| * Though [[Davros]] was believed by the Doctor to have been killed in the war (consumed by the Nightmare Child), [[Dalek Caan]] [[temporal shift]]ed into the war and rescued him. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]], [[Journey's End]]'')
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| * [[The Advocate]] escaped the Time War when Davros was rescued by Dalek Caan. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Fugitive]]'', ''[[Don't Step on the Grass]]'')
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| * [[Eve (The Mad Woman in the Attic)|Eve]] was sent to [[Earth]] as a child to survive extermination in the Time War. ([[TV]]: [[SJAF 2|''SJAF'' 2]])
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| * The [[Gelth]] survived but lost their bodies. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Unquiet Dead]]'')
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| == Behind the scenes ==
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| * A 2005 faux-documentary produced by [[BBC Radio]], ''[[The Dalek Conquests]]'', attempts to put the Time War into context with the Doctor's recurring conflicts with the Daleks over the years.
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| * A long-running story arc featured in the [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]] book series concurrent with the return of ''Doctor Who'' to television in 2005 featured another Time War, the [[Second War in Heaven]] between the Time Lords and [[the Enemy]]. [[Russell T Davies]], the producer of the revived TV series, has, however, been on record as stating that the Second War in Heaven is a ''different'' conflict, which is one reason why the war referenced on TV is called "the ''Last'' Great Time War."
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| === ''Doctor Who: Battles in Time'' ===
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| [[Tardis:Valid sources|Non-narrative]] material in ''[[Doctor Who: Battles in Time (magazine)|Doctor Who: Battles in Time]]'' magazine revealed further survivors of the Time War.
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| * According to [[DWBIT 51|''DWBIT'' 51]], an army of Daleks were weakened and fell through time to [[Distant past|70 million years]] before the [[21st century]] and were destroyed by [[dinosaur]]s.
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| * According to [[DWBIT 11|''DWBIT'' 11]], a Dalek ship crashed in an island in the western part of the North [[Atlantic Ocean]], causing a disturbance in human vehicles and the mysterious disappearances of aircraft and surface vessels. Their ultimate fate is unknown.
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| Also, [[DWBIT 19|''DWBIT'' 19]] stated a group of Daleks massacred the [[pirate]] fleet of Captain Jack Lawrence in late September 1697.
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