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The [[Sontaran]]s also utilised battle computers. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Sontaran Ordeal (audio story)|The Sontaran Ordeal]]'') | The [[Sontaran]]s also utilised battle computers. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Sontaran Ordeal (audio story)|The Sontaran Ordeal]]'') | ||
==Dalek Battle | ==Dalek Battle Computers== | ||
During the [[Dalek-Movellan War]] it was a machine intelligence that guided both the forces of the [[Dalek]]s and the [[Movellan]]s. With both forces following a logical machine outcome, the war lasted for centuries with not a single shot fired as both sides were equally matched. In order to win, each side sought an advantage over the other. The [[Dalek Empire]] reawakened their creator, [[Davros]], who programmed their computers to provide them that advantage. The Movellans, discovering this, demanded that the [[Fourth Doctor]] program their computers likewise in order to defeat their Dalek foes. ([[TV]]: ''[[Destiny of the Daleks]]'') | During the [[Dalek-Movellan War]] it was a machine intelligence that guided both the forces of the [[Dalek]]s and the [[Movellan]]s. With both forces following a logical machine outcome, the war lasted for centuries with not a single shot fired as both sides were equally matched. In order to win, each side sought an advantage over the other. The [[Dalek Empire]] reawakened their creator, [[Davros]], who programmed their computers to provide them that advantage. The Movellans, discovering this, demanded that the [[Fourth Doctor]] program their computers likewise in order to defeat their Dalek foes. ([[TV]]: ''[[Destiny of the Daleks]]'') | ||
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A battle computer was a computer interface or a machine intelligence with a human interface utilised by several species. Both the Daleks and Movellans made extensive use of battlecomputers during their war, the resulting stalemate led the Daleks to develop human-interfaced battle computers for better creativity. (TV: Destiny of the Daleks, Remembrance of the Daleks)
The Sontarans also utilised battle computers. (AUDIO: The Sontaran Ordeal)
Dalek Battle Computers
During the Dalek-Movellan War it was a machine intelligence that guided both the forces of the Daleks and the Movellans. With both forces following a logical machine outcome, the war lasted for centuries with not a single shot fired as both sides were equally matched. In order to win, each side sought an advantage over the other. The Dalek Empire reawakened their creator, Davros, who programmed their computers to provide them that advantage. The Movellans, discovering this, demanded that the Fourth Doctor program their computers likewise in order to defeat their Dalek foes. (TV: Destiny of the Daleks)
During the Shoreditch Incident the Renegade Daleks utilised a human-interfaced battle computer. It required a creative intelligence; a a young child was selected and conditioned to obey the Daleks and utilised the child's imagination to bolster the battle computer's strategies. The child was also bolstered with the ability to defend themselves being able to fire deadly bolts of electricity from her hands. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks)
The video game Warfleet was the Daleks attempt to utilise human creativity, via a video game, rather than direct interface, this video game directly controlled the Daleks' drone ships, via an overlayed interface within the video game (AUDIO: We Are The Daleks)
The Seventh Incursion Squad consulted a Dalek Battle Computer to find a way to defeat the Mechonoids on Magella. (PROSE: Birth of a Legend)
Later during the Dalek's campaign masquerading behind the Fifth Axis they utilised human battle computers, utilising older humans with battle experience for their battle computers. (AUDIO: Death and the Daleks)
Behind the scenes
- The voice of the Dalek Battle Computer was supplied by John Leeson, best known as the voice of K9.
- The battle computer was voiced by Willi Röbke in the German dub of Remembrance of the Daleks.
