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[[file:Kaalann.png|thumb|300px|Kaalann, the City of the Daleks. ([[VG]]: ''[[City of the Daleks]]'')]]
[[Image:Dalek_city.jpg|thumb|150px|The [[Dalek]] city. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Daleks]]'')]]


'''Kaalann''' was the capital city of [[Skaro]], homeworld of the [[Dalek]]s.
The '''Dalek City''' was the home of the [[Dalek]]s on [[Skaro]].


:''Kaalann may be the same city as the [[Dalek City]] seen in previous stories. [[Doctor Who: The Dalek Handbook|The Dalek Handbook]] confirms this.''
==History==
At the time of the [[First Doctor]]'s visit to the planet, the city dated back from before the [[Thousand Year War]]. The Daleks lived not in the city itself, but rather below it where they thought they were shielded from [[radiation]].


==City of the Daleks==
The entire city ran on [[static electricity]] transmitted through metal floors, which the the Daleks of this era of Skaro history required to power their casings. As a consequence of this dependence, the Daleks were unable to leave their city. They were unaware that a group of [[Thal]]s had also survived the [[neutronic war]].
[[Eleventh Doctor|The Doctor]] visited Kaalann in an [[alternate timeline]], traveling there from a devastated [[London]] in [[1963]]. The Daleks had rebuilt a ruined Kaalann and had altered the timeline using a [[Time Lord]] device called the Eye of Time. The Doctor managed to deactivate the Eye, returning the timeline to normal. Kaalann was also returned to normal, becoming ruined, as it had been before the [[Progenitor]] Daleks found it.


The Doctor and Amy explored Kaalann's many different areas in the city while looking for the device that the Daleks were using to alter the timeline.
[[File:Dalek City Destroyed.png|thumb|150px|right|The Dalek City during the [[Great Civil War]].]]
The city at one side had a natural protection in the form of the [[Lake of Mutations]]. Near the swamp was a lake where the Daleks got their [[water]].


===Storerooms===
After the Daleks were destroyed, the Thals moved into the City. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Daleks]]'')
Kaalann had several storerooms with discarded Dalek parts. It was in one of these that the Doctor landed his [[TARDIS]].


===Factories===
During the war between the [[Humanised Dalek]]s and the Daleks ruled by the [[Emperor Dalek]], the Daleks had a city which [[Second Doctor|the Doctor]], having visited before, knew how to navigate. Fighting between the two groups of Daleks devastated the city. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Evil of the Daleks]]'')
Kaalann was used by the Progenitor Daleks as a giant factory. Daleks were produced on a production line. This area was of higher security; it was heavily guarded by Drone and Scientist Daleks. The factories were connected to the other rooms by corridors infested with Varga plants.


===Visualiser Room===
The Visualiser room was a large room where the Daleks recorded and monitored all Dalek activity across the universe. It was controlled by the Visualiser Eye, a large Dalek Eye on one of the walls. The room was full of large data banks and also contained three consoles. In City of the Daleks, the Doctor had to use these consoles to deactivate the Eye's security beam.


===The Supreme Council Chamber===
The Supreme Council Chamber was where the [[Dalek Emperor]] and the [[Eye of Time]] were located. The chamber had two levels. The Emperor and the Eye were located on the top level. It was in this room that the Doctor deactivated the Eye and reversed the timeline. ([[VG]]: ''[[City of the Daleks]]'')


==Appearance==
:''It is not known definitively how these stories relate to each other chronologically. Inarguably, the Daleks living in the city during the Doctor's first visit had cruder technology. By the time of his second visit, the Daleks could move outside the city and had developed [[time travel]].''


Kaalann's atmosphere was heavily polluted by the Daleks' factories. Thirty percent of the atmosphere in the area was made up of sulphuric acid. The sky had an orange colouration and acid rain constantly fell over the city.
[[Doctor Who: The Dalek Handbook|''The Dalek Handbook'']] states that the city was named [[Kaalann]]. However, after [[Fourth Doctor|the Doctor]]'s [[Genesis of the Daleks|intervention]] with the [[Creation of the Daleks]], the new timeline which was created makes it uncertain whether the city was named Kaalann or if it is the same Dalek city [[Eleventh Doctor|the Doctor]] later travelled to when the Daleks wiped out [[Humanity]] with the [[Eye of Time]].
 
Kaalann had many tall buildings, including the Supreme Council Chamber. ([[VG]]: ''[[City of the Daleks]]'')
 
==Behind the scenes==
*The constant acid rain and orange colouration of the city are similar to the complex on the [http://metroid.wikia.com/wiki/Pirate_Homeworld Space Pirate Homeworld] in the video game ''[http://www.metroidwiki.org/index.php/Metroid_Prime_3:_Corruption Metroid Prime 3: Corruption]''.
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Revision as of 10:23, 18 June 2011

The Dalek city. (DW: The Daleks)

The Dalek City was the home of the Daleks on Skaro.

History

At the time of the First Doctor's visit to the planet, the city dated back from before the Thousand Year War. The Daleks lived not in the city itself, but rather below it where they thought they were shielded from radiation.

The entire city ran on static electricity transmitted through metal floors, which the the Daleks of this era of Skaro history required to power their casings. As a consequence of this dependence, the Daleks were unable to leave their city. They were unaware that a group of Thals had also survived the neutronic war.

File:Dalek City Destroyed.png
The Dalek City during the Great Civil War.

The city at one side had a natural protection in the form of the Lake of Mutations. Near the swamp was a lake where the Daleks got their water.

After the Daleks were destroyed, the Thals moved into the City. (DW: The Daleks)

During the war between the Humanised Daleks and the Daleks ruled by the Emperor Dalek, the Daleks had a city which the Doctor, having visited before, knew how to navigate. Fighting between the two groups of Daleks devastated the city. (DW: The Evil of the Daleks)


It is not known definitively how these stories relate to each other chronologically. Inarguably, the Daleks living in the city during the Doctor's first visit had cruder technology. By the time of his second visit, the Daleks could move outside the city and had developed time travel.

The Dalek Handbook states that the city was named Kaalann. However, after the Doctor's intervention with the Creation of the Daleks, the new timeline which was created makes it uncertain whether the city was named Kaalann or if it is the same Dalek city the Doctor later travelled to when the Daleks wiped out Humanity with the Eye of Time.

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