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|aka              = [[Dalek Emperor]]<br />Prime Dalek
|image = Dalek Emperor.jpg
|image            =
|species = Dalek
|species           = Dalek
|origin = [[Skaro]]
|affiliation      =Dalek Empire
|only = The Parting of the Ways (TV story)
|affiliation2      =Renegade Dalek|Renegade Daleks
|actor = Nicholas Briggs
|origin           = [[Skaro]]
}}
|first            = Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)
During the [[Last Great Time War]], a '''[[Dalek Emperor]]''' resided in [[Kaalann]] on [[Skaro]]. ([[GAME]]: ''[[City of the Daleks (video game)|City of the Daleks]]'') He formed the [[Cult of Skaro]], a group above and beyond the Emperor himself, created to "think as the enemy thinks" and "imagine" new ways to find victory. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'') The Emperor took control of the [[Cruciform]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') Towards the end of the War, the Emperor oversaw the creation of the [[Eternity Circle]], and was present when they created the [[Temporal Cannon]] to use against the [[Time Lord]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Engines of War (novel)|Engines of War]]'') When Skaro was devastated, the Emperor was thought to have been killed. ([[GAME]]: ''[[City of the Daleks (video game)|City of the Daleks]]'')
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|appearances      ={{il|[[PROSE]]: ''[[The Chase (novelisation)|The Chase]]''|[[PROSE]]: ''[[The Mutation of Time (novelisation)|The Mutation of Time]]''|[[PROSE]]: ''[[The Evil of the Daleks (novelisation)|The Evil of the Daleks]]''|[[PROSE]]: ''[[War of the Daleks (novel)|War of the Daleks]]''|[[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Four Doctors (audio story)|The Four Doctors]]''}}
|actor            =
|other actor      =
|voice actor      =Nicholas Briggs
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}}The '''Dalek Prime''', possibly alternatively known as the '''Prime Dalek''' ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Thousand Worlds (audio story)|The Thousand Worlds]]''), was, according to some accounts, a senior-ranking [[Dalek]] and an alternative form of the [[Emperor Dalek|Dalek Emperor]]. The title seemed interchangeable, much in the same way the [[Supreme Dalek]] was occasionally referred to as the [[Black Dalek]].


The Dalek Prime was the earliest Dalek in existence and the one that fired on [[Davros]] when they turned on him at [[Creation of the Daleks|their creation]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Evil of the Daleks (novelisation)|The Evil of the Daleks]]'', ''[[War of the Daleks (novel)|War of the Daleks]]'') According to another account, the [[battle of Pejorica]], fought between the Daleks and the [[Jariden]], occurred at a point in Dalek history prior to the creation of the Dalek Prime. After travelling back in time, he was able to take control of earlier versions of the Daleks, which didn't know about his existence and rank. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Four Doctors (audio story)|The Four Doctors]]'')
The Dalek Emperor was aboard its [[Dalek flying saucer|saucer]] flagship when all thirteen incarnations of [[the Doctor]] moved [[Gallifrey]] to a [[pocket universe]] on the last day of the Time War, the assembled [[Dalek Fleet]] ended up firing on itself through the [[space]] Gallifrey once occupied (an event which was presumed to have been the activation of [[the Moment]]) ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]''); as such, the Emperor was believed to have died with the rest of its species, but this was mistaken. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]'')


Following the end of the [[Thousand Year War]], the Dalek Prime began conducting experiments on other life-forms on Skaro, creating [[Mutant|mutations]] which went on to inhabit the [[petrified jungle]] and the [[Lake of Mutations]] near the foot of the Drammankin Mountains. Eventually the Dalek Prime discovered the molecules that had the ability to cause further mutation within a Dalek and created a drug from its research which would initiate the mutation. Not prepared to test the drug on any Dalek in case it grew beyond its capabilities, the Dalek Prime used the drug on himself and evolved to the peak of Dalek evolution with hugely enhanced mental powers and he proclaimed himself the [[Dalek Emperor (The Evil of the Daleks)|Emperor of the Dalek race]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Evil of the Daleks (novelisation)|The Evil of the Daleks]]'')
The Emperor's lone ship barely survived the Time War, falling through time in a heavily damaged state. The nine-metre tall Emperor's new casing had the appearance of its [[Kaled mutant]] revealed floating in a transparent tank of liquid, topped by a giant-sized Dalek dome, complete with [[eyestalk]], flanked by panels of armour dotted by Dalek "bumps" with a ring-shaped "throne" on the bottom. It went into seclusion at the edge of the [[Sol|solar system]] "damaged but rebuilding" during the [[Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire]]. Circa [[199,909]], it secretly installed the [[Jagrafess]] aboard [[Satellite Five]] to play the "long game" of slowly manipulating [[human]]s and re-establishing the Dalek species and fleet. A hundred years after the Jagrafess was killed, in the year [[200,100]], the Emperor was still using Satellite Five (now renamed the "Game Station") to manipulate humanity and conceal his fleet. ([[TV]]: ''[[Bad Wolf (TV story)|Bad Wolf]]'') The Emperor secretly used [[transmat]] technology aboard the space station to kidnap humans for nearly two hundred years. The kidnapped humans were harvested for their genetic material, and "one cell in a billion" was used to rebuild a new race of Daleks ([[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]'') numbering roughly half a million aboard a fleet of 200 ships. ([[TV]]: ''[[Bad Wolf (TV story)|Bad Wolf]]'') Because the Emperor had recreated the [[Dalek]] race, it saw itself as a [[god]] and immortal and so was worshipped by the new Daleks. These and other religious concepts such as blasphemy were new to Dalek psychology. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]'')


At one point in their history, the Dalek Prime sent a squad of Daleks in a [[Dalek time machine|time machine]] to pursue [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] and kill [[the Doctor]] and his [[companion]]s. The [[Supreme Dalek]] supervised the operation and was to report their progress to the Dalek Prime. The squad ultimately failed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Chase (novelisation)|The Chase]]'')
The Emperor's pawn aboard Satellite Five, the [[Controller (Bad Wolf)|Controller]], hated her masters and [[transmat]]ted the [[Ninth Doctor]] aboard the Game Station to help defeat them. ([[TV]]: ''[[Bad Wolf (TV story)|Bad Wolf]]'') When he encountered the Emperor and his new religiously fanatical Daleks, the Doctor surmised that they were driven insane both because they isolated themselves for so long, but also because they were in denial of the fact that they were part human. The Daleks killed almost everyone aboard Satellite Five, and they attacked Earth, bombing millions of people, to transform it into the Emperor's "temple". Shortly afterwards, the Doctor turned down his chance to use an uncalibrated [[delta wave]] to destroy all nearby life, human and Dalek alike. The Emperor thought he was victorious, but he and his entire fleet were atomised by [[Rose Tyler]] after she had absorbed the energies of the time vortex and became the [[Bad Wolf (entity)|Bad Wolf]] [[temporal paradox]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]'')


In the year [[4000]], the Daleks constructed a base on the [[planet]] [[Kembel]] and formed an alliance with the rulers of the [[Outer Galaxies]] to gather the resources they needed to build the [[Time Destructor]] which they planned to use to wipe out the entire [[Solar System]]. The Dalek Prime awaited the completion of the invasion on [[Skaro]]. Due to the interference of the [[First Doctor]], the Time Destructor's [[taranium]] core was stolen. The Dalek Prime sent a [[Red Dalek]] from Skaro to Kembel in another time machine to aid in its recovery. When the taranium was recovered and returned to Kembel, the Doctor got hold of the Time Destructor and wiped out the Dalek force stationed there. The Dalek Prime, unable to replace the [[Dalek Fleet|invasion fleet]] and the Black Dalek commanding it, was forced to accept the defeat. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Mission to the Unknown (novelisation)|Mission to the Unknown]]''/''[[The Mutation of Time (novelisation)|The Mutation of Time]]'')
== Post-mortem ==
While competing with [[Sarah Jane Smith]] over their adventures with [[the Doctor]], [[Rose Tyler]] one-upped her when she said she faced Daleks by noting that she "met the Emperor." ([[TV]]: ''[[School Reunion (TV story)|School Reunion]]'')


In the wake of the Time Destructor disaster, much of the [[galaxy]] was warned about the Dalek plan and several war forces — among them the [[Thal]]s, the [[Draconian]]s and the [[Terran Federation]] — were formed to battle the [[Dalek Empire]] in a [[Great War (The Evil of the Daleks)|series of wars]] fought over the course of the millennium and into the 5000s. It was eventually predicted by Dalek computers that the race would become extinct within 80 years if it could not secure victory. The Dalek Prime took on the title of the [[Dalek Emperor (The Evil of the Daleks)|Dalek Emperor]] during this time and, desperate to win, ordered the Daleks to conduct research into the [[Dalek Factor]]. He was heavily damaged, presumed dead, when the [[Second Doctor]] [[Humanised Dalek|infected many of the Daleks]] with the [[Human Factor]], sparking a [[Dalek Civil War|devastating civil war]] between them and the [[Emperor's Personal Guard|Emperor's Guards]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Evil of the Daleks (novelisation)|The Evil of the Daleks]]'')
Rose would later gloat over her destruction of the Emperor which she revealed in her confrontation with [[Dalek Sec]], enraging him to the point that he was only stopped short of exterminating her by the arrival of the [[Tenth Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'')


Much later, the Dalek Prime returned following the [[Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War]] and set about planning to extinguish the remaining support Davros still had within the Dalek Empire. A deal was made with a group of [[Thal]]s who kidnapped Davros, along with the [[Eighth Doctor]], and they transported him to Skaro to stand trial. Before the trial, the Dalek Prime claimed to the Doctor that much of Dalek history was a fabrication to prevent destruction of Skaro by Davros and the [[Seventh Doctor]] at the culmination of the [[Shoreditch Incident]]. During Davros's trial, one of Davros's supporters destroyed a decoy of the Dalek Prime, igniting another civil war. The Dalek Prime claimed victory after Davros's capture and apparent execution and after his supporters were apparently wiped out. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[War of the Daleks (novel)|War of the Daleks]]'')
This Emperor's casing on Skaro was used by the [[New Dalek Paradigm]] to create a new [[Dalek Emperor (City of the Daleks)|Dalek Emperor]] who resembled his predessor. ([[GAME]]: ''[[City of the Daleks (video game)|City of the Daleks]]'')


The Dalek Prime was pulled through the Doctor's timestream and encountering the [[Fifth Doctor|fifth]], [[Sixth Doctor|sixth]], [[Seventh Doctor|seventh]] and [[Eighth Doctor|eighth]] incarnations of the Doctor. He was finally trapped in a time loop created by the Fifth Doctor. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Four Doctors]]'')
== {{NameSort}}Trivia ==
 
* Due to an unknown reason, the mutant used as the emperor's appearance resembled that of the[[File:Dalek Emperor close up The Parting of the Ways.jpg|thumb|220x220px]]Hybrids that he created, though had the enlarged brain and tentacles but seemingly with two eyes (one of which being shut) and a "mouth". However, this could be due to a re-use of the regular Hybrid mutant but with modifications to make it more [[Kaled mutant|Kaled]]-like 
== Other references ==
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[[The Master]] once called the Dalek Prime "ridiculous". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Legacy of the Daleks (novel)|Legacy of the Daleks]]'')
 
During the [[Last Great Time War]]. The [[War Doctor]] stated that he never heard of the designation Prime Dalek, who may have been another rank, given the likely coexistence with an Emperor. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Thousand Worlds (audio story)|The Thousand Worlds]]'')
 
== Behind the scenes ==
* The Dalek Prime's original appearance was to be the [[War of the Daleks (TV story)|''War of the Daleks'' TV serial]] proposed by [[John Peel]]. The story was never produced following [[Doctor Who|the show's]] cancellation in 1989. Peel kept the idea and the Dalek Prime appeared or was mentioned in all of his Dalek novels and novelisations apart from ''[[The Power of the Daleks (novelisation)|The Power of the Daleks]]''. The audio story ''[[The Four Doctors (audio story)|The Four Doctors]]'' marks the Dalek Prime's only appearance in a story that was neither a novel nor written by Peel (excluding ''[[Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks]]'' since it was originally a standard Dalek before future writers came up with the concept of a Dalek Prime).
* The Dalek Prime is commonly described as a shorter [[gold]] Dalek with a spherical top section, rather like the [[TV Century 21]] [[Dalek Emperor]].
* Novels usually refer to the Dalek Prime as a "he" rather than an "it" like all the other standard Daleks. This would also happen with [[Dalek X]] in the novel ''[[Prisoner of the Daleks (novel)|Prisoner of the Daleks]]''.
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Revision as of 23:31, 14 February 2018

During the Last Great Time War, a Dalek Emperor resided in Kaalann on Skaro. (GAME: City of the Daleks) He formed the Cult of Skaro, a group above and beyond the Emperor himself, created to "think as the enemy thinks" and "imagine" new ways to find victory. (TV: Doomsday) The Emperor took control of the Cruciform. (TV: The Sound of Drums) Towards the end of the War, the Emperor oversaw the creation of the Eternity Circle, and was present when they created the Temporal Cannon to use against the Time Lords. (PROSE: Engines of War) When Skaro was devastated, the Emperor was thought to have been killed. (GAME: City of the Daleks)

The Dalek Emperor was aboard its saucer flagship when all thirteen incarnations of the Doctor moved Gallifrey to a pocket universe on the last day of the Time War, the assembled Dalek Fleet ended up firing on itself through the space Gallifrey once occupied (an event which was presumed to have been the activation of the Moment) (TV: The Day of the Doctor); as such, the Emperor was believed to have died with the rest of its species, but this was mistaken. (TV: The Parting of the Ways)

The Emperor's lone ship barely survived the Time War, falling through time in a heavily damaged state. The nine-metre tall Emperor's new casing had the appearance of its Kaled mutant revealed floating in a transparent tank of liquid, topped by a giant-sized Dalek dome, complete with eyestalk, flanked by panels of armour dotted by Dalek "bumps" with a ring-shaped "throne" on the bottom. It went into seclusion at the edge of the solar system "damaged but rebuilding" during the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. Circa 199,909, it secretly installed the Jagrafess aboard Satellite Five to play the "long game" of slowly manipulating humans and re-establishing the Dalek species and fleet. A hundred years after the Jagrafess was killed, in the year 200,100, the Emperor was still using Satellite Five (now renamed the "Game Station") to manipulate humanity and conceal his fleet. (TV: Bad Wolf) The Emperor secretly used transmat technology aboard the space station to kidnap humans for nearly two hundred years. The kidnapped humans were harvested for their genetic material, and "one cell in a billion" was used to rebuild a new race of Daleks (TV: The Parting of the Ways) numbering roughly half a million aboard a fleet of 200 ships. (TV: Bad Wolf) Because the Emperor had recreated the Dalek race, it saw itself as a god and immortal and so was worshipped by the new Daleks. These and other religious concepts such as blasphemy were new to Dalek psychology. (TV: The Parting of the Ways)

The Emperor's pawn aboard Satellite Five, the Controller, hated her masters and transmatted the Ninth Doctor aboard the Game Station to help defeat them. (TV: Bad Wolf) When he encountered the Emperor and his new religiously fanatical Daleks, the Doctor surmised that they were driven insane both because they isolated themselves for so long, but also because they were in denial of the fact that they were part human. The Daleks killed almost everyone aboard Satellite Five, and they attacked Earth, bombing millions of people, to transform it into the Emperor's "temple". Shortly afterwards, the Doctor turned down his chance to use an uncalibrated delta wave to destroy all nearby life, human and Dalek alike. The Emperor thought he was victorious, but he and his entire fleet were atomised by Rose Tyler after she had absorbed the energies of the time vortex and became the Bad Wolf temporal paradox. (TV: The Parting of the Ways)

Post-mortem

While competing with Sarah Jane Smith over their adventures with the Doctor, Rose Tyler one-upped her when she said she faced Daleks by noting that she "met the Emperor." (TV: School Reunion)

Rose would later gloat over her destruction of the Emperor which she revealed in her confrontation with Dalek Sec, enraging him to the point that he was only stopped short of exterminating her by the arrival of the Tenth Doctor. (TV: Doomsday)

This Emperor's casing on Skaro was used by the New Dalek Paradigm to create a new Dalek Emperor who resembled his predessor. (GAME: City of the Daleks)

Trivia

  • Due to an unknown reason, the mutant used as the emperor's appearance resembled that of the
    Dalek Emperor close up The Parting of the Ways.jpg
    Hybrids that he created, though had the enlarged brain and tentacles but seemingly with two eyes (one of which being shut) and a "mouth". However, this could be due to a re-use of the regular Hybrid mutant but with modifications to make it more Kaled-like
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