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{{Infobox Individual
{{Infobox Individual
|alias            = Emperor Dalek
|image      = Dalek Emperor.jpg
|image            = GoldE.JPG
|species     = Dalek
|species         = Dalek
|origin     = [[Skaro]]
|origin           = [[Skaro]]
|first      = The Parting of the Ways (TV story)
|appearances     = [[Dalek Emperor - list of appearances|'''''see list''''']]
|appearances = [[PROSE]]: ''[[Engines of War (novel)|Engines of War]]''<br>[[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Heavenly Paradigm (audio story)|The Heavenly Paradigm]]'', ''[[Desperate Measures (audio story)|Desperate Measures]]''
|first            = Invasion of the Daleks (comic story)
|voice actor = Nicholas Briggs
|voice actor     =  
}}
}}
The '''Golden Emperor'''<ref>''[[AHistory]]'' mistakenly claims that the Dalek Emperor in this form is never referred to in story as Golden Emperor.</ref>, also known as the '''Master Brain''', ([[COMIC]]: ''[[City of the Daleks (comic story)|City of the Daleks]]'') was an early [[Dalek Emperor|Emperor]] of the [[Dalek Empire]]. It was slightly shorter than the other [[Dalek]]s, with a disproportionately large spheroid head section rendered in gold rather than grey. It also had three globes on each panel unlike other Daleks.
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]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Heavenly Paradigm (audio story)|The Heavenly Paradigm]]'') 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. The Emperor witnessed the other temporal weapons used against human prisoners, like the former governor to [[Moldox]], [[Jocelyn Harris]] who had betrayed her people to work for the Daleks as their puppet. The Emperor watched as Jocelyn was removed from history as a demonstration. ([[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]]'')


== History ==
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]]'')
=== Origin ===
[[File:First_Dalek_Emporer_1.jpg|thumb|left|The first mutated Dalek to use a machine casing, as well as the future Dalek Emperor. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Genesis of Evil]]'')]]
According to one source, the Daleks were originally a race of [[Humanoid Dalek|blue humanoid men]]. One of them, a scientist [[Yarvelling]], created a "machine" as a weapon. After asteroids caused the eruption of neutronic weapons owned by the Daleks, those caught in the blast were [[Kaled mutant|mutated]].


The only [[humanoid Dalek]] survivors of the war, Yarvelling and the warlord [[Zolfian]], emerged from hiding and encountered the machine that Yarvelling had built being occupied by one of the mutants. As they died from radiation poisoning, the agreed to make more machine cases for the mutated Daleks. The original Dalek was built a new casing, made of [[Flidor]] [[gold]], [[quartz]] and [[Arkellis]] flower sap. The first Dalek Emperor was now in command. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Genesis of Evil]]'')
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]] while it used any humans that stumbled upon it to create a new army of Daleks, and it steadily rebuilt it's fleet.


=== Rule ===
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 a Dalek 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 in just a century. ([[TV]]: ''[[Bad Wolf (TV story)|Bad Wolf]]'')  
In [[2400]], the Emperor gave an address at the [[Great Council Chamber]], ordering a [[Dalek]] invasion of the [[solar system]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Invasion of the Daleks (comic story)|Invasion of the Daleks]]'')


Residing in the [[Emperor's Quarters]], the Emperor gave the order to switch on the [[revitalising ray]]s. He was unaware that he was being observed by the [[human]] [[Jeff Stone]], who was conducting espionage in the [[Dalek City]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[City of the Daleks (comic story)|City of the Daleks]]'')
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. The Emperor had become insane due to the fact it had been in hiding for so many centuries. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]'')


Ultimately, the war ended with the Emperor being forced to sue for peace by [[Earth]] ambassadors. In a televised ceremony, the Emperor renounced the Dalek dream of conquest and promised that the Daleks would never leave Skaro again. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Battle for the Moon (comic story)|Battle for the Moon]]'')
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 had 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]]'')


After two hundred years of peace, a mysterious [[Mechanical Planet]] came which threatened both Skaro and Earth. The Emperor landed on Earth and made an offer to eliminate the threat in exchange for the return of confiscated Dalek weaponary, which the humans grudgingly accepted. Ultimately, the Daleks destroyed the Mechanical Planet and, with their weapons and power restored, the Emperor vowed to conquer "all the [[planet]]s in every sky." ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Mechanical Planet (comic story)|The Mechanical Planet]]'')
== 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 had "met the Emperor". ([[TV]]: ''[[School Reunion (TV story)|School Reunion]]'')


Having given him a tour of the Dalek City, the Emperor personally interogated [[Irish]]man [[Pat Kelley]], who had arrived on Skaro in the [[spaceship]] ''[[Emerald Isle]]''. Believing him to be a spy, the Emperor ordered all the Dalek inventions and technology, which Kelley had praised, to be screened for flaws. Interpreting Kelley's advisement for the Daleks to grow out their [[five-leaf clover]]s as an attempt at [[sabotage]], the Emperor had his ship refitted before sending Kelley back to Earth with the clovers, believing that it would bring [[Earth]] to ruin. Little did he realise however, Kelley had infact been playing an elaborate ruse to acquire the clovers all along. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Five-Leaf Clover (short story)|The Five-Leaf Clover]]'')
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]]'')


When the Skaro [[water plant]] was sabotaged, the Emperor initially believed that [[human]] [[slave]]s were responsible. Soon after, however, the Daleks caught an [[Qurl|alien spy]] whom the Emperor ordered to be brought to him. The spy proved to be scout for an army of [[Birdmen]] that invaded Skaro. Though the invaders were ultimately exterminated, the Emperor lamented that their ability of [[invisibility]], a potential asset to the Daleks, was lost with them. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Invisible Invaders (comic story)|The Invisible Invaders]]'')
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 predecessor. ([[GAME]]: ''[[City of the Daleks (video game)|City of the Daleks]]'')
 
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== Footnotes ==
[[Category:Combatants in the Last Great Time War]]
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Survivors of the Last Great Time War]]
{{Dalek variants}}
[[Category:Supposed deities]]
[[Category:Dalek leaders]]
[[Category:Dalek Emperors]]
[[Category:Murderers]]

Revision as of 12:05, 24 December 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, AUDIO: The Heavenly Paradigm) 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. The Emperor witnessed the other temporal weapons used against human prisoners, like the former governor to Moldox, Jocelyn Harris who had betrayed her people to work for the Daleks as their puppet. The Emperor watched as Jocelyn was removed from history as a demonstration. (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 while it used any humans that stumbled upon it to create a new army of Daleks, and it steadily rebuilt it's fleet.

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 a Dalek 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 in just a century. (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. The Emperor had become insane due to the fact it had been in hiding for so many centuries. (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 had 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 had "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 predecessor. (GAME: City of the Daleks)

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