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Revision as of 15:31, 7 December 2007


Skaro was the war-torn homeworld of the Kaleds and the Thals and later the infamous Daleks.

Geography

Skaro was a planet of similar atmosphere, climate and gravity to Earth. (DW: The Daleks onwards) and the twelfth planet from its sun. It had a single continent that was divided into east and west halves of almost equal size. (DW: The Daleks)

Ecosystems and native life

Jungle or forest abounded on parts of Skaro (DW: The Daleks), where Varga plants (DW: Mission to the Unknown), Magnedons (DW: The Daleks) and Slythers (DW: The Dalek Invasion of Earth) could be found. After an exchange of neutron bombs, the forest petrified. (DW: The Daleks)

Other parts appeared simply like nondescript wastelands. (DW: Genesis of the Daleks, Destiny of the Daleks)

This may have happened as a result of the Thousand Year War between the Thals and Kaleds and/or the later wars between Daleks and Thals.

The elemental DNA type of Skarosian life is 467-989. (DW: Daleks in Manhattan)

History

Pre-War history

Though Thals used the same name for their world, in the Kaled language, Skaro means home. (EDA: War of the Daleks).

Oral and written history suggests that the Thals lived as a race of warriors and another race, the Dals, as scientists, who would later mutate into the Daleks. (DW: The Daleks).

This contradicts later evidence that the Daleks evolved from the Kaleds, not a race called the Dals.

Creation of the Daleks

By the time of the creation of the Daleks, the Kaleds and the Thals fought the Thousand Year War over the wasteland adjacent to the Kaled Dome. (DW: Genesis of the Daleks)

Other historical sources would say that the race that would evolve into the Daleks had originally called themselves the Dals.

Technology had devolved in this time. A Scientific Elite now governed the Kaleds. By this phase of the war, biological and nuclear weapons had begun to cause mutations. known as mutos. The Kaled scientists saw this as the end of their species in its "pure" form. The Kaled chief scientist, Davros, decided accelerated to accelerat the mutations on purpose to determine their "ultimate form" and placed the results in travel machines. These creatures then became the successors to the Kaleds, the Daleks.

The Doctor, transported to this time period by the Time Lords to prevent a possible future where the Daleks would rule the universe, played a part in entombing the Daleks in the Kaled bunker. The Daleks still survived and promised to re-emerge. (DW: Genesis of the Daleks)

The aftermath

Centuries or thousands of years passed. Radiation levels had dropped, though they still presented a danger to Human (and Gallifreyan) life.

The Thals evolved into a handsome people, believing they were now of intellectual and physical perfection. They lived a simple pastoral and pacifist lifestyle. The Thals never ventured into the Dalek City near to the petrified forest or showed any curiosity about it. Because of their dependence on static electricity to move about, the Daleks stayed within the city.

The Doctor had landed the TARDIS here, with his other companions, to Skaro, not knowing the planet's dangers. By an irony, the Daleks' discovery of the Doctor and his companions, who came from off-world, caused them to wonder about and to fear the existence of other sentient life on Skaro.

Ian Chesterton taught the Thals to use violence in self-defense, in order to protext themselves against the xenophobic Daleks who threatened them.

The Daleks came to know, during this time, that they needed high radiation to live. With levels subsiding and their lives threatened, the Daleks proposed to set off another neutron bomb. A combined effort of the Doctor and his companions and the Thals, turned off electricity in the Dalek City, making the Daleks powerless. (DW: The Daleks)

Spaceflight era and after

  • One account showed a future era where Skaro has once more become a barren world, possibly abandoned by the Daleks themselves. A few Kaled mutants, outside of Dalek shells, survive. (DW: Destiny of the Daleks)
These events may have taken place in the relative past of Skaro's timeline before its destruction, as the Doctor does not comment on the fact that, in his pesonal timeline, he had already destroyed Skaro.

Destruction of Skaro

Skaro was apparently destroyed circa the 30th century when, as planned by the Doctor, the Hand of Omega caused its sun went supernova. (DW: Remembrance of the Daleks).

Survival of Skaro

It was revealed that Skaro had not in fact been destroyed. The Daleks, via time travel, had discovered records that showed Skaro's destruction. An attempt to change history was unsuccessful.

This refers to the Daleks invasion of the alternative 22nd century Earth. (DW: Day of the Daleks)

The Daleks decided to terraform the planet Antalin to resemble Skaro as a decoy and manipulated Davros and the Doctor into ensuring that Antalin was destroyed in place of the original Skaro. (EDA: War of the Daleks)

This may not be the case as Davros encounters the Eighth Doctor on Earth directly (chronolgically) following their encounter with the Hand of Omega, which seemingly counters this account. (BFA: Terror Firma)

However, Skaro was later destroyed in the Last Great Time War, so the Cult of Skaro planned to change Earth into New Skaro. (DW: Daleks in Manhattan / Evolution of the Daleks)

This may also have been the Dalek Emperor's plan in the year 200,100, as he ordered his fleet to melt the continents, although this may just have been to destroy all the Humans on the planet. However, he never mentioned the phrase "New Skaro", instead he described his new home for his new race as "heaven on Earth". (DW: The Parting of the Ways)

Behind the Scenes

John Peel's explanation in his novel War of the Daleks that the Doctor did not really destroy Skaro at the end of Remembrance of the Daleks has not been met with great approval among Doctor Who fans.