The World That Waits (comic story)
The World That Waits was a comic story original to The Dalek World, a Dalek annual of the 1960s. It was unusual for featuring no human characters whatsoever. Instead, it depicted a battle between the Daleks and the Mechonoids on the planet Mechanus. It can be viewed as a sequel to DW: "The Planet of Decision", the final episode of The Chase. It was one of the very few appearances of the Mechonoids outside that serial.
Summary
On Mechanus, the Mechonoids have hatched a cunning plan to draw the Daleks near. When the over-confident Daleks arrive in Mechonoid City, they are at first soundly repulsed. Even the fungoids are pitching in to squeeze the life out of the Daleks. Just when it appears the Daleks will be utterly vanquished, the Black Dalek calls for a horrible weapon unknown to the Mechonoids. With the single press of a button, the atom divider hurls terrific energy into one of the legs supporting Mechonoid City. The city has no choice but to collapse. A remaining Mechonoid, deep within the rubble, promises that the Dalek treachery will be avenged . . .
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This is quite difficult to date, as there are no references to humans, Earth, Skaro or really anything for which we have a reasonable frame of reference. It's set on the relatively unused planet of Mechanus, for which really on The Chase provides any kind of guidance. The presence of fungoids, or as they would later be known "Gubbage Cones", suggests we're in the same basic evolutionary epoch as DW: The Chase. Placement sometime after the final episode of that televised adventure seems reasonable, because this story depicts the utter devastation of Mechonoid City — a place that seems relatively whole in The Chase.
