Restoration Empire
The Restoration Empire, (PROSE: The Restoration Empire) or simply known as the Dalek Empire, (AUDIO: The Enemy of My Enemy) was the incarnation of the Dalek Empire which rose from the ashes of the Imperial Dalek faction following the close of the Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War. (PROSE: The Restoration Empire)
History
Origin
During the Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War (PROSE: The Restoration Empire, TV: Remembrance of the Daleks) a Dalek Supreme who would later become the new Dalek Emperor served on the Dalek Council. After Davros fled the war, he exterminated all other members of the council and appointed himself the new emperor. Modelling himself on a former ruler, he built himself a gold casing and augmented his brain capacity, becoming the Emperor of the Restoration.
From this position, he sought to restore the Dalek Empire to its former glory through a new hierarchy of Dalek command and a new system of production. He restored Skaro (PROSE: The Restoration Empire) after it was destroyed by the Seventh Doctor (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks) and overhauled the standard Dalek hierarchy, bringing back Silver Daleks as drones (PROSE: The Restoration Empire) instead of the white-and-gold livery favoured by Davros' Empire. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks) Also among the Emperor's forces was the Dalek Prime Strategist, a unit who claimed to be older than the Emperor. (COMIC: Defender of the Daleks)
Shift in the timelines
An altered history
When the Tenth Doctor poisoned the Kotturuh in the Dark Times, (PROSE: The Knight, The Fool and The Dead) he caused fluctuations in time, (PROSE: The Guide to the Dark Times) leading to his encounter with a Restoration Empire which had not fought in the Last Great Time War. (COMIC: Defender of the Daleks) The Emperor received a message from an ancient Dalek drone, and he realized the unit was a survivor of a Time Squad that had yet to be sent back in time. From the message, the Emperor concluded that history was under attack, which the Dalek Empire was vulnerable to, and that the Doctor was involved, but still needed more information. Deciding the required information could be found somewhere like the Archive of Islos, (PROSE: The Last Message) the Emperor personally led a Dalek fleet to Islos to take the contents of the Archive.
Though the Dalek force overcame all resistance, the Chief Archivian made a deal for the rescue of the Archive with the Entity, promising it the Daleks. When the Emperor and his Daleks, including the Strategist and Executioner entered the Archive, they realized it was empty. The Chief Archivian informed them of its deal as the Entity emerged from a portal. (WC: The Archive of Islos) The Daleks retreated from Islos and returned to Skaro, pursued by the Entity. It attacked Skaro and the Daleks’ firepower proved ineffective, forcing the Emperor to order an evacuation. The Strategist advised that the evacuation was failing and they should abandon the planet. The realisation that the home planet had been lost caused the Emperor to fall silent, forcing the Strategist to coordinate the retreat. After the Strategist suggested reinforcements, the Emperor decreed that the Sentinel of the Fifth Galaxy was required. The Strategist was sent to meet the Sentinel and awaken a dormant army of 10,000 Daleks however the Entity compromised the army and took it over. As the Executioner led Dalek forces against the army, the Strategist advised the Emperor to withdraw again as they could not sustain further losses and defended its failure. (WC: The Sentinel of the Fifth Galaxy) The Empire was devastated by the Entity, with the Daleks’ attacks proving ineffective. Eventually the Emperor was forced to travel to Mechanus claiming to seek the Mechanoids’ assistance, though in truth was deliberately luring the Entity there, accompanied by the Strategist. Noticing his small group of Silver Dalek guards not being reinforced after being destroyed by Mechanoids, the Mechanoid Queen wondered if the Emperor and Strategist were the only two Daleks left. Shortly after the power of the City was drained and the Emperor revealed to the Queen that he’d lured the Entity there. (WC: Planet of the Mechanoids)
The Empire went onto reclaim Skaro, (COMIC: Defender of the Daleks) but the invasion of the Archive of Islos had also unleashed the Hond. (PROSE: The Restoration Empire) With Skaro in danger of falling to the Hond, the Prime Strategist suggested the Doctor be used against the Hond. The Tenth Doctor was captured by the Daleks and brought before the Emperor. He recognised the Empire he was interacting with, who had never fought in the Last Great Time War, as "a paradox". The Emperor convinced him to help them and sent him to meet the Strategist. Together they investigated the Vault of Obscenities and discovered a way to pacify the Hond, deploying it just as the Hond reached Skaro’s defences. The Daleks turned on the Doctor however he escaped, with the aid of the Thirteenth Doctor. The Strategist met the furious Emperor, defending its failure, and suggested the Daleks could use other Doctors, such as the Eighth Doctor. (COMIC: Defender of the Daleks)
Journeys in the Dark Times
Eventually the Emperor sent a Time Squad to rectify the temporal fluctuations to the Dalek Empire’s benefit. (PROSE: The Guide to the Dark Times) Having discovered the source of the fluctuations to be in the Dark Times, where their own timeships could not travel, the Time Squad recruited the Eighth Doctor to help them, planning to use his TARDIS in order to travel back there. (PROSE: The Restoration Empire) Unaware of their true plans, the Doctor discovered the source of the alterations himself and devised, seemingly on his own, the plan to use his TARDIS to help the Dalek timeship travel back to the Dark Times. (AUDIO: The Enemy of My Enemy) In the Dark Times, the Daleks, led by the Eighth Doctor, confronted the Tenth Doctor’s mercenary fleet over Mordeela (PROSE: The Knight, The Fool and The Dead) and discovered an abandoned spaceship with a source of Huon energy. Without the Doctor, the Time Squad harvested the population of Velosia, under the pretence of saving their best citizens from the Kotturuh. (COMIC: Tales of the Dark Times)
