User:Tehtumpi/History of the Daleks
This article concerns Daleks' history as a race.
- Dalek history is complicated at best, given their temporal activities and multiple timelines, placement of some of their history is problematic. This history is based on information that this wiki covers.
Dalek History
First timeline
The BBC's official line, stated in both (WEB: Dalek History: Part 1) and (REF: Doctor Who: The Dalek Handbook) that there are two Dalek timelines, created by the Fourth Doctor in Genesis of the Daleks. As the spin-off material tended not to follow this, the placing of non-televised stories is conjuncture.
Creation of the Daleks
Daleks were the brain child of the crippled Kaled scientist Davros, designed as travel and battle machines for the mutated remains of his people.
- See main article
Early History
The Daleks triggered a neutron bomb to finally take out the Thals, and construct the city of Kalaan around the remnants of the Kaled's city. Davros never gave them the ability to leave the city, as they're reliant on static electricity in their environment, and they feel no need to work on their own methods: as the Kaleds believed their was no life outside Skaro and the Thals seem beaten, they're content to stay in Kalaan. They've forgotten Davros and their own origins by the time the First Doctor arrives. (REF: Doctor Who: The Dalek Handbook) (DW: The Daleks)
Upon discovering both the continuing existence of a non-mutated Thal race and that they themselves now need radiation to survive, the Daleks decided to detonate another nuclear device to remove the Thals from Skaro. However, the Doctor's interference incapacitates, destroying their static electricity power source. (DW: The Daleks)
- This occurs during the 1960s. (REF: Doctor Who: The Dalek Handbook)
At some point after this, the Daleks are reactivated. They're now aware that alien life exists and set to work into expanding into space, including the development of special equipment that lets them operate outside of static electricity areas. (REF: Doctor Who: The Dalek Handbook) They ran into - and defeated - multiple threats, the most persistent being the Mechanoids. (The Dalek Chronicles) One early expedition was stranded on Earth for centuries, before being destroyed when they made an attack on 1970s Sydney. (TVA: *Sub Zero)
By 2135, this empire was at the height of its power and has multiple worlds under its control. (TVC: The Doctor Strikes Back)
Eventually, they came across Earth and the human race. (TV21: The Road to Conflict)
The Thals, meanwhile, would go on to take sole possession of Skaro. (DW: Planet of the Daleks)
First Invasion of Earth
- See also: 22nd century Dalek invasion
The invasion began in 2157. While Dalek forces caused the mysterious destruction of multiple offworld human colonies (NA: Lucifer Rising), Earth was bombarded with viral weaponry, weakening the planet and decimating whole continents. A year later, just as a cure was found, the Daleks moved in; their numbers were bolstered with Robomen, an act they knew would humiliate humanity. (DW: The Dalek Invasion of Earth) New York City was destroyed. (DW: The Chase)
The Daleks held Earth for ten years and exterminated vast swathes of the planet; small pockets of human resistance existed but were ineffectual, with the South African group and most of the London group wiped out. They attempted to turn Earth into a mobile dreadnought, but just before this could be done, they were overthrown when the First Doctor turned their Robomen servants against them; the occupation's command were then wiped out by a volcanic blast. (DW: The Dalek Invasion of Earth)
Time travel
The Daleks had not recognised the First Doctor on Earth (DW: The Dalek Invasion of Earth) but after realising he'd defeated them twice (REF: Doctor Who: The Dalek Handbook), and knowing he had time travel technology, the Daleks constructed a time machine to pursue the First Doctor through time and space. This eventually also ended in failure on the planet Mechanus and a new conflict with the Mechanoids. (DW: The Chase) By this point, they'd advanced their external power capabilities. (REF: Doctor Who: The Dalek Handbook)
Galactic Wars
Despite their setback the Daleks went on to form an empire, and attempt several galaxy-level wars. Around the same time, they tried to ambush the Second Doctor on his diplomatic visit to Trodos; while the attempt failed, they did succeed in wiping out the Trods, a potential rival power and time-active race. (TVC: The Trodos Ambush)
In the 26th century, the Second Dalek War broke out between the Dalek Empire and the allied empire of Earth and Draconia. The result was the Second Dalek War, a vicious conflict that ravaged many worlds and lasted decades, but would result in Dalek defeat. (DW: Frontier in Space, REF: Doctor Who: The Dalek Handbook))
In an attempt to alter their own timeline, Daleks from further in the future (see "Post-Civil War") would go back to the 26th century to alter events in their favour. (REF: Doctor Who: The Dalek Handbook)) With the aid of the Master and hired Ogrons, they tried to manipulate Earth and Draconia into destroying each other. They also quietly conquered the planet Spiridon and began experiments to turn their armies invisible; an army of 12,000 Daleks awaited this treatment. However, the Third Doctor exposed their plan and later ensured the Spiridon army was imprisoned in ice. To carry out the second, he had to call for aid from the Time Lords. (DW: Frontier in Space, Planet of the Daleks)
The 26th century Daleks continued the war. It finally came to an end when the Tenth Doctor and the crew of the Wayfarer destroyed the command ship of the Dalek Inquisitor General. The loss of such a powerful Dalek vessel gave Earth what was needed to push back the Dalek fleet which retreated from Earth-Space once again and winning Earth the conflict. (NSA: Prisoner of the Daleks)
Beaten back during the wars, the Daleks began chemical bombardments of the Earth Empire's outmost planets, spreading plague. When it was discovered that parrinium could cure the plague, both human and Dalek taskforces were sent to planets where parrinium could be found, the humans with the intention of curing the plague and Daleks with the intention of preventing them from doing so. The Third Doctor encountered the Daleks on one of these missions on the planet Exxilon. The Dalek taskforce was destroyed and the humans made off with the parrinium. (DW: Death to the Daleks, REF: Doctor Who: The Dalek Handbook)
The Dalek Wars ended in the year 3000 following another Dalek invasion of Earth. After their defeat, the Daleks vanished from Mutter's Spiral, but they remained active. (DW: Mission to the Unknown, REF: Doctor Who: The Dalek Handbook)
Galactic War (second attempt)
Between the years 3500 and 4000, the Daleks gained control of over 70 planets in the Ninth Galactic System and 40 more in the Constellation of Miros. (DW: Mission to the Unknown)
In a second attempt in the year 4000, the Dalek Empire recruited human traitor Mavic Chen and many power-hungry galactic leaders in a plot to bring down and carve up the Earth empire; unknown to their allies, the Daleks planned later to kill them and seize their unprepared worlds too. They also attempted to use the Time Destructor as a weapon and a means of war. The First Doctor stopped this, and the Dalek's former allies were prepared to fight off Dalek assaults. (DW: The Daleks' Master Plan)
Research into the Dalek Factor
The Emperor of the Daleks, now back on Skaro and the city of Kalaan - the Thals appear to have been routed (REF: Doctor Who: The Dalek Handbook) - instigated several investigations, including a form of time travel which utilised Edward Waterfield's static electricity mirrors. Another research investigation was into the Dalek Factor; the Doctor in his second incarnation was recruited to assist in the research of this. However, he reversed the Dalek Factor processing machines, implanting a group of Daleks with the human Factor. A short civil war ensued, decimating the planet and critically injuring/destroying the Emperor. (DW: The Evil of the Daleks)
Post-civil war
Following the war and a revamp of their command structure, the Daleks plotted to rework their timeline. By this point, they had to rely on Ogrons to bolster their weakened numbers. The Daleks would send a fleet (REF: Doctor Who: The Dalek Handbook) to conquer Earth centuries before their first battle. This enabled them to create a new, earlier empire that spanned the galaxy, but was dependent on a time paradox that created a Third World War in the 20th century. The Third Doctor undid this timeline. (DW: Day of the Daleks)
The Daleks, now aware of the Third Doctor, tried to alter the 26th century but again failed. (REF: Doctor Who: The Dalek Handbook)
These new actions, as well as the Doctor's call for aid and the Master's involvement, prompted the Time Lords to take a new look at the Daleks. (REF: Doctor Who: The Dalek Handbook)
Second timeline
Now foreseeing a time of Dalek dominance, the Time Lords sent the Fourth Doctor to stop the Daleks from ever evolving. (DW: Genesis of the Daleks)
The spin-off material tended not to follow the "two timelines" theory, causing stories post-Genesis to refer to pre-Genesis events. The exact placing of non-televised stories is conjuncture.
Creation of the Daleks
Daleks were the brain child of the crippled Kaled scientist Davros, designed as travel and battle machines for the mutated remains of his people. However, the Doctor's arrival made him realise that alien life existed, knowledge he programmed into the Daleks; it also led to the Daleks being engineered so they didn't require static electricity and could assault the Thal City directly. (DW: Genesis of the Daleks) (REF: Doctor Who: The Dalek Handbook)
Early history
The Daleks still turned on Davros but in this timeline, they were entombed in the ruined Kaled bunker. The Fourth Doctor believed he'd retarded their evolution by a thousand years. (DW: Genesis of the Daleks)
In the second timeline, the Daleks were less cunning, more clinical beings, attempting to operate on logic and rationality like machines. (DW: Destiny of the Daleks) (REF: Doctor Who: The Dalek Handbook) The Daleks abandoned Skaro when they emerged, rather than building Kalaan there; a second neutron war seemed to have been started, as the planet would still be saturated with radiation for longer than before and the Thals appeared to be completely gone. (REF: Doctor Who: The Dalek Handbook)
Some Daleks were left on Skaro, ones that were dependent on static electricity: possibly an early prototype. (BFD: Guilt) (EDA: Alien Bodies)
Wars in space
In the late 21st century, the Daleks were described as "scattered around the edges of the Mutters' Spiral, trying to build up a decent galactic powerbase".(EDA: Alien Bodies) As before, they would go on to attack Earth in 2157.
While Dalek forces caused the mysterious destruction of multiple offworld human colonies (NA: Lucifer Rising), Earth was bombarded with viral weaponry, weakening the planet and decimating whole continents. A year later, just as a cure was found, the Daleks moved in; their numbers were bolstered with Robomen, an act they knew would humiliate humanity. (DW: The Dalek Invasion of Earth) New York City was destroyed. (DW: The Chase) The wider Solar System was blockaded. Mars was also invaded, the Daleks intending to seize an Osirian super-weapon (not knowing it had been destroyed). Every lunar and planetary colony around Sol was bombed or conquered by 2162, wiping out the native species for Pluto. (NA: GodEngine)
The end of the Dalek conquest seems to have been similar to the original timeline. (DW: The Dalek Invasion of Earth) Subsequently, the solar system blockade was broken in the same year by human forces. (NA: GodEngine)
In 21999, a few remaining Daleks later tried to conquer post-invasion England. (EDA: Legacy of the Daleks)
In the 25th century, the Daleks realised that they did not have sufficient numbers to challenge the growing imperial powers of the galaxy, and so in 2430 they invaded the New Earth System with the intention of turning it into a system of breeding colonies. They also intended to give themselves new, organic qualities taken from other species, so as to end their robotic thought processes. This was thwarted, but not before three planets were completely exterminated. (DWM: The Dogs of Doom)
A Second Dalek War would erupt in this 26th century as well, a vicious conflict that ravaged many worlds and lasted decades. (NA: Love and War, Return of the Living Dad, Deceit) The situation was grim enough that Earth would give its worst criminals the choice of execution or becoming highly-armed Dalek Killer soldiers. (DWM: Abslom Daak... Dalek Killer)
The Daleks attempted to occupy Earth again, but their attempt was thwarted by humanity's alliance with other races. Due to a failure to launch nuclear weapons, however, Mars was temporarily occupied. (BNA: Beige Planet Mars)
Dalek-Movellan War
The less creative Daleks found themselves in a war against the Movellans, a robotic race. The two sides were locked in a long stalemate, each side's purely logical battle computers keeping them there. To solve the stalemate the Daleks returned to Skaro (the Thals were completely absent from the planet at this point) and uncovered their creator Davros, whom they had previously attempted to exterminate. (DW: Destiny of the Daleks)
Following this event, the Movellans discovered a virus which was deadly to the Daleks and could permeate their casings. Dalek casualties were so massive that they were forced to recruit human troops into their army.
In an attempt to find a cure, the Dalek Supreme ordered Davros be recovered from the humans to assist in a cure.
During this point the Daleks had began to discover time travel again, and created the time corridor. They used these to place duplicates in positions of authority in Earth's history, intending to manipulate events for the Daleks' best interests. (DW: Resurrection of the Daleks) They had also discovered what the Time Lords had done to them and in an act of retaliation (DWAN: 2006 Doctor Who Annual), they also planned to create a duplicate of the Fifth Doctor and use it to kill the High Council on Gallifrey. (DW: Resurrection of the Daleks)
Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War
- See separate article.
While the term "Renegade" is used here to identify the faction, they were not called the Renegade Daleks until Remembrance of the Daleks. They did not refer to themselves as Renegades at any point.
Davros retired to the planet Necros and began creating his own race of Daleks from the remains of humans at Tranquil Repose. However, humans informed the Renegade Daleks of Davros' whereabouts, and they retrieved him. (DW: Revelation of the Daleks)
While en route to Skaro, their craft was knocked off course and Davros crash landed on the planet Lethe. The Renegade Daleks recruited the sixth incarnation of the Doctor to assist in Davros' capture. (BFA: The Juggernauts)
Thanks to the manipulations of the Sixth and later Seventh Doctor, Davros escaped trial and ended up on Spiridon, changing many of the buried Daleks into Imperials. As the Doctor intended, an all-out Dalek civil war resulted. (DWM: Up Above the Gods,Emperor of the Daleks!)
The civil war concluded after Davros' faction clashed in 1963 London over the Hand of Omega, which the First Doctor had left there. An older version of the Doctor ensured that Davros' faction, the Imperial Daleks, acquired the Hand, and, attempting to use the Hand to grant his Daleks unlimited time travel, apparently caused Skaro's sun to go supernova. (DW: Remembrance of the Daleks)
- See Hand of Omega and Shoreditch Incident.
According to the Dalek Prime, it was not Skaro, but a decoy world called Antalin, that had been destroyed. (EDA: War of the Daleks)
- The veracity of the Dalek Prime's claims is debatable.
Davros' Fate
- Davros may have, prior to this appearance, been tried on Skaro by the Dalek Prime and then reinserted into this timeline; these events are somewhat unclear. (EDA: War of the Daleks)
Following the Hand of Omega returning and destroying his command craft, Davros escaped in a life pod which was ejected into the Time Vortex, where he lay until the pod was intercepted by another craft. He eventually encountered the Eighth Doctor, brainwashing his companions and altering the Doctor's memory. Davros then invaded the planet Earth, decimating its population. He eventually went mad, turning schizophrenic, and was removed from the planet by what may have been a faction of Daleks. (BFA: Terror Firma)
The Daleks' New Empire
Increase in scale
In the 42nd century, led by a (possibly new) Dalek Emperor, the Daleks began seeking knowledge and information throughout the universe with plans to construct their own empire. A Dalek squad was sent to the planet Kar-Charrat to obtain information from the Library located there. (BFA: The Genocide Machine)
They also mined the planet Etra Prime and crashed it into the planet Archetryx to gain a time vessel to aid their invasion of Gallifrey. This all surrounded their mining of what was known as the Apocalypse Element. During this event they ignited the element in the Seriphia Galaxy, creating a new powerbase from which they could begin their empire. (BFA: The Apocalypse Element)
Conquest of the Milky Way
Following their creation of the Seriphia Galaxy, in 4162 the Daleks began building their forces once more before launching an attack on Vega 6 with the aims of mining Veganite to use to create a multi-dimensional bridge to another universe. They soon had overrun much of the Milky Way galaxy (BFDE: Invasion of the Daleks), including the Sol system. (BFDE: Dalek War: Chapter One)
Following their invasion they recruited Susan Mendes to manage and 'inspire hope' in their slaves. She and her accomplice Kalendorf assisted the Daleks for several years, helping the Daleks control the many worlds they conquer: soon much of the galaxy was conquered, including Spiridon (now called Zelaria) (BFA: Return of the Daleks) and Earth's solar system.
Susan Mendes and Kalendorf later lead a revolution against the Daleks. Susan Mendes was (apparently) killed in the first stages of the fighting, but the Dalek Emperor was already journeying to the planet Lopra Minor to use the human-built Project Infinity and enhance it with their extra Veganite to create a doorway between universes, to attempt find information on an alternate universe Daleks who had conquered the universe. (BFDE: Project Infinity)
The Daleks from the alternate universe were equal and opposite to the Daleks who sought them out and war ensued, the alternate universe Daleks (lead by the Mentor) siding with the Earth Alliance against the Daleks. (BFDE: Dalek Empire II: Dalek War) The war carried on for years, and eventually the Daleks were pushed back to the Sol system. (BFDE: Dalek War: Chapter One) Jupiter was terraformed with Varga plants as a trap for the humans. (BFDE: Dalek War: Chapter Three)
Eventually, however, the alternate Daleks were shown to be a threat in their own right, intending to eventually enforce peace via dictatorship, exterminations, and mind control. (BFDE: Dalek War: Chapter Two) They also attempted to destroy Susan Mendes' body, which contained the consciousness of the Dalek Emperor. Kalendorf and Suz allowed her to be taken away by the original Daleks (who erased most of her mind to leave the Emperor in her body). The Daleks and the Alliance joined forces against the alternate Daleks (BFDE: Dalek War: Chapter Three), resulting in a war that lasted years and led to them returning to their own universe. Kalendorf then hit the Daleks in a pre-emptive strike: he planted a trigger in Susan's mind and, now linked into the Daleks' network, she sent a pulse that self-destructed every Dalek and Dalek technology in the galaxy. This became known as the Great Catastrophe, as the devastation took out whole star systems and collapsed galactic civilisation. (BFDE: Dalek War: Chapter Four).
The same signal that destroyed the Daleks in the Milky Way also almost completely destroyed the Daleks in the Seriphia Galaxy. However, one small outpost was able to redirect the destruction signal to a specially prepared Dalek unit. A side effect from this caused the personalities of the targeted Dalek, the Dalek Emperor, and Susan Mendes to merge into a new Dalek Supreme. (BFDE: The Demons).
An undated conflict referred to as the 'Third Dalek War' was fought between the Daleks and the Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire took place at some point. The Daleks were defeated when they attacked the planet JT227 where the humans had found an mineral, Promethium 62, which could penetrate their forcefields. The robots used to mine the mineral defeated the Daleks easily and they disappeared from human space for some time once again. (DWBIT: #55)
Empire resurrected
In the 50th century, a spatial rift unleashed dangerous, alternate-reality Daleks into the universe. The Daleks battled their counterparts for months. (DWM: Fire and Brimstone) In the 51st century, the Daleks secretly assisted a human scientist in creating an artificial sun known as the Cauldron. (DWM: The Keep) They wanted to have this sun created so they could collapse it into a black hole and pre-emptively assault every parallel universe. (DWM: Fire and Brimstone) The people of the 51st century, at least those working for the Time Agency like Jack Harkness, were aware of the Daleks. (DW: Bad Wolf)
In the 53rd century, the Daleks, led by the Dalek Supreme, seized control of the Cauldron. The Threshold opposed them, having been hired by Rassilon and the High Evolutionaries, but failed at the last minute. The Eighth Doctor and Izzy Sinclair were able to close the wormhole, while the Daleks were taken out by a swarm of parallel-universe Daleks. (DWM: Wormwood)
By the 53rd Century, humans (at least those of the Cauldron) did not recognise Daleks. The Daleks wielded Contagiums, robot insects that turned lifeforms into biological factories for brainwashing nanites; vast battleships called Dalek Hives; android agents; and battalions of Special Weapons Daleks. (DWM: Fire and Brimstone)
In the 67th century - 2500 years after the Great Catastrophe, when the cause of it was forgotten - the Daleks returned to the Milky Way. Under the Dalek Supreme, they infected the Border Worlds with a virus that turned humans into Daleks and prepared to declare war on the Galactic Union. (BFDE: Dalek Empire III) The Union held off the attack and, by 6676, the Dalek-occupied Border Worlds and the Union existed in a state of cold war. The frontier was constantly shrinking, no worlds had been liberated, and the Union, losing most of its spies, was forced to recruit untrained civilians. (BFDE: Mutually Assured Survival)
In the 82nd century, Davros' Dalek Empire was among the four major powers in Mutter's Spiral, along with Federation of Worlds, referred to informally as the Galactic Federation; the Cyber-Emperor's Cybermen; and the Draconian Empire. These four powers united against the Skeletoids onslaught through the galaxy, which had already decimated the Daleks and Cybermen and came close to the Federation. (DWM: Kane's Story, Abel's Story, The Warrior's Story, Frobisher's Story)
At some point, the Daleks wiped out the Mechanoids in a final battle, commanded by the future Dalek Sec. (DWF: Birth of a Legend)
Irving Braxiatel, an exiled Time Lord, heard rumours of the Daleks' increasing strength and intentions of a time war, and attempted to ensure a devastated Gallifrey would be ready for them. (BFG: Panacea)
The Last Great Time War
Shortly after the Tenth Dalek Occupation, the Daleks vanished from time and space. The Daleks, led by the Emperor, fought a conflict with the Time Lords known as the Last Great Time War. There was a significant battle on Arcadia. (DW: Doomsday)
The fighting between the Daleks and the Time Lords raged through space and time, making many species homeless. (DW: Rose, The Unquiet Dead) The Time Lord homeworld of Gallifrey did not survive, and of the Time Lords themselves, only the Ninth Doctor (DW: The End of the World) and the Master survived (the latter in the form of a human, Professor Yana). (DW: Utopia) The Doctor believed that no Daleks had survived. (DW: Dalek)
- For further details on the Last Great Time War, see separate article
Post-Time War
Survivors of the old Empire
The Time War appears to have partially removed the Daleks (and Time Lords) from history. While people were still aware that the Daleks had existed, and people who fought them could remember doing so (SJA: Enemy of the Bane), in multiple time zones they were remembered as 'disappearing'. (DW: Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways) No trace of the pre-Time War Daleks could be located (DW: Dalek) and a time-traveller would have to jump a time track in order to arrive in pre-War Dalek events. (NSA: Prisoner of the Daleks) It would even prove possibly for later, post-War Daleks to insert themselves into the 41st century's Dalek war. (GN: The Only Good Dalek)
Lone Dalek
One Dalek, a soldier, fell through time while fighting in the Last Great Time War and landed on Ascension Island circa 1962. Driven insane, it shut itself off, putting its shields up to maximum. It passed through several private collections throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, until by 2012 it was in the possession of billionaire Henry van Statten, who kept in in the Vault. He hired a torturer, Simmons, to make it talk, but all it did was scream. Eventually, it sent out a distress signal, which was found by the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler. Coming to its aid, the Doctor realised it was a Dalek and tortured it himself. It then pretended to Rose that it was a harmless victim and she touched it. Absorbing her DNA, the Dalek regenerated and escaped, absorbing the Internet and killing Simmons, Bywater, De Maggio and hundreds of others. But when it came to killing Rose, it couldn't, as human DNA and brought with it emotions. Rose took the Dalek to the roof where it self-destructed, preferring death over a life without the ability to kill. (DW: Dalek)
The Emperor
Another survivor of the Time War was the Emperor of All Daleks. The Emperor's flagship fell through time; he was assumed dead, but he was merely crippled. The Emperor went insane and believed himself to be God. He found a slave, the Mighty Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe and forced it to take control of Earth from Satellite Five. However, the Jagrafess was destroyed in 200,000 by the Ninth Doctor. (DW: The Long Game) By 200,100, the Emperor had a new plan, using an involuntary slave called The Controller, transforming Satellite Five into the Game Station, a massive reality-TV network where losers were transmatted to the flagship and transformed into Daleks. The Controller purposely transmatted the Ninth Doctor, as well as his companions Rose and Jack Harkness, into the games. The Doctor and Jack escaped, but Rose was transmatted to the flagship. (DW: Bad Wolf) Upon confrontation, the Controller revealed that she had brought the Doctor to the Game Station to effect the Daleks' destruction, hiding him and his companions within the games since the Daleks didn't watch the transmissions. Soon after, she gives the co-ordinates for the Dalek fleet, but is cut off as she is transmatted away to the Dalek flagship. She is defiant towards the Daleks, gleefully stating that she had "brought their destruction", before being exterminated for her betrayal. The Doctor and Jack rescued Rose from the Daleks, who could not exterminate them as they were using a Tribophysical waveform macro-kinetic extrapolator to generate a force-field. The Emperor revealed to the Doctor his master plan. He planned to destroy Earth and make it the Dalek homeworld before making war amongst the stars. The flagship then made its way to Earth. The Doctor devised the plan to create a delta wave, which would wipe out the Daleks, but also the population of Earth. The Game Station contestants were slaughtered by the Daleks before they made their way up to fight security. The flagship bombed Earth, and when the Daleks came to the Doctor, he couldn't bring himself to use the delta wave. The Daleks were ready to take control of the universe when Rose, who had been sent back to 2006, absorbed the energy of the Time Vortex and become a godlike entity called Bad Wolf, returned and turned the Daleks, the flagship and the Emperor to dust. (DW: The Parting of the Ways)
Cult of Skaro
The last known group of survivors of the Time War was the Cult of Skaro, a specialist unit of Daleks made during the Time War to think like the enemy. Their names were Sec, Thay, Caan and Jast. The Cult stole the Genesis Ark, a Time Lord prison for Daleks filled with millions of soldiers, and escaped in a Void Ship to exist outside of reality. However, the Ark could only be opened by the touch of a time-traveller, so it was useless. (DW: Doomsday) The Void Ship came through into 2007 at Torchwood Tower at Canary Wharf. The tear in reality allowed Cybermen from another universe to break into Torchwood's as "ghosts". Eventually, the Cybermen came through completely and the Cult, sensing time-travellers like the Tenth Doctor, Rose and Mickey Smith, surfaced out of the Void Ship. (DW: Army of Ghosts) It wasn't long before the Cult declared war on the Cybermen and, in the midst of a Cybermen against human against Dalek battle, Mickey accidentally touched the Ark, unleashing millions of Daleks upon London. They exterminated all life-forms below, whether they be Cyberman, human or Time Lord. Seeing as both the Daleks and Cybermen had crossed the Void, they were contaminated with Void stuff and the Doctor managed to use it to suck them back into the Void. However, the Cult escaped using an emergency temporal shift. (DW: Doomsday)
- Since the Cybermen were able to escape the Void, it is possible the Daleks trapped there might do so as well.
The Cult escaped into 1930 New York City and were the only four Daleks left in existence. After attempting cloning and genetic reproduction, the Cult realised that their only hope was to evolve. Their plan involved a human servant, Diagoras, who invested in the building of the Empire State Building, which would have Dalekanium on the top. Inside the incredibly high building would be 50 or so unconcious humans. On a certain date, gamma lightning would strike the top of the building, pick up Dalek DNA from the Dalekanium and pass it into the humans, who would awake Dalek-humans, the next step in evolution. However, the Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones intervened and were becoming more involved in stopping them. In an attempt to prove to his associates that Dalek-humans would work, Sec absorbed Diagoras and became a human-Dalek Hybrid. (DW: Daleks in Manhattan) However, he gained emotions along with a human body and didn't want the Daleks to kill the Doctor, since he could help them become peaceful creatures. The Cult turned against Sec and chained him up, electing Caan as their new leader. The Doctor had failed to remove the Dalekanium before the gamma lightning struck, but only a small portion of Dalek DNA made its way into the Dalek-humans; in fact more Time Lord DNA got into them. Taking the Dalek-humans down to the Laurenzi theatre, Jast, Thay and a chained-up Sec were confronted by the Doctor. Jast tried to shoot the Doctor but Sec sacrificed his life by taking the blast himself; the Dalek-humans then turned on their masters, killing Jast and Thay. Caan, now the last Dalek in existence, mentally destroyed the Dalek-humans before performing an emergency temporal shift and escaping. (DW: Evolution of the Daleks)
Caan travelled back to the Time War, breaking through the Time-lock at the cost of his sanity. He saved Davros from the jaws of the Nightmare Child and brought him to 2008, where the two plotted to resurrect the Daleks. Growing it from Davros' cells, they created the Supreme One, who considered the pair insane and locked them in the vault of the Crucible while creating a Dalek army from Davros' genes. Going by Davros' plan, they teleported 27 planets from all over space and time into the Medusa Cascade, one second out of sync with the rest of the universe, where the Doctor and the Shadow Proclamation couldn't find them. Davros planned to align them and use their energy, combined with the Crucible energy core, to create a Reality bomb that would destroy existence. The Daleks went down to Earth and arrested the humans, killing renegades. They destroyed UNIT, but Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones used Toshiko Sato's time-lock to stop them from destroying Torchwood Three. Using the Tandocca Scale, the Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble found Earth. (DW: The Stolen Earth) During the invasion, a Dalek spared Adelaide Brooke as it recognised her life and death as being a fixed point in time. (DW: The Waters of Mars) Banding together the Children of Time (the Doctor, Donna, Rose, Martha, Jack, the Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor, Mickey and Sarah Jane Smith), the Doctor went to the Crucible to stop Davros, Caan and the Supreme One. Eventually, Caan, betraying the Daleks, set down the defences, allowing the Meta-Crisis Doctor to destroy the Crucible, Caan, Davros, the Supreme One and the Daleks. Engulfed in flame, Davros named the Doctor the Destroyer of Worlds. (DW: Journey's End) One Dalek ship with three Dalek soldiers onboard managed to perform a time jump back to 1941, escaping destruction. (DW: Victory of the Daleks)
The New Dalek Paradigm
Restoration of the Daleks
One Dalek Saucer and three Daleks survived from the 2009 invasion and destruction of the fleet by the Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor. They ended up back in time in 1941. They found the last surviving progenitor, a Time War device containing pure Dalek DNA and the means to recreate the species. However, due to the circumstances of their creation, the progenitor refused to recognise them as Dalek, as they had been created either by the Dalek Emperor from human refuse (DW: The Parting of the Ways) or from Davros's own mutated Kaled cells (DW: The Stolen Earth). In order to activate it, they engineered an encounter with the Eleventh Doctor: using an android to claim they were his invention and pretending to be machines for the British Army. When the Doctor arrived (after receiving a telephone call from Winston Churchill), they tricked him into calling them out - "I am the Doctor and you are the Daleks!" - so this "testimony" could be used to open the progenitor.
Five new Daleks were created, with pure DNA, a colour-coded rank, and a white Dalek Supreme as their commander. There was also a Blue (Strategist), Orange (Scientist), Yellow (Eternal) and Red (Drone). These Daleks immediately exterminated the older three for their impurity (the three willingly allowed this to happen) and were able to force the Doctor to let them escape, using a bomb hidden within the Bracewell android on Earth to prey upon his compassion and make him return to Britain. While the Doctor was deactivating the bomb, they escaped through a time corridor to create a new Dalek Empire. (DW: Victory of the Daleks)
Establishment of empire
Following their escape, the Daleks discovered the lost Time Lord artefact, the Eye of Time, allowing them to alter time as they saw fit. The Daleks returned to Skaro, rebuilt their capital city of Kaalann, appointed a new Dalek Emperor and begun rebuilding their Empire. One of the Daleks' first acts with their new found power over time was to invade London, Earth in 1963. In this new timeline, they succeeded in killing every member of the human race. However, the Eleventh Doctor and Amy successfully undid these events, leaving Earth unconquered and Kaalann still abandoned. (VG: City of the Daleks)
In the 41st century, the Daleks began another war with humanity. The Eleventh Doctor and Amy encountered one group who had been sent on a mission to find a Dalek mutant which was being experimented on by a scientist who tried to make them less aggressive creatures. The Daleks refered to this mutant as "the Abomination". They attacked and destroyed Earth's top secret space station, Station 7, and chased the survivors to the planet below. After slaughtering all resistance, they finally found the Abomination in a hidden base, but it was able to escape it's container and disable the base reactor's safety measures. There was a tremendous erruption which destroyed the base, the Daleks, the Abonimation, and all the Dalek ships that landed on the planet, as the Doctor, Amy and Jay, an SSS officer, watched from a safe distance. The Dalek mission was a failure but the war continued. They had agents working in the SSS. (GN: The Only Good Dalek)
Later, the Daleks joined The Alliance formed to imprison the Eleventh Doctor in the Pandorica in order to save the Universe, they arrived at Stonehenge, 102 A.D. along with the rest of the Alliance and locked the Doctor in the Pandorica. (DW: The Pandorica Opens) The Daleks along with almost the rest of the universe were destroyed leaving only two Stone Daleks, one of which hindered the Doctor and his companion's efforts to save the universe. Nevertheless, they were successful and the whole of reality, including the Daleks, were restored. (DW: The Big Bang)
The Daleks later planted an idea into the mind of Vorgenson, the son of the Lurman Vorg who had invented a machine called the Miniscope, encountered by the Third Doctor. Vorgenson's idea had him create his own machine, called the Minimiser, and used it to head a travelling show dedicated to the Doctor, and featured many mind controlled versions of his recently encountered enemies, apart from the Daleks themselves, dismissed by Vorgeneson as "too dangerous". The Dalek's plan for this, was to attract the Eleventh Doctor to the show with Vorgenston's monsters, and capture him in the Minimiser. This plan worked, although later Vorgenson realised the truth. The audience managed to save the Doctor, and help him to release the Cybermen from the Minimiser to destroy the Daleks. (SP: The Monsters Are Coming!)
The Dalek Empire were aware of the Silence and had a wealth of information on it. The Doctor found a badly damaged Supreme Dalek and stole this information. (DW: The Wedding of River Song)
List of Dalek conflicts
Previous to the Last Great Time War
- Thousand Year War (Creation of the Daleks)
- Thal-Dalek War (Unknown date)
- Dalek-Movellan War (Unknown date)
- Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War
- Shoreditch Incident (November 1963)
- 22nd century Dalek invasion (2157-2167)
Last Great Time War
Post-Time War
- Final Experiment (1930)
- Battle of Canary Wharf (2007)
- Dalek Invasion of Earth (2009)
- Battle of GeoComTex (2012)
- Battle of the Game Station (200,100)
New Dalek Paradigm
Alternate Timeline Events
In one timeline, the Daleks used the Time Vortex Magnetron to invade Earth in the 21st century after a nuclear war had occurred in the late twentieth century. They subjugated Earth and set up labour camps, with human Controllers in points of authority and Ogrons as brutish shock troops. This timeline had been created when the human resistance fighter Shura set off a Dalekanium bomb at Auderly House during the World Peace Conference with the delegates still in the mansion. (DW: Day of the Daleks)
In another alternate timeline, a Dalek fleet got stuck in a temporal paradox involving a temporal extinction device and General Mariah Learman's temporal experiments. A Dalek Strategist and a few other Daleks escaped the destruction of their craft through a time corridor which latched onto Learman's temporal experiments. The Daleks later returned to their craft and attempted to use their temporal extinction device, setting off the event which destroyed their craft in the first place. (BFA: The Time of the Daleks)
In a third alternate timeline, the Dalek Emperor attempted to change in the past, instead creating an infection called the Mutant Phase which would later threaten to wipe out the Dalek race. The infection began during the 22nd century Dalek invasion and continued to spread until Skaro itself was threatened. The Fifth Doctor intervened and negated this timeline by convincing the Emperor (who had transplanted his memory into a Thal named Ganatus to not change the past. (BFA: The Mutant Phase)
In the alternate timeline created by Dr. Elizabeth Klein using the TARDIS she stole from the Doctor, Klein engineered the defeat of the Daleks by the Galactic Reich. Dalek technology was then integrated into the ships of the Reich, including Dalekanium. (BFA: The Architects of History)
In an alternate timeline in which the Eleventh Doctor did not find the Ironsides, they successfully turned the tide of World War II and took the fight to Germany. After the war was won, Churchil was pressured by Stalin and Truman into having the Ironsides destroyed by a nuclear bomb, thus causing the Dalek race to become extinct. (DWAN: Doctor Who The Official Annual 2011)
See also
- Dalek timeline theory (real world article)
- Dalek Empire (Big Finish)
External links
- The History of the Daleks - An extremely detailed account (albeit some of the sources hard to follow) of the Dalek's history, taking into account all Doctor Who sources.
