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I thought Skaro was destroyed in the Time War aswell as Gallifey??? So how can the Doctor just turn up on Skaro to fix the Dalek invasion of 1963 like nothing had happened and without any sign of reference?? -- Michael Downey 21:48, June 3, 2010 (UTC)

I don't think it was ever said that Skaro was destroyed? If it was destroyed, it wasn't the same way that Gallifrey was destroyed and lost, more just a physical destruction of buildings etc. The Thirteenth Doctor 22:22, June 3, 2010 (UTC)

Oh right thanks, I was convinced they strongly implied that both planets where destroyed anyway. -- Michael Downey 22:25, June 3, 2010 (UTC).

Just had a look at the Skaro page. I think it was said that it was destroyed in the time war, but it was never really explained that well. I'd say that it was just damaged real bad and the Daleks couldn't be bothered fixing it, so tried taking over earth. The Thirteenth Doctor 22:43, June 3, 2010 (UTC)

Everything on the planet may have been destroyed but not the planet itself. But wouldn't Skaro be in the time lock since the whole of the Time war is in the time lock and that is the Dalek's home planet? V00D00M0NKY 00:13, June 4, 2010 (UTC)

Skaro was already destroyed in DW: Remembrance of the Daleks. However you deal with that, you can deal with the LGTW the same way, right? Not to mention that the Daleks had already abandoned Skaro to the Thals by the 26th century, and were later seen living on a non-radioactive homeworld.

If you haven't read EDA: War of the Daleks... well, you're lucky. But go read the article on it, and maybe the discontinuity page for it.

Back? OK, here's my theory. We know that "Skaro" is just the Kaled word for "home". The Skaro in VG: City of the Daleks is at least the third one, and the one in the LGTW was at least the fourth one (possibly created as a decoy by Davros, who I'd like to believe saw through John Peel'sDalek Prime's laughable propagandistic attempt to rewrite the history of Remembrance, but liked the basic idea of a decoy Skaro enough to later use it for real). During the War, Skaro #4 was the one taken out of time and space to launch the deathships, and the one that got destroyed. Skaro #3 was disguised as just one of many minor Dalek slave planets. Like many planets, it was just blasted clean of all lifeforms and left for dead and never got time-locked.

Davros probably had a secret backup plan to get back to Skaro #3 in case the LGTW didn't go so well, but he flew into the jaws of the Nightmare Child--and besides, the War was going very well, to the point where Rassilon had no recourse left but the End of Time.

What about the original original Skaro? The Daleks already abandoned that to the Thals in the 26th century. They had a vast empire with a better capital (which they called Skaro, of course). At first, they were probably planning to save their original planet for last, after they'd conquered the rest of the universe, to have a little fun with the Thals. But then they just forgot about it--conquest is more interesting than revenge, and besides, conquering the universe didn't go quite as easily as they'd hoped. --Falcotron 09:12, June 4, 2010 (UTC)

It's possible Skaro was not physically destroyed in Remembrance, but just had it's surface terribly scorched (The Doctor did say the planet was reduced to a burnt cinder in part four, exaggerately slightly, but implying that the planet still had some form remaining).The Nth Doctor 23:30, July 29, 2010 (UTC)