Terry Nation (in-universe)
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Terry Nation was the man who discovered the first Dalek Chronicles story-cubes after they fell backwards through time to 20th century Earth. Working with David Whitaker, he translated the Chronicles, publishing them in such forms as stage plays. (PROSE: The Daleks [+]Loading...["The Daleks (short story)"]) According to one account, Nation had actually become one of the Preliminary Operatives who worked for the Daleks; it was on their orders that he filled 20th century pop-culture with information on the Daleks. (PROSE: The Dalek Invasion of Toyshops [+]Loading...["The Dalek Invasion of Toyshops (short story)"])
In Earth-33⅓, Nation claimed the patent for the Daleks, after travelling back in time to the Daleks' first invasion of Earth. (COMIC: Early Man: Dalek Invasion of Earth 2150 B.C. [+]Loading...["Early Man: Dalek Invasion of Earth 2150 B.C. (comic story)"])
Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]
Terry Nation was born in Wales in 1930. (PROSE: Dalek Survival Guide [+]Loading...["Dalek Survival Guide (novel)"])
Nation claimed to David Whitaker that he had found the first of the story-cubes making up the Dalek Chronicles in his garden. Drilling a hole into the mysterious glass cube, he realised that it contained microfilms describing future events on the distant planet Skaro. (PROSE: The Daleks [+]Loading...["The Daleks (short story)"]) According to one account, Nation was actually working for the Daleks as one of their Preliminary Operatives, aiding their infiltration of Earth's popular culture during the 20th and 21st centuries. (PROSE: The Dalek Invasion of Toyshops [+]Loading...["The Dalek Invasion of Toyshops (short story)"])
At any rate, with Whitaker's help, he began translating the Chronicle fragments he had found, and looking for other lost story-cubes. Whitaker and Nation worked together on turning one record into a stage play. (PROSE: The Daleks [+]Loading...["The Daleks (short story)"]) In the end, however, much of the Dalek Chronicles material would be translated by Whitaker alone. (PROSE: The Dalek Chronicles Found! [+]Loading...["The Dalek Chronicles Found! (short story)"])
Notably, there was a Time Lord Castellan called Terrynate who once received a distress call by the Third Doctor. (PROSE: The Time Lord Letters [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Gallifrey and the Time Lords","page":"24-25","chaptnum":"3","1":"The Time Lord Letters (novel)"})
Nation died in the USA at the age of 66. (PROSE: Dalek Survival Guide [+]Loading...["Dalek Survival Guide (novel)"])
Other realities[[edit] | [edit source]]
Earth-33⅓[[edit] | [edit source]]
Terry Nation was present during the Daleks' first invasion of Earth in 2150 B.C. - there, he patented the rights to the Daleks' appearance before their other invasions. He even claimed that the Sixth Doctor owed him money for simply mentioning the Daleks. (COMIC: Early Man: Dalek Invasion of Earth 2150 B.C. [+]Loading...["Early Man: Dalek Invasion of Earth 2150 B.C. (comic story)"])
The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who[[edit] | [edit source]]
In a parallel universe, Terry Nation created the Daleks for the TV show Doctor Who in 1963. He kept the rights to the Daleks for fifty years, and, in 2013, his name was in the trademark section of the complete series seven DVD. (COMIC: The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who [+]Loading...["The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who (comic story)"])
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- This is an in-universe version of Terry Nation, the man who is famous among the Doctor Who franchise as the man who created the Daleks.
- Several stories asserted that the in-universe Nation was responsible for disseminating factual information about Daleks into 20th century Earth, with varying degrees of consistency. Nation was also established to exist in parallel universes by Early Man: Dalek Invasion of Earth 2150 B.C. [+]Loading...["Early Man: Dalek Invasion of Earth 2150 B.C. (comic story)"] and The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who [+]Loading...["The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who (comic story)"].
- Additionally, a Time Lord named Terrynate, a clear homage to Nation, was established in The Time Lord Letters [+]Loading...["The Time Lord Letters (novel)"].
