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In the Warrior's universe, the Daleks were a mutant species created by Davros on Skaro. After the Fourth Doctor changed history by attempting to prevent their creation, the Daleks had their entire timeline rewritten, resulting in them allying with the Kaleds and the Thals to form the Unified Skaroan Alliance and, with the use of the Doctor's abandoned Time Ring, develop advanced time travel far earlier than in their original history. Eventually, the Daleks, Kaleds and Thals declared war on the Time Lords, recommencing the Time War.
History
Creation, death and rebirth
Much like their counterparts in the Doctor's universe, (AUDIO: Dust Devil, TV: Genesis of the Daleks) the Daleks of the Warrior's universe were a species of mutants created by Davros on Skaro during a war between the Kaleds and Thals. In the original timeline, the Daleks became powerful enough to engage the Time Lords in the Time War. In an attempt to end the War, the Time Lords sent the Fourth Doctor back to the creation of the Daleks to prevent the Daleks from being created. (AUDIO: Dust Devil) However, unlike in the Doctor's universe, (TV: Genesis of the Daleks) the Doctor succeeded in blowing up the Dalek incubation room on his first attempt, killing all (AUDIO: Dust Devil) but two (AUDIO: Aftershocks) of the newborn Dalek mutants inside. The resultant temporal paradox violently rewrote the Dalek race's timeline, as well as that of the entire universe, causing the Daleks to, for a brief time, cease to develop beyond the initial prototypes. (AUDIO: Dust Devil)
An empty Dalek casing, present in the Kaled bunker during what Davros would come to refer to as "the final days" of the Kaled-Thal war, was transformed into a segment of the Key to Time by Davros' future self from the final segment of the Time War, who had traveled there with alternate versions of the Warrior and his TARDIS after the two segments of the Key that the duo had obtained beforehand allowed them (AUDIO: The Key To Key To Time) to bypass the temporal defences that the Unified Skaroan Alliance had installed around the Fourth Doctor's destruction of the Dalek incubators by their time. (AUDIO: Aftershocks) From the Warrior's perspective, however, he, Davros and the TARDIS had instead traveled to Aridius (AUDIO: The Key To Key To Time) during what the Warrior considered to be the beginning of the Time War.
In the immediate aftermath of the Dalek incubators' destruction, one of the prototype Dalek confronted the Doctor and his companions Sarah Jane Smith and Harry Sullivan outside Davros' laboratory before they could retrieve the Time Ring that they had used to arrive on Skaro in the first place. The Dalek swiftly exterminated Harry and Sarah before attempting to do the same to the Doctor; although it was able to mortally wound him, the Time Lords extracted the Doctor from time immediately before the Dalek's shot could kill the Doctor permanently. (AUDIO: Dust Devil) The Kaleds and Thals discovered the destroyed incubators and the Time Ring, and concluded that the Time Lords had attempted to destroy Skaro's future. Vowing to avenge the dead Dalek mutants and ensure that Skaro's future would never be threatened by aliens again, the Kaleds and Thals abandoned their war against each other to instead defeat the Time Lords and conquer time itself. In addition to recommencing the birthing of new Dalek mutants, the Kaleds, Thals and prototype Daleks successfully reverse-engineered the Doctor's Time Ring to develop time technology on par with the Time Lords extremely quickly. Within the ruins of the incubators, the three races also found the two Dalek mutants who survived the incubators' destruction and fitted them inside a unique Dalek casing, forming the Twin Dalek.
Eventually, the Daleks, Kaleds and Thals formed a vast temporal military empire - the Unified Skaroan Alliance - and formally declared war against the Time Lords, recommencing the Time War. (AUDIO: Aftershocks)
Fighting in the Time War
As the Warrior considered the Time War to fundamentally lack a definitive chronology, due to its nature as a conflict in which time was constantly rewritten, (AUDIO: Dust Devil) by extension, the history of the Daleks' actions in the War were almost impossible to accurately chronologize. However, at least some form of chronology concerning the Daleks' actions in the Time War was discernible. (AUDIO: Dust Devil et al.)
Within the Unified Skaroan Alliance, the Daleks were revered by the Kaleds and Thals, who craved vengeance against the Time Lords - particularly the Warrior - for their role in attempting to avert the Daleks' creation. The Twin Dalek held an extremely high role in the Skaroan Empire, alongside Commander Esk, (AUDIO: Aftershocks) and Davros also fought for the Daleks. (AUDIO: The Key To Key To Time) The Time Lords continued to regularly regard the Daleks as their true enemy in the Time War, particularly as they frequently engaged the Daleks in battle without the presence of the Kaleds or Thals, (AUDIO: Dust Devil et al.) and bred generations of Time Lords who were raised solely to fight the Daleks. (AUDIO: The Difference Office) The Unified Skaroan Alliance installed a vast number of temporal defences around the exact moment that the Fourth Doctor destroyed the Dalek incubators, rendering it the most fortified point in all of time and preventing anyone from ever returning to it, although the Warrior made several futile attempts to return to and avert the incubators' destruction, (AUDIO: Aftershocks) and Davros and an alternate version of the Warrior briefly managed to return to the Kaled bunker during what Davros regarded as "the final days" of the Kaled-Thal war during their quest to assemble the Key to Time near the very end of the Time War. (AUDIO: The Key To Key To Time) The Daleks also destroyed this universe's equivalents of Karn and the Sisterhood of Karn, although the Time Lords managed to retrieve the Elixir of Life from the planet's ruins. The Daleks eventually waged an assault on Gallifrey, during which the Elixir of Life was used by Narvin to allow the Fourth Doctor - having been mortally wounded by a prototype Dalek in the aftermath of the Dalek incubators' destruction - to regenerate into the Warrior. (AUDIO: Dust Devil)
The Daleks frequently battled the Warrior and the Master together during the War, leading to constant acts of genocide and planetary destruction. (AUDIO: Aftershocks) Early in the Time War, the Warrior authorised a stratagem to breed a species of psychic warriors powerful enough to fight the Daleks and ordered the Master to enact it. The latter did so on the Warrior's universe's version (AUDIO: Who Am I?) of Mordee, (TV: The Face of Evil) creating the Sevatesh, a hybrid of Sevateem and Tesh warriors, and secretly planned to use them to completely eradicate both the Daleks and Time Lords before conquering the multiverse, (AUDIO: Who Am I?) although the Master's plan ultimately never came to fruition before the destruction of the Warrior's universe. (AUDIO: The Key To Key To Time) Later in the War, a Dalek saucer and a Dalek time ship were caught in a dogfight and crashed on Marinus due to a paradox created by the Warrior's TARDIS materialising on a Millennian in Millennius, killing most of the Daleks onboard and leaving the few survivors to be killed by Marinus' deadly climate. The time ship was raided by rogue Bankrupt Millennians, although the Master was able to lead his own Bankrupt expedition in salvaging numerous Dalek gunsticks and a weapon powerful enough to break through the temporal barrier surrounding Millennius. All remaining Dalek technology on Marinus was destroyed when the Warrior dematerialised in his TARDIS following the Master's rebellion against Horol, an action which destroyed the planet due to the erasure of Horol's temporal web. (AUDIO: Time Killers)
During the Warrior's Presidency, he led the Time Lords' efforts to fight the Daleks from the War Room on Gallifrey. When the Daleks invaded the Bridgeheaded Carthidge, the Warrior authorised the War Room to incinerate the entire Carthidge, killing all the invading Daleks as well as the vast number of non-Dalek lifeforms within. By this time, the Alliance had formed to end the Time War by defeating both the Daleks and the Time Lords. (AUDIO: The Difference Office)
Extinction
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By the final segment of the Time War, the Daleks and their technology were constantly shifting between different eras of their evolution due to time degrading even further as a result of the damage inflicted to the universe by the War. Regardless, they continued to relentlessly fight the Time Lords. (WC: The Warrior Meets His Destiny) By the time the White Guardian sent the Warrior on his quest to assemble the Key to Time, one of the Warrior's many failed attempts to end the Time War included the Expulsion of Skaro.
Eventually the Daleks established a base on Necros, but this was "revised" by two decades used as projectiles as part of an assault on the planet by a Time Lord time fleet, led by the Half-Dalek of the Collective Victorious. The majority of the Time Lord fleet proceeded to combat the Daleks in a temporal retaliation, although the Half-Dalek's gunship dematerialised to instead pursue the Warrior as he searched for the Key to Time. The Daleks also monitored the Warrior's quest for the Key.
As the Warrior and Davros assembled the Key, all matter in the universe became aware of their nature as potential segments of the Key to Time. A force of Daleks was driven insane by this realisation, causing them to fly their saucer to Aridius (AUDIO: The Key To Key To Time) at what the Warrior considered the beginning of the Time War, as the last surviving Mire Beast was about to kill the Sixth Doctor of the original timeline. (AUDIO: Dust Devil) When the Mire Beast was shrunk by the Warrior via the Key segment locator, (AUDIO: The Key To Key To Time) the Dalek saucer began to fly away from the Beast. The Doctor mistakenly believed that the Daleks were responsible for killing the Mire Beast and saving his life, (AUDIO: Dust Devil) as did the Warrior when he fell into a sinkhole afterwards and was transported onboard the Dalek saucer by the Key segment. The Daleks onboard the saucer confronted the Warrior, and simply closed in on him while repeatedly stating that he was seeking the Key to Time. The Warrior was returned to his TARDIS afterwards with the Mire Beast's Key segment.
The Daleks were ultimately rendered extinct, along with all other life in the universe barring Davros and the Warrior, when a sample of temporal horfrost unleashed upon the Warrior's TARDIS by the Half-Dalek seeped into the Time Vortex and spread across the entire universe by latching onto the time particles inherent in all matter, destroying the universe in the process. (AUDIO: The Key To Key To Time)
Other realities
The original timeline
In the original timeline, the Doctor ultimately refused to avert the creation of the Daleks, and the Daleks eventually fought the Time Lords in the Time War, which led to the Time Lords sending the Fourth Doctor back in time to prevent the Daleks' creation. Due to the Fourth Doctor averting the Daleks' creation during the Time War, the original Daleks, and by extension, the rest of the original timeline, were erased from existence by the resultant temporal paradox, along with approximately one million other timelines. (AUDIO: Dust Devil)
The Carrisent Particum timelines
In the first of the Carrisent Particum timelines, the Daleks and the Unified Skaroan Alliance conquered Gallifrey and reduced the planet to a backwater world, winning the Time War with such speed that, in the words of a memory of the Master, "there was no War." The Celestial Intervention Agency was integrated into the Skaroan Empire, with the Twin Dalek replacing Narvin as the CIA's Coordinator, which was kept secret from the rest of the Skaroan Empire. Over the next several years, the Daleks conquered the rest of the universe and seized full control over time. As a result, the Twin Dalek became time sensitive, gaining the ability to directly see "the threads of time" and sense when time was changing. Despite the Daleks' dominance as the sole species in control of time, rumours spread of the existence of resistance to their universal supremacy. The Skaroan Empire planned to follow their conquest of time with the creation of a new universe in the Daleks' image.
However in the aftermath, still craving vengeance against the Warrior for his previous incarnation's attempt at averting the creation of the Daleks, the Unified Skaroan Alliance decided to capture the Warrior and publicly place him on trial. To this end, a squad of Daleks, overseen by Commander Esk, manufactured a Carrisent Particum, a temporal prison devised by Esk to imprison the Warrior's entire personal timeline and everything connected to it, trapping him for all eternity. Before he could be captured by the Unified Skaroan Alliance, the Warrior engineered a plan with the Master to avert the Daleks' conquest of Gallifrey by destroying the Carrisent Particum at the exact moment it would imprison him, forcing the Warrior to regenerate and creating a paradox that would reverse time to the start of the Warrior's upcoming interrogation by the Celestial Intervention Agency on Skaro, albeit leaving the past Warrior with severe amnesia and requiring a future memory of the Master, released by the Warrior's regeneration, to guide the past Warrior to destroy the Particum again at the end of his trial in order to force time back further to prior to the Daleks' invasion of Gallifrey.
Shortly after Commander Esk's Daleks completed the first Carrisent Particum, another Dalek informed Esk during a briefing of the Skaroan generals that the Warrior was being interrogated by the CIA. Esk then relayed this information to the Twin Dalek, who eventually usurped her plans to send a shuttle to an alternative base and instead redirected the shuttle to the Warrior's ongoing trial. When Esk contacted the Twins and ordered them to return the shuttle to her base, a squad of Daleks relieved her of her duties before exterminating her. The Twin Dalek then arrived at the Warrior's trial and eventually ordered the use of the Carrisent Particum, only for the Warrior to blow up the Particum with a detonator at the exact moment that the Particum closed around him, triggering a vast explosion that killed the thousands of people present to witness his trial and reverting time to the start of his interrogation by the CIA.
After countless failed attempts to fully revert this timeline, resulting in countless near-identical versions of the initial Carrisent Particum timeline being sealed and destroyed inside the Particum only for the Warrior to return to the start of his interrogation by the CIA, the Warrior finally succeeded in sealing the original Carrisent Particum timeline inside the Particum, albeit by diverting from the path planned by his future self and the Master, ultimately leading to the Master being exterminated by the Twin Dalek. Upon succeeding, he returned to Gallifrey shortly before the Daleks' invasion, although he was left distressed and confused by the continued presence of a Particum in Narvin's office containing a version of himself despite seemingly averting the timeline in which the Particum was created. Despite this anomaly, he managed to ensure that the Skaroan invasion of Gallifrey failed, consequently preventing the Unified Skaroan Alliance from conquering the universe, although despite the Warrior and the Master's plans, (AUDIO: Aftershocks) the Warrior failed to outright end the Time War in this manner. (AUDIO: The Key To Key To Time)
Appearance and hierarchy
The Daleks of the Warrior's universe evolved and devolved into a variety of Dalek variants over the course of the Time War, (WC: The Warrior Meets His Destiny [+]Loading...["The Warrior Meets His Destiny (webcast)"]) many of which were shared with the Daleks of the Doctor's universe. (TV: Genesis of the Daleks et al.)
At their creation, the prototype Daleks were identical (AUDIO: Dust Devil) to the Genesis Daleks of the Doctor's universe, who were themselves the first Grey Daleks. (TV: Genesis of the Daleks) Bronze Daleks served as the standard Dalek drones in the Time War, (WC: Doctor Who Unbound - Doctor of War: Genesis [+]Loading...["Doctor Who Unbound - Doctor of War: Genesis (webcast)"], WC: The Warrior Meets His Destiny [+]Loading...["The Warrior Meets His Destiny (webcast)"]) as they did in the Last Great Time War of the Doctor's universe. (TV: Dalek et al.) In the final segment of the Time War, due to time degrading even further, the Bronze Daleks occasionally devolved into more primitive Dalek variants, (WC: The Warrior Meets His Destiny [+]Loading...["The Warrior Meets His Destiny (webcast)"]) including Type V Daleks (TV: Death to the Daleks) and Dalek War Machines. (TV: The Daleks) By the time the Daleks conquered time in the Carrisent Particum timelines, the Dalek drones utilised silver versions of the Bronze Dalek casings. (AUDIO: Aftershocks)
Type E Dalek Supremes (PROSE: Dalek Combat Training Manual [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Dalek Hierarchy","chaptnum":"VI","1":"Dalek Combat Training Manual (reference book)"}, TV: The Stolen Earth) commanded Dalek time ships, (WC: The Warrior Meets His Destiny [+]Loading...["The Warrior Meets His Destiny (webcast)"]) and, during the Time War's final segment, one devolved into a variant of the Black Dalek Leader (TV: The Chase) with silver sense globes, (WC: The Warrior Meets His Destiny [+]Loading...["The Warrior Meets His Destiny (webcast)"]) as well as the Dalek Prime's golden Dalek Emperor casing, (COMIC: Invasion of the Daleks) before shifting into the Black Dalek Leader's Dalek Earthforce Supreme Controller casing, (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth) before stabilising as a scorched, dead Bronze Dalek with a curved wire around each luminosity discharger. (WC: The Warrior Meets His Destiny [+]Loading...["The Warrior Meets His Destiny (webcast)"])
During the Time War's final segment, two Bronze Daleks onboard this Supreme's Dalek time ship briefly devolved into two separate Dalek variants (WC: The Warrior Meets His Destiny [+]Loading...["The Warrior Meets His Destiny (webcast)"]) reminiscent of two Dalek variants from Dr. Who's reality; (TV: Dr. Who and the Daleks) one transformed into a black and silver Dalek (WC: The Warrior Meets His Destiny [+]Loading...["The Warrior Meets His Destiny (webcast)"]) reminiscent of the Black Dalek that led the Skaro City Daleks, (TV: Dr. Who and the Daleks) while another transformed into a Red Dalek (WC: The Warrior Meets His Destiny [+]Loading...["The Warrior Meets His Destiny (webcast)"]) near-identical to the Red Dalek that served as second-in-command to the Black Dalek of Dr. Who's reality. (TV: Dr. Who and the Daleks)
Earlier in the Time War, a Dalek (WC: Doctor Who Unbound - Doctor of War: Genesis [+]Loading...["Doctor Who Unbound - Doctor of War: Genesis (webcast)"]) reminiscent of a Special Weapons Dalek, (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks et al.) albeit with a red eyestalk, was present in some ruins on a planet alongside two Bronze Daleks. (WC: Doctor Who Unbound - Doctor of War: Genesis [+]Loading...["Doctor Who Unbound - Doctor of War: Genesis (webcast)"])
The Twin Dalek existed within an entirely unique casing specifically designed to facilitate them, due to being a pair of Dalek mutants that could only survive by coexisting in a single casing. They held a very high rank in the Unified Skaroan Alliance, even greater than Commander Esk, which allowed them the authority to assume command of her operations if they possessed the necessary permission from the rest of the Alliance's generals. (AUDIO: Aftershocks)
Despite the various ranks in the Dalek hierarchy, according to Davros, the rank of "President of the Daleks" did not exist. (AUDIO: The Key To Key To Time)
Technology
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The Daleks of the Warrior's universe evolved far faster (AUDIO: Aftershocks) than their counterparts in the original timeline (AUDIO: Dust Devil) and, by extension, their counterparts in the Doctor's universe, (TV: Genesis of the Daleks) as the Genesis Daleks were able to use the Fourth Doctor's Time Ring, which he accidentally left on Skaro (AUDIO: Aftershocks) after being extracted by the Time Lords following his attempt to avert the Daleks' creation, (AUDIO: Dust Devil) to rapidly accelerate their evolution into a time-active species (AUDIO: Aftershocks) on par with the Daleks of the Last Great Time War of the Doctor's universe. (TV: Dalek et al.) As such, Dalek technology in the Warrior's universe was designed to fuel the Unified Skaroan Alliance's war machine against the universe, and particularly centered around time travel. (AUDIO: Aftershocks) The Master described the Daleks to the resistance, an organisation of Brankrupt Millennians on Marinus, as "engineers from another world" whose technology was designed "to make slaves of the universe," (AUDIO: Time Killers) and considered them to "lack the Time Lords' panache" when naming their technology. (AUDIO: Aftershocks)
The Daleks utilised Dalek flying saucers as their standard type of spaceship, which were piloted exclusively by Daleks. (AUDIO: Dust Devil, WC: Doctor Who Unbound - Doctor of War: Genesis, AUDIO: Time Killers, AUDIO: The Key To Key To Time) These were identical to the bronze model (WC: Doctor Who Unbound - Doctor of War: Genesis) used by the Bronze Daleks of the Doctor's universe, (TV: Bad Wolf et al.) and were similar enough to those of the original timeline that the Sixth Doctor of the original timeline was able to recognise a Dalek saucer of the Warrior's universe's Daleks on sight, despite the saucer originating from a different reality to that of his timeline's Daleks. (AUDIO: Dust Devil) Shuttles were used on Unified Skaro to transport classified military equipment between bases on the planet, and were usually piloted by Kaled or Thal soldiers. (AUDIO: Aftershocks)
Dalek time ships were far larger in size than Dalek flying saucers and featured a bridge flanked with two control computers adorned with sense globes, as well as a lower level. The interiors of these ships featured ambient orange lighting and walls lined with different types of scanners. (WC: The Warrior Meets His Destiny) Dalek time ships contained particularly strong weapons programmed to self-destruct if salvaged by non-Dalek lifeforms, although this failsafe could be bypassed by a skilled individual. One such weapon was powerful enough to break through a temporal barrier separating two time zones, and sounded a firing noise similar to that of a Dalek gunstick. If mishandled, however, the weapon had enough power to vapourise a large encampment. (AUDIO: Time Killers) One Dalek time ship devolved into numerous versions of itself during the final segment of the Time War, including a silver-and-black variant, a variant with yellow lighting, (WC: The Warrior Meets His Destiny) and a second silver-and-black variant, identical to a type of Dalek time ship developed by the Daleks of the Doctor's universe. (TV: The Chase) Dalek gunsticks could also be salvaged from the casings of dead Daleks and used by non-Dalek lifeforms as handheld weapons. (AUDIO: Time Killers)
In the Carrisent Particum timelines, a squad of Daleks overseen by Commander Esk engineered the Carrisent Particum, an advanced temporal prison capable of sealing an entire timeline within it, as well as anything connected to the timeline, no matter how loose the connection was. This included other Particums connected to the imprisoned timeline. A Particum's entrapment capabilities were so vast that, when the Warrior was sealed within one, the entirety of his universe was sealed inside as well, (AUDIO: Aftershocks) which may have been a result of the unique position that the Warrior speculated he held during the Time War; that he was "at the centre of events" and that "the whole conflict revolve[d] around [him]". (AUDIO: The Difference Office) In addition, the sheer quantity of energy contained within a Carrisent Particum was such that, if destroyed via an explosive, the Particum would itself explode with enough force to create a crater of a size on par with a rogue meteor. If the destroyed Particum contained additional Particums that were sealed along with the imprisoned timeline, these too would explode and multiply the intensity of the initial Particum's explosion. When all of these attributes were exploited in unison, it was possible for a Particum with a timeline sealed inside of itself to physically appear prior to the Particum's creation in a location linked to the timeline sealed within it. (AUDIO: Aftershocks)
Characteristics
Similarly to their counterparts in the original timeline - whom Sarah Jane Smith described as "the most evil creatures ever invented" (AUDIO: Dust Devil) - and their equivalents in the Doctor's universe, (TV: The Daleks et al.) the Daleks of the Warrior's universe were a species of genocidal warmongers who firmly believed that they were superior to all other lifeforms in existence, and thus all other species existed solely to serve the Dalek race. They particularly hated the Time Lords for their attempt at averting their creation, and fought fiercely to conquer them entirely and win the Time War as vengeance; (AUDIO: Aftershocks) such was their dedication to this goal that they continued fighting the Time Lords relentlessly until the very end of the universe. (AUDIO: The Key To Key To Time) The Daleks also regarded the Warrior as their greatest enemy for being directly responsible for the Time Lords' attempt to avert their creation, and their thirst for vengeance was such that only the eternal confinement of the Warrior's timeline inside the Carrisent Particum would satisfy them. They also continued to refer to the Warrior as "the Doctor", or the unique title of "the Doctor that Was", as opposed to the new title that he embraced upon regenerating from the Fourth Doctor. (AUDIO: Aftershocks)
The Warrior himself hated the Daleks, regarding them as Gallifrey's greatest enemy in the Time War, (AUDIO: The Difference Office) and also considered them his personal greatest enemy, on par with the Master. (AUDIO: The Key To Key To Time) He vowed to kill every single Dalek in the universe, (WC: Doctor Who Unbound - Doctor of War: Genesis) and was willing to sacrifice almost anything to wipe them out. (AUDIO: Dust Devil, AUDIO: The Difference Office, WC: Doctor Who Unbound - Doctor of War: Genesis) Despite this, he found the prospect of the Time Lords becoming as evil as the Daleks to be preposterous, (AUDIO: The Difference Office) and was horrified at the act of the Time Lords destroying the universe in order to defeat the Daleks. (AUDIO: The Key To Key To Time) However, while he initially felt no remorse for destroying the Dalek incubation room on Skaro, and vowed to do so again potentially forever if necessary, the Warrior came to regret his attempt at averting the Daleks' creation, particularly due to how powerful the Daleks became as a result of his actions. (AUDIO: Aftershocks) The Master believed that "the only good Dalek [was] a dead Dalek," (AUDIO: Time Killers) and came to fear them in the Carrisent Particum timelines, particularly the Twin Dalek.
While the Daleks fought alongside the Kaleds and Thals as part of the Unified Skaroan Alliance, and thus tolerated the two species' existence to some extent, within the Carrisent Particum timelines, they began to grow discontent with the prospect of ruling the universe alongside the Kaleds and Thals, as evidenced by a squad of Daleks exterminating Commander Esk to allow the Twin Dalek to steal the Carrisent Particum. The Kaleds and Thals failed to recognise the Daleks' growing rebelliousness, however, as they greatly respected the Daleks. Commander Esk viewed the Dalek mutants that died when the Fourth Doctor destroyed the incubators as "innocents" who were murdered "without remorse", and frequently referred to the later Dalek generations that fought in the Time War as "comrades" whom she respected far more than her own soldiers, going as far as to describe the Daleks as "like phoenixes" rising from the ruins of Skaro that destroyed all who opposed the Skaroan Empire. (AUDIO: Aftershocks) Beyond Skaro, the majority of the universe were fully aware of the Daleks' ruthlessness; the Time Lords continuously referred to the Daleks first and foremost as their main enemies in the Time War, (AUDIO: Dust Devil et al.) seemingly disregarding any threat posed by the Kaleds and Thals, (AUDIO: Aftershocks) while the civilisations within the Alliance considered both the Daleks and the Time Lords to be equally monstrous. Styggron, one of their members, described the two species as "brutal creatures driven by hate and the desire to kill". (AUDIO: The Difference Office) Like most of the universe, the Daleks took little interest in Aridius and the Aridians due to the planet's slow death wiping out Aridian civilisation, thereby leaving Aridius with borderline no resources of use to anyone. (AUDIO: Dust Devil) The Sevateem and Tesh were completely unaware of the Daleks' existence until near the very end of their war against each other, due to their own existence being manipulated by the Master and the Warrior to facilitate the birth of the Sevatesh. (AUDIO: Who Am I?) The Millennians of Millennius were also unaware of the Daleks' existence, (AUDIO: Time Killers) although the Bankrupt Millennians learnt of them as a result of an expedition led by the Master. Riffort initially mistook a group of dead Daleks for "machines." (AUDIO: Time Killers)
Unlike the Daleks of the Doctor's universe, who had a highly conflicted relationship with Davros, (TV: Genesis of the Daleks et al.) the Daleks of the Warrior's universe tolerated Davros enough for him to serve them in the Time War. Davros himself believed that the Daleks' ruthlessness was potent enough that they would never use "indirect" weapons such as temporal horfrost against their enemies, even including the Warrior. (AUDIO: The Key To Key To Time)
Despite the significant differences between the Daleks of the Warrior's universe (AUDIO: Aftershocks) and the Daleks of the original timeline, the two species were similar enough that the iteration of Peri Brown that traveled with the original timeline's Sixth Doctor recognised the relevancy of the Daleks from a mere mention of the word "Skaro." (AUDIO: Dust Devil)
Behind the scenes
- The Daleks of the Warrior's universe are one of the many parallel universe iterations of the Daleks that appear in Doctor Who Unbound, along with:
- The Thaleks of Auld Mortality's universe, from Auld Mortality and A Storm of Angels.
- The Daleks of the Unbound Universe, from Masters of War.
- The Collective Victorious and the Dalek of the Great Lock of Time, from The Key To Key To Time.
- Iterations of the Daleks are also mentioned as existing in the parallel universes of He Jests at Scars... and Exile.
- Chris Thompson explicitly identified the unique Dalek with a red Dalek eyestalk and lens attachment from Doctor Who Unbound - Doctor of War: Genesis as a Special Weapons Dalek, with its design being a combination of a Special Weapons Dalek and "a "Soviet Union" style Dalek" that he designed some years prior to the story's release.
- Thompson also described the two Daleks that appear opposite this Dalek as Bronze Daleks with "teal blue" domes and "shoulders" with red Dalek eyestalks and lens attachments. However, these design differences are almost impossible to see in the final story due to the brief duration of the scene in question, as well as its lighting.[1]
- Thompson also considered including the Daleks of Barusa's universe from The Chronicles of Doctor Who? among the other Dalek variants onboard the Dalek time ship in The Warrior Meets His Destiny, but ultimately did not include them, as he "wasn’t sure [he] could do [them] justice."[2]