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*If the ultimate purpose of the Daleks is to survive, why was the Dalek fitted with a self-destruct system? | *If the ultimate purpose of the Daleks is to survive, why was the Dalek fitted with a self-destruct system? | ||
::The fact that the Dalek could destroy itself does not necessarily mean it had a "self-destruct system." | ::The fact that the Dalek could destroy itself does not necessarily mean it had a "self-destruct system." | ||
::The Daleks have been shown before and after as resorting to suicide bombing, older models had specific cases of carrying bombs to explode when they reached the enemy, and one Dalek in Asylum was shown to have a self destruct mechanism. The reason for this is because the ultimate purpose of the Daleks is for their RACE to survive, not to personally survive themselves. A Dalek will give up it's life without a moments hesitation if it thinks it will benefit the survival of the Dalek race. The reason for this is that it can actually help. Imagine if a Dalek gets captured, with its weapon destroyed. Not only would it be a big box filled with information on the Daleks that the enemy could use, the enemy may also have their guard down. "That Dalek won't be a problem, the guns broken. Now let's have a poke around inside and see what we can find..." *explodes, taking anything they could learn with it, and a large chunk of the ship too*. I would imagine the version we saw here was a controlled explosion in case a dalek needed to erase itself to avoid information being found while avoiding harming the environment (there could be many cases where a huge explosion from one Dalek could inconvenience the rest). | |||
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