Destruction of Skaro
The destruction of Skaro occurred when the Seventh Doctor tricked Davros into destroying the ancestral home of the Daleks at the concludion of the Shoreditch Incident during the Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War.
After the ancient Time Lord stellar manipulator, the Hand of Omega, was located on Earth in 1963, the Imperial Dalek faction, led by Davros, took possession of the Hand while fighting the Supreme Dalek and its Renegade Daleks in Shoreditch. Davros, intending to turn Skaro's sun into a source of power, was tricked by the Doctor into activating the hand. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks)
The Hand travelled to Skaro's time zone via a causal nexus in transjovian space, using faster-than-light travel to punch a hole in reality (PROSE: Remembrance of the Daleks) and detonated the system's second sun, (PROSE: The Stranger) causing a stellar explosion that engulfed the planet, before returning to destroy the Imperial Dalek mothership. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks) Davros's escape pod was blasted into the Time Vortex. (AUDIO: Terror Firma)
However, this was not the total end of the Daleks; the Doctor later stated that there were more Daleks in the universe than there were on Skaro. (AUDIO: Daleks Among Us) Additionally, it was unclear what time zone Skaro existed in when it was destroyed, as the Seventh Doctor collected the Master's ashes from the planet after the Daleks tried and executed him, (TV: Doctor Who) and New Skaro was established by the 26th century. (PROSE: Birthright)
The Dalek Prime later claimed that Skaro had not really been destroyed, having been switched with the decoy planet Antalin. (PROSE: War of the Daleks) One account stated that following the civil war, the Emperor of the Restoration "restored" Skaro, (PROSE: The Restoration Empire) while another account claimed the Daleks manipulated the timelines, making it so while the planet was destroyed, they reconstituted it, effectively erasing the destruction from time. (PROSE: The Whoniverse) The Eleventh Doctor later visited a ravaged and desolate Skaro (TV: Asylum of the Daleks) and the Twelfth Doctor was later captured and taken to a Skaro "rebuilt" by Davros and the Daleks. (TV: The Magician's Apprentice)
- The severity of Skaro's "destruction" is never made clear, whether the planet was completely obliterated or just heavily damaged.
