Drenz

Drenz
Species:	Humanoid Dalek
Place of origin:	Skaro
First appearance:	The Dalek Dictionary [+]Loading...["The Dalek Dictionary (feature)"]
Appearances:	COMIC: Genesis of Evil [+]Loading...["Genesis of Evil (comic story)"] COMIC: The Dalek Tapes [+]Loading...["The Dalek Tapes (comic story)"]

Drenz was the final pacifist ruler of the humanoid Daleks.

Biography

Death

In 2003, (COMIC: The Dalek Tapes ^[+]Loading...["The Dalek Tapes (comic story)"], PROSE: The Dalek Dictionary ^[+]Loading...["The Dalek Dictionary (feature)"]) or thousands of years prior to the 2060s, he demanded that War Minister Zolfian end his plans to destroy the Thals through the use of neutron bombs, accusing him of tampering with forces beyond his control and warning that he might destroy the entirety of Skaro should he continue. Zolfian instead shot and killed Drenz, declaring that he was unfit to rule the Daleks. However, Drenz's predictions would soon prove true when the bombs were inadvertently detonated by fires resulting from a meteorite storm, devastating Skaro and all but wiping out the original Dalek race. (COMIC: Genesis of Evil ^[+]Loading...["Genesis of Evil (comic story)"])

Legacy

Drenz's assassination was chronicled in the Dalek Tapes, a collection of tapes found by the Doctor in an ancient library on a twilight world. (COMIC: The Dalek Tapes ^[+]Loading...["The Dalek Tapes (comic story)"]) The story was also told in the pages of TV Century 21 in 2065, (COMIC: Genesis of Evil ^[+]Loading...["Genesis of Evil (comic story)"]) and in 2094 as an instalment of the Dalek Chronicles. (PROSE: The Dalek Chronicles Found! ^[+]Loading...["The Dalek Chronicles Found! (short story)"])

Something akin to the story of Yarvelling, Drenz and Zolfian was one of the creation myths formulated by species conquered by the Daleks about their oppressors. The myth, however, altered certain details, speaking of the "Sea of Ooze" and suggesting the Dalek War Machines were originally intended to be autonomous robots. Human historians who recorded the myth at length in their history of the Daleks did not give it much credence, though they granted that, for one moment at least, the Yarvelling story may have briefly "become" the true origin of the Daleks at one point during the Last Great Time War. (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe ^[+]Loading...["Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)"])