Know Your Enemy (The Dalek World feature)
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Know Your Enemy was one of the features original to The Dalek World, a Dalek annual of 1965. Taking the form of an FAQ, it gave various answers to possible questions about Dalek existence.
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- Daleks do not age and do not die of natural causes, meaning that it is normal to find Daleks that are over a million years old.
- Using an Earth rocket, it would take two years to travel from Earth to Skaro. However, "super-speed Dalek space-craft" can make the journey in eleven days.
- The Supreme Council are the Dalek government. The council is composed of twelve Daleks serving the Supreme Dalek.
- After the disastrous Dalek campaign on Staveros, the entire Supreme Council was executed save for the Supreme Dalek.
- Dalek culture includes television shows telling Dalek history and micro books that tell fictional stories of the universe after it has been conquered by Daleks.
- The Daleks have a special exploration division known as the Uniographers. In total, the Daleks have discovered 11,073 planets with life.
- Dalek allies include the Octovarns of Varnicon, the Hyptons of Mesmerus, and the Meticons of Calliopticon.
- In the modern day of the 1960s, the latest reports say that less than 50 Thals survive. They live in a state of extreme privation in a secret valley north of the "Dalek underground city".
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- Many of the concepts discussed here were also mentioned in PROSE: The Dalek Dictionary (The Dalek Pocketbook) [+]Loading...{"var":"The Dalek Pocketbook","1":"The Dalek Dictionary (feature)"}, published a few days earlier.
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- The Treasure House from COMIC: Treasure of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Treasure of the Daleks (comic story)"] is discussed.
- The Slyther, as seen in TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth [+]Loading...["The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)"], is mentioned as a Dalek pet.
- The Supreme Council are discussed as the Dalek government, as previously alluded to in COMIC: City of the Daleks [+]Loading...["City of the Daleks (comic story)"].
- The concept of the twelve member Supreme Council was later referenced with the Kaled Council of Twelve seen in I, Davros.
- The concept that Daleks do not die of natural causes was later explored with the Skaro sewers in TV: The Witch's Familiar [+]Loading...["The Witch's Familiar (TV story)"].
