Battle computer
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The Dalek Battle Computer was a computer interface the Daleks used that required a humanoid interface to function as the creative intelligence. The Renegade Daleks placed one on Earth in 1963 This Battle Computer required a Human interface to act as a creative intelligence, the human was a young child that was conditioned to obey the Daleks. (DW: Remembrance of the Daleks) Later in their history when they were manipulating the Fifth Axis the Daleks experimented with using older, more tactically aware human beings as Battle Computers. (BFBS: Death and the Daleks)