Abslom Daak
Abslom Daak was a thuggish Human criminal who embarked on a crazed vendetta against the Daleks after they took the life of his only love.
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In the mid-26th century, Daak was convicted of "23 charges of murder, pillage, piracy, massacre and other crimes too horrible to bring to the public attention". At the close of his trial, he was given the choice between vapourisation or exile as a Dalek Killer. He chose the latter. Out of a selection of many weapons, his choice was (and continued to be) a chainsword. Daak was transported to the primitive planet Mazam, whose rulers appeased the Dalek occupying their world. He destroyed a Dalek task force single-handedly and rescued the Princess Taiyan, with whom he fell in love. She decided to strike out against her masters. She was killed by a Dalek survivor that Daak had overlooked, leaving Daak grief-stricken and vowing to exterminate every Dalek in the galaxy.(DWM: Abslom Daak... Dalek Killer).
With Taiyin's body alongside him in cryogenic supension (he hoped that medicical technology might one day revive her) Daak joined a crew of misfits and outcasts called the Star Tigers who traveled the galaxy in a small ship known as the Kill-Wagon. (DWM: Star Killers). He continued to kill Daleks, often armed only with an energy pistol and his personal chainsword. He remained a tough-talking ruffian, almost psychotically eager for battle.
He met the the Doctor on the planet Hell after the Kill-Wagon had creashed there while while investigating Dalek activity. He thought his fellow Star Tigers had died in the crash. They found the Daleks mining a deadly gas from the planet, taking it up to an orbital Dalek Death Wheel to build a genocide machine. Daak sacrificed himself by flying a captured Dalek hovercraft into the Wheel's reactor core, destroying the Wheel and the Dalek's plans. (DWM: Nemesis of the Daleks)
Daak he was plucked out of time just before his moment of death by a Dalek faction led by the Supreme Dalek and used to locate and lead the the Doctor into a trap. Eventually he discovered that he had been tricked, and aided the Doctor, the Doctor's companion Bernice ("Benny") Summerfield (another native of the 26th century left without parents by the Daleks) and the Star Tigers (who had survived the crash) in defeating the Daleks once more. On Spiridon, Davros attacked the "wheelchair" part of Davros with his chainsword, crippling him. With help from Benny, Daak got over his fixation with Taiyin, but then nursed a crush on Bernice (DWM: Emperor of the Daleks)
Daak's clone
A cryogenically frozen Daak was revived by Ace in 2573. Ace thought of him as the only Daak and, with Benny, tried to stop him from dying because, thinking him the real, original Daak and not a clone, they knew that Daak would die on Hell. He was killed while saving Ace from the gestalt intelligence named Pool. (NA: Deceit)
Behind the Scenes
Daak appered outside of the Doctor Who Universe in a short cross-over with
1990 saw the release of "The Theme from Abslom Daak - Dalek Killer", composed by Dominic Glynn and Martin Smith, and performed by The Slaves of Kane. It was released as part of a promotional flexi disc in Doctor Who Magazine and subsequently released in various mixes on two singles.
A variant of Daak's statement "Whatcha gonna do now, big shot? Suck me to death?" appears in "Dalek", however unlike the helpless Dalek in the comic strip, the Dalek proceeds to do just that with his manipulator arm. "I'm gonna kill every last stinking Dalek in the galaxy!" is similar to the Doctor's promise at the closing of "Bad Wolf". This may be a deliberate in-joke.
