Inside a Dalek (feature)

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Inside a Dalek, also called The Anatomy of a Dalek, was a ficton piece published in Terry Nation's Dalek Special. Essentially an update on Anatomy of the Dalek from the first Dalek annual, it incorporated new concepts from the television series (such as Davros) and its illustration depicted a Grey Dalek casing instead of the 1960s Dalek War Machine, thus accounting for the vast technological shifts.

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The Daleks of Skaro's drive to create the perfect destructive machine has led them to improve the Dalek casing again and again over the centuries. The Space Intelligence Service releases a report of its findings on the current inner workings of the casing, though it remains incomplete.

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  • The assertion that the Daleks have no voice of their own and that the familiar voice is a processed computer-generated, while it is not unique, stands in contrast to many other accounts, most notably the original serial, where Ian Chesterton's voice becomes muffled into the Dalek voice as soon as he climbs into a casing.