Corruption (audio story)

Corruption
Main character(s):	Davros
Featuring:	Calcula, Shan, the Supremo, Daleks
Main enemy:	Thals
Main setting:	Skaro
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Lance Parkin
Director:	Gary Russell
Producer:	Gary Russell and Jason Haigh-Ellery
Music:	Steve Foxon
Sound:	Steve Foxon
Cover by:	Stuart Manning
Release details
Number of parts:	1
Release number:	3
Release date:	4 December 2006
Format:	1 CD Download
Production code:	BFPDAVCD03
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84435-233-3 (physical); ISBN 978-1-78178-517-1 (digital)
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Corruption was the third story in the I, Davros series released by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Lance Parkin and featured Terry Molloy as Davros, Carolyn Jones as Calcula, Katarina Olsson as Shan, David Bickerstaff as Ral and John Stahl as The Supremo.

Publisher's summary

"Logically, the war ends with one form of life in utter control of the world. All other life forms gone. That is the goal — that is the only true victory!"

Now established within the Scientific Elite, Davros and his team are pushing the boundaries of Kaled experimentation further and further forward. Access to Thal DNA spearheads an entirely new field of research for Davros, and as he becomes more and more intrigued by genetic mutations, others around him begin to fear him, his drive and his obsessive need for power.

Meanwhile he must learn to cope with betrayal and political manoeuvrings that will leave him changed forever...

Plot

to be added

Cast

• Coordinator Davros - Terry Molloy
• Renna - Lucy Beresford
• Scientist Ral - David Bickerstaff
• The Daleks - Nicholas Briggs
• Councillor Valron - Seán Carlsen
• Section Leader Fenn - Daniel Hogarth
• Lady Calcula - Carolyn Jones
• Scientist Shan - Katarina Olsson
• The Supremo - John Stahl

Worldbuilding

• Matros still serves on the Council of Twelve and has risen to the rank of the High Councillor. Davros refused to take his daughter to a state dinner the night before the Thal attempt on his life.
• The name of the Thal state is the Thal Republic.
• DNA makes up living creatures on Skaro and all living creatures on Skaro have a double helix.
• Drammankin Lake is now known as the Lake of Mutations.
• Davros determines that, in spite of their outward resemblance, the Kaleds and the Thals' evolution diverged a hundred million years prior to the Thousand Year War. This is approximately the era when life first evolved on Skaro.
• Most lifeforms that existed on Skaro have become extinct. Consequently, natural foodstuffs are a rare commodity.
• Davros is now a Coordinator within the Scientific Elite.
• Joining the Kaled Military Youth is not technically mandatory, but in practice it is.
• The Darren province is the area where Shan and her family used to live. It is now a radioactive glass desert. They once owned more than half of the province.
• Shan's father Colonel Krakor is a senior member of the Military Elite. He turned down a place on the Council of Twelve to remain on the battlefield.
• Davros' blast ray uses a Dynamatic Generator which takes a moment to charge.
• Calcula remarks that Kaled culture would benefit if children were shown an hour of war footage each day at school.
• The casing of the blast ray is made from the rare metal Whybium.
• Davros developed a device which cured cancer one year earlier.
• The Supremo orders Fenn to destroy Davros' laboratory. Calcula then exposes herself and Fenn to a massive dose of radiation.
• Skaro's sun can no longer be seen from the Kaled Dome due to the high levels of radiation in the atmosphere. According to Valron, there has not been a proper summer for the last three years as a result.
• Butterflies existed on Skaro prior to the war.
• The Supremo has access to a strategy computer.

Notes

• This audio drama was recorded on 2 August 2006.
• The story was reissued in 2007 as part of The Complete Davros Collection DVD boxset.
• When Calcula watches the test footage of the Blast Ray, she comments that it looked like the monitor burned out. This references televised effects for Dalek blasters.
• The phenomenon of humanoid mothers giving birth to Dalek mutants would have been explored in Lance Parkin's unproduced novel Enemy of the Daleks ^[+]Loading...["Enemy of the Daleks (unproduced novel)"].

Continuity

• Some of the events in this story were first touched upon in AUDIO: Davros.
• Drammankin Lake is now commonly referred to as the Lake of Mutations and is one of the few places on Skaro where animal and plant life can flourish as the Thousand Year War has destroyed Skaro's ecosystem. (AUDIO: Innocence, TV: The Daleks) The name originates from PROSE: The Dalography of Skaro ^[+]Loading...["The Dalography of Skaro (feature)"].
• Ral says that some Kaleds now believe that beneath the city lies a a honeycomb of tunnels with "strange creatures" and screaming winds. Some Kaled children are told that if they don't polish their boots, the Krakis will come from below to get them. These are all references to PROSE: The Strata of Skaro ^[+]Loading...["The Strata of Skaro (feature)"].
• Davros's conviction that Kaleds and Thals are not closely evolutionarily related could be interpreted to loosely evoke PROSE: We are the Daleks!. However, its specifics are that Davros believes that Kaleds evolved from skarosian clams like those seen in TV: Genesis of the Daleks ^[+]Loading...["Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)"] and that Thals evolved from the eel-like Urvacryl mentioned in PROSE: The Dalek Dictionary ^[+]Loading...["The Dalek Dictionary (feature)"].
• Davros and Shan collect rodents for genetic research. (AUDIO: Davros)
• Davros remarks that life began on Skaro 100,000,000 years ago in the Planistavian Age, as established in PROSE: The Evolution of the Planet Skaro ^[+]Loading...["The Evolution of the Planet Skaro (short story)"].
• Shan mentions the destruction of Darren. Davros mentions that it has caused that region's earthworms to mutate, as established in PROSE: The Dalography of Skaro ^[+]Loading...["The Dalography of Skaro (feature)"].
• Davros' blast ray is described as firing energy similar to a lightning bolt, as Dalek blast guns are said to do in the "Anatomy of a Dalek" diagram in COMIC: City of the Daleks ^[+]Loading...["City of the Daleks (comic story)"].
• Davros' blast ray is said to use enough energy to power the Kaled city for 73 years. This evokes the claim that a single Dalek could power all of London in PROSE: Strange to Tell... According to the Daleks ^[+]Loading...["Strange to Tell... According to the Daleks (feature)"].
• Davros tells Shan that he saw Kaleds being mutated by the Varga plants in the Wastelands years earlier. (AUDIO: Purity)
• Davros mentions that she wrote a paper suggesting the Kaled race would need to be re-engineered to survive on Skaro after the war, which she called "the Dalek Solution." (AUDIO: Davros)
• Davros refers to the Varga plants and the Mutos. (TV: Mission to the Unknown, Genesis of the Daleks; AUDIO: Purity)
• Years later, the Thal spy Baran would read Davros' report about his experiments on his mother's corpse after she had been mutated by the radiation. (AUDIO: Guilt)

External links

• Official Corruption page at bigfinish.com
• Corruption on Spotify
• Corruption at the Doctor Who Reference Guide