Duplicate Incident
Recorded in the Dalek Survival Guide as the liberation of Davros, (PROSE: Dalek Survival Guide) the Duplicate Incident was the Time Lord designation for the event in which the Daleks, supported by Dalek duplicates, retrieved their creator Davros from the Prison Station. (TV: Resurrection of the Daleks, PROSE: Dalek Combat Training Manual)
In 4590, (PROSE: Resurrection of the Daleks) the Daleks had recently lost their war with the Movellans after the androids developed a virus which attacked Dalek mutants. The Supreme Dalek led an expedition to rescue Davros from human custody, which he'd been held in for 90 years, in the hopes of him devising a cure for the virus. (TV: Resurrection of the Daleks)
The Time Lords' pinpointed the temporal co-ordinates of this event to the 46th century, however, their time scale of Dalek activity placed it in the 47th century. (PROSE: Dalek Combat Training Manual) In their TL time scale, it was dated to 75,299 TL. From the Time Lords' perspective, this had occurred long before the Deliavatsud Intervention was launched from basetime Gallifrey in 101,197 TL. (PROSE: The Dalek Problem)
History[[edit] | [edit source]]
A day to come[[edit] | [edit source]]
Published on Earth around the turn of the 21st century, the Dalek Survival Guide had future intelligence which foretold the liberation of Davros among other incidents. (PROSE: Dalek Survival Guide)
Background[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Daleks came into conflict with the Movellans, a race of androids. As both sides relied on logical battle computers, a stalemate ensued. In an attempt to break the deadlock, the Daleks returned to Skaro to recover their creator Davros, who was dormant in the ruins of the Kaled dome following the Dalek Prime's attempt to exterminate him centuries earlier. Their operation was disrupted by a rival Movellan expedition and the arrival of the Fourth Doctor and Romana. The Doctor and Romana helped the Daleks' human slaves rise up and take Davros into their custody in suspended animation. (TV: Destiny of the Daleks)
Davros was transferred over to the Earth Protection Corps. While en route a ship transporting him rescued the Tenth Doctor and Anya Kingdom and came under attack by a Dalek saucer, causing it to crash land on Kembel. The Movellan Prime Rocket commanded by the First Movellan pursued them, capturing the Doctor and Davros, whilst a secret faction of Daleks on Kembel emerged from hiding. (AUDIO: The Dalek Defence) Davros feigned forming an alliance between the Daleks and Movellans, actually using the agreement to infect the Movellans with a virus. The Doctor prevented the virus spreading beyond Kembel and sent the Prime Rocket away before its crew could reboot. At the same time Earth Protection Corps forces arrived on Kembel, defeating the Daleks and recapturing Davros.
Inspired by his experience with Davros, the First Movellan decided to investigate a virus to use against the biological component of the Daleks. (AUDIO: The Triumph of Davros) For 90 years, Davros remained in human custody in suspended animation, eventually being kept on a Prison Station. The Daleks meanwhile lost the war with the Movellans due to them successfully developing a virus which affected Dalek mutants. (TV: Resurrection of the Daleks)
Conflict[[edit] | [edit source]]
In 4590, (PROSE: Resurrection of the Daleks) the Supreme Dalek led a Dalek task-force to invade the Prison Station to rescue Davros, in hopes of him providing a cure for the virus. At the same time, the Daleks stored vials of the virus in a warehouse in London in 1984, linked to their battlecruiser by a time corridor, and infiltrated human governments with duplicates.
Using troopers led by the mercenary Lytton alongside drones, the Daleks successfully invaded the Prison Station and awoke Davros. Meanwhile the Doctor's TARDIS became caught in the time corridor and arrived in the warehouse, with the Fifth Doctor, Tegan Jovanka and Turlough meeting a bomb squad that had been called there after the vials of Movellan virus were mistaken for explosives. After Turlough fell into the time corridor, they were attacked by a Dalek, which they managed to destroy.
At liberty in the station, Davros used the virus research the Daleks has tasked him with as a means to secretly convert humans and Daleks to his cause, eventually building up a small army loyal to him alone. He had come to believe that his original Daleks had failed in light of their defeat, and sought to create a new race of Daleks loyal to him in its place. At the same time the Doctor travelled through the time corridor in his TARDIS in search of Turlough however was swiftly captured after being betrayed by Stien, a Dalek duplicate within the bomb squad who had accompanied him. The Daleks announced he would be duplicated, along with his companions, with the duplicate tasked with the assassination of the Time Lord High Council on Gallifrey, (TV: Resurrection of the Daleks) intended as revenge for the Time Lords' plot to destroy them at their creation. (AUDIO: The Dalek Conquests) The duplication process was interrupted by Stien, having overcome his Dalek conditioning with the Doctor's aid.
On Earth, the bomb squad was attacked by Dalek duplicates who had infiltrated them, including two disguised as policemen, and Daleks, resulting in many deaths. Tegan escaped the massacre by reaching the time corridor, reuniting with the Doctor and Turlough. The Doctor took his companions back to his TARDIS and then went to confront Davros, intending to kill him. Davros talked the Doctor down with promises to redesign the Daleks and they were interrupted by Dalek agents. The Doctor escaped whilst Davros unleashed his converted forces on those loyal to the Supreme Dalek.
The rival Dalek forces fought in the warehouse on Earth whilst Davros unleashed a sample of the Movellan virus at the station. As he made for an escape pod however, Davros began suffering the effects of the virus himself. The Doctor reunited with his companions at his TARDIS, which had been pulled back to the warehouse, and was contacted by the Supreme Dalek, which bragged of the Dalek duplicates still in position of Earth. The broadcast was interrupted by Stien detonating the station and docked battlecruiser in revenge against the Daleks, (TV: Resurrection of the Daleks) though the Supreme Dalek did escape alive, (PROSE: Resurrection of the Daleks) as did Davros, (AUDIO: Davros) although the CIA assumed initially that he died in the battlecruiser's destruction. (PROSE: The Dalek Problem)
Aftermath and legacy[[edit] | [edit source]]
In the immediate aftermath of the incident Tegan decided to stay on Earth, having grown tired of all the death that accompanied travelling with the Doctor. (TV: Resurrection of the Daleks) By one account, she met the Fifth Doctor decades later when he appeared in Brisbane in 2006. (AUDIO: The Gathering) According to another account, she did not meet the Doctor again until she met the Thirteenth Doctor in 2022, being embroiled in the Master's Dalek Plan. (TV: The Power of the Doctor)
According to the The Dalek Problem, the incident had pointed to the continued threat the Daleks posed despite their low numbers in the wake of the Movellan War, which led the Time Lord Council to begin gathering information on the Daleks. On the orders of the Office of Multihistorical Research, the CIA began to intercept and reorganise some of the reports. In the years after this, Deliavatsud finally consulted the APC Net about the Daleks and then hastily launched the Fourth Doctor's mission to Skaro in the first place. At the time of the publication of The Dalek Problem, the incident was the last recorded event in known Dalek history, though the Time Lords were well aware that that the Daleks remained a threat. (PROSE: The Dalek Problem)
By one account, it was the new viral technology developed to cure the Movellan virus which granted the Daleks an immunity to a space plague which struck the galaxy, which they made an ill-fated attempt to exploit in the Exxilon Gambit. (PROSE: The History of the Daleks)
Having deemed his original creations failures, Davros would subsequently seek to found his own faction of the Daleks on Necros under the guise of the "Great Healer". The original Daleks were alerted to his scheme and arrived to capture him taking him back to Skaro for trial for his crimes against the Daleks. (TV: Revelation of the Daleks) The meddling of the Sixth and Seventh Doctors enabled Davros to escape to Spiridon where he turned an entombed Dalek army of 10,000 drones to his control, with which he conquered Skaro and was proclaimed Dalek Emperor, beginning the Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War. (COMIC: Emperor of the Daleks!)
Lytton was left stranded on Earth along with two policemen duplicates, (TV: Resurrection of the Daleks) eventually being employed by the Neomorph Cybermen to aid their scheme to change history in 1985 to avert the destruction of Mondas. Lytton, however, would side with the Cryons who opposed the Cybermen on Telos, an act which would result in his death, leading the Sixth Doctor to reflect that he had never misjudged someone as badly as he had Lytton. (TV: Attack of the Cybermen)
Noting Lytton's involvement in The Quiet Invasion, ArcHivist Hegelia acknowledged his previous association with the Daleks. In regards to that incident, Hegelia noted "see Earth Document Resurrection of the Daleks". (AUDIO: The Early Cybermen [+]Loading...["The Early Cybermen (audio story)"])
The Seventh Doctor resentfully lamented that his fifth incarnation "could have saved billions" of lives "by shooting down Davros like a mad dog when [he] had the chance". (PROSE: Lucifer Rising)
Scrutinising Dalek history during the Time War, the Time Lords later believed that the duplicates planted on Earth had indeed broken down, but did consider the possibility that events in Earth's history had been manipulated to serve the Daleks' ends. (PROSE: Dalek Combat Training Manual)
In the post-Time War universe, this incident was covered as a part of known Dalek history in The Dalek Conquests, a documentary which was itself produced following the Van Statten Incident on Earth in 2012. (AUDIO: The Dalek Conquests)
After their memory of the Doctor was wiped from the Pathweb for a time, the Daleks forgot, amongst other incidents, who had foiled the assassination of the Time Lord High Council. (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe)
Receiving the Twelfth Doctor in his infirmary on Skaro, Davros replayed footage of the Fifth Doctor informing Davros of his intent to kill him amongst other confrontations. (TV: The Magician's Apprentice)
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
Dating[[edit] | [edit source]]
Reportedly, the rehearsal script for Resurrection of the Daleks set the story in 4590, with the year later being used in The Doctor Who Programme Guide and Encyclopedia of The Worlds of Doctor Who. The Dalek Handbook had dated the Movellan Incident and the Duplicate Incident to 4500 and 4590 respectively. Ultimately, the year was used in a valid source in the novelisation of Resurrection of the Daleks.
The Terrestrial Index claimed that the Daleks recovered Davros from the Prison Station towards the end of the 27th century.
