Ironside Project: Difference between revisions

The '''Ironside Project''' was a ruse created by the [[Dalek]]s. It was designed to lure the [[Eleventh Doctor]] to them, trick him into delivering testimony to identify them as Daleks and enable them to activate the [[Progenitor]]. The Project was a complete success, and the [[New Dalek Paradigm]] was the outcome.

The Ironsides were a pair of standard [[Dalek drone]]s. They had themselves painted khaki-green with the [[Union Flag]] in place of their recognition code as part of their plot. They sometimes had covers put over their blinkers to better hide from opposing forces while undercover and had army utility belts housing useful battlefield accoutrements strapped to their casings. ([[TV]]: ''[[Victory of the Daleks]]'')

A single [[Dalek Saucer]] and its crew of three [[Dalek]]s survived an encounter with [[the Doctor]] and fell through time to [[1941]]. They acquired an original [[Progenitor]] device, which could create new Daleks, but the device did not respond to them because it did not recognize them as Daleks. The three decided to trick the Doctor into proving to the Progenitor that they were, indeed, Daleks.

They created [[Edwin Bracewell]] and provided him with charts and testing results realistic enough to take to the [[British Army]]. Two of the three Daleks posed as Ironside prototypes. Bracewell rolled out a war-designed variant of the Dalek and put them into key points within the Allied Forces. When not used in battle, they did small tasks such as providing tea to keep up their ruse. [[Winston Churchill]] informed the [[Eleventh Doctor]] of the Ironsides.

The Ironsides immediately dropped their ruse, revealed Bracewell as an android by blasting off his hand and returned to their [[Dalek flying saucer|ship]] in orbit. They were followed by the Doctor in [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]. The Doctor confronted them and held the Daleks at bay with a "[[TARDIS self-destruct|TARDIS destruct mechanism]]," actually a [[Jammy Dodger]]. The Daleks revealed their intentions and created five new Daleks. The new [[Supreme Dalek (Progenitor)|Supreme Dalek]] decided that the trio of older Daleks were "impure." The three Daleks accepted this and allowed themselves to be disintegrated by the new Progenitor Daleks, who went on to establish the [[New Dalek Paradigm]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Victory of the Daleks]]'')

Encountering the "[[Dalek (Living History)|Bronze God]]," Churchill recognized it as a Dalek through his experience with the Ironsides. Indeed, he initially referred to the "Bronze God" itself as an Ironside. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Living History (audio story)|Living History]]'')