Dalek drone: Difference between revisions

According to one account, the very first [[Dalek]]s and their Mark III Travel Machines were created by the scientist [[Davros]] at the end of the [[Thousand Year War]] between his [[Kaled|people]] and the [[Thal]]s. These first Daleks were a group of drones. These [[Grey Dalek]]s were large, dark grey, and possessed slats in their midsection. ([[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks]]'')

According to another account, the Dalek casing was originally designed by the scientist [[Yarvelling]] under the name of [[Dalek War Machine]], being repurposed into a travel machine by the first, naturally-occurring Dalek. Even as this Emperor's progeny developed new forms of casings for the officer class, with the Emperor himself becoming the bulbous-headed "[[Golden Emperor]]", the original slatless Dalek War Machines continued to be used as the casings of the Dalek drones. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Genesis of Evil (comic story)|Genesis of Evil]]'', ''[[The Amaryll Challenge (comic story)|The Amaryll Challenge]]'') It was a group of War Machine Daleks who were the first members of the species the [[First Doctor]] encountered. They depended on [[static electricity]] from the floors of the [[Dalek City]] for power. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]'') The War Machine-esque Dalek soldiers seen in [[England]] during the [[22nd century Dalek invasion]] had radio dishes mounted on their backs for external power and larger bases, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'') though some War Machine Daleks during the Daleks' initial expansion phase were seen to get about on alien soil without need of such appendages. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Amaryll Challenge (comic story)|The Amaryll Challenge]]'')