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'''Yarvelling''' was a famous [[humanoid Dalek|Dalek]] [[scientist]]. | '''Yarvelling''' was a famous [[humanoid Dalek|Dalek]] [[scientist]]. | ||
==Biography== | == Biography == | ||
=== Creating the War Machines === | === Creating the War Machines === | ||
Under the orders of Minister [[Zolfian]], he developed a mobile war machine for the war against the [[Thal]]s which he dubbed the [[Dalek War Machine]]. Zolfian ordered the mass production of such machines to be readied. However, during the war, a freak [[meteorite]] storm detonated the [[neutron bomb]]s built and stashed away by the Daleks. Zolfian and Yarvelling survived in the war council chamber, turning into a [[fallout shelter]], and were believed to be the only unmutated survivors of their kind, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Genesis of Evil (comic story)|Genesis of Evil]]'') although in truth several other individuals had survived in stasis. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Legacy of Yesteryear (comic story)|Legacy of Yesteryear]]'') | Under the orders of Minister [[Zolfian]], he developed a mobile war machine for the war against the [[Thal]]s which he dubbed the [[Dalek War Machine]]. Zolfian ordered the mass production of such machines to be readied. However, during the war, a freak [[meteorite]] storm detonated the [[neutron bomb]]s built and stashed away by the Daleks. Zolfian and Yarvelling survived in the war council chamber, turning into a [[fallout shelter]], and were believed to be the only unmutated survivors of their kind, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Genesis of Evil (comic story)|Genesis of Evil]]'') although in truth several other individuals had survived in stasis. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Legacy of Yesteryear (comic story)|Legacy of Yesteryear]]'') | ||
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At a much later point in Dalek history, the [[Dalek Prime]]'s Daleks knew that despite claiming otherwise, [[Davros]] had not actually invented the [[Dalek]] [[casing|travel machine]], having instead stolen the designs of "other scientists". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[War of the Daleks (novel)|War of the Daleks]]'') | At a much later point in Dalek history, the [[Dalek Prime]]'s Daleks knew that despite claiming otherwise, [[Davros]] had not actually invented the [[Dalek]] [[casing|travel machine]], having instead stolen the designs of "other scientists". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[War of the Daleks (novel)|War of the Daleks]]'') | ||
Something akin to the story of Yarvelling, Drenz and Zolfian was one of the [[myth|creation | Something akin to the story of Yarvelling, Drenz and Zolfian was one of the [[myth|creation myths]] formulated by species conquered by the Daleks about their oppressors. The myth, however, altered certain details, speaking of the "[[Ocean of Ooze|Sea of Ooze]]" and suggesting the [[Dalek War Machine]]s were originally intended to be autonomous robots. [[Human]] historians who recorded the myth at length in their history of the Daleks did not give it much credence, though they granted that, for one moment at least, the Yarvelling story may have briefly "become" the true origin of the Daleks at one point during the [[Last Great Time War]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)|Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe]]'') | ||
The black, friable spires of [[Yarvelling's Church]] from [[Skaro]] were a fragment of the [[Last Great Time War]]. According to one account, the [[Eighth Doctor]] saw the Cathedral fused with fragments of [[Morbius]]' [[Red Capitol]] in the backwater where he triggered [[the Moment]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Time War (short story)|Doctor Who and the Time War]]'') | The black, friable spires of [[Yarvelling's Church]] from [[Skaro]] were a fragment of the [[Last Great Time War]]. According to one account, the [[Eighth Doctor]] saw the Cathedral fused with fragments of [[Morbius]]' [[Red Capitol]] in the backwater where he triggered [[the Moment]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Time War (short story)|Doctor Who and the Time War]]'') | ||
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== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
* According to ''The Dalek Dictionary'' feature in ''[[The Dalek Book]]'', Yarveling (with one "l") was the first to travel to [[Flidor]] and bring back [[gold]] (Flidor gold being one of the main components in the casing of the first Dalek Emperor). He also discovered silcronian and a method for water compression. | * According to ''The Dalek Dictionary'' feature in ''[[The Dalek Book]]'', Yarveling (with one "l") was the first to travel to [[Flidor]] and bring back [[gold]] (Flidor gold being one of the main components in the casing of the first Dalek Emperor). He also discovered silcronian and a method for water compression. | ||
* Yarvelling's status as the original creator of the Dalek travel machines was seemingly contradicted by the introduction of [[Davros]] in ''[[Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks]]'', although the novel ''[[War of the Daleks (novel)|War of the Daleks]]'' hinted at a possible reconciliation by having the Daleks themselves explain that Davros only created the Mark III Travel Machines based on designs stolen from "other scientists". | * Yarvelling's status as the original creator of the Dalek travel machines was seemingly contradicted by the introduction of [[Davros]] in ''[[Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks]]'', although the novel ''[[War of the Daleks (novel)|War of the Daleks]]'' hinted at a possible reconciliation by having the Daleks themselves explain that Davros only created the Mark III Travel Machines based on designs stolen from "other scientists". | ||
* Davros' half-sister [[Yarvell]], who appeared in ''[[I, Davros]]'', was named after Yarvelling. | * Davros' half-sister [[Yarvell]], who appeared in ''[[I, Davros]]'', was named after Yarvelling. | ||
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