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The [[planet]] had polar ice caps. The mountains at one of the poles were known as the [[Polar Mountains]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Legacy of Yesteryear (comic story)|Legacy of Yesteryear]]'') | The [[planet]] had polar ice caps. The mountains at one of the poles were known as the [[Polar Mountains]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Legacy of Yesteryear (comic story)|Legacy of Yesteryear]]'') | ||
[[File:PlagueofDeath-Map of Skaro.jpg|thumb|A map of Skaro showing weather patterns. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Plague of Death (comic story)|Plague of Death]]'')]] | [[File:PlagueofDeath-Map of Skaro.jpg|thumb|A map of Skaro showing weather patterns. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Plague of Death (comic story)|Plague of Death]]'')|alt=|left]] | ||
After being restored by the Daleks, Skaro appeared to have been, to an extent, returned to the pristine state it held before it became war-torn, as it was safe for [[Clara Oswald]], {{Gomez}} and the [[Twelfth Doctor]] to walk around without worry of [[radiation sickness]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') and the skies were clear enough to see the sun rise and fall. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'') | After being restored by the Daleks, Skaro appeared to have been, to an extent, returned to the pristine state it held before it became war-torn, as it was safe for [[Clara Oswald]], {{Gomez}} and the [[Twelfth Doctor]] to walk around without worry of [[radiation sickness]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') and the skies were clear enough to see the sun rise and fall. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'') | ||
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=== Native life === | === Native life === | ||
All Skarosian life had [[DNA]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Corruption (audio story)|Corruption]]'') which was fundamental type 467-989. ([[TV]]: ''[[Daleks in Manhattan (TV story)|Daleks in Manhattan]]'') Most of Skaro's animal and plant life became extinct as a result of the [[Thousand Year War]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Corruption (audio story)|Corruption]]'') Some of the survivors included the [[Varga plant]]s ([[TV]]: ''[[Mission to the Unknown (TV story)|Mission to the Unknown]]'') and [[Slyther]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'') The [[Drammankin Lake|Lake of Mutations]] was home to a variety of life-forms, including the [[terrorkon]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Terrorkon Harvest (comic story)|The Terrorkon Harvest]]'') At least one area of the planet was inhabited by large [[Dinosaur (The Planet of the Daleks)|dinosaur-like creatures]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Planet of the Daleks (comic story)|The Planet of the Daleks]]'') Another Skarosian life form were [[magnedon]]s; most perished in the war, leaving the landscape littered with their metallic exoskeletons. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]'') | All Skarosian life had [[DNA]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Corruption (audio story)|Corruption]]'') which was fundamental type 467-989. ([[TV]]: ''[[Daleks in Manhattan (TV story)|Daleks in Manhattan]]'') Most of Skaro's animal and plant life became extinct as a result of the [[Thousand Year War]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Corruption (audio story)|Corruption]]'') Some of the survivors included the [[Varga plant]]s ([[TV]]: ''[[Mission to the Unknown (TV story)|Mission to the Unknown]]'') and [[Slyther]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'') The [[Drammankin Lake|Lake of Mutations]] was home to a variety of life-forms, including the [[terrorkon]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Terrorkon Harvest (comic story)|The Terrorkon Harvest]]'') At least one area of the planet was inhabited by large [[Dinosaur (The Planet of the Daleks)|dinosaur-like creatures]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Planet of the Daleks (comic story)|The Planet of the Daleks]]'') Another Skarosian life form were [[magnedon]]s; most perished in the war, leaving the landscape littered with their metallic exoskeletons. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]'') | ||
[[File:Electric eel MenaceoftheMonstrons.jpg|thumb|Giant electric eels. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Menace of the Monstrons (comic story)|The Menace of the Monstrons]]'')]] | [[File:Electric eel MenaceoftheMonstrons.jpg|thumb|Giant electric eels. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Menace of the Monstrons (comic story)|The Menace of the Monstrons]]'')|alt=|left]] | ||
Several sentient species [[Evolution|evolved]] on Skaro, including the [[Dal (species)|Dals]], [[Tharon]]s, [[Kaled]]s and [[Thal]]s. By the time of the [[Thousand Year War]], the Tharons and Dals had died out. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Purity (audio story)|Purity]]'') The [[Muto]]s were [[mutation|mutated]] Kaleds and Thals, and the species which became most associated with Skaro, the [[Dalek]]s, likewise descended from the Kaleds. ([[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks]]'') According to one divergent account, which made no mention of the Kaleds, the sapient species at odds with the Thals were [[Humanoid Dalek|short, large-headed, blue-skinned humanoids]] who already called themselves "Daleks". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Genesis of Evil (comic story)|Genesis of Evil]]'') Yet another dissenting account uniquely held the Daleks' planet of origin to not have been Skaro at all but rather [[Ameron]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[We are the Daleks! (short story)|We are the Daleks!]]'') These accounts were later postulated to have been either mythologised retellings of Dalek history or alterations to the Dalek timeline as a result of 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]]'') | Several sentient species [[Evolution|evolved]] on Skaro, including the [[Dal (species)|Dals]], [[Tharon]]s, [[Kaled]]s and [[Thal]]s. By the time of the [[Thousand Year War]], the Tharons and Dals had died out. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Purity (audio story)|Purity]]'') The [[Muto]]s were [[mutation|mutated]] Kaleds and Thals, and the species which became most associated with Skaro, the [[Dalek]]s, likewise descended from the Kaleds. ([[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks]]'') According to one divergent account, which made no mention of the Kaleds, the sapient species at odds with the Thals were [[Humanoid Dalek|short, large-headed, blue-skinned humanoids]] who already called themselves "Daleks". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Genesis of Evil (comic story)|Genesis of Evil]]'') Yet another dissenting account uniquely held the Daleks' planet of origin to not have been Skaro at all but rather [[Ameron]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[We are the Daleks! (short story)|We are the Daleks!]]'') These accounts were later postulated to have been either mythologised retellings of Dalek history or alterations to the Dalek timeline as a result of 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]]'') | ||
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According to one account, by the time of the creation of the cyborgs known as the Daleks, the Kaleds and the Thals fought the [[Thousand Year War]] over the wasteland adjacent to the [[Kaled Dome]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks]]'') Whilst differing as to the length and circumstances of the war, many other accounts agreed that the Daleks had come about in the aftermath of a war between the Daleks' humanoid forefathers and the Thals. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Genesis of Evil (comic story)|Genesis of Evil]]'') | According to one account, by the time of the creation of the cyborgs known as the Daleks, the Kaleds and the Thals fought the [[Thousand Year War]] over the wasteland adjacent to the [[Kaled Dome]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks]]'') Whilst differing as to the length and circumstances of the war, many other accounts agreed that the Daleks had come about in the aftermath of a war between the Daleks' humanoid forefathers and the Thals. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Genesis of Evil (comic story)|Genesis of Evil]]'') | ||
The cause of this war was unknown though it was speculated that the construction of the [[Thal Dome]] had prompted the Kaleds, out of bitter jealousy and paranoia, to construct the [[Kaled Dome]] leading to a state of cold war and a technological arms race that eventually devolved into open 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 cause of this war was unknown, though it was speculated that the construction of the [[Thal Dome]] had prompted the Kaleds, out of bitter jealousy and paranoia, to construct the [[Kaled Dome]] leading to a state of cold war and a technological arms race that eventually devolved into open 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]]'') | ||
[[Davros]] was a Kaled child who grew up in the midst of the War. The [[Twelfth Doctor]], accidentally landing in the middle of the War, once passed the young Davros [[the Doctor's sonic screwdriver]] to speak to him across a minefield of [[handmine]]s, not realising who he was going to grow up to be until the boy said his name. The Doctor reconsidered helping Davros get out of the minefield, and later, a future version of the Twelfth Doctor arrived on Skaro and pointed a [[gunstick]] at Davros in an attempt to save his friend, "the only way [he could]". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') He then proceeded to destroy the handmines and save Davros to teach him the concept of mercy before taking him home. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'') | [[Davros]] was a Kaled child who grew up in the midst of the War. The [[Twelfth Doctor]], accidentally landing in the middle of the War, once passed the young Davros [[the Doctor's sonic screwdriver]] to speak to him across a minefield of [[handmine]]s, not realising who he was going to grow up to be until the boy said his name. The Doctor reconsidered helping Davros get out of the minefield, and later, a future version of the Twelfth Doctor arrived on Skaro and pointed a [[gunstick]] at Davros in an attempt to save his friend, "the only way [he could]". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') He then proceeded to destroy the handmines and save Davros to teach him the concept of mercy before taking him home. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'') | ||
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An area of the [[petrified jungle]] was salvaged by [[human]]s at some point close to the [[41st century]] and taken to Earth's [[Station 7]] for research. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Only Good Dalek (comic story)|The Only Good Dalek]]'') | An area of the [[petrified jungle]] was salvaged by [[human]]s at some point close to the [[41st century]] and taken to Earth's [[Station 7]] for research. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Only Good Dalek (comic story)|The Only Good Dalek]]'') | ||
At a time when Skaro was in ruins, with the conditions of its environment even worse than after the Thousand Year War, the [[Eleventh Doctor]] revisited the devastated world after being summoned by a woman called [[Darla]], who claimed to have been looking for her daughter, [[Hannah (Asylum of the Daleks)|Hannah]]. He did this with great reluctance, even going as far as avoiding saying its name. However, this was a trap to capture him; Darla had been taken over by the Daleks. ([[TV]]: ''[[Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)|Asylum of the Daleks]]'') | At a time when Skaro was in ruins, with the conditions of its environment even worse than after the Thousand Year War, the [[Eleventh Doctor]] revisited the devastated world after being summoned by a woman called [[Darla]], who claimed to have been looking for her daughter, [[Hannah (Asylum of the Daleks)|Hannah]]. He did this with great reluctance, even going as far as avoiding saying its name. However, this was a trap to capture him; Darla had been taken over by the Daleks. ([[TV]]: ''[[Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)|Asylum of the Daleks]]'') | ||
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=== Alternate timelines === | === Alternate timelines === | ||
In an alternative [[22nd century]], the Daleks conquered Earth after [[World War III]] had occurred there in the [[20th century]] | In an alternative [[22nd century]], the Daleks conquered [[Earth]] after [[World War III]] had occurred there in the [[20th century]], and transported Earth's mineral wealth back to Skaro. This timeline was eventually averted by the [[Third Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Daleks (TV story)|Day of the Daleks]]'') | ||
In one alternate timeline, the [[Dalek Emperor]] destroyed Skaro by exploding the planet in the [[43rd century]] when it came under attack by the [[Mutant Phase]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Mutant Phase (audio story)|The Mutant Phase]]'') | In one alternate timeline, the [[Dalek Emperor]] destroyed Skaro by exploding the planet in the [[43rd century]] when it came under attack by the [[Mutant Phase]]. This timeline was eventually erased by the same Dalek Emperor, thereby restoring Skaro to its state prior to the timeline's formation. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Mutant Phase (audio story)|The Mutant Phase]]'') | ||
In [[Alternate timeline (The Ripple Effect)| | In an [[Alternate timeline (The Ripple Effect)|alternate timeline]] created when the [[Seventh Doctor]]'s [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] got stuck in the [[Temporal Plexus]], Skaro suffered a similar history of desolation after an accidental neutron war. However, the Daleks developed as a peaceful species rather than the war-like creatures from the original timeline. Skaro in this timeline was, according to the Doctor, the universal centre of [[civilisation]], [[philosophy]], [[democracy]] and [[art]]. Species from all over [[N-Space|N-Space]] came to Skaro, even the [[Time Lord]]s. However, this timeline was unstable and solar activity of Skaro's sun increased, eventually threatening to destroy the original timeline. To avoid such a catastrophe, the Doctor erased this alternate timeline from existence, thereby eliminating this timeline's Skaro as a result. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ripple Effect (short story)|The Ripple Effect]]'') | ||
In an [[Alternate timeline (Supremacy of the Cybermen)|alternate timeline]] where the [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] | In an [[Aborted timeline (From the Flames)|aborted timeline]], during the [[Last Great Time War]], {{Jacobi}} travelled to the [[creation of the Daleks]] on Skaro via use of the [[Anti-Genesis code]]s, which he stole from [[the Matrix]] on [[Gallifrey]]. After changing history by ensuring that the [[Thal]] bomb which crippled [[Davros]] in the original timeline instead outright killed him, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[From the Flames (audio story)|From the Flames]]'') the Master, masquerading as Davros' [[uncle]] under the alias of "Sorvad", took overall control of the [[Kaled]] [[Scientific Elite]] and created [[Dalek (The Master's Dalek Plan)|his own race of Daleks]] in Davros' place, starting with the mutation of the entire Elite into [[Dalek mutant]]s that were eventually fitted into [[grey Dalek]] [[casing]]s. Despite the efforts of the Time Lords during the Time War, the Master sabotaged their attempts to stop his plan. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Master's Dalek Plan (audio story)|The Master's Dalek Plan]]'') The Master left Skaro for twenty [[year]]s, having ordered his Daleks to construct hundreds of thousands of Dalek casings while he was gone; later, after returning and ensuring the [[death]]s of the [[Fourth Doctor]], [[Sarah Jane Smith]] and [[Harry Sullivan]] when the trio arrived to stop the creation of the Daleks, the Master deployed a [[neutron bomb]] against the Thals, rendering them [[Extinction|extinct]] and devastating Skaro even more. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Shockwave (TWM audio story)|Shockwave]]'') However, this timeline, which threatened to erase all of [[existence]] due to its catastrophically [[Temporal paradox|paradoxical]] nature, was eventually undone by this Master's earlier self prior to acquiring the Anti-Genesis codes, along with [[The Master (Sympathy for the Devil)|an alternate universe Master]] and the [[Dalek Time Strategist (The Shadow Vortex)|Dalek Time Strategist]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[He Who Wins (audio story)|He Who Wins]]'') | ||
In an [[Alternate timeline (Supremacy of the Cybermen)|alternate timeline]] where [[Rassilon]] gave the [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] the means to conquer all of [[time]] and [[space]], the Cybermen conquered Skaro and erased the Daleks from [[history]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'') Eventually, the Cybermen forced the [[Fifth Doctor]]'s TARDIS to land on Skaro, where a [[CyberNomad|Nomad]] [[Cyber-Leader (Prologue: The Fifth Doctor)|Cyber-Leader]] ordered a [[Cyberman (Prologue: The Fifth Doctor)|CyberIsomorph]] to kill the Doctor and [[Peri Brown]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The Fifth Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: the Fifth Doctor]]'') This timeline was eventually erased when, at the [[end of the universe]], the [[Twelfth Doctor]] and a betrayed [[Rassilon]] used the [[Eye of Harmony]] on [[Gallifrey]] to [[regeneration|regenerate]] the universe and restore the original timeline. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'') | |||
== Other Skaros == | == Other Skaros == | ||
Just as they colonised "[[New Skaro]]," the Daleks made other planets they conquered into "Skaros," as they did to the [[Seriphia Galaxy]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Apocalypse Element (audio story)|The Apocalypse Element]]'') and planned to go to the [[Sunlight Worlds]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dalek Generation (novel)|The Dalek Generation]]'') This was because the word "Skaro" in the Dalek tongue simply meant "home". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[War of the Daleks (novel)|War of the Daleks]]'') | Just as they colonised "[[New Skaro]]," the Daleks made other planets they conquered into "Skaros," as they did to the [[Seriphia Galaxy]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Apocalypse Element (audio story)|The Apocalypse Element]]'') and planned to go to the [[Sunlight Worlds]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dalek Generation (novel)|The Dalek Generation]]'') This was because the word "Skaro" in the Dalek tongue simply meant "home". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[War of the Daleks (novel)|War of the Daleks]]'') | ||
== | == References == | ||
The [[Tenth Doctor]] once stated, "A foe that cannot be killed, that would put the fear of Skaro into you". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Resurrection Casket (novel)|The Resurrection Casket]]'') | The [[Tenth Doctor]] once stated, "A foe that cannot be killed, that would put the fear of Skaro into you". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Resurrection Casket (novel)|The Resurrection Casket]]'') Later in his life, when this Doctor had discovered a way to turn the [[Kotturuh]]'s necrotic retro-virus against them, he pondered about how the planets in his time would evolve without [[death]]'s influence, theorising that Skaro would never fall victim to the wars that had led to the creation of the Daleks. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Knight, The Fool and The Dead (novel)|The Knight, The Fool and The Dead]]'') | ||
[[Davros]] was regarded as the [[Dark Lord of Skaro]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') | [[Davros]] was regarded as the [[Dark Lord of Skaro]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') | ||
As recorded by the [[Testimony]], the "Destroyer of Skaro" was a [[The Doctor's aliases|name]] for [[the Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'') | As recorded by the [[Testimony]], the "Destroyer of Skaro" was a [[The Doctor's aliases|name]] for [[the Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'') | ||
== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
