Van Statten Incident: Difference between revisions

|image     = Battle of geocomtex.jpg

|part of   = Aftermath of the [[Last Great Time War]]

|date     = [[2012]]

|location = [[The Vault (Dalek)|The Vault]], [[Utah]]

|result   = {{il|Temporary [[Dalek]] victory, followed by the Dalek's self-destruction|[[The Vault (Dalek)|The Vault]] abandoned and filled with [[cement]]|[[Henry Van Statten]] deposed from [[GeoComTex]] and mind-wiped|[[Diana Goddard]] takes over GeoComTex|[[Adam Mitchell]] quits GeoComTex to be a [[companion]] of the [[Ninth Doctor]]}}

|side1     = One [[Dalek]]

|side2     = [[Human]]s

|leader1   = [[Metaltron]]

|leader2   = [[Ninth Doctor]]

|strength1 = 1

|strength2 = Over 200

|clip     = "You Would Make a Good Dalek" (HD) Dalek Doctor Who

The '''Battle of GeoComTex''' began when the "last" [[Dalek]], called the [[Metaltron]] by [[Henry van Statten]], escaped from an area within a [[GeoComTex]] facility known as [[The Vault (Dalek)|the Vault]] in [[2012]]. Two hundred security personnel fought the Dalek. All were exterminated without damaging it as the Dalek was protected with a forcefield which melted the [[bullet]]s fired at it, and it had the ability to rotate its midsection so it was able to shoot multiple targets without completely turning itself around.

The Dalek finally located van Statten, who had held it captive, and nearly killed him, but was halted by [[Rose Tyler]]. Rose had some sway over the Dalek's actions as it had absorbed her [[DNA]] to regenerate itself and escape its captivity. A side effect of this absorption was an awakening of its [[emotion]]s. Though the [[Ninth Doctor]] threatened to destroy the Dalek with an alien weapon, he was also stopped by Rose, who showed him the Dalek's change.

The Dalek ended its emotion-induced pain by self-destructing. It asked Rose to give this order herself, which she did reluctantly. Following this outcome the facility was sealed off, and van Statten's memory was erased by orders of his assistant, [[Diana Goddard]], in a hostile takeover. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]'')

== History ==

=== A day to come ===

Watching a projection of the "Van Statten Incident," the [[Time War]]-era [[Time Lord]]s saw that any Dalek they encountered could absorb [[temporal energy]] from a [[time travel]]ler to repair itself. Disturbed, the military ordered that no Time Lord have direct with a Dalek casing, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (novel)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'') which also had the ability to burn those who touched it. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]'') Meanwhile, the Time Lords began to experiment to see if they could introduce unfamiliar emotions to Daleks like Rose had, albeit without putting their own personnel at risk by seeing if it could be done remotely. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (novel)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'')

The incident was the first time the Doctor had found a survivor of the Time War. Although he believed that this was the last Dalek, he would soon find out how wrong he was. The [[Dalek Emperor in the Last Great Time War|Dalek Emperor]] himself survived, when his heavily-damaged [[Dalek Flagship|flagship]] was flung through time before the [[time-lock]] occurred. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]'') Likewise, the four-member [[Cult of Skaro]] survived aboard their [[Void Ship]], having in their possession a [[Genesis Ark|prison vessel]] loaded with millions of Daleks ([[TV]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts (TV story)|Army of Ghosts]]''/''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'')

Rose would later recall her restoration of the "Metaltron" Dalek with her touch when the [[Cult of Skaro]] demanded that she open the [[Genesis Ark]]. She explained to [[Mickey Smith]] that the Dalek was broken and dying but when she touched him she brought him back to life, as the Daleks had evolved to use as a power supply the [[artron energy|background radiation]] one "soaked up" from [[time travel|travelling through time]] in [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'')

Van Stattan mysteriously disappeared, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Whoniverse (novel)|The Whoniverse]]'') as his employees wiped his memories and dropped him off elsewhere in the world to punish him for the Dalek massacre. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]'') At that time, a rumor that he had a Dalek in his collection had spread. Its origin of falling down to the [[Ascension Islands]] was also rumored. Though [[UNIT]] could find no trace of the Metaltron when they cataloged van Statten's collection, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Whoniverse (novel)|The Whoniverse]]'') they were aware of its existence, classing it as a [[Code D]], but lost track of it once it was relocated to [[the Vault (Dalek)|the Vault]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Dalek Transaction (audio story)|The Dalek Transaction]]'')

It was from the Vault that ''[[The Dalek Conquests]]'' was recorded, recounting this event as part of what they knew of Dalek history. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Dalek Conquests (audio story)|The Dalek Conquests]]'') Later [[human]] historians included a brief mention of this Dalek and its tragic fate in a book looking back on the history of the Dalek Empire. ([[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]]'') [[Book (The Whoniverse)|An account]] of the history of [[N-Space]] recounted that van Statten was rumored to have the Dalek. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Whoniverse (novel)|The Whoniverse]]'') [[Boy (Heaven Sent)|A Time Lord author]] later noted that the Metaltron had been the first Dalek to be seen after the Time War and disproved the belief that they had been rendered extinct at the [[Fall of Gallifrey]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief of History of Time Lords]]'')

[[Rusty (Into the Dalek)|Rusty]] the Dalek was later able to remember the event when the [[Twelfth Doctor]] and [[Clara Oswald]] reopened Rusty's suppressed memories. ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'')

The online game ''[[The Last Dalek (video game)|The Last Dalek]]'' presents an alternate version of the events of ''Dalek''. In the game, the Dalek fights through [[The Vault (Dalek)|the Vault]], faces van Statten's forces and eventually the Doctor, who is exterminated by the Dalek. The game is completed when the Dalek finds and destroys [[the Doctor's TARDIS]].

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