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The '''destruction of [[Skaro]]''' ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Whoniverse (novel)|The Whoniverse]]'') occurred when the [[Seventh Doctor]] tricked [[Davros]] into destroying the ancestral home of the [[Dalek]]s and its [[Skaro system|star system]] during the conclusion of the [[Shoreditch Incident]] during the [[Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War]]. | The '''destruction of [[Skaro]]''' ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Whoniverse (novel)|The Whoniverse]]'') occurred when the [[Seventh Doctor]] tricked [[Davros]] into destroying the ancestral home of the [[Dalek]]s and its [[Skaro system|star system]] during the conclusion of the [[Shoreditch Incident]] during the [[Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War]]. | ||
==Lead up and event== | According to one account, the destruction occurred twenty [[millennia]] following the end of the [[Thousand Year War|final conflict]] between the [[Thal]]s and the [[Kaled]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (novelisation)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'') Indeed, the [[Time Lord]]s placed the conflict and the [[creation of the Daleks]] as concurrent to the [[ancient history]] of [[Earth]], no later than the [[1st century]], whilst the destruction of Skaro followed the [[47th century]] [[Necros Incident]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (reference book)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'') | ||
== Lead up and event == | |||
After the ancient [[Time Lord]] [[stellar manipulator]], the [[Hand of Omega]], was located on [[Earth]] in [[1963]], the [[Imperial Dalek]] faction, led by Davros, took possession of the Hand while fighting the [[Black Dalek Leader|Supreme Dalek]] and its [[Renegade Dalek]]s in [[Shoreditch]]. Davros, intending to turn Skaro's sun into a source of power, was tricked by the Doctor into activating the hand. ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'') | After the ancient [[Time Lord]] [[stellar manipulator]], the [[Hand of Omega]], was located on [[Earth]] in [[1963]], the [[Imperial Dalek]] faction, led by Davros, took possession of the Hand while fighting the [[Black Dalek Leader|Supreme Dalek]] and its [[Renegade Dalek]]s in [[Shoreditch]]. Davros, intending to turn Skaro's sun into a source of power, was tricked by the Doctor into activating the hand. ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'') | ||
Via a [[causal nexus]] in [[Jupiter|transjovian]] space, using [[faster-than-light travel]] to punch a hole in [[reality]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (novelisation)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'') the Hand travelled to Skaro's [[time zone]] and turned Skaro's sun [[supernova|nova]], vaporising the planet and wiping out the [[Skaro system]], destroying Davros's entire army, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[War of the Daleks (novel)|War of the Daleks]]'') including his fleet, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[In Remembrance (audio story)|In Remembrance]]'') before destroying the [[Imperial Dalek mothership]] just as Davros fled. ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'') One account specified that the Hand detonated the system's ''second'' sun. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Stranger (short story)|The Stranger]]'') The explosion destroyed not only Skaro, but all eleven other planets within its star system. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual ( | Via a [[causal nexus]] in [[Jupiter|transjovian]] space, using [[faster-than-light travel]] to punch a hole in [[reality]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (novelisation)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'') the Hand travelled to Skaro's [[time zone]] and turned Skaro's sun [[supernova|nova]], vaporising the planet and wiping out the [[Skaro system]], destroying Davros's entire army, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[War of the Daleks (novel)|War of the Daleks]]'') including his fleet, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[In Remembrance (audio story)|In Remembrance]]'') before destroying the [[Imperial Dalek mothership]] just as Davros fled. ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'') One account specified that the Hand detonated the system's ''second'' sun. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Stranger (short story)|The Stranger]]'') The explosion destroyed not only Skaro, but all eleven other planets within its star system. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (reference book)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'') This event was rendered by an unknown [[artist]]. ([[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]]'') | ||
== Aftermath == | |||
The ''[[Dalek Survival Guide]]'' believed that the [[Hand of Omega affair]] and the resultant destruction of Skaro resulted in the entire [[Imperial Dalek]] faction being wiped out, leaving only surviving [[Renegade Dalek]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Survival Guide (novel)|Dalek Survival Guide]]'') | |||
Various accounts depicted Davros's [[escape pod]] as either landing on [[Azimuth]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Daleks Among Us (audio story)|Daleks Among Us]]'') being blasted into the [[Time Vortex]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Terror Firma (audio story)|Terror Firma]]'') or drifting through space for thirty years. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[War of the Daleks (novel)|War of the Daleks]]'') | Various accounts depicted Davros's [[escape pod]] as either landing on [[Azimuth]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Daleks Among Us (audio story)|Daleks Among Us]]'') being blasted into the [[Time Vortex]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Terror Firma (audio story)|Terror Firma]]'') or drifting through space for thirty years. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[War of the Daleks (novel)|War of the Daleks]]'') | ||
[[Imperial Dalek (In Remembrance)|One Imperial Dalek]] was sent to [[2016]], where it learned of the [[Shoreditch Incident]] and tried to relay the information to the Emperor Davros, intending to change their defeat, but the Imperial Daleks remaining on Earth were destroyed instantly by the Hand. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[In Remembrance (audio story)|In Remembrance]]'') | [[Imperial Dalek (In Remembrance)|One Imperial Dalek]] was sent to [[2016]], where it learned of the [[Shoreditch Incident]] and tried to relay the information to the Emperor Davros, intending to change their defeat, but the Imperial Daleks remaining on Earth were destroyed instantly by the Hand. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[In Remembrance (audio story)|In Remembrance]]'') | ||
Skaro's destruction was not the total end of the Daleks, however, as the Doctor later stating that there were more Daleks in the universe than there were on Skaro. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Daleks Among Us (audio story)|Daleks Among Us]]'') | Skaro's destruction was not the total end of the Daleks, however, as the Doctor later stating that there were more Daleks in the universe than there were on Skaro. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Daleks Among Us (audio story)|Daleks Among Us]]'') | ||
By the [[Last Great Time War]], the [[Time Lord]]s believed that the [[Thal]]s, who they assessed as a potential ally against the Daleks, had been forced to leave Skaro at some point before the planet's destruction, surviving in a series of [[colony|colonies]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (reference book)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'') | |||
A [[Boy (Heaven Sent)|Time Lord]] who succeeded the Last Great Time War postulated that, among other possibilities, the Destruction of Skaro being caused by Time Lord technology might have been the cause of the Time War. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)}}) | |||
== Uncertainties == | == Uncertainties == | ||
=== Skaro's time zone === | === Skaro's time zone === | ||
It was unclear what time zone Skaro existed in when it was destroyed, the Doctor remarking that the [[Black Dalek Leader|Supreme Dalek]] was "a thousand years from a disintegrated home," implying [[2963]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'') It may have occurred thirty years prior to c. [[4000]]. <ref>One interlude in ''War of the Daleks'' has [[Dryn Faber]] mention [[Marc Cory]]'s death in ''[[Mission to the Unknown (TV story)|Mission | [[File:Skaro destruction rendering.jpg|thumb|An unknown artist's impression of the destruction of Skaro. ([[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]]'')]] | ||
It was unclear what time zone Skaro existed in when it was destroyed, the Doctor remarking that the [[Black Dalek Leader|Supreme Dalek]] was "a thousand years from a disintegrated home," implying [[2963]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'') It may have occurred thirty years prior to c. [[4000]]. <ref>One interlude in ''War of the Daleks'' has [[Dryn Faber]] mention [[Marc Cory]]'s death in ''[[Mission to the Unknown (TV story)|Mission to the Unkown]]''</ref> ([[PROSE]]: ''[[War of the Daleks (novel)|War of the Daleks]]'') [[Ace]] also referred to "[[New Skaro]]" which existed in the [[26th century]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Birthright (novel)|Birthright]]'') | |||
The [[Time Lord]]s' time scale of Dalek activity in the linear history of [[the universe]] placed the destruction of Skaro as occuring in the [[far future]] following the [[47th century]]. It was after this that ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (reference book)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'') the [[New Dalek Paradigm]], having returned to their "own time", established themselves in the [[post-Time War universe]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Victory of the Daleks (TV story)|Victory of the Daleks]]'') with the [[Dalek Empire]] coming to be based on a rebuilt Skaro. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'') | |||
Additionally, the Seventh Doctor later collected [[the Master]]'s ashes from the planet after the Daleks [[The Master's trial (Doctor Who)|tried and executed him]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') the [[Eighth Doctor]] explaining that this was a "special trip [...] not normally allowed" but that he had a "special mission to perform" and "the year then tallied" with what he knew of Skaro. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[War of the Daleks (novel)|War of the Daleks]]'') | Additionally, the Seventh Doctor later collected [[the Master]]'s ashes from the planet after the Daleks [[The Master's trial (Doctor Who)|tried and executed him]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') the [[Eighth Doctor]] explaining that this was a "special trip [...] not normally allowed" but that he had a "special mission to perform" and "the year then tallied" with what he knew of Skaro. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[War of the Daleks (novel)|War of the Daleks]]'') | ||
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=== Restoration === | === Restoration === | ||
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Another account stated that following the civil war, the [[Emperor of the Restoration]] "restored" Skaro, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Restoration Empire (short story)|The Restoration Empire]]'') while [[Book (The Whoniverse)|a historical account of the universe]] theorised that the Daleks manipulated the timelines, making it so while Skaro was destroyed, they reconstituted it, effectively erasing the destruction of their home planet from time. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Whoniverse (novel)|The Whoniverse]]'') | Another account stated that following the civil war, the [[Emperor of the Restoration]] "restored" Skaro, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Restoration Empire (short story)|The Restoration Empire]]'') while [[Book (The Whoniverse)|a historical account of the universe]] theorised that the Daleks manipulated the timelines, making it so while Skaro was destroyed, they reconstituted it, effectively erasing the destruction of their home planet from time. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Whoniverse (novel)|The Whoniverse]]'') | ||
== Other destructions == | == Other destructions == | ||
=== 26th century === | |||
[[Bernice Summerfield]] recalled that the [[Second Dalek War|Galactic Wars]] of the [[26th century]] ended on a decisive note with the destruction of the enemy's home planet. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Beige Planet Mars (novel)|Beige Planet Mars]]'') | |||
=== Skaro in the Last Great Time War === | === Skaro in the Last Great Time War === | ||
The destruction of Skaro during the [[Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War]] helped cause the [[Last Great Time War]] between the Daleks and [[Time Lord]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Stranger (short story)|The Stranger]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[In Remembrance (audio story)|In Remembrance]]'') Skaro was also said to have been destroyed in the Time War, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Whoniverse (novel)|The Whoniverse]]'') with [[Dalek Caan]] of the [[Cult of Skaro]] recalling that their planet was "gone" because it had been "destroyed in a great war". ([[TV]]: ''[[Daleks in Manhattan (TV story)|Daleks in Manhattan]]'') | The destruction of Skaro during the [[Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War]] helped cause the [[Last Great Time War]] between the Daleks and [[Time Lord]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Stranger (short story)|The Stranger]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[In Remembrance (audio story)|In Remembrance]]'') Skaro was also said to have been destroyed in the Time War, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Whoniverse (novel)|The Whoniverse]]'') with [[Dalek Caan]] of the [[Cult of Skaro]] recalling that their planet was "gone" because it had been "destroyed in a great war". ([[TV]]: ''[[Daleks in Manhattan (TV story)|Daleks in Manhattan]]'') | ||
[[File: | [[File:Skaro ruined.jpg|left|thumb|In the aftermath of the Time War, Skaro was left devastated and ruined. ([[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]]'')]] | ||
As the [[Eleventh Doctor]] would present to [[Amy Pond]], Skaro remained intact but "ruined", with the city of [[Kaalann]] abandoned. After acquiring the [[Eye of Time]], the [[New Dalek Paradigm]] returned to and repopulated Skaro, creating an [[alternate timeline (City of the Daleks)|alternate timeline]] which the Doctor negated by travelling back to just before the Daleks arrived, where he set free the Eye of Time and destroyed the Dalek forces led by the [[Supreme Dalek (City of the Daleks)|Supreme Dalek]], leaving Skaro in ruins once again. ([[GAME]]: ''[[City of the Daleks (video game)|City of the Daleks]]'') Later, while the [[Parliament of the Daleks]] operated in [[space]], the Doctor visited a ravaged and desolate Skaro, where he was captured by the [[Dalek puppet]] [[Darla von Karlsen]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)|Asylum of the Daleks]]'') | As the [[Eleventh Doctor]] would present to [[Amy Pond]], Skaro remained intact but "ruined", with the city of [[Kaalann]] abandoned. After acquiring the [[Eye of Time]], the [[New Dalek Paradigm]] returned to and repopulated Skaro, creating an [[alternate timeline (City of the Daleks)|alternate timeline]] which the Doctor negated by travelling back to just before the Daleks arrived, where he set free the Eye of Time and destroyed the Dalek forces led by the [[Supreme Dalek (City of the Daleks)|Supreme Dalek]], leaving Skaro in ruins once again. ([[GAME]]: ''[[City of the Daleks (video game)|City of the Daleks]]'') Later, while the [[Parliament of the Daleks]] operated in [[space]], the Doctor visited a ravaged and desolate Skaro, where he was captured by the [[Dalek puppet]] [[Darla von Karlsen]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)|Asylum of the Daleks]]'') | ||
Later still, the [[Twelfth Doctor]] was captured and taken to a Skaro "rebuilt" by Davros and the Daleks, Davros explaining that the Daleks had a strong concept of "home," ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') which "Skaro" translated to in the [[Kaled]] language. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[War of the Daleks (novel)|War of the Daleks]]'') Upon realising she was on Skaro, | Later still, the [[Twelfth Doctor]] was captured and taken to a Skaro "rebuilt" by Davros and the Daleks, Davros explaining that the Daleks had a strong concept of "home," ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') which "Skaro" translated to in the [[Kaled]] language. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[War of the Daleks (novel)|War of the Daleks]]'') Upon realising she was on Skaro, [[Missy]] claimed "they [had] built it again, [that] they [had] brought it back." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'') | ||
=== Final implosion === | === Final implosion === | ||
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=== Alternate timeline === | === Alternate timeline === | ||
When the [[Infinity Doctor]] encountered the [[Needle People]] on [[the Needle]], [[Gordel]] believed that their race were the super‐evolved survivors of the [[Thal]]s, fleeing the penultimate destruction of Skaro that sparked the [[Final Dalek War]]. Later, he had [[Omega]] destroy and bring back Skaro's system repeatedly to illustrate the meaninglessness of his powers. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'') | When the [[Infinity Doctor]] encountered the [[Needle People]] on [[the Needle]], [[Gordel]] believed that their race were the super‐evolved survivors of the [[Thal]]s, fleeing the penultimate destruction of Skaro that sparked the [[Final Dalek War]]. Later, he had [[Omega]] destroy and bring back Skaro's system repeatedly to illustrate the meaninglessness of his powers. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'') | ||
== Behind the scenes == | |||
''[[The Discontinuity Guide]]'' takes the Doctor's words that the Supreme Dalek was "a thousand years from a disintegrated home" literally, while supposing that it is more likely in the future than the past, and so states that Skaro was destroyed around the [[30th century]] in the [[Genesis Incident|new timeline]] where [[Davros]] survived,<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/dalekhistory2.shtml BBC.co.uk 'Discontinuity Guide' article on '''Dalek History: Part Two''' in the original series of ''Doctor Who'']</ref> whereas Skaro was known to exist later in the old timeline.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/dalekhistory1.shtml BBC.co.uk 'Discontinuity Guide' article on '''Dalek History: Part One''' in the original series of ''Doctor Who'']</ref> | |||
''[[The Dalek Handbook]]'' indicates that Skaro was destroyed around the [[47th century]] and the start of the [[48th century]]. | |||
''[[AHistory]]'' dates the [[basetime]] of the Daleks in the Shoreditch Incident and the apparent destruction of Skaro to c. 4663. | |||
== Footnotes == | == Footnotes == | ||
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