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=== Acquiring the Metaltron === | === Acquiring the Metaltron === | ||
According to most accounts, Van Statten purchased the Dalek nicknamed "[[Metaltron]]" in an [[auction]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Object Auction (short story)}}, {{cs|The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)|chaptnum=3|chaptname=Everything Changes|page=148}}, {{cs|The Secret Lives of Monsters (short story)}}, etc.) However, according to another, Van Statten directly purchased it from [[Hiram Duchesne|its owner]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Dalek (novelisation)}}) | According to most accounts, Van Statten purchased the Dalek nicknamed "[[Metaltron]]" in an [[auction]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Object Auction (short story)}}, {{cs|The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)|chaptnum=3|chaptname=Everything Changes|page=148}}, {{cs|The Secret Lives of Monsters (short story)|chaptnum=2|chaptname=The Daleks|page=53}}, etc.) However, according to another, Van Statten directly purchased it from [[Hiram Duchesne|its owner]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Dalek (novelisation)}}) | ||
Prior to [[28 July]] [[2006]] ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Unexploded WWII Bomb Warnings (short story)}}) or in [[August]] 2006, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)|chaptnum=3|chaptname=Everything Changes|page=148}}) [[UNIT United Kingdom|UNIT]] noticed that something called "the Object" was sold at an [[auction]], and, while UNIT couldn't afford the Object at the auction, they tried to identify the seller and buyer; ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Object Auction (short story)}}) the buyer was van Statten, who was invited to the auction, which had a [[$]][[1000000 (number)|1000000]] entry [[fee]]; according to this account, the Object was already called "the Metaltron". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Secret Lives of Monsters (short story)}}) UNIT had been tracking the Dalek for years, but they lost track of it in Utah. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Object Auction (short story)}}, [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Dalek Transaction (audio story)}}) | Prior to [[28 July]] [[2006]] ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Unexploded WWII Bomb Warnings (short story)}}) or in [[August]] 2006, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)|chaptnum=3|chaptname=Everything Changes|page=148}}) [[UNIT United Kingdom|UNIT]] noticed that something called "the Object" was sold at an [[auction]], and, while UNIT couldn't afford the Object at the auction, they tried to identify the seller and buyer; ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Object Auction (short story)}}) the buyer was van Statten, who was invited to the auction, which had a [[$]][[1000000 (number)|1000000]] entry [[fee]]; according to this account, the Object was already called "the Metaltron". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Secret Lives of Monsters (short story)|chaptnum=2|chaptname=The Daleks|page=53}}) UNIT had been tracking the Dalek for years, but they lost track of it in Utah. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Object Auction (short story)}}, [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Dalek Transaction (audio story)}}) | ||
On his forty-fifth birthday, Henry decided he wanted to finally purchase a living alien creature rather than parts of now deceased ones. Using his influence, he learned one such creature was in the hands of a private collector [[Hiram Duchesne]], a middle-aged businessman in the ice cream industry. Henry offered the man twenty-five million dollars for the creature, but Duchesne refused. Angered, Henry bought out the man's company and left him bankrupt but Duchesne still refused to sell despite needing the money. Duchesne was ill with [[cancer]] and, having heard rumours Henry's scientists had used alien technology to create a cure, he finally agreed to sell the creature to Henry. By now Henry was fifty-three years old. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Dalek (novelisation)}}) | On his forty-fifth birthday, Henry decided he wanted to finally purchase a living alien creature rather than parts of now deceased ones. Using his influence, he learned one such creature was in the hands of a private collector [[Hiram Duchesne]], a middle-aged businessman in the ice cream industry. Henry offered the man twenty-five million dollars for the creature, but Duchesne refused. Angered, Henry bought out the man's company and left him bankrupt but Duchesne still refused to sell despite needing the money. Duchesne was ill with [[cancer]] and, having heard rumours Henry's scientists had used alien technology to create a cure, he finally agreed to sell the creature to Henry. By now Henry was fifty-three years old. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Dalek (novelisation)}}) | ||
