Mechanoid Incident: Difference between revisions

The '''Mechonoid Incident''' was the [[Time Lord]] designation for the event in which the [[Dalek]]s pursued the [[First Doctor]] and his [[companion]]s through [[time]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Chase (TV story)|The Chase]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (novel)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'') [[Narrator (The Dalek Conquests)|One journalist]] later suggested the Daleks' chase against the Doctor to be the first skirmish of the [[Last Great Time War]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Dalek Conquests (audio story)|The Dalek Conquests]]'')

The [[Black Dalek Leader|Black Dalek]] ordered a squad of Daleks to hunt down the First Doctor using a [[Dalek time machine (The Chase)|time machine]] in revenge for his role in the liberation of Earth in the [[22nd century]]. The ensuing pursuit across time encompassed numerous planets and time periods, culminating on [[Mechanus]] where the Daleks engaged the native [[Mechanoid]]s in battle. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Chase (TV story)|The Chase]]'') Whilst identifying the Daleks' incursions in [[1966]], [[1872]] and [[1996]], the Time Lords indicated on their time scale of Dalek activity that the incident touched the 22nd century as well. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (novel)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'')

According to [[human]] historians, the failure of the Daleks' [[Operation Divide and Conquer|plot]] with {{Delgado}}, the [[Gold Dalek]] orchestrated a [[Time Paradox Incident|new invasion of Earth]] using time travel. Though this invasion failed, it inspired the [[Black Dalek Leader|Black Dalek]] to use time travel. The first time machine was developed following the [[Dalek invasion of the galaxy|conflict]] with the [[Combined Galactic Resistance]] which itself followed the [[Exxilon Gambit]], some centuries after the [[26th century]] collaboration with the Master. ([[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]]'') However, other accounts placed the chase to exterminate the First Doctor to be earlier in Dalek history, in the time before the [[Time Destructor Incident]] and the [[Great War (The Evil of the Daleks)|Great War]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Chase (novelisation)|The Chase]]'', ''[[Mission to the Unknown (novelisation)|Mission to the Unknown]]'', ''[[The Mutation of Time (novelisation)|The Mutation of Time]]'', et. al) Indeed, the [[Time Lord]]s indicated that the deployment of the time machine occurred relatively shortly following the liberation of Earth, within the 22nd century. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (novel)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'')

''[[The Dalek Conquests]]'' put forward that this incident was the "first [[skirmish]]" of the [[Last Great Time War]] between the [[Time Lord]]s and the [[Dalek]]s. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Dalek Conquests (audio story)|The Dalek Conquests]]'') This incident, among others, was tactically assessed by the Time War-era Time Lords, who learnt that Dalek time capsule technology was more sophisticated than first thought; not only were they capable of precise navigational control, but they also seemed to be able to track our [[Gallifreyan]] time capsules with ease. The Time Lords lamented Ian and Barbara's destruction of the Dalek time machine, which deprived them of an opportunity to study Dalek time technology. [[Technical team]]s were dispatched to look for ways to block the [[temporal signature]] of all operational TT capsules in order to prevent the Daleks from tracking them. The Time Lords also identified the Mechanoids as an effective example of anti-Dalek weaponry, noting that reprogrammed Mechanoids could provide an excellent line of defense against Dalek attacks. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (novel)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'')