Talk:Emperor of the Restoration

Merge request
PROSE: The Restoration Empire unambiguously shows that the two characters are separate, even noting that this emperor a) was originally a member of Supreme Council and exterimented his fellow councillors following the civil war with Davros and b) "built a gold casing that recalled an earlier age when Daleks did not fight".

As for validity, I'm not sure about the DWBIT precedent, but I'd say it's valid in much the same vein that  The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe and The Legacy of Gallifrey are valid, in that it is an in-universe account of the history of the Restoration Empire, with plenty of historical narrative. Danochy ☎  00:44, October 31, 2020 (UTC)
 * My concerns about validity have got nothing to do with non-narrativity — it's just that DWBIT was ruled invalid due to being "part of the packaging" of a piece of merchandise, which seems to cover this as well.


 * Regardless, I'm not sure anything in The Restoration Empire precludes this Emperor still being the same individual as the Prime; after all, Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe already seems to present the Parting of the Ways Emperor as the Emperor who took over the Imperial Daleks after Davros's disappearance at the end of the Civil War. And we know (albeit from a conflicting account) that the Parting of the Ways Emperor is the Prime. And COMIC: Defender of the Daleks is pretty explicit that this is the Emperor, having been brought back by "a paradox".


 * I think clearly what's going on is that as far as James Goss is concerned, this is the same Emperor as the one in The Parting of the Ways — except the timeline divergence means he never goes through the Time War and Series 1. But he's using the Emperor's backstory as implied in The Astounding History…, that is to say that he does not acknowledge that Emperor to be the same as the TV21/Dalek Annuals Golden Emperor.


 * This is a bit confusing, but I think in such a scenario we should cover him all on one page, albeit with relevant "accounts conflict" language. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎  00:51, October 31, 2020 (UTC)