Dalek-Movellan War

The Dalek-Movellan War was a galactic war fought between the cyborg Daleks and the android Movellans.

Historical overview
The Dalek Empire and the Movellans were each expanding to control the galaxy (presumably Mutter's Spiral). They met and fought to destroy each other.


 * As the Movellans came from the Andromeda Galaxy and it is generally thought Skaro doesn't exist in the Mutter's Spiral, perhaps the War was fought for control of either of those galaxies, and not actually Mutter's Spiral.

For years, the two were locked in a long stalemate, each side's purely logical battle computers keeping them in deadlock. Hundreds of Dalek and Movellan battlecruisers flew across space, without a single shot being fired. To resolve this, the Daleks returned to their homeworld of Skaro to search the ruins of the Kaled dome for their creator, Davros. They believed that his unpredictable biological mind would allow them to re-program their computers to make unanticipated maneuvers against the Movellans. The Movellans followed the Daleks to Skaro and ultimately learned of their plan. The Fourth Doctor, landing by chance on Skaro, defeated both the Movellans and the Daleks, as well as the resurrected Davros. Davros was taken by Tyssan, a rescued Dalek slave worker, to Earth for trial. (DW: Destiny of the Daleks)

After the trial, Davros was placed in a cryogenic freezer in a space station which served as his prison. The war continued for the next ninety or so years, until the Movellans developed a virus that could permeate the casing of Daleks and destroy them. There were so many Dalek casualties that Dalek troopers were recruited to fight for the Dalek Empire. The Supreme Dalek ordered Davros recovered from his prison so he could find a cure. (DW: Resurrection of the Daleks)


 * During this time, the Daleks began using a different form of time travel - time corridors. They also used these to place duplicates to manipulate events for the Daleks' best interests.

Now revived and more filled with hatred than ever, Davros turned one group of Daleks on the space station against each other. (DW: Resurrection of the Daleks)


 * Wide-scale hostilities between the factions would lead to the Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War.

Possible non-existence
The Dalek Prime claimed it had contrived a hoax of a war with the Movellans (whom the Daleks had created for the specific purpose of having an "enemy") as well as the Imperial-Renegade civil war as part of a plan to save Skaro from the Hand of Omega. This was generally received quite negatively by the fans. (EDA: War of the Daleks)