Restoration Empire

The Restoration Empire, (PROSE: The Restoration Empire) or simply known as the Dalek Empire, (AUDIO: The Enemy of My Enemy) was the incarnation of the Dalek Empire which rose from the ashes of the Imperial Dalek faction following the close of the Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War. (PROSE: The Restoration Empire)

Origin
During the Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War (PROSE: The Restoration Empire, TV: Remembrance of the Daleks) a Dalek Supreme who would later become the new Dalek Emperor served on the Dalek Council. After Davros fled the war, he exterminated all other members of the council and appointed himself the new emperor. Modelling himself on a former ruler, he built himself a gold casing and augmented his brain capacity, becoming the Emperor of the Restoration.

From this position, he sought to restore the Dalek Empire to its former glory through a new hierarchy of Dalek command and a new system of production. He restored Skaro (PROSE: The Restoration Empire) after it was destroyed by the Seventh Doctor (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks) and overhauled the standard Dalek hierarchy, bringing back Silver Daleks as drones (PROSE: The Restoration Empire) instead of the white-and-gold livery favoured by Davros' Empire. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks) Also among the Emperor's forces was the Dalek Prime Strategist, a unit who claimed to be older than the Emperor. (COMIC: Defender of the Daleks)

An altered history
When the Tenth Doctor poisoned the Kotturuh in the Dark Times, (PROSE: The Knight, The Fool and The Dead) he caused fluctuations in time, (PROSE: The Guide to the Dark Times) leading to his encounter with a Restoration Empire which had not fought in the Last Great Time War. (COMIC: Defender of the Daleks) The Emperor received a message from an ancient Dalek drone, and he realized the unit was a survivor of a Time Squad that had yet to be sent back in time. From the message, the Emperor concluded that history was under attack, which the Dalek Empire was vulnerable to, and that the Doctor was involved, but still needed more information. Deciding the required information could be found somewhere like the Archive of Islos, (PROSE: The Last Message) the Emperor personally led a Dalek fleet to Islos to take the contents of the Archive.

Though the Dalek force overcame all resistance, the Chief Archivian made a deal for the rescue of the Archive with the Entity, promising it the Daleks. When the Emperor and his Daleks, including the Strategist and Executioner entered the Archive, they realized it was empty. The Chief Archivian informed them of its deal as the Entity emerged from a portal. (WC: The Archive of Islos) The Daleks retreated from Islos and returned to Skaro, pursued by the Entity. It attacked Skaro and the Daleks’ firepower proved ineffective, forcing the Emperor to order an evacuation. The Strategist advised that the evacuation was failing and they should abandon the planet. The realisation that the home planet had been lost caused the Emperor to fall silent, forcing the Strategist to coordinate the retreat. After the Strategist suggested reinforcements, the Emperor decreed that the Sentinel of the Fifth Galaxy was required. The Strategist was sent to meet the Sentinel and awaken a dormant army of 10,000 Daleks however the Entity compromised the army and took it over. As the Executioner led Dalek forces against the army, the Strategist advised the Emperor to withdraw again as they could not sustain further losses and defended its failure. (WC: The Sentinel of the Fifth Galaxy)

The Strategist put together a scheme to destroy both the Entity and another major threat, the Mechanoid Empire. (WC: Day of Reckoning) The Emperor and Strategist travelled to Mechanus and claimed to seek the Mechanoids’ assistance in defeating the Entity, though in truth they were deliberately luring the Entity there. Noticing his small group of Silver Dalek guards not being reinforced after being destroyed by Mechanoids, the Mechanoid Queen wondered if the Emperor and Strategist were the only two Daleks left. (WC: Planet of the Mechanoids) In reality, the rest of the Daleks were alive, and this was another phase of the Strategist's plan. It wanted the Mechanoids and the rest of N-Space to believe the Daleks had been devastated by the Entity to lure the rival empire into a false sense of security. (WC: Day of Reckoning) Shortly after the power of the City was drained and the Emperor revealed to the Queen that he’d lured the Entity there. (WC: Planet of the Mechanoids) A number of Mechanoids were destroyed in the ensuing battle against the Entity, and the Emperor himself fought it. Using the orbital defence grid as a beam projector, Strategist and Mechanoid 2150 banished the Entity back to its own reality. Angered at the Daleks bringing the Entity to them, the Mechanoid Queen, under the impression that they were the last of the Dalek species, then ordered the Emperor and Strategist to leave Mechanus and vowed to destroy them. (WC: The Deadly Ally)

The Emperor and Strategist returned to Skaro and reactivated the Dalek City. The Emperor then recalled his forces to Skaro, and, when the Mechanoid Queen and her forces arrived, they were caught off guard by Dalek drones. As the Mechanoid army was overwhelmed, unit 2150 speculated the Dalek reinforcements had been hiding in ancient bunkers or were units that had successfully evacuated Skaro. Nevertheless, the Queen, 2150, and several others entered the control center and attempted to turn the Strategist against the Emperor. It appeared to agree, making the Emperor believe the Strategist was a traitor, and the Strategist brought 2150 to a beam projector chamber. After allowing the Mechanoid to update the technology under the pretense that it would be used to send the Emperor away to the Entity's dimension, the Strategist took control of the weapon, claiming it needed to send Daleks that would not be loyal to its rule through the portal as well. In reality, however, the Strategist then used the beam projector to send the entire Mechanoid army through the portal, securing a Dalek victory. The Emperor then praised the Strategist's plan, citing that both the Entity and the Mechanoids, which it claimed to be the two greatest threats to the Dalek Empire, were now defeated. However, the Entity then managed to take over a ruined Mechanoid, taunting the two Daleks by revealing another threat was coming. (WC: Day of Reckoning)

Accordingly, the Daleks were attacked by the Hond. (COMIC: Defender of the Daleks) The invasion of the Archive of Islos was what had unleashed (PROSE: The Restoration Empire) this Dark Times native species. With Skaro in danger of falling to the Hond, the Prime Strategist suggested the Doctor be used against the Hond. The Tenth Doctor was captured by the Daleks and brought before the Emperor. He recognised the Empire he was interacting with, who had never fought in the Last Great Time War, as "a paradox". The Emperor convinced him to help them and sent him to meet the Strategist. Together they investigated the Vault of Obscenities and discovered a way to pacify the Hond, deploying it just as the Hond reached Skaro’s defences. The Daleks turned on the Doctor however he escaped, with the aid of the Thirteenth Doctor. The Strategist met the furious Emperor, defending its failure, and suggested the Daleks could use other Doctors, such as the Eighth Doctor. (COMIC: Defender of the Daleks)

Journeys in the Dark Times
Eventually the Emperor sent a Time Squad to rectify the temporal fluctuations to the Dalek Empire’s benefit. (PROSE: The Guide to the Dark Times) Having discovered the source of the fluctuations to be in the Dark Times, where their own timeships could not travel, the Time Squad recruited the Eighth Doctor to help them, planning to use his TARDIS in order to travel back there. (PROSE: The Restoration Empire) Unaware of their true plans, the Doctor discovered the source of the alterations himself and devised, seemingly on his own, the plan to use his TARDIS to help the Dalek timeship travel back to the Dark Times. (AUDIO: The Enemy of My Enemy) In the Dark Times, the Daleks, led by the Eighth Doctor, confronted the Tenth Doctor’s mercenary fleet over Mordeela (PROSE: The Knight, The Fool and The Dead) and discovered an abandoned spaceship with a source of Huon energy. Without the Doctor, the Time Squad harvested the population of Velosia, under the pretence of saving their best citizens from the Kotturuh. (COMIC: Tales of the Dark Times)