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) 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 planned to recruit the Eighth Doctor to help them, intending to use his TARDIS in order to travel back there. (PROSE: The Restoration Empire) The Emperor also recorded orders for the event of them failing to restore the proper timeline. (PROSE: All Flesh is Grass)

The Squad captured the Eighth Doctor by pulling his TARDIS away from Atharna (AUDIO: He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not) and recruited him to help their investigation. They travelled together to Wrax, nominally to study its alleged timeline but also to pursue the Daleks’ interest in their superweapon, the Devolver. Whilst the Strategist and the Doctor investigated the Wraxians’ gallery, the Time Commander, Scientist and Executioner met the Wraxian President who agreed to demonstrate the Devolver and consider an alliance with the Daleks. She betrayed them and prepared to use the Devolver against the Daleks, prompting the Commander to order the Squad’s Drones to invade Wrax. The Doctor negotiated a settlement with the President for the Devolver’s dismantling in return for the Daleks’ withdrawal, which the Daleks accepted at the Strategist’s urging. The Commander secretly sent the Executioner back to wipe out the Wraxians with the Devolver.

The Doctor revealed he’d discovered the source of the alterations himself on Wrax and devised, seemingly on his own, the plan to use his TARDIS to help the Dalek timeship travel back to the Dark Times. As a result, the Strategist deemed him successfully manipulated. (AUDIO: The Enemy of My Enemy) In the Dark Times, the Daleks, led by the Eighth Doctor, traced the source of the alterations to Mordeela (PROSE: All Flesh is Grass) and there confronted the Tenth Doctor’s mercenary fleet alongside Vampires allied with the Ninth Doctor. (PROSE: The Knight, The Fool and The Dead) In the ensuing Battle of Mordeela, the Daleks and Vampires destroyed all of the fleet save the flagship however were unable to prevent the destruction of Mordeela and the Tenth Doctor escaping. Believing they’d failed to restore the timelines, the Daleks enacted rival contingency plans to capitalise on the situation instead. The Commander and Executioner received pre-recorded orders from the Emperor whilst the Strategist and Scientist decided to experiment on the unique lifeforms of the Dark Times to create a more biologically efficient form of Dalek - the Symbiont. The Commander also dispatched Scout Ships to wipe out the last of the Kotturuh, fearing their judgement on the Daleks. The Eighth Doctor found himself sidelined, as he was only needed to ensure they could escape the Dark Times. (PROSE: All Flesh is Grass)

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) They allowed the Doctor to join their explorations, (PROSE: All Flesh is Grass) including an abandoned spaceship with a source of Huon energy. (COMIC: Tales of the Dark Times)

Seeking a Vampire for the Symbiont experiments, the Daleks attacked the Ninth Doctor’s coffin ship. The Eighth Doctor took the opportunity to escape, forewarning the Vampires so they escape and leaving with his future self in his TARDIS. A Dalek Scout Ship followed one Vampire, Ikalla, to Entranxis where she was being held by the Death Brokers. The three Doctors were also on Entranxis and helped her escape. The Daleks destroyed an oncoming Kotturuh ship and then set Entranxis’ atmosphere alight as their target was lost. The Daleks subsequently found a coffin ship transporting a Great Vampire and captured it. As the Eighth and Tenth Doctors infiltrated the Dalek saucer with Brian and a Bloodsman, the Scientist extracted the Great Vampire’s DNA and infused it into a Dalek mutant to create the Symbiont, an undead Dalek. This caused a significant power drain, leading to conflict between the Commander and Strategist, which enabled the Doctors to escape and Brian to hide. Brian saved himself from the Daleks by wiping himself to an explosive in the engine room and informed the Doctors of the Daleks’ destination - Gallifrey. The Doctors rescued Brian and mounted a defence of Gallifrey, facing an army of Dalek Drones now enhanced with Symbiont DNA that the Strategist had created to counter their defence. The original Symbiont was sent to Birinji to kill Inyit, the last of the Kotturuh, however she killed it by judging it. This judgement also wiped out the enhanced Drones, throwing the Daleks into a panic, as they feared the judgement spreading to pure Dalek DNA, and ending their assault, despite the Strategist’s demands to press the attack. The Eighth Doctor boarded the saucer and detonated Brian’s explosive, forcing the ship into the Time Vortex. (PROSE: All Flesh is Grass)

The Eighth Doctor continued to sabotage the ship, leading to it beginning to break apart in the Vortex. The Strategist attempted to bargain with him to escape in his TARDIS but he exposed the deal to the Commander, leading to a firefight between the two. The Strategist killed the Commander, prompting the Drones to turn on him as a traitor which enabled the Doctor to escape. (AUDIO: Mutually Assured Destruction) As the ship collapsed, the Daleks were torn apart by the time winds, the Strategist used Kotturuh crystals he'd stored in his casings to escape the Vortex by powering an emergency temporal shift. As he fell, he mused that all signs pointed to the Dalek Empire one day waging a war against the Time Lords, and pondered usurping the Emperor to lead the Daleks through it. (PROSE: Exit Strategy) One Drone survived, ending up adrift in space. (PROSE: The Last Message) It was eventually brought onboard the Starship Future where it rebuilt its casing and encountered the Fourth Doctor. He believed it defeated however it had managed to survive again. (AUDIO: Genetics of the Daleks)