Exit Strategy (short story)

 was the fourth of five Time Lord Victorious short stories released by Eaglemoss Collections. It was printed in DWFC TLV 3, which came with the Dalek Executioner and Dalek Strategist Figurine Set. It was written by James Goss.

Summary
Falling through the Time Vortex following "a spectacular defeat", and surrounded by his dying comrades including the Executioner, the Dalek Prime Strategist reflects on the events that brought him here and the Emperor’s failures in particular. He predicts the Emperor will begin a war between the Daleks and the Time Lords. Deciding the Emperor is likely to fail without him, and may even need replacing, the Strategist uses Kotturuh crystals he’d collected in his casing to initiate an emergency temporal shift and escapes the Vortex.

Characters

 * Dalek Prime Strategist
 * Dalek Executioner
 * Dalek Drone

Time Vortex

 * The Dalek Prime Strategist notes that the other Daleks are being ripped apart by the time winds as their shells are deteriorating and their raw flesh can be seen leaking out.

Daleks

 * The Strategist reckons that he would have warned the Emperor against the Ultimate End had he been made aware of.
 * After the extraordinary failures of the current Dalek Emperor, and considering that the Emperor could fail again, the Strategist has eyes on becoming the new Emperor that would lead the Daleks in the upcoming war.

Continuity

 * The remaining Daleks of the Time Squad are falling through the Time Vortex after being defeated by the Eighth Doctor. (AUDIO: Mutually Assured Destruction)
 * The Strategist recalls using the Doctor first to dispose of an “impossible enemy” (COMIC: Defender of the Daleks) and then to find the source of the changes to time. (AUDIO: The Enemy of My Enemy)


 * The Strategist recalls manipulating the conflict between three incarnations of the Doctor and harvesting life forms in the Dark Times. (PROSE: All Flesh is Grass)
 * The Strategist predicts the Emperor will go on to wage a war against the Time Lords and gives serious thought to replacing him as the Emperor for that conflict. (TV: Dalek, The Parting of the Ways)
 * Having foreseen the Time War, the Strategist deems it a shame to miss out on the action and performs an emergency temporal shift in an attempt to witness it. (TV: Doomsday, Evolution of the Daleks)