Dalek Saturn Probe (short story)

Dalek Saturn Probe was the first prose story original to The Dalek Outer Space Book, a Dalek annual of the 1960s.

Summary
When humans land on Titan, a moon of Saturn, they discover a strange metal scroll in a crater. According to it, an advanced Dalek colony existed on Titan "long ago". However, the Daleks made the mistake of attempting to drill down to the core of Saturn through its layers of gas, triggering an explosion. There the record ends. Scientists speculate that the explosion triggered by the Daleks' mining may have create the "famous" Rings of Saturn, and a painting of the Dalek colony is reconstructed based on the information written on he scrolls.

Characters

 * Daleks

Worldbuilding

 * Titan's atmosphere reacted explosively to excess methane.

Continuity

 * Daleks attempted to conquer the solar system. (COMIC: Invasion of the Daleks)
 * Daleks attempted to drill down to the heart of Saturn, as they had previously attempted on Earth. (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth)