Main Saucer

The Main Saucer was a massive Dalek space saucer which oversaw the battle, led by the Dalek Commander who would later be named Dalek Sec, against the Mechanoids on the planet Magella.

History
Waiting in geostationary orbit, the Main Saucer's scanners recorded every moment of the battle below, from the Dalek units moving through the buildings, to the robotic life signs of the Mechonoids winking out one by one, pinpointing the exact points of fire, detonations, explosions and deaths. The information would be analysed and any useful conclusions were fed back into the Dalek battle computers for future campaigns.

Rather than stay on the saucer, where it would have been plugged directly into the Military Computer where it would absorb every piece of data as they came in, the Dalek Commander touched down on the planet to witness the battle, believing that it could react more quickly to changes on the battlefront if it could observe them close up and at first hand. The saucer confirmed Unit Nine's analysis that the Mechonoids were regrouping in the main reactor area, with the Military Computer determining that the best strategy was to advance all units immediately into the reactor area.

Keeping in touch with the saucer, the Commander's subordinate reported analysis which suggested that the total area of devastation would extend beyond the city and destroy all Daleks on Magella. With forty rels before detonation, the Commander ordered his subordinate to instruct the saucer to target the Mechonoids' main reactors with thronic missiles to fire in thirty rels. The Mechonoids were all destroyed whilst the Daleks escaped the devastation, after which the Commander received a report from a subordinate Dalek, who informed it that the data recorded by the Military Computers had been relayed to Dalek Central Control and that the Dalek was ordered to report to Skaro immediately. Though the Commander ordered all Daleks to return to ship and compute a course to Skaro, the subordinate, who was to relieve the Commander of its duties on Magella, clarified that the order, which had the ident codes of the Dalek Emperor, assigned the Seventh Incrusion Squad to complete operations on the planet, while the former Commander returned to Skaro alone. (PROSE: Birth of a Legend)