The Road to Conflict (comic story)

Summary
A human spaceship crashlands on Skaro. The Daleks see this as an opportunity to learn more of the "androids" from another world.

Plot
The human spaceship Starmaker crash lands on Skaro. The Dalek Emperor orders that the "androids" (actually humans) not be destroyed, that they might learn more about them.

The Daleks destroy the humans' ship. Only three people survive. They steal a Dalek ship and fly it back to Earth to warn them of the impending Dalek invasion.

After the Daleks search the remains of the humans' ship, they find a scrap of burnt paper with the directions to Earth. The Dalek Emperor declares "We shall conquer Earth!"

Characters

 * Captain Flint Fleet
 * Grant
 * Jennie
 * Tom
 * Dalek Emperor
 * Black Dalek
 * Red Dalek

Daleks

 * Jennie wonders if the Emperor is made of real gold.

Dalek technology

 * The Dalek City's hydroponic force houses, weapon shops and communication rooms are seen.
 * The Daleks use Dalek Tunnellers to tunnel under the humans' force field.
 * Several new varieties of hoverbout are seen, only one of which is identified as such.

Spacecraft

 * Humans are sending passenger spacecraft into deep space at this point.
 * The humans' ship is called the Starmaker.

Technology

 * The humans put up force fields in a square around their ship to stop the Daleks attacking them.

Planets

 * The directions to Earth read: "Circle Andromeda then N by NS to landfall Earth".

Continuity

 * The Daleks finally find Earth, which they have been trying to locate since Legacy of Yesteryear.
 * Earth can be reached from Skaro by circling Andromeda (the galaxy?), then travelling N by NS. It is located in the next universe (galaxy?) but one. Its location is in a blind spot, preventing the Daleks finding it earlier.
 * When Lodian and Yvric observed Earth, it was nine galaxies away. (COMIC: Legacy of Yesteryear) In the 25th century, Skaro physically enters the Sol system (COMIC: Invasion of the Daleks) and it is implied that Skaro has been in the Sol system in the distant past (COMIC: City of the Daleks, numerous Dalek annual features) but this may only be Dalek propaganda.