Secondary command structure

As recorded in the Dalek Combat Training Manual, published during the Last Great Time War, the Time Lords identified a secondary command structure within the Dalek hierarchy, which was composed of non-Dalek life forms. A specialist team from the CIA looked into recruiting undercover operatives to infiltrate this secondary command structure.

Scrutinising Dalek history, the Time Lords believed that the unprecedented use of other humanoid species within the Dalek command structure served to overcome the logical impasse which impeded the Daleks during their war against the Movellans. Humanoids were used both directly as Dalek Trooper mercenaries, and indirectly, in the use of young humanoids synced with their battle computers. (PROSE: Dalek Combat Training Manual)

In the period of the Time War where the Daleks were wiped from existence by the War Valeyard. (AUDIO: The War Valeyard) the countless slaves whom the Daleks had conscripted to serve as disposable troops could not remember whom they had been serving under and surrendered (AUDIO: Dreadshade) before the Daleks were restored by the Dalek Time Strategist and a copy of Davros, (AUDIO: Restoration of the Daleks)