Davros


 * This article is about the character. For the Big Finish Audio see Davros (audio story)

Davros was the head of the Kaled Scientific Elite and the creator of the Daleks. The design of the Dalek travel machines much resembled the wheelchair-life support system in which he survived. Davros was thought killed by his creations but lived, in suspended animation but was revived centuries in the future. Following the Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War, he became the Emperor of the Daleks.

Early life
Davros was born during the Thousand Year War between Thals and Kaleds on the planet Skaro. It was a time when mercy and nobility was all but nonexistent and life was harsh and grim. The use of atomic weapons and other agents of mutation had started to produce mutants known as mutos, however Davros himself was originally physically healthy and un-deformed.

Life after disfigurement
Davros, however, was grievously wounded by an attack and afterwards would need a mobile life support system just to live, let alone to move. (Remembrance of the Daleks (novelisation)) Less than a minute without his life support would have killed him. (DW: Genesis of the Daleks)

With his equally ruthless aide Nyder, Davros ascended to a high rank in the Kaled Scientific Elite and presided over the creation of the Daleks.


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The Daleks eventually turned on Nyder, exterminating him, and later on Davros himself, who sought now to destroy them. Davros was later killed, or so it seemed to the Daleks. (DW: ''Genesis of the Daleks')

Revival
Davros lived, in suspended animation while his life support worked to regenerate him. Davros was found by the Daleks and revived so that he might offer them a way out of the Daleks' empasse as far as fighting their enemies the Movellans. Davros though was captured by Human authorities and put on trial. (DW: Destiny of the Daleks)

The Humans decreed a sentence of ninety years of suspended animation during which time, Davros retained full consciousness. The Daleks, at this time led by the Dalek Supreme liberated Davros from a prison ship in space, and revived him, believing that he might help them win the war with the Movellans. Davros soon rebelled against the Dalek Supreme and had begun to convert Daleks to his side when the station exploded. (DW: Resurrection of the Daleks)

Davros, again, lived and set himself up as "the Great Healer" on the planet Necros and lured the Doctor there. Using the bodies of the dead at Tranquil Repose, Davros created a new race of Daleks, the Imperial Daleks, who were totally loyal to him. The Supreme Dalek's forces also arrived on Necros and captured him in order to put him on trial. (DW: Revelation of the Daleks)


 * For more background on and an account of the war that followed between Dalek factions, see Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War.

Personality
Davros had a sound mind early in his life, and even into his later life had a brilliant mind.

Early Personality (post Thal attack)
Davros was a brilliant and driven scientist, relentlessly experimenting to find the final form of the Kaled people. Davros was a cool and sadistic person, it was his ability to command and delegate that was most forceful and cold.

Personality following attempted Extermination
Davros' attempted assassination by his own creations appears to be the instigator in his decent into madness. While his conversation with the Doctor following his awakening suggests that he may have survived the extermination attempt through forethought, it does still seem to have made Davros more bitter than he had originally been.

Personality following stasis by humans
Following his imprisonment in stasis Davros suffered in a conscious waking state through however many hundreds of years of prison. It had made Davros much more bitter and cold towards humans despite their involvement in the Dalek's campaign against the Movellans.

Personality in later life
Davros only continues to descend further into madness until by the end of one part of his life he is teetering on the edge of sanity when he encounters the Doctor on the Earth that he had taken over with a virus. (BFA: Terror Firma)

Physical Appearance
Davros was originally seen sitting upright in a movement and life support chair resembling the base of a Dalek. His Kaled body was similar to that of a human but with a central blue eye in the centre of his forehead, allowing him some semblance of sight. He had only his right hand, which he used to operate various controls on his chair. These in turn could perform various functions from controlling doors, the Mark III travel machines, to his own life support system.

Following his operation on Necros he lost the majority of his right hand and thus his independent operability.

By the time of his attempt to recover the Hand of Omega from 1963 Earth he had lost most of his organic body and was completely encased within an Imperial Daleks like shell, though his head and upper body appeared to be at least partially Kaled.

Creations
Most notable of Davros's creations is the Mark III travel machine, which then became known as a Dalek.

Davros also experimented with other Dalek forms, such as a Dalek able to walk over rough terrain known as a Spider Dalek. (EDA: War of the Daleks)

Davros also created an Imperial faction of Daleks to counter what he saw as a Renegade faction of Daleks. Included within these Imperial faction was a Special Weapons Dalek, consisting of a large turret able to destroy many targets at once.

Davros also created the cyborg Juggernauts by combining Human DNA with the mechanical Mechanoids.

Plans
Davros had always planned to rule the universe. He had created the Daleks to become the masters of the universe with him as their emperor. His plans were always thrawted by either his nemesis, the Doctor, or by some mishap due to his meddling in his Daleks' plans. The best example of this being that, when he had returned, the Daleks were being lead by the Supreme Dalek, and because he found that title to be so laughable, a civil war broke out between the Daleks who wanted to follow Davros and those who remained loyal to the Supreme.

Encounters with the Doctor
Davros came to be a great enemy of the Doctor and considered the Doctor to be his equal and his nemesis. Davros first ecountered the Doctor when the latter had time traveled into the past to advert the creation of the Daleks. (DW: Genesis of the Daleks)

The Doctor then fought Davros thousands of years later and placed him in suspended animation. He was later set free by the Daleks and soon after started the Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War. The Doctor almost killed him during this time. (DW: Destiny of the Daleks, Resurrection of the Daleks)

The Doctor later fought Davros on Necros when he created a new generation of Daleks, the Imperial Daleks, to fight off his original "Renegade Daleks". He was taken by the Renegades and put on trial. (DW: Revelation of the Daleks)

The last encounter between the Doctor and Davros was in 1963 when the Imperials and Renegades came to Earth in search of the Hand of Omega. Davros escaped while the Doctor "destroyed" the Daleks ancestrial home, Skaro. (DW: Remembrance of the Daleks)