The Human Factor (audio story)

 was the second story in the Dalek Empire I audio series produced by Big Finish Productions. It advanced six months from the previous story and covers a period of approximately three additional months, firmly establishing this as the first of Big Finish's stories told over a long period of (in-universe) time.

Publisher's summary
The Earth Alliance seems powerless to stop the Dalek invasion of the galaxy.

Enslaved by the Daleks, along with billions of others, Susan Mendes and Kalendorf must find a way to turn the tide against these metallic monsters...

...or the galaxy will be lost forever!

Plot
to be added

Cast

 * Susan Mendes - Sarah Mowat
 * Kalendorf - Gareth Thomas
 * Narrator - Joyce Gibbs
 * Wernay / Drudger / Gurian - Ian Brooker
 * Morebi - David Sax
 * Alby Brook - Mark McDonnell
 * Gordon Pellan - John Wadmore
 * Highness - Adrian Lloyd-James
 * Daughter - Georgina Carter
 * The Daleks - Nicholas Briggs, Alistair Lock
 * The Dalek Emperor - Nicholas Briggs

Astronomical objects

 * K5000 is one of Garazone's many moons.
 * Guria is at the edge of the Daleks' advance into the galaxy. It was previously one of the Earth Alliance's largest suppliers of fossil fuels.

Daleks

 * The Dalek Supreme claims that the Daleks have conquered a thousand planets since their invasion of Mutter's Spiral began six months earlier.
 * Once the top of a Dalek's exterior casing is removed, a message is sent to Garazone Central, alerting the Dalek Supreme.
 * Fifty Robomen were assigned to K5000 by the Daleks. All of them were killed by Morebi and his rebels.

Individuals

 * When the Daleks invaded Garazone, they killed Morebi's entire family. In order to save his own life, Morebi surrendered, for which he has never forgiven himself.
 * Alby came from a broken home and became involved in crime as a youth in the slums on his homeworld of Proxima Major. He joined the Earth Alliance military as a means of escape but "got into trouble." He was given a reduced sentence since he agreed to work for Earth Security.
 * Alby's legs were blown off when an assault vessel crashes on the Gurian rig to which he and Pellan were brought after being captured by the Daleks. He is given a pair of prosthetic legs.

Organisations

 * Prior to the Dalek invasion, the Reinsberg Institute, for which Suz worked as a geologist, had a major contract with the Earth Alliance Space Security Service relating to something called Project Infinity.

Technology

 * Alby and Pellan spent six months in hypersleep, a form of suspended animation, aboard an Earth Security scout ship during their trip to Garazone.

Titles and offices

 * Throughout the galaxy, the human slave labourers refer to Suz as "the Angel of Mercy" as she gives them hope.

Continuity

 * After removing Suz from Vega VI, the Daleks transport her to the Garazone system, a "backwater" of the interstellar spacelanes which the Eighth Doctor and his companion Charley Pollard had visited in the 26th century. (AUDIO: Sword of Orion)
 * This era is later revisited in AUDIO: Return of the Daleks, which bridges this story and the next.