Theory:Timeline - Dalek Prime

This page lists appearances of the Dalek Prime, also known as the Dalek Emperor or the Golden Emperor, in the order in which he experienced them. This timeline is based upon observations of the Doctor Who universe and the events that occur during each of these stories.

Arising

 * AUDIO: Guilt
 * Davros creates "the first Dalek" using Baran's brain.


 * TV: Genesis of the Daleks
 * The Dalek Prime is the first Dalek created by Davros and is sealed in the bunker for "perhaps a thousand years" concurrently with the destruction of the Kaleds.


 * A thousand years later, mutated descendants of the Kaleds, the humanoid Daleks, inhabit a city built on the ruins of the old Kaled Dome. They are once again preparing for war with the Thals, who now live on another continent.


 * COMIC: Genesis of Evil
 * After two years of desolation on Skaro, the humanoid Daleks begin mutating into Dalek mutants. The Dalek Prime reemerges. He claims he is one of the recent mutations, but we speculate he actually emerged from the bunker at long last, and saw the mutating Kaled-descendants as an opportunity to create new Dalek drones — something it was unable to do on its own power because the Fourth Doctor had destroyed the production line.


 * COMIC: Power Play (First panel only)
 * The Dalek City is constructed under the newly-minted Emperor's leadership.


 * Power Play presents the rest of its narrative as occurring immediately after the completion of this work, but other sources show that there was a long period of time between the Daleks beginning to live in the City, and the start of their space program.

Early spaceflight era

 * COMIC: Power Play (Second panel onward)
 * Under the Emperor's leadership, the Daleks gain space travel.


 * COMIC: Duel of the Daleks
 * The Emperor orders the conquest of space, leading into The Amaryll Challenge.


 * COMIC: The Amaryll Challenge
 * The first Dalek invasion force lands on Amaryll, the closest planet to Skaro. The Emperor then orders the invasion of Solturis, leading into The Penta Ray Factor.


 * COMIC: The Penta Ray Factor
 * The Emperor is called back to Skaro, leading into Plague of Death.


 * COMIC: Plague of Death
 * An alien spacecraft lands on Skaro, leading into The Menace of the Monstrons.


 * COMIC: The Menace of the Monstrons
 * The Daleks repel an alien attack, partly destroying the Dalek City.


 * COMIC: Eve of War
 * A few months after The Menace of the Monstrons, the Dalek City is rebuilt. Following an attack on their space forces by the Mechonoids, the Emperor orders a search for inventions in space in preparation for war.
 * The Emperor is informed of the discovery and conquest of Phryne. (COMIC: The Archives of Phryne)


 * COMIC: The Rogue Planet
 * The Daleks capture Skardal and sent it to Mechanus, leading into Impasse.


 * COMIC: Impasse
 * The Terrorkons are disturbed, leading onto The Terrorkon Harvest.


 * COMIC: The Terrorkon Harvest
 * The Emperor orders the exploration of Skaro, leading onto Legacy of Yesteryear.


 * COMIC: Legacy of Yesteryear
 * (Note: this story is explicitly "centuries" after Genesis of Evil, lending credence to the five-hundred year gap between the construction of the Dalek City, and the beginning of the spaceflight era in the mid-2060s)


 * COMIC: Shadow of Humanity
 * The Emperor declares that human beings are to be destroyed.


 * COMIC: The Emissaries of Jevo
 * The Emperor declares "all-out war" on all humans everywhere.


 * COMIC: The Road to Conflict
 * The Daleks elect to search for Earth.


 * PROSE: Doctor Who and the Daleks
 * The Daleks do not yet have time travel. They are ruled by the Golden Emperor. They have conflict with humanity, which is not confined to Earth. Therefore this has been placed during the First Dalek War, before the invasion of Earth.


 * COMIC: Return of the Elders
 * The Daleks' invasion is initially repelled, but they vow to return.

25th century invasion

 * COMIC: Invasion of the Daleks
 * Dalek War Machines, led by the Golden Emperor, invade Earth's solar system in the year 2400, beginning with the conquest of Venus. (PROSE: Break-through)


 * COMIC: City of the Daleks


 * COMIC: Battle for the Moon
 * While the Golden Emperor ostensibly negotiates peace terms, Daleks based on the Moon attempt to destroy Earth but are thwarted.

27th century invasion

 * COMIC: The Mechanical Planet
 * After two centuries of peace, the Golden Emperor forces Earth to return the Daleks' confiscated weaponry so they can stop a rogue planet, which is later traced to the Mechonoids. (COMIC: The World That Waits) He then vows to conquer Earth and the other planets.

Time campaigns

 * PROSE: The Chase
 * Shortly after the Daleks develop space travel for the first time, Dalek Prime sends a squad of Daleks in a Dalek time machine to kill the First Doctor.


 * Using his time machine, the Emperor wages a failed invasion of Earth in 2415. He later participates in an invasion of Uranus. (COMIC: The Secret of the Emperor)


 * COMIC: The Secret of the Emperor
 * The Emperor finally removes the last pretense of democracy, having the Black Dalek Leader eliminate those who speak out against the Emperor during his "reelection ceremony". The Emperor's casing is rebuilt from the ground up.

Emperor in the City

 * PROSE: The Mutation of Time
 * The Dalek Prime oversees the attempted invasion of Earth in the year 4000, which is thwarted by the First Doctor.


 * PROSE: The Evil of the Daleks/TV: The Evil of the Daleks
 * After a Great War spanning a thousand years, the Dalek Prime has the Daleks conduct research into the Dalek Factor. He is heavily damaged, presumed dead, when the Second Doctor infected many of the Daleks with the Human Factor, sparking a devastating civil war between them and the Emperor's Guards.


 * The War is won by the Emperor's voices, although some Human Daleks make it out of Skaro as per COMIC: Children of the Revolution.


 * AUDIO: The Lights of Skaro
 * Immediately after the Civil War, the Emperor, still stuck in his throne room without a gun, questions Bernice Summerfield, struggling to understand how the War could have occurred.


 * COMIC: Bringer of Darkness
 * The Emperor reigns supreme over Skaro once again.

Civil War

 * COMIC: Emperor of the Daleks!
 * The Emperor reigns over Skaro and attempts to try and exterminate Davros. However, Davros instead escapes with the help of the Sixth Doctor, who is trying to engineer a Dalek civil war. The Emperor tries to enlist Abslom Daak and the Seventh Doctor alongside the Black Dalek to track down Davros, but when they find him on Spiridon, he has created a new race of Daleks loyal to him. The Emperor is seemingly killed by Davros as he takes over Skaro.


 * However, the Emperor survives, the casing which was destroyed having presumably been a remote-controlled decoy like in PROSE: War of the Daleks. He goes into hiding and puppeteers the Renegade Daleks from afar, with the Dalek Supreme acting as the number-one.

Post-Civil War

 * PROSE: War of the Daleks
 * Much later, following the Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War, the Dalek Prime has Davros captured and put on trial on Skaro, revealing to the Eighth Doctor that much of Dalek history was a fabricated to prevent the destruction Skaro by Davros and the Seventh Doctor. During the trial, one of Davros' supporters destroys a decoy of the Dalek Prime, igniting another civil war. The Dalek Prime claims victory after Davros's capture and apparent execution and after his supporters are apparently wiped out.