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User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-6032121-20190914173756/@comment-6032121-20190916064925 Doug86 wrote: However, Evil has to be set before Remembrance of the Daleks, in which Skaro is destroyed

Ah… but aren't you forgetting what War of the Daleks is most famous for? It is in fact the story in which Peel hatched a ridiculously complicated retcon for why Skaro wasn't destroyed in Remembrance, so that he can go on believing that Evil takes place after Remembrance. Not that he says this explicitly, mind you, so we can continue placing Evil at a sane point in the timeline for our part. But that is absolutely not an argument for Peel's authorial intent being the two Primes aren't the same.

(IIRC, the Trial of Davros, e.g. the scene Peel then expanded into War’s second act, is already related in his previously-published non-narrative Complete History of the Daleks, if you want to go back and check exactly where War slots in in Peel's headcanon. Again, we don't have to listen to that "where", only note that it is absolutely no obstacle to Peel thinking of both Primes as a single character.)

Also, the Last Great Time War is neither here nor there. Even assuming we stick to Peel's theories in light of NuWho, obviously the answer to "how did the Daleks take part in the Time War if they were destroyed?" is the same as "how did Gallifrey even though it had already been blown up in the EDAs?": a thing happened, possibly a timey-wimey one.