Dalek Time Commander

The Dalek Time Commander, (PROSE: Mission to the Known) usually referred to as simply the Time Commander, (PROSE: The Guide to the Dark Times) was a unique Dalek loyal to the Emperor of the Restoration, and overall commander of the Dalek Time Squad, a team of Time-Sensitive Daleks deployed by the Emperor to attempt to make history "more favourable" to the Daleks, after several divergences in time were detected (PROSE: The Guide to the Dark Times) which rewrote history. The divergences investigated by the Time Commander, along with the rest of the Dalek Time Squad, were caused by the Tenth Doctor's attempt to render the Kotturuh extinct during the Dark Times. (PROSE: The Knight, The Fool, and The Dead)

Physical appearance
The Dalek Time Commander's casing was similar to those of the Dalek drones of the Restoration Empire; it resembled the casing of a bronze Dalek, but was coloured a gunmetal silver instead of bronze and gold. Unlike the casings of the Dalek drones, its sense globes were also coloured a gunmetal silver, with a blue ring at their base. Its luminosity dischargers and the lens of its eyestalk were both white. (PROSE: The Guide to the Dark Times)

Biography
When the Daleks of the Restoration Empire (PROSE: The Restoration Empire) began detecting divergences across time, the Dalek Time Commander was placed in charge of the Dalek Time Squad by the Emperor of the Restoration to investigate the divergences, (PROSE: The Guide to the Dark Times) which had been caused by the Tenth Doctor's attempt to render the Kotturuh extinct during the Dark Times. (PROSE: The Knight, The Fool and The Dead)

The mission to Wrax
Eventually, the Dalek Time Squad captured the Eighth Doctor and his TARDIS, (AUDIO: He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not) in order to travel to the Dark Times. (PROSE: The Restoration Empire) The Dalek Time Commander had the Doctor brought to him by the Dalek Prime Strategist, whilst ordering the Dalek Executioner to stand down after the Executioner aggressively desired to exterminate the Doctor. On the bridge of the Dalek Time Squad's time ship, the Dalek Time Commander explained to the Doctor their mission: to investigate how Wrax, which was a barren rock in the original timeline, had suddenly become a jungle planet with a native species, a warrior race known as the Wraxians. The Doctor accepted the Dalek Time Commander's proposal that they work together, and, after broadcasting a message informing the Wraxians that the Daleks were arriving in peace, the Dalek Time Commander travelled to Wrax with the Doctor, the Dalek Scientist, and the Dalek Prime Strategist, ordering the Dalek Executioner to remain on the Dalek Time Squad's time ship behind Wrax's moon. Unbeknownst to the Doctor, the Daleks intended to acquire the Wraxians' ultimate weapon, the Devolver, for themselves.

After being greeted by Boros, the Daleks and the Doctor travelled with the Wraxian to a pyramid-like structure. While the Dalek Prime Strategist and the Doctor examined the Wraxians' gallery, the Dalek Time Commander and the Dalek Scientist met with the Wraxian President. She agreed to consider an alliance and to demonstrate the Devolver, but quietly betrayed and trapped the Time Commander and the Scientist. The president's prolonged absence led the Dalek Time Commander to conclude that she had betrayed the Daleks, and so the Time Commander contacted the Dalek Executioner onboard the Dalek time ship and ordered it to transmat onto Wrax with the Time Squad's Silver Daleks to begin exterminating the Wraxians. After being freed by the Dalek Executioner's attack squad, the Dalek Time Commander and the other Daleks found the Wraxian President with the Doctor at the Eye of Wrax, and learnt that the President intended to use the Daleks' origin matrix, harvested from a dead transmat scout Dalek, to devolve the entire Dalek race. The Dalek Prime Strategist convinced the Dalek Time Commander to let the Doctor negotiate with the President and to withdraw the Daleks from Wrax permanently, in return for the dismantling of the Devolver and the Doctor telling the Daleks his theory on the source of the divergences in time. Shortly before the Dalek Time Squad's time ship left Wrax's moon, the Dalek Time Commander secretly sent the Dalek Executioner back to Wrax to use the Devolver to devolve the Wraxians. Whilst the Doctor connected his TARDIS to the Dalek time ship's engines to enable it to reach the Dark Times, the Dalek Prime Strategist conferred with the Dalek Time Commander, the former believing that the Doctor had been successfully manipulated. (AUDIO: The Enemy of My Enemy)

Psychological profile
The Dalek Time Commander's personality was closely similar in ways to most Dalek Supremes, and even the Emperor of the Restoration; it spoke in a deep voice and portrayed some degree of egotism, proclaiming that the Daleks were "restoring balance to the universe" during their investigation of the divergences in time; the Eighth Doctor quickly criticised the Time Commander, stating that "indiscriminate murder" was not the same as "restoring balance". (AUDIO: The Enemy of My Enemy)

River Song described the Dalek Time Commander as "ruthless even by Dalek standards". It was "determined" to seize any opportunity awarded to the Daleks by the fluctuations in time, willing to go to worrisome lengths to achieve its people's goal of supremacy. (PROSE: The Guide to the Dark Times) The Time Commander could also be deceitful, initially agreeing to leave Wrax and the Wraxians in peace, only to then send the Dalek Executioner to kill Sarathin, the Wraxian President, and use the Devolver to eliminate the Wraxians. (AUDIO: The Enemy of My Enemy) Despite this, however, the Dalek Time Commander was "fiercely loyal" to the Emperor of the Restoration. (PROSE: The Guide to the Dark Times)