User:Scrooge MacDuck/Sandbox Epsilon

This page is User:Scrooge MacDuck's Timeline of Skaro and the Daleks.


 * 334 B.C.: Start of the Thousand Year War
 * (Explanation: Sevrin in TV: Genesis of the Daleks claims the War between the Thals and the Kaleds as been going on for a thousand years. Thus, we calculate backwards from the date we found for Genesis of the Daleks below.)


 * 566: TV: Genesis of the Daleks
 * (Explanation: The Fourth Doctor believes the Daleks will take "a thousand years" to reemerge from their bunker, which the Dalek Prime has sworn to do. We take the view that Davros's Daleks indeed remain entombed for one thousand years while the Kaleds survivors, TV21's humanoid Daleks, rebuild their civilisation.)


 * 31 January 1564: First page of COMIC: Genesis of Evil
 * (Explanation: Alydon says in TV: The Daleks that the Thal-Dalek battle marks the end of "five hundred years of destruction", so we can assume the Neutronic War began five hundred years before the battle, which we date below based on PROSE: Peaceful Thals Ambushed!)


 * (Note: PROSE: The Dalek Dictionary and COMIC: The Dalek Tapes both place the murder of Drenz in "2003", which does not make sense in light of anything else. I am running with the assumption that "2003" is given by Skaro's calendar, with 2003 in Anno Skari working out to Anno Domini 1564 back on Earth.)


 * 31 January 1566: Second and third pages of COMIC: Genesis of Evil
 * (Explanation: Caption box in COMIC: Genesis of Evil says that two years of stillness pass on Skaro before the reemergence of Zolfian and Yarvelling and their encounter with the first Dalek. The Dalek Prime claims he is one more Dalek mutation, but we take the view that he is lying: he is one of Davros's Daleks, a thousand years old, hence his knowing to encourage the new mutations to climb into the travel machines.<It is possible Yarvelling constructed the Dalek War Machines based on old schematics, or that he was acting under psychic suggestion from the entombed Daleks.)


 * 31 March 1566: First panel of COMIC: Power Play
 * (Explanation: The Daleks take two months to rebuild a Dalek City for themselves. The comic 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.)


 * 1 April 1566: COMIC: The Message of Mystery
 * (Explanation: Susan Foreman lands on a Skaro whose Daleks do not yet have space travel and aren't confined to the Dalek City, "centuries" before the Dalek turn their minds to conquering the universe. This could be at any point berween March 1566 and January 2064, but it is amusing to think that the first panel of Power Play is still immediately followed by an alien visit to Skaro, albeit not a Krattorian. Also, the comic's ending involves the Daleks being scared by laughter, so it was irresistible to place it on April's Fools' Day!)


 * 31 January 2064: TV: The Daleks
 * (Explanation: PROSE: Peaceful Thals Ambushed! takes place on 31 July 2065 and says the Thal-Dalek battle was "eighteen months ago")


 * 13 February 2065: PROSE: Fireball Surrenders! ; Panel 2 onwards of Page 1 of COMIC: Power Play
 * (Explanation: Date is directly given in PROSE: Fireball Surrenders! as the date the Space Agency reports the entry of the Krattorian spacecraft into Skaro's atmosphere. One assumes that with the Internet, news travel as fast in the 21st century as they do now; this must therefore have happened on the same day.)


 * 20 February 2065: PROSE: Titan Declares War! ; Page 2 onwards of COMIC: Power Play ;
 * (Explanation: Date is directly given in PROSE: Titan Declares War!. The article is written in the present tense, saying that the Daleks "are" planning a counterattack; we must assume a seven-day gap between Pages 1 and 2 of Power Play, presumably taken up by the Krattorians' actually doing the work of digging up the Dalek City.)


 * (Note: PROSE: Superjet Shot Down has news of the Daleks' capture of the Krattorian craft reach Earth on 13 March 2065, but does not preclude the common-sense reading of Page 2 onwards of Power Play taking place on the same day, if we assume there was a delay in the News Agency's report of these additional data.)


 * 3 April 2065: PROSE: Stingray Hunts Aliens ; Page 1 and first two panels of Page 2 of COMIC: Duel of the Daleks
 * (Explanation: Date is directly given in PROSE: Stingray Hunts Aliens as the date the Space News Agency reports the lighting strikes that struck Skaro while they were experimenting with a new metal. This is given as a "STOP THE PRESS" insert on the front page of the newspaper, which strengthens the idea that it literally happened on the same day.)


 * 4 April 2065: Rest of Page 2, and Page 3, of COMIC: ''Duel of the Daleks
 * (Explanation: Caption box in Panel 3 of Page 2 of COMIC: Duel of the Daleks mentions that the tests performed on Zeg in the examination chamber take "the rest of the day". Page 3 immediately follows from it and ends with the Brain Machine declaring that the Emperor and Zeg must duel for supremacy.)


 * 24 April 2065: PROSE: Zodiac's Rescue Bid!; rest of COMIC: Duel of the Daleks
 * (Explanation: PROSE: Zodiac's Rescue Bid!, formatted as the 24 April 2065 issue of the paper, says that "the duel takes place today". We must therefore assume the Emperor and Zeg spent several weeks preparing for the duel.)