Anti-Dalek Force

The , often abbreviated to just A.D.F., was a military and scientific organisation authorised by the United Planets to find ways of defeating the Daleks.

Nature
The precise time period and area of space in which they operated was unknown, but it ran operations far beyond the solar system, to locations at least as remote as the Twelve Galaxy. (COMIC: The Human Bombs) Thus, it existed during a period when humans had colonies well beyond Earth, and even beyond Earth's own galaxy, (COMIC: Island of Horror) and considered "all citizens of the galaxy", or even "all lifekind", to fall within its purview, not just human beings. (PROSE: The New Dalek Paradigm) Nevertheless, the organisation was headquartered on Earth. (COMIC: Island of Horror)

Human historians in the post-Time War universe indicated that the ADF, which they suggested may merely have been a fiction, operated in the centuries leading up to the Time Destructor Incident of 4000, when the Daleks were opposed by the Space Security Service. (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe) Incidentally, the Time Lords identified the Combined Galactic Resistance which opposed a Dalek invasion of the galaxy as "anti-Dalek forces". (PROSE: Dalek Combat Training Manual)

Three of its primary agents were its leader, Space Major Joel Shaw, and his seconds in command, the android Mark Seven and the Martian Reb Shavron. (PROSE: Terror Task Force et al.)

The A.D.F. also maintained VidFiles and InfoFiles about various subjects connected to the Daleks. Some of them were classified as public while others, such as the InfoFile on the Doctor, were "for A.D.F. eyes only". (PROSE: The New Dalek Paradigm)

Personnel
The founding members of the A.D.F. were Joel Shaw, Reb Shavron and Mark Seven. (PROSE: Terror Task Force) Other members included Gil Tranter, (PROSE: Nightmare) Ral Shannon, (PROSE: The Castaway) Ross, Ian Crayford, (PROSE: Assassination Squad) Himlein Shtock, Ulla Vax, (PROSE: Special Report) Clive Simons (COMIC: The Human Bombs) and Faith. (AUDIO: The Uncertain Shore)

Early history
Space Major Joel Shaw, Supreme Commander of the ADF, wrote a special report to President Cal Tarrant, leader of the United Planets Parliament, Shaw reported that thanks to the valiant efforts of an ADF agent, the Daleks were suspected to be signing non-aggression pacts with other powers in the Outer Planets. However, later historians found that the name of the undercover agent was struck out and that there was no further evidence that such treaties were ever ratified, let alone if Shaw's fears of a Dalek-led alliance outnumbering Earth's own forces "a thousand to one" ever came to fruition. (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe)

Later history
The Force fought the Daleks at a front of the Last Great Time War. A Dalek agent came to Florana to find the Anti-Dalek Force leader. (AUDIO: The Uncertain Shore)

The Anti-Dalek Force was still active after the rise of the New Dalek Paradigm. They documented the 21st century Dalek invasion of Earth in a Public InfoFile entitled The Stolen Earth. After the rise of the Paradigm, they investigated its origins and compiled information about the new Dalek variants exhibited by the Paradigm Dalek. Under an ethos of "Know your enemy", they distributed a pamphlet on the subject across the galaxy. (PROSE: The New Dalek Paradigm)

Human historians in the post-Time War universe knew little for certain about the ADF, acknowledging that some even suggested that its very existence was a fiction, propaganda issued by the Earth Administration. No official records concerning the ADF survived and those which had surfaced were heavily redacted. They placed the story of the ADF in the time preceeding the Space Security Service's 40th century conflict with the Daleks. (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe)