Special Daleks (short story)

 was the title of the second short story in DWPM 1, devoted to the Daleks. Following on from the restatement of the Daleks' genesis, it presented a take on Dalek history, suggesting that Dalek variants had only begun to emerge in the absence of Davros as a result of the Daleks being free to experiment with their own form.

Summary
Free of Davros, the Daleks, over the years, experiment with more and more outlandish departures from the basic Dalek Mark III Travel Machine's shape…

Characters

 * Davros
 * Daleks
 * Dalek Emperor
 * Special Weapons Dalek

Worldbuilding

 * The Special Weapons Dalek, unveiled during the Shoreditch Incident, was "the ultimate realisation of the Daleks' versatility".
 * Daleks have a strict hierarchy.
 * The titles of Black Dalek, Supreme Dalek and Dalek Supreme, as used during the 21st century Dalek invasion, the colonisation of Spiridon and the Dalek-Movellan and Imperial-Renegade Wars were broadly equivalent.

Continuity

 * The Daleks progress on their own terms after exterminating Davros. (TV: Genesis of the Daleks)
 * A Dalek with a "special", mobile gun platform, construed in this account as the first of its kind, was present on Earth in 1963. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks)
 * Black Daleks or Supreme Daleks were placed by the Emperor in charge of, among other missions, the mission to retrieve Davros (TV: Destiny of the Daleks) and the attempt to colonise Spiridon. (TV: Planet of the Dead)