Dalek-Movellan War

The Dalek-Movellan War was a galactic war fought between the cyborg Daleks and the android Movellans.

Historical overview
Bboth the Dalek Empire and the Movellans were expanding to control the galaxy (presumably Mutter's Spiral). They met and fought to destroy each other.


 * As the Movellans came from the Andromeda Galaxy and it is generally thought that Skaro doesn't exist in the Mutter's Spiral, perhaps the War was fought for control of either of those galaxies, and not actually Mutter's Spiral.

For years, the two sides were locked in a long stalemate, each side's purely logical battle computers keeping them in deadlock. Hundreds of Dalek and Movellan battlecruisers flew across space, without a single shot being fired. To resolve this, the Daleks returned to their homeworld of Skaro to search the ruins of the Kaled Dome for Davros, who had presided over the creation of the Daleks, to re-program their computers. The Fourth Doctor, stumbling across this, defeated the Movellans, who had also landed on Skaro, the Daleks and the resurrected Davros. Davros was taken to Earth by Tyssan, a rescued Dalek slave worker, for trial. (DW: Destiny of the Daleks)

After the trial, Davros was placed in a cryogenic freezer in a space station which served as his prison. Tthough it is unknown if the fleets remained in their stalemate, the war continued for the next ninety or so years. The Movellans developed a virus that could permeate the casing of Daleks and destroy them. There were so many Dalek casualties that Dalek Troopers were recruited to fight for the Dalek Empire. The Supreme Dalek ordered Davros freed and recovered from a prison space station so he could find a cure. (DW: Resurrection of the Daleks)


 * During this time, the Daleks began using a different form of time travel - time corridors. They also used these to place duplicates to manipulate events for the Daleks' best interests.

Now revived and more filled with hate than ever, Davros turned one group of Daleks on the space station against each other. (DW: Resurrection of the Daleks)


 * Wide-scale hostilities between the factions would lead to the Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War.

Possible non-existence
The Dalek Prime claimed it had contrived a hoax of a war with the Movellans (whom the Daleks had created for the specific purpose of having an "enemy") as well as the Imperial-Renegade civil war as part of a plan to save Skaro from the Hand of Omega. (EDA: War of the Daleks)