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The New Dalek Empire was founded by Davros in the aftermath of the Last Great Time War, which had destroyed the original Dalek Empire. Though founding the New Empire, Davros eventually lost control of it, the empire falling under the reign of the Supreme One.
Overview[]
The New Dalek Empire was very different from the prior Dalek force that was created by the Dalek Emperor following the Last Great Time War. The prior force was full of insane hybrids. (TV: The Parting of the Ways [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who series 1 (BBC One, 2005).) The New Dalek Empire, however, was dramatically larger, and quite capable of combating even Time Lord technology: they could capture and disable a TARDIS. Their forces consisted of hundreds of starships with enough power to devastate the universe. Their central base of operations was the Crucible, on which the Daleks planned to reside when the reality bomb destroyed the rest of reality. (TV: Journey's End [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who series 4 (BBC One, 2008).)
History[]
A day to come[]
Through the projections of the Matrix, the Last Great Time War-era Time Lords foresaw the new empire, considering their strategy the Daleks' most diabolical plan yet. They were concerned that Davros was once again working with his creations, yet they were alarmed even more by how a single bronze Dalek, even if it had enhanced mental capacity, was able to break through a time lock. The Time Lords began to investigate the matter. Despite foreseeing how the encounter ended, the Time Lords noted that moving the Earth was one of their own tactics, having done so during the Ravolox Affair. Therefore, they realised the Daleks were willing to employ their own tactics against them. Furthermore, the fact that the Daleks managed to move the Earth without devastating the planetary biosphere proved to the Gallifreyans that their enemy had better technology than their own. The ways through which the New Dalek Empire moved entire planets thus became a matter that they began to urgently study. (PROSE: Dalek Combat Training Manual [+]Richard Atkinson and Mike Tucker, BBC Books (2021).)
First attempts[]
The New Dalek Empire was to be the new Empire of the Daleks that the Cult of Skaro had planned to create. The very first attempt was on planet Earth with the Genesis Ark, to unlock it and unleash the Daleks within, which the Tenth Doctor thwarted. (TV: Doomsday [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who series 2 (BBC One, 2006).)
Time travelling from London in 2007 to New York City in 1930, the Cult, now the last four Daleks in existence, attempted to conquer Earth and recreate the Dalek Empire. This attempt, even with the help of the Final Experiment (which included use of Pig slaves and human-Dalek hybrids) failed due to the interference of the Tenth Doctor. By the end, Dalek Caan was the last surviving Dalek in all of creation. (TV: Daleks in Manhattan [+]Helen Raynor, Doctor Who series 3 (BBC One, 2007)./Evolution of the Daleks [+]Helen Raynor, Doctor Who series 3 (BBC One, 2007).)
New Empire[]
Caan activated an emergency temporal shift to escape the Doctor in 1930, (TV: Evolution of the Daleks [+]Helen Raynor, Doctor Who series 3 (BBC One, 2007).) and ended up at the Gates of Elysium during the Last Great Time War. Travelling into a time-locked era damaged his mind, but he helped to save Davros from his death. Davros built a Dalek Fleet of two hundred ships with millions of Daleks. He rebuilt the Daleks out of his own Kaled cells. Caan was left as a sort of prophet, and a new Supreme Dalek was created to oversee the Dalek forces.
As a result of his actions, Davros regarded Caan with immense respect and defended him against anybody who criticised him, including the Supreme Dalek. (TV: The Stolen Earth [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who series 4 (BBC One, 2008).) However, no one knew that Caan was secretly plotting against them, having now realised the truth of the Daleks following his temporal shift into the Time War. (TV: Journey's End [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who series 4 (BBC One, 2008).)
In the 2000s,[nb 1] the Daleks transported 27 planets into the Medusa Cascade from various times and places. The new Daleks then took control over the planets in the Cascade. In their attack on Earth, they took many humans aboard their ships, and wiped out any resistance that they met. Everything was placed one second out of sync with the rest of the universe to hide it from those who might stop them, such as the Tenth Doctor. (TV: The Stolen Earth [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who series 4 (BBC One, 2008).)
The new Empire planned to use the 27 planets in conjunction with the Crucible's energy source to power a reality bomb created by Davros, who intend to use it to destroy everything in existence and allow the Daleks to be the sole inhabitants and masters of the universe. The Supreme Dalek made an arrangement with Davros; the creator of the Daleks would ensure their domination of the universe if they allowed him to live. The plan failed by the interference of the DoctorDonna, who closed off all of the Z-Neutrino energy relay loops of the reality bomb by using an internalised synchronous back-feed reversal loop, locked the Daleks' weaponry in a self-replicating energy blindfold matrix through macrotransmission of a K-filter wavelength, and interfered with the Daleks' systems with a trip stitch circuit-breaker in the psycho-kinetic threshold manipulator. The Meta-Crisis Doctor destroyed the fleet and the Crucible by maximising the Dalekanium power feeds and blasting them back. (TV: Journey's End [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who series 4 (BBC One, 2008).)
By unknown means, Davros escaped the destruction of the Crucible, and returned to Skaro. (TV: The Magician's Apprentice [+]Steven Moffat, Doctor Who series 9 (BBC One|BBC One]], 2015).)
Legacy[]
One saucer of the New Dalek Empire survived its fall, (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe [+]George Mann, Justin Richards and Cavan Scott, Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (Ebury Publishing, 2017).) with its crew masterminding the Ironside Project that led to the creation of the New Dalek Paradigm, a third Dalek Empire led by purebred Daleks. (TV: Victory of the Daleks [+]Mark Gatiss, Doctor Who series 5 (BBC One, 2010).) Rusty observed visions of the New Dalek Empire's attack on the Valiant, and the Empire's destruction, when he saw into the mind of the Twelfth Doctor. In doing so, he felt the Doctor's hatred for the Daleks, and turned against his own kind, massacring the Dalek boarding party aboard the Aristotle. (TV: Into the Dalek [+]Phil Ford and Steven Moffat, Doctor Who series 8 (BBC One, 2014).)
Behind the scenes[]
- According to the non-narrative "The Dalek Handbook", three Daleks in Victory of the Daleks [+]Mark Gatiss, Doctor Who series 5 (BBC One, 2010). were members of the New Dalek Empire and the survivors of the Medusa Cascade. Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe later confirmed this.
- The Doctor Who Experience (London/Cardiff) reveals more Daleks survivors of the Crucible's destruction. These Daleks attacked the New Dalek Paradigm.
Footnotes[]
- ↑ The present day of Doctor Who's fourth series is not consistently dated, with TV: The Fires of Pompeii [+]James Moran, Doctor Who series 4 (BBC One, 2008)., TV: The Waters of Mars [+]Russell T Davies and Phil Ford, Doctor Who Autumn Special 2009 (BBC One, 2009)., and AUDIO: SOS [+]Juno Dawson, Redacted (BBC Sounds, 2022). setting the present of the 13 regular episodes in 2008 (heavily implied by TV: The Star Beast [+]Russell T Davies, adapted from Doctor Who and the Star Beast (Pat Mills and John Wagner), Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023). and TV: The Giggle [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023). as well), and PROSE: Beautiful Chaos [+]Gary Russell, BBC New Series Adventures (BBC Books, 2008). setting them in about April to June 2009.