The Daleks are the Doctor's most feared enemies - or, as they like to call themselves, "the supreme beings of the universe." They are about the same height as the average human, but that is where the similarities end. The Daleks are large metallic creatures often said to be shaped like pepperpots. An ovoid base covered in half-spheres slopes upward to a line of solar panels, which are later replaced by sensor plates. The spheres can detach to form a sphere around the Dalek as part of a self-destruct system. The row of panels is interrupted in the front, where two extensions are located: on the left, a gun; and on the right, a plunger-like attachment which seems to have a sensor inside it, and is used to open doors, operate controls, interface with keypads and create a vacuum, as well as forming a link for downloading anything from energy to the Internet. This middle section can swivel 180 degrees to fire in front of or behind the Dalek. Above the solar panels is a grille, topped with a dome which houses an eyestalk and two lights which blink in time with Dalek speech. The head can swivel 360 degrees, and the eyestalk can zoom in to anything the Dalek wants to examine more closely. But this metal shell is merely a casing, a travel machine, and inside is a hideously deformed mutant - this creature looks like a greenish blob with tentacles and, apparently, a very tight grip. (Some mutants are smaller and more of a pinkish color; others appear to have clawlike appendages.) These can survive outside the casing for some time, and will try to kill anyone who approaches them (a bite on the neck from a Dalek mutant is painful, but apparently not toxic). Later mutants are bluish-purple, with an enlarged brain, one eye, and tentacles. The casing can fold away to reveal the mutant inside. Initially the Daleks are powered by static electricity; this is followed by solar power, and eventually they learn to move by psychokinetic power. The metal of their casings is a kind of nonconductive shielding made of bonded polycarbide armor - it has been called "Dalekanium" although this name is also applied to a kind of powerful explosive. It gives them a great degree of protection, enabling them to travel underwater and withstand certain kinds of bombs. They are impervious to bullets (even bastic bullets), which are dissolved by a forcefield surrounding the Dalek, unless the fire is concentrated on the dome or the eyestalk, which are weak spots. The Daleks can apparently modify their outer casings such that humans will burst into flames with a mere touch, and they can use it to absorb genetic material. The Daleks can use genetic material for cellular reconstruction (particularly extrapolating the biomass of a time traveller, which has the unfortunate - for a Dalek - side effect of bestowing emotions, as well), and they can recharge using electricity. If the Dalek is killed, or the mutant otherwise removed from the machine, a human can fit inside to pose as a Dalek. A catch on the back of the Dalek at the base of the dome allows the top to be lifted off; the Daleks can release these themselves, but the dome is fitted with an automatic distress call that will alert the Dalek base if the top is removed by someone else.
When the Daleks are first created by Kaled scientist Davros on the planet Skaro (D5-gamma-Z-alpha, in the Movellans' star catalog, and the twelfth planet of its solar system), they are envisioned as being a "mark three travel machine" for the mutants into which the Kaleds will inevitably evolve. But Davros has more immediate plans for them: by creating mutated creatures now, with no emotions and no conscience, he can use the Daleks as a weapon. He intends for them to become the supreme rulers of the universe - a phrase which the Daleks evidently take to heart, as they frequently use it to describe themselves. The first Daleks are in a grey/black color scheme, respond to Davros' voice, and fire blue bolts from their guns.
Daleks come in a variety of colors, and are usually two-toned, where the base metal is in one color while the highlights and bumps are in a different color. These combinations include (with basic color first and highlights second): grey/black, black/black, silver/blue, black/gold, white/gold, cream/gold, gold/black, and possibly other combinations (such as silver/silver, white/black, blue/black and red/gold). At one point, Davros also experiments with glass Daleks.
The other inhabitants of Skaro are the Thals, a race of people who were once warriors where the Kaleds (or Dals, as they were then apparently called) were teachers and philosophers. Five hundred years after the Neutronic War, Skaro's jungle had turned to petrified stone and most of the Thals had perished. Those who survived using anti-radiation drugs underwent mutations, eventually coming full circle to look like blond, blue-eyed humanoids. The Daleks, meanwhile, retreated into their underground city, built as a huge shelter, where they were protected by their travel machines. With the rain which fell every four to five years, the Thals were able to cultivate some land, but their constant state of near-starvation propelled them to seek help from the Daleks. For their part, the Daleks merely wanted to duplicate the Thal radiation drugs, and wanted the Thals to be wiped out. But for these Daleks, radiation was vital to their survival, and an anti-radiation drug only caused them harm. These Daleks relied on the power of static electricity to move them along their metal floors, giving them an acrid scent when they moved. It was this reliance which enabled the Thals to deactivate them. Later the Daleks added disks on their back, presumably as a means of energy collection, which afforded them increased mobility.
The Daleks are utterly evil, with no redeeming features at all. They are extremely arrogant, believing themselves to be superior to all other lifeforms in the universe - no life matters except for Dalek life. They exist only to conquer planets and rule them with cruel heartlessness. Their usual method of control is mass extermination, followed by the absolute oppression of survivors. Before leaving a planet, they cause the maximum havoc and destruction possible. The Daleks have no concern for human suffering, and will gladly utilize human slaves, overworking them until they die and then replacing them. Many of their slaves die from exhaustion and malnutrition. Even if machines might be more efficient, the Daleks enjoy subjugating humanoids. Amazingly, they have an intuitive understanding of the human mind, and are masters at manipulating emotions. They are also brilliant tacticians, and mathematicians - they can calculate 1,000 billion combinations in 1 second.
They may turn humans into Robomen, strong zombie-like servants who carry whips and wear helmets which pick up high-frequency radio waves to enable communication. Daleks always know when a Roboman is attacked. The process is inherently unstable, however; while they can control the human brain for a time, the Robomen eventually break down, go insane and die. If someone penetrates a Dalek control center, the Robomen can also be ordered to turn on the Daleks.
The Daleks eventually discover how to duplicate human beings, and they use this technology to create new servants who can help to conceal their operations on a planet. At one point, the Daleks place duplicates in strategic positions in Earth society, in an attempt to conquer the planet, but it is implied that the instability of the duplicates - their mental conditioning can be broken down - would cause this plan to fail. They also intended to create duplicates of the Doctor, Tegan and Turlough which would then travel to Gallifrey and assassinate the High Council, but presumably this plan also failed when their ship, and the duplicates with it, were destroyed.
Sometimes they will choose particular humans to serve them directly, but they require total loyalty - the Daleks will exterminate anyone who crosses them. They can communicate with their servants through the use of a small metal transceiver placed behind the ear. They intensely dislike having their decisions questioned for any reason - "obey without question" is one of their many catchphrases.
Another of their catchphrases - and no doubt the most popular - is the ubiquitous "EX-TER-MI-NATE!" which the Daleks will chant whenever the need arises. And the need arises frequently for such murderous creatures as these. There are, of course, variations, such as "Exterminate them!" and "Exterminate the Doctor!"
The Daleks believe that they are rightfully in charge of any creature they encounter - because, of course, it is a lesser being to which the Daleks are naturally superior. Because of this, a Dalek will order around anyone it comes across. Daleks also give orders to one another, to which the accepted response is "I obey!"
Daleks have very sharp vision, thanks to their cybernetic enhancements - they have a flexible eye like a large camera lens. The Dalek's view from the eyestalk is initially like looking through a shiny metal tube. Later it is enhanced, so that the Dalek sees a green viewscreen with crosshairs in the center and a flickering display in Dalek glyphs along the top and bottom. They also have a special kind of filter that appears as a red viewscreen with concentric circles which enables them to detect human footprints. When they suffer problems - with their vision or motor skills, for example - they will loudly announce them to anyone who is nearby. Their enemies often obscure their vision with things like a hat, or a handful of mud.
When a Dalek gun is fired, the surrounding area flashes from a positive image to a negative image, and back again. This successfully exterminates the Dalek's victim by causing massive internal displacement without causing any external tissue damage. They can, however, merely disable people with their guns, or cause temporary or permanent paralysis to the legs. Their rays can melt metal or, if they fire at maximum power, they can even destroy spacecraft. Daleks usually prefer to exterminate their prisoners, but they may postpone the extermination if they wish to interrogate the prisoner first. Daleks are extremely fond of interrogations, as they like to know everything there is to know.
Most Daleks are soldiers, requiring orders before they can take any action. Decisions are made by the Supreme Council, composed of the Dalek Supremes. These Daleks are gold and black, with larger head lights and a larger eyestalk, which also blinks in time with the Dalek's speech. (The Supreme Dalek later changes to a black/white color scheme.) Initially the Daleks primarily obey the Supreme Council; but once Davros is recovered, his retinue of Daleks obey only him, and serve as little more than glorified servants. This leads to a split between the faction loyal to Davros and the faction loyal to the Supreme Dalek. Davros' faction, known as the Imperial Daleks, are cream or white and gold, and they fire gold bolts from their guns. Davros enhances the mutants that inhabit these Daleks - whereas the original mutants are underdeveloped, with vestigial limbs and sensory organs that are almost amoeboid, his new mutants have functional appendages, including a claw, and a mechanical prosthesis grafted onto the body. The Imperial Daleks may also make use of their Special Weapons Dalek, on which the grille area and above is replaced by a heavy metal top containing an extremely powerful energy weapon. The Supreme Dalek's faction, known as the renegade Daleks, are grey/black, and they fire blue bolts from their guns, which illuminate the skeletons of their victims. The Supreme Dalek itself is black/silver. Because the Imperial Daleks are so much more advanced than the renegade Daleks, the two factions hate each others' chromosomes, and start a war to the death. The ultimate Dalek authority, apparently toward the end of the Daleks' existence, is the Emperor Dalek, which is suspended from the ceiling of its control room by wires. It is guarded and aided by Black Daleks.
The Daleks can remove their plunger arm and replace it with other extensions, such as: a seismic detector, which can locate things underneath the ground or through walls; an electro-unit, which can remotely operate electrical devices like lifts; a semantic detector, which seems to identify minerals; a cutting or welding device, which can penetrate metal doors; a projectile weapon, useful if their regular weapons are inoperative. The Daleks which operate with static electricity also make use of magnetic power to affix things like trays to their plunger attachments.
They are highly-advanced, brilliant technicians, and the many devices they use include:
Early Dalek ships look remarkably like cliché silver flying saucers, with a raised dome and long legs to support them on a planet's surface. Later ships have the capability to burrow into the ground, and the Daleks continue to make modifications to their ship design. At least some of these ships are equiped with automated assembly lines so that one ship can produce an army of Daleks. The Daleks can also control their ships remotely.
At one point, the Daleks are able to construct a dimensionally transcendental time machine, which they use to pursue the TARDIS. This machine is stolen and destroyed by Ian and Barbara, but the Daleks do not let this stop their experiments in time travel. Their next foray into this field is the invention of small, box-like individual time-travel devices with which they try to conquer 22nd-century Earth. Later, they learn how to time-travel between two fixed points in time and space, using a time corridor. Objects depart and arrive from either end of the corridor in a pink glow. But their time-corridor technology is crude and nasty, and the Daleks want the power of the Time Lords, so they hope to use the Hand of Omega to recreate the Time Lords' experiments. The Daleks' next time-travel invention, used by the renegade Daleks to recover the Hand, is a time controller, which looks like a large lightning globe. Usually they travel by means of a weaponry-equipped flying saucer, or a large mothership capable of holding 400 Daleks, armed with a weapon that is capable of cracking a planet open like an egg. These are equipped with shuttles which have massive ground defenses and an unguarded service hatch on top.
The Daleks have also been known to make use of other destructive tools besides their own weapons. These include: germ bombs deployed via meteorites which can wipe out most of a planet's population; firebombs, which destroy entire cities; a strain of bacteria that destroys all (unimmunized) living things within an hour of inhalation, merely by being released into the atmosphere; gas bombs that cause horrific mutilation to anyone who breathes it; plague missiles, which destroy all life on a planet and contaminate it against further occupation; and their most destructive weapon ever, the time destructor - powered by taranium, a mineral found only on Uranus which shines brilliantly enough to burn out the eyes if viewed unshielded - which accelerates the local flow of time, killing any living thing in the vicinity.
The Daleks are also very fond of mutant creatures, perhaps owing to the fact that they are mutants themselves. In the grand tradition of Davros, who left large mutated reptiles and giant clams guarding the rear entrance to his bunker, the Daleks sometimes protect their bases with radiation-mutated creatures which guard some of the entrances. These include a water-dwelling creature that is a cross between an octopus and a tarpaulin, and a beast which draws its victims into the water by creating a large whirlpool. The Black Dalek sometimes keeps a pet called a Slyther, with clawed hands, a whip-like tail and eyes on very long, droopy stalks. During the Dalek invasion of Earth, a Slyther roams the mine area looking for people to eat, and is eventually killed when Ian makes it plummet off a cliff.
On Skaro, the Daleks also breed Varga plants, which resemble cacti but are part vegetable and part animal. The Daleks developed them in their labs for protection, and now they grow naturally on Skaro, but the Daleks sometimes take Vargas along with them to defend them on the planets they inhabit. Varga plants drag themselves along with their roots to move across the ground, and they are covered in thorns. One prick from a Varga thorn causes a creature to transform into a Varga plant itself. The poison first attacks the brain, causing an intense desire to kill, and then begins to affect the body. The affected individual first becomes covered in white hair, then Varga thorns begin to grow from the skin. There is no cure for an infected person except death.
A running gag about the Daleks is that a simple staircase is all that is needed to derail their plans of universal domination. Fortunately for them, the Daleks eventually develop the ability to hover above the ground, using what appears to be some kind of anti-gravity device that glows orange (later blue) around the Dalek's base. They like to announce their intention to hover by crying "Elevate!" But even before this development, the Daleks sometimes manage to mysteriously reach places only accessible by stairs. For example, they seem to find stairs no problem in outdoor London, and they are able to reach the upper deck of the Mary Celeste. They can also fly through space, apparently unshielded.
The Daleks' biggest weakness is their utter reliance on logic and their inability to act unpredictably - this resulted in their deadlock with the robotic Movellans, and they hoped that Davros would be able to introduce illogic into their genes. But when this failed, they developed the idea of a battle computer - a biomechanoid control system in which an imaginative young human would be slaved to the computer. A chair resembling the one Davros uses is placed in front of a large console and screen, and the child sits in the chair and lowers a helmet over their head. This puts the child completely under the Dalek influence and gives them the ability to fire bolts of power from their hands. If the Dalek Supreme is destroyed, the battle computer is also destroyed, and the link to the child is severed, returning them to their usual human state.
Fortunately, the Daleks are susceptible to extermination by a variety of methods themselves. Explosives will quickly turn a Dalek into a pile of scrap metal, and this is probably the most common method of destroying them. Falling from heights (or even from small heights, if they are thrown with enough force) is also fatal. They can be killed by other Dalek guns, Mechanoid fireguns, Movellan guns, Order of Oberon guns, modified defabricator guns, blasts from the Anne Droid, an electrical overload to their circuits, Thal bombs, the touch of an Exxilon-city root, highly-directional ultrasonic beams of rock 'n roll, delta waves, mines, Movellan virus, anti-tank rockets and nitro-nine. Being tipped over, being pushed into fires, being run over by large trucks, and being smashed with rocks are equally destructive. They are vulnerable to extremely low temperatures, and can be killed by the shock of sudden cold (if, for example, they are pushed into a pool of liquid ice). Covering a Dalek's eyestalk or destroying it with machine guns or heavy rocks will put it into a helpless panic ("I cannot see! Vision impaired!"), and enough people can manhandle a Dalek wherever they want it to go ("Assist! Assist!"). In fact, if enough people push it around for a while, this is apparently enough to make a Dalek blow up! (see XXX) Fracturing the outer cable ring in their control rooms causes them to become immobilized, and seems to also trigger a raising of their internal thermostat, which destroys them. Dalek transmats can be tampered with so that both halves of the Dalek try to materialize in the same place, causing a dephase and destroying it. If a Dalek is convinced of something that it cannot compute, it suffers some sort of breakdown and is destroyed. Daleks have also been known to self-destruct if they fail at their appointed task. Certain devices that interfere with their control systems can also disorient and weaken them long enough to be destroyed. Bullets, however, merely ricochet off their armor.
Aside from the known battles between the Doctor and the Daleks, there have been others which the Doctor either witnessed or participated in. Once, on Mars, the Daleks were defeated by a virus that attacked the insulation on the cables in their electrical systems. During a battle against the Venusians in the space year 17,000, the Daleks were halted by the intervention of a fleet of war rockets from the planet Hyperon. As the rockets were made of a metal that was completely resilient to Dalek firepower, the Dalek taskforce was completely destroyed. Then, of course, there was the massive Time War between the Daleks and the Time Lords, in which the Doctor destroyed the entire Dalek race, setting 10 million ships on fire. Given the numerous battles between the Daleks and the Doctor, it is easy to see why, in Dalek culture, he is referred to as "The Oncoming Storm".
A brief summary of their televised exploits:
B - The Daleks, trapped in their underground city on Skaro due to their reliance on static electricity, formulate a plan to destroy the Thals on the surface and take over the planet themselves. Their first attempt is to inoculate themselves against the planet's background radiation by using an anti-radiation drug developed by the Thals; but when they discover that the drug is actually poisonous to them, and that they require radiation to survive, they decide to simply bombard the planet with neutron radiation. The TARDIS crew and the Thals infiltrate the city and turn off the Daleks' static electricity power just before they can contaminate the surface, saving the Thals and killing all of the Daleks in the city.
K - The people of Earth suspect nothing when the planet is hit by a meteorite bombardment; but the meteorites contained a Dalek plague, which soon wiped out whole continents. Six months later, with the remaining communities too small to fight, Dalek saucers arrived to raze some cities and occupy others. The Daleks captured some people and turned them into Robomen, while others were shipped to Bedfordshire, which had been turned into an enormous mine area. The Daleks want to remove Earth's core and replace it with a power system that will allow them to pilot the planet anywhere in the universe; but the TARDIS crew are able to mobilize the resistance to attack, and Ian stops the Daleks' bomb before it can destroy Earth's core. When it explodes, stuck halfway down the shaft, it destroys the Daleks' mining operation and all of the Daleks with it.
Q - A Dalek casing is among the exhibits in the space museum on Xeros. The Doctor hides in it.
R - In their new time machine, the Daleks pursue the TARDIS crew across space and time in an attempt to exterminate them once and for all. But when they finally catch up to the TARDIS on Mechanus, they find they have other enemies standing between them and their goal.
T/A - Suspicious that the Daleks may have established a base on the most hostile planet in the universe, Space Security Service agent Marc Cory and his two crewmates land on the planet Kembel, where they are swiftly attacked by both Varga plants and Daleks. Soon Cory is the only one left, and he desperately records a message warning Earth of the Dalek threat - but before he can launch it into space, he is murdered by the Daleks.
V - The Daleks call a conference with some of the greatest galactic powers, who have agreed to help them gain control over the Universe with the use of a time destructor. Powered by taranium, the rarest mineral in the universe, the time destructor can advance or reverse the flow of local time. But when the Doctor steals the taranium core, the Daleks and their allies vow to track him down. The Daleks first trace the Doctor and his companions to the penal planet Desperus, then to an experimental station on Earth, the foggy jungle planet Mira with its vicious eight-foot-tall invisible inhabitants, and back to Kembel, where the Doctor pawns off a fake taranium core on the Daleks. When they discover his trick, the pursuit resumes, to England during Christmas 1965, a 1920s film studio, an England vs Australia cricket match, the volcanic planet Tigus, Trafalgar Square for New Year's 1966, and finally, ancient Egypt, where the Doctor is forced to hand over the real taranium core. With the core in their possession, the Daleks have the power to activate their Time Destructor and control the universe...
EE - A crashed Dalek spaceship on the planet Vulcan is discovered by an Earth colony, and the lead scientist manages to revive one of the Daleks inside. This Dalek assures the colonists that it wants to serve them, and manages to get enough power restored to its craft that it can revive its two comrades and begin producing more Daleks. Once their numbers are sufficient, the Daleks swarm out of their craft into the colony and attempt to exterminate everyone in it.
LL - Time-travel experiments using static electricity enable the Daleks to invade the home of Theodore Maxtible in 1866; they then force him and his associate, Edward Waterfield, to steal the Doctor's TARDIS in 1966 and lure him back in time. The Daleks tell the Doctor that intend to study Jamie so that they can introduce the "human factor" into their race, to provide an advantage when fighting humans. But actually, they plan to use the Doctor's research to determine the "Dalek factor" with which they can cause humans to behave like Daleks. But the Doctor sabotages their machinery so that, instead of re-Dalek-izing the humanized Daleks, it adds the human factor to normal Daleks. The resultant chaos sparks a civil war, which apparently destroys the Daleks forever.
ZZ - The Doctor presents a Dalek to the Time Lord tribunal, as one example of the many evils he has fought throughout the universe.
FFF - When the Doctor is attacked by the Keller Machine, images of some of his most frightening enemies - including a Dalek - swim before his eyes.
KKK - With their new time-travel technology, the Daleks travel back to the 22nd century and take over an Earth weakened by internal strife. By forcing the human population to work in mines and factories, the Daleks plunder the Earth's minerals to expand their empire. Determined to rebel against the Daleks' tyranny, a band of guerillas steal the time-travel technology, intent upon changing the course of history to ensure that the Daleks never gain control.
QQQ - The Daleks employ the Master and the Ogrons to provoke a war between the empires of Earth and Draconia, and plan to take over the ruined empires when the war has run its course.
SSS - As part of their plan to take over the universe, the Daleks invade the planet Spiridon to study the invisibility of the natives. They are able to accomplish this, but only for brief periods of time. The Daleks hope to apply this technology to their army of 10,000 Daleks, in storage beneath one of the planet's ice volcanoes. The Doctor is only able to stop them by blowing a fissure in the rock and releasing enough liquid ice to bury the army for centuries.
XXX - Having caused a space plague with their plague missiles, the Daleks zip straight over to the planet Exxilon to hoard the cure - the mineral parrinium - for themselves, and stop anyone else having it without paying through the nose for it. But the Exxilons' city drains their power, forcing them to co-operate with humans and the Doctor before they can betray anyone. Only by destroying the city are the Daleks able to make off with the parrinium, but the Daleks are outbetrayed twice, and the humans end up with the mineral they need to cure the plague.
4E - The Doctor, Sarah and Harry witness the unveiling of the very first Daleks on Skaro. Initially subservient to their creator Davros, the Daleks eventually take control of themselves and exterminate Davros. The Doctor prepares to destroy the first Dalek nursery, but the decision is taken out of his hands when a Dalek unknowingly does it for him. When the entrances to the Kaled city are destroyed, the Daleks are sealed in and the Doctor estimates that their malevolent influence has been delayed by about a thousand years.
5J - The Daleks return to Skaro to dig out the body of their creator, Davros, in the hopes that he will impart to them some organic illogic that will give them an advantage in their war against the Movellans. Their two battlefleets have been locked together for centuries in deep space, without a single shot fired. If Davros can successfully reprogram their battle computer, they hope to prevail. But, before Davros can accomplish this, all the Daleks are destroyed on a mission to blow up the Movellan ship.
5M - Romana and Skagra would reportedly have found a Dalek among the cryogenically-frozen prisoners of Shada.
6K - The first Doctor and Susan are attacked by a Dalek in the Death Zone on Gallifrey.
6P - The Movellan war is resolved when the Movellans develop a virus which kills only Daleks. Having suffered high casualties, and with their fleet destroyed, the surviving Daleks scatter to separate parts of the universe to escape the risk of further infection and work on a cure. They try to recover Davros so that he can help them formulate a cure. But rather than helping them, Davros reprograms several Daleks to be loyal only to him. The other Daleks, displeased with this, exterminate Davros' Daleks and try to kill him as well - but their ship is destroyed when the station on which Davros is working is blown up.
6Z - The Daleks help to enforce Davros' rule on Necros, until a faction from the Supreme Dalek shows up. These Daleks intend to take Davros back to Skaro and recondition his Daleks to obey the will of the Supreme Dalek.
7H - The Imperial Daleks and the renegade Daleks converge on Earth in 1963, each intending to get the Hand of Omega - a remote stellar manipulator with the ability to customize stars - for themselves. The renegade Daleks manage to steal it, but then the Imperial Daleks take it from them. Their plan is to reconfigure Skaro's sun to turn it into an immense energy source and give them time travel comparable to Gallifrey's; but the Doctor has reprogrammed the Hand, and instead of augmenting Skaro's sun, it turns it supernova, then returns to destroy the Imperial Dalek mothership.
FOX TV-movie - The Daleks put the Master on trial, and execute him. They allow the Doctor to take his remains back to Gallifrey.
9E - A lone survivor of the Time War falls through time to Earth, where it is acquired by millionaire Henry van Statten as the prize of his collection. Its attempt to repair itself using Rose's genetic information leads to it being infected by her emotions; the resulting distress forces it to commit suicide.
9K - Another survivor of the Time War waits in space for centuries, infiltrating Earth's system and harvesting specimens of humanity who will never be missed, to pulp them and nurture one cell in a billion into a Dalek. Because it created new Dalek life, it calls itself the Emperor and is worshipped as God by its creations. Having amassed a force of 200 Dalek ships, each carrying 2,000 Daleks, the Emperor converges its army on the satellite with which the Daleks have been shaping humanity, intending to purify the Earth with fire and use the remnants of humanity to expand its Dalek army. However, before they can quite complete their plan, the entire Dalek army is reduced to dust by the energy of the Time Vortex harnessed by Rose.
