B00DPX9ST8 EBOK

by Parkin, Lance

  Sister Chastity, a religious official aboard Icarus Falling, revealled herself as a member of Threshold and rescued the Doctor. She claimed that Threshold had changed in the thousands of years since the Doctor last encountered them, and intended - with the Doctor’s help - to crush the Dalek fleet as they passed through the black hole that the Cauldron would become. The Daleks took control of the Cauldron anyway, but spider-Daleks poured through the gateway and engaged Phalanx 44 of Special Weapons Daleks in battle. The Doctor learned that the Threshold had been hired by the Time Lords, and engineered a supernova that destroyed both Dalek armies. The Cauldron became an ordinary sun with planets orbiting it.

  c 5220 - “Wormwood” [1437]

  The newly-regenerated ninth Doctor (who was balding, wore a bowtie and carried a toothbrush in his jacket pocket), Izzy and Fey landed in Wormwood, a mock Western village controlled by Threshold on the moon. Their leader, Abraham White, showed the Doctor a host of landmarks from Earth such as the Eiffel Tower, the Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore and so forth, which he had saved to celebrate mankind’s achievements. Fey confronted White after learning they’d been spying on her for years, but White summoned a demonic beast, the Pariah.

  Izzy discovered that the Threshold were building the Eye of Disharmony, a device that made space impassable. Activated, the Eye annihilated the Traxonnia Research Cluster, the Kapli Refugee Fleet, the Ninth Sontaran Armada and every other vessel in space. The Threshold sent a transwarp signal to every civilisation offering to sell their teleport windows as an alternative.

  The eighth Doctor showed up, and revealled that the “ninth Doctor” was actually Shayde in disguise. The Pariah, in turn, revealled that she was the original Shayde - who had rebelled against Rassilon. She defeated Shayde in battle, then killed all the members of Threshold to drain their energy. Fey merged with the wounded Shayde, gaining his powers, and they launched a second attack that destroyed Pariah. White also died.

  The Eye of Disharmony’s destruction obliterated Earth’s moon, but restored space to its natural state. “Feyde” left the Doctor and Izzy’s company to travel on her own.

  (=) Daleks infected with wasp DNA mutated into a swarm of invulnerable, giant wasp-like creatures and devastated Earth, draining all of its minerals and nutrients. The colony planets were unable to help and all attempts to recolonise ended in starvation. [1438]

  Unique minerals on Etra Prime draw the attention of over fifty galactic powers, including the Daleks and the Time Lords. The Daleks removed the planet, along with a team of researchers and President Romana, from space-time. A galactic war was only narrowly averted. [1439]

  (=) c 5250 - The Mutant Phase [1440]

  The wasp-like Mutant Phase Daleks attacked Skaro, and the Emperor Dalek ordered the fifth Doctor and Nyssa to travel back to 2158 and prevent the Mutant Phase’s creation. The Emperor Dalek self-destructed Skaro, but downloaded his consciousness into the Thal Ganatus and accompanied the TARDIS crew.

  c 5256 - The Genocide Machine [1441]

  The seventh Doctor and Ace visited the library of Kar-Charrat. The chief librarian, Elgin, had built a wetworks research facility that stored the sum of universal knowledge in liquid form. To accomplish this, Elgin had enslaved nearly the entire Kar-Charrat race, using their drop-sized bodies as data storage units.

  Dormant Daleks on the planet revived and attacked. They gained access to the library by duplicating Ace, and all but destroyed the library in their quest for its data. The Doctor defeated them with the help of a “collector”, Bev Tarrant, a legendary thief [1442] who was planning a heist. The library was ruined.

  & 5256 - The Apocalypse Element [1443]

  The sixth Doctor and Evelyn landed on Archetryx as a Time Treaty was being signed. The missing planet Etra Prime suddenly re-appeared on a collision course with Archetryx. The Daleks wanted to wipe out the conference. Romana escaped her captors on Etra Prime. The Doctor, Romana and Evelyn went to Gallifrey as the planetary collision took place and the Daleks instigated an epic attack. The Daleks destroyed the Seriphia galaxy with the Apocalypse Element, generating a million new worlds there. They set about reshaping Seriphia in their image.

  & 5257 - Storm Harvest [1444]

  The inhabitants of the waterworld Coralee had developed the Krill - vicious, aquatic humanoids with razor-sharp teeth - as instruments of war. The Krill wiped out their own creators, then entered hibernation. The Dreekans later colonised the planet, despite the legends of great danger there. They offered private islands for sale to the super-rich. The Krill awakened and were defeated by the seventh Doctor and Ace. Nonetheless, some Krill survived as eggs in a nearby asteroid field.

  & 5257 - Dust Breeding [1445]

  The Master brought the Warp Core, an energy creature contained in Edvard Munch’s painting The Scream, to the planet Duchamp 331, a refuelling station off the main space lanes. It served as home to technicians and a small colony of artists. The Master sought to seed the Warp Core’s energy into the dust on Duchamp 331, then goad it into action against its ancient enemies, the Krill. This would have created a planet-sized weapon. The seventh Doctor and Ace defeated the Master, and the surface of Duchamp 331 was caught in an inferno that destroyed the Warp Core.

  Bev Tarrant accepted a lift from the Doctor and Ace, and eventually parted company with them in 2595.

  & 5261 - Prime Time [1446]

  The seventh Doctor and Ace investigated the activities of Channel 400 on Blinni-Gaar, only to become part of the station’s programming. Meanwhile, the Master landed on Scrantek and made a deal with the Fleshsmiths, a race that harvested other races to continue their existence. The Master and the Fleshsmiths hoped to use the Channel 400 broadcasts to transport one hundred fifty billion viewers into the Fleshsmiths’ body banks as raw material. The Doctor let the Fleshsmiths analyse a clone of himself, which broke down and released a molecular contagion. The toxin cascaded through the Scrantek network and reduced the Fleshsmiths to ooze. Channel 400 was disgraced and taken off the air.

  Prior to its demise, the network tormented Ace with images from the past of her “future” tombstone. The Doctor falsely convinced Ace that the images were faked. Without her knowledge, he went back in time and dug up her corpse for clues as to how she died.

  c 5300 - The Caves of Androzani [1447]

  Spectrox was “the most valuable substance in the universe”. At the recommended dose of .3 of a centilitre a day, spectrox could halt the ageing process and double lifespans. There was some evidence that with a sufficient quantity of the substance, a human might live forever.

  Spectrox was refined from the nests of the bats of Androzani Minor, a dangerous process carried out by androids. Supplies of spectrox were halted when the scientist Sharaz Jek and his androids rebelled against Androzani Major. The Praesidium sent a taskforce to apprehend Jek and they captured the refinery, but Jek removed the supplies of spectrox. The fifth Doctor and Peri were involved in an escalation of hostilities between Jek and the Praesidium’s forces - Jek was killed, and the Doctor and Peri escaped during a mudburst, a tidal flood of primeval mud. The Doctor had been poisoned by raw Spectrox, and regenerated.

  Along the Eastern edge of the galaxy, there was political upheaval for a thousand years. Many human colony worlds such as Pyka, Marlex, Dalverius, Pantorus and Shaggra warred with each other, and the galaxy’s monetary system was in almost permanent crisis. In the fifty-fourth century, a consortium of industrialists attempted to solve the problem. Eventually they built Zamper: a neutral planet, snug in its own mini-universe, that would supply state-of-the-art battleships to all sides.

  The only way to the planet was through a hyperspace gate controlled by Zamper itself, and the planet was completely self-contained to keep its designs secret. In four hundred and seventy-three years of operation, Zamper became rich and maintained a balance of power in East galaxy. The operation was completely smooth, averaging one minor technical failure every two hundred years. [1448]

  Olleril was
colonised. Governed by the principles laid down in the ancient records The Collins Guide to the Twentieth Century, One of Us by Hugo Young, The Manufacture of Consent and The Smash Hits Yearbook, it developed an eccentric, unworkable political and economic system that was an almost exact copy of the United Kingdom in the twentieth century. The cult of Luminus managed the planet in secret. [1449]

  ? 5325 - The Web in Space [1450]

  Earth Corp Couriers served as intergalactic postmen, making deliveries to planets as the Earth colony on Hephestus Beta, which was experiencing an outbreak of Orion flu. Chelonian ships, “skymaidens”, had terrorised humans in Galaxy 16. Enormous diamondweb spiders - space creatures that consumed the rocks, space dust and comets they caught in webs made from diamond - nearly went extinct when billionaires caged them as novelties. The eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory stopped the Empire of Eternal Victory from dissecting the last diamondweb spider to adopt its biology into their spaceship hulls. The Empire’s last warship perished in a miscalculated space jump.

  5345 - The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe [1451]

  The eleventh Doctor had planned to take the Arwell family from 1941 to a planet where the fir trees grew natural Christmas baubles, making it the perfect winter wonderland. Cyril Arwell opened his present early and got lost on the planet. The Doctor and Lily followed, and the three of them found a lighthouse-like structure guarded by two wooden giants.

  Madge Arwell followed them, and encountered a large metal walker: a Harvester from Androzani Major. A three-man team from Androzani Major was preparing to liquify the forest using acid rain; the melted wood of the Androzani Trees, when put in batteries, was the greatest fuel source in the universe. The trees were aware of this, and were planning to use the lighthouse to give up their physical forms and escape. They need to travel inside a living navigator to do this: a “strong” being, a mother. Madge served as the host, and used her memories of home to escape the world as the acid rain started to fall. She returned with the Doctor and her children back to 1941.

  The Androzani Major expedition team had transmat technology, and scanners that could detect time travellers - but such scans could be confused if the subject was wearing wool.

  The Seriphia-based Daleks Attack the Milky Way

  & 5425 - Dalek Empire I: Invasion of the Daleks / The Human Factor [1452]

  The Milky Way was at peace, and under the protection of the Earth Alliance. The Daleks had been relegated to obscure history lessons, but had fortified themselves in the Seriphia galaxy, and now unleashed a massive invasion of human space. They conquered many planets, and enslaved billions. Amongst the many worlds to fall was Vega VI - the Daleks put slaves there to work mining veganite, a rare mineral that was too volatile to collect with Dalek technology. The Daleks were relentless taskmasters, and worked their slaves to death.

  Susan Mendes, an employee of the Rhinesberg Institute, was amongst those enslaved in the mines on Vega VI. She met a fellow slave named Kalendorf - a telepathic Knight of Velyshaa who had been slated to represent his people in negotiations with Earth against the Dalek menace. The Dalek Supreme had Mendes psychologically profiled, and deemed her suitable for an undertaking to aid the Dalek cause. The slaves were allowed to rest and given food, while Mendes served as a spokesperson who encouraged the slave ranks to have hope and work hard. In this capacity, Mendes became widely known as The Angel of Mercy. As the slaves worked more willingly and required less subjugation, the Daleks diverted more resources into their war effort against Alliance forces.

  Six months passed as Mendes travelled to many planets on behalf of the Daleks, obtaining better working conditions that saved millions of lives. She insisted that Kalendorf accompany her, and the two of them plotted the Daleks’ downfall. On every world they visited, Kalendorf would telepathically communicate with the slave leaders, and told them to wait until Mendes publicly declared a code-phrase that would trigger an unstoppable rebellion against the Daleks.

  One rebellion on the Garazone moon K-5000 broke out prematurely - Mendes feared that the insurrection would undo her master plan and reported it to the Daleks, who killed those involved. The Daleks conquered the ocean planet Guria, despite heavy resistance from the Alliance.

  & 5425 - Return of the Daleks [1453]

  The Daleks stumbled upon the frozen Dalek army on the planet Spiridon - which had been renamed Zaleria - and sought to revive it as a weapon of war. They also hoped to crack the means by which the Spiridon natives had become visible, thinking they could reverse-engineer a means of turning Daleks invisible. Much data was collected, but any attempt to turn Daleks invisible caused fatal light-sickness.

  The seventh Doctor feared that the revival of the frozen Dalek army could tip history in the Daleks’ favour. He encountered Kalendorf, and the two of them spurred a minor rebellion against the Daleks. Kalendorf was captured, and the Doctor - deeming Kalendorf’s place in history as too important to risk - offered to help the Daleks develop invisibility if they let Kalendorf go. The Daleks agreed, and Mendes and Kalendorf went to their next assignment. The Doctor was the Daleks’ prisoner for years.

  ? 5426 - Brotherhood of the Daleks [1454]

  The Thals had peacefully settled on the planet of New Davias. Many of them still regarded Earth as a lost planet, and the Doctor - who had contacts on New Davias - as a legend. The Thals now had access to books from across time and space, including Das Kapital. The Thals had recently fought wars with the Mechanoids.

  The Thal scientist Murgat adapted a Dalek facility in Antares, and experimented to see if kyropite flowers from planet YT45 - which was located four galaxies away - could replicate Thal personalities in Daleks, a means of sabotaging the Dalek war effort. The Daleks, however, had secretly facilitated Murgat’s undertaking to see if they could install Thal characteristics - such as camaraderie and fighting spirit - into Daleks to make them better killers.

  Some Daleks with Thal personalities, named “Thaleks”, turned against their own kind and executed a Black Dalek. The sixth Doctor and Charley hoped that the Thaleks would peacefully thrive - but after they left, the Thaleks’ Dalek-ness took hold. Their renewed desire to exterminate triggered a booby trap on the facility’s anti-matter reactor, destroying them and Murgat.

  & 5427 - Dalek Empire IV: The Fearless [1455]

  Earth Alliance developed elite cybernetic battlesuits for use against the Daleks. Agnes Landen headed the battlesuit division, “the Spacers”.

  The able-bodied men of Talis Minor, an inhospitable colony world, were forcibly conscripted into the Spacers. The Daleks attacked Kedru VII, and although the Alliance won, the Daleks initiated a kamikaze manoeuvre that destroyed the planet’s atmosphere and anyone living there. Salus Kade was appointed a Spacer squadron commander.

  Most of Kade’s squad was wiped out in a botched attempt to assassinate Susan Mendes, the Angel of Mercy. Kade survived, but spent a year in isolation while returning in a Dalek trans-solar disc. He was appointed captain of the flagship Herald, and destroyed key Dalek generators that would have propelled an asteroid storm into Earth’s solar system. Kade learned that Landen had reviewed surveillance and tagged him as a valuable asset prior to the Spacers ever visiting Talis Minor - setting in motion a series of events that had culminated in the death of his wife and child. He resigned his commission, but Landen suspected he’d rejoin the Spacers after realising his old life was gone.

  & 5430 - Dalek Empire I: “Death to the Daleks!” / Project Infinity [1456]

  The Daleks made great progress against the Earth Alliance in the years following their invasion of the Milky Way. Billions of people were killed. Carson’s Planet attempted to stay neutral, and became a watering hole for space travellers.

  Dalek forces directly attacked the Sol system - Jupiter and Saturn fell, and human forces on Mars were outnumbered 100 to 1. The President of Earth was left with no choice but to surrender.

  The Dalek Supreme and Dalek Emperor were aware of Mendes and Kalendorf’s plans, but let
them proceed as the galactic invasion was a massive distraction. Using knowledge obtained from the Kar-Charrat library, the Daleks had learned of Project Infinity - an Alliance undertaking in the Lopra system, designed to penetrate the dimensional barriers so humanity could view a reality where the Daleks had been defeated, then replicate this accomplishment. Lopra was on the opposite end of the galaxy from Seriphia, and so the Daleks had invaded the Milky Way to reach it. The Daleks wanted to ally themselves with Daleks from another reality and jointly conquer the universe. The Imperial flagship departed, with the Dalek Emperor aboard, for Lopra Minor.

  Mendes and Kalendorf judged that the time was right for their rebellion. She went to the planet Yaldos to make a major broadcast to all slaves in Dalek territory - and shouted the code-phrase “Death to the Daleks!”, causing billions of slaves to turn en masse against their Dalek masters. The Daleks put Mendes into suspended animation so she could be turned into one of their number.

  When news came forth that Mendes and Kalendorf had initiated their galaxy-wide uprising, the seventh Doctor - still a prisoner on Spiridon - released a contagion he’d secretly developed. This wiped out his Dalek captors, and turned the Spiridon natives invisible again. [1457]

  Eight months passed as the rebellion continued. Kalendorf learned of Project Infinity, and spent five months travelling to Lopra to investigate. Matters came to a head on Lopra Minor. The Dalek Emperor used the veganite obtained from Vega VI to power Project Infinity to a previously unimaginable scale, and opened a doorway to an alternate dimension where the Daleks reigned supreme. A delegation of alt-reality Daleks communed with the Emperor, but judged his Daleks as guilty of great crimes. The alt-Daleks vowed to destroy their counterparts.