Skaro

Name:

Skaro

Also Called:

D5-Gamma-Z-Alpha

Type:

Planet

Location:

Seventh Galaxy Hyperspace Solar System

Moons:

Flidor
Falkus
Omega
Mysterium

Natives:

Kaleds

Thals Mutos Slythers
Giant clam dinosaur-like creatures
Dals Tharons
Varga plant
Handmines
Zomites
Daleks

First Seen In:

An Unearthly Child

Appearances:

The Daleks

The Evil of the Daleks
The Tomb of the Cybermen
Genesis of the Daleks

Destiny of the Daleks

Remembrance of the Daleks

The TV Movie

Asylum of the Daleks

The Magician’s Apprentice

The Witch’s Familiar

The Genocide Machine

The Mutant Phase

Davros

The Time Museum

Across the Darkened City

Innocence

Purity

Corruptio n

Guilt

Random Ghosts

The Lights of Skaro

The Ultimate Adventure

The Curse of the Daleks

The Dalek Conquests

From the Flames

The Master’s Dalek Plan

Shockwave

He Who Wins

Return to Skaro

Invasion of the Daleks

The Oil Well

The Message of Mystery

City of the Daleks

Battle for the Moon

The Mechanical Planet

Treasure of the Daleks

The Dalek Trap

Genesis of Evil

Power Play

Duel of the Daleks

The Amaryll Challenger Plague of Death

The Menace of the Monstrons

Eve of War

The Rogue Planet

Impasse

The Terrorkon Harvest

Legacy of the Yesteryear

Shadow of Humanity

The Emissaries of Jevo

The Road to Conflict

The Planet of the Daleks

Emperorof the Daleks!

The Professor, the Queen and the Bookshop

The Test of Time

The Only Good Dalek

Prologue: The Fifth Doctor

Defenderof the Daleks

City of the Daleks

Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with The Daleks

Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks

Doctor Who and the Destiny of the Daleks

The Chase

Doctor Who and an Unearthly Child

The Mutation of Time

Remembrance of the Daleks

The Evil of the Daleks

The Dark Path

War of the Daleks

The Infinity Doctors

Break-through!

Diamond Dust

The Ripple Effect

Doctor Who of the Daleks

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Skaro was made into a radioactive wasteland following a 1000 year long nuclear civil war between the Kaleds and the Thals. Nearly all life, plant and animal, on Skaro perished.

Due to the radiation levels there were many mutations leading to the birth of the Daleks.

When the First Doctor visited Skaro with Ian, Barbara and Susan he found a petrified forest, and the petrified body of a creature that was made extinct during the war. All trees were like stone, and the ground was turned to dust. No crops could grow.

The Fourth Doctor visted Skaro during the war at the orders of the Time Lords. He was unable to stop the creation of The Daleks and the nuclear war that was in progress.

The surface of the planet is barren and mountainous. The Dalek city visited by the First Doctor had an excellent natural defence forone side: an almost impassable mountain surrounded by a lake in which there are many ferocious mutations.

In the last story to feature The Daleks Remembrance of the Daleks – at the end of the story the Seventh Doctor blew up Skaros sun which apparently blew up Skaro itself.

However in the TV Movie it appeared again at the start of the film.

RECREATION OF SKARO

After the new Progenitor Daleks escaped, (Victory of the Daleks) they rebuilt Skaro (The Witch’s Familiar) the Dalek Emperor, their city of Kaalann and later their whole empire. The Eleventh Doctor discovered that the New Dalek Empire had invaded Earth in 1963. He went to the rebuilt city of Kaalann and discovered that The Daleks had found the Eye of Time, a Time Lord device that helped them alter Earth’s timeline. Using the Eye, The Doctor travelled to Kaalann in its ruined state before the return of the Daleks. He sabotaged The Daleks’ vision, allowing him to deactivate the Eye. The timeline returned to normal and the New Dalek Empire and their 1963 invasion of Earth was erased. Skaro reverted to its ruined condition. (City of the Daleks)

An area of the petrified jungle was salvaged by humans at some point close to the 41st century and taken to Earth’s Station 7 for research. (The Only Good Dalek)

The Eleventh Doctor revisited the devastated Skaro after being summoned by a woman called Darla, who claimed to have been looking for her daughter, Hannah. He did his with great reluctance, even going as far as avoiding calling its name. However, this was a trap to capture him, Darla had been taken over by the Daleks. (Asylum of the Daleks)

A dying Davros returned to Skaro, which had been completely restored by this point, after barely surviving the destruction of his Crucible at the hands of the Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor, claiming “Where does an old man come to die? But with his children.” Davros later sent Colony Sarff to find the Twelfth Doctor and bring him to Skaro. The Doctor willingly came and was joined by Missy and Clara Oswald. The building Sarff’s ship landed in appeared to be a space station floating in space, but turned out to actually be on Skaro with the rest of the planet invisible to the rest of the universe. (The Magician’s Apprentice) The Doctor’s regeneration energy was transmitted to every Dalek on Skaro when Davros apparently tricked him into releasing it into cables connecting him to the life of every Dalek. However, this was a ruse by The Doctor. The energy regenerated the sewer Daleks, who destroyed the Dalek city. (The Witch’s Familiar)

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