War of the Daleks
The Doctor is repairing the TARDIS systems once again when it is swept up by a garbage ship roving through space, the Quetzel.
When another ship approaches and takes the Quetzel by force, The Doctor discovers that he and Sam are not the only unwitting travellers on board – there is a strangely familiar survival pod in the hold. Delani, the captain of the second ship, orders the pod to be opened. The Doctor is powerless to intervene as Davros is awakened once again.
But this is no out-and-out rescue of Davros. Delani and his crew are Thals, the sworn enemies of the Daleks. They intend to use Davros as a means to wipe out The Daleks, finally ridding the universe of the most aggressive, deadly race ever to exist. But The Doctor is still worried. For there is a signal beacon inside the pod, and even now a Dalek ship is closing in…
The story opens up with The Doctor and Sam in the TARDIS doing some maintenance when they are collected by a ship which holds an escape pod containing The Dalek Emperor Davros. A group of Thals arrive; they want Davros to alter their species so they will be better able to fight The Daleks. A force of Renegade Daleks then arrive and take The Doctor and Davros, along with others to Skaro. Before landing on Skaro, The Doctor discovers that the coordinates he believed were Skaro’s were actually those of the planet Antalin.
Since Davros’s return, The Dalek Prime has met considerable resistance with a number of Imperial Daleks forming. Initiating a final civil war on Skaro, The Dalek Prime has all the Davros loyalists revealed and exterminated. In the mean time he releases The Doctor to leave Skaro. The Doctor discovers a planted device on board the TARDIS which would allow The Daleks to survive in case The Dalek Prime failed. He jettisons it into the vortex.
With the Imperial Daleks defeated, Davros is sentenced to death by matter dispersal. Prior to his downfall he had implanted a Spider Dalek as a spy amongst The Dalek Prime’s forces. Davros is placed in a disintegration chamber and his atoms dispersed. His fate is left open when his data is either erased from the disintegrator or transmatted across space to a safe location.
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- War of the Daleks is the fifth BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures novel featuring The Doctor and Samantha Jones. It was written by John Peel. It features The Daleks, Davros and several Thals. This novel is also notable for significantly attempting to retroactively rewrite every televised Dalek story from Destiny of the Daleks onwards. It also features a reference to every single story featuring The Daleks from The Daleks through to Remembrance of the Daleks.
- Skaro means “home” in the original Kaled language.
- Davros still has The Daleks supporters on Skaro.
- Davros used the Hand of Omega, which destroyed what he thought of as Skaro.
- The Doctor has another sonic screwdriver, which he uses to kill The Daleks with high frequency shock waves.
- The Doctor’s jacket came from a costume shop in San Francisco.
- Mechanoids have fought The Daleks on more than one occasion.
- A Slyther makes a brief appearance (during an interlude).
- The Daleks are always on the lookout for new sources of metals and chemicals for their war effort.
- Some Draconians make an appearance (also during an interlude). They die.
- On page 187 The Doctor comments, “I was starting to get worried that you’d discovered religion.”, which actually happens in The Parting of the Ways.
- The Doctor basically retells the events of The Daleks, Genesis of the Daleks and Remembrance of the Daleks to Sam, Chayn and the others.
- The Dalek factory ship is suggested to be the factory ship in The Power of the Daleks.
- The Doctor removes the TARDIS lock to discover how The Master got through the lock in San Francisco. (The TV Movie)
- The meaning of Dalek colours (at this point in their history anyway) is revealed in this novel: Grey Daleks are the foot soldiers with limited intelligence; the Blue Daleks serve as corporals and sergeants; the Red Daleks have some intelligence and autonomy from the Dalek command structure; Black Daleks are smarter still; the Gold Daleks are the elite; and at the top is The Dalek Prime.
- Dryn Faber notes The Daleks are paranoid and cautious.
- The Daleks will invade Earth several times.
