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Early Daleks
I've always been intruiged by the original Daleks from their first two stories.
I have two basic theories regarding these guys:
Theory #1) These Daleks were not created by Davros. They are actual "natural" Kaled mutants who survived the destruction of the Kaled's domed city seen in "Genesis of the Daleks". It seems to me entirely plausible that there would have been survivors considering the fact that the Kaleds and Thals were at war for a thousand years, they should've had an extensive network of underground bomb shelters beneath their city. When the Thals fired their missile, some of the citizens, especially the government types, should've been able to make it to these shelters. Also, we know that the weapons used were neutron weapons, which leaves buildings intact but delivers a lethal does of radiation to an area. After the missile penetrated the outer dome and released it's radiation, I believe that most of the city inside the dome would've survived and that this is the same city we see in "the Dead Planet".
The Daleks seen in that story were living in the aforementioned network of bomb shelter tunnels the Kaleds built. I propose that the radiation from the Thal missile acelerated the mutations among the survivors to the point where they adopted Davros' Dalek travel machine designs in order to survive. The shame they feel about their mutated state made them bitter and angry and accounts for the "evilness" of this group of Daleks. Perhaps they hate and seek to destroy anything that reminds them of their old humanoid forms out a sense of self-loathing? Since the Scientific Elite were overseen by a government committee, and a neutron bomb would've left buildings intact, it isn't difficult for me to believe that there may've been blueprints of the Dalek casings in the city and that some government types who were aware of Davros' experiments would've survived and decided to use them.
The fact that these early Daleks used static electricity from the floor of the city as a power source may've been due to them only having access to an earlier, more primitive set of Dalek designs (Mark II Travel Machines?) or simply a conscious choice. Perhaps the cars in the city were powered via static electricity and they found it more practical to simply convert the Dalek casings to run off of the existing power grid rather than try and manufacture separate power supplies for each casing, which may've been impossible with their limited resources? Or perhaps these mutants were simply larger than the ones created by Davros and they needed extra room in the casing that was being taken up by the casing's power supply?
With Skaro an irradiated wasteland whose resources had been bled dry by a millenium of unending war, these Daleks set out to seek out new worlds to colonize, having come up with the "satellite dish" on the back system to beam power to Daleks who needed to leave the city confines. The main group of Daleks constructed a fleet of saucers and left only a skeleton crew of Dalkes behind in the city on Skaro. In time the Daleks forget about Skaro, which was pretty useless to them, and the Daleks left behind may've even started to devolve and lose some of their scientific knowledge as the best and brightest of their species left for the stars.
These "City Daleks" were then easily defeated by the first Doctor and the Thals, who then occupied the city and took advantage of Dalek science to reach out to the stars. Eventually Davros' original Daleks bust out of the bunker they were sealed in and are driven off world by the Thals. These Daleks then go on to create their own space empire (either wiping out or absorbing into their ranks the earlier group of Daleks who left Skaro ) which is the state of affairs seen in "Planet of the Daleks". The Daleks and Thals continue to war throughout space, until the Daleks eventually drive them from Skaro as seen in "Destiny of the Daleks" and the Daleks then go on to eventually reoccupy the planet until it is destroyed by the 7th Doctor in "Rememberance of the Daleks" or maybe in the Last Great Time War - take your pick.
Theory # 2 ) These Daleks are of the same group created by Davros but for some reason they convert their shells to work off of a centralized static electricity power system while in their city and rely on power being beamed to them from another source for out of city excursions. Perhaps, as is often theorized, the "slats" on the upper part of the Daleks are solar power collectors, then this might account for the change in power supply. Since the first Daleks were buried in a bunker by the 4th Doctor, they would've been unable to recharge themselves while stranded deep underground and therefore had to adapt their casings to run off of the bunker's power generator - thus creating the static electricty system we see in "the Dead Planet".Maybe the Dalek city grows up around the bunker and since all their casings have already been converted to run off of the bunker/city generator, they just keep the system created when they were trapped underground, beaming power to themselves via satellite dish when they need to leave the city, and eventually installing in their saucers mini generators that can broadcast power for when they leave Skaro to conquer the universe. As in my previous theory, the bulk of them leave Skaro to conquer the universe and leave a skeleton crew behind to occupy the city should they ever need to return home. While out trying to conquer the universe, they eventually come to the conclusion (some time after their invasion of Earth obviously) that having power beamed to them from a central power source is a tactical weakness, since all one has to do is destroy that power source to defeat them - so they go back to using Davros' original casing designs.
Early Daleks
I've always been intruiged by the original Daleks from their first two stories.
I have two basic theories regarding these guys:
Theory #1) These Daleks were not created by Davros. They are actual "natural" Kaled mutants who survived the destruction of the Kaled's domed city seen in "Genesis of the Daleks". It seems to me entirely plausible that there would have been survivors considering the fact that the Kaleds and Thals were at war for a thousand years, they should've had an extensive network of underground bomb shelters beneath their city. When the Thals fired their missile, some of the citizens, especially the government types, should've been able to make it to these shelters. Also, we know that the weapons used were neutron weapons, which leaves buildings intact but delivers a lethal does of radiation to an area. After the missile penetrated the outer dome and released it's radiation, I believe that most of the city inside the dome would've survived and that this is the same city we see in "the Dead Planet".
The Daleks seen in that story were living in the aforementioned network of bomb shelter tunnels the Kaleds built. I propose that the radiation from the Thal missile acelerated the mutations among the survivors to the point where they adopted Davros' Dalek travel machine designs in order to survive. The shame they feel about their mutated state made them bitter and angry and accounts for the "evilness" of this group of Daleks. Perhaps they hate and seek to destroy anything that reminds them of their old humanoid forms out a sense of self-loathing? Since the Scientific Elite were overseen by a government committee, and a neutron bomb would've left buildings intact, it isn't difficult for me to believe that there may've been blueprints of the Dalek casings in the city and that some government types who were aware of Davros' experiments would've survived and decided to use them.
The fact that these early Daleks used static electricity from the floor of the city as a power source may've been due to them only having access to an earlier, more primitive set of Dalek designs (Mark II Travel Machines?) or simply a conscious choice. Perhaps the cars in the city were powered via static electricity and they found it more practical to simply convert the Dalek casings to run off of the existing power grid rather than try and manufacture separate power supplies for each casing, which may've been impossible with their limited resources? Or perhaps these mutants were simply larger than the ones created by Davros and they needed extra room in the casing that was being taken up by the casing's power supply?
With Skaro an irradiated wasteland whose resources had been bled dry by a millenium of unending war, these Daleks set out to seek out new worlds to colonize, having come up with the "satellite dish" on the back system to beam power to Daleks who needed to leave the city confines. The main group of Daleks constructed a fleet of saucers and left only a skeleton crew of Dalkes behind in the city on Skaro. In time the Daleks forget about Skaro, which was pretty useless to them, and the Daleks left behind may've even started to devolve and lose some of their scientific knowledge as the best and brightest of their species left for the stars.
These "City Daleks" were then easily defeated by the first Doctor and the Thals, who then occupied the city and took advantage of Dalek science to reach out to the stars. Eventually Davros' original Daleks bust out of the bunker they were sealed in and are driven off world by the Thals. These Daleks then go on to create their own space empire (either wiping out or absorbing into their ranks the earlier group of Daleks who left Skaro ) which is the state of affairs seen in "Planet of the Daleks". The Daleks and Thals continue to war throughout space, until the Daleks eventually drive them from Skaro as seen in "Destiny of the Daleks" and the Daleks then go on to eventually reoccupy the planet until it is destroyed by the 7th Doctor in "Rememberance of the Daleks" or maybe in the Last Great Time War - take your pick.
Theory # 2 ) These Daleks are of the same group created by Davros but for some reason they convert their shells to work off of a centralized static electricity power system while in their city and rely on power being beamed to them from another source for out of city excursions. Perhaps, as is often theorized, the "slats" on the upper part of the Daleks are solar power collectors, then this might account for the change in power supply. Since the first Daleks were buried in a bunker by the 4th Doctor, they would've been unable to recharge themselves while stranded deep underground and therefore had to adapt their casings to run off of the bunker's power generator - thus creating the static electricty system we see in "the Dead Planet".Maybe the Dalek city grows up around the bunker and since all their casings have already been converted to run off of the bunker/city generator, they just keep the system created when they were trapped underground, beaming power to themselves via satellite dish when they need to leave the city, and eventually installing in their saucers mini generators that can broadcast power for when they leave Skaro to conquer the universe. As in my previous theory, the bulk of them leave Skaro to conquer the universe and leave a skeleton crew behind to occupy the city should they ever need to return home. While out trying to conquer the universe, they eventually come to the conclusion (some time after their invasion of Earth obviously) that having power beamed to them from a central power source is a tactical weakness, since all one has to do is destroy that power source to defeat them - so they go back to using Davros' original casing designs.