Daleks Through the Ages

Raymond Cusack designed them back in 1963. He was a designer for the BBC at the time. The Daleks themselves were built by a company called Shawcroft Models. they produced a lot of the props in the early years.

Dalek Tales - The Dalek That Time Forgot - Part One

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Dalek Tales - The Dalek That Time Forgot - Part One

History is in peril, the crack in the universe is changing the very fabric of reality. Leaving earth the new paradigm see an opportunity which will lead one Dalek on its path to destiny. Dalek Caan the saviour of the Daleks..

Here it is guys I know I said end of June so I hope this is a nice surprise. Well enjoy leave comments and keep watching for part two due around Autumn.
Lee

Vignette - The City

The vast Dalek weapon shops were always a site of great activity. The mineral wealth of Skaro had long since been depleted to supply the Dalek armies. Now the Daleks ravaged the worlds they conquered, shipping back refined metals, purified chemicals and useful minerals. A large spaceport on the far side of the Drammakin Mountains received and processed the ships as they arrived. Immense pipelines through the solid rock bore the arriving mineral wealth into the heart of the Dalek city. Once there it was directed to the point of greatest need. Some went to the great birthing chambers, where fresh casings were constructed for the new Dalek embryos that were grown in the forest of vats. The rest went to the weapon shops.

Here the Daleks designed and constructed their saucers, the attack and supply ships that held their widespread, if shrinking, empire together. Others built the flying discs that gave the Daleks their mobility on hostile terrain. Still more constructed the numerous devices used to level cities, enslave populations and annihilate millions. The weapon shops of Skaro never closed, and their output was astounding in both quantity and destructive capacity. Part of the shops was devoted solely to the fabrication of explosive devices, from small point-charges that could disable an enemy craft to planet-breaking bombs that were the weapon of last resort. Not out of kindness, but because a shattered world was more difficult to loot for its mineral treasures.

Vignette - Dalek Emperor and the Control Room

As they moved, the lights gradually began to come on. It had obviously been a trap, the Doctor realized, but he had not spotted it until too late. Well, you won some and you lost some, but hopefully not permanently. The walls began to appear at the far reaches of the room; only the far lefthand corner stayed dark. The walls were lined with control panels that flickered and returned to life. There were screens, computers and a huge map of Skaro with several locations glowing green. All around the walls were Daleks, monitoring their reawakened equipment. There had to be thirty or forty of them, all paying close attention to their tasks and completely ignoring the intruders. He noted several other Black Daleks. So this had to be later in time than the affair on Kembel. That had been about AD 4000.

Then he looked ahead and stopped dead in his tracks. Beside him, Jamie and Waterfield did likewise. It was hard to believe what they were seeing.

It looked at first superficially like a Dalek, but it was over forty feet tall. The gigantic base rose upwards. There were few of the semi-circular sensors that covered the other Daleks’ lower halves. This part of the casing was honeycombed with panels. Above this section was a thick ‘neck’ made of metal struts supporting a vast domed head. This monstrous creature possessed neither arm nor gun, but it had a huge eye-stick that was trained on the captives. It appeared to be completely immobile, supported by huge struts; a web-like arrangement that filled the entire far wall of the control room. There were about a dozen huge tubes leading into the immense form: power supplies and nutrients, the Doctor assumed, for the creature within this casing.

‘Doctor,’ the monster said. It was unmistakably the voice of a Dalek, yet completely unlike those of the smaller forms. It sounded as if there were many voices, each overlapping the other, speaking at once. Strangely, it sounded more human than a normal Dalek.

‘Look at the size of that thing!’ exclaimed Jamie, awestruck.

‘It’s the Dalek Emperor,’ the Doctor replied. ‘The single brain that controls the mind and destiny of the Dalek race.’ 

‘And you are the Doctor,’ the Emperor stated. ‘We meet at last,’ the Doctor agreed. ‘I wondered if we ever would.’

Vignette - Dalek City

In the valley before him lay an immense city. It was completely made from metal and glass, shining in the harsh sun-light. Towers and spires jutted up through buildings of geometric shapes: huge octagonal edifices, mixed with domes and globes on incredibly thin supports. There seemed to be no design to the city, nor streets or roads. There was no sign of pedestrians or traffic of any kind. The only movement was from parts of some of the structures, like immense vanes turning in the sunlight, or pistons shuttling back and forth. The place was an amazing creation, the work of a technology both superior to that of humans and at the same time immeasurably different. It was like a demonstration model of an alien science. 

‘And is that the Dalek city?’ he asked the Doctor. 

Turning from his own survey of the structure, the Doctor nodded. It had changed a great deal since he was last here, but it was undeniably the same place. ‘Yes, it is.’