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& 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.

The Mentor, the creator of the alt-Daleks, pledged to support the Earth Alliance against the enemy Daleks. Kalendorf became her fleet commander. The Dalek Emperor was captured on Lopra Minor, but mysteriously went inert.
 [1458]

? 5433 - Planet of the Spiders
 [1459]

An Earth ship came out of its time jump without power and crashed on Metebelis III. Some humans, a few sheep and a handful of spiders survived the crash. The spiders found their way to the cave of the blue crystals, and the energies there mutated them, making them grow and boosting their intelligence and psychic abilities. The “Eight-Legs” came to dominate the planet, harvesting the human population as cattle. The Eight-Legs were ruthless - they wiped out two hundred and sixty-nine villagers, the entire population of Skorda, when they tried to resist.

Four hundred and thirty-three years after the crash, the Spiders set up a psychic bridge with a Tibetan monastery on twentieth-century Earth. They plotted to travel back in time to conquer their homeworld. Their leader, the Great One, planned to gain omnipotence by completing the crystal lattice of her cave. The third Doctor confronted his fear by bringing her the one perfect crystal he had taken from Metebelis some time previous. The energy backlash killed the Great One, but the Doctor received a fatal dose of radiation while in the Great One’s cave. He returned to twentieth-century Earth.

& 5433 - The Eight Doctors
 [1460]

The humans on Metebelis III hunted down the spiders. The seventh Doctor visited the planet and was caught by a giant spider. The eighth Doctor rescued him.

Some of the Metebelis spiders survived the Great One’s downfall. They allied themselves with the profit-minded Headhunter, and went back to 2015 to capitalise on a master plan she had devised. The surviving spiders returned to their homeworld upon their defeat.
 [1461]

& 5436 - Dalek Empire II: Dalek War
 [1462]

Mendes’ rebellion had greatly weakened the Daleks’ empire, but they remained a formidable foe despite the best efforts of the Mentor’s “Alliance Daleks” and the surviving human forces. The Alliance cut off the enemy Daleks’ retreat back to Seriphia, triggering years of warfare. Meanwhile, Kalendorf learned that the Alliance Daleks had devastated several worlds, including Emeron, who refused to contribute to the war effort. He feared that if the enemy Daleks were defeated, mankind would just be replacing a nihilistic dictatorship with a more benevolent one.

Nearly six years after Mendes instigated her uprising, Kalendorf’s most trusted allies located Mendes’ cryo-pod and revived her. As they suspected, the Emperor had “escaped” by downloading his consciousness into Mendes’ body. Kalendorf’s fleet mounted an attempt to reclaim the Sol system - but the enemy Daleks’ first wave self-destructed, obliterating a quarter of his forces. Kalendorf’s fleet discovered that Jupiter had mysteriously been terraformed and could now sustain human life. Half of Kalendorf’s spaceships put down on Jupiter to make repairs before the Daleks’ second wave arrived - and were overcome by Varga plants that the enemy Daleks had seeded there.

The Mentor relieved Kalendorf of command and ordered him brought in for “brain correction”, but he escaped, located Mendes and shared with her his plan to rout both Dalek factions. Mendes agreed with Kalendorf’s proposal and killed her beloved, Corporal Alby Brook, to prevent his interference. She then made a galaxy-wide broadcast, saying she was the Angel of Mercy returned, and urging humanity to join forces with the enemy Daleks against the Alliance Daleks. The Dalek Supreme agreed to this new alliance.

The Alliance Daleks tried to create “demons”: augmented humans who could combat the enemy Daleks. On a space station in the Plowik system, some Alliance Daleks genetically and technologically augmented test subjects with physical strength, an extended lifespan and the ability to alter their appearance on a cellular level, becoming temporarily invisible. Enemy Daleks attacked the station, interrupting the undertaking. One of the “demons”, Galanar, would remain in stasis for two millennia.
 [1463]

& 5441 - Dalek Empire II: Dalek War
 [1464]

The Mentor accelerated plans to bring “brain correction” to those who resisted the Alliance Daleks. Kalendorf forged a pact with the enemy Daleks, and, alongside their forces, led what remained of humanity’s forces against the Mentor. Years of warfare and devastation ensued. Kalendorf eventually convinced the Mentor that a continued conflict could only result in the destruction of all life in both their universes. She elected to withdraw all of her alt-Daleks back to their home universe.

For a short while, the galaxy knew peace as the enemy Daleks honoured the terms of their coalition with the Alliance. Kalendorf knew the Daleks would eventually renege, and went to Earth to negotiate with the Dalek Supreme. The Dalek Emperor took control of Mendes’ body, and tapped the Dalek command net to probe Kalendorf’s mind for signs of betrayal. In so doing, it enabled the last remnants of Mendes’ personality to activate a telepathic self-destruct code that Kalendorf had planted in her mind. The destruct command routed through the entire Dalek network, running unfettered owing to the Emperor’s full access. All Daleks and Dalek technology in human space and Seriphia were destroyed.

This event caused incalculable devastation, and became known as The Great Catastrophe. Entire star systems were ruined, and countless lives were lost. Parts of the galaxy took centuries, even millennia, to recover.

Kalendorf had expected to perish during his final gambit, but survived. In time, he returned to his homeworld of Velyshaa. His recorded memories were later stored in his burial chamber. History would regard him as a monster, a “dark one” who brought about the galaxy’s ruination.

One Dalek outpost survived the Great Catastrophe, when a Dalek was conditioned to absorb Mendes’ destructive pulse, then isolated from the outpost’s command net. The isolated Dalek consequently absorbed some of Mendes’ personality, and also gained the command codes for the entire Dalek network. In the millennia to follow, the Mendes-Dalek would become the new Dalek Supreme.
 [1465]

? 5500 - The Pyralis Effect
 [1466]

The fourth Doctor and Romana found the
Myriad
- one of the ships containing the cloned survivors of Pavonis IV - as it travelled through the Kasterborous Cluster. A disused Pyralis obelisk influenced a Type 12 AI designated CAIN, who calculated the codes necessary to open it. Thousands of Pyralis escaped, but CAIN sacrificed himself to detonate a device that recalled the Pyralis and imprisoned them once more. The Doctor advised the Pavonians to let go of their past - including their hero-worship for him - and programmed the
Myriad
’s flight computer to take them to a small, habitable planet.

In 5665, the Chelonians launched an attack on the human colony Vaagon, but the Chelonians’ tanks vanished mysteriously before they could complete their conquest, transported by a Fortean Flicker to the twenty-seventh century. Believing themselves blessed by divine intervention, the colonists were quite unprepared when the Chelonians reinvaded several generations later and wiped out the colony.
 [1467]

The Doctor bought a collapsible snooker table at the height of the retro-gaming fad of the fifty-eighth century.
 [1468]

In 5720, archaeologists discovered the remains of a Khorlthochloi starship.
 [1469]
The militaristic Narbrab conquered an alien civilisation. The survivors, hosted in Ikshar host bodies, were banished in a solar-powered ship and arrived in London, 1346.
 [1470]

= In 5738, the sixth Doctor visited the planet Helios 3.
 [1471]

Around 5764, a Dalek civil war became so serious that the Time Lords intervened.
 [1472]
Espero was colonised by mostly African and Asian humans with a shared Christian faith. The colonists hoped to escape the influence of the Eurozone and America, and bought the planet from the Homeworld Corporation. They renounced technology, which made it all but impossible to extract the planet’s natural resources. With nothing to offer in trade, Espero became isolated from the rest of the galaxy. Religious schisms led to the Almost War.
 [1473]

? 5800 - Combat Rock
 [1474]

Earth won a war against the Indoni, making the planet Jenggel an Earth colony. The Indoni subsequently invaded the rival Papul people, forcing the Papul leaders to vote for integration. Tourism swelled amid the new political climate, with visitors arriving to experience the “primitive” Papul culture. The corrupt President Sabit of the Indoni kept most of the profits for himself. Christian missionaries arrived to minister to the Papul. Twentieth-century icons such as
Winnie the Pooh
,
Wind in the Willows
and Leatherface horror films were in use in pop culture.

On Jenggel, a sentient organism contained in a purple fungus from the Papul swamps possessed a Papul named Kepennis. As the mysterious “Krallik”, the organism-Kepennis founded the OPG, a Papul resistance movement. Some eight rainseasons later, Kepennis rigged Papul mumis to kill tourists and Indoni soldiers by spitting snakes, furthering an atmosphere of anarchy. The second Doctor, Jamie and Victoria arrived, and the Doctor ingested some of the fungus himself, enabling him to mentally nullify the organism within Kepennis. A cannibalistic Papul tribe took Kepennis away to consume him as punishment, and a mercenary with a bit of a noble streak killed Sabit.