B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (295 page)

[
764
] Before “Abslom Daak... Dalek Killer”. Details are given in “Star Tigers”.

[
765
] Dating “Abslom Daak... Dalek Killer” (
DWW
#17-20) - It’s “the twenty-sixth century”; humanity is at war with the Daleks. The sequel, “Star Tigers”, establishes that it is shortly after a “frontier war” between the Draconians and Earth, a clear reference to
Frontier in Space
.

The matter transmitter between star systems is something humanity is still trying to perfect by the year 4000 and
The Daleks’ Master Plan
. We learn about Vol Mercurius in “Star Tigers”.

[
766
] Dating “Star Tigers” (
DWW
#27-30,
DWM
#44-46) - It’s within three months of “Abslom Daak... Dalek Killer”; Salander says Mazam was conquered “within the last three months”. “The Emperor does not want another war... not so soon after fighting the humans.”

[
767
] Dating “Nemesis of the Daleks” (
DWM
#152-155) - It’s “the twenty-sixth century”. Clearly, this takes place after “Star Tigers”, but there’s no indication of how much time has passed. The Emperor resembles the one from the comic strips (see The Dalek Emperors sidebar), and may well be killed in Daak’s final attack because he’s on the Death Wheel when it explodes. If so, it’s tempting to imagine that the Emperor’s death was the turning point in the war referred to as “years ago” in
Deceit
(which also says Daak’s death here was “years ago”).

There’s no indication that these Daleks are time travellers. At first the Doctor assumes the Emperor is Davros, but the Dalek Emperor replies “Davros? Who is Davros?”.
Terror Firma
has Davros losing his mind and mutating into an Emperor Dalek, but ultimately it seems as if he and
this
Emperor are not one and the same. The Daleks also (apparently) probe the seventh Doctor’s mind, identify him and see images of the Doctor’s previous six incarnations.

[
768
] Dating “Emperor of the Daleks” (
DWM
#197-202) - This takes place shortly after “Nemesis of the Daleks”. It’s specified that Daak is “lured across space and time” - the sequence on Skaro takes place between
Revelation of the Daleks
and
Remembrance of the Daleks
(4625, according to this chronology), and accounts for Davros’ (physical, not mental) transformation into the Emperor Dalek, as seen in
Remembrance
.

[
769
] According to
Deceit
, which was published between “Nemesis of the Daleks” (where Daak died) and “Emperor of the Daleks” (where it turned out he hadn’t). Presumably, either Daak evades the authorities, or they hush up his activities.

[
770
] “Five years” before
Catastrophea.

[
771
] “Four decades” before
Cold Fusion.

[
772
] Dating
Catastrophea
(PDA #11) - It is “five or six hundred years” after Jo’s time (p79).

[
773
]
Benny: Beige Planet Mars

[
774
]
Love and War

[
775
]
Love and War
,
Return of the Living Dad

[
776
]
Benny: Old Friends

[
777
] Dating
Prisoner of the Daleks
(NSA #33) - This is stated to be in the middle of the first Earth Empire’s war with the Daleks, at a point where “the Daleks are advancing, their empire constantly expanding into Earth’s space” and young men can’t remember a time they weren’t at war. Bowman is a veteran of the Draconian conflicts. The Osterhagen Principle (almost certainly derived from the Osterhagen Key from
Journey’s End
) was invented on Earth “over five hundred years ago”. Gauda Prime is the planet in the
Blake’s 7
series finale, where Avon and his crew make their last stand. Conflicting all of this evidence, however, one of the
Wayfarer
crew says that Morse Code (developed in 1836 by Samuel F.B. Morse) came about “thousands of years ago”. The Daleks are bronze, like the new series Daleks (Dalek X is black and gold).

[
778
]
War of the Daleks
. No date is given, but it’s while the Draconian Empire is at war with the Daleks. Female officers are anathema again by
The Dark Path
.

[
779
] “Thirty years” before
The Also People
.
Benny: Down
and
Benny: Walking to Babylon
have further details.

[
780
]
Love and War
(p5, p64).

[
781
] This was “during the wars” (
Independence Day
, p22).

[
782
]
Deceit

[
783
] Dating
Enemy of the Daleks
(BF #121) - The story occurs during the Dalek Wars, after the Daleks - according to Lt. Beth Stokes - have spent “years” overrunning colony planets, either killing or enslaving the populaces. Ace has a familiarity with the weaponry and military practices of this era (so much so, she knows the make-up of a Valkyrie unit when asked), perhaps owing to the Spacefleet training she gained 2570-2573 (see
Love and War
and
Deceit
). As the conflict with the Daleks goes into decline in the late 2560s but is here running strong, it’s probably earlier than Ace’s Spacefleet tenure. Bliss is referred to both as a planet and a planetoid.

[
784
] Dating
Benny: Genius Loci
(Benny BF novel #8) - Benny spends most of 2561 on Jaiwan - some months at the very least pass before her birthday, which is 21st June - and she leaves the planet on 1st January, 2562 (p205). Cray might be the world seen in
The Game
.

[
785
] Dating
Benny: Old Friends
: “The Ship of Painted Shadows” (Benny collection #9b) - The blurb says that it’s “late 2562” and that Benny is 22. In Benny’s lifetime, these events are specified as taking place after
Benny: Genius Loci
.

[
786
] Dating
Benny: The Sword of Forever
(Benny NA #14) - The year is given on page 10; Benny is said to be 22 (p13). Page 19 cites that Daniel died in 2560, but this appears to be a typo.
Deceit
(p103) says that Benny didn’t visit Earth for fifteen years before meeting the Doctor, but that claim contradicts
Benny: The Sword of Forever
and
Lucifer Rising
(p171).

[
787
]
Just War
(p137)

[
788
]
Benny: Beige Planet Mars
, following the lead of
Lucifer Rising
(p171).

[
789
]
The Dying Days
, again elaborating on
Lucifer Rising
(p171).

[
790
]
The Also People

[
791
]
Return of the Living Dad
(p51).

[
792
] Dating
Benny: The Vampire Curse
: “The Badblood Diaries” (Benny collection #12a) - The year is cited at the top of every chapter.

[
793
] Dating
Benny: The Vampire Curse
: “Possum Kingdom” (Benny collection #12b) - The year is given.

[
794
]
Deceit

[
795
] Dating
Love and War
(NA #9) - The dating of this novel causes a number of problems as it features the debut of Bernice Summerfield. It is the “twenty-fifth century” (p46), and “five centuries” since Ace’s time (p26). The novel clearly takes place after
Frontier in Space
(see p10-11 of
Love and War
or p252 of
The Programme Guide
, fourth edition) as it refers to events of that story. Heaven is established “three decades” before the events of the novel (p92), and
Frontier in Space
is set in 2540, so the novel can’t take place before about 2570. Latterly, the decision was made that Benny is from the twenty-sixth century, so this is the date that has been adopted for this story. It is late June, as Benny celebrates her birthday just before the book starts, although it is autumn on Heaven.

[
796
]
Deceit
. Many of the subsequent New Adventures contain references to Ace’s exploits in Spacefleet.

[
797
]
Lucifer Rising

[
798
]
First Frontier
,
Theatre of War, Shadowmind, Lungbarrow
and
The Shadow of the Scourge
.

[
799
] “Final Genesis”

[
800
]
Death to the Daleks

[
801
] Thirty years before
Benny: The Gods of the Underworld
.

[
802
]
Benny: Down

[
803
]
Benny: Beyond the Sun

[
804
] Dating
Deceit
- (NA #13) The novel is set “two, probably three Earth years” after
Love and War
(p85), and as such the dating of the story is problematic (q.v. Benny’s Birthday). Both the blurb and the history section in the Appendix of the novel state that
Deceit
is set in “the middle of the twenty-fifth century”, just after what
The Terrestrial Index
calls the Second Dalek War (p62-63). This is restated at various other points (e.g.: p69, p216), but contradicted by other evidence in the same book: Arcadia was colonised three hundred seventy-nine years before
Deceit
(p115), but not before the EB Corporation’s first warpship was operational in 2112 (p27), so the book must be set after 2491 AD. The book also refers to the Cyber Wars, and “Nemesis of the Daleks” was “years ago”. In the Marvel strips, Abslom Daak comes from the mid-twenty-sixth century.

Pool - while not named there - briefly reappears in
Benny: Dead Romance
. Arcadia may or may not be the same planet that was the destination of the
Mayflower
in “Profits of Doom”, or that was on the front line of the Last Great Time War according to the Doctor in
Doomsday
.

[
805
] Dating
The Dark Flame
(BF #42) - The dating clues within
The Dark Flame
are so ambiguous, previous editions of
Ahistory
consigned it to “None of the Above”. What few dating clues we’re given pertain to the Cult of the Dark Flame’s own timeline - the back-cover blurb claims that the Cult was active “a thousand years” ago, and it’s variously said that the Cult died out “centuries” or “thousands of years” ago. Vilus Krull, the Cult’s founder, is twice said to have lived “thousands of years” ago.