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[
1264
]
The Drowned World.
The commendation is presumably unrelated to Vyon’s tenure with the Space Security Service, and he didn’t join until 3990 according to
The Daleks’ Master Plan
. Using Nicholas Courtney’s age as standard based upon when he played the role, Vyon would have been born in 3967, age 18 in 3985.

[
1265
] “One thousand two hundred and seventy years” before
The Genocide Machine
.

[
1266
]
The Daleks’ Master Plan

[
1267
]
The Only Good Dalek

[
1268
] “Two thousand years” after
Cat’s Cradle: Witch Mark
(p247).

[
1269
] Dating
The Daleks:
“The Destroyers” (BF LS #2.2b) - According to Sara in
The Guardian of the Solar System
(set in 3999), this happens “Back when I’d first met the Daleks, so many years ago.” In
The Daleks’ Master Plan
, Sara doesn’t indicate one way or another as to whether she’s met the Daleks before.

“The Destroyers” was intended to serve as the pilot episode of a (ultimately unmade) Dalek TV show, the outline for which was first published in
The Official Doctor Who & the Daleks Book
(1988). The summation here reflects the Big Finish audio adaptation released in 2010. In both Nation’s outline and the Big Finish version, matters are left very open ended - the SSS team fails to rescue the Daleks’ captive (David in the audio story, Sara in the original outline), and while the Daleks threaten to destroy Earth, nothing is said about how they intend to accomplish this - or if it has any relation whatsoever to the Time Destructor plot central to
The Daleks’ Master Plan
.

[
1270
]
The Guardian of the Solar System

[
1271
]
The Daleks’ Master Plan

[
1272
] Dating
Placebo Effect
(EDA #13) - The date is given.
Placebo Effect
states that Christianity is still practised on Earth in 3999, but Sara Kingdom - hailing from the year 4000 - hasn’t heard of Christmas in
The Daleks’ Master Plan
. Historically, not every version of Christianity has placed an emphasis on Christmas, though.

[
1273
] Dating
Max Warp
(BF BBC7 #2.2) - No specific year was intended by writer Jonathan Morris, who feared that a concrete dating might conflict with other stories. However, mention of the Magellan Danube 4000 - touted as “a
man’s
spaceship”, and not a historical piece - suggests a dating in or around 3999, provided spaceships follow the tradition that car models are designated a year ahead of manufacture. The story occurs in the Sirius system, and the overall prosperity and warmth of the society seen here matches much better with the time of the Federation - and the holding of events such as the Intergalactic Olympics in
Placebo Effect
(also set in 3999) - than the corporate-minded gloom that seems to pervade Sirius in
The Caves of Androzani
.

The only other dating clue is a derogatory mention of the Moroks from
The Space Museum
. According to
The Death of Art
, the Morok Empire collapsed in the thirtieth century, so it’s entirely possible that they’d be the subject of ridicule afterwards.

It’s not entirely clear if the Varlons are related to humanity, although the presence of a “gin and tonic” might suggest some human influence, and it’s generally assumed that the inhabitants seen in
The Caves of Androzani
(if they do indeed reside in Sirius) are human. Mention of “Pluvikerr-Hinton” is a little tribute to the late Craig Hinton and his obsession with the Gubbage Cones (the unnamed fungus creatures seen in
The Chase
) from the planet Pluvikerr.

[
1274
]
The Taking of Planet 5
(p13).

[
1275
] Dating
The Guardian of the Solar System
(BF CC 5.1) - The year is given.

[
1276
] The backstory to
The Daleks’ Master Plan
, as catalysed by events in
The Guardian of the Solar System
. Writer Simon Guerrier has confirmed that the clock’s destruction triggers a slow-acting erosion of Earth’s shipping and security, not something as cataclysmic as, say, every road in the United States vanishing overnight. The matter-transportation experiment that teleports the Doctor, Steven and Sara (and a few mice) to Desperus in
The Daleks’ Master Plan
is part and parcel of Chen’s attempts to free Earth from its reliance on the giant clock.

[
1277
] Dating
Mission to the Unknown
(3.2) - The story is set shortly before
The Daleks’ Master Plan
.

[
1278
] Dating
The Daleks’ Master Plan
(3.3) - The date “4000” is established by Chen. The draft script for
Twelve Part Dalek Story
set it in “1,000,000 AD”.

[
1279
]
I am a Dalek

[
1280
] “Two centuries” before “Body Snatched”.

[
1281
]
War of the Daleks.
Not long after the death of an SSS agent called Marc, presumably Marc Cory from
Mission to the Unknown
. This throws the dating scheme of the book out, as Antalin is the planet the Daleks will disguise as Skaro to be destroyed. But that, according to writer John Peel, will happen
before
this.

[
1282
]
Storm Harvest

[
1283
] “Agent Provocateur”

[
1284
] Dating
The Book of the Still
(EDA #56) - It’s “4009” (p57).

[
1285
] “Thirty years after”
Legacy
(p299), and possibly intended as a reference to events of or following
The Daleks’ Master Plan.

[
1286
] Dating
The Only Good Dalek
(BBC original graphic novel #1) - Although it’s never confirmed that the human officers seen here are part of the Space Security Service, they wear SSS uniforms as seen in
The Daleks’ Master Plan
. Tellingly, when the Doctor says he knew Bret Vyon and Sara Kingdom, Tranter replies, “you must have started fighting Daleks when you were very young”. As the eleventh Doctor outwardly looks about thirty, “very young” would have to mean when he was a teenager, so
The One Good Dalek
is most likely to be set around fifteen to twenty years after
The Daleks’ Master Plan
. Helpfully,
Legacy
had established that a “massive Dalek war” was fought at about this time. One glitch is that the war is meant to have “raged for a hundred years”, which is explicitly not the case in
The Daleks’ Master Plan
- although a case can be made that this war against the Daleks is more covert than not. (
The Only Good Dalek
only talks about frontier worlds being ravaged by the Daleks, so perhaps this is a war fought on the edge of Earth space rather than at its heart.) Alternatively, the Daleks in this story are the “new paradigm” Daleks first seen in
Victory of the Daleks
, so it’s possible they have inserted themselves into history at this point. Mention of the high-ranking security officer “Silestru” is possibly meant to denote Georgi Selestru from
Dalek Empire III
, but has to be taken as a different character with a similar name.

[
1287
]
Prime Time
. Reg Gurney has been in space corps for “thirty years”.

[
1288
]
Emotional Chemistry

[
1289
] He’s “nearly 12” in
A Good Man Goes to War
.

[
1290
] “A few hundred years” before the forty-fifth century segment of “Body Snatched”.

[
1291
] Dating
The Bride of Peladon
(BF #104) - It’s “nearly a century” after
The Monster of Peladon
.

Peladon stops being a member of the Federation in
Legacy
- something that the seventh Doctor greets as good news, because it means Peladon will be left out of a Dalek conflict set to occur thirty years afterwards. It’s entirely possible that by
The Bride of Peladon
- set roughly fifteen years after said conflict - Peladon has already re-entered the Federation or is at least considering it. Only one statement in
The Bride of Peladon
is made about Peladon’s Federation status, when Alpha Centauri says that “Galactic peace is certain and Peladon’s place in the Federation is assured” once the king marries Pandora. This can either be interpreted as suggesting that Peladon is about to return to the Federation fold, or just hopes to solidify its spot in the group’s hierarchy.

If Aggedors have a century-long gestation cycle, it’s little wonder that they’re so rare and prized. That said, the pregnancy of the female Aggedor seen here - the daughter of the one seen on TV - raises the rather incestuous question of who sired her pups. (Appalling as it might sound, however, father-daughter and mother-son matings are not uncommon when breeding animals such as horses; genetic deficiencies only start to crop up with brother-sister crossings.)

[
1292
] Dating
A Good Man Goes to War
(X6.7) - The date is given in a caption. We know nothing else about this battle, save that one of the sides fighting is human.

[
1293
] Dating “Hotel Historia” (
DWM
#394) - The month and year are given.

[
1294
] The Earth Empires

That the first Earth Empire lasted from the twenty-sixth century of
Frontier in Space
to the thirtieth of
The Mutants
has been well documented, particularly in the New Adventures. (The Doctor’s companion Benny is from the Empire’s early period, Ace lived in that time zone for a few years, and his later companions Chris and Roz were from the period when the Empire was starting to collapse.)

The Second Empire was first named in
Tomb of Valdemar
. The Doctor refers to the Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire in
Planet of the Ood
(set in 4162),
Pest Control
,
The Story of Martha:
“The Weeping”, and by extension
The Impossible Planet
/
The Satan Pit
and
42
.
The Crystal Bucephalus
states that descendants of Mavic Chen became Federation Emperors, and it might be this Empire that they rule.

“A Fairytale Life” has the Doctor expecting to find the Third Great and Bountiful Human Empire in the seventy-eighth century. This could well be the human empire mentioned in
The Sontaran Experiment
.

The Long Game
is set, in theory at least, at the time of The Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire, but the Emperor Dalek’s machinations appear to alter history, and the apparent obliteration of Earth’s continents (
The Parting of the Ways
) casts doubt on whether this Empire ever comes to pass. If Rose reset all the actions of the Daleks, Earth’s history could be restored to the one the Doctor knows about, but there’s no evidence on screen she did that.