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Skaro appears in the Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories The Mutant Phase and Davros ( where we learn that Skaro had two moons: Falkus and Omega Mysterium, names drawn from a chart of Skaro's solar system in a 1976 Marks and Spencer tie-in book-Falkus is there revealed to be an artificial planet created by the Daleks as a last refuge ), and was where the Emperor Dalek operated from in The Genocide Machine, and features prominently in the I, Davros spin-off series, looking at Davros's life and the events that led to him creating the Daleks.
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Davros appears as the Emperor Dalek in Remembrance of the Daleks, with his white and gold Daleks now based on Skaro and termed " Imperial Daleks ", fighting against the grey " Renegade Dalek " faction.
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The Doctor Who Magazine comic strip story Emperor of the Daleks ( DWM # 197 -# 202 ) also attempts to fill in this gap, with Davros conquering Skaro and also explaining how his remains came to be housed in the Emperor Dalek shell while the Big Finish Productions audio adventure The Juggernauts presents an alternate version of Davros's activities in the period between Revelation and Remembrance.
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When he first encounters the Fourth Doctor in Genesis of the Daleks, Davros is the chief scientist of the Kaleds, one of two native sentient races of the planet Skaro.
Both Skaro and the Imperial Dalek mothership are apparently destroyed ( in the future ) when the Seventh Doctor tricks Davros into using the Time Lord artifact known as the Hand of Omega which makes Skaro's Sun go supernova.
Skaro is a fictional planet from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who created by the writer Terry Nation as the home planet of the Daleks and, at times, the centre of the Dalek Empire.
When the Doctor first visits the planet in the 1963 serial The Daleks, Skaro is a nuclear wasteland, whose principal features are a petrified forest, the endless highly acidic rain, a lake containing the results of Davros ' early experiments, and the Dalek city, Kaalann.
At the start of the 1996 Doctor Who television movie, the Master is put on trial on Skaro by the Daleks and exterminated.
Skaro did not appear in any of the Dalek-related stories made for the rebooted Doctor Who until the seventh series, although a group of Daleks called the Cult of Skaro appear in the second series episodes " Army of Ghosts " ( briefly ) and " Doomsday ", and the third series episodes " Daleks in Manhattan " and " Evolution of the Daleks " — in the last of these the Cult threaten to turn Earth into " a new Skaro ".
Doctor Who serials that take place on Skaro or feature Skaro prominently are The Daleks, The Evil of the Daleks, Genesis of the Daleks, Destiny of the Daleks and Remembrance of the Daleks.
In the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel War of the Daleks by John Peel it is revealed that Skaro had not in fact been destroyed by the Seventh Doctor's actions.
After an attempt to change history ( in Day of the Daleks ) is unsuccessful, they terraform the planet Antalin to resemble Skaro and manipulate Davros and the Doctor into ensuring that Antalin was destroyed in the original's place.
" Let's Go ( To Planet Skaro )" was the third single released by UK punk rock band The Shapes and concerned the wedding reception of the Doctor on the planet.
In City of the Daleks, the Doctor and Amy go to Skaro to put the natural Earth timeline back on track because the Daleks had killed the Human Race in 1969 via the Eye of Time.
An article by Russell T Davies in the Doctor Who Annual 2006 states that Skaro, like Gallifrey, was devastated at the end of the Time War.
Despite this, Skaro makes an appearance in the first episode of Doctor Who: The Adventure Games, entitled " City of the Daleks ".
The Eleventh Doctor subsequently goes to Skaro, discovers the Eye, and releases it back into the Time Vortex before the Daleks find it, thus negating Skaro's post-nova survival outside the Time War and restoring the proper timeline.
At the start of " Asylum of the Daleks ", the Eleventh Doctor is summoned to Skaro by Darla von Karlsen ( a human converted into a Dalek " puppet ").
However, the Doctor had altered the Hand's programming so that instead of enhancing Skaro's sun, the Hand turned it supernova, obliterating Skaro and, presumably, the Daleks themselves.
* The Eighth Doctor Adventures novel, War of the Daleks by John Peel, claimed that Skaro had not been destroyed after all ; having discovered records of Skaro's destruction during their invasion of Earth, the Daleks moved Davros to another planet while he was in stasis after terraforming it to resemble Skaro, thus allowing the destruction of ' Skaro ' to take place on their terms.
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Skaro is also the setting for the Peter Cushing feature film Dr. Who and the Daleks ( 1965 ) which is generally regarded as non-canonical, although the story in the film is a copy ( with some changes ) of the serial The Daleks ( naturally shortened since a feature film does not have the same running time as a 7-episode serial ).
Furthermore, Dalek Caan mentions in " Daleks in Manhattan " ( 2007 ) that Skaro was destroyed in " a great war ", leaving more doubt as to the actual moment of its destruction ( Russell T Davies referred in Doctor Who Confidential to the events of Genesis of the Daleks as the first strike of the Time War, so Caan might be referring to the events of Remembrance in this context ).
The Thals are a fictional race of humanoid aliens from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, originating on the planet Skaro.
One of the podcasts, Podshock, originates out of New York while another popular Doctor Who podcast, Radio Free Skaro, originates entirely out of Canada.
* Doctor Who: Radio Free Skaro
The BBC book Doctor Who Files: The Cult of Skaro states that Dalek Sec ’ s black casing is constructed from ‘ Metalert ’, an enhanced form of Dalekanium reinforced with flidor gold and sap from the extinct Arkellis flower.
* Jast, a member of the Cult of Skaro in Doctor Who.
They were used as a location for the planet Mecron II in an episode of Blake's 7, and in Doctor Who they were used in the story " The Underwater Menace " and then as the planet Skaro in the serial " Destiny of the Daleks ".
In the revived Doctor Who series an elite group of Daleks known as the Cult of Skaro is introduced, tasked with finding new ways of exterminating their enemies, and of ensuring the survival of the Dalek species should the Empire be destroyed.
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* Similarly, this story states that the Daleks require radiation in order to live at all ( leading to them trying to further irradiate Skaro ); later stories, including the immediate sequel, show them operating without heavy background radiation.
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Davros is a mad scientist from the planet Skaro whose people, the Kaleds, were engaged in a bitter thousand-year war of attrition with their enemies, the Thals.
Davros can now fire electric bolts from his hand, although the hand is shot off shortly before his original creations arrive to defeat the new Daleks and transport Davros to face trial on Skaro.
Some time afterward, the Daleks abandoned Skaro, though the planet was later reoccupied by the Imperial Dalek faction, apparently at the behest of Davros.
" Exterminate, Regenerate " is a song released by UK " Trock " band Chameleon Circuit and mentions Skaro from the prospective of Davros.
Davros had hoped to use the Hand to transform the sun of the Dalek homeworld Skaro into a power source for time travel.
The story initially leads the informed viewer to identify the figure speaking to Ratcliffe and commanding the renegade faction as Davros, and to identify the imperial faction with the Daleks who captured Davros at the end of Revelation of the Daleks, with the stated intention of taking him to Skaro for trial.
* The Skaro Daleks of Revelation become the Renegade Daleks in this story, and the story does not explain how Davros went from being their prisoner to being the Emperor of a rival Dalek faction.
In the story's novelisation, Aaronvitch states that the Daleks split into different factions across the universe as a countermeasure to the Movellan virus that attacks their casings in Resurrection of the Daleks and that the Imperial faction have since resettled on Skaro, but does not reveal how Davros became their emperor.
The Doctor attempts to explain that they are aliens, but Nyder refuses to believe it as their greatest scientist, Davros has stated there is no life outside of Skaro.
Created by Davros, they are portrayed in the serial as a rebel faction while the grey Daleks from the Dalek home-world of Skaro, seen in the final episode, serve the Supreme Dalek.
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He is instructed by them to interfere in the creation of the Daleks on the planet Skaro in order to avert a future time where Daleks would dominate the universe.
Once they escape back to the TARDIS, their second trip takes them to the planet Skaro, where they encounter the Daleks for the first time.
This day comes when, in the present day, the Torchwood Institute's director Yvonne Hartman ( Tracy-Ann Oberman ) accidentally allows the Cybermen army and Dalek Cult of Skaro into Roses ' reality, where they begin a war.
He asks their commander, Sharrel, where he is, and discovers that the planet is D-5-Gamma-Z-Alpha, otherwise known as Skaro.
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