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Doctor Who/Daleks
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The Daleks are cyborgs: a blending of the biological and the mechanical. Their biological selves live within an armored, robotic housing that provides essential life-support, mobility, and protection.
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Physicals
That housing has four basic areas:
- A base, approx. 3 feet tall, which has 64 grapefruit-sized bumps arrayed evenly across its surface.
- A mid-section from which its two appendages (weapons) protrude.
- A grille where the head/neck would be on a human.
- A dome sitting atop the grille. The dome has a pivoting, optical sensor that allows the Dalek to see.
Environment
- Daleks require a high radiation environment or they will die.
- Dalek-designed technology has controls that are easily manipulated by their crude appendages.
- Dalek cities have no furniture.
Behavior
General
They are hellbent on "exterminating" other species, since their view of the world allows only one species to survive.
Weaknesses
Early Dalek's required metal floors to supply electricity to their body enclosures.
Quotes
- "EX-TER-MIN-ATE!"
History
Their world, the planet Skaro, was once home to two indigenous races: the Kaled (also known as the Dals) and the Thals. There was a "neutronic" war (with neutron bombs); and the surface was charred to petrified ash. The Thals remained in the forest using drugs to ward off the effects of the harsh radiation. The Dals went underground, mutated horribly, and had to resort to mechanical life-support just to survive.
Ironically before the war, the Thals were the warrior race, and the Dals were teachers and philosphers. Five-hundred years after the war, the roles are reversed with the Thals as peaceful forest dwellers and the Daleks as heartless killing machines.
Trivia
- Daleks have the ability to stun.
- Inside a Dalek body housing is a view-screen so the biological part of the Dalek can see their surroundings.
- Anyone speaking from within a Dalek body housing will sound like a Dalek, if they keep a monotone. Ian did this in the episode The Daleks.
