Dalek War : Chapter One ( audio story ) Publisher ' s summary . The galaxy is in the grip of a terrible war . Kalendorf and his alliance forces are fighting alongside Dalek s from another dimension . Their common cause ? The defeat of the Dalek Supreme ' s mighty army . But where is the evil Emperor of the Daleks ? And can it be that the legendary Angel of Mercy , Susan Mendes , has already been exterminated ? With civilisation on the brink of destruction , it may now be impossible to tell friend from foe . . . Plot . Once the Daleks from the parallel universe ( the Alliance Daleks ) entered the primary universe , they joined forces with the rebelling humans and the remnants of the Earth Alliance forces against the Daleks from that universe ( the Enemy Daleks ) . In the five years since the Alliance Daleks crossed over from their own universe , the surviving Enemy Dalek forces have been forced to retreat into the Sol system , making Earth their final stronghold from where the Dalek Supreme coordinates the war effort . An Alliance fleet under the commander of Kalendorf aboard his flagship , the Earth Alliance battle cruiser " Courageous " , endeavours to retake Earth in order to achieve final victory over the Enemy Daleks . Herrick is his first officer . The Alliance fleet had earlier succeeded in cutting off the Dalek Supreme ' s retreat to the Seriphia Galaxy . In spite of their efforts , raiding parties of Enemy Daleks still exist in outlying areas but are not considered a serious threat . In the parallel universe , the female creator of the Alliance is the Mentor . She regularly communicates with Kalendorf in the form of a holographic transmission through the executive communications centre aboard the " Courageous " . Mirana has been given command of the Alliance scout ship " Defiant " . Her first officer is named Marber whereas Dr . Johnstone , who oversaw the deactivation of the psychotropic implant in Mirana ' s brain almost six years earlier , is the ship ' s chief medical officer . Susan Mendes was not exterminated on Yaldos but only stunned . She was then transported off the planet by the Daleks and placed in suspended animation in preparation for her robotisation and ultimate conversion into a Dalek . According to the Mentor , the process is irreversible and she must be terminated as a result of the length of time that she spent as a captive of the Enemy Daleks . When the Alliance Daleks first arrived , the Dalek Emperor transferred its consciousness into Suz ' s mind . Unbeknownst to the Mentor , Kalendorf charges Alby and Mirana with the mission to retrieve her . Still in suspended animation , Suz was being transported aboard the cargo freighter " Omega N - 7 " , which was destroyed by Alby . The " Defiant " retrieves the cryogenic pod from the debris and Dr . Johnstone revives her . Over time , Kalendorf , Alby and Mirana begin to develop doubts about the Mentor and the Alliance Daleks . Reports suggest that they enforce peace and order with the same ruthlessness with which the Daleks from the primary universe subjugate and conquer . Several planets which refused to provide troops to the war effort were reduced to a mediaeval level , having had their industrial infrastructure destroyed . In a more extreme example , Emeron , which had been embroiled in a nuclear war by the time that the Dalek War began , was reduced to a Stone Age level . These worlds came to be known as the Punished Planets . The actions of the Alliance Daleks led Kalendorf to conclude that they have merely swapped one dictatorship for another , outwardly more benign one .