New Dalek Paradigm The New Dalek Paradigm was an empire of purebred Dalek s created by a Progenitor device , which made use of pure Dalek DNA . Overview . Characteristics . One of the most distinguishing aspects of the Daleks of the New Paradigm was the initial introduction of a significantly different variation on the Dalek casing for its higher classes : Much larger and bulkier than any other version , the colour - coded armour introduced by the New Dalek Paradigm mostly retained the traditional structure , but deviated drastically from the standard proportions : The " skirt " and base sections were significantly larger and broader , while the midsection did away with the shoulder slats in favour of two smooth , sloped bands vaguely reminiscent of the design first encountered by the Doctor in his first incarnation . Said midsection was coloured grey , as were the neck , base and sensor globes ( with the exception being the Eternal Dalek , whose globes were coloured black ) . ( TV : " Victory of the Daleks " ) Additionally , the Dalek eyestalk of the new officer class seemed to contain an organic , bloodshot eyeball . The most drastic changes , however , were the replacing of the grating in the " neck " region with four tapered discs and the replacement of the rear sensor globes with a broad , protruding compartment that gave the new designs a hunchbacked appearance compared to previous and subsequent designs . These larger casings initially served as the sole design , but became limited to the higher classes when the more - traditional bronze designs returned to ubiquity . New casings aside , the nature of the New Paradigm Daleks remained utterly unchanged from the standard Dalek mindset : Fanatically convinced of their own superiority , and driven by hatred for all non - Dalek life . Their ruthless obsession with racial purity even extended to the annihilation of fellow Daleks whom they deemed " impure " - as was the case with the three Ironside survivors : Despite having been responsible for the birth of the Paradigm , the new , pure Daleks recognised that the trio had been created from impure DNA , and obliterated their predecessors seconds after they had served their purpose . The older Daleks offered no resistance , as they too believed that their impurity rendered them unworthy of life . ( TV : " Victory of the Daleks " ) Hierarchy . The New Paradigm Daleks were colour - coded according to their rank and position : the Supreme Dalek was white , the Eternal Dalek was yellow , Strategist Dalek s were blue , Scientist Dalek s were orange and Drone Dalek s red . ( TV : " Victory of the Daleks " ) While the new Drone Dalek design was mass - produced initially , ( GAME : " City of the Daleks " , " Return to Earth " , " The Eternity Clock " , COMIC : " The Only Good Dalek " ) the Daleks ultimately went back to using the Time War models as the shells for their basic drones , leading to the red models being promoted to a drone officer rank and thus seeing reduced production . ( TV : " Asylum of the Daleks " ) These bronze drones were sometimes sent on missions where they operated without the leadership or presence ( although still under the instructions ) of New Paradigm commanders . ( COMIC : " The Dalek Project " , PROSE : " The Dalek Generation " , TV : " The Time of the Doctor " , " Into the Dalek " ) Black Dalek s and Red Dalek s were also reintroduced . ( COMIC : " The Dalek Project " , GAME : " The Doctor and the Dalek " ) The position of ultimate leader varied . During the New Dalek Paradigm ' s first encounter with the Doctor , there were only five Daleks , each one the first example of their rank , making the Supreme , as the name implies , the " supreme " . ( TV : " Victory of the Daleks " ) However , as the Daleks started their campaign of Empire - building , at least two Dalek Emperor s were known to have ruled the New Dalek Paradigm at some point . ( GAME : " City of the Daleks " , " The Eternity Clock " ) Later on , a Parliament of the Daleks was established , and the Supreme Dalek was subordinate to the Dalek Prime Minister . ( TV : " Asylum of the Daleks " ) Several commanding officers were long known to exist . The mission to destroy the " Abomination " and Station 7 was commanded by a Chief Strategist . ( COMIC : " The Only Good Dalek " ) . When the bronze drones were reintroduced , another mission was led by a Black Dalek . ( COMIC : " The Dalek Project " ) Additionally , the Dalek Time Controller took overall command of the Daleks ' search for the Cradle of the Gods , even outranking the Supreme Dalek . ( PROSE : " The Dalek Generation " ) The New Dalek Paradigm also recruited other species to accomplish tasks in their campaign of Empire - building . Cybermen and Silurian s were recruited by a Scientist Dalek as a distraction for the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond in order to collect all Time orb s . ( GAME : " The Mazes of Time " ) Tranter and agents inside Space Security Service were controlled by the Daleks during a war that occurred in the 41st century . ( COMIC : " The Only Good Dalek " ) Erik Graul worked with the Daleks in 1917 to build Proto - Dalek s for the Dalek Project . ( COMIC : " The Dalek Project " ) Aqua - Dalek s were used for battles in sea and elsewhere under the water . ( COMIC : " The Dalek Project " ) Initially , some of the red Dalek Drones acted as the Emperor ' s guards , and were identified as such by their black domes . ( GAME : " The Eternity Clock " ) The Daleks ' zero tolerance for failure was not affected by rank . For example , during the attack on Station 7 and search for the Abomination , a Dalek Strategist was killed by a Dalek Drone for failing to ensure the safety of Weston ' s base . ( COMIC : " The Only Good Dalek " ) Spacecraft . While the Paradigm initially only had one ship , ( TV : " Victory of the Daleks " ) the Dalek Fleet was subsequently used on many occasions . ( COMIC : " The Only Good Dalek " , GAME : " The Eternity Clock " , TV : " The Pandorica Opens " , " Asylum of the Daleks " , " The Time of the Doctor " ) Dalek Saucer s were on missions without the Dalek Fleet . ( GAME : " Return to Earth " , " Evacuation Earth " , COMIC : " The Dalek Project " , PROSE : " The Dalek Generation " , TV : " Into the Dalek " ) Three ships — Survey Ship Sigma , Survey Ship Delta and Survey Ship Epsilon — were saucers equipped with new time - drive systems . ( COMIC : " The Dalek Project " ) The Dalek Flagship was used by the second Dalek Emperor during the invasion of Earth in 2106 using the piece of Eternity Clock . ( GAME : " The Eternity Clock " ) The Parliament of the Daleks was the ship used by the Prime Minister of the Daleks . ( TV : " Asylum of the Daleks " ) Dalek fighter pod s were deployed on the Siege of Trenzalore . ( TV : " The Time of the Doctor " ) Bases . The New Dalek Paradigm ' s first base of operations was Kaalann on Skaro . ( GAME : " City of the Daleks " ) The Dalek Command Node was a Dalek base on Earth in 2106 when the Daleks invaded using the piece of the Eternity Clock . ( GAME : " The Eternity Clock " ) Carthedia and 400 Sunlight Worlds were affiliated with the New Dalek Paradigm ' s Dalek Foundation . ( PROSE : " The Dalek Generation " ) History . Creation . The aftermath of the Time War left only small pockets of Dalek survivors , all of which were destroyed in confrontations with the Doctor . ( TV : " Dalek " , " Bad Wolf " / " The Parting of the Ways " , TV : " Army of Ghosts " / " Doomsday " , " The Stolen Earth " / " Journey ' s End " ) Following one encounter with the Doctor , a lone ship of three Daleks - - the last known Daleks in existence - - fell through time and found the final surviving Progenitor , a device containing pure Dalek DNA with the means to recreate the species . However , the Progenitor refused to recognise them as Dalek . To activate it , the Daleks began a scheme called the Ironside Project : they created an android to claim they were his inventions and pretended to be " Ironside " machines for the British Army . When the Eleventh Doctor arrived , they tricked him into calling them out - " " I " am the Doctor and " you " are the " Daleks " ! " - so this " testimony " could be used to activate the Progenitor . Five new , larger Daleks were created , with pure DNA , a new colour - coded rank , and a white Dalek Supreme as their commander . There was also a Strategist , Scientist , Eternal , and a Drone . These Daleks immediately exterminated the older three for their impurity , which the three willingly allowed to happen . They forced the Doctor to let them escape , using a bomb hidden within the Bracewell android on Earth to prey upon his compassion and choose between pursuing them and saving Earth . While the Doctor was deactivating the bomb , they escaped through a time corridor to create a new Dalek Empire . ( TV : " Victory of the Daleks " ) Empire - building . Following their escape , the Daleks discovered the lost Time Lord artefact , the Eye of Time , allowing them to alter time as they saw fit . The Daleks returned to Skaro , rebuilt their capital city of Kaalann , appointed a new Dalek Emperor and began rebuilding their Empire . In this new timeline , they killed every member of the human race . However , the Eleventh Doctor and Amy undid these events , leaving Earth unconquered and Kaalann still abandoned . ( GAME : " City of the Daleks " ) The Dalek Supreme led an attack on the " SS Lucy Gray " to recover the Daleks ' lost Time Axis . The Eleventh Doctor defeated them by firing their ship into the sun . ( GAME : " Return to Earth " ) The Dalek ship escaped by making a random jump several hundred years into the past . The Daleks attempted to force the Doctor to fix their ship by attaching his TARDIS into their ship ; the Doctor escaped and used his TARDIS to fling their ship into a black hole . ( GAME : " Evacuation Earth " ) A Scientist Dalek sent an alien family plummeting through time and space to collect all the Time orb s . The Scientist recruited many Strategist Daleks and Drones . It also recruited big armies of Cybermen and Silurian s as a distraction for the Eleventh Doctor and Amy . ( GAME : " The Mazes of Time " ) At the beginning of the 40th century , the Daleks began another war with humanity which continued into the 41st century . The Eleventh Doctor and Amy encountered a group led by the Chief Strategist who had been sent on a mission to find a Dalek mutant being experimented on by a scientist who tried to make them less aggressive creatures . The Daleks referred to this mutant as " the Abomination " . They attacked and destroyed Earth ' s top secret space station , Station 7 , and chased the survivors to the planet Strantana below . After slaughtering all resistance , they finally found the Abomination in a hidden base , but it escaped its container and disabled the base reactor ' s safety measures . An explosion destroyed the base , the Daleks , the Abomination , and all the Dalek ships that had landed on the planet . The Doctor , Amy and Jay , an SSS officer , watched from a safe distance . The Dalek mission was a failure but the war continued . They had agents working in the SSS . ( COMIC : " The Only Good Dalek " ) The Daleks joined the Alliance to imprison the Eleventh Doctor in the Pandorica in 102 to save the universe . ( TV : " The Pandorica Opens " ) As the Doctor was not responsible for the Total Event Collapse as they thought , the Daleks , along with almost the rest of the universe , were destroyed , leaving only two Stone Dalek s , one of which hindered the Doctor and his companions ' efforts to save the universe in 1996 . Nevertheless , they were successful and the whole of reality , including the Daleks , were restored . ( TV : " The Big Bang " ) The Doctor had an encounter with the Daleks during which they exterminated Albert Einstein ' s toothbrush . ( TV : " Death is the Only Answer " ) Searching for information on the Silence before going to what he assumed was his death , the Doctor found a badly damaged Supreme Dalek and looked up information on the Silence in its data banks . ( TV : " The Wedding of River Song " ) Led by a new Emperor Dalek the Daleks planned to remove Gallifrey from existence and become the new Lords of Time . They used a piece of the Eternity Clock to put a Time - Lock around a large part of London in 2106 . Once they perfected their Time - Lock technology , they planned to use it to put temporal bubbles around other planets , making them unstoppable . The Eleventh Doctor and River Song infiltrated the Emperor ' s Flagship and managed to take back the piece of the Clock . ( GAME : " The Eternity Clock " ) At some point , a small contingent of bronze Daleks were sent on a mission to travel through Earth ' s history and analyse how human s made war so that weaknesses could be found and exploited in future conflicts with the Daleks . They called this the Dalek Project . The Eleventh Doctor encountered these Daleks in the First World War in 1917 where he sent their ship crashing to the ground by ramming a plane into it . The remaining Daleks were destroyed by the combined armies of the war who had formed a very brief alliance to defend themselves . The Dalek saucer remained underground for one hundred years before it was found and accidentally reactivated by a team of archaeologists . The Eleventh Doctor arrived in time to save them and connected the ship up to a power line , overloading the Daleks . he called this " unfinished business " . ( COMIC : " The Dalek Project " ) The Daleks were notable customers of the information regarding the Doctor held by the Inforarium . When the Eleventh Doctor discovered the Daleks , as well as the Cybermen and Sontaran s , had been purchasing this information , he infiltrated the Inforarium and memory - proofed their database using methods he learned from the Silence . The information sold was thus instantly forgotten . ( HOMEVID : " The Inforarium " ) The Asylum . After being ruled by two Dalek Emperor s , ( GAME : " The Eternity Clock " , " City of the Daleks " ) a Parliament of the Daleks was formed , led by a Dalek Prime Minister . When a human starliner , the " Alaska " , crash - landed on the Dalek Asylum planet , the security of the insane Daleks contained there was compromised . Fearing what would happen if these Daleks were to escape , the Prime Minister ordered the abduction of the Doctor , whom he called the Predator of the Daleks . He would be sent to the Asylum to lower its impenetrable force field so the Daleks could destroy their deranged brethren , despite their wish to preserve them and their " beautiful " hatred . Understanding that the Doctor was best assisted by his companion s , his most recent ones , Amy Pond and Rory Williams , were abducted as well . Once the planet ' s defences were lowered by the human - turned - Dalek , Oswin Oswald , the Parliament launched an attack to destroy the Asylum , but not before Oswin Oswald had wiped out all memory of the Doctor in the minds of every Dalek . When the Doctor came back to their ship , he was bombarded with " the First Question " ( " Doctor Who ? " ) by the entire Parliament . He left shortly after , but not before taunting the bewildered Daleks that they ' d never stop asking . ( TV : " Asylum of the Daleks " ) The Sunlight Worlds . At an unknown stage of their history , the New Dalek Paradigm discovered the superweapon known as the Cradle of the Gods and learned of its ability to create or destroy on a massive scale . To make use of the weapon , the Daleks used a huge galactic recession to their advantage and created 400 planets to provide homes to the billions of people affected , which were collectively referred to as the Sunlight Worlds . It was governed by the Dalek Foundation , with the planet Carthedia of the Earth Alliance acting as a head of state . While a generation of people believed the Daleks had created a welfare state , it was in fact a plan headed by the Dalek Time Controller and the Dalek Supreme to transform the 400 worlds into copies of Skaro . However the Daleks were unable to activate the Cradle and so they sent an anonymous message in the form of a hypercube to the Doctor ' s TARDIS with the intention of manipulating him into activating the Cradle instead . The Doctor ' s investigations resulted in shock when he learned the Daleks were considered a force for good and he was placed on trial while trying to convince the citizens of Carthedia that they were evil , which the Daleks had declared a hate crime . He was put on trial by the Dalek Litigator , who was really the Dalek Time Controller posing as a law enforcer , and when he pleaded guilty in a failed attempt to anger the Dalek and was sentenced to imprisonment , he escaped off - planet with three orphaned children , Sabel , Jenibeth and Ollus Blakely , whose parents , Terrin and Alyst , had killed themselves to prevent the Daleks from obtaining the information on the Cradle they possessed . After learning more about the Cradle on the desert planet of Gethria and losing Jenibeth , the Doctor tried to spark a revolution on Sunlight 349 to cause the collapse of the Dalek Foundation but he could not gather the necessary support . The Dalek Litigator arrived and subjected the Doctor to another public trial . Sabel and Ollus were taking away from the Doctor ' s care and he was exiled from the Sunlight Worlds . However he returned to Gethria 90 years in the future and encountered an elderly Jenibeth who had been transformed into a Dalek puppet after the Daleks took her prisoner as a child . The Dalek Time Controller arrived and forced the Doctor to activate the Cradle but Jenibeth ' s childlike mind allowed her to resist her conditioning and she fired on the Daleks , destroying numerous drones and forcing the Time Controller to retreat and the Doctor set the Cradle to self - destruct . Before the Cradle exploded , it reverted the Sunlight Worlds to how Jenibeth remembered them as a child , as well as turning her and her siblings back into children and recreating their parents , although their memories were reverted too . While the Daleks abandoned the plan , the ultimate fate of the Sunlight Worlds is unknown . ( PROSE : " The Dalek Generation " ) Their manipulation of the Doctor , however , caused him to realise how much of a danger he could potentially be , leading him to enter a short - lived retirement from travelling for a time in Victorian London . ( TV : " The Great Detective " , " The Snowmen " ) The Siege of Trenzalore . The Daleks - along with the Cybermen , Sontaran s , Slitheen , Terileptil s , Silurian s , Judoon , Weeping Angel s and many other species - were driven to Trenzalore by a mysterious message , a question asked by the Time Lord s through a crack in the universe with the answer being the Doctor ' s true name . If it was answered , the Time Lords would return and the waiting fleet s would fire on them , beginning another Time War . To avert this , the Papal Mainframe , who had arrived at the planet first , set up a force field which locked all the other species out of the planet and the Siege of Trenzalore began . While the other species attempted to sneak past the force field , the Daleks called for reinforcements , preparing for war . Eventually they attacked the Mainframe , killing everyone before converting them into Dalek puppet s . Information regarding the Doctor was harvested from Tasha Lem , resulting in the Daleks remembering who he was . They also revived , tortured , and killed Tasha " several times " in an effort to learn how to break the force field . The Daleks then arranged for the Doctor to be lured into a trap , but Tasha managed to break free from her conditioning and destroyed the Daleks sent to kill the Doctor . Despite the trap failing , the Daleks managed to breach the force field , and the Siege of Trenzalore grew into a war as the species orbiting the planet followed the Daleks through the force field . After centuries of fighting , many of the other species were killed off or retreated , until the Daleks were the only ones left . The Doctor and the Mainframe ' s Silent priests acted as the last line of defence against the Daleks but they too were overpowered and the Doctor , having used up all twelve of his regeneration s , grew too old to continue fighting . With the resistance dealt with , the Daleks began looking for the Doctor in the town of Christmas with Dalek fighter pod s firing on the town and a huge flying saucer descending upon it . However , Clara Oswald successfully pleaded to the Time Lords to save the Doctor , who began regenerating into his twelfth incarnation . The energy released was enough to destroy some of the attacking Fighter Pods and the final burst destroyed the saucer . The shockwave blew apart the Daleks ground forces , ending the war . ( TV : " The Time of the Doctor " ) Resistance from without and within . At some point the Combined Galactic Resistance formed to battle the Daleks and captured a damaged Dalek that was later named Rusty . After the Twelfth Doctor rescued Journey Blue , the Resistance asked him to help fix Rusty as he had been turned good . The Doctor , Clara Oswald , Journey , Ross and Gretchen Alison Carlisle travelled into Rusty and located a crack in his power source that was spewing radiation and killing him , losing Ross along the way . The Doctor repaired the crack with his sonic screwdriver , but the radiation had been causing Rusty ' s change , and so without it Rusty turned evil again , breaking free of its restraints and calling in more Daleks to destroy the " Aristotle " . At the insistence of Clara , the Doctor , Clara , Journey and Gretchen attempted to turn Rusty good again by reactivating his suppressed memories , particularly that of a star being born which would open him to the Doctor ' s influence . Clara succeeded in reactivating the memories , opening Rusty ' s mind and the Doctor telepathically linked with him to get him to see the good in the universe through the Doctor . However , being a Dalek , the " beauty " that Rusty reacted to was the Doctor ' s hatred of the Daleks . Taking the Doctor ' s hatred as his own , Rusty turned on the Dalek boarding party attacking the " Aristotle " and exterminated them . Rusty told the Doctor that he wasn ' t a good Dalek but the Doctor was , and then he ordered the Dalek flying saucer that was docked with the " Aristotle " to retreat , claiming that the humans had activated the ship ' s self - destruct . Rusty left with the Daleks to continue his war against his own kind by destroying them from within . ( TV : " Into the Dalek " ) He eventually isolated himself at the centre of the universe . The Daleks made attempts to hunt him down , but Rusty was persistently successful in fighting them off . ( TV : " Twice Upon a Time " ) Mission for the Starbane . The Daleks engaged in a race against the Cybermen to obtain the Orb of Fates , the key to a Time Lord warship and superweapon called the " Starbane " . One Dalek managed to obtain one piece of the Orb and hid it inside its casing after it was taken prisoner by two Cybermen and interrogated as to the artefact ' s whereabouts . The Dalek sent a distress signal which was answered by the Twelfth Doctor who flattened the interrogating Cybermen with his TARDIS . The Dalek , whom the Doctor called " Lumpy " , claimed its nature had been altered by the Cybermen during its imprisonment and it expressed a desire to see both the Daleks and the Cybermen thwarted in their attempts to gain control of the " Starbane " . The Doctor and Lumpy teamed up in an unlikely alliance . They discovered the two remaining elements of the Orb of Fates on Telos and on Sontar respectively . Upon piecing back together the Orb , the TARDIS was transported directly to the " Starbane " . However , by that point it was already under the occupation of the Dalek forces . As Lumpy proceeded deeper into the Starbane , he and the other Daleks soon revealed that Lumpy had never been changed and that the Daleks had tricked the Doctor into literally giving them control of the Starbane . However , the Twelfth Doctor revealed that when he was repairing Lumpy he fitted in a device to control Lumpy ' s armour and managed to get Lumpy to the core while he piloted his TARDIS away - with the Daleks pursuing Lumpy unable to catch him . Forcing Lumpy to throw the orb into the core , the Starbane and the Dalek forces inside were destroyed - although Lumpy survived in a badly damaged state , screaming the Doctor ' s name as the Doctor bid farewell to his unlikely companion . ( GAME : " The Doctor and the Dalek " ) Second Return to Skaro . The Twelfth Doctor and his companions saw that the Daleks had returned to Skaro with Davros . ( TV : " The Magician ' s Apprentice " ) Davros planned to use the Doctor ' s regeneration energy to make the Daleks on Skaro in to Dalek - Time Lord hybrids , but this plan was stopped and the city was destroyed once more . ( TV : " The Witch ' s Familiar " ) Alternate timeline . Working with the Master , the Dalek Time Controller created an alternate timeline where it took over Earth from Paris in 1921 . By 1961 , the planet was " New Skaro " and converting the bio - matter of human s , Sontaran s , Draconian s , and other aliens into a New Dalek Paradigm . ( AUDIO : " Master of the Daleks " ) Behind the scenes . Conception . Mark Gatiss wrote in the script of " Victory of the Daleks " for the Daleks ' redesign to be " big buggers . . . bigger than we ' ve seen them before " . The eyestalk was designed to be level with Matt Smith ' s eyeline . Steven Moffat and Gatiss wanted the new Daleks to be very colourful , similar to the Daleks of the 1960s Amicus Productions Dalek movies , " Dr . Who and the Daleks " and " Daleks ' Invasion Earth 2150 A . D . " . Gatiss originally wanted there to be a green Dalek , but he decided that green " just doesn ' t seem to work somehow " . Nick Briggs , who voiced the Daleks , planned to counter their bright colours with a more vicious voice . Reception . The 2010 redesign of the Daleks attracted much criticism from hundreds of angered fans . Mark Gatiss , who wrote their debut episode , acknowledged the controversial nature of this redesign in his in - vision commentary on the DVD box set . In conversation with principal Dalek voice artist Nicholas Briggs , and Dalek operator Barnaby Edwards , he opined that the new shape of the Daleks , especially in the dorsal region , was not particularly to his liking . Briggs agreed , but , with Edwards , swiftly noted that in their experience of taking the new Daleks on live exhibition to the public , British kids , for the most part , loved the new design . The decision was revisited in DWM 431 with critics voicing their opinions on the design . A comparison was made with the RTD - era Daleks , but without a conclusion as to which was the better - made . Steven Moffat finally settled the controversy when he stated in an interview that he would be keeping the bronze Daleks as the standard soldiers , and the Paradigm variants would be in charge of them as an " officer class " . This was first seen on - screen in " Asylum of the Daleks " . Later stories , like the comic story " The Dalek Project " , the novel " The Dalek Generation " , and the television stories " The Time of the Doctor " and " Into the Dalek " , would follow this example to even greater lengths . Between these four stories , " The Dalek Generation " is the only one to feature an appearance by any 2010 Dalek , specifically the Supreme Dalek ( and possibly other " high ranking " Daleks ) , and even this is kept to a small cameo . When asked by David Hobday why these Daleks had not been seen in recent years , Nicholas Pegg clarified that the poor reception to them was the deciding factor . Many of these Daleks were kept on set for the Series 9 opener , but never used ; so far removed from the minds of the team that they were kept with the Peter Cushing era Daleks . Modifications . Additionally , further tweaks were made to the 2010 redesign for their reappearance in " Asylum of the Daleks " : the Drone and Strategist Daleks were now in deeper , more metallic shades , the biological eyes were made more obvious and the hunchback look was toned down .