Imperial - Renegade Dalek Civil War The Imperial - Renegade Dalek Civil War was a civil war between two sides of Dalek s - Davros ' s Imperials and the Dalek Supreme ' s Renegades . History . Origins . The Daleks broke into two factions shortly after the creation of the Daleks and the destruction of the Kaled City . The Daleks realised that Davros was impure as he was not 100 % Dalek , so they turned against him and exterminated him . ( TV : " Genesis of the Daleks " ) However , Davros survived and his body remained under the ruins of the Kaled City . A group of Daleks decided that they needed Davros once again when the Daleks faced battle with the Movellan s , so they allied with him shortly after he was woken by the Fourth Doctor . This created a faction of Daleks that felt loyalty towards Davros because he was their creator and had helped them . Nonetheless , the Doctor defeated most of the Daleks and had Davros frozen in suspended animation ( TV : " Destiny of the Daleks " ) and was taken to a prison station . Beginning . Davros was later released by Gustave Lytton and his mercenaries who were being used by the Supreme Dalek . He had a small injection device which could instantly convert humans and Dalek s to his cause . He used this to build a small army of Daleks and human replicant troopers , then pitted them against the Supreme ' s forces . All of Davros ' forces were destroyed , either by loyalist Daleks or the Movellan virus . ( TV : " Resurrection of the Daleks " ) Davros escaped to the planet Necros , where he began creating a new army of Daleks from human tissue . The Daleks led by the Supreme Dalek were alerted to Davros ' presence by Takis and Lilt , two employees at Tranquil Repose . The Dalek Supreme ' s forces considered Davros a criminal . When they arrived , a short engagement between Davros ' and the Supreme Dalek ' s forces ensued . Following his capture , Davros attempted to reveal the Sixth Doctor to the Daleks , but he was not recognised by the Supreme Dalek ' s forces ( who had encountered his previous incarnation ) . Davros was taken to be transported to the Dalek homeworld of Skaro to stand trial . ( TV : " Revelation of the Daleks " ) En route to Skaro , the ship carrying Davros crashed on the planet Lethe . Davros was rescued . He set himself up as " Professor Vaso " , altering the perceptions of the humans on the colony so they would not recognise him as the " Great Healer " . He attempted to create a new machine , a Juggernaut based on a Mechanoid design . Lethe ' s atmosphere prevented the Supreme Dalek retrieving Davros directly , but its forces intercepted the Sixth Doctor ' s TARDIS , forcing him to serve as an agent of the Daleks and stop Davros ' research and manipulations . The Doctor discovered two of Davros ' Necros Daleks had survived the crash , but were destroyed following Davros ' final gambit on the colony and the Supreme Dalek ' s intervention . ( AUDIO : " The Juggernauts " ) While on Skaro , the Sixth Doctor rescued Davros just before the Daleks carried out their sentence of death and spoke to him of his future destiny as Emperor Dalek . ( COMIC : " Emperor of the Daleks ! " , " Above the Gods " ) The Doctor took Davros to Spiridon , where he could lick his wounds and bide his time . The Doctor intended to lay the groundwork for a Dalek civil war and spoke to Davros of his future destiny as Dalek Emperor . When the grey Renegades led by the Supreme Dalek landed on Spiridon with the next incarnation of the Doctor , Davros set his army of white and gold Daleks ( later known as the Imperial Daleks ) against them , along with a Special Weapons Dalek . The Supreme Dalek died . In the aftermath of the battle , Davros found his wheelchair damaged . He suffered amnesia , remembering only his ambition to make himself the new Emperor . ( COMIC : " Emperor of the Daleks ! " ) Conclusion of hostilities . The war ended after a final battle on Earth in 1963 . Davros ' s Imperial Daleks defeated the Renegades with the aid of the Special Weapons Dalek . Further pursuing the plan he had already developed , the Seventh Doctor destroyed the Imperials using the Hand of Omega . The Doctor convinced the last of the Renegades to destroy itself by telling the Dalek that it no longer had a purpose . ( TV : " Remembrance of the Daleks " ) After - effects . Following this encounter the Dalek Empire fell into a decline as Dalek forces were consolidated . The Renegade Daleks survived the civil war , called themselves Imperials and were based on Skaro while the Imperial Daleks were now Renegades . ( PROSE : " War of the Daleks " )