Dalazar Dalazar was both a continent on Skaro and the name of its capital city . It was the original home of the humanoid Dalek s , and thus the point of origin of their successors , the more familiar cyborg Dalek s . It was separated from the continent of the Thal s , Davius , by the Ocean of Ooze . ( COMIC : " Genesis of Evil " ) The continent . Dalazar was the location of the Radiation Range , a mountain range where the humanoid Daleks discovered pure cobalt . The continent also had a region named Darren which was the home of the Dalek War Council . There , the humanoid Daleks laboured to create powerful neutron bomb s , with which they hoped to end their war with the Thals . War minister Zolfian was known to frequent this area to supervise the project . Concomitantly , Zofian and his chief scientist , Yarvelling , were also mass - producing robotic warriors which would seek out and kill any Thals which happened to survive the bomb . These robots had the same recognisable design of the cyborg Daleks . The continent was laid waste , however , when it was bombarded by meteorite s that set off the neutron bomb in Darren . The city . For two years , Yarvelling and Zolfian waited in the bunker underneath the factories at Darren for the radiation levels to drop . Guessing as to the relative safety of the surface , the duo emerged and made their way overland to the city of Dalazar . There , they discovered that the capital itself was in ruins . Despite the massive damage that had been done to Dalek culture , Zolfian charged Yarvelling with somehow raising an army to continue the war with the Thals . As they wandered the ruins of Dalazar , they were surprised by the first sign of life they had seen on the entire continent : one of the robots they had been building two years before . It explained that it was no longer simply a robot , but a fusion of one of the humanoid Daleks in Darren with its robotic interior . It was a cyborg . And it commanded Yarvelling to figure out a way to replicate the process by which it had become joined so that an army of cyborg Daleks could be created . Yarvelling agreed , even as it was clear that he was dying of radiation sickness . In the ruins of the city of Dalazar , on the continent of Dalazar , the first tentative steps towards a new Dalek Empire had been taken . " New Dalazar " . After the secret of Dalek self - replication had been learned , an army of Daleks recreated Dalazar into the new Dalek City . This un - named city had the ability to attract the post - nuclear " magnetic sand " of the surrounding desert . It could therefore build a temporary shield around itself . ( COMIC : " Genesis of Evil " ) It was from this city that the Daleks tested their first spacecraft and began their conquest of other worlds . ( COMIC : " The Amaryll Challenge " ) The city was all but destroyed by the Monstron s , who attacked when the Daleks were busy fighting a rust plague that threatened to infect all Daleks . ( COMIC : " Plague of Death " , " The Menace of the Monstrons " ) However , it was rebuilt in a matter of months . ( COMIC : " Eve of War " ) Behind the scenes . Dalazar has never been referred to , nor explicitly ruled out of existence , by any other Dalek story . While its importance to the creation of the Daleks would seem to be contradicted by stories like " Genesis of the Daleks " , its existence is made possible by the scant reference televised " Doctor Who " has made to the geography of Skaro . The question of whether " New Dalazar " is actually the same city depicted in TV : " The Daleks " is an open one . Certainly the drawing of the city gives some credence to that possibility , as does the city ' s use of electro - magnetism .