Imperial Dalek The Imperial Daleks were a faction of Dalek s loyal to their creator , Davros , rather than to the Dalek Supreme . Among the Daleks , they were known as the " Ven - Katri Davrett . " They fought for Davros , their new Emperor , in the Imperial - Renegade War . History . Davros owned an injection - type mind control device which he used on a small group of Daleks . These became the first Imperial Daleks , but were subsequently destroyed by the Dalek Supreme ' s Renegade Dalek s or by the Movellan virus . ( TV : " Resurrection of the Daleks " ) Davros experimented with a new kind of Dalek ( which appeared to be an Imperial Dalek prototype ) at the Tranquil Repose funerary complex on Necros , using parts from cryogenically frozen bodies . Some , like Arthur Stengos , he decapitated , modified and placed — still living — into a Glass Dalek casing . During the conversion process , Stengos ' personality alternated between that of a human and that of a Dalek . ( TV : " Revelation of the Daleks " ) Orcini set off an explosion in Davros ' bunker , killing many of the prototype Imperials . Other Daleks loyal to the Dalek Supreme then apprehended him to take him to Skaro for trial . ( TV : " Revelation of the Daleks " ) As part of a long - term strategy , the Sixth Doctor himself rescued Davros so that he could further develop the Imperials and caused an eventual Imperial - Renegade Dalek Civil War . On Spiridon Davros reactivated Daleks of Dalek army frozen and changed their loyalties to serve him as Imperial Daleks to fight against the Supreme Dalek ' s forces and conquered Skaro ( COMIC : " Emperor of the Daleks " ) The Imperial Daleks accompanied Davros in Earth in 1815 during the Battle of Waterloo . He planned to replace Napoléon Bonaparte ' s mind with that of a Dalek and use Napoleon ' s mind for the Dalek battle computers . ( AUDIO : " The Curse of Davros " ) At a later stage in the war with the Renegades ( as he called them ) Davros created Imperial Daleks by grafting bionic appendages onto the bodies of Kaled mutants . Davros led the Imperial Daleks to Earth in 1963 to get the Hand of Omega . They secured Coal Hill School for a base , controlling the head teacher with a chip in his head and placing a Transmat station in the basement . When this was destroyed by the Doctor with Ace ' s baseball bat , they landed a shuttlecraft in the school ' s playground . They engaged in a battle with the Renegades , who seized the Hand , but interference by the Seventh Doctor led to the Imperials acquiring it . The Doctor tricked Davros into using the Hand of Omega ( TV : " Remembrance of the Daleks " ) to detonate Skaro ' s second sun , ( PROSE : " The Stranger " ) which caused it to turn supernova and destroy Skaro . Davros escaped his mothership in an escape pod . ( TV : " Remembrance of the Daleks " ) At some point after this , the names of the two factions were for some reason reversed , so the surviving Renegades , led by the Dalek Prime , called themselves Imperial Daleks . ( PROSE : " War of the Daleks " ) One account states that Davros ' escape pod was acquired by a garbage ship , the " Quetzel " , which the Eighth Doctor and Sam Jones also ended up on . A group of Thal s arrived , with the intention of using Davros to effectively turn them into Daleks so they could fight the Daleks better . A Dalek force arrived and took the " Quetzel " to a planet called Skaro . The Dalek Prime claimed that this was the original Skaro , and that the planet the Doctor had destroyed was a decoy called Antalin . The Dalek Prime knew that some of its own Daleks were loyal to Davros and put Davros on trial to flush them out . A battle ensued and the Dalek Prime emerged victorious . Davros was apparently executed but may have been teleported to safety by a loyal Spider Dalek . ( PROSE : " War of the Daleks " ) Another account states that Davros ' escape pod entered the time vortex and was found by a Nekkistani ship . Davros killed the crew . The Eighth Doctor , Samson Griffin and Gemma Griffin found the Nekkistani ship in the vortex and the Griffins boarded the ship to investigate . Davros exacted his revenge by sending them back to Earth , wiping the Doctor ' s memory of them and operating on the TARDIS . Samson was sent home and Gemma became part of the " resistance " to the new race of Daleks Davros made on Earth . They conquered the planet , leaving only the area where Samson lived free from Dalek control . When the Doctor , Charley Pollard and C ' rizz returned from the Divergent Universe , Davros was waiting for them . Davros ' mind had become fractured between his own personality and that of " the Emperor " . A series of events led to the Doctor actually giving the Daleks their Emperor and letting them leave Earth . Gemma was killed . Davros left Earth with his Daleks , the Emperor personality dominant . ( AUDIO : " Terror Firma " ) Characteristics . Appearance . In contrast to the drab grey and black Renegades , the sleeker Imperial Daleks had white livery with gold bumps and high - pitched , scratchy voices . These prototype models retained the classic eye - stalk and plungers , but also featured rounder bases . ( TV : " Revelation of the Daleks " ) Later Imperials had golden eye - stalks and appendages and a lozenge shape on the centre of their " shoulder " section , while the dome lights became transparent rings around opaque , flattened gold discs . The ends of their manipulator arms also became slightly funnel - shaped and slotted on two sides to fit into machinery . The skirt sections of these new Imperial casings were also slightly less tapered than was traditional - a change mirrored by their Renegade counterparts . ( TV : " Remembrance of the Daleks " ) A civil war , ostensibly over racial purity , broke out between the original , now Renegade Daleks , and the Imperial Daleks . Imperial Daleks augmented their battle tactics with the Special Weapons Dalek , now converted to the Imperial cause and sporting a tarnished white - and - gold casing . ( TV : " Remembrance of the Daleks " ) Power of flight . The Imperial Daleks could hover and fly ( TV : " Revelation of the Daleks " , COMIC : " Emperor of the Daleks " , TV : " Remembrance of the Daleks " ) like Davros himself in his wheelchair , before he assumed the title of Emperor . ( TV : " Revelation of the Daleks " , COMIC : " Emperor of the Daleks " )