22nd century Dalek invasion The 22nd century Dalek invasion , sometimes known as the First Dalek War ( PROSE : " Prelude Deceit " ) was a conflict between human ity and the Dalek s , consisting of Dalek attacks on human colonies followed by a decade long occupation of Earth in the 2150s and 60s . ( TV : " The Dalek Invasion of Earth " , et al . ) Thirty year s later , in the 2190s , they reprised and updated their plan . ( AUDIO : " Lucie Miller " / " To the Death " ) History . Foreseeing . In 1903 , after receiving a wealth of information from the future , Grigori Rasputin foresaw , among other things , the First Doctor , Ian Chesterton , Barbara Wright and Susan Foreman battling " strange beings " who had invaded Earth in the future . ( AUDIO : " The Wanderer " ) Origins . The early Daleks knew of the existence of other planet s even though a lack of space travel confined them to Skaro . When Kest , a Krattorian slave trader , landed on the planet , the Daleks were able to acquire from him the plans to create their own spacecrafts . ( COMIC : " Power Play " ) Going with a flying saucer design , the Daleks invaded Alvega , ( COMIC : " The Amaryll Challenge " ) , Solturis , ( COMIC : " The Penta Ray Factor " ) , and Phryne , ( COMIC : " The Archives of Phryne " ) with plans for other planets such as Oric . ( COMIC : " Eve of War " ) The existence of Earth , however , managed to elude the Daleks for a time , the planet long being their blind spot . ( COMIC : " Legacy of Yesteryear " , " The Road to Conflict " ) Nevertheless , they did know of the existence of humans and tensions began to rise . In one instance , a Dalek created with human - like quailities seized control from the Dalek Emperor and began to teach the Daleks that beauty was a strength . To solve the problem , the Emperor likened the strength of beauty to flower s , which withered and died . Beauty therefore did not last which meant it could not be a source of strength and was for human beings . The Emperor had the rebel Dalek destroyed and issued a new Dalek order , stating that humans were to be destroyed . ( COMIC : " Shadow of Humanity " ) The Daleks also faced what they called the human spirit in the humanoid species from the planet Jevo . Although they were destroyed , the Emperor wondered how the Daleks would fare against such a resilient spirit in " the all - out war on all human beings . . . everywhere . " ( COMIC : " The Emissaries of Jevo " ) Humanity remained unaware the Daleks were plotting against them . By the late 21st century , humans had experienced the Break - out and possessed a number of colonies beyond Earth . ( PROSE : " Prelude Deceit " ) Years prior to the invasion , ( PROSE : " The Power of the Daleks " ) , the human colonists on Vulcan were threatened by a smaller - scale Dalek attack . ( TV : " The Power of the Daleks " ) However , by 2136 , both Vulcan and the Daleks were considered little more than legends . ( PROSE : " The Murder Game " ) In the mid - 22nd century , an Earth - made ship , the " Starmaker " , was pounded by a meteor storm and forced to land on Skaro . The Daleks destroyed the ship . The only survivors were Captain Flint Fleet and two children , siblings Tom and Jennie , who escaped in a Dalek saucer to warn Earth of the danger posed by the Daleks . Among the wreckage of the " Starmaker " , the Daleks found the remains of a piece of paper which revealed to them the existence and location of Earth . The Emperor declared that the Daleks would search for Earth and conquer it . ( COMIC : " The Road to Conflict " ) When the Daleks first ventured into the Sol System , their fleet was initially repelled by Earth forces led by Commander Trent with the help of the Elders . The Emperor , the Black Dalek and the Red Dalek escaped and resolved to return . ( COMIC : " Return of the Elders " ) Colony attacks . The invasion began in 2157 with mysterious attacks on Sifranos in the Arcturus sector ( a moon of Sifranos was destroyed , one billion settlers being massacred ) , Azure , Qartopholos , ( PROSE : " Lucifer Rising " ) and Mars . ( TV : " Genesis of the Daleks " ) These were followed by the plague attacks directly on Earth while the Dalek Fleet massed near Epsilon Eridani . With the colonies destroyed , Earth could expect no assistance from them when the Daleks invaded Earth in 2158 . ( PROSE : " Lucifer Rising " ) The Daleks operated a blockade of the Solar system to prevent Earth ' s colonies from attempting to liberate their homeworld . The colonies experienced many problems from the occupation , as they were dependent , to a degree , on communication with and support from Earth . ( PROSE : " GodEngine , Lucifer Rising " ) Later in 2157 , the Daleks attempted to invade Mars . However , the inhabitants developed a genetically engineered virus that attacked their spacecrafts wiring , meaning that this invasion attempt had failed . ( TV : " Genesis of the Daleks " , PROSE : " GodEngine " ) Earth ' s invasion . The first incident of the invasion came in 2157 , when Earth was bombarded with meteorite s . At first this was thought the result of a cosmic storm , but shortly after things had returned to normal , people started dying of a new plague sent by the Daleks via the meteorites . The majority of the population of Africa , Asia and South America died before human s could find a cure . ( TV : " The Dalek Invasion of Earth " ) Some human s were immune to the plague , because the Seventh Doctor had given to Piper O ' Rourke a counter - virus that conferred immunity to make sure that there would be humans left to help his first incarnation defeat the invasion . ( PROSE : " Lucifer Rising " ) The Terran Security Forces were easily defeated by the Daleks . ( PROSE : " The Final Sanction " ) Iris Wildthyme visited Putney Common during the invasion . A Dalek saucer landed on the Common , Iris and her friends were among the first to throw homemade bombs at it . ( PROSE : " From Wildthyme with Love " ) At some point , New York City was completely destroyed . London , on the other hand , though one of the locations where the Daleks landed , was merely occupied and remained relatively intact ( TV : " The Dalek Invasion of Earth " ) although the city suffered some of the worst attacks since the Blitz and the 1944 V1 and V2 attacks by the Nazi s during World War II , with the Daleks reducing many areas to gravel . ( PROSE : " Illegal Alien " ) Some areas of the city became infested with wolves , with a " danger zone " being identified wherein it was unsafe to live . ( COMIC : " When the Wolves Came " ) The Daleks held the Earth for about ten years . During the occupation period , small groups of human resistance fighters continued to exist . ( TV : " The Dalek Invasion of Earth " ) The Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown landed in 2163 . The Daleks were unfamiliar with the Doctor , thinking he was a human . The Doctor was interrogated by a Black Dalek . He foiled the Daleks ' plan to unleash a Varga plant virus . The Doctor and Peri also defeated the Roboman Elite and erased any record of his involvement afterwards but the invasion continued . ( AUDIO : " Masters of Earth " ) The Daleks commenced a mining operation in Bedfordshire in order to reach the Earth ' s magnetic core , replace it with a propulsion system , and turn the whole planet into a massive spacecraft . ( TV : " The Dalek Invasion of Earth " ) Liberation . In 2167 , ( AUDIO : " The Mutant Phase " ) the Daleks announced that they would destroy London . A freedom fighter named Dortmun , who had been developing explosives , initiated an attack on the Daleks ' saucer at the London helipad . Although the attack liberated several prisoners of the Daleks , the bombs did not work effectively against the Daleks , leading to several casualties . Ian Chesterton , who had accompanied the freedom fighters , remained on the saucer as it travelled to Bedfordshire . Following the saucer attack , the First Doctor , his granddaughter Susan and some of the resistance fighters who had been based in London ( including David Campbell ) travelled to the site of the Daleks ' mining operation at Bedfordshire . Barbara Wright and Jenny also ( independently ) made their way to Bedfordshire , but were captured . They all , however , assisted in the final destruction of the centre of Dalek operations on Earth . In the aftermath , the Daleks withdrew from the planet . Susan decided to remain in this time period with David . ( TV : " The Dalek Invasion of Earth " ) Iris Wildthyme once claimed she had ended the invasion with her companion Jeremy . ( PROSE : " The Scarlet Empress " ) Aftermath of the first invasion . The invasion killed about two - thirds of Earth ' s population . The Moonbase was cut off from the planet and the moon colonists were trapped on the satellite . About thirty years later the liberation , humans had grown xenophobic about aliens , rejecting Dalek technology in public burnings and regressing the level of the planet ' s technology by about two centuries . An Earth Council was in charge , handling the reconstruction . ( AUDIO : " An Earthly Child " ) In the 2169 , Homunculette and Marie visited the ruins of the House of Commons to buy the Relic from the Black Man , who was selling remnants from the Toy Store . ( PROSE : " Alien Bodies " ) P . J . Ring became a Revelator and later a saint after being exposed to the Source during the end of the invasion . ( PROSE : " A Star ' s View of Caroline " ) Reprise . In the 2190s , the Dalek Time Controller organised a second invasion of the planet . The Daleks were helped by the Time Lord known as the Monk , who brought on Earth a plague that killed and affected a number of people . The master plan was to pilot the Earth with a time warp engine , which would have become a plague planet teeming with the Amethyst virus es , through time and space , infecting entire planets . The invasion was stopped by the Eighth Doctor , thanks to the sacrifice of Lucie Miller and Alex Campbell . ( AUDIO : " Lucie Miller " / " To the Death " ) Legacy . The Daleks eventually identified the First Doctor and his companion s and discovered their key role in " delay [ ing ] " the conquest of Earth . A squad of Daleks embarked from Skaro in a time machine on a mission to assassinate them . ( TV : " The Chase " ) Forced by Davros to reveal to him the Daleks ' future defeats , the Fourth Doctor recounted an invasion of Earth , possibly an inaccurate version of these events . He stated that the invasion occurred in the year 2000 and that the magnetic properties of Earth ' s core itself helped to defeat the Daleks , as well as the determination of human resistance fighters . ( TV : " Genesis of the Daleks " ) In 2199 , a Dalek research facility , DA - 17 , remained intact . The Eighth Doctor and his granddaughter Susan were trapped along with and new Daleks were produced by the hatchery . They attempted to conquer England but were destroyed when DA - 17 exploded . ( PROSE : " Legacy of the Daleks " ) Following the second invasion , Susan made her home in a block of flats which had once been Coal Hill School . Despite the Doctor ' s efforts to distract her , Susan found that she had been sent Hypercube messages from the Time Lord s , whom were engaged in a time war against the Daleks . Citing her participation in the resistance against the two Dalek invasions on Earth as well as reasoning that the Daleks would ultimately return should the Time Lords fall , Susan decided to accept their request and join the war despite the Doctor ' s protest , summoning a TARDIS to collect her . ( AUDIO : " All Hands on Deck " ) By the beginning of the 23rd century , the invasion remained a source of much anxiety on Earth as governments tried to rebuild . With government approval , a powerful cartel of Earth conglomerates offered to rebuild and invest in the Terran Security Forces which grew into a huge army within five years . This army was used to combat the Selachian s when their expanding power on the galactic market threatened that of Earth , and by 2204 , they had all but destroyed the last outposts of the Selachian Empire . ( PROSE : " The Final Sanction " ) Vicki Pallister learned about the invasion from the history book s in her native time period of the 25th century . ( TV : " The Space Museum " , " The Chase " ) By Steven Taylor ' s native time period , New York City had yet to be rebuilt in its entirety . ( PROSE : " Salvation " ; AUDIO : " Return of the Rocket Men " ) In the year 4000 , when the Dalek Empire sought to strike from Kembel and destroy the Solar System , the First Doctor urged Bret Vyon to contact Earth and tell them to look into the invasion of 2157 , hopeful that history would show them the way to defeat the Daleks again . ( TV : " The Daleks ' Master Plan " ) Alternate timelines . In a divergent timeline , a Dalek in Kansas in 2158 , severely damaged by resistance forces , was stung by a parasitic wasp and implanted with eggs . The Daleks adjusted with a minor gene tic change to counteract the eggs . Thousands of years later the genetic change resulted in the Mutant Phase , transforming the Daleks into nearly indestructible interstellar insects . The timeline was destroyed when the Fifth Doctor stopped the Dalek Emperor from implementing an ineffective pesticide . ( AUDIO : " The Mutant Phase " ) In a timeline created in which used a conceptual bomb to prevent the Doctor from leaving Gallifrey , the Dalek occupation was never repelled . ( AUDIO : " The Light at the End " )