Doctor Who: Target - Novelisations [148] - Remembrance of the Daleks by Ben Aaronovitch

Author:Ben Aaronovitch
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science-Fiction - Doctor Who
ISBN: 9780426203377
Publisher: Target Books
Published: 1990-09-12T22:00:00+00:00

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Saturday, 15:31

The Movellan War was the most disastrous military campaign the Daleks fought. It is perhaps fitting that it took an android race to perceive the Daleks’ ultimate weakness. When the blow came it took the Daleks’ strategic planners by surprise. They had used biological weapons against many races, in the Spiridon campaign, for example. It never occurred to the Daleks that they might be vulnerable to bacteriological warfare.

The Daleks suffered eighty-three per cent casualties. The great empire that had dominated so much of Mutter’s Spiral disintegrated overnight. Its great battlefleets were shattered, its industrial base gone like smoke, and the Daleks’ homeworld [Skaro] isolated. Remnants of the sector commands became the various factions that characterize Dalek politics to this day…

… the Daleks attempted to use their time corridor technology to repair the damage but to no avail… it was Davros’s subversion of the imperial Skarosian Daleks that opened the schism between them and the renegades. The unthinkable became reality – civil war.

The Children of Dams, Vol XIX

by Njeri Ngugi (4065)

Ace flattened herself against the side of the car, cold metal under her palms. She could feel the Doctor as a tense presence beside her. Ace risked a look over the bonnet. A grey Dalek went silently past, followed by two more, moving quickly down the road.

That makes six so far, thought Ace. Where are they coming from?

The Doctor tapped her shoulder. ‘This way,’ he said, and moved off.

Ace followed the Doctor away from the parked car, gardens backed onto the street on one side, the other side was lined with warehouses. The Doctor led her towards a set of open gates marked in white letters:

Ratcliffe and Co Ltd

Roofing and construction.

‘The main staging area must be in that warehouse,’ said the Doctor.

‘Are we going to have a look?’ asked Ace.

‘Might as well,’ said the Doctor.

Ace caught a glimpse of something moving behind one of the gates. ‘Look out.’

There were no cars to hide behind here. The Doctor snagged her with his umbrella and pulled her back against the wall. There was a wooden door; the Doctor gave a sharp shove at the lock and the door sprang open. A small china sign warned them to beware of the dog.

‘In here,’ said the Doctor, hustling Ace through. She quickly closed the door behind them and turned around.

They were in a long, narrow, well-kept garden. Washing was hung out on a white line, there was no sign of movement from the house. A large Alsation sat on the lawn and watched them.

‘Nice doggie,’ Ace said hopefully.

The Doctor watched the street through a knot-hole.

‘I think that’s the lot,’ said the Doctor after a minute.

He opened the door and stepped into the street. The Alsation watched them go with incurious eyes.

‘So where are they?’ Gilmore could feel things slipping out of his control.

‘I’ve checked the whole building, sir,’ said Mike.

‘They’ve gone.’

Gilmore didn’t need this, not now, not with the Ministry of Defence breathing clown his neck. A square mile of Shoreditch had been evacuated. They wouldn’t be able to keep a lid on events forever, whatever the cover story.

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