Category: Tales From /lost+found

Daleks – Militaristic race from the planet Skaro. The Daleks were created by the scientist Davros by genetic engineering of the Kaled race to survive after their planet was heavily irradiated in a war with the Thals [OS: Genesis of the Daleks]. To protect their mutated bodies, the Daleks enclosed themselves in armored suits similar to small tanks, some of which, called “Spider-Daleks” moved on spider-like metal legs. The Doctor encountered a Dalek city and led to its destruction by disabling their power supply [OS: The Daleks]. He would return in a later incarnation and unwittingly reactivate it [US: Children of War]. The Daleks would make several attempts to conquer Earth in the twenty-first and twenty-second centuries [US: Invasion, OS: The Dalek Invasion of Earth, Day of the Daleks], and would ultimately build a large empire based in the Seriphia galaxy [OS: The Daleks’ Masterplan, BF: Dalek Empire]. The Dalek Empire fought wars with humans and their allies [OS: Death to the Daleks] and also with the android Movellans [OS: Destiny of the Daleks]. The Daleks possessed only a primitive form of time travel for most of their history and occasionally clashed with the Time Lords, attempting to steal the secrets of advanced time travel [OS: Resurrection of the Daleks, Remembrance of the Daleks], prompting the Time Lords to attempt to avert their creation. At some point late in their history they developed proper dimensionally transcendent timeships [OS: The Chase]. The Daleks were nearly wiped out in a rebellion by a Dalek faction which had been augmented with the “human factor” [OS: Evil of the Daleks]. Their recently captured creator was conscripted to engineer a new Dalek race, but Davros assumed the role of Dalek Emperor, leading to a civil war between his new Daleks and the surviving original Daleks. The Daleks considered the Doctor their greatest foe, calling him by the title “Bringer of Darkness”. The War Lords may have altered Dalek history to increase their militant xenophobia.

While I am on vacation, please enjoy this outdated fact from The Universal Databanque: A Compleat Encyclopaedia Of Doctor Who For The Exhaustively Nerdy, 2011 Edition:

Arcadia – A planet in Mutter’s Spiral which became entangled in the Time War. Arcadia was similar to Earth of the early twentieth century, but lacked Earth’s propensity for warfare. Zodin the War Queen infiltrated Arcadian society to stoke nationalistic impulses in order to advance Arcadian technological development. Her interference led to the planet’s first global war. Visiting Arcadia during this time period, the Doctor first became aware that the War Lords had become active again [PDA: Codicil]. Arcadia was rich in Kontron Crystals, which allowed them to rapidly develop space travel. The ninth Doctor, unaware of the role Arcadia was to play in the war, intervened to delay their development of Time Travel, believing Arcadian culture was not ready [HV: The Rise of Arcadia]. Some Arcadians became aware of the interference of the temporal powers in their history and successfully petitioned the Time Lords to establish a defense pact. Arcadia became strategically important for much of the war as the War Lords sought to capture the planet for its resources. In an attempt to extract the planet from the war, the tenth Doctor caused a chain reaction rendering most of the Kontron crystals inert [HV: The Siege of Arcadia]. However, this backfired when the Time Lords deprioritized the planet’s defense, leading to its devastation by a surprise War Lord attack [HV: The Fall of Arcadia]. Witnessing the fall of Arcadia prompted the eighth Doctor to pursue the Pandorica in order to end the war once and for all [BF: Other Wars]. Varnax was an Arcadian military leader who was allied with the Doctor prior to his corruption by the War Lords [WDA: The Ancestor Cell].

Morphic Orb – Genetic manipulator used by the Jagaroth. While trapped on Earth, the Jagaroth used the device to disguise himself as various indigenous life forms, eventually taking the identity of Mr. Jagger [US: The Last Time Lord]. The device stored the user’s original DNA to restore it later. When the Jagaroth attempted to alter his own timeline using the modified Time Destructor, Dr. Kelly Grace used the device to change his appearance to that of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, prompting his past-self to destroy him. The Doctor kept the device, and later used it to change himself into the human John Smith while dealing with his guilt over the destruction of Mondas [US: Human Nature]. The Vampire Lords tracked the device to Earth, intending to steal the Doctor’s genetic information to become vampire Time Lords. John Smith secretly changed himself back into the Doctor, so that when the vampires used it, it instead changed them into human vampires, making them vulnerable to the light from Earth’s sun [US: Lords of Blood]. The device had to be primed by extracting the biodata of the target species. The Doctor later modified the device so that this could be done non-lethally. The Jagaroth’s device contained archived biodata from over 1000 Earth species. The Doctor used it to swap biodata among delegates at the an interstellar peace conference to force them to cooperate [TDA: The Taking of Planet 5].

One more of these, this time with the “main” logo.

Cybermen – Cyborg race from the planet Mondas, sometimes called “Cybs”. Some time around 44 BC, Mondasian industrialist Hovard Regnos created the first Cybermen as a way to allow Mondasians to survive space travel in order to colonize their twin planet, Earth [US: Genesis of the Cybs]. After being converted into the first Cyberleader, Regnos changed his plans to forcibly convert the entire Mondasian population. Though the Doctor defeated Regnos and slowed the orbital shift of Mondas, the people of that planet slowly accepted voluntary cyber-conversion to survive worsening conditions on their planet over the next hundred years. Some time later, an advance party of Cybermen left Mondas, settling on Planet 14, which acted as a staging area for attacks on Earth in 1780 [US: The Iron Turk] and the 1970s [OS: The Invasion]. Mondas itself returned to attack Earth in 1986 [OS: The Tenth Planet] but was destroyed by absorbing too much energy. Due to the Doctor’s interference in their past and the effects of the Time War, history was altered so that these events occurred in 2003 instead [US: The Twin Planet/Shell Game]. After the destruction of Mondas, survivors from the advance party used scavenged Dalek technology to establish themselves in space [US: Daleks vs Cybermen], conquering the planets Telos and Cyberius [OS: Tomb of the Cybermen, US: Tomb of the Cybs], and would attack Earth repeatedly in the twenty-first century [US: Hearts of Steel, NA: Iceberg], as well as attacking human colonies and space stations [OS: The Moonbase, The Wheel in Space], eventually leading to a Cyber-War which left the Cybermen almost extinct [OS: Revenge of the Cybermen, Earthshock, Attack of the Cybermen]. The Cybermen would later be resurrected by humans in a bid to use their technology to win the Orion War [BF: The Sword of Orion, Cyberman]. Cybermen used brain surgery to suppress their capacity for emotion and would be driven violently insane if their emotions were restored by external stimulation [OS: The Invasion, US: The Last Cyb]. Cybermen were also vulnerable to gold, which interfered with the interface between their organic and technological components. At some point in the far future, reformed Cybermen known as “Cyber Lords” would somehow redeem all intelligent life [MA: The Crystal Bucephalus].

 

And this time, a color test of the “New new” logo associated with the 2013 revival.

I’m kind of sick and Dylan is insisting on invading my personal space all damn night, so here. Logo color test.

We’ve seen the 50th anniversary reprint before, but here’s the original…