Birth of a Legend: Origin of the Cult of Skaro

[Candlelight]

I was writing a fan fiction about the origins of the Cult of Skaro and learned someone beat me to it.

http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Birth_of_a_Legend

Can anyone post the synopsis of it so I know how much I managed to surprisingly develop myself and what I got waaay wrong. Or is it really as short and simple as the Tardis Wiki site says?

I hear the production team officially sanctioned this story so am keen to hear about it.

 

[Stevil2001]

It is fairly short and simple. It takes place before the Time War, though the Dalek Emperor has an inkling it is coming. The beginning of the story has Dalek Sec (though he's not called that yet) working to wipe out some Mechanoids, which he does. Then he is summoned back to Skaro, where the Emperor goes, "YOU ARE ALL THE CULT OF SKARO NOW. HERE ARE YOUR NAMES AND A NEW CASING." And the cult is all, "WHOA."

I think the TARDIS wikia just means "licensed" by "officially sanctioned"; I've never heard that the stories represent the "true vision" of the production team. It is collected in the generically-titled The "Doctor Who" Stories if you'd like to read it.

 

[Bones2]

It was a bit of a bollocks idea though, wasn't it? The Daleks think they're the supreme beings in the universe and yet they seem to have realised it wouldn't quite work out, so they create a Cult that for some reason has more imagination. Or some nonsense. I mean bloody hell, that Russell T Davies was a right idiot.

 

[TedShatner10]

Maybe the Cult of Skaro assumed names (secret names) so they could identify with each other better than the regular Daleks? Other than their specialized talents and formulated plans to advance/preserve the Dalek race, they seem to be quite conventional Daleks and before heading off their Void craft, they perhaps led a double life seperated from each other for decades/centuries at a time.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

It was a bit of a bollocks idea though, wasn't it? The Daleks think they're the supreme beings in the universe and yet they seem to have realised it wouldn't quite work out, so they create a Cult that for some reason has more imagination. Or some nonsense.

Is that any different than their attempt in "Evil of the Daleks" to discern the "human factor"? The Daleks, even early on, recognized that there were not, in fact, supreme; humanity (and the Doctor) bested them, so there must have been something that gave them the edge. The idea that imagination could give the Daleks an edge isn't a stretch. It's no more nonsensical than "Evil," really.

 

[Stevil2001]

Also, it's the upper echelons of the Daleks who recognize this-- obviously, leaders rarely believe their own propaganda.

 

[Candlelight]

It is fairly short and simple. It takes place before the Time War, though the Dalek Emperor has an inkling it is coming. The beginning of the story has Dalek Sec (though he's not called that yet) working to wipe out some Mechanoids, which he does. Then he is summoned back to Skaro, where the Emperor goes, "YOU ARE ALL THE CULT OF SKARO NOW. HERE ARE YOUR NAMES AND A NEW CASING." And the cult is all, "WHOA."

I think the TARDIS wikia just means "licensed" by "officially sanctioned"; I've never heard that the stories represent the "true vision" of the production team. It is collected in the generically-titled The "Doctor Who" Stories if you'd like to read it.

Ha! Everything in bold is what I created myself.

From there Dalek Sec takes over and gives everyone names, vows they're more powerful than the Emperor, etc.

 

[The Wormhole]

Maybe the Cult of Skaro assumed names (secret names)

Their names weren't secret. In Doomsday when they tell the Doctor their names, he immediately recognizes those names as belonging to the Cult of Skaro.

 

[Bones2]

It was a bit of a bollocks idea though, wasn't it? The Daleks think they're the supreme beings in the universe and yet they seem to have realised it wouldn't quite work out, so they create a Cult that for some reason has more imagination. Or some nonsense.

Is that any different than their attempt in "Evil of the Daleks" to discern the "human factor"? The Daleks, even early on, recognized that there were not, in fact, supreme; humanity (and the Doctor) bested them, so there must have been something that gave them the edge. The idea that imagination could give the Daleks an edge isn't a stretch. It's no more nonsensical than "Evil," really.

Maybe. But by the time of Doomsday, they'd become powerful enough to challenge the Time Lords for all of creation. I doubt by that point they were too bothered that the humans used to be able to give them the runaround. When it's not been long since you weren't able to leave your own city because of the floor, then you probably won't start thinking everything else in the universe is obviously inferior. But when you're the most powerful and feared race in the universe? I think by that point they'd be fairly secure in thinking they're the business.

And another implication would seem to be that other Daleks before they created the Cult were deliberately less brilliant than they could have been.

 

[Starkers]

It was a bit of a bollocks idea though, wasn't it? The Daleks think they're the supreme beings in the universe and yet they seem to have realised it wouldn't quite work out, so they create a Cult that for some reason has more imagination. Or some nonsense.

Is that any different than their attempt in "Evil of the Daleks" to discern the "human factor"? The Daleks, even early on, recognized that there were not, in fact, supreme; humanity (and the Doctor) bested them, so there must have been something that gave them the edge. The idea that imagination could give the Daleks an edge isn't a stretch. It's no more nonsensical than "Evil," really.

Nor any more ridiculous than them realising they needed Davros in order to be able to defeat the Movellans...

 

[JoeZhang]

Are we likely to see the cult again? I just have a hunch the answer is no.

 

[The Wormhole]

Are we likely to see the cult again? I just have a hunch the answer is no.

Considering their last surviving member was on board the Crucible when it blew...

But then again, so was Davros, and do you really think Journey's End is the last time we'll see him?

 

[Candlelight]

Are we likely to see the cult again? I just have a hunch the answer is no.

Not unless it's a story set between Doomsday and Daleks in Mahatten, or before Doomsday itself.