I’ve always loved the idea of worker Dalek variants with their own unique manipulator arm. Makes them less one note in terms of the complexity of their civilisation.
When they were first created, there were meant to be artists and a full society. I imagine there's a few Dalek gardeners who trade in their weapons for clippers and a shovel.
i always thought the Dalek manipulator arm was some kind of force field emitter like the Sonic Screwdriver that could reshape matter or energy into any needed object or the ' sucker ' end was nano tech that was just in a default state and could be adapted to be any tool required. knowing the level the Daleks were on it was probably both.
I like the idea of a Dalek coming home after a long day only for his Dalek-wife to tell him a lightbulb’s gone out in the kitchen. The wife glides away and, a moment later, trundles back in to find her husband suspended from the ceiling, hiking up a toolbelt with one of his tentacles with unscrewing the broken bulb with the other- his travel machine with the lid off in the corner of the room.
I also want to hear Daleks singing "I've been working on the railroad" while doing theri stuff and the manager is like "silent, you will remain silent"-
So glad someone explored this topic!!! It's not something that would cross most people's minds when seeing the Daleks, but it's bugged me for years. I'd love to see a worker Dalek with a forklift style rig mounted to the skirt and gun box, replacing the apandages. I imagine they'd have versatile multi jointed manipulator arms to perform fine machinery work but also heavy lifting. Almost like an add-on to the Dalek casing.
@@ekij133 yeah, I love those. Some really fun ways they show how that version of Dalek society works. Some are comedic but a lot are great. I love the anti aircraft guns and the mechs they use.
You gotta love that the Daleks are fast builders. And if not that, they're efficient at it. I especially love the background thought of all Daleks being on the same page regarding resource allocation, as to what project would be better for the entire race. Instead of how other governments struggle to satisfy everyone's needs.
Mechmaster’s Second Empire comic featured a ton of specialized vehicles which could allow Daleks to load and carry heavy machinery, and even more dexterous Daleks with a bit more limb movement than normal
From clues in previous episodes that show them able to construct rough casings in their ‘blobby’ form but self-repair using only ingested energy in their final shell form, I’d imagine internal nanobot tech, able to ’3D Print’ whatever they can program fully detailed plans for using suitable raw materials, hence the need for slave miners.
Honestly I really like the idea that the Dalek has a more complex and deeper society with many parts of it - like historians, Workers, Artists and so on. The whole "Daleks are only killing machines" is to short thinked and there is often implied there is more behind Dalek Culture than that.
It would be interesting to see more of the inner workings of Dalek cities. Like how the Doctor and co have infiltrated Dalek cities before in the classic series.
Don't forget that all daleks have a level of telekinesis, so it is possible that early Daleks used this to build their initial structures and then moved to more efficient means! Personally all of these make 100% sense, you need specaliste to repair major damage and assemble specalised equipment, slave labour can be used to build structures and mining, and drones can be used for superficial damage, or to get to areas a standard dalek cant get. They wouldn't want slave labour to be apart of major technical construction (unless theyre specifically using intelligent people, like in Evil of the daleks, to construct something they cant themselves) due to the risk of information being leaked to the wider universe
Would a dalek that failed in it's task be demoted to worker dalek as punishment. Since they are not gonna be killings things and instead outfitted for building would that be seen as a punishment or do the Daleks consider any task that benefits them a good thing?
@@PerovNigma, “some day I will some day yeah” And then one day it did what no dalek has done before and shot the doctor then shot him again when he started regenerating. And that’s The end of the little Dalek that could.
There's a 2nd doctor comic from the 90s i believe that has a small group of daleks stranded on a planet trying to use parts of their broken ship to create a communications device to call for help. In one panel a dalek is shown to have a projector like machine in place of its manipulator arm which it uses to make a bubble like force field to lift and move parts of the communications device. I assume the projector arm worked through some form of anti gravity and it's my favorite explanation for how daleks build things.
It is confirmed that daleks used slave labour to build dalek ships and gather fuel for them in the dalek empire series (which they talk about a lot) also you have to remember the first dalek production line was built by the kaleds so the daleks likely used that for a while till they were ready and the plunger has shown to have incredible strength so it could probably hold things to help build. Also I am pretty sure in we are the daleks they mention how they use nano technology to make buildings on skaro and the Zenos tower
I mean, if my memory’s correct on this, I feel that I can recall Daleks also plundering such infrastructure - be them ship, facilities, or other such things - from other species they’ve conquered to use for their own needs.
I love the idea of a escaped darlec looking around before leaving his encasing and grabbing a stone to start rebuilding they civilisation. But in hinsight its much more likely they look around for a slave or convert parts of they casing into nanobots.
I wouldn't usually make a suggestion, but just so its out there: If you like, you could do a video on the music used for the daleks, from the 60s dalek themes to the Segun Akinola's most recent one. Just an idea.
Considering that Daleks can regenerate their casings in some instances it would seem like they have something like Nanobots at their disposal but they might just be used for the initial set up of a base and not to build everything.
I think you have to go back to the Tom Baker era to see what he original designer of the Dalek had in mind from the beginning. Perhaps it was similar to how the cylons who outlived their creators. They must have foreseen this eventuality and designed a solution.
When fish encounter humans they wonder how humans could build ships or submarines. Our _superior technology_ is beyond the understanding of _inferior beings_ !
A Dalek can change it's "body" like a human can change their clothes. If a Dalek needs to do garbage collection, it will never drive a garbage truck - it will occupy a specialised casing that is a garbage truck.
Would be cool to see purpose built daleks with buzz saw and blow torch, instead of a gun stick and manipulator arm, it defeats every purpose of what a dalek is but at least they can build stuff 🤷🏼♂️😂😂😂
#4. Daleks have been seen promising things of value in exchange for goods and services, i.e. trade. (Although usually not honourably.) #5. We've also seen them employing paid mercenaries. Maybe they employ people to do other jobs. #6. Do Daleks ever just steal things? (Other than planets I mean.)
shoplifting is hard without a bag, or pockets. you can't just glide out of the shop with a family size bag of monster munch stuck to your plunger. till-dude's going to notice.
Honestly i dont think the daleks would be happy if they exterminated every one. Like their clearly minal labour that they see as bellow them and im sure the daleks would prefer slaves to work for them than do it themselfs. So assuming their successful in the time war and wipe out all non dalek life forms, i still imagine they would revive alot of them to work as robomen and mindless slave labour
I’ve always loved the idea of worker Dalek variants with their own unique manipulator arm. Makes them less one note in terms of the complexity of their civilisation.
When they were first created, there were meant to be artists and a full society. I imagine there's a few Dalek gardeners who trade in their weapons for clippers and a shovel.
i always thought the Dalek manipulator arm was some kind of force field emitter like the Sonic Screwdriver that could reshape matter or energy into any needed object or the ' sucker ' end was nano tech that was just in a default state and could be adapted to be any tool required.
knowing the level the Daleks were on it was probably both.
I like to think of the Cushing Dalek claw as being like a maintenance or engineering tool.
I like the idea of a Dalek coming home after a long day only for his Dalek-wife to tell him a lightbulb’s gone out in the kitchen.
The wife glides away and, a moment later, trundles back in to find her husband suspended from the ceiling, hiking up a toolbelt with one of his tentacles with unscrewing the broken bulb with the other- his travel machine with the lid off in the corner of the room.
Dalek builder bum?
I also want to hear Daleks singing "I've been working on the railroad" while doing theri stuff and the manager is like "silent, you will remain silent"-
*dalek 1* "hi ho ! hi ho ! it's off to "
*dalek 2* " si-lence ! do not siiiing "
We all know that:
1) Daleks do not sing
and
2) Daleks do not have managers
I have never noticed the daleks from stolen earth had those contraptions
We must assume they have construction machines. However, it would be appropriate for the Daleks that construction might be a weakness
I like the idea of daleks ourside their casings slamming energy drinks and welding together the assembly lines
While singing "Everything is Awesome" in their ridiculous monotone screech.
So glad someone explored this topic!!! It's not something that would cross most people's minds when seeing the Daleks, but it's bugged me for years.
I'd love to see a worker Dalek with a forklift style rig mounted to the skirt and gun box, replacing the apandages. I imagine they'd have versatile multi jointed manipulator arms to perform fine machinery work but also heavy lifting. Almost like an add-on to the Dalek casing.
Mechmaster's graphic Dalek novels show some excellent examples of Daleks operating various types of machinery.
@@ekij133 yeah, I love those. Some really fun ways they show how that version of Dalek society works. Some are comedic but a lot are great. I love the anti aircraft guns and the mechs they use.
I like to imagine that it's simply an amalgamation of all 3, depending on the situation.
You gotta love that the Daleks are fast builders. And if not that, they're efficient at it. I especially love the background thought of all Daleks being on the same page regarding resource allocation, as to what project would be better for the entire race. Instead of how other governments struggle to satisfy everyone's needs.
Mechmaster’s Second Empire comic featured a ton of specialized vehicles which could allow Daleks to load and carry heavy machinery, and even more dexterous Daleks with a bit more limb movement than normal
From clues in previous episodes that show them able to construct rough casings in their ‘blobby’ form but self-repair using only ingested energy in their final shell form, I’d imagine internal nanobot tech, able to ’3D Print’ whatever they can program fully detailed plans for using suitable raw materials, hence the need for slave miners.
Fantastic ideas. I'd love to see more of this on-screen. I like the idea of construction or architect Daleks.
My head canon is that the Daleks use their psychokinetic abilities (as seen in Death to the Daleks) to telekinetically build and repair things.
It is an interesting question I suspect its a combination of all 3.
I’ve just imagined a Dalek variant with two Swedish Chef style human arms
It’s simple, The Dalek have a construction team
Honestly I really like the idea that the Dalek has a more complex and deeper society with many parts of it - like historians, Workers, Artists and so on. The whole "Daleks are only killing machines" is to short thinked and there is often implied there is more behind Dalek Culture than that.
well, this also explains how they do any scientific experiments to develop any new technology.
It would be interesting to see more of the inner workings of Dalek cities. Like how the Doctor and co have infiltrated Dalek cities before in the classic series.
Like the classic thunderbirds machines
We also know that Daleks have nano technology, so they could use nanite swarms to build large constructs as well.
Don't forget that all daleks have a level of telekinesis, so it is possible that early Daleks used this to build their initial structures and then moved to more efficient means! Personally all of these make 100% sense, you need specaliste to repair major damage and assemble specalised equipment, slave labour can be used to build structures and mining, and drones can be used for superficial damage, or to get to areas a standard dalek cant get. They wouldn't want slave labour to be apart of major technical construction (unless theyre specifically using intelligent people, like in Evil of the daleks, to construct something they cant themselves) due to the risk of information being leaked to the wider universe
Awesome...never realised hoverbots were in new who with that weird robot thing!
Oh yeah the return of the command and conquer music to jam to while watching the video!
Daleks have hundreds of script writers enslaved so that they can become the most OP beings in all of the multiverse.
Would a dalek that failed in it's task be demoted to worker dalek as punishment. Since they are not gonna be killings things and instead outfitted for building would that be seen as a punishment or do the Daleks consider any task that benefits them a good thing?
Thay where bred for thare jobs I think
@@plantainsame2049 That makes sense, now we just need a story about a little worker dalek who dreams of being a drone and killing.
@@paladinboyd1228 Every day, it looks down at its standard-issue gunstick and hopes it will get the chance to use it.
@@PerovNigma, “some day I will some day yeah”
And then one day it did what no dalek has done before and shot the doctor then shot him again when he started regenerating.
And that’s The end of the little Dalek that could.
There's a 2nd doctor comic from the 90s i believe that has a small group of daleks stranded on a planet trying to use parts of their broken ship to create a communications device to call for help. In one panel a dalek is shown to have a projector like machine in place of its manipulator arm which it uses to make a bubble like force field to lift and move parts of the communications device. I assume the projector arm worked through some form of anti gravity and it's my favorite explanation for how daleks build things.
It is confirmed that daleks used slave labour to build dalek ships and gather fuel for them in the dalek empire series (which they talk about a lot) also you have to remember the first dalek production line was built by the kaleds so the daleks likely used that for a while till they were ready and the plunger has shown to have incredible strength so it could probably hold things to help build. Also I am pretty sure in we are the daleks they mention how they use nano technology to make buildings on skaro and the Zenos tower
I mean, if my memory’s correct on this, I feel that I can recall Daleks also plundering such infrastructure - be them ship, facilities, or other such things - from other species they’ve conquered to use for their own needs.
I love the idea of a escaped darlec looking around before leaving his encasing and grabbing a stone to start rebuilding they civilisation.
But in hinsight its much more likely they look around for a slave or convert parts of they casing into nanobots.
There is a comic where we see a dalek using an antigravity arm to move around parts in the story Bringer of Darkness.
I wouldn't usually make a suggestion, but just so its out there:
If you like, you could do a video on the music used for the daleks, from the 60s dalek themes to the Segun Akinola's most recent one.
Just an idea.
*"We will explain later"*
Wasn’t expecting based c&c music
Considering that Daleks can regenerate their casings in some instances it would seem like they have something like Nanobots at their disposal but they might just be used for the initial set up of a base and not to build everything.
This should be also showed in future doctor who series
Nah they just summon bob the builder to help them out 😂
Blob the builder
Special Dalek worker drones make sense if we go that route.
They do have a weirdly nice sense of aesthetic, for a bunch of murderous cyborgs.
I think you have to go back to the Tom Baker era to see what he original designer of the Dalek had in mind from the beginning. Perhaps it was similar to how the cylons who outlived their creators. They must have foreseen this eventuality and designed a solution.
Yes please do more explanation
Makes sense that all three would happen.
🐙
Personally I believe that the Dalek’s use of slave labour to build things is their preferred method
All of the above
When fish encounter humans they wonder how humans could build ships or submarines. Our _superior technology_ is beyond the understanding of _inferior beings_ !
I wish We could see this again and by the main reason, btw What if doctor who villains and even Daleks were charged for their crimes
Daleks camp?
They can be.
"Exterminate, ducky".
I imagine they have "disciplinary hearings" for Daleks that don't work well, i.e. extermination
I rather the dalek tools and Dalek construction factory and even Manned drones, Btw Their factory reminds me of cars construction
A Dalek can change it's "body" like a human can change their clothes. If a Dalek needs to do garbage collection, it will never drive a garbage truck - it will occupy a specialised casing that is a garbage truck.
Architects have only a little more respect in Dalek society than medics do in Sontaran strategy
Would be cool to see purpose built daleks with buzz saw and blow torch, instead of a gun stick and manipulator arm, it defeats every purpose of what a dalek is but at least they can build stuff 🤷🏼♂️😂😂😂
#4. Daleks have been seen promising things of value in exchange for goods and services, i.e. trade. (Although usually not honourably.)
#5. We've also seen them employing paid mercenaries. Maybe they employ people to do other jobs.
#6. Do Daleks ever just steal things? (Other than planets I mean.)
shoplifting is hard without a bag, or pockets. you can't just glide out of the shop with a family size bag of monster munch stuck to your plunger. till-dude's going to notice.
I think Daleks use robot's and construction devices. Slave labour was certainly used but normally where there were large populations.
Honestly i dont think the daleks would be happy if they exterminated every one. Like their clearly minal labour that they see as bellow them and im sure the daleks would prefer slaves to work for them than do it themselfs.
So assuming their successful in the time war and wipe out all non dalek life forms, i still imagine they would revive alot of them to work as robomen and mindless slave labour
With slave labour. When they ran out of slaves on Skaro they started conquering other planets
But mostley Dakleks have slaves, slaves either build stuff and suffer great pain, or elsls they suffer greater painas they get exterminated
Hey dalek bumps, or are they t1ts.
I always just assumed it was slave labour.