- Central, single eye
- Mutants possessed numerous tentacles
- Encased in metal armour;
- Single mechanical eyestalk in a rotating dome
- Gunstick & a manipulator arm
- The lower portion of the casing was studded with Spheres
- Connected to its casing through a positronic link
- Intensely xenophobic
- Bent on universal domination or the extermination of all non-Dalek life
- Kaleds & Thals fought a long nuclear civil war
- Davros experimented on the Kaleds, turned them into mutants, Daleks
- They destroyed the Thals, took control of Skaro
- Develop space travel and begin off world expansion
- Repeatedly attempted to invade Earth, defeated by the Doctor
- Wars between Daleks & the Time Lords, escalated into the Last Great Time War
- Massive damage to time & reality itself, most Dalek were terminated
- Cult of Skaro preserves Dalek knowledge & technology
- Emperor re-establishes large scale production, continually suffer defeats & near extinctions
