Second empire and Trapped in Amber by Mechmaster
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Overview: Mechmaster a 3d artist most known for both his mecha model images and alternate universe Dalek comic strips. The Dalek comic strip caught my attention, not just because it was (to me) a new take on the Daleks but also because a fellow CG modeller, Iain McLumpha, had used 3D graphics to create some new and original Dalek comics in the style of the original TV21 stories. As a newcomer to comic art I had completely underestimated how long it would take to tell my ‘simple’ story in that format and I have just taken a break from working on page 557 to write this introduction. Second Empire has become the biggest, most sustained CG project I have ever worked on and despite the years I have spent on it I am having just as much fun doing it now as I was when I first started.And yet,If I had watched something other than Doctor Who that night in 2007 I might never have become interested in Daleks and if I hadn’t found Project Dalek and the work of Iain McLumpha I would probably never have tried my hand at a comic strip.
Genre: SciFi Comedy Satire Parody
Dalek Second Empire
The story follows that of General Xenol of the First Conquest Army. Having ignored the orders of the Golden Emperor to establish an outpost at a swamp-world in favor of invading the more threatening planet of Slepkt IV, he is brought to Skaro for insubordination. At first the Golden Emperor congratulates Xenol for identifying the greater threat, only to chastise him for having failed to secure victory against the Slepktians.
Xenol then complains that the reason he hasn’t been able to conquer Slepkt is because, while the genetic programming of his Dalek troopers produces excellent soldiers, they lack initiative and have been out-thought by the Slepktians. The Golden Emperor is having none of it and it soon becomes obvious that he cares more about having obedient drones than competent soldiers.
This gets Xenol to think with his top scientist Yttral – The Dalek Empire as it stands owes much of its power to other races, who create and maintain pretty much all Imperial technology. The Daleks slowly but steadily are decaying as their conquered peoples lose skilled laborers and as the genetic programming that they depend upon is steadily weakening the race by making them overdependent on their casings. Computers do much of their thinking and their leaders have slipped into complacency, content to obey their machines. Yttral himself is considered insane for actually performing research. Original Kaled devices are almost mythical Lost Technology.
But the straw that broke the camel’s back? New Daleks created on Skaro are no longer being issued names. The computers now only issue alphanumeric strings of code.
Xenol, supremely pissed off at this corruption of the Dalek dream, decides it’s time to act, and the idea for a Second Dalek Empire is born.
Trapped in Amber
At the dawning of the Blin-mink calendar’s age of the Gravid Ferrodont the Galaxy was aflame with war. The first Dalek Emperor, Zorkorg had concentrated upon securing the Dalek homeworld, Skaro. The avowed intent of his successor, Xerotoxil, frequently refered to as the "Silver" or "Starlight" Emperor, was to conquer the galaxy. The Daleks’ aggressive expansion frequently brought them into conflict with the Mechonoids and in the 750th year of his reign, Xerotoxil fearing that a second Cyber-crusade was imminent launched a campaign to purge the Mechonoid hive worlds bordering the Dalek Empire’s rimward territories. Among the more notable events of this turbulent period was the Daleks’ pacification of the Mechonoid planets 11000010010110111001010110 and 11000010010110111001010111, known thereafter as Weltro Major and Weltro Minor.
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