Dalek Crade

Dalek Crade was a Dalek science officer brought over from an alternate dimension to fight in the Dalek War prior to the Great Catastrophe. Due to damage sustained during an accident in transit, Crade was sent for repairs where he was later found by the crew of the Rhythm Divine.

Early life
Dalek Crade was created on an alternate universe Skaro by The Mentor. A science officer, Crade was given more intelligence and autonomy than most standard Dalek drones and acted as an, designing s and other vessels. He specialized in the creation of neutronic drive engines and transcendental engineering. For his development of void ship construction and propulsion systems, Crade was given his name by The Mentor and reassigned to a Supreme Controller, overseeing ship-building and general maintenance of Dalek craft for the Dalek War.

Crade was called into action and accompanied a battalion of 2000 Daleks on a void ship through the dimensional rift on Lopra Minor. Mid-way through the voyage, the ship's propulsion system encountered some problems and began to leak radioactive material into the engine room. Crade immediately investigated the problem and set to work fixing it, being the Dalek who had initially designed it.

When Crade was making the necessary repairs, the leaking radioactive material sparked a short in the electronics, causing part of the drive system to detonate. The hull was breached, causing explosive decompression, blasting Crade out into the vortex. Caught within the void ship's drift, Crade was subjected to massive amounts of radiation, mutating him further. When the ship exited the rift on Lopra Minor, Crade was pulled through, unable to control his momentum or speed, sending the Dalek crashing into the Project Infinity complex, sustaining further damage.

If Crade had been just an ordinary Dalek war drone, he would have been destroyed and his casing recycled for another Dalek mutant to inhabit. However, since he was a high-ranking science officer with vast amounts of technical and engineering knowledge, then The Mentor ordered for Crade to be taken to the Pkowik system station to undergo repairs.

Upon examination, Crade's cognitive functions were found to have been altered, his initial programming overridden by the excess radiation, making him overly aggressive and cold, much like the "Enemy" Daleks they had been fighting. Brain-correction was required. Crade underwent implantation of a positronic disc and was put in for further conditioning.

Crade's conditioning was never completed. At some point, the station had been attacked by the Enemy Dalek forces, slaughtering the occupants. During the attack, a Dalek commander found and reviewed the information on Crade's stasis unit, finding out about the Dalek science officer's storehouse of insider knowledge. Obeying an order from the command net, the Dalek halted the conditioning process and inserted a memory disc of additional programming. The Dalek then restarted the conditioning and left upon the orders that it would return to retrieve Crade at a later date.

That date never came, as soon afterward, a impulse was sent through the command net, destroying the Daleks in what became known as the Great Catastrophe. Crade, locked in a stasis unit and not connected to any command net, escaped the destruction. He remained in suspended animation for around 2000 years after.

Travel through time
In 2,181 BBY, the Pkowik system station became the target of a group of scavengers. While looting the structure of its equipment and scrap, one of the scavengers, a named Karo Farooq, happened upon Crade's stasis pod. With the help of her crewmates, Karo took the stasis unit back to their ship and activated it, awakening Crade. Almost immediately, Crade attempted to exterminate his rescuers, until the fragmented Alliance programming kicked in. The time that had passed while he was in stasis bore no meaning to him and Crade demanded to know where he was, who the scavengers were, and to speak with The Mentor.

The crew hastily explained the situation they were in to Crade, telling him that he had been in stasis for a long time and no orders from The Mentor were coming. Proximity alarm klaxons went off and the captain of the ship, Septavious-pratsutagus, explained to Crade that they needed to disembark as soon as possible. Crade was secured in the repair bay, and the ship piloted away from the space station. Unknowingly, the ship passed through a poorly-sealed dimensional rift, hidden from the sensors by a particle cloud, and engaged the hyperdrive. The trip was to take two and a half solar months, during which time, the crew repaired and refurbished Crade, bringing him up to speed on what had happened while he was in stasis.

When the ship exited in the, Crade found that he and the crew of the Rhythm Divine had been transported 2,209 years into an alternate future, landing on  in the year 28 ABY. Crade noticed the difference as he could not find any signal from any Dalek command net, let alone that the casual observer did not even recognize his appearance, thinking him to be a type of. He was the only one of his kind in that dimension, as far as he could tell.

Crade traveled with his shipmates for two more years, repairing scavenged items and assisting with the modifications of the Rhythm Divine. During a routine trade with other scavengers, Crade was stolen. One of the thieves attached a to Crade's casing, effectively disabling his motive power and weapon systems. Smuggled off the ship, Crade was deemed valuable and promptly sold on as a "service droid" in 30 ABY.

Personality and traits
Dalek Crade was a scientist, following his function to design and build. He had little to no individual personality. Due to his Alliance Dalek origins, Crade was somewhat more sedate in his actions and tone. However, since sustaining damage from his accident in transit between dimensions, his personality changed to a degree, becoming closer to that of a standard Dalek. He was xenophobic to a degree, cold, calculating, and had quite a temper. This mixture of different programming culminated in a level of self-destructive psychosis, in which Crade sometimes demanded to be ordered to exterminate himself, unable to reconcile with what he had become.

Crade often preferred to be left alone. Quiet and reserved, he would spend that time designing schematics for various devices ranging from weapons to transport vessels. He studied and observed everything that he could; from the technology used by the, to the behavior of different species. The information gathered was stored in his databanks for review. Obedient to a fault, Crade would divulge information if asked. Due to the interference in his reconditioning, Crade's loyalty to his faction was no longer solid, ready and willing to ally himself with the Enemy Dalek faction if ever given the chance.

Behind the scenes
The decision to make Crade an Alliance Dalek was to have some leeway with his personality. The Alliance Daleks are from the second Dalek Empire series, Dalek War. The author is a big fan of the audio series.