List of Doctor Who Vehicles - Dalek Craft

Dalek Craft

Dalek shell

Strictly speaking, the visible, outer form of the Daleks is itself a vehicle. It is explained several times in the series that the metallic shell is a life support system and transport for the mutant descendents of the Kaled people, which was created by Davros in Genesis Of The Daleks. The living being within the shell is likewise revealed to the viewer at several points.

Time machines

The Daleks use time machines in The Chase and The Daleks' Master Plan; both are revealed to be dimensionally-transcendental ("bigger on the inside") like the TARDIS, capable of transporting many Daleks to any point in time and space. In the first story, the vehicle is referred to as the "DARDIS" in scripts, though the term is not used on screen.

Battle cruiser

In Resurrection of the Daleks the Daleks used a battle cruiser to attack the prison space station containing Davros. The cruiser was heavily armed, allowing the Daleks to overwhelm the station's defenses and rescue Davros. The cruiser was destroyed when the station's self-destruct mechanism was activated.

Motherships

In The Dalek Invasion of Earth the Daleks use flying saucers for transport and to scout for human resistance. "Bad Wolf" and "The Parting of the Ways" also feature saucer-shaped Dalek motherships. These variants possess enough firepower to crumple the continents of Earth in little time. The Dalek Emperor's "flagship" is several times the size of a regular ship and carries missiles. A different design of Dalek mothership seen in the Seventh Doctor serial Remembrance of the Daleks is described as being able to crack the Earth open like an egg.

"The Stolen Earth", "Journey's End", "The End of Time Part II", "Victory of the Daleks" and on The Pandorica Opens .

Shuttlecraft

The Dalek shuttlecraft is capable of atmospheric landing and has been seen to be able to carry at least four Daleks. The Seventh Doctor in Remembrance described the Dalek shuttle as having massive ground defences but an un-guarded service hatch on the top. Dalek shuttles possess a control position with an "engaged" Dalek. In The Power of the Daleks, a damaged shuttlecraft was discovered buried in a mercury swamp on the Earth colony planet Vulcan, where the dormant Daleks were revived by the colonists, ignorant of what the Daleks were. Exactly how the shuttlecraft came to crash on the planet, and how long it had been buried before discovery, are never explained in the episode. Like the Dalek time machines it is dimensionally-transcendental, with an inner chamber containing Dalek embryos and machinery used to construct Dalek casings.

Void ship

In the "Army of Ghosts"/"Doomsday" a void ship is a spherical ship that is capable of travelling through the nothingness between parallel universes, existing outside the whole of time and space — though visible to the human eye, it emits no energy of any kind and has no mass to speak of, thus causing an uneasy feeling in those who look upon it. Torchwood instruments, being more advanced than any human technology, originally could not detect anything from the sphere, but began reading mass and energy emissions when the Daleks emerged; the devices might simply have been reading the Daleks themselves.

The Crucible

This is the flagship of Davros' New Dalek Empire, based within the centre of the "Medusa Cascade". It is a giant spherical space station, with a ring running around the centre of it with five or six docking arms spreading out from it. The station uses a Magnatron to steal planets from space and time and place them within the Medusa Cascade. It is the centerpoint for Davros' Reality Bomb, a weapon created using 27 stolen planets, that could cancel out the electrical energy binding atoms together.

The Crucible is powered by a core of Z-Neutrino energy, which manifests itself as a massive, star-like fireball. The station has many levels, including the bridge manned by the Supreme Dalek and a prison ("The Vault") where both Davros and the insane Dalek Caan are kept.

• Appears in: "The Stolen Earth" and "Journey's End"