Cult of Skaro

Cult of Skaro
Doctor Who character
The Cult of Skaro emerge from the Void Ship in "Army of Ghosts"
First appearance	"Army of Ghosts"
Last appearance	"Journey's End"
Portrayed by	Nicholas Briggs (voice) Barnaby Edwards, Nicholas Pegg, Stuart Crossman, Anthony Spargo, Dan Barratt, David Hankinson (operators) Eric Loren (hybrid Dalek Sec)
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Species	Daleks
Home planet	Skaro

Dalek Sec
Doctor Who character
Dalek Sec after being transformed into a Dalek Hybrid
First appearance	Army of Ghosts
Last appearance	Evolution of the Daleks
Portrayed by	Nicholas Briggs (Dalek voice) Eric Loren (Human Dalek)
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Affiliated	Cult of Skaro
Species	Dalek Supreme (later Human Dalek)
Home planet	Skaro / Earth (as Diagoras)

Dalek Caan
Doctor Who character
An insane Dalek Caan, damaged and shackled in the Crucible
First appearance	Army of Ghosts
Last appearance	Journey's End
Portrayed by	Nicholas Briggs
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Species	Dalek
Home planet	Skaro

In the television series Doctor Who, the Cult of Skaro was an elite order of Daleks, and the first individual Daleks whose recurring nature has been explicit. The Cult first appeared in the two-parter, "Army of Ghosts" / "Doomsday". They are described as an elite organisation created by the Emperor of the Daleks to think as their enemies think and find new ways of surviving - and of killing enemies.

The Cult of Skaro first appeared in the double-episode "Army of Ghosts" / "Doomsday". They are described as an elite organisation created by the Emperor of the Daleks to think as their enemies think and find new ways of surviving - and killing enemies. Their creative task extends to them developing imaginations and taking on individual names: Dalek Sec, Dalek Thay, Dalek Caan and Dalek Jast. According to the Doctor Who Files book on the Cult of Skaro, the members of the cult were commanders of different sections of the Dalek army, before being selected and promoted by the Dalek Emperor. In their task they even outrank the Emperor but still revere him; however, by the time of their first on-screen appearance they have survived the demise of the Emperor (in "The Parting of the Ways") and believe themselves to be the last four Daleks in existence.

The Cult of Skaro escaped the end of the Time War in a void ship along with a captured Time Lord prison ship containing millions of Daleks, which they call the Genesis Ark. In the episode "Doomsday", it is explained that the Genesis Ark can only be opened by the touch of a time-traveller and The Doctor and Rose Tyler both refuse, but Mickey Smith accidentally touches it, releasing the Daleks. The Doctor ultimately manages to use the vortex manipulator at the Torchwood Institute to suck what he believes to be all the Daleks back into the Void.