Mission to the Unknown

The planet is called Kembel. It's not pretty. It's overgrown with jungles, jungles which echo with the cries of strange animals, and somewhere out there are vicious Varga plants that turn anyone pricked by their thorns into killers. Space Security agent Marc Corey has come to Kembel to act on information heanded to him from his superiors. His mission : investigate possible Dalek presence on Kembel.

The Daleks are there alright, and they have built a vast city complex where they are hosting a meeting of hostile powers who are banding together to attack and destroy the Solar System, starting with Earth. It seems unlikely that the Daleks would feel the need to enlist other races for this effort seeing as they had already conquered Earth in The Dalek Invasion of Earth, the events of which are mentioned by Corey and his men and dismissed as having happened thousands of years ago. Corey manages to overhear the plans that the Daleks are making and records his information for transmission to Earth, but before he can do it, he and his party are systematically wiped out by the Daleks.

So, where's the Doctor in all this? He's not there. At all. Just the Daleks and the people trying to stop them (a formula that would be used by Big Finish years later for their Dalek Empire audio range). Apparantly the Daleks have been laying low for a while but have recently started pushing outwards from their empire and claiming many new worlds, gradually getting closer to the Earth and its Solar System. The human race has a lot more information on the Daleks now; Corey recognizes the Varga plant as a native form to the planet Skaro.

So Corey's dead. His message never got transmitted. The Daleks go back to their war council, and Earth has no idea what is coming. All over in one episode. But the REAL story is about to come...

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