History Webcomic / SecondEmpire

* WeHaveBecomeComplacent: This has already hit. The Second Empire seeks to return them to their AxCrazy, OmnicidalManiac GalacticConqueror (and most importantly, to their MagnificentBastard) roots.

-->'''Xenol:''' [[AC:Make sure he doesn't try rebuilding the engines or something, at least not until we land.]]

--->'''Red Seven:''' [[AC:May the fates be with you Red Five.]]\\
'''Red Five:''' [[AC:The fates? No, I will not leave this to fate. [[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay There is no fate save that which we make ourselves.]]]]\\
'''Dalek Controller''' [[AC:[[Franchise/StarWars His computer is off. Red Five, you switched off your Battle Computer. What is wrong?]]]]\\
'''Red Five:''' [[AC:Nothing, I am all right.]]\\
(''awesomeness ensues'')

-->'''Xenol:''' [[AC:I am a Black Dalek! I am an avatar of battle! I WAS BORN TO EXTERMINATE!]]

-->'''Xenol:''' [[AC:Blind obedience is not a survival trait.]]

--->'''Anzollo:''' [[AC:And that is your cunning plan? To fly this gunship along the sensor shadow of a moving Battlesaucer in the middle of a void-charge attack and attach jury rigged mines to its hull without them noticing? The reason that sensor shadow tactic is not included in the Dalek Fleet Battle Manual is because it is impossible. That shadow is barely as wide as this ship. With respect General that is the most insane plan you have come up with since the one where we attack the heart of the Dalek Empire with nothing more that a gunship and thirty commandos.]]\\
'''Xenol:''' [[AC:Well, apart from the stated objections, what do you think of the plan?]]\\
'''Anzollo:''' [[AC:I like it. When do we start?]]

--->'''Xenol:''' [[AC:A moment ago you were trying to convince me it was impossible and now you are going to do it backwards?]]

-->'''Grexnarl:''' [[AC:I do not have time to deal with this, you have to return to the sub-levels immediately.]]\\
(''Yttral shows him the [[AudibleGleam gleaming]] Battleclaw'')\\
'''Grxnarl:''' [[AC:All right, you have convinced me. How long will it take to fit the upgrades?]]

--> '''Yttral''': ''[[http://www.cg-lair.co.uk/daleks/secemp315.htm But first... kwalorblmn.]]'' It has been prophesied.
* LeeroyJenkins: [[spoiler: Grexzol.]] Unusual in that he's just ''that'' skilled to actually pull it off, hitting enemy Daleks far faster than they can respond and in ways they can barely imagine due to them being only a few days old and him being a seasoned veteran.

* PreAsskickingOneLiner: ''[[AC:[[http://www.mechmaster.co.uk/cg-lair/daleks/secemp478.htm "Educate them."]]]]''

* ScarilyCompetentTracker: The Phonar operator is so damn good at his job he can identify the exact model of a coupling manipulator, just by the noise it makes when dropped--[[AC:{{IN SPACE}}]], no less.

--->'''Yttral:''' [[AC:It is also very shiny.]]

--->'''Xenol:''' [[AC:Silent running? [[FridgeLogic Surely the nebula gasses are not dense enough for sound transmission, even in the Shoal zone]].]]\\
'''Anzollo:''' [[AC:That is correct, [[{{Handwave}} but we are moving so fast that the ship creates a bow wave of highly compressed gases that acts as a quantum resonator. Excited by sound vibrations it propagates etheric waves through the medium of subspace.]]]]\\
'''Xenol:''' [[AC:Ah. I see. [[Literature/{{Discworld}} Quantum]].]]

--->'''Yttral:''' [[AC:The underlying scientific principles are well established of course, simple stated... blah blah blah... Meson polarity inversion... blah blah... Boson nullification... blah blah blah... Unstable quark pairs... blah blah blah blah.]]\\
'''Grexnarl:''' [[AC:I see, so it is quantum, then? [[BlatantLies This is utterly fascinating, Yttral]], I do hope I am not keeping you from anything more important.]]
* TeleportersAndTransporters: The Second Empire has successfully introduced Transmat technology. While it's impossible to teleport nonliving matter, Xenol has already noted its potential as a bioweapon distribution system.

-->'''Yttral:''' [[AC:I am the first Science Dalek to actually do research in over five hundred years and yet they call me mad!]]

[[AC:EX-TER-MINATE!!]]

* ALighterShadeOfBlack: What drives the plot and starts Xenol's rebellion. Xenol is still a [[OmnicidalManiac Dalek]], but he does actually [[AFatherToHisMen care for the lives of his troops]], and he's infuriated by the Emperor reducing newborn Daleks to simple [[YouAreNumberSix serial numbers]] that are seen as [[WeHaveReserves expendable]], and then sending them out into battle without the actual training that they need to keep from being obliterated.

* AlternateUniverse: Can ''almost'' be read as the story of how the Daleks go from the fairly individualized race of the 1960's comics, content to have slave races, to the robotic-minded AbsoluteXenophobe[=s=] of the Third Doctor era onwards… ''but'' the series also features all kinds of Dalek designs and technologies not seen anywhere else, and has Xenol [[spoiler: become the Emperor from ''Evil of the Daleks'']] whereas in the 'canonical' universe, that Emperor was the same individual as the Golden Emperor. (Plus, there's little room [[spoiler: in Emperor Xenol's biography for the events of ''Evil of the Daleks'' to happen to him at all.]])

** Having a woman voice Grexzol

* AwesomeButImpractical:
** Dalek casings can fly, which is awesome, but unless you have numbers on your side, you'll simply make yourself a bigger target, which is [[LampshadeHanging pointed out]] by a Second Empire instructor.
** Turned into an InUniverse GameBreaker by [[spoiler: Grexzol]], who uses the gravity lenses of his casing to a very [[CeilingCling impressive]] [[DodgeTheBullet effect]].

** The [[BadassArmy Imperial Legion]] was once made from the most Badass Daleks in the Conquest Armies. [[BadassDecay Not anymore]].

-->'''Xenol:''' [[AC:I am a Black Dalek! I am an avatar of battle! I was born to Exterminate!]]

* CanonWelding: Mostly ''Series/DoctorWho'' series canon to the TV Century 21 Dalek comic strip but also including pretty much any Dalek-related media seen in the last fifty years. For example, the Golden Emperor comes from the comic strip, but his Imperial Guard are taken directly from the Davros Imperial Dalek faction from the late classic series period, while Xenol's Daleks have the colouring of the Renegade Faction from the same period and his Imperial Casing is the one from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E9TheEvilOfTheDaleks "The Evil of the Daleks"]]. Both sides have capabilities taken from the latest series though like independent powered flight and many of the background characters have casings based on alternative designs from the various spin off books of the 1960's. [[spoiler:The most obvious example though is the combination of Yarvelling, creator of the Dalek travel machines in TV Century 21 with Davros, creator of the Daleks in the TV series into a single character.]]

* TheComicallySerious: The comic mines quite a lot of its humor out of [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative the galaxy's most feared Nazi trashcans]] saying incredibly silly things.

* CrapsackWorld: Not apparent at first, but remember that the Daleks pretty much curb-stomp anything in the Whoniverse if The Doctor isn't involved, and that the Time Lords were the only beings that could match the Daleks in the Time War, and even then they ended up losing (sort of). [[FridgeHorror Now, we have yet to see the Doctor (or any Time Lord, in fact) in the comic.]] [[OhCrap Guess what this means for the rest of the Galaxy.]]

* DirtyCoward: Pturdd. When confronted with undeniable evidence he and his entire Legion have walked into a trap they're extremely unlikely to get out alive of, he turns into a spineless wimp. [[CruelAndUnusualDeath Then he forgets]] [[WhatAnIdiot why using the flight mechanism]] is an AwesomeButImpractical idea.

'''[[ShoutOut Dalek Controller]]:''' [[AC:[[Franchise/StarWars His computer is off. Red Five, you switched off your Battle Computer. What is wrong?]]]]\\

** Also, [[http://www.cg-lair.co.uk/daleks/secemp444.htm this guy.]]

* ShoutOut: Lots. Could probably do with its own page, come to think of it.

* SuperSoldier: Xenol, Pturdd and [[spoiler:Yttral]].

** And then Anzollo [[UpToEleven does one better]]:

'''Red Five:''' [[AC:The fates? No, I will not leave this to fate. [[Film/Terminator2 There is no fate save that which we make ourselves.]]]]\\

** First Captain [[StarWars Anzollo]], who outmaneuvers fighters in a gunship.