Drone Daleks

 A write-up of Drone Daleks from Tyranny of the Daleks.  This is using the second edition rules for the Doctor Who Roleplaying Game from Cubicle 7.

DRONE DALEKS

A Drone Dalek (in blue) reports to the Dalek Commander

For statistics, see the 2nd edition rulebook for the Doctor Who Roleplaying Game, page 225.

In addition, Drone Daleks are sometimes equipped with cutting torches:

Plasma cutting torch - Heavy‑duty industrial cutter. This appendage to the gunstick emits a focused plasma arc beam capable of melting or fusing most known alloys, doing 5 points of damage per round.

Distinction - Unlock/Seal - can only be used to cut metallic objects including doors, bulkheads or armour plating and the door or wall etc, has to be reduced to 0 hit capacity before it is cut through in a hole large enough for a Dalek to travel through.

Can be treated as a short‑range energy weapon in close combat. Damage is (3/5/8); ignores 2 points of physical Armour due to heat damage, but can overheat; on a roll of double 1s the torch powers down for one round.

Special: Generates intense light; any adjacent target, including anyone in close combat with the Drone Dalek, not wearing appropriate eye protection must make an Awareness + Resolve v 9 test or be dazzled (lose 2 Awareness points).

The torch has to be fitted over the end of the gunstick, and this operation takes two rounds to fit, and two rounds to remove, assuming all the equipment is in good working order.

Character notes

Every empire needs its legions, and the Second Dalek Empire marches to war on the backs of its most unrelenting force, the Drone Daleks. Numberless, tireless, and pitiless, these are the foot soldiers and labourers of the Dalek war machine. They are the ones who hold the ground after the skies have burned and the cities have fallen. Where Intruder Daleks sneak and Exterminator Daleks slaughter, the Drones descend like a tidal wave of metal and fire, flooding through breach points and spreading across the rubble-strewn landscape until nothing remains but obedience or ash.

Aboard the Dalek Battleships of the Galen Division, Drones perform endless cycles of maintenance, tending to the engines and systems that keep the fleet aloft. But when war is declared, their purpose changes in an instant. As soon as the first strike clears a path, Drone Daleks are deployed in overwhelming numbers to secure, patrol and dominate what remains. It is said that, in the silence after a battle, one can sometimes hear their emotionless cry of “EXTERMINATE!” still echoing across the smouldering ruins, repeating long after all resistance has gone.

Do not mistake their rank for weakness. A single Drone Dalek is a formidable adversary, fully armed and capable of annihilating an entire squad of soldiers. In close quarters, they can be fitted with cutting torches to slice through reinforced bunkers, sealed bulkheads or desperate holdouts who believe they still have time to escape. They are designed to eliminate hope as thoroughly as they eliminate targets.

The Galen Division fields a terrifying force: two companies of Drone Daleks, two hundred in each, aboard each of its four Battleships. These eight companies form two complete battalions, enough to occupy a continent or subjugate a planet in days.

Drone Daleks wear the cold colours of inevitability, deep blue armour, burnished silver sensory hemispheres, gunsticks, and limb mounts. When they arrive, it signals one terrible truth: the extermination has already begun, and they are here to make sure it never ends.

Drone Daleks on hoverbouts with two Battleships in the background