NOTES ON NOBODY’S CHILDREN
WARNING: This page contains substantial SPOILERS for Nobody’s Children.
NOTES ON PROJECT NARCISSUS
Nobody’s Children was always going to be about the Draconians, who first appeared as the victims of a Dalek conspiracy in Frontier in Space. It was always going to take place on the Collection, which was invaded by the Daleks in Death and the Daleks, and feature Bernice, whose mother was killed by the Daleks. We decided fairly early on that Isaac – who fought an interstellar war alongside the Draconians against the Daleks, lost his wife to the Daleks and was captured and imprisoned by them prior to Death and the Daleks – was going to play a part in the story.
When I wanted to show that the Mim had previously been exploited by secretive factions within the Earth military, it would have seemed a little perverse not to come right out and say they’d been used against the Daleks. We’d already established that juvenile Mim camouflaged themselves by imitating the flora and fauna in their immediate environment, meaning that they’d be one of the very few species who could have effectively infiltrated the Dalek ranks.
Transplanted directly into the Dalek hatcheries, the baby Mim would grow up into perfect copies of the Dalek mutants, whereupon other Daleks would graft them into Dalek travel machines, to be deployed as Dalek troops in the Dalek Wars – and then to wreak unexpected havoc behind the Dalek lines during the Dalek invasions of whichever planets the Daleks wanted to invade.
Daleks, you see! Daleks, Daleks, Daleks! Daleks, Daleks.
...is what I wanted to write. Unfortunately this might well have constituted a breach of copyright, so I didn’t.
Bernice says ‘Daleks’ exactly once. After that it’s ‘the war’, ‘the enemy’, ‘enemy units’ or ‘troops’ or ‘battletanks’. And nobody’s sued us for copyright infringement on behalf of Terry Nation’s estate, which is nice.
(They’re still Daleks, though.)
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