Skaro

Skaro was the homeworld of the Thals, of the Kaleds, and, later and most infamously, of the Daleks. The latter came to be during the Thousand Year War which opposed the Thals to the Daleks' humanoid ancestors, one of whom, the scientist Davros, played a key role in the Daleks' genesis. After its permanent disfigurement and irradiation by this war, Skaro became a well-nigh inhospitable world, infested with hordes of mutant creatures, and saturated by radioactivity that required regular drug doses to combat. Subsequent attacks on Skaro caused by the Dalek occupation would nearly destroy it in its entirety, until it was remade by the Daleks and returned to power with the assistance of Davros and became the centre of the Dalek Empire once more.

Skaro was located in the Seventh Galaxy and nine Galaxies away from Earth. (PROSE: The Infinity Doctors, COMIC: Legacy of Yesteryear) Another account described Skaro as being "in the next universe but one". (PROSE: Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks) It was the twelfth planet in its solar system, (TV: "The Ambush", PROSE: The Infinity Doctors) and it had at least two suns. (PROSE: The Stranger) It had a similar atmosphere, climate and gravity to Earth, though it was plagued by sulphuric rain. (GAME: City of the Daleks, TV: Asylum of the Daleks) Skaro's nearest neighbour was a planet called Alvega. (COMIC: The Amaryll Challenge)

Landscape edit
Skaro had a single large continent during the Thousand Year War on which the Kaleds and Thals evolved. The continent was divided in two by an immense mountain range. (TV: Genesis of the Daleks)

Much of Skaro was a wasteland, devoid of all life after centuries of war. (TV: Genesis of the Daleks)