If you are anything like me (and if you are, I am so, so sorry) then you have often wondered what it would be like to have your own personal Dalek. Unfortunately, as they have yet to be domesticated, our best chance to get one may be to raid Microsoft’s offices and take one of their Daleks autonomous security drones. However, that probably involves breaking quite a few laws, and one can run the risk of being exterminated by the very Dalek that one was looking to get for personal use.

Of course, there is a possible idea of building your own Dalek. After all, if Microsoft could do so after Steve Jobs passed on, how hard could it be? However, that would take quite a bit of money to create. So, how much would one’s own personal Dalek cost?

Fortunately, there are people with far more time on their hands than I do who decided to determine such a thing. Unfortunately, the amount that was determined is rather cost prohibitive, unless one has access to a research laboratory, a nuclear power plant and a factory. However, if you do not and are looking to build one from scratch, I sincerely hope that you have access to billions of dollars.

For the low, low start up cost of 16,130,814,192.81 British pounds, or $24,833,549,758, you may be able to create your own Dalek. This is, of course, assuming that the exposure to radiation from the nuclear power plant leads to the correct mutations, and just does not turn one into a glowing green Mr. Burns, whacked out on ether and bringing peace and love. That is sort of the antithesis of the point of having a Dalek.

So, unless one of us happens to get Bruce Wayne levels of money, the idea of our own personal Dalek may be nothing more than a pipe dream. Alas, our enemies will not be exterminated via the Dalek death ray. The Earth will not tremble before our forces, being forced to acquiesce to our every whim. The Moon will still be allowed to exist in its strategically superior position above us, watching and waiting as we let our guard down.

Perhaps some day soon, with all the advances in technology, it will be cheaper to build our own personal Daleks. Until then, our enemies can sleep easily. But someday, vengeance shall be ours!