Mount Perdition, being well outside the Time War proper and having nothing of strategic importance, remained largely unscathed until close to the end of the War, when the Daleks breached the transduction barriers, gravity shields, and the host of other defenses the Time Lords had put up against the outside world. A Dalek ship containing over a hundred thousand individual footsoldiers breached the atmosphere just south of Mount Perdition and was immediately set upon by a squadron of defenders; after a short and brutal battle, the Dalek ship was finally destroyed, but not before jettisoning a crude escape pod containing a Skaro Degradation. The escape pod was shot out of the air by the last remaining War TARDIS (the golden spherical object to the right of both explosions). The burning debris of the destroyed crafts was spread over a thirty-four square kilometer area and started a fire that burned away almost forty square kilometers of the landscape, including the grass over Mount Perdition. The mountain itself, as well as the house at its summit, was leveled by an exploding TARDIS later in the war.