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=== Differences ===
=== Differences ===
The most noticeable difference was the large number of [[Zeppelin|zeppelins]], which were commonly used as transport. [[Mickey Smith|Mickey]]'s look-a-like was named [[Ricky Smith|Ricky]], who led [[The Preachers]] and whose [[Rita-Anne Smith (Pete's World)|grandmother]] was still alive; [[Peter Tyler (Pete's World)|Pete]], who was also still alive and whose get-rich schemes worked, and [[Jackie Tyler (Pete's World)|Jackie Tyler]], who was quite unpleasant and who later died following her conversion into a Cyberman and the Cybermen's defeat in London, never had children but did have a dog named [[Rose (Rise of the Cybermen)|Rose]], which amused the [[Tenth Doctor|Doctor]] upon finding out; it is unknown if [[The Doctor]] existed in this universe, although Pete's World does have a [[Torchwood Institute|Torchwood]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[The Age of Steel (TV story)|The Age of Steel]]'', ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'')
* In this reality all of Pete's "daft little plans" and get-rich-quick schemes all worked out, effectively making him a rich and successful businessman.
==== Historical ====
===== Pre-Cybermen =====
* [[Great Britain]] had a [[President of Great Britain|President]] as head of state, instead of a monarch. Army blockades and nightly curfews were in place for lower-income areas of [[London]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]'')
* [[John Lumic]]'s [[Cybus Industries]] had a high profile internationally. It created the [[EarPod]]s; owned [[Vitex]], [[Pete Tyler (Pete's World)|Pete Tyler]]'s nutritional drink company; owned [[International Electromatics (Pete's World)|International Electromatics]] as a front organisation; and had created CybusNet, the world's premier global information system. Secretly, Lumic had them also create the first [[Cyberman (Pete's World)|Cybermen]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]'')
* Even though [[the Doctor]] apparently did not exist in this world, [[Torchwood Institute]] nevertheless existed. It was operating publicly, with reports it issued being mentioned in the news. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]'')
* The planet had a Bio-Convention, whereby [[Geneva]] had to approve any creation of new life forms. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]'')
* Europe contained the nation of [[New Germany]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'')
* [[South America]] was unified in a South American State; in [[2004]] it lost 265,000 people across its borders and south, implied to be due to Cyberman experiments. ([[WC]]: ''[[Tardisode 5]]'')


[[Great Britain]] had a [[President of Great Britain|President]] rather than a monarch and [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] like in our universe; 3 years after The Doctor's visit to Pete's World, [[Harriet Jones (Pete's World)|Harriet Jones]] was President, whom The Doctor warned Pete to keep an eye on following what his universe's [[Harriet Jones]] [[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|did last Christmas]]. Europe also contained [[New Germany]], and [[South America]] was unified in a South American State. The planet also has a Bio-Convention, whereby [[Geneva]] had to approve any creation of new lifeforms. ([[WC]]: [[Tardisode 5|''Tardisode 5'']], [[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[The Age of Steel (TV story)|The Age of Steel]]'', ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'')
===== Post-Cybermen =====
* Following the Cybermen incident and the death of the British President, a People's Republic was formed in Britain with [[Harriet Jones (Pete's World)|Harriet Jones]] as the new President. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday]]'')
* Torchwood was infiltrated by Cybermen, who used its technology to cross dimensions. The Institute was taken over by the People's Republic when the full scale of its activities were discovered; ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'') [[Rose Tyler]] later joined it. They later went on to work at creating other ways of dimensional travel. ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End]]'')
* A global war was fought against the Cybermen, who were successfully sealed in their factories. However, debate raged about whether or not the Cybermen (as former humans) could be saved, and this gave the Cyber-race time to cross realities. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday]]'')
* Due to the mass dimensional travel, ambient temperatures began to rise on Earth; three years on, the ice caps were melting. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday]]'')
* By 2010, at least five million humans from Pete's World were converted into Cybermen. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday]]'')


[[John Lumic]] ran a company named [[Cybus Industries]], who had a worldwide influence; they created the [[EarPod|EarPods]], owned Pete Tyler's drink company, [[Vitex]], owned [[International Electromatics (Pete's World)|International Electromatics]] as a front organisation, and created CybusNet, a global information system. Lumic was dying and, as a means to keeping him alive, created the [[Cybermen (Pete's World)|Cybermen]], which differed from the Doctor's universe's [[Cybermen (Mondas)|Cybermen]] in that they were created on Earth rather than [[Mondas]]; Lumic later became Cyber Controller, but was killed soon after when Pete cut the zeppelin ladder he was hanging onto and made him fall into an exploding cyber-factory. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[The Age of Steel (TV story)|The Age of Steel]]'')
==== Technological ====
* Pete's World had a higher level of technological advancement in general. Such advancements included moving and speaking advertisements, and the [[EarPod]] devices which downloaded information straight into human brains. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]'' / ''[[The Age of Steel]]'')
* [[Zeppelin]]s served as a common means of transportation. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]'' / ''[[The Age of Steel]]'')
* Scientists developed medallions with the power to enable the wearer to cross universes. Later, they invented a [[dimension cannon]] for the same purpose. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday]]'')
* The Cyberman technology itself was created by humans, without any apparent use of [[Mondas]] technology. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]'' / ''[[The Age of Steel]]'')


The Preachers, then led by [[Jake Simmonds]] and who were joined by Mickey following Ricky's death, battled the Cybermen across the world; however, debated raged about if the Cybermen could be saved as they were former humans, allowing the Cybermen time to cross from their reality to the Doctor's by using technology at Torchwood. Mass dimensional travel caused ambient temperature to rise on their Earth; the ice caps were melting. The People's Republic later took control of Torchwood. At some point between The Doctor's visit and the Cybermen arriving on his world, The Preachers also worked on [[Energy blaster|energy blasters]] capable of killing Cybermen; these were later perfected and capable of quickly destroying [[Daleks]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Age of Steel (TV story)|The Age of Steel]]'', ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'', ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]'', ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'')
==== People ====
 
* [[Pete Tyler (Pete's World)|Peter Tyler]], unlike [[Pete Tyler|his counterpart]], had not died in [[1987]]. Both versions had married [[Jackie Tyler (Pete's World)|Jackie]], though this couple did not have children; instead they had a dog named [[Rose (Rise of the Cybermen)|Rose]]. This version of Pete had made a fortune from his company, [[Vitex]], a health drink company which Cybus owned and for which Pete himself acted as spokesman. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]'') This version of Jackie underwent [[cyber-conversion]] and died. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Age of Steel]]'') Pete later met and fell in love with the [[Jackie Tyler]] of the Doctor's universe. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'')
Technology was generally more advanced on Pete's World; they had moving and speaking advertisements, and EarPods which downloaded information straight into the human brain. They later also had medallions capable of crossing universes, and soon after invented a [[dimension cannon]]. The Cybermen also, between their creation and their invasion of The Doctor's world, invented their own wrist blasters, which were capable of killing humans but were harmless against Daleks. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[The Age of Steel (TV story)|The Age of Steel]]'', ''[[Army of Ghosts (TV story)|Army of Ghosts]]'', [[Doomsday (TV story)|''Doomsday'']], ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]'', ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'')
* [[Ricky Smith|Ricky]], [[Mickey Smith]]'s counterpart, led the anti-[[Cybus Industries]] activists [[the Preachers]] with [[Jake Simmonds]], another Preacher. After he died, Mickey decided to stay behind and take his place. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]''/''[[The Age of Steel]]'')
:''Deleted scenes from those episodes imply that Ricky and Jake had a romantic relationship.''
* [[Rita-Anne Smith (Pete's World)|Rita-Anne Smith]], Ricky's grandmother, did not die of an accident in this world, whereas [[Rita-Anne Smith|Mickey's grandmother]] had. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]'')
* [[Harriet Jones (Pete's World)|Harriet Jones]], like [[Harriet Jones|her counterpart]], had a political career, and her rule as President was referred to as a "golden age". ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday]]'')


== History ==
== History ==

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The Doctor's TARDIS accidentally lands in Pete's World. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen)

"Pete's World" was the Tenth Doctor's name for an alternate universe that was home to Cybermen created by John Lumic, the head of Cybus Industries.

Overview

The Doctor derived the name from Pete Tyler, that universe's version of Rose Tyler's father, who in her universe had died in 1987. Time ran ahead in this universe, compared to the Doctor's universe, so that when it was 2007 in the Doctor's universe it was simultaneously three years later in Pete's World. (TV: Doomsday)

Differences

  • In this reality all of Pete's "daft little plans" and get-rich-quick schemes all worked out, effectively making him a rich and successful businessman.

Historical

Pre-Cybermen
Post-Cybermen
  • Following the Cybermen incident and the death of the British President, a People's Republic was formed in Britain with Harriet Jones as the new President. (TV: Doomsday)
  • Torchwood was infiltrated by Cybermen, who used its technology to cross dimensions. The Institute was taken over by the People's Republic when the full scale of its activities were discovered; (TV: Doomsday) Rose Tyler later joined it. They later went on to work at creating other ways of dimensional travel. (TV: Journey's End)
  • A global war was fought against the Cybermen, who were successfully sealed in their factories. However, debate raged about whether or not the Cybermen (as former humans) could be saved, and this gave the Cyber-race time to cross realities. (TV: Doomsday)
  • Due to the mass dimensional travel, ambient temperatures began to rise on Earth; three years on, the ice caps were melting. (TV: Doomsday)
  • By 2010, at least five million humans from Pete's World were converted into Cybermen. (TV: Doomsday)

Technological

People

Deleted scenes from those episodes imply that Ricky and Jake had a romantic relationship.

History

In 2001, Cybus Industries' profits reached $78 billion. In 2004, South American state reported 265,000 people missing. (WC: Tardisode 5)

In February 2007, the Doctor's TARDIS was catapulted into Pete's World while travelling through the Time Vortex. The TARDIS was critically drained of energy by the journey and unable to replenish itself due to the incompatibility of the ambient energy of the alternate universe. The Tenth Doctor gave away 10 years of his life to recharge a still-function artron crystal which was then used to restore the TARDIS long enough to enable it to travel back to N-Space. The first Cybermen were created by John Lumic (TV: Rise of the Cybermen) and attacked Great Britain. The Doctor and his allies eventually teamed-up and destroyed the Cybermen. The Cybermen leader, their Controller (with John Lumic's brain), perished in the destruction of his cyber-factory. After meeting his parallel counterpart Ricky Smith and being inspired by his example, Mickey Smith decided to stay in the alternate universe to take the late Ricky's place and help fight the Cybermen. (TV: The Age of Steel)

In 2010, Mickey returned to his original world in N-Space and, disguised as a lab technician, investigated the Void Ship kept in Torchwood 1's headquarters. (TV: Army of Ghosts)

Jake Simmonds and Peter Tyler crossed over into N-Space to stop the Cyberman invasion. That universe's Jackie Tyler met the other version of Pete Tyler for the first time and decided to stay with him. Mickey Smith, Pete, and Jake returned to the other world, taking Jackie and her daughter Rose with them, stranding them after the breach closed. Rose joined the parallel version of the Torchwood Institute. Jackie and Pete conceived a child and Mickey apparently took up residence with the Tylers.

Soon after joining Torchwood and several months after Jackie became pregnant, Rose began receiving what appeared to be a message from the Tenth Doctor. With the support of her family, she travelled to a remote fjord in Norway, Dålig Ulv Stranden, where she was able to briefly make contact with the Doctor so they could say goodbye to each other. (TV: Doomsday)

When Davros' reality bomb, (TV: Journey's End) also known as "the Darkness", (TV: Turn Left) was detonated, dimensions in "the whole of reality" started to collapse. (TV: Journey's End) Rose subsequently returned to the Doctor's universe. (TV: The Stolen Earth) After defeating the Daleks and preventing the reality bomb from detonating, the Tenth Doctor returned Rose and Jackie to the parallel Earth. Also left behind was the Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor. Due to the disarming of the Reality Bomb by Donna Noble, the Darkness never occurred at all and this universe was saved from destruction. (TV: Journey's End)

Jackie mentioned that Pete was on the "nursery run"; the child being at nursery school would place this at least 3 years after the birth, either 2013 or 2014.

Behind the scenes

Creatures and Demons

REF: Doctor Who: Creatures and Demons, a non-narrative source, theorised that Pete's World split from the universe occupying N-Space when Queen Victoria still went to Torchwood House in 1879. The Werewolf attacked the house and Queen Victoria was killed in this event.

Cybus Industries website

Cybus Industries had a tie-in website, no longer hosted by the BBC as of July 2013.

The website had a collection of the CEO of Cybus Industries, John Lumic's, thoughts. He mentioned that living in an airship had its "disadvantages", such as a if a dissident Cybus executive "accidentally" fell into the Grand Canyon, which in Pete's World was in the United States of Mexico, then they couldn't vote against Lumic again. Lumic corrected himself by saying, "I'm sorry, did I say disadvantages? I meant to say advantages."

The article also mentioned Lumic's dismissal of "unimportant" pressure group like the Preachers in Great Britain, or the Free Information Collectives in New Germany and "Czechoslovenia™", saying that such groups "should simply be ignored".

The website featured an interview with Lumic. When asked what the "best" decision he made was, Lumic answered with, "Assassinating the Prime Minister of the United States of Mexico". When asked the "best" and "worst" things about the BBC, Lumic simply responded that he abolished the BBC after Cybusnet became the sole global information provider. [1]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Lohn Lumic - Some thoughts from our CEO. Cybus Industries website. Archived from the original on 23 September 2012. Retrieved on 25 July 2013.
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