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Returning to [[Gallifrey]] after making an alliance with the [[Cybermen]] at the [[end of the universe]], [[Rassilon]] created an '''[[alternate timeline]]''' as he enabled the Cybermen to embark on a campaign to seize all of [[time]] and [[space]]. To that end, the Cybermen made incursions in numerous time periods, affecting the first thirteen [[incarnation]]s of [[the Doctor]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'')
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In what the [[Ninth Doctor]] would later call a '''[[redundant timeline]]''', ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Bidding War (comic story)|part=Two}}) {{Sumpter}}, following his [[Coup against Rassilon|exile]] from [[Gallifrey]] by the [[Twelfth Doctor]], discovered an [[asteroid]] [[colony]] of [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] at the [[end of the universe]]. Proposing an [[alliance]], Rassilon enabled the Cybermen to embark on a campaign to conquer Gallifrey and, by extension, all of [[time]] and [[space]]. In addition, the Cybermen ensured that [[the Doctor]]'s first twelve [[incarnation]]s did not intervene in their ultimate conquest, by forcing them into various scenarios where the Cybermen were too powerful to be defeated.


==History==
== History ==
At the [[end of the universe]], a group of Cybermen living within an asteroid were found by [[Rassilon]] after he was banished from Gallifrey. Rassilon saw the potential in allying with the Cybermen and let himself be converted into a [[Cyber-Leader (Mondas)|Cyber-Leader]]. With Rassilon's assistance, the Cybermen attacked and conquered [[Gallifrey]], and rewrote history with the Time Lords' technology to keep the Doctor occupied at Rassilon's insistence.
=== Origin ===
Following his [[Coup against Rassilon|exile]] from [[Gallifrey]] by the [[Twelfth Doctor]], {{Sumpter}} discovered an [[asteroid]] [[colony]] of [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] at the [[end of the universe]]. Inspired by the Cybermen's will to survive even at the end of [[the Doctor's universe]], and after discussions with the [[Cyber-Leader (Supremacy of the Cybermen)|Cyber-Leader]], Rassilon proposed an [[alliance]] with the Cybermen, which they accepted. The Cybermen [[Cyber-conversion|converted]] Rassilon into the "[[Cyber-President]]", and together, they forged the [[Gallifreyan Cyber Fleet]] and launched an invasion of the [[Capitol]] on Gallifrey. Sometime during the invasion, Rassilon hijacked the [[Eye of Harmony]], killing all of Gallifrey's [[TARDIS]]es and preventing the [[Time Lord]]s from launching a fleet of [[Battle TARDIS]]es in defence.


In the new timeline, [[Cyber-Silurian]]s seeded the universe with [[Silurian Ark|ark ships]] containing cybertechnology. The [[Eleventh Doctor]] attempted to stop the launch of the arks, but he was captured and assimilated into the [[Cyberiad]].
While the Gallifreyan Cyber Fleet attacked the Capitol, both on ground-level and in the air, Rassilon and a squad of Cybermen transmatted directly into the Capitol, and killed numerous Time Lord [[soldier]]s and the [[Lady President (Supremacy of the Cybermen)|Lady President]]. While Rassilon ordered the Cybermen to capture the Time Lords in the Capitol and take them to the Eye of Harmony's chamber, [[the General]], who was a part of the Time Lord squad guarding the Lady President, teleported into the [[Undercity, Capitol|Undercity]] and rounded up several surviving Time Lords into the [[Tomb of Rassilon]], the only area on Gallifrey that the Gallifreyan Cyber Fleet could not breach.


After the [[CyberKing]]s captured nearly all [[Sontaran]] cloning worlds and caused the extinction of the [[Rutan Host]], the [[Tenth Doctor]], [[Gabby Gonzalez]] and [[Cindy Wu]] were taken to the [[Sontaran-Prime]] on [[Sontar]] by some of the last surviving Sontarans. The Doctor tried to protect Sontar from the CyberKings, but was unable to stop an ark from converting Sontar on a planetary scale. The Sontaran [[cloning factory|cloning factories]] were then altered by the Cybermen so that they produced an endless supply of Mondasians to convert.
Sometime between Rassilon's initial encounter with the Cybermen and their invasion of Gallifrey, Rassilon gave the Cybermen the power to conquer all of [[time]] and [[space]] with [[Time Lord]] [[technology]], particularly to keep [[the Doctor]]'s first twelve [[incarnation]]s occupied so that they could not intervene with the Cybermen's ultimate conquest. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'')
[[File:Cybermen...no more.JPG|thumb|right|The Cybermen are destroyed in the [[Last Great Time War]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The War Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The War Doctor]]'')]]
The Cybermen conquered countless more planets, including [[Alpha Centauri (planet)|Alpha Centauri]], [[Karn]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'') [[Skaro]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The Fifth Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The Fifth Doctor]]'') and even invaded [[the Matrix]] during the [[Sixth Doctor]]'s trial on [[Space Station Zenobia]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The Sixth Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The Sixth Doctor]]'') The [[Dalek]]s were destroyed, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'') resulting in the Cybermen taking their place in the [[Last Great Time War]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The War Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The War Doctor]]'') Earth was completely taken over by Cybermen in [[2006]]. After [[Rose Tyler]] was converted and [[Jack Harkness]] was killed, the [[Ninth Doctor]] tried to destroy the Cybermen. Instead, he was infected with [[nanobot]]s and cyberconverted. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'')


[[File:Prologue The Third Doctor (comic story).jpg|thumb|left|{{Delgado|C}} is converted. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The Third Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The Third Doctor]]'')]]
=== Cyber-conquest of prehistoric Earth ===
The [[First Doctor]] was captured at [[76 Totter's Lane]] in [[1963]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The First Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The First Doctor]]'') the [[Second Doctor]] was converted into a Cyber-Leader at the [[Moonbase (The Moonbase)|Moonbase]] in [[2070]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The Second Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The Second Doctor]]'') a [[time distortion]] brought a [[cyberfication machine]] into the [[Third Doctor]]'s [[laboratory]] which converted {{Delgado}}. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The Third Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The Third Doctor]]'') and the [[Fourth Doctor]] found himself surrounded by Cybermen when [[K9]] was converted. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The Fourth Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The Fourth Doctor]]'')  
[[File:Cyber-converted Silurians.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Cyber-Silurian]]s march on prehistoric [[Earth]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'')]]
On prehistoric [[Earth]], the entire [[Silurian]] race were converted into [[Cyber-Silurian]]s and tasked with re-engineering [[Silurian Ark]]s into [[Cyber-Ark]]s in order to seed the universe with [[Cyber-Technology]] before [[human]]ity could begin [[Evolution|evolving]]. The [[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[Alice Obiefune]] explored one of the Cyber-Arks but were attacked by several Cyber-Silurians. Alice escaped and the Doctor was upgraded into the [[Cyberiad]], however, the Doctor used his new [[cyber-connection]] to disable the [[emotional inhibitor]]s of the Cyber-Silurians; in response, the Cyberiad terminated all the Cyber-Silurians and launched the Cyber-Arks, much to the Doctor's distress. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'')


[[File:Prologue The Fifth Doctor.jpg|thumb|Cybermen on [[Skaro]] discover the [[Fifth Doctor]] and [[Peri Brown]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The Fifth Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The Fifth Doctor]]'')]]
=== Further Cyber-attacks on Earth ===
The [[Fifth Doctor]] and [[Peri Brown]] were pursed by Cybermen on Skaro. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The Fifth Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The Fifth Doctor]]'', ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'') The [[Seventh Doctor]] attempted to destroy the cyber-fleet with [[nemesis mine]]s, but he was attacked by a cyberconverted [[Ace]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The Seventh Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The Seventh Doctor]]'', ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'') The [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Josie Day]] were captured by Cybermen and [[Cybermat|Cybermats]] on a spaceship. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The Eighth Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The Eighth Doctor]]'')  
Despite these events, Earth was also attacked at other points in time. One such attack occurred in [[November]] [[1963]], when the [[First Doctor]] was captured by three [[CyberMondan|Mondasian Cybermen]] outside [[The Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] at [[76 Totter's Lane]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The First Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The First Doctor]]'')


[[File:Supremacy Loom.jpg|thumb|[[Rassilon]] gloats as [[the General]]'s [[Regeneration|regenerative energy]] is harvested. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'')|left]]
[[File:Cyber-Rose (Supremacy of the Cybermen).jpeg|thumb|[[Rose Tyler]] is [[Cyber-conversion|converted]] into a [[Cyber-Warrior]] by the [[techno-virus]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'')]]
At the end of the universe, the Cybermen used [[loom|looms]] to siphon the [[Regeneration|regenerative energy]] from Time Lords into the [[Eye of Harmony]]. They planned to use the Eye of Harmony to shape formation of the next universe, making a reality perfectly suited to the Cyberiad. The [[Twelfth Doctor]] came to Gallifrey and confronted Rassilon and the Cybermen. When the Doctor was forced into a loom, the [[Cyber-Controller (Supremacy of the Cybermen)|Cyber-Controller]] betrayed Rassilon and put him in a loom as well. The Doctor and Rassilon used their combined willpower to influence the energy being pumped into the Eye of Harmony and instead of regenerating the future, they regenerated the past. Everything the Cybermen had done was reversed and their supremacy over all of time and space was wiped from the memory of the universe. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'')
In [[2006]], the Cybermen launched a full-scale invasion of Earth. By seeding Earth's atmosphere with an airborne, microscopic [[techno-virus]], the Cybermen transformed Earth into the [[Cyber-Earth]] and converted humanity into [[Cyber-Warrior]]s in only three [[day]]s. The [[Ninth Doctor]], [[Rose Tyler]] and [[Jack Harkness]] rescued [[Jackie Tyler]] from a large [[Cyberdog (Supremacy of the Cybermen)|Cyberdog]] and crashed their [[flyer]] into [[St Paul's Cathedral]]. In an attempt to recover the Doctor's TARDIS, the [[TARDIS control console|console]] exploded and the TARDIS began imploding. Whilst the Doctor and Jackie escaped back to the flyer, Rose was suddenly cyber-converted and killed Jack; when he used his [[sonic screwdriver]] on Rose, the Doctor was attacked by the Cybermen's techno-virus and was partially converted. In a final desperate attempt to stop the Cybermen using the virus to convert and invade other planets, the Doctor attempted to rupture the [[Heart of the TARDIS]] and destroy the Earth. However, the power was suddenly diverted to the [[Eye of Harmony]] on Gallifrey by the Cybermen, who had seized control of the Eye during their invasion of Gallifrey at the end of the universe. The cyber-converted Rose then broke into the TARDIS and prepared to kill the Doctor and Jackie. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'')
[[Category:Alternate timelines]]
 
=== Moonbase Laika and the Matrix ===
Elsewhere in time, the [[Second Doctor]] was partially cyber-converted on [[Moonbase Laika]] ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The Second Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The Second Doctor]]'') by a force of Cybermen of the "Late" [[CyberFaction]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'') During the [[Sixth Doctor]]'s trial against [[the Valeyard]] on [[Space Station Zenobia]], the Doctor and [[Melanie Bush]] were confronted by an advanced squad of Cybermen who had gained control of [[the Matrix]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The Sixth Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The Sixth Doctor]]'', ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'')
 
=== The Last Great Time War ===
Additionally, the Cybermen also actively chose to erase the [[creation of the Daleks]] from history ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'') by conquering [[Skaro]]. Eventually, the Cybermen diverted the [[Fifth Doctor]]'s TARDIS to Skaro, where a [[CyberNomad|Nomad]] [[Cyber-Leader (Prologue: The Fifth Doctor)|Cyber-Leader]] ordered a [[Cyberman (Prologue: The Fifth Doctor)|CyberIsomorph]] to kill the Doctor and [[Peri Brown]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The Fifth Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The Fifth Doctor]]'')
 
[[File:Cybermen...no more.JPG|thumb|left|The [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] are destroyed in the [[Last Great Time War]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The War Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The War Doctor]]'')]]
With the Daleks erased from [[history]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'') the Cybermen continued to grow in dominance, to the point that the Time Lords engaged the Cybermen in the [[Last Great Time War]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The War Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The War Doctor]]'') Unlike in the original timeline, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') the [[War Doctor]] used [[the Moment]] to eradicate both the Cybermen and Gallifrey. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The War Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The War Doctor]]'') However, his actions would prove to be in vain, as the Cybermen not only survived the war, but grew even stronger from it.{{fact}}
 
=== Destruction of the Sontaran Empire ===
By the [[24th century]], the [[Cyber-Empire]] of the [[Cybus Industries|Cybus Cybermen]] had successfully annihilated several of the universe's most powerful species and planets, including the [[Rutan Host|Rutans]], [[Alpha Centauri (planet)|Alpha Centauri]], and nearly the entire [[Sontaran Empire]]. This was largely due to the [[Gallifreyan]] [[portal]] [[Gallifreyan technology|technology]] the Cybermen had acquired, which the [[Tenth Doctor]] believed had ceased to exist following the Last Great Time War; this granted the Cybermen the ability to instantly deploy entire armies of Cybermen onto a planet, allowing for invasions of far greater efficiency than with traditional invasion fleets.
[[File:CyberKings on Sontar.JPG|thumb|Three [[CyberKing]]s assist in the [[Cyberman|Cybermen]]'s invasion of [[Sontar]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'')]]
The Tenth Doctor was captured, along with [[Gabby Gonzalez]] and [[Cindy Wu]], from the now-empty [[Cosmomart]] by the [[Last Great Sontaran War Fleet]] to serve as the [[Sontaran]]s' [[field marshal]] against a Cyberman invasion of [[Sontar]], the last remaining world in the Sontaran Empire. After causing the [[Imperial Flagship]] to crash on Sontar, a huge army of Cybermen emerged from numerous Gallifreyan portals above the planet's surface and commenced their attack, with the aim of gaining control of the Sontaran [[Clone|cloning]] [[Factory|factories]] to produce an infinite supply of [[Mondasian]]s for conversion. In an attempt to gain an advantage, Gabby and Cindy distracted one of the attacking [[CyberKing]]s by flying a stray [[Sontaran scout ship]] near it; when the Doctor believed that Gabby and Cindy had been killed, he crashed his own Sontaran scout ship into the CyberKing's control [[throne]]. After wiring himself into the CyberKing's throne, the Doctor, consumed with [[rage]], destroyed the other two CyberKings, only to be intercepted by a [[Cyber-Ark]], which commenced full planetary conversion of Sontar. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'')
 
=== Further attacks on the Doctor ===
[[File:Prologue The Third Doctor (comic story).jpg|thumb|left|{{Delgado|C}} is [[Cyber-conversion|converted]] into a [[CyberNomad]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The Third Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The Third Doctor]]'')]]
The Cybermen also attacked the Doctor's incarnations at unspecified points in time. The [[Third Doctor]] was attacked by a [[time distortion]] during a fight with {{Delgado}}, causing a [[Cyberfication machine]] to appear and convert the Master into a [[CyberNomad]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The Third Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The Third Doctor]]'') Additionally, the [[Fourth Doctor]] was trapped in a mansion by numerous Cybermen and a [[Cyber-Leader (Prologue: The Fourth Doctor)|Cyber-Leader]]; when he ordered [[K9]] to attack them in defence, K9 was converted and turned on the Doctor. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The Fourth Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The Fourth Doctor]]'')
 
Elsewhere, the [[Seventh Doctor]] infiltrated an Isomorph [[Cyber-Fleet]] and prepared to destroy it with [[nemesis mine]]s, only to be confronted by a cyber-converted [[Ace]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The Seventh Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The Seventh Doctor]]'') Furthermore, the [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Josie Day]], after finding the Doctor's TARDIS being attacked by a swarm of Cybermats, were captured by several Cybermen, ([[COMIC]]:'' [[Prologue: The Eighth Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The Eighth Doctor]]'') resembling those that attacked the ''[[Dreadnought (Dreadnought)|Dreadnought]]'' in the original timeline, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Dreadnought (comic story)|Dreadnought]]'') that chanted "save!" ([[COMIC]]:'' [[Prologue: The Eighth Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The Eighth Doctor]]'')
 
=== The Age of the Cyberiad ===
During the [[end of the universe|final days of the universe]], the [[The Doctor's TARDIS|Twelfth Doctor's TARDIS]] crashed on [[Karn]], after the [[Twelfth Doctor]] failed to contact [[Gallifrey]] and inform the Time Lords of the [[vortex tsunami]]s appearing throughout the [[Time Vortex]] as a result of the [[Cyberman|Cybermen]]'s conquests across [[time]] and [[space]]. When the Cybermen launched an attack on Karn, [[Ohila]] allowed the Doctor to use the [[Sisterhood of Karn]]'s backdoor to reach Gallifrey, where the Doctor confronted [[Rassilon (Hell Bent)|Rassilon]] and the Cybermen. Eventually, a team of [[Gallifreyan]] [[soldier]]s destroyed Rassilon's Cyberman escorts and teleported the Doctor to [[the General]] in the [[Tomb of Rassilon]]. Allowing Rassilon inside to understand the situation further, the three [[Time Lord]]s travelled to the [[Eye of Harmony]], where the Cybermen were using [[Loom]]s to harvest [[regeneration energy]] from numerous captured Time Lords and feed it into the Eye.
[[File:Cyberiad age begins.jpg|thumb|The [[Cyber-Controller (Supremacy of the Cybermen)|Cyber-Controller]] accelerates the [[death]] of [[the universe]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'')|alt=]]
After the Cybermen forced the General into a loom, Rassilon revealed his plans: to ignite the Eye of Harmony at the moment the universe ended and use the regenerative energy inside the Eye to regenerate [[the universe]] into a reality where the former [[President of the High Council|Lord President]] of Gallifrey would be "a [[god]], worshipped by all." The Cybermen then betrayed Rassilon, forcing him and the Doctor into looms, and the [[Cyber-Controller (Supremacy of the Cybermen)|Cyber-Controller]] revealed itself as the true leader of the Cybermen.
 
The Cyber-Controller revealed to the Twelfth Doctor that the Cybermen intended to perform Rassilon's plan themselves to regenerate the universe into the [[Age of the Cyberiad]], a [[universe]] controlled by the Cybermen from its very beginning. When Rassilon's regenerative readings fluctuated, the Doctor was converted to serve as an alternative means of focusing the regenerative energy in the Eye of Harmony. However, the two Time Lords were able to to unite mentally within the [[Cyberiad]], and together, they reversed the flow of the regenerative energy through the Eye to regenerate the universe to its form prior to Rassilon's initial encounter with the Cybermen, erasing the Cybermen's conquests of time and space from history.
 
=== Aftermath ===
With this [[timeline]]'s erasure, the majority of [[the universe]]'s inhabitants forgot the events of the Cybermen's conquest of [[history]]. However, there were a handful of exceptions.
 
[[File:Memories of a redundant timeline.jpg|thumb|left|[[Rose Tyler]], in horror, as the repreessed memories of this timeline surface. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Bidding War (comic story)|part=Two}})]]
Although most of the Doctor's incarnations did not remember their involvements with this timeline, the [[Ninth Doctor|Ninth]], [[Tenth Doctor|Tenth]] and [[Eleventh Doctor]]s [[history-proofing|remembered]] their encounters with the [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] during this version of history, but were confused as to how they had been resolved. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'') Additionally, [[Rose Tyler]] remembered her [[cyber-conversion]] from this timeline after [[Addison Delamar]] forced her to use the [[Memgram Network]], as she tried to auction off [[the Doctor's memories]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Bidding War (comic story)|part=Two}}) The Ninth Doctor enlisted the assistance of the [[Silurian]]s in preventing Rose entering into a [[psychotic episode]] due to the memories fracturing her mind. She was eventually cured ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Lost Dimension (comic story)|part=Two}}) and, by the time she encountered the [[Cybus Cybermen|Cybermen]] in [[Pete's World|a parallel world]] with the Tenth Doctor, recognised them only through the [[Cyberman (Dalek)|head]] she had seen in [[Henry van Statten]]'s [[the Vault (Dalek)|museum]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Age of Steel (TV story)}})
 
Furthermore, the [[Twelfth Doctor]] retained complete memories of the entire alternate timeline despite its erasure. While [[The Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] departed [[Gallifrey]] once more, the Doctor contemplated if Rassilon was once again alone at the [[end of the universe]], and if he also remembered the entire timeline. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'')
 
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[[Category:Reverted history]]

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In what the Ninth Doctor would later call a redundant timeline, (COMIC: The Bidding War (part two) [+]Loading...{"part":"Two","1":"The Bidding War (comic story)"}) Rassilon, following his exile from Gallifrey by the Twelfth Doctor, discovered an asteroid colony of Cybermen at the end of the universe. Proposing an alliance, Rassilon enabled the Cybermen to embark on a campaign to conquer Gallifrey and, by extension, all of time and space. In addition, the Cybermen ensured that the Doctor's first twelve incarnations did not intervene in their ultimate conquest, by forcing them into various scenarios where the Cybermen were too powerful to be defeated.

History

Origin

Following his exile from Gallifrey by the Twelfth Doctor, Rassilon discovered an asteroid colony of Cybermen at the end of the universe. Inspired by the Cybermen's will to survive even at the end of the Doctor's universe, and after discussions with the Cyber-Leader, Rassilon proposed an alliance with the Cybermen, which they accepted. The Cybermen converted Rassilon into the "Cyber-President", and together, they forged the Gallifreyan Cyber Fleet and launched an invasion of the Capitol on Gallifrey. Sometime during the invasion, Rassilon hijacked the Eye of Harmony, killing all of Gallifrey's TARDISes and preventing the Time Lords from launching a fleet of Battle TARDISes in defence.

While the Gallifreyan Cyber Fleet attacked the Capitol, both on ground-level and in the air, Rassilon and a squad of Cybermen transmatted directly into the Capitol, and killed numerous Time Lord soldiers and the Lady President. While Rassilon ordered the Cybermen to capture the Time Lords in the Capitol and take them to the Eye of Harmony's chamber, the General, who was a part of the Time Lord squad guarding the Lady President, teleported into the Undercity and rounded up several surviving Time Lords into the Tomb of Rassilon, the only area on Gallifrey that the Gallifreyan Cyber Fleet could not breach.

Sometime between Rassilon's initial encounter with the Cybermen and their invasion of Gallifrey, Rassilon gave the Cybermen the power to conquer all of time and space with Time Lord technology, particularly to keep the Doctor's first twelve incarnations occupied so that they could not intervene with the Cybermen's ultimate conquest. (COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen)

Cyber-conquest of prehistoric Earth

The Cyber-Silurians march on prehistoric Earth. (COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen)

On prehistoric Earth, the entire Silurian race were converted into Cyber-Silurians and tasked with re-engineering Silurian Arks into Cyber-Arks in order to seed the universe with Cyber-Technology before humanity could begin evolving. The Eleventh Doctor and Alice Obiefune explored one of the Cyber-Arks but were attacked by several Cyber-Silurians. Alice escaped and the Doctor was upgraded into the Cyberiad, however, the Doctor used his new cyber-connection to disable the emotional inhibitors of the Cyber-Silurians; in response, the Cyberiad terminated all the Cyber-Silurians and launched the Cyber-Arks, much to the Doctor's distress. (COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen)

Further Cyber-attacks on Earth

Despite these events, Earth was also attacked at other points in time. One such attack occurred in November 1963, when the First Doctor was captured by three Mondasian Cybermen outside his TARDIS at 76 Totter's Lane. (COMIC: Prologue: The First Doctor)

Rose Tyler is converted into a Cyber-Warrior by the techno-virus. (COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen)

In 2006, the Cybermen launched a full-scale invasion of Earth. By seeding Earth's atmosphere with an airborne, microscopic techno-virus, the Cybermen transformed Earth into the Cyber-Earth and converted humanity into Cyber-Warriors in only three days. The Ninth Doctor, Rose Tyler and Jack Harkness rescued Jackie Tyler from a large Cyberdog and crashed their flyer into St Paul's Cathedral. In an attempt to recover the Doctor's TARDIS, the console exploded and the TARDIS began imploding. Whilst the Doctor and Jackie escaped back to the flyer, Rose was suddenly cyber-converted and killed Jack; when he used his sonic screwdriver on Rose, the Doctor was attacked by the Cybermen's techno-virus and was partially converted. In a final desperate attempt to stop the Cybermen using the virus to convert and invade other planets, the Doctor attempted to rupture the Heart of the TARDIS and destroy the Earth. However, the power was suddenly diverted to the Eye of Harmony on Gallifrey by the Cybermen, who had seized control of the Eye during their invasion of Gallifrey at the end of the universe. The cyber-converted Rose then broke into the TARDIS and prepared to kill the Doctor and Jackie. (COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen)

Moonbase Laika and the Matrix

Elsewhere in time, the Second Doctor was partially cyber-converted on Moonbase Laika (COMIC: Prologue: The Second Doctor) by a force of Cybermen of the "Late" CyberFaction. (COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen) During the Sixth Doctor's trial against the Valeyard on Space Station Zenobia, the Doctor and Melanie Bush were confronted by an advanced squad of Cybermen who had gained control of the Matrix. (COMIC: Prologue: The Sixth Doctor, Supremacy of the Cybermen)

The Last Great Time War

Additionally, the Cybermen also actively chose to erase the creation of the Daleks from history (COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen) by conquering Skaro. Eventually, the Cybermen diverted the Fifth Doctor's TARDIS to Skaro, where a Nomad Cyber-Leader ordered a CyberIsomorph to kill the Doctor and Peri Brown. (COMIC: Prologue: The Fifth Doctor)

The Cybermen are destroyed in the Last Great Time War. (COMIC: Prologue: The War Doctor)

With the Daleks erased from history, (COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen) the Cybermen continued to grow in dominance, to the point that the Time Lords engaged the Cybermen in the Last Great Time War. (COMIC: Prologue: The War Doctor) Unlike in the original timeline, (TV: The Day of the Doctor) the War Doctor used the Moment to eradicate both the Cybermen and Gallifrey. (COMIC: Prologue: The War Doctor) However, his actions would prove to be in vain, as the Cybermen not only survived the war, but grew even stronger from it.[source needed]

Destruction of the Sontaran Empire

By the 24th century, the Cyber-Empire of the Cybus Cybermen had successfully annihilated several of the universe's most powerful species and planets, including the Rutans, Alpha Centauri, and nearly the entire Sontaran Empire. This was largely due to the Gallifreyan portal technology the Cybermen had acquired, which the Tenth Doctor believed had ceased to exist following the Last Great Time War; this granted the Cybermen the ability to instantly deploy entire armies of Cybermen onto a planet, allowing for invasions of far greater efficiency than with traditional invasion fleets.

Three CyberKings assist in the Cybermen's invasion of Sontar. (COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen)

The Tenth Doctor was captured, along with Gabby Gonzalez and Cindy Wu, from the now-empty Cosmomart by the Last Great Sontaran War Fleet to serve as the Sontarans' field marshal against a Cyberman invasion of Sontar, the last remaining world in the Sontaran Empire. After causing the Imperial Flagship to crash on Sontar, a huge army of Cybermen emerged from numerous Gallifreyan portals above the planet's surface and commenced their attack, with the aim of gaining control of the Sontaran cloning factories to produce an infinite supply of Mondasians for conversion. In an attempt to gain an advantage, Gabby and Cindy distracted one of the attacking CyberKings by flying a stray Sontaran scout ship near it; when the Doctor believed that Gabby and Cindy had been killed, he crashed his own Sontaran scout ship into the CyberKing's control throne. After wiring himself into the CyberKing's throne, the Doctor, consumed with rage, destroyed the other two CyberKings, only to be intercepted by a Cyber-Ark, which commenced full planetary conversion of Sontar. (COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen)

Further attacks on the Doctor

The Master is converted into a CyberNomad. (COMIC: Prologue: The Third Doctor)

The Cybermen also attacked the Doctor's incarnations at unspecified points in time. The Third Doctor was attacked by a time distortion during a fight with the Master, causing a Cyberfication machine to appear and convert the Master into a CyberNomad. (COMIC: Prologue: The Third Doctor) Additionally, the Fourth Doctor was trapped in a mansion by numerous Cybermen and a Cyber-Leader; when he ordered K9 to attack them in defence, K9 was converted and turned on the Doctor. (COMIC: Prologue: The Fourth Doctor)

Elsewhere, the Seventh Doctor infiltrated an Isomorph Cyber-Fleet and prepared to destroy it with nemesis mines, only to be confronted by a cyber-converted Ace. (COMIC: Prologue: The Seventh Doctor) Furthermore, the Eighth Doctor and Josie Day, after finding the Doctor's TARDIS being attacked by a swarm of Cybermats, were captured by several Cybermen, (COMIC: Prologue: The Eighth Doctor) resembling those that attacked the Dreadnought in the original timeline, (COMIC: Dreadnought) that chanted "save!" (COMIC: Prologue: The Eighth Doctor)

The Age of the Cyberiad

During the final days of the universe, the Twelfth Doctor's TARDIS crashed on Karn, after the Twelfth Doctor failed to contact Gallifrey and inform the Time Lords of the vortex tsunamis appearing throughout the Time Vortex as a result of the Cybermen's conquests across time and space. When the Cybermen launched an attack on Karn, Ohila allowed the Doctor to use the Sisterhood of Karn's backdoor to reach Gallifrey, where the Doctor confronted Rassilon and the Cybermen. Eventually, a team of Gallifreyan soldiers destroyed Rassilon's Cyberman escorts and teleported the Doctor to the General in the Tomb of Rassilon. Allowing Rassilon inside to understand the situation further, the three Time Lords travelled to the Eye of Harmony, where the Cybermen were using Looms to harvest regeneration energy from numerous captured Time Lords and feed it into the Eye.

The Cyber-Controller accelerates the death of the universe. (COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen)

After the Cybermen forced the General into a loom, Rassilon revealed his plans: to ignite the Eye of Harmony at the moment the universe ended and use the regenerative energy inside the Eye to regenerate the universe into a reality where the former Lord President of Gallifrey would be "a god, worshipped by all." The Cybermen then betrayed Rassilon, forcing him and the Doctor into looms, and the Cyber-Controller revealed itself as the true leader of the Cybermen.

The Cyber-Controller revealed to the Twelfth Doctor that the Cybermen intended to perform Rassilon's plan themselves to regenerate the universe into the Age of the Cyberiad, a universe controlled by the Cybermen from its very beginning. When Rassilon's regenerative readings fluctuated, the Doctor was converted to serve as an alternative means of focusing the regenerative energy in the Eye of Harmony. However, the two Time Lords were able to to unite mentally within the Cyberiad, and together, they reversed the flow of the regenerative energy through the Eye to regenerate the universe to its form prior to Rassilon's initial encounter with the Cybermen, erasing the Cybermen's conquests of time and space from history.

Aftermath

With this timeline's erasure, the majority of the universe's inhabitants forgot the events of the Cybermen's conquest of history. However, there were a handful of exceptions.

Rose Tyler, in horror, as the repreessed memories of this timeline surface. (COMIC: The Bidding War (part two) [+]Loading...{"part":"Two","1":"The Bidding War (comic story)"})

Although most of the Doctor's incarnations did not remember their involvements with this timeline, the Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Doctors remembered their encounters with the Cybermen during this version of history, but were confused as to how they had been resolved. (COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen) Additionally, Rose Tyler remembered her cyber-conversion from this timeline after Addison Delamar forced her to use the Memgram Network, as she tried to auction off the Doctor's memories. (COMIC: The Bidding War (part two) [+]Loading...{"part":"Two","1":"The Bidding War (comic story)"}) The Ninth Doctor enlisted the assistance of the Silurians in preventing Rose entering into a psychotic episode due to the memories fracturing her mind. She was eventually cured (COMIC: The Lost Dimension (part two) [+]Loading...{"part":"Two","1":"The Lost Dimension (comic story)"}) and, by the time she encountered the Cybermen in a parallel world with the Tenth Doctor, recognised them only through the head she had seen in Henry van Statten's museum. (TV: The Age of Steel [+]Loading...["The Age of Steel (TV story)"])

Furthermore, the Twelfth Doctor retained complete memories of the entire alternate timeline despite its erasure. While his TARDIS departed Gallifrey once more, the Doctor contemplated if Rassilon was once again alone at the end of the universe, and if he also remembered the entire timeline. (COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen)

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