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|type        = Partially [[Cyber-conversion|cyber-converted]] [[Mondasian]]s

|affiliation   = [[Operation Exodus]], {{Simm}}

|origin      = [[Colony ship (World Enough and Time)|Mondasian colony ship]]: [[Floor 1056]]

|first        = World Enough and Time (TV story)

|appearances  = {{Il|[[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]''|[[PROSE]]: ''[[Alit in Underland (short story)|Alit in Underland]]''}}

|individuals  = [[Topknot]]

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The '''patients''', also referred to as the "'''special patients'''" by {{Simm}}, ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') or simply as '''[[Cyberman|Cybermen]]''', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alit in Underland (short story)|Alit in Underland]]'') were an early [[evolution]] of [[CyberMondan]]s created on [[Floor 1056]] of a [[Colony ship (World Enough and Time)|Mondasian colony ship]]. Their development was a key stage of [[Operation Exodus]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') The [[Mondasian]] children of [[Floor 0507]] referred to the patients as the "'''scarecrows'''", as the patrol that attempted an invasion of said floor were used as [[scarecrow]]s by the floor's residents after their near-[[Night|nightly]] attacks. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')

== Appearance ==

The early patients lacked any sort of distinct facial features, but as they evolved further, the patients' faces and heads began to more closely resemble those of [[CyberMondan]]s; by the time [[Bill Potts]] left the [[Hospital (World Enough and Time)|hospital]] of [[Floor 1056]] for the first time, one patient possessed a [[mouth slit]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') Additionally, shortly before the people of Floor 1056 were mass-converted, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') at least two patients left in the hospital's [[Conversion Theatre]] possessed a face with completely [[black]] oval-shaped [[eye-pod]]s, and a black oval-shaped hole for a [[mouth]]. One of the patients who restrained Bill for her cyber-conversion was similar in design, but also possessed a grooved, silver helmet with a band around its edge, resembling part of a CyberMondan's [[Cyber-helmet]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'')

Most of the early patients made use of a [[Liquid|fluid]] canister, which contained a [[blue]]-and-[[white]]-coloured medical fluid in a clear container with a metal edge at the top of the canister. These patients were constantly connected to the canister via a small tube from the canister to the patients' right [[Cyber-arm|arms]], and the canister's [[wheel]]s allowed the patients to move around even with a canister attached to them. Notably, the patients' canisters additionally featured their primary means of [[communication]]: a [[voice synthesiser]]. The patients used a [[keyboard]] on the canister to input and vocalise basic [[word]]s or phrases in a robotic voice, although a small metal [[dial]] on top of the fluid containers allowed for their [[voice]]s to be manually muted. Later models of patients distinctly lacked these fluid canisters, and did not require keyboards to speak. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') However, the patients who attacked [[Floor 0507]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') such as "[[Topknot]]", ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alit in Underland (short story)|Alit in Underland]]'') did not use these canisters, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') despite having left for said floor long before [[Bill Potts]] arrived on [[Floor 1056]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'')

The patients were capable of moving individually ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alit in Underland (short story)|Alit in Underland]]'') and in unison as a group. Although most patients could only [[Walking|walk]] at a slow pace, two further evolved patients were capable of swiftly rising from a seated position and restraining an [[adult]] [[human]] female, which also demonstrated the patients' ability to trick people into believing them to be merely [[sleep]]ing. The patients possessed notable physical strength; [[Jorj]] claimed to the [[Twelfth Doctor]], [[Nardole]] and [[Missy]] that they were "too strong" for him, a non-human, to fight, and that they could "snap [a Mondasian] in half". ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'')

Additionally, the patient nicknamed "[[Topknot]]" by Missy demonstrated a degree of [[Scanner|scanning]] capabilities and was able to operate a service [[lift]] from the [[superstructure walkway]]s underneath Floor 0507 to [[Floor 0508]]. Notably, {{Simm}} incorporated numerous features into the patients designed to make them serve him to a degree; the top of the patients' [[chest unit]]s contained a [[voice box]] which could be altered by the Master to recognise his vocal commands by receiving the vocal authorisation code [[Master Alpha Seven]]. In addition, the [[root command]] of the patients' operating system, located behind the back of their chest cloths, could be altered by the Master, as he did to Topknot so that it stopped registering [[lifeform]]s with two [[heart]]s as human. Following the Master's modifications, Topknot was able to use its scanning abilities to locate technology on Floor 0508 that the Master could use to hack into the patients he set up on [[Floor 1056]]. Furthermore, the Master installed a failsafe system into the patients that would force them to return to the [[Hospital (World Enough and Time)|hospital]] on Floor 1056 if they wandered too far from it, or else the patients would shut down. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alit in Underland (short story)|Alit in Underland]]'')

A notable [[behaviour]]al characteristic of the patients was their constant cries of [[pain]], up to and including begging for [[death]] as, unlike further-[[Evolution|evolved]] models, these [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] lacked [[emotional inhibitor]]s. The [[Nurse (World Enough and Time)|nurse]] of [[Floor 1056]]'s [[Hospital (World Enough and Time)|hospital]] would silence the patients by muting their [[voice synthesiser]]s, as, prior to their evolution into [[CyberMondan|Mondasian Cybermen]], there was no cure for the patients' suffering; as a result, some patients repeatedly asked to be [[Euthanasia|euthanised]]. However, despite their pain, the patients were still perfectly capable of [[Speech|speaking]] clear [[word]]s and phrases, although these were often stagnated in delivery and toned awkwardly. At least one patient displayed the ability to communicate without a voice synthesiser by howling.

Following their [[Cyber-conversion|conversions]], the patients were often simply left to sit in [[wheelchair]]s in the hospital's wards, appearing to [[sleep]] in some manner, despite their pain. However, the patients would respond in unison to somebody attempting to leave the hospital that was not supposed to. Additionally, the patients were capable of [[walking]] despite their lack of [[vision]], although this also meant that said walking speed was slow, usually no better than a stumblimg limp. Some patients would raise their [[Cyber-arm|arms]] forwards to guide them whilst walking. The patients were occasionally used to escort people from the [[city]] on Floor 1056 to the hospital for cyber-conversion, and were sometimes even sent in the [[inertia lift]]s to the higher floors of the [[Colony ship (World Enough and Time)|Mondasian colony ship]] to forcefully capture any remaining [[Mondasian]]s elsewhere on the ship for conversion. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'')

Reflecting their nature as a [[Cyber-subspecies|subspecies]] of Cyberman, the patients were highly resilient when tasked with completing a mission; for example, the patients sent to capture the Mondasians of [[Floor 0507]] for conversion continued to repeatedly resume their mission, despite being constantly shot down and restrained by the residents of said floor. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') The patients also obeyed the orders of their leaders without [[question]], even if doing so would lead to their [[death]]s.

Possibly as a result of the constant extreme pain they experienced following their cyber-conversions, the patients appeared resilient to attacks and [[Injury|injuries]] that most [[human]]s were not. For example, "[[Topknot]]" sustained multiple blows from [[Missy]]'s [[sonic umbrella]], but continued to attack her anyway. Later, Topknot also dislocated its [[ankle]], yet appeared mostly unfazed by such an injury. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alit in Underland (short story)|Alit in Underland]]'')

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