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|aka = <ul><li>[[Marinus]] (possible)</li><li>[[Terra Nova]] (possible)</li>
|aka         = [[Planet 14]], [[Marinus]], Una Contro-Mundo
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|appearances = <ul><li>[[DW]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]''</li><li>[[DWM]]: ''[[The World Shapers]]''</li><li>[[DWM]]: ''[[The Cybermen]]''</li><li>[[BFA]]: ''[[Spare Parts]]''</li></ul>}}
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'''Mondas''' was the [[Binary planetary system|twin planet]] of [[Earth]] and original homeworld of [[CyberMondan|one race]] of [[Cyberman|Cybermen]]. In ancient times, it was dislodged from its old position out into [[space]] when [[the Moon]] was formed. The Cybermen eventually learned to pilot their planet and [[1986 Cyberman invasion of Earth|took]] Mondas back to Earth, where it was [[Destruction of Mondas|destroyed]].


'''Mondas''' was the original homeworld of the [[Cybermen]] of this universe and also the [[twin planet]] of [[Earth]], which, in ancient times, moved from its old position out into space.  
== Native life ==
Originally, the [[Mondasian]]s resembled the [[human]]s of Earth in every respect. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Spare Parts (audio story)|Spare Parts]]'') Some accounts show that in the same way that parallels to humans existed on Mondas, [[Lizard King]]s and [[Mondasian Sea Devil|Sea Devils]] shared the planet with [[dinosaur]]s, Cybermen, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Dead Heart (comic story)|The Dead Heart]]'') and [[ape]]s. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Prodigal Returns (comic story)|The Prodigal Returns]]'') [[Golgoth]], a bipedal reptilian [[god]] in physical form, also lived on Mondas at this time. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Cybermen (comic story)|The Cybermen]]'')


==Geography==
The [[Museum of the Last Ones]] had specimens of [[extinction|extinct]] species from Mondas. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Last Dodo (novel)|The Last Dodo]]'')
Mondas was identical to Earth even down to the size and shapes of its continents. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'')


''Given what we know about the geology of Earth and the formation of its landmasses this is exceptionally unlikely and strongly suggests an unknown, vastly powerful agency somehow influenced the development of either or both planets.
== Geography ==
Mondas was near-identical to [[Earth]], even down to the size and shapes of its [[continent]]s. According to one account, the one major way that it differed to Earth was that its continents were upside down in relation to Earth. However, it had no visible [[cloud]]s in its [[atmosphere]] at that time. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'') Another account claimed that Mondas' continents were in the same orientation as Earth's, but differed slightly in shape. ([[TV]]: {{cs|World Enough and Time (TV story)}})


==Native life==
== History ==
Originally, the [[Mondasian]]s resembled the [[human]]s of Earth in every respect. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'') One account shows that in the same way that parallels to humans existed on Mondas, Mondasian [[Silurian]]s and [[Sea Devil]]s shared the planet with [[dinosaur]]s and Cybermen. ([[DWM]]: ''[[The Cybermen]]'': "The Dead Heart") A reptilian god figure, [[Golgoth]], also lived on Mondas at this time. ([[DWM]]: ''[[The Cybermen]]'': "The Dark Flame")
=== Creation ===
According to one account, Mondas originated as [[Marinus]], a planet previously visited by the [[First Doctor]], the Cybermen having "[[quick-evolve]]d" from the [[Voord]]. This account claimed that Marinus was known as [[Planet 14]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The World Shapers (comic story)|The World Shapers]]'') This was contradicted by the [[Twelfth Doctor]], who knew that while Cybermen did evolve on Marinus, they originated separately from the [[Mondasian Cybermen]], through [[parallel evolution]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')


==History==
According to another account, Mondas was created by the [[Constructors of Destiny]] as an experiment of sorts to see how it would differ from Earth. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'')
===Conflicting accounts===
One account shows the [[Voord]] of the planet [[Marinus]] using stolen time technology to "quick-evolve" themselves into the earliest Cybermen, which would make Mondas, in fact, Marinus, under another name. ([[DWM]]: ''[[The World Shapers]]'')


Another account describes events which took place on [[Terra Nova]], an artificially created duplicate of Earth and its cultures circa the [[1st century BCE]]. Possibly this indicates that Mondas began as Terra Nova. ([[MA]]: ''[[State of Change]]'')
According to yet another account, Mondas was Earth's twin planet "in [[Mondas's alternate universe|an alternate universe]]". ([[GAME]]: {{cs|Worlds Apart (video game)}})


===Separation from Earth orbit===
Originally, Earth and Mondas occupied the same orbit in the [[solar system]]. It was stated that "Mondas" was another name for Earth in one of the ancient languages. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'')
Originally, Earth and Mondas occupied the same orbit in the [[Sol]] System. It was stated that "Mondas" is another name for Earth in one of the ancient languages. For unknown reasons, Mondas left that orbit and drifted into space. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'')


:''This implies either contact between the two twin planets or else a degree of parallel evolution, with similar languages evolving on both worlds.''
=== Under Lizard King rule ===
Mondas had, like Earth, at one time, an [[Lizard King|intelligent reptile species]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Cybermen (comic story)|The Cybermen]]'')


===Creation of the Cybermen===
[[File:The Prodigal Returns.jpg|thumb|left|A [[Lizard King]] begins to vivisect a captured Cyberman. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Prodigal Returns (comic story)|The Prodigal Returns]]'')]]
====Origins====
A [[cosmic cloud]] once appeared near Mondas. A Cyberman from the future came through the cloud and was captured by the Lizard Kings. At this point, the Lizard Kings had never encountered Cybermen before. They were intrigued by the cloud the Cyberman came from and sent a modified [[ape-servant]] through the cloud to investigate if it was a viable way to escape the rogue planet which was approaching Mondas fast.
According to the Cybermen themselves, the Mondasians were once exactly like [[human]] beings, but to remove various weaknesses such as a decreasing lifespan, their scientists designed cybernetic spare parts to replace the organs of the human body. They also considered emotions a weakness, and removed those from their brains as well, becoming extremely powerful and long-lived while at the cost of becoming cold, logical and machine-like in their ruthlessness. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'')


====Early history====
The Lizard Kings never left Mondas, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Prodigal Returns (comic story)|The Prodigal Returns]]'') and [[Origin of the Moon|the sudden arrival]] of [[The Moon|a moon]] between Earth and Mondas caused an upset in the gravitational equilibrium of Mondas, causing it to escape its orbit ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Spare Parts (audio story)|Spare Parts]]'') and begin [[Rogue planet|drifting]] on a journey to "the [[Edge of the universe|edge of space]]". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'')
During a time when parts of Mondas had a tropical climate, Cybermen met and warred with Silurians and Sea Devils. ([[DWM]]: ''[[The Cybermen]]'': "The Dead Heart") The godlike reptilian humanoid Golgoth appeared and destroyed all but one Cyberman and finally destroyed the lone survivor. ([[DWM]]: ''[[The Cybermen'']])


Some centuries after, human-appearing Mondasians of roughly [[20th century]] technological development had appeared and Mondas had begun to move out of its orbit. Archeologists had discovered remnants of the Cybermen. ([[DWM]]: ''[[The Cybermen]]'': "The Ugly Underneath")
While parts of Mondas still had a tropical climate, the Lizard Kings encountered the Cybermen of their own time and warred with them. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Dead Heart (comic story)|The Dead Heart]]'') [[Golgoth]] appeared and destroyed all but one Cyberman and finally destroyed the lone survivor. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Cybermen (comic story)|The Cybermen]]'')


:''This last story implied that the discovery of the extinct Cybermen would lead to the Mondasians deciding to use Cybertechnology, beginning the cycle of creation anew and creating a new race of Cybermen.''
By the time that Mondas was well and truly separated from Earth, the Lizard Kings had fallen and the Cybermen became the new rulers of Mondas. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Prodigal Returns (comic story)|The Prodigal Returns]]'')


[[Fifth Doctor|The Doctor]] and [[Nyssa]] arrived on Mondas prior to the rise of the Cybermen, while it was still drifting through space. There, they discovered the Mondasians living underground in a culture virtually identical to that of [[England]] in the [[1950s]], although with more advanced technology. They witnessed the slow slide of the Mondasians towards cyber-conversion, conceived by the cybernetic [[gestalt intelligence]] controlling Mondas as a solution to the planet's increasingly desperate situation. ([[BFA]]: ''[[Spare Parts]]'')
=== Evolution of the Cybermen ===
[[File:The Prodigal Returns 2.jpg|thumb|right|A Cyberman begins to vivisect an ape that was modified by the Lizard Kings. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Prodigal Returns (comic story)|The Prodigal Returns]]'')]]
A [[cosmic cloud]] appeared near Mondas, providing a temporal link to its past. After an ape modified by the Lizard Kings came through the cloud and was captured by Cybermen, they became curious about the cloud and decided to send a scout through it see if there were more apes that could be converted into Cybermen on the other side. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Prodigal Returns (comic story)|The Prodigal Returns]]'')


:''The gestalt intelligence had similarities to the [[Cyber-Planner]]. This event may have happened after the other account or it may have even happened before''
Some centuries after, Cybermen had been wiped out and human-appearing Mondasians of roughly [[20th century]] technological development had replaced them. [[Archaeologist]]s discovered remnants of the Cybermen. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Ugly Underneath (comic story)|The Ugly Underneath]]'') As opposed to the very slow technological and economic development of the [[Earth]] and the more violent tribalistic nature of [[human]]s, Mondas advanced rapidly, with the Mondasians developing a united global community ruled by a technocracy. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Origins of the Cybermen (audio story)|Origins of the Cybermen]]'')


===Return of Mondas to the Sol System===
Mondas was flung away from the life-giving warmth of Sol because of an experiment in [[solar engineering]] which went wrong. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Quintessence (audio story)}}) As the planet strayed further away from the Sun, conditions grew steadily worse. This forced the inhabitants to relocate underground in order to survive. They had by this time developed a society parallel to that of [[1950s]] England. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Spare Parts (audio story)|Spare Parts]]'') [[Cyber-conversion]] was introduced to Mondasian society to ensure their survival, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') with those who worked on a propulsion system to push Mondas back to its solar system being converted to ensure they could survive on the surface. However, the conversion was not stabilised until the [[Fifth Doctor]] happened to arrive and was scanned. Under order of the [[Central Committee of Mondas]], which was a predecessor to the [[Cyber-Planner]]s of later history and deemed conversation the only way to ensure its people's survival, the Cybermen prepared to enforce cyber-conversion on the whole of the Mondasian population.
By [[1986]], the Cybermen had developed a means of propulsion for Mondas itself. This allowed them to pilot the planet through space, returning it to its original orbit. The Cybermen invaded the [[South Pole]] while Mondas drew closer, draining Earth's energy to replace and supplement its own. However, the energy absorbed was too much, and Mondas disintegrated, killing the Cybermen on Earth. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'')


===The "New Mondas"===
Despite the Committee's destruction, the Cybermen pushed on ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Spare Parts (audio story)|Spare Parts]]'') and eventually succeeded in conquering the planet ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'')
In [[1988]], the [[Cyber-Fleet]] traveled to Earth, planning to take the [[Nemesis]] statue, a [[Time Lord]] weapon that would allow them to conquer Earth. The [[Cyber-Leader]] planned for there to be a new and final era where imagination, thought, freedom, and pleasure would end. The [[Human-race]] would be enslaved and Earth would become the Cybermen's base planet: the "New Mondas".


[[Seventh Doctor|The Doctor]], however, launched the Nemesis in space to meet with the Cyber-Fleet. When it did, it exploded and destroyed the entire fleet. Earth remained unchanged.([[DW]]: ''[[Silver Nemesis]]'')
According to one account, as the planet became uninhabitable, the early Cyberman organised a [[mass exodus from Mondas]] in "colossal spaceships or arks" such as ([[GAME]]: {{cs|Worlds Apart (video game)}}) the [[Colony ship (World Enough and Time)|colony ship]] encountered by the [[Twelfth Doctor]] and his [[companion]]s, although that ship was originally crewed by non-converted humanoids, survivors of whom would go on to seemingly "reinvent" the Cybermen. ([[TV]]: {{cs|World Enough and Time (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Doctor Falls (TV story)}}) The Cybermen who arose on those colony ships were known as [[Exodus Cyberman|Exodus Cybermen]] and were "marked by their resourcefulness and determination, as they sought to survive and propagate their race in the face of their planet's [[Destruction of Mondas|impending annihilation]]". ([[GAME]]: {{cs|Worlds Apart (video game)}})
==Notes==
*The origins of the Cybermen given in the ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' comic strip ''[[The Cybermen (comics)|The Cybermen]]'' conflicts with that given in ''[[Spare Parts]]'', if taken at face value, unless the Cybermen had different separate creations, as the former story implies. ''[[The World Shapers]]'' gives a very different account to either and one that contradicts ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'' itself.


*The date of Mondas' departure from its original orbit is not known, nor is the full extent of its wanderings through space. It is widely believed (and ''[[Spare Parts]]'' concurs) that Mondas' journey ''"to the edge of space"'' involved it physically leaving the Solar system and travelling through the galaxy. However as it apparently did not possess a propulsion system at the time, it is unknown how the planet could have attained sufficient velocity to cover interstellar distances in a period apparently of only a few thousand years. The [[ArcHivists]] suggested that Mondas drifted only to the edge of the Solar system before the planetary drive was developed.
Looking into Mondas's past, the [[Time Lord]]s saw a dictator named [[Halvlad]] ruling over the planet with early Cybermen, with the Cybermen replacing most of the human population within a hundred and nine years. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Cyber Files (novel)|The Cyber Files]]'') One Cybermen faction, the [[Mondan]]s, decided to stay on their home planet. Another group, [[CyberFaction|the Faction]], more committed to total cybernetic conversion in comparison to the Mondans, pushed outwards in the solar system and colonised [[Planet 14]]. The [[CyberMondan|CyberMondasian]]s developed a drive which used [[electromagnetism|electro-magnetic]] energy to push the whole planet through space. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Iceberg (novel)|Iceberg]]'')


*Several possible causes for Mondas being knocked out of orbit have been suggested, none of them without problems: these include the planetary drive itself (''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]'', though this appears to contradict ''[[The Tenth Planet]]''), the arrival in orbit of Earth's [[Moon]] (''[[Cybermen (book)|Cybermen]]'', though this appears to make the departure contemporaneous with the fall of the [[Silurian]]s, most likely many millions of years BCE and thus unlikely), and the detonation close to Earth of an [[anti-matter]] explosion (''[[Cybermen (book)|Cybermen]]'' - a reference to the conclusion of ''[[Earthshock]]'', which would be satisfying ironic, but sadly unlikely given the date (roughly 65 million BCE), the fact the explosion is clearly closer to Earth than anywhere else) and that it is a pre-destination paradox
=== Return of Mondas ===
Their only recourse now was to use Mondas' last remaining energy to return to the [[Earth]]'s orbit and plunder its energy. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'')


*Curiously, from the point of view of the mythology of the series, visits to prehistoric Earth or its vicinity (''[[City of Death]]'', ''[[Earthshock]]'', and so on) make no mention of the presence of Mondas even though it was supposedly on the same orbital path at the time.     
In [[1873]], Mondas was located 200 [[light-year]]s from Earth. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Silver Turk (audio story)|The Silver Turk]]'')


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In [[1903]], after receiving a wealth of information from the future, [[Grigori Rasputin]] foresaw the return of Mondas. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Wanderer (audio story)|The Wanderer]]'')


In [[1954]], a [[Cyber-Warship (The Good Soldier)|Cyber-Warship]] reported to [[Mondas Central]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Good Soldier (comic story)|The Good Soldier]]'')
In [[1984]], the [[Sixth Doctor]] left [[Cyber-Leader (The Reaping)|a damaged Cyber-Leader from the far future]] on Mondas knowing that it would be destroyed with the rest of the planet two years later. The Cyber-Leader, sporting the [[CyberNeomorph]] design, was discovered by the CyberMondasians. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Reaping (audio story)|The Reaping]]'')
In [[December]] [[1986]], the Cybermen invaded the [[Snowcap]] tracking base in [[Antarctica]] while Mondas drew closer, draining Earth's energy to replace and supplement its own. However, the energy absorbed was too much, and Mondas disintegrated. The destruction of Mondas destroyed all of the [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] on Mondas and also killed all of the Cybermen on Earth, who were dependent upon Mondas for energy. As the planet plundered Earth's energy, the [[First Doctor]]'s [[life-force]] was caught up in the maelstrom, triggering his regeneration into his [[Second Doctor|second incarnation]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'') The [[Sixth Doctor]] would note Mondas's destruction as being part of the [[Web of Time]] as he thwarted an attempt made by future Cybermen in the [[1985|previous year]] to save Mondas. ([[TV]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)|Attack of the Cybermen]]'')
=== Aftermath of Mondas' destruction ===
The official statement on Earth attempted to cover up the Cyberman invasion by claiming Mondas was an [[asteroid]], known as "the Mondas Asteroid", which went [[supernova]] before colliding with Earth. During Earth's war with the [[Myloki]] between [[2066]] and [[2068]], [[Alex Storm]] found [[United Nations|UN]] documents which revealed that Mondas was actually a planet. However, these documents were destroyed by "some ignorant clerk" to "save space". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Indestructible Man (novel)|The Indestructible Man]]'')
After Mondas was destroyed, a group of [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] relocated to [[Lonsis]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Human Resources (audio story)|Human Resources]]'')
== Other realities ==
In [[Barusa's universe|one]] of the infinite [[parallel universe]]s of "[[Multiverse|possible space]]", ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Fire and Brimstone (comic story)|Fire and Brimstone]]'') the planet [[Mondas (Barusa's universe)|Mondas]]'s environment was ruined by its careless inhabitants, who ended up modifying themselves into the vain, "cybotic" [[pirate]]s known as the [[Cyb (Barusa's universe)|Cyb]]s. The planet was eventually destroyed at some point after [[1994]] in an effort to destroy the Cybs. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Chronicles of Doctor Who? (short story)|The Chronicles of Doctor Who?]]'')
== References ==
In [[1988]], a [[Cyber-Leader (Silver Nemesis)|Cyber-Leader]] leading a squad of [[CyberIsomorph]]s revealed that he planned to use the [[Nemesis]] to transform Earth into "the [[New Mondas]]". ([[TV]]: ''[[Silver Nemesis (TV story)|Silver Nemesis]]'')
In the [[2006]] of [[Alternate timeline (Supremacy of the Cybermen)|an alternate timeline]], [[Jack Harkness]] described the Cybermen to [[Jackie Tyler]] as "a race of cyborgs from the long-dead planet of Mondas". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'')
When the [[Tenth Doctor]] had discovered a way to turn the [[Kotturuh]]'s necrotic retro-virus against them, he pondered about how the planets in his time would evolve without [[death]]'s influence, theorising that the Mondasians would never become the Cybermen if their flesh were never to wither. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Knight, The Fool and The Dead (novel)|The Knight, The Fool and The Dead]]'')
[[Battle of Floor 0507|Facing]] the Cybermen on a [[Colony ship (World Enough and Time)|colony ship]], the [[Twelfth Doctor]] recalled Mondas as the first of the worlds where they rose. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') [[Missy]] previously discovered the ship itself originated from Mondas though it was never revealed at which point in the planet's history the colony ship was launched. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'')
== Behind the scenes ==
[[File:Mondas Surface 1 - The Cyber Story.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Surface of Mondas as seen in ''[[The Cyber Story]]''.]]
[[File:Mondas Surface 2 - The Cyber Story.jpg|thumb|right|250px|A city on Mondas under the dome (see above image) as seen in ''[[The Cyber Story]]''.]]
=== Origins of the concept ===
The idea of a parallel Earth opposite in orbit to Earth itself has occurred in pre-modern astronomy ({{w|Counter-Earth}}) and some other works of [[science fiction]], though modern astronomers consider this unfeasible due to the orbital mechanics involved. The idea had earlier almost appeared in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' in the proposed [[Malcolm Hulke]] story ''The Hidden Planet''. Apart from this, the idea occurs in countless comics, movies, novels and short stories.
=== Continuity conflicts and ambiguities ===
The Cybermen origin story in ''[[The World Shapers (comic story)|The World Shapers]]'' portrays [[Marinus]], Mondas, and the mysterious [[Planet 14]] referenced in ''[[The Invasion (TV story)|The Invasion]]'' as the same place.
''[[Iceberg (novel)|Iceberg]]'' and ''[[Doctor Who: Cybermen]]'' by [[David Banks]], who had also played the [[Cyber-Leader]] on ''[[Doctor Who]]'', explain it differently. According to the later, non-narrative reference guide, which this wiki [[T:VS|does not consider to be a valid source]], the drive that propelled Mondas through space was developed during the journey to "the edge of space" in order to effect a controlled return to their original orbit.
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Mondas
Appearances

Mondas was the twin planet of Earth and original homeworld of one race of Cybermen. In ancient times, it was dislodged from its old position out into space when the Moon was formed. The Cybermen eventually learned to pilot their planet and took Mondas back to Earth, where it was destroyed.

Native life[[edit] | [edit source]]

Originally, the Mondasians resembled the humans of Earth in every respect. (TV: The Tenth Planet, AUDIO: Spare Parts) Some accounts show that in the same way that parallels to humans existed on Mondas, Lizard Kings and Sea Devils shared the planet with dinosaurs, Cybermen, (COMIC: The Dead Heart) and apes. (COMIC: The Prodigal Returns) Golgoth, a bipedal reptilian god in physical form, also lived on Mondas at this time. (COMIC: The Cybermen)

The Museum of the Last Ones had specimens of extinct species from Mondas. (PROSE: The Last Dodo)

Geography[[edit] | [edit source]]

Mondas was near-identical to Earth, even down to the size and shapes of its continents. According to one account, the one major way that it differed to Earth was that its continents were upside down in relation to Earth. However, it had no visible clouds in its atmosphere at that time. (TV: The Tenth Planet) Another account claimed that Mondas' continents were in the same orientation as Earth's, but differed slightly in shape. (TV: World Enough and Time [+]Loading...["World Enough and Time (TV story)"])

History[[edit] | [edit source]]

Creation[[edit] | [edit source]]

According to one account, Mondas originated as Marinus, a planet previously visited by the First Doctor, the Cybermen having "quick-evolved" from the Voord. This account claimed that Marinus was known as Planet 14. (COMIC: The World Shapers) This was contradicted by the Twelfth Doctor, who knew that while Cybermen did evolve on Marinus, they originated separately from the Mondasian Cybermen, through parallel evolution. (TV: The Doctor Falls)

According to another account, Mondas was created by the Constructors of Destiny as an experiment of sorts to see how it would differ from Earth. (PROSE: The Quantum Archangel)

According to yet another account, Mondas was Earth's twin planet "in an alternate universe". (GAME: Worlds Apart [+]Loading...["Worlds Apart (video game)"])

Originally, Earth and Mondas occupied the same orbit in the solar system. It was stated that "Mondas" was another name for Earth in one of the ancient languages. (TV: The Tenth Planet)

Under Lizard King rule[[edit] | [edit source]]

Mondas had, like Earth, at one time, an intelligent reptile species. (COMIC: The Cybermen)

A Lizard King begins to vivisect a captured Cyberman. (COMIC: The Prodigal Returns)

A cosmic cloud once appeared near Mondas. A Cyberman from the future came through the cloud and was captured by the Lizard Kings. At this point, the Lizard Kings had never encountered Cybermen before. They were intrigued by the cloud the Cyberman came from and sent a modified ape-servant through the cloud to investigate if it was a viable way to escape the rogue planet which was approaching Mondas fast.

The Lizard Kings never left Mondas, (COMIC: The Prodigal Returns) and the sudden arrival of a moon between Earth and Mondas caused an upset in the gravitational equilibrium of Mondas, causing it to escape its orbit (AUDIO: Spare Parts) and begin drifting on a journey to "the edge of space". (TV: The Tenth Planet)

While parts of Mondas still had a tropical climate, the Lizard Kings encountered the Cybermen of their own time and warred with them. (COMIC: The Dead Heart) Golgoth appeared and destroyed all but one Cyberman and finally destroyed the lone survivor. (COMIC: The Cybermen)

By the time that Mondas was well and truly separated from Earth, the Lizard Kings had fallen and the Cybermen became the new rulers of Mondas. (COMIC: The Prodigal Returns)

Evolution of the Cybermen[[edit] | [edit source]]

A Cyberman begins to vivisect an ape that was modified by the Lizard Kings. (COMIC: The Prodigal Returns)

A cosmic cloud appeared near Mondas, providing a temporal link to its past. After an ape modified by the Lizard Kings came through the cloud and was captured by Cybermen, they became curious about the cloud and decided to send a scout through it see if there were more apes that could be converted into Cybermen on the other side. (COMIC: The Prodigal Returns)

Some centuries after, Cybermen had been wiped out and human-appearing Mondasians of roughly 20th century technological development had replaced them. Archaeologists discovered remnants of the Cybermen. (COMIC: The Ugly Underneath) As opposed to the very slow technological and economic development of the Earth and the more violent tribalistic nature of humans, Mondas advanced rapidly, with the Mondasians developing a united global community ruled by a technocracy. (AUDIO: Origins of the Cybermen)

Mondas was flung away from the life-giving warmth of Sol because of an experiment in solar engineering which went wrong. (AUDIO: The Quintessence [+]Loading...["The Quintessence (audio story)"]) As the planet strayed further away from the Sun, conditions grew steadily worse. This forced the inhabitants to relocate underground in order to survive. They had by this time developed a society parallel to that of 1950s England. (AUDIO: Spare Parts) Cyber-conversion was introduced to Mondasian society to ensure their survival, (TV: The Doctor Falls) with those who worked on a propulsion system to push Mondas back to its solar system being converted to ensure they could survive on the surface. However, the conversion was not stabilised until the Fifth Doctor happened to arrive and was scanned. Under order of the Central Committee of Mondas, which was a predecessor to the Cyber-Planners of later history and deemed conversation the only way to ensure its people's survival, the Cybermen prepared to enforce cyber-conversion on the whole of the Mondasian population.

Despite the Committee's destruction, the Cybermen pushed on (AUDIO: Spare Parts) and eventually succeeded in conquering the planet (TV: The Tenth Planet)

According to one account, as the planet became uninhabitable, the early Cyberman organised a mass exodus from Mondas in "colossal spaceships or arks" such as (GAME: Worlds Apart [+]Loading...["Worlds Apart (video game)"]) the colony ship encountered by the Twelfth Doctor and his companions, although that ship was originally crewed by non-converted humanoids, survivors of whom would go on to seemingly "reinvent" the Cybermen. (TV: World Enough and Time [+]Loading...["World Enough and Time (TV story)"], The Doctor Falls [+]Loading...["The Doctor Falls (TV story)"]) The Cybermen who arose on those colony ships were known as Exodus Cybermen and were "marked by their resourcefulness and determination, as they sought to survive and propagate their race in the face of their planet's impending annihilation". (GAME: Worlds Apart [+]Loading...["Worlds Apart (video game)"])

Looking into Mondas's past, the Time Lords saw a dictator named Halvlad ruling over the planet with early Cybermen, with the Cybermen replacing most of the human population within a hundred and nine years. (PROSE: The Cyber Files) One Cybermen faction, the Mondans, decided to stay on their home planet. Another group, the Faction, more committed to total cybernetic conversion in comparison to the Mondans, pushed outwards in the solar system and colonised Planet 14. The CyberMondasians developed a drive which used electro-magnetic energy to push the whole planet through space. (PROSE: Iceberg)

Return of Mondas[[edit] | [edit source]]

Their only recourse now was to use Mondas' last remaining energy to return to the Earth's orbit and plunder its energy. (TV: The Tenth Planet)

In 1873, Mondas was located 200 light-years from Earth. (AUDIO: The Silver Turk)

In 1903, after receiving a wealth of information from the future, Grigori Rasputin foresaw the return of Mondas. (AUDIO: The Wanderer)

In 1954, a Cyber-Warship reported to Mondas Central. (COMIC: The Good Soldier)

In 1984, the Sixth Doctor left a damaged Cyber-Leader from the far future on Mondas knowing that it would be destroyed with the rest of the planet two years later. The Cyber-Leader, sporting the CyberNeomorph design, was discovered by the CyberMondasians. (AUDIO: The Reaping)

In December 1986, the Cybermen invaded the Snowcap tracking base in Antarctica while Mondas drew closer, draining Earth's energy to replace and supplement its own. However, the energy absorbed was too much, and Mondas disintegrated. The destruction of Mondas destroyed all of the Cybermen on Mondas and also killed all of the Cybermen on Earth, who were dependent upon Mondas for energy. As the planet plundered Earth's energy, the First Doctor's life-force was caught up in the maelstrom, triggering his regeneration into his second incarnation. (TV: The Tenth Planet) The Sixth Doctor would note Mondas's destruction as being part of the Web of Time as he thwarted an attempt made by future Cybermen in the previous year to save Mondas. (TV: Attack of the Cybermen)

Aftermath of Mondas' destruction[[edit] | [edit source]]

The official statement on Earth attempted to cover up the Cyberman invasion by claiming Mondas was an asteroid, known as "the Mondas Asteroid", which went supernova before colliding with Earth. During Earth's war with the Myloki between 2066 and 2068, Alex Storm found UN documents which revealed that Mondas was actually a planet. However, these documents were destroyed by "some ignorant clerk" to "save space". (PROSE: The Indestructible Man)

After Mondas was destroyed, a group of Cybermen relocated to Lonsis. (AUDIO: Human Resources)

Other realities[[edit] | [edit source]]

In one of the infinite parallel universes of "possible space", (COMIC: Fire and Brimstone) the planet Mondas's environment was ruined by its careless inhabitants, who ended up modifying themselves into the vain, "cybotic" pirates known as the Cybs. The planet was eventually destroyed at some point after 1994 in an effort to destroy the Cybs. (PROSE: The Chronicles of Doctor Who?)

References[[edit] | [edit source]]

In 1988, a Cyber-Leader leading a squad of CyberIsomorphs revealed that he planned to use the Nemesis to transform Earth into "the New Mondas". (TV: Silver Nemesis)

In the 2006 of an alternate timeline, Jack Harkness described the Cybermen to Jackie Tyler as "a race of cyborgs from the long-dead planet of Mondas". (COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen)

When the Tenth Doctor had discovered a way to turn the Kotturuh's necrotic retro-virus against them, he pondered about how the planets in his time would evolve without death's influence, theorising that the Mondasians would never become the Cybermen if their flesh were never to wither. (PROSE: The Knight, The Fool and The Dead)

Facing the Cybermen on a colony ship, the Twelfth Doctor recalled Mondas as the first of the worlds where they rose. (TV: The Doctor Falls) Missy previously discovered the ship itself originated from Mondas though it was never revealed at which point in the planet's history the colony ship was launched. (TV: World Enough and Time)

Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]

Surface of Mondas as seen in The Cyber Story.
A city on Mondas under the dome (see above image) as seen in The Cyber Story.

Origins of the concept[[edit] | [edit source]]

The idea of a parallel Earth opposite in orbit to Earth itself has occurred in pre-modern astronomy (Counter-Earth) and some other works of science fiction, though modern astronomers consider this unfeasible due to the orbital mechanics involved. The idea had earlier almost appeared in Doctor Who in the proposed Malcolm Hulke story The Hidden Planet. Apart from this, the idea occurs in countless comics, movies, novels and short stories.

Continuity conflicts and ambiguities[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Cybermen origin story in The World Shapers portrays Marinus, Mondas, and the mysterious Planet 14 referenced in The Invasion as the same place.

Iceberg and Doctor Who: Cybermen by David Banks, who had also played the Cyber-Leader on Doctor Who, explain it differently. According to the later, non-narrative reference guide, which this wiki does not consider to be a valid source, the drive that propelled Mondas through space was developed during the journey to "the edge of space" in order to effect a controlled return to their original orbit.

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