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{{Infobox Species
|image= [[file:Cybermen_Silver_Nemesis.jpg|250px]]  
|image = [[File:Cybermen.jpg|250px]]
|Species name = Cyberman
|Species name = Cyberman
|aka=
|type = [[Human]]-derived [[cyborg]]
|type= [[Cyborg]]s (originally [[Near-Human]])
|aka = Human.2
|affiliation= The [[Cyber-Force]]
|affiliation = [[Cybus Industries]]<br>[[The Alliance]]
|origin= [[Mondas]]
|origin = [[Pete's World|Parallel Earth]]
|appearances= See [[Cybermen - List of Appearances|List of Appearances]]
|appearances = [[Cybermen (Pete's World) - List of Appearances|List of Appearances]]
|mentions= <ul><li>[[DW]]: ''[[The Ultimate Foe]]''</li><li>[[DW]]: ''[[Battlefield]]''</li><li>[[DW]]: ''[[Dalek]]''</li><li>[[DW]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]'' / ''[[Age of Steel]]''</li><li>[[TW]]: ''[[Cyberwoman]]''</li><li>[[DW]]: ''[[Time Crash]]''</li><li>[[SJA]]: ''[[Enemy of the Bane]]''</li><li>[[SJA]]: ''[[Death of the Doctor]]''</li></ul>                                                                                                  |individuals  = <ul><li>[[Cyber-Controller]]</li><li>[[Cyber-Leader]]</li><li>[[Cyber-Lieutenant]]</li><li>[[Regos Krang]]</li><li>[[Kroton (Cyberman)|Kroton]]
|mentions = <ul><li>[[DW]]: ''[[Smith and Jones]]''</li><li>[[DW]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride]]''</li><li>[[DW]]: ''[[The Unicorn and the Wasp]]''</li><li>[[TW]]: ''[[Greeks Bearing Gifts]]''</li><li>[[SJA]]: ''[[The Mad Woman in the Attic]]''</li></ul>
|individuals = [[CyberKing]]<br>[[Lisa Hallett]]<br>[[Cyber-Control (Cybus)]]<br>[[Cyber-Lord (The Next Doctor)|Cyber-Lord]]<br>[[Cyber-Leader (Pete's World)]]<br>[[John Lumic]]<br>[[Cybershade]]<br>[[Mercy Hartigan]]
}}
}}
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:''For a general overview of Cyberman types, see [[Cyberman|here]]. For other uses of Cyberman, see [[Cyberman (disambiguation)|here]].''
:''For a general overview of Cyberman types, see [[Cyberman|here]]. For other uses of Cyberman, see [[Cyberman (disambiguation)|here]].''
The '''Cybermen''' of [[the Doctor]]'s [[universe]], sometimes known as [[Normal Space]], were a race of artificially modified [[near-Human]]s which originated from the [[planet]] [[Mondas]], [[Earth]]'s [[twin planet]].
One type of '''Cyberman''' originated in [[Pete's World|another universe]], where they were created by [[John Lumic]], the owner of [[Cybus Industries]]. His Cybermen believed that all people must be "upgraded" to Cyber-form so that information would never be lost and that the humans' physical and emotional weaknesses would be abolished.
 
The Cybermen took it as their primary aim to conquer the universe, converting where possible to boost their numbers. Fear of such conversion was prevalent on many worlds, and so the Cybermen came to be feared. ([[DW]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]'')


==Characteristics==
==Characteristics==
===Variants===
The Cybermen were [[cyborg|cybernetically]] augmented [[humanoid]]s. Though they varied greatly in design through time, the various versions of the Cybermen had several things in common. Nearly all were silver in colour, with the exception of a black variety which existed in the [[London sewers]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]'', et al.)
[[file:Cyberm1_tenth_planet.jpg|left|150px|thumb|A CyberMondasian. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'')]]
Cybermen also exhibited exposed circuitry and tubing, covering a rubber or mylar-like outer skin. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'') Cybermen frequently attempted to increase their numbers by [[cyber-conversion]].
The [[CyberMondasian]]s which the [[First Doctor]] met on [[Snowcap Base]] in [[1986]] had undergone a less radical conversion and still retained biological hands. It is possible these Cybermen were prototypes, or at least an early model. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'')
All other Cybermen were entirely covered up in their metallic suits. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Moonbase]]'' onwards) However, some partial conversions were known to exist that still held human features, for example, [[Tobias Vaughn]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Invasion]]'')
Cybermen of the [[CyberFaction]] invaded Earth before 1986 and so they co-existed with the CyberMondasians, "MK I" versions. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Invasion]]'')
Many versions of Cybermen such as those from the CyberFaction and [[CyberTelosian]]s were slim, but with the [[CyberNeomorph]]s in the 26th century the standard was to have bulkier, more imposing forms. ([[DW]]: ''[[Earthshock]]'') Cybermen like this also existed in the [[1980s]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Silver Nemesis]]'')
The CyberMondasians (MK I) had a quavering voice which put certain inflection on certain syllables in a seemingly random, sing-song manner. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'') Later Cybermen spoke in more of a monotone, emphasizing their lack of emotion. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Moonbase]]'' onwards)
===Conversion===
===Conversion===
[[Cyber-conversion]] was the process by which compatible beings were physically and mentally altered into becoming Cybermen. As this was a necessary process for the Cybermen to increase in number, it was carried out at various locations. ([[DW]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]'')
[[Cyber-conversion]] involved painfully removing the [[brain]] of the subject and placing it within a suit of armour. The brain was preserved in a cradle of Cybus-copyrighted chemicals and welded to the exo-skeleton, to which cyber-kinetic impulses were bonded. Once complete, the newly developed Cyberman had a special implant placed within them. The implant prevented them from feeling their emotions, but, if the implants were disrupted, the Cybermen entered a traumatic state as they were overloaded by the pain of the conversion. This would make them die in agony or cause their heads to explode from the overload of emotions. ([[DW]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]'' / ''[[The Age of Steel]]'')
 
Partial conversions did occur and often allowed the host to take on several features of the Cybermen. For example, Tobias Vaughn's torso was immune to gunfire. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Invasion]]'')
 
===Vulnerabilities===
[[file:Damaged by gunfire.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Some Cybermen (MK VII CyberNomads) could be damaged (but not killed) by ordinary gunfire. ([[DW]]: ''[[Silver Nemesis]]'')]]
Cybermen had a number of major weaknesses, of which the most notable was the element [[gold]]. Gold, having a non-corrosive nature, choked their respiratory systems, a property exploited by the [[glittergun]] weapon used during the [[Cyber-Wars]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[Earthshock]]'', ''[[Silver Nemesis]]'')
 
On occasion, the mere touch of gold seemed toxic to them, with gold coins or gold-tipped arrows able to destroy them. ([[DW]]: ''[[Earthshock]]'', ''[[Silver Nemesis]]'') Gold also blocked their sensors and caused the [[cybermat]]s to malfunction. ([[DWN]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen (novelisation)|Revenge of the Cybermen]]'')
 
Other weaknesses of the Cybermen included the combination of solvents known as [[Polly Cocktail]] ([[DW]]: ''[[The Moonbase]]'') and excessive levels of [[radiation]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'')
 
Cybermen affected by the [[Cerebration Mentor]], an emotion enhancing device, went "mad", although this could be because they either put too much fear into it, or simply because the fear caused the robotic parts to malfunction. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Invasion]]'').
 
20th century guns could damage Cybermen, but were incapable of killing them with any degree of effect. Explosives and bazooka shells were capable of taking them down easily. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Invasion]]'', ''[[Silver Nemesis]]'') [[UNIT]] developed gold-tipped rounds to combat Cybermen. ([[DW]]: ''[[Battlefield]]'') At close range, attacks with energy and laser weapons were capable of killing Cybermen. ([[DW]]: ''[[Earthshock]]'')
 
[[Raston Warrior Robot]]s counted Cybermen among the many beings they could kill. Although only equipped with javelins and blades, the level of technology encompassed in the robots allowed them to easily destroy a number of Cybermen on their own. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Five Doctors]]'')
 
==Technology==
The Cybermen forces in [[2526]] employed the use of the Cyberlance, a powerful hand-held cutting weapon. They also made use of the Cyberscope, an observation device that allowed Cyber commanders to both view the battlefield remotely and access a computer database (containing, among other data, information on their race's encounters with [[the Doctor]]). ([[DW]]: ''[[Earthshock]]'')
 
Should the Cybermen have succeeded in aquiring [[Time travel|time travel]], they would have been mighty enough to crush the [[Draconian]]s, the [[Sontaran]]s, and even the [[Dalek]]s. ([[WC]]: [[Real Time|''Real Time'']])
 
===Weapons (Short Range)===
[[file:Cyb_gun1.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Cyberman Mark IV with a gun. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Invasion]]'')]]
During their attack on Earth in [[1986]], Cybermen carried large hand-held energy weapons. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'')
 
On the [[Moon]] in [[2070]], Cybermen possessed the power to generate arcs of electricity from their hands which had the power to stun and disable. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Moonbase]]'')
 
In the [[21st century]], the Cybermen who attacked [[Space Station W3]] had death rays built into their chest units. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Wheel in Space]]'')
 
The Cybermen encountered by [[UNIT]] in the late 20th century had displayed these same built-in weapons as well as also carrying large rifles for medium distance combat on the streets of [[London]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Invasion]]'')
 
The Cybermen who attacked the [[Nerva Beacon]] had their weapons built into their helmets. They were activated with the touch of a hand. ([[DW]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen]]'')
 
Over time, the Cybermen came to favour the hand-held [[cyber-gun]] over the inbuilt weapon. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Invasion]]'' onwards)
 
===Weapons (Other)===
[[file:500px-Cybermenmoon.jpg|thumb|right|150px| Two Cybermen (Mk II) use a cannon. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Moonbase]]'')]]
In the 20th century, the Cybermen invasion fleet had a megatron bomb that could destroy all life on Earth. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Invasion]]'')
 
In [[2070]], the Cybermen possessed a cannon which could operate in vacuum. They used this on the surface of [[the Moon]]. Due to its apparent weight, two Cybermen were needed to operate it. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Moonbase]]'')


Cybermen in [[2526]], the invaders of [[Voga]], and the Cybermen removed by [[Time Scoop]] to the [[Death Zone]] had portable [[cyber-bomb]]s that could devastate planets. ([[DW]]: ''[[Earthshock]]'', ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[The Five Doctors]]'')
In times of emergency, cyber-conversion consisted of only constructing a Cyber-suit around a living being with some internal modifications. ([[TW]]: ''[[Cyberwoman]]'') The living being would eventually age, die and decay, but the suit would still function, searching for a new living being to assimilate. Once found, the suit would eject its previous inhabitant and forcefully take over the new component. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')


[[Neurotrope X]] acted as a means to incapacitate Humans before making an overt move. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Moonbase]]''). On some occasions they have used [[Cybermat]]s to spread the virus to the population. ([[DW]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen]]'')
===Operation===
The Cyber-suit was constructed from bulletproof steel. A chest plate with the Cybus Industries logo housed a "heart of steel", the function of which is unclear, and the emotional inhibitor chip. The brain was contained within the head. Artificially grown nervous tissue was threaded throughout the body so the Cyberman responded like a fully biological organism. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Age of Steel]]'')
[[file:Cyberface2.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Inside the Cyberman's helmet. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')]]


The Cybermen were strong enough to kill with their hands without any extra weaponry or electric-based attack. ([[DW]]: ''[[Earthshock]]'')
Without a brain inserted, the Cyber-suit was a robot which apparently had sufficient processing capacity to pursue and attack a human target. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Age of Steel]]'', ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')


==Culture==
Typically, Cybermen were led by a [[Cyber-Leader (Cybus)|Cyber Leader]] during conversion missions. If the Cyber Leader was terminated then the Cybermen downloaded the shared files and nominated a new Cyber Leader. ([[DW]]: ''[[Doomsday]]'')
Cybermen made survival their central objective. Since they could not reproduce naturally, they needed to create new members of their population by other means, via [[cyber-conversion]]. At times they tended to focus on converting the population of Earth, at other times on simply destroying it. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Tomb of the Cybermen]]'')


Cybermen tended toward covert activity, scheming from hiding and using Human or other agents, cybermats or [[android]]s to act as their proxies until they appeared. ([[DW]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[Earthshock]]'', ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]'')
===Weapons and technology===
[[file:Cyber-vision.jpg|thumb|200px|A Cyberman's vision through it's eyepieces. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens]]'')]]
Unlike the [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]] of the main universe, these Cybermen were created by taking the brains of [[human]]s and placing them in robotic bodies. These exo-structures were built from [[High Content Metal]] and were stauncher and more heavily built than the Cybermen of Mondas. The Mondas Cybermen's weakness for [[gold]] was not present in these alternate Cybermen, though the initial models had indeed suffered from heavy impairment when exposed to gold. This defect was purged from the finished model.


Throughout their history, groups of Cybermen sometimes diverged from one another and migrated through their [[Mutter's Spiral|galaxy]], resulting in several factions: ([[REF]]: ''[[Doctor Who: Cybermen]]'')
[[file:Cyberman arm blaster.jpg|thumb|left|200px|A cyberman [[Cyber Wrist Blaster|wrist blaster]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens]]'')]]Originally, their only weapons were their [[Electro Attack|electrified hands]], ([[DW]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]'') but they later gained [[Cyber Wrist Blaster|a small wrist-mounted energy weapon]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts]]'' / ''[[Doomsday]]'') At some point the Cybermen gained the abililty to fire a tranquilizer dart from their mouth. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')
*[[CyberMondasian]]s, the original Cybermen on [[Mondas]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'')
*[[CyberFaction]], that split off from the CyberMondasians, making [[Planet 14]] their home. ([[NA]]: ''[[Iceberg]]'')
*[[CyberTelosian]]s, originating from the CyberFaction's colonisation of [[Telos]]. ([[REF]]: ''[[Doctor Who: Cybermen]]'')
*[[CyberNomad]]s, groups of Cybermen that split off from the CyberFaction to explore the galaxy. ([[REF]]: ''[[Doctor Who: Cybermen]]'')
*[[CyberNeomorph]]s, the result of a group of CyberNomads discovering frozen CyberTelosians.


===Individuality and emotion===
The Cybermen were capable of wirelessly communicating with each other, and when a Cyber-Leader was killed, their files were transferred to an appointed Cyberman, who would subsequently be upgraded to a new Cyber-Leader ([[DW]]: ''[[Doomsday]]''). They were also capable of using [[infostamp]]s, allowing them to communicate information to other Cybermen when they were low on power. They were also able to steal other technology from the [[Dalek]]s whilst inside [[the Void]], such as a [[Dimension Vault]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Next Doctor]]'')
Throughout their history, Cybermen, for the most part, lacked individuality or names. This was a result of their emotions being removed during the conversion process. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'', et al.)


A few Cybermen had individual names such as [[Krang]] ([[DW]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'') or [[Kroton (Cyberman)|Kroton]]. ([[DWM]]: ''[[Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman]]'')
At some point, a scattered group developed space-travel but their technology was incompatible with [[time travel]], as demonstarted when their ship was destroyed by a Dalek Time Axis. ([[VG]]: [[Return to Earth|''Return to Earth'']]) Overtime, however, the Cybermen did gather an increased knowledge of space-travel. ([[DW]]: [[The Pandorica Opens|''The Pandorica Opens'']])


:''In the script and cast listings for [[The Tenth Planet]] the individual Cybermen had names. They were [[Krail]], [[Talon]], [[Shav]], [[Krang]], [[Jarl]] and [[Gern]].'' ([[REF]]: ''[[Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia]]'')
===Voice===
 
These Cybermen spoke in a electronic voice, far more emotionless and deeper than the Cybermen of the Doctor's universe. Because of their lack of emotions, the Cybermen used technical terms like "compatible" and their battle cry, "DELETE!". The Cybermen were shown to misunderstand emotional terms. For example, the [[Cyber-Lord (The Next Doctor)|Cyber-Lord]] couldn't understand the word 'best' so [[Mercy Hartigan|Miss Hartigan]] had to say "I will operate at maximum efficiency". ([[DW]]: ''[[The Next Doctor]]'')
Cybermen in positions of authority included the ground level [[Cyber-Leader]] who commanded a group of ordinary Cybermen. Cyber-Leaders were sometimes aided by a [[Cyber-Lieutenant]]. Immobile [[computer]]-like [[Cyber-Planner]]s would sometimes make decisions and long term plans. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Wheel in Space]]'', ''[[The Invasion]]'') The [[Cyber-Controller]]s, who possessed enlarged craniums, had the position of highest possible authority. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Tomb of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]'')
===Hierarchy===
 
*[[John Lumic|John Lumic/Cyber Controller]] - founder of [[Cybus Industries]] and creator of the Cybermen.
Cybermen no longer possessed emotions and viewed them as a weakness. However, several of the Cyber-Leaders displayed characteristics that could be linked to emotions such as anger, amusement, and, at times, smugness. ([[DW]]: ''[[Earthshock]]'')
*[[Cyber-Leader (Pete's World)|Cyber Leader]] - Cyber commander.
*[[Cyber-Lord (The Next Doctor)|Cyber Lord]] - Cyber commander, a form of Cyber Leader.
*Cyberman - standard unit.
*[[Cybershade]] - worker unit, made with brain of [[Dog|dog]] or [[Cat|cat]].
*[[Cyberdog]] - search and guard unit of a converted dog.
*[[Cyberdrone]] - partially converted human work unit.
*Controlled [[human]]s - humans controlled at the brain which are often only kept for the required purpose, then killed.


==History==
==History==
===Early history===
====[[Rise of the Cybermen|Creation]] & Expansion====
Cybermen were originally a wholly organic species of [[Near-Human]]s who originated on [[Earth]]'s former [[twin planet]], [[Mondas]]. Mondas drifted into the outer solar system (and became an orphan planet) and to survive, the natives of that world adapted by turning themselves into cyborgs. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'') Eventually all of the [[Mondasian]]s underwent forced [[cyber-conversion]]. ([[BFA]]: ''[[Spare Parts]]'')
[[file:Cyberman2006.jpg|thumb|right|A full view of the Cyberman. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Age of Steel]]'')]]
 
The Cybermen were created in a [[Pete's World|parallel universe]] by [[John Lumic]], a terminally ill and insane genius. To find a way to survive, he perfected a method to sustain the human brain indefinitely in a cradle of chemicals, bonding the synaptic impulses to a metal exoskeleton. Lumic began to trick and abduct homeless people and convert them into Cybermen. He assassinated the [[President of Great Britain|President]] of [[Great Britain]] after the President rejected his plans.
:''See [[Creation of the Cybermen]] for more details''
:''The novelisation [[Doctor Who and the Cybermen]] would claim they originated on [[Telos]]''
 
The original [[CyberMondasian]]s retained more of their organic form and still had personal names. Another group, the [[CyberFaction]], left Mondas in the "First Divergence", possibly around [[Distant past|5000 B.C.]] ([[REF]]: ''[[Doctor Who: Cybermen]]''), and headed for [[Planet 14]]. These eventually developed into separate groups without connection with one another. ([[NA]]: ''[[Iceberg]]'')
 
Mondas developed a drive propulsion system in place of the [[planet]]'s core to move the entire world. As the original Cybermen were limited in numbers and were continually being depleted, the Cybermen decided to invade [[Earth]]. They planned to absorb the Earth's energy, but they took too much and Mondas disintegrated. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'')
 
====Later history====
=====[[20th century]]=====
The [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Ace]] fought Cybermen in [[London]], [[1940]]. ([[PDA]]: ''[[Illegal Alien]]'') The same team would fight them in [[1950s]] [[Nevada]]. ([[DWM]]: ''[[The Good Soldier]]'')
 
[[file:Invasion.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Cybermen Mark IV in the [[sewer]]s of [[London]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Invasion]]'')]]
By [[1970]] or before, Cybermen, specifically the CyberFaction led by a [[Cyber-Planner]] ([[NA]]: ''[[Iceberg]]'') had established a base on the dark side of [[the Moon|Earth's Moon]]. The Cyber-Planner had contacted the industrialist [[Tobias Vaughn]], the head of the [[International Electromatics]] corporation. The Cybermen had him install mind control circuits in electrical appliances manufactured by his company, paving the way for a ground invasion. They had also grafted cybernetic arms onto several of his workers.
 
Vaughn had a Cyber-Planner installed in his office and communicated with it. The plot was uncovered by the newly formed [[United Nations Intelligence Taskforce|UNIT]] and by the [[Second Doctor]] who assisted in beating off the invasion both on the ground and from the Cyberman base on the Moon. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Invasion]]'')
 
From the mid [[1970s]] through [[1985]], Cybermen lurked in the [[London sewers|sewers below London]], awaiting another invasion, which would come in [[1986]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]'')
 
At some point a Cyberman's head was taken and was stored in [[Henry van Statten]]'s [[the Vault|Vault]], where he collected alien artefacts. According to its label, it was recovered from the London sewers in [[1975]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]'')
 
[[file:300px-Cyberman2005.jpg|thumb|150px|left|A Cyberman head on display in [[the Vault]], [[Henry van Statten]]'s museum. ([[DW]]: ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]'')]]
CyberNeomorphs in the future, having captured a [[time vessel]], knew that the [[First Doctor]] would destroy Mondas, so planned, instead, to divert [[Halley's Comet]] towards Earth. The hoped that the destruction of Earth would change the past so that Mondas survived. The [[Sixth Doctor]] was able to prevent such an act. ([[DW]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]'')
 
In [[December]] [[1986]], the [[First Doctor]] met an advance force of CyberMondasians that landed near [[Snowcap Base]] in [[Antarctica]]. This advance force was to prepare for the return of Mondas to the [[Sol system]] and the draining of Earth's energy for the use of the Cybermen. Mondas absorbed too much energy and was destroyed, as were the Cybermen on Earth who depended on Mondas for power. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'') Following the destruction of Mondas, the Cyberman would make [[Lonsis]] their new home. ([[BFA]]/[[BBCR]]: ''[[Human Resources]]'')
 
Sometime post-Mondas was the "Second Divergence", early [[CyberNomad]]s left the CyberFaction in [[Sol]] to explore the galaxy. ([[REF]]: ''[[Doctor Who: Cybermen]]'')


In [[November]] [[1988]] a [[Cyber-fleet|fleet]] of [[CyberNomad]]s from the future was assembled to turn Earth into New Mondas now that their homeworld had been destroyed. A scouting party was sent to Earth in search of a statue made of [[validium]] called [[Nemesis]], a [[Time Lord]] weapon. There the met [[Peinforte|Lady Peinforte]], who brought many of their number down with gold-tipped arrows. ([[DW]]: ''[[Silver Nemesis]]'',[[REF]]: ''[[Doctor Who: Cybermen]]'')
Using the [[EarPod]]s he designed and sold, Lumic took mental control of the people of [[London]], marching thousands to be cyber-converted. After his life-support systems were damaged by his assistant, [[Crane (Pete's World)|Mr. Crane]], Lumic was converted into the Cyber-Controller. However, the [[Tenth Doctor]] and his companions, having accidentally landed on the parallel Earth, managed to foil his plans. They freed London from mental control and disabled the Cybermen's emotional inhibitors, causing them to go insane and in some cases explode. Lumic himself fell to his apparent death into the burning remains of his factory. A human resistance group, [[the Preachers]], then set about to clean up the remainder of Lumic's factories around the world. ([[DW]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]'' / ''[[The Age of Steel]]'')
[[file:Cyberman_original_attack_5.jpg|thumb|160px|A Cyberman Mark VI in the [[TARDIS]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]'')]]


=====[[21st century]]=====
Following the destruction of the Cybus Factory and the Cyber Controller in [[Great Britain|Britain]], [[The Preachers|the Preachers]] moved around the rest of the [[Pete's World|world]] to carry out assaults on the rest of the Cybus Factories. One of their earliest victories came in [[Paris]], where a stolen Cybus [[Airship|airship]] under the command of [[Mickey Smith]] fought its way through the streets, saving civilians and destroying attacking Cybermen along the way with a new weapon attached to the ship. Once the airship reached the factory, it destroyed it using an [[EMP]]. After the Cyber threat in Paris was ended, Mickey sent a video message to those who were sent on the mission, congratulating and thanking them. ([[VG]]: [[Save Paris|''Save Paris'']])
Roughly in the mid-[[2000s]], Cybermen from the future would use [[time travel]] to return to Earth to announce themselves to the public. They hoped to flood Earth, believing that any survivors willingly undergo cyber-conversion. ([[DWM]]: ''[[The Flood]]'')


In [[2006]], Cybermen once more invaded the [[South Pole]] of Earth. ([[NA]]: ''[[Iceberg]]'') In the same year, the Cybermen on [[Lonsis]] tried to invade Earth via the [[portal]] in the main branch of [[Hulbert Logistics]]. [[Lucie Miller]] managed to destroy them by using a [[quantum crystalliser]] to make the Cybermen and their ship rapidly rust to dust. This would see the last of the original Cybermen. ([[BFA]]/[[BBCR]]: ''[[Human Resources]]'')
<p style="text-align: center;">''However, it is possible that the Cybermen later retook Paris.''</p>


In the middle to late [[21st century]], [[Space Station W3]] was the site of a takeover by the CyberFaction. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Wheel in Space]]'')
Eventually, the Preachers had Cyber resistance and bases set up all over the world, just as the Cybermen had factories. Soon they were ready to begin their assault on what remained of Lumic's legacy. The mission was commanded overall by [[Jake Simmonds]]. The Preachers managed to develope [[Firearm|firearms]] which were effective against the Cybermen and sent troops into other countries, where they recruited others to aid them in their cause. Battles ensued when a squad moved into Cyber territory but successful battles ultimately gained them control of countries where a Cyber Factory was located. From there, the Preachers would surround the factory while a single commando unit entered the factory and fought their way to the emotion inhibitor and taking it out, thus destroying the factory and all the Cyber units converted their.


By [[2070]], the Cybermen were known about and feared in several galaxies ([[DWN]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Cybermen]]'') but were considered extinct by Earth. On this year, by which time the Earth's weather was being controlled by the [[Gravitron]] installation in the [[Moonbase]], the CyberFaction planned to use the Gravitron to disrupt the planet's weather patterns and destroy all life on the planet. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Moonbase]]'')
However, the Cybermen also sought to do the same thing: expand, [[Upgrade|"recruit"]], take over, and destroy the Preacher bases. The conflict was fought all over the planet. Ultimately though, the Preachers were victorious as they succeeded in sealing the Cybermen inside their factories. Jake congratulated the resistance, but it was known that the Cybermen were not completely defeated, they had only been delayed, as Jake seemed aware of when he gave his congratulations: "You did it! The Cybermen are sealed up in their factories. We're safe <u>for now</u>." ([[VG]]: [[Cyber Assault|''Cyber Assault'']])


Afterwards, possibly after the 21st century, the CyberFaction abandonded their home in the Sol system and journeyed into the galaxy to colonise a suitable planet. ([[REF]]: ''[[Doctor Who: Cybermen]]'')
====[[Battle of Canary Wharf|The Battle of Canary Wharf]]====


=====Post-21st century=====
Despite their defeat, at least five million Cybermen survived and were able to infiltrate [[Pete's World|their universe]]'s [[Torchwood Institute]]. They found a crack in the universe, caused by the passage of the [[Void Ship]]. The Cybermen were able to travel from their dimension into ours, and infiltrated the planet in the guise of benign ghosts of deceased humans. They established a base inside the [[Torchwood Tower]] at [[Canary Wharf]]. While there, they started making new Cybermen, using what materials they could find.
At somepoint, possibly around [[22nd century|2150]], late CyberNomads fought the [[Vogan]] war. ([[DW]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen]]'')


At somepoint, possibly in [[22nd century|2175]], the CyberFaction colonised [[Telos]], resulting in the [[CyberTelosian]]s. ([[REF]]: ''[[Doctor Who: Cybermen]]'')
[[file:Cybermen_in_France.jpg|thumb|left|The Cybermen in France. ([[DW]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts]]'')]]
After two months (three years in parallel Earth time), the Cybermen suddenly appeared in their true form, occupying every landmass on the planet before breaking into houses and promising to upgrade all humans, commanded by the new Cyber-Leader. Simultaneously, the [[Cult of Skaro]] had exited the Void Ship with the [[Genesis Ark]]. The Cult, led by [[Dalek Sec]] communicated with the Cybermen via [[Dalek Thay]] and declared war, or in Dalek Sec's words, "pest control".


The [[Sixth Doctor]] encountered Cybermen in [[2191]]. ([[MA]]: ''[[Killing Ground]]'')
After a skirmish between humans, Cybermen and [[Dalek]]s, the Cult travelled to the main room in Torchwood's Canary Wharf, elevated outside above the roof, and opened the Genesis Ark, releasing millions of Daleks who, under Sec's command, proceeded to "exterminate all life-forms below", killing human and Cyberman alike. ([[DW]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts]]'' / ''[[Doomsday]]'') The weaponry of the Cybermen was mostly ineffective to Dalek casing, but there were some Dalek casualties as the Cybermen were able to tear the domes of some Daleks right off, some instances as part of an ambush. ([[DWBIT]]: [[DWBIT #17|#17]], [[Daleks vs Cybermen Special]]) Towards the end of the Cybermen-Dalek battle, the Cybermen, desperate for more troops, began directly converting people rather than transplanting their brains into Cybershells. One victim of this process was [[Lisa Hallett]], girlfriend of [[Ianto Jones]]. ([[TW]]: ''[[Cyberwoman]]'')


The Cybermen had all but passed into legend when an archaeological expedition to the planet [[Telos]] found the [[Cyber-tomb|CyberTombs]], where hordes of Cybermen waited in [[cryogenic suspension]]. Earth's [[Brotherhood of Logicians]] intended to awaken them, believing the Cybermen would be receptive to their cause. The tomb would sealed again ([[DW]]: ''[[The Tomb of the Cybermen]]'') and later re-activated ([[DW]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]'').
The Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler opened [[the Void]] and anything contaminated with [[Void stuff]] was pulled in. This included the Cybermen. ([[DW]]: ''[[Doomsday]]'')


It was also not the only CyberTomb. There were dozens across the galaxy and more wars were started off. [[Bernice Summerfield]], who spoke of the Telos expedition and other tombs being discovered in the past tense, was sent to one by [[Irving Braxiatel]] in the early [[27th century]]. Braxiatel intended to use the Cybermen as a private army but was thwarted. ([[BFBS]]: ''[[The Crystal of Cantus]]'') Another tomb was discovered, possibly around the year [[26th century|2500]], a CyberNomad group discovered the CyberTelosians and they united, resulting in the new [[CyberNeomorph]]s. ([[REF]]: ''[[Doctor Who: Cybermen]]'')
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However, this was not the last of the Cybermen. The Cybermen that were made on Earth, like Lisa Hallett, had never passed through the Void, therefore they were not sucked in. Ianto took Lisa away from the battle and hid her in the basement of [[Cardiff]]'s [[Torchwood Three]] facility, setting up a life-support system, planning to restore her humanity. He was unsuccessful. She killed Dr. [[Tanizaki]], fought with Torchwood staff and eventually transplanted her brain into the body of a pizza delivery girl. Lisa was finally killed by the Torchwood team. ([[TW]]: ''[[Cyberwoman]]'')


=====Cyber-Wars=====
After the battle, two boys, [[Harry (Going Off the Rails)|Harry]] and [[Sam (Going Off the Rails)|Sam]], were working on a model train set when they found stuff from Harry's dad's previous job. Inside the box was a Cyberman, in all his individual pieces. Not knowing what it was, Sam decided to put it back together so it could watch them play. Eventually, it awoke, threatening to upgrade both Harry and Sam. It forced Sam to help build a "Cyber-Conversion Unit" using the other leftover electronics from the Torchwood Tower in the box. They, however, managed to knock the Cyberman into the Cyber-Conversion unit, causing the latter two to be destroyed. ([[DWF]]: ''[[Going Off the Rails]]'')
[[file:Original_Cyberman_with_cyber-lider_Revengecybermen.jpg|thumb|150px|right|[[Cybermen]] Mark V and a [[Cyber-Leader]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen]]'')]]
In [[2526]] several planets would unite in war against the Cybermen in an event called the [[Cyber-Wars]]. A force of Cybermen tried to devastate Earth using a [[Cyberbomb]] and convert the survivors. Failing this, they hoped to crash the freighter into Earth and cause an ecological disaster. Although the attempt failed, the freighter was catapulted back in time to become the "[[meteor]]" that wiped out the [[dinosaur]]s. ([[DW]]: ''[[Earthshock]]'')


One of the last acts of the Cybermen during this war was attempt to blow up the planet [[Voga]] in order to stop the production of [[glittergun]]s. ([[DWN]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen (novelisation)|Revenge of the Cybermen]]'') In the aftermath of their failure, the Cybermen were reduced to the scattered remnants ([[DW]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen]]'')
Other humans, like [[Lisa Hallett]], were converted during [[Battle of Canary Wharf|the battle]], but fully. As they did not originate from the [[Pete's World|Cybermens' original universe]], they had not corssed [[the Void]], were not contaminated with Voidstuff, and therefore were not sucked into the Void. These survivors stole teleportation technology from Torchwood Institute in order to gather technology to help them re-open the Void and free the trapped Cybermen. They did not know how to do this, however, and so they stole [[the Doctor's TARDIS]], trying to lure [[The Doctor|the Doctor]] to them for aid. Some Cybermen were destroyed by the army but the [[Cyber-Leader (Cybus)|Cyber-Leader]] and a few others escaped to the Millenium Dome and kept the army out with a forcefield. [[Tenth Doctor|The Doctor]] and [[Martha Jones|Martha]], however, having recovered the TARDIS, were able to enter. The Doctor was able to trick the Cybermen, allowing them to link up their equipment with the TARDIS and giving them instructions. However, the Cybermen are instead sent back to the time of the dinosaurs where they are attacked and killed by a Tyrannosaurus Rex. The Cyber-Leader was destroyed after Martha damaged the forcefield and the Doctor used an electrical cord from it to destroy the leader. ([[NSA]]: ''[[Made of Steel]]'')


===Later history===
====[[2009 Dalek invasion of Earth|Escape From the Void]] & the Future====
On Telos, the Cybermen plotted to change history and divert Halley's Comet to Earth in order to destroy it and to save Mondas. ([[DW]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]'') At some point, Telos was shattered by an [[asteroid]] impact. ([[BFA]]: ''[[Telos (audio drama)|Telos]]'')


During the [[Orion War]] between humanity and a race of [[android]]s, both sides would attempt to use the long-dormant Cybermen to win the war. This would lead to both races nearly wiped out and the temporary conquest of Earth before the Cybermen resurgence was stopped. ([[BFA]]: ''[[Sword of Orion]]'', ''[[Cyberman (audio series)|Cyberman]]'')
Due to the Daleks' damaging the barriers between realities ([[DW]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]''/[[Journey's End|''Journey's End'']]), the Cybermen were able to escape the Void, assisted by technology stolen from the Void-trapped Daleks. Landing accidentally in London, in the year [[1851]], these Cybermen, under the leadership of a [[Cyber-Lord (The Next Doctor)|Cyber-Lord]], made an alliance with the human [[Mercy Hartigan|Miss Hartigan]], created a minion race known as [[Cybershade]]s and began construction of a dreadnought robot called the [[CyberKing]] with which they planned to conquer the Earth. They also came across [[Jackson Lake]] and his family, during which time an [[infostamp]] was misused, leading to Lake believing he was [[the Doctor]]. Lake and his new companion tried to defeat them, but were unsuccessful until the [[Tenth Doctor |real Doctor]] arrived. When Miss Hartigan was converted into the CyberKing and the ship became mobile, the Doctor showed Hartigan what she had done and in her anguish she destroyed herself and the Cybermen, with the CyberKing being sent to be disintegrated in the Time Vortex. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Next Doctor]]'') This event was then temporarily erased from history by the [[Time Field]] ([[DW]]: ''[[Flesh and Stone]]''), but later restored due to the Doctor's efforts. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'')


By [[3286]], the Cybermen had been thought dead for centuries. The Cybermen eventually developed into cyborgs indistinguishable visually from Humans. ([[BFA]]: ''[[Real Time]]'')
Other Cybermen, which seemed to possess a more advanced knowledge and [[file:Pandorica-Spoilers-2.jpg|thumb|right|Cybermen under [[Stonehenge]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')]]experience of space travel, joined [[the Alliance]] at some point, formed to imprison The [[Eleventh Doctor]] in the [[Pandorica]] in order to save the [[Universe]]. They had previously placed one of their own as a sentry to the Pandorica, and later their representatives were among those who arrived at [[Stonehenge]] in 102 AD to confront the Doctor. The Alliance proceeded with their plans and imprisoned the Doctor in the Pandorica. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'') The explosion of [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] which caused the Universe to end however still happened, and the Alliance's plan failed, causing all races involved and all others throughout the universe, including the Cybermen, to be removed from existance. Only stone "after-images" remained. When the Doctor [[Big Bang Two|reset]] the universe and timeline, the Cybermen, and everything else that was destroyed throughout history, were restored to their original form and place in space and time. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'')


[[File:CyberImage39.jpg|thumb|left|150px|A number of Cybermen crowd around a beaten [[Destrii]]. ([[DWM]]: ''[[The Flood]]'')]]
An army of Cybermen invaded medieval England, they began converting the locals by creating large statues of themselves to make the locals gather to see them. When the Doctor and [[Amy Pond]] arrived, they activated the Cybermen's power systems and used electrical currents to disable the Cybermen. ([[VG]]: ''[[The Mazes of Time]]'')
Later Cybermen would again use time travel and return back in time circa the [[2000s]] to convert it. They used rain that caused extreme emotions (sadness, fear, anger) in an attempt to convince the peoples of the world emotions were bad in order to accept conversion willingly. The reason they needed Humans from a past era was clear to the Doctor; in the future of the Cybermen, the human genetic template had been corrupted and augmented by their interactions with varied alien races; as the Cyber-conversion protocols were keyed to Human or Mondasian biology, the number of available converts dropped dramatically.


The Doctor offered to regenerate for them, so they could gather the data of his regeneration and upgrade their conversion protocols to include other races, in exchange for leaving the Earth alone at the moment. While the Cybermen agreed, they betrayed him at the last moment (the Doctor was expecting this anyway). Using the fragment of the Time Vortex the future Cybership was using as a power source, the Doctor destroyed the Cyberfleet and dissolved the rain. ([[DWM]]: ''[[The Flood]]'')
Other groups of Cybermen apparently managed to escape the Void, but into a different point in time and space. Eventually these Cybermen would become a space-faring race. One group, during what appeared to be an early period for them in space-travel, possibly around the [[26th century]], were attracted towards an artifact they could not identify, which was in fact a Dalek Time Axis. As their technology was incapatible with [[Time travel|time travel]], their ship was destroyed. The Cybermen escaped and took over the ship, the ''SS Lucy Grey''. The [[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[Amy Pond|Amy]] were also attracted to the ''SS Lucy Grey'' by the singal from the Time Axis. The Doctor was able to overload the ship's systems destroy the Cybermen before the Daleks arrived. ([[VG]]: [[Return to Earth|''Return to Earth'']])


===Final evolution===
The Doctor later encountered these Cybermen on [[Telos]], where the earlier arrival of [[Billy Jones]] had caused the "advanced guard" to awake from the cyber-tombs early to defend the others. The Cybermen tried to convert Billy, but he was saved by the Doctor before they could do so. ([[VG]]: ''[[The Mazes of Time]]'')
By the [[101st century]], the Cybermen had nearly died out. Several centuries before that, they choose a [[Cyberlord|new name]] for their species and became pacifists. ([[PDA]]: ''[[Synthespians™]]'')


Transcending into pure energy, the Cybermen would ultimately redeem the whole of sentient life and become the most peace loving-species in the whole of creation, becoming purely thought with no biological presence. ([[DWM]]: ''[[The World Shapers]]'')
One Cyberman ended up of [[Philjax III]] in the year [[9000]], deep in the oceans during the Daleks' [[Doctor Who: Battles in Time Dalek Wars|battle]] with the [[Squeeth]]. ([[DWBIT]]: [[DWBIT #9|#9]])


===Undated historical events===
The [[Lurman]] [[Vorgenson]] used his machine, the Minimiser, to capture several Cybermen to be part of his travelling show dedicated to the [[Eleventh Doctor]]. The Cybermen were one of many many mind-controlled versions of his recently encountered enemies. It was revealed that the New Paradigm Daleks had planted the idea in his head to attract the [[Eleventh Doctor]] to the show with his monsters, and capture him in the Minimiser. This plan worked, although Vorgenson learned the truth. The audience managed to save the Doctor and helped him to release the Cybermen from the Minimiser to destroy the Daleks. ([[SP]]: ''[[Doctor Who: The Monsters Are Coming!|The Monsters Are Coming!]]'')
[[file:Miniscope.jpg|thumb|160px|right|A Cyberman inside [[Vorg]]'s [[Miniscope]] ([[DW]]: ''[[Carnival of Monsters]]'')]]
*During the [[Gallifreyan history#The Dark Time|Dark Times on Gallifrey]], the Cybermen were excluded from the games held in the [[Death Zone]], due to the fact that the Time Lords believed they possessed an unfair advantage over other victims of the games. [[Borusa]], nevertheless, having found the [[Game of Rassilon]], transported a CyberNeomorph squadron to the Death Zone to threaten and harass the [[Third Doctor]] and [[Sarah Jane Smith]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Five Doctors]]'')
*A Cyberman was among the life-forms exhibited in Vorg's [[Miniscope]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Carnival of Monsters]]'')
*The Cybermen were part of the [[Fifth Doctor|Supremo]]'s alliance in the war against [[Morbius]]. ([[PDA]]: ''[[Warmonger]]'')


====Other References====
====Cybermen on [[Centuria]]====
*An image of a Cyberman is one of the fears pulled from the Doctor's mind when he faces the Keller machine. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Mind of Evil]]'')
[[file:BITCS11.jpg|thumb|300px|right|The Cybermen on Centuria. ([[DWBIT]]: ''[[Time of the Cybermen]]'')]]
*During their encounter with the [[Cybermen (Pete's World)|Cybermen of another universe]], the [[Cult of Skaro]] noted their resemblence to the Cybermen from our universe although it isn't known whether the Cybermen of our world have encountered the [[Dalek]]s. ([[DW]]: ''[[Doomsday]]'')


===Mysteries and discrepancies===
During the [[41st century]] an interplanetary info-thief stole Cyberman blueprints from the [[Torchwood Archive]] and used them to build a new Cyber army on [[Centuria]] with the intent of auctioning them of as hi-tech soldiers. However they turned on him and made him a half-converted slave. They started to kidnap hundreds of tourists and convert them. However, the Doctor discovered this while on Centuria for a holiday and the beach he was on was attacked. He and the other beachgoers were thrown into a van. [[Jayne Kadett]], who was tracking down interplanetary Info Theft when the Cybermen caught her, revealed to the Doctor what had happened. The Doctor and Jayne managed to escape the Cybermen and blowthe restraint circuits; the Cybermen factory (Factory Zero One) was destroyed. ([[DWBIT]]: ''[[The Power of the Cybermen]]'')
[[file:Voord Cyberman.jpg|thumb|right|150px|The Doctor with one of the Voord Cybermen. ([[DWM]]: ''[[The World Shapers]]'')]]
*On [[Telos]], the [[Second Doctor]] seemed to have knowledge, if not foreknowledge of the Cyber-Tombs. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Tomb of the Cybermen]]'') The [[Cyber-Planner]]'s reference to having met the Doctor on [[Planet 14]] also remains obscure ([[DW]]: ''[[The Invasion]]''), though one account tries to explain this in a way which contradicts previously disclosed information about the [[creation of the Cybermen]] ([[DWM]]: ''[[The World Shapers]]'')


==Behind the scenes==
The Doctor and Kadett followed the Cyberman's signal, taking a robot-run airship across the now-deserted continent of Azlon on the planet Centuria. Before arriving at the airbus terminal (a Cyber-conversion factory), the conductor/law enforcer became influenced by the Cybermen's hypnotic signal, which was being used to subjugate the arriving humans. The Doctor, Kadett and a reprogrammed robot conductor pretended to be hypnotised and follow the other arrivals. Seizing the right moment, the Doctor disrupted the hypnotic signal and the conductor robot attacked the Cybermen. A stray shot from the conductor ruptured the fuel banks, causing a huge explosion which killed most of the newly converted Cyber-drones (basic work units) as their humanity started to become more dominant. As the Doctor and Kadett fled the explosion, they found a bit of a map in a Cyberman's hand. ([[DWBIT]]: ''[[Drones of Doom]]'')
===Inspiration for the Cybermen===
The idea from the Cybermen came from [[Kit Pedler]]'s interest in new medical advances and his fears as to where they might possibly lead. Earlier conceptions of the Cyberman design would have emphasized the "man" part of the equation, but the proposed design would have cost too much money. Indeed, the televised version of ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'' featured much more human-like Cybermen, who had human hands.


Prologues to certain [[Target Books]] novelisations reflect the earlier ideas about the Cybermen, which state that perfected the science of cybernetics as a means to gain immortality. The Cybermen were the result: immortal, but at the cost of losing their humanity.
Using the Tardis, the Doctor and Kadett followed the Cybermen's map to Centuria's arctic zone where the Cybermen planned to ship upgraded human drones. [[Homaj]], a half human, half Cyber drone, escaped the Cybermen who forced him and others to mine Hargstones. A giant purple [[Ice Snake]] attacked, but Cybermen with [[Cyberdog]]s deleted it. Homaj ran off into the frozen wasteland but the Doctor and Kadett were captured and taken to a huge mine below the ice. Inside the mine, the Doctor created a distraction while Kadett stole some explosives. The distraction caused a Cyberman to split one of the cave walls, disturbing a nest of Ice Snakes which attacked them. Escaping the mine, the Doctor and Kadett saw the Cybership has already departed with its cargo. Homaj waited for them and informed them he had intercepted a message saying that the cargo was going to Centuria Central. He then took the explosives from Kadett and headed back to the mine. In an act of self-sacrifice, he permanently sealed it. The Doctor and Kadett left in the Tardis in pursuit of the Cybership. ([[DWBIT]]: ''[[Enemy Mine]]'')


===Development of the characters===
The TARDIS landed in Centuria Central in a temporal stasis field. Kadett was caught in the frozen moment but the Doctor, being a Time Lord, could resist the field. Cybermen in a patrol aircar spotted him moving around and pursued. The Doctor used his sonic screwdriver to bring the aircar crashing down, drawing the attention of other Cybermen, who arrived to salvage parts and take them back to base. The Doctor smuggled himself into the base with the salvage. The base was the Triplanetary base which the Doctor suspected had been robbed of its Hargstone reserves to enable the Cybermen to maintain a stasis machine. The Doctor learned from the Cybermen that they had built the stasis machine from Torchwood files and used the device to subdue opposition. Choosing the most secure place for the machine, the Doctor escaped and headed for the bank's vault, but it was made of titanium and was protected by laser-proof glass and destructor rays. When the Doctor couldn't get in he used the sonic screwdriver to turn the destructor rays inwards, destroying the stasis machine. The Cybermen had a mental link with the machine that enables them to move around inside the stasis field, so when the machine was destroyed the temporal feedback overloaded their circuits. However, a Cyber-helmet in the shadows glowed red, suggesting that the Cybermen presence on Centuria wasn't completely destroyed. ([[DWBIT]]: ''[[Time of the Cybermen]]'')
The second appearance of the Cybermen in ''[[The Moonbase]]'' (pre-planned by the production team even before ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'' had aired), re-designed them rather radically, making them appear much more [[robot]]-like in appearance. The Cybermen went through another major re-design in ''[[The Invasion]]'', yet another in ''[[Earthshock]]'', and one in the comic strips in ''[[The Flood]]''. Various minor re-designs would take place as well. As the Cybermen stories do not appear in a chronological order, this makes their evolution rather confusing: more 'advanced' Cybermen are around at the same time as more 'primitive' ones and vice versa. This, however can be explained through time travel, though the Cybermen only captured one time ship. ([[DW]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]'')


==See also==
==Other Information==
*[[Cyberman hierarchy]]
*The [[Tenth Doctor]] kept one of the [[Cybus Industries|Cybus]] logos from a Cyberman chest plate in [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Unicorn and the Wasp]]'', [[NSA]]: ''[[The Taking of Chelsea 426]]'')
*[[Cyber-Wars]]
====Alternative Timelines====
*During the war between the Cybermen and [[The Preachers|the Preachers]], the Cybermen recruited a special unit to become the [[Cyber-Leader (Pete's World)|Cyber-Leader]] to command them after the death of the Cyber Controller. The Cyber-Leader, with the help of an advisor Cyberman, coordinated attacks against Preacher territory, sending in Cyber units to battle them for control and eventually infiltrating ther bases and destroying their transmittors. Soon the Cybermen were victorious, after which the Cyber-Leader was seen as obsolete and was deleted. ([[VG]]:'' [[Cyber Assault]]'')
*During the [[Battle of Canary Wharf]], a squad of Cybermen arrived off the [[London]] underground and fought their way through the Torchwood building, fighting Torchwood guards, scientists and defences along the way. They acquired stronger weaponry than that of their own for the final battle between the [[Dalek]]s. In the end, the Cybermen were victorious in destroying [[Dalek Sec]] and brought about the extinction of the Daleks. However, it is unknown if [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor]] still opened [[the Void]] and sucked the Cybermen back in or not. ([[VG]]: ''[[Daleks v Cybermen]]'')


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For a general overview of Cyberman types, see here. For other uses of Cyberman, see here.

One type of Cyberman originated in another universe, where they were created by John Lumic, the owner of Cybus Industries. His Cybermen believed that all people must be "upgraded" to Cyber-form so that information would never be lost and that the humans' physical and emotional weaknesses would be abolished.

Characteristics

Conversion

Cyber-conversion involved painfully removing the brain of the subject and placing it within a suit of armour. The brain was preserved in a cradle of Cybus-copyrighted chemicals and welded to the exo-skeleton, to which cyber-kinetic impulses were bonded. Once complete, the newly developed Cyberman had a special implant placed within them. The implant prevented them from feeling their emotions, but, if the implants were disrupted, the Cybermen entered a traumatic state as they were overloaded by the pain of the conversion. This would make them die in agony or cause their heads to explode from the overload of emotions. (DW: Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel)

In times of emergency, cyber-conversion consisted of only constructing a Cyber-suit around a living being with some internal modifications. (TW: Cyberwoman) The living being would eventually age, die and decay, but the suit would still function, searching for a new living being to assimilate. Once found, the suit would eject its previous inhabitant and forcefully take over the new component. (DW: The Pandorica Opens)

Operation

The Cyber-suit was constructed from bulletproof steel. A chest plate with the Cybus Industries logo housed a "heart of steel", the function of which is unclear, and the emotional inhibitor chip. The brain was contained within the head. Artificially grown nervous tissue was threaded throughout the body so the Cyberman responded like a fully biological organism. (DW: The Age of Steel)

Inside the Cyberman's helmet. (DW: The Pandorica Opens)

Without a brain inserted, the Cyber-suit was a robot which apparently had sufficient processing capacity to pursue and attack a human target. (DW: The Age of Steel, The Pandorica Opens)

Typically, Cybermen were led by a Cyber Leader during conversion missions. If the Cyber Leader was terminated then the Cybermen downloaded the shared files and nominated a new Cyber Leader. (DW: Doomsday)

Weapons and technology

A Cyberman's vision through it's eyepieces. (DW: The Pandorica Opens)

Unlike the Cybermen of the main universe, these Cybermen were created by taking the brains of humans and placing them in robotic bodies. These exo-structures were built from High Content Metal and were stauncher and more heavily built than the Cybermen of Mondas. The Mondas Cybermen's weakness for gold was not present in these alternate Cybermen, though the initial models had indeed suffered from heavy impairment when exposed to gold. This defect was purged from the finished model.

Originally, their only weapons were their electrified hands, (DW: Rise of the Cybermen) but they later gained a small wrist-mounted energy weapon. (DW: Army of Ghosts / Doomsday) At some point the Cybermen gained the abililty to fire a tranquilizer dart from their mouth. (DW: The Pandorica Opens)

The Cybermen were capable of wirelessly communicating with each other, and when a Cyber-Leader was killed, their files were transferred to an appointed Cyberman, who would subsequently be upgraded to a new Cyber-Leader (DW: Doomsday). They were also capable of using infostamps, allowing them to communicate information to other Cybermen when they were low on power. They were also able to steal other technology from the Daleks whilst inside the Void, such as a Dimension Vault. (DW: The Next Doctor)

At some point, a scattered group developed space-travel but their technology was incompatible with time travel, as demonstarted when their ship was destroyed by a Dalek Time Axis. (VG: Return to Earth) Overtime, however, the Cybermen did gather an increased knowledge of space-travel. (DW: The Pandorica Opens)

Voice

These Cybermen spoke in a electronic voice, far more emotionless and deeper than the Cybermen of the Doctor's universe. Because of their lack of emotions, the Cybermen used technical terms like "compatible" and their battle cry, "DELETE!". The Cybermen were shown to misunderstand emotional terms. For example, the Cyber-Lord couldn't understand the word 'best' so Miss Hartigan had to say "I will operate at maximum efficiency". (DW: The Next Doctor)

Hierarchy

History

Creation & Expansion

A full view of the Cyberman. (DW: The Age of Steel)

The Cybermen were created in a parallel universe by John Lumic, a terminally ill and insane genius. To find a way to survive, he perfected a method to sustain the human brain indefinitely in a cradle of chemicals, bonding the synaptic impulses to a metal exoskeleton. Lumic began to trick and abduct homeless people and convert them into Cybermen. He assassinated the President of Great Britain after the President rejected his plans.

Using the EarPods he designed and sold, Lumic took mental control of the people of London, marching thousands to be cyber-converted. After his life-support systems were damaged by his assistant, Mr. Crane, Lumic was converted into the Cyber-Controller. However, the Tenth Doctor and his companions, having accidentally landed on the parallel Earth, managed to foil his plans. They freed London from mental control and disabled the Cybermen's emotional inhibitors, causing them to go insane and in some cases explode. Lumic himself fell to his apparent death into the burning remains of his factory. A human resistance group, the Preachers, then set about to clean up the remainder of Lumic's factories around the world. (DW: Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel)

Following the destruction of the Cybus Factory and the Cyber Controller in Britain, the Preachers moved around the rest of the world to carry out assaults on the rest of the Cybus Factories. One of their earliest victories came in Paris, where a stolen Cybus airship under the command of Mickey Smith fought its way through the streets, saving civilians and destroying attacking Cybermen along the way with a new weapon attached to the ship. Once the airship reached the factory, it destroyed it using an EMP. After the Cyber threat in Paris was ended, Mickey sent a video message to those who were sent on the mission, congratulating and thanking them. (VG: Save Paris)

However, it is possible that the Cybermen later retook Paris.

Eventually, the Preachers had Cyber resistance and bases set up all over the world, just as the Cybermen had factories. Soon they were ready to begin their assault on what remained of Lumic's legacy. The mission was commanded overall by Jake Simmonds. The Preachers managed to develope firearms which were effective against the Cybermen and sent troops into other countries, where they recruited others to aid them in their cause. Battles ensued when a squad moved into Cyber territory but successful battles ultimately gained them control of countries where a Cyber Factory was located. From there, the Preachers would surround the factory while a single commando unit entered the factory and fought their way to the emotion inhibitor and taking it out, thus destroying the factory and all the Cyber units converted their.

However, the Cybermen also sought to do the same thing: expand, "recruit", take over, and destroy the Preacher bases. The conflict was fought all over the planet. Ultimately though, the Preachers were victorious as they succeeded in sealing the Cybermen inside their factories. Jake congratulated the resistance, but it was known that the Cybermen were not completely defeated, they had only been delayed, as Jake seemed aware of when he gave his congratulations: "You did it! The Cybermen are sealed up in their factories. We're safe for now." (VG: Cyber Assault)

The Battle of Canary Wharf

Despite their defeat, at least five million Cybermen survived and were able to infiltrate their universe's Torchwood Institute. They found a crack in the universe, caused by the passage of the Void Ship. The Cybermen were able to travel from their dimension into ours, and infiltrated the planet in the guise of benign ghosts of deceased humans. They established a base inside the Torchwood Tower at Canary Wharf. While there, they started making new Cybermen, using what materials they could find.

The Cybermen in France. (DW: Army of Ghosts)

After two months (three years in parallel Earth time), the Cybermen suddenly appeared in their true form, occupying every landmass on the planet before breaking into houses and promising to upgrade all humans, commanded by the new Cyber-Leader. Simultaneously, the Cult of Skaro had exited the Void Ship with the Genesis Ark. The Cult, led by Dalek Sec communicated with the Cybermen via Dalek Thay and declared war, or in Dalek Sec's words, "pest control".

After a skirmish between humans, Cybermen and Daleks, the Cult travelled to the main room in Torchwood's Canary Wharf, elevated outside above the roof, and opened the Genesis Ark, releasing millions of Daleks who, under Sec's command, proceeded to "exterminate all life-forms below", killing human and Cyberman alike. (DW: Army of Ghosts / Doomsday) The weaponry of the Cybermen was mostly ineffective to Dalek casing, but there were some Dalek casualties as the Cybermen were able to tear the domes of some Daleks right off, some instances as part of an ambush. (DWBIT: #17, Daleks vs Cybermen Special) Towards the end of the Cybermen-Dalek battle, the Cybermen, desperate for more troops, began directly converting people rather than transplanting their brains into Cybershells. One victim of this process was Lisa Hallett, girlfriend of Ianto Jones. (TW: Cyberwoman)

The Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler opened the Void and anything contaminated with Void stuff was pulled in. This included the Cybermen. (DW: Doomsday)

&nbsp However, this was not the last of the Cybermen. The Cybermen that were made on Earth, like Lisa Hallett, had never passed through the Void, therefore they were not sucked in. Ianto took Lisa away from the battle and hid her in the basement of Cardiff's Torchwood Three facility, setting up a life-support system, planning to restore her humanity. He was unsuccessful. She killed Dr. Tanizaki, fought with Torchwood staff and eventually transplanted her brain into the body of a pizza delivery girl. Lisa was finally killed by the Torchwood team. (TW: Cyberwoman)

After the battle, two boys, Harry and Sam, were working on a model train set when they found stuff from Harry's dad's previous job. Inside the box was a Cyberman, in all his individual pieces. Not knowing what it was, Sam decided to put it back together so it could watch them play. Eventually, it awoke, threatening to upgrade both Harry and Sam. It forced Sam to help build a "Cyber-Conversion Unit" using the other leftover electronics from the Torchwood Tower in the box. They, however, managed to knock the Cyberman into the Cyber-Conversion unit, causing the latter two to be destroyed. (DWF: Going Off the Rails)

Other humans, like Lisa Hallett, were converted during the battle, but fully. As they did not originate from the Cybermens' original universe, they had not corssed the Void, were not contaminated with Voidstuff, and therefore were not sucked into the Void. These survivors stole teleportation technology from Torchwood Institute in order to gather technology to help them re-open the Void and free the trapped Cybermen. They did not know how to do this, however, and so they stole the Doctor's TARDIS, trying to lure the Doctor to them for aid. Some Cybermen were destroyed by the army but the Cyber-Leader and a few others escaped to the Millenium Dome and kept the army out with a forcefield. The Doctor and Martha, however, having recovered the TARDIS, were able to enter. The Doctor was able to trick the Cybermen, allowing them to link up their equipment with the TARDIS and giving them instructions. However, the Cybermen are instead sent back to the time of the dinosaurs where they are attacked and killed by a Tyrannosaurus Rex. The Cyber-Leader was destroyed after Martha damaged the forcefield and the Doctor used an electrical cord from it to destroy the leader. (NSA: Made of Steel)

Escape From the Void & the Future

Due to the Daleks' damaging the barriers between realities (DW: The Stolen Earth/Journey's End), the Cybermen were able to escape the Void, assisted by technology stolen from the Void-trapped Daleks. Landing accidentally in London, in the year 1851, these Cybermen, under the leadership of a Cyber-Lord, made an alliance with the human Miss Hartigan, created a minion race known as Cybershades and began construction of a dreadnought robot called the CyberKing with which they planned to conquer the Earth. They also came across Jackson Lake and his family, during which time an infostamp was misused, leading to Lake believing he was the Doctor. Lake and his new companion tried to defeat them, but were unsuccessful until the real Doctor arrived. When Miss Hartigan was converted into the CyberKing and the ship became mobile, the Doctor showed Hartigan what she had done and in her anguish she destroyed herself and the Cybermen, with the CyberKing being sent to be disintegrated in the Time Vortex. (DW: The Next Doctor) This event was then temporarily erased from history by the Time Field (DW: Flesh and Stone), but later restored due to the Doctor's efforts. (DW: The Big Bang)

Other Cybermen, which seemed to possess a more advanced knowledge and

experience of space travel, joined the Alliance at some point, formed to imprison The Eleventh Doctor in the Pandorica in order to save the Universe. They had previously placed one of their own as a sentry to the Pandorica, and later their representatives were among those who arrived at Stonehenge in 102 AD to confront the Doctor. The Alliance proceeded with their plans and imprisoned the Doctor in the Pandorica. (DW: The Pandorica Opens) The explosion of the TARDIS which caused the Universe to end however still happened, and the Alliance's plan failed, causing all races involved and all others throughout the universe, including the Cybermen, to be removed from existance. Only stone "after-images" remained. When the Doctor reset the universe and timeline, the Cybermen, and everything else that was destroyed throughout history, were restored to their original form and place in space and time. (DW: The Big Bang)

An army of Cybermen invaded medieval England, they began converting the locals by creating large statues of themselves to make the locals gather to see them. When the Doctor and Amy Pond arrived, they activated the Cybermen's power systems and used electrical currents to disable the Cybermen. (VG: The Mazes of Time)

Other groups of Cybermen apparently managed to escape the Void, but into a different point in time and space. Eventually these Cybermen would become a space-faring race. One group, during what appeared to be an early period for them in space-travel, possibly around the 26th century, were attracted towards an artifact they could not identify, which was in fact a Dalek Time Axis. As their technology was incapatible with time travel, their ship was destroyed. The Cybermen escaped and took over the ship, the SS Lucy Grey. The Eleventh Doctor and Amy were also attracted to the SS Lucy Grey by the singal from the Time Axis. The Doctor was able to overload the ship's systems destroy the Cybermen before the Daleks arrived. (VG: Return to Earth)

The Doctor later encountered these Cybermen on Telos, where the earlier arrival of Billy Jones had caused the "advanced guard" to awake from the cyber-tombs early to defend the others. The Cybermen tried to convert Billy, but he was saved by the Doctor before they could do so. (VG: The Mazes of Time)

One Cyberman ended up of Philjax III in the year 9000, deep in the oceans during the Daleks' battle with the Squeeth. (DWBIT: #9)

The Lurman Vorgenson used his machine, the Minimiser, to capture several Cybermen to be part of his travelling show dedicated to the Eleventh Doctor. The Cybermen were one of many many mind-controlled versions of his recently encountered enemies. It was revealed that the New Paradigm Daleks had planted the idea in his head to attract the Eleventh Doctor to the show with his monsters, and capture him in the Minimiser. This plan worked, although Vorgenson learned the truth. The audience managed to save the Doctor and helped him to release the Cybermen from the Minimiser to destroy the Daleks. (SP: The Monsters Are Coming!)

Cybermen on Centuria

The Cybermen on Centuria. (DWBIT: Time of the Cybermen)

During the 41st century an interplanetary info-thief stole Cyberman blueprints from the Torchwood Archive and used them to build a new Cyber army on Centuria with the intent of auctioning them of as hi-tech soldiers. However they turned on him and made him a half-converted slave. They started to kidnap hundreds of tourists and convert them. However, the Doctor discovered this while on Centuria for a holiday and the beach he was on was attacked. He and the other beachgoers were thrown into a van. Jayne Kadett, who was tracking down interplanetary Info Theft when the Cybermen caught her, revealed to the Doctor what had happened. The Doctor and Jayne managed to escape the Cybermen and blowthe restraint circuits; the Cybermen factory (Factory Zero One) was destroyed. (DWBIT: The Power of the Cybermen)

The Doctor and Kadett followed the Cyberman's signal, taking a robot-run airship across the now-deserted continent of Azlon on the planet Centuria. Before arriving at the airbus terminal (a Cyber-conversion factory), the conductor/law enforcer became influenced by the Cybermen's hypnotic signal, which was being used to subjugate the arriving humans. The Doctor, Kadett and a reprogrammed robot conductor pretended to be hypnotised and follow the other arrivals. Seizing the right moment, the Doctor disrupted the hypnotic signal and the conductor robot attacked the Cybermen. A stray shot from the conductor ruptured the fuel banks, causing a huge explosion which killed most of the newly converted Cyber-drones (basic work units) as their humanity started to become more dominant. As the Doctor and Kadett fled the explosion, they found a bit of a map in a Cyberman's hand. (DWBIT: Drones of Doom)

Using the Tardis, the Doctor and Kadett followed the Cybermen's map to Centuria's arctic zone where the Cybermen planned to ship upgraded human drones. Homaj, a half human, half Cyber drone, escaped the Cybermen who forced him and others to mine Hargstones. A giant purple Ice Snake attacked, but Cybermen with Cyberdogs deleted it. Homaj ran off into the frozen wasteland but the Doctor and Kadett were captured and taken to a huge mine below the ice. Inside the mine, the Doctor created a distraction while Kadett stole some explosives. The distraction caused a Cyberman to split one of the cave walls, disturbing a nest of Ice Snakes which attacked them. Escaping the mine, the Doctor and Kadett saw the Cybership has already departed with its cargo. Homaj waited for them and informed them he had intercepted a message saying that the cargo was going to Centuria Central. He then took the explosives from Kadett and headed back to the mine. In an act of self-sacrifice, he permanently sealed it. The Doctor and Kadett left in the Tardis in pursuit of the Cybership. (DWBIT: Enemy Mine)

The TARDIS landed in Centuria Central in a temporal stasis field. Kadett was caught in the frozen moment but the Doctor, being a Time Lord, could resist the field. Cybermen in a patrol aircar spotted him moving around and pursued. The Doctor used his sonic screwdriver to bring the aircar crashing down, drawing the attention of other Cybermen, who arrived to salvage parts and take them back to base. The Doctor smuggled himself into the base with the salvage. The base was the Triplanetary base which the Doctor suspected had been robbed of its Hargstone reserves to enable the Cybermen to maintain a stasis machine. The Doctor learned from the Cybermen that they had built the stasis machine from Torchwood files and used the device to subdue opposition. Choosing the most secure place for the machine, the Doctor escaped and headed for the bank's vault, but it was made of titanium and was protected by laser-proof glass and destructor rays. When the Doctor couldn't get in he used the sonic screwdriver to turn the destructor rays inwards, destroying the stasis machine. The Cybermen had a mental link with the machine that enables them to move around inside the stasis field, so when the machine was destroyed the temporal feedback overloaded their circuits. However, a Cyber-helmet in the shadows glowed red, suggesting that the Cybermen presence on Centuria wasn't completely destroyed. (DWBIT: Time of the Cybermen)

Other Information

Alternative Timelines

  • During the war between the Cybermen and the Preachers, the Cybermen recruited a special unit to become the Cyber-Leader to command them after the death of the Cyber Controller. The Cyber-Leader, with the help of an advisor Cyberman, coordinated attacks against Preacher territory, sending in Cyber units to battle them for control and eventually infiltrating ther bases and destroying their transmittors. Soon the Cybermen were victorious, after which the Cyber-Leader was seen as obsolete and was deleted. (VG: Cyber Assault)
  • During the Battle of Canary Wharf, a squad of Cybermen arrived off the London underground and fought their way through the Torchwood building, fighting Torchwood guards, scientists and defences along the way. They acquired stronger weaponry than that of their own for the final battle between the Daleks. In the end, the Cybermen were victorious in destroying Dalek Sec and brought about the extinction of the Daleks. However, it is unknown if the Doctor still opened the Void and sucked the Cybermen back in or not. (VG: Daleks v Cybermen)