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:''This article is an overview of the concept of the Cybermen. You may be looking for [[Cyberman (disambiguation)|more specific versions]], including [[Cyberman (Mondas)|those from Mondas]] and [[Cyberman (Pete's World)|those from Pete's World]].''
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{{first pic|Cyber-compare2.jpg|Two types of Cybermen: [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Mondasian Cybermen]] and [[Cyberman (Pete's World)|Cybermen from Pete's World]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion]]'', ''[[The Age of Steel]]'')}}
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'''Cybermen''' were a "race" of [[cyborg|cybernetically]] augmented [[humanoid]]s. They varied greatly in design, with different factions throughout [[time]] and [[space]]. The two major groups, from which all other known versions derived, were the [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Mondasian Cybermen]], which originated on the planet [[Mondas]] – [[Earth]]'s [[twin planet]] in [[the Doctor]]'s [[universe]] – and the [[Cyberman (Pete's World)|Cybermen]] created by [[Cybus Industries]], which originated on Earth in [[Pete's World|an alternate universe]] known by the Doctor as [[Pete's World]].  
|type = [[Human]]-derived [[cyborg]]
|aka = Human.2
|affiliation = [[Cybus Industries]], [[The Alliance (The Pandorica Opens)|The Alliance]], the [[CyberKing]], [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Alternative Cybermen]]
|origin = [[Pete's World|Parallel Earth]]
|first = Tardisode 5
|appearances = [[Cybermen (Pete's World) - list of appearances|'''''see list''''']]
|individuals = <br />[[Lisa Hallett]]<br />[[Cyber-Control (Pete's World)]]<br />[[Cyber-Lord (The Next Doctor)|Cyber-Lord]]<br />[[Cyber-Leader (Pete's World)]]<br />[[John Lumic]]<br Jackie Tyler (Pete's World) Jackie Tyler (Pete's World) /> [[Yvonne Hartman]] [[Cybershade]]<br />[[Mercy Hartigan]]<br />[[Sally Phelan]]
|clip = Surrounded by the Cybermen - Doctor Who - Rise of the Cybermen - BBC
|clip2 = Escape from the Cybermen - Doctor Who - The Age of Steel - BBC
|clip3 = Here come the Ghosts! - Doctor Who - Army of Ghosts - Series 2 - BBC
}}
:''For a general overview of Cyberman types, see [[Cyberman|here]]. For other uses of Cyberman, see [[Cyberman (disambiguation)|here]].''
One type of '''Cyberman''' originated in [[Pete's World|another universe]], where they were created by [[John Lumic]], the owner of [[Cybus Industries]] and the original Cyber Controller of this breed. 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. Beyond this, it remains unknown what the cyber-race would do if they completed conversion of humanity. If there was such a goal, it perished with John Lumic. Although the [[Tenth Doctor]] said "all you'll be left with is a metal earth, with metal people, with metal thoughts;  you won't advance, you'll stop. "


Despite the different origins, there were similarities between both groups of Cybermen, and there were groups that shared the characteristics of both. For the most part, they lacked individuality or names. Cybermen had no emotions and viewed them as a weakness. They frequently attempted to physically and mentally re-engineer [[human]]s and other [[humanoid]]s into Cybermen, via a process called "[[cyber-conversion]]" or "[[upgrade|upgrading]]".
Most Cybermen escaped from their home dimension and into the Doctor's, beginning their goal anew. Likely, because the technology on their home world was too advanced to counter.


== Cybermen of Mondas ==
== Characteristics ==
{{Main|Cyberman (Mondas)}}
=== Conversion ===
These Cybermen were originally a wholly organic species of [[humanoid]]s who originated on [[Earth]]'s former twin planet, [[Mondas]]. Mondas drifted into the outer solar system. To survive, the natives of that world adapted by turning themselves into cyborgs. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'') Eventually, all of the Mondasians underwent cyber-conversion. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Spare Parts]]'') Many of them left Mondas and ultimately developed into separate groups without connection to one another.
Unlike the [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]] of [[the Doctor|the Doctor's]] [[N-Space|universe]], these Cybermen were created by taking the brains of humans and placing them in robotic bodies. These exostructures were built from [[High Content Metal]] and were stauncher and more heavily built than the Cybermen of [[Mondas]].


[[File:Cybermen Silver Nemesis.jpg|thumb|left|Mondasian Cybermen on [[Earth]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Silver Nemesis]]'')]]
[[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 exoskeleton, to which cyber-kinetic impulses were bonded. The remaining human body was simply incinerated. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'') 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. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Age of Steel]]'')
Nearly all were silver save for one black variety (for stealth) surviving in the [[London sewers]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]''). They had exposed circuitry and tubing which may have contained hydraulic fluids for motion, covering a rubber or Mylar-like outer skin. The [[Mondan]]s which the [[First Doctor]] met on the [[Snowcap]] base in [[December]] [[1986]] had undergone a less radical conversion and still retained biological hands; it is possible these Cybermen were prototypes. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'') They were similar in design to the earliest Mondans which the [[Fifth Doctor]] would later encounter on Mondas. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Spare Parts]]'') All other Cybermen were entirely covered by their metallic suits. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Moonbase]]'' onwards)


These Cybermen had several major weaknesses. The most notable was the element [[gold]]. Gold, being non-corrosive, choked their respiratory systems. ([[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen]]'') 20th century guns barely fazed Cybermen, though explosives and bazooka shells could take them down. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion]]'', ''[[Silver Nemesis]]'') [[UNIT]] would develop gold-tipped rounds for Cybermen. ([[TV]]: ''[[Battlefield]]'') In later centuries, the Cybermen would take hits from laser guns and energy weapons: at close range, this could destroy them. ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock]]'')
In times of emergency, cyber-conversion consisted of only constructing a Cyber-suit around a living being with some internal modifications. ([[TV]]: ''[[Cyberwoman]]'')


== Cybermen designed by John Lumic ==
=== Operation ===
{{Main|Cyberman (Pete's World)}}
[[File:Cyber-vision.jpg|thumb|A Cyberman's vision through its eyepieces. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')]]
[[File:Cybermen_in_France.jpg|thumb|right|Pete's World Cybermen in [[France]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts]]'')]]
These Cybermen originated in [[Pete's World|another universe]], where they were created by [[John Lumic]], the owner of [[Cybus Industries]]. His Cybermen believed that all of humanity must be "upgraded" to cyber-form so that information would never be lost and that the humans' physical and emotional weaknesses were abolished.


[[Cyber-conversion]] usually involved removing the [[brain]] of the subject painfully and placing it within a suit of armour. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'') Once complete, the new Cybermen had a special implant that prevented them from feeling emotions. If the implants were disrupted, the Cybermen entered into a traumatic state caused by the pain of the conversion. This inevitably resulted in an agonising death from the emotional overload. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Age of Steel (TV story)|The Age of Steel]]'')
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 remained contained within the suit's head, though the skull was included in more hastily converted units. Artificially grown nervous tissue was threaded throughout the body so the Cyberman responded like a fully biological organism. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Age of Steel]]'') The eyepieces of a Cyberman allowed it to see the world as blue, digital graphics. The hearing of a Cyberman let it hear things similar to radio, albeit slightly garbled. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')


The cyber-suit was constructed from bulletproof steel. This exo-structure appeared thicker and heavier than that of the Cybermen of Mondas (though a comparison of the strengths of the two body types was never performed). A chest plate with the Cybus Industries logo housed a "heart of steel" 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. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Age of Steel (TV story)|The Age of Steel]]'') Without a brain inserted, the cyber-suit was a robot. Even when disembodied, the various parts of the suit – arm, head and torso – had sufficient processing capacity to pursue and attack a human target. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]])''
[[File:Cyberface2.jpg|thumb|left|Inside the Cyberman's helmet. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')]]


== Cybermen created by Missy ==
Without a brain inserted, the Cyber-suit was a robot which apparently had sufficient processing capacity to pursue and attack a human target. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Age of Steel]]'') Cybermen heads were programmed to seek out 'fresh meat" and try assimilating a compatible new head into the body if the original organic part rotted away. Because the victim would obviously fight back, the heads were outfitted with tranquilliser darts; wires from the head could also operate as tentacles to restrain the victims as well. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')
{{Gomez}} founded [[3W Institute|3W]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'') and began preserving bodies of the rich, ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') who believed their minds stayed conscious after death, in tanks filled with [[dark water]] which only showed the organic material, allowing Missy to convert them into Cybermen, supposedly exoskeletons to protect the bodies while uploading their minds to the [[Nethersphere]], a [[Matrix data slice]]. There, she removed their emotions to download them back into their bodies and create a Cyber army of the dead. When [[Danny Pink]] died, the [[Twelfth Doctor]] and [[Clara Oswald]] found 3W and Missy activated the Cybermen and released them from their tanks in [[St Paul's Cathedral]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'')


The Cybermen marched into the streets where they were greeted by curious on-lookers before [[UNIT]] arrived to confront them. The Cybermen flew off until one was over each area of major population density in the UK, then self-destructed, creating a rainstorm of [[Cyber-pollen]] that went into the ground and Cyber-converted all of the world's dead. The Doctor teamed with UNIT to try to stop them, despite the human race being outnumbered, while Clara was saved by Danny who was Cyber-converted but retained his emotions as he chose not to delete them and his emotional inhibitor was thus never activated. When Missy broke free, she had the Cybermen attack the UNIT presidential plane [[Boat One]]. The Doctor got sucked out of the plane in the attack, but managed to get into his TARDIS. Missy gave control of the Cyberman army to the Doctor, who then gave control to Danny. Danny, who retained control even with his inhibitor, ordered the Cybermen to fly into the rain clouds and self-destruct, burning up the clouds and stopping the conversion of humanity. A few minutes later, a surviving rogue Cyberman made out of [[the Brigadier]] shot at Missy after having saved his daughter [[Kate Stewart]] from the attack on Boat One and flies off. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'')
If a Cyberman was dismantled, its body parts were still capable of operating independently and rejoining together, so long as they remained in working condition. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')


== Cybermen of unknown origin ==
Typically, Cybermen were led by a [[Cyber-Leader (Pete's World)|Cyber Leader]] during conversion missions. If the Cyber Leader was terminated then the Cybermen downloaded the shared files and nominated a new Cyber Leader. However, this would take time. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday]]'') Other leader variations are [[Cyber-Lord (The Next Doctor)|Cyber-Lords]] and [[Mercy Hartigan|Cyber-Kings]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Next Doctor]]'')
=== Last Great Time War ===
[[File:Time_War_Cybus_Cyberman.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Eleventh Doctor]] discovers the husk of a Cyberman on Veestrax. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Outrun (comic story)|Outrun]]'')]]
The Cybermen got involved in the [[Last Great Time War]] on planets such as [[Veestrax]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Outrun (comic story)|Outrun]]'')


=== Cybermen in the Arctic ===
=== Weapons and technology ===
[[File:Cybermen(BloodoftheCybermen).jpg|thumb|The inactive Cybermen. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Blood of the Cybermen (video game)|Blood of the Cybermen]]'')]]
While in the Arctic, the Doctor encountered Cybermen that greatly resembled the Cybus-made Cybermen, and were said to be brains in metal shells like the Cybus creations, but also had certain characteristics common to the Cybermen of Mondas. For instance, they used [[Cybermat]]s, they recognised the [[Eleventh Doctor]] as a [[Time Lord]], and they had advanced space-faring capabilities.


This group of Cybermen had been buried under the ice in the [[Arctic Circle]] for tens of thousands of years after being hit by a [[temporal storm]]. An excavation began to awaken the army, commanded by a [[Cyber-Lord (Blood of the Cybermen)|Cyber-Lord]], releasing [[Cybermat]]s which in turn created [[Cyberslave]]s. The [[Eleventh Doctor]] arrived on [[4 May]] [[2010]] and stopped their awakening. He blew up their ship and returned them to stasis. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Blood of the Cybermen]]'')
[[File:Cyberman arm blaster.jpg|thumb|left|A Cyberman [[Cyber Wrist Blaster|wrist blaster]] operating on its own. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')]]
Originally, their only weapons were their [[Electro Attack|electrified hands]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]'') but they later gained [[Cyber Wrist Blaster|a small wrist-mounted energy weapon]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts]]''/''[[Doomsday]]'') They could act on their own, or be commanded by a wireless signal from the head. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'') To keep victims from escaping, the Cybermen eventually equipped their heads with tranquilliser darts to sedate them. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')


The Doctor kept a chest plate and head of one of these Cybermen in the [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] drawing room. ([[GAME]]: ''[[TARDIS (video game)|TARDIS]]'', [[GAME]]: ''[[The Gunpowder Plot]]'')
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. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday]]'') They could wirelessly control electronics, such as John Lumic's wheelchair and the "Ghost Shift" control levers at Torchwood Tower; this function was associated with a Cyberman bringing its closed fist to its chest. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Age of Steel]], ''[[TV]]: [[Army of Ghosts]]). 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]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Next Doctor]]'') They eventually developed Cyber-weapons of their own, although bulkier and more rifle-like than the Mondasian versions. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')


=== Cybermen of the Cyber Legions ===
They eventually developed means of space travel and ventured into space. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'', [[GAME]]: ''[[Return to Earth (video game)|Return to Earth]]'') However, their technology was initially quite primitive and incompatible with [[Time-travel|time travel]], as demonstrated when their ship was destroyed by a [[Dalek]] [[Time Axis]]. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Return to Earth (video game)|Return to Earth]]'') By the time they joined [[The Alliance (The Pandorica Opens)|the Alliance]], their space travel seemed more advanced, similar to that of the [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]] from [[Mondas]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'')
==== Overview ====
The [[Cyber Legion]]s were a major power in space, possessing at least twelve fleets in the [[52nd century]]. Outwardly, these Cybermen resembled the [[Cyberman (Pete's World)|Cybermen]] of [[Cybus Industries]], but their chest logo featured a simple circle instead of the Cybus logo. ([[TV]]: ''[[A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)|A Good Man Goes to War]]'') They were known to use [[Cyber wrist blaster|blasters on their wrists]], were all linked by the [[Cyber-network]], and used terms such as "Delete" and [[Cyber-conversion|"Upgrade"]] like the Cybus Industries Cybermen ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Plague of the Cybermen (novel)|Plague of the Cybermen]]'', [[GAME]]: ''[[The Eternity Clock (video game)|The Eternity Clock]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Assimilation² (comic story)|Assimilation²]]'') as well as [[Cybermat]]s and [[Cyber-Planner]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[Closing Time (TV story)|Closing Time]]'', [[GAME]]: ''[[The Eternity Clock (video game)|The Eternity Clock]]'') Their arsenal also consisted of [[Energy blaster|large handheld weapons]] which were sometimes used in place of wrist blasters. ([[TV]]: ''[[A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)|A Good Man Goes to War]]'', [[GAME]]: ''[[The Eternity Clock (video game)|The Eternity Clock]]'')


==== History ====
=== Voice ===
A [[Cyber Ship]] full of these Cybermen, either on a mission for colonisation or a military purposes, crash landed in [[Klimtenburg]] at some point prior to the [[19th century]]. The survivors began capturing humans, using body parts to replace their own damaged parts, and they created their own thunderstorms so they could revive themselves using power from the lightning. The [[Eleventh Doctor]] arrived in Klimtenburg during the 19th century and began to investigate an illness the villagers were catching which he identified as Hapthoid Radiation poisoning from a Cyber Ship's generator. As more and more Cybermen began to revive, the Doctor rallied the villagers to fend off the oncoming attack. When battle began, the Doctor infiltrated the Cybermen's base of operations and, with the help of the mostly converted [[Victor Ernhardt]], overloaded the [[Cyber-network]] with excess power. All the Cybermen exploded. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Plague of the Cybermen (novel)|Plague of the Cybermen]]'')
These Cybermen spoke in an electronic, monotone 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!". ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]'') The Cybermen were shown to misunderstand lower-level, spoken language terms, instead preferring higher-level language. 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". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Next Doctor]]'')


[[File:Closing time cyberman nt 01v.jpg|thumb|left|A Cyberman under [[Sanderson & Grainger]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Closing Time (TV story)|Closing Time]]'')]]
=== Hierarchy ===
In [[2011]], a group of these Cybermen were encountered by the [[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[Craig Owens]] in [[Colchester]]. They were based in another crashed ship which the Doctor claimed had been crashed in the future site of the [[Sanderson & Grainger]] department store, "centuries" before the survivors were revived by the council laying down cabled on top of it, which activated the ship's [[Cybermat]]s. The Cybermen attempted to rebuild their numbers and upgraded store employees [[Shona]] and [[George (Closing Time)|George]] but they were eventually defeated when Craig's love for his son [[Alfie Owens|Alfie]] allowed him to resist [[Cyber-conversion]] and created a surge of emotion which destroyed the Cybermen. ([[TV]]: ''[[Closing Time (TV story)|Closing Time]]'')
* [[John Lumic|John Lumic/Cyber Controller]] - founder of [[Cybus Industries]] and creator of the Cybermen. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'' / ''[[The Age of Steel (TV story)|The Age of Steel]]'')
* [[Cyber-Leader (Pete's World)|Cyber-Leader]] - Cyber commander of a Cyber Unit/Army (rank and appearance may vary). ([[TV]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts (TV story)|Army of Ghosts]]'' / ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'')
** [[Cyber-Lord (The Next Doctor)|Cyber-Lord]] - Cyber commander, a form of Cyber Leader, presumably of a higher rank. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Next Doctor (TV story)|The Next Doctor]]'', [[GAME]]: ''[[Blood of the Cybermen (video game)|Blood of the Cybermen]]'')
* [[CyberKing]] - control unit of a Dreadnought ship, integrated into it, making it the CyberKing. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Next Doctor (TV story)|The Next Doctor]]'')
* Cyberman - standard fighting unit of the Cyber Army. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'' et al.)
* [[Cyberdog|Cyberdogs]] - search and guard units of converted [[Dog|dogs]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Enemy Mine (comic story)|Enemy Mine]]'')
* [[Cybermat|Cybermats]] - Cyber rodents, who could drain electricity and infect others with a nano-form. ([[TV]]: [[Closing Time (TV story)|Closing Time]], [[GAME]]: ''[[The Eternity Clock (video game)|The Eternity Clock]]'' et al.)
* [[Cybershade]] - primitive, beast-like worker unit, converted by using a brain of a [[dog]] or a [[cat]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Next Doctor (TV story)|The Next Doctor]]'')
* [[Cyberdrone]] - partially converted humans, worker units who were used for the [[Miner|slave labour]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Enemy Mine (comic story)|Enemy Mine]]'')
* [[Lisa Hallett]] - a partially converted human who was sustained by life support system under the Torchwood base in Cardiff. ([[TV]]: ''[[Cyberwoman (TV story)|Cyberwoman]]'')
* [[Cyberslave]] - humans converted by being infected with a nano-form. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Blood of the Cybermen (video game)|Blood of the Cybermen]]'')
* Controlled [[human]]s - humans controlled at the brain which are often only kept until fulfilling the required purpose, then killed. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'' / ''[[The Age of Steel (TV story)|The Age of Steel]]'', ''[[Army of Ghosts (TV story)|Army of Ghosts]]'' / ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'')


[[File:Cyber-Planner 2.jpg|thumb|The [[Ninth Cyber Legion|Ninth Cyber Legion's]] [[Cyber-Planner]]. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Eternity Clock (video game)|The Eternity Clock]]'')]]
== History ==
The [[Ninth Cyber Legion]] invaded [[London]] in [[2012]] commanded by a Cyber-Leader and a [[Cyber-Planner]] using a piece of the [[Eternity Clock]]. They made a Cyber factory that was full of Cyberman storage units, guarded by [[Cybermat]]s. The Legion was destroyed by the [[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[River Song]] by shutting down their thermionic core. The shells of dead Cybermen remained in London as far as [[2106]] when the [[Dalek]]s of the [[New Dalek Paradigm]] invaded. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Eternity Clock]]'')  
==== Creation and expansion ====
[[File:Rise-of-the-cybermen.jpg|thumb|Cybermen shortly after their creation. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]'')]]
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, by [[2007]] 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. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]'')


In a daring attempt at conquest, the Cybermen prepared an armada of [[Cyber Ship]]s and attempted to take over [[Parallel universe|other universes]] as well as their own. Led by a [[Cyber-Controller (Assimilation²)|Cyber-Controller]], the armada crossed from their universe into the [[24th century]] of [[Federation universe|another]] and entered into an alliance with a species similar to their own known as [[the Borg]] and together they attacked the [[planet]] [[Delta IV]]. The [[Deltan Prime Minister]] escaped the attack and warned [[Starfleet]] of the newly assembled war force. The Doctor, [[Amy Pond|Amy]] and [[Rory]] accidentally found themselves on the bridge of the ''[[USS Enterprise]]'' just as it was attacked by a massive fleet of Cyber Ships and [[Borg cube]]s. Joining forces with [[Captain]] [[Jean-Luc Picard]], the Doctor intended to help Starfleet end the Cyber threat. He then began to remember an encounter with the [[Cyberman (Mondas)|original Cybermen]] during his [[Fourth Doctor|fourth incarnation]] which took place in the same universe - which he also remembered ''not'' remembering - and concluded that the Cybermen were rewriting history.
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 (Rise of the Cybermen)|Mr. Crane]] in an act of betrayal that cost him his life, Lumic was converted into the Cyber-Controller by his own Cybermen against his own wishes to preserve his flesh form. By the Cybermen's cold logic, it was impractical to cling to an already dying body. Once converted and revitalised, Cyberman instinct merged with his megalomanical mind and he planned to convert all of the parallel Earth. 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. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Age of Steel]]'')


Meanwhile, the Cybermen betrayed the Borg and the two sides fought a devastating battle on [[Cogen V]]. The Cybermen were victorious and the Borg collective was at risk of falling completely under Cyber control. The ''Enterprise'' arrived at the planet to find only the remnants of numerous Borg ships in its orbit and the bodies of Cybermen and Borg on the planet's surface. The Borg contacted the ''Enterprise'' and offered Picard an alliance. Picard refused, having painful memories of a previous encounter with the Borg, but the Doctor, Amy and [[Guinan]] realised the alliance was necessary. Picard realised this too after the Doctor took him in [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] and showed him a future in which the Cybermen had succeeded. The Borg accepted the temporary alliance and they and Starfleet organised a raid on the Cyber-Controller's command ship and they weakened the Cybermen by filling the air with [[gold]] dust. After a struggle with the Cyber-Controller, [[Marcus Bertrand|one of the Borg]] set all ships linked to the Cyber-web to self-destruct, much to the Doctor's disgust as he considered this [[genocide]], despite what the Cybermen had done. With the complete destruction of the Cybermen from the Federation universe, the Doctor guessed that any changes they had made had unwound themselves, although all involved would retain their memories of the event. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Assimilation² (comic story)|Assimilation²]]'')
Following the destruction of the Cybus Factory and the Cyber Controller in [[Great Britain|Britain]], [[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]] 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. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Save Paris]]'')


[[File:Cybermen-series-6.jpg|thumb|left|A [[Cyber Legion]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[A Good Man Goes to War]]'')]]
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 develop [[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 there.
In the [[52nd century]], the [[Twelfth Cyber Legion]] was positioned 20,000 [[Light-year|light years]] away from [[Demons Run]] when it was largely obliterated by the [[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[Rory Williams]], who were planning to [[Battle of Demons Run|assault]] the [[asteroid]] [[Space station|station]] to rescue [[Amy Pond|Amy]] and [[River Song|Melody Pond]]. This gave the [[Cyber-Leader (A Good Man Goes to War)|Cyber-Leader]] little choice but to give the Doctor and Rory the information they needed regarding Demons Run. ([[TV]]: ''[[A Good Man Goes to War]]'')


The dead suit of one of these Cybermen was recovered after the [[Cyber-Wars]] and used as a [[chess]]-playing robot at [[Hedgewick's World of Wonders]], where it was referred to as one of the 699 [[Wonders of the Universe]]. Some [[Cybermite]]s waited inside the suit for a chance to wake three million other Cybermen, left over from the Cyber-Wars, from their [[Cyber-tomb|tombs]]. The Cyber-suit was destroyed when [[Ludens Nimrod Kendrick Cord Longstaff XLI|Emperor Ludens Nimrod Kendrick Cord Longstaff XLI]] set off a bomb to kill the Cybermen emerging from hibernation, destroying the planet as well. ([[TV]]: ''[[Nightmare in Silver (TV story)|Nightmare in Silver]]'')
However, the Cybermen also sought to do the same thing: expand, [[Cyber-conversion|"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." ([[GAME]]: ''[[Cyber Assault]]'')


==== Alternative timeline ====
==== The Battle of Canary Wharf ====
In the future shown to Picard by the Doctor in which the Cybermen had succeeded in their conquest of multiple universes, the Cybermen made use of the technology they had acquired from the Borg and they were able to convert more species. Among these species were as follows:
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 the Doctor's, 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 [[Klingon]] homeworld of [[Qo'noS]] fell to the Cybermen in under 50 years. These Cybermen bore the Klingon insignia and used Klingon [[Sword|swords]].
 
* [[Raxacoricofallapatorius]] was taken 30 years after Qo'nos. The [[Raxacoricofallapatorian]]s were more bulbous Cybermen with large claws for hands.
[[File:Cybermen_in_France.jpg|thumb|left|The Cybermen in France. ([[TV]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts]]'')]]
* The [[Vulcan (species)|Vulcan]] homeworld was taken another 20 years later and all the Vulcan culture and wisdom was lost.
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. ([[TV]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts]]'') 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 [[Judoon]] were conquered in another 25 years and they became the Cybermen's shock troopers, identified by their metal [[Rhinoceros]] horns.
 
* Humanity fought back for almost 40 more years but the Cybermen eventually triumphed. [[San Francisco]] became another nexus from which the Cybermen could strike. Starfleet Academy held the last survivors in the galaxy before they were overrun. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Assimilation² (comic story)|Assimilation²]]'')
[[File:Cybermen and daleks meet.jpg|thumb|The Cybermen encounter Daleks. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday]]'')]]
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, started to "exterminate all life-forms below", killing human and Cyberman alike. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday]]'') 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]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Cyberwoman]]'')
 
The Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler opened [[the Void]] and anything contaminated with [[void stuff]] was pulled in. This included the Cybermen. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday]]'')
 
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. Ianto had desperately tried to salvage what was left of his girlfriend's former identity, but could not succeed. He mourned Lisa's death, moved on, and eventually set his romantic attentions [[Captain Jack Harkness|elsewhere]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Cyberwoman]]'')
 
After the battle, two children, [[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 its 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 left-over 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. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Going Off the Rails]]'')
 
Other humans were converted during [[Battle of Canary Wharf|the battle]], but fully. 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 [[Tenth Doctor]] to them for aid. Some Cybermen were destroyed by the army but the [[Cyber-Leader (Pete's World)|Cyber-Leader]] and a few others escaped to the [[Millennium Dome]] and kept the army out with a forcefield. 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 were instead sent back to the time of the [[dinosaur]]s where they were 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. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Made of Steel]]'')
 
==== Escaping the Void ====
 
[[File:Cyberking.jpg|thumb|The Cyberman-created CyberKing stomps Victorian London. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Next Doctor]]'')]]
Due to the Daleks' [[Dalek invasion of Earth (The Stolen Earth)|damaging the barriers between realities]] by using the [[Reality bomb]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]''/''[[Journey's End]]''), a small number of Cybermen were able to escape the Void, assisted by technology stolen from the Void-trapped Daleks while the rest of the Cybermen, along with the Daleks trapped in the Void, perished. 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, who in his fugue state absorbed knowledge of [[the Doctor]] from an [[infostamp]]. Lake and his new companion tried to defeat them, but were unsuccessful until the real, Tenth 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 sent to be disintegrated in the Time Vortex before it fell on London. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Next Doctor]]'') This event was then erased from history by the [[Time Field]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Flesh and Stone]]''), resulting in no one but the Doctor remembering it.
 
An army of Cybermen were located in [[Incan Temples]]. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Mazes of Time]]'')
 
Another 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. ([[GAME]]: ''[[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 artefact 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 signal from the Time Axis. The Doctor was able to overload the ship's systems, destroying the Cybermen before the Daleks arrived. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Return to Earth]]'')
 
[[File:Cybus Cyber-tomb.png|thumb|left|The Cybermen in suspended animation in Cyber-Tombs on Telos. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Mazes of Time]]'')]]
The Doctor later encountered these Cybermen on [http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Telos 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. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Mazes of Time]]'')
 
The Cybermen were among the species that made up the [[the Alliance (The Pandorica Opens)|the Alliance]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'') However, the Alliance was never formed after the [[Big Bang Two]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang]]'')
 
The dead shells of some of these Cybermen were recovered after the [[Cyber-Wars]] and put on display at [[Hedgewick's World of Wonders]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Nightmare in Silver (TV story)|Nightmare in Silver]]'')
 
One Cyberman fell through the void into a universe where the Doctor was the main character in a television show called "Doctor Who". The [[Eleventh Doctor]] sent the Cyberman back into the Void to "its own home". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who (comic story)|The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who]]'')
 
==== Cybermen on Centuria ====
[[File:BITCS11.jpg|thumb|left|The Cybermen on Centuria. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[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 blow the restraint circuits; the Cybermen factory ([[Factory Zero One]]) was destroyed. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Power of the Cybermen]]'')
 
[[File:Tpofc.jpg|thumb|The Cybermen attempt to upgrade. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Drones of Doom]]'')]]
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. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[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 [[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. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Enemy Mine]]'')
 
[[File:Totc.jpg|thumb|left|The Cybermen threaten to kill. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Time of the Cybermen]]'')]]
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. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Time of the Cybermen]]'')
 
== Other information ==
* The [[Tenth Doctor]] kept one of the [[Cybus Industries|Cybus]] logos from a Cyberman chest plate in [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Unicorn and the Wasp]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Taking of Chelsea 426]]'') More specifically the [[Eleventh Doctor]] kept one in the [[TARDIS drawing room|TARDIS drawing room]]. ([[GAME]]: [[TARDIS (video game)|TARDIS]])  


== Behind the scenes ==
== Behind the scenes ==
* The non-narrative based work Doctor Who: The Visual Dictionary revealed much more:


=== Cybermen of unspecified origin ===
:The Cybermen are powered by thermionic generators, their brain was kept in a patented protein solution at 6&nbsp;°C, and their armor made from a very, very durable manganese-steel alloy.


==== Clarification ====
The points of weakness on Cybermen were the ankle joint and the exposed coolant lines on the inner (right) side of their left knee.  
According to comments made in ''[[The Brilliant Book 2012]]'', the Cybermen of the Cyber Legions were the original [[Mondasian]] versions because, despite having the Cybus-style suits, they lacked the "C" logo on their chest. If so, the Cybus Industries Cybermen joined [[The Alliance (The Pandorica Opens)|the Alliance]] and the Cybermen that have appeared since then (without the "C" logos) are the Mondasian models.


No fictional source has given a clarification, and the matter is made all the more complicated by the fact that the Cyber Legions Cybermen have displayed characteristics of both the Mondasian and Cybus Cybermen, as stated in the overview above.
Their fingertips incorporate touch sensitive pads and their voice-box was located in their metal mouth (that doesn't open obviously, only lights up blue when they talk).  


The story which comes closest to giving any clarification is ''[[Assimilation² (comic story)|Assimilation²]]'', which initially features Cybermen with the Cybus logo but these are later changed to the logo displayed by those of the Cyber Legions and remains for the rest of the story. The use of the Cybus logo was likely an error. However, the comic also details an encounter between the Fourth Doctor and the original Cybermen which is said to be directly related to the comic's main Cyber Legion threat, but at the same time the Cybus terms "Delete" and "Upgrade" are still used in the final issue, and [[Guinan]] also states that "different versions of [Cybermen] can be found in [[Parallel universe|alternate universes]]." Thus, the complete background of these Cybermen remains a mystery.
The coolant lines were Kevlar-lined and were bullet-resistant.  


[[Neil Gaiman]], writer of ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'' in [[Series 6 (Doctor Who)|Series 6]] and ''[[Nightmare in Silver (TV story)|Nightmare in Silver]]'' in [[Series 7 (Doctor Who)|Series 7]], has stated in an interview<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfx.co.uk/2013/05/07/exclusive-neil-gaiman-talks-doctor-who-and-cybermen/|title=EXCLUSIVE – Neil Gaiman Talks Doctor Who And Cybermen|date of source=May 7th, 2013|website name=SFX|accessdate=January 5th, 2014}}</ref> that he believed the Cybermen in the "'[[Tom Baker]]' universe" had all but died out. That left the Cybus Cybermen who had escaped [[the Void]] and ended up in [[Victorian era|Victorian]] [[London]], and were sent into the [[Time Vortex]] at the end of ''[[The Next Doctor (TV story)|The Next Doctor]]''. Rather than be disintegrated as [[Jackson Lake]] predicted, they were scattered through time and space and eventually encountered the remnants of the Mondasian Cybermen, "and there was some cross-breeding and interchange of technology, which is why you then get the ones that look like, but actually aren't, the Cybus Cybermen." This is despite the fact that all of the Cybermen in ''The Next Doctor'' were seen to be blown to bits by [[Mercy Hartigan]], unless there were more deeper within the [[CyberKing]]. However, Gaiman includes no reference to this theory in ''Nightmare in Silver''.
The particle-beam gun technology is capable of being handheld with an outsized grip (because Cybermen are so big) or being incorporated into their forearm. The particle beam guns were top of the arms market and were constructed in John Lumic's Blue Skies laboratory.
 
* According to [[Tardis:Valid sources|non-narrative]] information in [[DWBIT 17|''DWBIT'' 17]] and the ''[[DWBIT Daleks vs Cybermen Special]]'', during the [[Battle of Canary Wharf]], 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.
* In another ''Dalek Wars'' page in ''Battles in Time'', a single Cyberman ended at the bottom of the oceans of Philjax III during the Daleks' battle with the Squeeth.
* In a website launched by the BBC for the promotion of season 2,  International Electromatics, it is indicated that Cybus Industries derived their Cyberman technology from the deactivated bodies of alien Cybermen found at the North Pole.
*In the non-canon [http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/SP SP]: ''[http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Doctor_Who:_The_Monsters_Are_Coming! The Monsters Are Coming!]'', The [http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Lurman Lurman] [http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Vorgenson Vorgenson] used his machine, the Minimiser, to capture several Cybermen to be part of his travelling show dedicated to the [http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Eleventh_Doctor Eleventh Doctor]. The Cybermen were one of many many mind-controlled versions of his recently encountered enemies. It was revealed that the [[New Dalek Paradigm|New Paradigm Daleks]] had planted the idea in his head to attract the [http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Eleventh_Doctor 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.
* [[Neil Gaiman]] has stated<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfx.co.uk/2013/05/07/exclusive-neil-gaiman-talks-doctor-who-and-cybermen/|title=EXCLUSIVE – Neil Gaiman Talks Doctor Who And Cybermen|date of source=May 7th, 2013|website name=SFX|accessdate=January 5th, 2014}}</ref> that he has the theory that at one point, the Cybus Cybermen encountered the [[Mondas]]ian/[[Telos]]ian [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]] and the two races merged into one, explaining why, in [[Series 5 (Doctor Who)|Series 5]] and [[Series 6 (Doctor Who)|Series 6]], the Cybermen share characteristics of both the originals and the Cybus versions. It may also explain why the Cybus Cybermen appear in the ice tombs on Telos (in ''[[The Mazes of Time (video game)|The Mazes of Time]]'') and why the Cybermen have connections with Mondas Cybermen in the past but have the Cybus design (in ''[[Assimilation² (comic story)|Assimilation²]]''). This merged Cyber race is implied in Gaiman's [[Series 7 (Doctor Who)|Series 7]] episode ''[[Nightmare in Silver (TV story)|Nightmare in Silver]]'' where the Cyber-suits of two Cybus Cybermen are seen and said to have been found after the [[Cyber-Wars]] (a Mondasian Cyberman conflict) along with the suit of a Cyberman of the Cyber Legions. However, no explicit confirmation of this theory is given in the episode.


==== Other appearances ====
* The chess-playing Cyberman from ''Nightmare in Silver'' appears in [[She Said, He Said: A Prequel (webcast)|''She Said, He Said'']], the [[prequel]] to [[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|''The Name of the Doctor'']]. However, the story's unusual style of narrative makes it difficult to determine where, when and under what circumstances the story takes place in-universe.
* It is not known if the Cyberman head from [[The Gunpowder Plot (video game)|''The Gunpowder Plot'']] belonged to a Cyberman from Cybus Industries, the Cyber Legions or ''Blood of the Cybermen'', although the appearance of the ''Blood''-style chestplate from [[TARDIS (video game)|''TARDIS'']] suggests it to be the third option.
* Similar to the above point, a [[2006]]-style Cyberman head is seen in the [[Black Archive]] in [[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|''The Day of the Doctor'']] but it is unknown which of the three possible variants it belonged to, as all three kinds of Cybermen had taken part in activities on [[Earth]] that [[UNIT]] likely investigated.
* A 2006-style Cyberman is also depicted in the front cover of the [[2014]] re-release of [[Illegal Alien (novel)|''Illegal Alien'']] as part of ''The Monster Collection''.
* The Cyberman in the video game [[Whodle (video game)|''Whodle'']]'' ''resembles the classic Doctor Who Cybermen a lot, but when The Doctor is killed, they shout "YOU WILL BE DELETED", which is what the Cybus Cybermen say.
* Cyberman also appears in the LEGO Dimensions Video Game and has his own personal pack that comes along with a Dalek
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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 and the original Cyber Controller of this breed. 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. Beyond this, it remains unknown what the cyber-race would do if they completed conversion of humanity. If there was such a goal, it perished with John Lumic. Although the Tenth Doctor said "all you'll be left with is a metal earth, with metal people, with metal thoughts; you won't advance, you'll stop. "

Most Cybermen escaped from their home dimension and into the Doctor's, beginning their goal anew. Likely, because the technology on their home world was too advanced to counter.

Characteristics

Conversion

Unlike the Cybermen of the Doctor's universe, these Cybermen were created by taking the brains of humans and placing them in robotic bodies. These exostructures were built from High Content Metal and were stauncher and more heavily built than the Cybermen of Mondas.

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 exoskeleton, to which cyber-kinetic impulses were bonded. The remaining human body was simply incinerated. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen) 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. (TV: 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. (TV: Cyberwoman)

Operation

A Cyberman's vision through its eyepieces. (TV: The Pandorica Opens)

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 remained contained within the suit's head, though the skull was included in more hastily converted units. Artificially grown nervous tissue was threaded throughout the body so the Cyberman responded like a fully biological organism. (TV: The Age of Steel) The eyepieces of a Cyberman allowed it to see the world as blue, digital graphics. The hearing of a Cyberman let it hear things similar to radio, albeit slightly garbled. (TV: The Pandorica Opens)

Inside the Cyberman's helmet. (TV: 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. (TV: The Age of Steel) Cybermen heads were programmed to seek out 'fresh meat" and try assimilating a compatible new head into the body if the original organic part rotted away. Because the victim would obviously fight back, the heads were outfitted with tranquilliser darts; wires from the head could also operate as tentacles to restrain the victims as well. (TV: The Pandorica Opens)

If a Cyberman was dismantled, its body parts were still capable of operating independently and rejoining together, so long as they remained in working condition. (TV: 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. However, this would take time. (TV: Doomsday) Other leader variations are Cyber-Lords and Cyber-Kings. (TV: The Next Doctor)

Weapons and technology

A Cyberman wrist blaster operating on its own. (TV: The Pandorica Opens)

Originally, their only weapons were their electrified hands, (TV: Rise of the Cybermen) but they later gained a small wrist-mounted energy weapon. (TV: Army of Ghosts/Doomsday) They could act on their own, or be commanded by a wireless signal from the head. (TV: The Pandorica Opens) To keep victims from escaping, the Cybermen eventually equipped their heads with tranquilliser darts to sedate them. (TV: 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. (TV: Doomsday) They could wirelessly control electronics, such as John Lumic's wheelchair and the "Ghost Shift" control levers at Torchwood Tower; this function was associated with a Cyberman bringing its closed fist to its chest. (TV: The Age of Steel, TV: Army of Ghosts). 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. (TV: The Next Doctor) They eventually developed Cyber-weapons of their own, although bulkier and more rifle-like than the Mondasian versions. (TV: The Pandorica Opens)

They eventually developed means of space travel and ventured into space. (TV: The Pandorica Opens, GAME: Return to Earth) However, their technology was initially quite primitive and incompatible with time travel, as demonstrated when their ship was destroyed by a Dalek Time Axis. (GAME: Return to Earth) By the time they joined the Alliance, their space travel seemed more advanced, similar to that of the Cybermen from Mondas. (TV: The Pandorica Opens)

Voice

These Cybermen spoke in an electronic, monotone 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!". (TV: Rise of the Cybermen) The Cybermen were shown to misunderstand lower-level, spoken language terms, instead preferring higher-level language. For example, the Cyber-Lord couldn't understand the word 'best' so Miss Hartigan had to say "I will operate at maximum efficiency". (TV: The Next Doctor)

Hierarchy

History

Creation and expansion

Cybermen shortly after their creation. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen)

The Cybermen were created in a parallel universe by John Lumic, a terminally ill and insane genius. To find a way to survive, by 2007 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. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen)

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 in an act of betrayal that cost him his life, Lumic was converted into the Cyber-Controller by his own Cybermen against his own wishes to preserve his flesh form. By the Cybermen's cold logic, it was impractical to cling to an already dying body. Once converted and revitalised, Cyberman instinct merged with his megalomanical mind and he planned to convert all of the parallel Earth. 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. (TV: 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. (GAME: Save 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 develop 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 there.

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." (GAME: 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 the Doctor's, 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. (TV: 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. (TV: Army of Ghosts) 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 Cybermen encounter Daleks. (TV: Doomsday)

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, started to "exterminate all life-forms below", killing human and Cyberman alike. (TV: Doomsday) 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. (TV: Cyberwoman)

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

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. Ianto had desperately tried to salvage what was left of his girlfriend's former identity, but could not succeed. He mourned Lisa's death, moved on, and eventually set his romantic attentions elsewhere. (TV: Cyberwoman)

After the battle, two children, 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 its 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 left-over 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. (PROSE: Going Off the Rails)

Other humans were converted during the battle, but fully. 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 Tenth Doctor to them for aid. Some Cybermen were destroyed by the army but the Cyber-Leader and a few others escaped to the Millennium 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 were instead sent back to the time of the dinosaurs where they were 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. (PROSE: Made of Steel)

Escaping the Void

The Cyberman-created CyberKing stomps Victorian London. (TV: The Next Doctor)

Due to the Daleks' damaging the barriers between realities by using the Reality bomb (TV: The Stolen Earth/Journey's End), a small number of Cybermen were able to escape the Void, assisted by technology stolen from the Void-trapped Daleks while the rest of the Cybermen, along with the Daleks trapped in the Void, perished. 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, who in his fugue state absorbed knowledge of the Doctor from an infostamp. Lake and his new companion tried to defeat them, but were unsuccessful until the real, Tenth 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 sent to be disintegrated in the Time Vortex before it fell on London. (TV: The Next Doctor) This event was then erased from history by the Time Field (TV: Flesh and Stone), resulting in no one but the Doctor remembering it.

An army of Cybermen were located in Incan Temples. (GAME: The Mazes of Time)

Another 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. (GAME: 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 artefact 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 signal from the Time Axis. The Doctor was able to overload the ship's systems, destroying the Cybermen before the Daleks arrived. (GAME: Return to Earth)

The Cybermen in suspended animation in Cyber-Tombs on Telos. (GAME: The Mazes of Time)

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. (GAME: The Mazes of Time)

The Cybermen were among the species that made up the the Alliance. (TV: The Pandorica Opens) However, the Alliance was never formed after the Big Bang Two. (TV: The Big Bang)

The dead shells of some of these Cybermen were recovered after the Cyber-Wars and put on display at Hedgewick's World of Wonders. (TV: Nightmare in Silver)

One Cyberman fell through the void into a universe where the Doctor was the main character in a television show called "Doctor Who". The Eleventh Doctor sent the Cyberman back into the Void to "its own home". (COMIC: The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who)

Cybermen on Centuria

The Cybermen on Centuria. (COMIC: 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 blow the restraint circuits; the Cybermen factory (Factory Zero One) was destroyed. (COMIC: The Power of the Cybermen)

The Cybermen attempt to upgrade. (COMIC: Drones of Doom)

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. (COMIC: 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. (COMIC: Enemy Mine)

The Cybermen threaten to kill. (COMIC: Time of the Cybermen)

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. (COMIC: Time of the Cybermen)

Other information

Behind the scenes

  • The non-narrative based work Doctor Who: The Visual Dictionary revealed much more:
The Cybermen are powered by thermionic generators, their brain was kept in a patented protein solution at 6 °C, and their armor made from a very, very durable manganese-steel alloy.

The points of weakness on Cybermen were the ankle joint and the exposed coolant lines on the inner (right) side of their left knee.

Their fingertips incorporate touch sensitive pads and their voice-box was located in their metal mouth (that doesn't open obviously, only lights up blue when they talk).

The coolant lines were Kevlar-lined and were bullet-resistant.

The particle-beam gun technology is capable of being handheld with an outsized grip (because Cybermen are so big) or being incorporated into their forearm. The particle beam guns were top of the arms market and were constructed in John Lumic's Blue Skies laboratory.

  • According to non-narrative information in DWBIT 17 and the DWBIT Daleks vs Cybermen Special, during the Battle of Canary Wharf, 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.
  • In another Dalek Wars page in Battles in Time, a single Cyberman ended at the bottom of the oceans of Philjax III during the Daleks' battle with the Squeeth.
  • In a website launched by the BBC for the promotion of season 2, International Electromatics, it is indicated that Cybus Industries derived their Cyberman technology from the deactivated bodies of alien Cybermen found at the North Pole.
  • In the non-canon SP: The Monsters Are Coming!, 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.
  • Neil Gaiman has stated[1] that he has the theory that at one point, the Cybus Cybermen encountered the Mondasian/Telosian Cybermen and the two races merged into one, explaining why, in Series 5 and Series 6, the Cybermen share characteristics of both the originals and the Cybus versions. It may also explain why the Cybus Cybermen appear in the ice tombs on Telos (in The Mazes of Time) and why the Cybermen have connections with Mondas Cybermen in the past but have the Cybus design (in Assimilation²). This merged Cyber race is implied in Gaiman's Series 7 episode Nightmare in Silver where the Cyber-suits of two Cybus Cybermen are seen and said to have been found after the Cyber-Wars (a Mondasian Cyberman conflict) along with the suit of a Cyberman of the Cyber Legions. However, no explicit confirmation of this theory is given in the episode.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ EXCLUSIVE – Neil Gaiman Talks Doctor Who And Cybermen. SFX (May 7th, 2013). Retrieved on January 5th, 2014.
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