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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.

Most Cybermen escaped from their home dimension and into the Doctor's, beginning their goal anew, having been locked in the factories in their world.

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

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)

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)

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

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) These Cybermen also had a small poison dart to knock out victims. The Cyberman guard at the Pandorica used this dart on Amy Pond. (TV: The Pandorica Opens (TV story)

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, 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)

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

John Lumic/Cyber Controller, due to being founder of Cybus Industries and creator of the Cybermen, led the Cybermen upon his conversion, even having a throne like chair. He was their highest authority, so much so those who were captured were brought straight to him, like the Tenth Doctor, Rose and Pete. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel)

Upon his death, a Cyber-Leader became the Cyber commander of the Cyber Army. The original had black handlebars on his headpiece though subsequent replacements did not have this. Cyber leaders had the power to call other lower ranked Cybermen for support during heavy conflicts and generally controlled all the other Cybermen. They also held talks with other species, proposing alliances and declaring war and/or surrender to them. (TV: Army of Ghosts / Doomsday)

After the Battle of Canary Wharf, a Cyber-Lord became the Cyber commander. They were a seemingly higher rank of Cyber Leader, the only noticeable difference being that their purpose was to prepare for the creation of the CyberKing and that their brain was visible through their black face plate. (TV: The Next Doctor)

The said CyberKing was the control unit of a Dreadnought ship, integrated into it, making it the CyberKing. They typically led the invasion and takeover of a planet, serving on the front lines, using their advanced weapons to lay waste to cities, and acted as a mass conversion unit. (TV: The Next Doctor)

Then there was the typical Cyberman, a standard fighting unit of the Cyber Army. They were subservient to all except those beneath them. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen et al.) Such lower ranks were the Cyberdogs the search and guard units of converted dogs (COMIC: Enemy Mine) and the Cybershades, primitive, beast-like worker unit, converted by using a brain of a dog or a cat. (TV: The Next Doctor)

There were also Cyberdrones, partially converted humans, worker units who were used for the slave labour. (COMIC: Enemy Mine)

Lisa Hallett was a partially converted human who was sustained by life support system under the Torchwood base in Cardiff. (TV: Cyberwoman)

Cyberslaves were humans converted by being infected with a nano-form. They could fire electricity from their hands and follow basic orders. If desired, a Cyber-leader could easily disable them. (GAME: Blood of the Cybermen)

The lowest rank were humans controlled at the brain which were often only kept until fulfilling their required purpose, then killed. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel, Army of Ghosts / Doomsday)

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 equipment intended to upgrade Sam and Harry into more Cybermen using the other left-over electronics from Harry's dad's job in the box. They, however, managed to knock the Cyberman into the equipment, 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 so that only the Doctor remembered it. (TV: Flesh and Stone)

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

The Tenth Doctor kept one of the Cybus logos from a Cyberman chest plate in the TARDIS within the C chest. (TV: The Unicorn and the Wasp, PROSE: The Taking of Chelsea 426) More specifically the Eleventh Doctor kept one in the TARDIS drawing room. (GAME: TARDIS)

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 armour 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, in 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 was indicated that Cybus Industries derived their Cyberman technology from the deactivated bodies of alien Cybermen found at the North Pole.
In the stage play 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 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.

External links

Cybermen at the Faction Paradox wiki

Footnotes

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

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

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-The '''Cybermen''' of [[the Doctor]]'s [[universe]] were a race of artificially modified [[Mondasian]]s who originated from the [[planet]] [[Mondas]], [[Earth]]'s [[twin planet]]. Mondas developed much more quickly than Earth, but a catastrophe left the twin-planet spiraling out of Earth's solar system.
-The Mondasians feared the death of their species, and began to replace and modify parts of their bodies with cybernetics. This would lead to the removal of their core emotions, as they fought solely for survival. The Cybermen would attack and kill anything that they saw as a threat to their species, while also converting those who could form new generation of Cybermen. While the [[Dalek]] race saw all other life-forms as inferior to their own (and thus worth killing), the Cybermen saw all other life-forms as future generations of the Cyberace (and thus worth converting).
+Most Cybermen escaped from their home dimension and into the Doctor's, beginning their goal anew, having been locked in the factories in their world.
-According to the Doctor "they always start up somewhere", which meant that the Cybermen were the mistakes of separate groups of people that wished to survive longer at the cost of their emotions. Despite differing origins, the Cybermen all had the same goals.
-Many species, including their brothers in humanity, fought against the Cybermen in the [[Cyber-Wars]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'', ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen (TV story)|Revenge of the Cybermen]]'', et. al) The Cyber-race would go as far in their mission of permanence as to send several of their minor factions into hibernation for the specific situation where they would be the last of their kind. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tomb of the Cybermen]]'') Several deceased Cyber-units were sold and converted into other less-serious creations; such as robotic butlers, museum pieces, and carnival attractions. These would often lead to situations where the Cybermen would be re-activated by accident. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Last of the Cybermen (audio story)|Last of the Cybermen]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Junk-Yard Demon (comic story)|Junkyard Demon]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Nightmare in Silver (TV story)|Nightmare in Silver]]'') Even in the final days of the universe the Cybermen still managed to find stability in the depths of space. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'')
-Some Cybermen were known to show more clear initiative and emotions than other ranks, seeking out missions not for the further surival of their species but simply out of fear or hatred towards their enemies. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Time Museum (comic story)|The Time Museum]]'', et. al) While they usually worked as a team, the Cybermen were just as likely to be used as mindless drones by others as they were to work on their own accord. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dark Water (TV story)|Dark Water]]'' / ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'', et al.) While they were known to ally themselves with other species, they would be quick to turn on those close to their operations the moment that they were no longer neccesary. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion (TV story)|The Invasion]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Assimilation² (comic story)|Assimilation²]]'', et al.)
 == Characteristics ==
-=== Variants ===
-The Cybermen were [[cyborg|cybernetically]] augmented [[humanoid]]s. Though they varied greatly in design over time, the many versions had several things in common. Nearly all were silver in colour, except for a black variety in the [[London sewers]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]'', et al.)
-Cybermen also exhibited exposed circuitry and tubing covering a rubbery or mylar-like outer skin. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'') Cybermen frequently attempted to increase their numbers by [[cyber-conversion]].
-[[File:Tenth_Planet_2_001.jpg|thumb|left|A Mondasian. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'')]]
-The [[Mondasian]]s which the [[First Doctor]] met on [[Snowcap Base]] in [[December]] [[1986]] had undergone a less radical conversion and still retained biological hands. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'')
-All other Cybermen were entirely covered by their metallic suits. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Moonbase]]'' onwards) Some partial conversions were known to exist that still held human features, among them [[Tobias Vaughn]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion]]'')
-The Cybermen on the [[Moonbase (The Moonbase)|Moonbase]] and those released by [[Eric Klieg]] on [[Telos]] were slim. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Moonbase (TV story)|The Moonbase]]'', ''[[The Tomb of the Cybermen (TV story)|The Tomb of the Cybermen]]'') The ones which infiltrated [[Briggs' freighter]] in [[2526]] had bulkier, more imposing forms. ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock]]'') Cybermen like these also existed in the [[1980s]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Silver Nemesis]]'')
-[[File:Black_Cyberman.jpg|thumb|A black Cyberman. ([[TV]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]'')]]
-Mondasian Cybermen had a quavering voice which put inflected syllables in a seemingly random, sing-song manner. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'') Those on the colony ship, like [[Bill Potts]], spoke like this as well. (TV: ''[[The Doctor Falls]]'') Later Cybermen spoke in more of a monotone, emphasising their lack of emotion. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Moonbase]]'')
-After recovering from the [[Cyber-Wars]], the Cybermen had advanced suits. Their chest units glowed blue. They were sleaker and far less bulky than previous models. No circuitry was visible outside the suit and they developed a plethora of new features: the post-Cyber War Cybermen could move at blurring speed, to the point where everything around them would seem frozen. They were far more agile than before. For instance, their head could rotate 360 degrees backwards. Cybermen could also detach body parts such as their hands or their head in order to tackle opponents more easily. They were just as strong as previous models. One Cyberman could easily swat a human aside with a swift backhand. Their armour was thick enough to deflect lasers, though an anti-cyber gun could completely disintegrate them. ([[TV]]: ''[[Nightmare in Silver (TV story)|Nightmare in Silver]]'', ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'')
 === Conversion ===
-[[Cyber-conversion]] was the process by which compatible beings were physically and mentally altered into Cybermen. This process was necessary for the Cybermen to increase in number and was carried out at many locations. ([[TV]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]'')
+Unlike the [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]] of [[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:Cyber-conversion_A.jpg|thumb|left|Cyber-conversion. ([[TV]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]'')]]
-Partial conversions occurred. In a partial conversion, the subject took on several features of the Cybermen. For example, [[Tobias Vaughn]]'s torso was immune to gunfire. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion]]'')
-A great weakness of the conversion was they could only convert species close to humans. This left [[Time Lord]]s like the Doctor safe for a time. (TV: ''[[Closing Time (TV story)|Closing Time]]'') However, the post-Cyber Wars variety no longer had this drawback, and were able to temporarily incorporate his mind to create the [[Cyber-Planner]] [[Mr Clever]]. (TV: ''[[Nightmare in Silver (TV story)|Nightmare in Silver]]'') A further upgrade to their process was being able to convert corpses, no matter how decayed or what age the victim died at. (TV: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'')
-=== Vulnerabilities ===
-[[File:Cyberleader_2.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Fifth Doctor]] uses [[Adric]]'s gold badge against the Cyber-Leader. ([[TV]]: [[Earthshock]]) ]]
-Cybermen had one major weaknesses. The most notable was the element [[gold]] which, being non-corrosive, choked their respiratory systems, a property exploited by the [[glittergun]] used during the [[Cyber-Wars]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[Earthshock]]'', ''[[Silver Nemesis]]'') ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Last of the Cybermen (audio story)|Last of the Cybermen]]'') On occasion, the mere touch of gold was toxic to them. Gold coins or gold-tipped arrows might destroy them. ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock]]'', ''[[Silver Nemesis]]'') Gold also blocked their sensors and caused the [[cybermat]]s to malfunction. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen (novelisation)|Revenge of the Cybermen]]'') During the Cyber-Wars, these Cybermen merged technology with the [[Cybermen (Pete's World)|Cybus variety]], eliminating more of their lingering organic needs, like the respiratory system; though contact with gold could still briefly scramble the operating systems. (TV: ''[[Nightmare in Silver (TV story)|Nightmare in Silver]]'')
-Other fatal weaknesses of the Cybermen included the combination of solvents known as [[Cocktail Polly]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Moonbase (TV story)|The Moonbase]]'') excessive levels of [[radiation]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Telos (audio story)|Telos]]'') and the scent of a particular type of flower. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Flower Power (comic story)|Flower Power]]'')
-Cybermen affected by the [[Cerebration Mentor]], an emotion-enhancing device, went "mad". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion]]'')
-[[File:Damaged_by_gunfire.jpg|thumb|Some Cybermen could be damaged (but not killed) by ordinary gunfire. ([[TV]]: ''[[Silver Nemesis]]'')]]
-th century guns could damage Cybermen, but did not kill them. Explosives and bazooka shells took them down easily. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion]]'', ''[[Silver Nemesis]]'') [[UNIT]] developed gold-tipped rounds to combat Cybermen. ([[TV]]: ''[[Battlefield (TV story)|Battlefield]]'') At close range, attacks with energy and laser weapons could kill Cybermen. ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock]]'')
-[[Raston Warrior Robot]]s counted Cybermen among the many beings they could kill. Although equipped only with javelins and blades, the technology of the robots allowed them to easily destroy several Cybermen. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'')
-The Cybermen the Twelfth Doctor encountered were shown to be vulnerable to their own cybernetic blasters. The Master's new laser screwdriver could also destroy one with a single strike. While the farmhands standard rifles on [[Floor 0507]] barely damaged [[Bill Potts]]' Cyber-converted self, Cybermen could be easily incinerated by blowing up the fuel lines of the colony ship triggered by Nardole's software. The Doctor's sonic screwdriver could also use said software to do likewise. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
-== Technology ==
-The Cybermen forces in [[2526]] used the Cyberlance, a powerful, hand-held cutting weapon. They also used the Cyberscope, a device that allowed Cyber commanders to view the battlefield remotely and access a computer database (containing, among other data, information on their race's encounters with [[the Doctor]]). ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock]]'')
-[[File:Cyber-distress.jpg|thumb|left|The Cyberman's distress signal is activated. ([[TV]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]'')]]
-Cybermen in [[1986]] had a built-in distress signal in their heads that could be activated manually. ([[TV]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]'')
-The chest unit of a Cyberman was vital to the operation of its life support system. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Telos (audio story)|Telos]]'')
-The head of Cybermen in [[1873]] contained a neural generation unit. When removed from the head and with a suitable power source, this unit could be adapted to transmit a signal to distances up to 200 light years. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Silver Turk (audio story)|The Silver Turk]]'')
-The Cybermen's eyes in 1873 were photocell. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Silver Turk (audio story)|The Silver Turk]]'')
-While the Cybermen were capable of [[time travel]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Reaping (audio story)|The Reaping]]'') it was still primitive, limited and even dangerous as late as the [[30th century]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Illegal Alien (novel)|Illegal Alien]]'') Should the Cybermen have mastered time travel, they would have become strong enough to crush the [[Draconian]]s, the [[Sontaran]]s, the [[Time Lord]]s and even the [[Dalek]]s. ([[WC]]: ''[[Real Time (webcast)|Real Time]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Real Time (audio story)|Real Time]]'')
-By the end of the [[Cyber-Wars]], the Cybermen had gained the ability to instantly adapt to anything that posed a threat to damaging their bodies; thus most attempts to kill them only worked once, and this instant immunity was shared by the [[Cyberiad]]. The only sure way to kill a Cyberman was to blow up the planet it was on, as there was no way a Cyberman adapt to instant destruction. (TV: ''[[Nightmare in Silver (TV story)|Nightmare in Silver]]'')
-=== Weapons (short range) ===
-[[File:Cyb_gun1.jpg|thumb|A Cyberman with a gun. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion]]'')]]
-When they attacked Earth in [[1986]], Cybermen carried large, hand-held, energy weapons. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'')
-On the [[Moon]] in [[2070]], Cybermen could produce [[Electro Attack|arcs of electricity]] from their hands to stun, disable and kill. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Moonbase]]'', ''[[Tomb of the Cybermen]]'')
-In the [[21st century]], the Cybermen who attacked [[Space Station W3]] had death rays built into their chest units. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wheel in Space]]'')
-The Cybermen encountered by [[UNIT]] in the late 20th century displayed these same built-in death ray weapons. They also carried large rifles that emitted a flame for medium range combat on [[London]]'s streets. ([[TV]]: ''[[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. ([[TV]]: ''[[Revenge 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 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]]'')
-In time, the Cybermen came to favour the hand-held [[cyber-gun]] over the built-in weapon. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion]]'' onwards)
+In times of emergency, cyber-conversion consisted of only constructing a Cyber-suit around a living being with some internal modifications. ([[TV]]: ''[[Cyberwoman]]'')
-The Cybermen used [[Cyber wrist blaster]]s on their wrists. ([[TV]]: ''[[Nightmare in Silver (TV story)|Nightmare in Silver]]'', ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'')
+=== 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 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]]'')
-[[File:The_Cybermen_attack_the_Doctor_(The_Doctor_Falls).jpg|thumb|left|The Mondasian Cybermen using their energy beam. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')]]
+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]]'')
-The Mondasian Cybermen encountered by the Eighth Doctor and the Twelfth Doctor had a powerful laser weapon built into their headframe. It emitted a thick yellow laser beam powerful enough to stun [[Destrii]], kill humans ([[COMIC]]:[[The Flood (comic story)| ''The Flood'']]), cause large explosions, nearly kill the Doctor, destroy other Mondasian Cybermen, melt through steel and incinerate a fully evolved Cyberman when combined with the Master's upgraded [[laser screwdriver]]. They could also emit an electro-magnetic pulse when grappling a target, being powerful enough to nearly force the Doctor to regenerate, leaving him unconscious and unable to walk properly despite trying to recover for several weeks. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
+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 (TV story)|Doomsday]]'') Other leader variations are [[Cyber-Lord (The Next Doctor)|Cyber-Lords]] and [[Mercy Hartigan|Cyber-Kings]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Next Doctor]]'')
-=== Weapons (other) ===
+=== Weapons and technology ===
-In the 20th century, the Cybermen invasion fleet had a [[megatron bomb]] that could destroy all life on Earth. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion]]'')
+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 (TV story)|Doomsday]]'') These Cybermen also had a small poison dart to knock out victims. The Cyberman guard at the [[Pandorica]] used this dart on [[Amy Pond]]. ([[TV]]: [[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)]]
-In [[2070]], the Cybermen had a cannon which could operate in the vacuum of [[Space]]. They used it on the surface of [[the Moon]]. Due to its mass, it required two Cybermen to operate it. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Moonbase]]'')
+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 (TV story)|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]]'', ''[[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]]'')
-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. ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock]]'', ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'')
+=== 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 (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]]'')
-[[Neurotrope X]] incapacitated humans before the Cybermen made an overt move. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Moonbase]]'')  Cybermen sometimes used [[Cybermat]]s to spread the virus to the population. ([[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen]]'')
+=== Hierarchy ===
+[[John Lumic|John Lumic/Cyber Controller]], due to being founder of [[Cybus Industries]] and creator of the Cybermen, led the Cybermen upon his conversion, even having a throne like chair. He was their highest authority, so much so those who were captured were brought straight to him, like the Tenth Doctor, Rose and Pete. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'' / ''[[The Age of Steel (TV story)|The Age of Steel]]'')
-The Cybermen were strong enough to kill with their hands without any extra weaponry or electric-based attack. ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock]]'')
+Upon his death, a [[Cyber-Leader (Pete's World)|Cyber-Leader]] became the Cyber commander of the Cyber Army. The original had black handlebars on his headpiece though subsequent replacements did not have this. Cyber leaders had the power to call other lower ranked Cybermen for support during heavy conflicts and generally controlled all the other Cybermen. They also held talks with other species, proposing alliances and declaring war and/or surrender to them. ([[TV]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts (TV story)|Army of Ghosts]]'' / ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'')
-== Culture ==
+After the [[Battle of Canary Wharf]], a [[Cyber-Lord (The Next Doctor)|Cyber-Lord]] became the Cyber commander. They were a seemingly higher rank of Cyber Leader, the only noticeable difference being that their purpose was to prepare for the creation of the CyberKing and that their brain was visible through their black face plate. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Next Doctor (TV story)|The Next Doctor]]'')
-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. ([[TV]]: ''[[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 deemed it necessary to appear in person. ([[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[Earthshock]]'', ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]'')
+The said [[CyberKing]] was the control unit of a Dreadnought ship, integrated into it, making it the CyberKing. They typically led the invasion and takeover of a planet, serving on the front lines, using their advanced weapons to lay waste to cities, and acted as a mass conversion unit. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Next Doctor (TV story)|The Next Doctor]]'')
-=== Individuality and emotion ===
+Then there was the typical Cyberman, a standard fighting unit of the Cyber Army. They were subservient to all except those beneath them. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'' et al.) Such lower ranks were the [[Cyberdog]]s the search and guard units of converted [[Dog|dogs]] ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Enemy Mine (comic story)|Enemy Mine]]'') and the [[Cybershade]]s, 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]]'')
-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. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'', et al.)
-A few Cybermen had individual names such as [[Krang]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]''), [[Kroton (Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman)|Kroton]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman (comic story)|Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman]]''), [[Bremm]] and [[Gramm]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Silver Turk (audio story)|The Silver Turk]]'')
+There were also [[Cyberdrone]]s, partially converted humans, worker units who were used for the [[Miner|slave labour]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Enemy Mine (comic story)|Enemy Mine]]'')
-[[File:Cyber-Leader7.jpg|thumb|left|A Cyber-Leader. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'')]]
+[[Lisa Hallett]] was a partially converted human who was sustained by life support system under the Torchwood base in Cardiff. ([[TV]]: ''[[Cyberwoman (TV story)|Cyberwoman]]'')
-Cybermen in positions of authority included the ground level [[Cyber-Leader (Mondas)|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. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wheel in Space]]'', ''[[The Invasion]]'') The [[Cyber-Controller]]s, who possessed enlarged craniums, had the position of highest possible authority. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tomb of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]'')
-Cybermen no longer possessed [[emotion]]s 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. ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock]]'')
+[[Cyberslave]]s were humans converted by being infected with a nano-form. They could fire electricity from their hands and follow basic orders. If desired, a Cyber-leader could easily disable them. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Blood of the Cybermen (video game)|Blood of the Cybermen]]'')
-When they reemerged after the Cyber-Wars, the Cybermen now appeared to be truly emotionless, except for [[Mr Clever]], who had a maniac personality. (TV: ''[[Nightmare in Silver (TV story)|Nightmare in Silver]]'')
+The lowest rank were [[human]]s controlled at the brain which were often only kept until fulfilling their 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]]'')
 == History ==
-=== Early history ===
+==== Creation and expansion ====
-{{Main|Creation of the Cybermen}}
+[[File:Rise-of-the-cybermen.jpg|thumb|Cybermen shortly after their creation. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]'')]]
-According to some accounts, the Cybermen originated on the planet [[Telos]]. The inhabitants of Telos sought to achieve [[immortality]] with [[cybernetics]]. They gradually replaced parts of their bodies with machinery until they reached the point where they replaced their [[brain]]s with [[computer]]s. These first Cybermen became aware of their lack of [[love]] and [[emotion]] and found a new goal: [[power]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Cybermen (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Cybermen]]'', ''[[Doctor Who and the Tomb of the Cybermen (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Tomb of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[The Revenge of the Cybermen (novelisation)|The Revenge of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet]]'') Something forced many of the Cybermen to leave Telos and take refuge on [[Mondas]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet]]'') Some Cybermen remained in the [[cyber-tomb]]s of Telos. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Tomb of the Cybermen (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Tomb 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]]'')
-However, the vast majority of sources indicate that Mondas was the birthplace of Cybermen. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'', ''[[Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)|Attack of the Cybermen]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Spare Parts (audio story)|Spare Parts]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[The World Shapers (comic story)|The World Shapers]]'', ''[[The Cybermen (comic story)|The Cybermen]]'' et al) Indeed, [[Bernice Summerfield]] once corrected [[Parasiel|one of her students]] who believed that Cybermen originated on Telos. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Crystal of Cantus (audio story)|The Crystal of Cantus]]'')
-[[File:Voord Cybermen.jpg|thumb|right|The Sixth Doctor watches the [[Voord]] evolve into the first Cybermen. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The World Shapers (comic story)|The World Shapers]]'')]]
-According to one account, the Cybermen were originally an aquatic species known as the [[Voord]]. The Voord were fused with bodysuits which telepathically linked the entire race. Through experimentation with a [[worldshaper]], they quick-evolved their bodysuits into full-fledged Cybersuits. With this change, they renamed their homeplanet [[Marinus]] to [[Mondas]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The World Shapers (comic story)|The World Shapers]]'')
-==== Prehistoric Cybermen ====
-[[File:Ape-Servant The Dead Heart.jpg|thumb|left|An [[ape-servant]] of the [[Lizard King]]s. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Dead Heart (comic story)|The Dead Heart]]'')]]
-Mirroring the events of Mondas' sister planet [[Earth]], the [[Lizard King]]s and the [[Sea Devil (Mondasian)|Sea Devils]] rose to power. They used their technology to augment Mondasian apes into [[ape-servant]]s. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Dead Heart (comic story)|The Dead Heart]]'') A Cyberman from the near future came to Mondas through a [[cosmic cloud]] and was captured by the Lizard Kings, who vivisected it and studied its technology. An ape-servant was sent through the cosmic cloud to investigate and it was captured by the Cybermen of the future. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Prodigal Returns (comic story)|The Prodigal Returns]]'')
-After the [[Constructors of Destiny]] manipulated [[The Moon|a rogue planet]] into messing with Mondas' orbit, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'') sending it on a journey to "the end of space", ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'') the empire of the Lizard Kings went into decline. With the Lizard Kings hibernating in the [[Dark Continent]], the ape-servants evolved into early Cybermen. They used leftover [[cyberfication machine]]ry to convert regular [[Mondasian]]s into Cybermen. The Cybermen tamed the [[dinosaur]]s, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Dead Heart (comic story)|The Dead Heart]]'') created [[airship]]s, and established [[city|cities]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Flesh Unbound (comic story)|The Flesh Unbound]]'')
-An ape-servant from the past crashed on Mondas after coming through a [[cosmic cloud]]. It was captured and studied by the Cybermen, who sent a scout through the cloud to investigate if there were more apes there that could be converted into Cybermen. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Prodigal Returns (comic story)|The Prodigal Returns]]'')
+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 [[Battle of Battersea Power Station|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]]'')
-[[File:Cybermen vs Golgoth.jpg|thumb|right|A glyph depicting the final battle between the Cybermen and [[Golgoth]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Ugly Underneath (comic story)|The Ugly Underneath]]'')]]
+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]]'')
-The Cybermen came in a series of conflicts with remnants of the Lizard King empire. First, they accidentally awakened [[R'lyeh]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Flesh Unbound (comic story)|The Flesh Unbound]]'') then they were attacked by [[metamorph]]s. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Black Sky (comic story)|The Black Sky]]'') The Cybermen mounted an expedition to the [[Dark Continent]] to strike back at the Lizard Kings. Along the way there, they were attacked by [[Sea Devil (Mondasian)|Sea Devils]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Hungry Sea (comic story)|The Hungry Sea]]'') The expedition ventured deep into the Dark Continent, where they were obliterated by [[Golgoth]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Dark Flame (comic story)|The Dark Flame]]'') The Cybermen waged a forty-day war against Golgoth which ended in the utter destruction of all involved.
-For the next 2000 years, the [[Mondasian]]s developed an [[Earth]]-like society on Mondas. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Ugly Underneath (comic story)|The Ugly Underneath]]'')
+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.
-==== Beginning of the modern Cyberman ====
+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]]'')
-[[File:Spare Parts Vinyl 2017 Early Cyberman with Horse.jpg|thumb|left|An early Cyberman precursor. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Spare Parts]]'')]]
+==== The Battle of Canary Wharf ====
-About 2000 years after the end of the previous Cyberman civilisation, Mondas reached the zenith of its orbit away from Earth. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Ugly Underneath (comic story)|The Ugly Underneath]]'') By this time, [[Mondasian]] society was similar to that of [[20th century]] [[Earth]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Spare Parts (audio story)|Spare Parts]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Ugly Underneath (comic story)|The Ugly Underneath]]'') According to one account, the surface of Mondas was inhospitable, meaning that all the Mondasians lived underground. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Spare Parts (audio story)|Spare Parts]]'') However, the [[Cult of C'iva]] were able to survive on the planet's surface. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Ugly Underneath (comic story)|The Ugly Underneath]]'')
+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.
-[[File:The_Cybermen_Evoluion_DWM_Part_4.jpg|thumb|Carvings detailing the history of [[Mondas]] show the transition into Cybermen. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Dead Heart (comic story)|The Dead Heart]]'')]]
+[[File:Cybermen_in_France.jpg|thumb|left|The Cybermen in France. ([[TV]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts]]'')]]
-The Mondasians adapted by turning themselves into cyborgs. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'') The [[cyber-conversion]] program, created by the [[gestalt]] intelligence that controlled Mondas (known as the [[Central Committee of Mondas]]) succeeded, producing the first modern Cybermen. However, the first Cybermen had design flaws which gave them an very short life spans. Those flaws was corrected when the [[Fifth Doctor]] (who had arrived on Mondas with [[Nyssa]]), had an biological analysis done on him. In the scan, they discovered an extra brain lobe that only Time Lords had. This feature was then recreated in the Cybermen, rectifying those flaws. Horrified at his unwitting part in the creation of the Cybermen, the Doctor destroyed the Committee by pouring wine into their Nutrient Vats, and reprogramming a swarm of Cybermats to feed off their electricity, killing them. His efforts were, ultimately, in vain as eventually all of the [[Mondasian]]s underwent forced [[cyber-conversion]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Spare Parts (audio story)|Spare Parts]]'')
+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".
-=== Spreading into the universe ===
+[[File:Cybermen and daleks meet.jpg|thumb|The Cybermen encounter Daleks. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'')]]
-[[Zogron]] was one of the first Cybernauts to leave Mondas. During his pioneering of the instellar Cyber-empire, Zogron became stranded on [[AS4]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Junk-Yard Demon (comic story)|Junk-Yard Demon]]'')
+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 (TV story)|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]]'')
-While one group of Cybermen stayed on Mondas, another group, [[the Faction]], left Mondas and headed for [[Planet 14]]. These developed into groups without connection to one another. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Iceberg (novel)|Iceberg]]'')
+The Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler opened [[the Void]] and anything contaminated with [[void stuff]] was pulled in. This included the Cybermen. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'')
-In [[1609]], the Cybermen were invited to the [[Armageddon Convention]], but they destroyed the robot messengers who sent the invitations. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Empire of Glass (novel)|The Empire of Glass]]'')
+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]]'')
-Word of the Cybermen spread as far as the [[Wrarth Galaxy]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Star Beast (comic story)|Doctor Who and the Star Beast]]'')
+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 equipment intended to upgrade Sam and Harry into more Cybermen using the other left-over electronics from Harry's dad's job in the box. They, however, managed to knock the Cyberman into the equipment, causing the latter two to be destroyed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Going Off the Rails]]'')
-=== Return to Earth ===
+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]]'')
-Mondas developed a drive propulsion system. This was placed in the [[planet]]'s core to move the entire world. As the original Cybermen were limited in numbers and were continually being depleted, they decided to invade [[Earth]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'') Before Mondas' return to Earth, [[the Faction]] attempted a separate invasion of the planet which involved [[International Electromatics]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion (TV story)|The Invasion]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Iceberg (novel)|Iceberg]]'')
-==== Scouting missions ====
+==== Escaping the Void ====
-[[File:Cyberman Silver Turk.jpg|thumb|left|[[Gramm]], a Cybermen scout who crashed on Earth circa [[1873]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Silver Turk (audio story)|The Silver Turk]]'')]]
-[[Scout ship|Scout crafts]] were sent to find Earth's location. The first expedition to find Earth crash-landed in the mountains of [[Austria]] around [[1873]]. However, due to the extensive damage sustained during the landing, they failed to report the location of Earth to [[Cyber-Control (Mondas)|Cyber-Control]] on Mondas, which was 200 light-years away. The [[Eighth Doctor]] made sure that all [[Cyber-Technology]] from the expedition was destroyed. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Silver Turk (audio story)|The Silver Turk]]'')
-In [[1903]], after receiving a wealth of information from the future, [[Grigori Rasputin]] saw people made of metal. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Wanderer (audio story)|The Wanderer]]'')
+[[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]] so that only the Doctor remembered it. ([[TV]]: ''[[Flesh and Stone]]'')
-The [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Ace]] fought Cybermen in [[Nevada]] in [[1954]]. These Cybermen were from Mondas, trying to invade. Their attack was delayed until [[1986]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Good Soldier (comic story)|The Good Soldier]]'')
+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]]'')
-[[File:The Blue Tooth cover art.jpg|thumb|right|[[Liz Shaw]], [[Gareth Arnold]], and [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Blue Tooth (audio story)|The Blue Tooth]]'')]]
+==== Cybermen on Centuria ====
-In the early [[1970s]], [[Gareth Arnold]] uncovered a Cyberman ship that had crashed in [[Cambridge]] many years beforehand and experimented with the technology that had survived. Using Cybermats, Arnold attempted to convert all of Cambridge, but was stopped by the [[Third Doctor]]. During this incident, [[Liz Shaw]] was almost converted. The Cybermen that Arnold had created went into stasis on the ship, awaiting an activation signal. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Blue Tooth (audio story)|The Blue Tooth]]'')
+[[File:BITCS11.jpg|thumb|left|The Cybermen on Centuria. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Time of the Cybermen]]'')]]
-==== Pre-IE invasions ====
+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]]'')
-Despite the fact that the Cybermen would record their first invasion of Earth as the one involving [[International Electromatics]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Iceberg (novel)|Iceberg]]'') some accounts indicate they attacked Earth at a few earlier points.
-A Cyberman invasion of Earth was stopped by the [[First Doctor]] and [[Susan Foreman|Susan]], who used [[pop music]] to confuse the Cybermen. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dr. First (novel)|Dr. First]]'')
+[[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]]'')
-In [[1970]], the Cybermen attempted to disarm all of Earth's armies so that they could take over the planet without the death of a single Cyberman. Three Cybermen landed in the [[England|English]] countryside in [[EX 717|a rocket]] and began tunnelling with a [[Cyber-Mole]]. With the Mole, they stole the [[doomsday bomb]] from Earth's underground secret weapons store and used it to put the entire Earth at ransom. The [[Second Doctor]] and [[John and Gillian|John]] walked down the tunnel left by the Cyber-Mole and killed the Cybermen with [[ray gun]]s before they could detonate the bomb. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Cyber-Mole (comic story)|Cyber-Mole]]'')
+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]]'')
-When Earth's most brilliant scientists gathered to witness the test flight of [[the Dart]], Cybermen attempted to kidnap all of them to weaken Earth's military progress. The Second Doctor worked with the [[United States Air Force]] to destroy the Cyberman spaceships before the scientists could be taken. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Test Flight (comic story)|Test Flight]]'')
+[[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]]'')
-==== International Electromatics & Isos II ====
+== Other information ==
-In [[1969]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy]]'') [[1970]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[No Future (novel)|No Future]]'', ''[[Killing Ground (novel)|Killing Ground]]'') [[1975]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Last of the Cybermen (audio story)|Last of the Cybermen]]'') or the late [[1970s]]; ([[TV]]: ''[[The Web of Fear (TV story)|The Web of Fear]]'', ''[[The Invasion (TV story)|The Invasion]]'') [[the Faction]] put into motion what would later be recorded as the first attempted Cyberman invasion of Earth. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Iceberg (novel)|Iceberg]]'')
+* The [[Tenth Doctor]] kept one of the [[Cybus Industries|Cybus]] logos from a Cyberman chest plate in [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] within the [[C chest]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Unicorn and the Wasp]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Taking of Chelsea 426]]'') More specifically the [[Eleventh Doctor]] kept one in the [[TARDIS drawing room]]. ([[GAME]]: ''[[TARDIS (video game)|TARDIS]]'')
-Prior to coming to Earth, the Faction had invaded the planet [[Isos II]] and converted its [[humanoid]] population into Cybermen. By repurposing Isos II's [[monorail]] system, a dimensional warp was created which led to Earth. A large invasion fleet of Cybermen waited on Isos II while a smaller amount of Cybermen and a [[Cyber-Planner]] went through the warp to establish themselves on Earth and put the planet into a weakened state. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Isos Network (audio story)|The Isos Network]]'')
-[[File:Prelude Iceberg.jpg|thumb|right|[[Tobias Vaughn]], the semi-cyberconverted leader of [[International Electromatics]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Prelude Iceberg (short story)|Prelude Iceberg]]'')]]
-After several years, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Prelude Iceberg (short story)|Prelude Iceberg]]'') they 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. Vaughn installed mind control circuits in his company's appliances, paving the way for an invasion. He also grafted cybernetic arms onto several of his workers.
-Vaughn had a Cyber-Planner installed in his office. The plot was uncovered by the newly formed [[United Nations Intelligence Taskforce|UNIT]] and the [[Second Doctor]], who helped avert the invasion on the Earth and at the Cyberman base on the Moon. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion (TV story)|The Invasion]]'') The invasion fleet from Isos II came to Earth when the planet was put under cybercontrol by radio waves from IE products, but it was destroyed in a chain reaction started by [[missile]]s fired by UNIT. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion (TV story)|The Invasion]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Isos Network (audio story)|The Isos Network]]'')
-[[File:Cyberman Security Bot.jpg|thumb|left|An "incomplete cyborg specimen" found in [[Deffry Vale station]]. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Security Bot (video game)|Security Bot]]'')]]
-Bits and pieces of damaged Cybermen remained in the London sewers. [[Cyberman (The Piper)|One Cyberman]] managed to cannibalise garbage it found in the sewers to repair itself and create a considerable amount of [[Cybermat]]s. The [[Third Doctor]] and [[Jo Grant]] stopped it from infecting an entire hospital with [[cybermite]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Piper (short story)|The Piper]]'') In [[1975]], two Cyberman heads were found in the sewers; one was sent to the [[Leamington Spa Lifeboat Museum]] ([[GAME]]: ''[[Security Bot (video game)|Security Bot]]'') while the other head would eventually end up in [[Henry van Statten]]'s [[The Vault (Dalek)|Vault]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]'')
-UNIT kept at least two Cyberman heads from this invasion, one of which was stored at the [[Underbase]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Age of Ice (comic story)|The Age of Ice]]'')
-Some Cybermen survived the destruction of the invasion fleet. Many were propelled into deep space. One Cybership crashed in [[Antarctica]], where it remained frozen and hidden for two decades. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Iceberg (novel)|Iceberg]]'') Another Cybership managed to escape back to Isos II. The [[Second Doctor]], [[Jamie McCrimmon]], and [[Zoe Heriot]] followed the ship and destroyed all traces of the Cybermen on Isos II. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Isos Network (audio story)|The Isos Network]]'')
-[[Tobias Vaughn|Vaughn]] survived his apparent death by transmitting his mind into a robotic copy of himself created with cybertechnology. For many centuries, Vaughn continued to influence Earth while repairing his robotic body with parts salvaged from failed Cyberman attacks on humanity. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Original Sin (novel)|Original Sin]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Original Sin (audio story)|Original Sin]]'')
-==== Mondas destroyed ====
-The return of Mondas to Earth's [[solar system]] saw the second recorded attempted Cybermen invasion of Earth, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Iceberg (novel)|Iceberg]]'') although the [[Seventh Doctor]] believed it to be the first. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Good Soldier (comic story)|The Good Soldier]]'') This occurred in [[December]] [[1986]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Iceberg (novel)|Iceberg]]'', ''[[Mondas Passing (short story)|Mondas Passing]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Reaping (audio story)|The Reaping]]'') the [[1990s]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Power of the Daleks (novelisation)|The Power of the Daleks]]'') or [[2000]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet]]'', ''[[Doctor Who and the Tomb of the Cybermen (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Tomb of the Cybermen]]'')
-In [[1984]], two years before the return of Mondas, the [[Sixth Doctor]] left [[Cyber-Leader (The Reaping)|a damaged Cyber-Leader from the far future]] on Mondas, where it was considered faulty by its ancestors and taken to be reprocessed. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Reaping (audio story)|The Reaping]]'')
-[[File:Tenth planet.jpg|thumb|right|A Cyberman encounters the [[First Doctor]] and [[Polly Wright]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'')]]
-The [[First Doctor]] met an advance force of Mondans near [[Snowcap Base]] in [[Antarctica]]. This force was to prepare for Mondas' return to the [[Sol system]] and to drain Earth's energy for the Cybermen. Mondas absorbed too much energy and was destroyed, as were the Cybermen on Earth who depended on Mondas for power. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'')
-The Cyberships leftover from the invasion were examined and exploited by humans, allowing them to make advances in space travel, leading [[Sarah Jane Smith]] to describe the return of Mondas as "both the greatest disaster and most astonishing blessing ever to have happened to the human race." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Power of the Daleks (novelisation)|The Power of the Daleks]]'')
-=== Further attacks on humanity ===
-Following the destruction of Mondas, some Cybermen based themselves on [[Planet 14]] and made a series of attempts at invading Earth. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Killing Ground (novel)|Killing Ground]]'') Another group of Cyberman attempted to establish a homeplanet away from Earth; first on [[Lonsis]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Human Resources (audio story)|Human Resources]]'') and later on [[Telos]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tomb of the Cybermen (TV story)|The Tomb of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)|Attack of the Cybermen]]'' et al)
-==== Late 20th century ====
-The Cybermen and a group of [[Mercenary|mercenaries]] led by [[Karl (The Ultimate Adventure)|Karl]] made an alliance with the [[Dalek]]s in a gambit to sabotage a peace conference on Earth in [[1988]] and have the planet destroyed. The Cybermen and the mercenaries had a much more active role than the Daleks, as they were tasked with kidnapping an [[United States of America|American]] envoy on whom the success of the conference depended and in capturing [[the Doctor]] whom the [[Dalek Emperor]] declared a vital part of the plan. The Daleks took a more behind-the-scenes approach as they planned to use the mercenaries and Cybermen as nothing more than scapegoats who could be blamed for the destruction of Earth by the [[Galactic Council]] while the Dalek involvement remained a secret. When the [[Sixth Doctor]] revealed this information to the Cybermen and the mercenaries, they immediately turned on the Daleks. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Ultimate Adventure (audio story)|The Ultimate Adventure]]'')
-[[File:Cybermen Silver Nemesis.jpg|thumb|Cybermen on Earth. ([[TV]]: ''[[Silver Nemesis (TV story)|Silver Nemesis]]'')]]
-In [[November]] [[1988]], a scouting party was sent to Earth in search of a statue made of [[validium]] called [[Nemesis]], a [[Time Lord]] weapon. The Cybermen met [[Peinforte|Lady Peinforte]], who brought many of their number down with gold-tipped arrows. The Leader apparently forced the [[Seventh Doctor]] to surrender the Nemesis. Their force was destroyed by Nemesis as the Doctor had instructed. ([[TV]]: ''[[Silver Nemesis (TV story)|Silver Nemesis]]'') UNIT collected the body of one of the Cyberman that was killed by Lady Peinforte and stored it at the [[Underbase]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Age of Ice (comic story)|The Age of Ice]]'')
-==== 21st century ====
-===== Early 21st century =====
-In [[2000]], the Cybermen infected the Earth computers with a virus that removed all vowels. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Vrs (short story)|Vrs]]'')
-In [[2006]], the Cybermen on [[Lonsis]] tried to invade Earth via the [[portal]] in the main branch of [[Hulbert Logistics]].The Eighth Doctor and [[Lucie Miller]] destroyed them. They used a [[quantum crystalliser]] to make the Cybermen and their ship rapidly rust into dust. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Human Resources]]'')
-[[File:Iceberg cover.jpg|thumb|left|A Cyberman reaches towards [[Ruby Duvall]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Iceberg (novel)|Iceberg]]'')]]
-In [[December]] 2006, exactly 20 years after Mondas returned to Earth, Cybermen who had been in hiding in the [[South Pole]] since the International Electromatics invasion attempted to sabotage [[FLIPback|the FLIPback project]] and take over the Earth in the ensuing chaos. With the help of [[Ruby Duvall]], the [[Seventh Doctor]] prevented the Cybermen from carrying out their plan and destroyed them. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Iceberg (novel)|Iceberg]]'')
-In [[2008]], several Cybermen and a [[Cyber-Planner]] who were allergic to gold attempted to gain [[time travel]]. They converted [[Byron (The Girl Who Never Was)|Byron]], but their ship was destroyed by [[Charlotte Pollard]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Girl Who Never Was (audio story)|The Girl Who Never Was]]'')
-In the [[2010s]], a Cyberman was a resident of the hidden [[Trap Street, London|trap street]] in [[London]] which housed lost aliens on [[Earth]] under the protection of [[Ashildr|Mayor Me]]. As with the rest of the inhabitants it appeared cloaked in human form through use of the [[lurkworm]]s. It was observed by the [[Twelfth Doctor]] and [[Clara Oswald]] as it had maintenance performed on it by an [[Ood]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Face the Raven (TV story)|Face the Raven]]'')
-In [[2021]] a group of Cybermen claimed to want to become organic again. A space program used this to their advantage. However the [[Subject One|Cyberleader]] lied, in fact having tricked the agency into creating a conversion chamber. The [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Ace]] and [[Hex]] foiled this scheme. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Harvest (audio story)|The Harvest]]'')
-In the [[2030s]], the Cybermen attacked Earth in a series of incursions which would later be known as the [[Cyberbreaches]]. [[UNISYC]] was heavily involved in stopping these attacks. Some cybertechnology was salvaged by the humans and stored at the [[Toy Store]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'')
-===== Late 21st century =====
-By [[2070]], the Cybermen were known and feared in several galaxies ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Cybermen]]'') but were thought extinct by Earth. At this time the Earth's weather was controlled by the [[Gravitron]] installation in the [[Moonbase (The Moonbase)|Moonbase]], the Faction planned to use the Gravitron to disrupt Earth's weather and destroy all life on the planet. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Moonbase]]'') According to [[Terri Willis]] in [[2136]], the Cybermen practically disappeared from human space after this event. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Murder Game (novel)|The Murder Game]]'')
-[[File:Cybermen in Land of Fiction.jpg|thumb|left|Cybermen in the Land of Fiction. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Legend of the Cybermen (audio story)|Legend of the Cybermen]]'')]]
-By [[2079]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Second Chances (audio story)|Second Chances]]'') the [[Second Doctor]] was "known and recorded as an enemy of the Cybermen". In this year, [[Space Station W3]] was the site of a takeover by the Faction, but were defeated by the Second Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wheel in Space (TV story)|The Wheel in Space]]'') In a second attack on the wheel, the Cybermen were sent into the [[Land of Fiction]] by [[Zoe Heriot]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Legend of the Cybermen]]'')
-=== Vogan War ===
-{{Main|Vogan War}}
-By the [[2150s]], the [[CyberNomad]]s were involved in a war with [[Voga]]. In order to expand their numbers, the Nomads invaded the human colony [[Agora]] and used the threat of total destruction to turn the planet into a self-renewing source of physically healthy humans. For the next few decades, the Nomads returned to Agora every three years to collect 500 ready-to-convert humans. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Killing Ground (novel)|Killing Ground]]'')
-After the [[22nd century Dalek invasion]] of Earth, the Cybermen fought a series of skirmishes for territory on the outermost human colony planets. During a conflict on [[Titan 317]], some Cybermen took an entire research bunker hostage. Both these Cybermen and the hostages were slaughtered by the [[Space Marines]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Janus Conjunction (novel)|The Janus Conjunction]]'')
-In [[2176]], the Cybermen stopped an attempted rebellion on Agora. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Killing Ground (novel)|Killing Ground]]'')
-[[File:Killing Ground Cybermen.jpg|thumb|right|The [[CyberNomad]]s on [[Agora]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Killing Ground (novel)|Killing Ground]]'')]]
-The Cybermen eventually managed to destroy most of Voga, ([[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen (TV story)|Revenge of the Cybermen]]'') but not without severely weakening themselves. At this time, the Nomads had more organic components than any other previous model except the original Mondans. They were forced to use a stolen [[Selachian]] ship as their ship.
-When a small party of Cybermen came to Agora in [[2191]], they were destroyed by [[Bronze Knight|cybernetic warriors created by the Agorans using Cybertechnology]]. The main Cyber ship came to Agora to destroy the rebellion, but instead it was infiltrated by the [[Sixth Doctor]] and flooded with radiation which killed the Cybermen.
-By the end of the [[22nd century]], the Cybermen were believed to be extinct. In actuality, most of the Cybermen were hibernating on [[Telos]]. A few small, isolated groups still existed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Killing Ground (novel)|Killing Ground]]'')
-=== 23rd century - Orion War ===
-[[File:Cybermen in the TARDIS 2.jpg|thumb|left|Cybermen in the [[Eighth Doctor]]'s [[TARDIS control room]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Dreadnought (comic story)|Dreadnought]]'')]]
-In [[2246]], a lone Cybership attacked the human freighter ''[[Dreadnought (ship)|Dreadnought]]'' in deep space. They converted all of the freighter's crew save one, [[Stacy Townsend]]. When the [[Eighth Doctor]] landed on the ''Dreadnought'', the Cybermen captured him and  his TARDIS. The Cybermen attempted to gain the Doctor's knowledge of [[time travel]], but were instead ripped to pieces when he made them all magnetically repellent to each other and the ''Dreadnought''. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Dreadnought (comic story)|Dreadnought]]'')
-In the [[25th century]], the Cybermen had all but passed into legend. The [[Brotherhood of Logicians]] scoured the universe for Cybermen, believing that they would be receptive to the Brotherhood's cause. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tomb of the Cybermen (TV story)|The Tomb of the Cybermen]]'')
-[[File:DWM 508 Junkyard Deamon Sleeping Cyberman.jpg|thumb|right|The [[Cyberman (Junk-Yard Demon)|Cyberman]] collected by [[Flotsam (Junk-Yard Demon)|Flotsam]] and [[Jetsam (Junk-Yard Demon)|Jetsam]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Junk-Yard Demon (comic story)|Junk-Yard Demon]]'')]]
-[[Cyberman (Junk-Yard Demon)|A Cyberman]] was found by scrap collectors [[Flotsam (Junk-Yard Demon)|Flotsam]] and [[Jetsam (Junk-Yard Demon)|Jetsam]]. Shortly after the [[Fourth Doctor]] landed on [[Drifter|their ship]], the Cyberman reactivated, kidnapped Jetsam, and stole the TARDIS. The Cyberman used the TARDIS to visit the site of the crashed command ship of the ancient cybernaut [[Zogron]] on [[AS4]]. Before the Cyberman could force Jetsam to restore Zogron, the Doctor and Flotsam landed on AS4 and destroyed the Cyberman. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Junk-Yard Demon (comic story)|Junk-Yard Demon]]'') Flotsam and Jetsam stayed on AS4 and salvaged technology from the remains of Zogron's fleet. They discovered a troop ship full of well-preserved hibernating Cybermen.
-Flotsam and Jetsam spent the next four months reprogramming Cybermen and selling them as [[butler]]s, [[bus conductor]]s, and [[politician]]s. This attracted the attention of the Brotherhood of Logicians, who sent [[Joylove McShane]] and [[Yellow Stinker]] to AS4 to collect the remaining unreprogrammed Cybermen. The Fourth Doctor returned to AS4 and prevented the Cybermen from fully awakening and getting off-planet. The Doctor then packed the cybership with explosives and blew up the hibernating Cybermen.
-[[File:You are evil 3.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Cyber-Controller]] tries to stop [[Toberman]] from closing the [[Telos]]ian [[cyber-tomb]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tomb of the Cybermen (TV story)|The Tomb of the Cybermen]]'')]]
-With their attempt to ally with the Cybermen on AS4 a failure, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Junk-Yard Demon II (comic story)|Junkyard-Demon II]]'') the Brotherhood of Logicians financed [[Parry]]'s expedition to find the [[cyber-tomb]]s on [[Telos]]. [[Eric Klieg]] and [[Kaftan]] accompanied the expedition so that they could negotiate an alliance with the Cybermen. With the help of either the [[Second Doctor]], [[Jamie McCrimmon]], and [[Victoria Waterfield]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tomb of the Cybermen (TV story)|The Tomb of the Cybermen]]'') or [[Iris Wildthyme]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Scarlet Empress (novel)|The Scarlet Empress]]''), the expedition found and opened the cyber-tomb. After the hibernating Cybermen were reawakened, the expedition realised the true danger of the Cybermen and the tombs were quickly resealed. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tomb of the Cybermen (TV story)|The Tomb of the Cybermen]]'')
-A group of CyberNomads reopened the Telosian cyber-tombs and forged a new race, the [[CyberNeomorph]]s, with the Telosian Cybermen. The Neomorphs would rise to power in the [[26th century]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Killing Ground (novel)|Killing Ground]]'')
-=== Orion War ===
-{{main|Orion War}}
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-During the [[Orion War]] of the early [[26th century]], humans tried to salvage [[Cyber-Technology]] from derelict ships to defeat the androids. This led to both sides nearly wiped out and the temporary conquest of Earth before the Cybermen resurgence was stopped. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sword of Orion]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Cyberman (audio series)|Cyberman]]'')
-At some point during the war, Telos was shattered by an [[asteroid]] impact. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Telos (audio story)|Telos]]'')
-=== Great Cyber War ===
-[[File:Earthshock.jpg|thumb|right|Cybermen and a [[Cyber-Leader (Mondas)|Cyber-Leader]].([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock]]'')]]
-In [[2526]], several planets united to oppose the Cybermen in an event called the [[Cyber-Wars]]. A force of Cybermen tried to devastate Earth with a [[Cyberbomb]] and convert the survivors. Failing this, they hoped to crash the freighter into Earth and cause an ecological disaster. Although the effort failed, the freighter was catapulted back in time to become the "[[meteor]]" that wiped out the [[dinosaur]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'')
-[[File:Attack 3.jpg|thumb|left|The Cybermen on Telos, planning to change history. ([[TV]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]'')]]
-After a [[timeship]] landed on Telos, the Cybermen captured it and formulated a plot to save Mondas by diverting [[Halley's Comet]] to Earth to destroy it in [[1985]]. A party of Cybermen travelled back in time and established a command centre hidden in the London sewers from which they could affect the comet. ([[TV]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)|Attack of the Cybermen]]'') The [[Torchwood Institute]] collected several rumours of Cybermen in the London sewers. ([[WC]]: ''[[Monster File: Cybermen (webcast)|Monster File: Cybermen]]'')
-When the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Peri Brown]] visited London in 1985, the Cybermen captured the Doctor's TARDIS and forced him to take them back to Telos. Bringing the Doctor and Peri to Telos led to several losses for the Cybermen, including the death of the [[Cyber-Controller]] and the [[Cryon]]s gaining help in their revolution against the Cybermen. ([[TV]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)|Attack of the Cybermen]]'')
-One of the last acts of the Cybermen in this war the attempt to blow up the planet [[Voga]] to stop the production of [[glittergun]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen (novelisation)|Revenge of the Cybermen]]'') In the aftermath of their failure, the Cybermen were reduced to scattered remnants. One group relentlessly hounded the remaining fragment of Voga. ([[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen]]'')
-The war ultimately ended when the [[Tiberian spiral galaxy]] was blown up, destroying apparently all of the Cybermen. ([[TV]]: ''[[Nightmare in Silver]]'')
-=== Later history ===
-Telos was not the only site of Cyber-Tombs. There were dozens across the galaxy and more wars were started. [[Bernice Summerfield]] spoke of the Telos expedition and other tombs being discovered in the past tense. She 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. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Crystal of Cantus (audio story)|The Crystal of Cantus]]'')
-{{Ainley|c}} sent [[The Graak]] to a Cyber-Tomb populated by Cybermen to steal a [[Cybermat]]. These Cybermen were either going in- or coming out of the tombs. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Destiny of the Doctors]]'')
-[[File:Original_Cyberman_with_cyber-lider_Revengecybermen.jpg|thumb|left|Post wars Cybermen and a [[Cyber-Leader (Mondas)|Cyber-Leader]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen]]'')]]
-The remaining Cybermen from the Cyber-Wars ship finally caught up to Voga, now in orbit around [[Jupiter]]. Their attempt to destroy it would be defeated and their craft and themselves detroyed due to the involvement of the [[Fourth Doctor]], [[Sarah Jane Smith]], and [[Harry Sullivan]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen]]'')
-In the [[30th century]], a group of Cybermen with limited time travel capabilities attempted to invade the Earth in [[1940]]. They were stopped by the [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Ace]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Illegal Alien (novel)|Illegal Alien]]'')
-[[File:Doctor in Real Time.jpg|thumb|A Cyberman with the [[Sixth Doctor]]. ([[WC]]: ''[[Real Time (webcast)|Real Time]]'')]]
-By [[3286]], the Cybermen had been thought dead for centuries. A group of these Cybermen led by a [[Cyber-controller]] attempted to gain time travel. Around this time, Goddard arrived. Goddard was a super developed Cybermen,from an [[Alternate timeline|alternate]] [[1930s]] where the human race had become cyborgs indistinguishable visually from humans thanks to a Cyber virus. The Cybermen managed to reverse-engineer the virus Goddard brought but were defeated by the [[Sixth Doctor]]. ([[WC]]: ''[[Real Time (webcast)|Real Time]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Real Time (audio story)|Real Time]]'')
-==== Post-Cyber Wars upgrades ====
-The Cybermen were notable customers of the information regarding [[the Doctor]] held by the [[Inforarium]]. When the Eleventh Doctor discovered the Cybermen, as well as the [[Dalek]]s and [[Sontaran]]s, had been purchasing this information, he infiltrated the Inforarium and memory-proofed their database using methods he learned from [[Silent|the Silence]]. The information sold was thus instantly forgotten. ([[HOMEVID]]: ''[[The Inforarium (home video)|The Inforarium]]'') This led to the Cybermen losing data on the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[Nightmare in Silver (TV story)|Nightmare in Silver]]'')
-[[File:Cyberman_Nightmare.jpg|thumb|left|A Cyberman on [[Hedgewick's World of Wonders]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Nightmare in Silver (TV story)|Nightmare in Silver]]'')]]
-A thousand years after the destruction of the [[Tiberian spiral galaxy]] and the end of the Cyber-Wars, the Cybermen were thought to be extinct. Yet surviving Cybermen lay beneath the future site of [[Hedgewick's World of Wonders]]. When the theme park was built, the Cybermen began using [[Cybermite]]s to kidnap people as "spare parts". [[Angie Maitland|Angie]] and [[Artie Maitland]] arrived on Hedgewick's World with the [[Eleventh Doctor]] and their nanny, [[Clara Oswald|Clara]], and were taken by the Cybermen. With enough components to reawaken them, after being presumed extinct for a thousand years, the Cybermen awoke from their tombs.
-[[File:Cybermen Nightmare2.jpg|thumb|right|Cybermen attacking [[Natty Longshoe's Comical Castle]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Nightmare in Silver (TV story)|Nightmare in Silver]]'')]]
-The Cybermen began attacking [[Natty Longshoe's Comical Castle]] to convert the humans there, but the Doctor, in a battle for his mind with the [[Cyber-Planner]], [[Mr Clever]], had them stop in place to bring in the local resources to win the [[chess]] game. The Doctor used a [[hand pulse]] to redistribute Clever among the rest of the Cybermen. Angie and Artie were also released. Emperor [[Ludens Nimrod Kendrick Cord Longstaff XLI]] gave the verbal command to start the countdown of a planet-imploding bomb. This drew the attention of his ship, which [[transmat]]ted the Doctor and the humans on the planet while the Cybermen were left behind. The planet and the Cybermen were destroyed; however, one Cybermite survived the destruction. ([[TV]]: ''[[Nightmare in Silver]]'')
-The remains of one Cyberman were put on sale at [[the Maldovarium]] market. The [[Eleventh Doctor]] purchased the Cyberman's head and called him "[[Handles]]". ([[TV]]:'' [[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'')
-[[File:Wooden cyberman.jpg|thumb|A wooden Cyberman on [[Trenzalore]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'')]]
-The Cybermen were involved in the [[Siege of Trenzalore]]. After being summoned to [[Trenzalore]] by [[the First Question]], the Cybermen attempted to pass through the [[Papal Mainframe]]'s [[force field]]. One attempt involved a [[Wooden Cyberman]] as it was low-tech and would not trigger any alarm system but the Doctor tricked the Cyberman into destroying itself. Later, the Daleks attacked the Mainframe and learned how to break the [[force field]]. The Cybermen followed them and fought the Doctor and the [[Silent]]s until all the Cybermen, like many other species involved in the battle, were either killed or saw fit to retreat. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'')
-A [[Cyber Ship]] was chased by a [[Dalek flying saucer]]. Inside the ship, two Cybermen interrogated a Dalek [[Lumpy]] about the whereabouts of the [[Orb of Fates]] before be flattened by [[the Doctor's TARDIS]]. The [[Twelfth Doctor]] sent Lumpy on Telos to retrieve a second element of the Orb. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Doctor and the Dalek (video game)|The Doctor and the Dalek]]'')
-==== Incompatibility with humanity ====
-[[File:Bowed.jpg|left|thumb|Cybermen from the far future. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Flood (comic story)|The Flood]]'')]]
-Cybermen from the far future would use time travel to return in time to the [[2000s]] to convert Earth. They used rain that caused extreme emotions (sadness, fear, anger) to convince the humans that emotions were bad and 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 many alien races. The Cyber-conversion protocols were keyed to human or Mondasian biology; the number of available converts would drop dramatically.
-[[File:The Flood.jpg|thumb|right|A number of Cybermen crowd around a beaten [[Destrii]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Flood (comic story)|The Flood]]'')]]
-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. The Cybermen agreed, but betrayed him at the last moment (the Doctor was expecting this). Using the fragment of the Time Vortex the future Cybership used as a power source, the Doctor destroyed the Cyberfleet and dissolved them into rain. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Flood (comic story)|The Flood]]'')
-=== Final evolution ===
-By the [[101st century]], the Cybermen had nearly died out. Several centuries earlier, they had become the pacifist [[Cyberlord]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Synthespians™ (novel)|Synthespians™]]'') By the [[108th century]], the [[Cyberlord Hegemony]] was a major political power. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Crystal Bucephalus (novel)|The Crystal Bucephalus]]'')
-The Cybermen would ultimately transcend into pure energy. They would redeem the whole of sentient life and become the most peace loving-species in the whole of creation, purely thought with no physical presence. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The World Shapers (comic story)|The World Shapers]]'')
-=== Remnants of the Cybermen ===
-[[File:TARDIS Cam 1.jpg|thumb|A dead Cyberman. ([[WC]]: ''[[TARDIS Cam No.1 (webcast)|TARDIS Cam No]].1'')]]
-A Cyberman head was once seen destroyed on a desert planet that the TARDIS once visited. The Cyberman lay dead with his silver wires on his face stretched. ([[WC]]: ''[[TARDIS Cam No.1 (webcast)|TARDIS Cam No.1]]'')
-A [[Cyberman (Hell Bent)|Cyberman]] remained ensnared by the [[fibre-optic cable]]s within the [[Cloisters]] on [[Gallifrey]]. It begged for [[Clara Oswald]]'s help when she and the [[Twelfth Doctor]] walked through the Cloisters. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'')
-==== Attempting to change history ====
-[[Cyber-Leader (The Reaping)|One of the last surviving Cyber-Leaders]] found a [[TARDIS]] "abandoned on a planet ruined by fire". It tried to pilot the ship to prehistoric [[Earth]] and cyberconvert a few early ancestors of humanity, but it was unable to fully control the TARDIS. The Cyber-Leader was severely damaged by exposure to the [[Time Vortex]] and it crashed near [[Baltimore]] in late [[1982]].
-Using its access to the entire history of the cyber-race, the Cyber-Leader concocted a plan to attract the Doctor to Baltimore by killing [[Anthony Chambers]], a family friend of [[Peri Brown]], in [[September]] [[1984]]. The plan worked and the Cyber-Leader captured the [[Sixth Doctor]] and forced him to pilot the TARDIS to prehistoric Earth. The Doctor tricked the Cyber-Leader into thinking that history had been changed and instead of pilotting the ship to a new version of 1984 where Cyberman had been the dominant life form on Earth for millennia, the Doctor took the Cyber-Leader to [[Mondas]] in 1984. The Cyber-Leader was considered faulty by its ancestors and taken to be reprocessed. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Reaping (audio story)|The Reaping]]'')
-While the Cyber-Leader was destroyed with Mondas in [[1986]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Reaping (audio story)|The Reaping]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'') some of the cyber-technology it left in Baltimore was salvaged by [[Katherine Chambers]] and taken to [[Brisbane]]. She partially converted [[Nathaniel Chambers|her brother]] to extend his life. In [[2006]], [[the Forge]] manipulated Katherine to create [[System|an artificial intelligence]] by fusing the cyber-technology with other alien technology and the mind of [[Eve Morris]]. The [[Fifth Doctor]] attempted to destroy all traces of System, but a backup copy was saved ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Gathering (audio story)|The Gathering]]'') and System went into widespread use by [[2021]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Harvest (audio story)|The Harvest]]'')
-==== Supremacy over all of time and space ====
-[[File:The Cybermen invade Karn.jpg|thumb|left|The Cybermen invade [[Karn]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'')]]
-At the [[end of the universe]], a group of Cybermen living within an asteroid were found by [[Rassilon]] after he was banished from Gallifrey. Rassilon saw the potential in allying with the Cybermen and let himself be converted into a [[Cyber-Leader (Mondas)|Cyber-Leader]]. With Rassilon's assistance, the Cybermen attacked and conquered Gallifrey, and rewrote history with the Time Lords' technology to keep the Doctor occupied at Rassilon's insistence.
-In the new timeline, [[Cyber-Silurian]]s seeded the universe with [[Silurian Ark|ark ships]] containing cybertechnology. The [[Eleventh Doctor]] attempted to stop the launch of the arks, but he was captured and assimilated into the [[cyberiad]].
-After the [[CyberKing]]s captured nearly all [[Sontaran]] cloning worlds and caused the extinction of the [[Rutan Host]], the [[Tenth Doctor]], [[Gabby Gonzalez]] and [[Cindy Wu]] were taken to the [[Sontaran-Prime]] on [[Sontar]] by some of the last surviving Sontarans . The Doctor tried to protect Sontar from the CyberKings, but was unable to stop an ark from converting Sontar on a planetary scale. The Sontaran [[cloning factory|cloning factories]] were then altered by the Cybermen so that they produced an endless supply of Mondasians to convert.
-The Cybermen conquered countless more planets, including [[Alpha Centauri]], [[Karn]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'') [[Skaro]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The Fifth Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The Fifth Doctor]]'') and even invaded [[the Matrix]] during the [[Sixth Doctor]]'s trial on [[Space Station Zenobia]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The Sixth Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The Sixth Doctor]]'')
-The [[Dalek]]s were destroyed, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'') so much so that the Cybermen took their place in the [[Last Great Time War]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The War Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The War Doctor]]'') Earth was completely taken over by Cybermen in [[2006]]. After [[Rose Tyler]] was converted and [[Jack Harkness]] was killed, the [[Ninth Doctor]] tried to destroy the Cybermen. Instead, he was infected with [[nanobot]]s and cyberconverted. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'')
-[[File:Prologue The Third Doctor (comic story).jpg|thumb|right|{{Delgado|C}} is converted. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The Third Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The Third Doctor]]'')]]
-The [[First Doctor]] was captured at [[76 Totter's Lane]] in [[1963]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The First Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The First Doctor]]'') the [[Second Doctor]] was converted into a Cyber-Leader at the [[Moonbase (The Moonbase)|Moonbase]] in [[2070]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The Second Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The Second Doctor]]'') a [[time distortion]] brought a [[cyberfication machine]] into the [[Third Doctor]]'s [[laboratory]] which converted {{Delgado}}. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The Third Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The Third Doctor]]'') and the [[Fourth Doctor]] found himself surrounded by Cybermen when [[K9]] was converted. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The Fourth Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The Fourth Doctor]]'')
-[[File:Prologue The Fifth Doctor.jpg|thumb|left|Cybermen on [[Skaro]] discover the [[Fifth Doctor]] and [[Peri Brown]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The Fifth Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The Fifth Doctor]]'')]]
-The [[Fifth Doctor]] and [[Peri Brown]] were pursed by Cybermen on Skaro. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The Fifth Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The Fifth Doctor]]'', ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'') The [[Seventh Doctor]] attempted to destroy the cyber-fleet with [[nemesis mine]]s, but he was attacked by a cyberconverted [[Ace]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The Seventh Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The Seventh Doctor]]'', ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'') The [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Josie Day]] were captured by Cybermen and [[Cybermat]]s on a spaceship. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The Eighth Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The Eighth Doctor]]'')
-[[File:Supremacy Loom.jpg|thumb|right|[[Rassilon]] gloats as [[the General]]'s [[Regeneration|regenerative energy]] is harvested. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'')]]
-At the end of the universe, the Cybermen used [[loom]]s to siphon the [[Regeneration|regenerative energy]] from Time Lords into the [[Eye of Harmony]]. They planned to use the Eye of Harmony to shape formation of the next universe, making a reality perfectly suited to the cyberiad. The [[Twelfth Doctor]] came to Gallifrey and confronted Rassilon and the Cybermen. When the Doctor was forced into a loom, the [[Cyber-Controller (Supremacy of the Cybermen)|Cyber-Controller]] betrayed Rassilon and put him in a loom as well. The Doctor and Rassilon used their combined willpower to influence the energy being pumped into the Eye of Harmony and instead of regenerating the future, they regenerated the past. Everything the Cybermen had done was reversed and their supremacy over all of time and space was wiped from the memory of the universe. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'')
-=== Undated events ===
-[[File:Miniscope.jpg|thumb|left|A Cyberman inside [[Vorg (Carnival of Monsters)|Vorg]]'s [[Miniscope]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Carnival of Monsters]]'')]]
-A Cyberman was among the life-forms exhibited in [[Vorg (Carnival of Monsters)|Vorg]]'s [[Miniscope]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Carnival of Monsters (TV story)|Carnival of Monsters]]'')
-The [[Fourth Doctor]] had a [[medal]] he was given for defeating the Cybermen. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Star Beast (comic story)|Doctor Who and the Star Beast]]'')
-The [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Catherine Broome]] battled a squad of Cybermen in the [[Prenadene asteroid belt]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Companion Piece (novel)|Companion Piece]]'')
-After the [[Last Great Time War]] ended, the Cybermen fought other races for control over time. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Weapons of Past Destruction (comic story)|Weapons of Past Destruction]]'')
-==== Rassilonian Era ====
-During the [[Gallifreyan history#The Dark Time|Dark Times on Gallifrey]], the Cybermen were excluded from the games in the [[Death Zone]], because the Time Lords believed they had an unfair advantage over other victims of the games. [[Borusa]], having found the [[Game of Rassilon]], transported a squadron of Cybermen to the Death Zone to threaten and harass the [[Third Doctor]] and [[Sarah Jane Smith]]. These Cybermen were mostly destroyed by a similarly transported [[Raston Warrior Robot]]. The survivors allied with {{Ainley}}, but he betrayed and destroyed them. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'')
-The Cybermen were part of the [[Fifth Doctor|Supremo]]'s alliance in the war against [[Morbius]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Warmonger (novel)|Warmonger]]'')
-[[File:Birth of a Renegade illustration 2.jpg|thumb|right|The Cybermen with {{Ainley}}. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Birth of a Renegade (short story)|Birth of a Renegade]]'')]]
-During the Doctor's era, the Cybermen allied themselves with {{Ainley}} to become the rulers of Gallifrey. After they kidnapped [[Susan Foreman]], they were stopped by the [[Fifth Doctor]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Birth of a Renegade (short story)|Birth of a Renegade]]'')
-== Other realities ==
-The CyberHost that lived in the universe of the [[Ferutu]] wore runic symbols on their armour which repelled Ferutu [[magic]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'')
-=== Alternate timelines ===
-[[File:Fourth_Doctor_Titan_Back-up_Dark_Dimension_Cybermen.jpg|thumb|left|A group of Cybermen attempt to convert the Doctor. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The Fourth Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The Fourth Doctor]]'')]]
-In an [[Alternate timeline (Time & Time Again)|alternate timeline]] created by the [[Black Guardian]] where the [[First Doctor]] never left [[Gallifrey]], the Cybermen were one of many races which fought over control of [[Earth]]. This timeline was destroyed when the [[Seventh Doctor]] retrieved the [[Key to Time]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Time & Time Again (comic story)|Time & Time Again]]'')
-In an [[alternate timeline (The Ripple Effect)|alternate timeline]] where the [[Dalek]]s were peaceful, the Cybermen remained a dangerous force in the universe in the universe alongside the [[Sontaran]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ripple Effect (short story)|The Ripple Effect]]'')
-In a timeline in which a successful [[WOTAN]] paved the way for [[World War III]], the Cybermen successfully occupied the [[Arctic]] in their 1986 invasion. They came to agreements with the [[South Africa]]n forces fighting the [[United Kingdom|British]], supplying them with [[Cyber-Technology|technology]] and [[Cyber-gun|weapons]] that gave the former a huge advantage in the war, particularly in the South African invasion of [[Great Britain|Britain]]. The First Doctor averted this timeline by halting the world on its road to war in [[1972]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time Travellers (novel)|The Time Travellers]]'') and later averted its causes altogether by defeating WOTAN in [[1966]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Machines (TV story)|The War Machines]]'')
-[[File:Slitheen Cyberman.jpg|thumb|right|[[Raxacoricofallapatorian]] Cybermen. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Assimilation² (comic story)|Assimilation²]]'')]]
-If the [[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[Jean-Luc Picard]] did not defeat the Cybermen and [[the Borg]], the Cybermen would eventually defeat the Borg, and invade both the Doctor's universe and the [[Federation universe]], with planets invaded incluing; [[Raxacoricofallapatorius]], [[Qo'noS]], the [[Judoon]] homeworld, and finally Starfleet Academy in [[San Francisco]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Assimilation² (comic story)|Assimilation²]]'')
-=== Parallel universes ===
-In a universe created by the [[Quantum Archangel]] in which the [[Third Doctor (The Quantum Archangel)|Third Doctor]]'s [[Exile on Earth]] never ended, a Cyberman [[BattlePhalanx]] attacked Earth in [[1989]], but was stopped by the Doctor. In [[2010]], the Cybermen returned to Earth and the Doctor - sick and tired of being stuck on one planet for so long - willingly offered himself up for conversion. He led a devastating invasion of Earth.
-In another universe created by the Archangel in which the [[Sixth Doctor]] led the [[Time Lord]]s in [[the War]] against [[the Enemy]], the Cyberlords were the Time Lords' greatest ally until history was altered so that they weren't. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'')
-In the [[Federation universe]], the Cybermen invaded an Archaeological site on [[Aprilia III]] and began to convert the people onboard into Cybermen. They encountered the [[Fourth Doctor]], [[James T. Kirk|Captain James T. Kirk]], [[Spock]], [[Leonard McCoy|McCoy]] and [[Montgomery Scott|Scotty]]. The Fourth Doctor stopped them by using the gold on Kirk's [[communicator]] to clog the Cybermen's respiration. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Assimilation² (comic story)|Assimilation²]]'')
-[[File:Cybermen and Borg.jpg|thumb|left|The Cybermen with [[the Borg]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Assimilation²]]'')]]
-The Cybermen entered into an alliance with another [[cyborg|cybernetic]] species, [[the Borg]], from a [[Federation universe|Federation]] due to their identical goals of assimilating other species. On [[Stardate]] 45635.2 in [[2368]], a joint Borg/Cyberman assault force attacked the [[United Federation of Planets|Federation]] planet [[Delta IV]] and quickly overran it. This attack made the Cybermen known to the Federation. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Assimilation²]]'')
-== References ==
-An image of a Cyberman was one of the fears pulled from the Doctor's mind when he faced the Keller machine. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mind of Evil (TV story)|The Mind of Evil]]'')
-In their war with the [[Cybermen (Pete's World)|Cybermen of another universe]], the [[Cult of Skaro]] noted their resemblance to the Cybermen from the prime universe. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'')
-As noted by the [[Twelfth Doctor]] in [[propaganda]] broadcasts to an occupied [[Earth]] in the late [[2010s]], the Cybermen were among the menaces to [[human]]ity whom [[the Monks]] took credit for defeating. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lie of the Land (TV story)|The Lie of the Land]]'')
 == Behind the scenes ==
-=== Inspiration for the Cybermen ===
+* The [[Tardis:Valid sources|non-narrative]] based work ''Doctor Who: The Visual Dictionary'' revealed much more:
-The idea for the Cybermen came from [[Kit Pedler]]'s interest in new medical advances and his fears of where they might lead. Early concepts of the Cyberman design emphasised the "man" part of the name, but the proposed design would have cost too much money. Indeed, the televised version of ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'' featured much more human-like Cybermen with human hands.
-Prologues to certain [[Target Books]] novelisations reflect the earlier ideas about the Cybermen and state they perfected the science of cybernetics to gain immortality. The Cybermen were the result: immortal, but at the price of loss of their humanity.
-=== Development of the characters ===
-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 radically, making them much more [[robot]]ic in appearance. The Cybermen went through another major re-design in ''[[The Invasion]]'', yet another in ''[[Earthshock]]'', one in the comic strips in ''[[The Flood (comic story)|The Flood]]'' and one more in ''[[Nightmare in Silver]]''. 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. This can be explained by time travel, though the Cybermen only captured one time ship. ([[TV]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]'')
-=== The Brilliant Books ===
+:The Cybermen are powered by thermionic generators, their brain was kept in a patented protein solution at 6&nbsp;°C, and their armour made from a very, very durable manganese-steel alloy.
-The [[Tardis:Valid sources|non-narrative]] sources ''[[The Brilliant Book 2011]]'' and ''[[The Brilliant Book 2012]]'' had further information about Cybermen.
-* According to ''[[The Brilliant Book 2011]]'', at Blenheim Palace, the [[Fourth Doctor]] was hunting [[Cybermat]]s, suggesting Cybermen activity.
+: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 ''[[The Brilliant Book 2012]]'', at one point, [[Vastra]] and [[Jenny Flint|Jenny]] battled the Cybermen.
-=== ''Cybermen'' ===
+: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 non-narrative source ''[[Doctor Who: Cybermen]]'', by [[David Banks]], went into further detail about Cybermen and Cyberman factions. Banks created a number of terms — CyberFaction, CyberNomad, CyberTelosian, CyberMondasian, and others — to explain the differences in the Cybermen's costumes on television.  Some of the terms, in adapted forms, appear in his later novel, [[PROSE]]: ''[[Iceberg (novel)|Iceberg]]''. It is these forms — [[Mondan]] and [[the Faction]], which this wiki prefers, according to our [[T:CAN|canon policy]].
-The history Banks presented as "non-fiction" was largely ignored by other authors and so can't be considered in the writing of most of our articles.  Here are some of the points that Banks made which never made it beyond ''[[Doctor Who: Cybermen]]'':
+:The coolant lines were Kevlar-lined and were bullet-resistant.
-* The departure of the CyberFaction (that is, [[the Faction]]) from Mondas was thought to have occurred around 5000 BC in what Banks called the "First Divergence".
-* In the "Second Divergence", a group which author [[David Banks]] called "CyberNomads"<!--REF term; do not link--> diverged from the Faction. These so-called "Nomads" searched for the [[validium]] statue [[Nemesis]] and tried and failed to destroy [[Voga]].
+: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.
-* Possibly after the 21st century, the Faction abandoned their home in the Sol system and journeyed into the galaxy to colonise a suitable planet. The Cybermen which colonised Telos, possibly in 2175, split from the Faction and were called the CyberTelosians<!--REF term; do not link-->. This group united with the CyberNomads after they discovered the frozen CyberTelosians, and became CyberNeomorphs<!--REF term; do not link-->. These Cybermen planned to use Halley's Comet against Earth and were taken to the Death Zone on Gallifrey.
+* According to 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, in 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 other words, what Banks was trying to do was create terms for each of the different costumes he and his fellow performers had worn throughout the years.  In effect he was saying that the costumes in ''[[Attack of the Cybermen]]'' were of CyberNeomorphs, the ones worn in ''[[The Tomb of the Cybermen]]'' were of CyberTelosians, and so forth.
+* In a website launched by the BBC for the promotion of season 2, International Electromatics, it was indicated that Cybus Industries derived their Cyberman technology from the deactivated bodies of alien Cybermen found at the North Pole.
+* In the stage play ''[[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 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 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.
-The idea has not been widely ignored by other works.  Even he did not in his book,  ''Iceberg'', which mentioned none of his terms precisely.  It did not reference the CyberNeomorphs and CyberTelosians, and called the CyberFaction, "[[the Faction]]", and CyberMondasians, "[[Mondan]]s".
+* [[Neil Gaiman]] has stated<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141113193137/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 matters ===
-* Mondasian Cybermen are among Cyberman enemies used in the ''[[Legacy (video game)|Doctor Who: Legacy]]'' mobile game.
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