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-A '''Mondasian colony ship''' was travelling from [[Mondas]] to pick up some colonists. When the ship almost traversed into a [[black hole]], the crew experienced the effects of [[time dilation]], causing [[time]] on the higher levels of the ship to slow down in comparison to the lower floors, to the point that a thousand years passed on [[Floor 1056]], the lowest floor, in the space of less than two and a half days on the [[Floor 0000|flight deck]].
+A '''[[Mondasian]] [[colony ship]]''' was travelling from [[Mondas]] to pick up some [[colonist|colonists]]. When the ship almost traversed into a [[black hole]], the crew experienced the effects of [[time dilation]], causing [[time]] on the higher levels of the ship to slow down in comparison to the lower floors, to the point that a thousand [[year|years]] passed on [[Floor 1056]], the lowest floor, in the space of less than two and a half [[day|days]] on the [[Floor 0000|flight deck]].
-When a team of engineers found themselves trapped on the bottom floor, they were forced to spent the rest of their lives down there; a thousand years after settling on Floor 1056, a huge city had formed and begun to degrade after centuries of occupation by the ship's engines. To survive, the residents evolved into [[CyberMondan|Mondasian Cybermen]], ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') and after {{Simm}} – who had crashed [[The Master's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] on Floor 1056 some years prior –  lost control of them, they spent centuries evolving themselves into more advanced forms, determined to [[Battle of Floor 0507|convert the entire ship]] and complete the final stage of their original mission: [[Operation Exodus]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
+When a team of [[engineer|engineers]] found themselves trapped on the bottom floor, they were forced to spent the rest of their lives down there; a thousand years after settling on Floor 1056, a huge [[city]] had formed and begun to degenerate after centuries of occupation by the ship's [[engine|engines]]. To survive, the residents evolved into [[CyberMondan|Mondasian Cybermen]], ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') and after {{Simm}} – who had crashed [[The Master's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] on Floor 1056 more than ten years prior –  lost control of them, the [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] spent centuries evolving themselves into more advanced forms, determined to [[Battle of Floor 0507|convert the entire ship]] and complete the final stage of their original mission: [[Operation Exodus]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
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 By the next day, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Jorj (short story)|Jorj]]'') Jorj had broadcast a [[distress call|distress signal]]; in response, [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] arrived, and {{Gomez}}, [[Bill Potts]] and [[Nardole]] emerged. Initially monitoring the trio from inside the [[TARDIS]], the [[Twelfth Doctor]] quickly emerged when Jorj arrived and threatened to shoot them, after Bill's human life-signs were detected by the hospital on Floor 1056, who, in response, sent a team of patients in the lifts to capture her. When the lifts arrived, Jorj shot Bill despite the Doctor's efforts to stop him, and the patients took her back to Floor 1056. The Doctor left a message in Bill's subconscious to "wait for [him]", and after explaining the effects of the time dilation on the ship to Jorj, proceeded to knock the janitor out before he travelled with Missy and Nardole in a lift to Floor 1056, stating that he'd never be able to fly the TARDIS properly in such close proximity to the black hole, thereby preventing him from time-travelling back to rescue Bill as soon as she arrived at the bottom floor. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') During their descent, a [[portal]] opened inside the group's lift, and [[Leon Perkins|a hand]] emerged asking for them to "grab on", before quickly disappearing. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Road To... (comic story)|The Road To...]]'')
-In the time that the Doctor, Nardole and Missy were on Floor 0000 with Jorj, Bill woke up in the hospital on Floor 1056 after months of sleeping, having been fitted with a [[chest unit]] by the surgeon to replace her destroyed organic [[heart]]. She discovered a ward full of patients before being discovered by Razor, who took her to his [[office]] and made her some [[tea]] while explaining the time dilation affecting the colony ship. As her chest unit could only function within the hospital, this meant Bill was unable to return to the Doctor on Floor 0000, instead having to wait for him, as he had instructed her to, over the course of ten [[year|years]] whilst the Doctor, Nardole and Missy spent, from their perspectives, only ten [[minute|minutes]] on Floor 0000. Bill predominantly spent these ten years working as a cleaner in the hospital, whilst also watching the Doctor very slowly progress through his conversation with Jorj on the flight deck. During her new life, Razor explained to Bill the purpose of Operation Exodus, ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') purposefully leaving out his intentions to use the resultant Cyber-race as his personal army, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Alit in Underland (short story)|Alit in Underland]]'') and, after Bill saw the Doctor, Nardole and Missy entering one of the lifts, was eventually persuaded by Bill to grant her access to the conversion theatre one night. However, it was a trap by Razor, the surgeon and the [[Nurse (World Enough and Time)|nurse]]. Against Bill's will, the surgeon converted her into the first full Mondasian Cybermen, before leaving her in a small storage room ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') and commencing the total Cyber-conversion of Floor 1056. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
+In the time that the Doctor, Nardole and Missy were on Floor 0000 with Jorj, Bill woke up in the hospital on Floor 1056 after months of sleeping, having been fitted with a [[chest unit]] by the surgeon to replace her destroyed organic [[heart]]. She discovered a ward full of patients before being discovered by Razor, who took her to his [[office]] and made her some [[tea]] while explaining the time dilation affecting the colony ship. As her chest unit could only function within the hospital, this meant Bill was unable to return to the Doctor on Floor 0000, instead having to wait for him, as he had instructed her to, over the course of ten [[year|years]] whilst the Doctor, Nardole and Missy spent, from their perspectives, only ten [[minute|minutes]] on Floor 0000. Bill predominantly spent these ten years working as a cleaner in the hospital, whilst also watching the Doctor very slowly progress through his conversation with Jorj on the flight deck. During her new life, Razor explained to Bill the purpose of Operation Exodus, ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') purposefully leaving out his intentions to use the resultant Cyber-race as his personal army, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Alit in Underland (short story)|Alit in Underland]]'') and, after Bill saw the Doctor, Nardole and Missy entering one of the lifts, was eventually persuaded by Bill to grant her access to the conversion theatre one night. However, it was a trap by Razor, the surgeon and the [[Nurse (World Enough and Time)|nurse]]. Against Bill's will, the surgeon converted her into the first full Mondasian Cyberman, before leaving her in a small storage room ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') and commencing the total Cyber-conversion of Floor 1056. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
 ==== Rise of the Mondasian Cybermen ====
+Two hours later, the Doctor, Nardole and Missy's lift reached Floor 1056, emerging in a small area behind the city hospital's conversion theatre. Leaving Missy to investigate a nearby computer terminal to identify the ship's planet of origin, the Doctor and Nardole entered the conversion theatre and found information on Operation Exodus, as well as some patients and a storage room containing a Mondasian Cyberman, which eventually identified itself as Bill. Meanwhile, Missy was confronted by Razor, who threatened to kill her after she found that the ship originated from Mondas; Razor eventually revealed himself to be Missy's immediate previous incarnation, before the duo found the Doctor, Nardole and the Cyber-converted Bill in the conversion theatre, declaring that the "exodus" was, in actuality, the [[Genesis of the Cybermen|"genesis of the Cybermen"]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') In the resulting fight, the Doctor was knocked out, but not before editing the Cybermen's definition of humanity to register life-forms with two hearts as human. Nardole quickly fled the hospital, unable to fight back against the two Masters, while Bill simply looked on, too distressed to do anything.
+With Floor 1056 transformed into the [[Cyber Foundry|Cyber-Foundries]], the Master and Missy danced together on the hospital roof, with Bill stood back afar. The Doctor soon woke, [[Handcuffs|handcuffed]] to a [[wheelchair]], and the two Masters gloated to him over his failure to save Bill or the people of the city from becoming Cybermen. Suddenly, an alarm on a broadcasting tower on the hospital sounded, as dozens of Mondasian Cybermen began attacking the hospital. Following the Doctor's revelation of his efforts to hijack the Cybermen's info-network before being knocked out, the Master and Missy began fighting off the Cybermen, but eventually freed the Doctor upon acknowledging that they couldn't fight off the entire army. Shortly after Missy knocked out the Master, the Doctor called Nardole with [[The Doctor's sonic screwdriver|his sonic screwdriver]], the latter arriving in a [[SL-16|shuttlecraft]] from the floor's loading bay; however, as the Master began climbing aboard, the Doctor was severely [[Electrocution|electrocuted]] by a Cyberman before it was destroyed by the Cyber-converted Bill. Preventing the shuttle from leaving without her or the unconscious Doctor, Bill climbed aboard and the group blasted through hundreds of floors of the colony ship before they crashed on Floor 0507. As they emerged from the shuttle, Nardole encountered [[Alit]], and said that they were going to need her help.
+Back on Floor 1056, the Cybermen, now no longer controlled by the Master, began preparations for the final assault on the colony ship, and the eventual completion of Operation Exodus. As they began to upgrade themselves over the span of hundreds of years into radically more powerful forms – in an example of [[parallel evolution]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') – they eventually installed a [[Cyber-Planner (Alit in Underland)|Cyber-Planner]] on Floor 1056 to serve as their strategist and overall leader, as well as a number of [[Cybermat|Cybermats]], and at least seven Mondasian Cybermen were evolved into [[CyberNeomorph|CyberNeomorphs]], including a [[Cyber-Leader (Alit in Underland)|Cyber-Leader]] and [[Cyber-Lieutenant (Alit in Underland)|Cyber-Lieutenant]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alit in Underland (short story)|Alit in Underland]]'')
+==== Floor 0508 ====
 On Floor 0507, there resided a group of farmers who possessed rifles. They were faced by the prototypes that had travelled to their floor from 1056. They spent the night shooting them down, then stringing them up on wooden crosses during the day. They were plagued by these "cyber scarecrows" (as one child called them) for an unknown amount of time - they had left floor 1056 for several hundred from their perspective. One day, a shuttle raft blasted through the floor, containing the Doctor, a cyber converted Bill Potts, the Master, Missy and Nardole. With the Doctor injured, Nardole rallied the town over the coming weeks to prepare for a Cyberman invasion; the prototypes were merely the advance guard. As such, the [[Battle of Floor 0507|siege of floor 0507]] began. Nardole hacked the floor to ignite certain fuel lines around the floor to fool the Cybermen their technology was a threat to the Cybermen. Floor 507 was ultimately destroyed by the Doctor along with most of the Cybermen. Nardole moved the townspeople to floor 502 where there was another solar farm and they would be safe for years until the surviving Cybermen could regroup and find them.