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 {{Infobox Species
 |image        = Line of patients (WEAT).jpg
-|aka          =
+|type         = Partially [[Cyber-conversion|cyber-converted]] [[Mondasian]]s
-|type         = Cybernetically Augmented Mondasians
+|affiliation   = [[Operation Exodus]], {{Simm}}
-|affiliation  = [[Operation Exodus]]
+|origin       = [[Colony ship (World Enough and Time)|Mondasian colony ship]]: [[Floor 1056]]
-|origin       = [[Mondas]]ian [[Colony ship (World Enough and Time)|colony ship]]: [[Floor 1056]]
+|first         = World Enough and Time (TV story)
-|first        =
+|appearances  = {{Il|[[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]''|[[PROSE]]: ''[[Alit in Underland (short story)|Alit in Underland]]''}}
-|only         = World Enough and Time (TV story)
+|individuals  = [[Topknot]]
-|appearances  = ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]''
-|individuals  =
 |bts          = Pearl Loses Her Patients - Doctor Who Series 10
-}}
+|aka          = Special Patients, Scarecrows, [[Cyberman|Cybermen]]
-A group of '''patients''', which occupied [[Floor 1056]] of a [[Mondas]]ian [[Colony ship (World Enough and Time)|colony ship]], were partially-converted [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]] awaiting [[Cyber-conversion|full conversion]].
+}}{{ImageLink|Patient}}
+The '''patients''', also referred to as the "'''special patients'''" by {{Simm}}, ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') or simply as '''[[Cyberman|Cybermen]]''', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alit in Underland (short story)|Alit in Underland]]'') were an early [[evolution]] of [[CyberMondan]]s created on [[Floor 1056]] of a [[Colony ship (World Enough and Time)|Mondasian colony ship]]. Their development was a key stage of [[Operation Exodus]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') The [[Mondasian]] children of [[Floor 0507]] referred to the patients as the "'''scarecrows'''", as the patrol that attempted an invasion of said floor were used as [[scarecrow]]s by the floor's residents after their near-[[Night|nightly]] attacks. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
-== Physical attributes ==
+== Appearance ==
-The patients were the result of a large-scale surgical experiment to cybernetically augment Humans of Mondasian origin. The goal of the program was to allow the residents of Floor 1056 to "Survive in a world not made for flesh"; the increasingly hostile industrial landscape caused by thousands of years of human occupation. They were made in the [[Conversion Theatre|conversion theatre]] of the hospital by the [[Surgeon (World Enough and Time)|surgeon]].
+[[File:Patient on Floor 0000.jpeg|left|thumb|A patient travels to [[Floor 0000]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'')]]
+The patients were partially [[Cyber-conversion|cyber-converted]] [[Mondasian]]s, although their appearance drastically differed from more traditional [[Cyberman|Cybermen]]. As their name implied, the patients resembled [[hospital]] [[patient]]s, wearing white chest cloths with a slim [[chest unit]] ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') featuring a [[computer]]ised display unit underneath, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alit in Underland (short story)|Alit in Underland]]'') connected by tubing. The patients also possessed caucasian [[glove]]s that closely resembled [[human]] [[hand]]s, and their [[head]]s were completely enveloped in [[plastic]] [[bag]]s that were tied in a large knot at the top of the head. Tubing also fed into the patients' [[nose]]s from behind their [[neck]]s, which also sported a plastic, [[silver]] [[band]].
-For the most part, the Patients were catatonic. When not undertaking surgical alterations they were relegated to wheelchairs in the out-patients ward, or even sometimes left to rest in the conversion theatre itself. The patients generally wore an off-blue surgical robe that fastened on the patient's right-hand side, under which could be discerned the outline of a mechanical respirator.
+The early patients lacked any sort of distinct facial features, but as they evolved further, the patients' faces and heads began to more closely resemble those of [[CyberMondan]]s; by the time [[Bill Potts]] left the [[Hospital (World Enough and Time)|hospital]] of [[Floor 1056]] for the first time, one patient possessed a [[mouth slit]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') Additionally, shortly before the people of Floor 1056 were mass-converted, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') at least two patients left in the hospital's [[Conversion Theatre]] possessed a face with completely [[black]] oval-shaped [[eye-pod]]s, and a black oval-shaped hole for a [[mouth]]. One of the patients who restrained Bill for her cyber-conversion was similar in design, but also possessed a grooved, silver helmet with a band around its edge, resembling part of a CyberMondan's [[Cyber-helmet]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'')
-The Patient's heads were entirely covered in a canvas like white surgical material, knotted at the top. The face was otherwise featureless save for a nasal cannula administering purified oxygen. The bag also rendered the patients blind, as it covered the eyes with no initial provision for sight holes. This did not, however, make them unable to guide themselves, as several were seen able to move purposefully.
+== Abilities==
+Most of the early patients made use of a [[Liquid|fluid]] canister, which contained a [[blue]]-and-[[white]]-coloured medical fluid in a clear container with a metal edge at the top of the canister. These patients were constantly connected to the canister via a small tube from the canister to the patients' right [[Cyber-arm|arms]], and the canister's [[wheel]]s allowed the patients to move around even with a canister attached to them. Notably, the patients' canisters additionally featured their primary means of [[communication]]: a [[voice synthesiser]]. The patients used a [[keyboard]] on the canister to input and vocalise basic [[word]]s or phrases in a robotic voice, although a small metal [[dial]] on top of the fluid containers allowed for their [[voice]]s to be manually muted. Later models of patients distinctly lacked these fluid canisters, and did not require keyboards to speak. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') However, the patients who attacked [[Floor 0507]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') such as "[[Topknot]]", ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alit in Underland (short story)|Alit in Underland]]'') did not use these canisters, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') despite having left for said floor long before [[Bill Potts]] arrived on [[Floor 1056]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'')
-The extremities, or at the very least what was exposed from the surgical gowns, were encased in a somewhat loose fitting surgical rubber, designed to aesthetically resemble Caucasian skin tone.
+The patients were capable of moving individually ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alit in Underland (short story)|Alit in Underland]]'') and in unison as a group. Although most patients could only [[Walking|walk]] at a slow pace, two further evolved patients were capable of swiftly rising from a seated position and restraining an [[adult]] [[human]] female, which also demonstrated the patients' ability to trick people into believing them to be merely [[sleep]]ing. The patients possessed notable physical strength; [[Jorj]] claimed to the [[Twelfth Doctor]], [[Nardole]] and [[Missy]] that they were "too strong" for him, a non-human, to fight, and that they could "snap [a Mondasian] in half". ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'')
-Each patient was equipped with an electronic voice synthesizer. Initially, this was connected to the patients' catheter canisters, though in the years that followed this was eventually integrated into the patients' bodies. The need for them was simple; through the course of the operations to convert them, the patients vocal cords were either severely damaged or removed entirely, rendering them mute. Through the use of the synthesizers, the patients could communicate crude commands, or often communicate their own physical discomfort. One Patient initially discovered by Bill had been attempting to solicit aid from the Hospital through repeatedly communicating one word; "pain". Another patient did the same, instead, pleading with the hospital to euthanize them. The [[Nurse (World Enough and Time)|nurse]] habitually muted the patients' synthesizers so they could more readily ignore their condition.
+Additionally, the patient nicknamed "[[Topknot]]" by Missy demonstrated a degree of [[Scanner|scanning]] capabilities and was able to operate a service [[lift]] from the [[superstructure walkway]]s underneath Floor 0507 to [[Floor 0508]]. Notably, {{Simm}} incorporated numerous features into the patients designed to make them serve him to a degree; the top of the patients' [[chest unit]]s contained a [[voice box]] which could be altered by the Master to recognise his vocal commands by receiving the vocal authorisation code [[Master Alpha Seven]]. In addition, the [[root command]] of the patients' operating system, located behind the back of their chest cloths, could be altered by the Master, as he did to Topknot so that it stopped registering [[lifeform]]s with two [[heart]]s as human. Following the Master's modifications, Topknot was able to use its scanning abilities to locate technology on Floor 0508 that the Master could use to hack into the patients he set up on [[Floor 1056]]. Furthermore, the Master installed a failsafe system into the patients that would force them to return to the [[Hospital (World Enough and Time)|hospital]] on Floor 1056 if they wandered too far from it, or else the patients would shut down. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alit in Underland (short story)|Alit in Underland]]'')
-They appeared to share a consciousness, as a group moved in unison when they sensed Bill try to leave the hospital. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'').  The group that was sent to [[Floor 0507]] were revealed to have been somewhat repelled by the residents there, being shot by night then strung up on wooden crosses when disabled during the day. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
+==Behaviour==
+[[File:Patient Using Keyboard (World Enough and Time).jpeg|thumb|A patient [[Communication|communicates]] its [[pain]] via its [[keyboard]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'')]]
+A notable [[behaviour]]al characteristic of the patients was their constant cries of [[pain]], up to and including begging for [[death]] as, unlike further-[[Evolution|evolved]] models, these [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] lacked [[emotional inhibitor]]s. The [[Nurse (World Enough and Time)|nurse]] of [[Floor 1056]]'s [[Hospital (World Enough and Time)|hospital]] would silence the patients by muting their [[voice synthesiser]]s, as, prior to their evolution into [[CyberMondan|Mondasian Cybermen]], there was no cure for the patients' suffering; as a result, some patients repeatedly asked to be [[Euthanasia|euthanised]]. However, despite their pain, the patients were still perfectly capable of [[Speech|speaking]] clear [[word]]s and phrases, although these were often stagnated in delivery and toned awkwardly. At least one patient displayed the ability to communicate without a voice synthesiser by howling.
-While the extent of their physical capabilities wasn't explored in detail, they could typically only move at a slow walk but were strong enough to restrain people should the need arise. [[Jorj]] also stated they were too strong for him to fight off and that they could snap people in half. However, Razor was able to knock one out with a blow to the back of the head. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') Unlike subsequent Cyberman models, they could be killed or at least incapacitated by [[bullet]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
+Following their [[Cyber-conversion|conversions]], the patients were often simply left to sit in [[wheelchair]]s in the hospital's wards, appearing to [[sleep]] in some manner, despite their pain. However, the patients would respond in unison to somebody attempting to leave the hospital that was not supposed to. Additionally, the patients were capable of [[walking]] despite their lack of [[vision]], although this also meant that said walking speed was slow, usually no better than a stumblimg limp. Some patients would raise their [[Cyber-arm|arms]] forwards to guide them whilst walking. The patients were occasionally used to escort people from the [[city]] on Floor 1056 to the hospital for cyber-conversion, and were sometimes even sent in the [[inertia lift]]s to the higher floors of the [[Colony ship (World Enough and Time)|Mondasian colony ship]] to forcefully capture any remaining [[Mondasian]]s elsewhere on the ship for conversion. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'')
+Reflecting their nature as a [[Cyber-subspecies|subspecies]] of Cyberman, the patients were highly resilient when tasked with completing a mission; for example, the patients sent to capture the Mondasians of [[Floor 0507]] for conversion continued to repeatedly resume their mission, despite being constantly shot down and restrained by the residents of said floor. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') The patients also obeyed the orders of their leaders without [[question]], even if doing so would lead to their [[death]]s.
+Possibly as a result of the constant extreme pain they experienced following their cyber-conversions, the patients appeared resilient to attacks and [[Injury|injuries]] that most [[human]]s were not. For example, "[[Topknot]]" sustained multiple blows from [[Missy]]'s [[sonic umbrella]], but continued to attack her anyway. Later, Topknot also dislocated its [[ankle]], yet appeared mostly unfazed by such an injury. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alit in Underland (short story)|Alit in Underland]]'')
+==Weaknesses ==
+As highly primitive [[Cyberman|Cybermen]], the patients possessed weaknesses not exhibited by further-[[Evolution|evolved]] Cybermen. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'', ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') The [[Firearm|rifles]] used by the [[Mondasian]] [[farm]]ers on [[Floor 0507]] were strong enough to incapacitate patients for at least several [[hour]]s, and the [[chain]]s that bound the patients to their [[crucifix]]es were strong enough to restrain them for at least a few hours, even after awaking. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') {{Simm|c}} was also able to at least briefly render a patient unconscious with a strong blow to the back of its [[head]], ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') and the patient nicknamed "[[Topknot]]" was successfully parried by [[Missy]]'s [[sonic umbrella]], preventing it from attacking herself, the Master and [[Alit]]. The Master was also able to use a low setting on his [[laser screwdriver]] to briefly stun Topknot by burning a small incision into its [[chest unit]]. Additionally, Topknot disfigured one of its [[ankle]]s after falling off of a cultivator machine on [[Floor 0508]]. The gunfire from the [[Cyber-gun]]s of [[CyberNeomorph]]s were also capable of killing patients, as they did to Topknot on Floor 0508. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alit in Underland (short story)|Alit in Underland]]'')
+== History ==
+===Creation===
+After a thousand [[year]]s of occupation by hundreds of [[Mondasian]]s, [[Floor 1056]] of the [[Colony ship (World Enough and Time)|Mondasian colony ship]] had significantly deteriorated, to the point that it was no longer sustainable for organic life. As a result, the staff of the floor's [[Hospital (World Enough and Time)|hospital]] began [[Operation Exodus]], a scheme to transform the people of Floor 1056 into [[Cyberman|Cybermen]], in order to survive both the conditions of the [[city]] and the exodus to [[Floor 0000]] to take command of the colony ship. The patients were the early results of Operation Exodus, although the sheer agony they experienced following their [[cyber-conversion]]s meant that they could not function as a permanent "cure" to the harsh conditions of Floor 1056. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') {{Simm|c}}, masquerading as "Razor" after being overthrown as ruler of Floor 1056, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') secretly incorporated a number of features into the patients so that, upon their successful [[evolution]] into fully-converted Cybermen, he could take control of them and use the Cybermen to conquer the [[galaxy]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alit in Underland (short story)|Alit in Underland]]'')
+===Attacks on the higher floors===
+In addition to escorting people from the city of Floor 1056 to the hospital, squads of patients were sent to the higher floors of the colony ship via its [[inertia lift]]s, in order to capture any surviving Mondasians elsewhere on the ship for conversion as well. One squad of patients was sent to Floor 0000 to capture its remaining crew members, ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') including the [[Captain (Jorj)|Captain]] and chief [[engineer]] [[Franq]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Jorj (short story)|Jorj]]'') although the patients left the ship's [[Caretaker|janitor]], [[Jorj]], behind, due to him being non-human. Another squad of patients was sent to capture the residents of [[Floor 0507]], ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') but never returned to Floor 1056, as the [[adult]] [[Farm|farmers]] of Floor 0507 shot them down at [[night]], before [[chain]]ing the patients to [[crucifix]]es during the [[day]]. However, the patients woke up during the day, and eventually broke free again at night, leading to a near-daily cycle of the farmers shooting and imprisoning the patients at night, and the patients breaking free the following night. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
+===Evolving into CyberMondans===
+Following the arrival of the [[The Doctor's TARDIS|Twelfth Doctor's TARDIS]] on Floor 0000, a squad of five patients with a surgical table were sent from Floor 1056 to Floor 0000 to capture [[Bill Potts]], the only human amongst herself, Missy, [[Nardole]] and the [[Twelfth Doctor]], after Jorj fatally wounded her. On Floor 1056, the [[Surgeon (World Enough and Time)|surgeon]] of the hospital partially converted Bill into a patient, and installed a [[chest unit]] where her organic [[heart]] once was. Bill eventually woke up a few [[month]]s later, and found a patient calling out in [[pain]] within a hospital ward; although she was nearly caught by the [[Nurse (World Enough and Time)|nurse]], who muted the patient, Bill followed Razor into his living area. Over the next ten years, Razor explained to Bill the purpose of the patients and Operation Exodus, ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') while hiding his secret intentions to control the Cybermen that the patients would evolve into. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Alit in Underland (short story)|Alit in Underland]]'') During these years, the patients evolved further, no longer depending on medical fluid canisters to [[Voice|speak]], and began to develop into [[CyberMondan]]s.
+[[File:Bill and Evolved Patients (World Enough and Time).jpeg|left|thumb|A pair of [[Evolution|evolved]] patients restrain [[Bill Potts]] for her full [[cyber-conversion]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'')]]
+When Bill and Razor broke into the [[Conversion Theatre]] one night to find the lift entrances on Floor 1056, they discovered numerous patients, some of whom had evolved to further resemble Mondasian Cybermen, sleeping in [[wheelchair]]s; a pair of further developed patients then restrained Bill as the surgeon and the nurse revealed themselves. Realising that Razor had led her into a trap, Bill was then fully converted into a Mondasian Cyberman by the surgeon. Two [[hour]]s later, the Twelfth Doctor and Nardole accessed the Conversion Theatre after travelling in a lift with Missy from Floor 0000, and discovered the patients and the cyber-converted Bill. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'')
+By the time the Doctor, Bill, Nardole, Missy and the Master fled Floor 1056 to Floor 0507 in [[SL-16|a shuttlecraft]], cyber-conversion factories were being built across Floor 1056, and the Mondasians and patients were eventually processed into full CyberMondans. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
+=== Remaining patients ===
+====Topknot====
+One night on Floor 0507, sometime after the shuttlecraft's crash-landing, a patient - whom Missy would later nickname "[[Topknot]]" - broke free of its crucifix and attempted to capture [[Alit]] by the crashed shuttlecraft, who had followed the Master and Missy out of the floor's [[farmhouse]]. Topknot slowly followed Alit, Missy and the Master into the [[superstructure walkway]]s underneath Floor 0507, until it eventually caught up to the trio and attacked them; however, Missy parried Topknot with her [[sonic umbrella]], while the Master burnt a hole into Topknot's [[chest unit]] with his [[laser screwdriver]] and disabled it. The Master then altered Topknot's [[voice box]] to register his [[voice]] commands, as well as the patient's [[root command]] to stop it registering lifeforms with two hearts as human.
+From here, Topknot joined the Master, Missy and Alit on their journey to [[Floor 0508]]. At one point, when getting off a farming machine that the group was riding on, Topknot fell off and dislocated its [[ankle]]. When the group was confronted by a patrol of [[CyberNeomorph]]s inside a large storage network, Topknot was undetected by the other Cybermen. Later, after escaping the Cybermen, Missy and Alit found Topknot, and Missy ordered the patient to remain on guard while she and Alit rode a lift to the top of the floor's [[weather]] control facility, and, after forcibly generating a [[rain]]storm, Missy sacrificed Topknot by using it as a distraction for the Cybermen, who battled, and eventually, killed Topknot; this act bought Missy enough time to rescue the Master. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alit in Underland (short story)|Alit in Underland]]'')
+====The Floor 0507 expedition====
+Two [[week]]s after Nardole's shuttlecraft crashed on Floor 0507, the Doctor, Bill, Nardole, Missy, the Master and the residents of Floor 0507 fought the highly-evolved Cybermen of Floor 1056 in the [[Battle of Floor 0507]]. The battle culminated in the Doctor igniting all the remaining [[fuel]] underneath Floor 0507, destroying all the Cybermen on the floor, including the remaining patients who were still chained to their crucifixes during the battle. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
+== Behind the scenes ==
+* A "Pre-Cyber Conversion Patient" figurine was released with [[DWFC 116|issue 116]] of the ''[[Doctor Who: Figurine Collection]]''.
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-[[Category:Cybermen (Mondas)]]
+[[Category:Cyberman variants]]