Cyberman: Difference between revisions

==== Parallel evolution ====

{{Main|Genesis of the Cybermen}}

Being the product of [[parallel evolution]], the Cybermen were "inevitable", "always get[ting] started" wherever there were people. As such, there was no single [[homeworld]] for the Cyber-race, since Cybermen arose on various worlds from their populations at various points in time. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')

==== Rekindling of the Cyber-Empire ====

{{Main|Restoration of the Cyber-Empire}}

In the far future, after the [[Cyber-Wars]], [[Ashad]], also known as the Lone Cyberman, [[Restoration of the Cyber-Empire|set out to resurrect]] the [[Cyber-Empire]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Ascension of the Cybermen (TV story)|Ascension of the Cybermen]]'') by seeking out the [[Cyberium]] which had been sent back through time and space by [[the Alliance (Fugitive of the Judoon)|the Alliance]], a resistance unit during the war. ([[TV]]: ''[[Fugitive of the Judoon (TV story)|Fugitive of the Judoon]]'', ''[[The Timeless Children (TV story)|The Timeless Children]]'') After the Cyber-Wars, which had ended with the [[Fall of the Cyber-Empire]], the Cybermen were nearly wiped out, though the same was true for humanity. ([[TV]]: ''[[Ascension of the Cybermen (TV story)|Ascension of the Cybermen]]'')

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]]'')

In an [[Alternate timeline (Time & Time Again)|alternate timeline]] created by the [[Black Guardian]] where the [[First Doctor]] never left [[Gallifrey]], the [[CyberNeomorph]]s were one of the many species which fought over control of [[Earth]]. This timeline was erased when the [[Seventh Doctor]] retrieved the [[Key to Time]] on the instruction of the [[White Guardian]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Time & Time Again (comic story)|Time & Time Again]]'')

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

{{Main|Alternate timeline (Supremacy of the Cybermen)}}

In an [[Alternate timeline (Supremacy of the Cybermen)|alternate timeline]], {{Sumpter}}, following his exile from [[Gallifrey]] by the [[Twelfth Doctor]], discovered the Cyberman [[asteroid]] [[colony]] at the [[end of the universe]]. Proposing an [[alliance]] with the Cybermen, Rassilon was [[Cyber-conversion|converted]] into the [[Cyber-President]] and forged the [[Gallifreyan Cyber Fleet]], leading a full-scale invasion of Gallifrey and, by extension, all of [[time]] and [[space]]. In particular, Rassilon and the Cybermen managed to force the first twelve of [[the Doctor]]'s [[incarnation]]s into impossible situations with the Cybermen so that they could not intervene together. The Cybermen ultimately betrayed Rassilon and harvested his [[regeneration energy]], as they did to nearly all the [[Time Lord]]s on Gallifrey. However, the Twelfth Doctor and Rassilon managed to stop the [[Cyber-Controller (Supremacy of the Cybermen)|Cyber-Controller]] from regenerating [[N-Space]] into the "[[Age of the Cyberiad]]" by using the harvested regenerative energy to erase the events of this timeline via the [[Eye of Harmony]] and the [[Cyberiad]]'s presence across all of [[history]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'')

{{Main|Cybusman}}

[[File:Rise-of-the-cybermen.jpg|thumb|[[Cybusman|Cybus Cybermen]] shortly after their creation. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'')|left]]

Despite the Preachers' [[Preacher-Cyberman War|best efforts]], these Cybermen survived in numbers and kept finding ways to cross over into [[the Doctor's universe]], including at the [[Battle of Canary Wharf]] where they fought the [[Dalek]]s, ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'', ''[[The Next Doctor (TV story)|The Next Doctor]]'', etc.) eventually coming into contact with the "native" Cybermen. ([[TV]]: ''[[Nightmare in Silver (TV story)|Nightmare in Silver]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Whoniverse (novel)|The Whoniverse]]'')

{{Main|Cyber-Mainframe}}

[[File:Cyberman (Code Silver).jpeg|left|thumb|A Cyberman of the Cyber-Mainframe. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Code Silver (audio story)|Code Silver]]'')]]

Sometime prior to their attempted invasion of N-Space, these Cybermen managed to conquer a [[parallel Earth (Telepresence)|parallel Earth]] resembling that of the Earth of N-Space during the early [[21st century]], their invasion reducing the planet to a [[desert]]-like landscape littered with the ruins of various [[town]]s and [[city|cities]]. Notably, the Cybermen did not convert the humans of this Earth, instead installing them into [[Cyber-pod|pods]] designed to harvest the [[electricity]] generated by their bodies and transmit it through the Cyber-Mainframe to assist in powering every Cyberman and piece of [[Cyber-Technology]] connected to the Mainframe. The Cybermen stored these humans in gigantic underground [[cavern]]s underneath the ruins of the old towns and cities, such as underneath this Earth's [[Piccadilly Circus]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Telepresence (audio story)|Telepresence]]'', ''[[Code Silver (audio story)|Code Silver]]'')

In one 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.

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]]'')

=== Related species ===