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Returning to Gallifrey after making an alliance with the Cybermen at the end of the universe, Rassilon created an alternate timeline as he enabled the Cybermen to embark on a campaign to seize all of time and space. To that end, the Cybermen made incursions in numerous time periods, affecting the first thirteen incarnations of the Doctor, changing history. (COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen)
History
Origin
Following his exile from Gallifrey by the Twelfth Doctor, Rassilon discovered an asteroid colony of Cybermen at the end of the universe. Inspired by the Cybermen's will to survive even at the end of N-Space, and after discussions with the Cyber-Leader, Rassilon proposed an alliance with the Cybermen, which they accepted. The Cybermen converted Rassilon into the "Cyber-President", and together, they forged the Gallifreyan Cyber Fleet and launched an invasion of the Capitol on Gallifrey. In addition, Rassilon gave the Cybermen the power to conquer all of time and space with Time Lord technology, particularly to keep the Doctor's first twelve incarnations occupied so that they could not intervene with the Cybermen's ultimate conquest.
Conquest of prehistoric Earth
On prehistoric Earth, the entire Silurian race were converted into Cyber-Silurians and tasked with re-engineering Silurian Arks into Cyber-Arks in order to seed the universe with Cyber-Technology before most of the universe could begin evolving. The Eleventh Doctor and Alice Obiefune explored one of the Cyber-Arks but were attacked by several Cyber-Silurians. Alice escaped and the Doctor was assimilated into the Cyberiad, however, the Doctor used his new Cyber-connection to disable the emotional inhibitors of the Cyber-Silurians, before the Cyberiad terminated them all and launched the full Cyber-Ark fleet. (COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen)
Further attacks on Earth
Despite these events, Earth was also attacked at other points in time. One such attack occurred in 1963, when the First Doctor was captured by three Mondasian Cybermen outside 76 Totter's Lane. (COMIC: Prologue: The First Doctor)
In 2006, the Cybermen launched a full-scale invasion of Earth. By seeding Earth's atmosphere with microscopic robots, the Cybermen converted the entire planet in only three days. The Ninth Doctor, Rose Tyler and Jack Harkness rescued Jackie Tyler from a large Cyberdog and crashed their flyer into St Paul's Cathedral. In an attempt to recover the Doctor's TARDIS, the console exploded and the TARDIS began imploding. Whilst the Doctor and Jackie escaped back to the flyer, Rose was suddenly Cyber-converted and killed Jack; when he used his sonic screwdriver on Rose, the Doctor was attacked by the Cybermen's airborne robots and was partially converted. In a final desperate attempt to stop the Cybermen repeating their invasion tactics on other worlds, the Doctor attempted to rupture the TARDIS's Eye of Harmony and destroy the Earth. However, the power was suddenly diverted to the Eye of Harmony on Gallifrey by the Cybermen invading Gallifrey at the end of the universe. The Cyber-converted Rose then broke into the TARDIS. (COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen)
The Moonbase and the Matrix
In 2070, the Second Doctor was partially converted on the Moonbase (COMIC: Prologue: The Second Doctor) by a force of CyberTelosians. (COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen) During his trial against the Valeyard on Space Station Zenobia, the Sixth Doctor and Melanie Bush discovered that the Cybermen had gained control of the Matrix. (COMIC: Prologue: The Sixth Doctor)
Erasure of the Daleks
Additionally, the Cybermen also actively chose to erase the creation of the Daleks from history (COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen) by conquering Skaro beforehand. Eventually, the Cybermen diverted the Fifth Doctor's TARDIS to Skaro, where a Nomad Cyber-Leader ordered a CyberIsomorph to kill the Doctor and Peri Brown. (COMIC: Prologue: The Fifth Doctor)
As a result of their growing dominance across time and space, in addition to the erasure of the Daleks, the Time Lords engaged the Cybermen in the Last Great Time War. (COMIC: Prologue: The War Doctor) Unlike in the original timeline, (TV: The Day of the Doctor) the War Doctor used the Moment to eradicate both the Cybermen and Gallifrey. (COMIC: Prologue: The War Doctor) However, his actions would prove to be in vain, as the Cybermen not only survived the war, but grew even stronger from it. (COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen)
Destruction of the Sontaran Empire
By the 24th century, the Cybermen (who now resembled the species created by Cybus Industries on Pete's World) had successfully annihilated several of the universe's most powerful species and planets, including the Rutans, Alpha Centauri, and nearly the entire Sontaran Empire. This was largely due to the Gallifreyan teleportation technology the Cybermen had acquired, which the Tenth Doctor believed was erased during the Last Great Time War. allowed them to instantly materialise entire armies of Cybermen onto a planet, allowing for invasions of far greater efficiency than with traditional invasion fleets.
The Tenth Doctor was captured, along with Gabby Gonzalez and Cindy Wu, from the now-empty Cosmomart by the Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet to serve as the Sontarans' Field marshal against a Cyberman invasion of Sontar, the last remaining world in the Sontaran Empire. After causing the Imperial Flagship to crash on Sontar, a huge army of Cybermen teleported above the planet's surface and commenced their attack, with the aim of gaining control of the Sontaran cloning factories to produce an infinite supply of Mondasians for conversion. In an attempt to gain an advantage, Gabby and Cindy distracted one of the attacking CyberKings by flying a stray Sontaran pod near it; when the Doctor believed that Gabby and Cindy had been killed, he crashed his own Sontaran pod into the CyberKing's control throne. After wiring himself into the CyberKing's throne, the Doctor, consumed with rage, destroyed the other two CyberKings, only to be intercepted by a Cyber-Ark, which commenced full planetary conversion of Sontar. (COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen)
Further attacks on the Doctor
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The Cybermen also attacked the Doctor's incarnations at unspecified points in time. The Third Doctor was attacked by a time distortion during a fight with the Master, causing a Cyberfication unit to appear and convert the Master into a CyberNomad. (COMIC: Prologue: The Third Doctor) The Fourth Doctor was trapped in a mansion by numerous Cybermen and a Cyber-converted K9. (COMIC: Prologue: The Fourth Doctor) The Seventh Doctorinfiltrated an Isomorph Cyber-Fleet and prepared to destroy it with nemesis mines, only to be attacked by a Cyber-converted Ace. (COMIC: Prologue: The Seventh Doctor) The Eighth Doctor and Josie Day were captured by several Cybermen onboard a spaceship after they found the Doctor's TARDIS being attacked by a swarm of Cybermats. (COMIC: Prologue: The Eighth Doctor)
The Age of the Cyberiad
At the end of the universe, the Cybermen used looms to siphon the regenerative energy from Time Lords into the Eye of Harmony. They planned to use the Eye of Harmony to shape the 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 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.
When it was over the Doctor wondered if Rassilon remembered what happened. (COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen)