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[[File:Cybermen-series-6.jpg|thumb|The Twelfth Cyber Legion. ([[TV]]: ''[[A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)|A Good Man Goes to War]]'')]] | [[File:Cybermen-series-6.jpg|thumb|The Twelfth Cyber Legion. ([[TV]]: ''[[A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)|A Good Man Goes to War]]'')]] | ||
The Cyber Wars of the 250th Millennium began when the [[Cyber Legion]]s formed, speculated by [[Book (The Whoniverse)|one source]] to be the result of cross-pollination between the [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] of two separate [[universe]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Whoniverse (novel)|The Whoniverse]]'') The first were the Cybermen of [[N-Space]] itself, who had fought [[human]]ity on countless prior occasions, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'' et al.) including numerous previous [[Cyber-Wars]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen (TV story)|Revenge of the Cybermen]],'' ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'' et al.) The second were the Cybermen of [[Cybus Industries]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[The Age of Steel (TV story)|The Age of Steel]]'') who, after failing to conquer [[Pete's World|their universe]]'s Earth, and then the [[Earth]] of N-Space, ([[TV]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts (TV story)|Army of Ghosts]]'', ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'') were scattered across N-Space | The Cyber Wars of the 250th Millennium began when the [[Cyber Legion]]s formed, speculated by [[Book (The Whoniverse)|one source]] to be the result of cross-pollination between the [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] of two separate [[universe]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Whoniverse (novel)|The Whoniverse]]'') The first were the Cybermen of [[N-Space]] itself, who had fought [[human]]ity on countless prior occasions, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'' et al.) including numerous previous [[Cyber-Wars]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen (TV story)|Revenge of the Cybermen]],'' ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'' et al.) The second were the Cybermen of [[Cybus Industries]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[The Age of Steel (TV story)|The Age of Steel]]'') who, after failing to conquer [[Pete's World|their universe]]'s Earth, and then the [[Earth]] of N-Space, ([[TV]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts (TV story)|Army of Ghosts]]'', ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'') were scattered across N-Space ([[TV]]: ''[[Cyberwoman (TV story)|Cyberwoman]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Made of Steel (novel)|Made of Steel]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Power of the Cybermen (comic story)|The Power of the Cybermen]]'') and [[the Void]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'', ''[[The Next Doctor (TV story)|The Next Doctor]]'') although [[Cyberman (The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who)|one Cyberman]] escaped into [[Parallel universe (The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who)|another parallel universe]] on its own. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who (comic story)|The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who]]'') | ||
At least twelve Cyber Legions were active during the Cyber Wars, ([[TV]]: ''[[A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)|A Good Man Goes to War]]'') although the Cybus Cybermen also appeared to fight in the Wars as a separate faction to the Cyber Legions, as evidenced by [[Webley]] possessing two empty Cybus [[Cyber-body|Cyberman bodies]] as part of his collection based in the abandoned [[Hedgewick's World of Wonders]], a thousand [[year]]s after the Cyber Wars ended. ([[TV]]: ''[[Nightmare in Silver (TV story)|Nightmare in Silver]]'') | At least twelve Cyber Legions were active during the Cyber Wars, ([[TV]]: ''[[A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)|A Good Man Goes to War]]'') although the Cybus Cybermen also appeared to fight in the Wars as a separate faction to the Cyber Legions, as evidenced by [[Webley]] possessing two empty Cybus [[Cyber-body|Cyberman bodies]] as part of his collection based in the abandoned [[Hedgewick's World of Wonders]], a thousand [[year]]s after the Cyber Wars ended. ([[TV]]: ''[[Nightmare in Silver (TV story)|Nightmare in Silver]]'') | ||
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For a significant portion of the Cyber Wars, the Cybermen of the Cyber Legions possessed Cyber-bodies identical to the Cybus Cybermen, albeit with a blank [[circle]] imprinted on their [[chest plate]]s in place of the Cybus Industries [[logo]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)|A Good Man Goes to War]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Ghost in the Machine (short story)|Ghost in the Machine]]'') | For a significant portion of the Cyber Wars, the Cybermen of the Cyber Legions possessed Cyber-bodies identical to the Cybus Cybermen, albeit with a blank [[circle]] imprinted on their [[chest plate]]s in place of the Cybus Industries [[logo]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)|A Good Man Goes to War]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Ghost in the Machine (short story)|Ghost in the Machine]]'') | ||
Although, as the name implied, these Cyber Wars were fought during the [[250th Millennium]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Secret Lives of Monsters (short story)|The Secret Lives of Monsters]]'') evidence of activity from the Cyber Legions was present as early as the [[52nd century]], during which the [[Twelfth Cyber Legion]], which monitored a [[quadrant]] of [[space]] twenty-thousand [[light-year]]s away from [[Demons Run]], was infiltrated by the [[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[Rory Williams]], the latter of whom breached all fifteen levels of the Twelfth Cyber Legion's flagship and confronted the Legion's [[Cyber-Leader (A Good Man Goes to War)|Cyber-Leader]]. Demanding to know the location of his [[wife]], [[Amy Pond]], Rory offered the Cybermen a message from the Doctor; when the Cyber-Leader asked what the message was, the rest of the Twelfth Cyber Legion's [[Cyber-ship]]s exploded. With almost all of its [[Cyber-Army|army]] destroyed, the Cyber-Leader conceded and revealed the location of Amy to the Doctor and Rory, and the duo left to rescue her from Demons Run. ([[TV]]: ''[[A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)|A Good Man Goes to War]]'') | |||
=== Conquests of the Ninth Cyber Legion === | |||
After acquiring a fragment of the [[Eternity Clock]], the [[Ninth Cyber Legion]] [[time travel]]led to [[Earth]] in [[2012]] and conquered [[London]], where they set up a [[Cyber-factory]] and began mass-[[Cyber-conversion|converting]] the [[city]]'s [[population]]. However, the Eleventh Doctor and [[River Song]] successfully infiltrated the Cyber-factory and shut down its [[thermionic core]], escaping through a [[time corridor]] with the Legion's Eternity Clock fragment immediately before the Cyber-factory exploded. The remains of numerous Cybermen remained scattered across London as far as [[2106]], when the [[New Dalek Paradigm]] attempted to invade Earth with their own fragment of the Eternity Clock. Ultimately, following the defeat of the Paradigm's [[Dalek Emperor (The Eternity Clock)|Dalek Emperor]] by the Doctor and River Song, the Ninth Cyber Legion's invasion of London, as well as all the other conquests achieved by the [[Dalek]]s, [[Silurian]]s and [[Silent]]s with the Eternity Clock's fragments, was erased from [[history]]. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Eternity Clock (video game)|The Eternity Clock]]'') | After acquiring a fragment of the [[Eternity Clock]], the [[Ninth Cyber Legion]] [[time travel]]led to [[Earth]] in [[2012]] and conquered [[London]], where they set up a [[Cyber-factory]] and began mass-[[Cyber-conversion|converting]] the [[city]]'s [[population]]. However, the Eleventh Doctor and [[River Song]] successfully infiltrated the Cyber-factory and shut down its [[thermionic core]], escaping through a [[time corridor]] with the Legion's Eternity Clock fragment immediately before the Cyber-factory exploded. The remains of numerous Cybermen remained scattered across London as far as [[2106]], when the [[New Dalek Paradigm]] attempted to invade Earth with their own fragment of the Eternity Clock. Ultimately, following the defeat of the Paradigm's [[Dalek Emperor (The Eternity Clock)|Dalek Emperor]] by the Doctor and River Song, the Ninth Cyber Legion's invasion of London, as well as all the other conquests achieved by the [[Dalek]]s, [[Silurian]]s and [[Silent]]s with the Eternity Clock's fragments, was erased from [[history]]. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Eternity Clock (video game)|The Eternity Clock]]'') | ||
The Ninth Cyber Legion also invaded numerous other places during the Cyber Wars, and subsequently fought humanity and several other [[species]] on many occasions, including [[Judoon]], [[Slitheen]] and [[Dalek]]s. | The Ninth Cyber Legion also invaded numerous other places during the Cyber Wars, and subsequently fought humanity and several other [[species]] on many occasions, including [[Judoon]], [[Slitheen]] and [[Dalek]]s. | ||
Thousands of Cybermen of the Ninth Cyber Legion invaded [[Hȳf]] and fought the planet's [[Racnoss]] population; the Legion's [[Cyber-Controller (Ghost in the Machine)|Cyber-Controller]] used the [[battle]] to test a new model of [[Cyber wrist blaster]] and assess the possibility of incorporating it into future Cybermen. During the battle, the Cybermen inflicted greater casualties onto the Racnoss than the Cybermen sustained themselves. After departing Hȳf, the Ninth Cyber Legion allied with the [[Eleventh Cyber Legion]] to conquer [[Agrippina]] in the [[Tiberian Spiral]], with both Legions fighting at opposite poles of the planet. The battle was a far greater strain on both Cyber Legions than the attack on Hȳf had been for the Ninth Legion; thousands of Agrippina's [[human]] population were converted, but thousands of Cybermen were in constant need of repairs. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Ghost in the Machine (short story)|Ghost in the Machine]]'') Although the Cybermen's conquest of Agrippina was ultimately a success, thousands of heavily-damaged Cybermen were left behind, particularly in [[Agrippina Primus]], as the [[Cyber-Leader (A Girl Called Doubt)|Cyber-Leader]]s of the Eleventh Cyber Legion considered the [[energy]] expenditure necessary to repair these Cybermen to be greater than if the Legions simply converted other worlds to replace the damaged Cybermen. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Girl Called Doubt (short story)|A Girl Called Doubt]]'') | Thousands of Cybermen of the Ninth Cyber Legion invaded [[Hȳf]] and fought the planet's [[Racnoss]] population; the Legion's [[Cyber-Controller (Ghost in the Machine)|Cyber-Controller]] used the [[battle]] to test a new model of [[Cyber wrist blaster]] and assess the possibility of incorporating it into future Cybermen. During the battle, the Cybermen inflicted greater casualties onto the Racnoss than the Cybermen sustained themselves. After departing Hȳf, the Ninth Cyber Legion allied with the [[Eleventh Cyber Legion]] to conquer [[Agrippina]] in the [[Tiberian Spiral]] galaxy, with both Legions fighting at opposite poles of the planet. The battle was a far greater strain on both Cyber Legions than the attack on Hȳf had been for the Ninth Legion; thousands of Agrippina's [[human]] population were converted, but thousands of Cybermen were in constant need of repairs. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Ghost in the Machine (short story)|Ghost in the Machine]]'') Although the Cybermen's conquest of Agrippina was ultimately a success, thousands of heavily-damaged Cybermen were left behind, particularly in [[Agrippina Primus]], as the [[Cyber-Leader (A Girl Called Doubt)|Cyber-Leader]]s of the Eleventh Cyber Legion considered the [[energy]] expenditure necessary to repair these Cybermen to be greater than if the Legions simply converted other worlds to replace the damaged Cybermen. However, the Cyber Legions seeded Agrippina with a small number of [[Cybermite]]<nowiki/>s following the invasion, who eventually reproduced into a [[colony]] numbering in the billions. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Girl Called Doubt (short story)|A Girl Called Doubt]]'') | ||
Further locations attacked by the Ninth Cyber Legion included [[Delastrio]], [[Xexos]], [[Aaster]], [[Niami Majora Quintus]], [[Tagarn]], [[Quell]], [[Barranos IV]], [[Cadogan]], [[Praxes]], [[Houndstooth]], the [[sky galleon]] [[Drowning Vale]], and [[Erodas]]. By the time the Ninth Cyber Legion attacked the [[space station]] [[New Cadmus]], its Cybermen had upgraded themselves into significantly sleeker and advanced Cyber-bodies, with [[blue]] [[power cell]]<nowiki/>s replacing their chest plates. During their attack on New Cadmus, the Ninth Cyber Legion sought to destroy the [[Cadmus Engine]]; said attack also led to the destruction of [[9.9P-VIV]], the former designation of a Cyberman who, after [[Hallucination|hallucinating]] the appearance of a human [[Girl (Ghost in the Machine)|girl]] across the Ninth Cyber Legion's battles since their attack on Hȳf, had gradually been driven [[Insanity|insane]] by its inability to have corrected what it and the Legion's Cyber-Controller perceived as an error. 9.9P-VIV destroyed itself when it overheated its wrist blaster from rapid-fire use, and was examined by the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Peri]], who were on New Cadmus during the Ninth Cyber Legion's attack. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Ghost in the Machine (short story)|Ghost in the Machine]]'') | |||
==== Aftermath of the invasion of Agrippina ==== | |||
As a result of being besieged by two Cyber Legions at once, Agrippina was reduced to a ruined [[wasteland]]. Eventually, a small number of humans who survived the Eleventh Cyber Legion's attack on [[Agrippina Primus]] - [[Sergeant]] [[Terrick]], [[Raoul]], [[BaDoris]] and [[Memnis]] - banded together to locate and destroy the planet's Cybermite hive before the Cybermites could begin repairing the thousands of abandoned and damaged Cybermen still left on Agrippina; they also intended to destroy all the remaining Cybermen to eliminate the possibility of the Cyber Legions returning to Agrippina and the Cyber-Leaders ordering the leftover Cybermen to destroy what was left of the planet. To assist in locating the Cybermite hive, the four survivors recovered and reprogrammed individual Cybermen into believing that they were humans so as to ally with them and seek out the hive. | |||
Eventually, "[[Doubt (A Girl Called Doubt)|Doubt]]", one of the many Cybermen the survivors reprogrammed, located the Cybermite hive inside one of Agrippina Primus' old [[church]]<nowiki/>es, where the Cybermites had already begun to repair the Cybermen left on Agrippina. As Sergeant Terrick prepared to detonate a [[bomb]] to destroy the entire hive, [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] crashed through one of the church's stained-[[glass]] [[window]]<nowiki/>s, and the [[Fifth Doctor]] emerged, having arrived to assist the survivors in destroying the Cybermites. It was at this point that Doubt learnt of its true identity, and Sergeant Terrick prepared to destroy the reprogrammed Cyberman; although the Doctor and the other survivors attempted to persuade Terrick not to kill Doubt, he fired anyway. However, Doubt was repaired by the Cybermites, although it retained its reprogrammed state. From this, it decided to seek out the remaining Cybermen on Agrippina and issue them a new order: to plant [[crocus]]<nowiki/>es. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Girl Called Doubt (short story)|A Girl Called Doubt]]'') | |||
===End of the Cyber War=== | ===End of the Cyber War=== | ||
