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Although almost all Cybermen lacked [[emotion]]s, as they considered them to be a weakness and instead embraced pure [[logic]], they were often born out of a [[human]] [[civilisation]]'s, or an individual's, [[fear]] for survival, which was often inflicted by threats such as poverty or the degradation of a civilisation's world. Other times, the Cybermen were born out of an extreme desire for [[immortality]]. Through the misuse of [[Cyber-Technology]], Cybermen could be born on other worlds even if a civilisation was not burdened by threats to survival, such as on [[Samotis]], [[Centuria]] and [[Catrigan Nova]].

Throughout their collective [[history]], the Cybermen established many [[Cyber-Empire]]s and engaged in many different [[Cyber-Wars]], often against humanity, which eventually led to the Cybermen being pushed to the edge of [[extinction]]. However, they always found ways to survive and rebuild, ultimately allowing the Cybermen to survive until the [[End of the universe|end of N-Space]].

[[File:Tenth Planet 2 001.jpg|thumb|left|A [[CyberMondan|Mondasian Cyberman]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'')]]

Many Cybermen also exhibited exposed circuitry and tubing on a [[rubber]] or mylar-textured outer [[skin]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'' et al.) although some Cybermen had entirely [[metal]] bodies with no exposed circuitry. ([[TV]]: ''[[A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)|A Good Man Goes to War]]'', ''[[Nightmare in Silver (TV story)|Nightmare in Silver]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'') While some Cybermen had highly muscular Cyber-bodies, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'') the Cybermen that attacked the ''[[Dreadnought]]'' had skeletal Cyber-bodies. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Dreadnought (comic story)|Dreadnought]]'')

The head of a Cyberman was known as a [[Cyber-helmet]], and was often characterised with a pair of [[side handle]]s on the left and right-hand sides of the helmet, which connected together above the Cyberman's helmet. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Moonbase (TV story)|The Moonbase]]'' et al.) However, there were notable exceptions to this trait.

[[Cyberdrone]]s were Cyber-helmets capable of [[flight]], with small, [[blue]] [[thruster]]s on their undersides and backs. They could fire blue laser blasts from their [[eye-pod]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[Ascension of the Cybermen (TV story)|Ascension of the Cybermen]]'')

The CyberMondans of [[Mondas]] notably retained organic, [[human]] [[hand]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'') In contrast, the CyberMondans of the [[Colony ship (World Enough and Time)|Mondasian colony ship]] sported caucasian [[glove]]s instead. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'', ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')

There were Cybermen in the Doctor's universe that had similar appearances to the [[Cybusmen]] of [[Pete's World]], the difference being the lack of a Cybus logo on their chest. Two Cybus units were in a post-[[Cyber-Wars]] collection, implying the two Cyber-species had united by the war. After recovering from the Cyber-Wars, the Cybermen had advanced suits ([[TV]]: ''[[Nightmare in Silver (TV story)|Nightmare in Silver]]'') identified as [[Weapons-grade Cyberman|weapons-grade Cybermen]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') This evolution was possibly as a result of cross pollination between the Cybermen of [[Mondasian]] evolution and the Pete's World Cybermen. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Whoniverse (novel)|The Whoniverse]]'') Their chest units glowed [[blue]]. They were sleeker and far less bulky than previous models. No circuitry was visible outside the suit and they developed a plethora of new features: the post-Cyber War Cybermen could move at blurring speed, to the point where everything around them would seem frozen. They were capable of rotating their heads 180 degrees, as well as being able to detach body parts such as their hands or their [[head]]. Their armour was thick enough to deflect [[laser]]s, though an [[anti-cyber gun]] could completely disintegrate them. ([[TV]]: ''[[Nightmare in Silver (TV story)|Nightmare in Silver]]'', ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'')

[[File:Cyber-conversion A.jpg|thumb|left|Cyber-conversion. ([[TV]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)|Attack of the Cybermen]]'')]]

[[Cyber-conversion]] was the process by which compatible beings were physically and mentally altered into Cybermen. This process was necessary for the Cybermen to increase in number and was carried out in many locations. ([[TV]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)|Attack of the Cybermen]]'')

A great weakness of the conversion was they could only convert species close to [[human]]s. This left [[Time Lord]]s like [[the Doctor]] safe for a time. ([[TV]]: ''[[Closing Time (TV story)|Closing Time]]'') However, the post-[[Cyber-Wars]] variety no longer had this drawback, and were able to temporarily incorporate [[The Doctor's mind|his mind]] to create the [[Cyber-Planner]], "[[Mr Clever]]". ([[TV]]: ''[[Nightmare in Silver (TV story)|Nightmare in Silver]]'') A further upgrade to the process resulted in Cybermen being able to convert [[corpse]]s, regardless of their condition. However, this could only work with the [[Nethersphere]], or a similar [[The Matrix|Matrix]]-like computer; the minds of the dead, or "software" would be stored until their bodies were turned into Cybermen. While stored, they could choose to [[Emotional inhibitor|delete their emotions]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'')

[[File:Cyberleader 2.jpg|thumb|The [[Fifth Doctor]] uses [[Adric]]'s [[gold]]-edged badge against the Cyber-Leader. ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'')]]

Different Cybermen had a variety of weaknesses.

The [[CyberMondan|Mondasian Cybermen]] the [[Twelfth Doctor]] encountered onboard the [[Colony ship (World Enough and Time)|Mondasian colony ship]] were shown to be vulnerable to their own cybernetic blasters. [[The Master]]'s [[laser screwdriver]] could also destroy one with a single strike. While the farmhands' standard [[rifle]]s on [[Floor 0507]] barely damaged [[Bill Potts]]' Cyber-converted self, the [[Patient (World Enough and Time)|partially Cyber-converted patients]] could be disabled by them temporarily. In addition these Mondasian Cybermen, including their predecessors and their later evolutions (which resembled the Cybermen of the [[Cyber Legion]]s and the [[Cyberiad]]), could be easily incinerated by igniting the fuel lines of the colony ship. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')

The Cybermen that crash landed in Colchester, 2011 lacked a [[Cyber-Controller]] and nearly converted [[Craig Owens]] into one. ([[TV]]: ''[[Closing Time (TV story)|Closing Time]]'')

[[Cyberslave]]s were humans converted by being infected with a nano-form. They could fire electricity from their hands and follow basic orders. If desired, a Cyber-leader could easily disable them. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Blood of the Cybermen (video game)|Blood of the Cybermen]]'')

=== Overview ===

The Cybermen forces in [[2526]] used the Cyberlance, a powerful, hand-held cutting weapon. They also used the Cyberscope, a device that allowed Cyber commanders to view the battlefield remotely and access a computer database (containing, among other data, information on their race's encounters with [[the Doctor]]). ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'')

By the end of the [[Cyber-Wars]], the Cybermen had gained the ability to instantly adapt to anything that posed a threat to damaging their bodies; thus most methods of killing them became obsolete after one use, and this instant immunity was shared through the [[Cyberiad]]. The only guaranteed method of destroying the Cybermen was to completely destroy the planet they were on at the time. ([[TV]]: ''[[Nightmare in Silver (TV story)|Nightmare in Silver]]'') These Cybermen could also learn a person's identity in seconds using a scanner in their chest plate. They could also self destruct, releasing spores to upgrade a corpse into a Cyberman as well, albeit allowing some to retain their free will. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'')

[[File:Cyb gun1.jpg|thumb|A Cyberman with a gun. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion (TV story)|The Invasion]]'')|alt=]]

Weapons used by the Cybermen were known as [[Cyber-weapon]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Cybermen (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Cybermen]]'')

The Mondasian Cybermen encountered by the Eighth Doctor and the Twelfth Doctor had a powerful laser weapon built into their headframe. It emitted a thick yellow laser beam powerful enough to stun [[Destrii]], kill humans, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Flood (comic story)|The Flood]]'') cause large explosions, nearly kill the Doctor, destroy other Mondasian Cybermen, melt through steel and incinerate a fully evolved Cyberman when combined with the Master's upgraded [[laser screwdriver]]. When grappling a target, they could also emit an electro-magnetic pulse that, while non-fatal, was powerful enough to trigger a Time Lord's regnenerative process. The Twelfth Doctor was rendered unconscious and suffered impaired mobility for several weeks after being attacked in this way. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')

{{Simplequote|This broadcast is for human kind. Cybermen now occupy every land mass on this planet, but you need not fear. Cybermen will remove fear. Cybermen will remove sex and class and colour and creed. You will become identical. You will become like us.|[[Cyber-Leader One]]|Doomsday (TV story)}}

Cybermen made survival their central objective. Since they could not reproduce naturally, they needed to create new members of their population through [[cyber-conversion]]. At times they tended to focus on converting the population of Earth, at other times on simply destroying it. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tomb of the Cybermen (TV story)|The Tomb of the Cybermen]]'') They deemed "upgrading" compatible lifeforms to be a necessity: not only did it help ensure their survival by growing their numbers, they also deemed it to be logical to remove emotion and natural mortality from others, seeing it as a way to bring about true equality and peace. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'', ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')

When lacking in numbers, Cybermen tended toward covert activity, scheming and using human or other agents, cybermats or [[android]]s to act as their proxies until they deemed it necessary to appear themselves. ([[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen (TV story)|Revenge of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'', ''[[Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)|Attack of the Cybermen]]'') When in large numbers, the Cybermen attacked in massive numbers to overwhelm. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')

Throughout their history, Cybermen, for the most part, lacked individuality or names. This was a result of their emotions being removed during the conversion process. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'', et al.)

When they re-emerged after the Cyber-Wars, the Cybermen appeared to be truly emotionless, although the Cyber-Planner "[[Mr Clever]]" showed personality. ([[TV]]: ''[[Nightmare in Silver (TV story)|Nightmare in Silver]]'') The Cybermen that evolved on a Mondasian [[Colony ship (World Enough and Time)|colony ship]] were also emotionless, although [[Bill Potts]] showed anger and sadness in her cyber-converted form. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')

==== Parallel evolution ====

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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]]'')

Various sources indicated that [[Mondas]] was the birthplace of the Cybermen. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'', ''[[Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)|Attack of the Cybermen]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Spare Parts (audio story)|Spare Parts]]''; [[COMIC]]: ''[[The World Shapers (comic story)|The World Shapers]]'', ''[[The Cybermen (comic story)|The Cybermen]]'')

According to one account, the Cybermen were originally an aquatic species known as the [[Voord]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The World Shapers (comic story)|The World Shapers]]'') who themselves had theorised origins as a [[Remote]] experiment. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference (novel)|Interference]]'') The Voord were fused with bodysuits which telepathically linked the entire race. Through experimentation with a [[worldshaper]], they quick-evolved their bodysuits into full-fledged Cybersuits. With this change, they renamed their home planet [[Marinus]] to [[Mondas]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The World Shapers (comic story)|The World Shapers]]'') While the [[Ninth Doctor]] expressed doubt at the idea of Marinus being a cyber-homeworld, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Forth Generation (audio story)|The Forth Generation]]'') the [[Twelfth Doctor]] believed it. However, he stated that Mondas and Marinus were separate locations, but they were both origin points for Cybermen. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')

[[File:Ape-Servant The Dead Heart.jpg|thumb|An [[ape-servant]] of the [[Lizard King]]s. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Dead Heart (comic story)|The Dead Heart]]'')|alt=|left]]

Mirroring the events of Mondas' sister planet [[Earth]], the [[Lizard King]]s and the [[Sea Devil (Mondasian)|Sea Devils]] rose to power. They used their technology to augment Mondasian apes into [[ape-servant]]s. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Dead Heart (comic story)|The Dead Heart]]'') A Cyberman from the near future came to Mondas through a [[cosmic cloud]] and was captured by the Lizard Kings, who vivisected it and studied its technology. An ape-servant was sent through the cosmic cloud to investigate and it was captured by the Cybermen of the future. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Prodigal Returns (comic story)|The Prodigal Returns]]'')

For the next 2000 years, the [[Mondasian]]s developed an [[Earth]]-like society on Mondas. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Ugly Underneath (comic story)|The Ugly Underneath]]'')

[[File:Spare Parts Vinyl 2017 Early Cyberman with Horse.jpg|thumb|An early Cyberman precursor. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Spare Parts (audio story)|Spare Parts]]'')|alt=|left]]

About 2000 years after the end of the previous Cyberman civilisation, Mondas reached the zenith of its orbit away from Earth. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Ugly Underneath (comic story)|The Ugly Underneath]]'') By this time, [[Mondasian]] society was similar to that of [[20th century]] [[Earth]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Spare Parts (audio story)|Spare Parts]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Ugly Underneath (comic story)|The Ugly Underneath]]'') According to one account, the surface of Mondas was inhospitable, meaning that all the Mondasians lived underground. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Spare Parts (audio story)|Spare Parts]]'') However, the [[Cult of C'iva]] were able to survive on the planet's surface. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Ugly Underneath (comic story)|The Ugly Underneath]]'') While one account claimed the Mondasians eventually developed into Cybermen in pursuit of [[immorality]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Creation of the Cybermen (short story)|The Creation of the Cybermen]]'') most accounts agreed their development into Cybermen was spurred on after years of trying to survive on their harsh planet.

Those flaws were corrected when the [[Fifth Doctor]], who had arrived on Mondas with [[Nyssa]], had an biological analysis done on him. In the scan, they discovered an extra brain lobe that only Time Lords had. This feature was then recreated in the Cybermen, rectifying those flaws. Horrified at his unwitting part in the creation of the Cybermen, the Doctor destroyed the Committee, which by now had become the first [[Cyber-Planner]] and was now bent on converting all Mondasians, by pouring wine into their Nutrient Vats, and reprogramming a swarm of [[Cybermat]]s to feed off their electricity, killing them. His efforts were, ultimately, in vain as eventually all of the Mondasians underwent forced [[cyber-conversion]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Spare Parts (audio story)|Spare Parts]]'')

[[File:Missy, the Master and cyber-converted Bill.jpg|thumb|{{Gomez}} and {{Simm}} declare [[Bill Potts]]'s [[cyber-conversion]] as "the [[genesis of the Cybermen]]". ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'')|alt=|left]]

When the [[Twelfth Doctor]]'s [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] landed on Floor 0000, [[Bill Potts]] was taken by some patients to Floor 1056, and after being partially-converted into a patient, Bill spent ten years living in the hospital with Razor, until being fully converted into a [[CyberMondan|Mondasian Cyberman]]. Two [[hour]]s later, the Doctor and [[Nardole]] found Bill in the hospital's [[Conversion Theatre]], before {{Gomez}} and the Master confronted them. ([[TV]]: ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'') Shortly before being knocked out by the two Masters, the Doctor expanded the Cybermen's definition of humanity to register [[lifeform]]s with two [[heart]]s as humans; later, while the Cybermen were mass-converting the [[Person|people]] of Floor 1056, several newly-converted Mondasian Cybermen attacked the hospital, although the Doctor, the two Masters, and the converted Bill escaped with Nardole in a [[SL-16|shuttlecraft]], before crashing on [[Floor 0507]]. Following this, the Cybermen began evolving themselves further in preparation for their [[Battle of Floor 0507|final assault on Floor 0507]], whose inhabitants the patients had previously failed to convert. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')

Bill managed to survive the destruction of Floor 0507 before succumbing to her damages, but she was found through her tears by [[Heather (The Pilot)|Heather]]; using her powers as a creature of [[sentient oil]], Heather relieved Bill of her Cyber-form, before the pair took the Doctor's body and left the Mondasian colony ship in his TARDIS. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') [[Jorj]] was able to learn from readings that Floor 0507 had been rocked by an explosion, only for the "cloth-faced monsters" to continue to try to advance up the ship. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Jorj (short story)|Jorj]]'') Following the evacuation, Nardole defended the evacuees of Floor 0507 from the remaining Cybermen on Floor 1056 on a near-[[Day|daily]] basis, ([[WC]]: ''[[The Best of Days (webcast)|The Best of Days]]'') until their conflict was "sorted". Nonetheless, they were still attacked by the Cybermats, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (novelisation)|Twice Upon a Time]]'') whose failsafe systems had been deactivated again, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alit in Underland (short story)|Alit in Underland]]'') on an annual basis in the [[spring]] for at least several centuries, even when Nardole eventually [[Death|died]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (novelisation)|Twice Upon a Time]]'')

[[File:Cyberman (pre-excellent).jpg|thumb|[[CyberTelosian]]s of the [[Telos]] [[Cyber-tomb]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tomb of the Cybermen (TV story)|The Tomb of the Cybermen]]'')|left]]

According to some accounts, the inhabitants of [[Telos]] sought to achieve [[immortality]] with [[cybernetics]]. They gradually replaced parts of their bodies with machinery until they reached the point where they replaced their [[brain]]s with [[computer]]s. These first Cybermen became aware of their lack of [[love]] and [[emotion]] and found a new goal: [[power]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Cybermen (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Cybermen]]'', ''[[Doctor Who and the Tomb of the Cybermen (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Tomb of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[The Revenge of the Cybermen (novelisation)|The Revenge of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet]]'') Something forced many of these Cybermen to leave Telos and take refuge on [[Mondas]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet]]'') leaving some Cybermen behind in [[cyber-tomb]]s.

However, another account held the cyber-tombs were only established sometime after the destruction of Mondas, with the Cybermen fleeing to Telos to serve as their new base of operations after losing Mondas. ([[TV]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)|Attack of the Cybermen]]'') A [[Book (The Whoniverse)|third account]] held that the Cybermen had colonised Telos during their "original diaspora" from Mondas. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Whoniverse (novel)|The Whoniverse]]'') Indeed, Telos' status as a birthplace of the Cybermen was contentious, with [[Bernice Summerfield]] once correcting [[Parasiel|one of her students]] who believed that Cybermen originated on Telos by insisting that Mondas was their true homeworld. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Crystal of Cantus (audio story)|The Crystal of Cantus]]'') The [[Cyberon]]s knew Mondas as the "original homeworld". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Flight of the Cyberons (short story)|Flight of the Cyberons]]'') The [[Twelfth Doctor]] remembered that Mondas and Telos were ''both'' origin points of the Cybermen thanks to [[parallel evolution]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')

Some Cybermen were present in early history due to [[time travel]]. One faction of Cybermen, for example, were caught in a [[temporal storm]] and buried under the [[Arctic]] tens of thousands of [[year]]s before [[2010]]. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Blood of the Cybermen (video game)|Blood of the Cybermen]]'')

[[Zogron]] was one of the first Cybernauts to leave Mondas. During his pioneering of the instellar Cyber-empire, Zogron became stranded on [[AS4]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Junk-Yard Demon (comic story)|Junk-Yard Demon]]'') While one group of Cybermen stayed on Mondas, another group, [[the Faction]], left Mondas and headed for [[Planet 14]]. These developed into groups without connection to one another. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Iceberg (novel)|Iceberg]]'') While the [[Ninth Doctor]] doubted it, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Forth Generation (audio story)|The Forth Generation]]'') the Twelfth Doctor knew that the original people of Planet 14 had developed into Cybermen as well, another example of the Cybermen's [[parallel evolution]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')

Word of the Cybermen spread as far as the [[Wrarth Galaxy]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Star Beast (comic story)|Doctor Who and the Star Beast]]'')

Despite the fact that the Cybermen would record their first invasion of Earth as the one involving [[International Electromatics]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Iceberg (novel)|Iceberg]]'') some accounts indicate they attacked Earth at several earlier points.

When Earth's most brilliant scientists gathered to witness the test flight of [[the Dart]], Cybermen attempted to kidnap all of them to weaken Earth's military progress. The Second Doctor worked with the [[United States Air Force]] to destroy the Cyberman spaceships before the scientists could be taken. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Test Flight (comic story)|Test Flight]]'')

The humans on Mondas developed a drive propulsion system. This was placed in the [[planet]]'s core to move the entire world. As the original Cybermen were limited in numbers and were continually being depleted, they decided to invade [[Earth]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'') Before Mondas' return to Earth, [[the Faction]] attempted a separate invasion of the planet which involved [[International Electromatics]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion (TV story)|The Invasion]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Iceberg (novel)|Iceberg]]'')

{{Section stub|Information from ''[[Monsters in Metropolis (audio story)|Monsters in Metropolis]]'', ''[[Way of the Burryman (audio story)|Way of the Burryman]]'', ''[[The Forth Generation (audio story)|The Forth Generation]]''}}

[[File:Cyberman Silver Turk.jpg|thumb|[[Gramm]], a Cyberman scout who crashed on Earth circa [[1873]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Silver Turk (audio story)|The Silver Turk]]'')|alt=]]

The [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Ace]] fought Cybermen in [[Nevada]] in [[1954]]. These Cybermen were from Mondas, trying to invade. Their attack was delayed until [[1986]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Good Soldier (comic story)|The Good Soldier]]'')

{{Section stub|Information from ''[[Scientific Adviser (short story)|Scientific Adviser]]''}}

In [[1969]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy]]'') [[1970]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[No Future (novel)|No Future]]'', ''[[Killing Ground (novel)|Killing Ground]]'') [[1975]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Last of the Cybermen (audio story)|Last of the Cybermen]]'') or the late [[1970s]]; ([[TV]]: ''[[The Web of Fear (TV story)|The Web of Fear]]'', ''[[The Invasion (TV story)|The Invasion]]'') [[the Faction]] put into motion what would later be recorded as the [[Cyberman invasion of Earth (The Invasion)|first attempted Cyberman invasion of Earth]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Iceberg (novel)|Iceberg]]'')

In the [[1970s]], [[Gareth Arnold]] uncovered a Cyberman ship that had crashed in Cambridge and experimented with the technology that had survived. Using Cybermats, Arnold attempted to convert all of Cambridge, but was stopped by the [[Third Doctor]]. During this incident, [[Liz Shaw]] was almost converted. The Cybermen that Arnold had created went into stasis on the ship, awaiting an activation signal. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Blue Tooth (audio story)|The Blue Tooth]]'')

The return of Mondas to Earth's [[solar system]] saw the second recorded attempted Cybermen invasion of Earth, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Iceberg (novel)|Iceberg]]'') although the [[Seventh Doctor]] believed it to be the first. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Good Soldier (comic story)|The Good Soldier]]'') This occurred in [[December]] [[1986]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Iceberg (novel)|Iceberg]]'', ''[[Mondas Passing (short story)|Mondas Passing]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Reaping (audio story)|The Reaping]]'') the [[1990s]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Power of the Daleks (novelisation)|The Power of the Daleks]]'') or [[2000]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet]]'', ''[[Doctor Who and the Tomb of the Cybermen (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Tomb of the Cybermen]]'')

The Cyberships leftover from the invasion were examined and exploited by humans, allowing them to make advances in space travel, leading [[Sarah Jane Smith]] to describe the return of Mondas as "both the greatest disaster and most astonishing blessing ever to have happened to the human race." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Power of the Daleks (novelisation)|The Power of the Daleks]]'')

Following the destruction of Mondas, some Cybermen based themselves on [[Planet 14]] and made a series of attempts at invading Earth. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Killing Ground (novel)|Killing Ground]]'') By the 1990s, these Cyberman had been driven from Planet 14 after the planet’s power was turned against them, resulting in a catastrophic explosion. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Scientific Adviser (short story)|Scientific Adviser]]'') Another group of Cyberman attempted to establish a homeplanet away from Earth; they colonised [[Lonsis]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Human Resources (audio story)|Human Resources]]'') and [[Colonisation of Telos|colonised]] [[Telos]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tomb of the Cybermen (TV story)|The Tomb of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)|Attack of the Cybermen]]'', et al.)

In [[2000]], the Cybermen infected the Earth computers with a virus that removed all vowels. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Vrs (short story)|Vrs]]'') The [[Preternatural Research Bureau]] assisted in eradicating the virus. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Last Dose (short story)|The Last Dose]]'')

=== Attacks during the 2010s ===

In the [[2010s]], [[Unified Intelligence Taskforce|UNIT]] battled the Cybermen of the [[Cyber-Mainframe]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Code Silver (audio story)|Code Silver]]'', ''[[Master of Worlds (audio story)|Master of Worlds]]'') after experimenting with [[dimension bridge technology]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Telepresence (audio story)|Telepresence]]'') recovered from [[the Auctioneers]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Game Theory (audio story)|Game Theory]]'') After [[Petronella Osgood]] and [[Vikram Shindi]] were [[cyber-conversion|virtually converted]] by [[Mechanising Worm]]s during an expedition on a [[Parallel Earth (Telepresence)|parallel Earth]], a [[dimension bridge]] formed, and [[The Machine (Telepresence)|the Machine]] activated [[Hive Section 49]], who crossed the dimension bridge ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Telepresence (audio story)|Telepresence]]'') and attempted to commence full [[dimension seeding]] of [[N-Space]], starting with the UNIT base [[Fortress Island]] on [[Earth]].

As the Cybermen [[deletion|deleted]] and upgraded the [[soldier]]s of the fort, the virtually-converted Osgood allied with Hive Section 49's [[Cyber-Controller (Code Silver)|Cyber-Controller]] to modify the Auctioneers' virtual reality [[app]], itself adapted from dimension bridge technology, into a [[smart phone]] app to virtually-convert millions of people in [[second]]s. Despite the efforts of [[Kate Stewart]] and [[Josh Carter]], Osgood successfully broadcast the app ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Code Silver (audio story)|Code Silver]]'') and the Cybermen flew across the Earth to the virtually-converted [[human]]s, in order to build conversion factories for full cyber-conversions. However, when {{Jacobi}} crossed the dimension bridge from a [[Parallel dimension (Telepresence)|parallel universe]] that the Cyber-Mainframe had invaded, he reluctantly allied with Kate and Josh to defeat the Cybermen and recover [[The Master's TARDIS|his TARDIS]]. After he was seemingly converted into the "[[Cyber-Master]]" by a modified [[mobile conversion unit]], the Master reprogrammed the [[dimension gate]] to upgrade the Cybermen's [[Electricity|power]] connections by drawing power from all parallel Earths; however, as this also included the parallel Earths that the Cybermen failed to successfully invade, the power drawn was contaminated, destroying all the Cybermen connected to the Cyber-Mainframe. Shortly after, the Master, free of his converted state, used the contaminated energy to power his TARDIS to return to the [[Last Great Time War]], saving the remaining virtually-converted humans from being killed by the contaminated energy. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Master of Worlds (audio story)|Master of Worlds]]'')

[[File:Cybermen(BloodoftheCybermen).jpg|thumb|The inactive Cybermen. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Blood of the Cybermen (video game)|Blood of the Cybermen]]'')|alt=]]

While in the [[Arctic]] in the year [[2010]], the Doctor encountered Cybermen that had been buried under the ice for tens of thousands of years after being hit by a [[temporal storm]]. An excavation began to awaken the army, commanded by a [[Cyber-Lord (Blood of the Cybermen)|Cyber-Lord]], releasing [[Cybermat]]s which in turn created [[Cyberslave]]s. The [[Eleventh Doctor]] arrived on [[4 May]] [[2010]] and stopped their awakening. He blew up their ship and returned them to stasis. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Blood of the Cybermen (video game)|Blood of the Cybermen]]'')

Further into the decade, a [[Cyberman (Face the Raven)|Cyberman]] was a resident of the hidden [[Trap Street, London|trap street]] in [[London]] which housed lost aliens on [[Earth]] under the protection of [[Ashildr|Mayor Me]]. As with the rest of the inhabitants, it appeared cloaked in human form through use of the [[lurkworm]]s. It was observed by the [[Twelfth Doctor]] and [[Clara Oswald]] as it had maintenance performed on it by an [[Ood]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Face the Raven (TV story)|Face the Raven]]'')

Due to events involving future Cybermen, the [[System]] was active in [[2021]], and, during the year, a group of Cybermen claimed to want to become organic again. The European Council used this to their advantage. However, the [[Subject One|Cyberleader]] lied, in fact having tricked the agency into creating a conversion chamber. The [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Ace]] and [[Hex]] foiled this scheme. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Harvest (audio story)|The Harvest]]'')

By [[2079]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Second Chances (audio story)|Second Chances]]'') the [[Second Doctor]] was "known and recorded as an enemy of the Cybermen". In this year, [[Space Station W3]] was the site of a takeover by the Faction, but were defeated by the Second Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wheel in Space (TV story)|The Wheel in Space]]'') In a second attack on the wheel, the Cybermen were sent into the [[Land of Fiction]] by [[Zoe Heriot]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Legend of the Cybermen (audio story)|Legend of the Cybermen]]'')

{{Main|Cyber-Wars}}

Another reference was made to Cyberwars in the early [[24th century]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dimension Riders (novel)|The Dimension Riders]]'') followed by a period of peaceful expansion until colonial incidents in [[2387]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Infinite Requiem (novel)|Infinite Requiem]]'') Even though most accounts implied the Cybermen were not prone to [[civil war]]s, as most [[Cyber-subspecies]] shared a goal in survival that pushed the logically-minded cyborgs to ally together, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Cyber Nomads (audio story)|The Cyber Nomads]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Whoniverse (novel)|The Whoniverse]]'', et. al) one [[Time traveller (Time Traveller's Diary)|time traveller]] claimed the Cybermen had been caught in a series of [[civil war]]s, dubbed the "[[Upgrade Wars]]", that had started in [[2342]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Time Traveller's Diary (novel)|Time Traveller's Diary]]'')

[[File:Cybermen in the TARDIS 2.jpg|thumb|Cybermen in the [[Eighth Doctor]]'s [[TARDIS control room]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Dreadnought (comic story)|Dreadnought]]'')]]

In [[2246]], a lone Cybership attacked the human freighter ''[[Dreadnought (ship)|Dreadnought]]'' in deep space. They converted all of the freighter's crew save one, [[Stacy Townsend]]. When the [[Eighth Doctor]] landed on the ''Dreadnought'', the Cybermen captured him and his TARDIS. The Cybermen attempted to gain the Doctor's knowledge of [[time travel]] and convert him, but the cyborgs were instead ripped to pieces when he made them all magnetically repellent to each other and the ''Dreadnought''. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Dreadnought (comic story)|Dreadnought]]'')

[[Cyberman (Junk-Yard Demon)|A Cyberman]] was found by scrap collectors [[Flotsam (Junk-Yard Demon)|Flotsam]] and [[Jetsam (Junk-Yard Demon)|Jetsam]]. Shortly after the [[Fourth Doctor]] landed on [[Drifter|their ship]], the Cyberman reactivated, kidnapped Jetsam, and stole the TARDIS. The Cyberman used the TARDIS to visit the site of the crashed command ship of the ancient cybernaut [[Zogron]] on [[AS4]]. Before the Cyberman could force Jetsam to restore Zogron, the Doctor and Flotsam landed on AS4 and destroyed the Cyberman. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Junk-Yard Demon (comic story)|Junk-Yard Demon]]'') Flotsam and Jetsam stayed on AS4 and salvaged technology from the remains of Zogron's fleet. They discovered a troop ship full of well-preserved hibernating Cybermen.

[[File:You are evil 3.jpg|thumb|The [[Cyber-Controller]] tries to stop [[Toberman]] from closing the [[Telos]]ian [[cyber-tomb]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tomb of the Cybermen (TV story)|The Tomb of the Cybermen]]'')]]

{{Section stub|''[[Return to Telos (audio story)|Return to Telos]]'', ''[[Secrets of Telos (audio story)|Secrets of Telos]]''}}

With their attempt to ally with the Cybermen on AS4 a failure, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Junk-Yard Demon II (comic story)|Junkyard-Demon II]]'') the Brotherhood of Logicians financed [[Parry]]'s expedition to find the [[cyber-tomb]]s on [[Telos]]. [[Eric Klieg]] and [[Kaftan]] accompanied the expedition so that they could negotiate an alliance with the Cybermen locked within ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tomb of the Cybermen (TV story)|The Tomb of the Cybermen]]'') the [[Master Hibernation Unit]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Conversion (Cyberman audio story)|Conversion]]'', ''[[Telos (audio story)|Telos]]'') With the help of the [[Second Doctor]], [[Jamie McCrimmon]], and [[Victoria Waterfield]], the expedition found and opened the cyber-tomb. After the hibernating Cybermen were reawakened, the expedition realised the true danger of the cyborgs and the tombs were quickly resealed, despite the [[Cyber-Controller (The Tomb of the Cybermen)|Cyber-Controller]] fighting to reopen the doors, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tomb of the Cybermen (TV story)|The Tomb of the Cybermen]]'') being damaged in the process. ([[TV]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)|Attack of the Cybermen]]'')

The Doctor later encountered the Cybermen on Telos, where the earlier arrival of [[Billy Jones]] had caused the "advanced guard" to awake from the cyber-tombs early to defend the others. The Cybermen tried to convert Billy, but he was saved by the Doctor before they could do so. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Mazes of Time (video game)|The Mazes of Time]]'') Telos would later be destroyed during the early [[26th century]] by an [[asteroid]], only for the Cybermen to continue to make use of its remains. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Telos (audio story)|Telos]]'')

{{Main|Great Cyber War}}

{{Main|Vogan War}}

The Cybermen involved in the pursuit of Voga had records of the Doctor and regarded him as "a traditional enemy" of their race from "hundreds of Earth years" prior, but they failed to realise the Fourth Doctor was this foe; as noted by the [[Cyber-Leader (Revenge of the Cybermen)|Cyber-Leader]], the Cybermen believed the Doctor to be a human and therefore assumed he had died off centuries prior. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Revenge of the Cybermen (novelisation)|The Revenge of the Cybermen]]'') Later Cybermen, the [[CyberNeomorph]]s, had come to realise the Doctor was a Time Lord and thus realised the Fourth Doctor had been an incarnation of their old foe. ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'') Whilst visiting the [[Garazone]] system in [[2503]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Neverland (audio story)|Neverland]]'') the [[Eighth Doctor]] considered the Cyber Wars to be a long time ago and found a gold-plated Cyber helmet leftover from them for sale. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sword of Orion (audio story)|Sword of Orion]]'')

==== Orion conflict ====

{{main|Orion War}}

After centuries of relatively little activity from the Cybermen, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Heliotrope Bouquet (short story)|Heliotrope Bouquet]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sword of Orion (audio story)|Sword of Orion]]'') the [[26th century]] saw a re-ignition of conflict between Cybermen and [[human]]ity ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'') as the Neomorphs rose to power. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Killing Ground (novel)|Killing Ground]]'') This time period included the [[Orion War]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Sword of Orion (audio story)|Sword of Orion]]'', et al.) which by the [[33rd century]] were known by historians as the "Great Orion Cyber Wars". ([[WC]]: ''[[Real Time (webcast)|Real Time]]'')

==== Cyber-War of 2526 ====

In [[2526]], several planets began to unite to oppose the Cybermen in a war. A force of [[CyberNeomorph]]s under a [[Cyber-Leader (Earthshock)|Cyber-Leader]] tried to devastate Earth on the eve of their conference to finalise the alliance, intending to detonate a [[Cyberbomb]] and convert the survivors. After the [[Fifth Doctor]] thwarted this plan, they hoped to crash a freighter into Earth and cause an ecological disaster. Although the effort failed, the freighter was catapulted back in time to become the "[[meteor]]" that wiped out the [[dinosaur]]s, ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'') and the rest of the [[Cyber-Fleet]] retreated. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time-Flight (TV story)|Time-Flight]]'') [[ArcHivist]] [[Hegelia]] suggested that an agreement was reached to join forces against the Cybermen, resulting in a Cyber-War beginning in the [[solar system]] with a battle between the main Cyber-Fleet and human forces which extended to other parts of the galaxy before the Cybermen were ultimately overcome. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Ultimate Cybermen (audio story)|The Ultimate Cybermen]]'')

==== Entombed and another empire ====

Dozens of [[Cyber-tomb]]s beyond those on [[Telos]] were based across the galaxy, and as a result, more wars were started. [[Bernice Summerfield]] spoke of the Telos expedition and other tombs being discovered in the past tense. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Crystal of Cantus (audio story)|The Crystal of Cantus]]'') In the early [[27th century]] she was invited to investigate a tomb on [[Tysir IV]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Silver Lining (audio story)|Silver Lining]]'') and later sent to one by [[Irving Braxiatel]]. Braxiatel intended to use the Cybermen as a private army but was thwarted. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Crystal of Cantus (audio story)|The Crystal of Cantus]]'')

[[File:Cyber-Leader 2.jpg|thumb|right|A [[Cyber-Leader 2 (Cyber Crisis)|Cyber-Leader]] on [[New Mondas]] ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Cyber Crisis (comic story)|Cyber Crisis]]'')]]

After the [[Sixth Doctor]] foiled the Neomorph Cybermen's [[time travel]] attempt at saving [[Mondas]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)|Attack of the Cybermen]]'') some Cybermen remained stranded in the [[1980s]], becoming known as the [[CyberIsomorph]]s. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Ultimate Cybermen (audio story)|The Ultimate Cybermen]]'') The [[Torchwood Institute]] collected several rumours of Cybermen in the London sewers. ([[WC]]: ''[[Monster File: Cybermen (webcast)|Monster File: Cybermen]]'')

=== The Siege of Trenzalore ===

[[File:Wooden Cyberman (The Time of the Doctor).jpeg|thumb|The [[wooden Cyberman]] created by the Cybermen during the [[Siege of Trenzalore]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'')]]

[[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]]'')|alt=|left]]

In the 52nd century, the [[Twelfth Cyber Legion]] was positioned 20,000 [[light-year]]s away from [[Demons Run]] when it was largely obliterated by the [[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[Rory Williams]], who were planning to [[Battle of Demons Run|assault]] the [[asteroid]] [[Space station|station]] to rescue [[Amy Pond|Amy]] and [[River Song|Melody Pond]]. This gave the [[Cyber-Leader (A Good Man Goes to War)|Cyber-Leader]] little choice but to give the Doctor and Rory the information they needed regarding Demons Run. ([[TV]]: ''[[A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)|A Good Man Goes to War]]'')

The Ninth Cyber Legion invaded [[London]] in [[2012]], commanded by a [[Cyber-Leader (The Eternity Clock)|Cyber-Leader]] and a [[Cyber-Planner]] using a piece of the [[Eternity Clock]]. They made a Cyber-factory that was full of Cyberman storage units, guarded by [[Cybermat]]s. The Legion was destroyed by the [[Eleventh Doctor]] and [[River Song]] by shutting down their thermionic core. The shells of dead Cybermen remained in London as far as [[2106]] when the [[Dalek]]s of the [[New Dalek Paradigm]] invaded. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Eternity Clock (video game)|The Eternity Clock]]'')

[[File:Cybermen in Bidding War.jpg|thumb|Cybermen in the 54th century. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Bidding War (comic story)|The Bidding War]]'')|alt=|left]]

In the [[54th century]], the Cybermen annexed [[Malleon]]. Ten to twenty years later, they attacked [[Nomicae]] in an attempt to capture the [[Ninth Doctor]]'s memories of the [[Last Great Time War]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Bidding War (comic story)|The Bidding War]]'')

In the [[250th Millennium]], [[Cyber Wars of the 250th Millennium|another series of Cyber-Wars]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Secret Lives of Monsters (short story)|The Secret Lives of Monsters]]'') were waged by the Cybermen of the Legions' design, the sleeker Legion design, and the Cybus Cybermen. The conflict was devastating for humanity, as the Cybermen were able to quickly upgrade themselves to respond to their foes' weaponry and then move in to convert their enemies. The conflicts finally ended when the [[Tiberian spiral galaxy]] was blown up, destroying apparently all of the Cybermen. ([[TV]]: ''[[Nightmare in Silver (TV story)|Nightmare in Silver]]'')

A [[Cyber-ship]] was chased by a [[Dalek flying saucer]]. Inside the ship, two Cybermen interrogated a Dalek [[Lumpy]] about the whereabouts of the [[Orb of Fates]] before being flattened by [[the Doctor's TARDIS]]. The Twelfth Doctor sent Lumpy to Telos to retrieve a second element of the Orb. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Doctor and the Dalek (video game)|The Doctor and the Dalek]]'')

[[File:Bowed.jpg|thumb|Cybermen from the far future. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Flood (comic story)|The Flood]]'')|alt=|left]]

Cybermen from the far future would use time travel to return in time to the [[2000s]] to convert Earth. They used rain that caused extreme emotions (sadness, fear, anger) to convince the humans that emotions were bad and to accept conversion willingly. The reason they needed humans from a past era was clear to the Doctor; in the future of the Cybermen, the human genetic template had been corrupted and augmented by their interactions with many alien races. Since the Cyber-conversion protocols were keyed to human or Mondasian biology, the number of viable converts had dropped dramatically by then.

The Doctor offered to regenerate for them so they could gather the data of his regeneration and upgrade their conversion protocols to include other races, in exchange for leaving the Earth alone. The Cybermen agreed, but betrayed him at the last moment (the Doctor was expecting this). Using the fragment of the Time Vortex the future Cybership used as a power source, the Doctor destroyed the Cyberfleet and dissolved them into rain. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Flood (comic story)|The Flood]]'')

At a point in the [[far future]] where exact measurements of time were no longer meaningful, the Cybermen were utterly destroyed in a great war with the universe. Only a handful of Cybermen survived, but they were tracked down by [[bounty hunter]]s and [[mercenary|mercenaries]]. One [[Cyber-Controller (Real Time)|Cyber-Controller]], who was the [[Sixth Doctor]]'s former companion [[Evelyn Smythe]], hid on [[Chronos]] and discovered a [[time portal]] leading to [[3286]] which he used to make a [[bootstrap paradox]] of not just his own past [[cyber-conversion]] but the complete Cyberman conquest of the universe.

While the Cyber-Leader was destroyed with Mondas in [[1986]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Reaping (audio story)|The Reaping]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'') some of the cyber-technology it left in Baltimore was salvaged by [[Katherine Chambers]] and taken to [[Brisbane]]. She partially converted [[Nathaniel Chambers|her brother]] to extend his life. In [[2006]], [[the Forge]] manipulated Katherine to create [[System|an artificial intelligence]] by fusing the cyber-technology with other alien technology and the mind of [[Eve Morris]]. The [[Fifth Doctor]] attempted to destroy all traces of System, but a backup copy was saved ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Gathering (audio story)|The Gathering]]'') and System went into widespread use by [[2021]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Harvest (audio story)|The Harvest]]'')

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

Ashad was able to retrieve the Cyberium on [[Earth]] in [[1816]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Haunting of Villa Diodati (TV story)|The Haunting of Villa Diodati]]'') and brought it back to his own time where the survivors of humanity were hunted by the surviving Cybermen. Using the Cyberium, Ashad located [[Cybercarrier (Ascension of the Cybermen)|an intact]] [[Cybercarrier]] at the location of one of the last battlefields of the war which contained a [[Cyber-Army]] of hundreds of thousands of Cybermen and Cyberfighters. Using his new army, Ashad planned to upgrade the Cybermen to become a purely robotic race and then use the [[death particle]] to wipe out all organic life in the universe, leaving only the Cybermen and other robotic lifeforms intact. ([[TV]]: ''[[Ascension of the Cybermen (TV story)|Ascension of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[The Timeless Children (TV story)|The Timeless Children]]'')

However, the Master called for his CyberMasters to follow him to safety, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Timeless Children (TV story)|The Timeless Children]]'') so they survived. Furthermore, the Master cloned Ashad. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Power of the Doctor (TV story)|The Power of the Doctor]]'') After the destruction of her home, the Doctor was arrested by a [[Judoon]] [[cold case unit]] and taken to a [[maximum security facility]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Timeless Children (TV story)|The Timeless Children]]'') In this prison, one of her fellow prisoners was a [[Cyberman (Revolution of the Daleks)|Cyberman]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Revolution of the Daleks (TV story)|Revolution of the Daleks]]'')

{{Main|The Master's Dalek Plan}}

After cloning Ashad, the Master convinced the Lone Cyberman to ally with him once again on the condition that they could finally destroy the Doctor and take control of the Earth if the Cybermen worked with him, his CyberMasters, and the [[Dalek]]s. Taking command of a force of [[Cyber-Warrior]]s, Ashad agreed to [[the Master's Dalek Plan]] upon being promised that the Earth would be turned into a Cyberman and Dalek-production world. However, while the Cybermen were indeed under the impression they would use the population to create and "ascend" with a new Cyber-Army, the Daleks hoped to exterminate all human life on the planet. Nevertheless, the plan carried on with Ashad and his Cyber-Warriors being shrunken down into a [[Russian doll]] that the Master sent to [[Tegan Jovanka]] in [[2022]]. Meanwhile, the CyberMasters attacked a train under a [[Cyber-Leader (The Power of the Doctor)|Cyber-Leader]] to capture [[Qurunx (The Power of the Doctor)|a Qurunx]].

The CyberMasters in 1916 were destroyed when they were tricked into firing on each other by a [[AI hologram (The Power of the Doctor)|AI hologram of the Fugitive Doctor]], with Yaz then ensuring they would not regenerate by using their [[regneration energy]] to [[Retro-regeneration|undo the Doctor's forced regeneration]]. The conversion planet was then destroyed by the Qurunx. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Power of the Doctor (TV story)|The Power of the Doctor]]'')

[[File:TARDIS Cam 1.jpg|thumb|A dead Cyberman. ([[WC]]: ''[[TARDIS Cam No.1 (webcast)|TARDIS Cam No.1]]'')|alt=]]

A [[Cyberman (TARDIS Cam)|Cyberman]] head was once seen destroyed on [[Moon (TARDIS Cam)|a desert planet]] that the TARDIS once visited. The Cyberman lay dead with the silver wires on its face stretched. ([[WC]]: ''[[TARDIS Cam No.1 (webcast)|TARDIS Cam No.1]]'')

In the [[far future]], the [[Tenth Doctor]], [[Gabby Gonzalez]], [[Cindy Wu]], and [[Anubis]] encountered a group of "fake Cyberdudes" who reenacted battles from the "last great [[Cyber-Wars|Cyberwar]]". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Vortex Butterflies (comic story)|Vortex Butterflies]]'')

According to one account, in the [[101st century]], the Cybermen had nearly died out. Several centuries earlier, they had become the pacifist [[Cyberlord]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Synthespians™ (novel)|Synthespians™]]'') By the [[108th century]], the [[Cyberlord Hegemony]] was a major political power. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Crystal Bucephalus (novel)|The Crystal Bucephalus]]'') Additionally, into the [[posthuman]] era, [[technosapien]]ce became a commonly accepted form of humanity, most prominently with the [[Silversmiths' Coterie]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'', ''[[Weapons Grade Snake Oil (novel)|Weapons Grade Snake Oil]]'')

After the [[end of the universe]], the [[City of the Saved]] was home to all [[human]]s who had been forcibly cyber-converted prior to [[Resurrection Day (The Book of the War)|Resurrection Day]]. While some were resurrected in pre-conversion forms, others retained their cybernetics. The [[Order of the Iron Soul]] was a quasi-religious group composed of some who remained certain of humanity's inferiority. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'')

{{Section stub|Information from ''[[Conversion (comic story)|Conversion]]''}}

[[File:Miniscope.jpg|thumb|A Cyberman inside [[Vorg (Carnival of Monsters)|Vorg]]'s [[Miniscope]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Carnival of Monsters (TV story)|Carnival of Monsters]]'')|left]]

During the [[Great Disruption]] caused by [[the Flux]] and the [[Ravager (The Halloween Apocalypse)|Ravagers]], Cybermen were among the powers attempting to assert their power. They took over a sector of the galaxy and boarded [[Bel (Once, Upon Time)|Bel]]'s spaceship. She killed the boarding party of [[Cyber-Warrior]]s and interrogated a dying Cyberman on what they knew about the damage to time. ([[TV]]: ''[[Once, Upon Time (TV story)|Once, Upon Time]]'')

During the [[Gallifreyan history#The Dark Time|Dark Times on Gallifrey]], the Cybermen were excluded from the [[Game of Rassilon (Gallifrey)|the blood sports]] in the [[Death Zone]], because the Time Lords believed they had an unfair advantage over other victims of the games. [[Borusa]], having found the [[Game of Rassilon (The Five Doctors)|Game of Rassilon]], transported a squadron of [[CyberNeomorph]]s to the Death Zone to threaten and harass the [[Third Doctor]] and [[Sarah Jane Smith]]. These Cybermen were destroyed by a similarly transported [[Raston Warrior Robot]]. A second squadron under a [[Cyber-Leader (The Five Doctors)|Cyber-Leader]] allied with {{Ainley}}, intending to stage an invasion of Gallifrey, but he betrayed and destroyed them. A third squadron attempted to destroy the [[Fifth Doctor]]'s TARDIS, but were foiled when the TARDIS dematerialised at the last second. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'')

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 a timeline in which a successful [[WOTAN]] paved the way for [[World War III]], the Cybermen successfully occupied the [[Arctic]] in their 1986 invasion. They came to agreements with the [[South Africa]]n forces fighting the [[United Kingdom|British]], supplying them with [[Cyber-Technology|technology]] and [[Cyber-gun|weapons]] that gave the former a huge advantage in the war, particularly in the South African invasion of [[Great Britain|Britain]]. The First Doctor averted this timeline by halting the world on its road to war in [[1972]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time Travellers (novel)|The Time Travellers]]'') and later averted its causes altogether by defeating WOTAN in [[1966]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Machines (TV story)|The War Machines]]'') and the Cybermen in [[1986]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'')

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]]

Using the [[EarPod]]s he designed and sold, Lumic took mental control of the people of [[London]], marching thousands to be cyber-converted. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Age of Steel (TV story)|The Age of Steel]]'') He gave the order for all cyber-bases around the world to begin coverting the global population. ([[WC]]: ''[[Tardisode 6]]'') After his life-support systems were damaged by his assistant, [[Crane (Rise of the Cybermen)|Mr. Crane]], in an act of betrayal that cost him his life, Lumic was converted against his wishes into the Cyber-Controller by his own Cybermen to preserve his flesh form. By the Cybermen's cold logic, it was impractical to cling on to an already dying body. Once converted and revitalised, Cyberman instinct merged with his megalomanical mind and he planned to convert all of the parallel Earth. However, the [[Tenth Doctor]] and his companions, having accidentally landed on the parallel Earth, managed to foil his plans. They freed London from mental control and disabled the Cybermen's emotional inhibitors, causing them to go insane and, in some cases, explode. Lumic himself fell to his apparent death into the burning remains of his factory. A human resistance group, [[the Preachers]], then set about to clean up the remainder of Lumic's factories around the world. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Age of Steel (TV story)|The Age of Steel]]'')

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]]'')

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

The Cybermen of the [[Cyber-Mainframe]], who attempted to [[cyber-conversion|upgrade]] the entire [[multiverse]] to fulfill the [[Cyber-Ideal]], originated from a [[Parallel universe (Code Silver)|parallel universe]] that [[Kate Stewart]] speculated was neither [[N-Space]] nor "[[Pete's World]]". By the time [[Hive Section 49]] attempted to secure a foothold in N-Space during the [[2010]]s, the Cybermen of the Cyber-Mainframe had seized control of 48% of their native universe, with the [[Cyber-Controller (Code Silver)|Cyber-Controller]] of Hive Section 49 estimating that they would take full control of it within 7849 [[year]]s. In addition, in their campaign to upgrade every [[reality]], the Cybermen of the Cyber-Mainframe established footholds in many different [[parallel universe]]s and [[alternate timeline]]s via the use of [[dimension bridge technology]], which were translocated to "many" universes, and waited for these to be used by individuals within these universes so that the Cybermen could form dimension bridges into these realities and commence [[dimension seeding]] in them. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[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]]'')

The [[Cyberon]]s, a highly similar race of [[cyborg]]s, were "distant [[cousin]]s" of the Cybermen, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Flight of the Cyberons (short story)|Flight of the Cyberons]]'') with some personnel from [[The Vault (The Scales of Injustice)|the Vault]] theorising that the two cyborg species shared a common ancestor but, other than that, were distinct. Nonetheless, [[Archie MacTavish]] was once cut off while questioning whether a Cyberon incident in [[London]] was in any way related to [[Canary Wharf]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Worthy Successor (short story)|A Worthy Successor]]'') which had been the site of a [[Cybusman|Cybus Cyberman]] invasion in [[2006]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts (TV story)|Army of Ghosts]]'' / ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'') The ''[[Inanem Magnanime Milites]]'' were a race of emotionless cyborgs. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') The newborn [[Paul Magrs (Bafflement and Devotion)|Paul Magrs]] dreamt of the "[[Cyborg-man|Cyborg-men]]"; among others. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[In the Sixties (short story)|In the Sixties]]'')

An image of a Cyberman was one of the fears pulled from the Doctor's mind when he faced the [[Keller Machine]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mind of Evil (TV story)|The Mind of Evil]]'')

As noted by the [[Twelfth Doctor]] in [[propaganda]] broadcasts to an occupied [[Earth]] in the late [[2010s]], the Cybermen were among the menaces to [[human]]ity whom the [[Monk (species)|Monks]] took credit for defeating. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lie of the Land (TV story)|The Lie of the Land]]'')

The idea for the Cybermen came from [[Kit Pedler]]'s interest in new medical advances and his fears of where they might lead. Early concepts of the Cyberman design emphasised the "man" part of the name, but the proposed design would have cost too much money. Indeed, the televised version of ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'' featured much more human-like Cybermen with human hands.

The matter was confused in [[1975 (releases)|1975]] by ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen (TV story)|Revenge of the Cybermen]]'', which referred to Mondas once again as the Cybermen's original homeworld while having the band of Cybermen seen in the story also acknowledge the existence of Telos as a planet under their control. This reversal of what had become the accepted explanation for ''Tomb of the Cybermen''{{'}}s retcon was carried over in [[1983 (releases)|1983]] with ''[[Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)|Attack of the Cybermen]]'', which unambiguously presented Telos as a foreign world which the Mondasian Cybermen had colonised following the loss of their original homeworld — an egregious contradiction, indeed an almost complete reversal, of the narrative of events presented by ''[[Doctor Who and the Cybermen (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Cybermen]]''. The reference book ''[[Doctor Who: Cybermen]]'', by [[David Banks]], featured a similar theory of Cyber-history, which eventually made its way into a narrative source in ''[[The ArcHive Tapes (audio anthology)|The ArcHive Tapes]]''.

After [[Series 2 (Doctor Who)|Series 2]] of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' introduced a race of Cybermen created by [[Cybus Industries]] in a [[Pete's World|parallel world]], it had them crossover into the show's primary timeline in ''[[Army of Ghosts (TV story)|Army of Ghosts]]''. Despite token acknowledgement of the existence of "native" Cybermen in ''[[Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)|Rise of the Cybermen]]'', the Cybus Cybermen became, to a new generation of viewer, "the" Cybermen, with their origin as converted humans from a parallel universe neatly filling the shoes of the Mondasian original's status as the inhabitants of Earth's "[[Binary planetary system|twin planet]]".

[[File:Cyber Legion Cybermen Blue Chest Unit (The Doctor Falls).jpeg|thumb|right|One of the Cybermen in ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'']]

[[Neil Gaiman]], writer of ''[[Nightmare in Silver (TV story)|Nightmare in Silver]]'', stated<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141113193137/http://www.sfx.co.uk/2013/05/07/exclusive-neil-gaiman-talks-doctor-who-and-cybermen/|title=EXCLUSIVE – Neil Gaiman Talks Doctor Who And Cybermen|date of source=May 7th, 2013|website name=SFX|accessdate=January 5th, 2014}}</ref> that he had a theory that, at some point, the Cybus Cybermen encountered the [[Mondas]]ian/[[Telos]]ian Cybermen and the two races merged into one, explaining why, in [[Series 5 (Doctor Who)|Series 5]] and [[Series 6 (Doctor Who)|Series 6]], the Cybermen share characteristics of both the originals and the Cybus versions. It may also explain why the Cybus Cybermen appear in the ice tombs on Telos (in ''[[The Mazes of Time (video game)|The Mazes of Time]]'') and why the Cybermen have connections with Mondas Cybermen in the past but have the Cybus design (in ''[[Assimilation² (comic story)|Assimilation²]]''). This merged Cyber race is implied in Gaiman's [[Series 7 (Doctor Who)|Series 7]] episode ''[[Nightmare in Silver (TV story)|Nightmare in Silver]]'', where the Cyber-suits of two Cybus Cybermen are seen and said to have been found after the [[Cyber-Wars]] (a Mondasian Cyberman conflict) along with the suit of a Cyberman of the Cyber Legions. However, no explicit confirmation of this theory was given in the episode, although it was alluded to in the novel ''[[The Whoniverse (novel)|The Whoniverse]]''.

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Dialogue in [[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'' has since suggested that while some Cybermen are born of unique origins, they are still part of one species.

In the stage play ''[[The Monsters Are Coming!]]'', the [[Lurman]] [[Vorgenson]] used his machine, the [[Minimiser]], to capture several Cybermen to be part of his travelling show dedicated to the [[Eleventh Doctor]]. The Cybermen were one of many mind-controlled versions of his recently encountered enemies. It was revealed that the [[New Dalek Paradigm|New Paradigm Daleks]] had planted the idea in his head to attract the Eleventh Doctor to the show with his monsters, and capture him in the Minimiser. This plan worked, although Vorgenson learned the truth. The audience managed to save the Doctor and helped him to release the Cybermen from the Minimiser to destroy the Daleks.

The [[Tardis:Valid sources|non-narrative]] based work ''[[The Visual Dictionary|Doctor Who: The Visual Dictionary]]'' revealed much more:

Similar to the [[Last Great Time War#Behind the scenes|villains]] of the [[Last Great Time War|Time War]] in the [[Russell T Davies|RTD]] era, every twelfth episode in the [[Steven Moffat|Moffat]] era featured at least one Cyberman. [[Series 5 (Doctor Who)|Series 5]]'s ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'' had a [[Cyber-Leader (The Pandorica Opens)|Cyber-Leader]] in the [[Pandorica Alliance]]; [[Series 6 (Doctor Who)|series 6]]'s ''[[Closing Time (TV story)|Closing Time]]'' had [[Cybermat]]s, [[Series 7 (Doctor Who)|series 7]]'s ''[[Nightmare in Silver (TV story)|Nightmare in Silver]]'' had Cybermen that survived the [[Cyber-Wars]], [[Cybermite]]s, and [[Mr Clever]]; [[Series 8 (Doctor Who)|series 8]]'s ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'' had a Cybermen army made by {{Gomez}}; [[Series 9 (Doctor Who)|series 9]]'s ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'' had a [[Cyberman (Hell Bent)|Cyberman]] in the [[Cloisters]]; and [[Series 10 (Doctor Who)|series 10]]'s ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'' had [[Mondasian Cybermen]] [[Creation of the Cybermen|created]] on a [[Colony ship (World Enough and Time)|colony ship]].

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