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'''Kroton''' was | '''Kroton''' was a [[Cyberman]] of the [[Early CyberFaction]] design, who uncharacteristically retained his emotional capacity. | ||
He discovered this on the planet [[Mondaran]], where he turned against his superiors and saved a group of resistance fighters, "sacrificing" himself in the process by launching the spaceship stolen by them into space while his batteries died. After being re-activated by a group of Humans, Kroton spent many years travelling alone; saving planets, and helping those he came across. Occasionally he would have brief flashes of memories of a lost life come into his mind, which were real enough to reach his mind but not concrete enough to reveal to him more than brief pockets of his past. After helping the [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Izzy Sinclair|Izzy]] on the [[Qutrusian]] [[Cargo Freighter X-703]], Kroton was taken on-board [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]], where he travelled with the pair for a time. After a battle with {{Fallen}} and [[Sato Katsura]], Kroton regained his memories from his life as a human and became the new controller of [[the Glory]] at the heart of the [[omniverse]]. | He discovered this on the planet [[Mondaran]], where he turned against his superiors and saved a group of resistance fighters, "sacrificing" himself in the process by launching the spaceship stolen by them into space while his batteries died. After being re-activated by a group of Humans, Kroton spent many years travelling alone; saving planets, and helping those he came across. Occasionally he would have brief flashes of memories of a lost life come into his mind, which were real enough to reach his mind but not concrete enough to reveal to him more than brief pockets of his past. After helping the [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Izzy Sinclair|Izzy]] on the [[Qutrusian]] [[Cargo Freighter X-703]], Kroton was taken on-board [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]], where he travelled with the pair for a time. After a battle with {{Fallen}} and [[Sato Katsura]], Kroton regained his memories from his life as a human and became the new controller of [[the Glory]] at the heart of the [[omniverse]]. | ||
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On [[Telos]], Kroton became a [[Junior Cyber-Leader]], and was sent to assist in the management of the occupied [[planet]] [[Mondaran]]. While leaving the planet, he wondered if he would ever see its sky again, a thought which his associate [[Liron]] found to be against what his programming should allow. | On [[Telos]], Kroton became a [[Junior Cyber-Leader]], and was sent to assist in the management of the occupied [[planet]] [[Mondaran]]. While leaving the planet, he wondered if he would ever see its sky again, a thought which his associate [[Liron]] found to be against what his programming should allow. | ||
On Mondaran, Kroton helped in the investigation of the resistance forces. He helped capture the elderly [[Willoway (Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman)|Willoway]], and told the Cybermen under his orders not to kill [[ | On Mondaran, Kroton helped in the investigation of the resistance forces. He helped capture the elderly [[Willoway (Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman)|Willoway]], and told the Cybermen under his orders not to kill [[Willoway's daughter]], who was attempting to stop them from taking Willoway away. The resistance fighters would later find this puzzling, as Cybermen usually killed at the first sign of hostility. Kroton was horrified to learn that Willoway had chosen death over the act of giving information to the Cybermen. He could not understand how Willoway would choose to protect something other than his own life, which he had been thought humans were very precious of. | ||
Kroton attempted to contact members of the resistance movement to question them on this, but they reacted hostilely to his arrival. Despite this, he kept calm and continued to inform them that he just wanted to talk to them until they fled. When a group of Cybermen arrived to look into the disturbances of the evening, Kroton turned them away, telling them to rejoin their troop. | Kroton attempted to contact members of the resistance movement to question them on this, but they reacted hostilely to his arrival. Despite this, he kept calm and continued to inform them that he just wanted to talk to them until they fled. When a group of Cybermen arrived to look into the disturbances of the evening, Kroton turned them away, telling them to rejoin their troop. | ||
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=== Wandering === | === Wandering === | ||
A cruise spaceship, the ''[[Flying Dutchman II]]'', which was stuck in a lateral [[stasis field]], found Kroton's ship and the [[human]] passengers reactivated him. He helped remove the ship from the stasis loop, but discovered it had been trapped for six hundred and twenty-eight years. The mortal passengers all rapidly aged and died, leaving Kroton alone again, with only the ship's robot pilot for company. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Ship of Fools (comic story)|Ship of Fools]]'') | A cruise spaceship, the ''[[Flying Dutchman II]]'', which was stuck in a lateral [[stasis field]], found Kroton's ship and the [[human]] passengers reactivated him. He helped remove the ship from the stasis loop, but discovered it had been trapped for six hundred and twenty-eight years. The mortal passengers all rapidly aged and died, leaving Kroton alone again, with only the ship's robot pilot for company. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Ship of Fools (comic story)|Ship of Fools]]'') | ||
[[File:Kroton_on_Harma.jpg|thumb|Kroton on the planet [[Paradise (planet)|Paradise]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Star Tigers (comic story)|Star Tigers]]'')]] | [[File:Kroton_on_Harma.jpg|thumb|Kroton on the planet [[Paradise (planet)|Paradise]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Star Tigers (comic story)|Star Tigers]]'')]] | ||
Kroton | Kroton explored the planet [[Paradise (planet)|Paradise]], at the same time [[Abslom Daak]] and [[Salander (Star Tigers)|Prince Salander]] were there seeking [[Harma]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Star Tigers (comic story)|Star Tigers]]'') | ||
Kroton continued to travel through space. Along his journeys, he helped a group of Technosmiths on Baroq VII. They thanked him by making some "special adaptions" to his armour — which allowed Kroton to withstand blaster fire from various guns. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Company of Thieves (comic story)|The Company of Thieves]]'') Kroton prevented an act of genocide by the [[Sontaran]]s. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Unnatural Born Killers (comic story)|Unnatural Born Killers]]'') | Kroton continued to travel through space. Along his journeys, he helped a group of Technosmiths on [[Baroq VII]]. They thanked him by making some "special adaptions" to his armour — which allowed Kroton to withstand blaster fire from various guns. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Company of Thieves (comic story)|The Company of Thieves]]'') Kroton prevented an act of genocide by the [[Sontaran]]s. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Unnatural Born Killers (comic story)|Unnatural Born Killers]]'') | ||
=== A companion of the Eighth Doctor === | === A companion of the Eighth Doctor === | ||
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It awoke memories from before his Cyber-conversion. He remembered all the happiness and sorrow he had ever felt as a human being. He accepted them and chose joy over misery. Afterwards, he was chosen by [[Esterath]] as the new controller of the Glory. The first Kroton did using his new powers was to heal the Doctor, banish the Master, restored the warped history that the Master caused, and finally granted Sato his ultimate wish for honourable death. Kroton then stayed behind to watch over the [[omniverse]] as the Doctor departed. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'') | It awoke memories from before his Cyber-conversion. He remembered all the happiness and sorrow he had ever felt as a human being. He accepted them and chose joy over misery. Afterwards, he was chosen by [[Esterath]] as the new controller of the Glory. The first Kroton did using his new powers was to heal the Doctor, banish the Master, restored the warped history that the Master caused, and finally granted Sato his ultimate wish for honourable death. Kroton then stayed behind to watch over the [[omniverse]] as the Doctor departed. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glorious Dead (comic story)|The Glorious Dead]]'') | ||
=== | === Legacy === | ||
[[File:Knowsall.jpg|thumb|Kroton on the [[Knowsall]] screen. (top centre) ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Thinktwice (comic story)|Thinktwice]]'')]] | [[File:Knowsall.jpg|thumb|Kroton on the [[Knowsall]] screen. (top centre) ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Thinktwice (comic story)|Thinktwice]]'')]] | ||
[[Iris Wildthyme]] once claimed that Kroton was a friend of hers. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Scarlet Empress (novel)|The Scarlet Empress]]'') | [[Iris Wildthyme]] once claimed that Kroton was a friend of hers. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Scarlet Empress (novel)|The Scarlet Empress]]'') [[Izzy Sinclair]] remembered Kroton when reminiscing on her adventures with the Doctor after returning to [[Stockbridge]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Oblivion (comic story)|Oblivion]]'') The [[Tenth Doctor]] would similarly recall him and Izzy alike when his memories were streamed on the screens of the [[Knowsall]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Thinktwice (comic story)|Thinktwice]]'') | ||
== Personality == | == Personality == | ||
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{{Quote|I probably wouldn't have approved. From what little I've seen of this stuff, it looks to be a complete transformation of the original character... he's now less a "Cyberman with a soul", more just a human being in a funny suit. It's far too far a move away from the original. If I'd done anything else with him, it would have been to continue with the character pretty much as he was... only a little different from a normal Cyberman, and still very much the "innocent abroad" that he was in ''Ship of Fools''. The later characterisation just seems far too knowing to me. But I don't know if I ever would have done anything else with Kroton... I never really thought that far ahead at the time. <ref>http://www.alteredvistas.co.uk/html/steve_moore_doctor_who_strip_i.html</ref>|[[Steve Moore]]}} | {{Quote|I probably wouldn't have approved. From what little I've seen of this stuff, it looks to be a complete transformation of the original character... he's now less a "Cyberman with a soul", more just a human being in a funny suit. It's far too far a move away from the original. If I'd done anything else with him, it would have been to continue with the character pretty much as he was... only a little different from a normal Cyberman, and still very much the "innocent abroad" that he was in ''Ship of Fools''. The later characterisation just seems far too knowing to me. But I don't know if I ever would have done anything else with Kroton... I never really thought that far ahead at the time. <ref>http://www.alteredvistas.co.uk/html/steve_moore_doctor_who_strip_i.html</ref>|[[Steve Moore]]}} | ||
* Kroton isn't the only Cyberman companion; the next would be [[Handles]], who appeared in the television story ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'' and in short stories in ''[[Tales of Trenzalore]]''— though Handles is not (or no longer) a cyber-conversion victim, but the head of a Cyberman with all Cyberman protocols and organic parts cleansed out. The [[Twelfth Doctor]]'s companion [[Bill Potts]] would also later undergo cyber-conversion in the television story ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'', and the [[Fifth Doctor]] companion [[Marcipor|Marc]] underwent partial cyber-conversion in the audio story ''[[Conversion (BFM audio story)|Conversion]]''. | * Scott Gray had intended for Izzy to mention Kroton during her breakdown in ''[[Beautiful Freak (comic story)|Beautiful Freak]]'', but felt it was a little too much continuity to be bringing up in the scene. | ||
* Kroton isn't the only Cyberman companion; the next would be [[Handles]], who appeared in the television story ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'' and in short stories in ''[[Tales of Trenzalore]]''— though Handles is not (or no longer) a cyber-conversion victim, but the head of a Cyberman with all Cyberman protocols and organic parts cleansed out. The [[Twelfth Doctor]]'s companion [[Bill Potts]] would also later undergo cyber-conversion in the television story ''[[World Enough and Time (TV story)|World Enough and Time]]'', and the [[Fifth Doctor]] companion [[Marcipor|Marc]] underwent partial cyber-conversion in the audio story ''[[Conversion (BFM audio story)|Conversion]]''. The [[Sixth Doctor|Sixth Doctor's]] companion [[Evelyn_Smythe|Evelyn]] was converted into a Cyber-Controller in [[Real Time (webcast)]]. | |||
== Footnotes == | == Footnotes == | ||
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