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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]]'', ''[[Doctor Who and the Revenge of the Cybermen (novelisation)|Doctor Who and 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]]'')