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{{Simplequote|A technologically augmented human being, designed to survive in a hostile environment. Perfectly sound idea. Unfortunately all they want to do is to turn everyone else into Cybermen too. ''[...]'' They consider themselves to be an improvement. An upgrade.|The [[Twelfth Doctor]] summarizes the Cybermen|The Doctor Falls (TV story)}} | {{Simplequote|A technologically augmented human being, designed to survive in a hostile environment. Perfectly sound idea. Unfortunately all they want to do is to turn everyone else into Cybermen too. ''[...]'' They consider themselves to be an improvement. An upgrade.|The [[Twelfth Doctor]] summarizes the Cybermen|The Doctor Falls (TV story)}} | ||
[[File:Conversion.jpg|right|thumb|Cyber-conversion in progress ([[TV]]: ''[[The Age of Steel (TV story)|The Age of Steel]]'')]] | [[File:Conversion.jpg|right|thumb|Cyber-conversion in progress ([[TV]]: ''[[The Age of Steel (TV story)|The Age of Steel]]'')]] | ||
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]]'') The Cyberman [[Krail]] believed that its race had achieved "true mastery" through "freedom from disease", a lack of pain, and "protection against heat and cold", suggesting that the alternative was to "die in misery". Overall, Krail remarked that "[people] will have no need of emotion", which he saw as a weakness anyway, post-conversion. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'') | 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, further seeing it as a way to bring about true equality and peace. Overall, Cybermen considered themselves to be beings that improved other beings: in their eyes, they brought an "upgrade" to those they converted. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'', ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') The Cyberman [[Krail]] believed that its race had achieved "true mastery" through "freedom from disease", a lack of pain, and "protection against heat and cold", suggesting that the alternative was to "die in misery". Overall, Krail remarked that "[people] will have no need of emotion", which he saw as a weakness anyway, post-conversion. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'') | ||
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]]'') | 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]]'') | ||
