Cybermen
The Cybermen are a cybernetic species that feature in the Doctor Who universe.
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History
The Cybermen were a race of cyborgs that were native to the Milky Way galaxy to the planet Mondas that was formerly within the Sol system. They were a race of humans that were native to a twin world of Earth that aeons ago had rifted from its orbit to a journey to the edge of space. The inhabitants scientists developed technologically in time and their cybernetic scientists concluded that their race was becoming weak. As a result, scientists and doctors devised spare parts for their bodies until the point that their forms were completely replaced with machines. A result of this time was replacing emotions that were deemed a weakness to them with them becoming a cybernetic race known as the Cybermen. (Episode: The Tenth Planet)
In time, Mondas was exhausted of energy forcing the Cybermen to seek its return to Earth in order to gather the power from its Earth twin. (Episode: The Tenth Planet)
In a parallel version of Earth in another universe, the Cybermen were the brainchild of businessman John Lumic, the head of Cybus Industries. The first fully functional Cyberman was created for him by Dr. Kendrick, who subsequently perished at the hands of his own creation. Lumic then went on to begin attempting to transform everyone in London into a Cyberman, including the mother of Rose Tyler.
Overview
Emotions were deemed a weakness by their ancestors leading to them being removed. (Episode: The Tenth Planet)
Their society was a whole was referred to as the Cyberiad. (Episode: Nightmare in Silver)
Another construct was the Cybermites that resembled insects which were controlled by the Cybermen that could view through them and scan targets where they travelled in small swarms as they went directly for a target's head. They were able to partially convert people though an upgrade process was needed for full cyber-conversion. (Episode: Nightmare in Silver)
One craft was the CyberKing that were dreadnought class vehicles that were used on the front line in an invasion with these skyscraper sized bipedal constructs containing a Cyberfactory in the chest that was used to convert millions. (Episode: The Next Doctor)
A further tool created by these cyborgs was Cyber-pollen that were tiny particle of a Cyberman that contained the plans to make another of their kind. It simply needed to make contact with compatible living organic matter. (Episode: Death in Heaven)
Members
- Krail :
- John Lumic :
Notes
- The Cybermen were created by Dr. Kit Pedler and story editor Gerry Davis in 1966 where they made their first appearance in the episode The Tenth Planet.
In other media
Video games
Appearances
- Doctor Who: "The Tenth Planet"
- Doctor Who: "World Enough and Time"
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