Ice Warrior The Ice Warriors and Ice Lords were a race of reptilian humanoid s from the planet Mars , identified by the Eleventh Doctor as cyborg s because of their biomechanical armour . ( TV : " Cold War " ) Bill Potts compared them to vikings . ( TV : " Empress of Mars " ) The Gandoran s , who created the first Ice Warriors , called them the Saurian Evolutionaries . ( AUDIO : " Lords of the Red Planet " ) They were also known as native Martians ( TV : " Empress of Mars " ) and simply Martians ( TV : " Cold War " ) but at times were given the derogatory name of Greenie s . ( PROSE : " Transit " ) Biology . Adult , fully armoured Ice Warriors were large , imposing reptilian humanoid s , up to seven feet tall . Unarmoured , they had flattened , scaly faces with sharp fangs and thin green tongues . ( PROSE : " Legacy " , PROSE : " The Medusa Effect " , TV : " Cold War " ) They had either five ( COMIC : " Ascendance " ) or three fingers , tipped with sharp claws . ( TV : " Cold War " ) At least some Ice Warriors had large black eyes , ( COMIC : " Descendance " ) although Skaldak ' s were red . ( TV : " Cold War " ) They had skeletons much like human s , though with flatter skulls and wider eye sockets . ( COMIC : " Ascendance " ) Females were built more slightly than males , and had spiny dorsal crests which were sexually attractive in a manner analogous to the breasts of a human female . ( PROSE : " GodEngine " , " Transit " ) They preferred cold climates and could be killed by extreme heat , though small fires were no more dangerous to them than to a human . ( COMIC : " Descendance " ) According to the Eleventh Doctor , this weakness was a flaw in their survival armour which couldn ' t cope with sudden increases in temperature that was never fixed , and not a biological trait . ( TV : " Cold War " ) Due to differences in atmosphere and gravity , in Earth - like environments , Ice Warriors perpetually wheezed and tended to move slowly , ( TV : " The Seeds of Death " ) though they could move fast when needed . ( PROSE : " Legacy " , TV : " Cold War " ) They spoke in a drawn - out hiss . ( TV : " The Ice Warriors " ) Ice Warriors lived a long time . Some Martians in 1997 had been alive when Shakespeare was writing his plays . ( PROSE : " The Dying Days " ) The typical lifespan of an Ice Warrior was three hundred Earth years . They had a complicated genetic structure and were herbivores . ( PROSE : " GodEngine " ) Paul Webster , speculating the Ice Warriors were " more used to nitrogen " , knocked out Sub - Commander Sstast with an oxygen cylinder . According to the Fifth Doctor , the Ice Warriors were cold - blood ed . ( AUDIO : " Red Dawn " ) Society and culture . The planetary identification glyph of the Martians was a triangle overlaid with a lightning bolt with an artificial burning sun at its centre . ( PROSE : " GodEngine " ) Honour . Ice Warriors had a strong sense of personal honour . After the Third Doctor saved the life of the Ice Lord Izlyr , he felt obligated to help the Doctor escape . ( TV : " The Curse of Peladon " ) Ice Warriors disliked lying , though they would do so when necessary . ( PROSE : " Legacy " ) They believed that a victim of murder would not rest in peace until their killer had atoned for the crime . ( PROSE : " The Medusa Effect " ) When challenged to a ritual blood duel , an Ice Warrior would spit at an opponent ' s face . Terrorism was anathema . ( PROSE : " GodEngine " ) An Ice Warrior motto was " Attack one of us , attack all of us " . Ice Warriors considered it incredibly dishonourable to remove their armour , and thus only removed it under the most extreme circumstances . ( TV : " Cold War " ) Even before becoming warriors , the Martian species were seldom seen outside their armour , or otherwise wore similar - looking shells . The Fifth Doctor immediately identified a Martian from this time period as an Ice Warrior , even before he knew he was on Mars , ( AUDIO : " The Judgement of Isskar " ) while the Eleventh Doctor later claimed he never saw a Martian outside of their armour . ( TV : " Cold War " ) The strict code of honour came from earlier Martians , before they became a warrior species again and their planet began dying . At that time they only hunted for food and avoided physically fighting with one another . In fact , the word " warrior " did not exist in that era . Their belief in honour was reflected in a " gift economy " , a system in which people did not pay for things but instead were given freely and gave something in return . In these early years , the Martians were more involved in the arts and crafts rather than warfare . They began to change after disastrous climatic changes . They were also a proud people who refused to admit a problem existed . ( AUDIO : " The Judgement of Isskar " ) This sense of honour was either not shared among all Ice Warriors , or otherwise failed to match that of human s ' expectations . When Lord Slaadek and his warriors tried terraforming Mars to wipe out the 300 , 000 human colonists on it , Professor Boston Schooner didn ' t understand how he could be " so wrong " in thinking " they were noble creatures . A once - proud race with a code of chivalry . " The Eighth Doctor told him , " I don ' t know , Professor , though I have to ask : which part of the word ' warrior ' didn ' t you understand ? " ( AUDIO : " Deimos " ) Religion . Many of the Ice Warrior myths and legends originated in the Primal Wars . They worshiped the Osiran s Oras ( PROSE : " GodEngine " ) and Claatris ( the god of war ) ( PROSE : " The Crystal Bucephalus " ) . They also worshiped Tuburr , who was thought to be the one who made the Ice Warriors into warriors . In the early years of Ice Warrior civilisation , the young would be sent to the surface as a ritual trial of endurance . If they survived , they took the oath of Tuburr and tried to pull the Sword of Tuburr from a brazier , after which they were considered adults . ( PROSE : " Legacy " , COMIC : " Descendance " ) Martian law forbade any forging of copies of the holy Sword . ( PROSE : " GodEngine " ) An atypical Ice Lord funeral involved cremations , but for a short time in their history they froze the bodies in coffin - sized blocks of ice — a symbol of wealth on the water - scarce planet — and sealed them in crystal spires , a practice inspired by the Osiran s . Tomb raiding was punished by summary execution and territorial reparations by the raider ' s clan . ( PROSE : " The Dying Days " ) Martian tombs , pyramids and burial of the dead was similar to Egypt ian civilisation , suggesting that both were influenced by the Osiran race . During funeral rites , the deceased wore metallic clothes known as warding shrouds to protect them before the cremation . ( PROSE : " GodEngine " ) Society . Ice Warriors lived in clans and had a hereditary caste system . Fathers passed on land to their adult sons . ( COMIC : " Descendance " ) Advancement in the hierarchy was decided on merit and skill . ( PROSE : " Legacy " ) The skill of cooking was highly prized . ( PROSE : " GodEngine " ) This feudal way of life continued until the era of the Galactic Federation . ( TV : " The Curse of Peladon " ) At the start of Ice Warrior culture , conflicts were along clan lines , and struggles for power between different families became more common . When the Eighth Doctor and Stacy came to Mars in this time , they became involved in a fight between the Balazarus Mons and Darsus Mons families . ( COMIC : " Descendance " , " Ascendance " ) Clans included : Marriages were short affairs , made when the participants were young and intended to preserve bloodlines of clans . ( PROSE : " Placebo Effect " ) Women and family were sacred , though women sometimes ate their young . ( COMIC : " Cold Blooded War ! " ) When a marriage bond was broken , it was called " Fass - jul - Aqq " . ( PROSE : " GodEngine " ) Much as in ancient Rome , it was not unusual to find graffiti scratched onto walls , often virility symbols young males used to attract females . Martian settlements were typically known as " nests " , ( COMIC : " Emperor of the Daleks ! " ) a term that was extended to military installations . At the centre of a nest was a room called the Queen ' s Chamber . Military nests were circular , built around a single spiral passageway referred to as Xssixss , the mouth of which was the only entrance or exit . ( PROSE : " Transit " ) The Ice Warriors prided beauty and aesthetics above everything else except for those items related to war . The Ice Warriors were not known for their sense of humour . ( PROSE : " The Medusa Effect " ) Nevertheless , Bernice Summerfield wrote a thesis on that very subject and knew at least one " hilarious " Martian joke . ( COMIC : " Emperor of the Daleks ! " ) In fact , Martian humour was occasionally elusive to humans and most of it was lost in translation . ( PROSE : " The Dying Days " ) By the time of the Federation , King Peladon considered the term " Ice Warrior " — which " many " still referred to them as — " a xenophobic throwback to a violent heritage " , but also knew that this heritage was one " some sought to resurrect " . ( AUDIO : " The Prisoner of Peladon " ) Technology . Armour . Ice Warriors were extremely capable engineers ( TV : " Empress of Mars " ) and almost always wore some form of " bio - armour " that matched their skin . This bio - armour augmented their already considerable strength . This included a half - face helmet and a red blast - screen over each eye . Ice Warrior nobility ( " Ice Lords " ) wore light armour with sleek , bullet - shaped , metallic helmets , simple breastplate and cape . ( TV : " The Seeds of Death " ) An Ice Marshall ' s helmet contained circuitry beneath its surface and acted as an additional nervous system for its wearer after it bonded with the cranium . ( AUDIO : " Thin Ice " ) Common warriors had much heavier and bulkier , intricately patterned . full - body armour , and stubby helmets ( some designs of which also placed blast screens over the ears ) . ( TV : " The Curse of Peladon " ) Their exoskeletal armour melded with the body of their wearer and an Ice Warrior was described as being one with their armour . ( AUDIO : " Thin Ice " ) This armour consisted of carapaces and helmets grown in nutrient tanks and cybernetically augmented to provide the wearer with increased strength , reaction time , spectral sensitivity and biological efficiency . It also gave them a direct link to the Martian battle net . Finally , it boosted the efficiency of their waste management systems . ( PROSE : " GodEngine " ) The armour technology included locked - sequence communicators and induced muscular hydraulics . ( AUDIO : " Thin Ice " ) The armour was tough enough to protect them from a swing of an axe . ( PROSE : " The Silent Stars Go By " ) This armour could also be remotely controlled with sonic technology . ( TV : " Cold War " ) By the late 26th century , some sects of Ice Warriors had undergone extensive cybernetic alteration . An implant at the base of the brain connected their armour directly to their nervous systems , making it a part of their physical makeup . These Ice Warriors also had artificial membranes inside their throats , allowing them to filter out gases not necessary for their survival . ( PROSE : " The Medusa Effect " ) The armour was chiefly designed to protect the wearer from extreme cold ; however , a rapid rise in temperature could overwhelm its systems . ( TV : " Cold War " ) Weapons . Though Ice Warriors had small sonic weapon s in the wrist of their armor as a personal defence weapon , ( TV : " The Ice Warriors " ) as well as making use of sonic disruptor s as handheld firearms , ( AUDIO : " The Prisoner of Peladon " ) they tended to use rifles and portable artillery that utilised sonic instead of kinetic or energy damage . ( COMIC : " 4 - Dimensional Vistas " ) Similar , more advanced wrist - mounted weapons were also used by both royalty and royal guards . Capable of literally folding anyone it struck to grossly small proportions , it had slight delay before firing a red tinted ball of white , sonic energy . ( TV : " Empress of Mars " ) They also made use of sonic grenades that operated by emitting a sonic impulse which caused a violent implosion of the eardrums of anyone within the vicinity of the blast radius . ( AUDIO : " Thin Ice " ) Their sonic guns could be disrupted by the Doctor ' s sonic screwdriver , although it used up a lot of power . To counter this problem , the Ice Warriors used swords and battle axes . ( PROSE : " The Silent Stars Go By " ) They also used genetically - engineered weapons , such as a bacteriological weapon based on Martian sleeping fever , ( PROSE : " GodEngine " ) as well as the insidious Red Death which was programmed to target individuals with a specific DNA pattern . ( PROSE : " The Dying Days " ) During the 22nd century Dalek invasion , the Ice Warriors had a superweapon named the GodEngine , built from technology left over by the Osiran s , god - like visitors to Mars long before . The GodEngine could destroy a star by making it go supernova ; its deployment was prevented by the Seventh Doctor . ( PROSE : " GodEngine " ) Terraforming . The Ice Warriors were capable of engineering planetary ecosystems to better suit their needs ; from their perspective the process was known as " aresforming " . ( PROSE : " The Dying Days " ) They could deploy seeds on a planet which altered the environment and made it an icy world . ( TV : " The Seeds of Death " ) Their vessels were equipped with munitions that could knock a planet out of its orbit . ( PROSE : " Mission to Magnus " ) A mining - laser which a human expeditionary force dubbed " The Gargantua " was utilized for digging caves deep under the surface of Mars . ( TV : " Empress of Mars " ) Transportation . Martian rockets had remained unchanged for a hundred thousand years and followed the same technological development of tens of thousands of worlds in the galaxy . One of the reasons why the Martians had never conquered their solar system or indeed the rest of the galaxy was scarcity of resources . Their warships used a propulsion system based on electromagnetism that emitted no heat and was capable of playing havoc with primitive guidance systems . ( PROSE : " The Dying Days " ) On their homeworld of Mars , the Ice Warriors used air car s . ( COMIC : " Descendance " ) At some point the Ice Warriors developed spacecrafts . One such ship was used to rescue Grand Marshall Skaldak from Earth . ( TV : " Cold War " ) Other . Martians prided themselves on secrecy . They made use of Chameleon field s to hide certain locations . The Ice Warriors made use of this advanced form of solid holography to pack out their fleets . They bio - engineered a type of fungus for use as a form of illumination . A notable interrogation tool designed specifically for use on humans was the brain - rack . It created artificial neural pathways in the human mind which dominated the existing thought processes and ultimately ensured obedience in the subject . These machines were said to have no harmful side effects and the process wore off after a week or so when the artificial engrammes began to decay and the natural pathways reasserted themselves . Seen as a potential brainwashing tool , the brain - rack also increasing learning rates by three hundred percent . ( PROSE : " GodEngine " ) Ice Warriors engineered standard stasis - pods in a hive that was buried under Mars , marred in rock , and used for hibernation . Holding warriors in crystal , it had to have a guard outside the hive to active the Queen ' s sarcophagus who would then active the rest of the crystalline pods herself . ( TV : " Empress of Mars " ) History . Early history . The original Saurian Evolutionaries , later known as Ice Warriors , were created by the Gandoran s as a slave warrior race via forced evolution of the non - sentient , turtle - like Saurians . While the original batch of Ice Warriors , used by Gandoran dictator Zaadur to slaughter her own people , was killed , the Doctor , knowing that they would once rule the planet , speculated that Quendril either had more of them created at a later point , or that they evolved naturally from the Saurians . Accounts differed as to the downfall of the Ice Warriors , with some mentioning being at their peak and active thousands of years BC , ( TV : " Cold War " , " Empress of Mars " ) and others claiming their atmosphere to have been destroyed " centuries " before the 21st century , ( AUDIO : " Red Dawn " ) or even millions of years BC . ( AUDIO : " Deimos " ) At some point , a group of Ice Warriors led by Lord Arakssor were convicted for warmongering . Their sentence was to life imprisonment in a prison in Antarctica . An Ice Warrior attacked the prison in an attempt to escape . However , this flooded the prison , trapping everyone beneath the ice in suspended animation . Looking at the body of the Seventh Doctor , who was also trapped beneath the ice , Genevieve Marceau estimated this time as millions of years before 2012 . ( AUDIO : " Frozen Time " ) The Ice Warriors were once visited by the godlike Osiran s , who cruelly and callously used them as little more than labourers on their construction projects . Millions of years BC , the Martians were a migratory species . They evolved to the point that all their waste products were recycled . ( PROSE : " GodEngine " ) Ca . 59 , 000 BC , the Ice Warriors were part of the Empire of the Gubbage Cone s . ( PROSE : " The Crystal Bucephalus " ) At some point in the past , the species that became known as the Ice Warriors built a gigantic generation ship that later became known as Phobos and colonised Mars . Human astronomer s mistook the ship for a natural moon of Mars . ( PROSE : " Crimson Dawn " ) The Martian Industrial Revolution took place at the same time as the Pliocene Era on Earth . ( PROSE : " The Dying Days " ) Some exploration of other planet s was attempted . Varga went to Earth , but his ship was trapped in a glacier for thousands of years . Some time after this , the Ice Warrior ' s civilisation went into decline as Mars became more inhospitable . ( TV : " The Ice Warriors " , PROSE : " Legacy " ) As Mars became colder , the Ice Warriors adapted to use what the Eleventh Doctor called " survival armour " to survive in the freezing cold temperatures . ( TV : " Cold War " ) Circa 5000 BC , the Ice Warriors realised that complete devotion to the concepts of war would destroy their species in the same manner as the Osirans . Using their legends and race memories , they created a peaceful religion that taught pacifism and compassion . This became the doctrine of the Order of Oras . ( PROSE : " GodEngine " ) Circa 3000 BC — by Professor Grisenko ' s reckoning — the Ice Warriors had a mighty empire and a fleet . The fleet was led by the Nix - Thassis and commanded by Grand Marshall Skaldak . In unknown circumstances , Skaldak was trapped under the ice of the North Pole on Earth and was frozen for thousands of years . ( TV : " Cold War " ) The fall of the Ice Warriors . At some point , the Martian civilisation was made of peaceful people who were not warriors but artisans who hunted for food and never experienced war . In this era , their world was a thriving planet with the native sentient species thriving for twelve thousand years . Though they preferred the cold , one settlement was built in the equator but the construction of its shelled shaped buildings allowed for a cooler environment and waterways kept the populace fulfilled . Their sense of honour stretched back from this time as their civilisation was based on a gift economy in which things were given freely and receivers gave something back in return . It was a world of craftsmen , builders and farmers which built wondrous pyramids on their home planet . ( AUDIO : " The Judgement of Isskar " ) During this early period , Martian cities were noted as being much like those on Earth . Food waste and plant matter was left on the streets . ( PROSE : " The Dying Days " ) However , a visit by the Fifth Doctor and his companion Amy led to the fall of the race . The two time travellers were looking for a decaying segment of the Key to Time , one of which was took the form of a pyramid ' s capstone . The segment had begun its decay , causing earthquake s . The Doctor and Amy , along with Zara and Harmonious 14 Zink , who were also looking for the segments , reached the top of the pyramid . Zara , who was a sentient tracer , activated the segment , leaving with Zink ' s time ring . This led to the formation of a gravity well which sent earthquakes and hurricanes across the planet for three decades . These devastated the Martian civilisation . Some managed to get off world but most remained on Mars where they fought amongst themselves for food and shelter . After thirty years , the energies from the segment of the Key to Time had been spent and the ground had settled . What remained of their race emerged onto their world where they planned to rebuild , even if it took them a thousand years . ( AUDIO : " The Judgement of Isskar " ) Despite this honourable goal , the Ice Lord Izdaal had been observing the sky . His studies determined that their atmosphere was no longer capable of keeping out radiation from outer space . This would eventually kill them all . He told the government that their turmoil was not over and with the evidence of sickening children , he declared that their world was no longer sustainable . ( AUDIO : " The Judgement of Isskar " ) He was ignored by his people . Izdaal made the ultimate sacrifice . To prove himself right , he elected to step outside and face the Red Dawn , knowing he would die . ( AUDIO : " Red Dawn " ) His death led to his people coming to the same conclusion and they worked to survive , slowly becoming a conqueror race that took what they wanted from others . ( AUDIO : " The Judgement of Isskar " ) A group of Ice Warriors remained in suspended animation on Mars to protect Izdaal ' s tomb . Risking never being woken up , Izdaal ' s guardians lay inside their tombs waiting for a lifeform with enough honourable intentions to make it past the biometric locks inside the tomb , having " much " to offer to the Ice Warriors as they would to any Earth lifeforms that would discover the tomb . ( AUDIO : " Red Dawn " ) According to the Twelfth Doctor , Mars ' atmosphere had " all but evaporated " , and the surface was " lifeless " before 1881 . He told Iraxxa that the Ice Warriors could not survive without help . Friday agreed with the Doctor . ( TV : " Empress of Mars " ) At some point prior to his travels to ancient Mars , the Fifth Doctor was surprised that there were Ice Warriors still around by the 21st century ; he assumed they " all " left Mars after its atmosphere thinned " centuries " before the 21st century , while Lord Zzaal said the Ice Warriors had discovered " primitive , early life " developing on Earth before his people went into suspended animation . ( AUDIO : " Red Dawn " ) The Eighth Doctor dated this time as " many millions of years " before the 23rd century . ( AUDIO : " Deimos " ) The Eleventh Doctor claimed that the Ice Warriors were scattered " all across the universe " . ( TV : " Cold War " ) After the fall . Following the destruction of Mars ' atmosphere , the Ice Warriors fled to Deimos , one of the planet ' s moons , where they constructed catacombs and placed themselves in suspended animation in the hope of one day either reclaiming Mars or conquering Earth . A human - made exhibit on Deimos dramatising the lead up to Izdaal ' s walk into the dawn mentioned that Earth was unsuitable to be conquered and inhabited " at this point in history " and that the Ice Warriors had nowhere to evacuate to . It said that Ice Warriors would one day awaken from the tombs to become " rightful " rulers of the Sol system . ( AUDIO : " Deimos " ) Lord Zzaal , whom had placed himself in suspended animation around the same time as those on Deimos , also told the Fifth Doctor that at that point the Earth ' s environment was unsuitable for them . According to Lord Zzaal , even without the threat of the dawn , the low temperature and loss of water would mean an Ice Warrior could only survive for a few days . ( AUDIO : " Red Dawn " ) As Mars died , one million Martians remained trapped in suspended animation on board the generation ship that had become the moon Phobos . ( PROSE : " Crimson Dawn " ) Similar installations existed in the asteroid belt in the Sol system . ( AUDIO : " Deimos " ) At some point after Izdaal met the red dawn , the tracer , Zara , asked Isskar , now an elderly Ice Lord , to come to Safeplace so she could assemble the rest of the Key to Time and perhaps restore Mars . Isskar and a group of his warriors left in a ship , putting themselves in suspended animation on a spaceship commandeered by Isskar . ( AUDIO : " The Judgement of Isskar " ) Centuries before 1997 , Martian scientists concluded that the possibility of oxygen - breathing lifeforms was a complete absurdity . There were many attempts by the Martians to revitalise their world but they lacked the resources to accomplish it . They tried to grow plants in the barren soil of their planet but these were always rotten and dying . ( PROSE : " The Dying Days " ) 17th century . In 1609 , the Ice Warriors participated in the Armageddon Convention , which convened in Laputa , a floating island in the sky near Venice . ( PROSE : " The Empire of Glass " ) 20th century . In 1903 , after receiving a wealth of information from the future , Grigori Rasputin saw the Ice Warriors . ( AUDIO : " The Wanderer " ) In 1983 , a lone Ice Warrior by the name of Grand Marshal Skaldak , who had been frozen in ice for over 5000 years , was brought aboard the Soviet submarine , the " Firebird " . Piotr decided to thaw the ice before they reached Moscow , and Skaldak was revived . After revealing himself , Skaldak was attacked by the crew and imprisoned . He used his armour to send a distress beacon . Managing to escape by leaving his suit , Skaldak noticed that his distress call hadn ' t been answered . Believing his race to be dead , Skaldak attempted to use the sub ' s nuclear arsenal to attack the humans on Earth , allowing the two superpowers to strike back in mutually assured destruction . The Eleventh Doctor and Clara Oswald attempted to talk him into showing mercy . Before he made a decision , Skaldak was rescued by his people . After being brought onto their ship , Skaldak remotely deactivated the launch procedure . ( TV : " Cold War " ) By 1997 , Mars was in its dying days and its people were racked by sterility and disease . The Argyre clan of Ice Warriors tried to invade Earth , nominally taking over the United Kingdom with human collaborators to form a mutually beneficial relationship , but actually intending a mass terraforming ( " ares - forming " ) of the planet . This was thwarted by the Eighth Doctor and the clan was eradicated . ( PROSE : " The Dying Days " ) However , according to the Twelfth Doctor , Mars was already " lifeless " before 1881 and the Ice Warriors could not survive without help , which Friday agreed with . ( TV : " Empress of Mars " ) 21st century . In the early 21st century , a team from the " Argosy " funded by Leo Webster intended to take an Ice Warrior for Paul Webster to create a human clone army augmented by Ice Warrior biology and technology . The " Argosy " team and the Fifth Doctor and Peri arrived inside Izdaal ' s tomb , where his guardians awoke from suspended animation . Paul tried kidnapping Sub Commander Sstast in the " Argosy " , but the ship was shot down . Paul then held the Doctor and his " cousin " , the human - Ice Warrior hybrid , Tanya Webster , as hostages , attempting to escape in the Ice Warriors ' rocket . In exchange for the survival of the tomb , Lord Zzaal swapped places with the Doctor . As dawn broke , Zzaal was killed by the ultraviolet rays from the " Red Dawn " . With Zzaal no longer in mortal danger , Ssast fired a sonic charge at Paul , killing him . Tanya stayed behind , becoming an ambassador for Earth when communication between Earth and Mars opened . ( AUDIO : " Red Dawn " ) In 2008 , an invasion was attempted in Sydney , Australia but was thwarted by UNIT . ( COMIC : " The Age of Ice " ) In the year 2012 , an expedition under Lord Barset went to Antarctica to follow an earlier expedition by his grandfather in 1929 . His ancestor ' s mission was a complete failure , with only a single survivor who informed others that the expedition had fallen prey to intelligent reptile men with superior technology . Seeking to uncover this advanced weaponry for himself , Barset accidentally freed the imprisoned Arakssor and his fellow murderers from the ice . The Seventh Doctor activated Geldar ' s distress call and boosted it to contact a Martian warship from the other side of the galaxy . The warship bombarded the prison from orbit , killing the Ice Warriors inside . ( AUDIO : " Frozen Time " ) In the 2010s , an Ice Warrior was a resident of the hidden trap street in London which housed lost aliens on Earth under the protection of Mayor Me . As with the rest of the inhabitants it appeared cloaked in human form through use of the lurkworm s . ( TV : " Face the Raven " ) Another invasion and terraforming was attempted in the mid - 21st century , when the Ice Warriors , led by Slaar , invaded the central T - Mat base on the Moon which regulated global T - Mat operations . He attempted to use a fungus , which would turn the Earth into a more hospitable planet for them . The Second Doctor and his companion s stopped him . ( TV : " The Seeds of Death " ) According to Harold , who had watched a documentary about the Ice Warriors on the History Channel , the Ice Warriors were " supposed to have been wiped out " following the T - Mat incident . In the 23rd century , the Ice Warrior expert , Professor Schooner , declared the Ice Warriors " extinct " for " centuries " , while Gregson Grenville had learnt in school that " [ t ] hey were all melted when the invasion fleet spiralled into the Sun " . According to Grenville , nobody knew of any Ice Warriors existing after this period until the attack on Deimos Moonbase in the 23rd century . Human tourists to the catacombs of Deimos in the 23rd century , such as Margaret , considered the moon the " final resting place " of the Ice Warriors and she and Harold expressed shock that " real " Ice Warriors could ever exist . One of the Ice Warriors that awoke from the tombs on Deimos considered him and eight others the last of their race . The Eighth Doctor corrected him , mentioning the tombs in the asteroid belt containing Ice Warriors yet to have been awakened . ( AUDIO : " Deimos " ) Another account stated that in 2086 , invasion was attempted yet again , leading to the Thousand Day War . By 2088 , the humans had won . ( PROSE : " GodEngine " , " The Dying Days " ) In 2097 , the female Pope made a papal visit to Mars in order to anoint the first Martian bishops . This was done to improve relations between Martians and the humans . The Dalek s made an assassination attempt . ( PROSE : " The Gallifrey Chronicles " ) 22nd century . According to one account , by the early 22nd century , the Interstitial Mass Transit System had been established , linking the planetary bodies of the Sol system in a way that allowed humanity to treat Mars as a colony world , marginalising the few remaining survivors of the war ( PROSE : " Transit " , " Fear Itself " ) and , through the 22nd century , marginalised the Ice Warriors on their own home planet . Later , the Ice Warriors became allies of the humans . The Ice Warriors colonised a new planet and named it New Mars or Neo Ares . ( PROSE : " Legacy " , " The Medusa Effect " ) However , according to the Eighth Doctor , the Ice Warriors would not establish a new homeworld until the Ice Warriors in the tombs in the asteroid belt awoke " a few centuries " from the 23rd century . ( AUDIO : " Deimos " ) The Monk showed Tamsin Drew the Ice Warriors having forcibly taken over the planet Halcyon circa the 33rd century . ( AUDIO : " The Resurrection of Mars " ) The Eighth Doctor mentioned that colonies of humans existed on Mars , numbering 300 , 000 in the 23rd century according to Temperance Finch , although no Ice Warriors were known to live there . ( AUDIO : " Deimos " ) The Doctor said to the Monk that without the Monk ' s involvement in awakening them , " there shouldn ' t even be Ice Warriors on Deimos at this period of history " . According to this account , without the Monk ' s involvement , even the Ice Warriors on Deimos wouldn ' t have awakened until " a few centuries " afterwards . ( AUDIO : " The Resurrection of Mars " ) According to one account , during the 22nd century , Ice Warriors came into conflict with the Selachian Empire when a colony refused to sell weapons to the Selachian s . The Ockorans used their sun - stoker on these colonists to kill them . ( PROSE : " The Final Sanction " ) 23rd century . According to one account , in the 23rd century , a group of nine Ice Warriors led by Lord Slaadek — noted by one of their kind as " the last of our race " , though as the Eighth Doctor pointed out to him , " there [ were ] some more of you frozen out in the asteroid belt " — ( AUDIO : " Deimos " ) were awakened prematurely by the Monk from their tombs on Deimos in an attempt to change history ; the Monk planned for the Ice Warriors to alter the atmosphere of Mars with Deimos Moonbase ' s atmospheric re - ioniser to revitalise their own home so that they would wipe out 300 , 000 human colonists , rather than 20 billion Halcyon on the planet Halcyon a thousand years later . ( AUDIO : " The Resurrection of Mars " ) These Ice Warriors commandeered " Tourist Shuttle Number 2 " from their tombs to take over Deimos Moonbase . The 600 visitors and staff inside the moonbase were squeezed into a passenger rocket to evacuate . Tamsin Drew and Gregson Grenville had placed a bomb inside and planned to activate the bomb as they headed back to the rocket , while the Doctor and Professor Schooner sabotaged the re - ioniser . Professor Schooner was killed while buying time for the Doctor . The Doctor and Tamsin leapt aboard the rocket , but Gregson couldn ' t reach the rocket in time . The rocket took off , killing Gregson and two Ice Warriors . The Doctor considered activating the bomb remotely himself , but backtracked when the rocket received a " text message " from Lucie Miller , ( AUDIO : " Deimos " ) who had been placed there by the Monk as part of his plans . When the rocket returned to Deimos thanks to a gravity eddy , Lord Slaadek demanded that they have the Doctor , so that the re - ioniser could be repaired . When the re - ioniser began its process , the Doctor , unable to reverse the effects , brought it " to a very sudden halt with a very loud bang " by reducing a critical feedback in the ionisation beam . At the last minute , the Doctor also made the process alter Mars into an Earth - like atmosphere rather than that of the Mars of long before . With only five minutes to escape to the catacombs , the surviving Ice Warriors failed to make it when the feedback ignited the atmosphere of the moonbase . ( AUDIO : " The Resurrection of Mars " ) 24th century . Circa the 24th century , a group of Ice Warriors on the planet Magnus got caught up with the deals of the Mentor , Sil , who said he would lower the temperature of Magnus to make the world a more comfortable environment for Martians . The Sixth Doctor and Peri put an end to this plan . ( PROSE : " Mission to Magnus " / AUDIO : " Mission to Magnus " , PROSE : " Legacy " ) 25th century . In the 25th century , the Fourth Doctor combated the plots of the Ares Corporation and awakened the sleeping Martians in the artificial moon of Phobos ; the event became known as Resurrection Day . ( PROSE : " Crimson Dawn " ) 26th century . By the 26th century , the Ice Warriors were an isolated species . They had left Mars and , according to one account , were isolated on New Mars . ( PROSE : " Legacy " ) However , the Monk showed Tamsin Drew that they didn ' t even " find " a new world to live on until the discovery of Halcyon around the 33rd century . ( AUDIO : " The Resurrection of Mars " ) During this century , an Ice Warrior , Haama , accompanied Abslom Daak and his crew in the " Kill - Wagon " . ( COMIC : " Star Tigers " , " Nemesis of the Daleks " , " Emperor of the Daleks " ) In the late 26th century , a Martian called Hass became the gardener at the Braxiatel Collection . ( PROSE : " . . . Be Forgot " ) 27th century . Around the early 27th century , two delegates of New Mars were in peace talks with Queen Bastrovan . After leaving this conference , Karter and his partner set off explosives , inadvertently doing severe damage to the space liner the " Empress " instead of wiping out one floor as planned . The Ice Warrior delegate , Azznesh Azzar , thinking the explosion was the Queen ' s doing , set a collision course for Ronos Minor that would kill the remaining dignitaries on board and provoke a war against the Queen . Karter , though having escaped was discovered to be involved , preventing the hostilities , while the fake distress call Azzar sent out attracted the attention of Ice Warriors . They brought the survivors of the explosion to safety . ( AUDIO : " The Dance of the Dead " ) 31st century . In the mid - 31st century , the Eighth Doctor and Stacy accidentally interrupted Izaxyrl ' s rite of ascension . During the distraction , Izaxyrl was kidnapped by Lord Artix in order to stop the ceremony . If Izaxyrl was not an adult , he could not inherit the title of High Lord of Balazarus Mons from his father Uzoxx , which would mean Artix would take over . Though Izaxyrl was eventually rescued , the Doctor and Izaxyrl returned to the fortress of Darsus Mons to try to rescue Stacy and Ssard and were captured . Despite this , Artix was eventually defeated and Izaxyrl became an adult . ( COMIC : " Descendance " , " Ascendance " ) 33rd century . According to one account , Ice Warriors from the asteroid belt had awoken from their stasis some centuries after the 23rd century , and around the 33rd century , as the Monk had shown Tamsin , had found Halcyon , a planet " ideal for their purposes " . The Ice Warriors destroyed all life on the planet before settling on it as their new home . The Eighth Doctor told the Monk that the destruction of Halcyon was " a part of the Web of Time " . ( AUDIO : " The Resurrection of Mars " ) 40th century . By the late 40th century , the Ice Warriors ( still in the Galactic Federation ) had , for the most part , renounced their war - like ways . ( TV : " The Curse of Peladon " , " The Monster of Peladon " ) At some point after their entry into the Federation , the Ice Warriors served as monitors and were dispatched to Draconia to oversee the crisis developing among the Draconian s after the ascendance of Empress Adjit Kwan . It was led by Commander Ixzyptir , who was empowered to declare martial law in case the civil unrest became too great , and was charged with guarding the Adjudicator s that were to negotiate a peaceful settlement . The Tenth Doctor arrived and was mistaken for the Adjudicator . The Ice Warriors were responsible for the protection of Donna Noble . ( COMIC : " Cold Blooded War ! " ) After Peladon had entered the Federation , the Martians had entered a civil war on New Mars and Grand Marshall Raxlyr had placed the planet under martial law , cutting off contact with the outside world . The Martian royal family had been executed , apart from Princess Lixgaar of New Mars , and she , along with other refugees had been granted refuge by King Peladon of Peladon . Most of the Martians were kept in refugee camps on Peladon , while Princess Lixgaar was held in the chamber of the Prisoner of Peladon until Lord Izlyr could safely take her to Federation headquarters on Io . ( AUDIO : " The Prisoner of Peladon " ) 41st century . In 4010 , a group of Martians were on Cressida to watch a rare chemical reaction in the atmosphere of Uranus . ( PROSE : " Uranus " ) Circa 4035 , the Martians were again members of the Federation . By this point , Martian royalty were referred to princes and princesses of Mars , rather than New Mars . ( AUDIO : " The Bride of Peladon " ) 51st century . Circa 5000 , during an Ice Age on Earth , Varga and his crew were finally revived and decided to take over first Brittanicus Base and then the world . ( TV : " The Ice Warriors " ) Undated events . The Tenth Doctor believed that the Ice Warriors may have frozen their water to prevent the Flood from escaping and killing all Ice Warriors on Mars . ( TV : " The Waters of Mars " ) On the planet Yama - 10 , the Ice Warriors were mining the hostile world of Trisilicate when their position was attacked by the Cybermen , who wanted that world as part of their empire . Taking the battle to the polar ice caps which were a more suitable condition for the Martians to fight in , the battle raged between the two sides . The ice melted , drowning the Cybermen and entombing the Ice Warriors in ice . ( COMIC : " Deathworld " ) A group of Ice Warriors led by Arryx sabotaged the weather controls of luxury planet A - Lux , turning it into a snowy and barren land . They were defeated by the Seventh Doctor and Frobisher . ( COMIC : " A Cold Day in Hell ! " ) The Ice Warriors were part of the Alliance of Races , which was formed by Rassilon to defeat the Hyperions . After the Hyperions were defeated , the Alliance then went on to purge the universe of other threats to universal harmony , one of those threats being Count D ' if of the Cybock Imperium . ( COMIC : " Gangland " ) They were also part of the Supremo ' s alliance in the war against Morbius . ( PROSE : " Warmonger " ) A group of Ice Warriors were put in the Doctor ' s TARDIS by the Master to fight against the Graak . ( GAME : " Destiny of the Doctors " ) Whilst at a party , the Eighth Doctor saw an Ice Lord . ( COMIC : " The Glorious Dead " ) The Ice Warriors had a presence on Coralee . ( PROSE : " Storm Harvest " ) At some point , an Ice Warrior named Araxus as well as another Ice Warrior were held as slaves aboard a slaver ship circling the Frenko Bazaar . They were freed by the Second Doctor and led an uprising against their masters . When the slavers departed , the slaves aboard used the ship to return everyone home that wanted to be , and everyone else to become a new crew that would " find [ their ] dessstiny among the ssstars " . ( COMIC : " Bazaar Adventures " ) An Ice Warrior was one of the judges of the 309th Intergalactic Song Contest . ( AUDIO : " Bang - Bang - a - Boom ! " ) 16 , 000 years after the fall of Mars , the Ice Lord Isskar ' s ship , guided and used by Zara , arrived on Safeplace to find a segment to the Key to Time , and in doing so began fighting the Valdigian s at a castle there . After Isskar was freed from being trapped in the segment , he arrested the Fifth Doctor and Amy to take them to a tribunal . Isskar confiscated Amy ' s segments and sent the TARDIS overboard while the ship was in hyperspace in the event of the Doctor and Amy ' s escape . Zara , being unable to detect Amy ' s segments , travelled back in time with the time ring , having " wrecked the controls " of the ship . The ship was on a collision course with the red giant , Leboon . The Ice Warriors escaped in escape pods , but the Doctor and Amy were forced to stay behind . ( AUDIO : " The Judgement of Isskar " ) Ice Warriors were present during the Siege of Trenzalore . ( TV : " The Time of the Doctor " ) Three Ice Warriors — Lord Ssardak , Essbur and Zontan — sneaked past the Papal Mainframe ' s weapon detectors by landing on the planet with no weapons nor any technology or communications inside their armour inside capsules of ice . They had also brought along inert pieces of a sonic cannon to construct on the planet so they could cause an avalanche to kill the Eleventh Doctor and the residents of Christmas , making it appear as if it were an accident or a natural event with his sonic screwdriver . As part of this plan , Zontan sabotaged Christmas ' Snow Farm to pile snow on top of the nearby ridge . The Doctor tricked the Ice Warriors into revealing the frequency of the cannon , and used his sonic screwdriver to amplify the cannon , causing the cannon to explode , destroying the Warriors and instantly vaporising the ridge they were on . ( PROSE : " Let it Snow " ) The Ice Warriors either retreated or died in the fighting which took place after the Dalek s broke through the Papal Mainframe ' s force field and plunged Trenzalore into war . ( TV : " The Time of the Doctor " ) The Ice Warrior Hives were established as a colony on Mars . ( TV : " Robot of Sherwood " ) Alternate timeline . In an alternate timeline created by the Black Guardian where the First Doctor never left Gallifrey , and became Lord President , the Ice Warriors were one of many aliens that invaded Earth , and fought over the planet with other races against the Silurian s and the Sea Devil s . This timeline was destroyed when the Seventh Doctor retrieved the Key to Time . ( COMIC : " Time & Time Again " ) In an alternate version of the 27th century created by Doggles ' history machine , Hass ' brother , Sset , was in negotiations with Irving Braxiatel over the possession of certain Martian artefacts , including carved obsidian from Phobos . Sset eventually sent a ship full of clade s , a type of autonomous battlefield weapon , to the Braxiatel Collection killing many civilians . ( PROSE : " Siege Mentality " ) References . The Ice Warriors were on the Eleventh Doctor ' s top five enemies list which he mentioned to the Fourth Doctor and Romana II while they were making up " top five " lists . ( AUDIO : " Babblesphere " ) Other information . When cyborg hacker Psi was attempting to protect Clara Oswald from the Teller , he ensured that it would focus on his guilt by uploading the memories of some of the worst criminals in history , one of them being an Ice Warrior . ( TV : " Time Heist " )