The Ultimate Cybermen (audio story)

was the fourth and last instalment of The ArcHive Tapes anthology, narrated and produced by David Banks.
Following references in the previous instalments, this concluding part focused on the "CyberNeomorphs", the Cybermen who featured in the classic Doctor Who serials of the 1980s. The variant which appeared in Silver Nemesis are dubbed "Isomorphs".
== Publisher's summary ==
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== Plot ==
=== Cybermen on Gallifrey ===
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=== In the Death Zone ===
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=== The Deadly Chequerboard ===
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=== Onslaught on Earth ===
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=== Cybermen Take Control ===
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=== Spiralling Backwards in Time ===
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=== Departure from Telos ===
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=== The TARDIS on Telos ===
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=== A Wider Proliferation? ===
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=== Living Metal ===
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=== The Human State of Madness ===
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=== The End of the Cybermen? ===
Hegelia states that these histories are only her interpretation of the Cyber-Documents, and that she now "scatters the pieces once more" for you to pick up again...
== Cast ==
* Narrator - David Banks
== Worldbuilding ==
* Hegelia notes that the more advanced Cyberisation becomes, the more a parody of emotion it becomes, ascribing to how Cyber-Leaders behaved despite being "emotionless," such as their use of "Excellent." 
* Three patrols of CyberNeomorphs were time scooped to the Death Zone, which Hegelia describes as "nowhere and no time," to play the Game of Death.
* The Raston Warrior Robot beheads a Cyber-Leader, while another Leader and Leuitenant are present for the attempted bombing of the TARDIS.
* Hegelia describes the Cyberman androids as "primitive."
* Dinosaurs existed for over 100 million years.
* Having colonised Telos and no longer needing a home, the Cybermen could destroy Earth.
* The Cybermen possess a "collective memory," clarifying that the Cyber-Leader has never met the Doctor when he says "we meet again." Hegelia also theorises at the Leader having a core personality software results in other similar leaders.
* The Cryons, which Hegelia notes might've had aquatic origins, sabotage the Cybermen's refrigeration units, resulting in Cybermen rotting or going rogue.
* Although the Cybermen in the London sewers return to Telos, Hegelia notes it is never explained what became of their ship and base on the dark side of the Moon, and it is these Cybermen who become the CyberIsomorphs in 1988.
* Hegelia describes the cyber-shuttle as a "sawn-off pyramid."
* Hegelia believes the Cyber-Fleet of "thousands" of warships was an elaborate deception, and that the fleet actually held no more than three ships.
== Notes ==
* This instalment makes use of archive audio taken from television serials The Five Doctors, Earthshock, Attack of the Cybermen and Silver Nemesis.
* Hegelia dates Revenge of the Cybermen to "40 or so" years before 2526, c. 2486.
== Continuity ==
* The documents cover the presence of CyberNeomorphs in the Death Zone on Gallifrey, (TV: The Five Doctors) their attempt to destroy Earth in 2526, (TV: Earthshock) their attempt to evacuate Telos and prevent the destruction of Mondas, (TV: Attack of the Cybermen) and the "Isomorphs" attempt to invade Earth in 1988. (TV: Silver Nemesis)
* The narrator acknowledges that the Seventh Doctor had recently fought the Daleks before his encounter with the "Isomorphs". (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks)
== External links ==
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Category:The ArcHive Tapes audio stories
Category:1990 audio stories