Cyberman

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> "*We are equipped to survive. We are only interested in survival. Anything else is of no importance. Your deaths will not affect us.*"
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The Cybermen were a race of cybernetic beings from the planet Mondas. The Cybermen actively removed their emotions - such as pride, hate, anger, even fear - one of the most primal emotions. This trait could be seen as a weakness or a strength depending on how one looked at it.

## Biology

In this article, the Cyber-Neomorphs - the Cyberman "sub-species" that the Resistance encountered while on Lapra - will be discussed.

The Cybermen were a bulky species - with "muscular" bodies and deep, imposing voices. The Cybermen had an armoured chest unit which protected the organs within the torso. The Cybermen had a sort of "exoshell" which surrounded most of their bodies. Their heads were surrounded by elaborate helmets with faceplates and "side handle" antennae that were used to connect the brain and some sensory organs to the Cyberbody. The Cybermen had a weakness for gold, due to it clogging their respiratory functions. The Cybermen used emotional inhibitors to quell emotions. Turning one of these off was almost always fatal.

The Cybermen initiated new Cybermen through a process called "Cyber-Conversion" - this involved placing the organs and brain within a Cyberbody. The bodies of beings that were Cyber-converted were usually integrated into the Cyberbody, however, sometimes the bodies were incinerated with artificial body parts or cadaver parts being used

## History

Being the product of parallel evolution, the Cybermen were "inevitable", "always get[ting] started" wherever there were people. (DW: *The Doctor Falls*)

Various sources indicated that Mondas was the birthplace of the Cybermen. According to one account, the Cybermen were originally an aquatic species known as the Voord, (DW: *The World Shapers*) who themselves had theorised origins as a Remote experiment. (DW: *Interference*) The Voord were fused with bodysuits which telepathically linked the entire race. Through experimentation with a worldshaper, they quick-evolved their bodysuits into full-fledged Cybersuits. With this change, they renamed their home planet Marinus to Mondas. (DW: *The World Shapers*)

According to another account, it was the native species of Mondas - the Mondasians - who created the Cybermen. At some point, the Mondasians created the Central Committee of Mondas by plugging 20 of their "Greatest Thinkers" into a computer. Eventually, the Mondasians constructed a propulsion system to pilot the planet and drafted in people to install it. They were forced to augment them to survive in the harsh conditions of outer space. They were also forced to remove their emotions, as the processing drove them insane. The cyber-conversion succeeded, producing the first modern Cybermen. However, the first Cybermen's bodies would reject the implants, which would kill them. Those flaws were corrected when the Fifth Doctor (who had arrived on Mondas with Nyssa), had an biological analysis done on him. In the scan, they discovered an extra brain lobe that only Time Lords had. This feature was then recreated in the Cybermen, rectifying those flaws. Horrified at his unwitting part in the creation of the Cybermen, the Doctor destroyed the Committee (who by now had become the first Cyber-Planner, and was now bent on converting all Mondasians) by pouring wine into their Nutrient Vats, and reprogramming a swarm of Cybermats to feed off their electricity, killing them. His efforts were, ultimately, in vain as eventually all of the Mondasians underwent forced cyber-conversion. (DW: *Spare Parts*)

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In 2526, several planets began to unite to oppose the Cybermen in a war. A force of Cybermen tried to devastate Earth on the eve of their conference to finalise the alliance, intending to detonate a Cyberbomb and convert the survivors. After the Fifth Doctor thwarted this plan, they hoped to crash a freighter into Earth and cause an ecological disaster. Although the effort failed, the freighter was catapulted back in time to become the "meteor" that wiped out the dinosaurs.(DW: Earthshock)