Cyberman


 * For the Cybermen of the classic series, see Cyberman. For other meanings of Cyberman, see Cyberman (disambiguation).

"We are human-point-2. Every citizen will recieve a free upgrade. You will become like us."

- Cyberman

The Cybus Cybermen originated in another universe, where they were created by John Lumic, the owner of Cybus Industries. (DW: Rise of the Cybermen)

They believed that all people must be "upgraded" to Cyber-form as they were weak. These Cybermen believed that emotions were proof that they destroyed the individual which was why they were converted to remove them. This concept they believed must be shared with others, from Humans to the universe itself.

Conversion involved removing the brain of the subject and placing it within a suit of armour. This process was horrific with screams often being heard by the victims that were forcibly subjected through the procedure. Once complete, the newly developed Cyberman had a special implant placed within their brains which prevented them from feeling their emotions or registering their past memories making them cold calculating machines.

However, if the implants were disrupted then the Cybermen entered into a traumatic state as they were overloaded by the pain of the conversion resulting in them dying in agony or their heads exploding from the overload of emotions.

Typically, Cybermen were led by Cyber Leaders during conversion missions. If the Cyber Leader was terminated then the Cybermen downloaded the shared files and nominated a new Cyber Leader.


 * Note: the name "Cybus Cybermen" has been created by fans to differentiate these "new series" Cybermen with those of the classic series. It has, to date, not been used on screen to describe these creatures.

History
"This broadcast is for humankind. Cybermen now occupy every landmass on this planet; but you need not fear. Cybermen will remove fear. Cybermen will remove sex, and class, and colour, and creed. You will become identical. You will become like us."

- Cyber Leader.

From the crack in the universe, the Parallel Earth Cybermen were able to travel from their dimension into ours, and infiltrated the planet in the disguise as the benign ghosts of deceased Humans. (DW: Army of Ghosts)

The established a base inside the Torchwood Tower at Canary Wharf. While there, they started making some new Cybermen, using purely Earth materials from our universe.

After two months (three years in Parallel Earth time), the Cybermen suddenly appeared in their true form,occupying every landmass on the planet before breaking into houses and promising to upgrade all Humans, commanded by the new Cyber-Leader. (DW: Army of Ghosts / Doomsday, TW: Everything Changes)

Simultaneously, the Cult of Skaro had exited the Void Ship with the Genesis Ark. The Cult, led by Dalek Sec, extracted information from a member of staff from Torchwood 1, and proceeded to communicate with the Cybermen via Dalek Thay and declare war or in Dalek Sec's words, "pest control". (DW: Doomsday)

After a skirmish Humans and Cybermen versus Daleks, the Cult traveled to the main room in Torchwood Tower Canary Wharf, elevated outside above the roof, and opened the Genesis Ark, releasing millions of Daleks who, under Sec's command, proceeded to "exterminate all life-forms below", killing Human and Cyberman alike. (DW: Doomsday)

During the battle, the Cybermen began to convert Torchwood personnel, like Yvonne Hartman in large numbers.

Towards the end of the Cybermen/Dalek battle, the Cyberman, desperate for more troops, begin directly converting people rather than transplanting their brains into Cybershells. One victim of this process is Lisa Hallett, girlfriend of Ianto Jones. Ianto drags an only partly transformed Lisa away from the battle. Ianto hides her in the basement of Cardiff's Torchwood Three facility, setting up a life-support system, planning to restore her humanity.(TW: Cyberwoman)

The Doctor and Rose Tyler opened the Void, sucking all the Daleks and Cybermen who had been in the Void back into it, and finally nearly sucking Rose herself in, but Pete Tyler teleported through the Void, grabbed her and teleported back to his parallel Earth where her parents, Jackie Tyler, that universe's version of her father, Pete, and Mickey Smith had decided to stay. The entire battle had lasted less than a day, but the Doctor commented that "so many" people died that day, and that the effects on Earth were devastating. (DW: Doomsday)

However, this was not the last of the Cybermen. The Cybermen that were made on Earth, had never passed through the Void, therefore they were not sucked in. Some escaped, but a lot of these Cybermen were then boxed up.

After the battle, many jobs were lost. Harry and Sam, best friends, were working on a model train set, when they found stuff from Harry's dad's previous job. Inside the box was a Cyberman, in all his individual pieces. Not knowing what it was, Sam decided to put it back together so it could watch them play. Eventually, it awoke, threatening to upgrade both Harry and Sam. It forced Sam to help build a "Cyber-Conversion Unit" using the other leftover electronics from the Torchwood Tower in the box. They destroyed the Cyberman, by pushing it into the finished machine, frying it's circuits. (Going off the Rails)

Due to the Daleks' damaging the barriers between realities (DW: The Stolen Earth), the Cybermen were able to escape the Void, assisted by technology stolen from the Void-trapped Daleks. Landing in 1851 London, they made an alliance with the human Miss Hartigan, created a minion race known as Cybershades, and began construction of a dreadnought robot called the CyberKing with which they planned to conquer the Earth. They were stopped and destroyed, with the CyberKing being sent back to the Void.

Here, they had began using devices called infostamps: canisters which could wirelessly broadcast streams of information, allowing the Cybermen to swiftly gain data. Infostamps could be sabotaged so that the data streams would overload Cybermen, and when one was corrupted it meant they could no longer recognise the Tenth Doctor.(DW: The Next Doctor)

Weapons and Technology
"Delete! Delete!"

- The battle-cry of the Cybus Cybermen.

Unlike the Mondasian Cybermen, these Cybermen were created by taking the brain of humans and placing them in robotic bodies. These exo-structures were stauncher and more heavily built than Mondasian Cybermen, and so far the common Cyberman weakness for gold was present in the early developement of the Cybermen but was eliminated.

These new Cybermen were without a Cyber-Controller after their creator John Lumic was slain. Their only weapons were their electrified hands and a small wrist-mounted energy weapon. To prevent them from realizing what they are the cybermen are programed with a computer chip that prevents them from having emotion or a sense of feeling though it can be shut down with the code 6879760.

When they crossed the Void and entered our world, they now had built-in lasers and were under the leadership of a Cyber-Leader. When one Cyber-Leader is slain, the Cybermen just download the rank into another and therefore always have a leader. (DW: Army of Ghosts / Doomsday)

Behind the scenes
The Cybermen are to return in the 2008 Christmas special - The Next Doctor. Pre-broadcast publicity, as well as the pre-credits sequence broadcast in November 2008 as part of the annual Children in Need appeal, suggest different forms of Cybermen may also appear, such as the Cybershade.