Patient (World Enough and Time)

The patients, also referred to as the "special patients" by, (TV: World Enough and Time) or simply as Cybermen, (PROSE: Alit in Underland) were an early evolution of Mondasian Cybermen created on Floor 1056 of a Mondasian colony ship. Their development was a key stage of Operation Exodus. (TV: World Enough and Time) The Mondasian children of Floor 0507 referred to the patients as the "scarecrows", as the patrol that attempted an invasion of said floor were used as scarecrows by the floor's residents after their near-nightly attacks. (TV: The Doctor Falls)

Appearance
The patients were partially cyber-converted Mondasians, although their appearance drastically differed from more traditional Cybermen. As their name implied, the patients resembled hospital patients, wearing white chest cloths with a slim chest unit (TV: World Enough and Time) featuring a computerised display unit underneath, (PROSE: Alit in Underland) connected by tubing. The patients also possessed caucasian gloves that closely resembled human hands, and their heads were completely enveloped in plastic bags that were tied in a large knot at the top of the head. Tubing also fed into the patients' noses from behind their necks, which also sported a plastic, silver band.

The early patients lacked any sort of distinct facial features, but as the patients evolved further, their faces and heads began to more closely resemble those of Mondasian Cybermen; by the time Bill Potts left the hospital of Floor 1056 for the first time, one patient possessed a mouth slit. Furthermore, one of the patients who restrained Bill in the hospital's Conversion Theatre possessed a face with completely black oval-shaped eye-pods, and a flatter black oval-shaped hole for a mouth. The other patient restraining Bill was similar in design, but also possessed a grooved, silver helmet with a band around its edge, resembling part of a Mondasian Cyberman's Cyber-helmet. (TV: World Enough and Time)

Abilities
Most of the early patients made use of a fluid canister, which contained a blue-and-white-coloured medical fluid in a clear container with a metal edge at the top of the canister. These patients were constantly connected to the canister via a small tube from the canister to the patients' right arms, and the canister's wheels allowed the patients to move around even with a canister attached to them. Notably, the patients' canisters additionally featured their primary means of communication: a voice synthesiser. The patients used a keyboard on the canister to input and vocalise basic words or phrases, although a small metal dial on top of the fluid containers allowed for their voices to be manually muted. Later models of patients distinctly lacked these fluid canisters, and vocalised using their chest units. (TV: World Enough and Time) However, the patients who attacked Floor 0507, (TV: The Doctor Falls) such as "Topknot", (PROSE: Alit in Underland) did not use these canisters, (TV: The Doctor Falls) despite having left for said floor long before Bill Potts arrived on Floor 1056. (TV: World Enough and Time)

The patients were capable of moving individually (PROSE: Alit in Underland) and in unison as a group. Although most patients could only walk at a slow pace, two further evolved patients were capable of swiftly rising from a seated position and restraining an adult human female; this also demonstrated the patients' ability to trick people into believing them to be merely sleeping. The patients possessed notable physical strength; Jorj claimed to the Twelfth Doctor, Nardole and that they were "too strong" for him, a non-human, to fight, and that they could "snap [a Mondasian] in half". (TV: World Enough and Time)

Additionally, the patient nicknamed "Topknot" by Missy demonstrated a degree of scanning capabilities and was able to operate a service lift from the superstructure walkways underneath Floor 0507 to Floor 0508. Notably, incorporated numerous features into the patients designed to make them serve him to a degree; the top of the patients' chest units contained a voice box which could be altered by the Master to recognise his vocal commands by receiving the vocal authorisation code Master Alpha Seven. In addition, the root command of the patients' operating system, located behind the back of their chest cloths, could be altered by the Master, as he did to Topknot so that it stopped registering lifeforms with two hearts as human. Following the Master's modifications, Topknot was able to use its scanning abilities to locate technology on Floor 0508 that the Master could use to hack into the patients he set up on Floor 1056. Furthermore, the Master installed a failsafe system into the patients that would force them to return to the hospital on Floor 1056 if they wandered too far from it, or else the patients would shut down. (PROSE: Alit in Underland)

Weaknesses
As highly primitive Cybermen, the patients possessed weaknesses not exhibited by traditional Cybermen. (TV: World Enough and Time, The Doctor Falls) The rifles used by the Mondasian farmers on Floor 0507 were strong enough to incapacitate patients for at least several hours, and the chains that bound the patients to their crucifixes were strong enough to restrain them for at least a few hours, even after awaking while still bound to their crucifixes. (TV: The Doctor Falls) was also able to at least briefly render a patient unconscious with a strong blow to the back of its head, (TV: World Enough and Time) and the patient nicknamed "Topknot" was parried by 's sonic umbrella, preventing it from attacking herself, the Master and Alit. The Master was also able to use a low setting on his laser screwdriver to briefly stun Topknot by burning a small incision into its chest unit. Additionally, Topknot disfigured one of its ankles after falling off of a cultivator machine on Floor 0508. The gunfire from the Cyber-guns of CyberNeomorphs were also capable of killing patients, as they did to Topknot on Floor 0508. (PROSE: Alit in Underland)