Cyber-conversion

Cyber conversion involves the augmentation of Cybernetic parts to the victims body. The Cybermen of the parralel uninverse are 'upgraded' in the Battersea Power Station where John Lumics Cybus Industries were based. The upgrading involves victims being forced in to 'convertion' chambers to which drills, saws, knives, welders and lasers surgically remove the brain transplanting it into a metal exoskeleton. This process is never actually shown on screen with the victim either masked by objects or just having full views of the equipment at work from the view of someone looking up at it. In Torchwood it was revealed that when the Cyberman army were desperate for units they grafted cybernetic parts to the bodies of the victims replacing, limbs, hearts, ears, eyes and lungs. (Similar to the Borg in the Star Trek Universe). Victims would be forced onto cyber convertion frames and locked in whilst the procedure was underway. This presumably would also have happened for the full upgrade. The creator of the parallel universe cybermen, John Lumic, was upgraded after his associate, Mr. Crane, turned on him destroying his life support. He was converted into a Cyber leader with glowing eyes and transparent brain case. Others upgraded were: Yyvonne Hartman - Torchwood Administrator Lisa Hallet - Torchwood worker and Ianto Jones girlfriend