Cybus Industries

Cybus Industries was a company that existed on a parallel Earth. Notable divisions and subsidiaries of Cybus Industries included: Cybus Airships, Cybus EarPods, Cybus Finance, Cybus Fitness, Cybus FM, Cybus Network, Cybus Property, and Vitex. (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac) In the 2000s, the Ultimate Upgrade™ project began to upgrade humanity into Cybermen. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen, The Age of Steel, etc.)

History
Cybus Industries was established by John Lumic in 1982. (WC: Tardisode 5, PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac) In 1985, an unidentified co-founder died mysteriously. In 1991, Cybus products flooded the market. In 1996, all competition was swallowed. In 2001, worldwide profits reached $78 billion. In 2004, New South America reported 265,000 people went missing, and in 2007, the Ultimate Upgrade began. (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac)

In an article on the Cybus Industries website that attempted to recruit new employees for Cybus Industries, Ben Crawford was quoted, specifying the company's "equal opportunity policy" and that one could get in touch with an EarPod. The article also sorted potential employees into two categories, the Trainee Scheme and Seniors Programme, and had a link to the Cybus Industries Staff Intranet. (PROSE: Our Family)

"ChatGuest1" advised the readers of Defending the Earth! on Cybus Industries, helping them find various codes that allow them access to the Cybus Industries Staff Intranet. In doing so, they find the code "Binary9", which ChatGuest1 tells them to remember as they will be needing it within the week. ChatGuest1 assumes the readers know what Cybus Industries is, sarcastically asking if they are from another planet if they ask questions regarding who Cybus are. (GAME: Cybus Spy)

Pete Tyler worked for Cybus Industries as a right-hand man for Lumic, after his Vitex company was bought out by Cybus. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen) Angela Price also worked for Cybus as an "ordinary" 9 to 5 employee, until she "found something she wasn't supposed to" on the Cybus mainframe, forcing her into a life on the run as Cybus tried to hunt her down. (TV: The Age of Steel)

Cybus Industries provided the main communications network, CybusNet. Features of their service included the 'Daily Download' which downloaded news (local, national and international), sport, weather forecasts, television schedules, lottery numbers, jokes and other into the customers' brains via EarPods. Another feature included internet access. The CybusNet was the sole information provider on Earth, (PROSE: Lumic) and created news networks such as IE24 News. Cybus Industries also purchased other companies and helped their owners develop their businesses. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen) Lumic authorised the global upgrade of all compatible humans after the Cybermen were revealed. (WC: Tardisode 6)

The EarPods were used by most residents of the parallel Earth, and were usually worn at all times. Those that did not use them included CEO John Lumic himself as well as the anti-Cybus group called the Preachers. After several experiments involving abducted homeless people, Lumic activated a mind control sequence in the EarPods which forced everyone who wore them to walk to Battersea Cyber-factory to be "upgraded" into Cybermen. Thousands of Londoners were converted, but Lumic was ultimately defeated by the Tenth Doctor and the Preachers after they overloaded the Cybermen's emotional inhibitor and destroyed the EarPod transmitter on Lumic's Zeppelin. Lumic was himself upgraded into a Cyber-Controller, and was killed in the chaos. (TV: The Age of Steel)

As Lumic had authorised the global upgrade of all humans prior to his death, the upgrades continued worldwide despite the destruction of the London Cyber-factory. Cyber-factories existed on all seven continents, (GAME: Cyber Assault) with Paris being the centre of a battle. (GAME: Airships) A global war subsequently began between humans and the Cybermen, following which the Preachers managed to seal the Cybermen inside their factories. Over five million humans were converted into Cybermen. Cybus Industries and its subsidiaries had collapsed as a corporation following Lumic's death. (TV: Doomsday, AUDIO: The Endless Night et al)

Even after their journey to the Doctor's universe and their affiliation with the company long over, the Cybermen of Pete's World continued to sport a "C" engraved on their chest that represented Cybus Industries. (TV: Army of Ghosts, The Next Doctor, The Pandorica Opens et al.) A historical account about the Doctor's universe recounted that it had been suggested that cross pollination of the Cybus Cybermen and the Cybermen of Mondas led to the advanced Cyberman model used by the Cyberiad, seen at Hedgewick's World of Wonders. (PROSE: The Whoniverse)