Forum:Cyber-Wars

TV: Earthshock showed the Cybermen fighting in the Cyber-Wars in 2526 and recap the events of TV: Revenge of the Cybermen, set after the Cyber-Wars. Was there ever a reason given for this, or was it just always overlooked? Bigredrabbit 07:38, August 3, 2011 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure no reason was ever given on-screen.

The two most popular fan theories I've heard are: the cyber-scanner was reading the Doctor's memories rather than displaying history archives, or the cyber-scanner was actually a time-space visualizer. But I don't think either of these ever made it into any licensed media.

I think David Banks' book Cybermen tries to resolve this with his convulted cyber-history, although I haven't a clue what his resolution was. (I need to replace all my books with PDFs so I can search them…) And of course it's up to you whether that book is canonical (but at least it was commercially published, and licensed by the BBC, which puts it a step above fan speculation). --173.228.85.118 06:54, August 11, 2011 (UTC)


 * Thank you! I didn't think there'd be an explanation, but there's a lot of weird stuff going on with the Cybermen in that story, so anyway...Bigredrabbit 09:20, August 11, 2011 (UTC)