Lumic (short story)

Lumic was a short story exclusively published on the BBC's Cybus website, a promotional website set up in 2006 to promote the broadcast of the two-part story Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel. Written by Tom MacRae (who also scripted the TV stories), it featured the stories' main antagonist John Lumic some time prior to the events of the two-parter. It was the first of several Tenth Doctor short stories to be published online up to the end of 2009.

Summary
John Lumic is interviewed about Cybus Industries, the new Ultimate Upgrade™ project and his own life. Though happy to get the chance to share his creed against mortality and advertise the upcoming new Cybus product, Lumic finds the last few questions about his own self to be banal and facile, especially taking offence to questions about "others in his field" (as he believes himself to be unique). He ends up pressing a button which activates the electrocution feature of the chair in which he had the interviewer, Tom MacRae of The Daily Sketch, sit, benignly "thanking him for his time" after he dies.

Characters

 * John Lumic
 * Tom MacRae

Continuity

 * John Lumic intends to ask the President of Great Britain to authorise the Ultimate Upgrade™ project to go forward in spite of the Genevan Bio-Convention. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen)