Cyber-pod

Cyber-pods were a type of hibernation unit used by Cybermen.

A fleet of twenty Cyber-Warships used by an army of CyberNeomorphs contained a thousand Cyber-pods per warship, the total number of Cybermen stored numbering around 200,000. (AUDIO: Hour of the Cybermen)

On at least one parallel Earth, the Cybermen of the Cyber-Mainframe used billions of pods to store each of the planet's humans. These pods harvested the electricity generated by the humans and transferred it through the Cyber-Mainframe to power the Cybermen and their technology connected to the network. Petronella Osgood, Vikram Shindi and Josh Carter of the UNIT of N-Space investigated a cavern located underneath the ruins of this Earth's Piccadilly Circus that contained thousands of these pods, shortly before the Machine confronted the trio and attacked them with several Mechanising Worms. (AUDIO: Telepresence) Kate Stewart later theorised that the pods also functioned as Cyber-conversion units, with the humans being kept in storage until their conversions were necessary. (AUDIO: Code Silver)