Kroton (Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman)


 * For the species of the same name, see Kroton.

Kroton was a Cyberman, who, un-characteristically, retained his emotional capacity. He later traveled with the Doctor and Izzy.

Biography
Kroton was a junior Cyberleader who was among those sent from Telos to assist in the invasion and management of the planet Mondaran.

He quickly began to question his superiors and began to fight back as he discovered his emotions, he helped a group of Mondarains to escape their planet and Cyberman rule. The ship they used to escape was low on fuel and rather than maroon himself to die on a jungle planet set off into space to drift alone he deactivated himself. (DWM: Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman)

A cruise ship travelling through space stuck in a lateral stasis field found Kroton's ship and reactivated him. While on the ship he sought to remove it from the stasis loop that it was in so that the mortal passengers all rapidly aged and died, leaving Kroton on his own yet again. (DWM: Ship of Fools)

After that Kroton travelled around space fighting Sontarans, among others (DWM: Unnatural Born Killers). Kroton encountered the the Doctor and his companion Izzy on the Qutrusian Cargo Freighter X-703, and, after assisting them, joined them in the TARDIS. (DWM: The Company of Thieves)

Kroton left The Doctor after a battle with the Master, during the Master's pursuit to become the center of the omniversal spectrum. He reached the planet where the Master had prepared his own trap for the Doctor along with Izzy, Paradost; both were caught in the Church of the Glorious Dead's assault and barely survived, living a hard existence for nearly a month, fending off attacks by cultists and their monstrous Ash Wraith forms.

Kroton eventually did battle with Sato Katsura, managing to last for much longer than any other foe against him due to his enhanced physiology. Before long, however, Sato was sent reeling off the fight when Izzy forced upon him a mnemnonic crystal and fed him back all the pain she had suffered at the hands of the Church. However, she then handed the same crystal to Kroton, who used it while he had rejected it before, awakening his memories from before his Cyber-conversion, remembering all the happiness and sorrow he had ever felt as a human being, accepting them and choosing joy over misery. He then was chosen as the new center of the Omniversal Spectrum, banishing the Master and restoring the history he had warped, granting Sato his ultimate wish for honorable death as he left for the heavens. (DWM: The Glorious Dead)

Iris Wildthyme mentioned that Kroton travelled with her for a time. (EDA: The Scarlet Empress)

Personality
He was noted as having a sense of appreciation for beauty, noted by the Doctor (this incident also made him realize Kroton was no ordinary Cyberman). He also managed to withstand the impression of the interior of the TARDIS; when the Doctor asked him if it struck him as "illogical", Kroton happily cast away the word, stating "screw logic!". He also had a balanced sense of right and wrong, becoming utterly infuriated at the possibility of a Sontaran plan for genocide called upon innocent natives and the Church of the Glorious Dead's atrocities against the alien ambassadors in the planet of Paradost. Before he touched the mnemnonic crystal offered to him by Izzy Sinclair he often suffered from flashbacks from his former life; these tended to depress him as he could not access all of his memories, and he felt the pain those memories would bring would be greater than the joy, leading him to initially reject the crystal. However, upon embracing those memories and his humanity, he became a truly complete person again, and left off to have his own adventures soon after.