A Cyber-Lieutenant was part of the leadership hierarchy of the Cybermen. The Lieutenant served as the assistant to the Cyber-Leader and possibly second-in-command of the Cyber-Force. Unlike the Cyber-Leader, the Cyber-Lieutenant had no markings to identify it.
The Lieutenant always remained close to the Leader during operations or missions that involved the survival of the Cyber-race. The Lieutenant tended to be more cautious than the Leader, often highlighting the drawbacks to the Leader's planned course of action. Even so there appeared to be a strict hierarchy in place; when a Cyber-Lieutenant objected to his Leader's making inaccurate reports to the Cyber-Fleet, the Leader told him that "You are outside your function." (TV: Silver Nemesis)
History
Start of the Cyber-Wars
A Cyber-Lieutenant accompanied a Cyber-Leader on his plot to destroy the Earth with a Bomb to prevent the alliance forming. The bomb failed thanks to the Fifth Doctor. The Lieutenant and the Cybermen were able to infiltrate Briggs' freighter. Its cargo, unknown to the crew, was an army of Cybermen. They awoke and took over the ship. The Cyber-Leader planned to destroy life on Earth by hitting it with the craft they had reprogrammed. After the Doctor killed the Cyber-Leader, the Cyber-Lieutenant was killed by Nyssa on the TARDIS. (TV: Earthshock)
In the Death Zone
A Cyber-Lieutenant, along with a Cyber-Leader who commands a squad of Cybermen were Time Scooped by Borusa to the Death Zone. It fired at the Doctor and the Tremas Master. He escaped with the the Master's homing beacon while the Master tricked the Cybermen into working with him to destroy the Time Lords. They went to a giant chessboard in the Dark Tower. When the Cybermen attempted to cross, they were all electrocuted. It is unknown what happens to the Lieutenant after the Cybermen and the Cyber-Leader on Death zone were dead. He was either killed or sent back to it's own time. (TV: The Five Doctors) A cyber-lieutenant acted as second in command to the Cyber-Leader in their base in the london sewars and also acted as the Cyber-Controller's adviser and reporter. It is unknown if this Cyber-Lieutenant survived or got killed when The Doctor sabotaged the Cyber-Tombs. (TV: Attack of the Cybermen)
Nemesis
A Cyber-Lieutenant assisted the Cyber-Leader to acquire the Nemesis to conquer Earth in 1988 and turn it into New Mondas with their Cyber-Fleet consisted with thousands Cyber-Warships. This Lieutenant encountered the Seventh Doctor and objected the Leader's making reports to the fleet. The Cyber-Leader told him, "You are outside your function." He and a Cyberman that were about to harm Ace were killed when the Rocket-sled's engines fires at them, burning them. (TV: Silver Nemesis)
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