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Bill Lester

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Bill Lester was a member of the Nerva Beacon crew. (AUDIO: Return of the Cybermen)

Biography[]

The Voga account[]

Lester, Commander Stevenson and Kellman were the last survivors of the plague affecting the station. When the CyberNomads captured him, they forced him to carry Cyberbombs deep inside Voga on a suicide mission, but he was rescued. When the Fourth Doctor's plan to suffocate their chest cavities by plugging them up with gold did not work and the Cybermen overpowered him and Harry Sullivan, Lester leapt down from a rock ledge, catching the Cybermen by surprise. He immediately released his Cyberbomb harness, setting off a fail-safe in the event the bomb was detached from him before it reached the core of Voga. Instead of exploding at full power, a secondary explosion went off, killing the Cybermen, but also disintegrating Lester. (TV: Revenge of the Cybermen)

The asteroid account[]

According to another version of events, where the Cybermen sought to destroy a gold-rich asteroid, Lester never left Nerva. He was injured facing the Cyber-Leader, but survived. (AUDIO: Return of the Cybermen)

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