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As the Cybermen have no one "official" history, this article will mostly list their appearances in the Doctor Who franchise in the order the Doctor experienced them.

Origins[]

Cybermen from Mondas[]

The first Cybermen were originally the people of the planet Mondas, the Tenth Planet of Earth's solar system, who converted themselves to survive when their world was knocked out of solar orbit and drifted into the deep space. The audio drama Spare Parts depicted the events that led up to the Cybermen's rise. When Mondas reached the zenith of its orbit away from Earth, Mondasian society was similar to that of 1950's era Earth, with the population being forced to live underground.

At some point, the Mondasians created the Central Committee by plugging 20 of their "Greatest Thinkers" into a computer. The Fifth Doctor and Nyssa arrived on Mondas prior to the rise of the Cybermen. They witnessed the Mondasians slowly slide towards cyber-conversion, with the police force and animals being converted into proto-cybermen. The Mondasian cyber-conversion program was conceived by the Committee as a solution to the planet's increasingly desperate situation. These early Cybermen were, however, plagued with serious design flaws and the conversion method proved very unstable with most subjects quickly perishing. The conversion project's chief scientist, Doctorman Allan, managed to discover a solution when the Doctor was captured by the police. By using data extracted from an analysis of him, she discovered an extra brain lobe unique to Time Lords, dedicated to mechanical and other bodily functions. She was able to replicate this trait into a new Cyberman prototype, greatly increasing the survival rate of the newly converted. The Doctor was horrified about his unwilling hand in the creation of the Cyber race, so much so that he tried to derail history by poisoning the Committe-tuned-Cyber-Planner before it could manage to convert the entire population, and afterwards he helped the Mondasians with starting a research program into how to undo the conversion process.

However, after the Doctor and Nyssa's departure, it turned out his efforts were ultimately in vain as the Cybermen soon converted the remaining Mondasians. Having installed a drive propulsion system so they could pilot the planet itself, the Cybermen began conquering planets to convert the native life forms into more Cybermen to increase their numbers.

Other Cybermen origins[]

The Cybermen were said to have originated in many times and places, including the mysterious "Planet 14", where a faction of Cybermen encountered the Second Doctor and Jamie McCrimmon. A batch of Cybermen evolved on the planet Marinus, as seen in the comic The World Shapers. These Cybermen were the descendants of the Voord, who used a World Shaper to evolve themselves into cyborgs. As well as this the human natives of the planet Telos sought immortality, and went down a similar path to Mondas. In The Doctor Falls, the Twelfth Doctor cited this as "parallel evolution".

Invasions of Earth[]

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The first model Cybermen.

Mondas arrived in Earth's solar system in 1986, in The Tenth Planet, and began draining Earth of it's energy. The First Doctor met an advance force of Mondasian Cybermen near Snowcap Base in Antarctica. This force was to use the experimental Z-Bomb to destroy Earth before Mondas absorbed too much energy. Due to the efforts of the Doctor and his companions, Mondas absorbed too much energy and was destroyed, as were the Cybermen on Earth who depended on Mondas for power.

According to the audio Human Resources, an army of Cybermen colonised the planet Lonsis. They were attacked by Hulbert Logistics, a intergalactic mercenary company, who had been hired by the Shinx. The Eighth Doctor, unaware of the Cybermen, hindered Hulbet's Logistics, giving the Cybermen the advantage. The Cybermen planned to transport themselves to Earth to began an invasion. However, the Doctor, who had discovered the war had been caused by the Time Lords Celestial Intervention Agency, used a Quantum Chrystalliser, which ensured the most lucky outcome to destroy the Cybermen.

By 2070, humanity presumed the Cybermen were wiped out. However, in The Moonbase, the Cybermen subtly invaded the Earth's Moonbase, which could control the weather with the Gravitron, poisoning the crewmembers, and taking over others. They planned to use the Gravitron to destroy humanity. They were defeated by the Second Doctor, and his companions Polly, Ben and Jamie, who fought off the Cybermen in the base, and being thrown into space via altering the Moon's gravity. The faction of Cybermen who attacked the Moonbase colonised Telos for it's access to cryogenic facilities, defeating the native Cryons, who would form a resistance. The Cybermen would go onto freeze themselves in gigantic "tombs" to preserve themselves.

In the 25th century, the Cybermen had all but passed into legend. The Brotherhood of Logicians scoured the universe for Cybermen, believing that they would be receptive to the Brotherhood's cause. In The Tomb of the Cybermen, the Brotherhood of Logicians financed Parry's expedition to find the cyber-tombs on Telos. With the help of the Second Doctor, Jamie, and Victoria Waterfield the expedition found and opened the cyber-tomb. After the hibernating Cybermen were reawakened, Klieg and Kaftan, the secret representatives of the Brotherhood attempted a negotiation, which inevitably failed. Realising the true danger of the Cybermen the expeditions quickly resealed the tombs.

In The Wheel In Space, a faction of Cybermen attacked the Space Station W3, also known as The Wheel, as part of a plan to use its direct radio link with Earth as a beacon for their invasion fleet. They infiltrated the the station with the aid of the Cybermats, but the Doctor, who was "known and recorded", thwarted them with the aid of the crew.

The Cybermen's chronological first invasion of Earth was in the late 20th century, when a group of Cybermen from "Planet 14" use industrialist Tobias Vaughn to pave the way for a ground invasion. The Second Doctor, working with UNIT, The Doctor discovered Vaughn was hiding the Cybermen in the sewers while Vaughn planted secret chips in all of his company's equipment that would broadcast a signal capable of rendering humans unconscious. However, when Vaughn realised that the Cybermen had duped him he changed sides and helped The Doctor defeat the Cybermen's invasion fleet by deploying a transmitter Vaughn had developed to force the Cybermen to experience intense emotions and overload. While Vaughn helped The Doctor destroy the active Cybermen on Earth, the destruction of his office damaged the receiver that the Cybermen were using to amplify their signal and keep the rest of London asleep, while Zoe managed to calculate a missile trajectory that would destroy the formation of Cyberman ships approaching them from their secret moonbase.

A Cyberman was once among the many creatures that Vorg had in his miniscope in Carnival of Monsters.  In 2012, as seen in Dalek, the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler found a head of a dead Cyberman in Henry Van Statten's museum along with the arm of a Slitheen and other alien artifacts.

Cyber-Wars[]

At some point, the Cybermen fought a war with humanity, and Voga, the planet of Gold, aided humanity by providing humanity with resources. The Cybermen were seemingly defeated with a weapon that used gold against them, nicknamed the glittergun, seemingly wiping them out. The war resulted in the near-complete destruction of the Cyber race.

After the war, in Revenge of the Cybermen, several Cybermen and a few Cybermats survived and hounded Voga, and tried to destroy it. They allied with Kellman, offering him power, and he wiped out the crew of Nerva Beacon. The Cybermen took control and forced the remnants of the crew, including the Fourth Doctor to wear Cyberbombs to destroy Voga. A pair of Cybermen went with then to ensure the plan went smoothly, killing many Vogans at the same time, but their plan was thwarted by the Doctor disarming the bombs. The Cybermen then decided to crash the Beacon into Voga, but were thwarted by the Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith, and their craft and themselves destroyed due to the Vogans, and Harry Sullivan.

Return of the Cybermen[]

In Earthshock, a force of Cybermen attempted to destroy Earth to prevent a peace conference that could unite the enemies of the Cybermen. The initial plan was to use a Cyber-bomb, guarded by androids. However, after an archaeological team was mostly killed, a military force ended up uncovering the plot, and the Fifth Doctor managed to disable the bomb. As a back up plan, the Cyber-Leader elected to crash a human freighter into the Earth. However, due to the interference of Adric, the freighter instead jumped back through time, to crash into Earth 65 million years ago, as part of it's history.

Several groups of Cybermen were taken to the Death Zone on Gallifrey in The Five Doctors. One group harassed the Third Doctor and Sarah Jane, before being destroyed by a Raston Warrior Robot. Another group tried and failed to capture the Fifth Doctor, but formed an alliance with the Master, plotting to stage an invasion of Gallifrey. After being taken to the Dark Tower, they were tricked onto a booby-trapped chessboard floor, and thus were destroyed, with the Master personally killing the Cyber-Leader.

After a timeship landed on Telos, in Attack of the Cybermen, the Cybermen captured it and formulated a plot to save Mondas by diverting Halley's Comet to Earth to destroy it in 1985. A party of Cybermen travelled back in time and established a command centre hidden in the London sewers from which they could affect the comet. When the Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown visited London in 1985, the Cybermen captured the Doctor's TARDIS and forced him to take them back to Telos. Bringing the Doctor and Peri to Telos led to several losses for the Cybermen, including the death of the Cyber-Controller and the Cryons gaining help in their revolution against the Cybermen.

In Silver Nemesis, during November 1988, a fleet of Cybermen surrounded Earth, planning to obtain a statue made of validium called Nemesis, a Time Lord weapon, planning to use to transform Earth into the new Mondas. Before arriving in force, a pair of humans were converted into slaves, and would attempt to assassinate the Seventh Doctor and Ace, and cyber-technology was used to get rid of the police force that surrounded the Nemesis comet. A scouting party was sent down to the planet, and the group of Cybermen fought a pitched battle with a Neo-Nazi force to obtain the statue for themselves. While they succeeded, several of her number were brought down by Lady Peinforte's gold-tipped arrows. The Cybermen than attempted to kill Peinforte within their storage place for the statue, but were unsuccessful. Thus, they allied with Neo-Nazi De Flores to kill Peinforte and complete the Nemesis. However, they eventually betrayed the Reich having acquired the arrow and the statue. Their ship was destroyed by Ace, and the Cybermen believed the slaves had rebelled, killing them. In a confrontation with the Doctor, Ace killed several Cybermen with gold, but the surviving Leader killed De Flores when attempted to retrieve the Nemesis, and apparently forced the Doctor to surrender the Nemesis. Their force was destroyed by Nemesis as the Doctor had instructed, and the Leader was killed by the last of Peinforte's arrows.

Manipulating the Orion War[]

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Sword of Orion[]

In the audio Sword of Orion, during the humanity's war with it's Android creations in 2503, while the Cybermen were in their tombs, a Cybership was found in the Garrazone system. Human agents planned to steal Cyber-Technology under the guise by using a salvaging team, but the plan was hijacked by a Android double agent, Jensen. However, the Cybermen and the Cybermats were revived, and began converting the crew. The Eighth Doctor, Charley and Jensen was able to defeat the Cybermen, allowing them to be destroyed by an Ion storm. 

Cyberman[]

Twenty years into the Orion War, Earth's Scorpius Project uncovered a Cyber-Ship from a past invasion in the Isle of Wight. However, their attempt to seize Cyber-Technology went horribly wrong when the Cybermen and the Cyber Planner awakened, and took control of the Scorpius Project. As well as this, they converted Paul Hunt into the first Cybrid, a link between human and Cybermen, to act as their obedient agent. The Cybermen assassinated President Levinson of Earth so that Earth Commander in Chief Karen Brett, who Hunt planned to use as a pawn, could become Earth President. Months later, a Cyberman beamed itself into her quarters at the White House, and told her she had been put into power by them, and left a holographic projector with a hidden transmat chip to bring her to the Cyber-ship where Scorpius was operating out of. Brett took up his offer and came under Cyber control.

With Brett successfully brought under control, the Cybermen secretly began raids on the Orion Androids, who recognised them from old records. When Brett's Commander in Chief Liam Barnaby became suspicious of the secret raids, Hunt and the Cybermen attempted to assassinate him twice, before and after his firing by Brett. Refugees from the Orion War were brought to one of the Cybermen's conversion centres near their ship under the guise of it being a medical base, and were taken to be converted into Cybermen.

One of their transport ships was hijacked by the Android spy Samantha Thorn and Liam, with it being diverted to android space. The androids fought the Cybermen for control of the ship, resulting in its destruction with Liam the only human survivor. The Cybermen were introduced to humanity as cybernetically enhanced "commando units", and Brett had them enact marshal law on Earth. The Cyber Planner suspected that the androids would discover their plan to reactivate the Master Hibernation Unit on Telos and revive billions of secretly frozen Cybermen across the galaxy. Electing to advance their plan, Brett led a "personal mission" against the androids, being cyber converted into a Cyber Leader, heading to Telos.

Cybus Cybermen[]

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The Cybermen created by Cybus Industries in Pete's World.

Rise of the Cybermen[]

In a parallel universe, the Cybermen were created on Earth by dying transhumanist John Lumic, founder and owner of the multinational company Cybus Industries. The first generation of Cybermen were created from homeless people and began the conversion all humanity. However, being from another dimension, the Tenth Doctor, Rose and Mickey, along with resistance group the Preachers fought the Cybermen, and eventually deactivated the emotional inhibitors that kept the Cybermen from going insane. After the destruction of the Cyber-Factory, including their Controller, Lumic, the Preachers, set about to clean up the remainder of Lumic's factories around the world. 

Army of Ghosts[]

3 years after their creation, thanks to a Void Ship, the Cybus Cybermen exploited a breach between universes found by Yvonne Hartman to invade London in 2007 under command of the Cyberleader. Initially believed to be ghosts, the Cybermen took over Torchwood One, and commenced their worldwide invasion. However, when the Cult of Skaro emerged, the Cybermen found themselves fighting the Battle of Canary Wharf.

Though the Doctor manages to send the parallel Cybermen into the void, traces of their actions in Canary Wharf remain such as a partially converted Torchwood employee named Lisa Hallett who was killed months later by her follow Torchwood operatives.

The Next Doctor[]

However, due to the actions of the New Dalek Empire, the parallel Cybermen escaped the void and ended up in London 1851, where they enlisted the aid of a human named Mercy Hartigan to gather children to use as a work force to construct a Cyber-King to conquer the world. The Cybermen, due to their faulty infostamps, initially believed Jackson Lake was the Doctar, as he had taken on that identity after they took his son. The Cybermen also created Cybershades out of animals to act as agents. The real Doctor and fought against the Cybermen, using the infostamps as weapons, and the Doctor managed to evacuate the child workforce. When Hartigan was converted into the CyberKing and the ship became mobile, the Doctor showed Hartigan what she had become and, in her anguish, she destroyed herself and the Cybermen, with the CyberKing sent to be disintegrated in the Time Vortex before it fell on London.

Cyber Legions[]

In the videogame Blood of the Cybermen, the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond encountered the Cybermen in the Arctic. A dormant Cyber-Ship, which ahd crashed centuries ago had been discovered by a geological expedition, and the reactivated Cybermats infected the members with a virus that transformed them into CyberSlaves. Although The Doctor managed to devise a cure for the virus after examining one of the Cybermats, Amy was captured by the Cyberleader, forcing The Doctor to begin the Cybermen revival process or allow Amy to be converted into a Cyberman herself. Fortunately, The Doctor managed to escape the Cyberleader and rescue Amy before reversing the revival process, although he, Amy, and Chisholm - the last surviving member of the expedition - then had to escape the base before the Cybership self-destructed.

At Stonehenge the Doctor and Amy encountered Cybermen whose exact origin was never explained, although resembling John Lumic's Cybermen, and are thought to be a merge between the Mondas and Cybus Cybermen. One Cyberman that acted as a guard had been badly damaged and his various parts began attacking the Dotor and Amy. While his dismembered arm knocked out the Doctor, the Cyber-Head and body reunited, and attempted to capture and convert Amy, but was killed by Rory. As it turned out, the Cybermen had teamed up with others of the Doctor's enemies like the Daleks, the Judoon and the Sontarans to save the universe by trapping the Doctor in the Pandorica. However, they vanished from existence when the TARDIS exploded.

Others of these Cybermen, called the Twelfth Cyber Legion, were visited by the Eleventh Doctor and Rory Williams in A Good Man Goes to War, when they were searching for Amy Pond, who was imprisoned by Madame Kovarian. Their Cyberleader told Rory her location after the Doctor destroyed some of their spaceships. After one of their ships was crashed on Earth for "centuries" on Earth in Colchester in Closing Time, they were reawakened in 2011, and began converting the humans in the shopping centre above. Like the Cybermen from Mondas, they used Cybermats. They fought the Doctor when he visited Craig Owens. They tried to convert Craig into their new Cyber-Controller, but his feelings for his infant son were so strong, that he was able to override to process and blow up their ship.

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An old Cyberman converted into a chess playing machine.

The Cyber-Legions would fight a devastating war with humanity, which only ended when an entire galaxy, the Tiberian Spiral Galaxy, which the Cybermen occupied, was destroyed, seemingly wiping out the Cybermen in the eyes of the universe. However, several hibernating Cybermen remained hidden, such as on Hedgewick's World of Wonders.

Cyberiad era[]

Thought to have been extinct for a thousand years, using advanced minuscule Cybermats known as Cybermites to spy and gather parts for them, Cybermen underwent massive upgrades to make them invincible to the point that only a planetary destruction device can be used against a single Cyberman if not dealt with quickly. These enhancements include Cyber-conversion by Cybermites, detaching their limbs, super-fast speed, and the ability to convert non-humanoid life forms as the Eleventh Doctor found out. The Doctor got briefly possessed by their Cyber Planner who called itself Mr. Clever. However the Doctor temporarily immobilised them which gives enough time for him, Clara, and other human troops to evacuate and destroy the planet they are on.

This model was also present in the siege of Trenzalore in Time of the Doctor, devising one with a wooden exoskeleton armed with a flame thrower to avoid detection. The Eleventh Doctor is able to trick and destroy it by using it's own weapon against it. When the shield was lifted, the Cybermen invaded Trenzalore, but was fought off by the Doctor and the Silents, and were either destroyed, or saw fit to retreat. 

Cyber-Reality[]

In the Big Finish spin-off UNIT: Cyber-Reality, a particularly ambitious version of the Cybermen evolved in one universe, resembling the Cyberiad Cybermen. Led by a Cyber-Controller, they utilised virtual reality technology to conquer numerous parallel universes in a bid to upgrade the entire multiverse. They were, unfamiliar with the Time Lords, an ignorance which proved their undoing when the Master visited a parallel world they had occupied while attempting to escape the Last Great Time War. Returning to his Earth, the Master chose to join forces with UNIT against the Cybermen, who attempted to convert him, only to be destroyed when he overloaded their systems with power from infinite dimensions.

3W and Missy[]

In Dark Water/Death in Heaven, a group of Cybermen allied with Missy, who developed a way to convert the deceased into Cybermen. They also gained the ability to fly via rockets built into them. Once a large enough army was raised they invaded London once again. These Cybermen self destructed over graveyards, dispersing Cyber-pollen to infect and convert the bodies of the dead into Cybermen. However, when the Twelfth Doctor took the control bracelet from Missy (which controlled all the Cybermen), he gave it to a converted Danny Pink who lead all the Cybermen up into the sky where they all simultaneously self destructed, destroying the Cyber-pollen. 

Supremacy of the Cybermen[]

At the end of the universe, a group of Cybermen living within an asteroid were found by Rassilon after he was banished from Gallifrey. Rassilon saw the potential in allying with the Cybermen and let himself be converted into a Cyber-Leader. With Rassilon's assistance, the Cybermen attacked and conquered Gallifrey, and rewrote history with the Time Lords' technology to keep the Doctor occupied.

In the new timeline, Cyber-Silurians seeded the universe with ark ships containing cyber-technology. The 11th Doctor attempted to stop the launch of the arks, but he was captured and assimilated. After the CyberKings captured the Sontaran cloning worlds and caused the extinction of the Rutans, the tenth Doctor was unable to stop an ark from converting Sontar on a planetary scale. The Sontaran cloning factories were then altered by the Cybermen so that they produced an endless supply of Mondasians to convert. Earth was completely taken over by Cybermen in 2006. After Rose Tyler was converted and Jack Harkness was killed, the ninth Doctor tried to destroy the Cybermen. Instead, he was infected with nanobots and cyber-converted. 

At the end of the universe, the Cybermen used looms to siphon the regenerative energy from Time Lords into the Eye of Harmony. They planned to use the Eye of Harmony to shape formation of the next universe, making a reality perfectly suited to the Cyberiad. The Twelfth Doctor came to Gallifrey and confronted Rassilon and the Cybermen. When the Doctor was forced into a loom, the Cyber-Controller betrayed Rassilon and put him in a loom as well. The Doctor and Rassilon used their combined willpower to influence the energy being pumped into the Eye of Harmony and instead of regenerating the future, they regenerated the past. Everything the Cybermen had done was reversed and their supremacy over all of time and space was wiped from the memory of the universe. 

Mondasian Colony Ship[]

On an enormous Mondasian Colony Ship, which was trapped in the gravitational field of a black hole, the Cybermen rose once again. This was due to time dilation caused from the black hole, which led to 20 crew members, who travelled to the back of the ship to fix the engines, to experience time much faster than the front of the same ship. This led to minutes matching years at the two ends. Within two days/thousands, the crew was long gone and their descendants had built an enormous city. Due to pollution, lack of resources, and a brutal regime by the The Master, chances of survival were getting slim and a group of doctors decided to convert the population, to survive and escape to the higher floors in Operation Exodus. A few prototypes, or "patients" managed to make it up to Floor 507, before being fought off by the inhabitants. It appeared that the Master (now in disguise as Razor after being overthrown by the people) was also the key architect in this plan.

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The Cybermen surround the Doctor.

After the Twelfth Doctor's TARDIS arrived on the top floor, the mortally wounded Bill Potts was taken by the "patients" to Floor 1056. After being partially-converted, spent ten years living in the hospital with Razor, until being fully converted into a Mondasian Cyberman, as would the rest of the converted. While confronting the Master and Missy, the Doctor reprogrammed the Cybermen to see Time Lords as beings suitable for conversion, to prevent them gaining control of the army. Several newly-converted Cybermen attacked the hospital, although the Doctor, the two Masters, and the converted Bill escaped with Nardole to Floor 0507. Following this, the Cybermen began evolving themselves further in preparation for Operation Exodus to Floor 0507. Two weeks in 507 time, advanced Cybermen began to assault the Floor, and Nardole evacuated the residents, while the Doctor and Bill fought the Cybermen off. During the battle, the Doctor ignited the fuel pipes as a weapon, but was lethally injured. The Doctor managed to destroy most of the Cybermen in the end by igniting the entire floor, but it appeared that at least some survived.

Revival with the Cyberium[]

During a Cyber-War fought in the "very far future", the Cybermen and humanity nearly wiped each other out. An Alliance against the Cybermen sent the Cyberium, an AI containing all knowledge of the Cybermen back through time, to prevent the Cyber-Empire being revived. In The Haunting of Villa Diodati, Ashad, a fanatic who had been partially converted and was dubbed the Lone Cyberman, travelled back through time to follow it to 1816 at Villa Diodati. The lone Cyberman managed to recover the Cyberium, despite the interference of the Thirteenth Doctor and her friends, by forcing them to choose between stopping him and irreparably damaging Earth's history. 

After returning to his own time in Ascension of the Cybermen, the lone Cyberman managed to merge with the Cyberium, which instructed him to destroy all organic life. and him and his entourage, relics of the Cyber-Legions, hunted some of the seven surviving humans in the galaxy, and uncovered a Cybercarrier containing a legion of "warrior class" Cybermen. The lone Cyberman began reawakening them, and removing the organic components, so they could be ascended. He also contained the Death Particle, a weapon created by the Cyberium to destroy all organic life.

In The Timeless Children, while attacking the Doctor's companions and the humans at the Boundary, the lone Cyberman was contacted by the Master, who offered him the chance to conquer Gallifrey. The Cybercarrier went through the Boundary to Gallifrey, but Ashad was betrayed and killed by the Master so that he could gain the Cyberium for himself. The Master converted corpses of the Time Lords into a new breed of Cyberman, which he named the CyberMasters. The Doctor's companions and the human survivors of the war destroyed the Cybercarrier and the Cyber-Army aboard it, foiling the Lone Cyberman's plot. The Doctor weaponised the Death Particle against the Cybermen and the human Ko Sharmus subsequently sacrificed himself to use it against the Master and the CyberMasters.

Flux[]

When the Flux began raging the universe, the Cybermen, along with the Dalek and Sontaran empires, began fighting over what remained. As seen in Once, Upon Time, the Cybermen managed to take over a sector of a galaxy, and a squad invaded Bel's spaceship, but she fought off the Cyber-Warrior boarding party, interrogating a dying Cyberman on what it knew about the Flux's damage. In The Vanquishers, the Cyber-Fleet was contacted by the Sontarans to offer an alliance with them and the Daleks. However, this turned out to be a trap, as the Cybermen and Dalek fleets were tricked into being consumed by the Flux.

The Power of the Doctor[]

Ashad was revived in a clone body, and along with a division of Cybermen formed an alliance with the Master and the Daleks to erase the Doctor and convert humanity's population into Cybermen. The CyberMasters attacked a space bullet train to capture a energy being called a Qurunx to be used as part of the Master's plan. While the CyberMaster's were successful, intervention from the Doctor and her crew minimized casualties. Ashad's Cyberman squadron were smuggled into UNIT HQ within a bigger-on-the-inside "Russian doll" which he sent to the Doctor's former companion Tegan. This squad was invulnerable to gold, and began converting UNIT soldiers, with the base being sealed to prevent them converting the world. In 1916, the CyberMasters aided in capturing the Doctor, and used the Qurunx and a Cyber planetoid to cause a forced regeneration, allowing the Master to displace the Doctor. In 2022, Kate Stewart agreed to surrender if that meant her troops could be saved and buy time. In 1916, the CyberMasters were tricked into firing on a hologram of the Fugitive Doctor, leading them to shoot themselves, and the subsequent regeneration energy was used to undo the Doctor's forced regeneration. Tegan was advised by a holo-Fifth Doctor to overload the Cybermen's conversion equipment, knocking them out. Tegan and Kate managed to overload all the Cybermen's systems destroying the building and the Cybermen within it.

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