![]() ![]() The Cybermen had poisoned the Moonbase inhabitants and were infiltrating the base a few at a time. In which, another invasion of Earth was to be launched – via capture of an Earth Moonbase. ![]() The Cybermen made their next appearance, in the eerily effective Moonbase – 1967. The First Doctor paid a heavy price for this, though – and had to regenerate – into the Second Doctor. The First Doctor managed to foil the Cybermen and the planet Mondas was destroyed, in the ensuing fight. Our brains are just like yours, except that certain weaknesses have been removed….” Cyberman Our life span was getting shorter, so our scientists and doctors devised spare parts for our bodies until we could be almost completely replaced. “Yes! We were exactly like you once, but our cybernetic scientists realised that our race was getting weak. They were intent on destroying Earth, with their powerful and deadly cyber-bombs. By using technology to redesign themselves, to survive the cold extremes – and lack of natural light.įrom the start, the Cybermen were hell-bent on seeking revenge on the populace of Earth for this planetary occurence. The Mondasians had to take drastic measures to survive, this catastrophe. Mondas had been knocked-out of a much closer orbit to the sun (by the Earth) and flung to the edges of the solar system. As residents of the “10th” planet of our solar system Mondas – an Earth-like twin. It was in the First Doctor’s episode The Tenth Planet – 1966 that the Cybermen made their first appearance. Especially those, which were governed by “unnecessary” emotions. It was this, which set the Cybermen on a path to conquer and ‘upgrade’ all those races – to match their own which they now seen as inferior to themselves. Specifically, the ones which get in the way of a warlike race compassion, trust, loyalty, honesty – etc. Thrown into the mix, was the eradication of feelings. The Cybermen were originally humanoid but over the eons, had replaced their body – with robotic parts until very little organic human remained. ![]() In 1966, he put forward a suggestion for a race of part-human part-robotic cyborgs which came to be known as – ‘The Cybermen’. ![]() It was this notion, that Dr Pedler brought to the Doctor Who production team having been hired as a consultant. In the 1960’s, though it was pioneering research done by people (like Dr Christopher Magnus and Howard “Kit” Pedler), which pointed to a future where the body could be ‘upgraded’ – with robotic replacements parts. Taken to a nightmarish extreme where the technology has taken over the appearance – and free-will.Įven today, the very normal everyday use of bionic hip-replacements (or artificial heart valves), means the Cybermen’s appeal – is no less diminished, 50 years since their creation. Inspired by real-life technological advances in medical science, to improve the human body. The Cybermen are perhaps the most relevant Doctor Who monster, in terms of their origins. You shall be like us!” The Cyber Controller – Tomb Of The Cybermen The Upgradable – Cyborg Terror! ![]()
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