CIA File: Temporal Mauraders

Current Threats

Entry: The Cybermen

Planet of Origin: Sol IV (Mondas). Later relocated to Telos Description: While details have varied as Cyber-technology has been streamlined and augmented, the basic appearance of Cybermen remains virtually unchanged; tall humanoids, augmented with advanced cybernetics, and covered in flexible, silvery armor. Special Abilities/Skills: Due to their cybernetic construction, Cybermen are extremely durable and strong. Each Cyberman possesses the physical strength of ten average Gallifreyans (or Humans), and can take a tremendous amount of physical punishment before succumbing. They can withstand a hard-vaccuum for several minutes, and are immune to most diseases and poisons. Weaponry: Blasters. Either built-in, or carried as sidearms. Weaknesses: The Cybermen are somewhat slower and less-nimble than most humanoid races. Like the Daleks, the Cybermen are unfailingly logical, and humanoid thought-processes often confuse them. Though practically indestructable with normal weaponry, the Cybermen can be most easily defeated by exploiting their vulnerablity to Gold dust, which clogs their chest-units and aspyxiates their remaining organs. Lastly, the Cybermen cannot reproduce normally, and can only increase their number through the capture and conversion of humanoid beings, which may be their greatest weakness. Oh, and if you can get your hands upon a Raston Warrior-Robot, please do so. These fast, graceful, and deadly machines can cut a swath through a squad of Cybermen in no time at all. Just don't be in the vicinity when you activate it.

Summary: Cold, logical and without remorse or pity, the Cybermen are actually cybernetic humanoid life forms that orginated on the Earth's sister planet, Mondas. When Mondas was loosed from its orbit in the late Cretaceous period by the Entry of a planetoid that would later become the Earth's lone natural satellite, Luna, the Mondasians began to replace their weakening organs and limbs with cybernetic components. Eventually, after removing all traces of emotion from their brains, the Cybermen were born; Tall, imposing, superhumanly strong, and absolutely remorseless. On several occasions the Cybermen have attempted to conquer the planet Earth, which remains an attractive prospect because of its huge population of humans, which the Cybermen wish to convert into more of their own kind. In what may be their most devastating defeat, their attempt to drain the energy resident within the Earth itself resulted in the complete destruction of their home-world. Subsequent attacks left the population of the cyber-race severely depleted. Eventually, a host of different races across the cosmos banded together, and seemingly wiped the Cybermen out completely, using the abundant gold-resources of the planet, Voga. While in our-time, the Cyber race seems to have become extinct, it is possible, indeed probable, that isolated pockets of Cybermen remain. Plus, there remains the very-real possiblity of Cybermen being lifted from the time-stream and brought into the present. Also, since they have access to somewhat effective time-travel technologies, the possibility of a small force of Cybermen erasing past defeats is also possible. Thus, they remain a formidable threat.

Threat Level: High