The CyberFaction: A Sub-Species split up into two, the “Early” CyberFaction (which actually appeared later) that Invaded Earth with Tobias Vaughn, and the “Late” CyberFaction (which actually appeared earlier) that invaded the W3 Wheel. One of – if not the – shortest chapter in Cyber History. So let us take a gander.
Intro / Outro Music by Dalekium: @Dalekium
Information Sourced from: https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Doctor_Who_Wiki
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:35 Origins (Iceberg, Human Resources)
1:56 Planning an Invasion (Who Killed Kennedy, No Future, Iceberg)
2:12 Colonising Isos II (The Isos Network)
2:36 The International Electromatics Invasion (Prelude: Iceberg, The Invasion
3:20 Remnants of a Forgotten Faction (The Piper, Security Bot, Dalek)
3:52 Survivors in the Arctic / The Liberation of Isos II (Iceberg, The Isos Network)
4:15 Vaughn Lives! (Original Sin)
4:30 The “Gareth Arnold” Invasion (The Blue Tooth)
4:57 The Last Remaining Mondasians / Defrosted at Last (Iceberg)
5:39 Assisting UNIT from the Grave (The Age of Ice, Death in Heaven)
6:03 The “Late” CyberFaction Invade the Wheel (Second Chances, The Wheel in Space)
6:18 Hegelia’s Speculations (Killing Ground)
6:26 Trouble on Denossus (Land of the Blind)
6:40 The Beige Guardian Intervenes (Happy Deathday)
6:57 The Supremacy Timeline (Supremacy of the Cybermen, Prologue: Second Doctor)
7:30 Outro
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Excellent Video! Chosen Chimp made a video on them also.
Apparently Cyber Faction is also the Cyberman subspecies that appears in the Big Finish Cyberman mini series (specifically the version from The Invasion). However, given the context of how they got into their position, it's easy to slot in any Cyber design that appeared in stories set prior to the story (including the Cybus/Cyber Legion and Cyber Wars variants from New Who) since it is only referenced that a crashed Cyber ship containing a Cyber Planner had been found. Personally, I think that either the Early Faction or New Who designs fit best and I envision the newer Cybermen referenced near the end of Cyberman Series 2 as being Neomorph/Earthshock Cybermen due to how close the series is to Earthshock in the Timeline (at some point between 2503 and 2526, the years given for Sword of Orion and Earthshock respectively)… also my head canon is that the Earthshock Cyberleader was part of the large numbers of cyber conversions ordered by the Cyber Planner during its control over Earth in the Cyberman series (even though the Cyber Fleet is implied to have been destroyed at the end of it).
how do the Cyber Faction slot into Blood & Steel and The Gates of Hell Because the Invasion and Wheel Cybermen appear in the Big Finish story The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield and why do they used the Invasion version in Out of Time2, Agent Drake has seen Cybermen specifically the variants from New Who but is unfamiliar with the Early variants