CYBERMEN

These statistics represent their insides. They can't survive without either of the following gadgets.

Cyberbody
F- TY (6)
A- EX (20)
S- IN (40)
E- AM (50)
H- 116

Resist Cold AM
Resist Fire AM
Radio Communications PR (only to call for help from other cybermen)

Chest Unit
AM material strength
Sealed Systems UN

Vulnerabilities: -4CS to radiation, gold, acid and gravity
Attacks may be made through the mouth hole as a called shot and attacks the inner body.

Cybergun
AM material strength
AM damage

Other standard items: Cyberscope, Refrigeration unit, Cybermats

Powers: Total Memory IN (40)

Talents: Cybernetics, Engineering, Military, Guns.

History: Cyberleaders have EX Reason and Leadership.

Second only to the Daleks in evil are the Cybermen, a race of evil cyborgs out to conquer Earth through clever plans often involving mind control. The fact that they can turn humans into cybermen under their control is one of their more horrific abilities.

Cybermen are neither evil nor good, just clinically logical in their actions: they have no concept of fear, pity, joy or cruelty, owing to their scientific advances. The once human inhabitants of their home planet, Mondas, developed the science of cybernetics to the extent that they could replace every part of the human body, except the brain, with metal or plastic parts. They became Cybermen, silver humanoid giants that are immune to the extremes of heat and cold and free from the ravages of disease. Eventually, their scientists eliminated what they saw as imperfections in their brains: emotions, without which they have become creatures of pure logic.

Human bodies, however, are essential to the survival of the Cybermen, because the Cybermen can increase their numbers only by converting suitable subjects. It is the object of propagating the Cyberman race that drives them to travel through space (they have not, as yet, discovered time travel). Earth and its colonies are therefore often chosen as targets of Cybermen attacks; it was during such an attack on Earth in 1986 that the first Doctor destroyed Mondas, which had returned to its home solar system. Captured humans are cyberized, a process of physical replacement and mental conditioning, in order to become Cybermen; those that reject the conditioning are often used as workers or infiltrated as superhuman spies into target societies. Cybermen have also developed mind-controlling machines used in combination with neurotoxins to enslave weak-willed humans.

The Controller, the leader of the Cybermen, seldom leaves their adopted home planet of Telos. Expeditions are led by a Cyber Leader; patrols are headed by a Cyber Lieutenant.

Because their weak, fleshy frames have been replaced, Cybermen are preternaturally strong. Their lack of fear makes them terrifying warriors to encounter, especially considering their resistance to most other species' weapons. They have a good grasp of tactics and know that their invulnerability disconcerts an enemy. They are completely immune to vacuum, because they do not need to breathe, which coupled with their resistance to cold and heat means they survive where humans would perish -- even outside spaceships.

Extreme cold, however, forces Cybermen into hibernation. The Tombs of the Cybermen on Telos are riddled with refrigerated chambers to which the Cybermen retreat when they must conserve energy. Whenever an invasion force of Cybermen travels through space, the bulk of it travels in cryogenic silos from which it must be awakened.

Cybermen look just silver-coloured metal men, about 2.1 metres tall. Hydraulic pipes run over their flexible metal skin and into the accordion- like unit on their chests, where a small metal grille conceals a heat-exchanger. The chest unit also houses communication equipment and a light. Their faces are impassive metal masks, with only circular holes where eyes should be, and a harsh slit for a mouth. The optical units can be switched to see into the infra-red spectrum. Instead of ears, a Cyberman has antennas that emerge from the side of its head and connect to the top.

Cybermen speak with a perfectly flat, twangy electronic voice: their speech circuits are incapable of inflection. With no lip movement and no body language to observe, Cybermen are disturbing simply because of their sheer inhuman behaviour.