Assuming that the Cybermen don’t have time travel, that places this story a few centuries after the destruction of Mondas and the events of The Moonbase.

For continuity’s sake, it’s good that they are familiar with the Doctor; I’d have been concerned if they weren’t.Initial scans show that he has a discrete lobe in his brain which can handle bodily functions unaided, allowing the rest of the brain to devote to cognitive capabilities; this pattern can be useful in the next generation of Cybermen, and may solve the problems Allan has been facing. The Doctor and Dodd infiltrate the palace, and find that enough Cyberman frames have been constructed to convert the entire population. According to some accounts, the Cybermats were created from bodies or body parts of humanoids that were not suitable for Cyber-conversion such as young children and babies. The Doctor claims at one point to disengage the time vector generator from the TARDIS, meaning it is no longer bigger on the inside. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

From this point forward, I intend to date each serial as well as possible; I’m primarily using Lance Parkin’s A History of the Universe, but checking other sources for consensus where I can, as the book is somewhat out of date. Cybermen from the 30th century who traveled back to 1940 also employed Cybermats and harvested humans to make more of them. Grash and Chev hear the airlock opening, and investigate, meeting the two Cybermen; Chev escapes, but Grash is stunned and fitted with a control device; Chev thinks he was killed. This version could bite humans and infect them with a virus, similar to the ones found on Nerva Beacon.She says she is not an android agent, but a double agent, and her mission was not to recruit the Cybermen, but to gather data about the conversion process, which the androids hope to use on human prisoners of war, thus creating new warriors for themselves. Missy once goaded the Twelfth Doctor into following her through various time periods while she stole valuable items. TV: Revenge of the Cybermen) The Cybermats of the Mondasian colony ship were also capable of poisoning Mondasians. Vampires of Venice later implies that the first Doctor also used the John Smith alias, but as it’s a common name, that is forgiveable.