Although its cover art depicts the Cybermen’s most recent design from the TV series, Cyber-Reality introduces a previously unseen model, with its own distinct MO. “These are a ‘new breed’ of Cybermen,” Matt Fitton writes in the stage directions for Master of Worlds, specifying sound design somewhere between the Cybus models from 2006’s Rise of the Cybermen, and the “sleeker Nightmare in Silver version” introduced in 2013.
The Cybermen reborn in The Age of Steel (2006).
“Essentially these are a very successful breed of Cybermen that are powering themselves from dimension to dimension and taking over planets as they go,” Matt tells DWM. “They’ve developed this method of conversion which owes something to what we’ve seen in the Cybus episodes with the Bluetooth headsets, and the worm things in Nightmare in Silver. So it’s a mash-up of lots of different Cyber technologies, which are being used by these very successful Cybermen.”