Alternate counterparts of
Telos

Telos was aplanet, thehomeworld of theCryons until it wascolonised by theCybermen as atomb world following thedestruction ofMondas, (TV:Attack of the Cybermen) with some accounts even holding thatone race of Cybermen had beennative to Telos already. (PROSE:Doctor Who and the Cybermen) It was known toUNIT as one of the home planets of the Cybermen. (PROSE:Cybermen)

The CyberTelosians placed themselves insuspended animation in theirCyber-tombs for centuries until an archeological digging revived them in the presence of theSecond Doctor. (TV:The Tomb of the Cybermen)

One account suggested Telos may have been the "Planet 14" (GAME:The Invasion^[+]Loading...["The Invasion (game)"]) where theCybermen who attackedEarth remembered fighting theSecond Doctor, (TV: The Invasion^[+]Loading...["The Invasion (TV story)"]) and which may have been the literal fourteenth planet in thesolar system, beyondMondas, (PROSE: Iceberg^[+]Loading...["Iceberg (novel)"]) although there were contradictory accounts of Planet 14's nature (COMIC: The World Shapers^[+]Loading...["The World Shapers (comic story)"],TV:The Doctor Falls^[+]Loading...["The Doctor Falls (TV story)"], etc.) and Telos's location. (AUDIO:Last of the Cybermen^[+]Loading...["Last of the Cybermen (audio story)"])

Characteristics[[edit] |[edit source]]

According to one account, Telos was located outside ofMutter's Spiral (AUDIO:Last of the Cybermen) inTremulus Three, nearTasker's Crown (PROSE:Attack of the Cybermen) and also near thestar system containingKrelos. (AUDIO:Return to Telos) One account suggested Telos may have been "Planet 14", (GAME:The Invasion^[+]Loading...["The Invasion (game)"]) which another account glossed asSol XIV, the fourteenth planet inEarth'ssolar system, though without connecting it to Telos. (PROSE: Iceberg^[+]Loading...["Iceberg (novel)"])

A world that began with "Tel", beforeRed Rocket Rising's Acting PresidentEileen Klint's message was cut off, existed on the edge of Red Rocket Rising's solar system. (AUDIO:Blood of the Daleks)

Following Cyberman occupation, Telos was a grey, barren, and rocky world.Diamonds,vastial and other minerals could be found on the planet in abundance. (TV:Attack of the Cybermen)

History[[edit] |[edit source]]

Descent of the Cryons[[edit] |[edit source]]

At one timeCryons, who died instantly when exposed totemperatures above zero degrees, lived on Telos. If the Cryons ventured onto the surface, they would boil. The Cryons moved under the surface when it became too warm, constructing undergroundcities refrigerated to the sub-zero temperatures the Cryons needed to survive. (PROSE:Attack of the Cybermen)

Telos was listed on adata-grid of previousdestinationsa spaceship had visited. (GAME:"Past Journeys"^[+]Part ofTwisted Conundrums 1,Loading...{"page":"17","namedpart":"Past Journeys","1":"Twisted Conundrums (DWA15 1 game)"})

Ascendancy of the Cybermen[[edit] |[edit source]]

According to some accounts, a "race of men" on Telos soughtimmortality through the art ofcybernetics and became the firstCybermen. Developing space travel, theseTelosian Cybermen created anempire feared throughout the galaxy. (PROSE:Doctor Who and the Tomb of the Cybermen,Doctor Who and the Cybermen) They conquered the planetMondas only for it to be destroyed as it nearedEarth, (PROSE:Doctor Who and the Cybermen) and, after their defeat onthe Moonbase in2070, they retreated into theirCyber-tombs where they slumbered in suspended animation for centuries. (PROSE:Doctor Who and the Tomb of the Cybermen)

According to another telling, the Cybermen originally developed in this manner onMondas, (PROSE:The Creation of the Cybermen) though most accounts agreed theCyberMondans developed more out of a desire to survive. (AUDIO:Spare Parts) After the destruction of Mondas, the Cybermen hid out on the planetLonsis, planning to invade Earth. They were foiled byLucie Miller, who infected their ship withtemporal corrosion, and later the Doctor, who increased the range of a Quantum Crystalliser programmed to destroy them. The few survivors of these attacks colonised Telos, while Cybermen from other parts of the universe colonised other planets. (AUDIO:Human Resources) According to these accounts, the Mondasian Cybermenselected Telos with the intent of taking over theCryons' refrigerated cities to use as repositories of Cybermen cryonically frozen insuspended animation. The Cybermen killed most of the Cryons. Some survived, though not many. (TV:Attack of the Cybermen) According to a variant account, the colonisation of Telos by the Mondasian Cybermen predated the destruction of Mondas. (PROSE:The Cyber Files)

TheTwelfth Doctor later acknowledged Telos and Mondas as unconnected and equally-primal Cybermen homeworlds, arguing that the emergence of nearly-identical Cyber-races on the two planets was a case ofparallel evolution rather than the effect of some "masterplan" by an "evil genius". (TV:The Doctor Falls)

As a Cyber-planet[[edit] |[edit source]]

At any rate, Telos was a Cyber-bastion throughout theCyber-Wars. Earth forces launched a final assault on Telos towards those conflicts' end and the planet's surface was bombarded. (AUDIO:Last of the Cybermen)

Five hundred years after the last known encounter betweenhumanity and the Cybermen, anarchaeological expedition fromEarth, led by archaeologistParry (but financed and masterminded byKaftan andEric Klieg of theBrotherhood of Logicians), landed on the planet to find the Cybermen and to revive them. With the Cybermen as their army, the Brotherhood planned to impose a regime of pure logic on human society. The Cybermen and their leader, theCyber-Controller, were resurrected. TheSecond Doctor was able to seal them back inside their "tombs" and to electrify the outside gates. (TV:The Tomb of the Cybermen) This event was recorded underAwakening of the CyberTelosians, one of theCyber-Documents. (AUDIO:The Cyber Nomads)

Cyber-departure from Telos[[edit] |[edit source]]

The Cyber-Controller was not killed, as the Doctor had believed, but survived, and had installed a base, known asCyber-Control underground, supervising operations in1985London, with which they had a communications link, and fighting the Cryon rebels who remained. The Cybermen at this time employed work parties of humans whose conversions were unsuccessful as slaves to mine the surface of the planet. The Cybermen intended to destroy Telos and to observe its blast pattern for future research. The base was, however, invaded and destroyed by the Doctor (now in hissixth incarnation) with the assistance of the captured Cryon leaderFlast. (TV:Attack of the Cybermen) This event was recorded underDeparture from Telos, one of the Cyber-Documents. (AUDIO:The Ultimate Cybermen)

The Cryons survived the destruction of Cyber-Control, withRost listening to the destruction from a cave some distance away, and prepared to rebuild their planet. (PROSE:Attack of the Cybermen^[+]Loading...["Attack of the Cybermen (novelisation)"]) Over the next ten years, using experimentalworld engines the Cybermen had been developing, the Cryons moved the planet further out from their sun, so that its surface was once more covered in ice.

In1995, they invited the Doctor to celebrate the tenth anniversary of their liberation, and informed him that they intended to boost the world engines to allow Telos to travel across the cosmos to serve as asanctuary for victims of the Cybermen. However, the celebration was interrupted by a faction of rogue Cryons who had become obsessed with Cyber-technology and, upgrading themselves into semi-Cyberman hybrids, hoped to join theCyberiad. They intended to use the world engines to fly the entire planet into Cyber-territory as a peace offering, and took partygoers hostage in an effort to gain access to the engines' control. (GAME: "Deep Freeze"^[+]Part ofAttack of the Cybermen,Loading...{"namedep":"Deep Freeze","1":"Attack of the Cybermen (game)"})

The Cybermen return[[edit] |[edit source]]

Eventually, the Cybermen returned to Telos, (GAME:"Waifs and Strays"^[+]Part ofAttack of the Cybermen,Loading...{"namedep":"Waifs and Strays","1":"Attack of the Cybermen (game)"},"Telos In Two"^[+]Part ofAttack of the Cybermen,Loading...{"namedep":"Telos In Two","1":"Attack of the Cybermen (game)"},The Telos Node^[+]Loading...["Attack of the Cybermen (game)","The Telos Node"], etc.) in the form of three separate factions: survivors of the original Telos Cybermen, survivors of thedestruction of Mondas, and "shattered remnants of theLumic Cybermen" left over from their defeatsat Torchwood Tower andin 19th century London. (GAME:"Telos In Two"^[+]Part ofAttack of the Cybermen,Loading...{"namedep":"Telos In Two","1":"Attack of the Cybermen (game)"})

The Cybus-occupied tombs of Telos. (GAME:The Mazes of Time^[+]Loading...["The Mazes of Time (video game)"])

Indeed, theEleventh Doctor revisited Telos while trying to saveBilly Jones, who had been scattered through time. At this point in time, the Cyber-tombs had returned to their multi-tiered appearance, and had become occupied byCybus-typeCyber Legions, who began to wake from the tombs. (GAME:The Mazes of Time^[+]Loading...["The Mazes of Time (video game)"])

The three groups were in conflict, which caused the Cryons to be driven "further underground", left to fear the day the warring Cyber-factions would unite and become unstoppable. (GAME:"Telos In Two"^[+]Part ofAttack of the Cybermen,Loading...{"namedep":"Telos In Two","1":"Attack of the Cybermen (game)"})

TheCybermen's timeship went on to collide with the Doctor's TARDIS in the Vortex, bringing onboard its apparent passengers: other work camp escapees, what seemed to be theghost ofLytton, and a pair ofCryons, who explained to the Doctor that the Cybermen had returned to Telos and were killing everyone on the planet. However, the Doctor eventually discovered that aCyber-Planner hidden in the lowest level of the timeship was attempting to take over his TARDIS from within, calling into the question the reality of everyone else the Doctor had encountered. (GAME:"Waifs and Strays"^[+]Part ofAttack of the Cybermen,Loading...{"namedep":"Waifs and Strays","1":"Attack of the Cybermen (game)"})

TheTwelfth Doctor once sent "Lumpy" theDalek to Telos to retrieve one of the pieces of theOrb of Fates, which had been hidden in some ice. Once the piece was taken, theweapons-grade Cybermen attacked Lumpy. (GAME:The Doctor and the Dalek^[+]Loading...["The Doctor and the Dalek (video game)"])

During the Cyber-Wars[[edit] |[edit source]]

At the "height" of theCyber Wars, what remained of Telos still existed as the core of the solar-system-sizedCyberiadTactical Grid, turned into "a processing centre for Cybermen communications". The "last fewCryons" still existed there, however, fighting a "hopeless war" in the knowledge that bringing down the Cyberiad Grid, even temporarily, would paralyse the entire Cyberman war effort, perhaps long enough for their enemies to gain the advantage. Just as the Cryon commando unit launched what should have been a doomed assault, the Doctor's TARDIS materialised, giving them much better odds of success. (GAME:"The Telos Node"^[+]Part ofAttack of the Cybermen,Loading...{"namedep":"The Telos Node","1":"Attack of the Cybermen (game)"})

Eventual fate[[edit] |[edit source]]

Destruction[[edit] |[edit source]]

By one account, at some point during the early26th century, Telos was destroyed by anasteroid impact. (AUDIO: Telos^[+]Loading...["Telos (audio story)"])

As the Telos Memorial[[edit] |[edit source]]

However, by another account, in thefar future, after theCybermen had been defeated once and for all (leaving behind theSilver Devastation), Telos was "repaired" and moved to the edge of thesolar system by survivors and veterans from theCyber Wars, who turned it into a "planet-sized graveyard" known as the Telos Memorial. The graveyard secretly served as a cover for "one of the largest arsenals inthe galaxy's history", assembled by the veterans due to their nigh-paranoid certainty that the Cybermen would one day rise again. (GAME:"The Telos Memoral"^[+]Part ofAttack of the Cybermen,Loading...{"namedep":"The Telos Memoral","1":"Attack of the Cybermen (game)"})

Other realities[[edit] |[edit source]]

Inone of the infiniteparallel universes of "possible space", (COMIC:Fire and Brimstone) the last of theCybs were forcibly interred onTelos after their planetMondas was finally destroyed. (PROSE:The Chronicles of Doctor Who?)

Other references[[edit] |[edit source]]

TheSecond Doctor offered to showRiver Song "this cool place on Telos." (GAME:The Eternity Clock)

The renegade Time LadyIris Wildthyme once claimed to have visited the Cyber-tombs on Telos with her assistantJeremy. (PROSE:The Scarlet Empress)

After theHotel Historia onEarth was invaded byGraxnix, managerMajenta Pryce decided to flee and relocate to somewhere like Telos, claiming that it could use a little remodelling. (COMIC:Hotel Historia)

Facing the Cybermen on aMondasiancolony ship, theTwelfth Doctor recalled Telos as one of the worlds where they rose, and that he had defeated them there by sealing them into theiricetombs. (TV:The Doctor Falls)

A joke book which theThirteenth Doctor andYaz once found themselves trapped in contained an apparent transcription of a conversation between 2 individuals. The first claimed to have found a planet with a big tomb of Cybermen. The second asked "Telos?", to which the first said they'd tell everyone. (PROSE:Knock! Knock! Who's There?)

External links[[edit] |[edit source]]

• Telos at theLEGO Dimensions Wiki