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Genesis of the Cybermen.

The moment the conversion was completed, the human physician, geneticist, and cyberneticist that was once known as Kate Allen knew her long years of pain and torment were long gone.

In fact, she felt nothing. The clamps retraining her new cybernetic body which she had spent years creating retracted to let her stand up, and she did so carefully. The emotional inhibitor was turned on to the human side of her nature could not express any subconscious horror over her transformation but then she had expected that.

Standing up on her new cybernetic legs while her human brain adjusted to being welded into the suits' exoskeleton, Allen paused to allow the gyroscopic stabilisers in her suits' spine to adjust. The suit had been tested like all of the other suits she had brought on board the ship to make sure there were no flaws in the computer system that linked the brain, the hydraulics in the muscles, and the life support system, but this was the first time her own specially designed suit had been fitted with a brain. It was also the first time her brain had been placed inside the suit, which had features and design implements the other Cybermen, even the Cyber-Controllers she had planned, simply lacked.

Allen adjusted quickly. She slowly walked around the room, making a last minute test of her new body, watched by her faithful retinue of Cybermen she had converted over the last year. She had brought on the colony ship a number of Cybersuits and the materials with which to create them from raw materials. The people who had organised the mission to Earth had not taken any unnecessary risks. They had provided the colonist ship with enough metals and computer components to help them adjust to life away from Earth while giving them the means to sustain themselves before they could live off their new planets' resources.

Allen had simply put them to better use, and now there were areas on the ship that had been converted into a factory for Cybersuit technology. There were laboratories that grew the organic fluids and raw flesh that were a vital part of the cyber mechanism that allowed the Cybermen to operate inside their suits. The machine shops and basic fabrication facilities were put to use constructing the hydraulic muscles, exoskeletal armour, and life support systems needed for the Cybermen.

Already Allen had supervised the conversion of at least a hundred people on board the ship, though the conversion process was going nonstop. The entire crew had become Cybermen now, and they were currently guiding the ship on its course to the planet which become their new homeworld. She had begun to convert a number of colonists, but when they arrived on the planet she had plans in mind for the future generations.

Allen pushed those thoughts to the side as she concentrated on her new body. She had been planning for this moment for a long time, and even with her former prosthetics and her period in suspended animation onboard this ship granting her enough time for her to complete her work and put her plans into motion, she was still surprised by the lack of feeling she was getting just by being inside this new body.

Yet she clearly heard the sound of her new cybernetic legs, immeasurably superior to the ones she had used before, as she made them walk her towards the mirror so then she could see her new reflection. She had had her Cybermen bring the mirror into the conversion room when she had decided her old body had served its purpose.

With that in mind, Allen stopped and twisted her waist around (another improvement, her original body had been too fragile for her to properly turn around as effortlessly as other humans could, so each time she had wanted to see what was around her, she would have needed to do it slowly but in her new body she no longer needed to worry anymore) to see her old body. The emotional inhibitor prevented her from feeling nauseous at the mangled sight of the carved open skull which had been sliced in half in order to get the brain out, so she felt nothing when she looked down on the remains. She didn't even feel disgusted when she saw the still open, sightless eyes staring up at her.

"Dispose of the body," she ordered the Cybermen, only momentarily surprised by the sound of her new voice before she accepted it. The newly converted Cyberwoman knew her voice would be artificial long before the conversion, but hearing it speak from her own impulses was still a surprise

"Yes," one of the Cybermen acknowledged and dutifully moved over to pick up the body while scooping up the top half of the skull before leaving the room. Neither Allen nor the other Cybermen cared about the pool of congealing blood on the ground.

Allen walked back to the mirror, and for the first time, she saw herself in her new form as the Cyber-Prime.

Unlike the other Cybermen, her suit was radically different in every way when she had made plans to create a brand new species, a new branch of humanity. She had originally considered placing herself inside the armour of a Cyber-Controller, but she had decided against it. She had wanted all of the Cybermen to know who she was and what she had done for them, and to do that she had decided to create a completely different kind of cybernetic suit.

Whereas all the Cybermen from the low ranks to the Cyber-Controllers were built and modelled over identical lines, her armour was different. While she was the same physical height as the Cyber-Controllers she planned to create in the later future while for the moment she was content to simply concentrate her focus on creating her new race rather than worry herself about creating a hierarchy, her armour was built along more slimmer lines.

Allen had carried out a lot of research when she had been on Earth, and when she had come to the decision to create a brand new species, she had known she had to be its leader and founder. To do that, she realised she would need to stand out, so she had created a different kind of armour that was an evolution of her other designs. Unlike the other models of Cyber-suit, her suit was more streamlined and was given a female appearance while the basics of the Cyberman appearance were present. Her arms, legs, torso and head… they were all smaller, more feminine versions of a Cyberman's suit.

But that was only purely cosmetic. She was several times stronger, faster, and more durable than the rest of her Cybermen.

As she looked at her reflection through her optical implants, Allen reflected on her current plans.

Now she was the Cyber-Prime, and her mind had just become part of the neural net she had developed for the Cybermen thanks to subspace technology, all of the Cybermen she had created knew she was converted and she was now able to go ahead with her plans. Her current plan was to convert the rest of the colonists and arrive at the colony, but she had her own plans in mind for the colonists' children.

Yes, her plans for the Cyber-race would be completed.

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