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In the finale to Doctor Who's 8th series, Death in Heaven,
where did the newly created Cybermen's armour come from? I mean, they rose from their graves already fully suited up. Not to mention the fuel to drive their thrusters!
I was hoping this would be mentioned, at least in passing, but everybody totally ignored it, as if it was normal. Unless I'm missing some clue?
(Oh, and if anyone can improve on the title, while still keeping it informative and non-spoilerish, I'd be delighted!)
The Doctor stated (at 18:20 for those of you with access to IPlayer) that the rain was actually 'cyber-pollen'.
It wasn't rain, man-scout, it was pollen. Cyber-pollen. Every tiny particle of a cyberman contains the plans to make another cyberman
Combine that with the dimensionally trancendental technology of a time lord (a la Missy) and an interesting new fluid capable of hiding non biological matter ("Dark Water"), and you have rain capable of full cyber conversion of the dead.
He mentions that if Missy had access to a TARDIS or some other time travel capacity, she could have plotted this centuries ahead of this very moment. It was said so quickly, if you stepped out of the room for a second, you may have missed it.
We are left to assume this was a special nanotechnology capable of either providing its own materials from the environment, carried its own materials as part of that fluid medium or as is so often mentioned, some sort of "Time Lord technology," which is so advanced, we simply won't be able to fathom where the additional mass came from."
I assume the rain was a variant of the "dark water" they had all been sitting in. Which means you couldn't see any metal in it.
Water encases a body, builds a suit, water runs off... presto! Metal suit suddenly "appears".
I had noticed that the 'water' was flowing uphill so the contact in the morgue would be related to that same gravity defeating nanotechnology, the increase in mass however and the sourcing of metals from the environment rather stretches credibility.
Matter and Energy are two states of the same thing. If an object exist, it has both matter and energy, and the form that is displayed to an objective observer is dependant not on the object, but the observer. An insect sees a flower very differently than you or I, and it is quite possible that every being sees a different reality. When you speculate as to the origin of a given manifestation you must remember that it is determined by you, not by the actual circumstance of existence experienced by the object in question. The body acquiring a cyberman suit may have been a body encased in said suit all the time, with the suit becoming visible when a predetermined set of variables occurred. That being said, you can find many examples in fiction and even scientific theory covering the creation of matter from energy. Replicators, transporters and holodecks spring to mind. Asking "Where did it come from?" is kind of like wondering where dirt originated. We don't know because we don't have all the data.
