Kroton (Cyberman)
Kroton is an extraterrestrial comic character who features in Doctor Who.
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Biography
Kroton
On Telos, Kroton became a Junior Cyber-Leader, and was sent to assist in the management of the occupied planet Mondaran. While leaving the planet, he wondered if he would ever see its sky again, a thought which his associate Liron found to be against what his programming should allow. On Mondaran, Kroton helped in the investigation of the resistance forces. He helped capture the elderly Willoway, and told the Cybermen under his orders not to kill Willoway's daughter, who was attempting to stop them from taking Willoway away. The resistance fighters would later find this puzzling, as Cybermen usually killed at the first sign of hostility. Kroton was horrified to learn that Willoway had chosen death over the act of giving information to the Cybermen. He could not understand how Willoway would choose to protect something other than his own life, which he had been thought humans were very precious of. Kroton attempted to contact members of the resistance movement to question them on this, but they reacted hostilely to his arrival. Despite this, he kept calm and continued to inform them that he just wanted to talk to them until they fled. When a group of Cybermen arrived to look into the disturbances of the evening, Kroton turned them away, telling them to rejoin their troop. Kroton met with the traitor Zarach, a humanoid who sold secrets of the resistance to the Cybermen in exchange for his life. He questioned why Zarach would betray his own kind, to which Zarach explained that he was like the Cybermen — emotionless. The information from Zarach was used to arrest the leader of the resistance, Pendar. Kroton went to speak with Pendar, and chose to save him from the prison and take him away from Mondaran City, where he let Pendar go. Kroton then began to sulk quietly, not sure what he had done or why. Pendar briefly considered killing Kroton with a large boulder, but found that he could not, as it would make him no better than the Cybermen. Reunited with Marilka, the three began discussing the events, where Pendar realised that Kroton had retained some of his human emotions. Kroton was highly doubtful of his place in the universe -- if were to return to his life as a Cyberman, he would be deactivated, but as a Cyberman he would not be trusted by any species but his own. Pendar disagreed, saying that once the resistance had won against the oppressive Cybermen, Kroton would have a place among his people. The three decided to steal a shuttle as it was an unexpected tactic. They were attacked by Cybermen on the base they chose but were able to get to a small ship. The ship they used to escape was low on fuel, meaning that the three had to stop off in the centre of the wilderness. Kroton's battery packs were running low, and knowing that he had no way to recharge them and that the shuttle would only key the other Cybermen into his friends' position, he chose to use the remaining fuel to shoot out of the planet's atmosphere, saving Marilka and Pendar but leaving him lifeless, floating in space for years.
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Notes
- Kroton was created by Steve Moore and Steve Dillon where he featured in the Doctor Who Weekly #5-#7 (14 November-28 November, 1979) in the story titled "Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman".
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