Re: No Name? Really?
Oh I'd have gone for a very different origin for the Cybusmen... First thing would be the notion that cyberenhancements would be par for the course on alt-Earth, just as the original Cybermen were a sort of disturbing take on organ tranplsant, these would be on voluntary body-modification.
I wanted to see construction workers with cyber-arms, couriers with cyber-legs, old people with chest unit as mobile life support... and Ricky's blind granny with cyber-eyes. Everything being based on everyone accepting in-ear bluetooth just didn't work for me.
They also wouldn't have been unwilling victims turned into mindless army by a Bond-villain, they wouldn't even be the originals who became cyberised to survive, they'd be willing volunteers because it seemed like a good idea which would make them MUCH scarier IMHO, and add in the evangelical desire to convert others, not because they wanted to conquer but because they genuinely and fervently believed that it would be the best thing possible to happen to a person.