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Cybermen’s Global Micro-Monolithic Circuit Network

A class/category of tiny electronic components, distinct from the specific chip gifted to Jamie McCrimmon. These circuits were hidden in household devices worldwide and used by the Cybermen to transmit hypnotic control signals via satellite broadcasts. Discussed theoretically in The Invasion (Part 6) as part of the Cybermen’s global domination plot, not physically handled like the Jamie-gifted chip.
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Purpose

Transmit Cybermen hypnotic control signals when activated by satellite broadcasts, enslaving human users through infiltrated electronics

Significance

Central to Cybermen global domination plot and Vaughn's sabotage counterplan; their exposure shifts strategy from local fights to worldwide countermeasures, heightening invasion stakes

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

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S6E16 · The Invasion Part 6
Zoe proposes depolarizer countermeasures

The micro-monolithic circuits are identified as artificial nervous systems that, once activated, will produce the Cyber-hypnotic force controlling human beings. These circuits, embedded in everyday electronics, are the key to the Cybermen's plan for global enslavement. The Doctor's realization that they are emotional circuits shifts the understanding of the threat and highlights the need for a countermeasure like the depolarizer.

Before: Embedded in IE equipment worldwide, dormant but poised to be activated by the Cybermen's signal.
After: Remain a critical vulnerability, now understood to be emotional circuits that can be targeted by the depolarizer.
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