#Voord

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[skarra2000]

Keys of Marinus

[doolallymagpie]

sometimes I remember “the man that attacked me was a Voord” and “a man named Yartek” and think

man (no pun intended)

they shouldn’t have been a species

[pluralzalpha]

Galactic Gazetteer: Hydra

Type: ocean planet

Capital: Predora

Inhabitants: Hydrans

Visited by: the First Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara

Appearance: Domain of the Voord (2014 audio)

Fun fact: the surface of Hydra was almost completely covered in water. Predora was the only landmass.

Another fun fact: the Hydrans built large floating settlements and a flotilla of ships.

Fun fact 3: Hydra was invaded by the Voord around 100 years after the events of "The Keys of Marinus."

[doctornolonger]

Long before Chibnall gave us CyberMasters, Craig Hinton dropped a series of hints in his novels The Crystal Bucephalus, The Quantum Archangel, and Synthespians™ that the Cybermen would one day evolve into peaceful and enlightened “Cyberlords”.

In accord with your thoughts, it’s worth mentioning that the War in Heaven is an idea that Craig Hinton kept coming back to, even after The Ancestor Cell. He referenced it in Aspects of Evil; in his notes for Time's Champion; and in The Quantum Archangel, where appeared in an alternate universe. There the Sixth Doctor was President of the Time Lords during the War, leading a fleet of timeships against the suspiciously-Dalek-looking Enemy. (Sound familiar?) In that universe the Cyberlords were Gallifrey's strongest allies, until time was rewritten and they were turned against.

As Hinton tells it, these Cyberlords were the ones who maintained the ArcHive which was the source for David Banks’ “ArcHive Tapes”. Perhaps they were also the final stage of evolution mentioned in the haunting ending to The World Shapers…

Which adds some support to your hypothesis. The Cybermen in The World Shapers are revealed to be the next stage of evolution of the Voord, about whom Interference tells us,

The Remote are not by any means the only media-dependent culture in our galaxy. However, they are unique among humanoid races in that each society is held together by a single media system, which the Remote have very nearly elevated to the status of godhood. The closest comparison we can find in our galaxy is one of the planets in the Voora Marinii group, whose inhabitants were for many years controlled by a ‘conscience’ not entirely unlike one of the Remote’s transmitters; but even that world had its counterculture, a secondary media system which, it’s believed, eventually led to the fall of local civilisation. Indeed, some have suggested that the entire planet may have been an experiment in sociology, engineered by whatever beings were responsible for scattering the Remote throughout known space. One would certainly have to note the fetishistic apparel worn by the followers of Marinus’s counterculture, and the receiver aerials they carried on their foreheads. In many respects, these ‘alien Voord’ might be considered the Remote’s direct ancestors…

The Cybergod

The Cybermen, cold, logical, unfeeling, yet they have a concept of God.

Now what sources suggest this

Let’s start with the comic story “Conversion” in which the eleventh Doctor forces the Cybermen to see a vision of a “fearsome Cyber-god”

Whilst this may be fictional (as suggest by TARDIS wiki) to me as the Doctor also conjures up a vision of a Roman god for the Romans they are fighting, it is reaching into there inner mind.

Now on to the Next Source, the Video Game “Edge of Reality” in this we meet the Cyberreaper

A Cyberman who seems to have no physical form but instead forms it body from the destroyed Cybermen which surrounds them. They Travel through time nullifying the Cybermen enemies by sowing chaos in there timeline. And is described as Mythical

Now my Third Source in the Cybermen Comic Strip from DWM which reveals that Mondas also had it’s own Silurians and Seas Devils, know as Lizard King’s

They ruled as God-Kings of Mondas’s past and where worshiped by their ape slaves. And these apes where partially cyber converted and the technology used to create the apes and the Cybermen came from a Time Paradox.

Now onto the final and in my opinion most important source, the Book of the War. Now you may be thinking to yourself what does Faction Paradox have to do with the Cybermen? Well we have the Silversmith Coteries and the the Order of the Iron Soul both of which to me seem like the Cybermen, but I am Talking about a Cyber God, and so I will bring up Godparent Pinocchio a being who is clearly a Cyberman who has been infected by the Faction Paradox’s Biodata virus. They take the form of skeletal machine as they have cast of their outer armour, their insides and remaining biological components visible, and upon their face a doll like mask. They are described as having spent sometime among their people trying to convince them to join the Faction. And their appearance is we are told is that of their peoples god. The elusive Cyber God.

The Cybermen having a concept of God across several sources seems to suggest that they have a mythology and a religion of some, weather they admit to it or not the evidence is there. And one theme seems common Paradox. So perhaps the Cybermen don’t worship a physical god but they worship Paradox, something which is describe in Alien Bodies and Being “Divine and Perfect” and we all know the Cybermen seek perfection. So perhaps the Cybermen themselves are just another agent of Paradox, that would explain there contradictory backstory, not to mention that the Order of the Iron Soul (the Cybermen in the afterlife) act as the enforcer’s for the Rump Parliament (the Faction in the Afterlife). So may I Tentatively suggest that the Grandfather Created the Cybermen as a kind of Joke, they have the cool logic of the Great Houses but the Relgion and beliefs of the Faction (or then House) Paradox. We know that the Drashings where created by another renegade Homeworld who joined the Faction (and may be the Doctor). So there is a precedent for the Faction creating whole races as a kind of cruel joke.

[ars-solitudine]

Shelena Van De Voorde

[thephotoregistry]

Wouter Van de Voorde

[mayanhandballcourt]

Photographer Wouter Van de Voorde

[drinking-plum-juice]

Things I’ve drawn while on vacation

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I saw your post about your opinion on post-end tord redemption and i appreciate the take. I always enjoy looking at the different angles people see regarding tord and his relationship with the others pre- and post- The End. In regards to this, what is your opinion on the clone theory? Or the idea that the tord we see in The End is actually a surviving clone from spares who has stolen/assumed the identity of the real tord in order to gain access to the robot under the house.

LOVE clone theory. wasn't aware of it until like 2 weeks ago. thanks ao3.

most of the stuff i'm drawing is in a nebulous either pre-the end or the end-agnostic timeline bc i am forever living in a world of my own imagination (its great here i highly recommend it), but clone theory is a great backup option if i still want a tord who isn't hell bent on world domination.

as for its relation to the show itself... its not impossible. obviously bringing tord back for the end was never going to be perfect, but the deliberate choice to give him a plaster on his cheek... i think its possible that clone theory was intended. and that's one of the biggest reasons why i like it so much! ...that being said, it could also just be a reflection of the character changing over the years, like Tom's pants changing color.

[endaplayz]

Let the Fun Begin!

An another day of me & Edd from Eddsworld are ready to join the Party!

Edd ©️ @eddsworld

Endaplayz ©️ @endaplayz

Artwork ©️ @endaplayz & @paultervoorde

[arifox15]

PAUL TER VOORDE IS AN ANIMATOR FOR SMILING FRIENDS EDDSWORLD FOLLOWS ME EVERYWHERE IM LOSING MY FUCKING MIND

[ash-azzzz]

If you had to build a group of people to rule the world Who would it be and what role would they play and why?

Monster tom: brute strength. can be used to scare people into obeying. also good in battle.

Red leader tord: mad scientist. makes the war plans. my right hand man co-leader type deal.

Dave strider: Time powers. can come from the future and tell us how our plans succeed/fail. save troops that dont have to die in batle.

Sollux captor: another secrete wepon. his psionics makes him a huge asset, however has a limit. hed be used in big battle to take out large groups in one go (like crushing them with a mall)

EJ: stelth. he can lead suprise attacks + gets his food from battles. can also be used to gather intel from possible rebels/any enemies.

paul+patryk: they're loyal and have battle experience. they just serve as extra commanders + a pilot/air force and a captain/navy

wallace wells: hype man. supports my team and provides moral support. hes also just a fan favorite but oh well. hes important.

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Jisse Gierveld by © Rosemarie ten Voorde

[yama-bato]

Wouter Van de Voorde – Death is not here

[doolallymagpie]

alright fine i'll buy the annete "fucked up and evil psionic terrorist" durand STL i made, because she's a vibe

really need to figure out if i wanna make the furies (her three besties and favorite henchmen) or just finally buy a van saar box and kitbash 'em (XCOM 2 templar helmets look a bit van saar, y'know?)