Professor Lumic was incharge of Cybus Industries. He was paralyzed and dependent on his ventilator, he had created a Cyberman prototype hoping that one day he would be able to transform himself into a Cyberman that would make him near enough invincible.
The Cybermen that Lumic had created forced him to go ahead with the upgrade sooner than he had hoped for.
The Cyber Controller only appeared in the 2006 story Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel
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