Ice Warriors

The Ice Warriors and Ice Lords were a race of reptilian humanoids from the planet Mars.

Biology
Adult, fully armoured Ice Warriors were large, imposing reptilian humanoids, up to seven feet tall. Unarmoured, they had flattened, scaly faces with sharp fangs and thin green tongues. (DW: The Ice Warriors, Legacy)

Females were built more slightly than males, and had spiny dorsal crests. (DW: GodEngine)

Ice Warriors perpetually wheezed and tended to move slowly, (DW: The Seeds of Death) though they could move fast when needed. (DW: Legacy, Cold Star) They spoke in a drawn-out hiss. (DW: The Ice Warriors)

The typical lifespan of an Ice Warrior was three hundred Earth years. They had a complicated genetic structure and were herbivores. (DW: GodEngine)

Society and Culture
The planetary identification glyph of the Martians was a triangle overlaid with a lightning bolt with an artificial burning sun at its centre. (DW: GodEngine)

Honour
Ice Warriors had a strong sense of personal honour. After the Third Doctor saved the life of the Ice Lord Izlyr, he felt obligated to help the Doctor escape. (DW: The Curse of Peladon) Ice Warriors disliked lying, though they would do so when necessary. (DW: Legacy) When challenged to a ritual blood duel, an Ice Warrior would spit at an opponent's face. Terrorism was anathema. (DW: GodEngine)

Religion
The Ice Warriors also worshiped Tuburr, who was thought to be the one who made the Ice Warriors into warriors. In the early years of Ice Warrior civilisation, the young would be sent to the surface as a ritual trial of endurance. If they survived, they took the oath of Tuburr and tried to pull the Sword of Tuburr from a brazier, after which they were considered adults. (DW: Legacy) Martian law forbade any forging of copies of the holy Sword. (DW: GodEngine)

Martian tombs, pyramids and burial of the dead was similar to Egyptian civilisation, suggesting that both were influenced by the Osiran race. During funeral rites, the deceased wore metallic clothes known as warding shrouds to protect them before the cremation. (DW: GodEngine)

Society
Advancement in the hierarchy was decided on merit and skill. (DW: Legacy) The skill of cooking was highly prized. (DW: GodEngine) This feudal way of life continued until the era of the Galactic Federation. (DW: The Curse of Peladon)

When a marriage bond was broken, it was called Fass-jul-Aqq. (DW: GodEngine)

Titles

 * Supreme Lord - a high ranking position. (DW: Legacy)
 * Grand Marshall - the staff of a Grand Marshal was an important relic. (DW: Legacy)
 * Marshal - wore decorative helmets with jewels. (DW: The Seeds of Death, Legacy)
 * Shsurr - a title that roughly translated to mean M'lady. (DW: Legacy)
 * Scholastor - this position was one held by scholars and scientists. (DW: GodEngine)
 * Abbot - a title held by religious figures. (DW: GodEngine)

Armour
Ice Warrior armour augmented their already considerable strength. This included a half-face helmet and a red blast-screen over each eye. Ice Warrior nobility ("Ice Lords") wore light armour with sleek, bullet-shaped, metallic helmets, a simple breastplate and a cape. (DW: The Seeds of Death)  An Ice Marshall's helmet contained circuitry beneath its surface and acted as an additional nervous system for its wearer after it bonded with the cranium. (DW: Ice Time) Common warriors had much heavier and bulkier, intricately patterned full-body armour, and stubby helmets (some designs of which also placed blast screens over the ears). (DW: The Curse of Peladon)

Their exoskeletal armour melded with the body of their wearer and an Ice Warrior was described as being one with their armour. (DW: Ice Time) This armour consisted of carapaces and helmets grown in nutrient tanks and cybernetically augmented to provide the wearer with increased strength, reaction time, spectral sensitivity and biological efficiency. It also gave them a direct link to the Martian battle net. Finally, it boosted the efficiency of their waste management systems. (DW: GodEngine) The armour technology included locked-sequence communicators and induced muscular hydraulics. (DW: Ice Time)

Weapons
Ice Warriors had small sonic weapons in the wrist of their armour as a personal defence weapon, (DW: The Ice Warriors)

They also made use of sonic grenades that operated by emitting a sonic impulse which caused fried the brain cells of anyone within the vicinity of the blast radius. (DW: Ice Time)

They also used genetically-engineered weapons, such as a bacteriological weapon based on Martian sleeping fever. (DW: GodEngine)

During the 22nd century Dalek invasion, the Ice Warriors had a superweapon named the GodEngine, built from technology left over by the Osirans, god-like visitors to Mars long before. The GodEngine could destroy a star by making it go supernova; its deployment was prevented by the Ninth Doctor. (DW: GodEngine)

Terraforming
The Ice Warriors could deploy seeds on a planet which altered the environment and made it an icy world. (DW: The Seeds of Death, Operation Salvation)

Transportation
Ice Warriors had access to Spacecrafts. (DW: Ice Time)

Other
A notable interrogation tool designed specifically for use on humans was the brain-rack. It created artificial neural pathways in the human mind which dominated the existing thought processes and ultimately ensured obedience in the subject. These machines were said to have no harmful side effects and the process wore off after a week or so when the artificial engrammes began to decay and the natural pathways reasserted themselves. Seen as a potential brainwashing tool, the brain-rack also increased learning rates by three hundred percent. (DW: GodEngine)

Early History
The Ice Warriors were once visited by the godlike Osirans, who cruelly and callously used them as little more than labourers on their construction projects. Millions of years BC, the Martians were a migratory species. They evolved to the point that all their waste products were recycled. (DW: GodEngine)

Some exploration of other planets was attempted. Varga went to Earth, but his ship was trapped in a glacier for thousands of years. Some time after this, the Ice Warrior's civilisation went into decline as Mars became more inhospitable. (DW: The Ice Warriors, Legacy)

Circa 5000 BC, the Ice Warriors realised that complete devotion to the concepts of war would destroy their species in the same manner as the Osirans. Using their legends and race memories, they created a peaceful religion that taught pacifism and compassion. This became the doctrine of the Order of Oras. (DW: GodEngine)

10th Century
The Ice Lord Sezhyr was laid to rest with his relics. (DW: Ice Time)

20th Century
At some point a revolution took place on Mars and the Ice Warriors split into different factions with one side wishing to abandon the old ways. A group of Ice Warriors led by the Ice Lord Hhessh were exiled from Mars but took Sezhyr's relics in the hopes of somehow resurrecting him. They soon arrived on Earth in 1933 but the ship containing the relics crashed into the Moscow River. The remaining Ice Warrior ship was placed into a large freezer where they were allowed to hibernate by Vitali Wolshkin. (DW: Ice Time)

In 1967 Vitali woke most of the Ice Warriors up so that he could set up a mission to retrieve the relics of the Ice Lord Sezhyr from the Kremlin in Moscow. Hhessh was transported to Moscow before being revived and was aided by the Seventh Doctor, Ace, Markus Tollinger and Raina Kerenskaya. Once Sezhyr was resurrected through Raina she attempted to lead an invasion force on Earth. But these plans were thwarted by Ace. (DW: Ice Time)

21st Century
Another invasion and terraforming was attempted in the mid-21st century, when the Ice Warriors, led by Slaar, invaded the central T-Mat base on the Moon which regulated global T-Mat operations. He attempted to use a fungus, which would turn the Earth into a more hospitable planet for them. The Second Doctor and his companions stopped him. (DW: The Seeds of Death)

in 2086, an invasion was attempted yet again, leading to the Thousand Day War. By 2088, the humans had won. (DW: GodEngine)

22nd Century
by the early 22nd century, the Interstitial Mass Transit System had been established, linking the planetary bodies of the Sol system in a way that allowed humanity to treat Mars as a colony world, marginalising the few remaining survivors of the war (DW: Transit) and, through the 22nd century, marginalised the Ice Warriors on their own home planet. Later, the Ice Warriors became allies of the humans. The Ice Warriors colonised a new planet and named it New Mars or Neo Ares. (DW: Legacy)

In 2157 a group of Ice Warriors, led by Falaxyr attempted to locate the GodEngine in order to offer it to the Daleks in exchange for the conquest of Mars. The Ninth Doctor and Sammy defeated them. (DW: GodEngine)

26th Century
By the 26th century, the Ice Warriors were an isolated species. They had left Mars and were isolated on New Mars. (DW: Legacy)

33rd Century
In 3256 an Ice Warrior named Skalron represented Mars in that year's Intergalactic Song Contest. He sang the song Sand Sssstorm and eventually came in 8th place, tying with Tellermso from the planet Pixos. (DW: The Food of Love)

38th Century
In 558 DF  The Ice Warriors were part of The Collective, an army of aliens that invaded  Taoter III. ( ELYM : Hostile Assault, To the Death )

39th Century
The Ice Lord Izlyr represented the Ice Warriors when the members of the Galactic Federation met to discuss wether Peladon should join the Federation. (DW: The Curse of Peladon)

40th Century
By the late 40th century, the Ice Warriors (still in the Galactic Federation) had, for the most part, renounced their war-like ways. (DW: The Curse of Peladon, The Monster of Peladon)

In 3935 a faction of Ice Warriors led by the Ice Lord Azaxyr were working for Galaxy 5 who were at war with the Galactic Federation. These Ice Warriors desired to return to the Ice Warriors former ways of military conquest. Azaxyr and his troops helped take over the Trisilicate Mines while making out that they'd been sent by the Federation to keep the miners under control. The Third Doctor and Sarah Jane eventually defeated them. (DW: The Monster of Peladon)

In 3984 An Ice Lord named Rassbur led a team of Ice Warriors to Peladon in order to guard a treasure that had been brought to Peladon in order to protect it from a group of mercenaries. However almost all the Ice Warriors were killed by a Sontaraan grenade. (DW: Legacy)

42nd Century
By 4127 tensions between the Ice Warriors and the Earth Government had flared up due to Earth wanting to leave the Galactic Federation but the Human colonists didn’t want to leave Mars, angering the Ice Warriors. A Chief Ice Warrior was an Earth-bigot who wanted the humans gone and so with help from the Master, he caused a rise in tensions by exposing the human colonists to Mars' atmosphere, killing them. Peace was later made between the humans and Ice Warriors after some negotiations and the Chief Ice Warrior was killed when Daniel Bevin sacrificed himself. A new Chief Ice Warrior was appointed and he allowed the humans to stay on Mars. (DW: The Martian Equinox)

51st Century
Circa 5000, during an Ice Age on Earth, Varga and his crew were finally revived and decided to take over first Brittanicus Base and then the world. (DW: The Ice Warriors)

Legacy
While on trial for breaking the Time Lords non-interference policy, the Second Doctor used a Thought Channel to show them some of the evils he'd fought against, one of which was an Ice Warrior. (DW: The War Games)

While under attack from the Keller Machine, the Third Doctor saw an illusion of an Ice Warrior. (DW: The Mind of Evil)

Undated events
To be added. (DW: The Lords of Time)

Alternate Timelines
In one alternative timeline the Ice Warriors allied themselves with Sebastian Jensen in an attempt to take over Earth. (DW: Vengeance of the Nimon)

The Ice Lord Eskythe was rescued by Sebastian Jensen from being encased in ice at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Sebastian took Eskythe back to his masters by traveling on the R1-01 which he succeeded at with help from the Twelfth Doctor, Angela Jensen and Lizzie Clarke. (DW: Storm Warning)

In 1965 a group of Ice Warriors attempted to give the Zygons some chemical weapons so that they could make Earth more like Zygor. (DW: In Thy Image)

In 2008 an Ice Warrior broke Sebastian out of prison by using Zygon technology, allowing them to take on the form of a human prison guard. (DW: Burning Books)

A war between humans and Ice Warriors soon broke out. In 2108 Sebastian tricked a group of humans into exploring an underwater base where they accidentally woke Eskythe and an army of Ice Warriors who proceeded to aid the rest of the Ice Warriors allowing them to conquer Earth and terraform it. (DW: Operation Salvation)

By 3448 Earth had been liberated by the Galactic Federation. Sebastian and a group of Ice Warriors hid on a Bellonsion Space Station named Cold Star. The Ice Warriors battled a group of Bellonsions who had been sent there after being notified that people were on Cold Star. (DW: Cold Star)

Behind the Scenes

 * Strictly speaking, according to their debut story, the Ice Warriors never had that name until Walters gave it to them and Victoria Waterfield carried Walters' description back to the Second Doctor. Subsequent stories would forget this, and have the Ice Warriors use this name to refer to themselves.

List of Appearances
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Season 5 (1967-1968)

 * The Ice Warriors

Season 6 (1968-1969)

 * The Seeds of Death
 * The War Games (cameo)

Season 8 (1971)

 * The Mind of Evil (cameo)

Season 9 (1972)

 * The Curse of Peladon

Season 11 (1973-1974)

 * The Monster of Peladon

Season 27 (1990)

 * Ice Time

30th Anniversary Special (1993)

 * The Lords of Time

Season 31 (1994)

 * Legacy

Season 35 (1998-1999)

 * GodEngine

Season 45 (2008)

 * Vengeance of the Nimon (cameo)
 * Storm Warning
 * In Thy Image
 * Burning Books
 * Operation Salvation
 * Cold Star

Season 49 (2014-2015)

 * The Food of Love (cameo)

2017 Christmas Special

 * The Martian Equinox

Season 4 (2018)

 * Hostile Assault (cameo)
 * To the Death (cameo)
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