Silas Burr (Earth-616)
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History
Little is known about Silas Burr prior to his World War I command of the special Canadian Army unit, the Devil’s Brigade, including Logan, later known as Wolverine. At some point, Burr murdered a young woman that Logan was romancing and brutally beat the young soldier, gouging out one of his eyes and psychologically scarring him for decades to come.
Burr, or Cyber as he eventually came to be known, is believed to have been born in Canada. His earliest verified exploit took place while he was an agent for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in the spring of 1912. Burr was charged with 22 counts of murder and put on trial in Sioux City, Iowa. He was found guilty on all counts and was sentenced to death by hanging. Escaping from the courthouse, with the aid of Sabretooth posing as a guard, and killing a number of other's in the process Cyber arrived at a Western Canadian military base. Burr found in the Canadian Army a new employer named Frederick Hudson, who took special interest in utilizing his unique ability to push the men under his command beyond their moral and emotional limits. Cyber's earliest known confrontation with Logan seemingly occurred around World War I, where he served as Logan's brutal drill instructor during his early days in the military. Cyber was given instructions to focus his attention on Logan in particular, and eventually received orders to murder a woman at the base known only as Janet, in whom Logan was interested romantically, to further dehumanize his conditioning. After witnessing her death at Cyber's hands, Logan attacked and was severely beaten as Cyber effortlessly gouged out Logan's left eye. This was Logan's most severe beating and defeat up to this point in his life and the resulting psychological effects result in a deep-seated fear of Cyber that lasted for decades. Without any memory of Burr's abuse, Logan again found himself under the command of Burr while enlisted with the Devil's Brigade during World War II. He introduced Logan to U.S. Army soldier Nick Fury for the clandestine rescue mission of Captain America from German occupied Northern Africa.
Returning from Indochina for nine months in 1959, Burr would train his finest student, Logan's son, Daken, before the boy is secretly ordered to destroy the training camp and everyone associated with it, including its commandant, Hudson. Eviscerated and shot by Daken, Burr is spared from death, as he is slated to be bonded with adamantium at some point in the near future.
It has been suggested, by Cyber himself, that he once ran with the notorious Edinburgh killer, William Burke, and took part in the heinous West Port murders of 1828.
In recent years, Burr had his skin laced with unbreakable Adamantium. Known as Cyber, he joined a drug cartel and was sent to Madripoor to oversee distribution of a new hallucinogenic. Cyber targeted Madripoor’s leading crimelords, Tyger Tiger and General Coy, only to clash with Wolverine, now Tiger’s ally. In the ensuing battle, Cyber lost an eye before falling into the hallucinogen, which drove him mad.
Replacing his lost eye with a cybernetic one, Cyber led the mercenary Hell’s Belles against the government sponsored mutants of X-Factor. He was next employed by the Coven cult to retrieve a mystic gem but again opposed by Wolverine. Later tracking Wolverine to Muir Island, Cyber fought the British super-team Excalibur before being trapped in a high security chamber. He was freed by the Dark Riders on behalf of Genesis, only to meet a grisly end as mutant death watch beetles consumed his flesh, leaving only the Adamantium.
Resurrection
Cyber has recently resurfaced in astral form, making himself known to a powerful young mutant with child-like intelligence named Milo Gunderson. After possessing Milo's body, Cyber is easily able to suppress Milo's child-like psyche, coupling Milo's incredible strength with his own cunning intelligence. Intent on revenge, he sets off for the Tinkerer, contracting him to perform the adamantium-epidermal bonding process once he has stolen the necessary liquid adamantium from storage in the Hague. Arriving in Brussels, he is revealed to be behind the scenes in setting up the inevitable confrontation between Wolverine and his son, Daken. At the culmination of the bloody battle between father and son, Cyber appears, complete in his new adamantium laced skin, and challenges not Wolverine, but Daken. After quickly gaining the upper hand in his fight with Daken, Cyber questions him on the whereabouts of his master. Daken refuses to answer and manages to flee, leaving Cyber and Wolverine alone. During the following battle, Cyber suffers from a heart attack, as Milo had a weak heart. Wolverine, upon discovering that Silas had previously instructed Daken, and is capable of tracking his location, spares him in exchange for information. As Silas starts retelling how, in 1912, he was saved from capital punishment by Sabretooth and taken to Canada where he met the mysterious man known as "Hudson", his condition worsens, and Wolverine is forced to bring him to the Tinkerer to help him with the needed treatment. Agreeing to construct an artificial pacemaker to stabilize Cyber's heart condition in exchange for the use of Logan's mysterious carbonadium synthesizer, The Tinkerer unwittingly affixes the radioactive device to Cyber's chest, before Logan disappears with the C-Synth and tosses it from a bridge into the water below. Cyber's current activities and health are unknown.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
Current Body
In his current body, Cyber does possess some superhuman abilities. However, the full extent and full number of his powers isn't known.
- Superhuman Strength: Cyber has taken possession of the body of a powerful young man named Milo. Milo's body is superhumanly strong,capable of ripping off a horses head with one punch. Although the limits are unknown his current body, however, is at least as strong as his original.
- Superhuman Durability: Cyber has recently reappeared after having the skin of his new body bonded with Adamantium. As a result, Cyber's body, with the exception of his face, is virtually invulnerable to conventional attack, even to weapons composed of Adamantium itself.
- Psionic Powers: Cyber has revealed that being exposed to the same drugs and poisons that his adamantium claws were tipped with in his original body dramatically increased the effectiveness of his powers, allowing him to track the brain pattern of anyone anywhere in the planet. It isn't known if he currently possesses his ability to telepathically push people into performing certain acts. He hasn't demonstrated this ability in recent times and may no longer have it. His consciousness has entered the body of the child-like Milo Gunderson and his personality, consciousness, and intelligence have supplanted those of Milo. It isn't known if Cyber can take possession of the bodies of others regularly or if he can only do so through very specific circumstances.
Original Body
Cyber was a mutant possessing various superhuman abilities that were the result of genetic mutation and artificial enhancement.
- Regenerative Healing Factor: Cyber possessed an accelerated healing factor that enabled him to regenerate damaged or destroyed tissue with much greater speed and efficiency than an ordinary human. This healing factor, while similar to that possessed by Wolverine and Sabretooth, wasn't nearly as efficient as Cyber wasn't able to regenerate missing limbs or organs. His accelerated healing powers were what enabled him to survive the process which bonded Adamantium to his skin.
- Resistance To Disease: Cyber's healing powers afforded him a high degree, if not total immunity, against all known diseases.
- Suppressed Aging: Aside it's unique regenerative qualities, Cyber's healing factor caused him to age much slower than an ordinary human. Despite being well over 100 years of age at the time of his death, he retained the appearance and vigor of a man in his physical prime.
- Superhuman Strength: Cyber was originally enhanced allowing him to lift approximately 2 tons. After being augmented upon having his skin laced with Adamantium, his strength was increased to the point where he could lift at least 10 tons.
- Superhuman Stamina: Cyber's muscles produced considerable less fatigue toxins than the muscles of ordinary humans. He could exert himself at peak capacity for about a day before fatigue began to impair him.
- Superhuman Durability: As a result of an unknown procedure, Cyber's skin, with the exception of his face, was infused with Adamantium. As a result, most of Cyber's body was virtually invulnerable to physical injury.
- Psionic Powers: Cyber possessed two distinct psionic abilities. The first was the ability to telepathically push individuals to perform acts that they normally would refuse or be morally unable to do. He also possessed the ability to psionically expand his consciousnees, allowing him of tracking a person's specific brain patterns across great distances. The exact range of this ability was never revealed. However, he was capable of using it to track Wolverine across Edinburgh, Scotland.
Abilities
Strength level
Class 25 ; Cyber can lift within 10 to 25 ton range.Weaknesses
Although the body Cyber's consciousness currently inhabits is at least as strong as his original one, it possesses a weak heart. When last seen, the Tinkerer had forged a pacemaker for him out of Carbonadium using the Carbonadium Synthesizer. However, Carbonadium is a very toxic substance so Cyber's current status and health isn't known. Cyber's new body doesn't possess retractable Adamantium claws nor does it possess an accelerated healing factor.
Paraphernalia
Equipment
Cyber’s skin and hair were laced with the metal Adamantium, making him virtually invulnerable to physical injury. The skin and hair of his current body are also laced with Adamantium.. Cyber possessed a cybernetic left eye to replace the one Wolverine gouged out in his original body, it's properties unknown.Weapons
Cyber currently uses no weapons. In his original body, Cyber possessed a single retractable Adamantium claw on each finger, each coated with extremely potent hallucinogenic toxins. These toxins were even capable of affecting Wolverine for a brief period of time and were lethal to ordinary humans within a matter of seconds.
Notes
- Cyber was driven insane by exposure to a hallucinogenic drug, causing him to suffer mildly distracting delusionary side effects.
Trivia
- Cyber was the only character Logan (a.k.a. Wolverine) was afraid of.
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