EYLA CIREEYLA CIRE
Real Name: Eyla Cire
Identity/Class: Alternate Reality (Harmony/Earth-22073) human circa 40th and 41st century
Occupation: Apparent co-leader of the Sandeyla future;
former leading role of the Harmonists
Group Membership: Harmonists
Affiliations: Cable
(Nathan Summers/Nathan Dayspring Askani'son), the saber-toothed tiger guardians of Harmony
Enemies: Ranshi Empire and their Eliminators
Known Relatives: Manuel Cire (father), Ezra Cire (brother)
Aliases: None known
Base of Operations: Unrevealed (last seen in the Harmonist ship orbiting Earth-616 with the plan to explore the universe);
formerly a tower in Niers, Harmony/Earth-22073) circa 40th and 41st century
First Appearance: (Pictured, unidentified) Cable II#79 (May, 2000);
(Full, identified) Cable II#80 (June, 2000)
Powers/Abilities: Eyla Cire has access to the advanced technology aboard the Harmonist
ship, which included traveling through space and time,
deflector/cloaking fields, etc. A number of saber-toothed tiger guardians were also aboard the Harmonist ship.
At least on Harmony, she had access to the technology of her world and time period, including time probes
and other allowing remote observation of past events without disrupting those events; technology to cure virtually all disease, apparent blood-born nano-technology that facilitated translation and instantaneous communication, etc.
She had some interest/experience in painting.
History:
(Cable II#82) - In Reality-22073, circa 2000 A.D., Cable failed to save Randall Shire (possessed by the Undying Semijan (see comments)) and seeking to gain control over humanity via mind-control and a message of peace and harmony) from an
assassin (Domino/Neena Thurman possessed by the Undying Aentaros).
Shire's death was blamed on mutants, and an anti-mutant crusade engulfed the world: Mutants were destroyed, and the DNA pool remained untainted by evaluating children regularly and performing genetic surgery when necessary to wipe out any trace of the x-factor gene.
However, despite this, Shire's message of peace, love, and harmony lived on in some fashion. Over the centuries, his words remade humanity and turned Earth into a paradise of freedom and peace.
(Cable II#80 (fb) - BTS) - The Harmonists eradicated hatred, poverty, and war, and they developed cures for all diseases.
(Cable II#80 (fb) - BTS) - At some point, Earth was renamed Harmony.
(Cable II#80 (fb) - BTS) - Having mastered time
travel, the Harmonists used microscopic time probes to view past events
without being detected by the locals.
(Cable II#80 (fb) - BTS) - For centuries, the custom
on Harmony was that travelers between cities picked a host family in
every city they visited.
(Cable II#80 (fb) - BTS) - Harmonists bio-engineered
saber-toothed tigers as guardians of the peace to help protect them
from raiders from the Ranshi Empire.
(Cable II#80 (fb) - BTS) - The Harmonists used microbe-sized translators.
(Cable II#80 (fb) - BTS) - Starfarers traveled to Niers for trading purposes.
(Cable II#80 (fb) - BTS) - Eyla Cire was put off by
starfarers' alien manners and ways, and she found their talk of
business -- which was all they spoke about -- to be tedious.
(Cable II#80 (fb) - BTS) - Hikers on foot visited different cities on Harmony, although none had visited Niers in ages.
(Cable II#80 (fb) - BTS) - At some point, Eyla and
Ezra Cire listened to Socrates argue philosophy (at some during the 5th
century B.C.).
(Cable II#81 (fb) - BTS) - The Fates
warned the Ranshi Emperor that his empire and their every existence
was imperiled, as events taking place 2000 years in the past would
split the timeline and that the Ranshi Empire was but one of two
possible futures.
(Cable II#80 (fb) - BTS) - The Ranshi
soon learned that the Earth of the other timeline was known as Harmony. As Harmony posed
a threat to their empire, the Ranshi resolved that Harmony must be
destroyed.
(Cable II#80 (fb) - BTS / Cable II#81 (fb)) - The Ranshi
Empire warred with the Harmonists, but with little success. Eyla concluded that the Ranshi worshipped power.
(Cable II#81 (fb) - BTS) - For months, despite
numerous casualties on both sides, neither gained a clear advantage.
(Cable II#80 (fb) - BTS) - The two realities believed that only one of their realties could exist and that the other would be a shadow that would vanish as a result of their war.
(Cable II#80 (fb) - BTS) <One cycle (month or year?) before the main story> - Circa 4004 A.D., Rigellian traders visited Harmony. Eyla Cire either used an old universal translator (the size of an ear bud) to communicate with them or possibly she obtained one from them.
(Cable II#79 - BTS) - The Fates mystically appeared before Cable, vaguely advising him of imminent threats of the Ranshi Empire and Harmonists (with representatives of both posted, but not identified).
As Cable returned to his secret base, he was
instead transported to Harmony (aka Earth in Reality-22073) circa 4004 A.D.
(Cable II#80) - While painting something in the woods, Eyla Cire, alongside her
saber-toothed tiger guardian, encountered and greeted Cable, who
appreciated that he was on a future Earth, although not his own. She
gave him the old translator she still had in her carry-all since the
Rigellians traders had last visited, noting that it was not stylish
like the modern translators, which were microbe-sized. Cable was
instantly taken with her beauty and he considered that he had never met
someone who seemed so relaxed and confident when meeting with a
stranger, although he had never met a woman with a pet saber-toothed
tiger, either.
After introductions, she correctly surmised that Nathan was a traveler, noting that the only travelers she had encountered were starfaring traders. She invited Cable to stay at her tower for his visit, explaining how travelers always picked a host family in every city they visited. Her mention of Harmony reminded Cable that he had heard that name mentioned by the commander of the robotic hunters (Malan of the Ranshi Empire) who had tried to capture him hours earlier.
(Cable II#80 (fb) - BTS) - The computers in Eyla's
bloodstream informed her father, Manuel, and the celebration planners
that she was returning with a traveler.
(Cable II#80) - Bringing Cable back to her tower, Eyla told him there would be a celebration in his honor, and then she introduced him to Manuel, whom she instructed not to be dull before departing to design special raiment for that night's celebration.
Later, at the celebration, Cable was impressed by
the peoples' carefree and friendly nature, which Eyla credited to a
harmony between body and spirit and that life should be a place where
all were free to enjoy the fruits of paradise. She suggested Cable
forget the problems in his past life and begin anew on Harmony, and
Cable considered her to be both beautiful and intelligent and that he
had not been so comfortable with anyone since he wife, Aliya Jenskot;
he further appreciated that she felt the same way about him. As the two
danced a waltz, Eyla shared how they learned from the past via time
probes, blending the wisdom of the past with the science of today.
Eyla continued that genetic engineering was the
Harmonist's greatest triumph, giving them the biological computers in
their blood and their saber-toothed tiger guardians, and allowing them
to keep the race pure by carefully monitoring the genetic code of all
children. Cable -- presumably appreciating that this could refer to
eliminating mutations -- questioned her about this, but as she
dismissed it as part of everyday life, they were interrupted by an
attack by the Ranshi Empire. Cable engaged the attackers but a blast sent him back to the modern time
period, and he emerged in his safehouse a millisecond after he had been
pulled forward in time.
(Cable II#80 - BTS) - Cable discussed his time travel experience with his associates Blaquesmith and Irene Merryweather, and he had his base's systems put on full alert.
(Cable II#80) - Apparently after the assault had ended, Eyla lamented to her father that Nathan was gone and that the city computers could not find him anywhere. Manuel assured her that Cable was safe, as he was not a man who died easily.
(Cable II#81 - BTS) - The Ranshi briefly transported
Cable out of time to their timeship Conquest, but they returned him
upon realizing that he was the nexus of the divergence.
(Cable II#81) - The
Fates appeared before Manuel Cire, telling
them that Cable was the key to the past, present, and future, and that
he was the only one who could set them free.
Cire subsequently prepared a ship to be launched
2000 years into the past, loading numerous guardian saber-toothed
tigers and various supplies. He further instructed Eyla that she needed
to accompany the mission as her friend Nathan was the nexus of their
time and space, and that his actions would create either the timeline
of the Harmonists or the Ranshi. He told Eyla he feared that she was
their best chance to convince Nathan to make the right choice...if not
for all of Harmony then at least for her. 
(Cable II#82) - The Harmonists' ship, containing both Manuel and Eyla Cire, traveled back to the modern time period of Earth-616, matching space-time coordinates and with deflector shields on full power, rendering them -- as far as they knew -- invisible to any sort of detection. They detected the nearby Ranshi ship, but noted that they were a second out of phase and figured that the Ranshi would not know they were there.
Eyla subsequently reported a
chronotron reading from the city below, which she reasoned must be
Cable. She added that they should have a fix on him shortly, but that
to transport him on board, they would have to drop their shields for an
instant, which could prove dangerous with the Ranshi timeship in the
area. Manuel accepted that risk, stating that they didn't know what deceptions
the Ranshi had told Cable. He further instructed Eyla that Cable was a
primitive and that they must convince him that Harmony was the proper
timeline.
(Cable II#82 - BTS) - Meanwhile, the Ranshi nonetheless detected traces of a chronotropic energy array and realized that this was the shielded Harmonists. Appreciating that the Harmonists had to act soon as the time divergence
point was only hours away, Sandella Ranshi ordered that the instant the Harmonists
snared Cable they should be transported to that site.
(Cable II#82) - Manuel insisted they act now, but warned the others to be prepared, as the Ranshi could use the momentary shut-off of their deflection shields to attack.
The Harmonists transported Cable up to their ship.
(Cable II#82 (fb) - BTS) - The Ranshi beamed aboard the Harmonist ship.
(Cable II#82) - Aboard the Harmonist ship, the
Harmonists (aided by the saber-toothed tigers) and Ranshi (aided by
their Eliminators) battled. As Eyla and Sandella fought, Cable
recognized them both as counterparts of his former wife, Aliya,
and he telepathically asked them all to please stop. Cable's telepathic
force of will made all of the Ranshi, Harmonists, and their allies stop
and listen, and he asked what the Ranshi and Harmonists expected of
him.
After Sandella of the Ranshi revealed the fate of humanity in her timeline if Cable saved Randall Shire from an assassin that night, Eyla told Cable that in her timeline (Reality-22073), he would fail to protect Shire, who would die. However, his message of peace, love, and harmony lived on. Over the centuries, his words remade humanity and turned Earth into a paradise of freedom and peace.
Sandella then told Cable that
Harmony offered the peace of the grave and that mutants like herself
ruled the Ranshi Empire; she told him to ask Eyla where the mutants
were in her paradise. Eyla tearfully confirmed that in her timeline,
Shire's death was blamed on mutants, and an anti-mutant crusade
engulfed the world: Mutants were destroyed, and the DNA pool remained
untainted by evaluating children regularly and performing genetic
surgery when necessary to wipe out any trace of the x-factor gene.
Eyla reiterated, "Let Shire die, Cable, and humanity will finally achieve peace and harmony." She further countered Sandella's arguments with, "Let Shire die, and our advanced medicine will cure your techno-virus...then you and I can live together in paradise."
Both Sandella and Eyla told Cable that the only thing they knew about the assassination attempt was a name: Domino (who had been possessed by Aentaros).
(Cable II#83) - Eyla wept as Cable was sent back to Earth.
Approximately 10 minutes before
the point of divergence, Eyla and Manuel observed remotely from their
ship. Eyla considered that she and Cable could be so happy together if
he saved their timeline, but she wondered what would happen if he
picked the other reality and what would it feel like to fade into
nothingness. Manuel assured her that as their ship was present at that
time, they would not fade from existence, although their reality would cease to exist, and they would become orphans in the timestream. "Just like Cable..." Eyla considered.
At the same time, Sandella and Holdyne had a virtually identical conversation.
(Cable II#83 - BTS) - Cable stopped Domino from
killing Shire but also used the entity Semijan that was
possessing Shire to cause him to alienate his followers, thus diverging
Reality-616 from Realities-2775 and -22073.
Communication from the Harmonists' ship to Harmony ceased the moment Cable stopped Domino from killing Shire.
(Cable II#84 (fb) - BTS) - Eyla and Sandella
realized that they were alternate reality counterparts of each other,
and they wondered how many others like them existed in the Multiverse
(including, they suspected, someone Cable had once loved and lost).
Appreciating their differences and their similarities, they decided
that it would be much more exciting to combine their forces and see what
they could accomplish working together in this century. Armed with 2000
years of cybernetic technology and genetic engineering, they would
forge their own timeline: "The Sandeyla future."Comments: Created by Robert Weinberg, Michael Ryan, and Scott Hanna.
There is a LOT going on in this story arc. Randall Shire and Cable brought everything together. You can read the profiles on Shire and the Undying, etc. to get the other half of the story, but the Undying don't DIRECTLY relate to the Ranshi or the Harmonists. It may or may not make more sense as I profile Eyla Cire and then the Harmonists and/or Harmony...and then the Ranshi Empire and its members.
Pretty much every writer likes to
write the story as if a future reality was destroyed when the past/main
timeline diverges from its history, but we know that the realities just
diverge, and many seen later as divergent realities. Especially during
the point of divergence, reality often seems to be in flux, with beings
and/or worlds seemingly vanishing from existence, only to show up
later.
The Harmonists ship contained perhaps dozens of
Harmonists, including Manuel and Eyla. Their fate since departing Earth
is unrevealed. Those left behind on Harmony should be able to use their
time probes to determine what happened at the point of divergence and
contact them.
It seems likely that the name Cire was based somewhat off of Shire...
Earth-22073 -
Cable killed Randall Shire, martyring him and causing his religion, Harmony, to
prosper; , technically advanced, worldwide peace, use in utero screening
technique to eliminate mutation; Harmonists circa 4004 AD warred against
divergent Earth -2775; reality diverged from -616 when Cable-616 defeated Shire
without killing him and made his followers hate him
Earth-Harmony*--Cable I#78
Profile by Snood.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Eyla Cire should be distinguished from:
images: (without ads)Appearances:
Cable II#79 (May, 2000) - Robert Weinberg (writer), Michael Ryan (penciler),
Andrew Pepoy (inker), Mark Powers (editor)
Cable II#80 (June, 2000) - Robert Weinberg (writer), Michael Ryan (penciler), Scott Hanna (inker), Mark Powers (editor)
Cable II#81-82 (July-August, 2000) - Robert Weinberg (writer), Michael Ryan (penciler),
Andrew Pepoy (inker), Mark Powers (editor)
Cable II#83 (September, 2000) - Robert Weinberg (writer), Michael Ryan (penciler), Walden Wong (inker), Mark Powers (editor)
Cable
II#84 (October, 2000) - Robert Weinberg (writer), Michael Ryan (penciler),
Nathan Massengil & Andrew Pepoy (inkers), Mark Powers (editor)
First posted: 09/18/2023
Last updated: 09/18/2023
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