Manuel Cire (Harmony/Earth-22073; Cable character)

Affiliations: Cable (Nathan Summers/Nathan Dayspring Askani'son), the saber-toothed tiger guardians of Harmony

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 40^th and 41^st century

Powers/Abilities: Manuel 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, he had access to the technology of his 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 instantaneous communication, etc.

His room's computers could detect unusual -- such as chronotropic -- energies and silently inform him. The room's sensor could also detect health problems, including Cable's techno-organic virus/disease, and its computers could analyze these problems and report treatment options.

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) - 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) - 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) - At some point, Manuel Cire used a time probe to watch Julius Caesar cross the Rubicon circa 49 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.

(Cable II#81 (fb) - BTS) - For months, Manuel Cire led the battle against the invaders of the Ranshi Empire. 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#79 - BTS) - 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) - Eyla encountered Cable and brought him back to her family's tower.

(Cable II#80 (fb) - BTS) - The computers in Eyla's bloodstream informed Manuel and the celebration planners that she was returning with a traveler.

(Cable II#80) - Eyla introduced Cable to Manuel, whom she instructed not to be dull with their guest.

With the room's computers having detected Cable's chronotropic energy, marked him as a timewalker and informed Manuel, he shared this information with Cable and asked why he had come there. Manuel further discussed how Harmony was at war with the alternate timeline of the Ranshi Empire. Appreciating that the time of the two realities' divergence was from around 2000 years in the past (the modern era from which Cable had been transported to Harmony), both Cable and Manuel acknowledged that his appearance there was no coincidence.

After Ezra designed an outfit for Cable suitable for the evening's celebration, Manuel told Cable that in Niers, everybody wore exactly what they wanted, as openness of expression in all forms was encouraged, and that ridiculous was considered the norm.

When the room sensors noted a health issue in Cable, he explained his techno-organic disease. Manuel had his room analyze that illness, after which it reported that the cure required five days of therapy and treatment, involving a difficult but not life-threatening operation.

Later, at the celebration, Cable was impressed by the peoples' carefree and friendly nature. The event was interrupted by an attack by the Ranshi Empire. Cable rushed to engage the attackers but was forced to use a telekinetic force field to save himself from a droid's energy blast, which somehow hurtled 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) - 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. cire-manuel-harmony-22073-face-cab82

(Cable II#81) - Despite technology that made it impossible for anyone to enter his chamber without his knowledge, the Fates appeared before Manuel Cire without setting off any alarms; time otherwise appeared to be stopped. The Fates told Manuel that Cable was the key to the past, present, and future, and that he was the only one who could set them free.

Manuel 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 lies 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 ship detected small traces of a chronotropic energy array, which she figured to be from a shielded ship within their range. Appreciating that 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.

(Cable II#82) - Aboard the Harmonist ship, the Harmonists (aided by the saber-toothed tigers) and Ranshi (aided by their Eliminators) battled. Cable telepathically asked them all to please stop, and his 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 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, Shire's 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. 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. cire-manuel-harmony-22073-postdiv-cab83

When Malan of the Ranshi denounced the Harmonists as murderers and mutant-haters, Manuel countered that they killed no one and that their medical procedure merely ensured untainted growth. He continued that mutations brought about change, and that paradise could not exist with the world in flux.

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 of the Undying).

(Cable II#83) - Approximately 10 minutes before the point of divergence, Eyla and Manuel observed remotely from their ship. When Eyla 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 this time period, they would not fade from existence; however, their reality would cease to exist, and they would become orphans in the timestream.

At the same time, Sandella and Holdyne had a virtually identical conversation aboard the Ranshi ship.

(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 both Realities-2775 and -22073.

Communication from the Harmonists' ship to Harmony ceased the moment Cable stopped Domino from killing Shire.

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.

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

Cire's Tower

Based in the Harmony city of Niers, it was home to Manuel, Ezra, and Eyla Cire, at least.

(Cable II#80) - Eyla encountered Cable and brought him back to her family's tower.

(Cable II#80 (fb) - BTS) - The computers in Eyla's bloodstream informed Manuel and the celebration planners that she was returning with a traveler.

(Cable II#80) - Eyla introduced Cable to Manuel, whom she instructed not to be dull with their guest.

--Cable II#80 (82

Note: Hmmm...just noting this as I titled this sub-profile, but Cire's Tower sounds a bit like Sears Tower...probably just coincidence...

Appearances:
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)

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