HARMONISTS HARMONISTS
Membership: Eyla Cire, Ezra Cire, Manuel Cire; numerous others unidentified
Purpose: Living in peace
Aliases: None known
Affiliations: Cable
(Nathan Summers/Nathan Dayspring Askani'son), guardians, Randall Shire of their Reality-22073;
(Harmonists in Reality-616's modern era) members of the Ranshi Empire of Reality-2775 in Reality-616's modern era)
Enemies: Ranshi Empire of Reality-2775
(Harmonists in Reality-616's modern era) formerly Ranshi Empire of Reality-2775
Base of Operations: (Harmonists remaining in Reality-22073) Niers and numerous other Megapolises, Harmony, Reality-22073 circa 4004 A.D.;
(Harmonists remaining in Reality-616)
First Appearance: (Mentioned) Cable II#78 (April, 2000);
(seen in vision, and Harmony seen) Cable II#79 (May, 2000);
(full) Cable II#80 (June, 2000)
Powers/Abilities: The Harmonists have advanced technology, genetics, and medicine.
They have used their genetics to eliminate mutation on their world and that they continued to use to prevent new mutations from being born.
They also genetically-engineered saber-toothed tigers who acted as guardians to the Harmonists.
They have developed cures for
virtually all known forms of diseases, and their technology could
analyze and determine swift treatment even for advanced/alien disease
such as Cable's techno-organic virus.
They have time probes 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, microbe-sized translators, etc.
Their rooms (or at least those of high-ranking residents like Manuel Cire) contain computers that can detect
unusual -- such as chronotropic -- energies and silently inform the owner.
The room's sensor can also detect health problems, including Cable's
techno-organic virus/disease, and its computers could analyze these
problems and report treatment options.
The Harmonist
time ship, in addition to traveling through space and time,
could communicate across time and space, possessed deflector/cloaking fields, advanced etc.
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.
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) - There were no mutants in 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, Manuel Cire used a time probe to watch Julius Caesar cross the Rubicon circa 49 B.C.
(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. The Harmonists concluded that the Ranshi worshipped power.
(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#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#80 (fb) - BTS) - At some point a Niers band
used a time probe to study under Strauss (presumably 19th century
composer Johann Strauss II).
(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).
When the Ranshi ambushed Cable, assuming him to be a time-traveling Harmonist, his use of mutant abilities made it clear to the Ranshi that he was not a Harmonist, and the Ranshi teleported away.
As Cable returned to his secret base, he was
instead transported to Harmony (aka Earth in Reality-22073) circa 4004 A.D., which he realized
must be the third test of which the Fates had advised him.
(Cable II#80) - 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
he 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.
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.
Manuel's son, Ezra, designed an outfit suitable
for the evening's celebration, with the room sensors having analyzed
his form to ensure a perfect fit. Although Cable apologized while
noting that he felt like an idiot in the outfit, Ezra assured him that
it was the height of fashion, although he doubted that anyone would
notice his clothes, as a man like him would intimidate the men and put
the women in awe. Manuel further added that in Niers, everybody wore
exactly what they wanted, as openess of expression in all forms was
encouraged and ridiculous was considered the norm.
When the room sensors noted a health issue in
Cable, he explained his techno-organic disease, and 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, 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 beautful 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 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 milisecond 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) - Despite technology that made it
impossible for anyone to enter his chamber without his knowledge, the
Fates (unidentified) appeared before Manuel Cire without setting off
any alarms; time otherwise appeared to be stopped. The Fates, 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 don'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, a member of the Ranshi reported that they were
picking up small traces of a chronotropic energy array, which she
figured to be from a shielded ship within detection range. Sandella Ranshi replied that the Harmonists had to act soon as the time divergence
point was only hours away. She 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 Jenskot,
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.
Malan of the Ranshi denounced the Harmonists as murderers and mutant-haters and noted the hypocrisy in the Harmonists calling the Ranshi "savages." Manuel Cire 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.
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 added.
At the same time, Sandella and Holdyne had an identical conversation.
(Cable II#83 - BTS) - Cable stopped Domino from killing Shire but also used the violent entity Aentaros 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.
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 (more on that below). It may or may not make more sense as I profile 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.
Randall Shire's message of Harmony
was first shown in Cable II#79, but his connection to the Harmonists
was not revealed until...
I'm not sure why Cable's mutant
nature was not immediately some red flag given the sensors they
possessed and their policy of elimination of mutation.
They spoke a language requiring translation, but it was all translated for us and Cable.
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
Why didn't the Undying wipe out all life on the alternate Earths
occupied by Harmony and the Ranshi Empire? Did the story say that Cable had
managed to stop them in those timelines as well? Or were we just meant to
assume that he had?
Also, condemning the
Undying to only inhabit the bodies of cockroaches sounds like a suitable
punishment but the fact remains that, when the planet Earth is eventually
destroyed, there will be no more cockroaches and the Undying will be free to
take over other life forms. So, while it is a long-term solution, it's not a
permanent one, and the Undying really deserve to be ended forever.
--Donald Campbell
For the Ranshi Empire, Semijan/Shire talks about changing
the rules of the game, which could have let him rule humanity rather than
slaughter it and continue to spread his influence across the galaxy, but
there’s no explanation of why Semijan is not the ruler of the Ranshi Empire,
unless he is indeed the Emperor and father of Sandella…but still, nothing
really makes sense.
The only explanation I can think of is that the writer did
not factor the Undying into the future…he had this complex story, but it was
somewhat compartmentalized, and he didn’t think it all through.
I think a certain level of weapon that destroyed Earth might
possibly destroy Azazel and the Undying…but maybe not. Perhaps Cable and
associates made notes to figure out a long-term solution beyond the death of
the last cockroach on Earth.
OR again, the writer figured that the solution was
“good enough.”
--Snood
Also, I'm not sure how the
peaceful Harmonists who occupy one planet are any sort of challenge in
their own time period to the galaxy-spanning Ranshi Empire. The true
threat would be the temporal divergence (as far as they understood,
anyway), but anytime the two peoples fought, the Ranshi should have
slaughtered the Harmonists. Then again, maybe the Harmonists are like
the Priests of Pama or something and have great martial arts skills (as
well as their advanced technology) that they use only in defense. The
guardians could help, but against advanced weaponry, organic tigers
would fall swiftly.
Profile by Snood.
CLARIFICATIONS:
The Harmonists have no known connections to
 (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#80Note: The history of Harmony matches that of the Harmonists, and I only listed the initial portion here. If you want to, please feel free to create a profile for Harmony/Earth-22071. |
  (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) - Eyla Cire, alongside her
saber-toothed tiger guardian, encountered and greeted Cable, who considered that he
had never met a woman with a pet saber-toothed
tiger. Her guardian accompanied them back to her father's tower, after
which she departed to prepare for that night's festivities. (Cable II#81) - Manuel Cire subsequently prepared a ship to be launched
2000 years into the past, loading numerous guardian saber-toothed
tigers and various supplies. (Cable II#84) - After Cable and his allies had thwarted the Undying, Eyla and Sandella transported Cable aboard one of their ships. Alongside Eyla's guardian, Sandella greeted Cable. --Cable II#80 Note: The Guardians appear in multiple images in the main profile and in other sub-profiles, including the Harmony sub-profile immediately above this one. |
 The greatest metropolis on Harmony, it was notably the home to Eyla, Ezra, and Manuel Cire--Cable II#80 |
 
(Cable II#81) - Manuel Cire subsequently prepared a ship to be launched
2000 years into the past, loading numerous guardian saber-toothed
tigers and various supplies. (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. (Cable II#82 - BTS) - Meanwhile, a member of the Ranshi reported that they were
picking up small traces of a chronotropic energy array, which she
figured to be from a shielded ship within detection range. Sandella
Ranshi replied that the Harmonists had to act soon as the time divergence
point was only hours away. She 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. Sandella of the Ranshi
revealed the fate of humanity in her timeline, and Eyla revealed the fate of humanity as the Harmonists. (Cable II#83) - Eyla wept as Cable was sent back to Earth. (Cable II#83 - BTS) - Cable stopped Domino from killing Shire but also used the violent entity Aentaros 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#80 (81-82 |  |
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(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#80 |
images: (without ads)
Cable II#80, pg. 4, panel 1-2 (Niers);
pg. 8, panel 1 (Cable at Harmonist party)
#81, pg 4 (including recap page), panel 3 (Harmony);
pg. 17 (Harmonists timeship)
#82, pg. 7, panel 1-4 (preparing and vanishing in timeship);
panel 5 (Ranshi and Harmonist timeships together);
pg.13, panel 2 (Eyla by computer with Manuel);
pg. 18-19 (Harmonists vs. Ranshi);
pg. 21, panel 4 (Sandella and Eyla on either side of Cable, trying to sway him);
#83, pg. 1, panel 3 (Harmony)
pg. 20, panel 4-5 (mirrored Ranshi-Harmonist conversation post-divergence);
Appearances:
Cable II#78 (April, 2000) - Joe Pruett (writer), Michael Ryan (penciler), Andrew Pepoy (inker), Mark Powers (editor)
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: 09/26/2023
Last updated: 09/27/2023
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