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Description
Name: Silas Burr
Group: Coven, Devils Brigade
First Appearance: Marvel Comics Presents #85
(July, 1991)
"To make a long story short, my name is Cyber and I used to train bad guys to be worse guys. Not many people liked me back then. Especially the ones I trained. One, in particular took it very personally. He didn't seem to understand that I was just doing my job. Which is not to say I didn't enjoy my work--As a matter of fact I loved it." - Cyber

Silas Burr was believed to have been born in Canada although his date of birth was unknown. It had been suggested, by Burr himself, that he once ran with the notorious Edinburgh killer, William Burke, and took part in the heinous West Port murders of 1828.

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. But under the orders of the mysterious Romulus, Victor Creed (Sabretooth) posing as a guard helped Burr escape from the courthouse while killing a number of others in the process.

Canadian Army
Not long after, Burr was taken to a Canadian Army's training facility, where he met his new employer, Frederick Hudson. Hudson (who was also working for Romulus), took special interest in utilizing Burr's unique ability to push the men under his command beyond their moral and emotional limits.

Hudson then installed Burr in command of the special Canadian Army unit, the Devil's Brigade, which included the man known as Logan. Under Hudson's orders, Burr started to focus his attention on Logan in particular in order to make his life a nightmare and to turn him into an obedient animal bred to kill. To that end another Romulus operative, Janet, was used by Burr and Hudson in order to make Logan fall in love with her.

Becoming Cyber
Returning from Indochina for nine months in 1959, Burr would train his finest student, Logan's son, Daken, before the boy was secretly ordered by the mysterious Romulus to destroy the training camp and everyone associated with it, including its commandant, Hudson. Eviscerated and shot by Daken, Daken then prepared to fire one last bullet into his head but Romulus appeared and stopped him, telling Daken that he had plans for Burr. Romulus then decided to bond the indestructible metal called Adamantium to Burr's skin; Burr survived the surgery and became known as Cyber years later.

Description
Name: Silas Burr
Group: Coven, Devils Brigade
First Appearance: Marvel Comics Presents #85
(July, 1991)
"To make a long story short, my name is Cyber and I used to train bad guys to be worse guys. Not many people liked me back then. Especially the ones I trained. One, in particular took it very personally. He didn't seem to understand that I was just doing my job. Which is not to say I didn't enjoy my work--As a matter of fact I loved it." - Cyber

Silas Burr was believed to have been born in Canada although his date of birth was unknown. It had been suggested, by Burr himself, that he once ran with the notorious Edinburgh killer, William Burke, and took part in the heinous West Port murders of 1828.

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. But under the orders of the mysterious Romulus, Victor Creed (Sabretooth) posing as a guard helped Burr escape from the courthouse while killing a number of others in the process.

Canadian Army
Not long after, Burr was taken to a Canadian Army's training facility, where he met his new employer, Frederick Hudson. Hudson (who was also working for Romulus), took special interest in utilizing Burr's unique ability to push the men under his command beyond their moral and emotional limits.

Hudson then installed Burr in command of the special Canadian Army unit, the Devil's Brigade, which included the man known as Logan. Under Hudson's orders, Burr started to focus his attention on Logan in particular in order to make his life a nightmare and to turn him into an obedient animal bred to kill. To that end another Romulus operative, Janet, was used by Burr and Hudson in order to make Logan fall in love with her.

Becoming Cyber
Returning from Indochina for nine months in 1959, Burr would train his finest student, Logan's son, Daken, before the boy was secretly ordered by the mysterious Romulus to destroy the training camp and everyone associated with it, including its commandant, Hudson. Eviscerated and shot by Daken, Daken then prepared to fire one last bullet into his head but Romulus appeared and stopped him, telling Daken that he had plans for Burr. Romulus then decided to bond the indestructible metal called Adamantium to Burr's skin; Burr survived the surgery and became known as Cyber years later.