A Cyberleader was the leader of the Cyberons at the extreme end of the Cyberon War, its elevated rank marked out by a unique, "elaborate headpiece". It survived the War's end, hiding out for nine hundred years within the hollowed-out Asteroid GX-923, but its attempt at a triumphant return was ultimately thwarted, beginning and ending with a failed attack on Vega Station.
Biography[]
During the Cyberon War[]
This Cyberon Cyberleader took over as ultimate leader of the Cyberons in 2996 after the four years of "uncertainty" that followed the destruction of the Cyberon Controller in 2992. It was a "traditional" Cyberleader with little individuality, (COMIC: Before the Storm) the "chosen mouthpiece" of the Cyber-legion more than an actual leader, with the liquid Cyberon consciousness itself continuing to be the true driving intelligence of the Cyberons. The Cyberleader commanded a "massive chrome warship" which acted as the flagship of the Cyberon fleet. It was during an attempted sneak attack on this flagship that the Earth Alliance warship Cydonia realised the Cyberons had begun to gain creativity and imagination, leading them to fear for the worst about how the War would go. (PROSE: Cybergeddon)
Into hiding[]
However, instead, in 3009, (COMIC: Before the Storm) the Cyberons abruptly lost the War when Fred reprogrammed their own experimental nanites to seek out and destroy all Cyberon tissues in the Galaxy. (PROSE: Cyber-Hunt) The Cyberleader decided to retreat to a secret base disguised as an unremarkable asteroid, together with a skeleton crew of Cyberons, a large Conversion Engine, and a supply of prisoners in suspended animation who could quickly be converted into more Cyberons when the time came. (PROSE: Cybergeddon)
Reemergence[]
In 3909, the Cyberons decided to make a bid at returning to the universe. Setting their sights on Vega Station, they attacked the passenger liner ship SS Titania for living subjects on whom to recalibrate their Conversion Engine and then beginning to convert their stock of millions of frozen bodies. They jammed the Station's communication systems and set them a one-hour ultimatum to surrender or be destroyed. However, among the prisoners taken on the Titania was a woman called Emily who, unbeknownst even to herself, was actually an android whose positronic brain had previously been a key part of the Cybernet before the Cyberons were defeated all those centuries ago and their technology was indiscriminately looted. Her memories had subsequently been wiped many times over, most recently by Caldin Corrigan, the grieving father of the human Emily Corrigan, who had programmed the android with a facsimile of Emily's memories and personality in an effort to resurrect his daughter.
Because he was able to track her due to her android nature, Corrigan flew to the Asteroid with his robot assistant Christian — who had used to be the other Cybernet control node, and was, unlike Emily, aware of his true nature, though he kept it a secret. After Christian revealed Emily's true nature to her, the two were able to download themselves into the Cybernet due to still being compatible with its matrices, and hack it from the inside, sparking critical failures all over the Cyberon the systems, causing the Conversion Engine to halt and all functional Cyberon units to short-circuit and catch fire, including the Cyberleader, whose final, desperate order to shut down the Cybernet, engage the "antivirus warfare subroutine" and unleashed the datavores devolved into a garbled recitation of the rhyme of Humpty Dumpty. As its faceplate began to melt from the fire, mixing with the "ancient flesh" beneath, the Cyberleader finally succumbed, tipping face-forward towards the floor just as it reached the verse "Humpty Dumpty had a great fall". (PROSE: Cybergeddon)
