Kyburz



"You can't cut off the power, comes right from the volcanic vents... Ryan always gets his juice. But I suppose you could drown the son of a bitch in it..."

- Kyburz

History
Kyburz was a college-educated, patriotic, Australian electrical engineer who was one of several notable Australians who left for Rapture from the beach of Turtle Bay in 1947. Kyburz initialy looked up to Ryan a great deal, calling him "the best electrical engineer of our generation" in an audio diary. Kyburz was the main supervisor in the Hephaestus workshops and had an office there.

During the Civil War in Rapture Kyburz decided to try to kill Andrew Ryan. However, he was stymied by Ryan's splicer guards and an elaborate security device guarding Ryan's office suite. He then had a dream that gave him the idea to overload the energy core which provided power to Ryan's central command headquarters. He devised a plan to assemble an electromagnetic pulse bomb (though Kyburz only refers to it as the "device") made of a bomb casing, nitroglycerin, four R-34 lead shield wire stubs from the suits of Big Daddy corpses, and half a can of ionic gel, many of which can be found throughout the Hephaestus level.

Near the end Kyburz began to get paranoid. He turned Anya Andersdotter in to Ryan's men when he thought she was one of Ryan's spies. Kyburz did not finish the device, and was probably killed by Ryan's security forces, though the device itself lies undiscovered in a crawlspace behind his work area. The corpse near the device frame in the secret area is suggested to be that of Kyburz, since it contains one of his audio diaries.

BioShock
Based on his audio diaries spelling out the recipe for the device, the player is given a mission in Hephaestus to assemble the components of Kyburz' bomb and place it at Harmonic Core #3, thereby carrying out Kyburz' legacy.

Audio Diaries

 * Hephaestus
 * Scoping the Gate
 * Device Almost Finished
 * The Dream
 * Assembling the Bomb

Trivia

 * According to "BioShock: Breaking the Mold", Kyburz shares a name with Jay Kyburz, the lead temp artist on BioShock.