Lure (Vassyrian Enhanced; Gun Runner character)

lure-vassyr-enhanced-card-back-face LURE

Real Name: Kay Glayvor

Identity/Class: Extraterrestrial (Vassyr) mutate (Enhanced)

Occupation: Warrior, hunter;
former laborer on Isambard

Group Membership: Enhanced (Gun Runner/Brell, Heavy Duty/Glora Teth, Oracle, Smith; others deceased and unidentified);

Affiliations: Gale Patric, Gyre

Enemies: The Cynodd (notably Shakata, Dog Soldiers), Foreman Gekedorn and the deputation at Isambard, the Zoo (Ballistik, Blitz, Laz-Fire, Payload, Warcrime);

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: Worker Glayvor
Genetic coding (presumably via Gena-Sys): GP80104E

Base of Operations: Unrevealed;
    at least formerly the Warbird;
    formerly the Isambard facteroid;
    formerly Vassyr

First Appearance: Gun Runner#2 (November, 1993);
Gun Runner#4 (January, 1994)

Powers/Abilities: Lure is a genius aeronautical engineer with an expert knowledge of birds and natural flight.

Lure's primary weapon is his (was?) cyberdrone, Gyre, whom he can direct cyber-empathically and whom he can through whom he can at least see to sense events. Damage to Gyre is agonizing to Lure.

Gyre can fly at great speeds, turning swiftly and sharply, and its wings are hard and sharp enough to decapitate or dismember beings in its path. Similarly, it's beak is sharp enough and its frame sturdy enough to penetrate the chest of an adult humanoid.

It is unrevealed whether Lure's Enhanced nature or just his own knowledge and technology capacity is what allowed him to construct and control Gyre.

Lure is proficient at hand-to-hand combat, able to take at multiple (four) combatants in short order. He may or may not have superhuman agility, speed, senses, strength, durability, etc.

He also carries and is experienced with a two-handed blaster weapon.

Lure is by nature a loner and a malcontent, although he is certainly willing to risk his own life for his allies.

lure-vassyr-enhanced-gr4-face Height: Unrevealed (approximately 6')
Weight: Unrevealed (approximately 200 lbs.)
Eyes: Both seen as light red or green irides with a vertical slit pupil and no visible sclera
Hair: Red-orange

History:
(Gun Runner#5 (fb) - BTS) - Recognizing the Cynodd's threat, the Vassyran race sought to prevent them from activating a network of conditioned Synergysts across the galaxy, which would turn all creation into a stolid, ordered, universal machine.

(Gun Runner#1 (fb) - BTS / Gun Runner#2 (fb) - BTS) - The Vassyr created the Enhanced race of warriors to end forever the mystical threat of the Cynodd and expunge their evil.

(Gun Runner#2 (fb) - BTS) - Those who would become the Enhanced had their innate skills and talents genetically amplified by Vassyr technology into lethal fighting skills. Amongst the Enhanced were Gun Runner, Heavy Duty, Lure, and Smith.

(Gun Runner#4 (fb) - BTS) - At some point, Lure constructed the cyber-empathic attack drone/falcon known as Gyre.

(Gun Runner#5 (fb) - BTS) - The Enhanced encountered a syntropic wasteland on Caveor Prime.

(Gun Runner#1 (fb)) - Lure and the Enhanced battled the Cynodd on an unspecified world; the Cynodd's guns stunk of plasma.

(Gun Runner#6 (fb) - BTS) - At some point (or possibly on multiple occasions), Lure visited the Pleasure Mazes of Cyntros Seven.

(Gun Runner#2 (fb) - BTS) - After a long and bloody war, the Enhanced defeated the Cynodd, destroying their armies and machines, and incarcerating their leaders. Gun Runner personally slew Shakata. The Enhanced believed the conflict to be over.

(Gun Runner#4 (fb) - BTS) - When the Enhanced were ordered to return to Vassyra to witness the armistice and to join in the revels, Heavy Duty, Lure, and Smith all departed the Warbird en route, not considering there to be anything worth celebrating.

(Gun Runner#2 (fb) - BTS / Gun Runner#3 (fb) - BTS) <203 years ago> - As Gun Runner was returning to Vassyra aboard his Warbird ship, an unidentified event incapacitated Warbird/Oracle and Gun Runner, leaving the former drifting and dysfunctional.

(Gun Runner#5 (fb) - BTS) <100 years ago> - The Cynodd burned Vassyra. At some point, Lure learned of this.

(Gun Runner#1 (fb) - BTS) - Shakata and the Cynodd believed they had rid the universe of the Enhanced centuries ago.
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(Gun Runner#4 (fb) - BTS) - At some point, Lure entered a contract to work on the "balkanized facteroid" Isambard, receiving accommodation and concessions in return for disciplined shift-work. On Isambard, he was known as Worker Glayvor.

(Gun Runner#4 (fb) - BTS) - Lure's behavior transgressed all the facteroid's personnel legislation, and he had been warned repeatably.

(Gun Runner#1-2 - BTS) - After reviving and being sent to Earth via a life pod, Gun Runner was discovered and attacked by the Cynodd. Fleeing aboard the Warbird with his human ally Gale Patric, Gun Runner resolved to regather the Enhanced.

(Gun Runner#3-4 - BTS) - Gun Runner recruited Smith on Kouros and Heavy Duty on Nautilus. In search of the last known surviving Enhanced, Lure, Gun Runner and the others traveled to Isambard, although Heavy Duty questioned whether they had to get him.

(Gun Runner#4 (fb) - BTS) - For three days in a row, the presumably hungover Lure missed the start of the delta ship.

(Gun Runner#4) - Foreman Gekedorn led a trio of workers to Lure's quarters, pounded on his door, and then had another worker but his lock when he failed to answer. The groggy Lure questioned what was going on, and when Gekedorn noted his missed shifts, Lure told him to "fold outta here and leave me 'lone!" Gekedorn reminded Lure that he was under contract and that the facteroid had quotas to make. After Lure told him to stuff his quotas, Gekedorn announced that this deputation was there to escort him to the shuttle bay and eject him from the location, as he was fired. After beating the deputation senseless, Lure told them he had been leaving anyway, and after departing his chambers, he summoned Gyre, noting that he never did like that neighborhood much.

Lure was surprised to be confronted by a squad of Cynodd Dog-Soldiers, whom he had thought to be dead and gone centuries back. The leader of the group informed him that Cynodd High-Command had just annexed Isambard for their war effort and that they had identified his presence from the personnel record and that he was to be executed.
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Instead, Lure unleashed Gyre, who flew through their ranks, decapitating and dismembering a number of them via a series of tight high-speed turns. Lure then took off in the opposite direction, using Gyre and a hand-blaster to take out a trio of Dog-Soldiers who blocked their path. As they fled across a bridge, Lure had Gyre fly down and cut through the supports of the bridge behind them, causing it to collapse and cause the Dog-Soldiers to presumably fall to their deaths.

Lure then encountered and greeted his fellow Enhanced, Gun Runner, Heavy Duty and Smith, who had come to warn him that the Cynodd were back. Replying that he had already been told, Lure informed them that he figured that they were going to ask him to join their noble cause but that the answer was no. Heavy Duty was disgusted, and Smith considered this to be typical for him, but when Gun Runner told him that Vassyra need him, Lure informed them that Vassyra was dead and gone.

(Gun Runner#5) - After Lure clarified that the Cynodd had burned Vassyra a century ago and apologized for having to be the one to tell him, Glora warned the others of a large group of approaching Cynodd Dog-Soldiers. Lure joined his fellow Enhanced in attacking, sending Gyre to slice through their ranks.

After Gun Runner's tactical noted 300 troops in their vicinity, Gayle Patric (a human ally Gun Runner had recruited on Earth) and Oracle (another Enhanced who was bonded to the Warbird) directed the group to a location from which the Warbird could pick them up. Picking up on their plan, Lure directed Gun Runner and Smith to open up a nearby bulkhead while he and Heavy Duty gave them covering fire. The Enhanced quartet subsequently passed through the opening, falling into a ventilation shaft, but Oracle had the Warbird form a rider beam to catch them, after which they departed Isambard aboard the Warbird.

Lure subsequently urged that they travel to Earth to destroy Shakata and the Cynodd, and Smith supported this notion, but Glora and Brell voted to first seek out other Enhanced. When Gale collapsed, Lure initially dismissed the human "kid" until Oracle informed him that Gale had conceived the plan that saved them on Isambard.

After they discovered that Gale was suffering thusly because the Cynodd had unleashed a Synergist on Earth, all of the Enhanced agreed to stop that threat. As they approached Earth, Gun Runner advised the others that their target was the Synergist, and Lure asked if Gun Runner had forgotten how hard it was to hit a syntropic target. Gun Runner countered, asking Lure if he had forgotten that this was what they had been created to do.

After they had donned their syntropic armor, Oracle transported Lure and the other four Enhanced to within the region of Syntropy (in what was normally Las Vegas, Nevada), unaware that the Zoo was already in there and was watching them.

(Gun Runner#6) - On Earth, the Enhanced wandered the colorless void until Heavy Duty identified the syntropic source six spans ahead of them, at which point the Zoo attacked them. As Heavy Duty fired on the Zoo, Lure encouraged her to fry them good, but she told him to do his job and she would do hers. Lure sent Gyre after them, and while Ballistik evaded, Blitz was wounded.

    Lure was soon after blasted by Ballistik, after which Heavy Duty swatted Ballistik back, noting "If anyone's going to kill that little runt, it's me!" When Lure thanked her for the kind words, she told him to shut up before noting that they were right over the source of the syntropy, which was forty spans below them. She then blasted a hole in the shell via a tri-thermex mine. lure-vassyr-enhanced-gr5-face-necklace

    Lure subsequently joined the others in dropping down through this hole, with the Zoo in close pursuit. As Heavy Duty used her handheld tracker to navigate the growing maze surrounding the Synergist, Lure noted how this always reminded him of the Pleasure Mazes on Cyntros Seven. Heavy Duty silenced him, just before the Zoo ambushed them and Ballistik blasted and destroyed the tracker. Lure advised Smith to take Blitz (whom he subsequently slew) while he tackled Laz-Fire; however, Laz-Fire instead set Lure aflame, causing him to collapse in agony atop the pathway they were on. Heavy Duty slew Laz-Fire before she could finish off Lure, but then Ballistik blasted Heavy Duty, dropping her to her knees as well. Without her tracker, Heavy Duty advised Lure to send Gyre to follow the path to the Synergist, which he did, sending Gyre on a direct path through Ballistik's chest, slaying her as well.

    Although neither he nor Lure were in any condition for further combat, Gyre continued the journey, despite Syntropy clouding Lure's empathic link with her. As Gyre reached the Synergist, Lure transfered the coordinates of Gyre's route to Gun Runner's visor...

(Gun Runner#6 - BTS) - Something (presumably Shakata but possibly the Synergist or something else) destroyed Gyre.

(Gun Runner#6) - Agonized by Gyre's destruction, the empathic shock of which nearly fried his mind, Lure was nonetheless pleased that Gun Runner had received the coordinates. Gun Runner instructed Smith to stay with Lure and Heavy Duty while he went to confront the Synergist.

(Gun Runner#6 - BTS) - Disobeying Brell's order, Smith was fortunately on hand to slay Shakata when he was on the verge of killing Gun Runner.

    Gun Runner's weapons systems ultimately finished off the Synergyst, which erased the syntropic effect.

    Lure was not seen again.

(Gun Runner#6 - BTS / All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z: Update#2) - With the Earth restored to normal, Brell allowed Gale to join the Enhanced in their mission

...and they apparently departed Earth aboard the Warbird.

Comments: Created by Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning, Anthony Williams, and Jeff Anderson.

This profile was completed 02/14/2025, but its publication was delayed as it was intended for the Appendix 25^th anniversary 's celebratory event.

Profile by Snood.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Lure should be distinguished from:

other "Lure" characters, groups, items, events, races or places...

Gyre has no known connections to:

GYRE - Shadow City, Twisted Sisters. Enhanced speed, extract specific bits of genetic material from others, wf, light brown hair--Fantastic Four III#17
other "Gyre" characters, groups, items, events, races or places...

Gyre

     Gyre is a smart-metal cyberdrone in the form of a bird of prey who obeys Lure's empathic commands with the lethal precision of a hawk.

     Gyre is composed of a smart polyalloy and is loyal as blood-kin.

    Gyre can fly at great speeds, turning swiftly and sharply, and its wings are hard and sharp enough to decapitate or dismember beings in its path. Similarly, it's beak is sharp enough and its frame sturdy enough to penetrate the chest of an adult humanoid.

     Gyre can even slice through rock or metal structures such as the supports for a large bridge.

     At Lure's command, Gyre will swiftly fly at/into enemy targets, accruing massive damage in short order.

(Gun Runner#4) - After being fired from the worker crew on Isambard, Lure summoned Gyre, noting that he never did like that neighborhood much.

    Confronted by a group of Cynodd Dog-Soldiers, Lure unleashed Gyre, who flew through their ranks, decapitating and dismembering a number of them via a series of tight high-speed turns. Lure then took off in the opposite direction, using Gyre and a hand-blaster to take out a trio of Dog-Soldiers who blocked their path. As they fled across a bridge, Lure had Gyre fly down and cut through the supports of the bridge behind them, causing it to collapse and cause the Dog-Soldiers to presumably fall to their deaths.

    As Gyre returned to Lure's gauntlet, Lure was reunited with his old Enhanced allies.

(Gun Runner#5) - Challenged by another group of Cynodd Dog-Soldiers. Lure joined his fellow Enhanced in attacking, sending Gyre to slice through their ranks.

Ultimately fleeing from the 300 troops in their vicinity, Lure and Gyre joined the other Enhanced aboard Gun Runner's Warbird ship and departed Isambard. After learning that the Cynodd were using Synergists to engulf Earth in a syntropic effect, Gyre and Lure joined the other Enhanced in flying to the central location in Las Vegas to stop this. lure-vassyr-enhanced-gr4-gyrevdogsold

(Gun Runner#6) - When the Zoo attacked them, Lure sent Gyre after them, and while Ballistik evaded, Blitz was wounded.

      After the tracker Heavy Duty had been using to locate the Synergist was destroyed, she advised Lure to send Gyre to follow the path to the Synergist, which he did, sending Gyre on a direct path through Ballistik's chest, slaying her as well.

(Gun Runner#6 - BTS) - Gyre continued the journey, despite Syntropy clouding Lure's empathic link with Gyre. As Gyre reached the Synergist, Lure transfered the coordinates of Gyre's route to Gun Runner's visor...

      Something (presumably Shakata but possibly the Synergist or something else) destroyed Gyre.

--Gun Runner#4

Note: While Lure and Gyre shared a strong bond, I don't know what would prevent Gyre from creating another cyberdrone companion/weapon.

    Gyre refers to a circular or spiral motion or form, especially a giant circular ocean surface current.

     Gyre could be expanded to a full entry, but for now...

images: (without ads)
Gun Runner#4, pg. 16, panel 3 (face);
       pg. 18, panel 1 (Gyre, flying, front);
       pg. 19, panel 3 (Gyre slashing Cynodd);
       pg. 21, panel 2 (with Gyre/profile);
       last page (thighs up front, with Gyre);
    #5 cover (with blaster weapon);
       pg. 8, panel 1 (face, showing necklace);
Gene Card front (main image) & back (face)

Appearances:
Gun Runner#1 (October, 1993) - Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning (script), Terry Clark (penciler), Adolfo Baylla (inker), Bambos Georgiou (editor)
Gun Runner#2 (November, 1993) - Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning (script), Anthony Williams (penciler), Jeff Anderson (inker), Bambos Georgiou (editor)
Gun Runner#3 (December, 1993) - Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning (script), Anthony Williams (penciler), Colin Fawcett (inker), Bambos Georgiou (editor)
Gun Runner#4-6 (January-March, 1994) - Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning (script), Anthony Williams (penciler), Colin Fawcett (inker), Bambos Georgiou (editor)

First posted: 09/29/2026
Last updated: 02/14/2019

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