Kyburz

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Kyburz is a college-educated patriotic Australian electrical engineer who works in the Hephaestus workshops and decides to try to kill Andrew Ryan. However, he is stymied by Ryan's splicer guards and an elaborate security device guarding Ryan's office suite. He then has a dream that gives him the idea to overload the energy core that provides power to Ryan's central command headquarters. He devises a plan to assemble an electromagnetic pulse bomb (though Kyburz only refers to it as a "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. Based on his audio diaries spelling out the recipe for the device, the player is given a mission to assemble the components and complete the device. Kyburz did not finish the device and may have been killed, 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.

He is mentioned in a newspaper article from Something in the Sea as being one of several notable Australians who disappeared from the beach of Turtle Bay, including May J Carmody and Doc Miller.

[edit] Audio Diaries

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

[edit] Trivia

• According to "BioShock: Breaking the Mold - Developer's Edition Artbook", Kyburz shares a name with Jay Kyburz, the lead temp artist on BioShock.