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==Famous Transformers==
===Primus===
The creator god of the Transformer race and the living core of their home world Cybertron. He has existed since time immemorial, providing the spark of life for all Transformers and guiding them through their darkest times. His only weakness is that his Spark is grounded in this reality, and his well-being is connected to the health of Cybertron. At the moment many are unsure of his current condition, as Cybertron itself is currently believed to be lost in the Eye of Terror. Many theories abound among Transformers and others who know of their history. Cybertronians believe he possibly ascended from his physical planet body and now resides within the Warp. Ordo Malleus of the Imperial Inquisition assumes Primus is now tainted by the spiralling Warp energy, while the Eldar theorize that Primus was forcefully dragged into the Warp and may have been devoured like the majority of their pantheon during the Fall.  Those who claim to have contact with his disciples, the thirteen original Transformers, instead claim that Primus is merely dormant, beyond the ability of even the Chaos gods to ruin, and that if the Matrix is allowed to reunite with him, he will awaken and bring a new golden age of Cybertronian civilization. With the current state of the galaxy, such a prophecy would be difficult to fulfil.  That none of the Chaos Gods boasts of consuming him only adds to the mystery, though those faithful to Primus say that as Unicron has yet to enter his most destructive state, clearly Primus must still be limiting his dark brother somehow.

====Thirteen Original Transformers====

The first children of Primus can be thought of as his Archangels. They are revered to a greater degree than a saint, but less than a pagan deity (similar perhaps to the Valar in [[Middle Earth]]). The Thirteen are the template on which all modern Cybertronians are based. Each one is said to have incredible and divine powers and a sacred duty to oversee a critical function of reality itself, though most had ascended to a higher realm long before the modern age of the Cybertronians and now mostly serve to answer prayers, offer miracles and blessings when the circumstances permit them to and provide guidance to Primus' children in his absence.  Each has an immensely powerful artifact to their name, and the more pious believe that one day the Thirteen will walk the Materium once more and restore a golden age of peace to the universe.  The Thirteen Primes (or more specifically, the Nine known and untainted Primes) are frequently compared to the nine loyalist Primarchs, much as how the worship of Primus is often compared to that of the God-Emperor.  Though as most Cybertronians will point out, only three of the Primes went rogue, and none ended up falling to the same master; whereas half of the known Primarchs turned to the service of Chaos.  The standard Imperial rebuttal is that the Primes decided to ascend and leave their supposed followers to tear themselves apart, largely of their own volition; whereas the Primarchs who remained loyal continued to address the material needs of Man until they were forced out of the picture through some means.  And of course, Roboute Guilliman now walks alongside man once more while none of the Primes have returned yet. The thirteen are as follows:

*'''Prima''':  Primus' first son and the leader of the original thirteen, Prima is the warrior of light, an incorruptible paladin of all that is virtuous.  The first bearer of the Matrix of Leadership, Prima is the Prime that took the most after his father and is held in the highest regard by the Autobots, and even the Decepticons will admit to some grudging admiration despite their generally more secular bent.  The closest comparison in Imperial Culture to Prima would be Sanguinius or perhaps the recently revived Roboute Guilliman, and for their part, the Cybertronians do not regard comparing the thirteen primes to the Primarchs as unwarranted.  Greatly opposed to evil and destructive forces, particularly Unicron but not exempting such foes as the Dark Gods, the Tyranids, the Orks, or the Necrons, Prima has yet to provide an answer on his father's fate or that of Optimus, but he encourages the Cybertronians who still hold Primus close to their heart to stand fast and strong in the face of darkness.  His legendary artifact is the Star Sabre, a sword said to be capable of immense destructive power, a sword of the purest light and order said to be able to destroy evil and even entire planets; with treasure hunters from Chaos lords to Ork Warbosses all looking for clues as to where to find it.   
*'''Vector Prime''':  Primus' appointed guardian of time and space, Vector Prime is perhaps the most active of the original thirteen, working to ensure that the timeline continues to flow safely and without issue.   An order of those dedicated to Vector Prime work to try and stop acts of time travel or at the very least minimize their destructive influence and have been reported as having worked with the Ordo Chronus before its disappearance.  Vector Prime has a particular grudge against the Necron cryptek Orikan, having become aware of the Astromancer's manipulations of the timeline and has thus started to command his order to deal with Orikan.  His artifacts are the Blades of Time, which are capable of altering time and space and are thus desperately coveted by those who have heard of them.  Vector Prime has rather enigmatically stated that this reality is not "wholly part of the multiverse we call home" and worries about "our wars coming to their worlds", though as most of the Cybertronian lore regarding the Cybertronian study of other realities was lost with Cybertron, few can parse such statements any longer.
*'''Alpha Trion''':  One of the last of the Primes to have disappeared, Alpha Trion is the Lorekeeper and the guardian of knowledge and wisdom among the thirteen.  More a scholar and a philosopher than a mighty warrior, Alpha Trion is nonetheless a very powerful and capable combatant like all his kin and should never be trifled with.  Thanks to the work of those dedicated to him, the Transformers have maintained a good understanding and record of their past despite the loss of Cybertron, and as the writer of the covenant of Primus, it is he who is the most tied with the religion of Primus worship.   His artifact is the quill, which is capable of revealing the past, the present, and the future to degrees that no mere mortal seer can.   
*'''Solus Prime''':  The first female cybertronian upon whose form all-female cybertronians today are templated (even Quintessa, as she came into being after she did), Solus Prime was the Forgemaster and the artificer of the original thirteen and was said to have been adored by all her brothers.  Out of the original thirteen, it is only she who was forced out of this realm outside of her terms, with her physical form being murdered by the one who would later be known as the Fallen; whom she continues to maintain a great deal of bitterness towards in her ascended state.   She continues to work her heavenly forge in her realm, crafting the weapons with which the original thirteen keep their realms secure against those who would seek to defile their plane of reality, once using the artifact known as the forge; a mighty hammer said to be capable of crafting nearly any device the wielder can imagine.  Some of the devices she has forged include the Requiem Blaster; said to be the ultimate (cybertronian) portable ranged weapon in the galaxy (or "Da Ultymate Dakka" as many warbosses who have obsessively searched for it have called it) capable of annihilating planets at full blast, and the Skyboom Shield; said to be able to stop any attack conceivable.  
*'''Micronus Prime''':  The first of the Minicons, Micronus was never the most physically imposing or powerful, but he served as the group's conscience and maintained at least cordial relations with all his kin.  Micronus is perhaps the most easily sought of the Primes, and will generally be the first to speak for them when a sign is asked for.  Micronus is also deeply concerned with the actions of his fallen brothers and sister, and his followers work tirelessly to seek out those who have fallen from Primus' grace or have even turned to the service of Unicron.  Micronus' artifact is the Chimera Stone; which he used to link up with and enhance the powers of any of his brethren.  
*'''Alchemist Prime''': The co-founder of Cybertronian civilization with Alpha Trion, Alchemist Prime was also a scholar, though he was more of a scientist than a philosopher like Alpha Trion was.  He intensely studied the elemental nature of the universe, recording in great detail his scientific discoveries as he studied the makeup of all things; and Cybertronians devoted to the sciences frequently invoke his name when they need to crack some mystery involving the material sciences.  Alchemist Prime got on well with Solus, Alpha, Quintessa, and Onyx Prime, in particular, working with them to better understand the universe as he studied them with his Lenses, artifacts that let one peer deep and far to see the true nature of anything they examine safely.   
*'''Nexus Prime''':  The first Gestalt transformer, Nexus Prime was the physically strongest of the original thirteen even if Megatronus and Prima were expected to wield the most power.   Nexus Prime is largely unpredictable, finding himself fascinated by change and the alterations to the cosmos it can bring, and is a lighthearted prankster who has played a great many jokes on evil powers as much as his kind, though when the time for battle comes; few have been able to withstand the power he has brought to bear against those who would seek to do evil.   Nexus Prime has the power to divide himself and others or combine them through his artifact; the Enigma of combination, which can split apart a being or object into many fully functional parts that represent aspects of itself or combine them at will.
*'''Onyx Prime''': Out of Primus' first children, Onyx Prime was the Prime closest to organic life and nature, and when Amalgamous Prime introduced the power of transformation to his siblings, Onyx chose the form of a beast, making him the first such Cybertronian to take such a body.  Largely rejecting most forms of advanced technology, Onyx Prime was heavily spiritual and advocated a simple life for Primus' later children, believing that too much reliance on labour-saving devices could lead one astray from what mattered most in existence.  His artifact is the three-faced Triptych Mask, which can allow one to see other times, places, souls, and even into afterlives; peering into spiritual realms as easily as Alchemist Prime's lenses could into the material.   
*'''Amalgamous Prime''':  The first Cybertronian who could properly be called a Transformer, gifted with a transformation cog by Primus, Amalgamous Prime was a shifter; gifted with unlimited forms and capable of disguising himself as anything he desired to.  A joker and a trickster, Amalgamous Prime conspired with Nexus to play a great many jokes on both his kin and their enemies and greatly pleased Primus with his actions in these early days of myth and legend. Though sometimes his jokes could take on somewhat meanspirited natures, he at heart remained a figure for justice and worked with his kin to repel Unicron and cast out their fallen brethren. Having ascended, he has left his Transformation Cog behind, which is said to grant the wielder the power to take on any shape or form they could ever desire.  
*'''Quintessa Prime''': A daydreamer and perfectionist who joined Alpha Trion and Alchemist Prime in the pursuit of knowledge, Quintessa Prime was particularly fascinated by life in particular, seeking to replicate her father's ability to create life from nothing.  Believing that life was the universe's greatest gift and should be encouraged to spread and live in peace and harmony, Quintusessa Prime's take on life is more akin to that of Isha than Nurgle's fascination with plagues, for Quintessa has little use for life that only exists to make other life suffer, though she isn't above exterminating some forms of life to advance other forms of it.  The most intellectual but least physically imposing of the original thirteen, Quintessa succeeded in her quest to understand life, and those who wield her artifact; the Emberstone, can too create life as she did, with one of the products of her work being the Xenos race known as the Quintessons.  Lately, however, Quintessa has become increasingly disturbed; becoming obsessed with restoring Primus by destroying humanity and Unicron; believing that humanity is the spawn of the Chaosbringer; as such she has become one of the "fallen" primes, alongside Megatronus and Liege and lords over the Quintessons to beget her mad schemes for restoring her father.    
*'''Liege Maximo''':  While Megatronus would be known as the Fallen for his decision to side with Unicron, it was the Liege Maximo who first turned to evil.  A manipulative genius, the Liege Maximo was also amoral and did not share his kin's love of justice and nobility, believing that they had to be made of sterner stuff to be strong enough to give order to the cosmos.  It was he who manipulated Megatronus into cutting Solus Primes' physical body down and set him on the path that would lead to Megatronus seeking out Unicron; believing that this would demonstrate the need for a much sterner approach than his brothers and sister had taken.  However, amid his schemes, he was discovered and forced to flee into the depths of space.  His whereabouts are unknown, but some suspect that he is the leader of the Cyberformers, while others believe he has struck an accord with the C'tan, and some even believe him and the Deceiver to be the same.  Though his artifact is said to be the toxic Liegian Darts capable of felling any being save himself, his real skill is his silver tongue.  
*'''Megatronus Prime''':  (See below) 
*'''The Unknown Prime''':  One of the original thirteen is not known to the Cybertronians at large, though it is said that he was a mediator among his kin, the first to raise an arm in greeting to his fellows and the one who worked the hardest to create peace among the children of Primus.  While the others were said to have ascended, the Unknown Prime is stated to have chosen to reincarnate himself among the mortal followers of Primus so that he could guide them more directly and keep them safe from darkness.

===Unicron===
He goes by many names; The Lord of Chaos, The Chaos Bringer, and The Planet Eater, among many others spoken hesitantly over the centuries. His goal is singular; to destroy anything and everything within known existence, the Warp included, until there is nothing left in the void of space and he destroys that as well. While he is the polar opposite of his twin brother Primus, he assumes the form of a living planet just like him. He gains substance by devouring worlds, stars, and anything in between. His current whereabouts are unknown, but there has not been a reported sighting of him since the tail-end of the Great War when he was supposedly defeated until the very end of the forty-first millennium. It is thought that the opening of the Eye somehow reawakened Unicron, the turbulent energies attracting him like a moth to a flame.  Some believe he can transcend his physical planet form and travel to different dimensions or even different universes at will. It is possible he can never truly be defeated, simply escaping to another plane of existence.

Many Transformers and even organic beings who seek power might end up in Unicron's corrupting hand. Like the Dark Gods, Unicron gathers followers and boons them with unnatural gifts so they can fulfil his blasphemous dreams. Many are stripped of their free will in the process but some, like Ramjet, follow him willingly out of their twisted desires. Many believe he is gathering his army of darkness, waiting for the opportune moment to reveal himself and consume the Galaxy. Still, in the end, his followers will simply be devoured along with everything else, and he will move to another galaxy or even another dimension to consume again.  Those who worship Unicron are mad and nihilistic, craving little more than power and the end to all things.  The lucky among them are even transformed into his heralds; dreadfully powerful beings who enact his will.  

In some of the ancient, forgotten texts of the covenant of Primus, it is said that Unicron is not one of this or any universe, but is instead a traveller between realities who ends each one in turn as he awakens them unless he is stopped.  These texts speak of an apocalyptic process of the devouring of worlds and stars until he at last gains enough strength to release a chaos plague that devolves reality itself until all crumbles into formless entropy and the universe itself dies; allowing him to continue onto his next target to pursue his nihilistic rage against every possible iteration of existence.  Whether or not this is true, even the followers of the Chaos gods fear and loathe Unicron, for the all-devourer will leave nothing for even them to corrupt and may even destroy them for the insolence of claiming to be lords of Chaos when he has come to claim the stars.   

Unicron's cult finds little acceptance even among the Decepticons, being viewed as a threat to its major warlords who have more secular motivations and aims and many of whom still hold some loyalty to Primus' name.   But given that Unicron's cult wants nothing more than to end existence itself when it makes itself known it can at times generate strange alliances of those opposed to the ender of worlds.  The Inquisition considers the cult of Unicron to be a class platinum AAA moral threat to the integrity of the Imperium as some madmen in the Imperium try to invoke the Dark God's name in the hopes of his favour, occasionally even summoning some of his more infamous heralds who have only ever been repulsed with great loss of life.  The Harlequins dedicate several troupes to thwarting his schemes, and even Chaos warbands, Necron Dynasties, and Tyranid Hive Fleets will oppose Unicron cultists if they are known to them and many seers report that he will bring about the end of days, though those who make such defeatist predictions in the Imperium are usually executed.  

In a sort of ironic twist, Unicron prefers the services of Cybertronians above any other species despite the Cybertronians' nature as his enemy's children.  This is likely due to the greater size and strength of the Cybertronians compared to other species, as well as the Chaos bringer's delight in corrupting that which his brother has created.  That is not to say that members of other species deranged enough to pay homage to that which seeks to destroy every last living soul in the galaxy in unspeakable torment are not sometimes rewarded with his favour.  But he will prefer to grant his gifts to the children of Primus, with only a relative handful of members of other species have ever found themselves in enough of Unicron's graces to ascend to the coveted status of Herald to enjoy the vast powers offered by such a position.  Lesser gifts brought about by his corruptive influence, however, have been often recorded in non-cybertronian cultists in a manner reminiscent of chaos marks or mutations.  

Some of these include chaos warbands and loyalist Astartes, with the Nurglite warband known as the Purge renouncing Nurgle to serve Unicron in the hopes of joining the Destroyer's cleansing of the galaxy after witnessing his destructive power, to Nurgle's rage and Unicron's amusement, while others like some of the most extremely destructive Necron dynasties see him as a worthy master and have pledged their fleets to him.  It cannot be denied that Unicron's armies are slowly but surely growing as many succumb to his corruption, his dark energon raises deceased transformers into his unliving legions, and others begin to follow him out of a love of his carnage and a belief that they may join his crusade to end all there is and all that ever will be.  Wiping out inhabited worlds and systems at a truly frightful pace, the very mention of Unicron's name now brings fear to the hearts of courts across the galaxy as Unicron adds himself to the many factors that make it seem like the forty-second millennium will be the galaxy's last.

====The Fallen====
[[File:240px-Fallen-warwithin.jpg|thumb|right|Megatronus Prime; The Fallen; Archangel of Destruction]]
Unicron counts some beings as his greatest servants, those who have travelled with him since time immemorial to serve him; first and foremost being the Fallen, Megatronus Prime and Primus' wayward son.  The Fallen, like Unicron, is said to be a divine being, not truly capable of being destroyed even if his body appears to die, and is said to have taken on many shapes.  Made into a guardian of entropy, the orderly dissolution of all things; whether great or small to oversee and curtail its destructive powers and ensure that it did not devolve into chaos and thus become a tool of Unicron, the nature of the force that Megatronus tried to control in the end consumed him and with the prodding of the Liege Maximo; the first of the original thirteen to spurn the path of good; turned to madness and betrayed his brothers and sister to Unicron, slaying his sister Solus Prime and siding with Unicron in the first war before sharing his fate of banishment.  The Fallen has occasionally reappeared, with some accounts even claiming to have seen his body destroyed; but such a formless evil can never truly be destroyed by mundane or even divine means, and it is said that even if the Fallen is shattered in a way he cannot reform from; Unicron himself will reconstitute his favoured servant to plague the stars once more.  

The first of Unicron's servants and the burning herald of entropy, the Fallen is worshipped in his own right by the cult of Unicron.  Those cultists of Unicron who choose to hold the Fallen above all other Heralds of Unicron are the most apocalyptic of his servants.  Just as the Fallen wants to see all of Reality reduced to ash and embers, to burn in the fires of entropy until nothing remains and nothing can live; so too does the Fallen sect seek to destroy and ruin, rather than corrupt or enslave.  Those of the sect of the Fallen have at many times tried to destroy entire planets at a time with the aid of dreadful artifacts or schemes meant to do little more than destroy everything they can as thoroughly as they can; purposefully trying to beget the act of Exterminatus so that what they see as another bastion of the wretched nature of existence will perish.   Apocalypse cults in every sense of the word, the Fallen's favoured are at the very least, generally unsubtle in most cases.  His artifact is the Requiem Blaster, which he has used to end entire worlds with a single shot and is a weapon of such power that it can destroy, not simply banish; even Greater Daemons with a single shot though he no longer needs it; having ascended and left it behind for mortals to destroy themselves over a chance to fire it, and were that not enough, his physical prowess and other artifacts make him such a terrifying opponent to face that he has yet to ever lose a battle in the few times Unicron's favoured servant makes himself known.   If Unicron is to the Cybertronians as the Chaos gods are to man, then the Fallen is very much Horus ascendant to their kind, the embodiment of just how far they can fall.

<center>'''"You call yourselves servants of Chaos and yet you continue to try and build and corrupt, you seek to make your own empires in dedication to your young gods and merely seek to pervert what order has created.  You and your gods do not even deserve the moniker of Chaos, you are nothing more than another set of squabbling children who call their petty cruelties defiant of the nature of creation.  Let me tell you of real chaos then. I will see all things reduced to ash, I will hear you scream as you watch your beloved gods dissolve into the primordial soup of oblivion as every last star goes dark and their planets become dust.  I will savour your agony as your "chaos" perishes as the shrivelled husk of life breathes its last, and then as you realize that everything you have achieved in this existence was for nothing, only then will I allow you the mercy of final oblivion.  These are the terms of my bargain with you and your little princedom.'''

- The Fallen to the Tzeentchilist Daemon Prince Imargathulas.</center>

====Nemesis Prime==== 
[[File:Nemesis Prime.png|thumb|right|upright=0.56|225px|Nemesis Prime]]

There are two accounts of who Nemesis Prime is.  One account says that he is a dark doppelganger of Optimus Prime created by Unicron himself to mirror and oppose the greatest of the Autobots, infused with his dark matrix that is rife with the power of evil.  In this account, he is essentially a being of nothing more than pure evil, a malevolent presence who has never known good or order and will simply corrupt and decay all as surely as fire will burn everything it touches.   Another more blasphemous account, however, says that he is Nova Prime; a long past predecessor of Optimus and even Sentinel.  During the golden age of Cybertron, Nova Prime organized an expedition beyond the galaxy and even beyond the known universe and the warp, looking for glories to catalogue and conquer for Cybertron.  Seen as the greatest Prime since the original thirteen, a blade-winged angel of Primus whose white and noble form brought those who beheld it to ease and spread the Cybertronian Empire far and wide, Nova's preparation for departure was eagerly followed by the Cybertronians as he brought with him the cream of Cybertron's crop; with such brilliant figures as Lord Straxus and Jhiaxus following him in his voyage.   

However, Nova Prime and his fleet never returned after their voyage; most assuming they had activated the space bridge and entered a reality incompatible with their existence and were thus snuffed out instantly.  Others, however, say that Nova Prime came across Unicron in a place where life could not exist, and was slain and then raised as an undead creature along with the rest of his crew.  Unicron rebuilt the prime as Nemesis Prime, his undead herald of corruption who would seek to bring low all that Unicron's brother stood for not with raging fire and flame, but with a deep physical corruption, where even the spark would not be spared being turned to Unicron's dark and twisted services.  Those of Unicron's cult who hold Nemesis in the highest regard seek to spread forth dark energon and other forms of Unicron's corruptive power, engaging in acts that can only be described as Necromantic to mimic the undead nature of Nemesis Prime and his acolytes.  More subtle than the Fallen's burning rage, Nemesis Prime's influence leaves withered worlds in its wake, worlds where the dead do not rest quietly.

====Galvatron====
Unicron's servants outside of cultist dregs who have relatively little idea of just what they serve are a rarity, but some claim to be his heralds, his princes of entropy and darkness, one of the most active and notorious among them is Galvatron. The massively powerful and violently insane Galvatron has a startling amount of charisma to him, at times being as charming as Starscream, but such moments of clarity are but a thin veil over a being who can be considered deranged even by Unicron's standards.  Most would do well to stay on his good side, however, as his cannon has been known to be the cause of the destruction of at least one moon and his fists have been known to turn whole land raiders inside out in a single blow.  

What makes Galvatron even more terrifying is that he claims a connection to Megatron. Indeed, although he also seems to see Megatron as somehow disconnected from him, he claims to ''be'' the Slagmaker, reforged to serve the true lord of all Transformers. Though this is naturally greeted with scepticism and violent opposition by some of Megatron's more devoted followers, indeed, Galvatron often makes surprisingly accurate references to events that Megatron partook in before his disappearance. Even chiming in with details few, if any, other than the Slagmaker himself should have known!

Some have wondered if Galvatron might be some sort of failed reconstruction effort, or perhaps a clone. One outlandish theory suggests that Galvatron is, in reality, a version of Megatron from a different timeline, dragged here to this reality to assist in Unicron's quest of devouring this dimension.  If the Fallen is the embodiment of Unicron the destroyer and Nemesis Prime stands as Unicron the corruptor, Galvatron is Unicron in his most chaotic form, with little in the way of lucidity, a being whose rampant insanity makes him difficult, if not impossible to fully control even for the mighty Unicron. Those who offer their services to him tend to share this madness and can be as unpredictable as they are terrifying. In recent years it appears that Galvatron has slipped his leash and is actively attempting to subjugate his former master, the demented goal appears to have directed his unchecked rage and insanity into one avenue which has afforded him a startling amount of clarity especially when tempered by his dedicated second in command Cyclonus and the brilliant yet modest Constructicon leader Scrapper.

'''Servants of Galvatron'''
*Cyclonus: Galvatron's second in command, a loyal and intelligent 'bot Cyclonus is a deadly aerial combatant, his sleek fighter form allowing flying circles around any who try to fight him in his domain. Despite his general contempt for humanity, Cyclonus feels a certain respect for the Adeptus Astartes.   
*Scourge: A tireless tracker, Scourge revels in the chase. Leading his tireless legion of huntsmen, the Sweeps, Scourge is a merciless tracker who hunts down those who oppose his master. Despite his robot mode being lightly armed compared to his companion Cyclonus, Scourge's weapon is a lethally corrosive acid blaster that not even the Tyranids have managed to counteract. 
*Abominus: One of the Decepticon Gestalts found by Galvatron, Abominus is the combined form of the animalistic Terrorcons. The five Terrorcons consist of the Gluttonous commander Hun-Gurr, the "so bloodthirsty he'd give a Bloodthirster pause" Cutthroat, the sadistic Sinnertiwn, the unhygienic Blot, and Rippersnapper, who has a massive inferiority complex. The Terrorcons are brutal, animalistic killers, which reflects in Abominus' complete drive to kill anything and everything in the nearby area.
*Menasor: Another of the Decepticon Gestalts in service of Galvatron, Menasor is the combined form of the Stunticons. The Stunticons, consisting of the vicious and cruel leader Motormaster, the victory-obsessed Dragstrip, the eternally depressed Dead-end, the psychotic Wildrider, and the paranoid Breakdown. Menasor can be described as insane, a reflection of the sheer loathing every member of the squadron holds towards Motormaster. As such, Menasor is prone to tantrums of pure rage, and can be described as a "walking destruction derby." This makes him a weapon not to "point and aim", but to "set loose and get away from." 
*Devastator: The last of the three Gestalts under Galvatron, Devastator is unique in that he has six components instead of five. His composing members, the Constructicons, are the brilliant team leader Scrapper, the manic chemist Mixmaster, the berzerker Bonecrusher, the insecure Scavenger, the massive Long Haul, and the perfectionist medic Hook. Devastator was the first Decepticon Gestalt and has the simplest mind as a result. Due to his having six components, he is the largest of the Gestalts and has enhanced strength as a result.

====Ramjet====
Said to have been trapped in a "space between spaces" before Unicron reconstituted him, Ramjet is often said to be the "mouth of Unicron", an almost gibbering creature who bears resemblance to Starscream's seekers.  Seemingly comprised of anti-matter only prevented from exploding through his sheer force of will and Unicron's dark favour, Ramjet chooses to follow Unicron in his aspect of the remaker.  Just as Unicron remade him into the wretched abomination that he is now, his followers "remake" things in shapes more pleasing to Unicron, in a manner that is perhaps in a way more horrible than the corruptive withering that Nemesis Prime creates.  Whereas Nemesis drains life and goodness to leave withered husks that Cybertronians call Terrorcons and "dead worlds", Ramjet's methods are much more brutal, much more painful, and much more sudden.  Autobots and Decepticons are left as shuddering, mangled wrecks; still alive in a manner that most would consider death a preferable alternative to.  

Ramjet's followers make monsters out of heroes and bedlam out of paradise.  There is not the cold, stale corruption of Nemesis here; but a frenzied mass of forcible and horrific change.  Ramjet particularly delights in disfigurement and urges those who consider him Unicron's greatest speaker to partake in more such acts of abomination.  This makes them particularly hated by the worshippers of Slaanesh, who share the Dark Prince's love of excessive beauty mixed with a tinge of horror; whereas all Ramjet sees is something that needs to be broken into a form that will make Unicron smile at its ruination before they too are destroyed by Ramjet's dark master.  This is not to say anyone else is particularly safe from Ramjet's vision, as Ramjet sees the ideals of the galaxy's natives as amusing concepts all in need of being torn down; whether it be the blood and fury of Khorne or the ancient nobility of the Eldar, all will be reshaped for Unicron's pleasure.

====Sideways==== 

Embodying Unicron the deceiver and the liar, nobody is sure where Sideways comes from or if he was ever anything but Unicron's servant.  Sideways is infamous for his ability to deceive people into aiding Unicron's designs, playing on any emotional weakness he sees to fuel that which Unicron feeds on; which includes conflict to Khorne's rage as Unicron leeches power that should be the Blood God's to feed his rampage to destroy this universe.  Sideways is not as physically powerful as his fellows, though he is tremendously agile and maneuverable and is seemingly impossible to kill; regenerating even from total atomization, but that is not his power.  Much like the Liege Maximo, his greatest strength has always been in getting people to do what they want when he wants them to.  Brothers are set against brothers, allies become enemies, pacts that should have been forged against mutual enemies come undone, and the true threat is concealed until it is far too late to do anything about it, all of this pleases Unicron and all of these are things that Sideways has brought into being.  Having once nearly brought the Autobots and Decepticons both to their knees with many aliases that led to a disastrous conflict until it was almost too late to stop Unicron, even Sideways' very name has become a byword for duplicity and treachery among the Cybertronians.   

Though once he had seemingly dismissed organic species as incapable of seriously affecting Unicron's plans, the great strength shown by organics, including the Eldar who had helped to stop Unicron from emerging in the galaxy the last time and the times that human children have helped to interfere in his plans, he has decided that they too shall know the chaos and strife of Unicron's influence.  It is he who decided to start spearheading efforts to turn the efforts of mortals to folly through a long series of cat's paws and cults to the dark glory of his master, leading to upheavals and conflicts across the galaxy to weaken those who would seek to deny the Chaos Bringer his right to destroy the very stars themselves.  His anarchic and duplicitous nature has earned him the particular ire of Anrakyr the Traveller, who has vowed to see Sideways destroyed after several conflicts with Unicron's trickster and most insidious of servants.  Out of the original children of Primus, Vector Prime in particular opposes Sideways' manipulations.  After tricking both Lufgt Huron and Logan Grimnar into thinking he was an ally and setting both up for a fruitless conflict before revealing his hand by trying to have both devoured by an army of Terrorcrons, he has earned the hatred of the red corsairs and space wolves too.

==== Other Dark Gods ==== 

Though Unicron is the greatest of the dark multiversal gods of Cybertronian lore, others exist, all ultimately subservient to Unicron in the end, but all working with Unicron in his quest to see every possible iteration of existence wiped away without even the barest trace left for posterity.  These include the energy beast Tornedron; who voraciously consumes all energy that can be found, the D-Void; a beast born of a stillborn reality who hungers for the energies of life, and Hytherion; a wayward superweapon that consumes the very essence of time itself.  Through these dark powers, Unicron's influence has been said to have spread across countless realities in a vast war with creation itself with all manner of legendary warriors being said to be fighting this war across all manner of realities.

===Optimus Prime===
The great leader of the Autobots, the face of freedom and the bringer of hope. For untold eons, he led the battle between Autobot and Decepticon, until he mysteriously vanished during a final, fatal confrontation with Megatron. To this day, the Autobots mourn his loss, seeing him as the best of a noble breed, the likes of which may not be seen again.

Originally coming online with the designation Orion Pax, the Prime who came to be known as Optimus was originally a humble factory worker, a transporter who used the guise of a Cybertronic cargo freighter to convey vital goods and materials where they were needed. A friendly and gregarious youth, the mech was content with his humble life, though he felt a great admiration for the rabble-rouser Megatron, who was preaching against the inequalities of the current system. That admiration faded when Megatron himself led an assault on the factory where Orion worked, killing Orion's friends and mortally injuring the confused mech when he pleaded with his hero figure to stop. Found clinging to life by the enigmatic scientist Alpha Trion, one of the last of the thirteen who had not ascended and the chooser of primes, he was rebuilt in a more powerful form, which he used to inspire other Autobots to take up arms to defend themselves against Megatron's revealed tyranny and brutality. 

Always a humble soul, Optimus Prime looked forward to the possibility that the war would end and he could go back to a simpler time. As a result, in contrast to some Autobots, he always retained a fairly close semblance to his original alternate form; originally a Cybertronian cargo haulier as Orion Pax, the alternate form of Optimus Prime is based on that template, but heavily armoured and given attached energy blasters for self-defence. This form suited Optimus fine, for he preferred the more honourable approach of using his true mech body to do battle with his enemies, rather than crushing them under the tracks of his vehicle body. To concede to war's grim necessity, he made use of several specialised trailers, which he could access from and dismiss to a subspace pocket when he required them. These allowed the Prime to double as a mobile artillery battery or an armoured personal carrier, among other roles, when the need was great.

Preaching that freedom was the right of all sentient beings, Optimus strove to engage in diplomatic relationships with other races where possible. He is said to have had a particular soft spot for humans... what he would think of the modern Imperium is a touchy subject amongst Autobots.

===Megatron===
The most feared and dreaded Decepticon warlord to ever arise, the disappearance of the Slagmaker was less of a relief than many had hoped. After all, who could dare to trust that the mech responsible for the greatest civil war until the Horus Heresy - indeed, Cybertronians would argue that their civil war was ''worse'' since the Horus Heresy barely lasted more than a decade whilst theirs has raged for millions of years - had just crawled off into the darkness and died? Even in the Imperium, those poor souls cursed with the responsibility of awareness of Megatron's deeds and history find it harder to sleep at night when they contemplate the possibility that he might still be out there...

Megatron's past is an enigma, even to his followers, but it was known that he had originally worked as a miner before abandoning that career to find a more lucrative one as a professional gladiator. In the oil-stained, fluid-spattered arenas of Kaon, the formerly obscure figure climbed to stardom on a pile of broken bodies and crushed wills, the powerful frame and inexhaustible stamina that had once torn Energon crystals and valuable ores from living earth now finding a gorier function. But Megatron was no mere dumb brute, alas for the galaxy, for if he had been, he may have found peace there. But beneath his brutish shell lay the processor of a charismatic and intelligent soul, who educated himself as best he could, and used his reputation as a gladiator to force a way into the political arena for himself.

To this day, it's argued in dark corners whether Megatron really was sincere when he began his preaching against social inequality amongst Cybertonians, only to be corrupted into a tyrant, or if he was a fraud all along. What is known is that it was not long before Megatron grew tired of peaceful protests and began demanding change - by force. He and his followers became violent rebels, committing terrorist actions that soon sparked a full-scale war, forever dividing their people into warring factions.

Megatron's alternate form was a thing of terror to all who saw it, an armoured and heavily armed flying vessel, of a design archaic even when he chose it, capable of soaring through the stars and delivering death wherever he chose. He bore a massive energy blaster, one so unstable that few others could have hoped to carry it and survive its energy fluctuations, but Megatron wielded it with ease. Worlds burned and died at his command, entire species were rendered extinct at his whim. He was a monster, and amongst the Decepticons who have faced the Space Marines, it is said that even Primarchs were leery of doing battle with their dark lord.

<center>'''"See what they have done! Look upon the ruin they have caused, all for this manifest destiny they call the 'Great Crusade'! How foolish Prime was to protect them and not destroy them when they were in their infancy... But that is the past, and this is now! It is now ''our'' time to take back what is ours, to avenge our fallen and push the pathetic humans back to the festering hole from once they came!'''

'''''Decepticons! Transform and rise up!"'''''-Megatron, just before the Fall of Cybertron</center>

===Rodimus Prime===
On that dark day when Optimus Prime disappeared, only one soul was able to confirm the Hope-Bringer's disappearance. The mech called Hot Rod was infamous amongst the Autobots at the time; charismatic, fearless, and a deadly warrior, but also immature, foolhardy and lighthearted. He had great potential as a warrior and a leader, but most considered him to squander it, as he refused to, in his own words, "let this war drag (him) down". All that changed when he returned to the Autobots, bearing the sacred symbol of their cause; the Matrix of Leadership, the collective repository of the wisdom of all Primes, last born by Optimus himself. Contrary to the dark rumours some still whisper today, Hot Rod did not attempt to claim leadership for himself; indeed, the idea visibly horrified, even sickened him. The first thing he did was present the Matrix to Ultra Magnus, asserting that the scarred and grizzled veteran was the only possible candidate to take Optimus' place. Only when the Matrix refused to open and share its power with Ultra Magnus was Hot Rod forced to confess that Optimus had not only given him the Matrix to bear from that fateful battlefield but asserted that he was to take Optimus's place.

To the disbelief of all, Hot Rod took up the Matrix and was transformed, becoming Rodimus Prime. Knowing in his spark of sparks that he was not the unequivocal leader that his predecessor was, Rodimus formally allied himself with Ultra Magnus, and the two have been staunch allies ever since; while Rodimus has matured greatly since taking up the Matrix, his hotblooded and passionate nature nicely contrasts the calm and logical nature of the grizzled old veteran. Still, this was not enough to prevent the Autobots from splintering, thus necessitating the founding of the Council of Primes.  

Formerly an alien speedster, Rodimus Prime's new alternate form is a sleek yet deadly skimmer with a disproportionately vast amount of firepower and a surprising level of armour. Quick in both body and mind, Rodimus is capable of feats even Eldar jetbikes have been hard-pressed to match, and has several confirmed Titan kills to his name.  Rodimus firmly believes that one day Optimus Prime will return, feeling in the depths of his spark that Optimus Prime can never truly die and that on that day, he will once again return the Matrix of leadership to Optimus; whom he (and many others) never felt like a truly worthy replacement for.  And that on that day, Optimus will shine a bright light on the galaxy's darkest hour.  And with Unicron rampaging through the galaxy, the Necrons awakening en masse, Abaddon's thirteenth black crusade going at full tilt, more and more hive fleets arriving in the galaxy every day, and Ghazghkull uniting the Orks, he believes that hour is fast approaching.  

As the bearer of the Matrix of leadership, he is a target for all of Unicron's heralds, with the Fallen and Nemesis Prime, in particular, hating him, the Fallen for Rodimus represents the latest in a line of succession of Primes established by his hated brother Prima, and Nemesis Prime as Nemesis seems to be the antithesis of all that Optimus Prime ever was and stood for.  Against these threats, Rodimus has often worked with the Eldar and humanity to oppose the machinations of Unicron, and has even engaged Ramjet; though only as a distraction to let Eldrad Ulthran and the Grey Knights close the entropic gate that Ramjet had opened and he barely held his own against the insane ex-seeker even with the aid of Kaldor Draigo, Ulthwe's avatar of Khaine, and a number of some of the mightiest Ulthwean, Grey Knight, and Autobot warriors at his disposal, withdrawing via mass teleport the instant Eldrad had succeeded.  

==== Metroplex ==== 

When the Imperium assaulted Cybertron, they could not believe how huge Metroplex was as an entire city complex transformed into a warrior who was kilometres tall and single-handedly annihilated whole titan legions, often simply stepping on imperator class titans as if they were nothing more than ants, laying waste to entire corps of the Imperial army and devastating grand companies and chapters of the Legiones Astartes at a time.  Metroplex was simply unstoppable, and when the Primarch Mortarion tried to battle Metroplex and rally his wavering legion, bidding his sons stand and fight after seeing Metroplex crush a titan legion, Metroplex slammed his fist once into the primarch, smashing him into the ground and leaving him able to only weakly retaliate with his pistol while his legion looked on with horror, before a second punch knocked him out entirely.  In the end, it took the intervention of the Navy and a legion of Ordinatii to drive Metroplex back, and he was for a time thought lost with Cybertron when it was drawn into a wormhole.  Rodimus however, managed to rediscover the enormous cityformer and has recruited him to his cause, with Metroplex soon serving as a symbol of hope for the Autobot cause as the giant can single-handedly turn the tide of battle in his spaceship, fortress, or robot forms.  

==== Optimus Primal ==== 

A relatively young Autobot heavily inspired by the legend of Optimus Prime, Optimus Primal is a Maximal; a subfaction of Autobots who take on more techno-organic forms capable of passing for animals; and takes on the form of a great and powerful ape.  Bearing a great physical resemblance to Optimus, some even wonder if Primal is a reincarnation of the great Optimus Prime himself, though he denies such claims.  A formidable and compassionate warrior in combat, Optimus Primal frequently offers his enemies a chance to surrender before facing the full wrath of the Autobot army, though he certainly will not hesitate to lay his enemies low with lethal force if such is needed to protect those he sees as innocent.  While more adept at physical combat, Optimus Primal is certainly capable of tearing apart most enemies at any range, and his leadership credentials have made him among Rodimus Prime's favoured lieutenants.

==== Hot Shot ==== 

Young and Brash, Hot Shot was a peer of Hot Rod (and often confused with him) when they were young bots fresh out of the academy; getting along well with Hot Rod and Bumblebee.  Being seen as having had a great deal of promise, Hot Shot went on nearly every mission with Hot Rod before the fall of Cybertron.  When the Matrix chose him as the next prime, Hot Shot served as Rodimus' lieutenant with honour, supporting his founding of the covenant of Primus.  Still holding out hope for humanity, remembering what it used to be back in ancient days, Hot Shot still defends Rodimus' human-friendly policy despite all the Xenophobia and ignorance mankind has allowed to consume itself.   He ever holds out hope that things will be better, even when what seems to be the darkest of nights is approaching the entire galaxy as galaxy-ending threat after threat emerges with little in the way of reprieve for those who would seek to fight for the light.  Preferring fast and swift wheeled vehicles for his alternate forms, Hot Shot's bold and brash approach to warfare has allowed him to get in and out of battle with lightning speed.

==== Arcee ==== 

One of Rodimus' colleagues from the academy with rumours of her even being his consort (whatever that entails), Arcee ranks as one of the fastest Autobots who isn't an actual flier, though with a combat bike for an alternate form she is certainly quite petite for a Cybertronian; even using size shifting technology.  She was once quite close to humanity, though she sometimes despairs it as she reflects on how far it has fallen from the kindness she remembered it being capable of.  Highly educated, having been a teacher before joining the war effort as a special ops commando, Arcee often helps with the planning stages of combat, but she is one of the best sharpshooters in the entire Autobot army, and in battle is utterly merciless to her enemies, knowing that she'll need to be to protect her friends and that which she so dearly cherishes.  Lightning quick in close combat with a fighting style meant to keep on hitting the enemy constantly and never let them rest or recover, she has a deep-seated grudge against Airachnid and Starscream for the deaths of her previous partners.

===Ultra Magnus===
Grim, thoughtful and methodical, only a fool mistakes Ultra Magnus for being slow-witted. One of the largest Autobot leaders, he wields the mighty Magnus Hammer, an electricity-manipulating xenotech device that is far beyond the capabilities of the Imperium's thunder hammers. Transforming into a slow-moving but nigh-invulnerable mobile battery, he has crushed entire armies of organics singlehandedly, and few command the respect he does. Humble by nature, his alliance with Rodimus Prime benefits them both, and despite their seemingly irreconcilable differences, the two are, in fact, staunch friends and will gladly risk their lives for each other. 

==== Omega Supreme ==== 

A titanic Autobot more than a hundred times taller than the average Cybertronian and the commander of the mighty Omega Sentinels patterned off of his form, Omega Supreme is large enough to house other Autobots inside of him when he serves as a transport and a warship.  Omega Supreme is bristling with weapons, shielding, and incredibly thick and durable armour that allows him to withstand the most punishing of blows.  It is said that even the Primarchs did not dare to confront Omega Supreme in physical combat any more than they would have battled a Titan without backup, and he has certainly humiliated a great many combatants who thought themselves his match.  In space, he often rams other warships, transforming to tear his way into battleships; swiftly dooming the warship as the Autobot colossus rampages through them with such a fusillade of firepower that dodging his wrath is essentially impossible.  A great many titans and gargants have fallen at Omega Supreme's hand, and with his great size, his usual method of dealing with the likes of greater daemons and alpha hive tyrants is to simply step on them, crushing them into a fine paste, which tends to apply even more to the likes of Chaos lords, space marine chapter masters, Archons, and the like.   While not the largest Autobot there is, Omega Supreme is more mobile and maneuverable than most of the Autobots who exceed him in size and is more stable than most of the Gestalt Transformers.

==== Bulkhead ==== 

Said to have had a great fondness for humans (and children in particular) due to excursions made in Terra's ancient age to the planet, Bulkhead mourns what humanity has become and does not enjoy fighting human enemies; whether Chaotic, Imperial, or Xenos controlled.  He nevertheless ranks as among the strongest of the Autobots discounting Gestalts and others who are exceptionally large and with his launchable flail weapon, is capable of unleashing a great deal of devastation in melee combat; and he can carry some of the heaviest weapons in the Autobot arsenal with ease thanks to his great size.  He prefers the forms of heavily armoured military vehicles such as land raiders; preferring durability to firepower when given the choice.  Bulkhead strongly believes that Optimus will return one day, though he chooses to work with Ultra Magnus as he has some issues working with someone he'll always consider a newbie, even if the Matrix itself has chosen them.

==== Bumblebee ==== 

A companion of Hot Rod and Hot Shot when they were all fresh out of the academy, Bumblebee may be small but he packs a great punch and a big heart.  Heartbroken by humanity's present state, Bumblebee is believed to have once been close friends with many humans in more peaceful ages, having a preference for hanging out with human children in particular due to his youthful attitude and nature.  Even to this day, he'll always be the first to argue against putting humans - especially innocent humans such as civilians and children - in danger and has refused to shoot back against Whiteshields even when they're threatening his life.  When people are tragically orphaned on battlefields in which he is present, Bumblebee has taken to adopting some of those who have lost family to the horrors of war.  While Rodimus was a close friend in their youth, Bumblebee has stuck with Ultra Magnus due to his lifelong friend Bulkhead's presence there.

===Grimlock===
Of all the senior Autobots, Grimlock was the only one that refused to join the Covenant of Primus. After the establishment of the Covenant, Grimlock went out on his own, obsessively searching for his team of Dinobots and Optimus Prime who had disappeared in the aftermath of the Horus Heresy. If there are any sightings of his teammates or Optimus in a given system, one can be sure that Grimlock will be the first there, cutting bloody paths through whoever gets in his way. The most famous occurrence was on the moon of a dead world, where Grimlock duelled a Bloodthirster to find his comrade Slag. When Grimlock discovered he wasn't there, he proceeded to butcher every daemon on the moon, from the smallest Bloodletter to the lead Bloodthirster. Rodimus Prime and other members of the Covenant worry that the Blood God is somehow manipulating Grimlock into falling to Chaos, but whether he has succeeded in doing so has yet to be seen, with some joking that Grimlock is simply too cranky to bend the knee to the Blood God, noting that Grimlock refused the Fallen's offers of power and succumbing to rage when he appeared on Cybertron so many millennia ago. 

Over time he has developed a retinue of Autobots, both great and common, who gather around the powerful Dinobot for protection and to help him in his quest of searching for his brethren and their missing leader.  Grimlock has a particular hatred of Trazyn the Infinite, who has deceived him into thinking he had Optimus Prime in his possession only for Trazyn to pull one of his old tricks; revealing that he did not and that this was just a lure to take Grimlock for his collection.  Grimlock tried to crush the Necron Phaeron into oblivion but was led into a chase that ended with Grimlock crashing into a completely unrelated dynasty to release his frustrations.  He has recently been able to engage a super mode by combining with Jetfire and Elita One like Optimus was once able to; using it to fight the fallen primarch Perturabo and with the aid of a weapon forged by Solus Prime herself known as the Chaos Hunter; defeated the Primarch in single combat to stop the master of the Iron Warriors from intervening in the thirteenth black crusade; turning the tide when he fully unlocked the power of the weapon and going from struggling to hold his own to severely overmatching Perturabo, who was unable to tolerate the orderly power radiated by this weapon of the thirteen, with Grimlock inflicting lasting damage on Perturabo's very soul.

====Jetfire====

One of Optimus Prime's right-hand men, Jetfire was devastated by the disappearance of his old comrade and was for a time, lost and without purpose.  However, he came to hear Grimlock's call for those who could fight, those who would help him find his old comrades and bring back the Dinobots and bring Optimus to take his rightful place back.  Not feeling entirely at home with the Covenant of Primus, Jetfire soon lent a hand to Grimlock and was one of the first to join forces with him.  With his peculiar method of speech and skill at aerial combat as well as his long experience on the field of battle, Jetfire made an ideal companion for Grimlock, and the news that Jetfire had sided with Grimlock inspired many to join with Grimlock's growing Knights of Primus.  A powerful companion in his own right, Jetfire is no mere yes man despite his loyalty to Grimlock, if he thinks Grimlock is making a mistake he won't be afraid to challenge him on that and offer an alternate plan, and thanks to his down to earth friendliness, he's managed to get on Grimlock's good side, a rare feat for anyone, even if he disagrees on Grimlock's apathy regarding organics, believing that organics are worth saving.   Jetfire's minicon partner Comettor is a staunch ally of the Autobot and has served him well across many battles, including the gothic wars where Grimlock's forces prevented Abaddon from escaping with his final two Blackstone Fortresses and forced Abaddon to flee empty-handed.   

====Elita One==== 

Once Optimus Prime's consort (though what exactly a consort in a mechanical race entails is the subject of conjecture), and once known as Ariel before being rebuilt like Optimus was, Elita One decided to join Grimlock when she thought that Ultra Magnus and Rodimus did not have the same drive Optimus had and that Grimlock's quest to refind Optimus Prime and save Cybertron from its current state would need her hand in it.  In many ways a warrior equal to her consort, Elita One forms part of Grimlock's war council, as despite the image he creates for himself to make enemies underestimate him; Grimlock is far from stupid in any sense of the word.  She tends to promote caution to temper Grimlock's preference for hard-hitting assaults or Jetfire's love of lightning hit-and-run raids, preferring relatively complex schemes to allow for an optimal effort-to-effect ratio.  She, like Jetfire, also holds more compassion for organics than Grimlock, and the two often butt heads with the master of the Dinobots regarding how much effort should go into minimizing collateral damage or saving organics.

====Hound====

Hound likes guns.  Hound has enough guns of every shape and size to make a flash git mob green(er than usual) with envy regarding his massive amount of "dakka".  A grizzled Autobot war veteran who never took any form of peace with the Decepticons particularly well, Hound has drifted to Grimlock out of their mutual enjoyment of battle and their compatible personalities.  Hound has stuck with Grimlock as a confidant and friend and isn't above putting humans in their place when it suits him to do so.  Hound frequently speaks to the engineers and inventors that follow Grimlock around, looking for ever more destructive weaponry to wield.  Some worry that Hound's quest for ever-increasing amounts of firepower will likely lead to the destruction of at least a few planets, and the quartermasters already dread the sheer volume of munitions his combat style has expended in every fight.   That is not to say that he is incapable in melee, however, as he has single-handedly held his own against a chaos warband and when the helbrutes tried to approach him in melee; he soon delivered to them the death they were all so desperately searching for.  

====Drift====

A former Decepticon who later became a Mercenary and then even an Autobot when he realized he couldn't continue to serve Megatron's genocidal schemes in good conscience. Drift ultimately sided with Grimlock when he declared the covenant of Primus too weak to bring safety to a dark and maddened galaxy; having served alongside the honourable warrior for millennia at this point.  A triple former capable of transforming from a wheeled vehicle into a VTOL aircraft, Drift is a highly mobile and maneuverable fighter and strikes with tremendous swiftness with his twin energon swords; capable of carving through even the toughest of armour and shields with ease.  Drift has even crossed swords with the mighty Tyranid Swarmlord and managed to hold his ground thanks to his mastery of ancient Cybertronian martial arts. His minicon students Slipstream (not to be confused with the Seeker who shares the name) and Jetstorm have proven to be worthy and capable fighters despite their small size, allowing them to strike at angles unexpected by Cybertronian-sized combatants and help him handle smaller opponents.

====Ironhide==== 

Also a lover of firepower and big guns, Ironhide is responsible for the destruction of at least one moon, though if you ask him the moon was about to explode anyway.  Extremely tough and resilient, Ironhide has earned his name by taking the punishment that would destroy lesser combatants many times over against all the enemies that the galaxy has to offer him.  With a spark as stubborn as his personality, he seems to simply refuse to die no matter how hard he's been hit and can ignore otherwise debilitating injuries as if they weren't an issue at all, and this of course requires injuring the monstrously durable Autobot in the first place.  Having never been quite the same since Optimus Prime disappeared, Ironhide was one of the first to defect to Grimlock's side rather than join the covenant of Primus to the surprise of many and has left a trail of corpses in his travels with Grimlock, even blowing off the head of a gargant with his firepower in one particular mission when Grimlock heard rumours of Sludge being present.

====Blackarachnia==== 

Once part of the Decepticon subfaction known as the Predacons, Blackarachnia eventually defected from the Decepticons to find a better path for herself.   She came to join Grimlock's unit in time, and when Grimlock decided to break with the covenant of Primus, she followed him.  Though not as tremendously strong as some of the combatants who have signed on with Grimlock, her agility is second to none, as is her devious ability to set and lay traps for her enemies and her Cybertoxins can quickly disable even the hardiest of enemies.  Her skill in poisoning and assassination also leads to her having some skill at medical aid, so when no knight of Primus more skilled at such a thing is available immediately, she'll often pick up the slack and provide field support, with her webs finding new use in helping to move wounded Autobots out of the way quickly.  Despite her seemingly small size for a Cybertronian, she, like the spiders she bases her form on; is much stronger than she looks.  

====Airazor====

Cold and Impersonal, Airazor and her minicon companion Nightscream help provide Grimlock's retinue in the Knights of Primus an aerial component to keep flying enemies off of his back while he gets to work on the ground.  A believer in constant self-improvement and that no matter how well one thought they did, one can always find some room for improvement, Airazor can frequently be found training herself when not on active combat duty.  Due to her ability to fly under her power, she often works directly with Jetfire where [[meme|like some predatory bird]] she swoops over the battlefield, looking for weak points that she can strike against and [[meme|bring them down to earth - literally!]].  She has a particular loathing for the Decepticons and usually advises against any alliances or cooperation with them, and prefers engagements with the Decepticons above any other enemy that the Knights of Primus might face.

===Soundwave===
Unflinching in his loyalty, Soundwave stood comfortably as Megatron's communications officer throughout most of the Great War. While Shockwave and Starscream earned their ranks through cold-blooded ruthlessness and suave persuasion, respectively, Soundwave crawled his way to the top with his zealous attitude to the Decepticon cause and his unwavering faithfulness to their leader Megatron. His stoic and monotone persona was a harsh juxtaposition to his tactics, sometimes resorting to blackmail or even undercutting allies to suit his needs. After the Horus Heresy and the disappearance of Megatron, something akin to sadness came over the forlorn Decepticon. He wouldn't speak for years after and it was noted that his tactics became far more aggressive, borderline suicidal. Now in the 41st millennium, Soundwave vehemently believes that his master is still out there in the darkness of space. Currently, he and his warband of Decepticons are based on the annexed worlds of the Necron Akhera Dynasty, taking full advantage of the confiscated technology and resources.

Espionage and tactical warfare are his forte. While Starscream is known for his use of Powermasters and Pretenders, Soundwave is not above using the latter as spies to discover and undermine his enemy. He can be seen out in the field disguised as various pieces of technology, from lampposts to communication arrays. His miniature army of Recordicons; an elite cadre of Minicons bound to Soundwave; have become something of a legend to those who have seen it; a small array of Transformers whom Soundwave can deploy directly from his chest and can fill a variety of combat or tactical roles.

====Lugnut==== 

Lugnut is hardly a very smart Cybertronian, a being of rather average intelligence in an army of schemers and manipulators.  However, Soundwave values Lugnut because he has something that can be quite rare in the Decepticons; loyalty.  Unwavering, unquestionable, incorruptible, and unshakeable loyalty to the Decepticon cause and the glory of Megatron.  Of course, Lugnut's colossal brute strength, heavy armament and tremendous durability are also factors in Soundwave keeping Lugnut close at hand.  Fervently believing that Megatron is waiting to be discovered and even driving the human Emperor away after besting him in battle, Lugnut's fists tend to silence anyone who dares to suggest that Megatron is dead in front of him.  Infamous for what has been nicknamed the "punch of kill everything", Lugnut can essentially convert his fists into enormous bombs that deal no harm to himself but can level everything in a huge area around him, incinerating even Astartes caught by the blast as he rants and raves about his leader, and if that weren't enough, Lugnut also carries a deadly mace capable of cracking open even the hardiest of targets as well as a huge arsenal of missiles, grenades, and rapid firing blasters to pulverize anyone who challenges the Decepticon cause.   

Believing Soundwave to be Megatron's regent, Lugnut obeys Soundwave as blindly as he obeyed Megatron and fervently protects Soundwave from anyone who would do Megatron's regent harm.  Such fanaticism has meant that Soundwave often uses Lugnut on tasks that would test the faith of the less loyal, and both Unicron and the Chaos Gods have found Lugnut's dark loyalty to his cruel and tyrannical master essentially impossible to corrupt or subvert.  He has no ambition to lead a Decepticon warband of his own, believing it is his place to work with Soundwave until their proper master is returned and the great vision of Megatron is realized and the entirety of the galaxy belongs to the Decepticons.

====Bonecrusher==== 

Bonecrusher hates everything.  He hates Primus, he hates Unicron, he hates the Autobots, he hates the Decepticons, he hates the Imperium, he hates the Eldar, he hates the Orks, he hates the Tyranids, he hates the Necrons, he hates the Tau, he hates Cybertron, he hates Terra, he hates space, he hates being on planets, he even hates himself for being a revolting misshapen hunchback.  Hate is at the very core of Bonecrusher's being, and it's that hate that Megatron and now Soundwave have turned into a weapon.  With enough hatred to give even Khornates or the most fervent xenophobe of the Imperium pause, Bonecrusher's anger at the universe would have turned him to Khorne if he didn't also hate Khorne as well.  Bonecrusher has even engaged in a vicious battle with Skarbrand, who shares Bonecrusher's predicament of hating everything.  The duel lasted for a day and a half, the two hatred-fueled beings stalemating one another as their loathing for one another only grew until the Decepticons caught up to Bonecrusher and banished Skarbrand with massed firepower.   Bonecrusher's alternate forms tend to be heavily armoured vehicles with some form of grabbing claw to aid in melee combat, which is his preferred method of combat; generally disdaining ranged shootouts and even having wheels on his feet to allow him to skate into battle.

====Duststorm====

A Decepticon "after Megatron's own spark"  Duststorm is a cruel, ruthless sniper, who has acquired more kills in her lifetime than many Astartes chapters' scout companies have in their entire history.  Loyal to Megatron and thus loyal to Soundwave, Duststorm follows Soundwave's crusade to return Megatron to his rightful place and rebirth a great Decepticon empire that will, at last, win the great war and thus conquer the entire galaxy in Megatron's name.  Though it has been more than ten thousand years since she last saw her beloved master, she remains faithful that soon Megatron will return and all will be right with the universe in time.   Preferring sleek and fast alternate forms such as buggies, Duststorm does have the means and the ability to deal a great amount of damage at close range as well thanks to her many melee implements, but she's not a very durable combatant, preferring to let hardier Decepticons take the blows and getting away after she strikes the enemy so that she can do so again.  Stealthy and fast, she's made for a masterful assassin in Soundwave's army of Megatron's faithful.

====Blitzwing====

One of the first triple changers, Blitzwing demonstrates certain...personality issues due to the earliness of his adoption of such technology.  Namely, he has three personalities, a hot-headed one that is manifested with a red face, a cold and analytical one that manifests with a blue face, and one that manifests with a black face with jack-o-lantern esque features that is quite mad and deranged, prone to spouting off nonsensical babble at even the slightest opportunity.  The hotheaded personality is only capable of using his tank alternate mode and his heat-based weapons while his cold one can only utilize the flier mode and deeply cold and chilling weaponry.  His insane personality can utilize both modes and sets of weaponry but of course, suffers from a severe lack of lucidity.   Nevertheless, Blitzwing remains highly loyal to Megatron's cause and has pledged himself to Soundwave so that he may help restore the Decepticons to their proper glory and punish humanity for all of its crimes against the true and rightful rulers of the galaxy, which certainly do not include any wretched and disgusting organics.

====Trypticon==== 

Resembling a great reptilian beast of ancient Terran fiction, Trypticon is both the most powerful Decepticon in Soundwave's service as well as his flagship; the Nemesis.  Standing kilometres tall in robot mode, exceeding the size of the majority of battleships in the galaxy in ship mode and being able to form an entire fortress city in base mode, Trypticon is one of Soundwave's most valuable assets, though the sheer destruction his presence entails means that he only takes to the field in robot mode in the most epic of engagements. With a level of firepower that made him infamous in the great war, Trypticon was undefeated throughout the Imperial-Cybertronian war until at last the combined fleets of elements from the Ultramarines, Dark Angels, Luna Wolves, Salamanders, Iron Warriors, and Alpha Legion came together under the joint command of Roboute Guilliman and Alpharius to stop him and his Decepticon fleet.  In a terrible battle that left the twisted hulks of many battleships and battle barges in space, Trypticon was finally forced to transwarp away from Cybertron.   In the aftermath of the war, Soundwave sought out his giant comrade and enticed him to serve once again for the glory of Megatron, a task he has taken to with relish.

===Shockwave===
Before the Great War between Autobot and Decepticon erupted, Cybertron's Golden Age had come to an end and been replaced by a Gilt Age, with the gloss of the old order covering a growing rot from within, as corruption and selfishness claimed the ruling class. One charismatic, if somewhat vainglorious, senator spoke against this trend and was a mentor figure and friend to both Optimus Prime and Megatron. But rivals in the political arena grew tired of his moral crusading, and they united against him. Getting him captured under false charges, they sentenced him to the most terrible punishments of those days; Empurata and Shadowplay. The former - physical mutilation, restructuring a Cybertronian's body into a clumsier, more utilitarian form, stripping away their face and leaving them devoid of anything but their voice to communicate with. The latter - mental mutilation, forcibly inverting a Cybertronian's personality with extensive reprogramming. From their efforts was born the mech who became known as Shockwave; coldly logical, ruthlessly pragmatic and viciously driven to covet power.

He allied himself with Megatron, but always as an equal, in his mind. When Megatron was lost, Shockwave stepped in to fill the void, and in due fairness, he is in many ways a more practical and efficient leader than Megatron was. But his cold-booted logical approach is, in many ways, just as terrifying as the Slagmaker's passionate one. Shockwave's minions tread warily around him, knowing that to become expendable is tantamount to death. Shockwave will do anything that he considers appropriate or likely to acquire what he desires. And he is no mindless drone, either; although he will sacrifice lives as readily as the most stereotypical of the [[Imperial Guard]]'s commanders, he will never do so unless it will ''ensure'' victory. Indeed, one of the few beings capable of eliciting something in him close to rage is [[Commander Kubrik Chenkov]]; the fact a commander can get away with a tactic so... '''mindless''' as drowning his enemies in wave after wave of his men, actually profiting from the wasteful expenditure of his soldier's lives, goes completely contrary to everything his millions of years of tactical study and practical leadership dictates should be acceptable. For similar reasons, he's deeply opposed to the Orks and the Tyranids, and he is the Decepticon Commander most likely to "come to the rescue" of Imperial units facing such threats. On the purely logical creed that Orks and Tyranids are enemies that must be obliterated, and other races are comparatively minor nuisances who can be ignored until then.

Though officially allied with Soundwave, it is not so clear-cut. Shockwave is out for power first and foremost, and whilst his mental damage makes it impossible for him to wield his former charisma, he can understand and, in his way, appreciate the tactical value of Starscream's diplomatic skills. Thusly, although formally united with Soundwave, it is far from unknown for Shockwave to covertly make deals with Starscream, or use the Brigade's greater skill at manipulating and subverting organics to his advantage. Likewise, sabotaging Soundwave's efforts to find Megatron is not beyond Shockwave, for he long ago formed the realization that Megatron's efficiency as a leader was growing... sub-par.

Shockwave rarely takes to the battle himself, but is a devastating force, assuming the form of a mobile weapon capable of slaughtering whatever he aims himself at.

====Blackout==== 

A giant who stands taller than some bio-titans, Blackout is huge and ''very'' powerful, if perhaps on the simple side; though others would say that he is certainly quite intelligent, he is simply unconcerned with the fineries of life.  He is highly loyal to Shockwave, and some would say he was always more loyal to Shockwave than he was to Megatron, but he and his twin Grindor have served as Shockwave's enforcers for a very long time.  Capable of disabling electronics around them and crushing armies with enormous omnidirectional sonic pulses as well as a heavy arsenal of weaponry and tremendous strength and durability, one of Blackout's more unique traits is that he is a twin; having an identical spark and chassis to the Transformer known as Grindor, whom he is never far from.   Blackout has been at the forefront of several power plays by Shockwave and can be trusted to handle most situations with the directed applications of brute force that he was infamous for during the great war; frequently using his identical appearance to Grindor's to confuse enemies.

====Tidal Wave==== 

A colossus who stands equal in stature to Omega Supreme in his transformed state, the giant known as Tidal Wave has allied himself to Shockwave out of a belief that the cyclopean titan of logic is the best hope for the Decepticon cause; though he's often loaned out to Soundwave's forces when they need the monstrosity's all-surpassing brute strength and power.   Dwarfing even Titans; Tidal Wave is a one-'con army; capable of laying waste to whole worlds on his own if left unchecked and frequently needs the direct intervention of spaceborne assets to drive away.  Frequently using the tactic of disguising himself as a water-going cargo ship or a submersible, the devastating tsunamis caused by his emergence from the water have given him his name as the colossus displaces enough water to destroy whole armies on the coastline simply by emerging from the waves.  Out of all of the Decepticon legions, it is Tidal Wave who is perhaps Omega Supreme's closest match and many Titan legion Princeps have learned to fear Tidal Wave's presence as Shockwave often deploys him to single-handedly take out entire titan legions, to say nothing of the tiny insects who accompany them.

====Strika==== 

One of Shockwave's right-hand cons, Strika is a giant of a woman, as large as her consort Lugnut and the leader of Strike Team Chaar, Shockwave's retinue of his most trusted cons.  Once Megatron's personally chosen "general of destruction", Strika has laid waste to more worlds than even an Eldar will ever get to visit in their life throughout her millions-of-years-long military career.  Whereas her teammate Blackout prefers the forms of massively powerful gunships such as the Stormbird and her consort is fond of the alternate mode of heavy bombers, Strika prefers the shape of superheavy tanks.  With heavy armour and weaponry, Strika's fighting style leans towards the slow at times, but the force at which she strikes her enemies should leave very little doubt as to why it is a poor idea to allow oneself to be struck by this awesomely powerful Decepticon at the helm of Shockwave's resurgent Decepticon Empire's military forces.  Having even managed to hand military defeats to the Primarchs with her command skills, she has a safe place at Shockwave's side as the Cyclopean juggernaut plans to restore the ancient Decepticon Empire to its full glory as the Imperium begins to collapse.    

====Oil Slick==== 

A chemist and biologist who claims to be working to further Alchemist Prime and Quintus Prime's teachings (though doubtlessly Alchemist and Quintus Prime would disapprove of the ways he pursues chemical science), Oil Slick has created all manner of extremely dangerous chemical weapons to advance the cause of technology in Shockwave's empire.   He's created a weaponizable form of the cosmic rust that won't affect Decepticons, destroying the technology of his enemies as well as the so-called reverse evolution virus; which was capable of altering the minds of Autobots to convert them into Decepticons.  Though during the great loss, he terrified many humans by creating the Devolution Pox with Scalpel's help, a virus that would rapidly cause afflicted humans to regress to a much more primitive state, leading to the White Scars legion trying to chase him across the galaxy.  Having managed to escape Jaghatai Khan's attentions, Oil Slick has been hired by Shockwave, who recognizes the value of Oil Slick's scientific skills when the advancement of technology is a foundation of Shockwave's empire.  When in combat, Oil Slick prefers to do battle in his tank-based vehicle form instead of his comparatively weak and gangly robot mode and usually tries to let his concoctions do the fighting for him, but he wouldn't have survived this long if he didn't have some skills.    

====Scalpel==== 

The chief medical scientist of Shockwave's Empire, Scalpel is tiny for a Decepticon, being the size of one's hand.   But Scalpel is one of the most feared of all Decepticons as the cruelties he can conjure at his medical tables will shake even the hardiest of souls to their core.  Older than the likes of Fabius Bile or Urien Rakarth and only surpassed in age by the likes of Illuminor Szeras, few who have gained reputations as mad scientists can match the horror of being one of Scalpel's experiments.  Though certainly an able and skilled healer, by all means, Scalpel prefers harming to healing and when the rising Imperium assaulted the worlds of the Decepticons, it was he who had the files on human gene sequences retrieved to unleash several horrific bioweapons targeted at the Imperium's people and studied the Astartes to find a weakness in the superhuman soldiers, and it was he who organized a raid on the Night Lords to recover the body of Konrad Kurze to learn how humanity could have created such powerful warriors for his experimentations; an insult for which the Night Lords have never forgiven Scalpel.  Scalpel has helped many of his fellow Decepticons gain some "modifications" to make themselves more able warriors, though he can charge steep fares for his attention.  

====Spittor====

Spittor is generally seen as... disgusting by most of his fellow Cybertronians due to the ooze he gets on everything when he fights, but he remains a capable enough combatant to be placed on Shockwave's elite force known as team Chaar.  A walking offence to olfactory sensors everywhere and an extremely lazy and shameless liar; were it not for Spittor's capabilities in combat, Shockwave would have long dismissed him as a drain on resources.  His alternate form is a somewhat frog-like bipedal all-terrain walker which can lash out with its many tentacle-like tongues to swallow enemies whole, either digesting them or spitting them back out covered in explosive (and smelly) slime to function as living bombs.  Repulsive even to his allies, most who interact with him tend to quickly seek the nearest decontamination chamber once they no longer have to interact with him, and even Shockwave has Spittor keep his distance at all times unless necessary; the time spent decontaminating his chassis would be much better spent elsewhere after all.  

====Barricade==== 

Loyal to the strongest, when Megatron disappeared Barricade swore fealty to Shockwave when it was clear that he would emerge from the fracture on top.   With a big mouth that he nearly always uses to taunt, criticize, jeer, or demoralize someone at any opportunity, it is perhaps for the best that he fell under Shockwave's empire rather than the others, who may have had less patience for Barricade's constant usage of his vocalizing hardware.  Preferring the forms of lighter wheeled vehicles to the heavy war machines that many Decepticons seem to prefer, Barricade is the smallest regular member of team Chaar but he's still a very lethal and destructive member of it at that.  Using the wide array of weaponry available to him as part of the cream of the Decepticon crop, Barricade can meet just about any challenge set before him; striking with a tremendous amount of agility and sheer tenacious meanness.  As a skilled hunter and tracker, Barricade is usually the first encountered member of Team Chaar; leading the rest to pounce on the enemy once they've been detected and continually keeping them off guard with his usual barrage of insults and jeers that can drive even the most stoic of individuals into a fury.

===Starscream===
Formerly the Air Commander of the United Decepticon Army, Starscream began his existence as a scientist, a xenobiologist and a prospector whose simple joy in life was travelling the cosmos and exploring strange new worlds. When he was drafted into Megatron's army, he found a new calling in life; death and destruction, delivered from high above or at supersonic speeds. While initially a loyal warrior grateful for his prestigious position, Starscream soon soured on his master when he came to realise that Megatron had little use for independent thought or tactical input from anyone other than himself. Soon, Megatron went from rebuking Starscream for his "arrogance" to brutally insulting and physically assaulting him - of course, when Megatron's schemes failed, the blame for that likewise found its way to Starscream's feet as well. No wonder, then, that Starscream sought to usurp and overthrow his master.

Some wonder, then, if this may not be the root cause of Starscream's willingness to "cooperate" with organics - if he doesn't see something of himself in the small and frail creatures. Few bring it up where he can hear them.

Though he can be arrogant and vainglorious, Starscream is a skilled strategist and possess a tongue that could sweet-talk a Sororitas. His band of followers, known as Starscream's Brigade, may be small compared to some Decepticon forces but is loyal and well-motivated, and his plans have caused countless problems for the Imperium. What truly frustrates the Imperium is that, even though Starscream may be the weakest of the Cybertronian leaders, he is also literally unkillable.

All Cybertronians possess a "soul-flame", a strange power gifted to them by their Spark. This can be as mundane as preternatural strength, durability or agility, even by Cybertronian standards, or it can be something more exotic, as is the case with Starscream: he is immortal. Though his body can be blasted apart, any damage he sustains will repair, and even if the destruction is total, his spark can abandon its shell and recreate it somewhere else. Indeed, slaying Starscream only makes him more dangerous, as his spark can possess other technological items and bend them to his will; it is rumoured that sustained possession of a singular "host-machine" will cause it to kindle to life as a new Cybertronian. This tale is unconfirmed, but the rumours of Starscream subverting an entire Forgeworld in this fashion, reducing it to a grand brood nest for his followers, remain unchallenged. It is not as if the Imperium hasn't tried, but it has always failed. Indeed, Starscream seems to have taken to regarding the killing of Officio Assassinorum agents as a hobby, displaying tokens of each defeat with the pride of a devout collector.

Starscream's alternate form remains unchanged over millions of years; exemplifying his personal preference for high-speed, high-mobility assaults, Starscream's vehicle form is a Cybertronic jet fighter, capable of operating in space and in-atmosphere with equal ease. Not satisfied with that, Starscream has taken the unheard-of step of upgrading himself into one of the minority of Pretenders. Favouring the guise of a nobleman or a rogue trader, few realise the true deadliness that lies behind his typically foppish and narcissistic demeanour until it is too late.

====Bruticus Maximus====
One of the oldest and most iconic members of Starscream's Brigade, the Gestalt known as Bruticus Maximus is the combined form of a team of five Decepticon warriors - Onslaught, Blast Off, Vortex, Swindle and Brawl - who were once de-cerebrated on Megatron's orders under accusations of treachery. During the fall of Cybertron, Starscream personally snuck into the cerebral cortex storage unit, the infamous "Mind Prison", and rescued their brain units. Once the Slagmaker had disappeared, Starscream rebuilt the five and they swore loyalty to him as a result; despite their reputed treachery, the "Combaticons", as they call themselves, are renowned as the most loyal of Starscream's followers, something that has attracted sceptical curiosity from other Decepticons.

Although the individual Combaticons are deadly warriors in their own right, it is as Bruticus that they most shine. The Gestalt is a hulking figure the size of an Imperial [[Titan]], a juggernaut of destruction that ruins everything in his path. Adorned with thick armour and protective forcefields, and sporting a truly impressive array of weaponry, Bruticus would be a one-bot army anyway, but it is perhaps his flaws that make him truly deadly. Bruticus' component identities mesh together quite smoothly, united by a love of fighting and destruction, but this combined affinity for carnage is so strong as to overwhelm him. Bruticus appears in many aspects to be a simple-minded brute, incapable or perhaps just unwilling to listen to orders and thus limiting his tactical skills beyond being a "fire and forget" weapon.

When truly excited he goes into a rampage, singlemindedly obliterating anything not actively registered as friendly that happens across his path. Like his ally Piranahcon, he has been known to get so lost in the throes of combat that he will rampage for months at a time, stopping only after he completely exhausts himself. Starscream has sometimes had to go so far as to install a limiting device to keep Bruticus from going berserk, but his success record with this is rather spotty.

====Sunstorm====
A Seeker and reputedly one of Starscream's clones or offspring - the mysteries of Transformer reproduction are beyond the Inquisition, Sunstorm may be perhaps one of the craziest Cybertronians in the galaxy. Like Starscream, Sunstorm possesses a unique mutant power from his "soul-flame", and it specifically has turned him into a walking solar flare. Sunstorm's spark generates immense levels of gamma rays, x-rays and other radioactive isotopes, almost identical to those produced in the hearts of active stars. This imbues Sunstorm with strength, speed and reflexes far beyond the normal abilities of his kind, as well as giving him an inexhaustible supply of energy, but those powers are almost secondary. Sunstorm cannot contain the energies radiating from inside his chassis, constantly emitting radiation in levels even his fellow Decepticons find uncomfortable, and which can cook organics alive on the spot with prolonged exposure. And that's just when he's feeling calm! When his emotions grow more intense, his power output similarly increases, until he becomes a walking inferno that simply incinerates whatever else comes his way. As a side-effect of this aura of scintillating energies, most projectiles are incapable of harming him, as they are deflected, absorbed or destroyed by his radioactive output.

All of this has given the Seeker a case of megalomania that is truly a wonder to behold. Sunstorm believes himself to be nothing less than a living god made manifest, demanding adulation and worship. In an almost Slaaneshi-fashion, his fickle whims and vanity fuel an explosive temperament, resulting in potentially deadly outbursts of spite and hate at unpredictable intervals. Most other Decepticons want to avoid him for these dangerous outbursts; as much of a whiny, narcissistic fop as he may appear to be, it's hard to argue with his deadliness. Only Starscream's silver glossia gives him the ability to reliably manipulate Sunstorm, and even he is wary about calling on the fiery Seeker unless he has to. Usually, Sunstorm is only called to assist other members of the Brigade in missions of [[Exterminatus]], as his burning aura tends to make him unsuited for missions that require leaving the surrounding area intact as opposed to being scorched to a cinder.

====Skywarp==== 

One of Starscream's seeker clones, Skywarp is considered one of the most valuable thanks to his ability to teleport over tremendous distances and bring assets with him, allowing for Starscream's forces to enjoy the benefits of tremendous maneuverability and agility and get the drop on the enemy time after time.  However, Skywarp has long struggled with one particular issue that prevents him from truly unlocking his full potential as one of the most dangerous Cybertronians of all; his cowardice.  Skywarp is very easy to scare and his teleportation abilities only allow him to further indulge in his constant dread of nearly everything that moves; teleporting out of engagements at the first sign of things going awry.  However, this has led to him creating a skittish, teleportation-heavy fighting style where it is extremely difficult to land a blow on him as he constantly teleports out of the path of enemy projectiles or their aim, which he has gotten very good at.  Despite, or perhaps because of his cowardice, he's also fond of quite malicious practical jokes to get back at those who taunt him for his lack of courage, and this mean streak hidden behind his outer layers of meekness has made him very skilled at sabotage.    

====Slipstream====  

Another seeker clone of Starscream who is surprisingly a female for reasons even Starscream does not know and that Slipstream has declined to reveal, Slipstream is perhaps the most competent of Starscream's clones, lacking their general laundry lists of crippling personality issues brought about by their origins as expressions of various aspects of Starscream's personality.  Largely identical to Starscream in capabilities, if not quite as ambitious and thus content to let him lead while she serves as his right hand, Slipstream helps keep the larger-than-life personalities of her comrades in check with her level-headedness and often caustic wit.  Starscream generally keeps her close to him, considering her a reliable and trustworthy subordinate and her similarly eternal spark lets her survive nearly any kind of engagement.  Having no particular grudges against the Autobots or humanity, she often comes with Starscream to broker deals and pacts.  

====Thrust====

Though not a clone of Starscream, Thrust is nevertheless one of the seekers thanks to his preference for aerospace fighter craft alternate forms.  A brilliant military mind well versed in the doctrines of tactics, operations, and strategy and one of the foremost military commanders of the Decepticon army, Thrust drifted to Starscream due to him having had prior conflicts of command with Shockwave and Strika and being much too ambitious to remain with Soundwave's Megatron fanatics.  Certainly, a capable combatant in and of himself, Thrust, however, prefers to fight as part of an army than stand as a single almighty champion and while certainly not a coward, would generally rather back off from duels to avoid being distracted from his proper duties of command than embroil himself in wasteful personal combat that many other Decepticons in Starscream's army are much better suited for.  Thrust is, however, staunchly ambitious and many in Starscream's brigade wonder if he's trying to build an empire of his own within Starscream's tally of conquests.

====Dreadwing====
Highly unusual even for the Brigade, Dreadwing (also known as "Darkwind") is a semi-Gestalt made of a Powermaster Combiner duo - Darkwing and Dreadwind - and their respective symbionts, who have taken the names Throttle and Hi-Test respectively. Both being Seeker-type models, the two Powermasters can transform into Cybertronic starfighters that can then interlock to become a battleship-sized super-fighter. With the power of two symbionts fuelling it, and their respective dark, vicious, brooding and sadistic personalities leading to a twisted form of mental harmony, Dreadwing is capable of unleashing a barrage of firepower even the Imperial Navy has learned to respect, and tanking it just as well as he dishes it out, but moving with the speed and grace of an Eldar ship.

Dreadwing is a shameless pirate, who revels in raiding any potential space traffic he can set his sights on. Because the semi-Gestalt features two former humans as members of its group mind, Dreadwing is one of the Brigade's members most respectful towards the Decepti-cultists who swear service to Starscream, and likewise, he can respect the capabilities of Imperial opponents. Although too vicious and cruel to allow this to breed the weakness of sympathy, it means that Dreadwing has never fallen prey to the weakness of underestimating his organic adversaries, something that has given him a high rank in Starscream's force.

====Bomb-Burst====
(Creepy "Cybertronic Vampire" Pretender that even the other Decepticons fear. Will flesh it out later.)

====Skullgrin====
(A decadent and mercenary Decepticon Pretender whose natural intelligence and logical disposition struggle with the bloodthirsty sadism of his shell. Will flesh it out later.)

===Mercenaries===
Not all transformers are beholden to any one side beyond those who can afford their rates and those who meet whatever moral standards they set for employers.   These mercenaries are some of the galaxy's deadliest warriors and assassins and can be found all across the galaxy, with some even in such dark places as Comorragh, Freeboota fleets, or the Maelstrom to seek employment, though other mercenaries would never countenance service with such foul beings.   

====Sixshot====

A tremendously powerful transformer who has been known to single-handedly lay waste to entire worlds with an armature made from regenerative elements extracted from a black hole's core and a self-regenerating dark matter fission core for his power supply that makes him not only nearly impossible to harm and provides him with unlimited endurance and enormous power supply for his weapons; it also means that injuries that are inflicted on him are quickly healed. But more than that, Sixshot is a Multiformer with an incredible six transformations that lets him take on virtually any enemy in the galaxy and stand out on top.  In addition to his robot mode, he can transform into a battle tank, a faster-than-light capable spaceship, a wolf, a handheld laser weapon, and a fast off-road wheeled vehicle; making him extremely versatile in combat.  Far from a mindless beast, Sixshot is deeply intelligent and will respect a worthy adversary a great deal, refraining from most of the usual insults and taunting.  Of course, Sixshot has very high standards for what counts as a worthy adversary, as most beings are simply not capable of matching him in combat.  Working as a mercenary, Sixshot will offer his services to various causes that can afford his extortionate prices and can swiftly go from having his name sung praises of to being cursed depending on which end of his guns the enemy stands at now.  He has at times, single-handedly taken on entire Astartes chapters and left them worse off for the encounter, and finds the likes of Titans and Greater Daemons to be challenging sport rather than an enemy to be feared.  However, with the price he charges to acquire his services; he tends to only engage in the most apocalyptic of battles or serves as a one-bot lord of war on the battlefield.

====Lockdown==== 

Lockdown is a mercenary renowned for his cruelty and his love of taking trophies from particularly worthy enemies he defeats, possessing an eclectic arsenal of weapons and equipment harvested across the galaxy.  A holy multimelta from a dreadnought, autocannons torn from an Imperial Knight, Soulstones taken from Eldar (he does enjoy their wailing as he takes them), power field generators ripped off the back of slain Big Meks, and all manner of personal weapons and modifications stolen from his fellow cybertronians are but a handful of the trophies he has taken to remind him of past victories, most startlingly of all, however, is an immense and brutal looking Chainaxe Lockdown claims to have taken from the bloodthirsty daemon primarch Angron during the great crusade after beating him half to death (the World Eaters, of course, claim that this is a lie and that both Gorefather and Gorechild are accounted for).  Rumour has it that he works closely with the Quintessons, working to advance their goals even as he takes contracts from various corners of the galaxy.   With a personal fleet headed by a flagship identified as an ancient Quintesson warship as well as a band of vicious Cybertronian or even organic mercenaries and cyberformed beasts, Lockdown has had millennia to hone his skills as a raider, a soldier of fortune, and an assassin.  

He is particularly skilled at taking powerful individuals alive as captives and has frequently taken contracts with the Dark Eldar to kidnap individuals that the Archons eagerly seek to torture, and has forged several pacts with the enigmatic Necron Phaeron Trazyn the Infinite to fuel their mutual fondness for collection.  He and Grimlock have a particular hatred of one another, Grimlock remembering his time in Lockdown's captivity well and believing that the bounty hunter might have some clue as to where his comrades went, or even have them in his possession.  For his part, Lockdown is willing to sell his services to any who can afford his steep price; and is lacking in Sixshot's sense of honour and fairness.  While perhaps lacking the six-changer's colossal firepower and raw durability, Lockdown has no qualms about utilizing underhanded tactics to get what he wants and while certainly very dangerous in close quarters; he is regarded as one of the best snipers in the galaxy; able to take down even cybertronians with just a single well placed shot from a great distance.