galvatron (idw)

Height: 12 meters Age: over 10 million vorns Weight: 8 tons Alt-mod: tank

Driven, persistent, intelligent, ruthless, and gifted with every talent of a leader, Galvatron fights with the fury of an enraged Tyrannosaurus. Proud, seeking glory and a great destiny, he possesses no small amount of courage and would rather die than beg for mercy on his knees. Unburdened by honor, he does not hesitate to use the most horrific methods to achieve his goals. A proponent of the theory of the lesser evil, he is always ready to sacrifice the slightest for the greater good or his own greatness.

Although Galvatron is a natural-born, idealistic tyrant, he is intelligent enough to be interested in the well-being of his people, for what ruler wants embittered and hungry subjects? Powerful and ambitious, he embodies a force one desires to obey. He despises weakness and pity, and is completely unwilling to sacrifice… and yet, Galvatron and the empire he has created are the first line of defense against Unicron. He is unlikely to die for world peace, but he is willing to stand up for peace itself. Quite hot-tempered and impatient, he has no equals, only those who obey and those who rule. He demands loyalty and unquestioning obedience, and is insatiable when it comes to power.

This is how the Sweeps, the core of his army, appeared.

Later, on the planet Gorlam Prime, he encountered Jaxus, a former military strategist and brilliant scientist who had served Nova Prime and had been a member of the Ark I crew. Jaxus was restored, and Galvatron passed through a portal and entered the DeadUniverse. There, he saw the one who had nearly killed him, the one who threatened the entire universe. Galvatron saw Unicron and, narrowly escaping him, returned to the real world.

He sealed the portal forever, and vowed to stop Chaos Bringer and protect the real world from it. Not out of any higher motives, but simply because he didn't want to die or rule the void, and as Galvatron knew, Unicron wouldn't stop until he'd devoured the entire universe.

Gorlam Prime became the heart of his nascent empire. With the Heart of Darkness, Galvatron gained the power to resurrect, and with it, he raised fallen warriors—Autobots and Decepticons alike. He sought out great battlefields to re-infuse life and the Spark into the fallen Cybertronians, and they all followed him, preparing for the decisive struggle for the fate of the world. They called themselves the Destrons, and Galvatron their lord and leader. They lay low, studied, trained, and simply lived on Gorlam Prime, awaiting the day when the Dead Universe and its master would resurface.

For the past century, Gorlam Prime has existed in a state of constant combat readiness. By this time, the Destrons have successfully captured and brought dozens of surrounding worlds, which supply the planet with resources and labor, under their ruler's iron fist. Nevertheless, the population of Gorlam Prime itself lives in spartan conditions and under strict surveillance from the Violet Tower, the main citadel of their ruler.

He was born during the golden age of Cybertron, the Golden Age of the Transformers' homeworld. Considered one of its best, Galvatron became a member of the Ark I crew, created for the purpose of conquering and expanding alien worlds. While investigating a spatial anomaly in the Benzuli system, he sensed the Calling emanating from within, and, realizing this was his chance to achieve self-exaltation, he piloted the Ark straight into the heart of the Dead Universe. There, Nova Prime was transformed and, as Galvatron believed, illegally seized the Death Matrix, also known as the Heart of Darkness. However, Nemesis Prime was powerful, and Galvatron bided his time to reclaim what was rightfully his.

He took part in the battle between the Decepticons and the Reapers on Earth, personally killing the latter's leader and leaving the planet with the corps of the offline Sixshot. Shortly before the DeadUniverse expansion began, Galvatron set out to find Thunderwing, incidentally destroying a ship investigating the Benzuli Anomaly. Reaching the Autobot base on Cybertron, he incapacitated the guards, consisting of Hound, Sideswipe, Warpath, and several other Autobots. The order was clear: kill Thunderwing's guards, but Galvatron allowed himself a small rebellion against Nemesis Prime's will and spared them. He captured Thunderwing and set off for one of the machines that would unite the real world and the Dead Universe.

His moment came during the expansion of the Dead Universe: Optimus and Nemesis clashed in battle, and when the latter was about to finish the former, Galvatron shot him in the back. When the Darkness transferred to Optimus, he offered Prime a choice: kill himself by jumping into a melting pot or surrender the Darkness to him. Prime chose the latter, then pushed Galvatron into the fire.

Any Cybertronian would have melted within ten seconds, but Galvatron survived, saved by the Heart of Darkness. Merging with it, he became something new, something other than a normal Cybertronian, and gained considerable power. He found the dying Skurge and Cyclonus and revived them, while Skurge was multiplied through fission.