#alpha quintesson

Unicron's interiors in TF: Energon are really pretty.

It’s Energon’s 20th Anniversary and coincidentally I’ve been watching old SuperLink subs during downtime. So still in a TF mood, I started indulging in an old thought about Alpha Q’s original form based on old production notes and my own ideas.

A personal headcanon is Planet Q was a colony planet populated by Transformers and a group of Quintessons from the failed Space Bridge program complete with its own Cyber Key. Forced to work together to survive on the desert planet, the descendants of both races managed to get along in a relative peace, with the latest ruler of the planet, the boy later known as Alpha Q, being the result of a botched coup attempt by an opportunistic Quintesson. The Grand Chamberlain, a mighty Transformer, visually similar to G1 Scorponok, was loyal the Alpha Q’s family before their deactivation, helped guide the little boy to be a mighty ruler. Like the original canon, Unicron emerged and decimated the planet, with the surviving Alpha Q kickstarting the Energon War between the Autobots and the Terrorcons, in order to revive Unicron enough to use his powers and the life giving properties of Energon to restore the planets eaten by Unicron.

The main difference, AU wise now, is Kicker succeeded in breaking through to Alpha Q’s true personality, shattering his Sharkticon armor, revealing the true boy hidden underneath. After being fully restored by some Omnicon Energon, Alpha Q goes on to survive and become a member of the Autobots, working with Kicker, his new big brother. A major weakness is Alpha Q can’t control the Terrorcons he specifically built, needing help to coax them into doing what he wants, as the Terrorcons don’t recognize him in his original state. One Terrorcon remains loyal to him though, the Divebomb named Blackout.

Was Sky-Byte present in the Aurex cluster? If so, was he a member of Sharkticon?

Dear Selachian Seer,

Sky-Byte had no relation to the Decepticon Sharkticon that I am aware of. He was a Mini-Con who took the form of a hammerhead shark, and a member of the Ocean Raider Team alongside Sea Spray, an RB-M utility boat, and Nightcruz, a littoral stealth ship. Despite Sky-Byte’s aggressive and contrarian personality, prone to picking fights over any excuse, the trio got along well.

Their exact exploits have varied between realities. In one timeline, they were pirates, a constant thorn in the side of the Mini-Con Council of Sages. In another, they fought in the Beast Wars of Alpha Q’s realm, being dispatched on the Doomsday to bolster the Predacon forces on the Ocean Planet. In another still, Sky-Byte alone was caught up in a different Beast Wars on prehistoric Earth, where he was captured by the Tripredacus Council's agent Sky Shadow.

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