#cindersaur

How did Gnaw and Cindersaur become members of the Predacons and Terrorcons, respectively?

Dear Legends Leftover,

In the case of the former, it was more by accident than anything. Gnaw had been the leader of a team of Sharkticons sent into the depths of Cybertron to pull the large switch controlling the Exponential Null Generator. When that plan went awry, he ended up following Galvatron to the surface, and from there to Chaar, without being noticed.

When Galvatron finally stumbled across Gnaw (chewing on the base of his makeshift throne), the Decepticon leader threw him to the Predacons—declaring that since they were both spawn of the Quintessons, they should get along fine.

Razorclaw knew better than to argue with Galvatron when he was in one of his moods, and reluctantly accepted the Sharkticon. When the Predacons went on their hunts, they would toss the scraps to Gnaw, keeping him around as a living waste disposal machine.

Cindersaur, by contrast, was deliberately headhunted. Hun-Gurr had been keeping his watchful eyes on the Combiner Wars, and had seen the other combiner teams picking up new members to replace fallen ones or to increase their number. The Terrorcons' rivals, the Technobots, had acquired two new members even, which stirred envy in the Terrorcon leader. Still, Hun-Gurr was not about to recruit just anyone to join his squad; he wanted an outcast—someone whose loyalty would lie with him over any other Decepticon. He found the perfect bot with Cindersaur. The Firecons had recently broken up, and Cindersaur had found themself lost without their teammates... literally. They had gone on a rampage, ending up completely disoriented in Chaar’s wilderness. Their usual means of retracing their steps, by blazing a trail behind them, had completely failed them in a landscape where everything was already burned and blackened, and they'd been wandering in circles for months.

Shockwave - Decepticon - Male - Once the lab partner and close friend of Autobot scientist Perceptor, and like him, was a renowned scientist across Cybertron. However, after an expedition to Earth during its Cretaceous Period he'd become infatuated with organic life. At first, he created drones the simulated the behaviors. Later, however, he would later start experimenting on his fellow Cybertronians, resulting in Transformers with organic-mimicking alt-modes, such as the Dinobots. He did this in pursuit of what he called the Cybreed, an organism both completely organic and completely cybertronic. Perceptor, however, feared his friend was going down a monstrous path, and reported him for unethical experimentation. Shockwave would ultimately be found guilty, though rather than serving time, he was sentenced to Empurata, resulting in him essentially being lobotomized. However, the procedure was botched, the servos in his head that processed hatred were still functional, and some other emotions were still present, though incredibly dulled. His inhibited emotions made him more cold and calculated, leaving Perceptor's side to continue his pursuit of the Cybreed in the shadows. At the start of the Cybertron Civil War and the schism of the Allspark, Megatron would hunt Shockwave down, asking him to become the Decepticon head of science, in return not only would he grant him his own base of operations, what would later be known as Shockwave Tower, but also his own science team and his own piece of the Allspark, which he could use to further his experiments. Shockwave would except instantly, not just to further his experiments, but to also have the chance to take his revenge against Perceptor for his betrayal. His experiments would result in man of the Decepticons with beast alt-modes, including Weirdwolf, Cindersaur, and his personal entourage, the Arachnocons Tarantulas, Blackarachnia and Airachnid, the latter eventually becoming his sparkmate. Hundreds of years after the Cybertronian Civil War ended, his dream of the Cybreed would come to fruition in the form of the Maximals and the Predacons, some of which would be direct descendants from him and Airachnid

Transformers: Mosaic #456 - "Birth Of The Primitives"

Originally posted on February 11th, 2010

Story, Letters - Waseem Bashar Art - Roy Stiffey

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wada sez: You may recall previous strips by Waseem Bashar have also leaned into the Beast Machines premise of Cybertron’s organic core. This one features a proper motley crew of characters, including some Inhumanoids! I've tagged the bird in the top-left of the bottom panel as Energon Divebomb, specifically the blue redeco thereof, but I'm not actually sure, he's freaking tiny. Feel free to peruse the massive assortment of clean panels and character models created by Roy S. below!