Dear Vector, can you tell us anything about the poor species Airchanid endagered?
Dear Horrific Hunter,
Even among the Decepticons, Airachnid was a particularly vile ‘bot. Although her cruelty and obsession with causing pain alienated her business-minded compatriots, they tolerated her only because she was, admittedly, an excellent tracker and assassin. Once Cybertron fell, however, she largely went her own way and spent several million years trawling the Orion Arm as a combination bounty hunter and big-game tracker.
After leaving Cybertron, she found employment on the barren world of Probat, where she worked as an enforcer for the unscrupulous Natalus in exchange for their high-grade energon. Once she’d stockpiled enough energon cubes, she promptly decapitated her business partner and skipped the planet a month later after she’d indulged herself by hunting down the remaining Probat. The next few planets she visited all followed the same pattern—unscrupulous alien warlords who entered into a contract with Arachnid did not realize that her “payment with interest” was, more often than not, the livelihood of their race.
In this way did she dispose of the Clonemasters, whose methods of rapid asexual reproduction briefly vexed her before she hacked into their central databanks and permanently corrupted their genetic records. The Thraal were next to fall; once she deliberately exterminated the A’ovans on their behalf, she turned their primitive nuclear warheads against their own cities and spent a year hunting the survivors amidst the radioactive wreckage. The ruin-hunting Derelictuskans, the industrious Milarians, the peaceful Mikesu… Airachnid cut a swathe of extinction across the galaxy, and indeed I suspect that many neighboring systems who had been spared her idea of “fun” harbored a grudge against the Cybertronian race for many years afterwards.
