Dear, Vector Prime. Could you tell us about Dezarus? He has similar name to Deathsaurus and is mixture of Leozack and Jarugar colors.
Dear Triumphant Torso,
Dezarus was one of Galvatron’s lieutenants during the great war. Despite his draconic countenance he was well known for his cunning and intelligence, particularly when it came to bodyframe science. For one thing, it was he who masterminded Galvatron’s total refit back to Megatron as part of his surrender gambit. After the end of the war, Dezarus took his Destron strikeforce offworld, choosing to avoid the austere complexities of postwar Cybertron. Though his status as Liokaiser’s core caused him to be pulled back to Cybertron, he was able to restrain himself from joining in the ensuing Combiner Wars. Happy to sit back and watch both the return of the Titans and Megatronus’ power-play, he decided to move only when peace had totally broken out. Realising that his small team would have no capability to defeat the united Cybertronians, Dezarus chose another weapon: politics. Refitting himself to take on a humanoid alternate mode to avoid combiner stigma, Dezarus successfully called for fair and free elections to decide Cybertron’s leadership. This was a clever move on his part: while well-educated thanks to his time in the Primal Vaults, new leader Optimus Primal was unused to political maneuvering. Even Optimus Prime’s counsel was not always helpful, the sagely leader was used to a certain military style that didn’t lend itself to democracy.
The Destron Party’s campaign team was a fierce one: Guyhawk handled finances, Drillhorn communications, Ironbison the press and Fellbat management. Particularly noteworthy were new recruits and youth outreach managers Leozack and Jagsaw, to whom Dezarus donated his combiner joints, just in case. Primal put up a good fight, but made key missteps, such as naming his party Cybertron, allowing Dezarus to insinuate he was purposely dividing the populace between supporters and outsiders. Indeed, Dezarus probably would have won if not for the discovery that he was receiving unlawful political counsel from Starscream’s ghost. Still, the Cybertrons could only manage a coalition government with Hound’s Green Party, to which I believe Leozack has continued to clash with as Leader of the Opposition.
