A'ovan

The A'ovans are the poor saps on the left.

The A'ovan are green-skinned humanoid beings that share a history with the aggressive Thraal. Worse for the A'ovan, they are the physically inferior one of the two species and generally come off worse for wear in their repeated clashes with their rivals.

Fiction

Titan movie comics

Ratchet got stuck on the planet Na'conda after an incident involving a foldspace warhead. At that time, the A'ovan and Thraal were at war with each other; worse still, the weaker A'ovan were at a technological disadvantage, lacking the battlesuit technology that allowed the Thraal military such dominance.

Upon scanning a Thraal tank to blend in, Ratchet additionally received information from the tank's onboard computer about the reasons and current situation of the war. An all-out attack by the Thraal on the last A'ovan stronghold motivated Ratchet to interfere, and he engaged the Thraal leader, Durguth, in combat. Due to the Thraal's hierarchal system, none came to help their leader or continued the battle against the A'ovan while Durguth's authority wasn't certain. Ratchet won the battle, thereby becoming the new ruler of the Thraal Imperium. Being an Autobot, Ratchet used his position to mediate between the A'ovan and Thraal and end the war. Lost In Space 1: Ratchet

Animated cartoon continuity

The A'ovan were at war with the Thrall [sic] on Na'conda. The AllSpark Almanac II

Ask Vector Prime

Spacewarp hunted and captured the fugitive A'ovan warlord Pya'dorus the Pitiless. Spacewarp's Log (1), 2015/10/31

2019 IDW continuity

The A'ovan homeworld was bombarded with nuclear weapons during a past conflict with the Thraal; a deliberate, targeted sterilization carried out for reasons as yet unknown. Nautica: Home A small population of refugees were able to find sanctuary on Cybertron, bringing with them the invasive skitter species, but their planet was left an irradiated wasteland. The World In Your Eyes Part Two The reigning Autobot government helped the refugees by constructing the A'ovan habitat in Iacon's Xeno-Quarter, an arcology designed to recreate the ecology of their ruined homeworld. The World In Your Eyes Part Five Cybertronian members of the planet's xenorelations department were tasked with preserving as much A'ovan culture and population as possible while searching for new location to reseed their ravaged civilization; this latter task was made more difficult due to the attitudes of the reigning Thraal government, which periodically petitioned Sentinel Prime to expel the last A'ovan so that the aliens could complete their genocide of the species—a token gesture made to appease certain anti-A'ovan hardliners within Thraal civilization. Nautica: Home

When the Tether fell, debris rained down the A'ovan habitat and killed one tenth of the arcology's population. Swindle's Not long afterwards, the Insecticons descended upon the habitat to gorge themselves on organic matter until Nautica, Road Rage, and Hound drove them away. A group of frightened A'ovan children attempted to raise Dai Atlas on their communicator, somehow rousing the Great General from his immersant status. Escape Part One When it was decided that the Xeno-Quarter would have to be evacuated in light of the Decepticons' increasing power base, the habitat was abandoned as the A'ovans marched towards Darkmount. Escape Part Two

As they marched, the A'ovan were targeted by the Insecticons once again before Autobot reinforcements chased them away. When the refugee convoy arrived at the city, Straxxus ordered them to wait outside. Escape Part Three As the group waited for admittance, a makeshift camp was set up outside the city, some of the Autobots giving rides to A'ovan children before the Insecticons returned. Escape Part Four

As the Insecticons attacked, Straxxus launched two Ark-class vessels to evacuate Darkmount. The second ship's larger energon signature drew the attention of the Insecticons and they chewed their way into its inner workings, destroying it and them while Straxxus' craft escaped. With only one Ark remaining, the Autobots turned it over to the A'ovan to evacuate, guided and protected by Dai Atlas. Escape Part Five