Editing Pyra Magna (G1)

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:''Pyra Magna is a [[Caminus|Camien]] [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:PyraMagna-modelsheet.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6|Paragon 'til death.]]
A tough, serious, thoughtful commander, '''Pyra Magna''' excels at making the hard choices and transforming challenges that would break others into advantages. Though she has been shaped by the hardships of the Rust Sea, her true strength comes from deep within her Spark. Pyra Magna's soul burns with a powerful flame that fuels her absolute, relentless will to survive. She is the leader of a group of [[Torchbearer]]s. These "Rust Renegades" from [[Caminus]] are explorers who seek out Cybertronian artifacts for preservation. She is dedicated to her job and the [[Mistress of Flame]].

Pyra's internal water system has been compromised by corrosive gasses. She utilizes this unfortunate circumstance to power her Corrosion Cannons, weapons that weaken enemy armor and jam up their gears.

Following the recovery of [[Enigma of Combination|one ancient artifact]], she gained the ability to [[combiner|combine]] with her teammates to form the goliath [[Victorion]].

{{bigquote|I exist to '''light''' the '''way'''. There's nothing wrong with wanting to light the entire '''galaxy.'''|Pyra Magna reflects|"[[New Cybertron Part 4: Dance Among the Shadows|Dance Among the Shadows]]"}}

==Fiction==
===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
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Pyra originally served under the previous incarnation of the Torchbearers, keeping the peace on Caminus under the command of [[Praesidia Magna]]. Their adventures took them far and wide across their homeworld, and though other Torchbearers fell in the line of duty Pyra remained unswerving in her devotion to the lineage of the Primes. On one fateful excursion, she and the team travelled to the impoverished village of [[Parvus Oppidum]] on the request of Torchbearer fangirls [[Dust Up]] and [[Jumpstream]]. The Torchbearers found themselves under assault by strange mechanical beasts, who killed Praeidia and [[Fastbreak (G1)|Fastbreak]]. Pyra herself was attacked by a gigantic winged monster, which threatened to drag her into a massive singularity that had appeared in the middle of the town. Pyra locked eyes with the beast before blacking out; by the time she came to, the fight had reduced the town to rubble and the monsters had vanished. 

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Traumatized by her failures, Pyra suffered a series of nightmares where the monster recited an ancient poem from a Camien text as she repeatedly watched Praesidia die on a barren planet. In the waking world, she struck up a friendship with [[Rust Dust]], who had been named after the same poem that haunted Pyra's dreams. Eventually, she went to the [[Mistress of Flame]] for guidance; the Mistress explained to her about the dead world of [[Antilla]] that she and Praesidia had once visited. The Mistress's guidance did little to assuage Pyra's internal doubts, and as she continued to dream she realized that the "black angel" of her nightmares was none other than [[Onyx Prime]], one of the legendary [[Thirteen]]. Pyra realized that if Onyx fled while she was unconscious because he feared further confrontation, it meant that the Primes could not be the infalliable figures deified in Camien religion. Galvanized by her revelations, Pyra took command of the Torchbearers, recruiting Jumpstream and Dust Up into the newest incarnation of the team. Pyra herself took the role of leader, becoming "Pyra Magna" and wiling to face the threat of the Primes, even if it meant blaspheming the will of the Mistress. {{storylink|Ghost Stories}}

Pyra Magna continued to lead the Torchbearers for many years, at one point helping out in the village where [[Aileron]] lived. {{storylink|Conquerors Part 1: Aphelion|Aphelion}} Pyra Magna was present when [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] re-established contact with Caminus after millennia of isolation, and watched  [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Optimus Prime]] set foot on Caminus, revealing the legendary [[Matrix of Leadership]] to the assembled crowd. {{storylink|First Contact}} {{storylink|Ghost Stories}} The Mistress of Flame believed that Optimus was the incarnation of the legendary Thirteenth Prime; Pyra and her team considered the matter to be more complex. {{storylink|All Hail Optimus Part 3: The Medium and the Message|The Medium and the Message}}

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Soon after Caminus joined the [[Council of Worlds]], The Torchbearers travelled to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] to search for the remains of [[Crystal City]]. While combing the [[Rust Sea]], Magna was alerted to a bunch of other Transformers entering the area. Curious, she ordered her team to investigate and fought [[Arcee (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Arcee]] attacking [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]]. Attacking ''a [[Cityspeaker]]''?! Windblade told them to leave it but an angry Pyra Magna ordered her team to intervene. She also tried to hold Windblade back when Arcee threatened to destroy some object, as she couldn't allow a Cityspeaker to risk herself for it, until that object turned out to be the legendary [[Enigma of Combination]]. One accident later, and Pyra Magna was part of a new combiner! 

After a new and angry Victorion was convinced to stand down and separate, Magna apologized to Windblade for their brief rampage. She also apologized to Arcee, but told her not to call their new state an "abomination"; while she sympathised with Arcee's fear that people would be forced into becoming gestalts, she said they ''had'' become one and had the right to be "what we are". {{storylink|An Uneventful Night}}

The Torchbearers opted to remain in the Rust Sea for a time, still learning to control their new powers. The inhabitants of the wasteland soon learned to avoid them. On one occasion, Pyra Magna and her team appeared to scare off a group of zombified [[Sweep (G1)|Sweep]]s. {{storylink|The Transformers: Redemption|Redemption}} 

They remained in exile until [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Optimus Prime]] - seeking answers about what it ''truly'' meant to be a [[Prime (rank)|Prime]], decided to visit the group. {{storylink|Conquerors Part 1: Aphelion|Aphelion}} Merging into Victorion, the Torchbearers tested Optimus's physical and spiritual resolve. Optimus's agnosticism about the [[Matrix of Leadership]] prompted Victorion to lay claim to the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]]; though Pyra believed that Optimus was ''not'' the legendary Thirteenth Prime, the Torchbearers vowed to build Optimus into a worthy Prime anyway. {{storylink|Conquerors Part 2: Lagrange|Lagrange}} 

[[File:OnceUponATimeOnEarth-killthehumans.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6|It's always polite to ask permission.]]
Pyra Magna led the Torchbearers back to Iacon, where they combined and joined Starscream's forces in quelling a Decepticon riot at the space bridge. {{storylink|Conquerors Part 4: Perihelion|Perihelion}} After Optimus declared [[Earth]] a member of the [[Council of Worlds]], the Torchbearers—still combined—took part in a skirmish against [[Galvatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Galvatron]]'s splinter force of Decepticons, but had to fall back after [[China]] deployed its anti-Transformer weaponry. As the Autobots regrouped at [[Thundercracker (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Thundercracker]]'s old house, Pyra Magna argued with [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]]. {{storylink|All Hail Optimus Part 1: Once Upon a Time on Earth|Once Upon a Time on Earth}} 

As a show of good faith, the Autobots began patrolling impoverished and troubled regions around the world. Pyra Magna and the other Torchbearers defended a Middle Eastern girl's school from religious fanatics. The Torchbearers would later travel to the [[White House]] after Aileron went rogue, forming Victorion and extricating the Autobots from the White House lawn. {{storylink|All Hail Optimus Part 2: Edge of the Earth|Edge of the Earth}} The Torchbearers participated in Optimus and Soundwave's joint operation on the ''[[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]''. Victorion was torn apart by Galvatron's planetwide Enigma of Combination, and her components were knocked unconscious. {{storylink|All Hail Optimus Part 4: It's Beginning To And Back Again|It's Beginning To And Back Again}} {{storylink|All Hail Optimus Part 5: As Above...So Below|As Above...So Below}} By the time that the Torchbearers had regained consciousness, the fight had already moved offworld. {{storylink|All Hail Optimus Part 6: No Fair Fights|No Fair Fights}} Pyra Magna led her team as they helped mop up the stragglers, {{storylink|White Light}} but were forced to combine again after the [[Earth Defense Command]] launched an attack on the exhausted Autobots. {{storylink|White Heat}}

The Earthbound Autobots continued to settle into [[Autobot City]], until [[Metrotitan (Zone)|Metrotitan]] abruptly went dormant and stopped communicating with the Autobots. Pyra Magna and Soundwave called Windblade to Earth to see if her cityspeaking talents could help them pinpoint what had gone wrong. The trio worked for many days trying to diagnose each of the [[Titan (IDW)|Titan]]'s systems, but their search turned up nothing. {{storylink|Informed}} Soon, the Torchbearers were called into action to defend Arcee and [[Jazz (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Jazz]] from [[G.I. Joe]] in [[Oregon]], using Victorion's gravity powers to harmlessly take down human aircraft in the wake of Soundwave's EMP attack. {{storylink|Concorde Hymn}}

Back at Autobot City, Pyra Magna's idle speculation about the state of Metrotitan allowed Windblade to correctly deduce that Metrotitan was merely ignoring them, waiting to speak to a [[Prime (rank)|Prime]]. Pyra Magna watched as Windblade merged her consciousness with the Titan's, and when Windblade's mind returned from [[Microspace|another dimension]] she and Pyra Magna requested help from Optimus Prime to save the ailing universe from a destructive [[entropy cloud]]. {{storylink|Informed}} Days later, the [[Dire Wraith]]s and [[M.A.S.K.]] besieged Autobot City for the deposits of [[Ore-13]] beneath; although Victorion swung into action to defend the base from the monstrous [[Baron Karza]], she was forced to split into her components to deal with an army of Dire Wraiths and even the odds. {{storylink|Valley Forge}} 

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When the crisis had been dealt with, the Autobots and their allies — including some recently arrived colonists with religious aspirations — turned their attention back to stabilizing the increasingly volatile Earth. Following some peacekeeping in [[Mexico City]], Pyra Magna reported that a large spaceship of alien origin was approaching Earth. She and the Torchbearers accompanied Optimus Prime when they travelled to the [[Matterhorn]] and intercept the craft. There, she explained to Optimus that the Matrix's supernatural glow was merely a reaction to fragments of [[Ore-13]] in the mountain, not so subtly hinting that her true feelings that ''she'' shoud bear the Matrix. {{storylink|New Cybertron Part 1: To Walk Among the Chosen|To Walk Among the Chosen}} The spacecraft, as it turned, out, was carrying a load of [[Junkion (species)|Junkion]] refugees.  Pyra Magna and her team formed Victorion while Optimus made diplomatic overtures to their leaders [[Wreck-Gar (G1)|Wreck-Gar]] and [[Rum-Maj]]. {{storylink|New Cybertron Part 2: A Lonely Pillar on the Plain|A Lonely Pillar on the Plain}}

A series of diplomatic roadblocks prevented Optimus Prime from carrying out his twin goals: helping the wandering Junkions rebuild their [[Junkion (planet)|shattered homeworld]] through the use of [[Ore-13]], and allowing Earth to join the Council of Worlds. To this end, he engineered a diplomatic crisis that would force the Council to bring Earth into their membership. When Pyra Magna overheard this — and Optimus telling Aileron that he placed no religious faith in the Matrix — Pyra punched Prime in his faceplate and accused him of manipulating the faith of others to further his own ends. Pyra recanted her earlier vow to help Optimus, reasserting that she, a true believer, should be holding the Matrix. The following morning, Pyra and the Torchbearers attended Prime's summit between humans, Cybertronians, and Junkions, which was interrupted when the Junkions sicced a school of [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticon]]s on all assembled. {{storylink|New Cybertron Part 4: Dance Among the Shadows|Dance Among the Shadows}}

When the crisis had passed, Pyra accompanied Optimus to the singularity in the heart of the Rust Sea as they discussed recent events and the nature of faith. She listened to Prime's tale about one of [[Bumblebee (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Bumblebee]]'s early adventures. Pyra found the moral of Prime's tale too saccharine, and recounted her own story: the tale of Praesidia Magna's doomed expedition to Parvus Oppidum, and her own subsequent crisis of faith. Though Optimus was not a believer, he took Pyra's words at face value, and the two agreed to put their pasts behind them and face the future together. {{storylink|Ghost Stories}}

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===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
Pyra Magna, legendary for her escapades in the Rust Sea, was [[Magna Stampede]]'s great-aunt. {{storylink|Derailment}}

==Games==
===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
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Pyra Magna came to Earth before most of the other Torchbearers to help out in the cause to defeat Megatron and get the Fractal Map. 
{{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars|Lost Map Campaign}}{{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars| Power Play Campaign}}
Pyra Magna then proceeded to do nothing else in the Campaign. 

*'''Class:''' Warrior
*'''Lowest Star Rating:''' 1 star
*'''Weaponry:''' Pyra uses her cudgel (Bat'leth on a stick?) to attack defenses.
*'''Ability: Fire Rush:''' rush into combat and spread fire along the way dealing damage over 7 seconds!
**'''Cost'''- 4 ability points. +2 for continued usage.
{{charstubfiction|Specifics: Campaign Info and Event Info}}

==Toys==
===''Generations''===
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*'''Victorion''' (Giftset, [[2016]])
:''Accessories:'' Cudgel

:Pyra Magna is a [[retool]] of ''Generations'' [[Hot Spot (G1)#CombinerWars|Hot Spot]], with a new head, forearms, chestplate, and some different ladder-boom parts. She transforms into a fire truck resembling a modified Rosenbauer Panther 6x6, with a working ladder-boom. She can also form the torso to super-robot [[Victorion]], though in this mode she can also use any combination of ''[[Transformers: Generations#Combiner Wars|Combiner Wars]]'' or ''Unite Warriors'' limb-bots. Her cudgel forms the hilt of Victorion's sword.

:Many (if not all) samples of Pyra Magna come with [[Misassembly|misassembled]] knee struts. They are reversed on both legs, preventing her knee assemblies from locking in properly for robot mode. This issue was shared with [[Onslaught (G1)#G2BruticusSet|''Generation 2'' Bruticus]]. In an undocumented feature also shared with Onslaught, the backs of her feet can flip out to provide better support.

:Like the rest of her Torchbearers, Pyra Magna features Cybertronic tampographs on her vehicle mode, which reads "''If Cybertron''" on her right and "''Be your home''" on the left.

:She was available only as part of a box set with her teammates [[Stormclash]], [[Skyburst (G1)|Skyburst]], [[Dust Up]], [[Jumpstream]], and [[Rust Dust]]. 

:This version of the mold was also used to make ''[[Transformers Unite Warriors|Unite Warriors]]'' [[Megaempress#Unite Warriors 2|Megaempress]].
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==Notes==
*"Pyra magna" is (roughly translated) Latin for "great fire".


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