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[[File:Botcon2000-movieposter.jpg|right|upright=1.67|thumb|Featuring everyone pictured above... except [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]].]]
'''''Reaching the Omega Point''''' was a multi-year, [[convention]]-exclusive ''Transformers'' storyline released at [[BotCon]] and other related venues from [[1998]] to [[2000]]. Produced by [[3H Productions|3H Enterprises]], it is part of the 3H [[Beast Era]] continuity, which serves an extension of both the ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' and ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Machines]]'' cartoons.

Created as part of [[1999]]'s celebration of the 15th anniversary of the [[Transformers brand|''Transformers'' brand]], ''Omega Point'' was notable for being the first really BIG ''Transformers'' event in several years to feature the return of the [[Dark God]] [[Unicron]], who had been absent from Western ''Transformers'' fiction (barring a few cameos) since his last major appearance in [[1990]]'s "[[On the Edge of Extinction!]]" from [[Marvel Comics]].

''Omega Point'' also laid the groundwork for much more convention-based ''Transformers'' fiction to come, spreading its content across multiple forms of media that would see further use at many future BotCons to come, including comic books, satirical live script readings, lengthy prose stories, and online-based content.

It is alternately known as simply '''''The Omega Point'''''.

{{bigquote
|On the eve of their greatest battle,<br>
warriors from a distant planet<br>
fight to save their past, present, and future.|''Reaching the Omega Point'' description|from [https://web.archive.org/web/19981206141916/http://www.botcon.com/1999/1999.html the original BotCon 1999 webpage]}}


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|title=''Reaching the Omega Point''
|prev=Ground Zero
|next=Transformers: Universe (comic)
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<div class="list-header">[[BotCon 1998]] script reading</div>
*"[[Visitations]]"

<br/><div class="list-header">[[BotCon Europe 1999]] prose story</div>
*Prologue: "[[Herald]]"

<br/><div class="list-header">[[BotCon 1999]] prose stories </div>
*Chapter One: "[[Covenant (story)|Covenant]]"
*Chapter Two: "[[Schism (story)|Schism]]"
*Chapter Three: "[[Paradox]]"

<br/><div class="list-header">[[BotCon 2000]] comic</div>
*"[[Terminus (issue)|Terminus]]"

<br/><div class="list-header">[[Apelinq's War Journals]]</div>
*[[Apelinq's War Journals#Journal 15: Timewrecked|Journal 15]]
*[[Apelinq's War Journals#Journal 16: Re-visitations|Journal 16]]
*[[Apelinq's War Journals#Journal 17: The Frontiers of Our History|Journal 17]]
*[[Apelinq's War Journals#Journal 18: Point of No Return|Journal 18]]
*[[Apelinq's War Journals#Journal 19: Witness to the Covenant|Journal 19]]
*[[Apelinq's War Journals#Journal 20: Beyond Point Omega|Journal 20]]
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==Overview==
===Prologues===
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The storyline was preceded by two prologues that planted the seeds for what was to come in its main chapters. The first of these was a light-hearted script reading presented at [[BotCon 1998]]. As the name ''Reaching the Omega Point'' would not yet be christened until the following year, the name was applied to the 1998 script only [[retcon|retroactively]]. Titled "[[Visitations]]", the script reading told a rather tongue-in-cheek story about a small group of [[Maximal]]s and [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]]s fighting over a mysterious artifact that had crash-landed right in the middle of the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]], set during a time within the cartoon's second season. After the artifact was taken by an unknown shadowy figure, a new Predacon suddenly appears from a portal, demanding the artifact in question. The newcomer, [[Antagony (BW)|Antagony]], is directed into engaging first [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]] and then [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]], before she is eventually defeated and ultimately captured by Megatron for interrogation.

[[File:Antagony megatron.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.2]]
The second prologue, a prose story titled "[[Herald]]", was originally released at the [[unofficial conventions|unofficial convention]] Transforce 1999, but saw its first official release at [[BotCon Europe 1999]] (a month ''after'' the release of the storyline's first three main chapters, see below). Serving as a direct sequel to "Visitations", the story follows shortly after the script reading's cliffhanger ending. Megatron holds Antagony prisoner and, having determined she has come from a future era far beyond his own, he attempts to pry any knowledge of that future that he can get from her by any means necessary. Antagony, however, puts up a firm resistance against all of Megatron's torture methods and flashes back to her own past, in which it is revealed that she is [[Herald of Shokaract|Herald]] to a Predacon tyrant named [[Shokaract]], who has conquered [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] in the far future. A rival of hers, [[Cataclysm (BW)|Cataclysm]], vies for her position, brewing a deep-seeded hatred for him within Antagony. Shokaract, meanwhile, had sensed that a threat to his own existence had turned up in the distant past, and sent Antagony back in time to right this temporal wrong. In the end, however, because Antagony had failed her mission, she realizes this failure will give Cataclysm a chance to surpass her. Despaired, she allows her mind to be wiped clean before Megatron can gain access to her memories.

===''Reaching the Omega Point''===
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The main event of ''Reaching the Omega Point'' formally began with three prose story chapters released in [[1999]]. Written for [[BotCon 1999]], the first two chapters were released in registration materials mailed out to prereigstrants in the months ahead of the convention, while the third chapter was first released exclusively at that BotCon. 

The first chapter, titled "[[Covenant (story)|Covenant]]", introduced a then-new concept to the ''Transformers'' lore: A group of twelve special Transformers called the [[Covenant (group)|Covenant]], who were the first Transformers ever created by [[Primus]]. For eons, the Covenant had watched over Cybertron and the developmental growth of its people, in anticipation of a final battle called [[Point Omega]], or Shokaract, which would determine the fate of Primus's [[Grand Plan]]. By the time of the Maximal and Predacon rule of Cybertron, the Covenant receive a shocking visit by another new addition to the mythos, the [[Chronarchitect]], kin to Primus and Unicron. Upon his arrival, [[Leonicus]], leader of the Covenant, sees a dark vision of the future ruled by Shokaract. The Chronarchitect warns the Covenant of a disruption to the timestream with the cryptic entreaty of "Return to the beginning...", which spurs the Covenant to begin analyzing all of history to locate this distressing temporal event.

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Chapter two, titled "[[Schism (story)|Schism]]" shifted the setting centuries later into the future time of Shokaract's empire. The story focused on the birth of the hybrid Maximal [[Windrazor (BW)|Windrazor]], who was created from the merged [[spark]]s of a dying [[Cub|Predacon cub]] and an aged [[Swoop (G1)|Maximal veteran]]. Upon his creation, he provides the united Maximal/Predacon rebels with information on Shokaract's plans (as Windrazor's Predacon half had been an up-and-coming Herald) and goes to defeat Shokaract's other Herald, Cataclysm, who was set to travel back in time to both continue Antagony's failed mission and locate something called the [[Dark Essence]]. Windrazor himself ends up flung to the past, arriving on Prehistoric [[Earth]] near to the end of the Beast Wars. Back in the future, the Predacon resistance leader [[Sandstorm (BW)|Sandstorm]] prepares to embark to a mysterious region of Cybertron known as [[J'nwan]] to seek help from the "Legends" who live there, while the Covenant continue to search through history for the temporal event, with one of their number now missing.

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Chapter three, "[[Paradox]]" continues the three plot threads of "Schism" and introduces a fourth: At a point following Megatron's takeover of Cybertron, a lone Predacon [[Shokaract|Hunter]] happens upon a cave in which he is drawn to a pit containing an evil presence that promises him great power. Back in the future, the Covenant determine Windrazor's time jump to the past to be the prelude of the event they seek, while Sandstorm's journey to J'nwan proves most rigorous as he struggles to overcome the treacherous, reality-warping nature of the area. After finally reaching J'nwan, his pleas for the Legends' help are unfortunately met with rejection. Back in the past, Windrazor searches for the Dark Essence in hopes that it may lead to a return to his home time. Once he finds it, however, he is attacked by Megatron, who had detected Windrazor's arrival. Megatron sees the Dark Essence and correctly identifies it as the lifeforce of [[Unicron]], having been displaced from his destruction in [[2005]] via a rift in space-time. The Dark Essence possesses Windrazor and attacks friend and foe alike, before Windrazor's two inner halves unite to expel Unicron from their shared body. But before Windrazor can answer any questions, a portal opens up and out steps Shokaract himself.

[[File:Beastwarsterminusa.jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.85|Cover to "Terminus", the finale of ''Omega Point'']]
After the cliffhanger ending of the third chapter, the storyline was finally concluded a year later in a comic book released at [[BotCon 2000]], which also contained illustrated recaps of all the preceding stories and an illustrated reprint of "Herald". The conclusion, titled "[[Terminus (issue)|Terminus]]", wraps up nearly every major plot thread from before, culminating in a final showdown--Point Omega itself--with Shokaract and the united forces of Optimus Primal, Windrazor, the Covenant, Sandstorm (revealed to be the Covenant's missing member), and more. Among their number is also a mysterious newcomer named [[Apelinq (BM)|Apelinq]], a displaced Maximal who is revealed to have also been the shadowy figure who took the artifact back in "Visitations", and whose presence here also served as foreshadowing for the next big storyline to come after ''Omega Point''. In the end, after much sacrifice from many warriors, the Dark Essence is sent back into the timestream and Shokaract is destroyed.

===Supplementary material===
Outside of the primary media for fiction, additional content for the storyline was produced both online and on the toys' packaging. While the convention-[[exclusive]] toys all received [[bio]]s that tied each character directly into the events of ''Omega Point'', each of them (plus Cataclysm) would also later receive extended [[profile]]s that were originally posted on the (now defunct) BotCon: Beyond website, and which were later moved to BotCon Online. Chief among these were those written for Shokaract, which revealed both himself and the Dark Essence, respectively, to have been the lone Hunter and the evil presence featured in the the opening scene of "Paradox". Moreover, after acquiring the Dark Essence, Shokaract fashioned a housing to contain its power in the form of the [[Matrix of Conquest]], which had previously debuted in "Terminus".

Furthermore, both Antagony and Sandstorm featured exclusive prose material on their individual toys' packaging: Antagony's featured both a character roster and a brief alternate summary of "Visitations", while Sandstorm's featured a Predacon war journal that revealed how he had first learned of J'nwan's existence from an informat who nearly got him caught by Shokaract's sentries. And finally, a second, shortened version of "Herald" was created and first released on BotCon: Beyond, most likely written as a recap meant for inclusion in the BotCon 2000 comic book, but which instead featured the original full-length version.

==Addendum and Aftermath==
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In the months leading up to [[BotCon 2001]], an online series of short prose stories was released on BotCon: Beyond as part of a weekly buildup to that convention's [[Departure|new]] [[Primeval Dawn Part 1|stories]]. Titled "[[Apelinq's War Journals]]", this series explored Apelinq's personal history in a pre-''Beast Machines'' Cybertron setting. The final six of these War Journals, however, touched upon a few unresolved plot points from ''Omega Point'' by having Apelinq flung to the past in a transwarp accident, arriving on Earth right in the middle of the Beast Wars to witness events that led up to Point Omega. It was during this time that Apelinq snatched up the artifact from the events of "Visitations", with said artifact revealed here to actually have been one of Apelinq's personal belongings. Apelinq continued to observe the events of ''Beast Wars'' from afar, with his final three journal entries coming full circle with his previous appearance in "Terminus", landing him right in the middle of Point Omega.

Afterwards, the next BotCon storyline, ''[[Transformers: Universe (comic)#Transformers Universe: Featuring The Wreckers|The Wreckers]]'', wrapped up a few more loose ends left hanging from ''Omega Point''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s conclusion. The first chapter, "[[Departure]]", saw Apelinq back on Cybertron during the second season events of ''Beast Machines'', where he reveals to Optimus Primal (who had lost all memory of Point Omega) the outcomes of the battle: Shokaract was destroyed and his tainted future timeline had been erased from all time, with every time-displaced survivor of the battle (minus Primal himself, of course) having escaped back to their respective eras via transwarp portals. Primal, meanwhile, had been caught at the epicenter of the timequake and forgot all about these events, his amnesia providing an in-story explanation for why Point Omega was never mentioned in the cartoons. Windrazor, however, had seemingly disappeared at first, but his true fate would later be revealed by the [[2007]] prose story "[[Wreckers: Finale Part II]]", published by [[Fun Publications]]. Rather than having been erased along with his home time, his life was saved and preserved by [[Primus]] to let him serve as a spirit guide for those in need.

==Creative team==
[[File:Simon-Furman.jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.9|[[Simon Furman]], author of the storyline's main chapters]]
"Visitations" was written by ''Beast Wars'' writer and editor [[Bob Forward]], with acting performances provided by [[Garry Chalk]], [[Scott McNeil]], [[Doug Parker]], [[Susan Blu]], and [[David Kaye]], with cameo appearances from [[Larry DiTillio]] and [[Ben Yee]].

"Herald" (both versions), "Covenant", "Schism", "Paradox", "Terminus", and all of the recaps in the BotCon 2000 comic were written by acclaimed ''Transformers'' comic scribe [[Simon Furman]], who had previously made his return to ''Transformers'' comics in his authoring the [[BotCon 1997]] comic "[[Ground Zero]]". [[Glen Hallit]] of 3H Enterprises oversaw Furman's scripting of the prose stories and co-wrote "Terminus" with him.

Several fan-favorite British artists from the [[Marvel Comics]] days also made their return to ''Transformers'' in illustrating the BotCon 2000 comic. The normal convention cover featured computer-generated art and effects by [[Andrew Wildman]] (who has also returned previously to illustrate "Ground Zero"), while a dinner variant cover was drawn by [[Geoff Senior]]. The illustrations included in the comic's four recaps and "Herald" reprint were done by [[Lee Sullivan]]. "Terminus" itself was penciled and inked by Senior, with lettering done by [[Richard Starkings]] and [[Comicraft]] (both having also previously lettered "Ground Zero").

"Apelinq's War Journals" was written for BotCon: Beyond by 3H member [[Rob Gerbracht]], who also provided additional text and editing for the BotCon 2001 "Departure" comic written by Glen Hallit. Then-newcomer artist [[Dan Khanna]] illustrated "Departure", including the two pages that revealed the aftermath of Point Omega. He and [[Jon Hartman]] were also editors for the comic alongside Gerbracht. The main cover art for "Departure" was produced by [[Mainframe Entertainment]], while a variant release included with that year's exclusive [[Tigatron]] toy featured different cover art by Khanna.

Artwork for the related toy bios and online profiles were provided by Andrew Wildman (Antagony, [[Vice Grip]]) and Mainframe Entertainment (Windrazor, Sandstorm, Shokaract, Apelinq).
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==Continuity==
Though "Ground Zero" was the first story produced by 3H, it was ''Reaching this Omega Point'' that really attempted to built upon and flesh out the universe of the 3H Beast Era, creating its own lore and laying the groundwork for further storylines to come in both this and future BotCon-affiliated continuities.

While the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon had alluded to, in the style of Arthurian legend, a ''[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]''-based history that was a like a mixture of elements taken from both the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|cartoon]] and the [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|Marvel Comics]], it (and later ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Machines]]'') tended to borrow more elements from the G1 cartoon than from the G1 comics. However, ''Omega Point'' instead chooses to lean towards a more comic-based history, alluding to elements and events that more overtly stemmed from the comics, as well as the events of ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''.

Author Simon Furman once stated at [[BotCon Europe 1999]] that these stories were his first attempt to weave together the histories of the G1 comics and cartoon together into one timeline<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20020416063709/http://www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk/primus/interview.htm BotCon Europe '99 Simon Furman interview highlights] (archived): "The stories I've written for BotCon are the first time I've really tried to make it all fit together in one cohesive line."</ref> (a practice he would later attempt again in his writing for the [[Dreamwave Generation One continuity]]), but would later state in a Transforce 2000 magazine interview that he, at the time, considered both the ''Omega Point'' storyline and the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon (but NOT the ''Beast Machines'' cartoon) to be specifically part of the comics universe, preferring to view ''Omega Point'' as his own post-''Beast Wars'' storyline while disregarding ''Beast Machines'' altogether.<ref>[https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.toys.transformers/mMaaTA90sUc/n-q9ZLE0XvEJ alt.toys.transformers post by Andrew Crane on 5/30/00]: "Simon Furman regards Beast Wars as taking place in his comic universe (according to an interview in the Transforce 2000 magazine, he ignores Beast Machines entirely). His own post-BW storyline is Reaching the Omega Point (the BotCon stories)."</ref>

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Additionally, at the time that Furman was writing ''Omega Point'' for BotCon, he also wrote two other stories for the unofficial Transforce conventions: 2000's "[[The Last Days of Optimus Prime]]" and 2001/2002's "[[Alignment]]". Both of these served as extensions of the [[Marvel Comics continuity]] in Furman's eyes--much like ''Omega Point''--and also contained certain elements that Furman tied in directly with ''Omega Point''. "Last Days" both confirmed the Veteran's identity as the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobot]] [[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]] and revisited J'nwan as a quasi-afterlife residence for the ''Generation 1'' Autobots and Decepticons. It also first declared the ''Generation 1'' Optimus Prime and Megatron to be residents of J'nwan's, three months before such would be reiterated by "Terminus". "Alignment", meanwhile, reintroduced the [[Liege Maximo]]--a massive plot point left dangling from the [[A Rage in Heaven!|final issue]] of the [[Transformers: Generation 2 (Marvel)|Marvel ''Generation 2'' comics]]--whom both "Covenant" and "Schism" namedropped rather overtly, with "Schism" even stating the Veteran to have been familiar with the Liege Maximo; said familiarity was fully disclosed by the events of "Alignment".

However, while Furman definitely gave off the impression of building his own [[personal canon]] with all of these then-new stories he was writing at the time, his [[authorial intent]] would officially hold little weight in the end as far as 3H was concerned, with the very next BotCon storyline, ''The Wreckers'', leaning towards a more G1 ''cartoon''-based universe while simultaneously serving as a direct follow-up to the more Marvel comic-based ''Omega Point'' storyline. Thus, while ''Omega Point'', "Last Days", and "Alignment" could together be viewed as an extension of the comics universe on their own, the larger continuity of all the 3H fiction disregards that intent in favor of a more blended Beast Era universe that--much like the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon itself--borrowed more evenly from both the cartoon and the comics, favoring neither over the other. And as ''Omega Point'' was the only one of these three Furman-penned convention stories to be officially published under Hasbro's license, the other two fall into the realm of [[pseudocanon]] at best (see their respective pages for more on their relation to the [[canon]]).

Consequently, any potential continuity errors with the original Marvel G1 comics found in ''Omega Point'' (or any 3H fiction) would no longer necessarily ''be'' continuity errors due to the 3H Beast Era ultimately inhabiting its own unique continuity that only directly ties to the two Beast Era cartoons while merely ''in''directly tying to the G1 comics and cartoon.
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==Fan reception==
''Reaching the Omega Point'' has, to put it bluntly, received rather polarizing reception from readers since its original release.

As the [[fandom]] of the time was mostly starving for new comic material (since there hadn't been any new ''Transformers'' comics since the abrupt end of the ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (Marvel)|Generation 2]]'' comics in [[1994]]), the storyline was initially received well and hailed as Simon Furman's grand return to form. Many fans took a liking to the backstory of the Covenant and what it added to the lore at the time. The ''{{w|Terminator (franchise)|Terminator}}''-esque future timeline also provided a new era to explore that fascinated many. And, of course, the surprise return of Unicron in a ''Beast Wars'' story was a move that pulled readers even further into the story, with many eager to read the BotCon 2000 conclusion following the 1999 prose chapters.

On the other end of the spectrum, however, ''Omega Point'' has also been the subject of much criticism. In addition to being confined to such a limited release venue that not every fan had access to (a critique that would become common to most BotCon and related fiction in years to come), one of the biggest issues that turned people off was the sheer complexity of the story, which made it very difficult for people to follow. "Schism" and "Paradox", for instance, constantly jump the story around from setting to setting, even scene per scene in the latter's case, and the erasure of Shokaract's timeline essentially undoes much of the storyline's events, creating an overall paradoxical nature that in turn left several readers finding the whole of ''Omega Point'' to be a highly convoluted and needlessly overcomplicated mess. What's more is how it evidently tried to recreate the scale and overall feel of the Marvel Comics "Unicron Saga" that ran from [[Yesterday's Heroes!|Issue #60]] to [[On the Edge of Extinction!|Issue #75]], but condensed down to just a small amount of prose stories and one comic, lacking the substance and breathing room of the sixteen issues that the original Marvel storyline had.

Unhelpful to these matters is how the storyline has (or rather hasn't) aged over time, with many fans looking back on it years later with far less reverence, instead recognizing it more clearly as the product of a time when ''Transformers'' fiction was much less bountiful and ubiquitous. The inclusion of Unicron is no longer looked on with awe and wonderment, but instead presents ''Omega Point'', in many fans' eyes, as "just another Unicron story", due to the ''enormous'' amount of exposure that the Chaos Bringer eventually received in the subsequent years of the [[Unicron Trilogy]], the [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]] comics, the [[Fun Publications]] fiction, and much more.

In the end, like many other pieces of the ''Transformers'' fiction, the saga of ''Reaching the Omega Point'' served its purpose at the time, but with the rapid growth and expansion of ''Transformers'' brand that has come about in recent years, venturing it in wider reaches of mass media, the ''Omega Point'' storyline has since faded far into the backgrounds of obscurity, residing mostly in a state of indifference and neutral unawareness within the fandom.
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==Legacy==
[[File:BW Covenant.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.0|The [[Covenant (group)|Covenant]] would pave the way for the conception of the [[Thirteen]].]]
Despite having been overtaken by more mainstream fiction, ''Reaching the Omega Point'' would go on to influence other works in the years to come. Most importantly, the concept of the Covenant as a special group of "original Transformers" created by Primus would be reinvented for the development of the [[Thirteen]], another creation of Simon Furman, in the early-to-mid 2000s.

Shokaract's role as a Predacon overlord empowered by Unicron's lifeforce would also resurface in [[2007]]-[[2008]], with Shokaract serving as the primary antagonist of Furman's ''Beast Wars'' comic mini-series ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars: The Ascending|The Ascending]]'', albeit with the Dark Essence replaced by the similar substance of [[Angolmois]] from the Japanese-original ''[[Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars II]]'' and ''[[Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Neo (franchise)|Beast Wars Neo]]'' series. Though, the [[Matrix of Conquest]] of this series was instead named the "Anti-Matrix" (or the "Matrix of Chaos", as noted by Shokaract's ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook|Beast Wars Sourcebook]]'' profile). Regardless, as another throwback to ''Omega Point'', among Shokaract's five Heralds in the mini-series was none other than Antagony.

By the time [[2014]] rolled around, that year marked the 20th anniversary of BotCon. To celebrate, [[BotCon 2014]] saw the release of a special new "Pirates vs. Knights" storyline that paid tribute to ''Reaching the Omega Point''. Set in the far future of the [[Transformers: Wings Universe|Wings Universe]], on a post-''Beast Machines'' [[Technorganic]] Cybertron, the convention's "[[Hoist the Flag]]" comic story saw the rise of that universe's version of Shokaract (known originally as just "the Hunter"), with the comic's final pages depicting his acquisition of the Matrix of Conquest from Unicron.

Additional build-up material was also produced online ahead of the convention. A prose series titled "[[Tornado - Decepticon Saboteur]]" was released as the first of a new line of Facebook-based fiction produced for the [[Transformers Collectors' Club]]. In this series, the Decepticon-turned-pirate [[Tornado]] chronicled the adventures of the [[Star Seeker]] space pirates held before their arrival at the future era Cybertron of the 2014 convention comic. During these narratives, Tornado would compose personal journal logs in a vein similar to "Apelinq's War Journals", and to further the homage, there were seven points in Tornado's writings where he would happen upon journal entries written by the Wings Universe version of Apelinq himself, in which Apelinq described moments where he would have brief visions of the events of Point Omega, events that he otherwise did not remember but cryptically felt as though he had experienced them first hand in another time, in another life...

Finally, the last piece of fiction to be majorly influenced by ''Omega Point'' was the final installment for the "Pirates vs. Knights" storyline: A [[2015]] pack-in comic made for the "BotCon Legacy Collection". Simply titled "[[Legacy (issue)|Legacy]]", this one-page comic was told from the point of view from the newly-arisen Shokaract himself, who waxed poetic about his destiny to conquer Cybertron, at a point when the planet was completely unprepared for his coming.
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==References==
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==External links==
*[http://botcon.com/archive/story/index.html The complete ''Reaching the Omega Point'' storyline at the BotCon Online archives]


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