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| {{cleanup|August 2009|One-line, in-universe synopsis, notes & etc.}}
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| {{disambig3|Herald}}
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| {{comicstory|
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| |seriesissue=''[[Reaching the Omega Point|Tales from the Transformers: Beast Wars: Reaching the Omega Point]]''
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| |prev=Apelinq's War Journals
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| |next=Terminus
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| |image=Beastwarsterminusa.jpg
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| |caption=A graphic designer's worst nightmare.
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| |title="Herald", "Covenant", "Schism", "Paradox"
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| |publisher=[[3H Productions]]
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| |date=[[July 28]], 2000 ([[BotCon 2000]])
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| |coverdate=July 28-30, 2000
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| |script=[[Simon Furman]]
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| |illustrations=[[Lee Sullivan]]
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| |continuity=[[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] (via [[Universe (2003 franchise)|Universe]])
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| }}
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| '''Many players draw closer as Point Omega, the end of everything, comes.
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| ==Synopsis==
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| ===Covenant===
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| On [[Protos]], [[Leonicus]] enjoys the sunrise. He is eventually forced to return to the [[Sanctuary]], where he sees his fellow members of the [[Covenant]] go on with their daily lives, sealed away from the Universe for millennia in preparation for [[Point Omega]], or [[Shokaract]]. He is soon met with the [[Chronarchitect]], who struggles to create a physical presence and warns Leonicus of an upcoming disaster. In a booming voice, The Chonarchitect tells Leonicus to "return to the beginning".
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| The Convenant convene in a [[zemstvo]] to discuss the Chronarchitect's foreboding words. They recall that the last time the Chronarchtiect appeared was in [[2005]], when [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] died and the ownership of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Creation Matrix]] was in flux. For that event, they had readied for war, but the Matrix passed to [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]], who used it to destroy [[Unicron]] and the Covenant went unneeded. Now, they again worry of the [[Grand Plan]] of their creator, [[Primus]], and the impeding Point Omega.
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| Leonicus reviews the Covenant's origins. In the beginning, a new universe was reborn from the ashes of the old. In this old universe, gods existed. One of them, Unicron, became a devourer, consuming the entire universe, other gods included. His task done, he slept in the [[void]]. Life still clinged on, spontaneously creating a new universe and a positive counterpart to Unicron—Primus. The two mighty titans' battles devastated the universe, and so Primus concocted a plan: he would distract Unicron on the mental plane and trap their physical essences in metal asteroids. To test his tactic, he imprinted part of his lifeforce into Protos, creating life out of the dead moon. Twelve were born with [[spark]]s of Primus's essence—the Covenant. Satisfied that he could reshape [[Cybertron (planet)his future metal prison]] to create [[Transformer|life]], Primus tasked the Covenant with observation and maintaining the Grand Plan, especially for Point Omega. The Covenant observed the evolution of the Transformer race and waited for the time when they would be called upon.
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| ====Featured characters====
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| {{featuredcharacters
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| |h1=[[Covenant]]|c1=
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| *[[Leonicus]] (1)
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| *[[Aquator]] (2)
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| *[[Libras]] (3)
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| *[[Sandstorm (BW)|Scorpius]] (4)
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| *[[Capricun]] (10)
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| *[[Libras]] (12)
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| *[[Ariex]] (13)
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| |h2=Gods|c2=
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| *[[Chronarchtiect]] (5)
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| *[[Unicron]] (6)
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| *[[Primus]] (14)
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| |c4=
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| *[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] (7)
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| *[[Liege Maximo]] (8)
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| *[[Primon]] (9)
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| *[[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]] (11)
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| *[[Prima]] (15)
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| *[[Prime Nova]] (16)
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| *[[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]] (17)
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| }}
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| ==Notes==
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| * There are two mildly differing versions of the story "Herald", one published in the 1999 four-parter, the other published as illustrated prequel to the [[Terminus|2000 comic]]. Some details found in one of the versions are absent from the other, and vice versa, such as information Megatron "borrowed" the mind-drill from Tarantulas, a description of Cataclysm's Ko-tu and the extent of Antagony's revenge on him.
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| * Botcon.com presents "Herald" as chapter 4 of ''Reaching the Omega Point''. The Botcon 2000 comic's presentation places it (more sensibly) as a prequel.
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| ==External links==
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| * [http://www.botcon.com/archive/story/1999/index.html Stories online at Botcon Archives]
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| [[Category:3H issues]]
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| [[Category:Beast Wars issues]]
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| [[Category:Text stories]]
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