Sentinel Maximus

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Sentinel Maximus is an Autobot from the Beast Era portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

When Primal Prime was critically damaged in a battle with Cryotek, Apelinq brought his battered remains to Vector Sigma. To save his life Apelinq made the ultimate sacrifice, allowing the ancient supercomputer to merge his Spark and Primal Prime's into Sentinel Maximus. Sentinel Maximus combines Primal Prime's power, charisma, and direct link to the knowledge of the Matrix with Apelinq's strategic genius and ability to download virtual objects into reality. When a smaller, more stealthy form is preferable, the cab portion of his armored transport mode can disengage and transform into Hyperlinq. He has no known physical weaknesses other than his compassion for other beings.

Despite all this, he sure gets beat up a lot.

Fiction

Fun Publications Cybertron comics

Fluctuations in the fabric of the multiverse caused by the Unicron Singularity pulled Sentinel Maximus out of the Universe conflict and into the center of the Unicron Trilogy's Cybertron near the beginning of the search for the Cyber Planet Keys. Recruited by Alpha Trion to assist Vector Prime, they were all suddenly under attack by Unicron's minions Ramjet and Nemesis Prime. Sentinel Maximus fought back, but his adversaries retreated after destroying both Alpha Trion and Vector Sigma.

Sentinel Maximus and Vector Prime hunted the two down, finding them deep within Cybertron near the chamber that held Primus' lifeforce. Vector Prime fought Ramjet, taking their battle far into Cybertron's atmosphere, while Sentinel Maximus tried to prevent Nemesis Prime from unleashing the Dead Matrix on Primus' lifeforce, which would allow Unicron to defeat Primus and consume the multiverse, ending all existence forever. Sentinel Maximus failed, and Nemesis Prime sealed himself into the chamber alone, being stopped only by the chance appearance of Optimus Prime and Ultra Mangus from the Robots in Disguise universe.

After this battle, Vector Prime had defeated Ramjet, but was severely drained. He left the enigmatic Velocitronian Skyfall in the obviously capable hands of Sentinel Maximus, with instructions to take him far, far away and keep him safe, for Skyfall was very important for unspecified reasons.

A while later, Sentinel Maximus brought Skyfall with him to help end the violently dangerous Mini-Con civil war that had erupted on Cybertron's moons. The civil war was actually constructed by the newly reborn Unicron, who wished to kill Skyfall and the likewise-important Landquake. Unicron attacked Sentinel Maximus, singling out the "Chosen of Primus," and Sentinel Maximus was unable to get the tinier Dark God off him. He cried for Omega Prime's help, who succeeded in blasting Unicron away from him.

Toys

Universe

• Sentinel Maximus (OTFCC 2004 exclusive)

Trivia

• Sentinel Maximus went through several names before he saw release, the most noteable being "Vector Prime." Hasbro rejected the name because they didn't want to dilute the concept of Primes, but later used it themselves for Cybertron Vector Prime anyway.
• Despite Sentinel Maximus' name change, his shipping carts still said "Vector Prime" on them.
• Early on, Sentinel Maximus was to come with translucent redecos of the Cyberjet molds, meant to represent three sparks trapped inside the Divine Light whom he downloaded digital bodies for into reality. Instead, Hasbro decided to use those molds themselves for Universe.
• Sentinel Maximus' paint mockup featured the Wreckers symbol (the Autobot symbol with a hammer for the forehead), but the final product had normal Autobot symbols.
• Due to 3H Productions' losing of the convention license, Hasbro mailed Sentinel Maximus out to their owners, using old mailing lists that had many outdated addresses. Some buyers never got theirs at all.

External links

• Sentinel Maximus at TFU.info
  
  
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