Pyra Magna (G1)
2019 IDW continuity
 Plot details for War World: We Are Not Meant To Be Darkness follow. |
Pyra Magna was was one of the four Great Generals who battled Exarchon's forces during the War of the Threefold Spark. All Fall Down She soon developed a reputation for her ruthless, pragmatic approach to warfare, Awakenings an attitude that carried over to her "Companions": an elite, highly-trained strike force of fanatically loyal soldiers. We Are Not Meant To Be Darkness
When Turmoil destroyed Neutronia and took a number of Cybertronians hostage, Pyra Magna and her Companions pursued the villain into space—at that point, however, the war had already ended, and Nominus Prime had announced his intentions to offer Turmoil and every other 'bot who had served Exarchon amnesty. Pyra deliberately flaunted the terms of this peace agreement to launch a frontal assault on Turmoil's getaway warship to rescue his prisoners, adamant that a monster like Turmoil didn't deserve amnesty; however, during the subsequent space battle, Turmoil's warship exploded and killed everyone aboard. We Are Not Meant To Be Darkness One victim of the explosion was Paragon; his widower Cyclonus swore vengeance against Pyra for going too far when she didn't have to. Hunt
After returning to Cybertron, Pyra was arrested and imprisoned inside the White Tower detention complex, roused only from her stasis chamber periodically to remind her of what she'd done and why she was a prisoner. All Fall Down In wider Cybertronian society, Pyra Magna's sentence was a controversial one: while many agreed with the decision to lock her away, others, including the celebrated engineer-philosopher Termagax, felt that she'd been justified in her actions. The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Two Some even adopted her distinctive color scheme as a form of protest, including several ex-Companions like Jumpstream and Groundbreaker. Awakenings We Are Not Meant To Be Darkness After Nominus passed the Matrix on to Sentinel Prime, Sentinel upheld his predecessor's decision and refused to release her. The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Two
During her two thousand kilocycles in prison, Sentinel assigned Froid to treat her during the rare instances when she was roused from stasis. The psychiatrist failed to make any substantial headway, and when Sentinel Prime worried that he was growing too close to his patient he ordered the sessions to stop. Awakenings Froid would come to regard Pyra Magna as one of his four substantial failures. The World In Your Eyes Part Three Pyra herself believed that Sentinel was right to jail her; War World: Awakenings war had turned her into a monster, and she began counting the days until another monster would rise up to strike her down for what she'd done. We Are Not Meant To Be Darkness
When the Ascenticons took down the Tether, Megatron cited Pyra Magna's fate and refused to let himself share it. Elsewhere, Orion Pax tried appealing to Sentinel to have Pyra Magna released, due to her experience as the last of the Great Generals, which he felt could be used to fight the Rise quickly and decisively, but the Prime angrily refused. All Fall Down
After Megatron had taken command of the Senate and Orion Pax had become Optimus Prime, the newly minted Prime, over protests in his ranks, ordered Pyra released, hoping to counter Megatron's Great General of Strika with one of his own. Her release overseen by Chromia and Froid, Magna had the White Tower's comms blockers shut off so she could summon Jumpstream to her. After being caught up on her subordinate's new paint, she ordered Jumpstream to gather the rest of the Companions. War World: Awakenings
When Megatron offered to talk with Megatron under the flag of a temporary truce, Pyra was skeptical and warned Optimus that Megatron likely had ulterior motives behind luring him to the middle of Iacon. She offered an alternative: send her to conduct the meeting remotely while Optimus gathered his forces and abandoned Iacon. Despite her convictions that Optimus would have to give in to his darker urges to decisively win this new war, Prime refused to accept this, and his idealism impressed the old soldier. During the meeting with her erstwhile compatriot Strika, Pyra learned that the entire meeting had been arranged to organize her assassination; fortunately, Pyra had forseen this and deployed Jumpstream and the other Companions arrived in time to take out the Decepticons sent to kill her. Cyclonus finally faced off with the killer of his lover... but found himself unable to finally accomplish the deed. In the aftermath, Pyra told him that only he could decide where he went from this point before leaving with the Companions to rejoin Optimus's forces. We Are Not Meant To Be Darkness
