Censere
- The Necrobot is a legend from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
They say that a mute Neutral known as the Necrobot travels the battlefields of the Great War, administering posthumous rites to fallen Cybertronians. They say that he can determine the cause of death just by letting his shadow fall on the corpse and that he has devoted his life to recording the fate of every last Transformer. Whether there is any truth to these stories is unknown, but they persist.
Fiction
IDW Generation 1 continuity
A forensic pathologist named Censere, the Cybertronian that would be known as the Necrobot was moved to begin his lifelong mission of chronicling death when the death of his friend Tusk went unreported. He set up complex machines in his complex that could keep track of spark signatures and teleport him around the universe to carry out his tasks, as well as holographic statues of every Cybertronian whose bases were adorned with flowers crafted from the residual spark energy of whoever the statue's real-life counterpart killed. Those statues were switched off when its counterpart died. The Not Knowing
While on the planet Clemency, itself littered with the bodies of dead (and occasionally not-so-dead) Transformers, Misfire would periodically catch sight of what he believed was the Necrobot. He would then "chase it" for a few seconds before "losing sight of it" again, as observed by Krok who was not himself a believer. Rules of Disengagement One and a half years later, however, the Necrobot did indeed arrive on Clemency to add Flywheels to his list of dead Cybertronians. Who's Afraid of the DJD?
Ratchet listed sightings of the Necrobot and his "portable apothecary" alongside the Shimmer and seeing Primus's face in a mushroom cloud as visual glitches caused by freshly-constructed Cybertronians' senses "trying to run before [they] can walk". Twenty Plus One
A selection of the crew of the Lost Light visited his planet of operations, the location of which was revealed by an info bullet from Agent 113. Although the Necrobot evaded the crew by locking himself in his complex at first, he later secretly invited Nightbeat inside and revealed his true name, his being an ordinary Cybertronian, and how he carried on his mission. Though Nightbeat was dismayed by this revelation because he had believed that the Necrobot was a mystic figure and proof that higher powers existed in the universe, Censere reminded him that his not being 'magic' did not mean the Afterspark did not exist. The Not Knowing
Notes
- Misfire was the one looking for the Necrobot. James Roberts admitted that he'd confused him with Flywheels and in the trade, Misfire's "ludicrous search" line was cut out.[1]
