GoBot
| The name or term "GoBots" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see GoBots (disambiguation). |
- GoBots are aliens from the GoBots continuity family.
In a distant reality, two factions of metallic beings, one friendly and one evil, fight an ancient war on a ravaged technological world. After untold years of battle that war has spilled over onto Earth, where the combatants alter their bodies to take on disguises of land and air vehicles and continue their conflict among us!
Yet these seemingly mechanical beings are not Autobots or Decepticons. They're not even robots, but cyborgs: Guardians and Renegades from the shattered planet Gobotron. They are the GoBots.
Fiction
Renegade Rhetoric
In ancient times, there was a civil war between the Guardians and their Renegades on Gobotron. The Renegades claim it was a struggle against tyranny and oppression, and that the Last Engineer of the Guardians arranged for an asteroid to collide with Gobotron, wrecking its environment and necessitating the GoBot cybernetic upgrade. The Renegades followed suit. The Last Engineer and his Renegade counterpart, the Master Renegade, disappeared for generations.
The Megatronus of this timeline was known as "the Evil One". He almost destroyed Gobotron with the Dark Heart before the ancient GoBots imprisoned him on Earth, beneath the Nazca Lines. An equivalent of Vector Prime also exists, called Vec-Tor. In one early adventure, Vec-Tor and his Time Warriors teamed up with the local space-time guardian Tic Toc to defeat the villainous Time Limit.
Eventually, a Guardian named Cy-Kill grew weary of the Guardian way and defected to the Renegades with his loyal right hand, Fitor. They reinvigorated the Renegade cause. By the 1980s, the Guardians and Renegades had come to Earth. The humans of UNECOM helped the Guardians out. They had numerous wacky adventures, wherein Leader-1, Turbo, and Scooter, (along with the occasional human or Guardian) would reliably and creatively thwart the machinations of Cy-Kill, Cop-Tur, and Crasher.
After quite a lot of these adventures, Cy-Kill would find himself in Axiom Nexus, where he proceeded to recruit a new crop of Renegades from among the Offworlder population. He even took over Vector Primes's advise column on ANN and used it as a recruiting tool. He was eventually outed as a terrorist and fled the reality with the help of his secret ally. He was the highest-rated of all the guest columnists, and hacked into Ask Vector Prime to announce that his column, "Renegade Rhetoric," would live on as a pirate broadcast. Ask Vector Prime
Timelines
A Cataclysm began to threaten the very existence of the GoBots' universe. Doctor B discovered the source of the Cataclysm. With the devastation reaching a critical stage, the normally antagonistic Guardians and Renegades combined forces with Earth to send a team out into the multiverse to locate the cause and, if possible, reverse the damage.
This team was held up in the city of Axiom Nexus. The GoBots were told that several events in one particular universal stream caused a splintering. One of the newly-created universes was replacing the GoBots' home universe. Eventually, the team arrived at their original destination, Earth of the universe that was destroying their own home.
Soon after, a larger force of GoBots would follow. Withered Hope
Bug Bite decided he'd rather try to get revenge on the universe responsible for the disaster, but it went tits up for him. Games of Deception
The destruction of Primax 207.0 Epsilon allowed the Gargent universe to begin repairing itself. However, individuals within the universe remained in grave danger. Most denizens of Gargent 984.08 Alpha had already left for other universes, disguising themselves as members of the dominant factions.
Notes
- GoBots inhabit several universal streams, including
- Gargent 984.08 Alpha, threatened by the cataclysm
- Gargent 1084.29 Alpha, a very similar world NOT threatened by the cataclysm
- Gargent 087.0 Kappa, AKA Strata 22, a world where the Autobot Spy Changers frequently visit
- Gargent 1184.10 Gamma, one of many worlds from whence Bio Ranger Iga harvested a combiner
- Gargent -1185.01 Alpha, a negative-polarity world where Guardians are evil and Renegades are good.
