Rock Lord
In uncharted regions of the universe, creatures from Quartex sleep undisturbed by light or civilization. Though their dormant state may resemble common asteroids, this camouflage conceals their true ferocity. Feared by robots, their appetite for metal is matched only by their ferocious strength in battle. They are legend. They are... the Rock Lords!
Fiction
Animated cartoon
After untold aeons of peaceful slumber, a cluster of Rock Lords was abruptly awakened by an unexpected, light-emitting intruder in their midst. No sooner did they swarm over the massive alien than it vanished. Still, the disturbance was not a complete disappointment: a moment later, a small but tasty-looking... thing appeared in the intruder's place, and was quickly devoured by the nearest Rock Lord.
Sated, the devourer prepared to return to sleep, but was disturbed to find itself suddenly alone in an alien, gravity-bound environment. Even worse, light now constantly poured down on it from some new, horrible menace. Destroying everything in its path, it might have found an escape from this terrible place if it weren't for a tiny, irritatingly quick assailant that shattered the Rock Lord into hundreds of pieces. The three smaller Rock Lords that regenerated from its shattered body hardly stood a chance. TransWarped
The Cool comic
A Rock Lord battled Team Athenia somewhere in space, easily trouncing them until Rodimus got everyone working together to figure out its weakness and destroying it. The Cool Extra issue 2
Ask Vector Prime
There were Rock Lords in the Xobitor universes too!
In the universe of Aurex 615.03 Epsilon, Maximals and Predacons took the form of Rock Lords as part of the "Colossus War" on Rock Planet.
Sideways boasts he's dated some "fem-rocks".
Cy-Kill finds the Gargent ones pathetic. He was asked to tell us more about them.
When Gong and Sideways mucked about with time and space, mixing up a Gargent world with a Primax universe circa 2005, the Rock Lords showed up in a universe in place of the Junkions. The evil warlord Magmar launched an attack on a combined Guardian/Autobot force and almost wiped them out, but Hot Rod and Kup had made contact with goodie rocks under Boulder. These Rock Lords drove off Magmar's goons, allowing Major Mo and his Autobot/Guardians to head after Galvatron. Echoes and Fragments
Renegade Rhetoric
Several important battles in the conflict between Guardian and Renegade involved Rock Lords. The Renegades failed to disrupt a diplomatic mission from Quartex to Gobotron. Stoneheart attempted to kidnap the lead singer of the High Rollahz in advance of an interstellar concert. The Renegades temporarily forced the Fossil Lords to aid them. The Ro-Guns helped Boulder's forces when they were trapped by Magmar. And the Combiner Wars which ultimately decided the conflict decisively for the Guardians involved a team up between the Renegades and the evil Rock Lords and the Guardians and the good Rock Lords. Transformers: Renegade Rhetoric
Notes
- The Rock Lords are an homage to Tonka's GoBots' spinoff toyline the Rock Lords (tagline: Powerful Living Rocks!), which appeared in GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords and came from the planet Quartex. Actual Tonka Rock Lords characters Nuggit, Brimstone, Boulder, Granite and Spearhead make easter egg appearances as crowd-filling NAILs in IDW's Robots in Disguise #4.
- The AllSpark Almanac II retconned in that the GoBots were their universe's Transformers, with Gobotron as a form of Primus. This would presumably make these Rock Lords those Rock Lords as well! Hasbro franchise Robotix (also retconned into being versions of Transformers) also had transforming rock creatures and in 2015 Fun Publications' Ask Vector Prime explicitly made them the same Rock Lords! See what happens when you let fans run the asylum?
