Pyra Magna (G1)
- Pyra Magna is a Camien Autobot from the Generation 1 continuity family.
A tough, serious, thoughtful commander, Pyra Magna excels at making the hard choices and transforming challenges that would break others into advantages. Though she has been shaped by the hardships of the Rust Sea, her true strength comes from deep within her Spark. Pyra Magna's soul burns with a powerful flame that fuels her absolute, relentless will to survive. She is the leader of a group of Torchbearers. These "Rust Renegades" from Caminus are explorers who seek out Cybertronian artifacts for preservation. She is dedicated to her job and the Mistress of Flame.
Pyra's internal water system has been compromised by corrosive gasses. She utilizes this unfortunate circumstance to power her Corrosion Cannons, weapons that weaken enemy armor and jam up their gears.
Following the recovery of one ancient artifact, she gained the ability to combine with her teammates to form the goliath Victorion.
| “ | Okay, Torchbearers! Let's light the way! | ” |
—Pyra Magna slings a good catchphrase, "An Uneventful Night" | ||
Fiction
IDW Generation 1 continuity
In the past, the Torchbearers once visited the village where Aileron lived. Aphelion When Cybertron re-established contact with Caminus after millennia of isolation, First Contact the Mistress of Flame believed that Optimus Prime was the incarnation of the legendary Thirteenth Prime, a belief that Pyra Magna and the six Torchbearers under her command shared. The Medium and the Message
Soon after Caminus entered the Council of Worlds, her team was sent to Cybertron to search for the remains of Crystal City. While combing the Rust Sea, Magna was alerted to a bunch of other Transformers entering the area. Curious, she ordered her team to investigate and fought Arcee attacking Windblade. Attacking a Cityspeaker?! Windblade told them to leave it but an angry Pyra Magna ordered her team to intervene. She also tried to hold Windblade back when Arcee threatened to destroy some object, as she couldn't allow a Cityspeaker to risk herself for it, until that object turned out to be the legendary Enigma of Combination. One accident later, and Pyra Magna was part of a new combiner!
After a new and angry Victorion was convinced to stand down and separate, Magna apologized to Windblade for their brief rampage. She also apologized to Arcee, but told her not to call their new state an "abomination"; while she sympathised with Arcee's fear that people would be forced into becoming gestalts, she said they had become one and had the right to be "what we are". An Uneventful Night
The Torchbearers opted to remain in the Rust Sea for a time, still learning to control their new powers. The inhabitants of the wasteland soon learned to avoid them. On one occasion, Pyra Magna and her team appeared to scare off a group of zombified Sweeps. Redemption
They remained in exile until Optimus Prime - seeking answers about what it truly meant to be a Prime, decided to visit the group. Aphelion Merging into Victorion, the Torchbearers tested Optimus's physical and spiritual resolve. Optimus's agnosticism about the Matrix of Leadership prompted Victorion to lay claim to the Matrix and vow to build Optimus into a worthy Prime. Lagrange
Pyra Magna led the Torchbearers back to Iacon, where they combined and joined Starscream's forces in quelling a Decepticon riot at the space bridge. Perihelion After Optimus declared Earth a member of the Council of Worlds, the Torchbearers—still combined—took part in a skirmish against Galvatron's splinter force of Decepticons, but had to fall back after China deployed its anti-Transformer weaponry. As the Autobots regrouped at Thundercracker's old house, Pyra Magna argued with Alpha Trion. Once Upon a Time on Earth
As a show of good faith, the Autobots began patrolling impoverished and troubled regions around the world. Pyra Magna and the other Torchbearers defended a Middle Eastern girl's school from religious fanatics. The Torchbearers would later travel to the White House after Aileron went rogue, forming Victorion and extricating the Autobots from the White House lawn. Edge of the Earth The Torchbearers participated in Optimus and Soundwave's joint operation on the Nemesis. Victorion was torn apart by Galvatron's planetwide Enigma of Combination, and her components were knocked unconscious. It's Beginning To And Back Again As Above...So Below By the time that the Torchbearers had regained consciousness, the fight had already moved offworld. No Fair Fights Pyra Magna led her team as they helped mop up the stragglers, White Light but were forced to combine again after the Earth Defense Command launched an attack on the exhausted Autobots. White Heat
The Earthbound Autobots continued to settle into Autobot City, until Metrotitan abruptly went dormant and stopped communicating with the Autobots. Pyra Magna and Soundwave called Windblade to Earth to see if her cityspeaking talents could help them pinpoint what had gone wrong. The trio worked for many days trying to diagnose each of the Titan's systems, but their search turned up nothing. Informed Soon, the Torchbearers were called into action to defend Arcee and Jazz from G.I. Joe in Oregon, using Victorion's gravity powers to harmlessly take down human aircraft in the wake of Soundwave's EMP attack. Concorde Hymn
Back at Autobot City, Pyra Magna's idle speculation about the state of Metrotitan allowed Windblade to correctly deduce that Metrotitan was merely ignoring them, waiting to speak to a Prime. Pyra Magna watched as Windblade merged her consciousness with the Titan's, and when Windblade's mind returned from another dimension she and Pyra Magna requested help from Optimus Prime to save the ailing universe from a destructive entropy cloud. Informed
Games
Transformers: Earth Wars
Toys
Generations
- Victorion (Giftset, 2016)
- Accessories: Cudgel
- Pyra Magna is a retool of Generations Hot Spot, with a new head, forearms, chestplate, and some different ladder-boom parts. She transforms into a fire truck resembling a modified Rosenbauer Panther 6x6, with a working ladder-boom. She can also form the torso to super-robot Victorion, though in this mode she can also use any combination of Combiner Wars or Unite Warriors limb-bots. Her cudgel forms the hilt of Victorion's sword.
- Many (if not all) samples of Pyra Magna come with misassembled knee struts. They are reversed on both legs, preventing her knee assemblies from locking in properly for robot mode. This issue was shared with Generation 2 Bruticus. In an undocumented feature also shared with Onslaught, the backs of her feet can flip out to provide better support.
- She was available only as part of a box set with her teammates Stormclash, Skyburst, Dust Up, Jumpstream, and Rust Dust.
- This version of the mold was also used to make Unite Warriors Megaempress.
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Notes
- "Pyra magna" is (roughly translated) Latin for "great fire".
