Skyburst (G1)
| This article is about the component of Victorion. For the Power Core Combiners guy, see Skyburst (PCC). |
- Skyburst is a Camien Autobot from the Generation 1 continuity family.
It would be hard to find a pair of sisters more different than Skyburst and her twin Stormclash. Skyburst is in many ways the embodiment of Autobot ideals. She believes to the core of her spark in Justice, restraint, morality and mercy. She is a warrior because she must be, and a skilled one, but she is a warrior who fights only when the cause is for the greater good and only as an absolute last resort. It is this last point that truly separates her from her aggressive and less morally restrained sister. Stormclash's violent abandon sometimes really worries Skyburst.
She can combine with her fellow Torchbearers to form Victorion. She and her sister have a tendency to finish each other's sentences.
Fiction
IDW Generation 1 continuity
Skyburst and Stormclash accompanied then Torchbearer leader Praesidia Magna on a mission to Parvus Opidum, an all but abandoned mining town that had recently been beset by bandits after their meager energon supplies. Though things were quiet when they first arrived, the bandits soon returned. During the ensuing battle, both Skyburst and Stormclash were attacked by a marauder with a bat alt-mode, causing one of them to crash into the ground below just as it began to crack open thanks to a black hole that had opened up below the town. As the singularity began sucking everything in, Skyburst held onto her sister as they tried to make their escape. Once the marauders and the black hole disappeared, leaving Parvus in ruins, Skyburst and Stormclash looked on in sympathy as their teammate Rust Dust cradled the lifeless body of her friend Fastbreak in her arms.
Though they had seemingly gone missing after the events at Parvus, neither Pyra or Rust Dust having had seen them for some time, they eventually turned up again and were made members of Pyra Magna's team. Ghost Stories
Soon after Caminus entered the Council of Worlds, her team was sent to Cybertron to search for the remains of Crystal City.
When investigating a commotion, Skyburst and Stormclash were horrified to find this nutter Arcee had attacked Cityspeaker Windblade! The Torchbearers confronted Arcee for this blasphemy and when it turned out she was going to smash the fabled Enigma of Combination, the twins demanded she step off. In the chaos, the group were turned into a combiner named Victorion and afterwards, the twins remarked how they'd been even more unified than before. An Uneventful Night
The Torchbearers opted to stay 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, the 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
The Torchbearers travelled 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 separate and fall back to the Skyroller after China deployed its anti-Transformer weaponry. Once Upon a Time on Earth
As a show of good faith, the Autobots began patrolling impoverished and troubled regions around the world; Skyburst and the other Torchbearers would defend 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. They found, however, that Galvatron had prepared for their arrival by creating a planetary Enigma of Combination from G.B. Blackrock's Onyx tech, and Victorion was subsequently torn apart. 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, and the Torchbearers stayed behind to coordinate the extraction effort. No Fair Fights The team helped mop up the Decepticon stragglers, White Light but the intervention of the Earth Defense Command forced them to change their priorities and form Victorion to see off the humans. White Heat
Over the course of several months, the Autobots settled into their new role as global protectors, unaware of a growing conspiracy spearheaded by Miles Mayhem and supported by his allies Baron Karza and the Dire Wraiths, each seeking to get their hands on Earth's supply of Ore-13. Stormclash and the Torchbearers were deployed from Autobot City in Monument Valley to Oregon, where they defended Arcee and Jazz from an unprovoked G.I. Joe attack. As Victorion, they used her gravity powers to harmlessly take down human aircraft in the wake of Soundwave's EMP attack. Concorde Hymn Victorion maintained guard outside Autobot City as the situation intensified. The New Colossus Not long afterwards, the Dire Wraiths and M.A.S.K. besieged Autobot City for the deposits of Ore-13 beneath. As Victorion, the Torchbearers went up against a monstrous Baron Karza, but when the Microspace tyrant released an army of Dire Wraiths from his innards, Victorion split into her components to better deal with the swarm. Valley Forge
When Karza had been thwarted, the Autobots and their allies returned to policing an increasingly volatile Earth. Skyburst accompanied her leader to the Matterhorn, where they witnessed a massive alien ship make planetfall. To Walk Among the Chosen It turned out that it contained the nomadic Junkions, and, as Victorion, the Torchbearers watched as Wreck-Gar and Rum-Maj made their introductions. A Lonely Pillar on the Plain
Games
Transformers: Earth Wars
The yin to Stormclash's yang, Skyburst is a warrior of peace, willing to fight only when all other options are exhausted and when it's for the demonstrably greater good.
Unlike her twin sister, there are clear lines she just won't cross, and Skyburst stands tall for justice above all else. There's no doubting her effectiveness as a warrior, but every action is tempered by restraint and mercy. Skyburst Bio
Toys
Generations
- Victorion (Giftset, 2016)
- Accessories: Sword
- Skyburst is a retool of Generations Alpha Bravo, and transforms into a helicopter that resembles an Aérospatiale Dauphin. Skyburst can also form either an arm or a leg for any standard-issue Combiner Wars or Unite Warriors gestalt, though she was intended to combine with her pack-in mates Pyra Magna, Stormclash, Dustup, Jumpstream, and Rust Dust to form Victorion, with her weapon forming the blade of Victorion's sword.
- Like the rest of her Torchbearers, Skyburst features a Cybertronic tampograph on her vehicle mode, which reads "Hear my message, listen and fear" on her right.
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