Vigilem

Vigilem is a Titan from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Vigilem was a Titan loyal to Liege Maximo.

Fiction

IDW Generation 1 continuity

Vigilem was the Titan of Liege Maximo. Due to his evil nature and his own loyalty to the Prime, Vigilem was forced by other Titans to be imprisoned in his own body- transformed into his starship mode and his mind shut down, he was set adrift among the stars, with members of Maximo's tribe as his crew. These followers had renounced the evil of their Prime and taken upon them the duty to keep Liege Maximo forever imprisoned inside the evil Titan, by using the false identity of "Carcer" rather than his true name. During their eons-long nomadic life, when any of the crew perished, they would have their bodies recycled and used to patch up the ship in order to keep "Carcer" spaceworthy.

After returning to Cybertron circa 2014, Metroplex located several of his Titan brethren scattered throughout the stars, First Contact including Vigilem, whose spacebridge read to his sensors as that of Tempo. With information from Metroplex, Chancellor Starscream and Cityspeaker Windblade traveled via spacebridge to reestablish contact with the philosopher colonists of Tempo, instead meeting militaristic colonists who identified their Titan as Carcer. Elita One and her crew claimed that they had merely renamed "Tempo" to "Carcer", but Windblade knew from speaking to Metroplex that they were lying about the situation. The Will of the Few

When Windblade proposed a mental merge with Metrotitan, Pyra Magna brought up Vigilem as a reminder that not all Titans and their Primes were pure. Informed

When Windblade later merged with what she assumed was Carcer to bring him online to fight the undead Titans besieging Cybertron, she realized she had actually awakened Vigilem. Desperate Measures

Upon merging with Vigilem, his systems began rebooting, and Windblade realized that he was trying to reawaken. Obsidian pleaded with her to keep Vigilem's mind dormant, saying he'd been offlined for a reason. Though she trusted his words, she saw no other choice to save Cybertron from the remaining undead Titan horde by taking physical control of Vigilem's body. In doing so, she reawakened the circuitry controlling his limbs, realizing how much of a patchwork of parts Vigilem's body was. Upon taking control of it, the part of Vigilem's mind that had been awakened "whispered" in her ear that they should join together. A startled Windblade refused his offer and began transforming him into his robot mode. Grabbing Devastator off of Vigilem's hull, she dropped him down to the surface to help in the fight, following after the combiner, with Vigilem now fully in his robot mode. Being far larger than the zombie Titans gave Windblade/Vigilem an advantage, even though the strain of keeping Vigilem's mind at bay made Windblade slow to fight. Their mental struggle swung in Vigilem's favor, and he deployed blades from his arms that he used to finish off the remaining Titans. Windblade reasserted control of the body, but the last Titan remaining grabbed Vigilem's foot, distracting Windblade enough for Vigilem to fully take over not only his own body, but Windblade's as well. He trained his attention on Metroplex, intending to kill the Titan he blamed for his imprisonment. He told the fallen Titan that the last thing Metroplex would see before his death would be the return of Liege Maximo. Activating a chamber deep within his body, he prepared to release Liege Maximo from his imprisonment. At the same time a team lead by Strika pepared to fire on anything emerging from that chamber, Elita One arrived at his brain chamber. She told him that she'd sworn an oath to never let Vigilem or Liege Maximo walk free. When Vigilem replied through Windblade that Elita was too late, she opened fire on his brain module, despite the protestations of Obsidian. As Elita repeatedly emptied her weapon into Vigilem's brain module, tearing it to pieces, Vigilem's body slumped to it's knees, and the chamber doors holding the evil Prime blew open with such force that Strika's team was all knocked unconscious, save Strika herself. But even she soon succumbed to the explosion as Liege Maximo stepped out, free at last. Before teleporting away, he thanked Vigilem for being so loyal to him, and vowed that he would avenge Vigilem's death as well as his imprisonment. Rubicon

Beast Wars: Uprising

The Book of Logos identified Vigilem as one of seven colonies. Book of Logos

Notes

• "Vigilem" is derived from the first-person form of the Latin verb "vigilar", meaning "to watch over".