Omega Guardian
- The Omega Guardians are a species from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
The Omega Guardians are an advanced, enigmatic civilization from Ki-Aleta known for policing access to the "Higher Realms".
Fiction
IDW Generation 1 continuity
Before the war, Senator Shockwave was said to be on speaking terms with the Omega Guardians. An Intimate Beheading The Omega Guardians were in possession of the Magnificence, an artifact that Shockwave came to believe was in fact what remained of a Knight of Cybertron who had remained on Ki-Aleta to study alongside the Guardians. When the Omega Guardians later departed this world and ascended to the Higher Realms themselves, they were unable to take any other races with them, and, hinting at some truth to Shockwave's theory, left the Magnificence behind. The Ties That Bind
The Omega Guardians left the Magnificence in the Omega Bunker to be protected by some "throwbacks", statue-like guardians that would come alive and attack anyone who attempted to steal the artifact. A small team of Autobots led by Hot Rod was confronted by these statues when they tried to retrieve the Magnificence before the Decepticons did. They initially distracted the guardians with holomatter copies of themselves, but were discovered when their holomatter generator suddenly exploded. Both Download and Gizmo subsequently lost their lives to the guardians, but Hot Rod made it off with the Magnificence. Spotlight: Hot Rod It's unknown what happened to them after that, but when Hot Rod and Dealer returned to the Omega Bunker many years later, the guardians were nowhere to be seen. Spotlight: Doubledealer
