Pyra Magna (G1)
| The name or term "Pyra" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Pyro (disambiguation). |
- 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. Devout to the point of fanatacism and driven by her personal convictions, Pyra Magna places great faith in the Thirteen and their legacy — including the divine Matrix of Leadership. Pyra's piety, combined with her boundless ambition, have led her to wonder if, perhaps, she might be better off becoming the next bearer of that most sacred Autobot artifact.
As the leader of a group of Torchbearers, her personal team of "Rust Renegades" from Caminus are explorers who seek out Cybertronian artifacts for preservation. She is dedicated to her job and the Mistress of Flame. Following the recovery of one ancient artifact, she gained the ability to combine with her teammates to form the goliath Victorion.
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.
| “ | I exist to light the way. There's nothing wrong with wanting to light the entire galaxy. | ” |
—Pyra Magna reflects, "Dance Among the Shadows" | ||
Fiction
IDW Generation 1 continuity
- First Appearance: Transformers: Combiner Hunters #1
Pyra originally served under the previous incarnation of the Torchbearers, keeping the peace on Caminus under the command of Praesidia Magna. Their adventures took them far and wide across their homeworld, and though other Torchbearers fell in the line of duty Pyra remained unswerving in her devotion to the lineage of the Primes. On one fateful excursion, she and the team travelled to the impoverished village of Parvus Oppidum on the request of Torchbearer fangirls Dustup and Jumpstream. The Torchbearers found themselves under assault by strange mechanical beasts, who killed Praesidia and Fastbreak. Pyra herself was attacked by a gigantic winged monster, which threatened to drag her into a massive singularity that had appeared in the middle of the town. Pyra locked eyes with the beast before blacking out; by the time she came to, the fight had reduced the town to rubble and the monsters had vanished.
Traumatized by her failures, Pyra suffered a series of nightmares where the monster recited an ancient poem from a Camien text as she repeatedly watched Praesidia die on a barren planet. In the waking world, she struck up a friendship with Rust Dust, who had been named after the same poem that haunted Pyra's dreams. Eventually, she went to the Mistress of Flame for guidance; the Mistress explained to her about the dead world of Antilla that she and Praesidia had once visited. The Mistress's guidance did little to assuage Pyra's internal doubts, and as she continued to dream she realized that the "black angel" of her nightmares was none other than Onyx Prime, one of the legendary Thirteen. Pyra realized that if Onyx fled while she was unconscious because he feared further confrontation, it meant that the Primes could not be the infallible figures deified in Camien religion. Galvanized by her revelations, Pyra took command of the Torchbearers, recruiting Jumpstream and Dust Up into the newest incarnation of the team. Pyra herself took the role of leader, becoming "Pyra Magna" and wiling to face the threat of the Primes, even if it meant blaspheming the will of the Mistress. Ghost Stories
Pyra Magna continued to lead the Torchbearers for many years, at one point helping out in the village where Aileron lived. Aphelion Pyra Magna was present when Cybertron re-established contact with Caminus after millennia of isolation, and watched Optimus Prime set foot on Caminus, revealing the legendary Matrix of Leadership to the assembled crowd. First Contact Ghost Stories The Mistress of Flame believed that Optimus was the incarnation of the legendary Thirteenth Prime; Pyra and her team considered the matter to be more complex. The Medium and the Message
Soon after Caminus joined the Council of Worlds, The Torchbearers travelled 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; though Pyra believed that Optimus was not the legendary Thirteenth Prime, the Torchbearers vowed to build Optimus into a worthy Prime anyway. 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 girls' 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 Days later, the Dire Wraiths and M.A.S.K. besieged Autobot City for the deposits of Ore-13 beneath; although Victorion swung into action to defend the base from the monstrous Baron Karza, she was forced to split into her components to deal with an army of Dire Wraiths and even the odds. Valley Forge
When the crisis had been dealt with, the Autobots and their allies — including some recently arrived colonists with religious aspirations — turned their attention back to stabilizing the increasingly volatile Earth. Following some peacekeeping in Mexico City, Pyra Magna reported that a large spaceship of alien origin was approaching Earth. She and the Torchbearers accompanied Optimus Prime when they travelled to the Matterhorn and intercept the craft. There, she explained to Optimus that the Matrix's supernatural glow was merely a reaction to fragments of Ore-13 in the mountain, not so subtly hinting that her true feelings that she shoud bear the Matrix. To Walk Among the Chosen The spacecraft, as it turned, out, was carrying a load of Junkion refugees. Pyra Magna and her team formed Victorion while Optimus made diplomatic overtures to their leaders Wreck-Gar and Rum-Maj. A Lonely Pillar on the Plain
A series of diplomatic roadblocks prevented Optimus Prime from carrying out his twin goals: helping the wandering Junkions rebuild their shattered homeworld through the use of Ore-13, and allowing Earth to join the Council of Worlds. To this end, he engineered a diplomatic crisis that would force the Council to bring Earth into their membership. When Pyra Magna overheard this — and Optimus telling Aileron that he placed no religious faith in the Matrix — Pyra punched Prime in his faceplate and accused him of manipulating the faith of others to further his own ends. Pyra recanted her earlier vow to help Optimus, reasserting that she, a true believer, should be holding the Matrix. The following morning, Pyra and the Torchbearers attended Prime's summit between humans, Cybertronians, and Junkions, which was interrupted when the Junkions sicced a school of Sharkticons on all assembled. Dance Among the Shadows
Though supremely dissatisfied by the way that Prime had managed the crisis, Pyra nevertheless led her Torchbearers into the fight by deploying Victorion and using her gravity powers to lay into the oncoming Junkions. Future Glories Lost The fighting came to a head before Optimus, realizing that he had overstepped his bounds as a Prime, successfully brokered a new peace between all sides and successfully convinced their enemies to lay down their arms. Autobots, Junkions, and Sharkticons alike relocated to the abandoned EDC base in the Bikini Atoll begin the construction of "Little Cybertron." What It's Really Like Optimus, sensing the growing rift between them, appointed the Torchbearer to oversee construction in the hopes of giving the two some time apart. What It's Really Like As construction began, Pyra watched the city take shape with Slide, who was still unable to forgive the Junkions for killing her twin Oiler in the recent battle. Pyra encouraged the young Transformer to question Optimus's judgement, noting that "true" Primes stood for justice. Feel Safe Without Regrets
At some point, Pyra began communicating with Prowl, sending him data packets. The Dead Come Home, Part 2
Several days into the job, Pyra criticized Thundercracker for spending more time playing with his Buster than helping with the construction work. Her criticisms caught the attention of Marissa Faireborn; sensing a kindred spirit, Pyra Magna invited Marissa to take a ride around the city with her to discuss recent events. After the Torchbearers helped some Junkions out of a pile of rubble, Pyra confessed that she was hoping to depose Optimus Prime so that she could take command and guide Earth towards a brighter future. The Next Day, and the Next Not long after that, she approached Slide once again after the young Devisien had been left behind by her friends. Pyra reminded her that though everyone else had forgotten her pain, she hadn't. When Optimus decided to briefly withdraw from Earth in the face of mounting political opposition, he invited Pyra Magna to accompany him so they could talk out their differences. What It's Really Like
The pair travelled to Shockwave's singularity in the heart of the Rust Sea, where they discussed their recent adventure and the nature of faith. Pyra listened to Prime's tale about how Bumblebee came to join the Autobots. Pyra found the moral of Prime's tale too saccharine, and recounted her own story: the tale of Praesidia Magna's doomed expedition to Parvus Oppidum, and her own subsequent crisis of faith. Though Optimus was not a believer, he took Pyra's words at face value, and the two agreed to put their pasts behind them and face the future together. Ghost Stories When the two made their way back to Iacon, Aileron brought the news that Earth had finally chosen an ambassador to speak for them on the Council of Worlds. To pass the time until the United Nations finalized their choice, the two payed a visit to Alpha Trion where he recounted the unification of the Thirteen Primes. After the tale concluded, the President of the United States called to reveal that Marissa Faireborn had been chosen. Origin Myths
At the grand ceremony, Pyra flanked Optimus (and in Skywarp's opinion was totally winning on the red carpet) before the Iron Ring struck. First Strike #1 Pyra leapt right into battle, atomizing a contingent of Iron Grenadiers with her pick-axe. Unification Day: Dawn
After the invasion, Pyra survived a battlefield before being approached by Arcee, looking to recruit her for a mission into the wilderness. Pyra declined, feeling a pressing need to return to Earth as a result of being part of a combiner. Before departing she oh so innocently asked Arcee about Prowl and his former purpose among the Autobots before positing that Arcee's purpose might be to keep her and Optimus in check. The Dead Come Home, Part 1 After exiting the Space Bridge, Pyra quickly excused herself and informed Prowl of the political rumblings on Earth and Cybertron before being informed of a group of marauding bestial Cybertronians. The Dead Come Home, Part 2
Once Optimus had returned to Earth, he oversaw the extraction of a large supply of Ore-13 to deal with Cybertron's energy crisis. As he took the shipment through the Space Bridge, Pyra offered to take the Colonist Soldiers down to the mine to help them truly understand what Optimus was trying to accomplish on Earth. Surfeit of Primes No sooner had they touched down did Soundwave receive a summons from Cybertron prompting Pyra to remain on alert should the aid of the Torchbearers be needed. Another Mine
Beast Wars: Uprising
Pyra Magna, legendary for her escapades in the Rust Sea, was Magna Stampede's great-aunt. Derailment
Games
Transformers: Earth Wars
Pyra Magna came to Earth before most of the other Torchbearers to help out in the cause on Earth and get the Fractal Map. Lost Map Campaign Power Play Campaign
Pyra Magna and the torchbearers were in the sector closest to Polyhex, when they went to investigate the mysterious disappearance of Dinobot Sludge. It wasn't until she found a broken cerebro shell that they knew who was behind the attack. Attempting to contact Autobot base about the missing Autobot, they were contacted by Drift, who told them the Dinobot is in fact named Slog, not Sludge. Polyhex Saga
- Class: Warrior
- Lowest Star Rating: 1 star
- Weaponry: Pyra uses her cudgel (Bat'leth on a stick?) to attack defenses.
- Ability: Fire Rush: Rushes into combat and spreads fire along the way dealing some damage over a few seconds.
- Cost:4 ability points. +2 for reuses.
Pyra Magna at Transformers: Earth Wars Wiki
Toys
Generations
- Victorion (Collection Pack, 2016)
- Accessories: Cudgel
- Combiner Wars Pyra Magna is a retool of Voyager Class Hot Spot from the same toy line, 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, which officially also includes her teammates Stormclash, Skyburst, Dust Up, Jumpstream, and Rust Dust, 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.
- Like the rest of her Torchbearers, Pyra Magna features Cybertronic tampographs on her vehicle mode, which reads "If Cybertron" on her right and "Be your home" on the left.
- Pyra Magna was only available as part of a Victorion box set, including a poster and a collector card based on the set's packaging art. The set was one of several so-called "Collection Packs" that were "online exclusives" in the United States, available from online retailers such as Hasbro Toy Shop, Amazon, and BigBadToyStore as well as the online stores of "big box" retailers such as Toys"R"Us, Walmart, Target, and Kmart. In Hasbro's Asian markets such as Singapore and Taiwan, the set was available at general retail. In Australia, it was sold at Toys"R"Us stores, whereas in Canada, was both sold at Toys"R"Us stores and available via Amazon Canada. In The United Kingdom, it was available via the UK Toys"R"Us website (but never sold in stores), whereas in Spain, it was available via the Spanish subsidiaries of Amazon and Carrefour, as well as the department store chain El Corte Inglés, supposedly also only available online.
- This version of the sculpt was also redecoed into Unite Warriors Megaempress.
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Notes
- "Pyra magna" is (roughly translated) Latin for "great fire".
Foreign names
- Japanese: Pyra Magna (パイラマグナ Paira Maguna)
- Mandarin: Jù Yàn (巨焰, "Great Flame")
