Polaris

Polaris is an Autobot from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

He is already dead.

Polaris is up for hopeless missions based on far-fetched dreams!

Fiction

Polaris joined Rodimus's mission to use the map within the Matrix of Leadership to find the Knights of Cybertron at Cyberutopia. The mission's departure in the Lost Light was interrupted by an explosion in the ship sending it into premature quantum jump. The resulting hull breach sucked Polaris out of the ship, and he fell to a nearby planet, burning up as he entered the atmosphere. How to Say Goodbye and Mean It

Skids later stumbled upon Polaris's body and used it to destroy one of the robots pursuing him. Hangers On

Polaris's name might be a reference to online Transformers fanzine Polaris Magazine, whose publisher Graham Thomson is a long-time member of Transmasters, the UK fan group that Roberts and Roche were both major contributors to.