Voin
"What are we going to do there?"
"Just walk around not wearing a helmet."
The octopus-like aliens known as the Voin are an individualistic race of scavengers. Their aquatic biology, which requires that that they stay within their tanks on alien planets, means that they are not capable of doing much with their own appendages resulting in them having genetically engineered mindless simian creatures to act as their hands for them.
Fiction
2019 IDW continuity
On his first trek outside Iacon, Rubble took in all the sight of Cybertron's wilderness, eventually coming across a Voin after falling into a ditch. As Rubble got to know the controller, Windblade arrived and scared off the organics with her weapons. Transforming to robot mode, she commented on Bumblebee allowing Rubble to interact with the aliens. The World In Your Eyes Part One
When Security Operations investigated the sight of Brainstorm's murder, Prowl and Chromia questioned Windblade about the Voin she'd encountered and whether or not it was licensed to operate in the zone. The World In Your Eyes Part Two Security Operations officer Barricade was quick to find one of the Voin's contacts, Headlock, who told the police everything about the scavenger only for Barricade to conceal this from Prowl. The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part Three
Rubble offered to help find the Voin he had seen, but Prowl turned him down, citing that an individual Voin was nearly impossible to identify. The World In Your Eyes Part Four
When Rubble was taking in the sights of the Xeno-Quarter, he ducked out of the path of a group of Voin, the last of them greeting him as "small Cybertronian." Suspecting that that was the missing Voin from the night of Brainstorm's murder, Rubble chased after it only to find that Quake had gotten to the alien first, having shattered its aquatic tank and crushed it in his fist. As soon as Quake noticed Rubble, he chased after the newborn, bashing his head in to silence the witness. The World In Your Eyes Part Five
Along with Rubble's, the Voin's corpse was brought to a laboratory for an autopsy. Greenlight, a xenobiologist, was called in to examine the cephalopod where she noted it had been crushed to death, though she remarked that such an act had been superfluous, considering that the organic had been dead the moment its globe had started to fracture. The Cracks Beneath Your Feet Part One
