Cybertron Magna Convoy
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| "Cybertron Magna Convoy" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | e-HOBBY | ||||||||||||
| First published | June 5, 2017 | ||||||||||||
| Art by | Shin Sasaki | ||||||||||||
| Colors by | Kazumasa Yasukuni | ||||||||||||
| Packaged with | LGEX Convobat | ||||||||||||
The descendants of the Primus Vanguard join forces against the Blue Order's traitor.
Synopsis
Magna Convoy tells Convobat of the Primus Vanguard, the group of interdimensional warriors who defended their universe from invaders, and how they passed down the Matrix Sword from leader to leader. They were ultimately betrayed by Straxus, who used programs to force them to turn on each other, leading to the destruction of the Vanguard and the death of their final leader. Seeing as Convobat is a clone of that leader, Magna Convoy passes the remains of the sword to him, though the diminutive bot is reluctant to accept such a treasured object. When the two prepare to recover Convobat's transtector, they find their ship under attack from Straxus's Rollermaster Corps, and Magna Convoy heads out to fight them while urging Convobat to flee with the ship.
Confronted by Straxus himself, Magna Convoy holds his ground and describes that while he had previously lost everything and had nothing to fight for, he now sees the light of hope in Convobat and is determined to protect him. Straxus is unimpressed and destroys Convoy's hand, but his ensuing barrage of missiles is blocked by Convobat who swoops in on a shield vehicle and returns the Matrix Sword to Magna Convoy. While keeping the Rollermaster Corps busy, Convobat tells Magna Convoy that he was the one entrusted with the sword, though Convoy just wants to know why he didn't escape when he had the chance. Convobat explains that Magna Convoy's stubbornness reminds him of his least favorite aspect of his friend, and he feels compelled to confront that stubbornness rather than oblige it.
The return of the Matrix Sword doesn't worry Straxus, who mocks Magna Convoy's similarity to his late leader and tells him that even if they are granted power, lifeforms like him don't have the ambition to use it and must be led by someone like Straxus. He fires a powerful blast, but to his shock it fails to affect Magna Convoy, who has accepted that he was entrusted the Matrix Sword for a reason and is now able to call upon its powerful light. The blade regenerates along with his hand and he unleashes its full power on Straxus, who is blown clear and left heavily injured elsewhere. He demands the nearby Rollermasters help him, but instead, the robots finish him off and one of them declares that they are Straxus now.
As Magna Convoy leaves the planet with Convobat, reflecting that the legend of the Primus Vanguard is over, he discovers faint signals that suggest other Vanguard members may have survived. He vows to seek them out together with Convobat and restore the light in the form of a new Blue Order.
Elsewhere, Soundwave and Bludgeon dispassionately observe our heroes and a variety of other misfits throughout the multiverse. Bludgeon cryptically remarks that the "Blue" has finally awoken and that the warriors who have inherited the "Seven Lights" divided from "The One" have begun to move. A new era is about to begin...
Featured characters
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Notes
Continuity notes
- Soundwave reappears after having aided Magna Convoy in the prequel comic to "Cybertron Magna Convoy" and abetted Megalligator's escape in the prequel to "Cybertron Convobat". It seems he was assisting in Bludgeon's greater agenda.
- Primus would later refer to his Vanguard as the Warriors of the Seven Lights (七つの光の戦士達 Nanatsu no Hikari no Senshitachi) when the Primus Vanguard storyline was picked up by the Generation Selects comic some years later, specifically in God Neptune comic 1.
- What's more, Bludgeon states that the Seven Lights were divided from "The One" (ザ・ワン, Za Wan). Given the Primus association, there's a good chance he's talking about The One, the sentient core of the universe who created Primus as described in a number of Simon Furman-penned tales.
- We very briefly check back in with Megalligator on one of Bludgeon's viewscreens here, seen holding the Creation Matrix, an artifact that would later be revealed to hold great significance to the Primus Vanguard's Green Order.
- Standing next to Megalligator is a figure resembling Optimus Primal's seldom seen Burning Convoy form, seen here with the Titans Return Infinitus head on Titans Return Hardhead body-type. Infinitus' block red colouring here resembles the Titan Force version of the toy, also used to represent Red Sentinel Prime of the Red Order.
- Deadlock is a dimension-jumping Cloud World Decepticon who has previously appeared in e-HOBBY's Cloud stories and in his own pack-in e-HOBBY issue. He would also later be expicitly confirmed as a member of the Primus Vanguard's Black Order.
- The story's Jhiaxus previously appeared in an indistinctly-colored cameo in the Cloud coda. Notably, Jhiaxus appeared in that issue in his Thrilling 30 body, which was never released in Japan, and this issue portrays him in his original never-in-toy colors from the Marvel Generation 2 comic.
- One of the screens depicts the Japanese Aligned incarnation of Ratchet in his Go! "Hunter Ratchet" Decepticon body, which has never before appeared in fiction. He's wearing the same cape worn by Megatron as joint leader of the Cybertron Alliance.
- On the final page of screens, obscured by a speech balloon and identifiable only by the back of his calves, is the Shattered Glass character Solarbot. Seeing as he is floating in mid-air and facing off against two silhouettes block colored like Blaster and Rewind, it seems that this image represents the events of the comic "Solar Requiem".
- Interestingly, Solarbot was introduced as an emissary from an ancient civilization with power over light. His presence here suggests a connection to the Primus Vanguard (and perhaps its Yellow Order), though no link has been made explicit yet.
- A third Straxus is introduced on one of the screens. This iteration is based on the character's appearance in the Metrowars manga.
Transformers references
- Magna Convoy's ship computer is named Sentinel after the Axalon's automated defense system from Beast Wars and also after the ship's true identity: Omega Sentinel.
- Bludgeon is a composite of various Generations toy components. His body is Titans Return Hardhead, his head is Titans Return Throttle, and his sheathed sword comes from Thrilling 30 Windblade. His projection drone, meanwhile, is modeled on the vehicle partner of Titans Return Terri-Bull, a result loosely similar to Tankette.
