Nyx
- Nyx is a Maximal from the 2021 Beast Wars portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Nyx is a high-flying pilot serving aboard the Axalon as part of Optimus Primal's crew.
Fiction
2021 Beast Wars comic
 Plot details for Savage Landing Part 1 follow. |
Nyx was part of Optimus Primal's skeleton crew aboard the Maximal research vessel Axalon, and served as the ship's helmsman. While en route to H'nkshanaar-4 as part of a routine protoform delivery mission, the crew recieved a transmission from Maximal leader Ironhide, who warned them that a group of Predacon separatists had stolen a valuable relic and fled aboard a transwarp-capable warship. In the ensuing battle, Nyx's evasive maneuvers helped the lightly-armed Axalon keep up with the heavily-armed Darksyde—and when the Predacon ship jumped through time, Nyx and Rhinox used a transwarp lock to follow it across time and space and re-emerged above an alien planet. With their weapons disabled thanks to a surprise attack, Nyx made a last-resort move by simply ramming the Axalon into the Darksyde, but this unconventional tactic wound up pushing both ships directly into the planet's atmosphere. The two ships crash-landed on opposite ends of a lush valley and knocked their passengers into stasis lock; once the ship's artifiical intelligences had rebooted, however, it detected toxic levels of energon radiation outside and reformatted the five Maximals into beast modes based on the local lifeforms. Nyx awoke as a fruit bat, and enthused about her new wings to an unimpressed Rattrap. Savage Landing Part 1
Notes
- Nyx is named for the primordial deity of the night in Greek mythology.
- Nyx was designed in homage to the bat Optimus Primal toy (also known as Convobat in Japan).
