Nyx

Nyx is a Maximal from the 2021 Beast Wars portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

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Nyx is a high-flying pilot serving aboard the Axalon as part of Optimus Primal's crew.

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Fiction

2021 Beast Wars comic

Nyx went to university on Cybertron. At some point, a Predacon in her class nearly got her killed during a lab project. Savage Landing Part 5

After graduating, Nyx served aboard the Maximal research vessel Axalon under the command of Optimus Primal. While on a routine protoform delivery mission to H'nkshanaar-4, Nyx and the other members of Primal's skeleton crew received 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. When their lightly-armed vessel ambushed the Darksyde, Nyx's evasive maneuvers helped keep them in the fight for as long as possible before the Darksyde spooled its transwarp drive to jump through time. Using Rhinox's transwarp lock, the Axalon followed the Predacons across time and space and re-emerged above an alien planet. With their weapons damaged, Nyx made a last-ditch move by ramming Axalon into the Darksyde, but this unconventional tactic wound up pushing both of their ships 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 artificial intelligence reactivated, however, it detected dangerous levels of energon radiation and reformatted the five Maximals into organic beast modes based on the local life forms. Nyx awoke as a fruit bat, and enthused about her new wings to an unimpressed Rattrap. Savage Landing Part 1

Nyx worked on repairing the Axalon's hull when Optimus Primal suggested she take a break and scout out the surrounding area. When Nyx went out exploring, she discovered that the planet's energon deposits made long-range communication impossible. The Predacon Terrorsaur was able to use this to his advantage by ambushing her; despite her best attempts to fight back, Terrorsaur managed to shoot her in the back, knock her unconscious, and take her back to the Darksyde. Savage Landing Part 2

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Megatron oversaw Nyx's interrogation; despite his assurances that Tarantulas would torture her to death unless she told him everything he asked, Nyx refused to give in and spat that history would forget him just as it'd forgotten his namesake. Megatron retaliated by allowing Tarantulas to torture her; she might've died had Dinobot not intervened. Eventually, Tarantulas deduced that her defiance meant that the other Maximals had survived the crash—as the sole survivor would have no secrets to hide—and decided to execute his prisoner. Using the transformation lock lens, Tarantulas intended to keep her trapped in robot mode until she succumbed to the planet's energon radiation and died. With her weapons disabled, Nyx tried to escape from the Predacons before she collapsed; only after Dinobot destroyed the lock lens did she quickly change back into her beast mode and escape into the jungle while Dinobot kept the other Predacons busy. Savage Landing Part 3

Badly damaged and unable to fly, Nyx realized she'd be unable to get back to the Maximal base in her injured beast mode and tried to chance it in robot mode despite the near-fatal levels of energon buildup she'd already sustained. When an organic creature attacked her, Nyx did her best to fight back before Dinobot rescued her. At that point, however, Nyx collapsed and Dinobot was forced to carry her back to the Axalon on his back. Savage Landing Part 4

Once she'd been repaired, Nyx visited Dinobot in an improvised brig. When she asked why Dinobot had turned on his comrades, Dinobot told her that the Predacons were meant to be honorable warriors, and the cruelty of his comrades left him disgusted. At that moment, the Predacons attacked their vessel; realizing that Optimus and his team couldn't face Megatron alone, Dinobot convinced Nyx to release him and the pair joined the battle. Savage Landing Part 5 In the subsequent battle, Nyx faced off against Terrorsaur and triumphed by throwing him into the path of Megatron's weapon. When Primal sounded a retreat, however, the Axalon's force field left their new ally Dinobot stranded outside, where the Predacons promptly rushed and nearly killed him. At Nyx's urging, however, Primal used their shipboard weaponry to drive the Predacons into a retreat and save Dinobot's life. Savage Landing Part 6

Notes

• Nyx is named for the primordial deity of the night in Greek mythology.
• Unlike most characters in the 2021 Beast Wars comic, Nyx's vehicular Cybertronian body is a wholly-original design. Meanwhile, her bestial Earth body was designed in homage to the bat Optimus Primal toy (also known as Convobat in Japan).
• Artist Josh Burcham suggested Ashly Burch as a possible voice actor for Nyx.