Omega Sentinel (Energon)

The name or term "Omega Sentinel" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Omega Sentinel (disambiguation).

Omega Sentinel is an Autobot or Warrior of the Seven Lights from the Energon portion of the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.

Colors: Patriotic.

Omega Sentinel, often regarded simply as Sentinel, is a legendary warrior from the Transformers' distant past. A bot of few words, he is stoic to a fault, relentlessly loyal and tactically minded, though not averse to solving a problem with brute force if necessary. While greatly respected by his comrades on the whole, they often find him over-technical and a bit boring. Sentinel's personality may make him a less than scintillating conversationalist, but he believes these very traits may be the ones that some day save them all.

On the rare occasions that he should assume robot mode, his head is formed by a smaller robot named Guardian.

Fiction

Energon toy bios

Omega Sentinel was the commander of the legendary Guardians of Cybertron.

Energon cartoon

Omega Sentinel does not appear in the Energon cartoon. However, Omega Supreme, one of Omega Sentinel's Guardians of Cybertron, appears as an ancient robot who once single-handedly defeated Unicron. (Speaks rather well of the unit as a whole, that does). In the scene where Omega Supreme is revived, a number of other robot forms are visible behind him. It is possible that these are Omega Sentinel and/or the other Guardians of Cybertron.

Ask Vector Prime

Vector Prime noted Aurex 604.0 Beta as a good example of a universe where Omega Sentinel was the leader of the Guardians of Cybertron. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/06/23

Precursor World

Deco: Virtual.

New Toy: Unlikely.

Sentinel was the Blue Order's representative in the Sentinel Armada, the Primus Vanguard's mighty starfleet.

When Blue Big Convoy used his α Matrix to light a distress beacon in the Vanguard's final battle against the Specters, Sentinel sped at the forefront of the Armada to rescue his commander. Blue Big Convoy comic

The Vanguard's supreme leader Primus deployed the Armada to quell a subsequent Vok incursion endangering the Green Planet. This did not go particularly well. Finale 1

After the Vok were vanquished through other means, Sentinel joined his Blue Order comrades planetside in his little seen robot mode to intercede in the battle of the dimension-tossed future warriors Star Convoy and Ultra Megatron in defense of the Blue Planet and its people. Super Megatron comic 2 This didn't go so hot either. God Neptune comic 1

Some time after the fall of the Blue Order at the hands of the traitorous Straxus twins and the subsequent resolution of all that interdimensional time loop business with the fading into myth of the Vanguard overall, Sentinel reacted swiftly to a final flare of Blue Big Convoy's spark within the captive Matrix Sword, teleporting in to rescue both the artifact and the brash youth Magna Convoy from the Straxuses' fortress Darkmount. As the fading Big imparted his final counsel to Magna, Sentinel crashed in a nearby swamp, having seemingly spent the last of his energy in the rescue, and both Blue Warriors fell unconscious. Cybertron Magna Convoy prequel comic

Three of the Straxuses' escaped experiments found their way into the inert Sentinel, first Megalligator, who rooted around Sentinel's memory banks, and then the more kindly Convobat and his drone Ape X Arms, who awoke the duo. Cybertron Convobat

Just as Magna discovered evidence of Megalligator's mischief on Sentinel's internal terminals, Straxus caught up to the gang of misfits and Sentinel was swarmed with Rollermaster drones! Magna hurled his shield through Sentinel's canopy (ow) and leapt outside to battle the villains. Convobat joined him in short order, leaving Ape X Arms and the seemingly still helpless Sentinel behind. Magna and Convobat prevailed against Straxus' forces, and some way or other they got Sentinel's engines up and running again. As the Blue crew departed, Sentinel communicated that he had picked up faint signals of other Primus Vanguard survivors, and Magna Convoy resolved to create the Blue Order anew. Cybertron Magna Convoy

Magna eventually proved fantastically successful, and Sentinel was spotted soaring amongst the restored Sentinel Armada in his next-generation Primus Vanguard. Finale 2

Toys

Energon

• Omega Sentinel (Supreme Class, 2005)
  • Accessories: 2 missiles

• Known designers: Eric Siebenaler (Hasbro), Marcelo Matere (packaging artist)

File:Energon OmegaSentinel toy.jpg

Interestingly enough, this isn't the most expensive army-builder toy in Transformers.

A redeco of the Energon Omega Supreme toy, "The Powerlinx Battles" Omega Sentinel splits into a "battle train" and an ocean/space-faring warship. His claw-arm has a spring-activated "punching" gimmick in both modes, plus his battleship arm has light and sound electronics. In robot mode, he can combine with Energon Optimus Prime, and has numerous mounting points for Optimus's battle drones. These can also be used to attach Energon Wing Saber in his armor-parts form. Despite the character's artwork and stock photos, the face of Omega Sentinel is the same reddish-orange as Omega Supreme, not blue.

Sentinel's robot mode head detaches to become an individual robot that can be placed in the control cab of the crane portion of the "battle train" or a conning tower for the battleship. The neck piece that the head unit attaches to can be raised up slightly to reveal a set of unpainted optics, giving the robot body a head of sorts even without the head-robot attached.

This mold was retooled and redecoed to make the Platinum Edition "Year of the Snake" Omega Supreme.

• More information on Omega Sentinel at TFU.info

Merchandise

Attacktix

The actual piece's base is gold-colored, by the way.

• Galactic Showdown (Multi-pack, 2006)

Attacktix ID number: SVT01

Omega Sentinel is a redeco and partial retooling of the Omega Supreme Attacktix piece; instead of a melee-style claw-arm, Sentinel's right arm has a spring-loaded four-missile "gatling" feature. This claw is modeled after the Generation 1 Omega Supreme's claw-arm rather than the Energon version. A whopping 70-point "Mega"-class piece, which Special Power "Rally" lets you return any other defeated Autobot piece into play.

Omega was only available in the "Galactic Showdown" set with unique gold-base variants of Super Optimus Prime, Megatron, Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, and the AT-RT (which also has a "gatling missile" attack feature).

• More information on Attacktix Omega Sentinel at TFU.info

Notes

• Sentinel's blue color scheme was chosen as homage to the Guardian robots of the original The Transformers cartoon, who were blue recolors (and rather Deryized restylings) of the original Omega Supreme. These Guardian Robots were referred to as "Omega Sentinels" in the Dreamwave Energon series. In fact, original plans stated by Hasbro were for the Omega Sentinels to be an army and play a major role in the cartoon, but like most ideas from Hasbro and Takara's toy developers, the cartoon makers never even heard it.
• The head-unit's robot mode sculpt is modeled after "Omega Spreem", the Action Master Elite incarnation of Omega Supreme.
• The Omega Sentinel in the Primus Vanguard is a "virtual redeco" of the Titans Return Voyager Class Sentinel Prime/Astrotrain mold, with a redeco of Titan Master Ptero as Guardian. In a nice touch of toy accuracy (a signature trait of Hayato Sakamoto), Omega Sentinel is colored in the Generations Selects comic with the red face of his toy, not the blue of his promotional artwork.