Darak

Darakis an Agorrian from the Energon Universe portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Darak is a top Agorrian pilot. A pragmatic survivor with a knack for thinking outside of the box, he'll do whatever it takes to get out of a tight situation--even break his civilization's longest-standing traditions by daring to work with his hated rivals, the Zertonians.

Fiction

Energon Universe

When Darak was younger, he worked as an "edgewalker" as a means of inarticulate rebellion against his distant father, Minister Dulin.

Many years later, Darak had become a pilot for the Agorrians. When a comet containing four thousand tons of ice passed by the Sacred Ring, Director Elander ordered Darak to retrieve the comet and tow it into Agorrian space; not only would this bolster their own water supplies, but doing so would also keep the comet out of the hands of the Zertonians, who were currently experiencing a water shortage. However, when Darak's ship cleared the orbit of the Sacred Ring, the vessel's autonomous systems failed to revive its pilot. While unconscious, Darak had a mysterious vision explaining the distant origins of his people--how the two races had come together once before to build the Sacred Ring, and would have to come together again once more--before he awoke, moments before a Zertonian starship intercepted his craft. Void Rivals #2

In the ensuing dogfight, both ships missed the comet, wound up in a distant quadrant, and crash-landed on a barren planet. Darak's Handroid was able to revive its wearer; moments after regaining consciousness, however, Darak discovered that the Zertonian pilot, Solila, had also survived the crash. After a brief struggle, the Zertonian convinced him that, despite their long history of conflict, it would be better to work together to repair her mostly-intact vessel. The pair set to work repairing the ship, but when Solila attached a cable the wrong way, the power surge overloaded the ship's energy core and caused a devastating explosion. All was not lost, however, as Solila returned moments later, with news that she'd found an abandoned but mostly intact starship in a nearby valley. The pair attempted to jumpstart the ship's power cells--when they did so, however, the ship revealed itself to be the Cybertronian Jetfire, who promptly transformed and flew away.

Despite this latest setback, seeing Jetfire transform gave Darak the idea of stripping their armor for parts and using them to repair the ship, ignoring their race's shared taboos against removing their helmets in the presence of an enemy. The pair did so, and realized that Agorrians and Zertonians were members of the same species. Void Rivals #1

After returning to Darak's wrecked vessel, the pair spent weeks cobbling together whatever they could find into a ramshackle, semi-pressurized spacecraft--enough to get them off the planet and broadcast a long-distance distress signal. While floating through an asteroid field, their ship drifted into the path of a massive starship built into the hull of a hollowed-out meteor; when the vessel pulled them in, the two ran afoul of its owner, a fearsome Skuxxoid. Void Rivals #2