Goliant
"UNICRON?!"
"NOT WHAT I'M CALLED!!!"
A monster the size of a planet, Goliant is the Quintessons' ultimate weapon.
Fiction
Energon Universe
During the Age of Wrath, two Transformers rose to free their people from enslavement by the Quintessons: Alpha Trion and Zerta Trion. After the Transformers had succeeded in driving the occupiers from Cybertron, the Quintessons dispatched Goliant to the metallic planet. Knowing that Goliant would turn the tide of the war back in the Quintessons' favour, Zerta fled Cybertron, luring Goliant to a distant star system where she tricked him into consuming a red star on the verge of becoming a black hole, trapping him within the resulting singularity. As Goliant fed, Zerta influenced the planets Agorria and Zertonia, doomed satellites of the red sun, to dismantle their worlds and each forge one half of the Sacred Ring. When Goliant became trapped in the black hole, the Ring around the singularity became his prison, allowing Zerta to cloud his mind and divide his essence, necessitating a division between the Agorrians and the Zertonians. Hoping to also solve Cybertron's energy crisis, Zerta designed the Ring to synthesize energon from the black hole and Goliant, whom she intended to kill when he was at his weakest. In the process of trapping him though, she was wounded, losing her lower half. Void Rivals #17
Eventually the truth of the Sacred Ring was lost to the Agorrians and Zeronians, who repeatedly clashed with each other. Their leaders, however, had passed the story down among themselves and purposely kept the fighting going, believing it was necessary to maintain Goliant's prison. Void Rivals #6 Void Rivals #17 Indeed, when Darak and Solila made peace and touched mind eyes, Goliant briefly awakened before returning to his slumber as they separated. Void Rivals #12
When the Quintessons eventually discovered Goliant's fate, they discussed what to do about it, as they believed they would need him should a foe even more ancient and unspeakably evil than Zerta Trion ever return. Energon Universe 2025 Special
Notes
- Being a huge shadow-monster, Goliant is presumably a reference to Ungoliant from The Silmarillion.
