Knights of Unicron (SG)

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

The Knights of Unicron are a heroic Autobot subgroup from the Shattered Glass continuity family.

When there's something strange in your star system, who you gonna' call?

The Knights of Unicron were once evil Autobots, but the benevolent god of extropy Unicron reformatted them into his agents of peace. Now, they serve truth and justice across known space. Their members are:

• Nova Prime (leader)
• X-Brawn
• Checkpoint
• The Autotroopers

Fiction

Fun Publications Shattered Glass continuity

Following their defeat at Decepticon City on Earth, Optimus Prime's forces retreated aboard Sky Lynx for Cybertron. Memory's Splinter Midway through, however, Sky Lynx announced that they would have to lighten the load. Rodimus took the opportunity to dump Optimus, Brawn, Prowl, Inferno, and Ratchet out the airlock. The five badly injured Autobots then found themselves in the presence of Unicron. Familiar Reflections Now dominated by good due to the Shroud, the god of extropy offered Optimus and his troopers truth and enlightenment. After Unicron showed Optimus a vision of his greatest victory, Prime accepted, and Unicron healed and reformatted them. The newly formed Knights were then sent to Cybertron to stop Rodimus's chaos. Arriving in Rodimus's throne room, the Autotroopers took on the evil Autobots while Nova went head-to-head with Rodimus. Nova succeeded, sending Rodimus tumbling down into the depths of Cybertron. Restoration

The Knights soon had the Autobots arrested, but Unicron contacted Nova to warn him that a greater threat awaited. Cybertron then seemingly began to fall apart. While the Knights barely maintained their footing, Rodimus reappeared and ordered his Autobots to evacuate. Cybertron then completed its transformation into the physical form of the Cybertronians' creator-god, Primus. Awakened by Rodimus and dominated by evil due to the Shroud, the dark Primus observed the nearby dimensionally-displaced Earth and tried to destroy it. However, Earth revealed itself as another Transformer god, Primus's sister Gaea. As the titans clashed, the Knights came to Gaea's aid, taking out Primus's eyes. Gaea then destroyed Primus and transformed herself into a New Cybertron as a home to both heroic Autobots and heroic Decepticons. The Knights became the guardians of the new joint society as a new age of peace dawned. The Future Buried...

Notes

• The Knights of Unicron are named after the fictitious rock band of the same name and are a mirrorverse version of Galvatron and his troopers from Generation 1.
• In the comic, Nova Prime's subordinates are modeled upon Combiner Wars Deluxe Class toys given the then-possibility of becoming toys at BotCon 2016, though this did not come to fruition. Earlier concepts had them based upon Thrilling 30 toys.