Nemesis (ROTF)

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

The Nemesis is a Decepticon starship in the live-action film continuity family.

The Nemesis is a mighty starship built by Megatron's Decepticons by order of his mysterious overlord.

Fiction

IDW Transformers movie comics

In ancient history, the being later referred to as The Fallen was encased in a sarcophagus by his brothers after he attempted to destroy them in a bid to seize the powerful, life-giving artifact known as the All Spark. To free himself from his ages-long confinement, he required a harvester, a device that could drain the energy of a sun to replenish the All Spark. After much time passed, his sarcophagus, now a ancient relic, was discovered by the science teams led by Optimus Prime, and was seized by the increasingly volatile Protector of Cybertron, Megatron. The Fallen seduced Megatron with dreams of power, ordering him to obliterate all that defied them, including Optimus, his mostly non-combat scientists, and soldiers who did not join Megatron's new "Decepticon" army. As part of his plan to escape his prison, the Fallen commanded Megatron to build a large interstellar vessel called the Nemesis to search for a harvester. When the ship was complete, it was launched with a crew that consisted of the bulk of the Decepticon forces and the relic. Megatron pleaded to be able to go along, but the relic ordered him to stay behind to rule Cybertron. With the majority of the Decepticons gone with the Nemesis, ruling Cybertron proved difficult, as the Autobots put up a strong resistance.

After many years of hard fighting and the Autobots finally losing the civil war, Optimus Prime decided to capture the All Spark and hurl it into space, so that Megatron could not possess it and corrupt it. Megatron immediately followed the All Spark on his own with his interstellar alternate mode. Along the way he found the Nemesis, abandoned by all but the relic. The relic ordered Megatron to continue his pursuit of the All Spark since, once freed, the Cube would seek out a harvester. Meanwhile, Optimus Prime and his crew prepared to follow Megatron in their own ship. Defiance issue 4

Some years later, Soundwave and his crew returned to the Nemesis and received orders from the relic to search for something on the human homeworld of Earth. Arriving to the planet, Soundwave contacted Starscream and requested the latter to rally at his signal. When Starscream learned there were others in stasis aboard the Nemesis, he requested the coordinates, planning to retrieve these soldiers and return to Earth en mass. Alliance issue 2

Revenge of the Fallen movie

as soon as megatron is rebuilt he transforms into a jet and gose to the nemesis to meet starscream and the fallen

Notes

• The Nemesis as depicted in IDW Publishing's Defiance issue 4 looks the same as the ship Starscream uses in The Reign of Starscream, but that is unlikely to have any significance. This was due to "Defiance" artists Dan Khanna and Andrew Griffith recycling the design of the Decepticon ship seen in "The Reign of Starscream". The ship's designer Alex Milne did not intend for this ship to represent any version of the Nemesis. In IDW's Revenge of the Fallen Movie Adaptation issue 2, the ship looks totally different.