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 an 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
After Megatron was resurrected by the All Spark shard stolen from NEST, he escaped Earth and flew to a cold, icy moon orbiting a ringed gas giant planet: the final resting place of the Nemesis. Entering its hold of stasis pods containing thousands of hatchlings, Megatron encountered the grovelling Starscream, who professed joy at Megatron's resurrection, an assertion that the Decepticon leader did not believe for a moment, especially in light of Starscream's claim that someone had to take command in Megatron's absence. After verbally and physically assaulting Starscream for his presumptions, Megatron entered The Fallen's chamber to apologise for his failure, but was surprised to learn the All Spark's knowledge and power now resided in Sam Witwicky, the human who managed to defeat Megatron in Mission City. As The Fallen laid out his plans for revenge against Earth and the Seven Primes, Starscream sadly reported that without more energon (which the All Spark provided), the hatchlings would continue to die.
The Decepticons returned to Earth to capture the Witwicky boy, but were prevented from doing so by Optimus Prime, the last descendant of the Seven Primes who gave his life to protect the human. Across the vastness of space, The Fallen felt Optimus' death and freed himself from the harness restraining him to the Nemesis, then headed for Earth. Revenge of the Fallen (film)
Revenge of the Fallen novel adaptation
The Nemesis was wrecked on a planet in a dead system orbiting a cooling star.
After the demise of The Fallen, Megatron returned to the Nemesis, and ordered his hatchlings to awaken. Without any of the energon that the solar harvester was to provide before it was blown up. Huh. Revenge of the Fallen (novel)
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 and the actual movie, the ship looks totally different.
- The final resting place of the Nemesis in the movie is not clear.
- Megatron can fly there in a short period of time, and a planet that greatly resembles Saturn can be seen immediately nearby, which would suggest the Nemesis crashed on one of Saturn's moons. However, a nebula is also seen in the background, which throws a wrench into that. (In the magazine Cineplex's coverage of the film's special effects, text claims that the Nemesis lies near Saturn, but that information was possibly from the author of the piece, not an official source.)
- The location is given in the novelization as being a planet orbiting a dead star. Also, the packaging bio for the "Gathering at the Nemesis" three-pack mentions a "world lost in the deep black of space." That doesn't work with what we see in the movie either. "Saturn" is lit by what appears to be a star (shadows are too sharp for it to be from the nebula), and a bright sun is seen in the sky when Megatron approaches the Nemesis.
- Special features on the Revenge of the Fallen DVD/Blu-Ray release complicate things further when an artist working on the film claims that the Nemesis is on Mars! Well, that's just right out.
