Star Harvester
| "Harvester" redirects here. For the machines that collected Transformer bodies for the smelting pool in Marvel Comics, see harvester unit. |
- A solar harvester is a piece of technology from the live-action film continuity family.
When the All Spark runs low on energy, only the destruction of a star can replenish it. In order to harness the power of stars, workers in service to the All Spark built solar harvesters.
Fiction
IDW Transformers movie comics
In the distant past, the mysterious relic known as the All Spark cube created life on the planet Cybertron and terraformed its surface to make the world suitable for habitation for its creations, the Thirteen Primes. However, this effort depleted the All Spark, and the power from a star was the one thing that could re-energize it. The Thirteen could travel dimensions, but they needed help locating stars and properly utilizing stellar energy. The cube created a servant race of transforming workers who would seek out stars and build devices called solar harvesters to aid in collecting the solar energy. The Thirteen ruled these "Transformers" with their descendants, known as the Dynasty of Primes, protecting Cybertron and the AllSpark while exploring the galaxy and searching for stars to harvest. The Primes recognized that the solar harvesters could have devastating consequences for worlds without stars, so they set out with a single rule: Never take a star from a life-giving world. To further prevent misuse, the Primes guarded the Matrix of Leadership created by the All Spark, which would serve as the key for the harvesters.
One "Seeker" discovered a suitable star for their purpose and led his masters and the builders to the third planet of its star system. The builders constructed the harvester and prepared to drain the Sun's energy, but it was discovered that this world contained life. Twelve of the Primes refused to utilize the harvester, for the process would destroy this world. However, the remaining being felt no such obligation to protect life and merely wanted all of the All Spark's energy for himself. The Prime killed eleven of his brothers, but the last stole the Matrix and hid it in a tomb. The rogue Prime, now known as The Fallen, then returned to Cybertron and destroyed the rest of the Dynasty, along with the sarcophagi of his brothers to prevent their return, but he expended much of his energy and withdrew to his own sarcophagus to heal. It was here that he discovered that his twelve brothers could still act, for they sealed him in his sarcophagus. The Dynasty of Primes passed into the realm of myth, while the harvester left on Earth was eventually hidden by the native sentient inhabitants. Defiance #4 Revenge of the Fallen #3
Thousands of years later, Decepticons under the command of Soundwave arrived on Earth in search of the harvester. Alliance #4
Revenge of the Fallen movie
The Seven Primes came to Earth around 17,000 BC. Although they had sworn never to take a life in their pursuit of energon, one of their kind hated the human inhabitants of the planet and was going to activate the solar harvester until his brothers stopped him by stealing the Matrix of Leadership needed to power it. They sealed it in a tomb made of their own bodies.
In 2009 AD, The Fallen Prime returned to Earth, seeking to use his machine two years after the All Spark's apparent destruction. Sam Witwicky uncovered the tomb and recovered the Matrix, which he intended to use to resurrect Optimus Prime, the only one who could kill The Fallen. Devastator excavated the harvester from the Great Pyramid of Giza before he was destroyed, and The Fallen snatched the Matrix to activate his machine, but Optimus had returned, and he combined with Jetfire to destroy the harvester. Revenge of the Fallen
Notes
- Yeah, it's the same idea as the Generation 1 cartoon's Solar Needle. That doesn't make it a reference!
