Trypticon (WFC)
| The name or term "Trypticon" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Trypticon (disambiguation). |
| The name or term "Nemesis" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Nemesis (disambiguation). |
- Trypticon is an orbital space station in Decepticon hands from the Transformers: Prime continuity family.
Serving as a waypoint between the bases on Cybertron's moons, Trypticon Station was captured by the Seekers early in the war, and ultimately held by the Decepticons once Megatron had fully recruited the aerial forces that occupied it. Subsequently Shockwave performed extensive upgrades to the station, including granting it an array of sparks, and guided it to sentience as the Decepticon Trypticon. In pursuit of the escaping Autobots, Shockwave's final upgrade to Trypticon was revealed, its ability to transform into the interstellar warship known as the Nemesis.
Fiction
Exodus: The Official History of the War for Cybertron
Prior to the war, Trypticon Station was used for research that could not be conducted planetside, including the first forays into sequestering the Dark Energon that had resulted from Unicron's attack on the planet. Its security was seen to by the Seeker caste, which allowed Air Commander Starscream knowledge of its secrets. As a result, he ordered his forces to occupy it after the capture of Sentinel Zeta Prime, as a bargaining chip in negotiations with Megatron and his growing Decepticon army.
During one of Starscream's absences, Megatron decided he tired of negotiations and took Trypticon Station by force. Upon Starscream's return to the station, Megatron pressed the Seeker and ultimately gained access to the facility's research on Dark Energon. However as the supplies of the substance from the initial harvest were slender, he required the means to transfer large quantities of energon to the station so that they could be converted into the rarer resource. As Trypticon Station was configured to receive fuel from the Geosynchronous Energon Bridge in Crystal City, the Decepticons were able to transfer an initial supply, but not nearly enough for the ravenous rate at which they were consuming Dark Energon. This was eventually remedied by Megatron's capture of the Plasma Energy Chamber, which provided a nearly unlimited source of fuel directly from Cybertron's core.
After a team led by Optimus Prime ventured into the planet's core to cut off the transfer, Megatron decided to switch tactics. Allowing Shockwave to apply the experimental knowledge he had gleaned over the course of the war, Trypticon was granted life and sentience, including the ability to shape its corridors into a dizzying array of defense drones and Mini-Cons.
Ultimately a team of Autobots aboard the Eight Track found a gap in the station's external defenses, and managed to venture within and knock the behemoth from orbit. Victory was brief however, as Trypticon revealed a robot form and crawled from the wreckage planetside. Though initially the Wreckers and Omega Supreme were tasked with keeping the gargantuan Decepticon away from the Ark launch, this proved to be in vain as Megatron boarded Trypticon along with a hand-picked crew of the Decepticon elite. Transforming into a Nemesis-class battleship, Trypticon pursued the Ark to, and subsequently through, the last remaining functional space bridge in Cybertronian orbit. As the Ark emerged in unknown space, the Nemesis was nowhere within sensor range. Exodus
Video games
Transformers: War for Cybertron (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)
- Voice actor: Fred Tatasciore (English)
Transformers: War for Cybertron
