Space Opera Part 1: The Stars My Destination

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"Space Opera Part 1: The Stars My Destination"
Publisher IDW Publishing
First published May 18, 2011
Cover date May 2011
Written by Mike Costa
Art by Guido Guidi
Colors by Joana Lafuente
Letters by Chris Mowry
Editor Andy Schmidt
Assistant editor Carlos Guzman
Continuity IDW continuity
Chronology Current era (2011)

Rodimus finds himself stranded on a desolate planet, where he encounters potential allies.

Synopsis

As the dead Rodimus Prime floats through space, he drifts into the atmosphere of a planet and crashes to the surface. Two thugs notice this and examine the body, thinking it reminds them of the Jangle Man. When they try to remove the Matrix lodged in Rodimus' chest, the Autobot returns to life, though still unconscious. The thugs then decide to take Rodimus to "The Admiral" in hopes he will help them get off-planet.

Rodimus awakens at the Admiral's HQ, an Ilxian starship, and the Admiral tells him that though he bears Rodimus no ill-will, but that he must use the Matrix as a power source to get off-planet. Before he can try though, Rodimus uses his arm blasters to free himself. He transforms to get away, which surprises the aliens.

The badly damaged hides in a cave, but is surprised by a Chaosteros, which attacks him. The beast runs off though when he hears music. Rodimus thanks his savior, but is flabbergasted to find out it's Wheelie, who disappeared millenniums ago. Wheelie takes Rodimus to his own ship for repairs, which Rodimus tries to figure out what happened. Garnak tracks him down, but is easily subdued. He explains how they crashed, and about the Admiral's experiments that ruined the planet's atmosphere. Garnak doesn't have any loyalty to his former bosses, so he agrees to help Rodimus and Wheelie escape the planet instead.

The group trick the Admiral and Codder into leaving the ship, and Rodimus speeds inside with Garnak while Wheelie calls a Chaosteros to keep the 2 aliens busy while the ship is prepared for takeoff. Rodimus hooks up the Matrix to the ship's power source and goes offline while Wheelie pilots the ship to Cybertron.

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots Others

Quotes

  • TBD

Errors

  • The timings don't really work in relation to Spotlight: Wheelie. The Reflector trio appear in the middle section of that issue, but also in All Hail Megatron, and then one of them appears, stranded on Earth with other Decepticons, in issue 2 of the ongoing. This has to place the section of Spotlight: Wheelie where they crash on the planet as after that issue, due to Reflector's death in it. Whilst there is some time shown to have elapsed off-page between the first and second arcs of the ongoing, it's implied to be a few months, not the year that the narrative of Spotlight flash-forwards after Reflector meets his/their end, and even then that's ignoring how long it took Wheelie's new, unhinged state to develop.

Items of note

  • Another member of the Ilxian race previously appeared in Spotlight: Blaster.
  • Codder and Garnak are members of the same orc-like species who appeared briefly in Spotlight: Drift.
  • Unnamed in this issue, the monster that bedevils our cast is the Chaosteros, last seen—where else?—in Spotlight: Wheelie. Also on page 3, an Arachnosaur can be sen in the background, which also was in the Spotlight.
  • The ship Wheelie has taken up residence in is a Quintesson Cruiser, furthering the planet's mysterious connection to the five-faced aliens which Spotlight: Wheelie hinted at.
  • No mention is made of Wheelie's alien buddy Varta, last seen in Spotlight: Wheelie, although as a few years seem to have passed since the events of the spotlight, there may be an in-story reason for his absence.
  • The story is likely named after The Stars My Destination, a 1956 science fiction novel by Alfred Bester.

Covers (3)

  • Cover A: Rodimus in the cross hairs of Wheelie's slingshot; art by Marcelo Matere and colors by Joana Lafuente.
  • Cover B: Rodimus' hand reaches for the Matrix as it floats through space; art by Guido Guidi and colors by Andrew Dalhouse.
  • Cover RI: Uncolored version of Cover A.

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