Angolmois Energy
Angolmois (アンゴルモア Angorumoa) energy is the life-force of Unicron. It is a powerful energy source which oftentimes has completely random and unpredictable effects on the things it comes in contact with. It can upgrade a Transformer and give them new bodies, or it can lift mountains and freeze planets.
Just like Unicron, Angolmois is extremely chaotic.
Fiction
Japanese cartoon continuity
The Transformers cartoon
When Unicron's body exploded, the Angolmois energy was sent hurtling through time and space. The Transformers: The Movie
Kiss Play Position
Believing that they were collecting fragments of the Allspark for the Sparkbots, who claimed to be allies of Primus, the Kiss Players Marissa Faireborn, Atari Hitotonari and Shaoshao Li were actually assembling Unicron's dispersed Angolmois energy—which was, for some reason, stored inside famous Autobot leaders of the past, present and future. Fleeing through space and time to prehistoric Earth, the Sparkbots used the energy to resurrect Unicron...who was blown back into Angolmois energy by Primus shortly thereafter.
Primus trapped the energy deep within the planet and created Brave Maximus to guard it for eternity. Unfortunately, he left Earth with the Kiss Players around 2007, and therefore wasn't on-duty when Lio Convoy and Galvatron came around.
Beast Wars II cartoon
In the distant future, Earth turned into Gaea. Angolmois was riddled into the planet's surface and began to have bizarre effects on the environment.
During a space battle with Galvatron and his Predacons, Lio Convoy and the Maximals landed on Gaea after going through transwarp space. Realizing the destructive potential of Angolmois, Galvatron made it his goal to steal all of it from Gaea.
The Angolmois affected the Transformers on Gaea in many ways, including upgrading Megastorm, Starscream and BB, to name a few. Galvatron eventually sucked all the Angolmois from the planet using his artificial planet, Nemesis. After a fierce battle which resulted in the death of Galvatron, the Maximals being trapped in a wormhole and the Predacons being set adrift into deep space, all the Angolmois energy in Nemesis was sealed away in capsules and ejected into outer space.
Beast Wars Neo cartoon
The Convoy Council, unaware of the fate of Lio Convoy, ordered Big Convoy and his Maximal new recruits to investigate Gaea and see what was up. Unknown to Big Convoy, he was followed by Magmatron and his Predacons. After finding Lio Convoy's black box, they learned about the Angolmois capsules and immediately set off to reclaim them.
The Maximals and Predacons then raced to secure as many capsules as they could. The Angolmois capsules were wreaking havoc all over the galaxy, causing great destruction on the planets they wound up on.
Eventually, between the Maximals and the Predacons, all the Angolmois capsules were recovered. Then, the mysterious and insanely powerful Blendtrons showed up, beat the mortal crap out of both factions and stole all the Angolmois capsules.
As it turns out, the Blendtrons were creations of Unicron. They released all the Angolmois energy into the corpse of Galvatron, resurrecting Unicron. Unicron then attacked Cybertron and possessed Vector Sigma, turning the planet into his new body. Only by teaming up were Magmatron and Big Convoy able to defeat Unicron and save Cybertron.
Beast Wars manga continuity
Beast Wars II manga
Great Convoy at Maximal Army Central Headquarters sent Lio Convoy's team to Gaea to prevent the Angolmois energy from falling into the Predacons' hands. Demolish the Superdreadnought Tank!
After Galvatron fell into a deep sleep because he absorbed to much Angolmois energy, his brother, Megastorm, used him as the core to generate power for Galvatron Dekazura Tank. Demolish the Superdreadnought Tank!
Lio Convoy travelled to the ruin of Tokyo because he heard some mysterious voice after waking up from a nightmare. There, he found an abandoned Angolmois power planet used to generate the city. Later, he fought Galvatron, who also came to the ruin because he heard the voice as well. Infiltrate the Mystery Island!Free the Captured Matrix!
The Predacons built a decoy missile base located above an Angolmois mine.Make a Surprise Attack on the Super Weapon Base!
The Combatrons were kicked into a "hot spring" after they served the "wrong" drink to Gigastorm, who became furious. After enjoying the hot spring for a while, they found that they became extremely ugly were upgraded into the Cyborg Beasts and found a warning sign, noting it was an Angolmois processing facility instead of a hot spring, set by the Autorollers.Recover the Bonds Lost!
Later, Galvatron used the artificial planet Nemesis to extract and gather all of the Angolmois energy on Gaea. The exposed Angolmois energy caused both animals and plants in the forest sick. Before Lio Convoy set out to Nemesis, Optimus Primal showed up via holographic communication, warning Lio Convoy that he would be killed due to being over exposed to the Angolmois energy. Lio Convoy ignored the warning and stated it was his duty to save Gaea by going to Nemesis.All Hands, Make a Special Attack on the Evil Planet!
After Galvatron became enraged upon the death of his brother, who was killed during interfering Lio Convoy's battle against Galvatron, he smashed the ground and made Lio Convoy fall into the tank filled with highly pure Angolmois energy. Both Lio Convoy's mind and body became corrupted. Fortunately, he was saved by the power gathered from all the animals on Gaea. Lio Convoy later confronted Galvatron once again. Although Galvatron used Angolmois energy to make himself a giant, he was defeated by Lio Convoy with the power of the Energon Matrix. Upon Galvatron's death, Nemesis exploded. Win the Battle of Light and Darkness!
When Lio Convoy woke up in an unknown planet, he encountered a bunch of speaking dinosaur rowdies were enjoying massacring other animals. He attacked the Giganotosaurus, the leader of the gang, with Lio Missiles, only to find the weapon was useless against the creature. To his more surprise, the dinosaur fought back by launching missile. He was saved by a mammoth named Big. He later learned an Angolmois capsule fell on the planet the particular effect of the energy: evolving the animals and making them speak or even possessing weapons. It was revealed both Big and the dinosaurs were once exposed to the Angolmois energy upon the capsule fell.
Later, when Lio Convoy was investigating the capsule, Big was attacked by the Giganotosaurus from behind. Despite badly wounded, Big told Lio Convoy to leave and managed to push the dinosaur gang into the valley where the capsule was. The capsule exploded on impact, and the Angolmois energy evolved those dinosaurs into Transformers. Their leader, now proclaiming himself Magmatron, thanked Big's effort for having they gain more power. Lio Convoy transformed into robot mode to fight and defeated most of them, except for Magmatron, who defeated Lio Convoy with ease.The Beast Wars "Neo" Begin!!!
Beast Wars Neo manga
It was revealed there were seven capsules sealed with Angolmois energy across the time and space on different planets:There Are 7 Capsules
- A distant, cold planet in the 7th Cosmos, home to Big Convoy, Magmatron, Guiledart, Saberback. Dead End, and Sling The Beast Wars "Neo" Begin!!!
- Luxor There Are 7 Capsules
- Greengard Mortal Combat! Twenty Thousand Meters in the Sky
- Jörmungandr, home to Cohrada A Battle Fought Alone
- Byakurēn's sanctuary Break Through! The Polar Bear Raging Claw Fist!
- Wednesday To Jellyfish with Love! Cry Out, Stampy Blade
- Graviton Prison The Great Escape! Graviton Prison!
IDW Beast Wars comics
Shokaract was infected with Angolmois and lay dormant as the energy transformed him. His will overrode the Unicronian dominance, at least temporarily. Beast Wars Sourcebook 3 Windrazor was corrupted by Angolmois and served as Unicron's herald for a period of time. Beast Wars Sourcebook 4
Stellar cycles after Shokaract was infected with Angolmois, Elephorca, Drancron and Rartorata began collecting Angolmois as an offering to Shokaract, who believed it would cause his ascension and didn't realize the power was making him a mere pawn of Unicron. The Ascending #1
After several incidents of civil unrest came to the fore, Big Convoy implied that Angolmois might very well be the cause of the riots, as it had seemingly become an addictive drug to Cybertronians. Big Convoy and the Maximal Imperium were familiar with Angolmois and its addictive, unpredictable effects on Cybertronians. Angolmois's mutagenic properties became all the more terrifying when Razorbeast was infected by Rartorata, and became a feral berserker. The Ascending #2
Eventually, Shokaract's minions began spreading Angolmois to the Cybertronian populace and causing large-scale riots, which empowered an "Anti-Matrix" that he had created. Eventually Bump developed an anti-Angolmois retrovirus and Shokaract killed himself on the discovery he was Unicron's pawn, ending the Angolmois threat. The Ascending #4
Transformers Animated
Beachcomber utilizes Angolmois to "segfault his RAM", according to Rattletrap. Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II
Notes
- In real life, the word "Angolmois" was coined by the French seer Nostradamus in one of his Prophecies.[1] Its literal meaning would be "Angolm-people", but it is widely interpreted to be a play on "Mongolois", his native tongue's word for "Mongol". It would be pronounced "Ahn-gol-mwa".
- Cementing the Nostradamus connection, a Beast Wars II toy catalog claims that Beast Wars II begin in "the seventh month of Space Year 1999" and that the Predacons are in search of "the King of Angolmois". Nostradamus's prophecy says that in the seventh month of 1999, the king of the Angolmois will be resurrected. (If this seems like an odd reference for a Japanese Transformers property, bear in mind that Nostradamus lore is quite popular in much of anime, to say nothing of Japanese pop culture in general.)
- Angolmois energy is similar to Dark Energon, as both are corrupting energies linked to Unicron and buried in Earth. At BotCon 2011, the Prime staff stated the similarity was a coincidence.
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