Kinetic Solutions Incorporated
In the aftermath of the Battle of Chicago and the subsequent cleanup efforts, robotics company Kinetic Solutions Incorporated stands poised to dominate the world's technological marketplace with cutting edge technology aimed at the consumer market. Headed by Joshua Joyce, many of the company's innovations are reverse-engineered from Cybertronian sources.
Because that's worked out so well before.
Fiction
Age of Extinction movie
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KSI began reverse engineering Cybertronian corpses in an attempt to create man-made Transformers for military use. CEO Joshua Joyce eventually came into contact with Harold Attinger who promised him "the Seed" with which he could make more "Transformium" the metal which all Transformers came from. KSI built as many as fifty Transformers all under remote control including Stinger drones, Traxes and the Oreo Transformer. The pride of their CEO was Galvatron, a drone created using data from Megatron's severed head. Brains was forced to work for them and was tortured whenever he spoke. Because of this, he declined to tell them Megatron was still alive and manipulating KSI, more specifically the Galvatron drone he wanted to use for a new body, resulting in it always looking like him instead of Optimus Prime. Megatron equally made Galvatron capable of acting on his own and able to override the other drones.
The remaining Autobots stormed KSI in revenge for the death of their comrades and their corpses being experimented on and freed Brains. They destroyed most of the inactive prototypes and the Oreo Transformer along with the laboratory before Joyce convinced them that KSI was defending Earth from attacks just like the one they were committing. When the Autobots left, Attinger had Joyce deploy Galvatron and a Stinger against them. Unknown to KSI, Megatron transferred his mind to Galvatron eager for revenge on Optimus. When the drones were deployed Galvatron killed civilians freely and even spoke. When they were recalled, Joyce had all the prototypes moved to a Chinese facility and expressed his fury that Galvatron had malfunctioned.
After a call from Cade Yeager altering him of Galvatron's true nature, Joyce placed Galvatron under extra security. Galvatron activated himself, announced to the humans he was his own being and took control over all their drones. He had them destroy the facility and find the "Seed". All the prototypes were destroyed in the subsequent battle with the Autobots and Galvatron fled. In the aftermath, Joyce seemed to have renounced building new Transformers, what happened to KSI is unknown.
