Plasma energy
- Plasma energy is an energy source (dur-hey) from the Headmasters portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Plasma energy is born of a cycle of continuous destruction. It is a force of pure planetary destruction, forged in the crucible of a word reduced to ash, and a small fraction of the energy released in such a horror is enough to devastate another world and generated yet more, continuing the chain of devastation. While Decepticon leader Galvatron may be content to toy with mere energon as he pursues his goals of conquest, Headmaster leader Scorponok knows that only through the manipulation of plasma energy’s deadly powers can galactic domination be achieved.
Fiction
Headmasters animated series
During the Decepticons’ attack on Cybertron to acquire the powerful new alloy cybertonuron, Zarak saw his opportunity to seize power. Equipping Mindwipe with bombs, he dispatched him into the depths of Cybertron, ordering him to plant them in Vector Sigma’s chamber. Once detonated, it would completely devastate Cybertron itself, generating vast reserves of plasma energy that he could use for his own ends. Confronted by Galvatron over his actions, Zarak offered the false rationale that this would prevent the Autobots from retaining control of the cybertonuron if the Decepticons failed to seize it; the enraged Galvatron headed for Vector Sigma’s chamber in order to defuse the bombs, but arrived just as they exploded, reducing Cybertron to a burnt-out husk.
When the plasma energy released in Cybertron’s destruction stored, Zarak schemed to use it to generate yet more plasma energy. Installing himself as Decepticon leader, he began seeding the planet Mars with plasma energy bombs, intending to destroy the planet like Cybertron before it. Although his plans were discovered by an Autobot geological survey that was on the planet at the time, a blast of weaponized plasma energy prevent Autobot leader Fortress Maximus from transforming, leaving Zarak – now bonded to his own giant Transtector and rechristened Scorponok – to pummel him as the countdown to Mars’s destruction began. Two clusters of bombs at the planet’s pole were detonating, beginning a chain reaction that tore Mars apart; Fortress Maximus was able to absorb some of the energy released in the early stages of the conflagration, allowing him to escape, but once again, Scorponok had achieved his goals.
Those goals, however, were soon put on hold with the surprise return of Galvatron, who retook command of the Decepticons and set them on an interplanetary energy gathering quest. When Galvatron was later defeated in battle by the Autobot Headmasters, Scorponok retook his position as emperor and, after a campaign on plant Master, returned to Earth intending to destroy it and acquire its plasma energy. “Death Towers” forged from the crysmag metal of Lemuria threatened to tear the Earth apart, but Fortress Maximus was able to stop the villain’s scheme and permanently exile his Decepticon forces from Earth.
