Ferak

Ferak is a Decepticon from the Generation 1 continuity family.

I finally get a robot mode. Hope you weren't expecting anything from the neck down.

Ferak is a Decepticon who transforms into a hunter-seeker skyship. He has a low taste in entertainments, so he prefers to indulge on his own, taking out his sadistic impulses on others.

Fiction

Marvel The Transformers comics

Events from the UK-only comic stories are in italics.

The difference, of course, is that they hunt too.

Stationed near Darkmount, Ferak and his two fellow Hunter-Seekers were cruising Dead End on orders to reduce the surplus population by blasting and then recycling the derelict Empties found there. Spotting three of them, Ferak warned his wingmen off so he could enjoy this sport on his own, taking leisurely potshots at the trio as they ran for their lives.

Ferak destroyed Telus and Rotorbolt before the noise of his play attracted the nearby electro-scrambler (wielded by some nameless Autobot). The electro-scrambler disrupted Ferak's guidance system, causing him to spin out of control. Blaster then grabbed him by the wings and threw him into a tower.

He exploded on impact. The Smelting Pool!

He survived, and in one possible future led an airborne hunter squad against Rodimus Prime, Kup, Blurr and Wreck-Gar. He and his squad gloated at the outnumbered Autobots, apparently taking out Kup and Blurr before transforming to face the Autobot and Junkion leaders. Ferak and the others taunted them further, asking that they beg for their lives. Rodimus assured them they would get no such satisfaction from him, and told them to do their worst as they prepared to fire.

In. Your. Face.

They were never to get the chance. Prime had stationed Ultra Magnus, Jazz, Bumblebee and Cliffjumper nearby and at his word they cut down half the Decepticons where they stood. The others made a break for it, only to find their way blocked by Kup and Blurr who had been playing robotopossum. His comrades falling around him, Ferak ran back to fall at Rodimus Prime's feet begging for mercy (and unwittingly stirring up disturbing memories for Rodimus) but the Autobot had no mercy to give and executed the Decepticon on the spot. To his credit, he did agonise about it afterwards to Kup. Wanted: Galvatron — Dead or Alive!

IDW Generation 1 continuity

This mode isn't quite as much of a surprise.

Ferak was once friends with Wheeljack. An engineer himself, Ferak came to Megatron's notice when he invented the Nightmare Engine.

Ferak was later part of Squadron X, a team of Decepticons which served as a brutal counterpart to the Autobots' Wreckers. He grew tired of this life and hoped to quit after transporting munitions to a Decepticon outpost in the Redan Quadrant. Ferak's Squadron X profile The Wreckers and Squadron X's rivalry came to a head on Pova, but after being dispatched in an aerial battle, Ferak and the rest of Squadron X were rounded up in a containment unit and put in inhibitor harnesses.

According to Fisitron's Wreckers: Declassified datalogs, Ferak and the other members of Squadron X were able to somehow escape their harnesses, forcing the Wreckers to execute rather than imprison them. However, this may not be the full story. Last Stand of the Wreckers #4 The truth was that Impactor executed Squadron X before the Autobots would have been forced to let them go in accordance with a neutrality agreement. Last Stand of the Wreckers #5

Wings Universe

Wings Universe is based on the Generation 1 cartoon, but deviates from it in cosmetic ways and continuity points.

Toys

Timelines

Pirates Vs Knights (BotCon 2014 box set)

Decepticon Pirate Ferak is a redeco of Universe Cyclonus. Ferak comes in a box set with fellow pirates Cannonball, Tornado, Scorponok, and Olin Zarak, plus knights Ginrai and Devcon.

This mold was also used to make Gentei! Gentei! Strafe and Shattered Glass Cyclonus.

• More information on Ferak at TFU.info

Notes

• In a text interview 23 years after he had written the story that introduced Ferak, Bob Budiansky was asked if he would pronounce the name "Fair-ACK" or "fehr-OCK". Budiansky laughed, double-checked the spelling, and chose "Fair-ACK".
• Ferak wasn't given a robot mode until his surprise appearance in Last Stand of the Wreckers #4. That mode resembles the airborne hunter squad leader, an intention confirmed by Last Stand co-author James Roberts. This may actually be fanwankier than his reemergence.
  • Ferak's background information in the Last Stand of the Wreckers hardcover goes further and hints the airborne hunter squad's leader may well be Ferak himself, who might've survived his encounter with Blaster.
  • Ask Vector Prime would go on to confirm this theory.