LGEX Black Convoy Prologue
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| "LGEX Black Convoy Prologue" LGEXブラックコンボイ前日談
(LGEX Black Convoy Zenjitsudan) | |||||||||||||
| First published | 2017 May 31 | ||||||||||||
| Manga | Hayato Sakamoto | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | G1 World | ||||||||||||
Black Convoy finally reaches Gigatron, but...
Synopsis
[edit]Somewhere in space, Black Convoy leads the Commandos and Sky-Byte in an attack on Neo Brave Maximus, headquarters of the Autobot Dimensional Patrol. The Autobots launch the Super Spychangers for a counterattack, but their damage to the enemy ship's engines causes it to crash into Maximus, allowing their foes entry into the base. Fire Convoy is unconcerned about the impact, their new base having been granted to them by Vector Sigma itself to replace the original Brave Maximus, though Side Burn worries that there are no human children around to power up Emissary. When Fire Convoy requests Battle Protocol from T-AI, he finds that her systems have been hacked and taken over by the enemy's own tactical computer, Dark Ai, and he is soon approached by Black Convoy and Ruination who demand the release of Devil Gigatron.
However, Devil Gigatron is already there waiting for them, and to their shock he reveals that he has turned over a new leaf and given up on his evil ways. His time with the Dimensional Patrol and Skids has taught him of the threat posed by malevolent higher lifeforms like the Cloud beings and Zamojin, and he has decided to join his old friend Fire Convoy and dedicate his eternal life to protecting dimensions from such threats. He apologizes for brainwashing Black Convoy into a villain and asks him to join them, but Black Convoy is enraged, having embraced both his identity and the evil in his heart. Intent on fulfilling Gigatron's abandoned ambitions himself, Black Convoy attacks his former leader and attempts to absorb the source of power in his spark, but is held back by Sky-Byte who remains loyal. Gigatron transforms into his Devilostrich mode and extracts the evil he once infused Black Convoy with, reverting him against his will to his original form—the protoform of a heroic Autobot.
Featured characters
[edit](Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Destrongers |
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Notes
[edit]Continuity notes
[edit]- Black Convoy and Sky-Byte reunited with the five members of Ruination in "Ruination Chapter, Part Two".
- Dark Ai debuted earlier in Ruination's pack-in the Unite Warriors Offshot chapter, "Strategy Meeting in an Earth Bath?!"
- The Commandos' ship is their original one from when they were protoforms, as seen in "Foe? Friend!? Black Convoy" and "JRX versus Baldigus". That ship was based on the Axalon as seen in the Beast Wars cartoon. To connect the two, this story refers to the Combatron ship as a Cyber Falcon-type spaceship from the late parts of the G2 War; Cyber Falcon was the name given to the Axalon in a TV Magazine issue published while the Beast Wars cartoon aired in Japan.
- Neo Brave Maximus in this story is a new body for Cerebros to control. The previous Maximus is noted as being given to the Autobots on Earth, with solitarium as a power source and with Zebres and Master, finally providing an in-fiction explanation for Brave Maximus's "Cybertron Base" release during Robotmasters. Consequently, this would seem to mean it was Zebres and Master, not Plasma and Brave, who travelled with the Kiss Players and ended up on pre-modern Master for Fortress to find.
- The Spychangers make an appearance in their "Super Spychanger" forms, which were previously established to have taken place in the grand Japanese Generation 1 timeline and were described in further detail in a 1 August 2015 post of the Ask Vector Prime Facebook page.
- Gigatron says he and Fire Convoy were once childhood friends, a detail from the first Car Robots toy catalog.
- Skids encountered a Cloud World Transformer causing trouble in "LG-EX Deadlock", and the Zamojin threat to the Legends World's existence has been a recurring plot point, notably in "LG12 Windblade" and "LG41 Leo Prime".
Transformers references
[edit]- Neo Brave Maximus is a virtual redeco of the Titans Return Fortress Maximus mold, fittingly enough.
- Devil Gigatron's "Devilostrich Mode" was previously a somewhat unofficial mode given by designer Takashi Kunihiro, seen in the August 2011 issue of Figure Ō magazine.
