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Star Seekers
>Dread Pirate Thundertron
>born as “Flattop” of colony world Atlantis
>a humble captain, sailing the void of space
>a lonely bot, distant and cold
>a dreamer, he saw “her” every night, a woman, trapped in between life and death at the edge of the world
>soulless black optics
>she called to him, like so many “dreamers” before him, she promised him love, an end to his pain and companionship
>she plagued his every thought
>infatuation became obsession, obsession became love
>he followed her coordinates, to the forbidden Yst system
>his crew….. protested
>Yst, the site of Unicron’s death, home to a screaming vortex, a wound in reality itself
>”Go in, I’m on the other side.”
>he sets the ship on course, his crew mutiny, the “good captain” was ripped apart and to the crew’s horror, the ship was ignoring their attempts to change course
>they enter the breach, killed instantly,
>the “woman” floats outside the windows, devouring their sparks
>one spark stands out, it’s thoughts laid bare, all it’s deeds judged
>he wasn’t mad, he did love her, for what she was, what she had become, he sacrificed it all
>Flattop rose again, reforged by the power of the Dead Universe as Thundertron
>the woman told him her name
>Solus Prime
>damned for eternity to haunt the cold realm of a dead god
>he vowed to free her
>they would need sparks
>the sparkless wretch set out to free her, no matter the cost
>The ghost ship Tidal Wave now prowls the galaxy, crewed by a collection of undead Cybetronians, all subtypes and factions
>every ten thousand years he returns, delivering all he has harvested, it will never be enough, the creature that used to be Solus Prime has an endless hunger for life
>the ship has been destroyed five separate times but it keeps reappearing
>reports of “ghosts” teleporting onto ships and dragging their crews into the depths of space
>undying
>immortal
> “Do you fear death?”