Nova Prime

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**Nova Prime** was the predecessor to Zeta Prime. Once the elite soldier **Nova Major**, he led the unification of a divided Cybertron, ascending to leadership of his people. An expansionist and a supremacist, Nova Prime believed that Transformers were the greatest among all life forms and that they should bring their glory to the myriad of lesser races throughout the universe.

After being sucked into the Dead Universe, Nova was chosen to be the host for the Darkness, an otherworldly counterpart of the Matrix of Leadership which worked by transforming the inhabitants of the Dead Universe into undead wielders of anti-life. Upon merging, Nova was reborn as the sinister and extremely powerful **Nemesis Prime**. He now sees it as his mission to fulfil the Darkness' imperative by expanding the Dead Universe's hold into the living realm.

Nemesis may seem to hold sway over both his troops and the Darkness, but nothing could be further from the truth. The powerful Galvatron sees the Darkness as his rightful inheritance. And then, there is the fear. The fear that the Darkness has more in common with the Matrix than Nemesis is comfortable with. He feels he has earned this power, and isn't willing to see it follow its natural path. It is for this reason he must eliminate Optimus Prime. And it is for this reason he fears to face his successor.

## Biography

"*I AM THE LEGACY OF PRIMUS!*"
―Nova Prime
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Nova Prime was known as the conqueror of the Benzuli Expanse, greatest Autobot to bear the Matrix, and all around great guy. He inspired Bad Bots to be good and Good Bots to be better. It was he who led the Mission of Cybertronian Expansion, hoping to create colonies on cyberformed planets for future Cybertronians to inhabit, thereby preserving their culture forever.

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The mission started out as a tremendous success. The crew would find uninhabited planets and using the Ferrotaxis, a Plasma Core, and the Insecticon Swarm aboard Nova Prime's ship, the *Proudstar*, a planet could be quickly cyberformed and ready for colonization. After Lithone had been cyberformed, resources began to wane and the *Proudstar* made a supply run on a mysterious planet. As the crew resupplied, a darkness fell over them and their ship, causing them to become corrupt and mad. Before the crew left the planet, Nova Prime pointed it in the direction of Cybertron. As the *Proudstar* sailed through the galaxy, the darkness began to grow in Nova Prime, with righteous pride, as opposed to once peaceful intentions, beginning to guide his mission. Nova Prime eventually began targeting inhabited planets for cyberforming, wiping out several civilizations. One of these planets was Earth where, thanks to some sabotage courtesy of a guilt-ridden Kranix, the *Proudstar* crashed into the surface and trapped its crew and resources in stasis. Unaware of what had transpired on his fateful mission, the populace of Cybertron declared Nova Prime as missing in action while heralding him as one of the greatest heroes their race had ever produced.

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In the late 20th century, Megatron discovered the *Proudstar* and tried to use it to cyberform Earth only for his plot to be foiled by Nova's eventual successor Optimus Prime. Though Optimus had believed the *Proudstar* to be offline once again, some unseen power supply still thrummed deep within its bowels and, within a broken stasis pod, reawakened Nova Prime!

#### The Functionist Universe

In an alternate timeline where the Functionist Council overthrew Zeta Prime and ruled Cybertron, they discovered the truth behind Nova Prime's spark splicing program and declared it heresy.

## References

1. ↑ *Primus: All Good Things*
2. ↑ *Transformers: Devastation*
3. ↑ *Dissolution Part 3: A World Misplaced*