Chromia

* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

A seasoned, tough-as-nails infiltrator who’s adept at unflinching sabotage. Whatever she lacks in physical form, she more than makes up for it in force of personality, always ready with a snarky quip even in the face of deactivation. Though small compared to many of her peers and adversaries, she compensates with speed and aggressive maneuvers. While this makes her an incredibly dangerous opponent (especially in melee combat, her specialty), her fierce protectiveness and loyalty means she’s one of Optimus' most reliable soldiers. Her rough edges have also earned her kinship with the like-minded Autobot Weapons Specialist Ironhide.

## Biography

Early in the Great War, Chromia joined Windblade at Maccadam's, pleading with her fellow Camien to leave the war-ravaged Cybertron and return home, only to be rebuffed by the resolute Windblade. She then witnessed Megatron being made to stand down by Maccadam when the Decepticon leader attempted to start a fight over the presence of the defector Deadlock in the bar.

After joining the Autobots, Chromia accompanied Grimlock and Ratchet in rescuing Bumblebee from a crashed energon tanker. Chromia joined the *Ark* during Optimus Prime's quest to find the AllSpark, entering a stasis pod when energon reached a critical low.

Teletraan-1 eventually tracked the AllSpark to Earth only for the *Ark* to suffer a hull breach and crash land in Mount St. Hilary. Some 4 million years later, Chromia, along with the rest of the crew, was reawakened by Bumblebee and Teletraan-X in time to see the Decepticon fleet invade Earth.

In the time following her reawakening, Chromia returned to Cybertron to help defend it from the Decepticons until Optimus and the rest of the crew could return. Unfortunately, the *Nemesis* got there first, and Chromia was taken captive by Megatron. Under the threat of Perceptor being executed, she was forced to send a false distress signal to the *Ark* to bait them back to Cybertron, where Megatron planned to ambush and destroy them.

Chromia was eventually freed from captivity by Perceptor, though the process shorted out his optics. Escaping to find a means of warning the *Ark* crew of Megatron's trap, Chromia fled while Perceptor held off some Decepticon soldiers. Despite defeating Laserbeak and Ravage, she was caught by Soundwave and could only watch as Shockwave blew up the *Ark*. While languishing in her cell, Windblade—having survived the *Ark'*s destruction by abandoning ship—contacted her with her Cityspeaker powers. Thrilled to hear Windblade's voice, Chromia offered an alternative route to the Threshold of the AllSpark.

After the Great War ended in the Autobots' favor, Chromia was among the Transformers captured by the Quintessons, who outfitted them with control helmets that placed them in a simulation loop where they took part in a parade with varying differences each time. Within the Loop, Chromia chatted up Windblade and cheered when Optimus' float passed by. When the Cybertronian resistance hacked into the Loop to free Windblade so they could have her awake Iaconus, Clobber carried Chromia away so that Hot Rod could talk to the cityspeaker in private.

Chromia was eventually freed from the simulation alongside the other Autobots thanks to the Cybertronian resistance, who got them to transform when they unleashed Air Hammers into the Loop.

After the Quintesson flagship had been brought down and the Judge killed, Starscream revealed himself as the new Judge. Chromia led the first attack against him only to be captured by his tractor beams and locked up with the rest of her species. Starscream refused to condemn the universe until Optimus Prime and Megatron were present so they could answer for his crimes against him. After Arcee had opened the floodgates of feeding the Judge false locations, Chromia lied that the two leaders were at the Velocitron Memorial.

To deal with the awakened Iaconus, Starscream called upon the brainwashed Croaton. After he had hovered off to monitor the battle, Maccadam arrived to open the cells, though such an act ultimately cost him his life. Shortly afterwards, Starscream managed to kill Iaconus, turning Croaton on the rest of the Cybertronian race. The invasion was eventually stopped when Optimus and Megatron used two Matrices of Leadership to kill Starscream and Windblade freed Croaton. With the Quintesson threat ended, the Transformers formed a truce.

After Bumblebee had retrieved Windblade's braindead body, Chromia came forth with how to heal her. Using a psychic tracker from Caminus, Chromia led Bumblebee across Cybertron to Windblade's various psychic shards. The first of these led the two friends to Crystal City where they befriended Thunderhowl and aided him in defeating the Crystalline King. When another shard was detected on Luna 3, Chromia directed Bumblebee to Meteorfire for aid in breaching the moon's force field.

When Ratchet prepared to upload what they had collected of Windblade's mind, a shark flew in and stole Windblade's body. Piloting an Autobot shuttle, Chromia and Bumblebee followed to the Argon Sea. With the scanners unable to penetrate the gases, the two dived below. After following the shark, the two ran afoul of energy-draining animals, who helped themselves to the shuttle's shields before the shark returned. While Bumblebee managed to subdue the beast, he himself fell deeper into the Sea. Stringing up the shark, Chromia attempted to scan for Bumblebee before the shark introduced himself as Hammerbyte, explaining that he was guarding the Dweller.

At Hammerbyte's direction, Chromia piloted the shuttle to the deepest part of the Sea where they found Bumblebee entering a service hatch. Quickly following, Chromia found that Bumblebee and Hammerbyte had fallen under the Dweller's control, later discovering that the entity was in fact a Titan, one who planned to use Windblade to spread his influence to all of Cybertron. Using Bumblebee's stinger, Chromia managed to free her friends from the Titan's control before they escaped back to the surface.

Chromia was later present when a restored Windblade made her return.

## Trivia and Notes

### Trivia

* She is close friends with Windblade and Firestar.
* She collects Furnacian pottery.

### Notes

* Chromia's look is based on her appearance in the *Cyberverse* animated series.
* Her and Arcee being sisters is a reference to *Revenge of the Fallen*.
* Chromia coming from Caminus and being friends with Windblade are taken from the 2005 IDW version of the character.

## Gallery

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