jtprime wrote:Sentinel prime - colors & mold could fit as omega supreme better...and omega has been in comics awhile. And sentinel was white and then became nemesis so I don't understand the colors.
Nova Prime was white - in the IDW Comics Sentinel Prime was always colored Gold/orange/red (though I think he had a stealth-mode where he changed to darker colors).
Nova Major inherited the Matrix of Leadership from Prima by way of Alpha Trion when the Primes disappeared, and became NOVA PRIME.
Nova Prime secretly passed the Matrix of Leadership to Tyrest to experiment on (to try and forcibly create new life).
Nova Prime left for the Benzuli expanse, and passed a
fake copy of the Matrix of Leadership to NOMINUS PRIME. [Nova Prime then entered the Dead Universe seeking a counterpart to the Matrix, and found the Darkness, which made him over into NEMESIS PRIME.]
The corrupt Senate arranged a terrorist attack that left Nominus Prime in a coma, with the intention that their Number 1 Enforcer be able to access the Matrix's power without having to have it passed to him. Of course, the fake Matrix of Leadership didn't grant any power, so that plan didn't work out, but when the Senate realized the fake Matrix wasn't worth anything, Nominus was assassinated and displayed before the public with the fake matrix still in his chest - which they also rigged with a bomb, so they could destroy the fake Matrix and blame the newly formed Decepticons for the greatest possible act of public heresy.
The fake matrix was stolen (by Orion Pax) before that plot could unfold, but the senate's enforcer was eventually given the title, anyway, and became SENTINEL PRIME.
Sentinel Prime continued as the Senate's enforcer, generally disappointed that the Senate still treated him as their henchman, rather than their master. Nevertheless, he pursued the Senate's enemies aggressively - Shockwave's former students (Orion Pax and a group of Outliers) who were fighting the system, and later, Megatron and his newly formed Decepticons.
Megatron, of course, killed Sentinel Prime. And it was pretty awesome.
With Sentinel Prime's death, the title was taken up by ZETA PRIME, who was another of Shockwave's students, so Orion Pax and the others were brought back in the good-graces of the government. They were dragged into fighting Megatron and the Decepticons, though Orion didn't really want to, and it eventually became apparent that Zeta Prime was crazier than an LSD-laced Nabisco cracker crumbled across a Picasso. So then Orion and Megatron had to team up against him.
But then Megatron betrayed Orion, knowing that he'd succeed Zeta Prime, and he was pretty much done with that whole system. He attempted to kill Orion before confronting and killing Zeta Prime.
Nearly dead Orion tumbled into the bowels of Cybertron in a sort of pastiche of the classic hero-dies-travels-to-the-underworld myth, and there he finds the real Matrix of Leadership, where it's been hidden for who knows how long. It restores Orion and ordains him as OPTIMUS PRIME. Optimus Prime emerges, apparently via resurrection, and leads the Autobots against the Decepticons who'd betrayed them.
AND if you want to know more...
And then a lot of people die. Nemesis Prime returns with the Darkness and confronts Optimus with the Matrix. Optimus baits the Darkness into joining him and then nearly kills both of them. Galvatron then inherits the Darkness, and thinks he has control of it, and goes off on his own campaign. Megatron takes the Matrix from Optimus, nearly killing him, but can't make it do anything. Optimus comes back, and Megatron nearly dies, but Starscream runs off with the Matrix before Optimus can reclaim it. Optimus forfeits leadership of the Autobots to democracy and surrenders to the humans in order to negotiate a truce. Democracy goes poorly, because Hot Rod loses the election to Bumblebee, takes his followers and leaves, naming himself Rodimus Prime. That also goes poorly, so Rodimus decides to go retrieve the Matrix from Starscream to prove himself. The Matrix, it turns out, has been trying to manipulate Starscream to escape, but eventually has to settle for getting stolen by Rodimus. Megatron, restored, finds Rodimus with the Matrix, and blasts him and it into space, deciding he's just done with that too. The matrix attaches itself to Rodimus to keep him alive, but pointedly makes it an unpleasant experience until Rodimus returns it to Optimus. In a confrontation at Cybertron's core, Optimus uses the Matrix to counter Galvatron and the Darkness, and revives Cybertron (but restores it to a wilderness state).
The Matrix itself is gone at that point, so Optimus returns to the name of Orion Pax and passes the two halves of its container to Bumblebee and Rodimus, and basically says there shouldn't be anymore Primes. Bumblebee tries to run Cybertron with Prowl as his second in command. Metalhawk and Ratbat compete with him politically until Arcee assassinates Ratbat, which allows Starscream to gain some sway with the Decepticons and buddy up to Metalhawk. Megatron returns though, followed by Devastator, who now includes a Bombshell-controlled Prowl. Metalhawk dies. Megatron nearly kills Bumblebee. Superion emerges from the wilderness to fight Devastator, Prowl is freed, and Megatron tries to merge with Devastator but is eventually defeated. Starscream wrests control of Cybertron from Bumblebee, and throws everyone unwilling to swear loyalty to him out into the wilderness, including Prowl and the Constructicons, but not Superion (who is on life support) or the Stunticons (who've been laying low).
Lots more stuff happens - Starscream gains Rattrap as his right-hand man and is declared a the Chosen One by a dying Titan. Shockwave, who it turns out was Jhiaxus's student, launches a plan to zombify Metalhawk and the dead Titan and free Nemesis Prime and Galvatron from the Dead Universe. Orion Pax confronts Nemesis Prime, and decides that he is not defined by Nemesis Prime's failings, or the shortcomings of his false successors, and reclaims the title of Optimus Prime, but it turns out Shockwave and Jhiaxus didn't give a flip about Nemesis, and were working their own plan to end the Universe. Starscream kills Jhiaxus. Optimus Prime confronts his former teacher, Shockwave, along with Megatron, and after Bumblebee dies, Megatron (who had become very fond of him) is inspired to become an Autobot. Optimus and Megatron both give great speeches, and Shockwave is restored to his previous good-guy self, as is undead Metalhawk. Of course, both of them immediately sacrifice themselves to stop the universe from ending.
Many Decepticon hardliners leave Cybertron under Galvatron's command (with Soundwave using him as a front-man). Starscream is left to rule of Cybetron, but due to the destruction, everyone moves into Metroplex, who is an Autobot, so he primarily listens to Optimus Prime and Windblade. Optimus Prime plays it pretty chill, because he doesn't want to rule a Prime-based theocracy, but Windblade doesn't trust Starscream and quickly becomes adept at politics, so she keeps a bit of a lid on him. Starscream still holds sway with the neutrals, those who worship him as the Chosen One (e.g., Scoop), and with some Decepticons, but wants the loyalty of Windblade's people too, so he restores Menasor and tricks him into attacking Windblade's planet, before restoring Superion so they can save Windblade's planet from Menasor. Starscream becomes the hero, but Windblade takes Optimus to Caminus, shows him off, and that trumps anything Starscream does, because they worship Primes. Starscream trolls for more planets to annex, intent on building an empire. Prowl wants to stop that, so he and the Constructicons show up and Devastator attacks the Spacebridge. Superion and Defensor stop him, and the Constructicons are locked up with the Stunticons. Starscream lets the Constructicons out, though, and has Scoop replace Prowl, so that Devastator will be zealously devoted to him. The Stunticons are sprung from prison by Swindle, though and with a group of rioting Decepticons, attack the Spacebridge. Swindle is mortally wounded, but has time to betray Starscream to Rattrap before he dies. Devastator is sent to help, but he's still 5/6 Decepticon so he gets confused and it becomes a 2v2 Combiner battle. Optimus and friends show up to help, but Prowl forcibly merges with them to create Optimus Maximus and make it a 3v2 battle, but Optimus has to fight Prowl for control of the combined form. The Stunticons are eventually locked up again, the Constructicons are allowed to remain combined as Devastator, effectively on parole, and is set up as part of the Spacebridge's guard. Optimus Maximus disassembles so that Prowl can be returned to custody, but Starscream agrees to release him into Optimus's custody so that Optimus can execute him in the wilderness. Before he can do so, though, Rattrap rescues Prowl. Wrote all of that mostly because it was fun to recap it all in my head.
