Nightbeat descends into Gorlam Prime's underground and finds fragments of Cybertronian metal dating back to the Ark-1’s era, Cybertronian-sized tunnels, and a strange silvery portal. Intrigued by the mystery, Nightbeat travels to the flight recorder's excavation site on Gorlam Prime only to find more mysteries: the native populace has developed into biomechanical cyborgs far too quickly and deep mining shafts litter the planet's surface. Suspicious of Shockwave's extended absence, Decepticon leader Megatron assigns Bludgeon to decode his laboratory notes while in 2006, a team of archaeologists in Eureka, Nevada uncovers Shockwave's hand.Īutobot detective Nightbeat purchases the flight recorder from the missing Cybertronian exploration vessel Ark-1 but finds the seller's corpse instead. Before Shockwave can leave, however, the Dynobots' ship causes a nearby volcano to erupt, entombing all six Cybertronians in a pit of lava.

Unable to comprehend the logicality of their spiteful assault, the emotionless Shockwave shuts down his higher functions and brutally defeats them using rage-stimulating programming. To protect themselves from the planet's high levels of Energon radiation, the Dynobots adopt the forms of fossilized organic creatures and attack Shockwave. Arriving on the thirteenth world in the midst of its final Ice Age, Shockwave is unaware that the Dynobots have followed him, seeking revenge for a past slight. Dubbing his project the Regenesis Program, Shockwave eventually leaves Cybertron in secret to personally observe the effects the samples have had on the Regenesis planets. Six hundred thousand years ago, during the Cybertronian civil war between the Autobots and Decepticons, the Decepticon scientist Shockwave launches thirteen missiles of raw Energon at thirteen different worlds in an attempt to create a new energy source for the dying Cybertron. In addition to being stand-alone, most of these issues tie into the main series, and offer additional context.

Although the Shockwave and Nightbeat issues were numbered #1 and #2 respectively, individual numbering for the series was abandoned with the Hot Rod issue as the series expanded beyond five issues. The third featured Blaster, Arcee, Mirage and Grimlock and Wheelie, with four more issues comprising The Transformers: Revelation. The second featured Soundwave, Kup, Galvatron, Optimus Prime and Ramjet. Split in volumes of 5, the first volume featured Shockwave, Nightbeat, Hot Rod, Sixshot, and Ultra Magnus. The series consists of single-issue stories based on IDW's Generation 1 fictional universe, each featuring an individual character. The Transformers: Spotlight is a comic book series of one-shot issues, published by IDW Publishing.

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