Covenant (group)
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- The Covenant is a group from the Beast Era of the Generation 1 continuity family.
The Covenant is a group of ancient robots created by Primus to guard against Point Omega. Before he became Cybertron, Primus had already conceived his grand plan of trapping Unicron and creating new life to carry on his fight, but he needed to make sure it would work. So, on a small moon called Protos, Primus tested his ability to create robotic life. These life forms were the Covenant, charged by their creator to watch over their younger cousins, the Transformers, and to stand ready to join the fight against Unicron at a foretold time known as Point Omega.
Members include:
- ♈ Ariex
- ♉ Taurotron
- ♊ Geminator
- ♋ Cancix
- ♌ Leonicus
- ♍ Virgol
- ♎ Libras
- ♏ Scorpius
- ♐ Sagittarii
- ♑ Capricun
- ♒ Aquator
- ♓ Piscor
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Fiction
3H comics
To prevent further destruction to the Universe with their warring, Light God Primus sought to trap Unicron into a metal asteroid. To test his tactic, Primus infused part of his life force into the moon of Methuselah, Protos. For 300,000 years, Primus used his psionic abilities to reshape the moon into a world with the foundation for mechanical civilization. At the climax, he created life itself—the Covenant, beginning with Leonicus. The Covenant were given sparks of Primus's essence.
Satisfied that he could reshape his Cybertron through will, Primus left the Covenant on Protos with a task—to fight against Point Omega and preserve the Grand Plan—and technology that allowed them to observe the outside universe. The Covenant kept themselves secluded on Protos through the eons, observing the evolution of Primus's Transformers on Cybertron, waiting and waiting for Point Omega, which was also known as Shokaract in their scriptures.
The Covenant received warning from the Chronarchitect twice. The first was in 2005, when Optimus Prime died and the ownership of the Matrix of Leadership was uncertain. Believing that this moment was Point Omega, the Covenant prepared their immense weapons and ships and waited for the opportune time to enter the fray. The situation was defused when Hot Rod acquired the Matrix and used it to destroy Unicron. The Covenant were somewhat disappointed, as it meant that Point Omega was still looming.
During the time of the Maximals and the Predacons, the Chronarchitect appeared again, this time warning Leonicus of an incoming disruption in time, commanding the Covenant to "RETURN TO THE BEGINNING". The Covenant met in a zemstvo to discuss the Chronarchitect's words, fearing that Point Omega was upon them. Members of the Covenant were assigned tasks to help unravel the mystery and Leonicus himself went to work pondering the mystery of the Chronarchitect's words. Covenant
For 200 years, the Covenant searched for the cause of Omega Point. Cybertron had taken a turn for the worse in the meantime, as a new tyrant suspiciously known as Shokaract had risen, conquering both Maximal and Predacon alike. Despite his name, however, the Covenant had little to connect him to the fabled Point Omega. To survey what possible temporal manipulations Shokaract used to secure his rule, Leonicus dispatched four of the Covenant throughout space-time junctions. Three had returned. Scorpius, however, remained ominously absent.
In fact, Scorpius had infiltrated the Predacon hierarchy at some point prior to Shokaract's rise to power, under the adoptive name of Sandstorm. Maximal and Predacon fought side-by-side against the forces of Shokaract in this era, and Sandstorm was teamed with the Veteran, an old Autobot turned Maximal. Working with his unwitting allies, Sandstorm concocted a plan for binary spark fusion, uniting the Veteran with one of Shokaract's potential Heralds, the Cub, in order to learn the tyrant's secrets. The composite being who emerged was named Windrazor, and vanished into a transwarp portal while fighting his brother Cataclysm, Herald of Shokaract. In their absence, Sandstorm searched for further aid, gathering a force to journey to J'nwan. Schism
As Ariex reviewed from the Protos Observatory the reasons for Cataclysm's use of transwarp technology, he uncovered what the Covenant believed to be the moment: Cataclysm was to journey into the past, to protect something called the Dark Essence, which possessed priceless but unspoken value to Shokaract. Leonicus and the others agreed—this was the unforeseen temporal event the Chronarchitect first appeared to warn them of. To make matters worse, Cataclysm's destination was the infamous Beast Wars on ancient Earth, one temporal anamoly folding onto another.
Meanwhile, Sandstorm continued on his epic quest towards J'nwan, a region of quantum flux where subspace from beyond natural reality bled over into our own. The insane unreality of the region brought madness and death to all of Sandstorm's party, leaving him the last to reach the foreboding plateau where J'nwan rested. Despite his entreaties, however, the Authority who spoke for the legends of J'nwan denied Sandstorm's plea to intervene at Point Omega. Paradox
On Protos, the Covenant could wait on the sidelines no more. Using their own transwarp technology, Leonicus and his brothers traveled back to the time of the Beast Wars, the time of Point Omega, to join Optimus Primal and his warriors against Shokaract. The great evil was momentarily stunned by their arrival, if only because both he and the Dark Essence of Unicron which he channeled were unaware of Primus's old gambit. The initial surprise gave way, however, and Shokaract began to kill. Taurotron, Virgol, and others fell before his might. Matters only became more dire when Shokaract resurrected his Heralds, Antagony and Cataclysm, to occupy his foes, and Sandstorm arrived after his failure to recruit in J'nwan.
The fight continued as Beast Warriors from across the timestream were summoned to confront Shokaract, only to fall before his Matrix of Conquest. Unbelievably, Sandstorm also revealed himself as a sleeper agent, a long-unrecognized Herald of Shokaract himself. But Sandstorm, born Scorpius of the Covenant, was true to his origins. He only got close enough to Shokaract to penetrate his invincible dark cloak, injuring the tyrant directly before being slain in turn.
Scorpius's sacrifice shone the way for Leonicus. He assembled the remaining members of the Covenant to convert themselves into pure energy, the essence of Primus from which they were all forged. As the Chronarchitect said, they returned to the beginning and, with the dark cloak gone, penetrated Shokaract to his core, battling the personification of the Dark Essence itself while shaped as the essence of pure light in Primus's form. When the legends of J'nwan finally arrived to battle Shokaract from without, the Covenant succeeded in severing the Dark Essence from within.
Point Omega was reached, and the Covenant had fulfilled the destiny written for them before they were even created, before Cybertron itself was born. Terminus
Wings Universe
The members of the Covenant were seen as constellations in the night sky of Cybertron. Stories were known of their exploits, such as when Leonicus battled the fiendish ice demon. The pneuma-lion's claws were useless against the creature, as each ice shard he cleaved free just formed into another ice demon. Only Scorpius and his flame-breath were able to end the threat of the ice demon.
Dion was an avid reader of the Covenant's adventures in his time as an alpha unit. One time when Dion looked up at the sky, he recalled the ice demon story.
The historian, Lancer, transformed into a vehicle resembling a hover-chariot from the Covenant's exploits. Dion found this amusing. Flames of Yesterday
Ask Vector Prime
The Liege Maximo told the other Thirteen Primes tales of the Covenant and Primon, the "twelve-and-the-one", who may be templates for the Thirteen. Vector Prime was unsure if they're very limited multiversal singularities, or archetypes that just happened to exist in a few realities simultaneously, or if they were a version of the Thirteen, or if they were just a story the Maximo made up and that Vector hoped is true. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/06/10
Notes
- The names of the Covenant members are derived from the Zodiac. No, not that Zodiac, the other one.
- Many members of the Covenant were not named in the original Reaching the Omega Point story, though a list of all their members was included with the follow-up comic. As a result, though all of the Covenant members appear in the BotCon 2000 comic, it's not always clear who is who. There are some members whose identification is blindingly obvious, others who are less certain but still generally agreed upon, and finally, four Covenant members for whom matching a name with a form would essentially be a guess.
