IDW - Transformers Galaxies #12

Title: Storm Horizon,  Part 3

Written by: Brandon Easton

Art by: Andrew Griffith

Colours by: Josh Burcham

Letters & Design by: Jake M. Wood

Editors: David Mariotte & Tom Waltz

Assistant Editor: Riley Farmer

Plot

Ultra Magnus gears up in extra armour and attacks the Kworian vessels attacking Alpha Trion's ship, but is only taking out their weapons, as he sees no need to kill the alien species.

He makes it to Trion's ship, but I'd stopped from rescuing him by Sounbkaster, who insisted that the ancient Cybertronian fulfill his side of their agreement and attacks them.

The doomed ship is caught in the gravity well of the Black Sphere, but Magnus us able to grab Trion and escape in time, with Trion making sure the ship is still capable of flying, so Soundblaster can try to escape too.

Later, after Magnus and Trion return to the Fist of Iacon they make the concerning discovery that their proximity to the Black Sphere has altered their perception of time, and they've been gone for seventy cycles more than they thought.

They return to Cybertronian space, but are disturbed by the news of Megatron's revolution, though Alpha Trion suggests that they can use the artefacts of the past that he's been researching and hunting for to try and help defeat Megatron in the present...

Meanwhile, 66 cycles earlier Soundblaster returned to Cybertron long before his foes, where his master, Shockwave, is displeased with his failure, but Soares his life since he's in a good mood, as his army if Insecticons are ready to bring in the future for the Decepticons...

Characters

Cybertronian Expeditionary Force/Colonial Security

Ultra Magnus - Vehicle Transport

Chromedome - Car

Victory Leo - Lion/Jet

Fist of Iacon Crew Members

Decepticon

Shockwave - Flying Artillery

Soundblaster - Hovercraft

Octane - Truck/Jet Imprisoned by Magnus

Spinister - Helicopter Imprisoned by Magnus

Bombshell Clones - Bill Weevils

Skrapnel Clones - Stag Beetles

Kickback Clones - Locusts

Megatron - Mining Vehicle (Footage Only)

Other Cybertronian

Alpha Trion

Omega Supreme - Battle Station (Mentioned)

Termagax - Armoured Van (Mentioned)

Primus (Mentioned)

The Senate (Mentioned) Overthrown

The City Guardians (Mentioned)

Other

Kworians (Mentioned)

Notes

• This issue marks the end of the Galaxies series, to be followed by the new Escape mini series.
• The background characters in Magnus' crew are just generics, rather than any of the previously seen characters from the earlier issues.
• Magnus' armour upgrade looks sort of similar to his Prime counterpart's second design, with the wings and rounder design.
• Due to the time dilation from the Black Sphere, over seventy cycles have passed in the outer universe. This might sound like a lot, but that works out as about 2 Earth months in real time (one Cycle is shorter than one Earth Day) So they won't be too late when rejoining the war.
• Megatron's speech being played on repeat from Cybertron is the one we see being broadcasted in issue 25 of the main series.
• The ending with the army of Insecticon clones is the culmination of Shockwave's experiments with Exarchon's cloning technology, which was also alluded to in Escape #1
• Soundblaster's master (and by extension the rest of the Splice Traders too) is revealed to be Shockwave.
• Soundblaster's resemblance to Soundwave isn't explained yet, but since his master is Shockwave, we can probably assume he's a clone of the Senator, possibly implying more clones in the future of other characters.