| “ | The past is history. The present is past. The future is now. | „ |
| ~ Joshua Joyce, founder and CEO of Kinetic Solutions Incorporated (KSI). |
| “ | We make the world. | „ |
| ~ The official company slogan of Kinetic Solutions Incorporated (aka KSI). |
Kinetic Solutions Incorporated ("KSI" for short), also sometimes called "Kinetic Solutions" and "Kinetic Solutions Inc.", are major antagonists in the 2014 film Transformers: Age of Extinction. It is a high-tech corporation who sought to rebuild the Transformers race in a “better” shape.
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Past[]
In the aftermath of the Battle of Chicago and the subsequent cleanup efforts, robotics conglomerate Kinetic Solutions Incorporated (abbreviated as KSI) stands poised to dominate the world's technological marketplace with cutting edge technology aimed at the consumer market. Headed by Joshua Joyce, many of the company's innovations are reverse-engineered from Cybertronian sources because that has worked out so well before.
Transformers: Age of Extinction[]
Joshua Joyce began KSI as a boy, with a dream to make the world a better place. After the Decepticon invasion of Chicago, KSI began reverse engineering Cybertronian corpses in an attempt to create man-made Transformers for the U.S. military use. Joyce eventually came into contact with Harold Attinger who promised him the "Seed" with which he could make more "Transformium", the metal which all Transformers came from, in exchange for 500 million shares of the company. KSI built as many as 50 Transformers, all under remote control, including Stinger, Junkheap, KSI Sentries, "Two Heads", "KSI Bosses" and the Oreo Transformer. The pride of their CEO was Galvatron, a drone created using data from Megatron's severed head. Brains was forced to work for them and was tortured whenever he spoke. Because of this, he decided not to tell them that Megatron was still alive and manipulating KSI, more specifically the "Galvatron" prototype he wanted to use as his new body, resulting in it always looking like him instead of Optimus Prime.
Megatron's mind equally made Galvatron capable of acting on his own and able to override the other drones. Attinger informed Joyce that a civilian had hacked their tech and knew of KSI's involvement in the Transformer hunts. Fortunately for Joyce, the civilian came to him, who he happily turned over to Attinger. However, KSI would soon suffer a crippling blow to their operations.
The Autobots eventually learned of what KSI was doing and were very ticked. Optimus Prime was enraged to the point that he ordered his men to storm KSI's Chicago headquarters and he did not care if humans were caught in the crossfire. When the Autobots arrived, they made a point to cause as much damage as possible. They destroyed most of the inactive prototypes and the Oreo Transformer along with the laboratory before Joyce convinced them that KSI was defending the Earth from attacks just like the one they were committing and that humanity did not need the Autobots. Visibly disgusted by Joyce, Optimus ordered his men to retreat. Before they left, they freed Cade and Brains.
When the Autobots left, Attinger forces Joyce to deploy the only two drones that were spared: Galvatron and Stinger against them.
Unknown to KSI, Megatron managed to transfer his mind to Galvatron, eager for revenge on Optimus. When the drones were deployed, Galvatron killed civilians freely and even spoke. When they were recalled, Joyce had all the prototypes moved to a Chinese facility and expressed his fury that Galvatron had malfunctioned. Joyce's confidence turned shaky after Attinger revealed that he had been backing KSI's Transformers project alone, not the CIA as he had been led to believe, effectively making Joyce an unwitting war criminal. After a call from Cade Yeager alerting him of Galvatron's true nature, Joyce placed Galvatron under tight security. Regardless, Galvatron activated himself, announced to the humans that he was his own being and took control over all of their drones. He had them destroy the facility and find the "Seed". All the prototypes were destroyed in the subsequent battle with the Autobots and Galvatron fled. In the aftermath, Joyce seemed to have renounced building new Transformers.
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Transformers: Shadows Rising[]
An arcade game which sequel to Transformers Human Alliance, takes place after third movie but ignore some fourth movie events. In this story, KSI Company was created following up after final battle of Chicago. They creates mass product of Decepticon and Autobot Clones to public, as replacement to both factions that responsible causing deaths of many civilizations in Chicago. They also captured Grimlock as their brainwashed slave. This activity was considered illegal by Vanessa and Jake, both of whom reported it to Optimus Prime. Optimus Prime, Sideswipe, Bumblebee, Vannesa, and Jake beginning their investigation in KSI's Headquarters. Sensing an intruder, KSI sends a Shockwave Clone, Brawler Clone, Sideswipe Clones, Bumblebee Clone, and Nemesis Prime to thwart their plans. It also revealed that KSI also pawn to Megatron, where he was reborn once again after succeeded manipulate some members to rebuilt his body from his remains. In the end, KSI was disbanded for doing illegal activity.
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