| “ | My mission assumes priority! Any Cybertronian who interferes will be neutralized! | „ |
| ~ The Nemesis threatening the Decepticons. |
The Nemesis is a minor antagonist in Transformers Prime, serving as the main antagonist of the episode Flying Mind.
It started off as a non-sentient starship form of its host Trypticon under stasis-lock during the Great Exodus. After the core got damaged, Dark Energon was put into the core, giving the ship enough life to possess the Titan and assumed control of itself as a newly created consciousness.
It was voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson.
Biography[]
Past[]
Prior to the episode, the ship started off as the personal flagship of Megatron and his Decepticon forces and the ship mode of the Titan Trypticon who is in stasis-lock after having been defeated by the Autobots. Throughout the events of Transformers: Prime, it serves as the main base of operations of the Decepticons in opposition against the Autobots.
Transformers: Prime[]
Flying Mind[]
After its core was damaged by Bulkhead, the Nemesis crashed onto a cliff and taken much damage that the repairs for the vessel would take long. Megatron comes to a decision by using Dark Energon to not only repair the ship, but to bring back Trypticon to work together in defeating the Autobots once more. Injecting the Dark Energon into the core, Megatron feels the effect through the Dark Energon flowing through the ship, but was unaware that the effect instead resulted into creating a new intelligence infecting and possessing Trypticon's body, becoming the Nemesis as its own mind.
As the Autobots begin their assault against the Decepticons, they have witnessed the Nemesis in its current state and gain accessed to its satellite dish, producing a stasis beam on the Autobots and later decodes some of the database of Project: Iacon. It later gains full control of the navigations and resists its crews' control, electrocuting one of the Vehicons into stasis-lock. It then reveals itself and threatens the Decepticons if they interfere with its goals. As the Decepticons discovered of the ship downloading the database, Megatron considers that the ship became its extension of his will, only for the ship to declare that his will is nothing to him and gives Megatron a migraine as a refusal to follow him. It them puts the rest of the entire Decepticons in it to stasis-lock as an example for ignoring its warning.
Under suspicion of what was happening at the Nemesis, Ratchet attempts to contact Megatron but with no response and the Nemesis intercepts declaring that he is relieved of command. Ratchet wished to know who it is and if it is in control of the Nemesis which the Nemesis corrects him that it is the Nemesis and stated the same threat to him while showing images of the Decepticons that are in stasis-lock. It answers one of Ratchet's questions on decrypting and searching for the artifacts before hanging up after being asked about any purpose with Miko calling it rude. Since it has yet to detect organic life, Ratchet sends Jack, Miko, Raf and Fowler aboard the Nemesis to infiltrate in order to download the database using a transfer drive and learned that Manhattan is the first location it is going to invade and destroy in its search for one of the artifacts, the Phase shifter. As Fowler manages to activate the download, he also got stunned and became unconscious from the stasis-lock. It alerts the Nemesis and searches as it is unable to scan the children at least until it widens its search perimeters, discovering Raf and Miko at the core chamber when they are trying to drain its Dark Energon crate form from the core. It possesses the manipulator arm to chase after them and finds them hiding in a pile of crates with Energon cubes. Before it could attempt to kill them both, Jack distracts and tricks it into mistakenly hitting Megatron's unconscious body, mistakenly having him move to pull the switch to disconnect the Dark Energon from the core. The Nemesis pulled a final attempt to stop the drain, but could do nothing as it slowly begins to shut down and slowly the consciousness dies off, turning the Nemesis back into a non-sentient ship with its Dark Energon crate pulled out of the core.
Thirst[]
Though the Nemesis remains non-sentient with its consciousness dead, Starscream somehow knew about the events that he deems this incident to be a result of a massive infusion. During Breakdown's experimentation of Silas using Synetic Energon, Starscream brings Dark Energon for use which shocked and worries Knock Out even stating of how the Nemesis came to be from the effects of Dark Energon despite Megatron's control on anyone infected with the corruption as his puppets. Starscream compares his conclusion that the result was an infusion being the reason for the ship's will against its masters and suggest only a merely of one drop or two to be under Megatron's control. Unfortunately just like the Nemesis incident, even that resulted to another mistake with Silas as an uncontrollable Synthetic Terrorcon due to its combined mix of Synthetic and Dark Energon to corrupt Megatron's link, preventing him from having monster do his bidding.
Trivia[]
- It serves as a homage to HAL 9000 from the film, 2001: A Space Odyssey as both of them are intelligences that became hosts of the ship, betrayed their crew and assumed command.
- It was first believed that the Nemesis has been Trypticon coming back to life until it was confirmed that the Nemesis in the episode is actually another consciousness which possessed him.
