Star Seeker

Star Seekers are a subspecies or faction of Cybertronians from the planet Cybertron.

Anatomy
Star Seekers share a similar biology to other Cybertronians, even sharing body-types with Autobots and Decepticons.

Powers and abilities
Star Seekers share many of the same abilities as other Cybertronians.

Weaknesses
Star Seekers share many of the same weaknesses as other Cybertronians.

Culture and society
Star Seekers share a culture similar to Earth pirates, being led by captains such as Thundertron, who claims to be "the mightiest freebooter on the spaceways"; and Cannonball, a Decepticon whose name has been passed down as a mantle for a lineage of great pirates. They also travel around in massive spaceships, most prominently the Tidal Wave.

Aside from being merciless pirates, the inadvertent destruction of their home planet by Cybertronian neglect has given Star Seekers an unquenchable hatred and a desire for revenge. They have vowed to hunt down and slaughter anyone who comes from Cybertron, and are equally brutal with anyone else who would get in their way.

The Dread Pirate Crew are Star Seekers based on the blueprints of Decepticons Pounce and Wingspan that form the backbone of Cannonball's crew aboard the Tidal Wave. They may not be the sharpest cutlasses in the block, but they at least get the pillaging and plundering done.

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During Cybertron's Golden Age of Expansion, Thundertron's colony loyally served the Cybertronian Empire. When the space bridge network collapsed and Cybertron turned its attentions inward, Thundertron and his fellow colonists were left to fend for themselves, dying by the millions. The survivors became the core of the Star Seekers, with Thundertron emerging as their leader.

Thundertron led his crew on the trail of a Cybertronian ship known as the Ark before landing on Velocitron. Facing opposition from the Velocitronians' leader Override, Thundertron grew angry and ordered his men to attack. Continuing their travels, the Star Seekers took a space bridge to Junkion.

Discovering a second Cybertronian ship known as the Nemesis, Thundertron met the Junkions' leader Wreck-Gar while the Cybertronians fought each other. Forcing Junkions to repair the Tidal Wave and install a space bridge on it, Brimstone and Cannonball killed Arclight on Thundertron's orders to make a point.

Following the repair and installation, the Star Seekers caught up with and attacked the Cybertronians. After acquiring the Requiem Blaster, the pirates affixed it to the Tidal Wave. Axer would also join the Star Seekers, having feigned hatred for Cybertronians so he could be spared and join the crew.

Sometime after the battle on Junkion, the Star Seekers reunited with their fleet and used Junkion technology to mimic the frequency of the Ark and lure the Nemesis into a trap where they would destroy it with the Requiem Blaster. Once the trap had been sprung, Megatron proposed an alliance between the Decepticons and Star Seekers. However, when Megatron suggested that he be in charge of this alliance, both sides came to blows.

The nimbler Nemesis took advantage of the Requiem Blaster's high energy consumption rate to have the pirates detach the weapon before it moved in for the kill, damaging the Tidal Wave to the point of retreat. As the Star Seekers fled, Thundertron swore that he and Megatron would cross blades again. The Decepticon leader did not share this opinion, overriding pursuit of the pirates in favor of continuing to hunt the Autobots.

Primax 509.28 Epsilon
The Star Seekers rescued Tornado and Ferak from Autobot pursuers and enlisted them as part of their crew, the Decepticon duo joining them on a series of epic space adventures as the pirates gathered enough resources for a heist. Once all the necessary supplies had been gathered, the Tidal Wave time traveled to the year 2984 whereupon Cannonball intended to siphon away the Energon reserves of a now peaceful and defenseless Cybertron.

Recruiting the Decepticon Flamewar, the Star Seekers travelled to the Galadria Space Bridge Outpost in the Delta Prysmos Sector to use the space bridge to enter Unicron's head, intending to use the deceased god's systems to drain the planet. As they schemed, the pirates were confronted by the Cybertronian Knights, who revealed that Cybertron was now a technorganic planet and no longer ran on pure energon as a result. Feeling like plonkers, the pirates were taken into custody.

After breaking free of the prison, the Star Seekers began a new quest for the spark of the immortal Decepticon Seeker Starscream heading to the planet "Shut-Up-Tornado-I'm-Trying-To-Think" in the Unknown Sector where they found but a decrepit Quintesson who asked for passage off the planet in exchange for Starscream's location.

In short order it was revealed that Starscream's spirit had possessed the Quintesson, abandoning its body for Cannonball's, reformatting it to suit his needs. Backed by Flamewar, Starscream took control of the ship before stranding both Cannonball's own spark and a third of the Star Seekers on "Shut-Up-Tornado-I'm-Trying-To-Think".

Primax 215.19 Epsilon
After the technologically superior Human Confederacy had declared the Great War over, the Decepticon Star Dasher signed on to the Star Seekers. The group enjoyed a successful career until they ran afoul of some Nebulan Headmasters who dragged the Star Seekers back to Cybertron, ending their plundering.