Shadow Raider

Shadow Raiders are a race of technorganic humanoids from an unknown planet, possibly Cybertron.

Anatomy
Shadow Raiders are faceless, techno-organic humanoids around the same scale as Cybertronians.

Powers and abilities
Certain Shadow Raiders possess transformation abilities akin to Cybertronians.

Shadow Raiders appear to have dominion over the Knight Ship Drones, as one deployed a Ball Drones to search for intruders in narrow spaces.

Culture and society
Shadow Raiders are generally foot soldiers and/or guards for hire. Those under the command of Lockdown are regularly dispatched to eliminate any intruders aboard his ship.

Background
Centuries ago, Lockdown was tasked by the mysterious Creators of the Cybertronians to capture all their rogue "knights." At some point, he a commandeered and converted a spaceship that had once belonged to the knights themselves into a mobile prison for containing and transporting his various captives.

Over the course of his journey, Lockdown assembled a small army of Shadow Raiders to help guard his captives. When one such prisoner named Sojex managed to escape captivity, the Shadow Raiders attempted to assist their captain in recapturing her only to be told to stand down.

By 2013, Lockdown succeeded in capturing all of the knights save for Autobot leader Optimus Prime. Detecting the energy signature of a collapsing space bridge, he travelled to Earth to acquire this last prize.

Arriving in early 2016, Lockdown landed somewhere in the Arctic and joined forces with the CIA black-ops taskforce Cemetery Wind. The Shadow Raiders would remain aboard the knight ship while Lockdown assisted Cemetery Wind in hunting Cybertronians on Earth.

Present Day
In 2018, multiple Shadow Raiders were present on the roof of the knight ship when Cemetery Wind's leader Harold Attinger requested an audience with Lockdown regarding their progress with Optimus' capture.

When the Autobots infiltrated Lockdown's ship to rescue Optimus and Tessa Yeager, Shadow Raiders were seen patrolling the ship and observing Lockdown reward Cemetery Wind with a cyberforming Seed. During a skirmish with Cade Yeager and Shane Dyson, several Shadow Raiders were killed when the humans activated some sword-guns from an armory within the ship.

When they and Tessa managed to escape the knight ship with Bumblebee's help, Shadow Raiders chased after them and Crosshairs aboard their Orbital Assault Carriers. However, everyone who was airborne either crashed or got shot down.

When Lockdown discovered that the Knights' Temenos was missing, Shadow Raiders were present on the knight ship's bridge when he ordered them to turn the ship around and return to Earth. Arriving in Hong Kong, a Shadow Raider attacked the Autobots using an Orbital Assault Carrier, managing to down Bumblebee and Strafe before getting killed by Slug.

It is unknown what happened to the Shadow Raiders by the time the Autobots commandeered the knight ship. It is likely that they were either killed or captured in skirmishes with the Transformers Reaction Force.