KSI Sentries are a subspecies of Earth Transformer Soldiers from the planet Earth.
Biology[]
Anatomy[]
KSI Sentries share a similar biology to other Cybertronians, except they transform into differently colored Chevrolet Traxes.
Powers and abilities[]
KSI Sentries share many of the same abilities as other Cybertronians.
Similar to other KSI Cybertronians, Sentries possess "hypno-transformation", in which they explode into a cloud of living metal particles and reform into either their robot or alternate modes.[1]
Weaknesses[]
KSI Sentries share many of the same weaknesses as other Cybertronians.
Culture and society[]
Manufactured by Kinetic Solutions Incorporated, KSI Sentries were originally designed as combat drones[2] programmed to defend Humans from invading Cybertronians. However, when Galvatron took control of KSI's prototypes, they were reprogrammed into Decepticons.
As a result of Galvatron removing KSI's original programming, the Sentries would develop their own personalities over time.
History[]
After the Decepticon invasion of Chicago in 2013, Kinetic Solutions Incorporated began reverse engineering Cybertronian corpses in an attempt to exploit the reconfigurable properties of their living metal and create man-made Cybertronians for military use. Over the next five years, the company built as many as fifty remote-control Cybertronian drones including an assortment of KSI Sentries.
When Megatron possessed KSI's prized prototype Galvatron in 2018, he reprogrammed the KSI Sentries into Decepticons to help him liberate a protomatter Seed. Arriving in Hong Kong, one such Sentry shot down the Knights' Temenos when the Autobots attempted to retrieve the Seed from KSI CEO Joshua Joyce.
The KSI Decepticons would engage the Autobots in a climactic battle, during which many Sentries were killed by either Bumblebee or Hound as they defended the humans. When Optimus Prime entered the battle alongside the Dinobots, more Sentries were killed by the charging Grimlock, Slug, and Scorn. Shortly after Lockdown was killed by Optimus, several more Sentries were caught in the blast radius of one of Lockdown's grenade.
In the years that followed the battle of Hong Kong, many surviving KSI Decepticons were left to their own devices in Megatron's absence. Several of these Sentries sought to embrace their freedom by allying with the Autobots, albeit without directly defecting to them. Many were either killed or captured in skirmishes with the Transformers Reaction Force while others relocated to friendly countries such as Cuba.
Gallery[]
Notes[]
- These KSI Cybertronians went unnamed in Transformers: Age of Extinction and various media for several years until the release of the Studio Series toy in 2018.
- At the time of the film's release, the Sentries were initially referred to as "Traxes" in an LA Times article discussing General Motors' Chinese marketing for the Trax car,[3] though this may have been a misunderstanding.
- Despite popular misbelief, the KSI Sentries are unrelated to the Cemetery Wind-themed Vehicons.
References[]
- ↑ "ILM Turns Up Its Transformers Toolset," FXGuide
- ↑ Studio Series Deluxe Class KSI Sentry toy packaging bio
- ↑ http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-transformers-cars-20140614-story.html