Dread slaves

The Dread slaves are aliens forced to work for the Orb.

When the Orbs figured out that the death crystals growing on the behemoth Chaos were, like, the greatest ammo ever, they also figured out it would be both wiser and easier to get others to do the collecting for them. So they captured every defenseless robot that they came across and forced them to mine the crystals lying around the entrance to Chaos's lair. In the span of several millennia, the Orbs brought together hundreds of slaves on Dread, only one of whom ever managed to escape.

History

The Transformers cartoon

About 100,000 years ago, Kup ended up on Dread and was captured by the Orbs. Made to work in the mines of Queeg Mountain as one of the many slaves, his chance for escape came when he first encountered Chaos. During one of his shifts, the group of shrikebats entered the mine and attacked the workers, the sound rousing Chaos from his part of the cavern. Kup used the, uhh, chaos its arrival created to make a run for it, during which he came by the slave cells. The occupants begged him to free them, but because Chaos showed up again, Kup couldn't afford to stay long enough to do so.

MUX History

Kup's act of selfishness would haunt him for the rest of his existence (so far, at least). When the Decepticons arrived on Dread to take over, they immediately killed half the Orb, and put the rest to work in the same manner that the Orb had forced others to work in the mines.

In 2016, Kup returned to Dread and freed the slaves, including members of Kup's former recon team. The Dread slaves were patched up by the Autobots and returned to their planets of origin.

Notes

• The script refers to the three speaking slaves as "Slave Robot", "Imprisoned Robot #1" and "Imprisoned Robot #2".^[1] "Slave Robot" is of the red model and "Imprisoned Robot #1" is of the brown model. By process of elimination and ignoring all the "extra crowd filler"-material, this would imply that the unseen "Imprisoned Robot #2" is of the blue model.
• The early script called for the slaves to be organic aliens, and they even had character models developed. The final, aired version replaced these organic slaves with robots, presumably because organic creatures don't live for many thousands of years. Jim Sorenson posted the organic aliens' designs on his blog.^[2] These models did appear in the episode very briefly, when Kup frees the prisoners, and were reused as patrons of the diner that Sandstorm and Octane stop at in "Starscream's Ghost".

References

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