Sunstreaker

Sunstreaker was created on Cybertron during the early cycles of the Great War between the Autobots and the Decepticons. He was constructed alongside his twin brother, Sideswipe, and the two served as a dedicated frontline duo within the Autobot ranks. When the energy reserves of Cybertron reached a critical low, Sunstreaker was among the elite group of warriors chosen by Optimus Prime to board the Ark. Their mission was to locate new energy sources in deep space to sustain the Autobot resistance.

During the mission, the Ark was intercepted by Megatron’s forces, resulting in a boarding action that sent the ship spiraling out of control. The vessel crashed into a volcano on prehistoric Earth, leaving Sunstreaker and the rest of the crew in stasis for four million years. In 1984, a volcanic eruption triggered the ship’s computer, Teletraan-1, which repaired and reformatted Sunstreaker into a yellow Lamborghini Countach. Since then, he has served as a primary combatant in the ongoing struggle to protect Earth from Decepticon exploitation.

Appearance: Sunstreaker's grey head is enclosed in a black helmet featuring yellow side panels with horizontal black ridges. His eyes are glowing light blue. His chest is composed of a wide, flat yellow panel bearing a red geometric insignia in the center. A large, dark-tinted windshield slopes inward beneath the yellow chest plate. His midsection and waist are constructed of segmented black components with small red rectangular details. His shoulders are encased in large yellow blocks, with the right shoulder showing a dark recessed section containing vertical red lines. The upper arms are silver metal. His blocky yellow forearms feature black horizontal stripes and round grey joints at the elbows. His hands are made of segmented silver blocks. A silver cylindrical weapon with a tiered barrel is held in his left hand. His upper legs are thick, rectangular yellow structures. The lower legs are massive and yellow, each featuring a small, angled window with a blue tint near the knee. Black and dark grey rectangular blocks are mounted on the outer sides of the lower legs. Two bright red circular lights are visible on the side block of the right leg. His feet are formed by angular yellow sections with slanted, wedge-like front edges.

Personality: Sunstreaker is defined by a level of narcissism that borders on a clinical obsession. He firmly believes he is the most beautiful machine ever constructed, and he treats his yellow chassis as a sacred work of art rather than a combat frame. This vanity makes him incredibly difficult to work with; he is arrogant, aloof, and frequently condescending toward any Autobot he deems "plain" or "functionally ugly." In battle, his ego manifests as a cold, ruthless perfectionism. He doesn't just want to win; he wants to win without sustaining a single scratch to his paint job, often taking unnecessary risks to ensure he looks flawless while dismantling his enemies.

His most complex and vital relationship is with his twin brother, Sideswipe. While the two are a legendary combat duo, their personalities are polar opposites. Where Sideswipe is a reckless, fun-loving thrill-seeker, Sunstreaker is a grim, self-absorbed elitist. Despite their constant bickering and Sunstreaker's insistence that he is the superior twin, their spark-bond allows them to anticipate each other's moves with uncanny precision. Beyond his brother, Sunstreaker’s relations with the rest of the Autobots are strained at best. He generally views humans as "flesh-creatures" that are beneath his notice, and he often treats his teammates as mere background characters in the grand story of his own brilliance.

He uses a pulse blaster.

The Autobots usually find themselves defending both their own race and other species against the Decepticons and upholding justice and freedom throughout the galaxy. A generally heroic, honorable group, they tend to be dedicated to peace, and feel a need to protect other races from the Decepticons. As a result, they are usually Transformers who change into non-combat oriented alternate modes such as domestic vehicles, cars, trucks, or rescue vehicles. This is not always the case, however, as their ranks certainly contain ne'er-do-wells, malcontents, and unsavory types, and the necessities of war have led many to adopt more combat-oriented alternate forms. While the Autobots have usually found themselves outnumbered by the Decepticons, the Autobots have always had home-field advantage, having not only the humans' military support, but also having more places on Earth to fall back on, while the Decepticons are entirely unwelcome on Earth. Key concepts that repeat throughout most continuities are the use of the name Prime (or a variation thereof) to denote Autobot leadership, and the existence of an artifact of great life-giving power, usually referred to as a "Matrix", traditionally held by their leader.

The Decepticons are a faction typically concerned with such things as conquering Cybertron, defeating the Autobots, amassing large quantities of energon, developing powerful weaponry, and beating people up. Not necessarily in that order. Unlike the Autobots, whose leader is a Prime bearing a Matrix, the Decepticons are led by the most powerful of their ranks. This tends to cause some conflict, given how generally every Decepticon thinks that they're the most powerful. Also, the Decepticons are not exactly the most compassionate beings in the universe, but not all fight for greed. More than a few have a sense of honor, while others believe that Cybertron would be better protected by aggressive expansion. Ultimately, the Decepticons desire to protect their homeworld, even if it is at the expense of others.

The spark is the core of Transformer life, an electrically charged mass of positrons formed from the supernatural substance known as Rarified Energon. Sparks come in a wide range of colors—while most are some shade of blue, green, yellow, orange, white, and red sparks have all been observed. While their appearances may vary, every spark functions as a combined heart and soul for an individual Cybertronian: like a heart, a Spark "pulses" at a certain frequency to animate a mechanical bodyframe; like a soul, a spark is generally accepted to contain some part of a Transformer's immaterial being, which persists after death by transcending into the afterlife. Indeed, most Cybertronian religions hold that each spark contains an infinitesimally small portion of Primus's divine essence. To protect their sparks, which usually can't survive outside of a compatible body for very long, most Cybertronians possess a specialized "spark chamber" somewhere in their body.

Most forms of Cybertronian reproduction involves the creation of a new spark—in many realities, supernatural artifacts such as the Vector Sigma supercomputer or the AllSpark can generate sparks at will, which can be implanted into a suitable receptacle to create a new Transformer. These newborn sparks contain the hard-coded design schematics that act as a Transformer's "genetic code", which dictates a Transformer's appearance and sometimes even their alternate modes. Sparks can be safely stored in stasis pods, "frozen" within photonic crystals, or even transplanted from one body to another with no ill effects, but they are susceptible to weapons fire and exotic forms of radiation. When a Transformer's body can no longer support its spark, it is "extinguished" and the Transformer is considered dead. As long as the spark is intact, however, it is possible to repair a Transformer, re-implant its spark, and effectively bring them back from the dead.