Name: Skylift
Gender/Pronouns: Female presenting/identifying, She/Her
Faction: Autobot
Species: Cybertronian;
CamienAppearance: Skylift is a large transformer; similar in size to such outliers as Broadside, Roadbuster and other such
big transformers. She has a bulky, large frame and form, heavily built and forged for great strength and stamina. Her role was envisioned as heavy logistics; moving things and bots wherever they were needed with power and ease.
She took on her Earthen Alt-mode after the survivors of Caminus were teleported to Earth.
Personality:Skylift is a somewhat shy and introverted bot. She has a big heart to go with her big body, and her shell of shy, quiet and recessive traits hides a strong sense of justice, kindness and care.
Skylift loves the natural world, the environment and all things living. She adores and appreciates life in all its' forms, be it mechanical or organic, and the sheer diversity of it that exists across the multiverse. Protecting life, exploring it and experiencing it and enjoying it is her passion, and she can while away hours just basking in natural landscapes.
However, reluctant as she is, she will still fight when pushed and especially so to defend the same things she holds dear. She will be reluctant to kill on most occasions - but anyone, or anything that acts with cruelty or callousness toward life or otherwise abuses their power and authority to exploit others will receive the full scope of her wrath, strength and power.
Her shyness and detachment from others has lead to her being somewhat of an outcast or
persona non grata in Camien society, due to her inability to find an
Amica Endura within the expected ten megacycles. Despite being comfortable with her own company, she does have a quiet yearning for someone to share her love for such things with, and worries about her own inadequacies, especially in the eyes of her fellow Camiens.
Backstory:Skylift was born out of the Camien
hot spot. Her spark was a
Point One Percenter type, that lead to her unusual size and stature.
The enormous size of her alt-mode and physical body lead to her being disassociated with a lot of her fellow Camiens due to the need for large scale living and working areas and so many of her peers being smaller and thus in places she couldn't easily get to. This in turn, along with her strength and durability often leading her to be clumsy and unintentionally destructive, lead to her isolation.
However, her massive size, strength, stamina and her airborne alt-mode were greatly useful in helping to move large numbers of other transformers and outsize equipment around. It was not a glamorous role, nor a particularly distinctive one or one full of glory on the battlefield - when she was faced with combat - and her lumbering aerial transport mode wasn't agile or especially fast, nor capable of flight outside of an atmosphere. However, she was still reliable, useful, and filled with an excess of stamina and strength.
One thing that
did make her stand out from her fellow Camiens, however - while most Camiens eschewed the use of ranged energy weapons in favour of swords or bladed weapons to conserve energy, she adopted a solid, projectile weapon that still avoided the use of precious energy - something even more vital given her enormous size and energy consumption.
Skylift fought a few battles over her time, but avoided most of the major battles following the rediscovery of the lost colony by Cybertronians following the end of the Great War, though did end up tangling with Maximals on a few occasions. Like her fellow Camiens, she could barely avoid the fighting that erupted during Unicron's rise and the culmination of Shockwave's masterful strategies.
She evacuated to Earth via teleport with the rest of the Camien people, and has found herself in a handful of dangerous situations across various planets since then.
Alt-mode: Skylift's alternate mode is an Earthen
Airbus A400M Atlas Transport Plane.
Her
original one is a similar-looking turboprop-driven heavy air transport plane.
Abilities: Due to her large size, Skylift is able to carry several average-sized or smaller Transformers or similar-sized occupants within her cargo hold. Her internal bay is pressurized and sealed, and is thus safe for organic life-forms, even in space or underwater, even if she cannot fly in her aircraft mode in such environments.
As a Point One Percenter, she has remarkable strength, stamina and durability. She also seems to be remarkably fuel-efficient compared to other transformers of her size and power.
Weapons:Despite her size, Skylift is surprisingly light in armaments and weapons. She has a short, retractable blade in each wrist, as well as a medium-sized, standard projectile assault rifle (which, given her size is more like a heavy machine gun or autocannon to regular size bots).
Her aircraft mode has no offensive weapons, just decoy chaff and flare launchers.
