Orthia
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- Orthia is an Autobot Combiner from the Generation 1 continuity family.
At the dawn of life on Cybertron, the legendary, godlike warsmith Solus Prime created a team of warriors who would carry on after her—the Shield of Solus. Though their destiny is not at first known to them, when these five female Autobots combine in Cybertron's darkest hour, they become the mighty Orthia, a last line of defense who can herself forge mystical, powerful weaponry! Selfless and courageous, she will bring hope to her world's bleakest chapter.
These five warriors are:
- Elita-1 (torso)
- Moonracer (right arm)
- Novastar (left arm)
- Greenlight (left leg)
- Lancer (right leg)
Elita-1 can also form Elita-Infin1te by combining with four random Autobots. (Or possibly even Decepticons?)
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Fiction
War for Cybertron Trilogy marketing material
Solus Prime of the Thirteen planted her godly power within five chosen warriors: the Shield of Solus. This quintet, led by Elita-1, were gifted the power to combine into the mighty Orthia, a giantess inheriting Solus's ability to forge weapons of immense power to light Cybertron's darkest hour. Siege Teletraan-1 Data Files
Generations Selects Special Comic
Orthia stood alongside Superion as Optimus Prime gave the command for his troops to prepare their defenses against the corrosive gas bombs. Volcanicus comic 2 She was present when the Terrorcons attacked the Selectors, Autobots and Decepticons on the Quintessons' orders. The female combiner didn't last five minutes in battle, as Blot shot anti-electron ooze at Orthia with his slime gun, splitting her up into her five components. Abominus comic 1
Toys
Generations
- Elita-1 (Power of the Primes Voyager Class, 2018)
- Moonracer (Power of the Primes Deluxe Class, 2018)
- Novastar (Power of the Primes Deluxe Class, 2018)
- Greenlight (Siege Deluxe Class, 2019)
- Lancer (Siege Selects Deluxe Class, 2019)
- Known designers: John Warden (Hasbro), Emiliano Santalucia and Ken Christiansen (concept art)
- Orthia's components were released over the course of two years: First the Power of the Primes line gave us Voyager Class Elita-1 and Deluxe Class Moonracer, who was later redecoed (with a new head and weapon) into Novastar. In 2019, the War for Cybertron: Siege line then gave us Greenlight, a more extensive retool of Moonracer/Novastar, who was released as an Amazon exclusive two-pack with Dazzlestrike, followed shortly afterwards by Lancer (a new-head redeco of Greenlight), released as part of the Siege-tied Selects range.
- As a Power of the Primes-style Combiner, the Voyager-sized Elita-1 forms Orthia's torso, while each of the four smaller Deluxe-sized figures (which are all using the same engineering) can form either limb. The Prime Armor accessories included with each of the limb figures serves as the hands, whereas the Prime Armor pieces included with Elita-1 become the feet. (The other two limb figures' Prime Armor pieces can also be attached to the feet as heel stabilizers.) Additionally, a Prime Master, Matrix core, or Enigma of Combination (such as the "Autobot Enigma" that is included with Elita) can be installed within Orthia's chest, hands, or feet.
- Moonracer's weapon can also be combined with Novastar's (or Lancer's for a consistent black color) weapon to form a larger weapon for Orthia to wield. The remaining gun can also combine with Dazzlestrike's saber mode if one wishes.
- As Elita-1, Moonracer, and Novastar are the only components released in Japan by TakaraTomy, fans must resort to importing the other two team members to complete their Orthias.
Notes
- "Orthia" (Ὀρθία) is an alternate name for the Greek goddess Artemis, mostly used in Sparta.
- It appears Hasbro initially had no plans to complete an all-female Combiner during the course of the Power of the Primes line: Elita-1's instructions showed a combined form that featured Power of the Primes Deluxe Class Sludge and Snarl as the arms, and Moonracer and Jazz as the legs, whereas artwork depicted on the side of Elita, Moonracer, Jazz, and Novastar's packaging instead showed the combined form as featuring Moonracer and Novastar as arms, and Jazz and Ricochet (who wouldn't be released until much later, also as a Selects figure) as the legs. During their panel presentation at New York Toy Fair 2018, Hasbro dubbed the Combiner that uses Elita-1 as its torso "Elita-Infin1te". With the release of Novastar, it appeared at first as if that was indeed the full extent of what Hasbro would release in terms of combining members of the 1985 female Autobots. However, in 2019, stock photos of Greenlight were suddenly revealed to the public. An advance sample revealed that the packaging featured the blacklight code "Lancer" in "Ancient Autobot" writing, which, when entered into a decoder on Hasbro's website, unlocked the schematics for a combiner identified as "Orthia", with Elita as the torso, Moonracer and Novastar as the arms, and Greenlight and a "classified" bot as the legs. Not long after Greenlight was officially released in the U.S., Lancer started popping up in Asia without any prior announcement.
- The difference between Elita-Infin1te and Orthia (one being any random combination that has Elita-1 as its torso, whereas the other is a combination of Elita with four very specific female Autobots) mirrors the distinction between Ultra Prime and Optimus Maximus, and possibly also between Betatron and Computron or Modulus.
Foreign names
- Japanese: Orthia (オーシア Ōshia)