Psycho-Orb

Psycho-Orb is a Decepticon from the Robotmasters portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

So evil, his chest has glowing eyes too!

A Predacon born on ancient Earth during the time of the Beast Wars, Psycho-Orb (サイコオーブ Saiko Ōbu) followed his leader Megatron through the Blastizone, ending up in the year 2004 and helping him take over the Decepticons in the absence of their Megatron.

Psycho-Orb's defensive capabilities are highly advanced; his beast mode shell is nearly impenetrable and can withstand temperatures up to 6000 °C. He also has the ability to move objects via psychokinesis, giving him unique combat capabilities.

Fiction

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If he stays out in the sun for much longer he'll start to look even more familiar.

Psycho-Orb travelled with Beast Megatron from Energoa to 2004 Earth. There, Psycho-Orb joined Megatron in his hunt for solitarium. Change in Command: The Usurper Decepticon Psycho-Orb was subsequently one of the Decepticons under Beast Megatron's leadership in the battle for solitarium. The New Battle Begins! With Air Hunter and Wrecker Hook, Pscyho-Orb beat up R-Blade, but the Autobot was saved by the arrival of Optimus Primal, who Psycho-Orb was familiar with. The Decepticon trio were sent flying away by the Maximal. To War! Optimus Primal

As part of a plot to overthrow Beast Megatron, Starscream forged the Arsenal Force weapons; out of this set, Psycho-Orb received the Calamity Defenser shield. Starscream Grins 3 Times... Psycho-Orb was later at the base to hear of G1 Megatron's return and joined the others in leaving the base to prepare for a trap for the Autobots. Strategic Meeting: The Mysterious New Warrior The Decepticons had one final battle with the Autobots over the solitarium. After three days of constant fighting, the Decepticons were defeated and all warriors returned to their proper times and places. And Then

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With the Arsenal Force, Beast Megatron powered up Psycho-Orb, along with his comrades. However, this did not last long, as Victory Saber appeared to foil the plot and dissipated the Arsenal Force energy. Robotmasters Vol. 3

Beast Wars: Uprising

Psycho-Orb was the Predacon assistant to the Builder administrator of Protihex. During the Grand Uprising, Psycho-Orb pulled off a genius coup by locking his supervisor Icepick out of his own computer network, allowing the Resistance to capture Protihex intact. Safe Spaces

This assured his quick rise in the Resistance hierarchy, and he became one of their top generals serving with High Command by V-Day. While Cybershark advised on the war front efforts and advance into Builder territory, Psycho-Orb focused on consolidating existing Resistance territory, maintaining their hold, and moderating supplies and production of needed materials. He also worked on relations with the independent warlords who seized ground for themselves. Shokaract of Hyperious proved somewhat easier to negotiate with than Queen Rage...of Rageland. The most curious of his reports was the loss of communications with Carpessa and later Damaxus. By the time his scouts failed to report back in, the Resistance learned from other sources just how dire that comms blackout really was.

The rise of the Vehicons was a game-changer. Psycho-Orb's homeland of Protihex was obliterated by Resistance K-Class bombs along with Damaxus and Carpessa, desperately trying to contain the drones before their infection spread to assimilate more proto-formers. The action failed. A large number of Vehicons survived Protihex. The Resistance dispatched their forces from the Tri-Torus region to oppose Vehicon advance. They failed. Polyhex, Petrohex, and Dodecahex were consumed, raising the probably number of converted Vehicons to 350,000, well above the number of active Resistance soldiers. The Resistance was left with no choice but to abandon caution and push immediately into Iacon itself, hoping that seizing the capital and the Builder Assembly would allow them to call off the Vehicons.

In order to press onwards to Iacon, the Yuss Naval Batteries could not be firing on the Resistance Navy when they traversed the Great Rust Sea. And so, the Resistance fought to seize the seven fortresses guarding the batteries, and the batteries themselves. Psycho-Orb led the successful siege on Fort Wenx. The Maxilla was conquered and the batteries seized, but at great cost. No longer having the necessary naval ships to transport the army up the Sea, the Resistance had to proceed largely on foot to Iacon. They began to double-time it once they realized Hot Rod, commander of the Micromaster 001st in Iacon, was refusing to engage in open warfare in the streets and risk civilians. The enemy's general had, effectively, left the front door open to them.

At the High Pavilion of Iacon, Psycho-Orb and B'Boom advanced their units into the temple itself, battling the remaining Temple Guard that stood between them and the Builder Assembly. Psycho-Orb's Angry Asteroids reached a bottleneck in the corridors that seemed ripe for an ambush. He directed Snarl-blast to test their advance, and she prepped a pulse grenade to root out any attackers. Abruptly, however, Psycho-Orb's paranormal senses detected an attack from a different direction...zirconium gas from the vents. Auto-cannons emerged from the floor behind them, prodding the Asteroids forward into the gas. Psycho-Orb soon found that forward was unwise too, as two Micromaster tanks waited around the corner for fleeing troops.

Injured and dying from the tank blasts, Psycho-Orb located Snarl-blast's fallen grenade and telekinetically guided it along the floor to the Micromasters. He detonated the grenade under the Builders, killing himself and his opponents, but opening the way for the rest of the Asteroids to force through past the gas. Derailment

Toys

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Aren't feet guns awesome?

• Psycho-Orb (2004)

• ID number: RM-09
• Release date: July 15, 2004
• Accessories: Mace/foot, blaster/foot, "Calamity Defenser" shield

Part of the first wave of Takara's Robotmasters toys, Psycho-Orb is a redeco of the Beast Wars Basic Class Maximal Armordillo, transforming into a large Brazilian armadillo, with a single-step spring-loaded transformation. His rear beast mode legs detach to form weapons; a non-firing blaster and a spiked-ball-and-chain.

Unique to this version of the mold is the clear-plastic solitarium "weapon", the "Calamity Defenser" shield. This item can be combined with the other Decepticons' solitarium weapons to form the mega-weapon Arsenal Force.

This mold was also used to make Bump.

• More information on Psycho-Orb at TFU.info

Notes

• Beast Wars: Uprising gives Psycho-Orb a Russian accent.