Shokaract


 * Shokaract is a Predacon in the Beast Wars portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.



Once a low-level Predacon Warrior, Shokaract chanced upon the dark essence of Unicron himself. Recognizing Unicron's unrivaled power, Shokaract used the Chaos God's life force to create the Matrix of Conquest, a twisted version of the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. With Unicron's dark power at his fingertips, Shokaract now pursues only one goal: to become Overlord of the Universe.

3H comic continuity
At the dawn of time, Primus foresaw the eventual rise of Shokaract, and sired the 13 Transformers of the Covenant (not to be confused with the Original 13 Transformers) to lay in wait in the distant Protos system and hone their skills for the day they would eventually face the tyrant.

By the 32nd century C.E., Shokaract had completely enslaved Cybertron and most of the known galaxy. From his citadel at Korumcan, he directed his heralds Antagony and Cataclysm to exterminate uncooperative alien races and break and demoralize the few scattered Cybertronian resistance fighters.

The resistance spawned the Predacon / Autobot hybrid warrior Windrazor and sent him back to the ancient past to destroy the dark essence. But Shokaract himself followed his would-be assassin back in time, handily routing Windrazor and the Maximals. As the battle progressed, dozens of Maximals and Predacons from various timelines and realities would materialize on prehistoric Earth and join the fray, only to be more or less instantly and effortlessly disintegrated by Shokaract.

Roused from their seclusion in J'nwan, legendary ancient Transformer heroes and villains would also arrive to fight the dark lord, and they had somewhat better luck. But the battle was finally decided when the Covenant converted themselves into raw energy and entered the Matrix of Conquest. In that alternate plane they were able to sever the link between Earth's ancient past and Unicron's future deposition of the dark essence there--erasing Shokaract's origin and causing his immediate nullification. The surviving Transformers who had fought him managed to teleport back to their dimensions of origin just before that entire reality went *POOF*.

IDW comic continuity


Shokaract emerged again at some point in Cybertron's future to slay all the Transformers and summon Unicron to devour the planet. Magmatron's astral self witnessed this horrible event many times.

Whether Shokaract has any direct involvement in ongoing storylines is yet to be revealed. How he managed to survive that whole "origin and entire reality erased from the multiverse--past, present, and future" thing will probably never be revealed.

Toys

 * Shokaract (Ultra, 2000)


 * A BotCon 2000-exclusive, Shokaract is an extensive brown, blue and teal redeco of Beast Wars Rampage. He came in packaging superficially resembling late Japanese Generation 1 toy packaging.