Salvage (Recyclon)

Salvage is a Recyclon in the Generation 1 continuity.

Salvage is governed by two motivations; ambition and fear. As Commander of the Reclamation, he hungered for promotion, but feared the retribution failure would bring from his masters, the Harvest Lords of Sigrath. However, he does truly believe in the Harvest Lords' mission of galactic cleansing, and will allow nothing to get in the way of his pursuit of recyclables - not innocent life-forms, or even the safety of his own crew.

As per his rank, he is the most humanoid crew member of the Reclamation crew. He is tall and sleek, with a humanoid face and dark blue exterior plating. He possesses two wrist-blasters.

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While scouring the galaxy for recyclables, Salvage was alterted to the presense of a huge junk deposit by Assessor. That deposit turned out to be the fabled planet of Junk. Sensing the opportunity for a promotion, Salvage landed the Reclamation on the planet's surface and began to power up the Prime Processing Unit. Before he could begin converting the junk to energy, however, he was confronted by Wreck-Gar, who Salvage quickly blew away with his blasters. Undaunted, Wreck-Gar swiftly repaired himself and summoned an army of Junkions. In the brief skirmish that followed, the Recyclons were rerouted by the bizarre mechanoids; Salvage himself was hit by Wreck-Gar's decelerator laser and nearly decapitated.

Badly beaten, the Recyclons fled back to the Reclamation and took off. Repaired and armed with a plan devised by Assessor, Salvage returned to the planet in a landing pod, alone. He made a show of making peace with Wreck-Gar, only to blast him with a knock-off of his own decelerator laser, paralyzing the Junkion leader. As the Prime Processing Unit powered up aboard the Reclamation and prepared to convert the planet and its inhabitants to energy, Salvage walked confidently back to his pod. Wreck-Gar, however, recovered in time to order his Junkions to grab the ship with a tractor beam, slamming it into the planet and destroying it. As Salvage looked on in horror, the Junkions began to move in on him...