Shokaract

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

Now you FEAR ME... now you don't!

Once a low-level Predacon Warrior known as The Hunter, 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.

"Foolish, doomed creatures! The fires of a living god beat at my dark heart! The end of everything is upon us; the long night of oblivion beckons--for you ALL! ....and you in particular."

―Shokaract to the army against him, and then to Sandstorm specifically, "Terminus"

Fiction

3H comic continuity

This is gonna hurt...

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 13 Original 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*.

The lowly Predacon grunt who otherwise would have found the Dark Essence and turned into Shokaract was last seen continuing to be a lowly grunt, of no importance whatsoever.

(Note: Shokaract said his reign had benefited from actions taken by Megatron during Beast Machines, but he did not elaborate.)

IDW comic continuity

Beetlejuice--Beetlejuice--Beetlejuice!

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. The Ascending, Part 1

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.

Shokaract transforms into a Transmetal king crab with a third tank mode. In beast mode Shokaract features fully articulated crab legs and pincers that can open and close and be posed in a variety of angles through the use of ratcheting joints. His tri-barrel gatling missile launcher was stored on the underside of the beast mode, with its barrels flipping to the front during vehicle mode. In this tank mode, the crab legs fit together to form a road wheel network for Shokaract's rubber treads to be fitted over and roll upon. Rolling the tank activates the wheel in the missile launcher, having up to three missiles fire off.

In robot mode Shokaract is an imposingly large figure, with a decent level of articulation due to his ball joints, but because of the fact he wears most of his beast mode as a sort of backpack, he is quite back-heavy. His (very) small laser rifle and his triple barrel launcher can be held in both of his hands.

External links

• Shokaract at TFU.info