The Sweeps
Macabre
Allegiance: Decepticon
Subgroup: Sweeps
Function: Electric Warrior/Sweep second in command
Alt. modes: Cybertronian Hovercraft
Weapons: Heat laser, disintegrator cannons
Special Abilities: Robot Flight Mode, enhanced sensors, ability to escape earth’s gravity, ability to generate massive blasts of electricity (-6)
Height: 31ft / 9.46m
Quote:
“Death comes with the crash of thunder and crackle of lightning.”
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Profile: Formerly a second rate assassin, Macabre’s twisted and burnt frame was used for experiments to create powerful Decepticon warriors to serve under Scourge. With his new found power Macabre has become far more arrogant, disdaining most non-sweep Decepticons, particularly the Seekers, who he sees as the ‘old guard.’ He seeks to raise the Sweeps to the elite position within the ranks where they truly belong. His loyalty to Scourge, Cyclonus and Megatron is absolute.
Abilities: While Macabre only boasts average strength and combat skills, his electrical powers more than make up for it. He can generate massive bolts of electricity from his hands, shorting out electrical circuits and doing severe damage to other Transformers. In hovercraft mode, he is armed with disintegrator cannons that break down the molecular bonds of targets, dissipating them. In robot mode, he is armed with a heat laser that can turn most armor into slag. He also possesses the advanced sensors and space flight capabilities common to all of the Sweeps.
Weaknesses: Macabre’s ambition often makes him disliked outside of the ranks of the Sweeps and High Command. Other non-Sweep Decepticons are often reluctant to come to his aid in battle.
Carnage
Allegiance: Decepticon
Subgroup: Sweeps
Function: Warrior
Alt. modes: Cybertronian Hovercraft
Weapons: Heat laser, disintegrator cannons, Wrist mounted energo cutlass
Special Abilities: Robot Flight Mode, enhanced sensors, ability to escape earth’s gravity
Height: 31ft / 9.46m
Quote:
“Killing is my art.”
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Profile: Carnage is a quiet warrior fascinated by death. It is not the pain of death that fascinates her though, but the variety of ways to kill another that captures her imagination. From the painlessness of a blade through the spark to the agony of being torn limb from limb, Carnage views each method of killing as a snapshot of perfection. She considers inventing new ways of killing to be her ‘hobby,’ one in which she takes great pleasure.
Abilities: Carnage is primarily a melee warrior, preferring to get her hands directly dirty in snuffing out the sparks of Autobots. Making her especially lethal in this form of combat is the permanent replacement of her left hand with an energo cutlass. This allows for quicker and stronger cuts and prevents her from ever being disarmed in combat. Her fascination with killing has made her particularly proficient with its use. In robot mode, she is armed with a heat laser that can turn most armor into slag. She also possesses the advanced sensors and space flight capabilities common to all of the Sweeps.
Weaknesses: Carnage’s obsession with creating unique ways of killing often makes her battles longer and more drawn out than they have to be, sometimes resulting in her taking excessive damage or allowing her opponent to escape.
Discord
Allegiance: Decepticon
Subgroup: Sweeps
Function: Warrior
Alt. mode: Cybertronian Hovercraft
Weapons: Heat laser, disintegrator cannons
Special Abilities: Robot Flight Mode, enhanced sensors, ability to escape earth’s gravity
Height: 31ft / 9.46m
Quote:
“I like the finer things in life, like crushing the life out of an Autobot.”
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Profile: Discord, at first, appears to be the most civilized and sociable of the Sweeps. She can be quite charming and is capable of holding an intelligent conversation on a number of topics, especially on the finer things in life. What her enemies realize, usually too late, is that this is all a façade. Her physical and intellectual charms are used to draw her enemies, and even her friends, into a false sense of security. Inside she is a brutal and savage warrior, preferring to rip her enemies apart with her bare hands.
Abilities: Discord’s primary assets are her intelligence and her social skills. She often serves as spokeswoman for the Sweeps when dealing with other groups. She can often use her wits and charms to get whatever she wants. When that fails she can be a fierce fighter, particularly in hand to hand combat. She is a fast and light fighter. In robot mode, she is armed with a heat laser that can turn most armor into slag. She also possesses the advanced sensors and space flight capabilities common to all of the Sweeps.
Weaknesses: Discord is not very powerful physically, possessing only average strength and endurance.
Strife
Allegiance: Decepticon
Subgroup: Sweeps
Function: Warrior
Alt. modes: Cybertronian Hovercraft
Weapons: Heat laser, disintegrator cannons, arm mounted laser cannons, shoulder mounted pulse laser cannons, head mounted gatling cannon
Special Abilities: Robot Flight Mode, enhanced sensors, ability to escape earth’s gravity, telepathic paralysis power (-6)
Height: 31ft / 9.46m
Quote:
“I will blow apart everyone below me.”
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Profile: Strife is arrogant, aloof, and cruel. He cares nothing for his fellow Decepticons or for anyone. He is utterly confident in his own superiority to the point that he believes that he should command the Sweeps. Only the threat and the power of Macabre keep him down, and keep Scourge from taking more drastic action against the Sweep.
Abilities: Strife is a very heavily armed mech, in either mode. He boasts double arm mounted laser cannon and twin shoulder mounted pulse laser cannons. On his head sits a powerful, but short range, mini-gatling cannon. The head and arm mounted weapons are usable in both modes. Possibly more powerful than all of his physical weapons are his mental powers. With a simple gaze he is able to paralyze his opponents. He then enjoys pulverizing them with his guns from a distance. He is also equipped with all standard sweep weapons and abilities.
Weaknesses: Strife’s attitude makes him unpopular even among the ranks of the Sweeps. Strong willed opponents can break out of his paralyzing powers.
Rage
Allegiance: Decepticon
Subgroup: Sweeps
Function: Berserker
Alt. modes: Cybertronian Hovercraft
Weapons: Heat laser, disintegrator cannons, super-heated talons
Special Abilities: Robot Flight Mode, enhanced sensors, ability to escape earth’s gravity, berserker (-4)
Height: 31ft / 9.46m
Quote:
“Kill you all!!!”
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Profile: Her name, quite simply, says it all. Her anger can be triggered by anything. A word, a movement, a look – that is all it takes to awaken her near unlimited wrath. And when she is angry, things die. She is often ordered into battle last, giving her fury time to grow. And when Rage is unleashed, anything within range of her super heated talons is likely to be sliced, diced, gutted and pulverized. Outside of combat, she will continue her destructive tantrums, beating hole in anything within reach.
Abilities: Rage is a monster in melee combat, especially once she is in a full berserker rage. Her super-heated talons let her literally rip apart her foes with her bare hands. She is also equipped with standard sweep weapons and abilities, but rarely uses them, as her anger is best let out in bare handed combat.
Weaknesses: Rage can be very hard to control, especially when she is in berserker mode. Her allies can often become targets if they are not careful.
Rot
Allegiance: Decepticon
Subgroup: Sweeps
Function: Warrior
Alt. modes: Cybertronian Hovercraft
Weapons: Heat laser, disintegrator cannons
Special Abilities: Robot Flight Mode, enhanced sensors, ability to escape earth’s gravity, decaying touch
Height: 31ft / 9.46m
Quote:
“You will share my pain.”
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Profile: On a distant world, one of the first Sweeps encountered a strange artifact. The result was that his body was devastated, twisted, warped and corroded by an unknown force. From the ashes of this contagion, Rot was born. Still infinitely loyal to the Decepticons, he returned to take his place among the Sweeps. Capable of infecting and destroying his enemies through sustained physical contact, Rot is a corrupt, decaying monster, forever in pain and with an unending desire to see others suffer with him.
Abilities: Rot’s most obvious feature is the decaying disease that afflicts him. While it doesn’t do any further harm to him, it is highly contagious and is spread by sustained contact with him. This disease is of unknown origin and confounds Decepticon scientists, who have been unsuccessful in curing it or easing the pain Rot constantly feels. Rot’s only pleasure is grappling with Autobots until the disease eats through the points of contact between them. He is also equipped with standard sweep weapons and abilities.
Weaknesses: Due to his disease and the constant pain it brings him, few people like to be around Rot, let alone help him in combat.
Toil
Allegiance: Decepticon
Subgroup: Sweeps
Function: Gunner
Alt. modes: Cybertronian Hovercraft
Weapons: Heat laser, disintegrator cannons, twin missile racks, disruptor wave cannons, plasma bolt cannons
Special Abilities: Robot Flight Mode, enhanced sensors, ability to escape earth’s gravity
Height: 31ft / 9.46m
Quote:
“Blow it up real good!”
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Profile: The most heavily armed Sweep; Toil has a playful, fun loving, almost childlike personality. What he finds ‘fun’ is chaos and carnage. He will ghost over a battlefield, unleashing missiles, disruptor waves, laser blasts and plasma bolts, toying with his opponents until they are no more than scrap. No form of conscience troubles him. He is just as happy squashing bugs as he is blowing a flight of star-fighters to atoms.
Abilities: Toil is a walking arsenal. Attached to each arm are multi-barreled plasma bolt cannons which deploy on his sides in hovercraft mode. On top of his head are mini disruptor wave cannons. Deployed on his shoulders are twin missile racks. The head and arm mounted weapons are usable in both modes.These weapons combined with the standard array of Sweep weapons and abilities make Toil capable of dominating a battlefield.
Weaknesses: Toil tends to unleash his full arsenal at the start of a battle, often leaving him low on ammo and sometimes energy when it is needed later. He will often break away from a non-combat assignment to kill some random creature he spots, making him somewhat undependable.
Torment
Allegiance: Decepticon
Subgroup: Sweeps
Function: Tracker
Alt. modes: Cybertronian Hovercraft
Weapons: Heat laser, disintegrator cannons, Arm disruptor cannon
Special Abilities: Robot Flight Mode, enhanced sensors, ability to escape earth’s gravity
Height: 31ft / 9.46m
Quote:
“I will find you and kill you…slowly.”
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Profile: Silent, remorseless, and dedicated to pain. If Torment singles you out for destruction, he will kill you. You will not know when. You will not know how. You will not know why. But it will hurt, a lot, and you will suffer and die slowly. Torment’s only satisfaction comes when his target is screaming in agony as he slowly disintegrates.
Abilities: Torment is one of the fastest of the Sweeps and is second only to Scourge in tracking ability. His right arm is a disruptor cannon capable of slowly dissolving the bonds between its target’s molecules. He also possesses all of the standard weapon and tracking systems of all Sweeps.
Weaknesses: His high speed and tracking function off put him out ahead of the main force. This combined with his loner nature often lead him to being outnumbered in battle and with backup a distance away.
Turmoil
Allegiance: Decepticon
Subgroup: Sweeps
Function: Warrior
Alt. mode: Cybertronian Hovercraft
Weapons: Heat laser, disintegrator cannons
Special Abilities: Robot Flight Mode, enhanced sensors, ability to escape earth’s gravity, energy projection
Height: 31ft / 9.46m
Quote:
“I am burning with energy!”
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Profile: Compared to Turmoil, the most potent Cybertronian energy projectors are second-rate light bulbs. Turmoil seethes with energy, and to prevent himself from exploding he must constantly vent it. Naturally, being an indefinitely postponed explosion has taken an immense toll on his sanity. Turmoil is extremely paranoid, jumpy…and will use any opportunity to realize the forces that rage within him.
Abilities: While the likes of Sunstorm and Shrapnel may have to occasionally vent excess energy, Turmoil must do so constantly, simply to prevent his body from blowing itself to bits. Thus he is constantly surrounded by a crackling aura of destructive energy. He can project this energy into bolts of highly destructive power or expand the field around him to destroy anything in his path. He also possesses all of the standard Sweep weapons and tracking systems, although his unique nature often interferes with their functioning.
Weaknesses: His paranoid nature makes him distrustful of even his fellow Sweeps. In turn his explosive nature makes other Decepticons avoid him if at all possible. His volatile powers mean he must unleash the energy within him on a regular basis or risk exploding.