Angolmois Energy
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Angolmois Energy (アンゴルモアエネルギー Angorumoa Enerugī), or simply Angolmois, is a "divine" energy derived from the lifeforce of an ancient energy being known as the Oracle. It is a powerful energy source that oftentimes has completely random and unpredictable effects on whatever it comes in contact with. It can upgrade a Transformer and give them new bodies, or it can lift mountains and freeze planets. This is because the energy is influenced by the spiritual alignment of the user, dividing the energy into "good" and "evil" variants. While the substance is most often affiliated with Unicron (whose lifeforce is sometimes comprised of the evil variant), it is also heavily tied to the planet Earth, having long ago been infused within the planet's Gaia Energy (ガイアエネルギー) to become the life energy of Earth.
Like Unicron, evil-influenced Angolmois Energy is an extremely chaotic and potentially corruptive power, while good-influenced Angolmois Energy is a purifying force of wisdom and life, the power within the Matrix of Leadership that allows it to perform its miracles. A form of containment for the substance is known as an Angolmois Capsule (アンゴルモアカプセル Angorumoa Kapuseru).
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Conceptual history
Angolmois Energy was first introduced in 1998's Beast Wars II, the first Japanese-original spinoff of the American Beast Wars series. Initially, the name "Angolmois" appeared in both the toy bio for Megastorm and the first catalog for the Beast Wars II toys: When describing the series premise, the catalog referred not to an energy substance but rather an "ultimate weapon" called the "Great King of Angolmois", which was hidden within the ancient ruins of the planet. Presumably, this was an early concept for the series and the "Angolmois"-named plot device was ultimately changed from a weapon to an energy. Later toy bios followed suit referring to "Angolmois Energy" rather than a "Great King of Angolmois".
When the Beast Wars II cartoon premiered, Angolmois Energy was depicted as a mysterious and powerful lava-like substance hidden within the planet Gaia, a post-apocalyptic version of Earth (seemingly mirroring how energon was mysteriously seeded on prehistoric Earth in the American series). Guarded under the watchful eyes of android duo Artemis and Moon, the Angolmois Energy was stated to be the "sacred life energy" of Planet Gaia, and would react differently to the heart of its wielder: Helpful for those with selfless and noble intent, and destructive for those with selfish or wicked intent.
Throughout Beast Wars II and its 1999 sequel series Beast Wars Neo, Angolmois Energy was shown to have all kinds of chaotic and even nigh-mystical abilities, pretty much doing whatever the plot called for: It was capable of reformatting Predacons into completely new bodies, creating life itself when it birthed the young Maximal Lio Junior from direct interaction between the energy and Lio Convoy's Energon Matrix, and a whole variety of other wondrous abilities. The manga for Beast Wars II and Beast Wars Neo even depicted Angolmois Energy as capable of evolving ordinary animals into fully-Cybertronian Transformer lifeforms!
By the end of Beast Wars Neo, however, a dramatic shift in that series' story produced a most famous retcon for the nature of Angolmois Energy, one that would impact how the fandom, in all parts of the world, would perceive the substance for years to come: It was revealed that Angolmois Energy was actually the life energy of the one and only Unicron, who was resurrected to be the series' final antagonist in honor of the Transformers brand's fifteenth anniversary. The surprise return of Unicron was very well noticed by the greater online fanbase of the time, and the notion of Angolmois Energy being Unicron's energy quickly became its default perception. The original "sacred life energy of Gaia" status either fell by the wayside or was never even known about in the first place (as least from a Western perspective).
For the next two decades, Angolmois Energy became synonymous with Unicron. Better known in the West as simply "Angolmois" (due to a greater unawareness that "Energy" is also a part of its name), whenever the subject of Unicron would come up in online discussions, "Angolmois" was often not far behind. Many of the English-speaking fans who had never seen either of the Japanese Beast Wars cartoons became enamored with the idea of Unicron having his own corruptive energy, as a sort of counterforce to what energon was to Primus. So much so that, when IDW Publishing released the 2007 comic mini-series Beast Wars: The Ascending, Angolmois Energy became the main power source behind the series' primary antagonist, Shokaract.
Originally created for the 1999–2000 BotCon storyline Reaching the Omega Point (by the same writer as The Ascending, even), Shokaract was conceptualized as a Predacon overlord who had conquered Cybertron using the power of Unicron's lifeforce, the "Dark Essence". Much like Angolmois Energy, the Dark Essence was a powerful substance that had been hidden deep within the planet Earth, and had been unveiled as the lifeforce of Unicron coincidentally around the same time as Beast Wars Neo's Unicron retcon in 1999. The similarities between the two were not lost on fans, to the point that The Ascending simply substituted the Dark Essence with Angolmois Energy as Shokaract's main source of power.
Meanwhile, in 2010, Hasbro unveiled their new Aligned continuity family, in which the "blood" of Unicron became a key factor. Dubbed "Dark Energon", this substance bore a particular similarity in concept to both Angolmois Energy and the Dark Essence (right down to Dark Energon being hidden deep within the Earth, no less), which the fans were very quick to notice. However, when asked directly about it at BotCon 2011, the creators of both the Aligned lore and the Prime cartoon revealed that any similarities had been completely coincidental, for said creators had not been aware of Angolmois Energy and had little-to-no familiarity with the Japanese side of Transformers fiction in general.
Nevertheless, fans who were in the know proceeded to equate Dark Energon with Angolmois Energy, to the point that the 2015 Facebook edition of Ask Vector Prime deliberately treated Dark Energon, Angolmois Energy, and the Dark Essence as if all three were one and the same, just with different names. This confluence of the three by the fandom would continue until the late 2010s, when a new round of retcons would ultimately turn people's understanding of Angolmois Energy completely on its head.
Back in 2000, the thirtieth episode of the Car Robots cartoon made mention of a substance called "Gaia Energy", which was later conflated with Angolmois Energy in 2007 by the second storyline of Kiss Players, which set out to explain just how Unicron's energy ended up hidden deep within the Earth in the first place (along with introducing a version of Primus to the Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity). In 2018, the Legends comic series made two more retcons to the stuff: First, the Legends comic included with Grand Maximus indirectly declared the Chōkon Power known as Chichōkon to actually be Angolmois Energy—Since Chichōkon is the power of the Earth itself, this declaration was apparently made in reference to the original notion of Angolmois Energy being the life energy of the Earth. Later, the Legends epilogue made the first mention of Gaia Energy since Car Robots, and distinguished it from Angolmois Energy by saying that humanity had extracted the latter from within the former. This change seemed to suggest that Gaia Energy is what was actually the Earth's life energy/Chichōkon, and that Unicron's Angolmois Energy had simply been mixed in with it.
In 2019, the Generations Selects Special Comic began a storyline that dove headlong into the backstory of the Japanese Generation 1 version of Primus. In its 2021 finale, Angolmois Energy was revealed to have actually been Primus's energy all along! This version of Primus was revealed to have once been an energy being named "Oracle", whom the scientist Primacron had trapped within the form of a primitive. Primacron corrupted Oracle's energy (naming it "Angolmois Energy") into an evil variant that he then used to create Unicron. This retcon also revisited the notion that the energy could be used for good or evil purposes depending on the heart of its wielder: Since Primacron bore selfish intent, the Angolmois Energy he used to make Unicron was of a wicked nature. This also meant that Primus's energy within the Matrix of Leadership is a form of righteous Angolmois Energy, explaining how and why it was able to destroy Unicron in The Transformers: The Movie (an ability that originally went unexplained in said film), since righteous Angolmois Energy counters evil Angolmois Energy.
However, despite all of these later developments, Hayato Sakamoto (the same author who wrote both Legends and Generations Selects), would later double down on Angolmois Energy's original ties to both the Earth and Unicron in 2022's End of G1 Universe online manga, which depicted the Earth as being completely dependent on Angolmois Energy in order to survive and sustain life, while also emphasizing the energy's innate connection to Unicron. Thus, Sakamoto has basically made Angolmois Energy begin as the energy of Primus, corrupted into the energy of Unicron, infused into the Earth's Gaia Energy to become one with the planet's lifeforce, and which can also manifest as the Chōkon Power Chichōkon. Phew!
While all this has since reduced the similarities between Angolmois Energy and Dark Energon, it does draw new comparisons between Angolmois Energy and the kinds of energon stated in other continuities to be the direct emanation of Primus, like Super Energon and Rarified Energon. For the sake of simplicity and the ease of organization, we have opted to cover Angolmois Energy as its own distinct entity while still keeping in mind its ties to all of these other related energies.
Fiction
Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity
In the primordial universe before that of the Transformers, the young energy being known as Oracle was gifted a body of golden armor by the creator god G-One, taking the name "Primus." Finale G-One tasked Primus with defending their worlds, and to this end Primus founded the Primus Vanguard. When the Vanguard found themselves faced with a seemingly unbeatable foe Primus scried into the future and discovered his grim fate in the next world, imprisoned by his own pet ape Primacron. Shortly thereafter, Primacron revealed to his master that he had tapped into the power of his Matrix and distilled what he called "Angolmois Energy." Primus recoiled in horror, realizing his vision had all been true, and set about a convoluted plan to prevent this future from coming to pass. Finale Prelude
To this end, Primus summoned the Angolmois Energy powered future warrior Galvatron Star Convoy comic and directed the Seacon commanders Halfshell and Turtler via his envoy to upgrade themselves with Galvatron's energies. God Neptune comic 2
Primacron, for his part, converted an entire planet into the Angolmois empowered behemoth Neo Primus. Finale Prelude
In the ensuing all out brawl for the fate of two universes, the future warrior Volcanicus vanquished Neo Primus with a single slash of the mighty Angolmois Blade. Finale
After the power of the Silver Matrix created a new world, Primacron trapped his master in a new Matrix, harnessing his pure Angolmois Energy into a font of life for his creations. In creating Unicron, his creation wielded evil Angolmois Energy, which could only be countered by good Angolmois. It was through this power Primus gave life to a world, and was shackled by the Quintessons to create the Cybertronian race. Finale
During the Unicron War of 2005, Unicron rebuilt the heralds in his employ with the ability to store vast quantities of his own wicked Angolmois Energy. Abominus comic 1 When Unicron was ultimately defeated by the release of Matrix's righteous Angolmois Energy, The Transformers: The Movie the evil Angolmois Energy within him was sent hurtling through space and time, with portions finding themselves embedded within Autobot and Maximal leaders throughout history. Sparkbots Volume 4
In 2011, Unicron made a play to reconstitute himself via the bodies of his acolytes only to be opposed by an Autobot/Decepticon coalition led by Optimus Prime and Galvatron. Super Megatron comic 1 The two leaders were abducted mid-battle and ultimately returned by a time traveling young Oracle, who assisted Optimus Prime by crippling the beast with a titanic blast of righteous Angolmois Energy from his gun mode. Finale The remnants of Unicron's body were ultimately sealed up at the Triple Z Point near Cybertron. Fight! Maximals
To resurrect their master, the Sparkbots travelled to Earth in 2007, where they sought to use the power of the Kiss Players to extract those portions of Angolmois Energy. Sparkbots Volume 4 Deceiving the girls by claiming that the Angolmois Energy was actually the AllSpark, the Sparkbots took the Kiss Players on a tour throughout history to kiss various figures such as Optimus Prime in 1985, Rodimus Prime in 2010, Fortress Maximus in 2011, Sparkbots Volume 1 and Optimus Primal three million years in the past, but their collection was interrupted Sparkbots Volume 2 by Primus, who realized the true intentions of the Sparkbots. Sparkbots Volume 4 Nevertheless, the Sparkbots still managed to resurrect their master on prehistoric Earth, but their efforts were for naught as Primus defeated his opponent and sealed his energies and the Sparkbots within Earth. To protect this dark energy from misuse, Primus created Brave Maximus and set in place several safeguards for his activation. Sparkbots Volume 5
The Angolmois Energy on Earth attracted the attention of an evil entity, who brought Powermaster bodies stolen from G Nebula 89 to the planet so they would be converted into Godmasters through exposure to Angolmois Energy and a fragment of the Zodiac, which was also located in Earth. The entity also bathed in those energies itself, becoming Devil Zodiac. Bonus Edition Vol. EX The Angolmois Energy also attracted a team of second-generation Autobots who were sent from the future to activate Brave Maximus so that the titan could protect "Gaia Energy", which they misunderstood Angolmois Energy to be. JRX Versus Baldigus Ruination Chapter, Part One However, their ship crashed onto Angel Mountain, where its passengers slumbered till the end of the 20th century. Foe? Friend!? Black Convoy In 2000, Brave Maximus was awakened by the time-travelling Dimensional Patrol and their Predacon enemies. Stolen Plasma He eventually became the performance stage for the Kiss Players and was brought along with them for their time travel adventure and crash-landed on Master four million years ago, leaving the Angolmois Energy defenseless. Sparkbots Volume 5
By 2039, the humans of Earth discovered Angolmois Energy within Gaia Energy and used it to revolutionize their society. They failed to understand the true source of this energy, believing it was inherent to their planet. Epiloge
By 2050, the utilization of Angolmois Energy had produced a new golden age for humanity and the Cybertron Alliance's joint civilization, leading to dramatic strides in science and medicine as well as the invention of a race of Angolmois Energy powered servants known as Selectors. When the Predacons attacked, the Oracle commanded Grimlock to wield Angolmois Energy himself, using it to manifest a pair of Magma Blades. Volcanicus comic 1 The Terrorcons, created by the Quintessons for the purpose of tapping into the energy, sought to steal the energy, and corrupted Earth's Mother Computer, which was powered by Angolmois. They used it to transform Selectors into their own dark minions, and the Quintessons planned to use it to create a new Unicron by using the wicked power, causing it to erupt out from Earth's surface, and begin to corrupt the Transformers it touched. Abominus comic 1 With more Transformers becoming corrupted, the Terrorcons used the energy to fend off the Autobots. Being fought over by humanity, Quintessons, and Megatron, it was revealed that the Angolmois Energy's instability was reacting not simply to the Quintessons' evil, but the darkness in the hearts of men. Though the Angolmois-powered Selectors proved it was not an inherently evil force, driving off the aliens would not be enough to stop its eruption. Abominus comic 2
Thus the inhabitants of Earth fled to space. In their wake, they left Artemis and Moon—observer androids stationed in the Moon—and a failsafe system that would recognize misuse of Angolmois Energy and trigger the destruction of Earth. The Transformers, to prevent its misuse, purged all records of Earth, allowing it to be forgotten and slip into myth as Gaia. Emissary of the Fourth Planet
Angolmois Energy was known to the Space Pirate Seacons, who came to Gaia to harvest it for selling on the black market. The Space Pirate Seacons! Their repeated efforts to acquire Angolmois Energy would be met with repeated resistance from the Maximals and interference from the Predacons till they finally got fed up and left the planet. The Final Battle
Originally claiming the desire to convert Gaia into a fortress to conquer the rest of the universe with, Galvatron was in actuality building fortresses on Gaia to prepare the Angolmois Energy for the arrival of Nemesis, a ready-built fortress planet controlled with the Galva-Matrix. Once in proximity, Nemesis would suck out all of the Angolmois Energy from Gaia to become the ultimate superweapon to bring the universe to a kneel. The Artificial Planet Nemesis Its approach caused the Angolmois Energy to rumble and erupt throughout the planet and inadvertently activated the failsafe system that humans had left behind on Mars. Emissary of the Fourth Planet Nevertheless, the Maximals were able to prevent the planet's destruction. The Crisis of Planet Gaia
With Nemesis's threat looming, the Lio Convoy Unit were forced to launch to the artificial planet, Fly Out! Planet Gaia which absorbed massive amounts of Gaia's Angolmois Energy, although Artemis was able to use the Moon to block the flow. Legend! The Green Warrior Galvatron soon absorbed all of Nemesis's Angolmois Energy in a last-ditch effort to destroy the Maximals, but Lio Convoy and Lio Junior were able to use their Energon Matrices to seal off the Angolmois Energy into capsules. Galvatron and Nemesis were destroyed and the Angolmois Capsules scattered into space. Farewell! Lio Convoy
With Angolmois Energy now found across the universe, a group of Unicron's servants, the Blentrons set out to gather it. A group of them fought against Blue Big Convoy and Big Junior, his son, but were destroyed. Vector Sigma, an incarnation of Primus, realized what the Blentrons' goal was and prepared Cybertron and the Maximals for the upcoming war with Unicron. Bonus Edition Vol. EX Part of this preparation was appointing the loner Big Junior, now Big Convoy, to train the Big Convoy Unit made up of recruits. Their first mission was investigating the disappearance of the Lio Convoy Unit—they found a black box where Lio Convoy explained the existence of Angolmois Capsules and Big Convoy set out to collect them. Initially unbeknownst to them, Magmatron also sought the Angolmois Capsules Big Convoy, Move Out as a safeguard against Unicron Illusion? Lio Convoy and his unit would repeatedly battle Big Convoy and his Maximals for them. Other Maximal units were also collecting the capsules, sending them to bases like 889T9 or to Cybertron. Unicron's Ambition
The Angolmois Energy within the capsules would have a variety of effects on the planets it landed on; it caused an illusion of the Mikesu's god on Godbless, Chase the Mysterious Capsule froze the planet Solid, Burning Heart Below Freezing created mirages on Donovan, Mirage of the Sand and altered the flow of time on Chronos. Planet of Time
Once the Maximals had amassed a stock of Angolmois Capsules, a trio of Blentrons struck and ran off with all of their capsules, despite the Maximals' best efforts. Mysterious Beast Warriors!? They would soon also pilfer the Magmatron Unit's capsules The Stolen Capsules and scour the rest of the universe for any remaining Angolmois Capsules, The Stolen Capsules which brought them into more conflict with Big Convoy and Magmatron. Pursue the Blentrons! Angry Magmatron Magmatron in particular had already realized what the Blentrons' true aim was and refused to allow the resurrection via Angolmois Energy of Unicron, consumer of Dinosaur, to happen. The Maximals also finally discovered the true nature of Angolmois Energy when they found the lost Lio Convoy on Dinosaur. Illusion? Lio Convoy
In their hidden asteroid base, the Blentrons integrated the Angolmois Capsules into the structure so that their contents could empty into a chamber where Unicron incubated as an energy being without a physical body. For whatever reason, this energy form took on the visage of Galvatron, which fooled Magmatron when Unicron was finally revived. Unicron Revived!? However, he was not at his full power yet and searched for more Angolmois Energy, which brought him to stockpiles like Advance Base 889T9. But, thanks to his existence as a mass of energy, he was able to absorb other forms of energy, such as the Maximals' firepower and explosions. Unicron's Ambition With his true objective being to possess Vector Sigma and use Cybertron as his new body, Unicron was forced to skip absorbing the remaining Angolmois Energy when Big Convoy figured out his intentions. Fight! Maximals Unicron initially succeeded at his goal, merging with Vector Sigma to become Vector Sigma Unicron, End of the Maximals!? but the combined efforts of the Big Convoy Unit, Magmatron, and Lio Convoy were able to vanquish Unicron. The Final Battle
Bom Bom comic continuity
Beast Wars II comic
Great Convoy at Maximal Army Central Headquarters sent Lio Convoy's team to Gaia to prevent the Angolmois Energy from falling into the Predacons' hands. Demolish the Superdreadnought Tank!
After Galvatron fell into a deep sleep because he absorbed to much Angolmois Energy, his brother, Megastorm, used him as the power source for the Galvatron Dekazura Tank. Demolish the Superdreadnought Tank!
Lio Convoy travelled to the ruins of Tokyo because he heard a mysterious voice after waking up from a nightmare. There, he found an abandoned Angolmois Energy power planet used to generate the city. Later, he fought Galvatron, who also came to the ruins because he heard the voice as well. Infiltrate the Mystery Island!
The Predacons built a decoy missile base located above an Angolmois Energy mine. Make a Surprise Attack on the Super Weapon Base!
The Autorollers established an Angolmois Energy processing facility that looked similar to a hot spring. Later, the Combatrons were kicked into this "hot spring" after they served the wrong drink to Gigastorm, who became furious. The Angolmois Energy transformed the Combatrons into the Cyborg Beasts. Recover the Bonds Lost!
Later, Galvatron used the artificial planet Nemesis to extract and gather all of the Angolmois Energy on Gaia. The exposed Angolmois Energy caused illness both animals and plants. Before Lio Convoy set out to Nemesis, Optimus Primal showed up via holographic communication, warning Lio Convoy that he would be killed due to overexposure to the Angolmois Energy. Lio Convoy ignored the warning and stated it was his duty to save Gaia by going to Nemesis. All Hands, Make a Special Attack on the Evil Planet!
After Galvatron became enraged upon the death of his brother, who was killed after interfering in Lio Convoy's battle against Galvatron, he smashed the ground and made Lio Convoy fall into a tank filled with pure Angolmois Energy. Both Lio Convoy's mind and body became corrupted. Fortunately, he was saved by the power gathered from all the animals on Gaia and the Maximal confronted Galvatron once again. Although Galvatron used Angolmois Energy to make himself a giant, he was defeated by Lio Convoy with the power of the Energon Matrix. Upon Galvatron's death, Nemesis exploded. Win the Battle of Light and Darkness!
An Angolmois Capsule from Nemesis travelled back in time and fell on a planet in the 7th Cosmos. The "Divine Stone" evolved the native animals, gifting them with the ability to speak and even weapons such as missiles. Such animals affected were Big, a mammoth, and a Giganotosaurus, who became leader of group of a similarly evolved animals. Lio Convoy soon arrived and woke up on the unknown planet, where he soon encountered the Giganotosaurus's gang massacring other animals. He attacked the Giganotosaurus to no avail; he was saved by Big.
Big took Lio Convoy to the capsule; while Lio Convoy investigated it, Big was attacked by the Giganotosaurus from behind. Despite being badly wounded, Big told Lio Convoy to leave and managed to push the dinosaur gang into the valley where the capsule was. The capsule exploded on impact, and the Angolmois Energy evolved the dinosaurs into Transformers. Their leader, now proclaiming himself Magmatron, thanked Big's effort for having granted them more power. Lio Convoy transformed into robot mode to fight and defeated most of them, except for Magmatron, who defeated Lio Convoy with ease. The Beast Wars "Neo" Begin!!!
Beast Wars Neo comic
Beyond the capsule on the 7th Cosmos planet, there were six capsules ejected from the exploding Nemesis. One landed on Luxor, where it either evolved the sand into the Sandron or granted the Sandron the ability to duplicate beings. There Are 7 Capsules Another landed on the Yggdrasill tree on Greengard, where it caused the green planet to freeze over. Mortal Combat! Twenty Thousand Meters in the Sky One was somehow obtained by Scuba, who perhaps used it to evolve the native cobras of Jörmungandr, into Transformers. It was eventually hidden in a statue of Scuba. A Battle Fought Alone The Byakurēn obtained one, and the cult worshipped the capsule. Break Through! The Polar Bear Raging Claw Fist! Wednesday also received a capsule, which corrupted the planet's queen, Rage, and turned her into a jellyfish monster. To Jellyfish with Love! Cry Out, Stampy Blade The final capsule was held at Graviton Prison, where it seemed to not affect anything. The Great Escape! Graviton Prison!
Unicron, seeking to revive himself, created the Blentrons to hunt down the Angolmois Energy. They accomplished little but massacring planets, including Jörmungandr, A Battle Fought Alone in their search for the capsules. Realizing this task called for intelligent pawns, Unicron, taking the form of the "Black Ball", manipulated both Maximal and Predacon alike to gather the Angolmois Capsules. Double Cross He left himself to be found in the Galvaburg II on Gaia by Big Convoy's unit, and, once on the Gung Ho, activated the warp The 5 Rookies to Luxor. The Black Ball explained to the Maximals that gathering the seven Angolmois Capsules was necessary to preserve the universe. After a fight with the Predacons There Are 7 Capsules and the Sandron, the Maximals retrieved the capsule from Luxor. 100000000000000000 Grains of Sandron!!
The next capsule was found on Greengard. Despite some interference from Archadis, the rookie Maximals broke open the ice surrounding the Angolmois Capsule and restored the planet to its previous state of paradise. Mortal Combat! Twenty Thousand Meters in the Sky The Maximals and the Predacons then fought over the Angolmois Capsule hidden on Jörmungandr. Explosive decompression sucked out the Predacons to space and tore apart the statue of Scuba, revealing the Angolmois Capsule. A Battle Fought Alone For the fifth capsule, the Maximals infiltrated the sanctuary of the Byakurēn. The cult's founder, Kuma Kinkin, personally fought Big Convoy, only to have his bearnium gauntlets inserted into his head. Break Through! The Polar Bear Raging Claw Fist! On Wednesday, Stampy cured Rāge of her Angolmois corruption. To Jellyfish with Love! Cry Out, Stampy Blade Despite some interference and jailing from the warden robots of Graviton Prison, the Maximals recovered the Angolmois Capsule there. The Great Escape! Graviton Prison!
The Black Ball had both Magmatron and the Maximals brought to an amphitheater near Cybertron. With the Blentron force given to him by the Black Ball, Magmatron threatened the Maximals till they gave up the capsules. Magmatron's purpose done, a Latolata hit him aside and the Blentrons had the Angolmois Energy absorbed by the Black Ball, who revealed himself to be Unicron. Unicron intended on consuming Big Convoy and Magmatron as well, as they contained the energies of the seventh Angolmois Capsule. Unicron succeeded at consuming Magmatron's Angolmois Energy, but Big Convoy was saved by Heinrad, who warned him of the threat Unicron posed. Double Cross Unicron possessed Cybertron, using it as his new body and still sought out Big Convoy, needing his Angolmois Energy to complete his left eye. After luring Unicron to Georgian to destroy his limbs, Big Convoy focused his rage and Magmatron's vengeance into an Angolmois flame surrounding the Magma Blade and knocked Unicron's head off his body. Unicron's essence attempted to take over Big Convoy's body, but his efforts were for naught as Big Convoy released the energies of his Matrix to destroy Unicron by sacrificing himself. Return to Zero
Beast Machines toy bios
Prior to the Vehicon invasion of Cybertron, the Emperor of Destruction Magmatron partook in an intergalactic quest for "energy capsules". Dinobots Magmatron toy bio
2006 IDW Beast Wars continuity
Foreseeing the destruction of his physical body, Unicron planted his life force inside capsules, teleporting them throughout the universe once his fate had come to pass. The dark god planned to have his heralds recover the capsules and use them to resurrect their lord, but they would sometimes be found by unaware Cybertronians, who became corrupted and eventually full-blown heralds. A significant stock was on Gaea, which Galvatron tried to claim. Beast Wars Sourcebook
Shokaract was infected with Angolmois and lay dormant as the energy transformed him. His will overrode the Unicronian dominance, at least temporarily. Beast Wars Sourcebook #3 Windrazor was corrupted by Angolmois and served as Unicron's herald for a period of time. Beast Wars Sourcebook #4
Stellar cycles after Shokaract was infected with Angolmois, Elephorca, Drancron and Rartorata began collecting Angolmois as an offering to Shokaract, who believed it would cause his ascension and didn't realize the power was making him a mere pawn of Unicron. The Ascending #1
After several incidents of civil unrest came to the fore, Big Convoy implied that Angolmois might very well be the cause of the riots, as it had seemingly become an addictive drug to Cybertronians. Big Convoy and the Maximal Elders were familiar with Angolmois and its addictive, unpredictable effects on Cybertronians. Angolmois's mutagenic properties became all the more terrifying when Razorbeast was infected by Rartorata, and became a feral berserker. The Ascending #2
Eventually, Shokaract's minions began spreading Angolmois to the Cybertronian populace and causing large-scale riots, which empowered an "Anti-Matrix" that he had created. Eventually Bump developed an anti-Angolmois retrovirus and Shokaract killed himself on the discovery he was Unicron's pawn, ending the Angolmois threat. The Ascending #4
Animated cartoon continuity
Among other substances, Beachcomber utilizes Angolmois to "segfault his RAM", according to Rattletrap. The AllSpark Almanac II
Ask Vector Prime
Multiversal observer Vector Prime speculated that the dimension-traveling Dark Spark could have been the Dark Essence, a focused matrix of Angolmois energy, among other explanations. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/05/18
One universe's Thunderwing was addicted to dark energon. Thunderwing became a Herald of Unicron after the Lord of Chaos offered an endless supply of his own lifeblood to quench Thunderwing's thirst for angolmois energy. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/19
Beast Wars: Uprising
In the 34th century, the Commandron ship Hyperborea detected angolmois capsules on the planet Energoa, a planet at the edge of the Triangulum Galaxy. The ship's science officer, Deep Blue was baffled by their being there. The Inexorable March
Notes
- In real life, the word "Angolmois" was coined by the French seer Nostradamus in one of his Prophecies.[1] Its literal meaning would be "Angolm-people", but it is widely interpreted to be anagram of "Mongolais", the Old French word for "Mongols", with the prophesized "Great King of Angolmois" possibly referring to the King of the Mongols, Genghis Khan.[2] Although, it is possibly a reference to the French region of Angoumois instead. The "Great King" would then be Francis I of France, who before becoming king had been a Count of Angoulême, the now-former capital of Angoumois.[2] Either way, the word "Angolmois" would be pronounced "Ahn-gol-mwa". But since this a bit of an esoteric reference, romanization isn't consistent, such as "Personal Combat in the Deep Sea!!" spelling it "Angoul Moor".
- Cementing the Nostradamus connection, a Beast Wars II toy catalog claims that Beast Wars II begins in "the seventh month of Space Year 1999" and that the Predacons are in search of "the King of Angolmois". Nostradamus's prophecy says that in the seventh month of 1999, the king of the Angolmois will be resurrected. If this seems like an odd reference for a Japanese Transformers property, bear in mind that Nostradamus lore is quite popular in much of anime, to say nothing of Japanese pop culture in general.
- As presented above, IDW Publishing's Beast Wars: The Ascending comic series refers to this substance as simply "Angolmois", dropping the "Energy" part of its name. The Beast Wars Sourcebook, meanwhile, inconsistently refers to it as either "Angolmois", "Angolmois Energy", or "Angolmois energy". This slight name change in The Ascending and lack of consistency in the Sourcebook were most likely not conscious decisions as, according to author Simon Furman, it was decided to maintain all of the original Japanese names and terms for these publications.[3] This loose adherence to the "Energy" part of the name was most likely due to how both Beast Wars II and Beast Wars Neo had been largely inaccessible to the Western World for about two decades. The fact that the full name of the stuff in the Japanese media was consistently "Angolmois Energy", and not just "Angolmois", was simply not that widely known in the English-speaking markets at the time of release for both The Ascending and the Sourcebook.
- Prior to Generations Selects, Angolmois Energy was perceived as similar to both the Dark Essence and Dark Energon, as all three were corrupting energies linked to Unicron and buried inside the Earth. At BotCon 2011, when questioned on resemblance the Prime staff stated that the similarity of the then-new Dark Energon concept was a coincidence; they had been unaware of Angolmois Energy, being unfamiliar with Japanese Transformers fiction in general. The Facebook edition of Ask Vector Prime, also written before Selects, equated the three.
- In light of the Primus energy retcon, a longstanding bit of bizarreness featured in the first three episodes of The Headmasters cartoon has at least been patched up. During the events of those episodes, the Matrix was hidden on Earth to recharge its energy that was lost at the end of "The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 2". This originally made no sense, as why would any kind of energy on Earth be able to replenish the cosmic power of the Matrix? Well, now that energy from deep within the Earth would be none other than the Angolmois Energy of Primus.
References
- ↑ The text of Nostradamus's Prophecies, Century X, in the original French with an English translation. See Quatrain 72.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Saint Germain's Prophecy for the New Millennium: Includes Dramatic Prophecies from Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce and Mother Mary at Google Books
- ↑ August 18, 2007 comment from Simon Furman on his blog: The question is, once you start re-naming the Japanese BW characters, where do you stop? I mean, there’s “Randy” for the start!!! For the source books and the Ascending, between myself, Chris Ryall and Ben Yee we dediced to simply go with all the names as they originally appeared, for better or worse.
