Optimal Primal

Optimal Primal (オプティマル・プライマル, Oputimaru Puraimaru) was a mere captain, young and untested, of an exploration ship when he and his crew were diverted off-course to pursue a stolen Predacon ship under the leadership of some crook named Gigatron. The rest, they say, is (literally) history.

Though he does have a penchant for stuffy speeches, Optimal Primal is much more down-to-cybertron than his legendary namesake. He is committed to the Maximal codes of honor and moral judgment, but he does view them with some irreverence, and is not above finding loopholes or administering unorthodox solutions if necessary. ("Sometimes, crazy works", he says.) He is eternally loyal to his friends and respectful to his enemies. He is brave and selfless in battle. However, he is so committed to helping others that he can withdraw into a deep depression when he feels he has let them down. This is the only time he is self-absorbed.

Optimal Primal is extraordinary for not only being able to distinguish himself, despite living in the shadow of Optimus Prime, but he may even have surpassed the greatest of the Autobots, seeing as he saved the life of his namesake. It is possible Optimal Primal is the greatest Cybertronian hero who has ever lived.

Appearance & Biography

 * Voice actor: Garry Chalk (English), Takehito Koyasu (Japanese)

His beast mode consists of a gorilla.

Friends/Allies

 * Maximals
 * Girouette
 * Vent
 * Grey
 * Aile
 * Ashe
 * Guardians
 * Ciel
 * Prairie

Family

 * Optimus Prime (ancestor)

Neutral

 * Depth Charge

Rivals

 * Thetis

Enemies

 * Predacons
 * Gigatron
 * Serpent
 * Master Albert
 * Aeolus
 * Atlas
 * Pandora
 * Prometheus
 * Siarnaq

History
Optimal Primal was the captain of the exploration ship Axalon. He and his crew were ordered to dispose the experiment gone wrong, Protoform X, who was brought in by Primal's coworker, Depth Charge. Depth Charge wanted X destroyed, but the High Council ordered Primal's crew to dump Protoform X someplace far away and with minimal life. Depth Charge became resentful against Primal for this.