Riser

Upshot was always an explorer. During the golden age of Cybertron, he braved far reaches of space, discovering new worlds with the help of his ship and companion, Riser, and mapping as he went. He learned to think his way out of trouble with only what he carried and what he could find. When war returned to Cybertron, Upshot was halfway across the galaxy. He returned from that mission to news that the scientists who’d sponsored his expedition were enslaved by Decepticons. Upshot found the prison camp and both broke into and later out of it, rescuing all that he could. Naturally, his skills found a home among the Autobots, whether as a long-range scout, a skirmisher, or a lone warrior behind enemy lines. Unusually for a transformer, his primary weapon in robot mode is a bow. His weaponry can be reconfigured in field allowing him to adjust to the needs for a given job.

Canonical/Pre-MUX/Theme History:
Before he was an Autobot, Upshot was an advanced scout for colonists, exploring planets, cataloging their attributes, reporting back, and accompanying them to assist in establishing an outpost. Shortly before the Great War broke out he had been tasked with another reconnaissance mission by a group of nonaligned transformers, and upon returning he found they had been captured by the Decepticons and taken to a labor camp. He watched it for a few weeks, broke in, spent a few cycles setting things up, then broke out his former employers and quite a few others besides. Some of the captives were Autobots, who invited him to their cause. He saw his particular batch of refugees home first, but then found his way to an Autobot city to sign up.

His skills were of great value to the Autobots in the tense guerrilla style of combat on Cybertron, while his ship allowed him to range further to search out potential allies, materiel, and safe havens off planet. Sometimes he was gone for vorns at a time so it was not unusual for things to have changed in his absence.

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Created by and played by Anher