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Sketch of face and her Horde sigil Waspira is descended from Venom a Decepticon Champion from long ago. No relation to Waspinator.

Queen Waspira leads hundreds of drone and worker Predacons. Most are sparkless Transformers. Her hives are located in underground caves. She conducts raids on crops and livestock. Her and her drones constantly devour organic sustenance to increase the hive. She has little interest in politics or war. She just wants to feed and grow her Predacon hordes.

Brutal and cunning. She never enters a situation without the upperhand or a trump card. When she raids, she leaves nothing standing, nothing alive. Fears nothing. She respects no creature or robot. All are food for her "children".

Autobot and Maximal forces must be ever vigilant in defending the earth from her scourge. She is difficult to stop because her numbers can be overwhelming and she terrorizes such a wide area. Patrols against her forces must be spread far yet pack sizeable firepower.

Sister City deploys several gestalt strike forces to aid the earth. Such patrols consist of high speed, long-range scouts.

Sketch of her wasp beast form Her and her hordes are giant mechanical wasps in "beast form". As an early Predacon, she does not exhibit a convincing insect facade. She does not change size. Wasp mode allows for flight and hovering. Sensory equipment includes enhanced vision and touch. Primary beast weapon is, of course, the stinger. Each drone can carry several stingers that can be launched as missiles. Stingers are an armor-piercing warhead that contains corrosive agents that can fuse robotic interal workings causing localized paralysis. Jaws are fairly strong and can tear a car apart in a minute. Jaws are not particularly useful against an armored foe but they can rip apart weaponry easily.

Waspiras's minions can consume most any material and convert it to a crystaline form of energon -- their primary form of energy. Organic foods are easiest convert but they can also break down a robot for food if needed. They collect this crystaline substance either as a honey-type goo or a solid hexogonal lattice. Color usually is a light purple but can vary according to what food it was derived from.

Beautiful structures can be constructed from such lattices. Waspira enjoys the play of light from towers made of solid energon.


Early draft of Waspira. (pencil).
Notice her fingers are similar to the segmented limbs of an insect.

Final drawing of Waspira. (CG enhanced pencil)
Her spark is in her midrift. The jet-fans on her back are maneuvering thrusters. Her primary colors are black and yellow influenced by her beast form. But many of her decorations are maroon or bright green.

She came out quite well. I thought her nose came out quite cute. She has a rather pleasent smile but those insect eyes bely her rather sinister disposition. The way she's slowly flexing her fingers should indicate that her gaze on you isn't out of friendliness. It's more like a lion eying a tasty morsel. "And you look, oh, so juicy!"

Never, never, call her "honey buns".

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