KSI (Kinetic Solutions Incorporated) was a massive robotics company headquartered in Chicago with the objective to create man-made Transformers for human use. They were affiliated with Cemetery Wind, a rogue CIA black-ops unit who hunted down Transformers still on Earth.
History[]
Foundation []
After the Battle of Chicago, KSI became prominent through the reverse engineering of Cybertronian corpses and generating enough Transformium to create man-made Transformers. Due to these developments, KSI would become one of the most influential companies and nearly dominated the world's robotics industry. KSI was also operational in China, as they had a facility headquartered in Guangzhou.
Transformers: Age of Extinction[]
After the Decepticon Invasion of Chicago, KSI began reverse engineering Cybertronian corpses in an attempt to create man-made Transformers for military use. Joyce eventually came into contact with Harold Attinger, who promised him the "Seed" with which he could make more "Transformium", the metal which all Transformers came from, in exchange for 500 million shares of the company. KSI built as many as fifty Transformers, all under remote control, including Stinger, Junkheap, "Two Heads", the Oreo Transformer, and several other KSI Sentries. The pride of their CEO was "Galvatron", a drone created using data from Megatron's severed head. Brains was forced to work for them and was tortured whenever he spoke. Because of this, he declined to tell them Megatron was still alive and manipulating KSI, more specifically the Galvatron drone he wanted to use for a new body, resulting in it always looking like him instead of Optimus Prime. Megatron equally made Galvatron capable of acting on his own and able to override the other drones. Attinger informed Joyce that a civilian had hacked their tech and knew of KSI's involvement in the Transformer hunts. Fortunately for Joyce, the civilian came to him, and Joyce happily turned him over to Attinger. However, KSI would soon suffer a crippling blow to their operations.
The Autobots eventually learned what KSI was doing and were infuriated. Optimus Prime was enraged to the point that he ordered his men to storm KSI's Chicago headquarters and he didn't care if humans were caught in the crossfire. When the Autobots arrived, they made a point to cause as much damage as possible. They destroyed most of the inactive prototypes and the Oreo Bot, whom tried to yell out a security breach to the KSI scientists and the other drones, along with the laboratory before Joyce convinced them that KSI was defending the Earth from attacks just like the one they were committing and that humanity didn't need the Autobots. Visibly disgusted by Joyce, Optimus ordered his men to retreat. Before they left they freed Cade and Brains.
When the Autobots left, Attinger had Joyce deploy the only two drones that were spared, Galvatron and Stinger, against them. Unknown to KSI, Megatron was eager for revenge on Optimus and transferred his mind to Galvatron. When the drones were deployed, Galvatron killed civilians freely and even spoke. When they were recalled, Joyce had all the prototypes moved to a Chinese facility and expressed his fury that Galvatron had malfunctioned. Joyce's confidence turned shaky after Attinger revealed that he alone had been backing KSI's Transformers project, not the CIA as Joyce had been led to believe, effectively making Joyce an unwitting war-criminal.
After a call from Cade Yeager alerting him of Galvatron's true nature, Joyce placed Galvatron under extra security. Regardless, Galvatron activated himself, announced to the humans he was his own being, and took control over all their drones, granting them autonomy and consciousness in the process. He had them destroy the facility and find the "Seed". All the prototypes were destroyed in the subsequent battle with the Autobots and Galvatron fled. In the aftermath, Joyce seemed to have renounced building new Transformers.
Games[]
Transformers: Shadows Rising[]
In the arcade game, the KSI copied Decepticons and Autobots to create Decepticon Clones. In reality, as in the films, KSI was merely Megatron's pawn to facilitate his resurrection, with Megatron managing to manipulate them for purpose of having them rebuild his body before he ended up betraying them. Following the aftermath of the game's final battle, the KSI Company was disbanded from the public.
Known KSI Drones[]
Decepticons[]
- Galvatron (is the Reborn Megatron)
- Stinger (became a Decepticon)
- KSI Sentries (became Decepticons)
- KSI Boss (became Decepticons)
- Two Heads (became Decepticons)
- Junkheap Triplets (became Decepticons)
- Aston Martin Decepticon (became Decepticons)
- Mclaren Decepticon (became Decepticons)
Non-Aligned[]
Decepticon Clones[]
Trivia[]
- According to Sega, the Optimus Prime Clone appears to be Nemesis Prime.
- Similarly to Oreo Bot, Decepticon Clones never fell under Galvatron's controll.
- The Junkheap Triples are the only KSI Drones to be sole survivors.