Guide Star

Guide Star is a Guardian computer specialist. Despite attending and completing Guardian Academy, Guide Star is a pacifist who wishes to avoid violence if at all possible. He prefers to serve the cause by the side of Zeemon, attending to administrative concerns rather than engaging Renegades directly.

Fiction

Golden Activity Books

Guide Star was on the Command Center with Leader-1 and Beamer when the Guardians noticed the Earth had become surrounded by steam. He was sent to investigate, and soon found Thruster, only to be captured soon afterwards. He got a message out first however and was rescued by Leader-1 as the Renegade scheme was thwarted. The Sea Vaporiser Later he was onboard the Guardian ship when it was pulled off course by a huge magnet operated by Cy-Kill from the planet Finterland. The Guardians soon gained the upper hand in the battle however; Guide Star partnered with Sky Fly to fill a crater Breez was hiding in with gumbo. Ambush in Space After receiving a message from Beamer about a meteor shower, Guide Star set off into space to investigate; the rocks were soon found to be a Renegade scheme.The Meteor Shower

Kids' Meal Boxes

Leader-1, Guide Star and Sky Fly squared off against Cy-Kill, Odd Ball and Breez on the Moon. The Renegade leader produced a Magnetizing Ray Gun and prepared to attack his rival with the device. Thankfully Guide Star spotted this perfidy, transformed to robot mode and kicked a passing meteor into the back of Cy-Kill's head, forcing a Renegade retreat to Thruster. Leader-1 thanked Guide Star, who modestly credited the meteorite for the Guardian victory.Moonstrike

Fun Publications

Transformers Timelines

During the Diaspora, Guide Star was dispatched to Level 63 along with an assortment of Guardians and Renegades. Cultural Appropriation

Renegade Rhetoric

In an alternate reality where Luther Unum never became Leader-1 and Renegades ruled Earth and Gobotron, Guide Star was a slave of the Renegades. When a group of human and Guardian rebels stowed away on a Thruster between worlds, however, Guide Star spotted them and distracted Slicks to prevent them from being discovered. He informed the rebels of the new prisoner Luther Unum the Renegades were so cautious of guarding. Renegade Victory Part 1 In the traditional reality, Guide Star and his friends Sky Fly and Beamer were recent graduates of the Guardian Academy. He and Path Finder were guarding a UNECOM facility on Mercury when the Renegades attacked in force. They were nearly overrun, but Doctor Braxis arrived and demonstrated his new Destabilizer Cannons on the Renegades, driving them off. Once Braxis Twice Shy Part 1 When Cy-Kill went missing during the Scootonium incident, Sky Fly, Beamer, and Guide Star participated in a massive Guardian attack on Rogue Star just as Cy-Kill returned from his other-dimensional exile. The newly-recruited Renegades Pow Wow, Breez, and Odd Ball attacked Guide Star and his friends as they arrived. Opportunity Knocks Part 2

"Echoes and Fragments"

During the Battle of Guardian City, Guide Star and his fellow Academy cadets were gunned down by Megatron. Echoes and Fragments

Toys

GoBots

Special Edition

• Guide Star (GoBots, 1986)
  • Guardian Robot Spaceship
  • Accessories: none

Guide Star was one of the few GoBots toys designed by Tonka and converts from robot to Space Shuttle in 3 steps, which is impressive for a toy with a single moving part. The toy was available at Wendy's restaurants, being available for 99¢ with any other purchase. The figure was never released outside of North America. Guide Star features an incredibly simple single step transformation as he was intended to be given to under-3 children unlike the other Wendy's figures, which were for ages 3 and up.

• Guide Star's card bore the code 7206.

• Learn more about Guide Star at The-Liberator.net

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  Toy instructions

Notes

• The toy of Guide Star has no arms, though Western Publishing Company invented some for the Wendy's activity books. But not for the Kids' Meal Box mini-comic.
• Guide Star's Cybertronian-style body in the "Cataclysm universe" is modeled on Payload from the Generations toyline with the head design of Generation 1 Beachcomber.