Nova Prime was the predecessor to Nominus Prime. Once the elite soldier Nova Major, he led the unification of a divided Cybertron, ascending to leadership of his people. An expansionist and a supremacist, Nova Prime believed that Transformers were the greatest among all life forms and that they should bring their glory to the myriad of lesser races throughout the universe.

After being sucked into the Dead Universe, Nova was chosen to be the host for the Darkness, an otherworldly counterpart of 