Lio Convoy

ライオコンボイ

Once a courageous and noble Maximal commander, Lio Convoy was sent to track down a band of renegade Predacons led by Galvatron and bring them to justice after his ship came under attack. In pursuit of them to the planet Gaia (which is actually a future Earth), Lio Convoy sustained injuries from fields of Angolmois energy (comparable to the energon fields seen in Beast Wars). He was subsequently saved by a white lion, whose appearance he scanned to adopt a beast mode for his own protection. However, assuming he was on the verge of death, the Matrix duplicated itself into another Maximal: Lio Junior, who began to regard himself as Lio Convoy's son.
Following numerous adventures aimed at stopping Galvatron from acquiring the Angolmois energy, Lio Convoy confronted his adversary one final time aboard the Nemesis, a warship the size of a planet that Galvatron planned to use to drain energy from worlds. While his team worked to sabotage the Nemesis from the inside, Lio Convoy and Galvatron engaged in their last clash. Unable to overcome his enemy, who was charged with Angolmois energy, the two Matrixes united their powers to merge Lio Convoy and Lio Junior, enabling them to defeat the deranged Galvatron. Furious at this loss, Galvatron triggered his own Matrix to self-destruct the Nemesis. Though the Maximals survived the blast, they found themselves trapped within a wormhole.