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I've had a basic design in mind for Strika since the very beginning of TCS but I never got around to drawing her. This sketch is small and smudgy but I like the design I settled on, even if the proportions aren't particularly good here.

Strika is the perfect soldier in every way. Even before her augmentation, her loyalty to the Decepticons was absolute, she was equally capable of following orders with precision or improvising combat strategy, and she had immense aptitude for every discipline from marksmanship to piloting to infiltration to fire support. As a result of her exemplary performance in the field, she was chosen to become part of the NEMESIS supersoldier program initiated on the combat laboratories of Chaar. Several body modifications and genetic therapies were designed for the program, but Strika was the only subject that was compatible with them all. The results were enormously successful: Physiologically, Strika gained enhanced speed, strength, and reflexes, as well as the ability to self-regenerate. She also received a number of cybernetic upgrades, including a high-fidelity omnisensor visor, a combat computing system linked directly into her central processor, a built-in pile bunker weapon on her right arm, and a system of vernier thrusters that greatly enhanced her mobility (though she was too bulky and armored to achieve flight). She was also given a custom set of weapons and equipment which were stored in a large rotary dispenser that powerlinxed to her alternate mode, including dual personal defense weapons, an automatic shotgun, a sniper rifle, a large-caliber belt-fed rotary autocannon with ammunition backpack, and a thermo-optical camouflage cloak.

Strika served the Decepticon Army with distinction during the Great War alongside the small handful of other successful NEMESIS soldiers, and were a force so terrifying that the Autobots began their own supersoldier program, which culminated in the creation of Sky Lynx.

After the ceasefire, Strika was honorably discharged as a political maneuver to assure the Empire that Shockwave's regime was serious about peace. But Strika found peace uneasy. She formed a mercenary company called the Phantom Unit to seek out new battles, but they had limited contract opportunities in the low-scale conflicts that followed the ceasefire. When Megatron began to covertly plan his mission to Earth in search of the Allspark, Strika and the Phantom Unit were eager to serve once more.

They did not see much action during their time on Earth, as Megatron mostly kept them as a bodyguard squad. Strika herself performed this role with humility, though she longed for a true test of her abilities. In the only stain on Strika's career, she managed to convince Megatron to send them on a combat deployment, only for the renegade Omnibot RC to attack the Decepticon leader while the Phantom Unit was away. This failure was followed shortly by their finest hour, however. Strika was chosen to lead the Decepticon assault on the Autobot headquarters. She engaged the vast majority of the Autobots' limited ground forces on her own, and managed to nearly defeat the entire force until she was knocked out through the clever planning of Wheeljack and company. Shortly after, Sideways arrived and enacted her Final Evolution Plan, and both the Autobots and Decepticons came under attack by thousands of Sumdac Systems transforming drones. Strika came to and joined the defense, where she valiantly held the line as the leaders of both factions put Sideways and her plan to rest.

Strika returned to Decepticon space after the conclusion of what became known as Operation Chosen Stars and used her clout as a war hero to support Soundwave's bid for leadership of the Decepticons. She once again attempted mercenary work, but found that her appetite for combat had been finally sated. She decided to return to Earth, where she lived in peace, before joining the Castle Bravo combat school as a teacher. She then fought once more in the battle against Unicron, and afterwards decided to retire.

Strika's Earth form is a MZKT-79221 Topol-M ballistic missile launcher truck. The missile is a dummy, as it instead contains all of her weapons (it can be slung over her back in robot mode to dispense the weapons). The main rocket engine of the missile attaches to her back to give her extra thruster power.

Description
I've had a basic design in mind for Strika since the very beginning of TCS but I never got around to drawing her. This sketch is small and smudgy but I like the design I settled on, even if the proportions aren't particularly good here.

Strika is the perfect soldier in every way. Even before her augmentation, her loyalty to the Decepticons was absolute, she was equally capable of following orders with precision or improvising combat strategy, and she had immense aptitude for every discipline from marksmanship to piloting to infiltration to fire support. As a result of her exemplary performance in the field, she was chosen to become part of the NEMESIS supersoldier program initiated on the combat laboratories of Chaar. Several body modifications and genetic therapies were designed for the program, but Strika was the only subject that was compatible with them all. The results were enormously successful: Physiologically, Strika gained enhanced speed, strength, and reflexes, as well as the ability to self-regenerate. She also received a number of cybernetic upgrades, including a high-fidelity omnisensor visor, a combat computing system linked directly into her central processor, a built-in pile bunker weapon on her right arm, and a system of vernier thrusters that greatly enhanced her mobility (though she was too bulky and armored to achieve flight). She was also given a custom set of weapons and equipment which were stored in a large rotary dispenser that powerlinxed to her alternate mode, including dual personal defense weapons, an automatic shotgun, a sniper rifle, a large-caliber belt-fed rotary autocannon with ammunition backpack, and a thermo-optical camouflage cloak.

Strika served the Decepticon Army with distinction during the Great War alongside the small handful of other successful NEMESIS soldiers, and were a force so terrifying that the Autobots began their own supersoldier program, which culminated in the creation of Sky Lynx.

After the ceasefire, Strika was honorably discharged as a political maneuver to assure the Empire that Shockwave's regime was serious about peace. But Strika found peace uneasy. She formed a mercenary company called the Phantom Unit to seek out new battles, but they had limited contract opportunities in the low-scale conflicts that followed the ceasefire. When Megatron began to covertly plan his mission to Earth in search of the Allspark, Strika and the Phantom Unit were eager to serve once more.

They did not see much action during their time on Earth, as Megatron mostly kept them as a bodyguard squad. Strika herself performed this role with humility, though she longed for a true test of her abilities. In the only stain on Strika's career, she managed to convince Megatron to send them on a combat deployment, only for the renegade Omnibot RC to attack the Decepticon leader while the Phantom Unit was away. This failure was followed shortly by their finest hour, however. Strika was chosen to lead the Decepticon assault on the Autobot headquarters. She engaged the vast majority of the Autobots' limited ground forces on her own, and managed to nearly defeat the entire force until she was knocked out through the clever planning of Wheeljack and company. Shortly after, Sideways arrived and enacted her Final Evolution Plan, and both the Autobots and Decepticons came under attack by thousands of Sumdac Systems transforming drones. Strika came to and joined the defense, where she valiantly held the line as the leaders of both factions put Sideways and her plan to rest.

Strika returned to Decepticon space after the conclusion of what became known as Operation Chosen Stars and used her clout as a war hero to support Soundwave's bid for leadership of the Decepticons. She once again attempted mercenary work, but found that her appetite for combat had been finally sated. She decided to return to Earth, where she lived in peace, before joining the Castle Bravo combat school as a teacher. She then fought once more in the battle against Unicron, and afterwards decided to retire.

Strika's Earth form is a MZKT-79221 Topol-M ballistic missile launcher truck. The missile is a dummy, as it instead contains all of her weapons (it can be slung over her back in robot mode to dispense the weapons). The main rocket engine of the missile attaches to her back to give her extra thruster power.