Major Story Arcs

The Vok are a mysterious race of energy-based aliens who transcend space and time, a highly evolved species who reached an apex of technological sophistication as far beyond the Transformers as the Transformers are to humanity. Vast, cool, unsympathetic, and firmly committed to their enigmatic agenda, the Vok use primitive worlds like Earth as enormous laboratories to conduct strange and sometimes contradictory terraforming experiments intended to accelerate and alter the development of sapient life. However, these lofty goals rarely survive contact with the warlike Cybertronians, whose careless blunderings invariably contaminate and jeopardize the Vok's long-term ambitions.

Although the Vok guard their secrets jealously, they rarely take direct action unless the situation calls for it. More often, the Vok will deploy autonomous weapons or a network of empowered proxies; in extreme situations, they may "sterilize" a failed experiment by deploying planetary superweapons.

The Maximals/Predacons Conflict

At some indeterminate point in the past, a trio of Vok - Pakak, Tonrar, and Tikaani - used an uncharted planet as a testbed for multiple biological and geological experiments, which included seeding the planet with vast supplies of energon, importing alien fauna like ironwolves, and genetically altering other creatures while patiently observing the results from the extradimensional realm of unspace.

Children of the Vok

The Vok reprogrammed the protoforms of Tigatron, Airazor, Inferno, Polar Claw, and Saberback into the "Children of the Vok" and sent the latter two out to capture Optimus Primal and Megatron. When the two leaders managed to escape, Pakak and Tikanni decided to allow them to live, eager to see how the two rivals would work together and sent the Children against them.