Sigma

The Sigma is a spacecraft from the Rescue Bots portion of the Aligned continuity family.

The Sigma is a small interstellar ship used by the Rescue Bot team Rescue Force Sigma-17. Its max velocity drive provides faster-than-light travel, and it has stasis pods so that the crew can travel while in stasis. The ship's capabilities also include a cloaking shield, which can render it invisible.

Fiction

Storybooks

The Rescue Bots on Cybertron received a message from Optimus Prime inviting them to join him. With Chase as pilot, they headed to Earth and set down in a forested area, where they were met by Optimus. Rescue Bots Roll Out

Rescue Bots cartoon

We defy matching color coordination!

The Sigma was dispatched from Cybertron to conduct a routine patrols of the Quintessa quadrant. Changes On their way back to Cybertron, the crew picked up a distress call, leading them to a derelict vessel. There they were attacked by an Energon eater, and when even the cloaking shield failed to dissuade it, the crew went into stasis and shut the ship down so that the creature would not be able to smell their energon. Unfinished Business Drifting, the Sigma came back online when it received a message from Optimus Prime calling all Autobots to go to Earth. It automatically switched course and eventually touched down at a military base somewhere in the United States of America, where the revived crew met with Optimus and received a new assignment on Griffin Rock. Family of Heroes It was stored in a hidden hanger under the fire station's basketball court. Space Bots When their assignment as a rescue force was usurped by Doctor Morocco, Heatwave worked on getting the ship back into service, just in case. The Reign of Morocco

When the Asgard became stuck in orbit, the Rescue Bots launched their ship again, with Blades navigating, and Chase and Boulder as co-pilots. They also had an unintended stowaway in the form of Cody Burns. The Sigma reached the stranded ship, but Heatwave found that the tether cable was jammed, so he had to jump to the Asgard without it. Once he'd rescued Graham and Doc Greene, they used the Sigma to tow the Asgard back to Earth. Space Bots

Chase and Boulder took the Sigma into space again to make another attempt to rescue the crew of the derelict ship, only to find that it was a trap set by the Energon eater. The creature drained the Sigma's power core, leaving it disabled, however the two Rescue Bots were able to trap the creature and use its stored energon to repower the ship, enabling them to return to Earth. Unfinished Business

The ship and its crew were shrunk down to microscopic size so they could enter Kade and retrieve some scrubmites he'd accidentally ingested. When the mites turned out to be slightly too large to fit into the ship, the Rescue Bots instead strapped them to the roof, where the mites were able to chew on the hull and caused damage to the ignition panel. As a result, the ship required a jump start from Kade's nervous system to get going again. Bot-Tastic Voyage

Boulder, Graham and Salvage installed a new interface named ERVIS into the ship, shortly before it was stolen by Blurr. Rescue Bots Academy

Though Blurr intended to take the ship to Hydrus Four so he could race, its power was knocked out by a solar flare. By the time he got the ship back online, Griffin Rock was threatened by a rogue satellite, though he had to have help from the ground to get the ship's laser cannon working. The ship's cloaking device activated in the resulting satellite explosion, but he was otherwise able to safely land the ship afterwards. A New Hero

Graham and Boulder dismantled the Sigma for maintenance purposes, and it was hence unavailable for use when Griffin Rock was teleported to the Arctic. The ship's engine was used for propulsion after they made the island float by filling the forcefield dome with floatium. Today and Forever

The ship was again deployed when Dani's test flight aboard the Echinoderm One hit trouble. Though the ship was not fast enough to catch up with her vessel, the team was able to use the onboard jetpacks to get Blades to her ship so he could steer it onto a slingshot course around the Moon. To Infinity... And Back

Rescue Bots Academy cartoon

"The universe is magnificent, isn't it?"

Heatwave took the recruits on a flight in the Sigma, however Wedge noticed that there were only four chairs on the bridge, leading him to believe that one of the five recruits wouldn't be able to graduate. Heatwave later explained that Sigma class ships could be outfitted with as many chairs as needed. Five into Four Heatwave and Boulder used the Sigma to retrieve rock samples from an asteroid. Heatwave later had to make a repeat trip when it turned out one of the rocks was actually a small alien. About a Rock

During another mission, when the Rescue Bots got into trouble, Heatwave was able to command the Sigma to fly back to Earth. The recruits successfully figured out how to fly the ship so they could come to their teachers' rescue. Space Case The Sigma was used to rescue some endangered penguins from an island. Escape from Penguin Island Bumblebee arrived at the academy in the Sigma, Bee Prepared and the ship was later used for a mission to repair a satellite. Flying Hunk-A-Junk

Heatwave assigned Hot Shot the task of cleaning the ship. In Training Wedge and Bumblebee rescued some rock creatures using the Sigma, with the help of Perceptor. Need to Know Boulder and the recruits used the Sigma to visit dwarf planets in Earth's solar system and retrieve soil samples. Little Plot of Horrors The recruits were carrying out an exercise in the Sigma when they happened on a stricken Cybertronian ship and rescued Laserbeak. More Than Meets The Eye While Heatwave was prepping the ship for a mission to the Asgard, Medix took it so he could complete the mission himself and impress Perceptor. It did not go to plan, but everyone got safely back to Earth. Medix Gets Schooled

Notes

• Art released by storybook artists Bull-Pen Studio showed the ship to have a design extremely similar to Transformers Animated Omega Supreme, and labeled images of the interior as "Teletran 1 bridge". The ship remained unnamed in any published fiction until "Space Bots".