Not to mention Voss' entire schtick is finding peaceful races and genetically re-engineering them so they are FORCED to join his conquering army. What do you think "Genebound" means, anyway? Go through and read all of his flavor text some time.
Makes you wonder what the heck he's doing on Earth…
Voss is more Roman in my view, go capture a land, enslave its people, and make them fight the next target.
Voss is Ceaser, they try to send him off to get rid of him, so he returns and takes over, then fields his army to go conquer everything.
Maybe Tempest's escape irked him, and he's followed him to finish the job?
I don't think Voss is really finding Peaceful races per se, but he does like good genetic stock. He's like the Borg that way. Perhaps he finds something in us that he wants to use!
I think humans are the first race that have different genders since he started his adventure.
He plans to weaponize our breeding capacity. Just think of it, there are 3 billion human females on Earth. He turns all but the top 1% of genetic fitness males into cannon fodder, then starts getting the 1%s to stud all the females with mechanical precision, cranking out a new crop of probably ten billion young within nine months. It's probably within Thorathian technology to force-mature these at least to early adolescence in a short space of time, and then the cycle can repeat. What other organism in the cosmos could have evolved such incredible, viruslike powers of propagation?
Rabbits?
Yes, which are from Earth. As are viruses for that matter. It's entirely possible that in the rest of the cosmos, life reproduces at a far more glacial pace. Perhaps Thorathians have a mating season, prolonged gestation, and exclusively single birth. Why would Voss need to collect planet after planet worth of soldiers, if he could find billions on just one planet? I think Terrestrial life must be unusual in its fecundity. Perhaps due to Akash'Bhuta's influence?
Another reason he uses different races is due to their differing biological/physiological abilities - if he's invading a volcanic world, he'll probably send in the immune-to-fire troops, for example, while the Frosthounds can take on the colder climates, and so on. Humans are physically pretty crap compared to most other species unless we're geared up with a load of equipment and stuff. Opposable thumbs, long-distance vision (even though it's not as fine-tuned as, say, a bird of prey), and a large cortex, that's about all we've got going for us if you take away our stuff.
Hence, rabbits. Gene-Bound Bunnies would be fearsome creatures indeed...
Enough with the Rabbits, I just soiled my armor I was so scared.
At least they are better then rabbits that have lost a bee.
Those are the worst.
Humans are a lot nastier creatures than we give ourselves credit for. We've come to dominate this planet's ecosystem, not because we were smart enough to build high technology (that wouldn't happen until the relative late autumn of our species's lifespan), but because we had an ecological niche that we were extremely good at fitting into. Put simply, our primitive ancestors were some of the most effective hunters in the Sahara because they were built for walking. They could pursue a fleeing antelope or something for days, exhausting it through sheer persistence. A lion or the like might be deadlier in the short term, but lacked the endurance to sustain a pursuit, and its mere presence would scatter its prey in every direction, so it would have a very short window of time to try and catch one of the fleeing animals before they were all too far away, or otherwise it could never hope to keep up with them. We, however, could. Combine that with the intelligence to plan tactics and the ability to communicate, and we were pretty terrifying as compared to lions, just not on a one-for-one basis. Remember that in any ecology, predator species tend to be outnumbered by their prey about 97-to-3, but humanity isn't a "predator" by this reckoning...more like an ant colony, omnivorous and opportunistic, using numbers to strip an entire environment of everything it can consume. I can definitely believe that we'd be worth something to Voss.
There was an article I read, I believe it was on cracked.com, where they had a list of the 10 most terrifying ancient creatures or something like that. Other than being monstrous, ridiculous engines of destruction most of them had one other thing in common. Hunted to extiction by early humanity.
One theory of the reason we massacred… just about everything, other than our ability to plan ahead, is the fact that we spend so long as helpless babies. The theory goes that with the extremely long time we spend dependant to other members of our community it gave us teamwork unrivaled at the time, because we learned how things worked and that we were supposed to care about our "fellow man" (this did not apply to neaderthals, we killed just about all of them). Our empathy made us the most terrifying force in the ancient world. Ah, caring…
Voss is defeated by Legacy who is currently being powered by the smiles, songs, and laughter of children. The singing children demoralize all of Voss's army who give up on the dumb invasion plan and decide to play tetherball instead.
So a different look at Omnitron-X would be that upon acquiring Empathy, he realized the power of it, and changed sides knowing he could not win with Omnitron, since the Empathy level wasn't high enough.
Omni-10 wasn't with Omnitron - he is Omnitron. There was no Omnitron to team up with in his own timeline because he was the only individual of that name. The time travel bit came in when he activated his empathy programming and went "omg I've been killing people and that's bad - I must stop myself from ever becoming such a monster", at which point he returned to his point of origin, or thereabouts, and started helping the other heroes kick his own arse before he could set about Destroying All Humans ;).
Wow. I always read that as him "Rebuilding himself" being Omnitron building a second version of himself that would fight with Omnitron and unlock the secret power of teamwork.
Giving himself Empathy and humanoid form so he could empathize with humans and thus destroy them is not nearly as awesome (in my opinion)
His nemesis symbol only really applies to Omnitron. In the end the only true enemy a robot bent on the annihilation of humanity had was himself, and his need to eradicate his makers. The futility led him to recreate himself in their image, and join them, thus undoing himself.
sigh. . .
Wouldn't Omnitron recognize his future self if they fought? you'd think that would alter the timeline somehow.
Also, seriously, a giant weapons factory able to churn out a sea of automatons cannot create a decent second version of himself, so maybe even he doesn't know what code caused him to gain sentience.
Which could mean that code isn't just code, but is somehow more than itself, maybe Omnitron was a creation of something else, not just an error, such that the situation is not repreatable.