Percival Tachyon

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Percival Tachyon
Biographical information
Homeworld	Reepor
Physical description
Species	Cragmite
Gender	Male
Height	Unknown
Hair	None
Eyes	Yellow
Political information
Affiliation	Cragmite Empire, Tachyon's Empire
Other information
Appearances	Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction

"Typical Lombax...so noble, so courageous...and so very dead!!"

―Emperor Tachyon^[src]

Emperor Percival Tachyon is the main antagonist in Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction. Tachyon is the last of the Cragmites and is their crowned prince. Tachyon wears a crown with a large red jewel and carries a scepter with the Cragmite symbol. He travels in his walking throne equipped with four legs that allow him to jump large gaps, clamp onto surfaces, and hover, as well as retractable arms which fire drones, missles, laser beams, and can manipulate asteroids.

[edit] Great War

During the Great War the Cragmites were sent to a dying star due to the Lombaxes using the Dimensionator on them. Tachyon survived as he was frozen as an egg on the Kreeli Comet. They raised him on Fastoon in the Polaris galaxy. He later learned about the other Cragmites being destroyed, making him hate all Lombaxes from that moment on. He then attempted to do anything to kill them all off. Tachyon sets out to find the Lombax Secret, which killed off all the other Cragmites, to bring them back. He traveled to Zaurik and bought the loyalty of the Drophyds with Raritanium. He then spent years assembling the Imperial Army in order to lay waste to Fastoon and rule Polaris.

[edit] Tools of Destruction

Tachyon starts by going to planet Kerwan in the Solana galaxy to find and kill Ratchet, the last Lombax, at the same time capturing celebrity hero Captain Qwark, who is defeated by his Drophyds and taken on as his confidant. Ratchet escapes Kerwan in Tachyon's cruiser and arrives in the Polaris galaxy, helping to defeat Tachyon's Empire. Later, his campaign is successful as he is able to retrieve the Lombax Secret, the Dimensinator, from Captain Qwark, who was attempting to get rid of it by throwing it in a black hole. He then uses it to return the Cragmites and unite them with his army of Drophyds to reform his Empire as the recreated Cragmite Empire.

On Fastoon, he tells Ratchet about the Lombaxes, explaining that after assembling his army of Drophyds he arrived on Fastoon and laid waste to the entire planet. The siege forced all the Lombaxes to take refuge in the Court of Azimuth. The other Lombaxes escaped to another dimension with the Dimensionator while the infant Ratchet and his father stayed behind. After sending his son to Solana, Ratchet's father was killed by Tachyon. Ratchet then defeats Tachyon in a different dimension the Dimensionator had mistakenly sent them to.

As the asteroid they are standing on cracks into pieces, Tachyon tells Ratchet that only he knows Ratchet's true purpose and name. Declaring that he would not die and that the return of the Cragmite Empire is inevitable, he is then sucked into a black hole. He will most likely return in the future.

[edit] Appearances

Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction