Once a brilliant engineer, Cryotek turned his talents to crime, developing advancing technologies that were outlawed during the Golden Age of Cybertron. He developed bodyframes that, though quite powerful and weapon-laden, qualified as legal for construction or research. His own "cryo-tank" form was as powerful as a scientist could manage then without special government clearance. With his bodyguards Buzzbomb and Backslash, Cryotek now runs a tight organization that skirts the law, embarrassing the Autobot Command Security Forces, who can never dig up any evidence against him.