Ratchet eventually meets Alister Azimuth, and they search for Clank together. Later, Clank is taken by a race that he has been seeing throughout their quest called the Zoni, and Ratchet soon learns that he was connected to a Zoni device called the Great Clock. Ratchet learns little information about his past from Tachyon in the final battle, and Tachyon is defeated.
Later, while Ratchet searches for the past of his kind in order to stop Tachyon, their heroic coward friend, Captain Qwark, accidentally gets the Dimensionator into Tachyon's hands, allowing him to free the Cragmites from their dimension, and invades the Polaris Galaxy. Years later, Ratchet meets Clank when he was searching for a way to save the galaxy from Chairman Drek, and despite not getting along at first, the two manage to defeat Drek, and they become well-known heroes. All the other Lombaxes retreated to another dimension, and forbidden Azimuth from joining for allowing Tachyon to get his hands on their technology. However, before his death, Kaden sent Ratchet to the Solana Galaxy to Planet Veldin where he could be safe. Tachyon killed hundreds of Lombaxes including Kaden and his wife. But instead, Tachyon used it to lay waste to Fastoon and to try to rebuild the Cragmite Empire.
Azimuth gave Tachyon full access to all of the Lombaxes' technology, believing it could repair the galaxy from The Great War. Kaden's friend, Alister Azimuth, wanted to help Tachyon despite warnings from Kaden that he couldn't be trusted. He introduced them to technology considerably more advanced than what they were using at the time. Days after Ratchet's birth, a Cragmite named Percival Tachyon, who was raised by Lombaxes after being found by trillium miners eons after his kind was sent to another dimension by the Dimensionator during The Great War, had learned about his kind's past, and has attempted to get revenge on the Lombaxes by stealing their technology. Ratchet was born in the Polaris Galaxy on Planet Fastoon as the son of Kaden, the keeper of the Dimensionator, an interdimensional transporter.