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Iacon (polity)

2006-08-05T20:22:18Z

69.61.171.240: /* Cybertron */ Fixed link to Kolkular.

'''Iacon''' is an [[Autobot]]-controlled city-state, located near the north pole of [[Cybertron_(planet)|Cybertron]]. It is also the location of the capital city of the same name.

==Places of Interest==

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Places of interest within Iacon:

=== G1 Cartoon ===
[[Image:iacon.jpg|thumb|Home, sweet, home.]]
*'''Autobot Base''' - Iacon is depicted as a walled headquarters, reachable by an extendable bridge. Autobots needed to signal their approach before being allowed into Iacon. Lining the path to Iacon were a series of lamp-post like structures -- the basis for [[Soundwave]]'s Cybertron-based alt-form.
*The [[Ark]]'s launch bay

=== Marvel Comics ===

*Autobase (post-war)
*The Celestial Temple
*The Tower of Pion
*Imperial Amphitheater
*[[Maccadam's Old Oil House]]
*The [[Matrix Flame]] Chamber

=== Dreamwave Comics ===

*The Border Regions
*The Central Spaceport
*The High Council Pavillions
*The Grand Oratory
*The Chamber of the Ancients
*The Vaults
*The Decagon
*The Stellar Galleries
*The Oracle Tank
*The Energon Pools
*Iacon East
*Access Shaft 0-5 (sub-surface)
*Quadrant Epsilon
*Shockwave's Tower
*Sub-orbital District
*The Forum of Enightenment (destroyed)
*Planetary Engine Vents (sub-surface)
*Virtue's Forum

==Toys==
[[Image:Iacontoy.jpg|left|thumb|I can see my house from here.]]
===Cybertron===
*'''Cybertron Primus'''
:Iacon is one of two distiguishable cities molded into the surface of Primus' planet mode. It features many major landmarks as depicted in the Dreamwave comics and DK's Transformers ''Ultimate Guide'', such as the Stellar Galleries, the Decagon, the Chamber of the Ancients, and the Tower of Pion.

:The other city is the Decepticon fortress [[Kolkular]], which, similar to the depiction on the Cybertron map in the ''Ultimate Guide'', is placed on the opposite end of the toy from Iacon. ''The War Within'' comics also describe Iacon being built on the surface above buried planetary engines that could conceivably maneuver Cybertron through space; likewise, the toy places Iacon directly over Primus' shoulder cannon shafts. Both of these details, however, are likely a coincidence.

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Optimus Prime (RID)

2006-08-05T05:46:52Z

69.61.171.240:

'''''Optimus Prime''' is the leader of the [[Autobots]] in [[Robots in Disguise]] continuity.

[[Image:Optimusprime rid.jpg|thumb|250px|I'm a goldfish! Transform!]]

He likes to sneek peeks at [[T-AI]] in the bath.

''Japanese Name:'' '''Fire Convoy'''

==Fiction==
===Animated series===
'''Voice actor:''' ''[[Neil Kaplan]] (US)'', ''[[Satoshi Hashimoto]] (Japan)''

===Dreamwave comic===
==Toys==

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Transformers Armada: The Energon Within

2006-08-05T05:43:47Z

69.61.171.240: Wrong category.

[[Image:The energon within.jpg|300px|thumb|Somewhere, ''Ride of the Valkeries'' is playing.]]
'''Transformers Armada: The Energon Within''' is a small [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash flash] game included on the [[Universe CD-ROM]]. The game is also playable online at Hasbro's Transformers website.

==Plot==
The Autobots have just opened their Energon Mine, and are preparing to transport the first cargo when the Decepticons attack, intent on stealing the energon!

==Gameplay==
Optimus Prime repels the Decepticon forces using the missile launcher at their nearby base. You can control its inclination and velocity of fire-- it's a ballistics game.
Hit the demolished transport, and it explodes, destroying the mine. Hit the mine 3 times, and it goes boom.

==Adversaries==
[[Image:Tew scout.png|250px|right]]
===Decepticon Scouts===
'''Decepticon Scouts''' fly up to the wrecker transport and lower grappling claws to steal 5 energon cubes at a time. They are the first Decepticon adversary you face, and easily destroyed. If they encounter no resistance, no other classes of troops will appear, and Scouts will continue to raid until they have stolen 100 energon cubes.

''The '''Decepticon Scout''' is the only one of The Energon Within's enemies to recieve a proper name. They are black-and-purple [[generic|generics]] based on [[Cyclonus (Armada)|Cyclonus]].

[[Image:Tew miner.png|250px|left]]

===Miners===
The drill-handed "miners" follow the Scouts. Utilizing the Autobots' cargo elevator system, they drop below the mine and tunnel up into it, stealing 5 energon cubes at a time.
Miners can only be destroyed while above ground, requiring you to lob the missiles over the energon mine to hit them outside of the cargo elevator.

'' 'Miners' are green-and-maroon [[generic|generics]] based on the [[Mini-Con]] [[Drillbit]].

[[Image:Tew raider.png|200px|right]]

===Raiders===
The raiders are extremely difficult to hit. Breaking across the open ground in their high-speed gun-tank mode, they transform into robot mode and scramble over the top of the energon mine, making them very dangerous targets. They steal 5 energon cubes at a time from the damaged transport. Raiders will be destroyed by a direct missile stribe, but if you miss, you may destroy the mine itself!

'' 'Raiders' are green-and-maroon [[generic|generics]] based on the [[Mini-Con]] [[Dualor]].

[[Image:Tew jet.png|250px|left]]
==Jets==
Decepticon jets travel at very high speed, scouting the Autobot base from a distiance before performing a radical aerobrake maneuver to drop like a stone while transforming and snatch 5 energon cubes from the damaged transport before transforming and jettting away. They are extremely difficult to hit.

'' 'Jets' are red-and-orange [[generic|generics]] based on the [[Decepticon]] [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]].

==External link==
[http://www.hasbro.com/action/default.cfm?page=game&id=233 The Energon Within online]

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Transformers Armada: The Energon Within

2006-08-05T05:42:28Z

69.61.171.240: typo cleanup

[[Image:The energon within.jpg|300px|thumb|Somewhere, ''Ride of the Valkeries'' is playing.]]
'''Transformers Armada: The Energon Within''' is a small [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash flash] game included on the [[Universe CD-ROM]]. The game is also playable online at Hasbro's Transformers website.

==Plot==
The Autobots have just opened their Energon Mine, and are preparing to transport the first cargo when the Decepticons attack, intent on stealing the energon!

==Gameplay==
Optimus Prime repels the Decepticon forces using the missile launcher at their nearby base. You can control its inclination and velocity of fire-- it's a ballistics game.
Hit the demolished transport, and it explodes, destroying the mine. Hit the mine 3 times, and it goes boom.

==Adversaries==
[[Image:Tew scout.png|250px|right]]
===Decepticon Scouts===
'''Decepticon Scouts''' fly up to the wrecker transport and lower grappling claws to steal 5 energon cubes at a time. They are the first Decepticon adversary you face, and easily destroyed. If they encounter no resistance, no other classes of troops will appear, and Scouts will continue to raid until they have stolen 100 energon cubes.

''The '''Decepticon Scout''' is the only one of The Energon Within's enemies to recieve a proper name. They are black-and-purple [[generic|generics]] based on [[Cyclonus (Armada)|Cyclonus]].

[[Image:Tew miner.png|250px|left]]

===Miners===
The drill-handed "miners" follow the Scouts. Utilizing the Autobots' cargo elevator system, they drop below the mine and tunnel up into it, stealing 5 energon cubes at a time.
Miners can only be destroyed while above ground, requiring you to lob the missiles over the energon mine to hit them outside of the cargo elevator.

'' 'Miners' are green-and-maroon [[generic|generics]] based on the [[Mini-Con]] [[Drillbit]].

[[Image:Tew raider.png|200px|right]]

===Raiders===
The raiders are extremely difficult to hit. Breaking across the open ground in their high-speed gun-tank mode, they transform into robot mode and scramble over the top of the energon mine, making them very dangerous targets. They steal 5 energon cubes at a time from the damaged transport. Raiders will be destroyed by a direct missile stribe, but if you miss, you may destroy the mine itself!

'' 'Raiders' are green-and-maroon [[generic|generics]] based on the [[Mini-Con]] [[Dualor]].

[[Image:Tew jet.png|250px|left]]
==Jets==
Decepticon jets travel at very high speed, scouting the Autobot base from a distiance before performing a radical aerobrake maneuver to drop like a stone while transforming and snatch 5 energon cubes from the damaged transport before transforming and jettting away. They are extremely difficult to hit.

'' 'Jets' are red-and-orange [[generic|generics]] based on the [[Decepticon]] [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]].

==External link==
[http://www.hasbro.com/action/default.cfm?page=game&id=233 The Energon Within online]

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Ricochet (Headmasters)

2006-08-05T05:22:06Z

69.61.171.240:

{{disambig3|Ricochet}}

''Ricochet is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Headmasters]] portion of [[Generation 1]].''

[[Image:Ricochetdoesnthavemuchart.jpg||thumb|right|250px|Yeah. Ricochet doesn't get much artwork.]]

'''Ricochet's''' function is Rapid-Fire Attack, and he's well suited to it. He is the most accurate marksman the Autobots have and a [[Targetmaster]] as well, further augmenting his incredible skill. Unfortunately he's also quick-tempered and very easily provoked. This leads to him having a hard time maintaining friendly relations or even conversations with his teammates. How he manages to keep friendly with [[Fusion]]<ref>Bio-card for Takara's 200x reissue of Stepper</ref> and the chatterbox [[Bluestreak]] is anyone's guess. In his favor, Ricochet has an uncommonly strong sense of justice, though when combined with his other traits that too can lead to trouble.

His Targetmaster partner is [[Nightstick (Autobot)|Nightstick]].

''Japanese names:'' '''Stepper'''

==Fiction==
===Headmasters Manga===

Ricochet accompanied [[Artfire]], [[Chromedome]] and [[Daniel Witwicky]] in responding to a building fire. While the Autobots attempted to rescue people and put out the flames, the [[Decepticon]] Targetmasters attacked. However, the arrival of [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]], who dropped [[fire-retardant foam]] on the buidlings in starship mode, gave the two Autobot Targetmasters the chance they needed to combine with their gun-partners and send the Decepticons flying away uncontrollably.

''('''Note:''' In Japanese continuity, Targetmasters were created by a one-time plasma explosion which fused small robots from the planet Master to the arms of larger Transformers. As Ricochet did not appear in the animated series to partcipate in this event, how he became a Targetmaster in this continuity is unknown, though one supposes that he could have appeared in the manga's off-panel alternate telling of events.)''

===Dreamwave Generation 1 comic===

Though he was never activated, Ricochet was apparently one of several [[evil clones]] created by [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] in the same program that produced [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]].

''This origin is at odds with what little else we know about Ricochet. Of course, Sunstorm wasn't a clone in most stories either...''

==Toys==
===Generation 1===

[[Image:C-109.jpg||thumb|left|Former holy grail.]]

*'''Stepper''' (Targetmaster, 1987)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-109'''

: A [[remold]] of the 1984 Autobot [[Jazz]], Stepper transforms into a Porsche 935 Turbo "Moby Dick" race car. As a [[Targetmaster]], he came with a smaller partner robot named [[Nightstick (Autobot)|Nebulon]]. In gun mode, Nebulon could peg into Stepper's car mode spoiler, or could attach to a separate bracket that mounted over his robot-mode shoulder. Stepper did not come with any of Jazz's accessories.

: As a late addition to the Japanse ''Headmasters'' series and one of the earliest Japanese-only Transformers, though Stepper was not ''particularly'' rare, he was perceived as such in the west, and as such commanded top dollar on the secondary market for many years... until the reissue pretty much iced that.

[[Image:Stepper3.jpg||thumb|right|Ricochet with Nebulon]]

*'''Ricochet w/ Nightstick''' (Targetmaster, 2003)
: ''Japanese ID number:'' '''TFC-15'''

: Announced first by [[Hasbro]] but released almost simultaneously by both Hasbro and [[Takara]], Stepper (now called Ricochet for his US debut) was released through Toys-R-Us in the US in Commemorative Series IX, and as part of Takara's "bookbox" reissue series. His arsenal was bolstered by the addition of Jazz's weapons, chromed gold where they had been silver for the Takara version, and solid black plastic for the Hasbro release. Additionally, Nightstick/Nebulon was retooled with a slender peg extension to allow Ricochet to actually hold him in his hand.

: Amusingly enough, neither version sold all that well, and in the US was eventually sent to the "closeout" chain Tuesday Morning, where he could be purchased for $8 (original TRU price was $30). Japan saw similar clearance sales on the piece.

===Alternators===
[[Image:Stepper-Alt.jpg|left|thumb|He looks sort of fat as an Alternator.]]

*'''Ricochet''' (Alternator, 2006)

: A late-run [[Alternator]], Ricochet is a [[redeco]] of the Subaru Impreza WRX mold used to make [[Bluestreak|Silverstreak]]. He features opening doors, hood and trunk, has a detailed interior, and his intercooler becomes a hand-held (non-firing) weapon. He is one of the few Alternators with a state-specific license plate; Ricochet is registered in New Jersey. With his attitude, he'll fit right in.

: Though publicity photography give Ricochet a fully-gold face, for unknown reasons the final product's nose was white. Contrary to popular belief, it was not left unpainted, as his head is made out of black plastic.

: This mold was retooled to make [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]] and [[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]].

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==References==
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==External Links==
* [http://www.tfu.info/1987/Cybertron/Stepper/stepper.htm Ricochet at TFU.info]

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