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Grimlock (G1)

2006-04-10T12:03:27Z

84.40.25.240: /* Animated Continuity */

{{disambig3|Grimlock}}
''Grimlock is an [[Autobot]] in [[Generation 1]] and a [[Maximal]] in the [[Beast Wars]] portion of the Generation 1 continuity.''

[[Image:Grimlockg1.jpg|right|thumb|Grimlock's drawing of himself.]]

'''Grimlock''' hates [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]. Optimus Prime is weak, friendly, and compassionate. Plus Prime's an intellectual, and Grimlock hates those types too, so much that he chooses to speak very poorly. Grimlock believes a leader should show his strength by attacking quickly and mercilessly. Optimus Prime will often reconsider or hesitate on a set of actions in the fear of possible casualties, both Transformer and [[human]] -- Grimlock sees this as cowardice. If Grimlock were in charge, he maintains, the war would have been over long ago.

Some Autobots wonder why Grimlock is even on their side. His disposition is much more suited towards the [[Decepticons]]. After all, he values power and strength over wisdom and compassion, and furthermore, he doesn't get along with any of the Autobots. (Especially [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]].) It's been hypothesized that Grimlock just hates [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] more than he hates Optimus.

Grimlock is the leader of the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobot]]s, a small but very close team of misfits. It's been said that anyone who enters a battle with the Dinobots usually leaves it feet-first.

=Fiction=
===Marvel Comics Continuity===
===Animated Continuity===
'''Voice Actor:''' [[Greg Berger]] (US)

[[Image:Grimlockskywarp.jpg|right|thumb|Grimlock catches Skywarp in his jaws in "S.O.S. Dinobots."]]

When mysterious tremors shook the [[Ark|Autobot base]], [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]'s investigation revealed strange objects behind a rock wall. After removing the wall, the Autobots found a cave full of dinosaur bones. The Autobots decided the idea of dinosaurs was interesting and researched the prehistoric beasts. Wheeljack and [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] asked Optimus Prime if they could build robot dinosaurs, and Prime agreed this was a good idea. Grimlock, [[Slag (G1)|Slag]], and [[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]] were built and unveiled to the Autobots, but the Dinobots were dimwitted and violent, and they attacked their makers. Grimlock blasted [[Teletraan-I]] with his fire-breath, damaging it. Optimus Prime decreed that the Dinobots ''must be destroyed''. However, Wheeljack convinced him instead to lock them away, and the trio were herded back into the cave and buried alive.

Later, the Decepticons took over a hydroelectric plant, but when the Autobots arrived to stop them, the Autobots were defeated and captured. Wheeljack, Ratchet, and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]], left behind at Autobot base to finish repairing Teletraan-I, decided to go against Optimus' orders and release the Dinobots, but not before upgrading their brains to be smarter and more obedient. After the Dinobots are reactivated, Wheeljack asks them to save their friends. Grimlock says he will obey... this time. They successfully attack the Decepticons and free the imprisoned Autobots. Optimus forgives Wheeljack, Ratchet, and Bumblebee for disobeying his orders and welcomes the victorious Dinobots back to the Autobots.

After a meteor surging with unknown energies struck the Earth, Optimus ordered the three Dinobots to guard it. He was so pleased with the Dinobots he asked Ratchet and Wheeljack to build two more. Meanwhile, Megatron was frustrated at the Dinobots' success, and sent [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] to probe them for potential weaknesses. Reading the Dinobots' minds, he discovered that Grimlock was arrogant and believed he would make a better leader than the weak Optimus Prime. Megatron decided to use this to his advantage, and approached them himself. He played to Grimlock's jealousy and agreed with him that the strongest should be leader. The Dinobots declared Optimus Prime their enemy.

[[Image:Grimlockapologize.jpg|left|thumb|Grimlock decides Optimus Prime isn't so bad.]]

Realizing the meteorite was due to explode, Optimus left to warn the Dinobots, but they attacked him. But instead of destroying him completely, Grimlock carried him to the Decepticons, who had stolen the meteorite during the battle. Megatron was angry that Optimus Prime was not destroyed, and Starscream suggested that despite Grimlock's arrogance, inside he was still compassionate. This enraged Grimlock. They were interrupted by the two new Dinobots, [[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]] and [[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]], whom Megatron ordered the original three Dinobots to attack. At the climax of the battle, the meteorite exploded, but Optimus Prime pushed Grimlock out of the way, saving him. Grimlock realized the error of his ways and the Dinobots forced the Decepticons into retreat. Grimlock apologized for his jealousy.

The Decepticons joined forces with [[Sub-Atlantica]] and staged a full-scale attack on [[Washington, D.C.]]. The Autobots were overwhelmed, forcing Wheeljack to call for the Dinobots' assistance. Grimlock expressed his frustration at being called whenever the Autobots were in over their heads. With their help, the Autobots were able to overturn the Decepticons' advance and plunge the city of Sub-Atlantica, burning, into the sea. This pattern of the Autobots' dependence on the Dinobots repeated when the artificial intelligence [[TORQ III]] turned machines against mankind. With every piece of help he and his troops gave, Grimlock was never slow to add a scathing remark about the inabilities of the Autobots. That said, he was not unwilling to admit the failings of his own troops, either, and willingly took them to the time-displaced "Dinobot Island," where they trained in the wilderness and helped stop a Decepticon raid on the prehistoric paradise.

The final straw for Grimlock came when he and the Dinobots were injured in a Decepticon trap at an airfield. Enraged, Grimlock refused to take orders from Optimus Prime any more, and led the Dinobots away from the Ark. When the Autobots began to suffer from Cybertonium deficiency, Spike Witwicky and his girlfriend Carly attempted to persuade the Dinobots - who continued to function perfectly, as they had been built on Earth without Cybertonium - to steal some of the mineral from a Decepticon shipment coming in from Cybertron. Grimlock instead opted to lead the Dinobots to Cybertron itself, where they were captured by [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] and put to work in the Cybertonium mines, until Spike and Carly rescued them. Brought back to Earth, the Dinobots agreed to follow Prime's order again - until such time as Grimlock didn't feel like it.

By the Earth year 2005, it seemed apparent that Grimlock had undergone some degree of a personality change, becoming more childish and petulant, rather than brutish and stubborn. Throughtout 2006, he regularly participated in missions with his fellow Autobots rather than the other Dinobots, battling on the planets of [[Chaar]], Goo, Dredd and Eurythma. He and [[Daniel Witwicky]] were transported to the sorcerous other-dimensional realm of Menonia, where Grimlock was duped into fighting on the side of the tyrannical [[Quintesson]], the Red Wizard, and later, he helped to sniff out the "dinosaur transform static" that implicated [[Trypticon]] in the theft of world monuments. Later in the year, when Decepticon leader [[Galvatron]] had Cybertron infused with function-inverting anti-electrons, a dose of the particles gave Grimlock super-intelligence. During a mission to [[Unicron]]'s disembodied head, where the Autobots were outmatched by the new Decepticon [[Terrorcons]], Grimlock used components of Unicron's head to construct the [[Technobots]] to battle them. Combined as Computron, the Technobots felt they could not match the Terrorcons, until Grimlock transferred his super-intelligence into Computron, reverting to his old self and allowing the Technobots to claim victory.

Grimlock's greatest victory came when he and a large number of other Transformers with animal transformations were summoned to a world at the centre of the galaxy by the ex-assistant of the ancient genius, [[Primacron]], creator of Unicron. The assistant had assembled these "Primitive" Transformers in the hope that their simple instincts could defeat Primacron's newest creation, [[Tornedron]], but one by one they fell to him, with Grimlock apparently crushed under [[Trypticon]]. Grimlock survived, however, and followed Tornedron back to Primacron's lab. When Tornedron turned on his master, like his predecessor, Primacron's complicated plans and equations could not find a way to stop him; Grimlock, on the other hand, randomly flicked a switch which reversed Tornedron's energy polarity, undoing the damage he and done and dissipating. Dancing around over his successful saving of the universe, Grimlock decimated Primacron's lab, dubbing it the smartest thing he'd ever done

===Dreamwave Continuity===
===Beast Wars===
===Universe===

=Toys=
===Generation 1===
===Generation 2===
''Grimlock outranked Optimus Prime in the G2 toyline! (Prime had a rank of 9.) This seems to reflect their initial status-quo of the comic book, with Grimlock leading the main Autobot force before Prime's return.''
===Beast Wars===
===Beast Machines===
*[[T-Wrecks (BM)|T-Wrecks]] may have been intended to be a new form for Grimlock, based on the references in his tech spec bio to his Beast Wars "Attack Specialist" function and other hints. T-Wrecks' appearances in the Universe: The Wreckers comics seems to suggest he is a new character.

===Universe===
*The [[Grimlock (UT)|Grimlock]] toy released in Energon was originally created by Hasbro for release as a special new-mold addition for the Universe toyline and was intended to represent Generation 1 Grimlock. However, it wasn't and it didn't.

=External Links=
[http://www.tfu.info/1985/Autobot/Grimlock/grimlock.htm Grimlock at TFU.info]

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[[Category: Autobots]]
[[Category: Autobot leaders]]
[[Category: Dinobots]]
[[Category: Generation 1]]
[[Category: Generation 2]]
[[Category: Beast Wars]]
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S.T.A.R.S.

2006-04-09T02:26:23Z

84.40.25.240: /* Membership Includes */

''S.T.A.R.S. was a group of [[human]] [[Autobot]] allies during the [[Generation One]] era.''

[[Image:Stars kit.jpg|thumb|300px|The kit issued to S.T.A.R.S. members]]

''A number of physicists and people who realized the gravity and important of the Transformers' presence on this planet were in continual radio contact with the Autobots; reporting any sightings or problems caused by the Decepticons. The great mass of the population had no idea of the lurking menace of the Decepticons. Those who did knew that the only hope for peace lay with the Autobots... -[[Menace at the Dam]]''

==Fiction==

===Organization History===
The '''S'''ecret '''T'''ransformer '''A'''utobot '''R'''escue '''S'''quad was an underground organization of [[Autobot]] allies created by Optimus Prime after a major defeat of the [[Decepticon|Decepticons]] following the arrival of [[Reinforcements from Cybertron]].

Though badly hurt, the Decepticons were not beaten. They initiated a massive building campaign, constructing hidden bases all around the world from which to strike at energy sources.

Optimus Prime's message to S.T.A.R.S. members began, "Earth allies like you are desperately needed. We must thwart the forces of evil now!"

When the location of a secret bases is uncovered, Autobot Strike forces work in concert with human allies to neutralize them.

The Omnibots seem to be the primary strike force employed by S.T.A.R.S., though the main Autobot force also participates in S.T.A.R.S. actions.

===Membership Includes===
A S.T.A.R.S. member keeps watch for potential Decepticon activity in their sector and alerts the Autobots if any is detect. They are expected to be ready at all times in the event a Decepticon alert is issued. Their membership is a secret even from their family.

S.T.A.R.S. members were issued a ''Transformers Control Console'' with Communication Center for monitoring their sector, a booklet including information about [[Cybertron]] and some transformer engineering diagrams, an iron-on patch and a S.T.A.R.S. ID card.

===Operational Model===
[[Image:Patches g1.jpg|thumb|When the Autobot Army rolls into town, S.T.A.R.S. members will wear patches so they don't get shot.]]
In the event Decepticon activity is Detected:
*Alert the Autobots.
*Meet the arriving strike force, prominently displaying the issued patch on a shirt or hat
*Be prepared to direct them towards their target

A typical strike against a hidden Decepticon base by the Omnibots:
*The Omnibots drive up in the dead of night
*They transform
*Launch a volley of missiles at the base
*Transform back to car mode
*Get the fuck out of Dodge before the Decepticons can retaliate

S.T.A.R.S. members are required to fill out Interplanetary Transmission Report detailing the event.

===Human Saboteurs===
[[Image:Timewarrior.jpg|thumb|Time Warrior watches were used by humans saboteurs to time how long until the Decepticons would return to their bases]]
Special watches issued to human allies also arrived with the [[Reinforcements from Cybertron]]. These were used to coordinate forays into enemy territory while the Decepticons were absent, presumably sabotage against either the hidden bases (disable warning system?) or civilian assets being utilized by Decepticons.

''Sources disagree on the purpose of the Time Warriors watches. The "Earthlings:" packet <small>(see sources cited)</small> has the Omnibots using them to co-ordinate their attacks, the 'Reinforcements' packet says they are used to time missions before Decepticons get back, apparently by humans. It's possible they were used by humans '''and''' Omnibots to time attacks to Decepticon absences based on S.T.A.R.S. members' observations of their schedule, but this does not jibe with the immediate assembly of a strike force in Johnny's "Have the Decepticons" packet, nor its size.''

====Membership Card====
The membership card was able to switch between displaying an Autobot symbol and a Decepticon one. The purpose of this function is unknown, but one might speculate that since 'legitimate' Autobot sigils include encoded verification data, the Decepticon Badge may do the same, and a counterfeit Decepticon Badge may be used to gain entry into their bases.
To prevent the Autobots from being similarly fooled by Decepticon sympathizers, it included personal identification data on the reverse side.

===Decepticon Counterparts===
The Autobots are not the only ones reaching out to human allies.

Many humans are willing to work with the Decepticons, whether through thwarted ambitions, or the Decepticons' promises of vast material wealth. (Thousands of humans lured by just such promises were turned into Slaves and subsequently killed in Megatron's giant coal mine beneath Botswana's Kalahari desert.)
One corrupt human calling the shots can mean many humans serving Decepticon goals without even knowing it!

===The Future of S.T.A.R.S.===
By the year 2006, S.T.A.R.S. had become a much more public organization. Rodimus Prime regaled a young S.T.A.R.S. member with the story of [[Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction]], the quest for the location to build Autobot City.

When contacting the [[EDC]] base on planet Mars, [[Blaster]] affectionately refers to them as "The Stars on Mars," which may indicate a natural outgrowth of Stars into a broader human/Autobot alliance.

===Known Stars Members===
*[[Johnny (G1)|Johnny]]
*Marissa Faireborn (probable)
*[[Spike_Witwicky|Spike Witwicky]]

==Metatextual Notes==
*The appeal for human allies, initially attributed to Optimus Prime would later be repeated by the Omnibot Overdrive. Though theoretically a grass-roots campaign, its status as mass-distribution pack-in causes it to read more like a 4-1-9 scheme.[http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/nigeria.asp] ''"Dear Sir or Madame, I must solicit you in the strictest confidence for this alliance, I am the leader of an alien army..."''

*S.T.A.R.S. are good guys, right? The operational model they use seems to be lifted almost '''point-for-point''' from American Cold War paranoia about Communist fifth columnists[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_column] who keep Stalinist posters, radio transmitters and little red books of ideology hidden in their attic. The ones who'll put on their identifying armbands and rush out to guide troops towards vital infrastructure when the Ruskies invade. The description of (probable) members in [[Menace at the Dam]] even invokes leftist intelligencia!

*The status of deep secrecy (bordering on outright obliviousness) surrounding Transformers existed in neither primary media source (Cartoon or comics) at the time, but was reflected by many non-primary source, like choose-your-own-adventure and many odd one-off stories. The atmosphere is probably best captured by the UK comics story [[Man of Iron]], in which the Brits are unrealistically unaware of the giant alien robots who've been the top story on CNN overseas since their arrival. (Unrealistic, if you think ''MoI'' is in-continuity with other comics tales.)

*By 2006, S.T.A.R.S. has become a much more open organization. This era of covert strikes against hidden Decepticon bases began in 1985, and ended some time before March 31, 1987. (The date the Omnibots were destined to leave and fight a war in another Universe.)

==Non-Fiction==
S.T.A.R.S. was the Transformers fan club. It started in 1985, and the price of membership was $6.50.

The Transformers pack-in inserts featured an ongoing storyline. The establishment S.T.A.R.S. organization directly their defeat int he first pack-in story [[Reinforcements from Cybertron]]. Subsequent pack-in inserts, which moved to the year 2006 along with the cartoon, also mention S.T.A.R.S.

===S.T.A.R.S. Fan Club===
For the price of $6.50, a S.T.A.R.S. member received the following:

*S.T.A.R.S. membership card.
*Transformer Control Center (a cardboard communications panel which doubled as a toy display case)
*Iron-on Patch
*Transformers poster
*Tech-spec booklet containing information about Cybertron, and engineering drawings of Transformers.

===Japanese Fan Club===
The Japanese Transformers fan club also included a cardboard command base, which many label the 'Japanese S.T.A.R.S.' This is inaccurate. The Japanese command base was a cardboard environment for the toys to play in, not a roleplay center, and there was no equivalent of the S.T.A.R.S story in Japan. (At least as far as the fan club went.)

==Sources Cited==
Most of the information used in this article came directly from the various S.T.A.R.S. brochures.

<small><big>'''Directly S.T.A.R.S-related Sources:'''</big>

"Have the Decepticons defeated us once and for all?"[http://www.stormpages.com/slamnsx/checklist.html]: ''Johnny spots a Decepticon and calls the Autobots,''

"Earthlings: The STARS need your help now!"[http://yojoe.com/archive/inserts/stars.shtml]: ''Worldwide Decepticon Buildup, Descrption of Omnibot strike on hidden Decepticon base''

Reinforcements from Cybertron:[http://www.stormpages.com/slamnsx/checklist.html] ''Omnibots convert back the vehicle mode and escape after attack, Humans on mission check time until the Deceptcons return using Time Warrior.''

Iron-on Patch commercial[http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0504/]: ''Humans near Autobot base display their patches showing Autobot allegiance to suspicious guards.''

<big>'''Secondary 'S.T.A.R.S-like' Sources:'''</big>

[[Menace at the Dam]]: ''Network of Autobot allies alerts them to Decepticon signings as they move across Idaho.''

[[Five Faces of Darkness, Part 3|Five Faces of Darkness]]: ''Blaster calls the [[E.D.C.]] base "Stars on Mars."''

<big>'''Tertiary Sources:'''</big>

[[Satellite of Doom]]:[http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~sstoneb/tf/books/kidstuff/satellite.html] ''Greedy humans work for the Decepticons in exchange for an offer of great wealth.''

[[Double Deal of the Century]]: Autobrand validation.

Other: ''Various instances of humans working for Decepticons.''
</small>

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S.T.A.R.S.

2006-04-09T02:25:22Z

84.40.25.240: /* Organization History */

''S.T.A.R.S. was a group of [[human]] [[Autobot]] allies during the [[Generation One]] era.''

[[Image:Stars kit.jpg|thumb|300px|The kit issued to S.T.A.R.S. members]]

''A number of physicists and people who realized the gravity and important of the Transformers' presence on this planet were in continual radio contact with the Autobots; reporting any sightings or problems caused by the Decepticons. The great mass of the population had no idea of the lurking menace of the Decepticons. Those who did knew that the only hope for peace lay with the Autobots... -[[Menace at the Dam]]''

==Fiction==

===Organization History===
The '''S'''ecret '''T'''ransformer '''A'''utobot '''R'''escue '''S'''quad was an underground organization of [[Autobot]] allies created by Optimus Prime after a major defeat of the [[Decepticon|Decepticons]] following the arrival of [[Reinforcements from Cybertron]].

Though badly hurt, the Decepticons were not beaten. They initiated a massive building campaign, constructing hidden bases all around the world from which to strike at energy sources.

Optimus Prime's message to S.T.A.R.S. members began, "Earth allies like you are desperately needed. We must thwart the forces of evil now!"

When the location of a secret bases is uncovered, Autobot Strike forces work in concert with human allies to neutralize them.

The Omnibots seem to be the primary strike force employed by S.T.A.R.S., though the main Autobot force also participates in S.T.A.R.S. actions.

===Membership Includes===
A S.T.A.R.S. member keeps watch for potential Decepticon activity in their sector and alerts the Autobots any is detect. They are expected to be ready at all time in the event a Decepticon alert is issued. Their membership is a secret even from their family.

S.T.A.R.S. members were issued a ''Transformers Control Console'' with Communication Center for monitoring their sector, a booklet including information about [[Cybertron]] and some transformer engineering diagrams, an iron-on patch and a S.T.A.R.S. ID card.

===Operational Model===
[[Image:Patches g1.jpg|thumb|When the Autobot Army rolls into town, S.T.A.R.S. members will wear patches so they don't get shot.]]
In the event Decepticon activity is Detected:
*Alert the Autobots.
*Meet the arriving strike force, prominently displaying the issued patch on a shirt or hat
*Be prepared to direct them towards their target

A typical strike against a hidden Decepticon base by the Omnibots:
*The Omnibots drive up in the dead of night
*They transform
*Launch a volley of missiles at the base
*Transform back to car mode
*Get the fuck out of Dodge before the Decepticons can retaliate

S.T.A.R.S. members are required to fill out Interplanetary Transmission Report detailing the event.

===Human Saboteurs===
[[Image:Timewarrior.jpg|thumb|Time Warrior watches were used by humans saboteurs to time how long until the Decepticons would return to their bases]]
Special watches issued to human allies also arrived with the [[Reinforcements from Cybertron]]. These were used to coordinate forays into enemy territory while the Decepticons were absent, presumably sabotage against either the hidden bases (disable warning system?) or civilian assets being utilized by Decepticons.

''Sources disagree on the purpose of the Time Warriors watches. The "Earthlings:" packet <small>(see sources cited)</small> has the Omnibots using them to co-ordinate their attacks, the 'Reinforcements' packet says they are used to time missions before Decepticons get back, apparently by humans. It's possible they were used by humans '''and''' Omnibots to time attacks to Decepticon absences based on S.T.A.R.S. members' observations of their schedule, but this does not jibe with the immediate assembly of a strike force in Johnny's "Have the Decepticons" packet, nor its size.''

====Membership Card====
The membership card was able to switch between displaying an Autobot symbol and a Decepticon one. The purpose of this function is unknown, but one might speculate that since 'legitimate' Autobot sigils include encoded verification data, the Decepticon Badge may do the same, and a counterfeit Decepticon Badge may be used to gain entry into their bases.
To prevent the Autobots from being similarly fooled by Decepticon sympathizers, it included personal identification data on the reverse side.

===Decepticon Counterparts===
The Autobots are not the only ones reaching out to human allies.

Many humans are willing to work with the Decepticons, whether through thwarted ambitions, or the Decepticons' promises of vast material wealth. (Thousands of humans lured by just such promises were turned into Slaves and subsequently killed in Megatron's giant coal mine beneath Botswana's Kalahari desert.)
One corrupt human calling the shots can mean many humans serving Decepticon goals without even knowing it!

===The Future of S.T.A.R.S.===
By the year 2006, S.T.A.R.S. had become a much more public organization. Rodimus Prime regaled a young S.T.A.R.S. member with the story of [[Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction]], the quest for the location to build Autobot City.

When contacting the [[EDC]] base on planet Mars, [[Blaster]] affectionately refers to them as "The Stars on Mars," which may indicate a natural outgrowth of Stars into a broader human/Autobot alliance.

===Known Stars Members===
*[[Johnny (G1)|Johnny]]
*Marissa Faireborn (probable)
*[[Spike_Witwicky|Spike Witwicky]]

==Metatextual Notes==
*The appeal for human allies, initially attributed to Optimus Prime would later be repeated by the Omnibot Overdrive. Though theoretically a grass-roots campaign, its status as mass-distribution pack-in causes it to read more like a 4-1-9 scheme.[http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/nigeria.asp] ''"Dear Sir or Madame, I must solicit you in the strictest confidence for this alliance, I am the leader of an alien army..."''

*S.T.A.R.S. are good guys, right? The operational model they use seems to be lifted almost '''point-for-point''' from American Cold War paranoia about Communist fifth columnists[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_column] who keep Stalinist posters, radio transmitters and little red books of ideology hidden in their attic. The ones who'll put on their identifying armbands and rush out to guide troops towards vital infrastructure when the Ruskies invade. The description of (probable) members in [[Menace at the Dam]] even invokes leftist intelligencia!

*The status of deep secrecy (bordering on outright obliviousness) surrounding Transformers existed in neither primary media source (Cartoon or comics) at the time, but was reflected by many non-primary source, like choose-your-own-adventure and many odd one-off stories. The atmosphere is probably best captured by the UK comics story [[Man of Iron]], in which the Brits are unrealistically unaware of the giant alien robots who've been the top story on CNN overseas since their arrival. (Unrealistic, if you think ''MoI'' is in-continuity with other comics tales.)

*By 2006, S.T.A.R.S. has become a much more open organization. This era of covert strikes against hidden Decepticon bases began in 1985, and ended some time before March 31, 1987. (The date the Omnibots were destined to leave and fight a war in another Universe.)

==Non-Fiction==
S.T.A.R.S. was the Transformers fan club. It started in 1985, and the price of membership was $6.50.

The Transformers pack-in inserts featured an ongoing storyline. The establishment S.T.A.R.S. organization directly their defeat int he first pack-in story [[Reinforcements from Cybertron]]. Subsequent pack-in inserts, which moved to the year 2006 along with the cartoon, also mention S.T.A.R.S.

===S.T.A.R.S. Fan Club===
For the price of $6.50, a S.T.A.R.S. member received the following:

*S.T.A.R.S. membership card.
*Transformer Control Center (a cardboard communications panel which doubled as a toy display case)
*Iron-on Patch
*Transformers poster
*Tech-spec booklet containing information about Cybertron, and engineering drawings of Transformers.

===Japanese Fan Club===
The Japanese Transformers fan club also included a cardboard command base, which many label the 'Japanese S.T.A.R.S.' This is inaccurate. The Japanese command base was a cardboard environment for the toys to play in, not a roleplay center, and there was no equivalent of the S.T.A.R.S story in Japan. (At least as far as the fan club went.)

==Sources Cited==
Most of the information used in this article came directly from the various S.T.A.R.S. brochures.

<small><big>'''Directly S.T.A.R.S-related Sources:'''</big>

"Have the Decepticons defeated us once and for all?"[http://www.stormpages.com/slamnsx/checklist.html]: ''Johnny spots a Decepticon and calls the Autobots,''

"Earthlings: The STARS need your help now!"[http://yojoe.com/archive/inserts/stars.shtml]: ''Worldwide Decepticon Buildup, Descrption of Omnibot strike on hidden Decepticon base''

Reinforcements from Cybertron:[http://www.stormpages.com/slamnsx/checklist.html] ''Omnibots convert back the vehicle mode and escape after attack, Humans on mission check time until the Deceptcons return using Time Warrior.''

Iron-on Patch commercial[http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0504/]: ''Humans near Autobot base display their patches showing Autobot allegiance to suspicious guards.''

<big>'''Secondary 'S.T.A.R.S-like' Sources:'''</big>

[[Menace at the Dam]]: ''Network of Autobot allies alerts them to Decepticon signings as they move across Idaho.''

[[Five Faces of Darkness, Part 3|Five Faces of Darkness]]: ''Blaster calls the [[E.D.C.]] base "Stars on Mars."''

<big>'''Tertiary Sources:'''</big>

[[Satellite of Doom]]:[http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~sstoneb/tf/books/kidstuff/satellite.html] ''Greedy humans work for the Decepticons in exchange for an offer of great wealth.''

[[Double Deal of the Century]]: Autobrand validation.

Other: ''Various instances of humans working for Decepticons.''
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Mega-Octane

2006-04-08T06:32:13Z

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''Mega-Octane is a [[Decepticon]] in the [[Robots in Disguise]] continuity.''

''Japanese name: '''Dolrailer''' ''

'''Mega-Octane''' is the cool-headed commander of the [[Commandos (RiD)|Commandos]]. He orders his troops into battle with militaristic stoicism, but actually spends more of his time keeping the hot-headed [[Scourge (RiD)|Scourge]] in check. Scourge claims to be leader of the small Decepticon faction, but in reality it is Mega-Octane who holds the group together.

He merges with the other Commandos to form [[Ruination (RiD)|Ruination]], who he completely controls.

==Fiction==
===Robots in Disguise Cartoon===
'''Voice actor:''' [[Bob Papenbrook]] (US), [[Harî Kaneko]] (Japan)<br>

==Toys==
===Robots in Disguise===

===Universe===

==External Links==

[http://www.tfu.info/2001/Decepticon/Mega-Octane/mega-octane.htm Mega-Octane at TFU.info]

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Talk:Dreadwind (RID)

2006-04-07T15:01:03Z

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The magazine directs you tot he site to see picture of Dark Megawing Galvatron. The site no longer, um... exists. Anyone save them? Were they ever actually up? Does anyone have a better pic of the combined mode? (This was straight on,a nd doesn't show off some of the cleverness with Clench, for instance.)

There was LINE ART of the combined mode, damnit, and it was totalluy covered by the pics showing the transformation sequence. :p Does Megazarak's bio make DW part of his strike force in MZ's HOME reality, or in Universe whent hey've both been pulled there? -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 11:37, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

:I don't think the pictures ever went up, no. But in clarifying at what point Sunstorm, et al were Megazarak's troops, I noticed his bio says he's a Minion of Unicron, not a Child of Primus, which I should change. (I was going off memories of Glen's plans, who thought it would be a neat idea to have Megazarak, the evilest Autobot-genocider ever, be on the side of good. Nice conflict between him and, say, Primal. Or hell, Defensor, the Last Autobot from Meg's universe. Imagine having to get along with him in that circumstance. But, profile says what it says.) But anyway. The bio implies that they were his troops in his original universe, by the wording, and also because they appear to be on opposite sides in Universe. So, no, I have no idea how the Powerlinx Battles fit into it. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 06:33, 7 April 2006 (PDT)

Unicron Battles, explicitly, not Powerlinks battles. Primus (presumably) granted Galvatron the Spark of combination during '''Armada'''. Which I think is... actually pretty darn cool. Or maybe Dreadwind and Co brought it from another universe? (They do seem to get around.) -[[User:Derik|Derik]]<div id="wikia-credits"><br /><br /><small>From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</small></div>

Talk:Dreadwind (RID)

2006-04-07T14:57:51Z

84.40.25.240:

The magazine directs you tot he site to see picture of Dark Megawing Galvatron. The site no longer, um... exists. Anyone save them? Were they ever actually up? Does anyone have a better pic of the combined mode? (This was straight on,a nd doesn't show off some of the cleverness with Clench, for instance.)

There was LINE ART of the combined mode, damnit, and it was totalluy covered by the pics showing the transformation sequence. :p Does Megazarak's bio make DW part of his strike force in MZ's HOME reality, or in Universe whent hey've both been pulled there? -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 11:37, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

:I don't think the pictures ever went up, no. But in clarifying at what point Sunstorm, et al were Megazarak's troops, I noticed his bio says he's a Minion of Unicron, not a Child of Primus, which I should change. (I was going off memories of Glen's plans, who thought it would be a neat idea to have Megazarak, the evilest Autobot-genocider ever, be on the side of good. Nice conflict between him and, say, Primal. Or hell, Defensor, the Last Autobot from Meg's universe. Imagine having to get along with him in that circumstance. But, profile says what it says.) But anyway. The bio implies that they were his troops in his original universe, by the wording, and also because they appear to be on opposite sides in Universe. So, no, I have no idea how the Powerlinx Battles fit into it. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 06:33, 7 April 2006 (PDT)

Unicron Battles, explicitly, not Powerlinks battles. apparently primus (presumably) granted galvatront he Spark of combination during the battle against Unicron. Which i think is... actually pretty darn cool. -[[User:84.40.25.240|84.40.25.240]] 14:57, 7 April 2006 (UTC)<div id="wikia-credits"><br /><br /><small>From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</small></div>