Geosensus

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:''Geosensus is an [[Autobot]] from the [[The War Within]] portion of the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]]''

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'''Geosensus''' is highly specialized for his function as a fuel deposit scout. His job is all he cares about and he has extensively adapted and reconfigured himself for its sake, in the process sacrificing features both physical and emotional that most [[Transformer|Transformers]] take for granted. A pacifist, he long ago decided never to be outfitted with [[Weapon|weapons]], instead covering his body with sensory technology. As [[Energon (fuel)|energon]] grew scarcer throughout the millennia, he configured himself with scanning and sampling devices requiring such precise calibration and delicate treatment that they had to be permanently fixed into position: thus he could no longer [[Transformation|transform]] and would always be in his [[alternate mode]], a mobile all-terrain scanning and mining array.

These sacrifices allowed him to help his teammates, but also alienated him from both major Transformer factions. That alienation would cost Geosensus everything.

{{bigquote|No lesson to learn. No reason to tell.|[[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] on covering things up, "[[Parts]]"}}

==Fiction==
===Transformers Legends===
During his subterranean energon hunts, Geosensus inadvertantly discovered the early rallies of the [[Decepticon]] army as well as their brutal [[gladiatorial combat|gladiatorial games]]. [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] confronted him and attempted to recruit him, but was disgusted by Geosensus' stated neutrality and unwillingness to transform, and so attempted to kill him. Geosensus survived and was able to warn the Autobots of a looming attack on [[Kaon]]--while this did not save the city, it won Geosensus the respect of [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]].

When the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' departed for [[Earth]], Geosensus went along to search for energon--over the protests of [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]], who thought him a misfit who wouldn't / couldn't bond with the rest of the team. The first to be awakened after the crash, Geosensus went on a solo survey of Earth, enthralled by its natural beauty... until he was attacked by a Decepticon air patrol. Out of self-preservation he transformed into robot mode, fought and killed one of his pursuers, leaving himself horrified after breaking his own moral code. With no time to reflect on it, he ran back to the Ark while being pursued by another Decepticon--at which point ''both'' of the charging, unfamiliar robots were killed by Optimus Prime and Prowl. Though Prime at first felt shock and guilt, Prowl convinced him that as the Autobots' symbolically perfect leader he did not have the luxury of such emotions and doubts and that it would do vastly more damage to ever admit to the facts. The two swear to secrecy and put a cover story in place, as Prowl recycles Geosensus' remains.{{storylink|Parts}}

==Notes==

* Geosensus is described as being huge: in vehicle mode he can barely fit through a door large enough for Optimus Prime, and in robot mode he crushes the attacking Decepticon with a "massive" arm.
* His scanning-mining-array-thingie mode can move its equipment to allow him to express himself with emotive body language.

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|seriesissue=[[Transformers Legends]]
|prev=Prime Spark
|next=Healers, Fighters, and Transformers
|title="Parts"
|image=
|caption=
|publisher=[[ibooks]]
|date=[[November 30]], [[2004]]
|writer=[[Donald J. Bingle]]
|continuity=War Within / G1 (Unique)
|pagecount=20
}}
'''Prowl is an insensitive prick. Also, meet Geosensus.'''

==Synopsis==
While searching for [[Energon (fuel)|energon]] deposits, Geosensus discovers [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]'s underground death matches. He watches the grisly battle between [[Grabber]] and [[Sting]], and is confronted by Megatron himself. Megatron presumes Geosensus to be a volunteer for the death matches and thus a potential [[Decepticon]] recruit, and so he immediately "adopts" Geosensus, speaking to him in a manner both brutal, commanding, and strangely personable. When Geosensus reveals his pacifist nature and asks "Why would a Cybertronian need weapons on Cybertron? We have no enemies here...", Megatron grows enraged and tries to kill him. Interrupted by the arrival of police units, he settles for brutally mangling Geosensus before making his escape.

Before going off-line, Geosensus manages to send an emergency beacon to the Autobot commanders. The Decepticons promptly attack and devastate [[Kaon]]. While Geosensus's warning couldn't help the Autobots repel that attack ([[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] will later sadly assert that nothing could have), it does give them time to evacuate many civilians to safety, and so Prime always looks favorably upon Geosensus after that.

Millions of years later, the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] in full sway, Geosensus joins the Autobot crew aboard the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]]. En route to [[Earth]], Prowl objects to Geosensus's presence among the crew, because he not only won't fight but also won't transform into robot mode and thus can't socialize and bond with teammates. Optimus counters that Geosensus made that choice millennia ago and in the meantime is fulfilling a valuable function.

When the Ark crashes on Earth, Geosensus is the first Autobot to be awakened by [[Teletraan I (G1)|Teletraan I]], and promptly sets about exploring the planet for energy. He marvels at the extreme abundance of carbon-based fuel sources, and in general enjoys himself greatly as he takes core samples and electromagnetic readings. His enjoyment is interrupted when he is attacked by newly-awakened Decepticons. Out of sheer desperate self-preservation he transforms into robot mode for the first time in millions of years and kills one of the Decepticons with frenzied flailing punches. Geosensus is horrified at having destroyed his fragile sensory equipment and fighting a member of his own species. He has little time to reflect on this, as the surviving Decepticon continues strafing him from the air.

Hoping to find reinforcements, Geosensus runs back towards the Ark, where Optimus Prime and Prowl have been awakened. When they see a Decepticon and an unknown robot approaching their base, the two Autobots assume they were under attack. Prowl kills the Decepticon, and Optimus Prime kills Geosensus.

On examining the wreckage they learn the truth, and Prime is shocked and despondent. He tries to think of how to explain this to the other Autobots, but Prowl insists he should do no such thing. Prowl reasons that with the Autobots already on the defensive and now stranded on an unknown world, they can not risk losing morale as well. His argument is that just as Geosensus had chosen to give up so much in order to specialize as a fuel scout, the lowly archivist [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optronix]] has chosen to give up being a normal flawed Transformer by accepting the [[Matrix of Leadership]] and becoming Optimus Prime. The Autobots need an icon of heroic and infallible leadership more than they need a fuel scout. Besides, it is unlikely any of them had even noticed Geosensus, a loner who was always in his alternate mode and often underground. Optimus Prime, humbled, eventually agrees.

Prowl recycles some of Geosensus's body parts and covers up all evidence of the killing, and swears that if it ever comes to light he himself will take the blame for it.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Geosensus]] (1)
* [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] (6)
* [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] (7)
|c2=
* [[Grabber]] (2)
* [[Sting]] (3)
* [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] (4)
* [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] (5)
* [[Air Warrior|Aerial Units]] (8)
}}

==Continuity==
Written fairly smoothly into the ''[[War Within (franchise)|War Within]]'' subset of [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]]. Since the whole point of the story is that there is a conspiracy afoot to cover it up forever, it ends up "fitting in" pretty well—if [[personal canon|you take seriously]] [[Bee in the City|that type of reasoning]].

==Notes==
* The time periods are described using a scale "BG1" — Before G1. The gladiatorial matches, for instance, take place 8.7 million years BG1. This appears to be yet another instance of a ''Transformers Legends'' author borrowing material from the contemporary ''[[Transformers: The Ultimate Guide]]''.

* Titles often get the article before them capitalized: The Ark, The Prime. Teletraan I is spelled "Teletran-1".

* Megatron's tank mode is said to have a mouth that spits and drools oil as it speaks.

* The descriptions of the flying Decepticons on Earth are confusing. They are alternately described as "probes" and "aerial units" with varying color schemes, yet Geosensus is still devastated by having killed one. Perhaps the author was thinking of the [[Diagnostic Drone|Diagnostic Drones]] that also appeared in War Within, or the reanimated [[Seeker (body-type)|Seekers]] who would come to assist Megatron in other [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]] fiction.

* Now that you know the truth, Prowl has to kill you too.

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