Spark extractor

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[[Image:Cycle drone with extractor.jpg|right|300px|thumb|You got SPARK EXTRACTOR!]]
A '''spark extractor''' is a device that is used for pulling a Transformer's [[spark]] out of its mechanical body. This process can be accomplished even against the will of the target Transformer (as was, in fact, the norm). Once removed from its body, a Transformer's spark is more or less helpless.

When an extractor is near a Transformer and activated, even before the spark emerges, the Transformer often appears to be stunned or dazed such that they find it difficult to resist. The extraction itself is quite fast, taking well under thirty [[Earth]]-seconds in most cases. Extractors are therefore quite effective as weapons, requiring only that the victim be momentarily immobilized in order for the extractor to do its work.

==Fiction==
===''Beast Wars'' cartoon continuity===
====3H comics====
The technology, of [[Cryotek (RID)|Cryotek]]'s devising, fell into [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]'s hands when he returned to Cybertron from the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]] and briefly worked with Cryotek.

====''Beast Machines'' cartoon====
[[Image:Spark extraction.jpg|left|150px|thumb|I'LL SWALLOW YOUR SOUL!]]
Spark extractors were used frequently, such as on [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] in several occasions. After interfacing with the [[Oracle (BM)|Oracle]], Megatron's own disembodied spark also had the ability to remove the sparks of living Transformers even without the technological aid of an extractor.
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===''Prime'' cartoon===
[[Image:OperationBumblebee1 spark extractor.jpg|right|thumb|250px]]
One of the class-A weapons confiscated from the [[Decepticon]]s, the Spark Extractor was stored in the [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] [[Vaults]]. When the [[Decepticon]]s stormed Iacon, the Extractor was sent off-planet, and ended up on [[Earth]]. It remained buried until the Decepticons unearthed it many years later. Though [[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Optimus Prime]] attempted to take it, [[Megatron (Prime)|Megatron]] threatened to trigger it, potentially extracting the spark of everyone present. As the Decepticon leader tried to return to [[Trypticon (Prime)|his ship]], [[Bumblebee (Prime)|Bumblebee]] stole the device from him and took it back to the [[Autobot Outpost Omega One|the Autobot base]]. {{storylink|Operation Bumblebee, Part 1}}

The Autobots attempted to deploy the Spark Extractor in an attack on the Decepticon warship, but the ship's newly-awakened intelligence put them all into stasis lock. Megatron ordered the ship to move closer so he could retrieve his weapon, only for the warship to change course instead. {{storylink|Flying Mind}}

Jack later confirmed that the Spark Extractor was once again in storage back at the base, implying that the Autobots had recovered it. {{storylink|New Recruit}}

[[Category:Beast Machines technology]]
[[Category:Prime technology]]
[[Category:Iacon relics]]

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