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2009-05-20T15:20:21Z

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Stock [[Hasbro]] photography of the Generation 1 [[Countdown]] toy, used on the toy's packaging. {{hastak}}1990

Rocket Base

2009-05-20T15:15:19Z

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{{factions|autobot}}
:''The rocket base is an [[Autobot]] [[Micromaster]] base from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Rocketbase-packageart.jpg|right|300px|thumb|It's ADA-compliant!]]
Interstellar hero [[Countdown (G1)|Countdown]] commands the enormously powerful '''rocket base''' in his quest to free the galaxy from Decepticon tyranny. The base converts from a mobile launching pad and rocket into a full command center to aid Countdown in his ever-moving fight for freedom. The rocket is an enormous ship, and can transport the rest of the command center via an unspecified form of compression. The base's equipment includes laser blasters, a repair bay, and an interstellar communications and tracking center.

==Fiction==
===''Zone''===
When planet [[Micro]] was rebuilt by the [[Powered Master|Powered Masters]] to protect the newly-developed [[Energon Z]], Countdown's rocket base formed the core of the [[Zone Base]], a sprawling installation formed of numerous interlocking stations manned by Micromasters which served to defend the planet. The rocket base served as a launch station for both the trustworthy Autobot [[Galaxy Shuttle]] and the "Galaxy Rocket", a spacecraft which could transform into a small base itself, which both transported Micromaster teams to planets all across the galaxy in order to protect them from the Decepticons attempting to making a "Zone" of their own. {{storylink|Zone (story page)|''Zone'' story page #1}}

After defeating Decepticon attacks on various other planets, the Autobots on Zone itself soon came under attack by [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]], [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]], [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] and [[Abominus]], who sought the Energon Z for their master, [[Violen Jiger]]. The villains successfully purloined the energy source, but the Micromasters did not give up, transforming the rocket base and launching the Galaxy Rocket in pursuit of the Decepticons. Unfortunately, the tiny heroes were stopped in their tracks by [[Scorponok (G1)|BlackZarak]], but soon, [[Dai Atlas (G1)|Dai Atlas]] and [[Sonic Bomber]] arrived to put the Decepticons in their place. {{storylink|Enter the New Supreme Commander, Dai Atlas!}}

The Zone Base later came under Decepticon attack once more, this time at the hands of the monstrous [[Metrotitan (G1)|Metrotitan]], and was badly damaged in his assault. Galaxy Shuttle was stationed at the rocket base at the time, and was destroyed by the towering terror; the extent of the damage suffered by the rocket base, if it survived at all, is unclear. {{storylink|Zone (story page)|''Zone'' story page #8}}

===Dreamwave comics continuity===
[[Image:Rocketbase-micromasters.jpg|left|200px|thumb|The rocket base in launch base mode, parked in Cybertron's wastelands. Scale inflated for awesomeness.]]
The rocket base's rocket ship transported Countdown and [[Groundshaker]] into the cosmos on a mission to search for Optimus Prime and his lost crew. Eventually, they parted ways with their search partners, Jetfire and Omega Supreme, and began tracking down rogue Decepticons. Their mission took them to [[Paradron]], among other worlds, in pursuit of the Decepticons under [[Skystalker]]'s command. Eventually the rocket ship ferried Countdown and Groundshaker back to Cybertron. {{storylink|Destined for Nothing|Destined for Nothing}}

Once there, it was parked in the wastelands near [[Little Iacon]]. it served as their base of operations as they tried to persuade their fellow Micromasters that they had a higher calling. {{storylink|The Gray Race|The Gray Race}}

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==Toys==
===Generation 1===
* '''Countdown''' (Micromaster Rocket Base, 1989)
**''Accessories'': [[Countdown (G1)|Countdown]] Lunar Rover/Micromaster commander, rocket, base, platform, large ramp, helipad, short ramps (3), mechanical arm, large double laser, small double lasers (2), large laser, gunner pod, scout vehicle.

[[Image:CountdownToy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Guns and rockets are well and good, but it's the Autobots' superior ramp capability that will win the war.]]
: The rocket base was sold in a large boxed package, along with Countdown; it was the largest toy of 1989. The base transforms from a comparatively compact launching pad modeled on the Space Shuttle crawlers, with a gantry tower and a large rocket ship. Rocket and base unfold into multiple ramps, platforms, and "buildings", along with a small "scout vehicle".

===''Zone''===
* '''Rocket Base''' (Micromaster Rocket Base, 1990)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-330'''

: Identical to the earlier American version of the toy, this Japanese release also included the Micromaster [[Rescue Patrol Team]]. The [[Galaxy Shuttle]] toy from the previous year was designed to interact with the Rocket Base.

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==Trivia==
[[Image:ProtoCountdown.jpg|right|300px|thumb|...FROM THE CUTTING EDGE OF THE SIXTIES!]]
* The Rocket Base shown in the 1989 catalog has a vastly different, [[wikipedia:Saturn_V|Saturn V-esque]] rocket with five boosters and an extremely tapered nose. It transforms identically to the final version, however. The gantry is also different, in that there is no detachable platform to allow access to the rocket and instead there are latches to hold the rocket in place upright against the gantry. Said latches fold down to form the legs of the gantry platform in base mode. Also, two extra cannons fold out from two slots next to the large sculpted monitor detail in the main body of the base.
* The design of the Rocket Base was used for the Autobots' [[Shuttle Base]] headquarters from 1989's Japanese series, ''[[Victory (cartoon)|Victory]]'', though it only appeared in the cartoon and was never shown to transform. Since the toy wasn't released until the following year, during the ''[[Zone]]'' series, where it was called by its original American name of "Rocket Base" and was employed in fiction slightly differently, it doesn't seem that the Shuttle Base and the Rocket Base are intended to be the same stucture.
* Countdown's base is another victim of [[Solar system|galaxy/solar system]] confusion. His original tech spec states that the ship uses gravitational pulls to "slingshot across entire galaxies in seconds", as if that were physically possible (not that slingshotting across an entire solar system in seconds would be any more likely.) His ''[[More Than Meets The Eye (G1)|More Than Meets The Eye]]'' profile adds in a mention of "experimental transwarp engines" to make this a bit more digestible, but retains a questionable mention of how the ship can "slingshot across the galaxy in mere moments."
* In the year 2000, the Rocket Base was reused, sans [[Countdown (G1)|Countdown]] and the base's mechanical arm, as the final toy released for the [[Takara]] [[Microman]] LED Powers line. It was [[Redeco|redecoed]] in black, silver, gold, and transparent dark green and titled ''L-26 Micro Rocket Base with Shining Edison''. No [[Retool|retools]] were carried out, as the LED Powers Microman figures use pegs identical in size to those of Micromasters. As such, the L-26 Micro Rocket Base is fully compatible with Micromasters and other Micromaster bases.

[[Category:Autobot bases]]
[[Category:Generation 1 locations]]
[[Category:Generation 1]]
[[Category:Micromaster vehicles]]

Generation 1 issue 0

2009-05-19T21:06:03Z

99.141.112.226: The English, she are hurtsing! - repowers, not signed in

{{comicstory|seriesissue=[[Generation One (Dreamwave comic)|''The Transformers:<br />Generation One'']] #0
|prev=Revelation (War and Peace)
|next=Night of the Combaticons
|image=G1 Vol.3 Issue0 1.jpg
|caption=It doesn't get much more awesome than this.
|publisher=[[Dreamwave Productions]]
|date=[[January 4]], 2004
|coverdate=December, 2003
|story=[[Brad Mick]]
|pencils=[[Pat Lee]], [[Don Figueroa]], [[Joe Ng]]
|inks=[[Elaine To]], [[Rob Armstrong]], [[Erik Sander]]
|colors=[[Espen Grundetjern]], [[Rob Ruffolo]], [[David Cheung]], [[Jong-Im Lee]], [[Elliot Kravchik]], [[Sigmund Torre]]
|letters=[[Ben Lee]]
|chronology=[[Dreamwave timeline|Modern era]]
|continuity=[[Dreamwave Generation One continuity|Dreamwave continuity]]
}}
'''With Cybertron freed from Shockwave's control, events in the rest of the universe gather pace, and more of Cybertron's mysterious past is revealed.'''

==Synopsis==
A collective of seemingly all-knowing entities monitor events and ongoings in the universe.

A monstrous predator travels though space, reawakened and hungry for nourishment, consuming everything on course to [[Earth]]. After the massive mechanical menace massacres the planet [[Lithone (planet)|Lithone]], it recycles the materials to create a new soldier: Cyclonus.

An earlier wave of minions, having spread around the universe, had entered a state of hibernation, while the Alpha Drone, Scourge, found its way to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. It was Scourge who reactivated Shockwave, and Scourge was captured while attempting to save Shockwave from a pack of [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticons]].

[[Image:Superion dreamwave.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Worst... dentists... ever!]] Scourge currently rests on Earth, having been discovered by [[Human|humans]], whom have also recovered the remains of the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] and possibly the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]].
On Cybertron, the situation has quickly and dramatically changed as Ultra Magnus and Optimus Prime dispose of Shockwave.

On [[Quintessa]], protected by Sharkticons and suspiciously feminine looking robots, the narrators are revealed to be the [[Quintesson|Quintessons]], who, for unknown reasons, are angry at Megatron.

On the [[Junkion (planet)|Planet of Junk]], Wreck-Gar recovers vaguely [[Seeker]]-esque bodies for the repaired Megatron.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] (8)
*[[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] (9)
*[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] (10)
*[[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]] (11)
*[[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]] (12)
*[[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] (13)
*[[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] (14)
*[[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] (15)
*[[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] (16)
*[[Springer (G1)|Springer]] (17)
*[[Kup (G1)|Kup]] (18)
*[[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] (19)
*[[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]] (20)
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] (23)

|c2=
*[[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] (4)
*[[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]] (5)
*[[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] (7)
*[[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] (21)
*[[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] (22)
*[[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] (26)

|c4=
*[[Kranix]] (1)
*[[Arblus]] (2)
*[[Unicron|?????]] (3)
*[[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticons]] (6)
*[[Quintesson|Quintessons]] (24)
*[[Wreck-Gar (G1)|Wreck-Gar]] (25)

}}
==Quotes==
* None yet identified.

==Items of note==
* The letters column of [[Black Sunshine|issue #2]] mentioned that issue #0 will never be reprinted, and to date, that statement is true.
* The destruction of Lithone at the start of the issue is similar to its fate at the start of ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'', however it is unknown if there were any survivors in this continuity.
* Shockwave's encounter with Scourge was first glimpsed in "[[Cold War]]".
* The Aerialbots (in [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] form) crashed into a nuclear missile in ''[[Prime Directive]]'', while [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] was last seen falling into the water after being blasted in the face by Prime. It turns out, he's not waterproof. Despite ''totally being waterproof.''
* Wreck-Gar is singing a popular song from [[wikipedia:Snow_White_and_the_Seven_Dwarfs_(1937_film)|''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'']] and he later quotes [[wikipedia:Ricky_Ricardo|Ricky Ricardo]]. This is the first known example in Transformers canon of Megatron being referred to as "Lucy".
* The bodies which Wreck-Gar collects are likely leftover drones from the [[Aerospace Extermination Squadron]].<br />
* The "Wavelengths" page has an article from the desk of [[Alan Wang]].
* Reader mail was answered in the "Prime Transmissions" section by writer [[Adam Patyk]] and also included a piece of fan-art from [[Frank Milkovich]].

===Covers (2)===
[[Image:G1 Vol.3 Issue0 DI.jpg|right|180px|thumb|It just got more awesome.]]
* '''Cover A:''' Regular cover with Megatron over Earth by [[Pat Lee]]
* '''Cover B:''' Dealer incentive cover with Galvatron over Cybertron by [[Don Figueroa]]

===Advertisements===
* [[Night of the Combaticons|''Generation One'' ongoing #1]]
* [[Energon (comic)|''Energon'' series]]

[[Category:Dreamwave Generation 1 issues]]

Generation 1 issue 0

2009-05-19T21:03:12Z

99.141.112.226:

{{comicstory|seriesissue=[[Generation One (Dreamwave comic)|''The Transformers:<br />Generation One'']] #0
|prev=Revelation (War and Peace)
|next=Night of the Combaticons
|image=G1 Vol.3 Issue0 1.jpg
|caption=It doesn't get much more awesome than this.
|publisher=[[Dreamwave Productions]]
|date=[[January 4]], 2004
|coverdate=December, 2003
|story=[[Brad Mick]]
|pencils=[[Pat Lee]], [[Don Figueroa]], [[Joe Ng]]
|inks=[[Elaine To]], [[Rob Armstrong]], [[Erik Sander]]
|colors=[[Espen Grundetjern]], [[Rob Ruffolo]], [[David Cheung]], [[Jong-Im Lee]], [[Elliot Kravchik]], [[Sigmund Torre]]
|letters=[[Ben Lee]]
|chronology=[[Dreamwave timeline|Modern era]]
|continuity=[[Dreamwave Generation One continuity|Dreamwave continuity]]
}}
'''Cybertron now freed from Shockwave's control, events in the rest of the universe start to happen as more elements are introduced and reintroduced to the story.'''

==Synopsis==
A collective of seemingly all-knowing entities monitor events and ongoings in the universe.

A monstrous predator travels though space, reawakened and hungry for nourishment, consuming everything on course to [[Earth]]. After the massive mechanical menace massacres the planet [[Lithone (planet)|Lithone]], it recycles the materials to create a new soldier: Cyclonus.

An earlier wave of minions, having spread around the universe, had entered a state of hibernation, while the Alpha Drone, Scourge, found its way to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. It was Scourge who reactivated Shockwave, and Scourge was captured while attempting to save Shockwave from a pack of [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticons]].

[[Image:Superion dreamwave.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Worst... dentists... ever!]] Scourge currently rests on Earth, having been discovered by [[Human|humans]], whom have also recovered the remains of the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] and possibly the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]].
On Cybertron, the situation has quickly and dramatically changed as Ultra Magnus and Optimus Prime dispose of Shockwave.

On [[Quintessa]], protected by Sharkticons and suspiciously feminine looking robots, the narrators are revealed to be the [[Quintesson|Quintessons]], who, for unknown reasons, are angry at Megatron.

On the [[Junkion (planet)|Planet of Junk]], Wreck-Gar recovers vaguely [[Seeker]]-esque bodies for the repaired Megatron.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] (8)
*[[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] (9)
*[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] (10)
*[[Brawn (G1)|Brawn]] (11)
*[[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]] (12)
*[[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] (13)
*[[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] (14)
*[[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] (15)
*[[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] (16)
*[[Springer (G1)|Springer]] (17)
*[[Kup (G1)|Kup]] (18)
*[[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] (19)
*[[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]] (20)
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] (23)

|c2=
*[[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] (4)
*[[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]] (5)
*[[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] (7)
*[[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] (21)
*[[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] (22)
*[[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] (26)

|c4=
*[[Kranix]] (1)
*[[Arblus]] (2)
*[[Unicron|?????]] (3)
*[[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticons]] (6)
*[[Quintesson|Quintessons]] (24)
*[[Wreck-Gar (G1)|Wreck-Gar]] (25)

}}
==Quotes==
* None yet identified.

==Items of note==
* The letters column of [[Black Sunshine|issue #2]] mentioned that issue #0 will never be reprinted, and to date, that statement is true.
* The destruction of Lithone at the start of the issue is similar to its fate at the start of ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'', however it is unknown if there were any survivors in this continuity.
* Shockwave's encounter with Scourge was first glimpsed in "[[Cold War]]".
* The Aerialbots (in [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] form) crashed into a nuclear missile in ''[[Prime Directive]]'', while [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] was last seen falling into the water after being blasted in the face by Prime. It turns out, he's not waterproof. Despite ''totally being waterproof.''
* Wreck-Gar is singing a popular song from [[wikipedia:Snow_White_and_the_Seven_Dwarfs_(1937_film)|''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'']] and he later quotes [[wikipedia:Ricky_Ricardo|Ricky Ricardo]]. This is the first known example in Transformers canon of Megatron being referred to as "Lucy".
* The bodies which Wreck-Gar collects are likely leftover drones from the [[Aerospace Extermination Squadron]].<br />
* The "Wavelengths" page has an article from the desk of [[Alan Wang]].
* Reader mail was answered in the "Prime Transmissions" section by writer [[Adam Patyk]] and also included a piece of fan-art from [[Frank Milkovich]].

===Covers (2)===
[[Image:G1 Vol.3 Issue0 DI.jpg|right|180px|thumb|It just got more awesome.]]
* '''Cover A:''' Regular cover with Megatron over Earth by [[Pat Lee]]
* '''Cover B:''' Dealer incentive cover with Galvatron over Cybertron by [[Don Figueroa]]

===Advertisements===
* [[Night of the Combaticons|''Generation One'' ongoing #1]]
* [[Energon (comic)|''Energon'' series]]

[[Category:Dreamwave Generation 1 issues]]