Carlson

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:''Carlson is a [[human]] from the [[live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''
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'''Carlson''' is [[Seymour Simmons]]'s long-suffering landlord. He's steadily growing suspicious of the resident of 1B in the [[New York City|New York]] apartment block he runs, and every new strange occurrence sees him edge closer to chucking Simmons out.

==Fiction==
===''The Veiled Threat''===

A power surge caused by [[Frenzy (Movie)|Frenzy]] attempting to escape captivity knocked out every light in the building and sent everyone's appliances into fits. Carlson subsequently caught an earful from [[Berkowitz|Mrs. Berkowitz]] in 6C and pounded on Simmons's door. After Seymour offered to pay to replace the burned-out light bulbs, Carlson was mollified, but threatened to bring in a city inspector if it happened again. Simmons later opted to move his experiments elsewhere. {{storylink|Transformers: The Veiled Threat|The Veiled Threat}}

==Notes==
He could have been related to [[Seymour Simmons]] himself, as it was indirectly mentioned in a [[Sector 7]] comic that his really family name was ''Carlson'', but because of the sudden end of his grandparents' marriage, the name changed to [[Simmons]].

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Bill Simmons

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:''Bill Simmons is a human from the [[live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''
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'''William Simmons'''—"'''Bill'''" to his friends and co-workers, or "'''Billy'''" if you're either an elderly relative or looking for a punch in the mouth—is an all-American boy. Son of [[Margaret Simmons]] and grandson of [[Sector Seven]] founder [[Walter Simmons]], his only interest upon reaching adulthood was to serve his country, and he enlisted in the army, actively eschewing enrollment in his grandfather's organization after seeing what the experience had done to the rest of his family. Whether fighting Nazis on the front lines or rooting out Commies at home, Bill was a staunch defender of Uncle Sam, apple pie, and all the rest of it against foreign invaders... and then, his mind was opened to the concept of an "invading other" he could scarcely comprehend. Faced with the reality of the existence of worlds beyond our own, and indeed, the possibility that the creatures that came from those worlds could be more than simply what his grandfather claimed they were, he fell victim to the tragedy of the Simmons lineage with scarcely a hint of realizing it.

Bill is husband to [[Tova Anael Fischer|Anne Fischer]], and father of [[Seymour Simmons]]. He is sometimes known as '''Felix'''.

==Fiction==
===IDW movie comics===
At best estimate, Bill was born to Margaret Simmons and her unnamed husband in the early 1920s. When Margaret became separated from her husband at an unspecified point over the following decade (either by death, divorce or something else), her father, Walter, gave her a low level position within Sector Seven so that she could provide for the boy. {{storylink|Together}} Margaret fell in love with Sector Seven agent [[Roy Thompson]], and together, they raised Bill until Margaret's untimely death at some point prior to 1944. Blaming Sector Seven for his mother's death, Bill vowed to have nothing to do with it, and instead joined the army when he came of age.

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On [[April 3]], [[1944]], Bill was summoned by his grandfather to Sector Seven's Beta Command Post at [[Hoover Dam]], where he revealed he had orchestrated Bill's transfer from his unit to Sector Seven for a special mission. Bill was not happy about either the situation or the flip attitudes of the other men he was partnered with, but the mission did appeal to his Nazi-thumping sense of adventure: an air-drop into enemy territory, there to penetrate [[Castle Neuschwanstein]] and destroy both the Nazi facility within and the [[Non-Biological Extraterrestrial|N.B.E.]] they were holding captive there! The mission got off to a bad start, however, when the team was shot down by mecha-tanks the Nazis had reverse-engineered from their prisoner's technology, leaving only Bill, the youthful [[Lupton]] and their commanding officer [[Donavan|Sergeant Donavan]] alive once they hit the ground. The tanks pursued them, transforming into humanoid modes, and although Bill was able to board the mecha and kill the pilot wired into its systems, Donavan did not survive the battle. Together, Bill and Lupton were able to topple one remaining tanks with felled trees and Lupton used it to take out the third and final one, but not before accidentally vaporizing Bill's right hand with a stray laser blast from its turret. Taking the loss in stride, Bill boarded the tank, and the pair tried using it to enter Castle Neuschwanstein stealthily. Unfortunately, the screaming of the tank's tortured pilot alerted the castle's guards, and they activated their greatest robot creation yet, the [[Panzer-Giganten]], which crushed the tank and killed Lupton. Making his way through soldiers and scientists alike—hurling one man out a window upon receipt of the standard "I was only following orders!" response to his inquiries—Bill prepared to take himself and the Panzer-Giganten out with a satchel of explosives. The robot proved able to simply swat the satchel away, but the resulting explosion instead blew open the cryo-unit that was holding the Nazi's captive N.B.E.—[[Jetfire (Movie)|Jetfire]]! The ancient [[Seeker (ROTF)|Seeker]] made quick work of the Panzer-Giganten, then turned on Bill, believing him responsible for his ordeal. Bill was quick to explain otherwise, but Jetfire remained derisive, considering the human's willingness to throw his life away foolish. Bill retorted that he valued freedom more than his own life, which gave Jetfire pause, reminding him of his own desire for freedom and his rebellion against his master, [[The Fallen]]. Seeing something of himself in the young man, Jetfire fulfilled Bill's mission for him by destroying the castle, then flew him to the nearest allied outpost before disappearing. {{storylink|Weapon (issue)|Weapon}}

The whole experience convinced Bill to permanently join Sector Seven, making his specific goal the investigation of a mysterious network of subterranean tunnels, a map of which the Nazis had pulled from Jetfire's brain. Over the next decade, he distinguished himself as a superior agent, but he did ruffle some feathers when he led a campaign to have Sector Seven scientist [[Robert Oppenheimer]] ousted from the organization on allegations of Communism. His severed fist was replaced with a mechanical prosthesis, and in [[1953]], he married fellow agent Anne Fischer in a secret ceremony.

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In [[1954]], Bill and Anne were part of the skeleton staff manning the Sector Seven Alpha Command Post in the [[Arctic]], where the "[[Megatron (Movie)|Mega-Man]]" discovered by his grandfather was frozen. When an act of sabotage trapped them in the base, along with [[Philip Nolan]], [[Joe Danco]] and [[Fontaine]], and a rapidly-thawing Mega-Man, tensions between Bill and Nolan exploded, the latter having long held a grudge over the Oppenheimer incident. Believing Nolan to be responsible for the sabotage, Bill locked him up, but when Fontaine turned up dead soon after, they were faced with the possibility that an N.B.E. might have somehow disguised itself as one of them. The group conducted a blood test to prove their humanity to one another, which led to the discovery that Anne was pregnant, but this only wound up destabilizing relations even further, as Nolan believed the couple were conspiring against him. At gunpoint, Bill revealed that he had been stationed in the Arctic as part of his research into the tunnel system, which they could use to escape the base. With this means of flight now exposed, Danco revealed himself to be both the saboteur and killer and a Communist defector, having orchestrated the entire scenario in order to escape to Russia with stolen Sector Seven secrets. The Mega-Man chose this moment to defrost and come smashing his way into the tunnels in pursuit, while simultaneously, above ground, Bill's grandfather called for liquid nitrogen bombs to be dropped on the facility to prevent his escape at the cost of the crew's lives. Jetfire intervened, having been shadowing Bill since their meeting during the war, but was only able to save Anne and Nolan from the freezing blast. {{storylink|Frozen}}

Although believed dead by all, both Bill and Danco survived the blast, with Danco fleeing deeper into the tunnels and Bill giving chase. Unfortunately, he ran straight into a Soviet extraction team sent to recover Danco, and was taken captive, transported back to the Soviet Union for incarceration and interrogation. Moved from facility to facility and tortured repeatedly, Bill did not break once in eight years, even managing to escape multiple times, only to be repeatedly hunted down and recaptured. Eventually, at the start of [[1962]], he was relocated to [[Soviet Research Station Oktober]], where he was kept in solitary confinement for three and a half years, psychologically tormented by having episodes of ''[[cat with a magic bag|Felix the Cat]]'' blasted into his cell every day. In the summer of [[1965]], Danco revealed that the Spetsnaz had located Anne and his now-ten-year-old son Seymour, and this may well have been the breaking point for Bill, if not for a covert Decepticon attack on the facility. Impersonating agent [[Alisa Morozov]], the Decepticons' [[Alice (ROTF)|Pretender]] murdered the station's staff and began reading information from Danco's brain; in the chaos, Simmons convinced Danco to throw him his gun, allowing him to blast his cell door off at the hinges, and to then kill Danco to stop the Decepticons' plan. Setting off a propane explosion to cover his escape, Bill emerged from Research Station Oktober to find it was in the middle of Moscow, and quickly disappeared in the crowd of onlookers. {{storylink|Convergence chapter 2}}

After being on the run for two months, Bill Simmons managed to escape Russia by boarding a freighter using Danco’s indentification papers. Back in his country, he made contact with Sector 7 command, and waited to be picked up. After a time, feeling uneasy and suspecting he’d been compromised, Bill decided to head for an address inscribed on the back of the photo of his son.

The address led him to a deli. He entered the establishment, careful to be a stealthy as possible. Within, he spotted Seymour hiding. Quickly grabbing the boy, he asked his son about his mother. Though Seymour struggled at first, he recognized his father from the photograph his mother kept. Bill struggled to explain to Seymour who he was, but their conversation was cut short by the arrival of a helicopter. Recognizing that a Russian helicopter arriving in the middle of the night wasn't normal, Bill entrusted his son with the secret number to Sector 7 and his metal hand, before saying goodbye best he could. Bill then took off down the street. The Pretender exited the helicopter, and soon caught up to him. After a brief fight, [[Incinerator (Movie)|the helicopter]] that carried the Pretender launched a projectile, incinerating the building Bill was in, presumably killing him. His body was never found. {{storylink|Convergence chapter 3}}

===''Revenge of the Fallen'' novel===

In order to convince [[L. W. Wilder|Captain Wilder]] to fire his [[rail gun]] upon [[Devastator (ROTF)|Devastator]], Seymour Simmons evoked the memory of his father, Felix, claiming that he had invented the word "classified". {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (novel)|Revenge of the Fallen}}

==Notes==
*Seymour's father was first named, as "Felix", in the novelization of ''Revenge of the Fallen'', a name which was presumably, like many of the other dropped plot points and explanations seen in the novel, drawn from the original script for the film. Author [[John Barber]] evidently missed this factoid when he identified Seymour's father as "Bill" in the ''[[Transformers: Sector 7|Sector 7]]'' comic book, but he later returned to the goof in ''[[Transformers: Convergence|Convergence]]'', and implied that "Felix" was an alias or changed name that Bill later took on, inspired by the ''{{w|Felix the Cat}}'' episodes the Russians bombarded him with.

- Based on [[John Barber]]'s notes at the back of one [[Sector 7]] issue, it was stated that his biological father was separated from his mother [through death, divorce or something else] and she then married agent [[Roy Thompson]]. His father's family name is [[Carlson]], but because of the separation, his mother decided to use her maiden name for him. If they were not separated, it would have been Bill ''Carlson'' instead of Bill [[Simmons]].

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{{disambig2|the Sector Seven organization itself|the alternate reality game based on it|Sector Seven (game)}}

[[Image:Sector7logo.png|right|270px|thumb|"You guys have heard of Area 51? Well this is 50!"]]

{{quote|We're the government. Sector Seven.}}
{{quote|Never heard of it.|}}
{{quote|Never will.|Agent Simmons and Ron Witwicky|''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]''}}

'''Sector Seven''' is a secret [[United States of America|American]] government agency, which deals with extraterrestrial technology and threats. It has been around for quite some time, but how long ''exactly'' depends on who you ask (see Notes for more).

It is so secret, it had its own secret website (They took it offline to keep its secrets!)

''Sector Seven sometimes operates through the front companies '''S7 Industries'''. And '''[[Sectors Even]]'''.''

==Fiction==
===Movies===
{{note|The six movies are the primary component of the live-action movie continuity family. Their events should be taken as canon for all other pieces of fiction listed below, unless otherwise specified.}}
According to Sector Seven director [[Tom Banachek]], the group was first commissioned around the year 1927, under [[President of the United States|President]] [[Herbert Hoover]]; though they apparently answered (or once answered) to the Defense Secretary, contemporary Defense Secretary [[John Keller]] claimed not to have heard of them. Banachek also stated that the First Seven found the [[AllSpark]] in [[1913]], but that might have been before Sector Seven was formally created.

To keep this alien relic secure, the group established a [[Area 52 (Movie)|headquarters]] in the recently constructed [[Hoover Dam]] and had the cube transferred there. in the 1930s, Sector Seven operatives excavated the alien codenamed "[[Megatron (Movie)|N.B.E.-01]]" from the [[Arctic]] Circle and had his frozen remains transferred to their primary facility. In the years that followed, many modern forms of technology were secretly reverse-engineered from his frozen body. Eventually, the organization learned of the AllSpark's power to bring mundane machines to life, and began a battery of experiments to test the limits of the AllSpark's capabilities. {{storylink|Transformers (film)|Transformers}}

During this early period, Sector Seven became increasingly aware of Cybertronian activity on Earth, and commissioned [[Project Black Knife|Project: Black Knife]] to investigate. They discovered [[Cyberglyphics]] inscribed on ruins across the planet, raising the possibility that there may be aliens lying inert on the planet; for reasons unknown, however, this evidence was deemed inconclusive and the project went nowhere. {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}}

In the year 1961, an [[Ark (DOTM)|alien ship]] crash-landed on the moon; the race to retrieve the alien technology became the secret impetus for the famous {{w|Space Race}} between the [[United States of America|United States]] and [[Soviet Union]]. Under the orders of [[John F. Kennedy]], Sector Seven worked with [[NASA]] to prepare a manned mission to the moon in [[1969]]. [[Neil Armstrong]] and [[Buzz Aldrin]]'s exploration resulted in the discovery of several deceased N.B.E.s, and evidence and logs relating to the top secret mission was kept in Sector Seven's custody. This top-secret operation was deemed to be director-only-clearance, with only the highest-ranking members of the conspiracy aware of the truth behind the Apollo landings.

Years later, Sector Seven discovered that the Soviets had used unmanned probes to collect [[Pillar|samples of alien technology]] from the ship, one of which was the cause of a nuclear disaster at [[Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant|Chernobyl]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon}}

In [[1987]], a training exercise overseen by agent [[Jack Burns]] was interrupted by [[Bumblebee (Movie)|B-127]] making planetfall. Just as the [[Autobot]] scout was about to explain himself, the Decepticon [[Seeker (Movie)|Seeker]] [[Blitzwing (BB)|Blitzwing]] appeared, posing as an [[United States Air Force|Air Force]] fighter jet and bombing Burns' squadron before engaging B-127 in a fight that saw the Autobot robbed of his voice box and the Seeker blown to bits.

Several months later, Burns was informed by fellow agent [[Seymour Simmons]] that two more Transformers has just made planetfall. Burns led a unit to intercept the aliens, introducing themselves as [[Shatter]] and [[Dropkick (Movie)|Dropkick]] of the "Decepticon peacekeeping patrol". Shatter manipulated the humans into forming an alliance so they could catch B-127, who she claimed was a "dangerous escaped criminal". Burns was skeptical of the Decepticons (especially since the Decepticon name raised red flags to him), but [[Dr. Powell]] assured Shatter and Dropkick that he and Burns would discuss the matter with their superior [[General Whalen]].

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Whalen sided with Powell on account of the Cybertronian upgrades to American technology being beneficial in hopes of winning the [[Cold War (history)|Cold War]], though he was willing to let Burns terminate the aliens once they have captured B-127. The Autobot was eventually tracked to [[Brighton Falls]], [[California]] when an [[Energon]] surge was detected by the computers modified by the Decepticons. Sector Seven, Shatter, and Dropkick traveled there and incapacitated B-127, who was now calling himself "Bumblebee" and had fallen in with [[Charlie Watson]] and [[Memo]].

Taking Bumblebee to [[McKinnon Air Base]], the Decepticons tortured the Autobot before triggering a message from his leader [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] revealing the Autobots were regrouping on Earth. Powell radioed Burns on the Decepticons' true colors before being killed by Dropkick. Once they arrived at the building Bumblebee was being held prisoner in, Burns ordered for the doors to be blown open. While Charlie and Memo were being restrained, Bumblebee suddenly snapped and went on a rampage, overpowering Sector Seven. However, Burns eventually saw that Bumblebee was no criminal, as the Autobot saved his life after his helicopter was shot down by Shatter. After Bumblebee killed the two Decepticons and Charlie prevented their transmission from reaching [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], Burns let the two go. {{storylink|Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee}}

In [[2003]], Sector Seven operatives were alerted to extraterrestrial activity on [[Mars (planet)|Mars]] when a Transformer stepped on the [[Beagle 2 Rover]] moments after it landed. The footage was quickly seized, and Sector 7 disseminated a coverup story that the probe had simply crash-landed. {{storylink|Transformers (film)|Transformers}} By this point, Simmons had climbed his up the ranks to agency Director; despite attempting to reopen inquiries into projects such as the shuttered Black Knife files, those higher up in the chain of command wouldn't let him, thinking that wanting to look for Transformers on Earth was an obsession that Sector Seven, who counter and look for Transformers, shouldn't indulge. (''God'' these guys sucked.) {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}}

[[Image:Movie Autobots Sector Seven.JPG|thumb|left|upright=1.4|Being cars, the Autobots take fender benders very seriously.]]
In [[2007]], a Sector Seven field team under Director Simmons headed to the [[Witwicky (surname)|Witwicky]] residence when evidence arose suggesting that [[Sam Witwicky]] had made contact with an N.B.E. they had been tracking. Taking Witwicky and [[Mikaela Banes]] into custody, Simmons began to interrogate Sam and Mikaela aggressively until the field unit's convoy was ambushed by Optimus Prime and his Autobots. [[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]] was able to swiftly disarm the field unit; though a backup team arrived to capture as many Autobots as they could, they were only successful in capturing Bumblebee and the two teens.

[[File:Movie Optimus Prime S7 mad.JPG|thumb|upright=1.4|Optimus needs a ''[[Nougabot|Snickers]]''.]]
After the Decepticons hit global communications, Banachek went to Secretary Keller and informed him of the situation. Keller, the teens, and an Army Ranger unit were taken to Hoover Dam and shown the frozen N.B.E.-01, who Sam Witwicky identified as Megatron, leader of the [[Decepticon]]s. However, [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] arrived and destroyed their external power lines, while [[Frenzy (Movie)|Frenzy]] sabotaged Megatron's stasis controls. With Megatron minutes away from thawing, Sam tried to convince Simmons to release Bumblebee, but Simmons was only convinced by [[William Lennox|Captain Lennox]] and his men. In the ensuing crisis, Megatron was freed from his cryonic prison, while Bumblebee and the Autobots absconded with the AllSpark. Beyond providing a small amount of soldiers to assist the ranger unit under Lennox, Sector Seven played no serious role in the Battle of [[Mission City]], which was mostly decided by the Autobots.

Sector Seven's time had come—and they had done nothing but make the situation worse, all their secret weapons being ineffective against the Decepticons, and having alienated the Autobots. Sector Seven was terminated in an effort to better cover up the existence of the [[Transformer]]s, but it may have been influenced by their loss of control over the situation. {{storylink|Transformers (film)|Transformers}} Sector Seven's replacement, [[NEST]], worked directly with the Autobots in an effort to better counter the surge of Decepticon activity on Earth.

Before Sector Seven was shut down, however, Simmons copied as much research as he could, including the files relating to Project: Black Knife, which became of interest to the Autobots and their human allies during Sam's search for the [[Matrix of Leadership]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}}

In [[2012]], [[Charlotte Mearing]] explained the role Sector Seven had played in the moon landing to the Autobots, which came as a surprise even to Simmons. {{storylink|Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon}}

===IDW comics===
In January of [[1898]], adventurers [[Walter Simmons]] and [[Theodore Joseph Wells]] were commissioned by the government to investigate the ramblings of the insane [[Archibald Witwicky]], who claimed to have encountered a "behemoth" in the Arctic Circle. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 2|Movie Prequel #2}} {{storylink|Original}} The pair already been operating for years as scientist-adventurers, uncovering bizarre creatures and phenomena on Earth; [[President of the United States|President McKinley]] was aware of them. {{storylink|Original}} Artifacts they had included pictures and a skull from a "triclops" life form of some kind, a severed bestial arm in a jar (possibly from a version of the Beast Wars, although the sketch is difficult to make out and mechanics may not be incorporated) and what could possibly be a fragment of a [[Golden Disk (disambiguation)|Golden Disk]].{{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 2|Movie Prequel #2}} Recruiting four other men—[[Billy North]], [[Theodore Grant]], [[Philippe Bowen]] and [[Jack Arden]]—the crew travelled to the Arctic with [[Reginald Danco]] to investigate, but ran afoul of the [[Seeker (ROTF)|Seeker]] [[Jetfire (Movie)|Jetfire]] in the process. Though the humans were able to defeat the Decepticon by blasting the ice out from underneath him, North perished, and the survivors realized the need for a group dedicated to protecting Earth against future alien invaaders. {{storylink|Original}} Walter Simmons took charge of the operation; by [[1899]], the group had constructed its [[Sector Seven High Arctic Base|Alpha Command Post]], a sealed environmental dome built around the "Mega-Man". {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 2|Movie Prequel #2}} The founding members of the organization became known as the "[[First Seven]]." {{storylink|Original}}

Three years later, the AllSpark itself was discovered at the bottom of the [[Colorado River]], and this discovery prompted Wells to bring his friends [[Herbert Hoover|Herbert]] and [[Lou Hoover]] into the organization, hoping that their metallurgical skills would be of use in excavating and analyzing the significance of the artifact. {{storylink|Irreplaceable}} Divers sent to examine the AllSpark inadvertently triggered its systems, prompting it to release a "scream" across space and time—one that reached [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] and alerted [[Shockwave (Movie)|Shockwave]] to its presence on Earth. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 2|Rising Storm #2}} In the meantime, Herbert spearheaded a new plan to redirect the river around the cube to conceal its existence from the world. {{storylink|Irreplaceable}}

By [[1913]], the diversion of the Colorado River was a success, but the subsequent attempt to excavate and reloate the AllSpark by Simmons, Wells, the Hoovers and [[Roy Thompson]] was once more interrupted by Jetfire, whose touch activated the AllSpark and prompted it to release a surge of [[Energon]] which brought to life four [[Energon mutation|Allspark Mutations]]: [[Four original AllSpark Mutations|crane, a car, a radio and a gun]]. The humans were able to open the dam and "drown" the mutations and the cube that had spawned them, killing all of them save [[Flathead|the car]], which subsequently escaped into the desert. In 1927, Hoover officially dubbed the group "Sector Seven" and made a successful presidential bid the following year, using his new political power to construct [[Hoover Dam|a secure base]] to study the AllSpark. {{storylink|Irreplaceable}}

Sector Seven drafted scientists to reverse-engineer Megatron's systems so as to develop countermeasures against the mechanical lifeforms. One notable invention was [[Robert Oppenheimer]]'s brain-scrambling handgun, which was subsequently wielded by operative [[Roy Thompson]] in [[1934]] while tracking down the escaped Allspark Mutation alongside [[Margaret Simmons]]. {{storylink|Together}}

The [[Hoover Dam]] was completed in [[1935]], including a secret subterranean facility that became Sector Seven's Beta Command Post. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 3|Movie Prequel #3}} Although Sector Seven initially planned to transport the body of Megatron to the facility, a failure of the cryo-blocks responsible for keeping the Decepticon frozen combined with the outbreak of [[World War II]] delayed this endeavor for two decades while interfering with director Walter Simmon's retirement plans. {{storylink|Weapon}}

Over the course of WWII, Sector Seven would cross paths with Jetfire yet again; when Nazi scientists captured the Decepticon, William was responsible for drafting his grandson [[Bill Simmons]] into the organization. Though Bill ultimately freed Jetfire instead of killing him, he subsequently requested a transfer into the organization. {{storylink|Weapon (issue)|Weapon}} During the [[Cold War (history)|Cold War]], Bill was responsible for ousting Oppenheimer from the organization, citing him as a Communist sympathizer. In February [[1954]], the [[Joe Danco|jealous grandson]] of Reginald Danco would defect to the Communist Party and sabotage the cooling systems at Sector Seven's Arctic facility to cause a distraction while he stole Sector Seven data and fled to Russia. Megatron breached containment, and though Jetfire attempted to intervene, he was only able to save Bill's wife [[Tova Anael Fischer|Anne Fischer]] and [[Philip Nolan]]. Though Bill and Danco were seemingly killed, {{storylink|Frozen}} both had survived, and the Soviets would use the stolen Sector Seven data to build the [[Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant]]. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 2|Rising Storm #2}} {{storylink|Frozen}} At Walter's urging, Anne would subsequently leave Sector Seven so as not to expose [[Seymour Simmons|her unborn son]] to the legacy of obsession and death that had consumed his lineage. {{storylink|Frozen}}

In [[1965]], Bill Simmons was able to escape from Soviet captivity and return to the United States; when he returned to the United States and attempted to contact Sector Seven, however, he was targeted by [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]], who dispatched an [[Alice (ROTF)|deep-cover operative]] to silence him. Bill was able to meet with his teenage son, and give him information relating to the organization he had once served before he disappeared. {{storylink| Convergence chapter 3}}

On [[July 19]], [[1969]], Sector Seven played a key role in the [[Apollo 11]] mission, staging a twenty-one minute blackout so that [[Neil Armstrong]] and [[Buzz Aldrin]] could investigate the remains of the ''Ark''. {{storylink|Dark of the Moon issue 1|Dark of the Moon #1}} At the same time, however, Sector Seven supervised a more advanced project: the launch of the starship ''[[Ghost 1]]'', created from reverse-engineered Cybertronian technology and captained by [[Samuel Walker]]. The two craft were launched at the same time; the launch of the ''Ghost 1'' distracted Soundwave, who believed that the more advanced vessel was the one worth monitoring, allowing the other space mission to reach the lunar surface uninterrupted. {{storylink|Convergence chapter 4}}

While the crew of the ''Ghost 1'' made first contact with [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]]'s Autobots, the rest of Sector Seven worked to transport Megatron's frozen body from their Alpha Command Post to the Hoover Dam; though Megatron was briefly able to escape, the sacrifices of several agents allowed Sector Seven to recapture their asset and safely deliver him to the dam. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 2|Rising Storm #2}}

Thirty-four years later, in [[2003]], Bumblebee made planetfall on Earth, and a team stationed in [[Richmond]], [[Virginia (state)|Virginia]] were sent to capture "N.B.E.-2." They were unable to prevent him from [[scanning]] a local [[alternate mode]] and slipping away. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 2|Movie Prequel #2}}

Sometime before the events of [[Mission City]], Sector Seven operated a secret base in Afghanistan. Unfortunately for them, a team of Decepticons led by [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] happened to make planetfall beside them whilst searching for Megatron and the missing AllSpark Cube. Needing information on this world and the whereabouts of what they sought, the Decepticons attacked, at first easily defeating Sector Seven's defenders. However, one of the Decepticons, [[Wreckage (Movie)|Wreckage]], was attacked by a powerful localized EMP-based weapon designed to take down the Cybertronians. Incapacitated, Wreckage was abandoned and buried in the desert sand. [[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]] only managed to hack into their systems briefly and access files on a "Project: Iceman" before the resourceful humans used an EMP burst to destroy their local files. Realizing that simple brute force would achieve the same result, the Decepticons decided to switch to stealth, and Blackout headed towards a place called "[[Qatar]]". {{storylink|Planetfall (Movie)|Planetfall}}

Months later, Sector Seven recovered Wreckage's body from the ruins and brought him to a secret facility deep within the Nevada desert. Calling him '''N.B.E.-3''', Agent [[Salazar]] and [[Vine|Professor Vine]] worked to reactivate the second Decepticon under their care. {{storylink|Alliance issue 1|Alliance #1}} At first, Wreckage was cooperative, helping them develop the [[Landmine (Movie)|L.M.-1]] drones, but Sector Seven knew that Wreckage would not tolerate being their guest for much longer and would attempt to escape. When that day came, Salazar activated an emergency EMP burst that apparently shut the Decepticon down, but Vine suspected that Wreckage had merely shut himself down on purpose to conserve his energy, waiting for the right moment to regain consciousness. {{Storylink|Alliance issue 2|Alliance #2}}

Shortly after the victory over the Decepticons in Mission City, Sector Seven's personnel at Hoover Dam remained on high alert while Simmons, Banachek and Secretary of Defense Keller left to investigate the aftermath of the battle. {{storylink|The Reign of Starscream issue 2|The Reign of Starscream #2}}

Unfortunately for them, the Decepticon [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] returned to the dam and attacked, intent on salvaging what remained of his compatriot Frenzy so he could access the data the diminutive Decepticon had stolen from Sector Seven. {{Storylink|The Reign of Starscream issue 1|The Reign of Starscream #1}} Sector Seven's human firepower availed them little proving to be little more than an annoyance to even the severely power-depleted Starscream, who tore his way through to the chamber where Frenzy fell with ease. As he left with his prize in hand, the Decepticon was surprised when Agent [[Salazar]] and [[Vine|Professor Vine]] unveiled L.M.-1, the prototype of Sector Seven's Cybertronian-derived Earth-built Transformer. However, it didn't work, breaking midway through transformation. When Sector Seven renewed their attack Starscream grabbed Salazar in an attempt to interrogate him about his knowledge of their race and the AllSpark. Sadly, when Starscream flew out of Earth's atmosphere, he didn't realize the fragility of human life, and Salazar was killed. {{storylink|The Reign of Starscream issue 2|The Reign of Starscream #2}}

In Mission City, Sector Seven had recovered the Decepticon corpses and several inert Transformers created by the AllSpark Cube energy released during the battle, while Simmons managed to recruit Captain Lennox and Sergeant Epps, ostensibly to better defend Earth against the Decepticons. {{storylink|Alliance issue 1|Alliance #1}}

A month later, Sector Seven were ordered by the US government to prepare the Decepticon corpses for dumping into the sea, as agreed to with the Autobots. Simmons was less-than-happy with the prospect of losing a treasure trove of potential alien secrets, but grudgingly complied. When the Autobots arrived, the piece of the AllSpark that Optimus Prime recovered from Megatron's body suddenly reacted in proximity to the Decepticon leader's corpse. Realizing the danger of having the AllSpark fragment in close proximity to the Decepticons, Optimus handed it over to Professor Vine for safekeeping, not knowing that Sector Seven was housing Wreckage in a chamber under his feet. After the Autobots left, Simmons realized that it was extremely dangerous to have the AllSpark fragment out in the open where other Decepticons could detect it, but despite Vine's concerns, Simmons felt that Wreckage was so out of it that he would pose no danger if they brought the fragment underground. Unfortunately, Vine was proven right when the shard flew out of Simmons hands and struck Wreckage, who fully reactivated and attacked, intent revenge for his humiliating imprisonment. Breaking out of the underground chamber, Wreckage was briefly waylaid by L.M.-1 drones activated by the AllSpark energy surge, but they were no match for him. Vine attempted to return underground to retrieve the AllSpark fragment, but was killed when suddenly Starscream attacked. The Nevada base was spared total destruction when [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] and Epps lead a contingent of soldiers in a counter-attack. {{storylink|Alliance issue 2|Alliance #2}}

In the aftermath, Simmons recovered the severed head of Frenzy, who had fallen out of Starscream's cockpit during the battle. However, before he could use it to further Sector Seven's cause, Secretary of Defense Keller dissolved the organization and fired Simmons. {{storylink|Alliance issue 3|Alliance #3}}

===''Ghosts of Yesterday''===
In [[1969]], Sector Seven (headed by Walter Simmons, known internally as "The Old Man"), attempted the first test flight of an [[Megatron (Movie)|Ice Man]]-derived spacecraft ([[Ghost 1]]) using the Apollo 11 moon launch as cover. Unexpected complications occurred following contact with [[Non-Biological Extraterrestrial|N.B.E.]]s. At the same time the first attempt was made to relocate the Ice Man himself from the Arctic to southern Nevada to be better studied alongside a likewise mysterious [[AllSpark|"alien cube"]]. Signs seemed to point to Sector Seven beginning to shift from being a secret U.S. military protocol to a non-military "black ops" program. {{storylink|Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday|Ghosts of Yesterday}}

===Titan movie comics===
Sector Seven had made the situation so bad that, in an alternate timeline, a single second's difference by Sam at Mission City led to the conquest and Decepticon occupation of the United States and the gradual transformation of Earth into a new Cybertron, with their Hoover Dam base being used by Megatron to store Optimus Prime's frozen body. Nice one, guys. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 9|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 1}}

The only member of the organization seen so far fighting the Decepticons was [[Tom Banachek]]. His knowledge of the Hoover Dam base proved invaluable, as did his knowledge of (and probable involvement in) a nanovirus that targeted AllSpark operational frequencies: a weapon Sector Seven created in case they lost control of the AllSpark and needed to destroy it. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 13|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 5}} Why they hadn't used it when Megatron gained the AllSpark at Mission City? Because they suck.

Sector Seven was later reformed under [[President of the United States|President]] [[Theodore Allen|Allen]], and Tom Banachek was placed in charge of it. Their mandate was to stop everyone on Earth from realizing that Megatron's aforementioned gradual transformation of their world had not stopped completely, and that the planet was facing techno-organic armageddon. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 16|Dark Spark}} Being Sector Seven, they crapped this up.

===Toy bios===
Sector Seven managed to remain in operation, seemingly by buddying up to the Autobots ''very quickly''; Ironhide appears to have been bribed with free experimental weaponry. {{storylink|Ironhide (Movie)/toys#Voyager Class toys|Premium Ironhide}} What they don't know is that the Autobots have a secret agent, [[Landmine (Movie)|Landmine]], spying on them. {{storylink|Landmine (Movie)|Landmine toy bio}} Worryingly, [[Hardtop (Movie)|several]] [[Storm Surge (Movie)|Decepticons]] appear to be doing the same thing. A [[Strongarm (Movie)|surprisingly]] [[Signal Flare (Movie)|large]] [[Crosshairs (Movie)|number]] [[Air Raid (Movie)|of]] Autobots bore Sector Seven markings after the Mission City conflict, possibly indicating an exchange program between Sector Seven and the Autobots.

Sector Seven later shared intelligence with Optimus regarding Decepticon activity on [[Mars (planet)|Mars]]. {{storylink|Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#Fast Action Battlers|Fire Blast Optimus Prime}}

===Alternate reality game continuity===

====Sector Seven ARG websites====
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Sector Seven was founded over 100 years ago by a group of seven men:

*Stanford Julius Morehouse
*Edgar Thibedeau Westfield
*Neville Octavian Brewster
*Percy Emerson Whitting
*Wallace Wilson Clairmont
*Alistair Jennings Crowther
*Vance Milhaus Lawson

They are known as "The [[First Seven]]," and are said to have "hid the past to protect the future,"<ref>Names originally revealed via Agent X's website. Page mirrored [http://ebucehtdnif.wikibruce.com/1/2/3/4/5/6/7/317526-AE0/ here.]</ref> whatever that means. Their portraits adorn a wall in the lobby of the present day Sector Seven headquarters, as a [[B11-9981|local pizza boy]] can attest.

In [[2007]], after the detection of a "blip" that matched their "threat profile," Agent [[Alexander Powers]] informed the organization that war might be imminent and that they were humanity's only hope. He and research scientist [[Rebecca Howard]], ex-lovers, clashed several times over her desire to go public with information about the [[Non-Biological Extraterrestrial|N.B.E.]] threat and seek assistance from other nations. This escalated with the detection of "N.B.E. Two," with whom Dr. Howard argued in favor of making contact.

Meanwhile, the mysterious [[Agent X]] began hacking into the Sector Seven network and leaking information to the public. {{storylink|Sector Seven (game)|Sector Seven ARG}}

After the fall of Sector Seven, Rebecca Howard had picked up the Agent X name and was on the run. She contacted [[Leo Spitz]] and fed him stolen S7 information. [http://web.archive.org/web/20120328125044/http://www.therealeffingdeal.com/blog/exclusive-mission-city-update/] {{storylink|The Real Effing Deal}} Simmons, as [[Robo-Warrior]], tried to muddy the waters by saying X didn't really exist (and accidentally showed that he knew she was a she). [http://web.archive.org/web/20090626214728/http://www.gianteffingrobots.com/?p=175] {{storylink|GiantEffingRobots.com}}

====Sector Seven Mobile Command Unit====
[[Image:Sectorsevenmobilecommandunit.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Nothing to see here. Move along.]]
To counter public suspicion and the information about the N.B.E.s leaked by Agent X, Sector Seven employed a [[Sector Seven Mobile Command Unit|mass disinformation program in the form of a road tour]] at various cinemas across America. Black Peterbilt cabover trucks pull large, armoured trailers containing sophisticated communications and scanning equipment, as well as a small cage for containing any [[Frenzy (Movie)|captured N.B.E.s]] assigned agents happen to find. However, the communications equipment aboard these trailers are frequently susceptible to displaying emergency communiques from Sector Seven Command showing a very well-edited and scored satellite video feed of an [[Scorponok (Movie)|alien robot attack]] in [[Qatar]], usually in the presence of ordinary civilians.

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===''The AllSpark Almanac''===
[[Tyran 307.27 Zeta|One parallel universe]] is so wildly divergent that Sector Seven are ''competent''! They prevented [[Mainframe (Movie)|Mainframe]] from capturing the leaders of the [[Los Bogos]] Project. {{Storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II}}

===Renegade Rhetoric===
To eliminate the Autobot [[Spychanger|Spy Changers]], [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] deliberately alerted Sector 7 to a giant robot invasion at [[Metro City]]'s [[International Exhibition Center]]. Their enforcement division of [[Intelligence and Information Institute|Triple I]] successfully captured [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]]; [[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]], and [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]] tailed them back to their base and managed to instigate a diversion to free their captured comrade. {{storylink|Transformers: Renegade Rhetoric|Renegade Rhetoric (2), 2016/05/09}}

===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
As part of [[Operation Staple Gun]], 731 [[Cobra]] scientists, engineers and technicians were offered amnesty and quietly sequestered into, among other groups, Sector Seven. Both [[Rapticon (BM)|Rapticon]] and [[Ne'll]] became familiar with the history of these events. {{storylink|The Inexorable March}}

===''Bumblebee's First Life on Earth''===
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===''Sector 7 Adventures''===
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===''BotBots'' cartoon===
[[Agent Wagner]] of Sector Seven was sent to the [[Mall (BotBots)|mall]] to investigate [[Dave (BotBots)|Dave]]'s report of "tiny robots". {{storylink|The Goldrush Games - Part the Second}}

==Equipment==
As an exceptionally well-funded secret government organisation, Sector Seven was at the cutting edge of human (or alien-derived) technology in their quest to better understand the Ice Man, the Cube, and to seek other N.B.E.s on Earth.

===Firearms===
====Heckler & Koch Submachine Guns====
[[Image:Brian Stepanek aims at Optimus.jpg|right|250px|thumb]]
Heckler & Koch seem to be the preferred manufacturer that Sector 7 receives their firearms from, possibly meaning that these weapons might be good at combating N.B.E.s but more likely it's because the agency lacked any combat experience with Transformers and instead were equipped with smaller guns to deal with civilians getting involved with Sector 7's activities. Throughout the film, many Sector Seven agents use Heckler & Koch submachine guns at different points in the movie. When arresting Sam and being cornered by the Autobots, Sector 7 agents can be seen with Heckler & Koch MP5KA4s, Heckler & Koch MP5A3s, and Heckler & Koch G36Cs. During the Battle of Mission City, Sector 7 agents can further be seen using the Heckler & Koch UMP-45 and the Heckler & Koch G36K. {{storylink|Transformers (film)|''Transformers''}}

====Defense Technologies 37mm Launcher====
[[Image:Sector-Seven-Attack-Blackout.jpg|right|250px|thumb]]
This launcher was commonly used by Sector 7 agents during the Mission City incident and can be seen being used by the agents, as well as Lennox's men who got some from the Sector 7 armory. {{storylink|Transformers (film)|''Transformers''}}

====Milkor M32 MGL====
While discussing what to do about Bumblebee, Simmons is seen loading a Milkor M32 MGL fitted with Armson OEG reflex sight and a Vltor Modstock. Lennox can also be seen using this launcher from the armory, but with the added modification of a laser target on the side of the gun. {{storylink|Transformers (film)|''Transformers''}}

====Ramo RT-37====
[[Image:Lennox-slide-shoot.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Peek-A-Boo!]]
The Ramo RT-37 was a launcher used by Lennox during the final battle, having gotten the launcher from the Sector 7 armory, and at least one other Sector 7 soldier can be seen using this in Mission City. The launcher was equipped with a Bushnell Holosight XLP red dot sights, barrel shrouds and M4 type stock. This launcher seems to be affective in taking down Transformers, as the launcher did significant damage to Blackout and even caused Megatron to be harmed by it. {{storylink|Transformers (film)|''Transformers''}}

====M9-2 Harpoon Gun====
[[Image:M9-2 Harpoon Gun.jpg|left|250px|thumb|After this, let's go shoot some baby seals.]]
The M9-2 Harpoon Gun was a weapon developed by Sector Seven, under the direction of [[Rebecca Howard]]. The initial prototype was completed in [[2003]]. Featuring an armor-piercing projectile that weighs 21.2 kilograms, the weapon has a range of 55 meters with a muzzle velocity of 324 meters per second. Primitive by N.B.E. standards, the weapon is nevertheless effective at subduing non-hostile [[Bumblebee (Movie)|aliens]] and contain them for cryo-freezing.

In 2003, Sector Seven first used the harpoon gun against Bumblebee outside of [[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]], mounted on their pursuit vans. Bumblebee defeated them by dragging the vans into each other. {{storylink|Interlude (Movie Prequel)|Interlude}} Four years later, Sector Seven had better luck with these harpoons when Bumblebee was cornered trying to protect his human friends, Sam and Mikaela. Three helicopters mounted with harpoons entangled Bumblebee, allowing soldiers to move in and freeze the helpless Autobot. {{storylink|Transformers (film)|''Transformers''}}
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===Vehicles===
====Pursuit van====
[[Image:Movie SectorSeven van.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Who took the doughnuts?]]
Once an N.B.E. has been located within range of Sector Seven field units, Mobile teams are sent out in pursuit vans to intercept and capture them (alive if possible). Equipped with the standard array of sophisticated communications equipment one comes to expect from Sector Seven, the vans are armed with a passenger-side M9-2 harpoon gun and generally carry a squad of troops armed with portable cryo-freezing units.

Outside of Baton Rogue, these vans, carrying Sector Seven troopers, tried to corral Bumblebee with their harpoons and totally failed. {{storylink|Interlude (Movie Prequel)|Interlude}}
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====2007 GMC Yukon====
[[Image:Simmons is in trouble.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Damn this gas guzzler. Which I as an American have a right to own.]]
For operations within urban/suburban zones or for human targets, Sector Seven agents travel in custom black GMC Yukons. They do not hold up well to being lifted by their roofs by [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|large N.B.E.s]], nor can they withstand [[electromagnetic pulse]]s.

Agent Simmons and other Sector Seven personnel arrived at the [[Witwicky (surname)|Witwicky]] house in these GMC Yukons. After arresting the Witwickys and Mikaela Banes, Optimus Prime stopped several of these vehicles with his legs, then lifted the SUV containing Simmons, Sam and Mikaela by the roof, breaking it off and freeing his human friends. Reinforcement Yukons were easily defeated by an EMP blast from [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]]'s cannon. After Sam and Mikaela were rearrested, they were transported to and from an airfield in [[Nevada]] to Hoover Dam. {{storylink|Transformers (film)|Transformers}}

{{note|These SUVs also appear in [[Transformers The Game|the console version of the Transformers movie game]]. Although, they resemble Lincoln Navigators.}}
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====Assault buggy====
[[Image:Movie Sector7Buggy.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Not Beachcomber.]]
Based upon the Chenowth Desert Patrol Vehicle (DPV) formerly used by the [[United States military]], this all-purpose, high-speed recon and attack vehicle can be fitted with Sector Seven's specially-developed weapons, ranging from cryo-freezing cannons (though this requires cryo-tanks to be installed in the rear compartment) to belt-fed automatic grenade launchers capable of firing armor-piercing {{w|sabot}} rounds.

After Sam Witwicky, Captain Lennox's soldiers and the Autobots came to an agreement with Sector Seven, the human soldiers mounted up on the assault buggies to escort [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] and the AllSpark cube to Mission City. They fared poorly against the attacking Decepticon forces, with many wrecks strewn about the city streets. {{storylink|Transformers (film)|''Transformers''}}

During the battle of Mission City, one of these buggies was imbued with power from the AllSpark and became the [[Autobot]] [[Landmine (Movie)|Landmine]].

{{note|These buggies also appear in [[Transformers The Game|the console version of the Transformers movie game.]] They also appear in the two Nintendo DS games.}}
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====2005 Chevrolet Silverado HD====
[[Image:Green-Smoke-Truck.jpg|right|250px|thumb]]
In addition to the two buggies, a 2005 Chevrolet Silverado HD can be seen transporting Sector 7 soldiers as part of the convoy and takes the soldiers to the city, although the truck is never seen again. {{storylink|Transformers (film)|''Transformers''}}

====AH-64 Apache attack helicopter====
[[Image:Movie SectorSeven Apache.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Airwolf in action.]]
Sector Seven uses modified [[Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes|AH-64 Apache helicopters]] fitted with cryo-stasis rocket pods to capture N.B.E.s.

Outside of [[Denver]], [[Colorado]], Bumblebee was attacked by one of these modified Apaches. It tried to hem him in with machine gun fire, but failed to hit the Autobot with its cryo-stasis pods. {{storylink|Interlude (Movie Prequel)|Interlude}} Soon afterwards, in [[New Mexico]], several similar Apaches awaited Bumblebee in a trap set by Agent Simmons. However, the Decepticons turned up, complicating matters. Two Apaches attempted to cryo-freeze [[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]], but were destroyed by [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]]. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 4|Movie Prequel #4}}
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===Drones===
====L.M.-1 drones====
[[Image:Alliance2 LM1 Landmines.jpg|right|300px|thumb]]
L.M.-1 drones are Sector Seven's crowning technological achievement: their own transforming mechanoids.

With the assistance of the captured Decepticon [[Wreckage (Movie)|Wreckage]], Agent [[Salazar]] and [[Vine|Professor Vine]] were able to develop the [[Landmine (Movie)|L.M.-1]] units using Sector Seven's own assault buggy as a vehicle template at their [[Nevada]] desert base. {{storylink|Alliance issue 2|Alliance #2}} However, they failed to function once Wreckage was hit by an EMP weapon and shut down. {{storylink|The Reign of Starscream issue 2|The Reign of Starscream #2}} Later, when the AllSpark sliver reactivated Wreckage, it also activated the L.M.-1s. Though they were armed with automatic grenade launchers and shoulder mounted missiles, they fared poorly against the rampaging Decepticon. {{storylink|Alliance issue 2|Alliance #2}}
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====Sector Seven Drone====
[[Image:Movie_Sector7Drone.jpg|thumb|left|200px]]
These large treaded robots patrol the interior of [[Hoover Dam]] serving as security patrols. They are also found at certain military installations seemingly not in association with the secret agency. They are equipped with two powerful cannons.

{{note|The Sector Seven Drones only appear in [[Transformers The Game|the console version of the Transformers movie game]].}}

{{note|A far different kind of Sector Seven Drone, a white, Decepticon-like legged robot, appears very infrequently in the Antarctic level of ''Transformers: Autobots'' in only one mission. One can later be seen running around on a glacier, and is the only source of non-mission EXP in this particular map. It can also be scanned to unlock the Off-Roader vehicle.}}
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==Games==
===Capture the Cube===
In 2007, preceding the main Transformer conflict, a [[Dewbot|lone operative]] of a [[Mountain Dew Robot|third Transformer faction]] was able to infiltrate [[Area 52 (Movie)|the Hoover Dam base]] and almost obtain the "cube", simply by ''changing shape'' when people were coming. If it had reached the "cube", the results [[Dew City|would have been horrific]]. {{storylink|Capture the Cube}}

===''Transformers'' The Game (console)===
====Decepticon Campaign====
Sector Seven agents were able to capture [[Frenzy (Movie)|Frenzy]] and began 'interrogating' him in a SUV, which they hid in a building for some reason. This went badly and [[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]] caught and killed them. Other S7 goons were able to capture the Autobot Bumblebee and his human allies Sam and Mikaela, after the Decepticons had got what they wanted. And then they pretty much did nothing as the Decepticons conquered the place. {{storylink|Transformers The Game (console)|Transformers The Game}}

====Autobot Campaign====
Sector Seven found Sam and Mikaela, but Jazz distracted them with ****ing insane, civilian-killing driving so Bumblebee could get the humans to safety. They briefly caught the Autobot anyway but he got away (and then ignored [[Shockwave (Movie)|Shockwave]] killing people). The Autobots immediately responded by raiding Hoover Dam and pinching the AllSpark. Megatron also woke up so it was a pretty bad day for S7. {{storylink|Transformers The Game (console)|Transformers The Game}}

===''Transformers Autobots''===
When [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] and [[Create-A-Bot (Autobot)|Create-A-Bot]] traveled to the Arctic to find and destroy Megatron and recover the Allspark, they discovered that Sector Seven had moved Megatron and the Allspark was nowhere to be found. Sector Seven then set up automated turrets around Tranquility, which Bumblebee had to destroy to ensure that Optimus Prime could arrive safely. Prime had Jazz gather some of Sector Seven's vehicles to analyze them due to an energy reading Bumblebee picked up from the turrets he destroyed. Prime discovers to his horror that Sector Seven has Megatron and the AllSpark. Sector Seven then set up patrols to look for the Autobots. Bumblebee distracted Sector Seven so that the Autobots could split up and meet outside the city. But Create-A-Bot, disobeying orders and assisting Bumblebee, ended up luring Sector Seven back to him. Sector Seven captured Bumblebee and took him to Hoover Dam. The Autobots travelled to Hoover Dam to rescue Bumblebee. After being freed, Bumblebee retrieved the AllSpark. Sector Seven set up roadblocks to prevent the Autobots from escaping, but to no avail as Optimus smashed through them. The Decepticons then arrived and freed Megatron.
{{storylink|Transformers Autobots/Decepticons|Transformers: Autobots}}

===''Transformers Decepticons''===
{{storylink|Transformers Autobots/Decepticons|Transformers: Decepticons}}
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==Toys==
===''Transformers'' (2007)===
{{anchor|CaptureofBumblebee}}
[[File:TF-2007-Screen-Battles-Capture-of-Bumblebee-Seymour-Simmons-Sector-7-figures.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|The Weirdo and his cohorts. No, the grenade launcher soldier isn't staring at the camera. It was the lighting.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Capture of Bumblebee''' (Screen Battles, [[2007]])}}</ul>
:*''Japanese ID number:'' '''SB-04'''

: The "Capture of Bumblebee" Screen Battles pack includes [[Slug figure|non-poseable figurines]] of Sector Seven agent [[Seymour Simmons]], a helmeted Sector Seven soldier, and what appears to be a figurine of [[William Lennox]] painted like a Sector Seven soldier. In fact, the Screen Battles "Desert Attack" set with [[Scorponok (Movie)|Scorponok]] was originally supposed to come with four instead of three soldiers (with Lennox likely being the fourth), whereas the "Capture of Bumblebee" set was originally supposed to include four figures listed as "S7 Agent, S7 soldier, Ice soldiers". The "ice soldiers" were likely dropped for budget reasons, and Lennox moved to the "Capture of Bumblebee" set for the same reason.<ref name="checklist">[http://web.archive.org/web/20080920112933/http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/default.cfm?page=Collectors/Checklist Hasbro checklist]</ref>

:This set comes in a special window box featuring a diorama background of the scene where Bumblebee is captured by Sector Seven forces.

:The two Sector Seven soldier molds were also used to make soldiers for the [[Transformers (2010 toyline)|2010 ''Transformers'']] set "The Ravage Infiltration".
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====Other toys====
:A number of other Transformers from the [[Transformers (2007 toyline)|Movie toyline]] are robots in disguise as Sector Seven vehicles, some straight from the screen, others merely being [[redeco]]s of toys from previous ''Transformers'' lines. These include:
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{{Bp-a1|[[Air Raid (Movie)|Air Raid]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Armorhide (Movie)|Armorhide]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Crosshairs (Movie)|Crosshairs]]}}
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{{Bp-d1|[[Hardtop (Movie)|Hardtop]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Landmine (Movie)|Landmine]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Signal Flare (Movie)|Signal Flare]]}}
</ul>
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{{Bp-d1|[[Stockade (Movie)|Stockade]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Storm Surge (Movie)|Storm Surge]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Strongarm (Movie)|Strongarm]]}}
</ul>
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|width="20%" valign="top" rowspan=2|[[Image:Movie_Landmine_toy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|They're camera-shy.]]
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==Merchandise==
===Universal Studios===
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[[File:Universal Studios Sector 7 Vest and ID.jpg|upright=1.2|thumb]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Sector 7 Vest & ID''' (2012)}}</ul>
: The Sector 7 Vest and ID [[roleplay toy|roleplay]] set allows you to dress up wearing a tactical vest with NEST printed on it, present an ID holder with NEST printed on it, containing an ID with Sector 7 printed on it. Huh. To add to the confusion, due to how the Universal Studio roleplay item packaging is laid out, this set name looks to be displayed as "Optimus Prime Vest and ID".
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==Notes==
* As depicted in ''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]'', Sector Seven's motto is "''Americae Protegens De Aetheres''", Latin for "Americans Protecting The Skies".

===Contradictory founding date===
Various movie-related media have offered contradictory information regarding when Sector Seven was originally founded:

*In the [[Transformers (film)|movie]] itself (which is, for all intents and purposes, the "primary" media), [[Tom Banachek]] tells [[John Keller]] that Sector Seven was "convened 80 years ago under President Hoover". This would place the founding date of Sector Seven somewhere around [[1927]] (assuming the main events of the movie do indeed take place in 2007); Herbert Hoover didn't succeed Calvin Coolidge as president until [[1929]], but then again, Banachek might have simply rounded up the time span. Banachek later also tells Keller and everyone else given a tour of the S7 headquarters inside Hoover Dam that the First Seven had found the [[AllSpark]] cube in [[1913]], but he doesn't explicitly state that Sector Seven had already been established by then, so the discovery of the cube might have in fact been one of the factors that had later led to the formation of the organization.
*Meanwhile, information revealed as part of the [[Sector Seven (game)|Sector Seven Alternate Reality Game]] establishes that the First Seven had founded Sector Seven "over 100 years ago" (that is, before [[1907]]). The Sector Seven game is in a different continuity and therefore not necessarily contradictory.
*[[Movie Prequel issue 2|Issue 2]] of [[IDW Publishing|IDW's]] ''[[Transformers: Movie Prequel|Movie Prequel]]'' mini-series implies that Sector Seven had already been established and operating for quite some time before [[Archibald Witwicky]] found [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] in [[1897]] (they are shown to have a headquarters with quite a number of [[#IDW_Movie_Prequel_comic|interesting artifacts]] displayed in trophy cases by [[1898]]). To top things off, Sector Seven is shown to discover the AllSpark cube as early as [[1902]]. The ''[[Transformers: Sector 7]]'' comic would retcon those artifacts to be a trophy collection of two scientist-adventures who would become founders of Sector Seven in 1898, but that still leaves the dates a bit iffy.

Of course it's ''possible'' that all this is simply part of the mystery surrounding such a shady group... but then again, why should Banachek lie to the United States' Secretary of Defense about the founding date of his organization?

Everything was then found out after Sector 7 Transformers Movie Prequels were released in 2010, where Sector 7 was only founded AFTER the first seven split up. This actually means that it was established somewhere between 1898 to 1913, where Herbert Hoover took the lead over everything.

It was also shown that Tom lied about when Megstron was shipped to the Hoover Dam, because he told everyone thst he was in cryostasis since 1934. Actually, in reality, he was transported to the dam by a team leader by Philip Nolan in 1969, which presumably means that he did not have the heart to tell the truth.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Sector Seven''' (セクター7 ''Sekutā sebunn'')
*''Turkish:'' '''Sektör Yedi''' (''Sector Seven'')

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.sectorseven.org/ Sector Seven's SECRET WEBSITE - Current password: Deceptibot]
*[http://sector7.wikibruce.com/Home Sector 7 - Wiki]

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Roy Thompson

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:''Roy Thompson is a [[human]] from the [[Live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''
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'''Roy Thompson''' is a [[Sector Seven]] agent. He has very old-fashioned views on women, which is a bit surprising given at least two of the women he's met are more than capable of looking after themselves.

==Fiction==
===IDW ''Transformers'' movie prequel comics===
As a young man in [[1913]], Roy was a part of [[Theodore Joseph Wells|Theodore Wells]]'s [[Beta Command]] team at the [[AllSpark]] dig, along with [[Lou Hoover|Lou]] and [[Herbert Hoover]]. Wells introduced them to [[Walter Simmons]] shortly before they ventured into a cave hidden underneath the cube. There they encountered [[Jetfire (Movie)|Jetfire]]. Thompson fired on the giant, but as the five humans escaped, Jetfire touched the cube, sending out a surge of energy that bought [[Four original AllSpark Mutations|a number of objects]] to life, including Thompson's gun. Thompson managed to destroy the gun and a radio before helping the Hoovers, distracting the crane robot while they opened the floodgates and drowned it. {{storylink|Irreplaceable}}

[[File:Sector7 3 Roy Thompson.jpg|thumb|left|200px|It's a little known fact that your hair goes darker as you age.]]
Two decades later, following a lead on the last of the four mutations, Thompson and [[Margaret Simmons]] went to [[Sowers]], [[Texas]] to interview a policeman who said he'd seen a [[Flathead|car turn into a robot]]. When it transpired that the car was being used by [[Bonnie Parker|Bonnie]] and [[Clyde Barrow|Clyde]], Roy was only just talked out of sending Simmons home as it was clearly too dangerous for a woman to deal with. The pair went to [[Eastham Jail]] where the criminals' driver [[W. D. Jones]] was being held and tried to prepare the staff for an impending jail break. In the end, they had to take part themselves and when Thompson was injured by an explosion, Simmons used the [[Robert Oppenheimer|Oppenheimer]]-designed gun he'd brought to repel Clyde and the robot. Thompson was not injured badly enough to stop him from taking part in a trap they set for the outlaws using the captured Bonnie as bait. The trap ended with both criminals dead and the robot destroyed.

*Whether he managed to survive until the birth of Seymour Simmons was unknown.

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