Ammonite

Short people got no reason to live.

From a distant world come the Ammonites, a faction of Stentarians embroiled in a sixteen million year-long war with their sworn enemies, the Terradores. The Galactic Council was formed in response to their conflict, specifically after an event known as the Great Shattering. Much like Transformers, these tiny mechanoids are eerie parallels of Cybertronians, capable of transforming and combining. But unlike Transformers, the normally diminutive Ammonites are "omnicombinational": every Ammonite can merge with their comrades into just about any shape imaginable, with no upward limit on the size of the gestalt. And when your army is a good seventy billion 'bots strong, you can bet those are some slagging big combiners.

On occasion, they've been mistaken for miniature Decepticons, leading some to dub them "Minicons".

Fiction

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2005 IDW continuity

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"... draw!"
"Ha! Paper covers rock!"
"Darn it!"

At some point a group of Ammonites infiltrated the crew of the Vis Vitalis posing as the Autobot Paddox, in order to pass secrets and weapons technology back to their own people.

While taking shore leave on the planet Hedonia, Whirl, Skids, and Rewind encountered a group of Ammonites led by 16444/9. After a brief bragging match in which the Autobots found themselves hopelessly outclassed, they settled down for a drink together and learned that the Ammonites were on Hedonia to keep a low profile and looking to buy a new ship to throw the Terradores off their trail. When they were interrupted by the arrival of a Terradorian warcruiser carrying their leader Imperius Drax, Whirl simply marched outside and killed him on the spot, showing the Ammonites how to bring sixteen million years of war to an end.

The next Terradorian leader was so determined to win that, from the Ammonite point of view, he risked destroying their planet. The panicked Ammonites organized for one final big push, with all deep cover agents ordered to steal anything that could give them an edge and come back for active service. Aboard the Lost Light with Thunderclash's crew, Paddox revealed his true nature and attempted to seize the ship, with the intention of taking its quantum generators back to the Ammonites to vastly improve their spacefaring technology. He was eventually defeated when Swerve knocked him into his component Ammonites with Rung's alternate mode. Little Victories

As part of his ultimate plan, Shockwave reached out to the Ammonites, in exchange for helping to end their war. Part of the deal included following the Lost Light, which they began doing shortly after their encounter with the mad Chief Justice Tyrest, along with acting to cripple the ship if it began to do anything that would interfere in Shockwave's plan. While he did that, Shockwave also made sure any Ammonite who mentioned his name would go up like a firecracker. The Dead Are Not Enough

At some point after that, a thousand-strong force of Ammonites found Metroplex travelling through space and attacked him, searching for the sample of Ore-7 hidden somewhere inside him. However, while they were searching him Metroplex hid the ore in one of his thumbs and shot it into space. Once they realized the target of their search wasn't there, they infected him with a sample of Ore-2, which Ultra Magnus later suspected was on orders from Shockwave. The Becoming

"And loathsome are the ammonites, for they live in shells."

While searching for Metroplex, the Lost Light wound up on an oceanic planet, surrounded by the two thousand and twenty-six Ammonites who'd been following them, Winners & Losers having hitched a ride in the quantum slipstream, only for it to expose their presence. The Dead Are Not Enough When Ultra Magnus opened hailing frequencies, trying to explain what the Lost Light was doing, they opened fire (specifically, the minute Magnus mentioned Metroplex). The Autobots quickly responded in kind. A particularly large amount of the Ammonites merged into one gargantuan form, and went after the ship's fuel quills, only to be quickly fired on by a shot from the Rodpod. However, this only changed the target of their attack, and they transformed into a large ammonite form to pursue the smaller vessel, until it fled down what at first sight appeared to be an abyss, but which in fact was Metroplex's eye socket. Into the Abyss Unbeknownst to them, an Ammonite had been hiding behind the Rodpod, and while it's crew was occupied navigating Metroplex's shifting interior, it had been rigging up some explosives. Once noted, it detonated them. No Exit

We are legion, the time of our return is coming. Our numbers will darken the skies of every world.

Back with the Lost Light, the remaining Ammonites had breached the ship, only for them to pull out en masse and head for Metroplex. Whirl, meanwhile, had caught the saboteur and beaten a confession out of him. He told the Autobots about what he and his compatriots had been doing, only to promptly and involuntarily explode on mentioning Shockwave. The Dead Are Not Enough

The remaining two-thousand or so other Ammonites quickly burst in on the Rodpod's crew conversing with some other robots, who quickly fled the scene with Ultra Magnus and Ratchet. When the Autobots managed to use the Lost Light's quantum engines to leave the ocean world, Burning Bright the Ammonites came with him. Soon, they overcame the Autobots fighting them. Then, thanks to Megatron, Metroplex was reinvigorated, and his immune system immediately killed the intruders. Finis Temporis

As Shockwave made his final move, preparing to compress all of time and space into a singularity, he summoned all seventy billion of the Ammonites to attack Cybertron. The Becoming They quickly attacked the surface, a small section going to the Lost Light, while some went for Metroplex. The majority seemed to form a protective wall between Iacon and the Crystal City, where Shockwave's base of operations lay. Black Planet As the battle raged on, the Lost Light managed to get rid of around ten thousand Ammonites. However, the source of the Ammonite's power proved their undoing, for Shockwave fuelled them using the perfect balance of his ores. When the temporarily revived Metalhawk managed to use his own link to them to throw the balance off, the Ammonites all spectacularly exploded. ...And the Damage Done

Beast Wars: Uprising

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The Ammonites resided in the Andromeda Galaxy. Some centuries after the end of the Grand Uprising, Cybertronian travel to their galaxy precipitated an Ammonite invasion. Whatever the result was, it was enough to make the Convoy Council forbid extra-galactic travel from then on. The Inexorable March

Games

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Transformers Legends

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Some Ammonites attacked the Lost Light and a Decepticon starship near a planet, and were defeated by a combined Autobot/Decepticon alliance, shortly before said alliance fell apart and the Autobots and Decepticons turned on each other. Into the Abyss

Toys

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Generations

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CHANGE GETTER ONE!
  • Mini-Con Assault Team (Deluxe, 2014)
    • Japanese release date: 2014-03-23
    • Japanese ID number: TG32
Released in the Generations Deluxe Class assortment, the Mini-Con Assault Team is composed of Windshear, Heavytread, and Runway, who can also combine to form Centuritron. Although their packaging and tampographed insignia give their faction as Mini-Con, the characters appear among the Ammonites on cover A of More than Meets the Eye #24 (the same issue also included with the figures, albeit with a different cover), and Centuritron himself shows up among an army of Ammonites on the final page of issue #27.

Notes

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  • Unbeknownst to the Transformers, they are popularly known as the Evil Ammonites (as opposed to the Heroic Terradores) and as such are analogous to the Decepticons. It looks like Whirl took the wrong side.
  • Paddox refers to their forces as scattered.
  • In real life, Ammonites are either an [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Ammonoidea|{{#if:extinct group of molluscs|extinct group of molluscs|Ammonoidea}}]] (like Dead End) or an [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Ammon|{{#if:ancient tribe from Biblical times|ancient tribe from Biblical times|Ammon}}]]. Given that they combine into a giant shellfish in "Into the Abyss", these Ammonites are most likely named after the former.
  • Among the edits (mostly for tone and language) the pack-in versions of the Dark Cybertron issues available with the Generations Thrilling 30 Deluxe Class figures were subjected to, the name "Ammonites" was frequently (but not consistently) changed to "Minicons".
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