Amory

Amory is a sentient starship from the Classics portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

All I ask is a tall ship and a star for her to steer me by.

Amory used to be an interceptor/destroyer in Shi-Lai's "suicide legions", until she and her binary-bonded pilot Phyrion made off with a hold full of death-bolters and convection grenades. Since then, they've been having exciting adventures involving things like running into revengeful Decepticons and making life difficult for intrepid detectives.

Fiction

Classics

While on the planet Azure, Amory hired some thugs to bring Nightbeat (who was stranded on the planet) to her so she could in turn hire him to help her find her missing pilot Phyrion. She then flew Nightbeat and his crew to Purgatory, where her pilot was last seen, and provided them with information on the pilot's last known appearance.

When Nightbeat's crew's questioning failed to turn up any leads, she volunteered information about an encrypted transmission that had passed through her hull to Phyrion's quarters. Tracing its origins sent Nightbeat's crew to an abandoned building, where they were ambushed by the Mayhem Attack Squad. Amory then showed up as well, bringing her weapons to bear on Nightbeat's crew, and revealing that the Decepticons had kidnapped her pilot to force her to help set Nightbeat up so Ruckus and Needlenose could get revenge for old grudges.

Then Ruckus brilliantly revealed that he had brought Phyrion along by holding him up, and Slag freed the pilot by chopping off Ruckus' arm. Once Phyrion was out of harm's way, Amory quickly turned her weapons on the Decepticons instead, convincing them to give up and leave since they'd lost the advantage.

Afterwards, Amory paid Nightbeat the agreed-upon fee for the case anyway, out of gratitude, as well as springing for him to get a new head to replace the one that got damaged in the fight. She and Phyrion then flew off again to parts unknown. Cheap Shots