Cheetor (TransTech)

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Cheetor is an Autobot Transcendent Technomorph from the TransTech continuity.
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Commander Cheetor is Security Administration Officer in the city of Axiom Nexus, a multiversal "hub" built on the Cybertron of a particularly old universe. Unlike several of his TransTech colleagues, Cheetor cares equally for all beings, whether they be from his highly evolved race or one of the lowtech stragglers he's charged to watch over. Despite being tangled in the bureaucratic nightmare that is his job, Cheetor serves strongly and effectively, though he has been known to bend or break the rules under the table if it achieves justice.

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Cheetor was originally an eager young security officer in the TransTech hierarchy. He very nearly lost his badge after rightly accusing a senator of crimes, and failing to make his case once the senator made all the evidence (and witnesses) disappear. Cheetor was forced to rebuild his credentials as an agent of the Offworlder Zone Security Administration, acting as the TransTech presence of authority amongst the lowtech zones.

Millennia later, Cheetor had become the biggest fish in the small pond that was Cybertron's Offworlder sector. As Commander of the Security Administration, he had ties to the highest of the high like Senate High Command and Military Intelligence, and the lowest of the low like the Offworlder's vigilante "Freelance Police Legion" and numerous informants in the Heap and other lowtech congregations. It was his mission in life to keep the peace and preserve the freedoms of all residents of Axiom Nexus, TransTech and Offworlder alike. He constantly made requests for greater funding and manpower for the Security Administration, although his requests typically fell on sympathetic but deaf audio sensors. Cheetor's profile in Club magazine #22

Cheetor was present with the New Arrivals Coordinator, Silverbolt, when a trio of decidedly strange mechanoids crossed over into Axiom Nexus. Known as Skyfall, Landquake and Breakaway, these Cybertronians possessed unique physiologies and energon-manipulating abilities that made them quite interesting to the TransTech authorities. Transcendent: Part 1 Cheetor had a nasty feeling Military Intelligence was going to take a personal interest in those three 'bots, and so he requested his Offworlder liaison Airazor recruit some officers and freelancers to keep track of them.

Next, he had to deal with rioting and mob activity in the Offworlder Zone after a local rabble-rouser named Gutcruncher was assassinated at an anti-TransTech rally. Two mechs named Jackpot and Hubcap were instantly pegged by the assemblage as the culprits, and Cheetor had them hauled into protective custody for their own sake. After meeting the two, Cheetor quietly decided they would be of more use out on the streets, where they might lure the real assassin out into the open. He left the Autobots an opening to escape, and they took it, but not before putting one of his special investigative officers named Detectas on their tail.

Sure enough, a crook named Black Shadow accidentally implicated himself in the assassination while trying to silence Jackpot and Hubcap for good. Audio recordings made by Hubcap and a forensic comparison of Black Shadow's weaponry to what was left of Gutcruncher's skull were all the evidence needed to assign blame. The blame was post-mortem, however, as some of Gutcruncher's followers had crushed the life out of the Crossformer once they found out the truth, and his shell was destroyed by a pre-rigged supply of Scraplet acid. The last bit was what worried Cheetor. Black Shadow had indicated he was hired for the job, and the acid capsule smelled stiffly of someone covering their tracks. A visit to Black Shadow's day job at The Blue Deployer and its proprietor Cryotek confirmed Cheetor's suspicions, albeit unofficially. It was clear Cryotek had tasked Black Shadow with the assassination, to prevent the war Gutcruncher was advocating between the lowtechs and the TransTechs, which would certainly have been "bad for business". It was just as clear Cheetor wouldn't be able to prove it, and that in some ways Cryotek had done him a favor by preventing the inevitable martial law that would come down if the TransTechs ever felt truly threatened by the Offworlders. Taking small comfort in the fact that the reins of justice remained in his hands for now, Cheetor let Cryotek off the hook with little more than a knowing glance. (Still, he made sure to expedite Hubcap and Jackpot's return to a universe similar to their own. Those two were too much trouble for their own good.) Gone Too Far

Murder didn't take a long vacation in Axiom Nexus. Cheetor soon found himself investigating a body that washed up on the shore of a lake. It seemed Comet, one of Cryotek's boys, had made the wrong sort of friend — a non-Cybertronian transient named Bug Bite. Bug Bite's former companions, Treds and Bad Boy, identified the murder wound as caused by their shared hand blasters. These GoBots were just as eager to find Bug Bite as Cheetor was, and so he resolved to make what use of them he could. He gave the pair a signal device to call him if they needed to, and asked them to accompany him to The Blue Deployer. A quick chat with Cryotek made it clear the bar-owner was just as surprised by Comet's demise as anyone else. Cheetor made sure he had Cryotek's cooperation with the investigation, and allowed the GoBots to pursue the lead for Comet's association with the Malignus Revolutionary Army...which he just happened to allow them to overhear during his talk with Cryotek.

The GoBots soon got themselves involved in something far more complicated than a mere murder, however, prompting Cheetor to take direct intervention. General Demolishor of the Military Police requisitioned Security Administration personnel to hunt down the thief of some exceedingly important material — transit passes for military black ops agents, six of them, which would allow uncontested access to the Transwarp Complex and its dimensional gateways. Smelling trouble, Cheetor connected with his contacts in the Senate and determined that Commander Megatron was completely unaware of the issuance or theft of the passes. Luckily, when Demolishor began accosting the other GoBots after Bug Bite made off with one of the passes, Bad Boy triggered the signal device Cheetor had given them earlier, bringing Cheetor and the Security Administration down to the Heap before Demolishor could permanently cover up his mistakes.

The remaining five passes were still at large, though, until Cheetor had a chat with Inspector Airazor, who had first come across the thief. Although the subtext was thicker than molasses, Commander Cheetor made it clear to Airazor that he knew she swiped the passes while examining the body, and that she should turn them over to the GoBots. Otherwise, the investigation into the missing-but-unused passes would continue, and neither of them would want that. After making certain his meaning was fully understood, Cheetor rode off into the night, a large mound of paperwork surely waiting for him back at SA. Withered Hope

Nobody wants to walk too close to Cheetor. He's Cheetor.

True to his earlier suspicions, Military Intelligence did take notice (and custody) of the recent unit of interest, Breakaway. Cheetor was present when Senator Ratbat was advocating to Optimus Prime that Military Scientist Shockwave be allowed to perform likely life-ending experiments on Breakaway to more fully analyze his tech. Cheetor remained silent but watchful during the exchange. Transcendent: Part 4

When the Transwarp Complex was raided by a small group of lowtechs and renegade TransTechs led by Alpha Trion, Cheetor responded to the scene alongside Optimus Prime, Silverbolt, and Starscream. Unfortunately, they were too late to prevent numerous deaths, and the shielding abilities of the transient Skyfall kept them at bay long enough for the rogues to access the dimensional hub and escape Axiom Nexus. Transcendent: Part 6

Alpha Trion and his band were able to penetrate the complex so deeply in the first place because more than half the available security forces had been called away to RoboCo by the corporate magnate Bulletbike, who sought to protect himself from a "crazed stalker". This stalker, a lowtech dimensional variant of Bulletbike, did cause substantial property damage and tore his way through the security forces before confronting the CEO himself. Both Bulletbikes suffered substantial injuries in their battle, but only the TransTech survived. Cheetor hauled Bulletbike in to Security Administration for debriefing, extremely suspicious about how his "crisis" turned up at exactly the time more security was needed at the Transwarp Complex. The questioning hardly turned up any definitive answers, however, and the best explanation available ended up being that something, possibly magical Quintesson wizards, spark-swapped the TransTech and lowtech Bulletbikes without leaving any sign, just to create a distraction when Alpha Trion needed it most.

Needless to say, if the raid on the Transwarp Complex didn't finish off Cheetor, the incoming paperwork was likely to. I, Lowtech

In an interview with Andromeda, Cheetor provided a list of the members of the Convoy, Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News, 21/5/2015 although Andromeda made a few errors because she was star-struck by Cheetor. Axiom Nexus News Editor, 21/5/2015 Rook - Axiom Nexus News, 4/6/2015

Cheetor appeared for an interview with Rook, wherein Cheetor promoted the OZSA's most recent list of Cybertron's Most Wanted criminals. For his part, Rook was distracted by Cheetor's attractiveness. Rook - Axiom Nexus News, 4/6/2015

While presenting a report on the Cybertron's Most Wanted number 5, Packrat, Rook alleged that the TransTech government had allowed Heinrad to bring the criminal Packrat to Axiom Nexus. Cheetor, watching the report, called in to deny Rook's accusations and to report that Stungun had recently almost caught up with Packrat. Rook - Axiom Nexus News, 12/6/2015

Cheetor was going about his usual business on the morning before the Waruder invasion was to take place. The day begun to take a strange turn when a prisoner, suspected to be a "Megatron" by some of his colleagues, was admitted to the Offworlder Maximum security prison. Cheetor was not convinced that the suspect was a "Megatron", noting how the 'bot in question cooperated upon being arrested, something that seemed at odds with how "Megatrons" usually acted. When a surge in the Global Net caused most of the TransTechs to go offline, Cheetor was one of the few who was unaffected. He and Stungun had had to disconnect from the central link earlier that day, sparing them the feedback that knocked out the rest of their kind. Cheetor ordered General Optimus Prime to investigate and remedy the source of the surge. The Waruders were eventually convinced to migrate to a different Cybertron, restoring the TransTechs to working order. In the invasion's aftermath, Cheetor attended a meeting held by Starscream, where the Convoy was debriefed on the day's events. During the meeting, he brought up once more the subject of the suspected "Megatron". General Optimus Prime assured Cheetor that the convict in question couldn't be a "Megatron" after all. Cybertron's Most Wanted

Cheetor and Stungun performed the tactical blitz necessary to rescue Vector Prime after he had been abducted by Sideways and brought to the Indirect Reclamation Zone. He prepared to use a Vortex Grinder to penetrate the A.T. Field surrounding Sideways's hideout, but as luck would have it the field dissipated on its own after Sideways lost his head answering questions through the Ask Vector Prime column. He and Stungun moved in to apprehend the decapitated perp, only for Sideways to Headmaster-link with Rook, who had infiltrated the OZSA, and escape using a Dimensional Interfacer. Rook - Axiom Nexus News, 8/7/2015

After Ask Vector Prime guest columnist Cy-Kill cheerfully admitted to leading a Renegade uprising and bombing government property, Cheetor led a taskforce to arrest him. They were unprepared to face Cy-Kill's new combiner Monsterous, forcing them to fall back and allowing Cy-Kill and his forces to make good their escape. Renegade Rhetoric, 21/10/2015

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Very few Transformer designs can rollerblade upside-down.
  • Cheetor's design was originally created when Transtech was a planned sequel to Beast Machines, and as such, it was likely originally intended to be the same character as Beast Wars/Beast Machines Cheetor. As Fun Publications' TransTech stories take place in their own universe, this Cheetor no longer has any overt ties to other Cheetors.
  • The Cheetor design used in the comic is based on different early sketches than the hard copy toy prototype whose pictures have appeared online.
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