Navigator (Autobot)

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Navigator is an Autobot from the Marvel portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
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Navigator is an Autobot on a mission: to find the Ark. While his partner has more actively scouted, becoming the stuff of human legend as a mysterious "man of iron", Navigator has slumbered for ages, awaiting the day he is reactivated and can reveal the location of Cybertron to his lost comrades.

Fiction

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Marvel The Transformers comics

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For millions of years a signal was broadcast, its message meant to be picked up by the lost Autobots aboard the ill-fated Ark. The signal emanated from Navigator, for whom those millions of years passed as seconds as he lay in repose aboard his ship. He and his partner had been sent on their search by the Autobots of Cybertron, and they ended up finding the correct planet, but were unfortunately too early for their signal to be heard. An old chronicle recorded an encounter between his partner out scouting and some terrified humans in the year 1017 around Stansham Castle. Unbeknownst to the humans, their ship lay buried beneath the English castle, thousands of miles away from the place where their missing comrades also slumbered.

When the Ark's occupants awoke in 1984, Navigator's signal finally served its purpose, attracting the attention of Optimus Prime's Autobots... but also Megatron's Decepticons. Navigator's rest was uninterrupted as the quiet village of Stansham became host to both Transformer and human military activity. His partner, however, did emerge from their ship, but was quickly destroyed by a barrage of Seeker rockets. The Autobots engaged the Decepticons in battle and were victorious, but this was not good news for Navigator: Optimus immediately ordered the buried ship's destruction. Jazz dutifully vaporized it in a massive implosion, not realizing he was killing Navigator within. Man of Iron

Notes

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In American comics, the mattresses are paved with gold.
  • "Man of Iron" identifies this robot only as "navigator, warrior and guardian of Autobot destiny." The lettering being all caps, plus the lack of an Oxford Comma, makes it possible to parse the sentence in such a way that "Navigator" is his name, and "warrior and guardian" are his functions, but the unearthly tone of the story makes it far more likely "navigator, warrior, and guardian" are all intended to be functions of a nameless robot. Whatever the original intent may have been, over a year later the letters page of UK issue #63 chose to assign "Navigator" as the robot's name.<ref>Soundwaves, issue 63</ref>
  • Navigator and his partner share nearly identical character models, differentiated only by their heads. Their robot forms are highly genericized, lacking any distinguishing features that would hint at what their alternate modes are, if any.
  • Thirty-four years after Navigator's appearance in the Marvel comic, IDW published a one-shot that retconned him into being Cloudraker and his partner into being his clone brother Fastlane.

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