Sandra (G1)

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Sandra is a human from the 2005 IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Sandra believes that the great nation of the United States of America was built on honesty, integrity, and honor, and joined the military to defend and represent these principles. She is highly opposed to government conspiracies hiding the truth from the people, but as fate would have it, she was assigned to the Skywatch unit headed by Major Spike Witwicky, who is very keen on keeping his alliance with extraterrestrials out of public sight. Sandra is now forced to choose between following her superior's orders or sticking to her beliefs.

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2005 IDW continuity

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Sandra knew Spike Witwicky at the U.S. Naval College. She found him insufferably arrogant and was disturbed by the way he acted like he was a character in a movie, doing things that would be "cool" in fiction but were decidedly less so in real life. They lost touch after graduation, though she heard "stories" about his special forces exploits. Only Forward She would later join Skywatch under Spike's command.

Before the alliance between Skywatch and the Autobots was initiated, Spike had broke strict orders and released the imprisoned Optimus Prime to help them. While his decision had helped cement the alliance, Sandra feared that if General Allenby found out, he would court-martial the entire unit. Spike tried to dispel her worries with a simple solution: they just wouldn't tell Allenby that part of the story. This purposeful withholding of information frustrated Sandra, and she told the Major as much, but he shrugged it off as a necessity. All His Engines She grew to worry that having command was making Spike worse. Only Forward

A few months later, Sandra and Pennington aided a Skywatch-Autobot strike team sent to North Korea to battle the Combaticons. Their conspiracy only grew larger during this mission, as Skywatch was forced to reroute several spy satellites to keep the public from learning about the battle. Sandra again voiced her discomfort with assisting in what was clearly obfuscation, but Pennington was more concerned about keeping his men in the field alive. Hawk Among the Sparrows She grudgingly went back to work, but continued to warn Pennington about the risks. Once Skywatch opened up a single satellite for their own use, however, they learned that the battle in Korea had escalated to include the Predacons as well. Upon witnessing this, Sandra's dilemma came to a head, and she refused to keep everything a secret any longer. Swearing to herself, she shut off the encryption placed on the satellites, then quickly left the base before anyone noticed. All My Sins Remembered

She stayed off the grid from then on, out of sight but not quite in hiding: after all, she hadn't broken the law. Some people in 'the know' still talked to her, and she knew Skywatch was having funding and support problems after an Autobot killed a human. Pennington found her and tried to strongarm her to return, but she refused and instead offered him help if he wanted to escape Spike. The Autobots tricked her into returning to Skywatch HQ anyway, as part of an investigation into Spike, and Pennington chewed her out for being disloyal to her unit and how that mattered more than orders from above. He told her she'd "never" been "one of us".

Once he'd left, Ultra Magnus told her that as far as he was concerned, she'd done the right thing by revealing Skywatch's law-breaking and upholding the law. All the Autobots wanted was information on Spike, and she told them everything she knew and warned them not to underestimate him. Only Forward

Sandra later gave Skywatch information in order to bring in Ben Simpson. A Second Chance at Eden

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Foreign names

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  • Japanese: Sandra (サンドラ Sandora)
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