Editing Talisman (G1)

{{disambig2|the IDW MacGuffin|''The Last Knight'' MacGuffin|Talisman (TLK)}}
:''The Talisman is an object from the [[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW portion]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:First Strike 0 - Kreiger and the Talisman.jpg|thumb|right|200px|BEHOLD, AN ORDINARY OBELISK!]]

The artifact designated "the '''Talisman'''" is a maddeningly mysterious object. The Talisman has unexplained ties to ancient [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], [[Eukaris]], [[Microspace]], and the [[Dire Wraith]]s. Among its many mysterious functions is the ability to alter the physiologies of sentient organisms, living or dead, at will, the capacity to erase the memories of Cybertronians, create metallic drones from scrap it can control from afar, and fly with assistance from a being small enough to fit inside the cockpit it possesses. Oh and it can send people and objects into the future.

And to top it all off, a globe-spanning cabal of supercriminals desires it for their plans.

==Fiction==
===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
The origins of the Talisman are presently a mystery. At the earliest identified point in its history, it belonged to the ancient Cybertronian [[Onyx Prime]], who sent it out into the galaxy aboard the [[Eukaris|Eukarian]] starship ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'' for unknown purposes. Whatever Onyx had originally intended for it, fate would bring the Talisman to [[Earth]] around twenty thousand years ago, when the ship's crew—captained by [[Domitius Major]]—diverted to the planet to refuel, only to be shot down by [[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Shockwave]]. Though the ''Axalon'' and its crew survived the crash, the Talisman was somehow activated in the impact and wiped the memories of the ''Axalon'''s crew. Shockwave briefly studied the object during his experiments on the amnesiac Eukarians, noting with interest how it created a set of [[IRON Trooper|drones]] from the ship's wreckage, but [[Ore-13|other matters]] soon demanded Shockwave's attention, and both the Talisman and its drones were left unattended. {{storylink|Strange Visitors}}

Despite the efforts of several of the marooned Eukarians to locate it, {{storylink|Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook issue 1|Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook #1}} the Talisman disappeared into history. But traces of its presence remained, like the robot drones it created, which were encountered by [[Sgt. Savage]] and his [[Screaming Eagles]] during [[World War II]]. {{storylink|The Secret of the Mummy's Tomb}} Soon after, Kreiger and Savage encountered the last survivor of the ''Axalon'', [[Centurion (IDW)|Centurion]], and agreed to help him find the resting place of his ship. Together, they located the wreck of the ''Axalon'' in [[Brasnya]], within which Kreiger observed the empty plinth within the ship where the Talisman had once stood and deduced the existence of the mysterious obelisk, christening it with the code-name it would come to be known by. The group was then attacked by the corpse of Domitius Major, puppeteered by a phalanx of the Talisman's drones. Kreiger stepped out of the ship to watch as Centurion battled his former commander—which meant that he was spared when, suddenly, the energy of the Talisman enveloped the ''Axalon'', and it and Sgt. Savage vanished into thin air. Fascinated by the potential of the Talisman, Kreiger made hunting down the relic his life's work, and forged an alliance with Centurion to accomplish this goal. {{storylink|Strange Visitors}} 

Kreiger spent decades hunting for the Talisman, even using whatever scraps of tech he could find to attempt recreating it, leading to the creation of multiple lesser duplicates of the device. {{storylink|The Iron Klaw}} {{storylink|Power and Glory}} In the 1980s, however, Kreiger finally discovered that the true Talisman had somehow come to be buried beneath the pyramid of the [[Tomb of Amtoltec]] in [[Dashur]], [[Egypt]]. Venturing deep into the tomb, Kreiger finally laid his hands upon the mysterious device and immediately began experimenting with its power, creating more of the "Iron Trooper" drones he had encountered in the past. His activities drew the attention of both [[Joe Colton]]'s [[Adventure Team]] and the [[Decepticon]] [[Soundwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Soundwave]], and during the ensuing confrontation, Adventure Team member [[Atomic Man|Mike Power]] made contact with the Talisman. Power's artificial limbs had been reverse-engineered from a piece of an Iron Trooper years beforehand, and direct contact with the Talisman mutated them, increasing their power, which brought the fighting to an end. Soundwave departed, and the Talisman was taken into government custody. {{storylink|The Secret of the Mummy's Tomb}}

Kreiger was sanctioned by the government to study the Talisman, which he began doing in the "[[Project: Ice Man|Project: Ice Man]]" facility constructed in the Brasnyan crater where the ''Axalon'' had once rested. {{storylink|When Eagles Scream}} There, he was approached by Mike Power, whose experience with the Talisman led him to hope it could help him in his constant drive to improve himself. Kreiger used the Talisman to rebuild Power's body, bonding him to it, so that he became it "made flesh." {{storylink|Power and Glory}} In 1994, Kreiger had Power and the Talisman brought into contact once again, which had the unexpected result of pulling Sgt. Savage and the ''Axalon'' through time from their disappearance during the war to the present day. A moment later, Colton's Adventure Team burst into the lab, having been sent in to put a stop to shut Kreiger's operation down. {{storylink|When Eagles Scream}}

Requisitioned by the goverment, the Talisman was relocated once more, and by the early 21st century, had been transferred to the "[[Projet Hot House|Project: Hot House]]" facility housed within [[Mount St. Helens]] near [[Oregon]]. There, Kreiger—now working under Colton himself—increased the range of his experiments with the Talisman using [[Ore-13]], seeking to find a way to employ it as a weapon against the Cybertronians who were appearing on Earth at an increasing rate. To reactivate the Talisman, Kreiger and Colton lured Sgt. Savage to the base and forced him into contact with it. His body saturated with its power thanks to his trip through time, Savage's touch brought the Talisman back to life; its energies hurled Savage further into the future once more, and killed Kreiger and Colton's Decepticon guinea pig [[Bugly (G1)|Bugly]] outright, proving that it was the weapon they needed to fight the Cybertronian threat. {{storylink|When Eagles Scream}}

Over the following years, Cybertronian activity on Earth increased to the point that [[Autobot]] leader [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Optimus Prime]] wound up annexing the planet into the Cybertronian empire for its own safety. Colton did not see it that way; cognizant of the danger the mere presence of Cybertronians on Earth posed, he ruled that it was time to employ the Talisman to kill them all. Attempting to go through official channels, however, he discovered the Earth's governments had been insurmountably infiltrated by a different alien threat: the shape-changing Dire Wraiths. {{storylink|First Strike issue 2|''First Strike'' #2}} Realizing he would now have to act outside the law, he went to Garrison Kreiger for aid. Kreiger was one step ahead of him, having already been working with [[Miles Mayhem]] to continue testing the Talisman's effects on Mayhem's Decepticon prisoner [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]]. Colton took on the new identity of "[[Baron Ironblood]]" and set about gathering a crack squad of supervillains to help him in his plan to use the Talisman to destroy Cybertron itself. {{storylink|First Strike issue 0|First Strike #0}}

One of Colton's first recruits was European super-criminal [[Doctor X]], who used her contacts within the British Special Intelligence Services to have the Talisman relocated to safety of an SIS subterranean bunker beneath [[Verenya]], capital city of the small Eastern European nation of [[Schleteva]]. {{storylink|Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook isse 2|Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook #2}} There, it was discovered by [[G.B. Blackrock|Garrison Blackrock]] while he was searching for clues about his Cybertronian heritage. His carelessness tampering with the device resulted in it releasing a series of energy pulses that mutated the city's population into [[Dire Wraith]] hybrids, attracting the attention of [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]], [[Rom]], and [[Action Man]]. This group of heroes wound up in battle with the mercenary [[Oktober Guard]], who had been sent in by Colton's villainous cabal to recover the Talisman. The Guard succeeded, teleporting the Talisman to the villains' moonbase, {{storylink|Crisis Intervention}} but the heroes followed, now joined by the [[Micronaut]]s of [[Microspace]], whose connection to the Talisman Blackrock hoped could turn the situation in their favor. One of the Micronauts, [[Larissa]], managed to find a small cockpit on the Talisman and "enerchanged" with it, using it to fly out of the villain base before it blew up. {{storylink|Enter The Shadow}}

The Talisman was taken to Blackrock's [[Onyx]] facility in [[Buenos Aires]], where it was studied in the hope a cure for the Wraith mutation could be found. {{storylink|When Eagles Scream}} The villains were not stopped in their plans, however; Kreiger still had his facsimile Talismans {{storylink|The Iron Klaw}} and Mike Power, who he used to reanimate the bodies of Domitius Major and [[Eukarian Shockwave|other Eukarians]] just as the Talisman had done in the past. {{storylink|Power and Glory}} But the heroes were able to thwart them at every turn, and succeeded in capturing Kreiger, whereupon they called in G.I. Joe to take custody of both him and the Talisman. In concert with the Joes' arrival at the Onyx facility, however, Baron Ironblood launched an all-out assault to rescue Kreiger and recover the Talisman. {{storylink|When Eagles Scream}}

On the day of Earth's induction into the Cybertronian [[Council of Worlds]], Ironblood's alliance invaded Cybertron. With the aid of their newest member, Microspace minister of war [[Shazraella]], they intended to "enerchange" the Talisman with the core of Cybertron, thereby poisoning all [[energon]] on the planet. After Shazraella had enerchanged with and taken over [[Antagony (BW)|Antagony's]] body, she strapped the Talisman to her back and led the trek underground to Cybertron's core. {{storylink|First Strike issue 2|First Strike #2}}

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