Editing Air Warrior

:''The Air Warriors are [[Decepticon]]s in the [[Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
[[image:AirWarrior_BioPic.jpg|thumb|right|200px|It don't get more [[generic]] than "Decepticon Decepticon."]]

When [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] and the other standard [[Seeker]]s just aren't enough, call in the '''Air Warriors'''.  Sometimes they're explicitly [[drone]]s and sometimes they're just quietly singleminded, depending on the continuity.  But they're always obedient, determined, and ruthless.


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==Fiction==
===Sunbow ''Generation 1'' cartoon===
[[image:AirWarriors_MTMtE.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Stand in the place where you are.]]

When the [[Decepticon]]s first awoke on [[Earth]], the core group of warriors was reinforced by a number of unnamed [[Seeker]]s.  While they participated in battles and resource-gathering like their comrades, they never showed more than dronelike independence.  Two were heard to speak, but they sounded like [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] and [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]], so make of that what you will.  {{storylink|More Than Meets the Eye, Part 2}}

They were last seen fighting the Autobots before [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] launched the newly-built [[Decepticon space cruiser|space cruiser]].  {{storylink|More Than Meets the Eye, Part 3}}  After its crash, the Earthbound Seeker ranks were reduced to the standard three.  Their disappearance was never mentioned, so their specific fate is unknown.

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===On-package bio===
{{note|Nearly 20 years after their brief cartoon appearance, the nameless Seekers appeared as ''[[Super Collection Figure|Heroes of Cybertron]]'' toys at [[The Official Transformers Collectors Convention|OTFCC 2003]].  While the label simply said "Decepticon," the [[bio]] presented the full name of "Decepticon Air Warrior" for the first time.}}

Air Warriors are "ruthless killing machines" with a "no-nonsense attitude" and "lack of compassion."  They also have a motto ("I will control the skies") and an intelligence [[Tech Spec]] of 5.  Whether this makes them ''drones'' or not is unclear.  Either way, they are dedicated to destroying Autobot sympathizers with their cluster bombs and laser-guided missiles.

===Dreamwave G1 comics===
[[image:AirWarriors_DW_WWi.jpg|thumb|left|Of all the Seekers, they're the Seekiest.]]

Some time before the [[Great Shutdown]], Megatron and [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] were lost in a [[space bridge]] accident.  When Megatron returned millenia later, he brought with him the "Aerospace Extermination Squadron," a million-strong fleet of Seeker drones which he used to quickly dominate [[Cybertron]]. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath issue 1}}

After capturing the planet, the drones policed the [[Autobot]] slaves.  Progressing from one task to the next with no sign of true self-awareness, they communicated amongst themselves in sentence fragments via radio or perhaps telepathy.  Megatron tasked [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] with reverse-engineering the cloning device that produced them.  Shockwave asked him where it had come from, but Megatron refused to say.  In truth, Megatron received it from the [[Quintesson]]s, having apparently forgotten that he had started the war to fight ''against'' Quintessons who had infiltrated the [[Council of Ancients]].  {{storylink|The Age of Wrath, Pt. 2}}

At least one drone showed an ability to materialize additional armaments in flashes of light.  It nearly destroyed a team of Autobots singlehandedly, but they managed to subdue it with an inhibitor claw designed by [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]].  {{storylink|The Age of Wrath, Pt. 3}}

[[image:AirWarriors_DW_SS.jpg|thumb|right|What is it?  Did Rumble fall down the well?  Is Skywarp pinned under the tractor again?]]

The Aerospace Extermination Squadron was eventually defeated somehow, and their bodies were all "zapped into space."  {{storylink|Lost and Found}}  By the modern day, at least three of them had ended up on the [[Junkion (planet)|planet of Junk]], resembling Earth-adapted Seekers for some reason.  {{storylink|Generation One issue 0}}  When Megatron was brought to that world by [[Wreck-Gar]], he had the [[Junkion]] gather and restore three drones.  (Then he destroyed Wreck-Gar for his troubles.)  {{storylink|The Omega Effect}}  He took the drones to the planet [[Beest]], where he recruited the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacon]]s.  {{storylink|Welcome to the Jungle}}  The growing troupe ventured to Cybertron, where Megatron used a drone to lure out two of Shockwave's warriors.  It was destroyed, but [[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]] immediately captured [[Astrotrain (G1)|its]] [[Blitzwing (G1)|executioners]], who quickly joined Megatron's band and helped him overthrow Shockwave.  {{storylink|Lost and Found}}

{{note|[[Dreamwave]]'s bankruptcy cut these storylines short, which is why the Squadron's defeat remains a mystery.  Also notable is that the name "Air Warrior" was reiterated in the story-catch-up blurb before [[Welcome to the Jungle|"Welcome to the Jungle."]]}}

==Merchandise==
===''Heroes of Cybertron''===
[[image:HoC_3H_Seeker_Set.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Some assembly required.]]
*'''Decepticon''' (2003)
:A repaint of the standard Seeker ''[[Super Collection Figure|Heroes of Cybertron]]'' figure, this was available in triplicate as part of an army-builder pack with [[Starscream_(G1)#Heroes_of_Cybertron|Starscream]], [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]], and [[Skywarp (G1)#Heroes_of_Cybertron|Skywarp]].  This set was offered by [[3H Productions|3H]] at [[The Official Transformers Collectors Convention|OTFCC 2003]] and elsewhere.  For some reason, they lacked the molded plastic insert that normally held ''Heroes'' figures in place, so they tended to fall apart in the package.  While this was normal for the toy and not a defect, they appeared "broken" at a glance.

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