Editing Monitor

:''A monitor is a Cybertronian job from the [[Aligned continuity family]].''
'''Monitors''' spend their careers in the [[Hall of Records]] in [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], under the watchful eye of [[Alpha Trion (Prime)|Alpha Trion]], the Archivist of Iacon. They monitor transmissions over the [[Grid|Communications Grid]] that spans all of Cybertron. If a transmission meets a certain set of unknown criteria, a monitor will listen to it, annotate it, categorize it, and save it in a sector of the DataNet. After this, transmissions will mostly go on unnoticed, unless a Cultural Investigator wants to investigate something to do with culture (duh), or the High Council wants to research something. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}}

== Fiction ==
=== ''Exodus'' ===
[[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Orion Pax]] originated in the ranks of the monitors. While working at the Hall of Records, he met [[Jazz (Prime)|Jazz]] and had his first conversations with the upstart [[Megatron (Prime)|Megatronus]]. During the war, when Optimus Prime visited the Hall, the young monitors were awed that the great leader had rose from their ranks. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}}

== Notes ==
* Monitors are members of the [[Data Caste]].

* How exactly does a monitor know if a transmission meets certain criteria if they don't listen to it until ''after'' they have already determined it meets those criteria?

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