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Cyberlink420: /* EarthSpark cartoon */

2026-01-23T08:58:53Z

EarthSpark cartoon

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	G.H.O.S.T. held a G.H.O.S.T.-Autobot Alliance ceremony that was promptly crashed by [[Skywarp (ES)\|Skywarp]] and [[Nova Storm (ES)\|Nova Storm]], attempting to steal Optimus Prime's left arm under orders from Meridian, now known as Mandroid. {{storylink\|Age of Evolution, Part 1}}		G.H.O.S.T. held a G.H.O.S.T.-Autobot Alliance ceremony that was promptly crashed by [[Skywarp (ES)\|Skywarp]] and [[Nova Storm (ES)\|Nova Storm]], attempting to steal Optimus Prime's left arm under orders from Meridian, now known as Mandroid. {{storylink\|Age of Evolution, Part 1}}

	{{groupstub\| {{storylink\|Hashtag: Oops}} {{storylink\|Missed Connection}} {{storylink\|Security Protocols}} {{storylink\|Bear Necessities}} {{storylink\|Warzone}} {{storylink\|Home, Part 2}} {{storylink\|Disarmed}} {{storylink\|What Dwells Within}} {{storylink\|Stowed Away, Stowaways}} {{storylink\|The Battle of Witwicky}} {{storylink\|The Last Hope, Part 1}}{{storylink\|The Last Hope, Part 2}}		{{groupstub\| {{storylink\|Hashtag: Oops}} {{storylink\|Missed Connection}} {{storylink\|Security Protocols}} {{storylink\|Bear Necessities}} {{storylink\|Warzone}} {{storylink\|Home, Part 2}} {{storylink\|Disarmed}} {{storylink\|What Dwells Within}} {{storylink\|Stowed Away, Stowaways}} {{storylink\|The Battle of Witwicky}} {{storylink\|The Last Hope, Part 1}}{{storylink\|The Last Hope, Part 2}}}}

	~~Sometime after~~ Kroft's death and ~~the~~ Mandroid's defeat, G.H.O.S.T. is disbanded~~. The Autobots redecorat G.H.O.S.T. HQ~~ into ~~the~~ new Autobot base. ~~Bumblebee was shiping~~ the ~~G.H.O.S.T. van so they can be~~ repurposed ~~(he even mistook Hashtag for one of the vans). Bumblebee want the vans to be ice cream truck but Optimus declines~~ the ~~idea~~. {{storylink\|Control Alt Delete}}}}		Over the course of the year following Kroft's death and Mandroid's defeat, G.H.O.S.T. was formally disbanded, with their headquarters being converted into a new Autobot base. Much of the organization's technology and vehicles were subsequently repurposed or recycled at [[Sal's Salvage]], including some Ghoids that were accidentally reactivated before being swiftly shut down by the Maltos. {{storylink\|Control Alt Delete}}

	==Notes==		==Notes==

Wildwing: /* EarthSpark cartoon */

2026-01-23T07:26:20Z

EarthSpark cartoon

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	G.H.O.S.T. held a G.H.O.S.T.-Autobot Alliance ceremony that was promptly crashed by [[Skywarp (ES)\|Skywarp]] and [[Nova Storm (ES)\|Nova Storm]], attempting to steal Optimus Prime's left arm under orders from Meridian, now known as Mandroid. {{storylink\|Age of Evolution, Part 1}}		G.H.O.S.T. held a G.H.O.S.T.-Autobot Alliance ceremony that was promptly crashed by [[Skywarp (ES)\|Skywarp]] and [[Nova Storm (ES)\|Nova Storm]], attempting to steal Optimus Prime's left arm under orders from Meridian, now known as Mandroid. {{storylink\|Age of Evolution, Part 1}}

	{{groupstub\| {{storylink\|Hashtag: Oops}} {{storylink\|Missed Connection}} {{storylink\|Security Protocols}} {{storylink\|Bear Necessities}} {{storylink\|Warzone}} {{storylink\|Home, Part 2}} {{storylink\|Disarmed}} {{storylink\|What Dwells Within}} {{storylink\|Stowed Away, Stowaways}} {{storylink\|The Battle of Witwicky}} {{storylink\|The Last Hope, Part 1}}{{storylink\|The Last Hope, Part 2}}{{storylink\|Control Alt Delete}}}}		{{groupstub\| {{storylink\|Hashtag: Oops}} {{storylink\|Missed Connection}} {{storylink\|Security Protocols}} {{storylink\|Bear Necessities}} {{storylink\|Warzone}} {{storylink\|Home, Part 2}} {{storylink\|Disarmed}} {{storylink\|What Dwells Within}} {{storylink\|Stowed Away, Stowaways}} {{storylink\|The Battle of Witwicky}} {{storylink\|The Last Hope, Part 1}}{{storylink\|The Last Hope, Part 2}}

			Sometime after Kroft's death and the Mandroid's defeat, G.H.O.S.T. is disbanded. The Autobots redecorat G.H.O.S.T. HQ into the new Autobot base. Bumblebee was shiping the G.H.O.S.T. van so they can be repurposed (he even mistook Hashtag for one of the vans). Bumblebee want the vans to be ice cream truck but Optimus declines the idea. {{storylink\|Control Alt Delete}}}}

	==Notes==		==Notes==

Ratbat72!: added links

2024-07-04T03:18:11Z

added links

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	G.H.O.S.T. held a G.H.O.S.T.-Autobot Alliance ceremony that was promptly crashed by [[Skywarp (ES)\|Skywarp]] and [[Nova Storm (ES)\|Nova Storm]], attempting to steal Optimus Prime's left arm under orders from Meridian, now known as Mandroid. {{storylink\|Age of Evolution, Part 1}}		G.H.O.S.T. held a G.H.O.S.T.-Autobot Alliance ceremony that was promptly crashed by [[Skywarp (ES)\|Skywarp]] and [[Nova Storm (ES)\|Nova Storm]], attempting to steal Optimus Prime's left arm under orders from Meridian, now known as Mandroid. {{storylink\|Age of Evolution, Part 1}}

	{{groupstub\|~~Episode 11 onward~~}}		{{groupstub\| {{storylink\|Hashtag: Oops}} {{storylink\|Missed Connection}} {{storylink\|Security Protocols}} {{storylink\|Bear Necessities}} {{storylink\|Warzone}} {{storylink\|Home, Part 2}} {{storylink\|Disarmed}} {{storylink\|What Dwells Within}} {{storylink\|Stowed Away, Stowaways}} {{storylink\|The Battle of Witwicky}} {{storylink\|The Last Hope, Part 1}}{{storylink\|The Last Hope, Part 2}}{{storylink\|Control Alt Delete}}}}

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GuiRitter: fixed typo

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	{{disambig2\|the human-Autobot alliance\|the supernatural entities\|Ghost}}		{{disambig2\|the human-Autobot alliance\|the supernatural entities\|Ghost}}
	[[File:GHOST-Headquarters-Classified.JPG\|thumb\|right\|425px\|The good guys!... Maybe.]]		[[File:GHOST-Headquarters-Classified.JPG\|thumb\|right\|425px\|The good guys!... Maybe.]]
	'''G.H.O.S.T.''' ('''Global Hazard and Ordinance Strike Team''') is an government organization based in [[Witwicky (town)\|Witwicky]], [[Pennsylvania]]. They are focused on rebuilding human-[[Autobot]] relations, capturing rogue [[Decepticon]]s, and finding ways that [[Transformer\|Cybertronians]] can help Earth's communities. While much of their operations are covert, they operate publicly, and represent the face of a post-[[Great War (ES)\|war]] world.		'''G.H.O.S.T.''' ('''Global Hazard and Ordinance Strike Team''') is a government organization based in [[Witwicky (town)\|Witwicky]], [[Pennsylvania]]. They are focused on rebuilding human-[[Autobot]] relations, capturing rogue [[Decepticon]]s, and finding ways that [[Transformer\|Cybertronians]] can help Earth's communities. While much of their operations are covert, they operate publicly, and represent the face of a post-[[Great War (ES)\|war]] world.

	Their relationship with the Autobots is...tense, to say the least. Their ethically dubious policy towards the Decepticons, including [[mode lock\|restraints]] and long-term incarceration, combined with an eccentric and extreme staff, means that neither G.H.O.S.T. nor the Autobots fully trust each other. Even the bot who ''should'' be their greatest ally, [[Optimus Prime (ES)\|Optimus Prime]], keeps more than [[Bumblebee (ES)\|a few]] [[Terran\|secrets]] from them.		Their relationship with the Autobots is...tense, to say the least. Their ethically dubious policy towards the Decepticons, including [[mode lock\|restraints]] and long-term incarceration, combined with an eccentric and extreme staff, means that neither G.H.O.S.T. nor the Autobots fully trust each other. Even the bot who ''should'' be their greatest ally, [[Optimus Prime (ES)\|Optimus Prime]], keeps more than [[Bumblebee (ES)\|a few]] [[Terran\|secrets]] from them.

Cyberlink420 at 14:20, 6 September 2023

2023-09-06T14:20:44Z

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	'''G.H.O.S.T.''' ('''Global Hazard and Ordinance Strike Team''') is an government organization based in [[Witwicky (town)\|Witwicky]], [[Pennsylvania]]. They are focused on rebuilding human-[[Autobot]] relations, capturing rogue [[Decepticon]]s, and finding ways that [[Transformer\|Cybertronians]] can help Earth's communities. While much of their operations are covert, they operate publicly, and represent the face of a post-[[Great War (ES)\|war]] world.		'''G.H.O.S.T.''' ('''Global Hazard and Ordinance Strike Team''') is an government organization based in [[Witwicky (town)\|Witwicky]], [[Pennsylvania]]. They are focused on rebuilding human-[[Autobot]] relations, capturing rogue [[Decepticon]]s, and finding ways that [[Transformer\|Cybertronians]] can help Earth's communities. While much of their operations are covert, they operate publicly, and represent the face of a post-[[Great War (ES)\|war]] world.

	Their relationship with the Autobots is...tense, to say the least. Their ethically dubious policy towards the Decepticons, including [[mode lock\|restraints]] and long-term incarceration, combined with an eccentric and extreme staff, means that neither G.H.O.S.T. nor the Autobots fully trust each other. Even the bot who ''should'' be their greatest ally, [[Optimus Prime (ES)\|Optimus Prime]], keeps more than [[Bumblebee (ES)\|a few]] [[Terran\|secrets]] from them.		Their relationship with the Autobots is...tense, to say the least. Their ethically dubious policy towards the Decepticons, including [[mode lock\|restraints]] and long-term incarceration, combined with an eccentric and extreme staff, means that neither G.H.O.S.T. nor the Autobots fully trust each other. Even the bot who ''should'' be their greatest ally, [[Optimus Prime (ES)\|Optimus Prime]], keeps more than [[Bumblebee (ES)\|a few]] [[Terran\|secrets]] from them.

	One of their favorite pastimes seems to be cheesy slogans.		One of their favorite pastimes seems to be cheesy slogans.

	Significant human ~~and Autobot members~~ include:		Significant human personnel include:
	*Executive Agent [[Karen Croft]]		*Executive Agent [[Karen Croft]]
	*Special Agent [[Jon Schloder]]		*Special Agent [[Jon Schloder]]
			*Agent [[Dot Malto]]
			*Agent [[Bala]]
			*Agent [[Bagheri]]
			*Cadet [[Kwan]]
			*Cadet [[Conway]]
			*Cadet [[Rosato]]
	*[[Mandroid\|Dr. Meridian]] (former)		*[[Mandroid\|Dr. Meridian]] (former)
	*[[Dot Malto]]
	*[[Optimus Prime (ES)\|Optimus Prime]]
	*[[Elita-1 (ES)\|Elita-1]]
	*[[Megatron (ES)\|Megatron]]
	*[[Wheeljack (ES)\|Wheeljack]]
	*[[Arcee (ES)\|Arcee]]
	*[[Grimlock (ES)\|Grimlock]]

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	During the war, G.H.O.S.T. developed and deployed a number of weapons that incorporated hybridized Cybertronian technology, including [[energon scanner]]s that could detect disguised Decepticons and [[anti-energon field]]s capable of incapacitating them. An orbital satellite network allowed G.H.O.S.T troopers to track Cybertronians over long distances and calculate probable trajectories, allowing them to intercept their targets from afar. {{storylink\|Transformers EarthSpark The Official Guidebook\|The Official Guidebook}} G.H.O.S.T. maintained a large motor pool, including armored cars, surveillance vans, {{storylink\|Secret Legacy, Part 1}} and trucks and rail vehicles used to transport energon, technology and captured Decepticons. {{storylink\|Moo-ving In}}		During the war, G.H.O.S.T. developed and deployed a number of weapons that incorporated hybridized Cybertronian technology, including [[energon scanner]]s that could detect disguised Decepticons and [[anti-energon field]]s capable of incapacitating them. An orbital satellite network allowed G.H.O.S.T troopers to track Cybertronians over long distances and calculate probable trajectories, allowing them to intercept their targets from afar. {{storylink\|Transformers EarthSpark The Official Guidebook\|The Official Guidebook}} G.H.O.S.T. maintained a large motor pool, including armored cars, surveillance vans, {{storylink\|Secret Legacy, Part 1}} and trucks and rail vehicles used to transport energon, technology and captured Decepticons. {{storylink\|Moo-ving In}}

	Following the end of the conflict, G.H.O.S.T. announced that it would monitor all remaining Autobots and Decepticons as part of their post-war cleanup operations. {{storylink\|Transformers EarthSpark The Official Guidebook\|The Official Guidebook}} Optimus, a repentant Megatron, and several other Autobots entered into a formal partnership with G.H.O.S.T.; in exchange for a secure, hidden headquarters, Optimus and his team spent the next fifteen years helping G.H.O.S.T. operatives round up any remaining Decepticons, {{storylink\|Secret Legacy, Part 1}} and imprisoned them in a top-secret wing of their base. Optimus attempted to pivot the organization's focus to promoting peaceful interspecies relations, but Executive Leader [[Karen Croft]] didn't see eye-to-eye with the Cybertronians; {{storylink\|Classified}} under her watch, G.H.O.S.T. maintained a number of off-the-books projects, including an effort to restore the spacebridge. {{storylink\|Stowed Away, Stowaways}} Some Cybertronians suspected that the organization was more concerned with its own best interests, and some chose not to work with G.H.O.S.T.— when [[Bumblebee (ES)\|Bumblebee]] went into hiding, some G.H.O.S.T. agents wondered if he'd somehow left the planet or defected to the Decepticons. {{storylink\|Transformers EarthSpark The Official Guidebook\|The Official Guidebook}}		Following the end of the conflict, G.H.O.S.T. announced that it would monitor all remaining Autobots and Decepticons as part of their post-war cleanup operations. {{storylink\|Transformers EarthSpark The Official Guidebook\|The Official Guidebook}} Optimus, a repentant [[Megatron (ES)\|Megatron]], and several other Autobots entered into a formal partnership with G.H.O.S.T.; in exchange for a secure, hidden headquarters, Optimus and his team spent the next fifteen years helping G.H.O.S.T. operatives round up any remaining Decepticons, {{storylink\|Secret Legacy, Part 1}} and imprisoned them in a top-secret wing of their base. Optimus attempted to pivot the organization's focus to promoting peaceful interspecies relations, but Executive Leader [[Karen Croft]] didn't see eye-to-eye with the Cybertronians; {{storylink\|Classified}} under her watch, G.H.O.S.T. maintained a number of off-the-books projects, including an effort to restore the spacebridge. {{storylink\|Stowed Away, Stowaways}} Some Cybertronians suspected that the organization was more concerned with its own best interests, and some chose not to work with G.H.O.S.T.— when [[Bumblebee (ES)\|Bumblebee]] went into hiding, some G.H.O.S.T. agents wondered if he'd somehow left the planet or defected to the Decepticons. {{storylink\|Transformers EarthSpark The Official Guidebook\|The Official Guidebook}}

	In the present day, G.H.O.S.T. created [[Dot Malto]]'s job as a park ranger to move her closer to their headquarters in Witwicky. {{storylink\|Secret Legacy, Part 1}} Elita-1 and Optimus Prime lured [[Swindle (ES)\|Swindle]] and [[Hardtop (ES)\|Hardtop]] into a trap with the anonymous tip of G.H.O.S.T. having an unguarded shipping container of energon, managing to apprehend Hardtop. A G.H.O.S.T. convoy transporting Hardtop was attacked by [[Arachnamech]]s, allowing Meridian to steal the prisoner Decepticon, and catching [[Robby Malto\|Robby]] and [[Mo Malto]] in the crossfire. {{storylink\|Secret Legacy, Part 1}} When Meridian kidnapped Twitch and Thrash under the guise of a G.H.O.S.T. transport vehicle, agents on the scene had no records of the truck or driver. {{storylink\|Secret Legacy, Part 2}}		In the present day, G.H.O.S.T. created [[Dot Malto]]'s job as a park ranger to move her closer to their headquarters in Witwicky. {{storylink\|Secret Legacy, Part 1}} [[Elita-1 (ES)\|Elita-1]] and Optimus Prime lured [[Swindle (ES)\|Swindle]] and [[Hardtop (ES)\|Hardtop]] into a trap with the anonymous tip of G.H.O.S.T. having an unguarded shipping container of energon, managing to apprehend Hardtop. A G.H.O.S.T. convoy transporting Hardtop was attacked by [[Arachnamech]]s, allowing Meridian to steal the prisoner Decepticon, and catching [[Robby Malto\|Robby]] and [[Mo Malto]] in the crossfire. {{storylink\|Secret Legacy, Part 1}} When Meridian kidnapped Twitch and Thrash under the guise of a G.H.O.S.T. transport vehicle, agents on the scene had no records of the truck or driver. {{storylink\|Secret Legacy, Part 2}}

	Swindle attacked a G.H.O.S.T. vehicle being driven by Agent [[Bala]], hoping to steal the [[energon scanner]] inside, but was stopped by the forcefields. Later, Dot was called to close down the area, putting out a fire started by Swindle to distract them. Swindle later tried and failed to get Mo and Thrash to steal the scanner from the G.H.O.S.T. truck. {{storylink\|House Rules}}		Swindle attacked a G.H.O.S.T. vehicle being driven by Agent [[Bala]], hoping to steal the [[energon scanner]] inside, but was stopped by the forcefields. Later, Dot was called to close down the area, putting out a fire started by Swindle to distract them. Swindle later tried and failed to get Mo and Thrash to steal the scanner from the G.H.O.S.T. truck. {{storylink\|House Rules}}

Saix at 16:15, 5 September 2023

2023-09-05T16:15:26Z

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	{{factions\|ghost}}		{{factions\|ghost}}
	{{disambig2\|the human-Autobot alliance\|the supernatural entities\|Ghost}}		{{disambig2\|the human-Autobot alliance\|the supernatural entities\|Ghost}}
	~~:''G.H.O.S.T. is a Human-Autobot alliance from the [[EarthSpark]] [[continuity family]].''~~
	[[File:GHOST-Headquarters-Classified.JPG\|thumb\|right\|425px\|The good guys!... Maybe.]]		[[File:GHOST-Headquarters-Classified.JPG\|thumb\|right\|425px\|The good guys!... Maybe.]]
	'''G.H.O.S.T.''' ('''Global Hazard and Ordinance Strike Team''') is an government organization based in [[Witwicky (town)\|Witwicky]], [[Pennsylvania]]. They are focused on rebuilding human-[[Autobot]] relations, capturing rogue [[Decepticon]]s, and finding ways that [[Transformer\|Cybertronians]] can help Earth's communities. While much of their operations are covert, they operate publicly, and represent the face of a post-[[Great War (ES)\|war]] world.		'''G.H.O.S.T.''' ('''Global Hazard and Ordinance Strike Team''') is an government organization based in [[Witwicky (town)\|Witwicky]], [[Pennsylvania]]. They are focused on rebuilding human-[[Autobot]] relations, capturing rogue [[Decepticon]]s, and finding ways that [[Transformer\|Cybertronians]] can help Earth's communities. While much of their operations are covert, they operate publicly, and represent the face of a post-[[Great War (ES)\|war]] world.
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	==Fiction==		==Fiction==
	===''EarthSpark'' cartoon===		===''EarthSpark'' cartoon===
	~~{{spoiler\|Transformers: EarthSpark (cartoon)\|August 28}}~~

	G.H.O.S.T.'s origins are top-secret and shrouded in mystery—while its existence became public knowledge sometime during the [[Great War (ES)\|Transformers war]], it seems that the organization may have been operating for quite some time beforehand, possibly even before the arrival of the [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s in [[1984]]. {{storylink\|Transformers EarthSpark The Official Guidebook\|The Official Guidebook}} Their subterranean headquarters in [[Witwicky (town)\|Witwicky]] lay atop a much larger network of unmapped caverns that seemingly dated back to [[Quintus Prime]]'s time on Earth; in addition to a rogue [[Dweller (ES)\|Dweller]], {{storylink\|What Dwells Within}} they also contained advanced Cybertronian technology, abundant supplies of raw [[energon]], a damaged [[space bridge\|spacebridge]], and an ancient superweapon capable of deactivating Transformers. {{storylink\|The Last Hope, Part 1}}		G.H.O.S.T.'s origins are top-secret and shrouded in mystery—while its existence became public knowledge sometime during the [[Great War (ES)\|Transformers war]], it seems that the organization may have been operating for quite some time beforehand, possibly even before the arrival of the [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s in [[1984]]. {{storylink\|Transformers EarthSpark The Official Guidebook\|The Official Guidebook}} Their subterranean headquarters in [[Witwicky (town)\|Witwicky]] lay atop a much larger network of unmapped caverns that seemingly dated back to [[Quintus Prime]]'s time on Earth; in addition to a rogue [[Dweller (ES)\|Dweller]], {{storylink\|What Dwells Within}} they also contained advanced Cybertronian technology, abundant supplies of raw [[energon]], a damaged [[space bridge\|spacebridge]], and an ancient superweapon capable of deactivating Transformers. {{storylink\|The Last Hope, Part 1}}

Saix: /* Foreign names */

2023-09-05T16:13:41Z

Foreign names

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	==Notes==		==Notes==
	===Foreign names===		===Foreign names===
			*''Japanese:'' '''G.H.O.S.T.''' (ゴースト ''Gōsuto'')
	*''French:'' '''G.H.O.S.T.''' ('''Groupe des Hautes Œuvres de Sécurité Terrienne'''; "Group of the High Works of Earth Security")		*''French:'' '''G.H.O.S.T.''' ('''Groupe des Hautes Œuvres de Sécurité Terrienne'''; "Group of the High Works of Earth Security")
	*''Hungarian:'' '''SZE.LL.E.M.''' ('''Szervezet a Leglényegesebb Elhárító Manőverekért'''; "GHOST", "Organization for the Most Significant Defense Maneuvers")		*''Hungarian:'' '''SZE.LL.E.M.''' ('''Szervezet a Leglényegesebb Elhárító Manőverekért'''; "GHOST", "Organization for the Most Significant Defense Maneuvers")

Locoman: /* EarthSpark cartoon */

2023-07-31T23:19:45Z

EarthSpark cartoon

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	Thirty years before the present day, [[Optimus Prime (ES)\|Optimus Prime]] and the other Autobots ratified a formal alliance with G.H.O.S.T. in their war against the Decepticons. {{storylink\|Age of Evolution, Part 1}} The first generation of G.H.O.S.T. troopers were comprised of military veterans from across the planet who'd survived Decepticon encounters; as the war expanded, however, G.H.O.S.T. began recruiting personnel directly from military academies, law enforcement organizations, and technical institutions. In addition to supporting the Autobots in frontline combat operations, G.H.O.S.T. maintained a network of research facilities across the country, including [[Philadelphia]] and [[San Francisco]]; here, a network of leading scientists worked on a variety of secret projects, which included reverse-engineering Cybertronian technology. {{storylink\|Transformers EarthSpark The Official Guidebook\|The Official Guidebook}} One such scientist, [[Mandroid\|Doctor Meridian]], lost his arm when Autobot friendly fire struck his lab during the [[Battle of the Bay]]. {{storylink\|Age of Evolution, Part 1}}		Thirty years before the present day, [[Optimus Prime (ES)\|Optimus Prime]] and the other Autobots ratified a formal alliance with G.H.O.S.T. in their war against the Decepticons. {{storylink\|Age of Evolution, Part 1}} The first generation of G.H.O.S.T. troopers were comprised of military veterans from across the planet who'd survived Decepticon encounters; as the war expanded, however, G.H.O.S.T. began recruiting personnel directly from military academies, law enforcement organizations, and technical institutions. In addition to supporting the Autobots in frontline combat operations, G.H.O.S.T. maintained a network of research facilities across the country, including [[Philadelphia]] and [[San Francisco]]; here, a network of leading scientists worked on a variety of secret projects, which included reverse-engineering Cybertronian technology. {{storylink\|Transformers EarthSpark The Official Guidebook\|The Official Guidebook}} One such scientist, [[Mandroid\|Doctor Meridian]], lost his arm when Autobot friendly fire struck his lab during the [[Battle of the Bay]]. {{storylink\|Age of Evolution, Part 1}}

	During the war, G.H.O.S.T. developed and deployed a number of weapons that incorporated hybridized Cybertronian technology, including [[energon scanner]]s and [[anti-energon field]]s capable of incapacitating ~~Decepticons~~. An orbital satellite network allowed G.H.O.S.T troopers to track Cybertronians over long distances and calculate probable trajectories, allowing them to intercept their targets from afar. {{storylink\|Transformers EarthSpark The Official Guidebook\|The Official Guidebook}} G.H.O.S.T. maintained a large motor pool, including armored cars, surveillance vans, {{storylink\|Secret Legacy, Part 1}} and trucks and rail vehicles used to transport energon, technology and captured Decepticons. {{storylink\|Moo-ving In}}		During the war, G.H.O.S.T. developed and deployed a number of weapons that incorporated hybridized Cybertronian technology, including [[energon scanner]]s that could detect disguised Decepticons and [[anti-energon field]]s capable of incapacitating them. An orbital satellite network allowed G.H.O.S.T troopers to track Cybertronians over long distances and calculate probable trajectories, allowing them to intercept their targets from afar. {{storylink\|Transformers EarthSpark The Official Guidebook\|The Official Guidebook}} G.H.O.S.T. maintained a large motor pool, including armored cars, surveillance vans, {{storylink\|Secret Legacy, Part 1}} and trucks and rail vehicles used to transport energon, technology and captured Decepticons. {{storylink\|Moo-ving In}}

	Following the end of the conflict, G.H.O.S.T. announced that it would monitor all remaining Autobots and Decepticons as part of their post-war cleanup operations. {{storylink\|Transformers EarthSpark The Official Guidebook\|The Official Guidebook}} Optimus, a repentant Megatron, and several other Autobots entered into a formal partnership with G.H.O.S.T.; in exchange for a secure, hidden headquarters, Optimus and his team spent the next fifteen years helping G.H.O.S.T. operatives round up any remaining Decepticons, {{storylink\|Secret Legacy, Part 1}} and imprisoned them in a top-secret wing of their base. Optimus attempted to pivot the organization's focus to promoting peaceful interspecies relations, but Executive Leader [[Karen Croft]] didn't see eye-to-eye with the Cybertronians; {{storylink\|Classified}} under her watch, G.H.O.S.T. maintained a number of off-the-books projects, including an effort to restore the spacebridge. {{storylink\|Stowed Away, Stowaways}} Some Cybertronians suspected that the organization was more concerned with its own best interests, and some chose not to work with G.H.O.S.T.— when [[Bumblebee (ES)\|Bumblebee]] went into hiding, some G.H.O.S.T. agents wondered if he'd somehow left the planet or defected to the Decepticons. {{storylink\|Transformers EarthSpark The Official Guidebook\|The Official Guidebook}}		Following the end of the conflict, G.H.O.S.T. announced that it would monitor all remaining Autobots and Decepticons as part of their post-war cleanup operations. {{storylink\|Transformers EarthSpark The Official Guidebook\|The Official Guidebook}} Optimus, a repentant Megatron, and several other Autobots entered into a formal partnership with G.H.O.S.T.; in exchange for a secure, hidden headquarters, Optimus and his team spent the next fifteen years helping G.H.O.S.T. operatives round up any remaining Decepticons, {{storylink\|Secret Legacy, Part 1}} and imprisoned them in a top-secret wing of their base. Optimus attempted to pivot the organization's focus to promoting peaceful interspecies relations, but Executive Leader [[Karen Croft]] didn't see eye-to-eye with the Cybertronians; {{storylink\|Classified}} under her watch, G.H.O.S.T. maintained a number of off-the-books projects, including an effort to restore the spacebridge. {{storylink\|Stowed Away, Stowaways}} Some Cybertronians suspected that the organization was more concerned with its own best interests, and some chose not to work with G.H.O.S.T.— when [[Bumblebee (ES)\|Bumblebee]] went into hiding, some G.H.O.S.T. agents wondered if he'd somehow left the planet or defected to the Decepticons. {{storylink\|Transformers EarthSpark The Official Guidebook\|The Official Guidebook}}

Locoman: /* EarthSpark cartoon */

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EarthSpark cartoon

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	G.H.O.S.T.'s origins are top-secret and shrouded in mystery—while its existence became public knowledge sometime during the [[Great War (ES)\|Transformers war]], it seems that the organization may have been operating for quite some time beforehand, possibly even before the arrival of the [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s in [[1984]]. {{storylink\|Transformers EarthSpark The Official Guidebook\|The Official Guidebook}} Their subterranean headquarters in [[Witwicky (town)\|Witwicky]] lay atop a much larger network of unmapped caverns that seemingly dated back to [[Quintus Prime]]'s time on Earth; in addition to a rogue [[Dweller (ES)\|Dweller]], {{storylink\|What Dwells Within}} they also contained advanced Cybertronian technology, abundant supplies of raw [[energon]], a damaged [[space bridge\|spacebridge]], and an ancient superweapon capable of deactivating Transformers. {{storylink\|The Last Hope, Part 1}}		G.H.O.S.T.'s origins are top-secret and shrouded in mystery—while its existence became public knowledge sometime during the [[Great War (ES)\|Transformers war]], it seems that the organization may have been operating for quite some time beforehand, possibly even before the arrival of the [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s in [[1984]]. {{storylink\|Transformers EarthSpark The Official Guidebook\|The Official Guidebook}} Their subterranean headquarters in [[Witwicky (town)\|Witwicky]] lay atop a much larger network of unmapped caverns that seemingly dated back to [[Quintus Prime]]'s time on Earth; in addition to a rogue [[Dweller (ES)\|Dweller]], {{storylink\|What Dwells Within}} they also contained advanced Cybertronian technology, abundant supplies of raw [[energon]], a damaged [[space bridge\|spacebridge]], and an ancient superweapon capable of deactivating Transformers. {{storylink\|The Last Hope, Part 1}}

	Thirty years before the present day, [[Optimus Prime (ES)\|Optimus Prime]] and the other Autobots ratified a formal alliance with G.H.O.S.T. in their war against the Decepticons. {{storylink\|Age of Evolution, Part 1}} The first generation of G.H.O.S.T. troopers were comprised of military veterans from across the planet who'd survived Decepticon encounters; as the war expanded, however, G.H.O.S.T. began recruiting personnel directly from military academies, law enforcement organizations, and technical institutions. In addition to supporting the Autobots in frontline combat operations, G.H.O.S.T. maintained a network of research facilities across the country, including [[Philadelphia]] and [[San Francisco]]; here, a network of leading scientists worked on a variety of secret ~~engineering~~ projects, which included reverse-engineering Cybertronian technology. {{storylink\|Transformers EarthSpark The Official Guidebook\|The Official Guidebook}} One such scientist, [[Mandroid\|Doctor Meridian]], lost his arm when Autobot friendly fire struck his lab during the [[Battle of the Bay]]. {{storylink\|Age of Evolution, Part 1}}		Thirty years before the present day, [[Optimus Prime (ES)\|Optimus Prime]] and the other Autobots ratified a formal alliance with G.H.O.S.T. in their war against the Decepticons. {{storylink\|Age of Evolution, Part 1}} The first generation of G.H.O.S.T. troopers were comprised of military veterans from across the planet who'd survived Decepticon encounters; as the war expanded, however, G.H.O.S.T. began recruiting personnel directly from military academies, law enforcement organizations, and technical institutions. In addition to supporting the Autobots in frontline combat operations, G.H.O.S.T. maintained a network of research facilities across the country, including [[Philadelphia]] and [[San Francisco]]; here, a network of leading scientists worked on a variety of secret projects, which included reverse-engineering Cybertronian technology. {{storylink\|Transformers EarthSpark The Official Guidebook\|The Official Guidebook}} One such scientist, [[Mandroid\|Doctor Meridian]], lost his arm when Autobot friendly fire struck his lab during the [[Battle of the Bay]]. {{storylink\|Age of Evolution, Part 1}}

	During the war, G.H.O.S.T. developed and deployed a number of weapons that incorporated hybridized Cybertronian technology, including [[energon scanner]]s and [[anti-energon field]]s capable of incapacitating Decepticons. An orbital satellite network allowed G.H.O.S.T troopers to track Cybertronians over long distances and calculate probable trajectories, allowing them to intercept their targets from afar. {{storylink\|Transformers EarthSpark The Official Guidebook\|The Official Guidebook}} G.H.O.S.T. maintained a large motor pool, including armored cars, surveillance vans, {{storylink\|Secret Legacy, Part 1}} and trucks and rail vehicles used to transport energon, technology and captured Decepticons. {{storylink\|Moo-ving In}}		During the war, G.H.O.S.T. developed and deployed a number of weapons that incorporated hybridized Cybertronian technology, including [[energon scanner]]s and [[anti-energon field]]s capable of incapacitating Decepticons. An orbital satellite network allowed G.H.O.S.T troopers to track Cybertronians over long distances and calculate probable trajectories, allowing them to intercept their targets from afar. {{storylink\|Transformers EarthSpark The Official Guidebook\|The Official Guidebook}} G.H.O.S.T. maintained a large motor pool, including armored cars, surveillance vans, {{storylink\|Secret Legacy, Part 1}} and trucks and rail vehicles used to transport energon, technology and captured Decepticons. {{storylink\|Moo-ving In}}

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	==Fiction==		==Fiction==
	===''EarthSpark'' cartoon===		===''EarthSpark'' cartoon===
	{{~~ongoing~~}}		{{spoiler\|Transformers: EarthSpark (cartoon)\|August 28}}
	Thirty years ~~prior to~~ the ~~Terrans' emergence~~, G.H.O.S.T. ~~and~~ the ~~Autobots joined forces, with Megatron joining 15 years later~~. {{storylink\|Age of Evolution, Part 1}} ~~During~~ the ~~Autobot-~~Decepticon war, Dr. ~~Meridian was drafted by~~ G.H.O.S.T. ~~to serve as~~ a ~~roboticist~~, leading ~~to the loss~~ of his arm when Autobot friendly fire struck his lab during the [[Battle of the Bay]]. {{storylink\|Age of Evolution, Part 1}}
			G.H.O.S.T.'s origins are top-secret and shrouded in mystery—while its existence became public knowledge sometime during the [[Great War (ES)\|Transformers war]], it seems that the organization may have been operating for quite some time beforehand, possibly even before the arrival of the [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s in [[1984]]. {{storylink\|Transformers EarthSpark The Official Guidebook\|The Official Guidebook}} Their subterranean headquarters in [[Witwicky (town)\|Witwicky]] lay atop a much larger network of unmapped caverns that seemingly dated back to [[Quintus Prime]]'s time on Earth; in addition to a rogue [[Dweller (ES)\|Dweller]], {{storylink\|What Dwells Within}} they also contained advanced Cybertronian technology, abundant supplies of raw [[energon]], a damaged [[space bridge\|spacebridge]], and an ancient superweapon capable of deactivating Transformers. {{storylink\|The Last Hope, Part 1}}

			Thirty years before the present day, [[Optimus Prime (ES)\|Optimus Prime]] and the other Autobots ratified a formal alliance with G.H.O.S.T. in their war against the Decepticons. {{storylink\|Age of Evolution, Part 1}} The first generation of G.H.O.S.T. troopers were comprised of military veterans from across the planet who'd survived Decepticon encounters; as the war expanded, however, G.H.O.S.T. began recruiting personnel directly from military academies, law enforcement organizations, and technical institutions. In addition to supporting the Autobots in frontline combat operations, G.H.O.S.T. maintained a network of research facilities across the country, including [[Philadelphia]] and [[San Francisco]]; here, a network of leading scientists worked on a variety of secret engineering projects, which included reverse-engineering Cybertronian technology. {{storylink\|Transformers EarthSpark The Official Guidebook\|The Official Guidebook}} One such scientist, [[Mandroid\|Doctor Meridian]], lost his arm when Autobot friendly fire struck his lab during the [[Battle of the Bay]]. {{storylink\|Age of Evolution, Part 1}}

			During the war, G.H.O.S.T. developed and deployed a number of weapons that incorporated hybridized Cybertronian technology, including [[energon scanner]]s and [[anti-energon field]]s capable of incapacitating Decepticons. An orbital satellite network allowed G.H.O.S.T troopers to track Cybertronians over long distances and calculate probable trajectories, allowing them to intercept their targets from afar. {{storylink\|Transformers EarthSpark The Official Guidebook\|The Official Guidebook}} G.H.O.S.T. maintained a large motor pool, including armored cars, surveillance vans, {{storylink\|Secret Legacy, Part 1}} and trucks and rail vehicles used to transport energon, technology and captured Decepticons. {{storylink\|Moo-ving In}}

			Following the end of the conflict, G.H.O.S.T. announced that it would monitor all remaining Autobots and Decepticons as part of their post-war cleanup operations. {{storylink\|Transformers EarthSpark The Official Guidebook\|The Official Guidebook}} Optimus, a repentant Megatron, and several other Autobots entered into a formal partnership with G.H.O.S.T.; in exchange for a secure, hidden headquarters, Optimus and his team spent the next fifteen years helping G.H.O.S.T. operatives round up any remaining Decepticons, {{storylink\|Secret Legacy, Part 1}} and imprisoned them in a top-secret wing of their base. Optimus attempted to pivot the organization's focus to promoting peaceful interspecies relations, but Executive Leader [[Karen Croft]] didn't see eye-to-eye with the Cybertronians; {{storylink\|Classified}} under her watch, G.H.O.S.T. maintained a number of off-the-books projects, including an effort to restore the spacebridge. {{storylink\|Stowed Away, Stowaways}} Some Cybertronians suspected that the organization was more concerned with its own best interests, and some chose not to work with G.H.O.S.T.— when [[Bumblebee (ES)\|Bumblebee]] went into hiding, some G.H.O.S.T. agents wondered if he'd somehow left the planet or defected to the Decepticons. {{storylink\|Transformers EarthSpark The Official Guidebook\|The Official Guidebook}}

	In the present day, G.H.O.S.T. created [[Dot Malto]]'s job as a park ranger to move her closer to their headquarters in Witwicky. {{storylink\|Secret Legacy, Part 1}} Elita-1 and Optimus Prime lured [[Swindle (ES)\|Swindle]] and [[Hardtop (ES)\|Hardtop]] into a trap with the anonymous tip of G.H.O.S.T. having an unguarded shipping container of energon, managing to apprehend Hardtop. A G.H.O.S.T. convoy transporting Hardtop was attacked by [[Arachnamech]]s, allowing Meridian to steal the prisoner Decepticon, and catching [[Robby Malto\|Robby]] and [[Mo Malto]] in the crossfire. {{storylink\|Secret Legacy, Part 1}} When Meridian kidnapped Twitch and Thrash under the guise of a G.H.O.S.T. transport vehicle, agents on the scene had no records of the truck or driver. {{storylink\|Secret Legacy, Part 2}}		In the present day, G.H.O.S.T. created [[Dot Malto]]'s job as a park ranger to move her closer to their headquarters in Witwicky. {{storylink\|Secret Legacy, Part 1}} Elita-1 and Optimus Prime lured [[Swindle (ES)\|Swindle]] and [[Hardtop (ES)\|Hardtop]] into a trap with the anonymous tip of G.H.O.S.T. having an unguarded shipping container of energon, managing to apprehend Hardtop. A G.H.O.S.T. convoy transporting Hardtop was attacked by [[Arachnamech]]s, allowing Meridian to steal the prisoner Decepticon, and catching [[Robby Malto\|Robby]] and [[Mo Malto]] in the crossfire. {{storylink\|Secret Legacy, Part 1}} When Meridian kidnapped Twitch and Thrash under the guise of a G.H.O.S.T. transport vehicle, agents on the scene had no records of the truck or driver. {{storylink\|Secret Legacy, Part 2}}

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	{{disambig2\|the human-Autobot alliance\|the supernatural entities\|Ghost}}		{{disambig2\|the human-Autobot alliance\|the supernatural entities\|Ghost}}
	[[File:GHOST-Headquarters-Classified.JPG\|thumb\|right\|425px\|The good guys!... Maybe.]]		[[File:GHOST-Headquarters-Classified.JPG\|thumb\|right\|425px\|The good guys!... Maybe.]]
	'''G.H.O.S.T.''' ('''Global Hazard and Ordinance Strike Team''') is an government organization based in [[Witwicky (town)\|Witwicky]], [[Pennsylvania]]. They are focused on rebuilding human-[[Autobot]] relations, capturing rogue [[Decepticon]]s, and finding ways that [[Transformer\|Cybertronians]] can help Earth's communities. While much of their operations are covert, they operate publicly, and represent the face of a post-[[Great War (ES)\|war]] world.		'''G.H.O.S.T.''' ('''Global Hazard and Ordinance Strike Team''') is a government organization based in [[Witwicky (town)\|Witwicky]], [[Pennsylvania]]. They are focused on rebuilding human-[[Autobot]] relations, capturing rogue [[Decepticon]]s, and finding ways that [[Transformer\|Cybertronians]] can help Earth's communities. While much of their operations are covert, they operate publicly, and represent the face of a post-[[Great War (ES)\|war]] world.

	Their relationship with the Autobots is...tense, to say the least. Their ethically dubious policy towards the Decepticons, including [[mode lock\|restraints]] and long-term incarceration, combined with an eccentric and extreme staff, means that neither G.H.O.S.T. nor the Autobots fully trust each other. Even the bot who ''should'' be their greatest ally, [[Optimus Prime (ES)\|Optimus Prime]], keeps more than [[Bumblebee (ES)\|a few]] [[Terran\|secrets]] from them.		Their relationship with the Autobots is...tense, to say the least. Their ethically dubious policy towards the Decepticons, including [[mode lock\|restraints]] and long-term incarceration, combined with an eccentric and extreme staff, means that neither G.H.O.S.T. nor the Autobots fully trust each other. Even the bot who ''should'' be their greatest ally, [[Optimus Prime (ES)\|Optimus Prime]], keeps more than [[Bumblebee (ES)\|a few]] [[Terran\|secrets]] from them.

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	Thirty years before the present day, [[Optimus Prime (ES)\|Optimus Prime]] and the other Autobots ratified a formal alliance with G.H.O.S.T. in their war against the Decepticons. {{storylink\|Age of Evolution, Part 1}} The first generation of G.H.O.S.T. troopers were comprised of military veterans from across the planet who'd survived Decepticon encounters; as the war expanded, however, G.H.O.S.T. began recruiting personnel directly from military academies, law enforcement organizations, and technical institutions. In addition to supporting the Autobots in frontline combat operations, G.H.O.S.T. maintained a network of research facilities across the country, including [[Philadelphia]] and [[San Francisco]]; here, a network of leading scientists worked on a variety of secret projects, which included reverse-engineering Cybertronian technology. {{storylink\|Transformers EarthSpark The Official Guidebook\|The Official Guidebook}} One such scientist, [[Mandroid\|Doctor Meridian]], lost his arm when Autobot friendly fire struck his lab during the [[Battle of the Bay]]. {{storylink\|Age of Evolution, Part 1}}		Thirty years before the present day, [[Optimus Prime (ES)\|Optimus Prime]] and the other Autobots ratified a formal alliance with G.H.O.S.T. in their war against the Decepticons. {{storylink\|Age of Evolution, Part 1}} The first generation of G.H.O.S.T. troopers were comprised of military veterans from across the planet who'd survived Decepticon encounters; as the war expanded, however, G.H.O.S.T. began recruiting personnel directly from military academies, law enforcement organizations, and technical institutions. In addition to supporting the Autobots in frontline combat operations, G.H.O.S.T. maintained a network of research facilities across the country, including [[Philadelphia]] and [[San Francisco]]; here, a network of leading scientists worked on a variety of secret projects, which included reverse-engineering Cybertronian technology. {{storylink\|Transformers EarthSpark The Official Guidebook\|The Official Guidebook}} One such scientist, [[Mandroid\|Doctor Meridian]], lost his arm when Autobot friendly fire struck his lab during the [[Battle of the Bay]]. {{storylink\|Age of Evolution, Part 1}}

	During the war, G.H.O.S.T. developed and deployed a number of weapons that incorporated hybridized Cybertronian technology, including [[energon scanner]]s and [[anti-energon field]]s capable of incapacitating ~~Decepticons~~. An orbital satellite network allowed G.H.O.S.T troopers to track Cybertronians over long distances and calculate probable trajectories, allowing them to intercept their targets from afar. {{storylink\|Transformers EarthSpark The Official Guidebook\|The Official Guidebook}} G.H.O.S.T. maintained a large motor pool, including armored cars, surveillance vans, {{storylink\|Secret Legacy, Part 1}} and trucks and rail vehicles used to transport energon, technology and captured Decepticons. {{storylink\|Moo-ving In}}		During the war, G.H.O.S.T. developed and deployed a number of weapons that incorporated hybridized Cybertronian technology, including [[energon scanner]]s that could detect disguised Decepticons and [[anti-energon field]]s capable of incapacitating them. An orbital satellite network allowed G.H.O.S.T troopers to track Cybertronians over long distances and calculate probable trajectories, allowing them to intercept their targets from afar. {{storylink\|Transformers EarthSpark The Official Guidebook\|The Official Guidebook}} G.H.O.S.T. maintained a large motor pool, including armored cars, surveillance vans, {{storylink\|Secret Legacy, Part 1}} and trucks and rail vehicles used to transport energon, technology and captured Decepticons. {{storylink\|Moo-ving In}}

	Following the end of the conflict, G.H.O.S.T. announced that it would monitor all remaining Autobots and Decepticons as part of their post-war cleanup operations. {{storylink\|Transformers EarthSpark The Official Guidebook\|The Official Guidebook}} Optimus, a repentant Megatron, and several other Autobots entered into a formal partnership with G.H.O.S.T.; in exchange for a secure, hidden headquarters, Optimus and his team spent the next fifteen years helping G.H.O.S.T. operatives round up any remaining Decepticons, {{storylink\|Secret Legacy, Part 1}} and imprisoned them in a top-secret wing of their base. Optimus attempted to pivot the organization's focus to promoting peaceful interspecies relations, but Executive Leader [[Karen Croft]] didn't see eye-to-eye with the Cybertronians; {{storylink\|Classified}} under her watch, G.H.O.S.T. maintained a number of off-the-books projects, including an effort to restore the spacebridge. {{storylink\|Stowed Away, Stowaways}} Some Cybertronians suspected that the organization was more concerned with its own best interests, and some chose not to work with G.H.O.S.T.— when [[Bumblebee (ES)\|Bumblebee]] went into hiding, some G.H.O.S.T. agents wondered if he'd somehow left the planet or defected to the Decepticons. {{storylink\|Transformers EarthSpark The Official Guidebook\|The Official Guidebook}}		Following the end of the conflict, G.H.O.S.T. announced that it would monitor all remaining Autobots and Decepticons as part of their post-war cleanup operations. {{storylink\|Transformers EarthSpark The Official Guidebook\|The Official Guidebook}} Optimus, a repentant Megatron, and several other Autobots entered into a formal partnership with G.H.O.S.T.; in exchange for a secure, hidden headquarters, Optimus and his team spent the next fifteen years helping G.H.O.S.T. operatives round up any remaining Decepticons, {{storylink\|Secret Legacy, Part 1}} and imprisoned them in a top-secret wing of their base. Optimus attempted to pivot the organization's focus to promoting peaceful interspecies relations, but Executive Leader [[Karen Croft]] didn't see eye-to-eye with the Cybertronians; {{storylink\|Classified}} under her watch, G.H.O.S.T. maintained a number of off-the-books projects, including an effort to restore the spacebridge. {{storylink\|Stowed Away, Stowaways}} Some Cybertronians suspected that the organization was more concerned with its own best interests, and some chose not to work with G.H.O.S.T.— when [[Bumblebee (ES)\|Bumblebee]] went into hiding, some G.H.O.S.T. agents wondered if he'd somehow left the planet or defected to the Decepticons. {{storylink\|Transformers EarthSpark The Official Guidebook\|The Official Guidebook}}

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	G.H.O.S.T.'s origins are top-secret and shrouded in mystery—while its existence became public knowledge sometime during the [[Great War (ES)\|Transformers war]], it seems that the organization may have been operating for quite some time beforehand, possibly even before the arrival of the [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s in [[1984]]. {{storylink\|Transformers EarthSpark The Official Guidebook\|The Official Guidebook}} Their subterranean headquarters in [[Witwicky (town)\|Witwicky]] lay atop a much larger network of unmapped caverns that seemingly dated back to [[Quintus Prime]]'s time on Earth; in addition to a rogue [[Dweller (ES)\|Dweller]], {{storylink\|What Dwells Within}} they also contained advanced Cybertronian technology, abundant supplies of raw [[energon]], a damaged [[space bridge\|spacebridge]], and an ancient superweapon capable of deactivating Transformers. {{storylink\|The Last Hope, Part 1}}		G.H.O.S.T.'s origins are top-secret and shrouded in mystery—while its existence became public knowledge sometime during the [[Great War (ES)\|Transformers war]], it seems that the organization may have been operating for quite some time beforehand, possibly even before the arrival of the [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s in [[1984]]. {{storylink\|Transformers EarthSpark The Official Guidebook\|The Official Guidebook}} Their subterranean headquarters in [[Witwicky (town)\|Witwicky]] lay atop a much larger network of unmapped caverns that seemingly dated back to [[Quintus Prime]]'s time on Earth; in addition to a rogue [[Dweller (ES)\|Dweller]], {{storylink\|What Dwells Within}} they also contained advanced Cybertronian technology, abundant supplies of raw [[energon]], a damaged [[space bridge\|spacebridge]], and an ancient superweapon capable of deactivating Transformers. {{storylink\|The Last Hope, Part 1}}

	Thirty years before the present day, [[Optimus Prime (ES)\|Optimus Prime]] and the other Autobots ratified a formal alliance with G.H.O.S.T. in their war against the Decepticons. {{storylink\|Age of Evolution, Part 1}} The first generation of G.H.O.S.T. troopers were comprised of military veterans from across the planet who'd survived Decepticon encounters; as the war expanded, however, G.H.O.S.T. began recruiting personnel directly from military academies, law enforcement organizations, and technical institutions. In addition to supporting the Autobots in frontline combat operations, G.H.O.S.T. maintained a network of research facilities across the country, including [[Philadelphia]] and [[San Francisco]]; here, a network of leading scientists worked on a variety of secret ~~engineering~~ projects, which included reverse-engineering Cybertronian technology. {{storylink\|Transformers EarthSpark The Official Guidebook\|The Official Guidebook}} One such scientist, [[Mandroid\|Doctor Meridian]], lost his arm when Autobot friendly fire struck his lab during the [[Battle of the Bay]]. {{storylink\|Age of Evolution, Part 1}}		Thirty years before the present day, [[Optimus Prime (ES)\|Optimus Prime]] and the other Autobots ratified a formal alliance with G.H.O.S.T. in their war against the Decepticons. {{storylink\|Age of Evolution, Part 1}} The first generation of G.H.O.S.T. troopers were comprised of military veterans from across the planet who'd survived Decepticon encounters; as the war expanded, however, G.H.O.S.T. began recruiting personnel directly from military academies, law enforcement organizations, and technical institutions. In addition to supporting the Autobots in frontline combat operations, G.H.O.S.T. maintained a network of research facilities across the country, including [[Philadelphia]] and [[San Francisco]]; here, a network of leading scientists worked on a variety of secret projects, which included reverse-engineering Cybertronian technology. {{storylink\|Transformers EarthSpark The Official Guidebook\|The Official Guidebook}} One such scientist, [[Mandroid\|Doctor Meridian]], lost his arm when Autobot friendly fire struck his lab during the [[Battle of the Bay]]. {{storylink\|Age of Evolution, Part 1}}

	During the war, G.H.O.S.T. developed and deployed a number of weapons that incorporated hybridized Cybertronian technology, including [[energon scanner]]s and [[anti-energon field]]s capable of incapacitating Decepticons. An orbital satellite network allowed G.H.O.S.T troopers to track Cybertronians over long distances and calculate probable trajectories, allowing them to intercept their targets from afar. {{storylink\|Transformers EarthSpark The Official Guidebook\|The Official Guidebook}} G.H.O.S.T. maintained a large motor pool, including armored cars, surveillance vans, {{storylink\|Secret Legacy, Part 1}} and trucks and rail vehicles used to transport energon, technology and captured Decepticons. {{storylink\|Moo-ving In}}		During the war, G.H.O.S.T. developed and deployed a number of weapons that incorporated hybridized Cybertronian technology, including [[energon scanner]]s and [[anti-energon field]]s capable of incapacitating Decepticons. An orbital satellite network allowed G.H.O.S.T troopers to track Cybertronians over long distances and calculate probable trajectories, allowing them to intercept their targets from afar. {{storylink\|Transformers EarthSpark The Official Guidebook\|The Official Guidebook}} G.H.O.S.T. maintained a large motor pool, including armored cars, surveillance vans, {{storylink\|Secret Legacy, Part 1}} and trucks and rail vehicles used to transport energon, technology and captured Decepticons. {{storylink\|Moo-ving In}}