I.R.O.N.

♬Garrison Evil Incorporated!♫

The International Robotic Operations Network (I.R.O.N.) is a completely ordinary company. Garrison Kreiger, formerly Lieutenant "Blitz" of the U.S. Army, is its founder, and Count "Iron Klaw" van Rani is its majority shareholder, and Tomax Paoli is the CEO. Gee, nothing suspicious or criminal about that. Nothing whatsoever!

In a different universe, the Invasion, Reconnaissance, Occupation, and Neutralization Army, otherwise known as the I.R.O.N. Army, is the elite military force of the Axis-aligned nation Kalistan. They have such a name because their leader, General Blitz, has a flair for the dramatic.

Fiction

TransTech

During World War II, the I.R.O.N. Army acquired Cybertronian technology. The intelligence apparatus of the Allied Powers suspected this but did not discover the full extent. Meanwhile, the I.R.O.N. Army captured U.S. Army Sergeant Robert Steven Savage and experimented upon him with Cybertronian technology. In the modern day, the I.R.O.N. Army's resources were acquired by the Kalistan-affiliated terrorist organization S.K.A.R.. Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News, 2016/05/01

2005 IDW continuity

The International Robotics Operations Network was founded by Garrison Kreiger after the death of Atomic Man during his "Ice Man" experiments in Brasnya. Garrison Kreiger profile Using ideas and technology reverse-engineered from the Talisman The Secret of the Mummy's Tomb and Kreiger's Cybertronian compatriot Centurion, I.R.O.N. became a major multinational corporation, with at least one of their main buildings located in San Francisco. Strange Visitors

During his time as CEO, Kreiger struck up a working relationship with Count van Rani, dictator of Kalistan, who the number two stockholder in the corporation. The Secret of the Mummy's Tomb A few years prior to 2017, Kreiger abrupty left the company and disappeared from the public eye. van Rani appointed Tomax Paoli—former leader of Cobra—as interim CEO, which was definitely not sinister at all. The Secret of the Mummy's Tomb

All three of these individuals would eventually find their way into the employ of Baron Ironblood, who had organized an loose cabal of international supervillains looking to destroy Cybertron. First Strike #0 As part of his initial efforts to gather the resources and information required to mount a successful invasion, Ironblood sent Paoli and Centurion to I.R.O.N.'s San Francisco division to obtain data related to the Ice Man project. The Secret of the Mummy's Tomb The intervention of Kup, Action Man, Garrison Blackrock, and Mayday forced Ironblood to scrub their mission, and on arriving at the I.R.O.N. building Paoli was informed by Kreiger that he had been cut loose and was now bait for the heroes. The Iron Klaw Strange Visitors

When the heroes caught up to Paoli, the I.R.O.N. Building suffered heavy damage in the ensuing brawl between Kup and Centurion while Action Man and Mayday chased Tomax in his "Cobra Commander" garb. The fight ended after Blackrock hacked the facility's databanks to learn more about Centurion and his connection to Onyx Prime, and Paoli's term as C.E.O. ended when he was left to surrender. Strange Visitors

Notes

• Due to some funny continuity magic, the IDW continuity contains both the I.R.O.N. Army (led by "General Blitz") and the I.R.O.N. company (led by Garrison Kreiger).

External links

• Iron Army at the IDW Hasbro Wiki