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| The '''Autobot fleet''' (also known as the '''Autobot navy''') is a fleet of powerful warships dedicated to the defence of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], [[Cybertronian colonies|its colonies]], and [[Milky Way|the larger galaxy]].
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| ==Fiction== | | ==Age of [[Expansion]]== |
| ===Generation 1 continuity family===
| | * The [[Titan (group)|Titans]] lead an effort to [[Cybertronian colonies|colonize]] other planets. {{storylink|The Citizen}} |
| ====Marvel Comics continuity====
| | * The Titan [[Croaton (Cyberverse)|Croaton]] founds a colony. Its citizenry is eventually abducted by invaders who leave the Titan on the brink of death. {{storylink|Ghost Town}} |
| =====''Regeneration One''=====
| | * At the command of his Liege Prime, [[Thunderhowl (Cyberverse)|Thunderhowl]] is dispatched to destroy [[Crystal City]] but falls victim to its traps. {{storylink|Thunderhowl (episode)|Thunderhowl}} |
| When the rogue senator [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]] returned to Cybertron and proved hostile, {{storylink|The War to End All Wars, Part 1}} {{storylink|The War to End All Wars, Part 2}} the Autobot fleet attacked the [[Hub (G2)|Hub Network]] but failed to defeat the technologically superior foe. {{storylink|The War to End All Wars, Part 3}} Instead, the Hub was felled via the [[Wrecker]]s utilizing the Hub's own [[slam rail]] system against it and the efforts of [[Shockwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Shockwave]] and [[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream]] (admittedly with help from the [[Underbase]]) operating the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]]. When the Hub collapsed, what few ships survived limped back to Cybertron, {{storylink|The War to End All Wars, Part 4}} only to find the planet and its populace had been corrupted by the [[Dark Matrix]] entity. Once [[Hot Rod (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Rodimus Prime]] had defeated the creature, the Autobot fleet abandoned Cybertron once more, taking on a new life as interstellar ambassadors and champions of peace. {{storylink|The War to End All Wars, Part 5}}
| | * The Age of Expansion eventually ends with all the colonizers returning home. Unable to adapt to peacetime, [[Iaconus]], the only War Titan to survive the era, turns against his people, being felled through the sacrificial efforts of his crew. The only survivor, [[Maccadam]] buries Iaconus beneath the land that will one day become [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], turning the uppermost part of the Titan into [[Maccadam's Old Oil House]]. {{storylink|The Citizen}} |
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| ====Generation 1 cartoon continuity==== | | ==Pre-War== |
| =====''The Transformers'' cartoon=====
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| [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] sardonically referred to the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] aboard [[Broadside (G1)|Broadside]] as the Autobot fleet and dispatched them to extradite [[Hot Rod (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Rodimus Prime]]'s group from [[Quintessa (planet)|Quintessa]]. {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 2}}
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| When [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] was revived by the [[Quintesson]]s, his brainwashing led him to lead the Autobot fleet into the path of a Quintesson doomsday device called "The Detonator". As per the Quintessons' plan, the Autobot fleet was utterly decimated by the Quintesson weapons, only being saved by the [[Matrix of Leadership]] purifying the malicious coding in Optimus's mind who ordered what remained of the fleet to return to Cybertron while he rammed the flagship into The Detonator, dying once again but saving his people. {{storylink|Dark Awakening (episode)|Dark Awakening}}
| | ==The Great War== |
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| =====Japanese cartoon continuity===== | | ===66 MYA=== |
| As the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] spread out into the larger galaxy, the Autobots joined several [[alien]] powers in forming the [[Galactic Peace Alliance]] with the Autobots serving as the interstellar military force for the organization. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Victory (cartoon)|Transformers: Victory (cartoon)}}
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| ====IDW 2005 continuity==== | | ===Ancient Egypt=== |
| The Autobot fleet was comprised of a multitude of starship classes, most of the ships were [[Ark (disambiguation)|''Ark'']]-class vessels. {{storylink|Shining Armor issue 5|Shining Armor #5}} {{storylink|Unicron issue 1|Unicron #1}} {{storylink|Our Finest}} The fleet operated out of [[Autobot Orbital Command Hub]]. {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 1|Stormbringer #1}}
| | * According to [[Teletraan-X (Cyberverse)|Teletraan-X]], [[alien]]s from [[Alpha Centauri]] land in [[Egypt]] and form a civilization. {{storylink|Matrix of Leadership (episode)|Matrix of Leadership}} |
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| In the 1700s, [[Bumblebee (G1)/IDW 2005 continuity|Bumblebee]], after a disastrous adventure on the planet [[Xetaxxis]], climbed into the [[Magnus Armor]], its recall function returning the scout to the Autobot fleet where reported on the mission to [[Autobot High Command]]. {{storylink|Shining Armor issue 5|Shining Armor #5}}
| | ===1800s=== |
| | * The Autobot Wildwheel reawakens and falls in with a group of [[human]] outlaws, joining with them to survive and earning a bounty on his head. With no Autobots coming to search for him, he becomes bitter towards his comrades, eventually managing to leave Earth. {{storylink|Wild Wild Wheel}} |
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| During the [[Expansion]], the fleet came under attack from the forces of the [[Dead Universe]] the ''[[Ark-12]]'' in particular suffering heavy damage. {{storylink|Spotlight: Cyclonus}}
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| At some point around this time, the Decepticons stole a batch of Model 84 exploration vessels from the Autobots and began using them as prisoner escort ships. {{storylink|Animals}} {{storylink|Kill All 'Cons}}
| | ===2007=== |
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| Some years later, [[Sunstreaker (G1)/IDW 2005 continuity|Sunstreaker]] betrayed the Autobots to [[Starscream (G1)/IDW 2005 continuity|Starscream]], granting the Decepticons all of the Autobot access codes. In what became known as the [[Surge (event)|Surge]], the Autobot fleet came under heavy attack, with the majority of its military might being wiped out. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron issue 5|All Hail Megatron #5}}
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| Following Cybertron's reboot, what remained of the Autobot fleet limped back home. {{storylink|Transformers: The Death of Optimus Prime|The Death of Optimus Prime}} {{storylink|The Autonomy Lesson (issue)|The Autonomy Lesson}}
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| The Autobot fleet was rebuilt by the time [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]] launched its attack on the galaxy, the ''[[Ark-Zero]]'' serving as the flagship. The fleet massed to defend [[Caminus (planet)|Caminus]] from the monster and its [[Maximal]] army but was ravaged by the beasts' numerical superiority, quantum jumping back to Cybertron once Caminus had been consumed. {{storylink|Unicron issue 1|Unicron #1}} When Starscream announced the existence of the [[Decepticon Vengeance Division]], [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] proposed adding its might to the Autobot fleet only for a communication to come in that the DVD was already facing off against the monster. {{storylink|Stranger Eons}}
| | ==Alternate timelines== |
| | Several universes are destroyed by the Quintessons, the only survivor being their version of [[Soundwave (Cyberverse)|Soundwave]], collected by the Quintesson Scientist. {{storylink|The Scientist}} |
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| Unicron soon arrived over Cybertron, now having assumed a towering [[robot mode]]. The Autobot fleet rushed into action only to be met by the DVD, the [[Decepticon fleet]] now warped into Unicron's service. Though the Autobots fought valiantly, they were ultimately defeated by the Decepticons' superior firepower, though not before they'd managed to destroy all the Decepticon [[Warworld]]s. {{storylink|Our Finest}} What few ships survived were teleported to [[Earth]] by the [[magic]] of the [[Spectral Knight]]s. {{storylink|Road's End}}
| | ===Megatron X timeline=== |
| | In one timeline, [[Megatron X (Cyberverse)|Megatron]] realizes that he and Optimus Prime will never stand together again, executing his once friend outright and claiming the Matrix of Leadership. Deprived of Optimus' leadership, the Autobots quickly lose the war. Now having unfettered access to the AllSpark, Megatron uses it to birth his [[Decepticon supersoldier]]s. While Shadow Striker survives long enough to watch Megatron destroy the invading Quintesson ship with a [[laser snare]], whose technology Megatron harvests, the tyrant eventually rid himself of all "unneeded" Decepticons. {{storylink|The Other One}} |
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| ====''Beast Wars: Uprising''====
| | This timeline is later visited by an alternate version of Megatron who, disgusted by his counterpart, steals his Matrix of Leadership and flees back to his own reality with Astrotrain and the Insecticons. {{storylink|Silent Strike}} Upon locating the interloper's reality, Megatron X abandons his own reality in pursuit of his Matrix. {{storylink|The Other One}} |
| By the 24th century, the [[Hydrax Plateau|Hydrax Spaceport]] was noted to serve as the dumping ground for the mothballed remains of the Cybertronian fleet, which presumably included the remains of the Autobot ships. {{storylink|Not All Megatrons}}
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| When the [[Unicron Singularity]] threatened to destroy Cybertron, [[Ultra Magnus (Energon)|Ultra Magnus]] dispatched the Autobot fleet to find the lost colony worlds and the [[Cyber Planet Key]]s they held. Magnus oversaw these operations from the Autobot flagship, the ''[[Iron Hope (Cybertron)|Iron Hope]]''. {{storylink|Force of Habit}}
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| The Autobot fleet escorted the [[Exodus (Armada)|''Exodus'']] off Cybertron, warping into action once the Decepticon fleet made their move, the [[Hyperion (Armada)|''Hyperion'']] facing off against the ''[[Doomsday]]''. Though the ''Exodus'' suffered damage to its [[transwarp]] drive, the Autobot fleet was ultimately successful in helping the [[Mini-Con]]s escape Cybertron. {{storylink|First Encounter}}
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| In [[2010]], when the ''[[Hydra Cannon]]'' arrived at Cybertron, a flotilla of Autobot ships scrambled to intercept it and destroy [[Megatron (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Galvatron]] forever only for them to fall to the ''Hydra Cannon''<nowiki>'</nowiki> s might. [[Optimus Prime (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] soon arrived and had the flag transferred to the ''[[Axalon (Armada)|Axalon]]. {{storylink|Uprising (Armada)|Uprising}}
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| When the Autobots and Decepticons joined forces to combat [[Unicron]], {{storylink|Alliance}} the Autobot fleet fought alongside its Decepticon counterpart against the Chaos Bringer, {{storylink|Union}} only for their attacks to have no effect on their foe, the god feeding off the hatred of the warriors. Unicron was only felled through Galvatron's sacrifice with what remained of the fleets returning to Cybertron afterwards. {{storylink|Mortal Combat}}
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| Some ten years later, the ''[[Miranda II]]'' had become the fleet's new flagship. {{storylink|Go for Unicron!}} When a revived Unicron returned, the Autobot fleet moved to engage him and his Decepticon supporters, succeeding in returning the monster to [[stasis lock]]. {{storylink|Battle Stations}}
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| To match the brutal might of their Decepticon foes, the Autobots enacted [[Project Omega]] which augmented their fleet with twelve [[Omega Sentinel (Animated)|Omega Sentinels]], powerful living weapons, the last of them, [[Sigma Supreme]], serving as the fleet's flagship. With this mighty fleet, the Autobots were able to enact a "planet-hopping" campaign and free all the captured colony worlds from Decepticon control. The [[Ambush of Floron III]] later saw the Autobot fleet decisively cripple its Decepticon counterpart. {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II}}
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| By the 21st century, the Autobot fleet had largely been decommissioned, with old warships being relegated to maintenance functions. {{storylink|Transform and Roll Out}} {{storylink|TransWarped}} The militarily active remnants of the fleet scrambled into action during the [[Decepticon Uprisings]] but found their forces stretched to near breaking until [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] called off the attacks. {{storylink|TransWarped}}
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| When [[Dark Energon]] contamination forced the [[Core]] to shut down, [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] was forced to order a planetary evacuation. Though the Autobot fleet quickly mobilized, they were met by the orbiting [[Trypticon (WFC)|Trypticon]] who used his cannon alternate mode to destroy any fleeing ships. Once Trypticon had been defeated, the fleet resumed its evacuation. {{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|War for Cybertron}} Before the battle of Iacon, a handful of transports escaped the planet, followed by the ''[[Ark (WFC)|Ark]]'' itself. {{storylink|Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron}} Sometime after the ''Ark'' had launched, [[Impactor (Prime)|Impactor]] oversaw the departure of the last few ships. {{storylink|Rage of the Dinobots issue 1|Rage of the Dinobots #1}}
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- The Titans lead an effort to colonize other planets. The Citizen
- The Titan Croaton founds a colony. Its citizenry is eventually abducted by invaders who leave the Titan on the brink of death. Ghost Town
- At the command of his Liege Prime, Thunderhowl is dispatched to destroy Crystal City but falls victim to its traps. Thunderhowl
- The Age of Expansion eventually ends with all the colonizers returning home. Unable to adapt to peacetime, Iaconus, the only War Titan to survive the era, turns against his people, being felled through the sacrificial efforts of his crew. The only survivor, Maccadam buries Iaconus beneath the land that will one day become Iacon, turning the uppermost part of the Titan into Maccadam's Old Oil House. The Citizen
- The Autobot Wildwheel reawakens and falls in with a group of human outlaws, joining with them to survive and earning a bounty on his head. With no Autobots coming to search for him, he becomes bitter towards his comrades, eventually managing to leave Earth. Wild Wild Wheel
"Several decades" before 2007
[edit]"Forty cycles" later
[edit]Alternate timelines
[edit]Several universes are destroyed by the Quintessons, the only survivor being their version of Soundwave, collected by the Quintesson Scientist. The Scientist
Megatron X timeline
[edit]In one timeline, Megatron realizes that he and Optimus Prime will never stand together again, executing his once friend outright and claiming the Matrix of Leadership. Deprived of Optimus' leadership, the Autobots quickly lose the war. Now having unfettered access to the AllSpark, Megatron uses it to birth his Decepticon supersoldiers. While Shadow Striker survives long enough to watch Megatron destroy the invading Quintesson ship with a laser snare, whose technology Megatron harvests, the tyrant eventually rid himself of all "unneeded" Decepticons. The Other One
This timeline is later visited by an alternate version of Megatron who, disgusted by his counterpart, steals his Matrix of Leadership and flees back to his own reality with Astrotrain and the Insecticons. Silent Strike Upon locating the interloper's reality, Megatron X abandons his own reality in pursuit of his Matrix. The Other One
