San Francisco Bay

The Decepticon base is just below the giant hat.

San Francisco Bay is a large estuary in California on the west coast of the United States of America. The city of San Francisco, naturally, is nearby. Sometimes the Decepticons use it as a base of operations.

Fiction

Hearts of Steel

The inventor Tobias Muldoon chose San Francisco Bay as the perfect location to demonstrate his prototype "sub-marine" the S.S. Vicuna to Mark Twain and Jules Verne. Sadly, the Vicuna developed a fault and sank to the bottom of the bay where it came to rest upon what appeared to be a stasis pod containing the Decepticon Skywarp. Hearts of Steel #1

Later, Shockwave took Muldoon to the Decepticons' base beneath San Francisco Bay where he explained the concept of currency to Starscream and Octane. Once the Insecticons had stolen enough gold and cash to pay for the construction of a new base, Muldoon and the Decepticons relocated to a secret location in the desert. Hearts of Steel #2

"Strange Visitors" establishes that events identical to those of Hearts of Steel and Infestation 2 occur in the 2005 IDW continuity; however, they happened to Maximal explorers brainwashed by Shockwave into believing they were the Autobots and Decepticons of the Great War.

External links

• San Francisco Bay at Wikipedia