Phase-charge

Phase-charges are explosive Autobot plasma munitions, also known generically as plasma mines.

Fiction

2005 IDW continuity

During the reign of Zeta Prime, Orion Pax and a group of Autobots were sent into the Torus-City of Nyon to track down Swindle, who was selling stolen "grade-A, top-of-the-line" phase-charges to the local neutralists. Catching him in the middle of a deal, a firefight ensued and although they were able to apprehend Swindle, the Autobots appeared to be the aggressors in the eyes of the local population—which led to them being targeted by another neutralist with one of the phase-charges soon afterwards. Law and Disorder When Zeta sent them back to the Rust Narrows to bring Hot Rod in, local intel led them to the Acropolex where Hound discovered that the floor had been laid with deactivated "plasma mines". Ruins Zeta Prime's Omega Destructors attacked in full force soon afterwards, armed with vamparc ribbons, and rather than let his people be drained of their energon, Hot Rod remotely detonated all of the phase-charges he had secreted around Nyon, destroying the city. Purge

In an attempt to stop Trypticon in Harmonex, Orion Pax—now Optimus Prime—requisitioned fusion-borers, grav-inhibitors and industrial-grade phase-charges from Ultra Magnus. The Illusion of Control

Notes

• Following the first phase-charge's detonation, Hound recognised it by the smell of the "plasma-residue".

See also

• Plasma bomb
• Plasma-density charge
• Plasma mine blaster