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* [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] was familiar enough with Starhoppers that he was able to identify one at great distance.
* [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] was familiar enough with Starhoppers that he was able to identify one at great distance.


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Revision as of 09:56, 31 May 2011

Starhoppers are starships from the Beast Era portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Flying Manta Ray

Starhoppers are single-passenger spaceships of Cybertronian craft. They are capable of performing quantum scans of nearby planets.

Fiction

Beast Wars cartoon

Depth Charge piloted a Starhopper while tracing the spark energy signature of Protoform X. The ship fell through a temporal anomaly and crashed in an ocean on prehistoric Earth. It was destroyed by Rampage. Deep Metal

Notes

  • Depth Charge's Starhopper was numbered 04.
  • The presence of Arabic numerals on Depth Charge's starhopper, if taken as canonical rather than a production oversight, implies a of connection between that ship (or its place of origin) and human cultures.
  • Depth Charge's own vehicle mode bears a resemblance to a starhopper, with vertically-oriented triangular "wings" held out from the hull on thin shafts.
  • Cheetor was familiar enough with Starhoppers that he was able to identify one at great distance.