Artemis

Artemis is an android in the Beast Wars II portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

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I wonder if she jingles when she walks.

Artemis is an android stationed on the moon of Planet Gaia alongside her partner, Moon. Artemis' job is to observe the war between Lio Convoy's Maximals and Galvatron's Predacons, gathering all the information she can. She is very flakey and ill-tempered, and occasionally takes her frustrations out on Moon with a big mallet.

She has a disturbing crush on both Scuba and Starscream, not quite sure which one she likes better.

Fiction

Animated continuity

Beast Wars II cartoon

Voice actress: Chieko Higuchi

From the beginning, Artemis and Moon watched over the Beast Wars on Gaia from their lunar sanctuary. At the end of each episode, Artemis would relate the information gathered from the episode, as well as the episode's "lesson" (and knowing is half the battle!) to the audience. She was rivals (from a distance) with the Seacon Scylla, who was also in love with Scuba.

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Fighting with Moon by moonlight, losing at love by daylight.

In an out-of-continuity clip show where the characters interacted, Scuba and Starscream were pitted against each other in battle. Before finishing the battle they learned that the winner had to go on a date with Artemis. Rather then succumb to that fate, both enemies chose to end the match in a truce. Artemis took it in stride.

By the end of the series, when Gaia came under immediate threat from Galvatron's Nemesis spacecraft, Artemis used all her power to help the Maximals. She and Moon finally made direct contact with the Transformers and helped them escape the planet Gaia and reach the Nemesis. In the final battle, her moonbase was obliterated, though she and Moon survived.

Beast Wars Neo cartoon

After Unicron's defeat at the hands of Big Convoy, and the formation of an alliance between the Maximals and Predacons, Artemis and Moon somehow travelled to Cybertron.

After the summer festival, they'll play a keen game of shogi.

As Big Convoy and Magmatron's forces had one last brawl for old times' sake behind them, the Gaia androids participated in a giant cross-faction party under beautiful cherry blossoms. They shared a drink (tea? sake? oil?) with Bazooka, Crazybolt and Sharp Edge, while Apache and Cohrada slept peacefully nearby (possibly drunk).

Trivia

• With Moon, Artemis appears as a secret character in the Japanese Gameboy Color cross-series Beast Wars fighting game.

• Artemis and Moon are based on a Chinese legend about a girl and rabbit who live on Earth's Moon.
  
  
  From Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki, a Wikia wiki.