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===Marvel Comics UK continuity===
===Marvel Comics UK continuity===
====Earthforce====
====Earthforce====
''(The black and white backup stories in the later UK comics are of uncertain canon relative to the rest of the UK comics continuity.)''
''(The black and white backup stories in the later UK comics are of [[Earthforce|uncertain canon]] relative to the rest of the UK comics continuity.)''


[[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] used his experience with automated defense rings to penetrate the one surrounding the [[Constructicon]]s' attempt to rebuild [[Devastator]] and destroy the project.
[[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] used his experience with automated defense rings to penetrate the one surrounding the [[Constructicon]]s' attempt to rebuild [[Devastator]] and destroy the project.

Revision as of 19:32, 6 December 2006

An automated defense ring is a technology in the Generation 1 continuity family.
Devastator's construction site is surrounded by a gridlike automated defense ring

An automated defense ring is a type of unnamed security system designed to discourage interlopers. The ring asks a series of trivia, logic or fill-in-the-blank questions, with lethal consequences if you guess wrong.

This system does not absolutely prevent unauthorized personnel from passing through the ring, it just makes it very difficult. This is a security trade-off, but but unlike a more strident system, you cannot accidentally lock yourself out, as once happened to the Autobot Earthforce.

Illiterate Cockney Spelling: Automated defence ring

Fiction

Marvel Comics UK continuity

Earthforce

(The black and white backup stories in the later UK comics are of uncertain canon relative to the rest of the UK comics continuity.)

Ironhide used his experience with automated defense rings to penetrate the one surrounding the Constructicons' attempt to rebuild Devastator and destroy the project.