M.T.O.

M.T.O.'s or Made to Order Soldiers are a type of Transformer from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family

Made to Order Soldiers are soldiers who were constructed cold by Autobot High Command from a stockpile of sparks in response to several of Megatron's military campaigns. They are named after the military campaign that precipitated their creation.

Known M.T.Os include:

• Ammo
• Dipstick of Operation: Doom Patrol
• Getaway of the Corcaspia Incursion
• Riptide of Simanzian Dawn
• Scattergun of the Vorsk Offensive

“	Three steps, Nautica: "from thaw to war in under an hour."	”
—Skids, Twenty Plus One

Fiction

IDW Generation 1 continuity

Plot details for Twenty Plus One follow. Spoilers have expired, you may remove this tag

Before they were sent into battle M.T.O.'s had to go through a ten-step educational program that ensured that they had sufficient knowledge. As the war progressed, this was eventually cut down eight steps, and then to just three. Ammo was constructed in response to an attack on K'th Kinsere, whilst Riptide was constructed as a Hydrobot in response to an event called the Forced Flood.

With members of the Lost Light's crew disappearing rapidly, Nightbeat attempted to link the victims by method of construction. Despite it being unnecessary, Getaway revealed to everyone else present that he was a M.T.O., constructed in response to the Corcaspia Incursion. This prompted the other M.T.O.s on the Rodpod (Ammo, Dipstick and Riptide) to reveal the events that led to their own creation. The number of M.T.O.s on the ship made Nautica muse that a lot of Autobots owed their lives to Megatron. Twenty Plus One