Peace
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| "Peace" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Marvel Comics | ||||||||||||
| First published | September 1988 | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | 1989 | ||||||||||||
| Writer | Richard Alan | ||||||||||||
| Art | Robin Smith | ||||||||||||
| Colours | Steve White | ||||||||||||
| Lettering | Glib | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Marvel Comics continuity | ||||||||||||
In the far future the Autobots finally win the war against the Decepticons...but everything doesn't go as planned.
Synopsis
In the year 2510, the final Decepticon falls in battle with the Wreckers. Relieved that the war is finally over, Rodimus Prime decides to step down as leader and selects Springer as his replacement.
However, a Decepticon double agent called Triton has infiltrated the Autobot ranks and is determined to prevent the war from ending. When Rodimus announces Springer as his successor, Triton objects, saying that Springer is a warrior, not a leader. He suggests Ultra Magnus would make a better leader.
Arguments break out amongst the Autobots over who should be leader, which culminates in Scattershot killing Roadbuster. Sandstorm blames Triton for Roadbuster’s death and kills him. The Autobots split into factions and a new war begins, much to Rodimus Prime's despair.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Notes
- This is one of only a handful of stories from this era not to be written by Simon Furman.
- Chronologically, this is the final story to feature the future Autobots, set two hundred years after the later "Aspects of Evil!". However, it seems this story was never intended to be "the" future of the Transformers timeline, as
the editorDreadwind gives different explanations for it:- When one reader wrote in to ask why the Wreckers are alive in "Peace" and but dead in "Time Wars", Dreadwind told him that this was likely an alternate timeline where they didn't die.[1]
- When another reader asked why Rodimus is healthy in "Peace" and not dead of Unicron, Dreadwind explained that Rodimus was just ill in "Aspects" and not dying ("which is a shame") -- tacitly putting the stories in the same timeline. [2]
- When someone asked if these were all the Autobots left, their concerns were dismissed by saying "Peace" was "just a story about the stupidity of war". [3]
