Weak Anthropic Principle

The Weak Anthropic Principle is a Decepticon starship from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

The Weak Anthropic Principle is a weird name for a ship.

Fiction

IDW Generation 1 continuity

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Following the end of the Great War, Krok was separated from the rest of his squad. In order to catch up with them, he gathered a motley crew of Scavengers consisting of Flywheels, Crankcase, Spinister and Misfire aboard the Weak Anthropic Principle and set out as "expropriation specialists", scavenging energon and spare parts from the Decepticon corpses on Clemency. Rules of Disengagement

After teaming up with the fugitive Fulcrum, the W.A.P.'s crew was contacted by the Decepticon Justice Division and during the subsequent battle, Flywheels was killed. When the D.J.D. left Clemency to pursue Overlord, the surviving Scavengers returned to the Weak Anthropic Principle with Fulcrum and the braindamaged Grimlock. Who's Afraid of the DJD?

Later, when Fulcrum left the ship to rescue Misfire from the Galactic Council's death row on Constancy, the crew remaining aboard the Weak Anthropic Principle—Krok, Crankcase and Spinister—were all incapacitated by Tyrest's universal killswitch. Arm the Lonely

The crew of the Weak Anthropic Principle were playing a game of "Shoot Shoot Bang Bang" when the ship's pilot Crankcase joined in, leaving the W.A.P. to crash into the planet of Tebris VII. Some Of My Best Friends Are Autobots

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Shortly afterwards, the ship was boarded by the Duly Appointed Enforcer of the Tyrest Accord Fortress Maximus, looking for Grimlock, but Krok and Crankcase were able to bluff him into believing that they had endangered the lives of some Roboids nearby and when he left to save them, the Scavengers escaped the planet in the Weak Anthropic Principle. Animals

Notes

• First seen in "Some Of My Best Friends Are Autobots", the Weak Anthropic Principle is a Decepticon-purple version of the Ark's Generation 1 cartoon animation model. After crashing on Tebris VII the bridge, with rocks bulging in through the windows, resembles the interior of the cartoon's Autobot Headquarters.
• Red Alert describes it as a Model 84 exploration vessel that was formerly registered to the Autobots.Animals

External links

• The anthropic principle (both weak and strong) at Wikipedia