Swift (G1)
- Swift is a Camien from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Swift thinks Primes are pretty great, but she's not above going behind their backs. She also seems to think the Decepticons in general are okay, believing that they fought for equality.
Fiction
IDW Generation 1 continuity
Not long after Caminus had joined the Council of Worlds, Swift, Aileron, and Sterling were on Cybertron, handing out religious pamphlets about Optimus Prime in the Decepticon ghetto, promoting Prime's message of hunting down the fugitive Prowl. This prompted a mixed reaction from passerby Decepticons: Acid Storm looked at their materials out of curiosity, Sparkstalker defended the rights of the Camiens to do what they wanted as the Camiens treated Decepticons fairly, but Needlenose and Brawl decried anyone who followed a Prime. The Transgressors
At some point after her arrival, Swift stopped evangelizing and fell in with Barricade, who Aileron only recalled as "some loser". Aphelion
Joined by Strafe, Swift convinced Barricade to extend an offer to Slug and the other Dinobots to assist in the transport of an "object"—actually a truckload of Camien sparks, a fact that she and Swift wished to keep secret—to Alyon without alerting Starscream, Windblade, or even Optimus Prime. The day after extending the offer, she voiced her concerns about the Dinobots' trustworthiness to Barricade at the meeting point, and was surprised to see them arrive early. She opted to use her helicopter mode to travel alongside the truck, keeping pace during the journey. During an ambush of Badgeless, she expressed her desire to help the Dinobots fight off the secret police force, but was encouraged by Barricade to remain out of sight lest anyone other than the Dinobots be reported to Starscream.
Arriving in the Sea of Rust, Swift was forced to land in robot mode by dust storms, pausing to discuss the abnormal weather with Barricade and Strafe. When the Dinobots caught up with the trio, Swift recalled a former roommate having told her of a group of Camiens living among the dust, which struck Slug as foolish. She and the rest of the group were again caught by surprise when a group of reanimated Sweeps used the low visibility to attack, forcing Swift to take control of the truck and use it to ram several of their opponents before they fled at the silent arrival of the Torchbearers.
In Praetorus Wharf, she lent Snarl a hand in battling some well-armed Turbofoxes, shredding a pair with the rotor of her vehicle mode before taking a hit and bemoaning the lost opportunity to impress the Dinobots. The uncharted wilderness and its hostile inhabitants disagreed with her, and she remarked on the preference Cybertronians held for staying in the city. When Barricade expressed concern for her injuries, she shrugged it off, insisting that it was her turn to serve as lookout while Swoop rested his wings, proving her combat readiness by later battling more Sweeps at Tyger Pax.
She was not prepared for the death of Barricade at the hands of Bludgeon, and looked on in horror as her friend Strafe was mutated into a Dinobot by "contaminated energon" (actually runoff from the body of Trypticon), but rallied when Strafe took advantage of her new form's raw power, and put her blades to good use. Charging Bludgeon, she damned him for killing Barricade and robbing himself of his "future" by destroying the sparks. Disgusted with the amoral scientist, she pushed him over a cliff into a pool of the contaminated energon, only narrowly saved from joining him when Slug caught her by the wrist.
Discovering that the hot spot in Alyon had reignited, she worried that Bludgeon might have corrupted the sparkfield and rendered the nascent sparks evil. Slug assured her that the the unborn did not deserve judgement, and returned to her the payment in gold shanix that she and Barricade had offered him, telling her that the Badgeless would soon arrive and that she should feed them a story of having been kidnapped by the outlaw Dinobots. When Strafe joined with Slug as a Dinobot herself, Swift looked on from above the hot spot, alone. Redemption
Later on she is with Needlenose's Decepticons as they attack to overtake the weakened Autobots' Ark on Earth's orbit. Even though she wields a weapon, Swift is baffled to hear the command to kill anybody in the way.Lagrange
