Spaceshot
- Spaceshot is a Decepticon Micromaster from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Spaceshot co-pilots one of the "most powerful Decepticon weapons of all time". This is hopefully some consolation to him as, on his own, he only transforms into the back end of a B-1 bomber jet.
An unfailingly courageous soldier, Spaceshot will give his all for even the most hopeless causes. This includes defending his cowardly combiner partner, Blackout, whom he insists is a valiant and fearless Decepticon warrior despite all evidence to the contrary.
Fiction
Beast Wars: Uprising
Spaceshot and Blackout were sisters, and among the few Decepticons who remained mobile on a post-war Cybertron thanks to their more energy-efficient Micromaster bodies. As part of Hot Rod's team operating out of Micropolis, they helped counter the efforts of the Resistance, who sought to overthrow the current Cybertronian government, the Builders of Cybertron.
The sisters were called to attend a meeting after the rebel Maximal Grimlock managed to steal a potent weapon, the G-Virus. After Spaceshot brough her commanding officer up to date on the situation, Hot Rod dispatched his team to help guard what he foresaw as being the terrorists' most likely target: Tesarus Arena during the upcoming gladiatorial games.
Hot Rod's prediction turned out to be accurate. When Grimlock and his team's intrusion was detected, Hot Rod had Blackout and Spaceshot accompany him to confront the trespassers. After dodging an ion disc lobbed at them by The Man Terror, Spaceshot and Blackout occupied themselves with the Predacon and his fellow rebel, Snapper, while Hot Rod tussled with Grimlock himself. Spaceshot was defeated and dismembered by the Man Terror, leaving her unable to see the fight through to its conclusion. Micro-Aggressions
Toys
Generation 1
- Micromaster Combiner Decepticon Anti-Aircraft Base (1990)
- Accessories: "Anti-Aircraft Base" tank, "scout vehicle", ramp, 2 cannons, bazooka, communications dish, "radar drum", missile launcher
- Spaceshot transforms into the rear half of a blue and gray B-1 bomber jet. He was sold exclusively in a set which included Blackout (who transforms into the front end of said jet) and the Anti-Aircraft Base. As a Micromaster Combiner, Spaceshot can combine with any other Micromaster Combiner, Combiner Transport, or Micro Trailer to form new and excitingly unworkable vehicle modes.
Notes
- Dreamwave's More than Meets the Eye profile comics accidentally reversed the character models for Blackout and Spaceshot, portraying Spaceshot as the front half of their combined vehicle mode and Blackout as the rear half. This error was carried over into the bio text as well, so it is entirely possible that the personality assigned to Spaceshot was intended for Blackout, and vice versa.
- That mistake reappeared almost ten years later when, for reasons unknown, Spaceshot was featured in a character lineup on Hubworld.com's Generation 1 cartoon page, visually represented by Dreamwave's erroneous Blackout art.[1]
