Carcer
- Carcer is a Titan from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Carcer was one of the Titans created by the legendary Knights of Cybertron to act as a living ship. Unlike many of his siblings, Carcer never actually colonized a planet; permanently transformed into his starship form, he and his occupants chose to live a nomadic life among the stars.
Fiction
IDW Generation 1 continuity
Millions of years ago, Carcer and the other 12 colony Titans departed Cybertron to found new outposts of Cybertronian civilization. First Contact
According to Elita One, as Carcer travelled through space over the eons, a core breach threatened to destroy him. The Titan's captain threw his body into the breach to seal it, beginning a tradition of the crew sacrificing their own bodies to keep their Titan alive as his natural resources diminished. Eventually, Elita One became captain, ruling from a chair composed of the bodies of their colony's greatest heroes- all of whom had given their lives in the service of their ship. The straitened inhabitants learned to value three things above all else: efficiency, security, and truth. The Will of the Few
After Cybertron decided to re-establish contact with its abandoned colonies, the First Titan Metroplex located Carcer with his sensors. First Contact During their climatic battle, Devastator kicked Optimus Maximus through Metroplex's space bridge and onto Carcer's hull, although Optimus quickly rebounded and dived back through to Cybertron. All That Remains Several weeks later, Windblade and Starscream arrived to make formal contact. Metroplex had identified the Titan they were travelling to as Tempo, a Titan crewed by peaceful philosophers, so they were surprised by Carcer's militaristic ways, but Elita claimed that the crew had simply changed the name of their ship from "Tempo" to "Carcer" at some point. Windblade, however, was aware that these were the names of two completely separate Titans, and was concerned with what what this meant Elita must he hiding.
After some political wrangling, the two ambassadors were able to convince Carcer to join the Council of Worlds; they chose to send Strika and Obsidian as ambassadors. The Will of the Few
After the formation of the Council, Carcer's crew was able to start ordering parts from Cybertron in order to fully repair him. However, the repair schedule suffered interference from a mnemosurgical attack on a Decepticon part supplier, prompting Elita-1 via Obsidian to demand Council investigation into the crime spree. 07:00:00
Notes
- "Carcer" is Latin for "prison", which raises a lot of questions about Carcer and its inhabitants.
