Warp gate
- Warp gates are a type of technology originally from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Warp gates are teleportation devices which generate spatial portals that allow users to traverse vast distances in the blink of an eye. Similar in concept to the Decepticons' space bridge technology, warp gates were created through the alliance of the Autobots and humankind.
Fiction
Generation 1 cartoon continuity
The Battle of the Star Gate
Warp gate technology began life as the Trigger, a huge manned space station developed in the late 1990s by the allied forces of the Autobots and the American government using Cybertronian technology. First Conflict
The Transformers cartoon
By 2005, warp gate technology had been refined down to a single, flat portal, through which travelers could simply fly, requiring no vehicle or launch mechanism to make the trip. The precise number of warp gates in existence by this time is unknown, but at least one was installed at the fringes of the solar system, beyond Pluto. Other gates must presumably exist throughout the universe, but the only one to be identified was in the vicinity of Thrull. This gate was used by revived Decepticon leader Galvatron when he was informed of the existence of an Earth Defense Command space platform in the Sol system. Amused at the notion, he directed Cyclonus, Scourge, and the Sweeps to enter the nearby Warp Gate that he might see it for himself. Although the crew of the space platform picked up their emergence from the Pluto warp gate, it didn't spare them Galvatron's wrath. Five Faces of Darkness, Part 3
Marvel Generation 2 comic
Grimlock's squad of Autobots were equipped with "personal warp gates" while chasing down the cyberformers from the Cybertronian Empire. War Without End!
Unicron Trilogy cartoon continuity
Armada cartoon
Cybertron cartoon
Vector Prime possessed the ability to open dimension gates by slicing the fabric of space/time open with his sword, Rhisling, first doing so to send Landmine to Earth in the opening days of the Unicron Singularity crisis. Fallen He would later be responsible for creating the gates that would send the Autobots the colony worlds of Velocitron and the Jungle Planet—in concert with Optimus Prime, whose Matrix of Leadership helped stabilize the gateways—and was generally on hand to generate a gate whenever the Autobots needed one. Landmine Search Vector Prime's gates had the appearance of a glowing green slash-mark in the air itself, which, when stabilized by the Matrix, widened to reveal a view of the target location on the other side of the gate's rippling surface.
Megatron, empowered by the Armor of Unicron, was also capable of creating dimension gates, although his could apparently only lead into and out of his fire dimension, requiring that it be used as a stopover on any trips the Decepticons made. Fallen These circular portals resembled swirling vortexes of flame; extinguishing these flames would result in the portal closing. Critical
In one dramatic instance, Vector Prime opened one of his dimension gates across one of Megatron's, and their interaction caused the fire dimension to collapse in on itself. Cybertron
Timelines
After suffering a disastrous failure on Combatron, Brushguard asked Megatron to open a dimensional portal for his stranded team, but Megatron angrily refused and told them to wait for a decacycle for rescue by conventional space travel. Force of Habit
Beast Wars: Uprising
In 13 SCA (or 1997), the Autobots helped the humans build their first warp gate at the edge of the solar system, allowing humanity to colonize other planets. Micro-Aggressions
Notes
- The Animated space bridge bears a strong resemblance to the Warp Gate's design.
Foreign names
- Japanese: Warp gate (ワープゲート wāpu gēto)
