Cybertronian military insignia
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War for Cybertron: Siege
- ↑ Concept art on Hasbro Pulse shows that eight units were under consideration at some stage in development: infantry, intelligence, medic, engineer, special ops, artillery, recon, and transport. While this particular symbol has been used, it has not been positively identified as being intelligence or recon; either way, it is the Autobot counterpart to the Decepticons' espionage unit.
- ↑ Nemesis Prime's packaging uses many unchanged assets from Optimus Prime's, even including an instruction sheet for Optimus. Suffice it to say, we don't expect he's really supposed to be a general in the Autobot army.
- ↑ Galaxy Upgrade Optimus Prime receives a unique Space Command Special Ops General insignia on the Siege webpage, but the accompanying text identifies him as a Space Command Infantry General, as do his box and instructions.
- ↑ Bluestreak's box (as well as his later Earthrise toy) identifies him as a Ground Command Artillery Private; his rank on his instruction sheet is copied and pasted from the earlier Prowl, of whom he is a redeco.
- ↑ Countdown did not receive an individual rank of his own.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 While Ratchet's box and instructions classify him as a Ground Command Engineering Private, his box's inner tay features a unique insignia that his profile on the Siege webpage clarifies is for a Ground Command Engineering Specialist. However, said website also erroneously gives him Mirage's insignia, for a Ground Command Special Ops Sergeant, despite this directly contradicting the corresponding text.
- ↑ In general, Generations Selects toys did not receive ranks as part of their packaging material. However, Smokescreen's toy was used as a model for his appearance on his Siege trading card.
- ↑ In the real world U.S. Armed Forces, Specialist is a rank above Private and below Sergeant. However, as we have no confirmation that that's how it works on Cybertron – especially with Ratchet being the only confirmed specialist across two-and-a-half years of toylines – we have listed the rank on its own row below.
- ↑ As part of the webpage foulup that gave Ratchet Mirage's insignia, Ratchet's Specialist insignia is pushed onto Omega Supreme. Nonetheless, Omega's web profile reinforces his Space Command Transport Captain rank.
 Infantry |
 Espionage |
 Medical[1] |
 Applied Sciences |
 Black Ops |
 Weapons |
 Transport | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 General |
Ground Force: Megatron Classic Animation Megatron Combat Megatron[2] |
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 Major |
Ground Force: Soundwave |
Space Force: Decepticon Shockwave Galactic Man Shockwave[2] |
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 Captain |
Air Force: Starscream |
Space Force: Astrotrain | |||||
 Sergeant |
Ground Force: Barricade Decepticon Impactor Air Force: |
Air Force: Skywarp |
Ground Force: Soundblaster |
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 Raider[3] |
Ground Force: Decepticon Blackjack Hyperdrive Air Force: |
Ground Force: Apeface Ravage Refraktor Decepticon Rumble Spectro Spyglass Viewfinder Air Force: |
Air Force: Ratbat |
Air Force: Nightflight Skytread |
Ground Force: Brunt Cratermaker Direct-Hit Fireline Power Punch |
- ↑ Process of elimination
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 As noted, Selects toys did not usually include insignias. Combat Megatron and Galactic Man Shockwave are the two sole exceptions, as the instruction sheets for both toys feature the same insignias as their mainline counterparts.
- ↑ The Siege website and trading card game make clear that the Decepticon equivalent to the rank of "Private" is "Raider".
