Warp gate
- Warp Gates are a type of technology 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
Cartoon continuity
The Stargate Battles comic
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. The mechanism derived its name from its gun-like appearance (which Ratchet and Wheeljack were not fond of, for obvious reasons); the portal itself formed the end of the gun's "barrel", through which passengers would be "fired" on an electromagnetic rail system.
Unfortunately, the other nations of the world took objection to the Autobots exclusively allying themselves with America. An unidentified foreign power allied itself with the Decepticons, and installed an undercover agent named Trov as member of the four-man crew in the process of completing the Trigger's construction, planning to seize control of the device with the evil robots' help. The Decepticons subsequently attacked the Trigger and killed half the crew, but unsurprisingly, Megatron had no intention of sharing power, and proceeded to kill Trov and take control of the Trigger. It was thanks to the efforts of the sole remaining crew member, Makoto, who Trov had failed to kill, that the Decepticons were foiled, as he activated the Trigger's systems and attempted to fire the Decepticons through the portal to a randomly-generated location in the universe. Megatron was able to shoot out the portal and deactivate the Trigger before this could happen, but thankfully for Makoto, the villains were then routed by the timely arrival of the Autobots. First Contact
Subsequently, the time-displaced ghost of Starscream fused with the Trigger in an attempted coup, but was defeated by the combind might of Optimus Prime and Megatron.
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Generation 1 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 Comics continuity
Generation 2
Grimlock's squad of Autobots were equipped with "personal warp gates" while chasing down the cyberformers from the Cybertronian Empire. War Without End!
