Skywatch
- Skywatch is a human organization from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Skywatch is a covert government organization seemingly bent on collecting Transformers on Earth... in the national interest. Unlike their fellow conspiracy theory wet dream, they do not currently appear to be manipulated by any Cybertronians.
They seem to be under the impression that they can also control said Cybertronians to their advantage.
Stupid, stupid fleshlings.
Known members
Fiction
IDW comics continuity
In 1985, at Mount St. Helens in Oregon, Skywatch excavated a giant condor robot and a giant jaguar robot from a volcanic eruption the year prior. Group leader Joshua Red believed this discovery would finally give them the funding they required. Spotlight: Soundwave
In the following years, Skywatch gained a base in Washington, D.C.. From the outside, it appears to be a derelict building. They possess a secondary base in Carson City, Nevada, which appears to be a disused warehouse, and appears to be a new base. Yet another base exists in Salt Lake City, Utah, which appears to just be for storage.
In 2007, in Eureka, Nevada, Skywatch took over the excavation of a giant purple robot and several giant dinosaur robots. Escalation #5
In Washington, D.C., the active condor and jaguar robots were being held in a Skywatch facility. Escalation #6 Following the Brasnya conflict, Skywatch deployed to the battlefield with intention to use the jaguar and condor robots (which had undergone "conditioning") to find the other Transformers. There was no possibility of this blowing-up in their faces. Devastation #1 And then it blew up in their faces when their robots went AWOL, responding to an alien signal from a blue, secondhand microcassette recorder, right as giant robots starting trashing American soil. Devastation #4
Due to the Reapers' attack on Decepticon headquarters, Skywatch decided to activate the most advanced of the "Eureka-6": Thunder Lizard-1. Devastation issue 5 When their scientist, Weston protested he couldn't "process" TL-1 this quickly, Joshua Red explained they had no choice — they were at war, it was going to get worse, and "we can't rely on anyone coming to our aid!" Thunder Lizard-1 was transferred to the Carson City base, which was a dark, bare warehouse at the time. Devastation #6
Soon after, the base was now a high-tech hanger-cum-control center, designed solely for processing and activating the Thunder-Lizards. This appears to have been hurriedly put together, as Skywatch did not have time to make proper signs for all their doors and had to scribble the names of several rooms down in pencil, with a reminder to make a better sign.
Weston was worried that the techniques used to program the robot, knocked out in a few days, would blow up in their faces; Red ignored his concerns, focusing on the need for Earth to have an asset against the enemy robots. So, inevitably, this experiment blew up in their faces as well. A mole secretly working with the Machination interfered with the re-activation process and Grimlock (or Thunder Lizard-1) regained control of his functions and broke out of the base. Agent Red ordered the scientists to figure out what went wrong and to begin preparations for the other "Thunder Lizards" to be deployed. Even though Grimlock's reactivation was sabotaged, Agent Red still learned nothing. Idiot. Spotlight: Grimlock
In a shock development, when the "Thunder Lizards" were quite easily reprogrammed and worked perfectly, Red began to show suspicion that something was up. When the lost Thunder Lizard-1 appeared in Fallon, Skywatch mobilized to isolate the town, cut communications, and send in their robot teams... Maximum Dinobots #1 who caused greater damage and had their neural nets go wonky. In a further example of his new-found brain cells, Red realized this meant enemy action was going on, and so went to have a chat with the sixth Eureka robot... Maximum Dinobots #2
Maximum Dinobots #3 Maximum Dinobots #4 Maximum Dinobots #5
