Autobase

Autobase is a (lot of) location(s) in the Generation 1 continuity family.

Autobase is a term used by the Autobots for their home base of operations. Wherever it's located or even if there's already an Autobase, they'll call it Autobase.

The Autobots are somewhat unimaginative.

Fiction

Marvel Comics continuity

Events from the UK-only comic stories are in italics.

Optimus Prime and his team of Autobots were sent along in the Ark to destroy the giant meteors that threatened Cybertron's existence. The launch site they left from was the Autobase.

Vorns later, while many of the Autobots and Decepticons lay deactivated in Mount St. Hilary, Perceptor and Lord Straxus led their respective forces in the on-going war on Cybertron. Perceptor and his team of Autobots, including Blaster, fought from the Autobase. The Smelting Pool! Another, more well-staffed Autobase existed in Iacon's ruins Target: 2006, and would be the HQ for Emirate Xaaron and affiliated rebels.

The Iacon Autobase was briefly relocated to Kalis by 1998. City of Fear! A massive explosion and zombie invasion later, Legion of the Lost!, and they relocated right back...

During the time of Unicron, Galvatron took Hook, Line, and Sinker and attacked the Autobase. The entire place burned under Galvatron's wrath, and Emirate Xaaron was made to flee, at the insistence of his fellow Autobots, through the catacombs, under the Autobase's floors, in pursuit of Primus' face. Surrender!

During the war against the Cybertronian Empire in the mid-90s, Autobase was located on an asteroid. The Power and the Glory It was later relocated to the Nevada basin and became the site of the final battle. Swarm Its location meant Jhiaxus vaporised San Francisco; thanks a slagging lot, Autobots. Dark Shadows!

In the 2007 of one timeline, there was access from the sewers below directly into the Autobase. Rodimus Prime used subtle markings on the sewer walls (large bright red letter As) to lure Death's Head there while the peacekeeping agent was chasing him. Headhunt Later, we see the surface-level structure of the Autobase, which is a golden mushroom shape, and rather battle-scarred. The Legacy of Unicron!, Space Pirates!

Dreamwave continuity

After the disappearance of Optimus Prime and Megatron, the Autobase was built under Virtue's Forum. It held a war room with monitors watching all the other five factions, a repair bay where Ratchet could work his magic, and a prison level which the Autobots used to imprison Blitzwing. The entrance to the Autobase was guarded by laser-guided auto-turrets, which would only allow entrance once it confirmed that those entering held Autobot energy signatures. The War Within: The Dark Ages