Garrus-9
- Garrus-9 is an Autobot penitentiary from the IDW continuity portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
A comprehensive detention and rehabilitation facility, Garrus-9 also known as "G-9" is decidedly more humane than comparable Decepticon prisons. The penitentiary houses prisoners (Autobot and Decepticon) incarcerated under the Tyrest Accord by warrant officers such as Ultra Magnus. Those who admit their guilt, or who are considered to be Threat Level Nine, have their sparks extracted, either to ensure they can be controlled or to make the passage of time easier on them. Such sparks are held in a special section known as "The Rig." Prisoners who are kept whole are kept in cells, with maximum security being located in the lower levels.
In the event of an emergency, personnel can hole themselves into a maximum security area known as "The Last Resort." This section also holds some of the most dangerous offenders.
Known staff:
- Fortress Maximus — Warden
- Fastlane
- Cloudraker
- Kick-Off
- Rollout
- Sprocket
- Skyfall
- Rad
- Jackpot
- Turbofire
- Windbreaker
- Over-Run
- Vroom
Known inmates:
- Arcee — Classified as Threat Level 9 — "Escaped"
- Bludgeon
- Longtooth
- Repugnus — and then he wasn't
- Skyjack
- Ransack
- Impactor
- Shockwave
- Grimlock
- At least three other unidentified individuals.
Fiction
IDW comics continuity
 Plot details for Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4 follow. |
Garrus-9 housed Aequitas, a massive Autobot supercomputer designed as a culpability drive - a machine capable of calculating guilt from the prisoners placed before it.
Many years ago, the Wreckers commander Impactor was sent to Garrus-9 for committing unspecified crimes. Impactor's fate was sealed when his own first officer Springer testified to Aequitas that he saw him commit these crimes, though he thought his commander would be sent to a rehabilitation institution or an "open" prison instead of the notorious G-9. Because of his refusal to admit that what he did was wrong, Impactor was denied the mercy of spark extraction. Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4
Jetfire was assigned to the facility by Optimus Prime after the apprehension of the Monstructor gestalt. The task was given high priority, as combiner technology falling into Decepticon hands would be a disastrous upset of the Cybertronian galactic cold war. Spotlight: Optimus Prime Though Fortress Maximus expressed unease that the combiner team was not being kept in spark stasis like the other inmates, Jetfire explained that the alterations Jhiaxus had performed on them had rendered such options moot for now.
Tipped off by Dealer, Banzai-Tron sent the Combaticons to blitz the facility and retrieve the coveted technology. This forced the warden's hand, and so Fortress Maximus freed one of his most dangerous inmates, the Autobot female Arcee. She made impressive inroads on the otherwise fearsome strike team, but ultimately was unable to prevent their retreat with the assets.
After Jetfire convinced the warden to look the other way, Arcee was allowed to escape and pursue her quarry. Spotlight: Arcee
However, word of the events on Garrus-9 reached the Autobot Orbital Command Hub and were relayed to Optimus Prime. Devastation #5 The sensitivity of what the Decepticon raid might have gained forced the Autobot leader to withdraw from Earth, even with the danger of Megatron and Sixshot looming large. Devastation #6
Arcee captured a survivor from a crashed Decepticon attack ship, tortured him for information on Banzaitron's whereabouts and beheaded the prisoner after she was done. This was later discovered by Optimus Prime and Prowl's team when they arrived at Garrus-9, but both Jetfire and Fortress Maximus decided to keep quiet about what they knew. Spotlight: Cyclonus The troop deployment at Garrus-9 was re-strengthened while Optimus's team was stationed there.
From the Last Resort's command center, Optimus could only watch helplessly as Thunderwing effortlessly swept aside both the Wreckers and Hound's unit on Corata-Vaz. At the same time, Jetfire got in touch with Omega Supreme who identified the mysterious bots who had attacked Hound's detachment, while the Technobots worked on perfecting Thunderwing's symbiotic carapace technology. While Optimus Prime pondered the risk of using the dangerous technology, Dealer contacted Garrus-9 to suggest using the Magnificence to answer their many questions. Spotlight: Hardhead
In search of Optimus Prime, Nemesis Prime attacked and breached the Last Resort, killing the first two Autobots that challenged him and shrugging off the hail of gunfire from the others. Optimus Prime had Fortress Maximus call off the guards and confronted Nemesis personally in the generator sub-level. Meanwhile, Jetfire attempted to take control of Thunderwing using Bludgeon's Axis Cradle. Unfortunately, Jhiaxus had prepared for this eventuality and activated the imprisoned Bludgeon from within his cell. Spotlight: Doubledealer
Nemesis attacked Prime using the Darkness but was blasted in the back and killed by Galvatron, who wanted the Darkness for himself. He offered to spare Optimus's life in exchange for the Darkness, but the Prime tricked Galvatron, tossing him into a solar pool after the Darkness completed its transfer. Elsewhere, when Arcee defeated Jhiaxus, his control over Bludgeon was gone and the Pretender went inert again. Spotlight: Sideswipe
Grimlock, Shockwave and Scorponok were taken to Garrus-9 by Ultra Magnus after the destruction of Scorponok's Machination empire on Earth. Maximum Dinobots issue 5
Galvatron survived the pool, though, and later left the facility. All Hail Megatron #14
Plot details for Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4 follow. |
During his great push, Megatron wanted the prison to be taken over by the Decepticons. Skyquake and his Predators were given this task, but the rogue Decepticon general Overlord had different plans though: he usurped the operation and led a vicious massacre before freeing all the inmates. He announced everyone would be staying here with him, and he'd see them entertained... Said entertainment being "hideous violence", begun when he threw Fortress Maximus to his former charges and turning into pointless bloodsports and deathmatches involving the captured Autobots. Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 1 Overlord kept Grimlock alive, forcing him to watch the slaughter of his fellow Autobots, and knowing he could do nothing, it possibly drove the Dinobot insane. Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4 He also freed Shockwave after almost a year of controlling G-9, in exchange for the mono-toned scientist removing the blindspot virus that Megatron had infected Overlord with. Shockwave knew that all of the bloodshed and slaughter on display here was nothing but a provocation, an invitation for Megatron to intervene so Overlord could face him in combat. Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 3
After three years of this, and having Autobot ships gunned down when they tried to reach Garrus-9, the Wreckers were dispatched to bring Garrus-9 back under control. Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 1 Snare, a Predator who now realised that he was trapped on G-9 and was sick of the horrors he had seen, freed Impactor, the former Wreckers commander who had been imprisoned for unspecified crimes, in the hopes that he could escape the prison and bring back help. Impactor made it off the planet and reported to Ultra Magnus and the Wreckers what had been happening on G-9. The Wreckers broke through G-9's lattice forcefield in two drop pods from Ultra Magnus' ship, but were shot down and separated. While Springer's team were on the run from dozens of Decepticon ex-convicts, Perceptor's team had the misfortune of landing in The Pit, right in front of Overlord. Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 2
Springer's team split up into two smaller teams: While he, Impactor and Twin Twist would go find the other Autobot prisoners, Kup and Guzzle would go find Grimlock. Unfortunately, Springer's team were captured shortly after discovering the corpse of Kick-Off, one of the former G-9 guards who had been forced into becoming a pit fighter for the Decepticons' amusement. Meanwhile, Perceptor's team escaped the Pit with the loss of Rotorstorm and made their way to Aequitas' chamber, where they found the dismembered, but still living Fortress Maximus, the warden of G-9 who had been hooked up to the door to Aequitas as a living lockpick. Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 3
Kup and Guzzle made their way to Grimlock's cell, only to discover it was empty. Snare appeared, explaining what Overlord had done to Grimlock and what his state of mind should be, before leading them to the Spark Extraction Chamber where Stalker was torturing Springer's team. For his trouble, Snare was shot in the head by Stalker (who in turn was killed by Springer), then Overlord blasted his way in. Meanwhile, Perceptor's team made it inside Aequitas, but when he tried to download it's hard drive, he discovered that with all of G-9's personnel gone, the only way to access the supercomputer was for one of the team to willingly give up their spark. Topspin stepped up while the others argued, stating that it could give both he and his branched-spark brother Twin Twist a dignified death, rather than suffer at the hands of Stalker. With the computer unlocked, Perceptor selected Ironfist to be the receptacle for Aequitas' knowledge, but with the knowledge of all of Aequitas' judgements and the truth shook him to the core. With the Decepticon prisoners about to breach to the door to Aequitas, Perceptor prepared to detonate the deterrence devices installed in the head of every G-9 inmate. Realising this would kill Impactor as well, Pyro objected and it was put to a vote. Ironfist, now knowing the full extent of Impactor's crimes, voted to kill the prisoners. Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4
Plot details for Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 5 follow. |
As the Wreckers battled Overlord, it was revealed all the Autobot prisoners had been executed. After Overlord's capture, it was revealed the Decepticons had abandoned the prison. Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 5
