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Autobot Central Command is the Autobot's hidden base on Earth, located inside a mountain in Nevada. It used to be a missile silo before it was converted: as a result, it's shielded against radio signals and is operated using old human machinery. Trying to run Cybertronian programs on human machinery is a recipe for bugs out the exhaust, much to Ratchet's irritation!
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When Arcee alerted Optimus Prime to the fact that Cliffjumper had run into trouble, he had the Autobots rendezvous back at base so they could use the ground bridge to reach Cliffjumper's last known coordinates. Unfortunately they were too late. After Arcee had an encounter with some Decepticon troops, Optimus ordered her to bring Jack Darby and Raf Esquivel, who had been exposed to the Transformer presence, in to base. She and Bumblebee brought three kids in, as they'd accidentally been seen by Miko Nakadai. Darkness Rising, Part 1
Optimus explained the situation to the kids, but was interrupted by the arrival of their human liaison, Agent Fowler. After the agent left, Ratchet's equipment picked up Cliffjumper's life signature, and the other Autobots left him at base with the three kids. Raf proved handy in helping Ratchet work out some of the bugs with the base's computer systems, and the kids left for home once the other Autobots returned from their mission.
A sample of Dark Energon inadvertently brought into the base by Arcee infected a piece of equipment Darkness Rising, Part 2 which attacked Ratchet. As a result, Optimus discerned Megatron's plan and took Ratchet on a mission, leaving Arcee in command of the base. Arcee promptly went out on patrol with Bumblebee, leaving Bulkhead in charge of both the base and kids. Following another visit by Fowler, the government agent was kidnapped, forcing Bulkhead to leave the kids in charge while he went to make a rescue. Unfortunately the three kids followed him, leaving no one at the base when Arcee needed to use the ground bridge to get back. Darkness Rising, Part 3
The Autobots managed to rescue Fowler and return him to base, where he was installed on a medical stretcher. Ratchet used the base computers to analyse the intel Miko had brought back, revealing the extent of Megatron's plan to send Dark Energon to Cybertron. Darkness Rising, Part 4 While the other Autobots went to stop the plan from being carried out by attacking Megatron's space bridge, Ratchet and the kids monitored their progress from base. They were subsequently able to use the ground bridge to get the kids to the radio dish array the Decepticons were using to set the space bridge target, however they were prevented from completely shutting down the Decepticon operation by Soundwave. Raf returned to base with space bridge schematics, which Ratchet was able to download into the base computer system and instruct the Autobot team in a bit of sabotage. Once the space bridge was destroyed, the Autobots bridged back to base. Darkness Rising, Part 5
The kids decided to work on their science projects at the base, which caused a bit of a mess. Unfortunately this led to Ratchet trying to "help" them, which pretty much consisted of him taking over the projects and building them his way. Masters & Students
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Bulkhead and Bumblebree brought a mysterious pod back to the base from the Arctic. Unfortunately the pod turned out to contain Scraplets, which escaped when the pod thawed and started chewing through the base's systems. The Autobots and their three human friends were eventually able to repair the ground bridge and expel the annoying creatures into the Arctic. Scrapheap
Notes
- The name "Autobot Central Command" comes from Ratchet's bio on the Hub website. In the cartoon, the Autobots have so far just called it "base".
