Wyoming base
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- The Wyoming base is a Decepticon operations center from the Generation 1 continuity family.
The "Wyoming base" is a base belonging to the Decepticons stationed on Earth. It is located in Eastern Wyoming, in a mining pit in the coal-rich Powder River Basin. It is the third hideout the Decepticons created for themselves on Earth, succeeding Fortress Sinister and an oil-drilling platform.
Fiction
Marvel Comics continuity
After his time with Joey Slick, Megatron's need for fuel led him to a coal mining pit in the Powder River Basin of Eastern Wyoming. However, he found the coal to be indigestible and moments later froze up from fuel depletion. The area was immediately sealed off by the government, who at the time tried to calm the population by presenting the Transformers as evil inventions of a technological genius, Robot-Master, the creation and chance alter ego of Donny Finkleberg. Three days later, the government sent Finkleberg and Walter Barnett, an agent of the Intelligence and Information Institute, to the mining pit for another Robot-Master recording. G.B. Blackrock arrived too to tell the two men they were certified morons, but things really went awry when the Autobots got to the mining pit as well to deal with Megatron. Noting their ally Blackrock was present, they assumed they could approach, but instead Barnett gave the order to open fire on them. The chaos that resulted from this gave Soundwave and co. the opportunity to get near Megatron and refuel him. The fresh addition of the Decepticons to the fight made both the humans and Autobots retreat, but Megatron had Laserbeak bring back Finkleberg to see him killed for pretending to command the Decepticons. Finkleberg offered a deal to continue his Robot-Master charade to prevent the humans from ever allying with the Autobots, which Megatron loathingly accepted. I, Robot-Master!
Megatron continued to reside in the mining pit, alongside Finkleberg and Ravage, who kept an eye on the human. Soundwave was intent on getting Megatron and Shockwave, who resided in Fortress Sinister in Oregon, to agree to co-commandership and so traveled back and forth between the two bases for a while to keep both Decepticons up to date on events. The intel on the Special Teams messed up those plans, as Megatron invited Shockwave to the mining pit to let their fists decide once and for all who was the true leader of the Decepticons. After Finkleberg had woven a story around the battle on camera, Soundwave stepped up to talk the two into finally joining forces. He succeeded Second Generation! and Shockwave left to prepare his troops to relocate to the mining pit. Meanwhile, Soundwave built an interspace transmitter-receiver tower so that Finkleberg's Robot-Master act no longer depended on humans coming close to the mining pit to film him.
When Shockwave returned with his troops, he and Megatron quickly got at each other's throats again, a situation that deescalated when the interspace transmitter-receiver tower picked up a holographic signal from Cybertron. The message it contained was from Straxus, who promised to aid the Earth-stationed Decepticons by sending them troops and materials over the recently built space bridge. Megatron and Shockwave agreed again to cooperate now that the possibility of conquering Earth and Cybertron was near. The Bridge to Nowhere! Shockwave had the Constructicons fortify the mining pit so as to make it a more suitable base. The timing was excellent too, since the Autobots opted to launch an attack not longer after. The new defenses kept the Autobots busy, though they still obtained data on Devastator's combiner technology, the secret goal of their attack. Moreso, Finkleberg found an opportunity to escape the base while the Autobots had the Decepticons preoccupied. The Autobots made a run for it once they were done, leading Shockwave to believe he had beaten them. Megatron snapped him out of his illusion, arguing that the Autobots must have had an ulterior reason for their attack and that he had been had big time. Shockwave agreed to that logic and acknowledged Megatron as the sole Decepticon leader. Command Performances! Still, Megatron's position was not secure as he had failed too. Not only did the Decepticons notice Finkelberg's escape, but a TV journalist announced that Robot-Master was an impostor and that she would prove it. Megatron, Soundwave and the Constructicons left the base to deal with this problem. In the National Interest
