Xaaron (G1)
- Emirate Xaaron is an Autobot from the Generation One continuity family.
Emirate Xaaron is the leader of the Autobot underground resistance movement. He is not a fighter, but his strength is found in his convictions. Xaaron, though physically unimposing, speaks and acts with incredible confidence that grows from his irreverent brand of wisdom. Due to this, he is extremely valuable to the Autobots as a source of inspiration.
Fiction
Marvel Comics continuity
- (Note: Events from the UK-only comic stories are in italics.)
Millions of years ago, when the Autobot/Decepticon war was new, the capital city of Iacon was under assault, prompting the Council of Autobot Elders to contemplate surrender. Emirate Xaaron refused, suggesting that bureaucratic mismanagement of the Autobot army was the real culprit. He nominated a single warrior to take direct control of the Autobot forces -- Optimus Prime!
After Optimus Prime, Megatron, and countless other combatants were lost to Earth, the Decepticon warlord Trannis rose into power. Xaaron created an assault team, the Wreckers, to assassinate Trannis, but when they succeeded, one warlord was merely replaced by another.
In 1986, Xaaron hatched a new plan for the Wreckers: Operation Volcano. Using himself as bait, he would lure the several of the best Decepticon warriors into a trap. The Wreckers, under the leadership of Impactor momentarily reconsidered when Ultra Magnus, who was built to aide them in this particular mission, left for Earth to investigate the disappearance of Optimus Prime. Xaaron quickly replaced them with the Autobot Triple Changers, at first sending them to attack Impactor while pretending to be Decepticons. Though this trick aggravated Impactor, the Wreckers commander grudgingly admitted it proved the three were up to the job. The bait was set, but a turn of events forced the Decepticons to abandon it. However, one disobedient Decepticon fired on Xaaron anyway, and when Impactor jumped in front of the blast, the Wreckers commander was destroyed, dying in Xaaron's arms. Springer was chosen to replace him.
After Bumblebee, Jazz, and Grimlock were restored as Pretenders, their new might helped turn the tide of Xaaron's underground resistance. The Classic Pretenders needed to return to Earth, but while Xaaron had opened a transdimensional portal to send them home, the Autobots were suddenly under attack by Bludgeon's Mayhem Attack Squad. As a result, the Mayhem Attack Squad, the Classic Pretenders, and some Autobot Micromasters were thrown into the center of Cybertron. Xaaron was able to locate them and send them to their intended destination, but not before the combatants had awoken Primus.
With Unicron now nearing Cybertron, Xaaron aided Optimus Prime in their search for the Autobot Creation Matrix by sending out teams into a sector of the galaxy where the Matrix (in Optimus Prime's old body) had likely been jettisoned.
Trivia
- Emirate Xaaron's name is a misnomer. Emirate is not a title, but a word that describes a place. The proper usage would be Emir Xaaron.
- Emirate Xaaron was one Marvel UK conceit that writer Simon Furman quickly brought over when he began writing for Marvel US. In the translation, however, Xaaron lost all his colors except for the yellow.
- Emirate Xaaron is one of two Transformers who has served as a yellow-glowing avatar for Primus. The other is Mini-Con Jolt from Cybertron.
