Lightning Strike Coalition

The Lightning Strike Coalition is an Autobot subgroup from the Generation 1 continuity family.

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The Lightning Strike Coalition is a sub-faction formed during the absence of Optimus Prime on Cybertron.

The Lightning Strike Coalition includes:

• Grimlock (leader)
• Kup
• Ironhide
• Wheeljack
• Smokescreen
• Inferno
• Slag
• Sludge
• Snarl
• Swoop

Fiction

Dreamwave comics continuity

Following Optimus Prime and Megatron's disappearances at the beginning of "The Dark Ages", the Autobots and Decepticons soon split into several sub-factions. The Lightning Strike Coalition (LSC), was formed out of Grimlock's old unit when Optimus received the title of Prime and the Matrix of Leadership.

The LSC acted as a commando unit striking Predacon and Decepticon sites and convoys. War Within: The Dark Ages When Ultra Magnus stepped in charge, the LSC members largely disbanded, but Grimlock put together a new fighting force known as the Dynobots with several ex-LSC members. This new unit followed a Decepticon group to Earth, sometime after the Ark's crash landing on that planet, but millions of years before the Earth-bound Transformers reactivated in early 1980s. War Within: The Age of Wrath

This tale would have been told in a story entitled "Rules of Extinction", inserted in Dreamwave's "Generation One 2004 Datatracks Annual", which was never released due to Dreamwave's collapse in the same year.

Exodus

Hulking members of the Lightning Strike Coalition jostled for sightseeing space with Minicons in the High Council Chamber during Orion Pax and Megatron's hearing. Exodus Grimlock rose to become leader during the war. After being captured by Shockwave, they were reformatted into the Dinobots. After their capture, the five members joined with each other and left a trail of destruction behind and soon Jazz and Cliffjumper were sent to find them on orders from Optimus Prime. Transformers Hall of Fame