Project Iacon

Project Iacon is a devious plan from the cartoon portion of the Aligned continuity family.

Project Iacon is a plan initiated by Megatron, using the brainwashed archivist Optimus Prime to decode encrypted Autobot archives for locations of relevant technology.

Fiction

Prime cartoon

Project Iacon proved to be the main reason for Megatron's befuddling decision of keeping Orion aboard the Nemesis. As Megatron explained to Orion, in the waning days of the war for Cybertron, the Decepticons stormed the Iacon Hall of Records, but were unable to crack the encryption thusfar. Orion was provided access to the heavily-altered records of the war and a comfortable room under constant surveillance. There, he managed to provide Megatron with coordinates of many items hidden on Earth.

However, after decoding only a few files, Orion's curiosity began to best him, especially due to the heavy level of encryption on the Decepticon side of things and the discontinuities he had heard. Suspicious, he returned to the page on Optimus Prime, the reputed warlord of the Autobots. A hunch took him, and he ran a decryption on the image of the leader to find something shocking—the resulting visage was his own. This did not go unnoticed by Megatron, however, and he swore that the project would continue, even if he had to use painful coercion to keep their archivist in line.