Voltronic Galaxer

The Voltronic Galaxer is a piece of technology from the cartoon portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

"Let's go Voltronic Galaxer Force!"

The Voltronic Galaxer encodes audio waves into pulses, which aliens can then easily translate into their own language. It can also intercept and decode transmissions.

Fiction

The Transformers cartoon

Professor Haley attempted to show off the Voltronic Galaxer at Haley Observatory. His demonstration proved to be effective in contacting alien life; however, the alien life it contacted was Megatron, who was standing on the roof of the observatory. The Decepticons blasted their way into the building, with Starscream almost inadvertently destroying the device. Megatron stole the Voltronic Galaxer and spirited it away to the moon. It was installed in the Decepticon moonbase as part of a plan to block all of Earth's radio waves, and ransom them for the planet's energy.

Unfortunately for both Megatron and Professor Haley, Blaster and Cosmos injected feedback into the device, destroying it in order to foil Megatron's plan. Blaster Blues

Notes

• A similarly-named but otherwise totally different weapon, the "Voltronic Galaxidor", appeared in the 1986 G.I. Joe cartoon episode "My Brother's Keeper", scripted by Joe veteran and occasional Transformers writer, Buzz Dixon. This wasn't the only apparent Transformers reference the episode contained: it also featured a television program depicting a robot based on the Prowl/Bluestreak bodyform, a reference to Dash Jordon appearing at a sci-fi convention, and in perhaps a more coincidental example, a brown-haired, bespectacled, wheelchair-bound scientific genius.