Automated defence ring

The Automated Defense Ring is a type of security system in Generation 1

Devastator's construction site is surrounded by a gridlike Automated Defense Ring

An Automated Defense Ring is a type of unammed security system designed to discourage interlopers, but not actually make them impossible. The ring asks a series of trivia, logic or fill-in-the-blank questions, with lethal consequences if you guess wrong.

This system does not absolutely prevent unauthorised personal from passign through the ring, it just makes it very difficult. This is a security trade-off, but but unlike a more strident system, you cannot accidentally lock yourself out, as once happened to the Autobot Earthforce.

Illiterate Cockney Spelling: Automated Defence Ring

Fiction

Marvel UK Comic

UK#264 Ironhide used to program Automated Defense Rings for the Autobots.

Irohide used his experience with Automated Fefense Rings to penetrate the one surrounding the Constructicon's attempt to rebuild Devastator, and destroy the project.

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