Dread Pirate Crew

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The Dread Pirate Crew are Star Seekers from the Generation 1 continuity family.
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Based on the blueprints of Pounce and Wingspan, the Dread Pirate Crew form the backbone of Cannonball's crew aboard the Tidal Wave. They aren't the sharpest cutlasses in the block, but they get the pillaging and plundering done.

Known Pounce-type Dread Pirates:

Known Wingspan-type Dread Pirates:

Fiction

Wings Universe

Wings Universe is based on the Generation 1 cartoon, but deviates from it in cosmetic ways and continuity points.

At an unknown point in Cybertronian history, the blueprints for the Decepticon clones Pounce and Wingspan were copied and then mass produced. These air- and ground- body-types were sold on the black market as made-to-order mercenaries. Often used as cannon fodder, Captain Cannonball instead made these buccaneers individuals, giving them unique names and jobs aboard the Tidal Wave. Collectively known as the Dread Pirate Crew, these clones make up the backbone of the Star Seekers. Dread Pirate Crew bios

During the sheer monotony of the Tidal Wave's passage through the Demon's Maw Expanse, Stormcharge and Turbolift took to hunting vapor-rats for target practice.

Much to Tornado's dismay, Rolling Thunder and Thunderclap tend to enjoy revving their engines for short-range racing up and down the corridors. The Thunder twins also ended up named their converting weapons "Pillage and Plunder".

While Cutback and Lockpick are technically employed as one of Chairman's escort guard and Brimstone's gunners, respectively, the duo secretly maintain a black market among the crew, purportedly without Cannonball's knowledge. Cutback's entrepreneurial spirit and Lockpick's internal transwarp generator make them a superlative partnership. Tornado tested their skills by asking then to procure a Florescing Sky Seer from the fourth moon of Deberia. Although the Dread Pirates were successful in the acquisition, Tornado came to regret his purchase...especially once Cannonball found the Sky Seer. All parties denied any knowledge of the animal, and luckily the captain took a shine to it. Cutback and Lockpick were prepared to cut Tornado off from the black market for engineering such a close call, but Tornado offered to pay three times their normal fee if they could locate a Lukythian Warp Star for him.

Skyduster was an ace pilot and had the ability to create atmospheric disturbances thanks to a special gas released from his sky-ship mode. He was teamed with Tornado during a sabotage mission to Ventax II. Tornado's Personal Journal

Cruising through time and space, the Dread Pirate Crew joined Cannonball in raiding future Cybertron of its energon. While attempting to convert Unicron's head into an energon siphon, however, they were opposed by Alpha Trizer and the Cybertronian Knights. Hoist the Flag

After escaping the Knights, the Star Seekers began a quest to find Starscream's immortal spark. Unfortunately, they found it. Following a map to a planetoid awash in gravitational anomalies, Cannonball sacrificed a good number of his Wingspan-type pirates to create a counter-gravitational pulse long enough to reach the planetoid. Thunderclap and Neurotoxin were part of the landing party who found the death-like body of a Quintesson in the caverns below. Only after bringing the Quintesson back to the Tidal Wave did they realize Starscream's spark lay within the creature. The devious Decepticon hopped from body to body until making a deal with Flamewar to seize control from Cannonball. Starscream used Cannonball's body as his own, and Flamewar abandoned the captain's spark on the planetoid, along with a few loyal members of the Dread Pirate Crew. The remainder stayed aboard the Tidal Wave, as Flamewar began plotting her future as the new Captain Cannonball... Tornado's Personal Journal

Toys

Timelines

  • Dread Pirate Crew (Deluxe, 2014)
The Dread Pirate Crew are redecoes of Prime Vehicon, specifically the Robots in Disguise molds. One of them, representing the Pounce bodytype, is redecoed from the Car Vehicon, and the other, representing the Wingspan bodytype, is redecoed from the Jet Vehicon.
The Dread Pirate Crew also comes with two differently coloured versions of the Arms Micron Igu.


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