Warp gate
- Warp gates are a type of technology originally from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Warp gates are teleportation devices which generate spatial portals that allow users to traverse vast distances in the blink of an eye. Similar in concept to the Decepticons' space bridge technology, warp gates were created through the alliance of the Autobots and humankind.
Fiction
Generation 1 cartoon continuity
The Battle of the Star Gate
Warp gate technology began life as the Trigger, a huge manned space station developed in the late 1990s by the allied forces of the Autobots and the American government using Cybertronian technology. First Conflict
The Transformers cartoon
By 2005, warp gate technology had been refined down to a single, flat portal, through which travelers could simply fly, requiring no vehicle or launch mechanism to make the trip. The precise number of warp gates in existence by this time is unknown, but at least one was installed at the fringes of the solar system, beyond Pluto. Other gates must presumably exist throughout the universe, but the only one to be identified was in the vicinity of Thrull. This gate was used by revived Decepticon leader Galvatron when he was informed of the existence of an Earth Defense Command space platform in the Sol system. Amused at the notion, he directed Cyclonus, Scourge and the Sweeps to enter the nearby Warp Gate that he might see it for himself. Although the crew of the space platform picked up their emergence from the Pluto warp gate, it didn't spare them Galvatron's wrath. Five Faces of Darkness, Part 3
Marvel Comics continuity
Marvel Generation 2 comic
Grimlock's squad of Autobots were equipped with "personal warp gates" while chasing down the cyberformers from the Cybertronian Empire. War Without End!
Unicron Trilogy cartoon continuity
Armada cartoon
Cybertron cartoon
During the search for the Cyber Planet Keys, Megatron and his lieutenants frequently traveled by warp gate. Transformers: Cybertron
Force of Habit
After suffering a disastrous failure on Combatron, Brushguard asked Megatron to open a warp gate for his stranded team, but Megatron angrily refused and told them to wait for a decacycle for rescue by conventional space travel. Force of Habit
Notes
- The Animated space bridge bears a strong resemblance to the Warp Gate's design.
Foreign names
- Japanese: Warp gate (ワープゲート wāpu gēto)
