Graviton (Classics)
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| This article is about the retrofitted Decepticon battlecruiser. For the Hellflame Mini-Con, see Graviton (Cybertron). |
- The Graviton is an Autobot starship from the Classics portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Millions of years ago, before Optimus Prime and his Autobots left on their voyage that would leave them stranded on Earth, the rebellious Grimlock and his gang snuck into a Decepticon spaceport and stole a whole fleet of ships. Why? Why not! They were bored. In case Grimlock decided to secede from the Autobots and form his own group, he stowed them in the Rad Zone, where nobody'd look.
There they'd stay, until after the chaos-bringer Unicron had ravaged their planet, Cybertron, and the Decepticons abandoned the Autobots on their dying world. Plucking the stolen ships out of storage, Grimlock led the Autobots after the Decepticons to Klo, where the Decepticons were defeated and scattered.[1] Not satisfied, Grimlock retrofitted one surviving ship and dubbed it the Graviton, assembled a crew consisting of his Dinobots and a few others, and hunted Decepticons down, one by one.[2]
The crew includes:
- Grimlock (Commander)
- Ultra Magnus (Substitute Commander)
- Springer (Security Chief)
- Huffer (Chief Engineer)
- Elita One
- Snarl
- Tyrannitron
- Swoop
- Strongarm
- Slag (resigned)
- Sludge (resigned)
- Silverbolt
- Ironhide
- Prowl
Fiction
Classics
As Earth was pulled into an alternate universe, the Graviton and the Decepticon ship Talon were also pulled through and arrived over that universe's native Earth during prehistoric times. Continuing their fight, both ships sustained heavy damage and crashed. The Graviton's engines were totaled in the crash, but sensors and shields were still operational. Prowl activated the shields when he discovered that the local raw energon was emitting radiation hazardous to their systems. Shattered Time During the crash, one of the ship's security storage rooms was damaged, resulting in them losing three stasis pods Shattered Expectations and the energy purifier. They later tied Depth Charge's probes into the ship's sensor monitors so they could more effectively search for the Origin Matrix. Shattered Hope
References
- ↑ "Exodus!", "A Savage Circle", "End of the Road!"
- ↑ The story of the Graviton was told in Classics Grimlock's profile, published in the Transformers Collectors' Club magazine. The Classics story takes place in a post-Marvel Comics universe where Generation 2 did not happen.
