Savannah

Pictured: every single freaking night of the Savannites' lives.

Savannah is the largest city in Chatham County, Georgia, and was Georgia's original state capital. It is one of the most important strategic locations in the entire United States of America, with the Transformers constantly battling over dominance of it. (Insurance rates in Savannah must be terrible.)

Located near to it is the Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport.

Fiction

Titan movie comics

In a divergent timeline, the Decepticons succeeded at Mission City and conquered the United States. Once Megatron captured and bonded with the All Spark, he planned to use it to reformat Earth into a technological world (the anti-Primal!). For absolutely no reason at all, he decided to place the All Spark Power Distribution Hub in Savannah Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 2, with Bonecrusher and hordes of random drones as the guards.

As part of the Autobot attempt to save Earth and liberate the occupied United States of America, Ironhide and Ratchet attempted to infiltrate the Hub. Bonecrusher proved to be a rubbish guard and deliberately let them in, Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 3 which resulted in a massive battle upon the arrival of Autobot reinforcements. The All Spark was eventually destroyed, taking the Hub with it and leaving a whopping big hole in the middle of Savannah. Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 4 Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 5

Following the liberation of America, the Autobots decided to set up an open-air field bivouac while they searched for All Spark fragments; NATO forces began massing on the outskirts as a result. The town itself was still badly damaged from the Decepticons, and an army-patrolled refugee shelter had to be set up. The shelter's medical tents soon began to take in a number of locals falling ill as a result of Earth's All Spark contamination.

The Decepticons attacked the shelter so that when the Autobots arrived to help, they would be wiped out by NATO, as the field commander was under Decepticon mind control. Thanks to Bumblebee and Mikaela Banes, the plan was foiled. Aftermath Part 1 Aftermath Part 2

The Autobots field bivouac developed into a large, well-stocked base. Dark Spark Savannah itself appeared to be rebuilding, with the airport functioning and normal traffic existing on the roads. All of this turned out to be totally pointless, as when the Autobots temporarily vacated and left a Decepticon-controlled Mikaela in charge, Starscream seized the base. Return to Cybertron: Part 3

Savannah rapidly became the centre of the Decepticon Heartland, six hundred square miles of Decepticon territory, with all humans evicted from their homes (which got bombed to frag). Return to Cybertron: Part 4 The returning Autobots were forced to leave Savannah in Decepticon hands. Hard Target They made a brief return to rescue Mikaela, causing quite a bit of damage in the process. The Decepticon Who Haunted Himself

Notes

• Savannah's usage embodies a trend by Simon Furman, mainly in Titan but also in parts of IDW, of using more obscure locations in America over the more famous ones. (Granted, Savannah is hardly unknown, but it's no Atlanta.) Did you know there was a Sylacauga in Alabama? You will now!

External links

• Savannah, Georgia at Wikipedia