2002

Events

January

Valour

• January 6 - "Phasing Inquiry" - Valour has some questions on a missing device.

February

• February 13 - Spectre takes over the Decepticons.

• "Obedience Training": Recently purchased from bounty hunters, Lockpick finds himself the subject of alien "experimentation" at the tentacles of Dealiticus...

• There was an explosion and fire in Wheeljack's lab. The automatic sprinklers didn't come on.

• Someone stole Metroplex's transformation cog.

• Uplift went missing and should probably be considered dangerous, possibly under Unicron's control.

February 27

Typhoon

• "Verbal Bitchslap" - Typhoon visits her fellow Autobots in the repair bay.
• "Discussion with Rupture" -

  

  Valour

  The Decepticons discuss the sacrifice of Autobot double-agent Uplift.

March

• March 06 - "Enjoying the Weather" - Typhoon heads outside to enjoy a lovely day in the desert.

Dealiticus

• March 06 - "New Employee Training" - Dealiticus makes a few adjustments to Lockpick.

April

Unicron

• April 1 - Unicron returns as an OOC April Fool's Joke.
• April 1 - Deanna Bourne "born" on Cobra Island
• April 10 - "Visiting Mel on Campus" - Katie pops into Cedar City to look for Mel.

May

• May 16 - "Informal Joe Meeting at the Sizzler" - The Joes meet up at the Sizzler, and things get surprisingly serious.

Stuart Finlay

• May 23 - "Finlay" - Laird Destro has a mission for Metal-Head.

June

Melinda Lossman

• June 13 - "Driving with Katie" - At a bus station in Cedar City, Mel meets up with Katie and her children for a summer road trip, discussing potential destinations including Autobot City while loading music for their journey.

Katie Sorensen

• June 21 - "Sci-Fi BS" - In a Weatherford, Oklahoma hotel, Katie, Mel, Denise, and Marcie’s morning banter and breakfast plans are interrupted by the arrival of eccentric GI Joe operative Sci-Fi, who spins an increasingly outrageous string of tall tales about his past with Katie and secret Transformer origins, which Mel gullibly half-believes.

July

Stalker

• July 08 - "The Only Family We Have" - Stalker sits in the G.I. Joe Command Center reflecting on the difficulties of balancing family life with military service when Shipwreck enters, sparking a conversation about settling down versus the allure of adventure; their chat is interrupted by the silent arrival of a mournful Snake-Eyes, who eventually reveals to Stalker that their former Vietnam comrade, Tommy "Storm Shadow" Arashikage, has been assassinated by Cobra.

September

Scales

• September 11 - "Scales vs. Warthog" - Scales beats up a Decepticon!

November

• Flint and Lady Jaye's second child, DJ, was born in November of 2002.

Unknown

• "Battle at Easter Island"

• Skull Buster earns his codename and becomes Range-Viper Leader.

• The Decepticons took over St. Louis and controlled it for several months. Eventually a combined force of Autobots and G.I. Joe were able to free the city from Decepticon control.
• Autobot Striker is critically injured in battle and is taken offline, where he remains in a stasis-induced coma.