Autobot City is the home base and primary headquarters of the Autobots on Earth. It is currently located in the deserts of Nevada.
Overview[]
Autobot City on Earth is the center of operations for the Autobots, and the primary base following damage done to the Ark. Large enough to house possibly hundreds of Transformers it has laboratories, communications decks, command centers, and meeting rooms. It also has the ability to transform into a heavily armored fortress capable of holding off a sustained full-force Decepticon attack for over 24 hours. A smaller sub-section of the city can transform into the giant Autobot warrior, Metroplex. [1]
The city's communications tower transforms into Six-Gun. One of the buildings transforms into a tank called Slammer.
DESIGN NOTE[]
"Autobot City looks like a federal energy project gone mad. Here, the Autobots are trying to exploit every known means of getting energy. The mountain is covered with solar panels, windmills spin in the valley, oil derricks pump, and not far away a hydroelectric dam catches millions of volts. Near all of these various things are energon compressors, which turn the raw energy into energon cubes.
IN THE BACKGROUND of these scenes, we should see various panel truck-type Autobots cruise up in auto mode to stacks of this energon, convert to humanoid mode, load up their vans, then convert to Auto mode again and drive the Energon into Autobot City.
In short, it should be clear that the purpose of Autobot City is to harvest energy." [2]
"CROWS NEST" LOOKOUT TOWER[]
The "Crows Nest" is the Autobot communications hub in Autobot City. It has windows all around and Blaster's seat rotates so he can watch action and broadcast battle reports like a Top 40 Deejay.[3]
Location[]
Autobot City - Lookout Mountain
Built by Grapple and Wheeljack in 1986, Autobot City was originally located near Lookout Mountain, in the Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee tri-state area.
Logs[]
1979[]
- December 24 - "Christmas Eve Eve, 1979" - The Witwickys shop before Christmas.
1993[]
- "Repairing Relations" - A distressed Sparkplug continues to repair the perpetually injured Sunstreaker and finally vents his frustrations with a team that was once invincible in his eyes.
1999[]
- December 05 - "Petro Reports" - Jazz inquires of Petro's activities and origins.
2007[]
- February 19 - "Snoop Intro" - Blaster monitors tense radio chatter between Autobots and Decepticons while proudly introducing his playful minitape Snoop in Autobot City.
Snoop!
- June 06 - "Snoop finds a key" - Nothing is too well-hidden for Snoop to find.
- October 22 - "Snoop learns to use the radio!" - Snoop, a partial creation of Blaster, learns to use the radio by accidentally uploading a blurry video of herself to Teletraan II and later brings Blaster a "stick" and a "round thing" (which turns out to be a control for a Storm-bot), leading to a playful interaction where they dance together.
- December 18 - "Benin-Jeri comes clean" - Benin-Jeri reflects on the collision of past and future while standing on Autobot City's space platform, engaging in a cryptic conversation with Cuffs about time, identity, and belonging.
2009[]
- July 08 - "Benin-Jeri and Dust Devil" - Benin-Jeri tests the Junkion freighter V'ger, engages in witty banter with Dust Devil, and reflects on his role in guiding the Junkions away from the Autobot-Decepticon war, only to realize they may have been involved all along.
2013[]
- July 16 - "Daniel meets DJ" - Daniel makes a new friend.
- July 23 - "I'm OK... I'm OK...." - DJ tries hoverboarding for the first time.
2021[]
Lady Jaye
- December 24 - "Christmas Eve in Autobot City" - Lady Jaye sneaks away for a holiday visit to her family.
History[]
MUX History[]
Autobot City has been moved several times. It is currently located in the Nevada Desert, away from human settlements, where it collects geothermal and solar energy to limit the Autobots' reliance on fossil fuels.
For a time in 2007, Autobot City functioned as a space station in Earth's orbit.
In 2009, Optimus Prime proposed moving it back to Lookout Mountain so the Autobots can have a more centrally located base of operation. However, the opening of a rift in Wheeljack's lab prevented the city from being moved or from even transforming, a tactical weakness that, luckily for the Autobots, was never discovered or exploited by the Decepticons.
In 2014, Metroplex was infected by the Arkeville virus, and Autobot City was taken over by the Decepticons. Ghost possessed his automatic systems, taking control of the entire city. In November of that year, Metroplex was finally freed of the virus's effects and Ghost's possession, but what lingering effects Metroplex will face from the ordeal are not yet fully understood.
When the location of the Pit VII became known to Cobra, putting Nebraska civilians in danger from another full-on attack, the Autobots temporarily sheltered G.I. Joe in Autobot City until Pit III was reactivated.
Armaments[]
Battlestation mode
When in defense mode, Autobot City is armed with numerous laser cannons, missile launchers and double blast doors to keep Decepticon invaders out.
Even in city mode, Autobot City is well-armed, although the buildings are more vulnerable to aerial strikes.
References[]
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