1988 Autobot Roster (Transformers Essence20 rpg)
This article is based on my Transformers: MASK '88 campaign and is not indicative of anyone else's standard G1-themed Transformers scenario. AUTOBOT ROSTER Being a list of the Transformers known to currently occupy Earth as of the Earth Standard Year 1988. The Ark has 300 Autobot crew and passengers aboard during its initial launch. To conserve their dwindling resources, most of the passengers are placed into stasis-lock and stored in stasis pods, while the remaining crew take rotating shifts between stasis-lock and active status during the 73,000 years of travel between Cybertron and Earth. Several dozen Autobots suffer permanent off-line during the voyage, as well as the irregular attacks by the Decepticon starship Nemesis . Many of these fatalities occur during the battle over Earth, as the two ships plunge into the atmosphere. The Ark crashlands into the side of Mount St. Hilary, while the Nemesis crashlands somewhere in the mountains of South America. In 1984, the crew aw...