Chromedome

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Chromedome is the first of the representatives of the Cybertronian powerheads, who has shown himself to be an experienced fighter, leading his squad in the war against the Decepticons and helping Mankind.

## Personality

**Chromedome** is a comparatively quiet academic. Originally a number-cruncher at Cybertron's Institute for Higher Programming working on ways to improve the processing power of the Transformers' computerized minds, Chromedome found himself forcibly dragged into the Great War when a Decepticon attack destroyed the facility. Chromedome put his work to use programming Autobots so they could outsmart their Decepticon foes, but alas, only wound up fostering an intellectual arms race of sorts, in which both sides competed to repurpose the newest advances in programming into military advantages. Ground down over the years by this inevitability, Chromedome has come to accept that war with the Decepticons cannot be prevented—but only won. Well-versed in the mechanisms of the Cybertronian mind, Chromedome has been known to specialize in mnemosurgery, the science of manipulating the Transformer brain and the memories within.

As a quiet 'bot of the mind, Chromedome has a tendency to fade into the background, but there also exist universal streams in which he has foregone science and taken to the front lines of battle to become a much more prominent figure. The Chromedome of these worlds is barely recognisable as the reserved scientist of those more well-known realities: instead, he is a hot-headed youth burning with an incredible passion for justice who even serves as Fortress Maximus' trusted, if impulsive and occasionally-irrational, second-in-command

## Story

Four million years ago, Chromedome and his friends Jack and Abel were among a group of diminutive Cybertronians who departed Cybertron under the leadership of Fortress, seeking to escape the eternal war that had consumed the planet. The Mystery of Planet Master Alas, engine trouble caused their craft to crash-land on the planet Master, an inhospitable world whose murderous environments and wildly changeable atmospheric conditions threatened the lives of the Cybertronians almost as soon as they stepped off their ship and were caught in a desert of sinking sands. The need for survival fostered several technological advances, and the Cybertronians fought against the odds to make a life for themselves on the planet. The Four-Million-Year-Old Veil of Mystery This relative peace was eventually disrupted, however, when a shadowy ninja able to transform into six different modes attacked an energon mining facility on the planet. Abel tried to drive him off, only for the ninja to brutally murder Abel and his militia group in front of Chromedome's eyes. As he cradled his friend's dead body, Chromedome felt hatred towards evil-doers for the first time in his life and vowed vengeance against the Decepticon. Terror! The Six Shadows

When the scientists of Master made their next quantum leap of technology with the creation of larger, lifeless Transformer bodies called Transtectors, Chromedome and many of his comrades underwent rigorous physical and mental training to master the art of transformation, learning to transform into heads that connected to the Transtectors, placing them under their control. While Jack unfortunately washed out of the program, Miraculous Warriors, Targetmasters (Part 2) Chromedome was one of ten warriors who became one of these elite "Headmasters" (even if he *did* have a little trouble getting his Transtector to transform the first time out). Unfortunately, half their number soon rebelled against Fortress's leadership, siding against him with a traitor named Scorponok, who soon forged an alliance with the Decepticon leader, Galvatron.