Jetfire

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**Jetfire** is a Cybertronian Transformer who was a member of the Autobots.

## Biography

In the mid-1500s, at the height of the Great War, Jetfire was contacted by Thunderwing in his capacity as a scientist along with several others regardless of allegiance—Perceptor, Soundwave, Swerve, and Mixmaster. Thunderwing had come to the conclusion that the war had ravaged Cybertron beyond the point of sustainability and that the planet was dying.

Seven hundred or so stellar-cycles later, Jetfire commanded the Science/Survey Vessel *Calabi-Yau* with the Technobots as his crew. While monitoring Cybertron from orbit, Nosecone detected an energy reading from the seemingly dead planet causing Jetfire to lead Scattershot, Strafe, and Lightspeed to the surface to investigate. They found the readings coming from the vicinity of Thunderhead Pass, causing them to realize that whatever was happening could have been related to Thunderwing's previous rampage.

With the particle storm threatening to overtake them, Jetfire tried to call the *Calabi-Yau* for extraction. However, the Decepticon Finback ambushed them, using light-warping armor to hide himself. Lightspeed and Strafe were taken out first, but Jetfire and Scattershot began firing wildly in an attempt to hit their ambusher. However, all they did was catalyze the particle mass, causing their shields to shut down and their systems to overload. Finback was able to incapacitate them both. When Jetfire came to, he found several Decepticons, led by Bludgeon, worshipping the inert form of Thunderwing.

Jetfire implored Bludgeon not to reawaken Thunderwing, telling him that there was no way he could control it. Bludgeon told him that he did not seek to control Thunderwing, but would instead guide and imprint his will on entity to guide it to targets of his choosing. Bludgeon intended to sacrifice entire worlds in an effort to appease the spirit of Cybertron, and hoped to bring about the world's restoration. Bludgeon admonished Jetfire for having been warned about the damage to Cybertron ahead of time and doing nothing. Jetfire realized that Bludgeon was attempting to replicate Thunderwing's polydermal grafting process. Attempting to escape, Jetfire was subdued and taken to his fellow Autobots who were intended to be used as raw materials for the process.

Jetfire was rescued by Roadbuster and Whirl when the Wreckers arrived to stop Bludgeon's plans. Taken to Optimus Prime, Jetfire told him to destroy the axis cradle, hoping that it would be the means to stop Thunderwing's rampage. In the aftermath of the battle, Jetfire began searching through Bludgeon's data, including information on Ultra-Energon. With Thunderwing returning to Cybertron, Jetfire attempted to break into Bludgeon's files to find some way to stop the entity. Eventually, Jetfire gave up on that course of action, and with the help of the Technobots studied the Ultra-Energon itself. Finding that the fuel source was feeding on itself, Jetfire surmised it was only meant to be used for short durations. The greater the effort expended, the fast the fuel was consumed. With Jetfire's recommendation, Prime led a force of Centurion Drones into battle against Thunderwing to make him burn through his energy reserves. With Thunderwing stopped, Jetfire began studying the entity and Bludgeon's research, finding that Ultra-Energon was part of a galactic seeding program called Regenesis. He told Prime that the trail led to a planet called Earth.

## Appearances

* *The Transformers: Stormbringer #1* (First appearance)
* *The Transformers: Stormbringer #2*
* *The Transformers: Stormbringer #3*
* *The Transformers: Stormbringer #4*

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 *The Transformers: Stormbringer #1*
2. ↑ *The Transformers: Stormbringer #2*
3. ↑ *The Transformers: Stormbringer #3*
4. ↑ *The Transformers: Stormbringer #4*