Airborne hunter squad
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- This airborne hunter squad comprises eight Decepticons from the Marvel portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Under Shockwave's rule in the year 2007, Decepticon troops are organised into airborne hunter squads with hunter-seeker skyship alternate modes. They are cruel and arrogant killers who will even go after the leader of the Autobots if the opportunity presents itself.
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Fiction
Marvel The Transformers comics
During a battle on Cybertron, Rodimus Prime, Kup, Blurr, and Wreck-Gar were caught out in the open and outnumbered two-to-one by an airborne hunter squad. The gloating Decepticons hit them with a volley of missiles, apparently taking out Kup and Blurr, then transformed to face the Autobot and Junkion leaders and taunt them further, asking that they beg for their lives. Rodimus assured them they would get no such satisfaction from him, and told them to do their worst as they prepared to fire.
They were never to get the chance. Prime had stationed Ultra Magnus, Jazz, Bumblebee, and Cliffjumper nearby and at his word they cut down half the Decepticons where they stood. The others made a break for it, only to find their way blocked by Kup and Blurr who had been playing roboto-possum. His comrades falling around him, the panicked leader Ferak ran back to fall at Rodimus Prime's feet begging for mercy (and unwittingly stirring up disturbing memories for Rodimus) but the Autobot had no mercy to give and executed the Decepticon on the spot. To his credit, he did agonise about it afterwards to Kup. Wanted: Galvatron — Dead or Alive!
Notes
- Though most likely just a bunch of generic Decepticon redshirts, the airborne hunter squad might represent a future evolution of the hunter-seeker skyships, the generic Decepticon redshirts seen on present-day Cybertron in an earlier issue. In fact, one of the hunter-seekers, Ferak, was briefly seen to have an incarnation in the IDW 2005-2018 continuity, where he was drawn with an airborne-hunter-squad-like robot mode. James Roberts, co-author of that issue, confirmed the intention.[1]
- Ferak's background information in the Last Stand of the Wreckers hardcover goes further and hints the airborne hunter squad's leader may well be Ferak himself, who might've survived his encounter with Blaster.
- Ask Vector Prime would complete the circle, declaring canonically that Ferak was the bot in question and that Airborne hunter squads turn into hunter-seeker skyships.
