Ammonite
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From a distant world come theAmmonites,a faction ofStentariansembroiled in a sixteen million year-long war with their sworn enemies, theTerradores.TheGalactic Councilwas formed in response to their conflict, specifically after an event known as theGreat Shattering.Much likeTransformers,these tiny mechanoids are eerie parallels of Cybertronians, capable oftransformingandcombining.But unlike Transformers, the normally diminutive Ammonites are "omnicombinational": every Ammonite can merge with their comrades into just about any shape imaginable, with no upward limit on the size of the gestalt. And when your army is a good seventy billion 'bots strong, you can bet those are some slagging big combiners.
On occasion, they've been mistaken for miniatureDecepticons,leading some to dub them "Minicons".
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Fiction
2005 IDW continuity
"Ha! Paper covers rock!"
"Darn it!"
At some point a group of Ammonites infiltrated the crew of theVis Vitalisposing as theAutobotPaddox,in order to pass secrets and weapons technology back to their own people.
While taking shore leave on the planetHedonia,Whirl,Skids,andRewindencountered a group of Ammonites led by16444/9.After a brief bragging match in which the Autobots found themselves hopelessly outclassed, they settled down for a drink together and learned that the Ammonites were on Hedonia to keep a low profile and looking to buy a new ship to throw the Terradores off their trail. When they were interrupted by the arrival of a Terradorian warcruiser carrying their leaderImperius Drax,Whirl simply marched outside and killed him on the spot, showing the Ammonites how to bring sixteen million years of war to an end.
The next Terradorian leader was so determined to win that, from the Ammonite point of view, he risked destroying their planet. The panicked Ammonites organized for one final big push, with all deep cover agents ordered to steal anything that could give them an edge and come back for active service. Aboard theLost LightwithThunderclash's crew, Paddox revealed his true nature and attempted to seize the ship, with the intention of taking itsquantum generatorsback to the Ammonites to vastly improve their spacefaring technology. He was eventually defeated whenSwerveknocked him into his component Ammonites withRung'salternate mode.Little Victories
As part of his ultimate plan,Shockwavereached out to the Ammonites, in exchange for helping to end their war. Part of the deal included following theLost Light,which they began doing shortly after their encounter with the mad Chief Justice Tyrest, along with acting to cripple the ship if it began to do anything that would interfere in Shockwave's plan. While he did that, Shockwave also made sure any Ammonite who mentioned his name would go up like a firecracker.The Dead Are Not Enough
At some point after that, a thousand-strong force of Ammonites foundMetroplextravelling through space and attacked him, searching for the sample ofOre-7hidden somewhere inside him. However, while they were searching him Metroplex hid the ore in one of his thumbs and shot it into space. Once they realized the target of their search wasn't there, they infected him with a sample ofOre-2,whichUltra Magnuslater suspected was on orders from Shockwave.The Becoming
While searching for Metroplex, theLost Lightwound up on an oceanic planet, surrounded by the two thousand and twenty-six Ammonites who'd been following them,Winners & Losershaving hitched a ride in the quantum slipstream, only for it to expose their presence.The Dead Are Not EnoughWhen Ultra Magnus opened hailing frequencies, trying to explain what theLost Lightwas doing, they opened fire (specifically, the minute Magnus mentioned Metroplex). The Autobots quickly responded in kind. A particularly large amount of the Ammonites merged into one gargantuan form, and went after the ship's fuel quills, only to be quickly fired on by a shot from theRodpod.However, this only changed the target of their attack, and they transformed into a large ammonite form to pursue the smaller vessel, until it fled down what at first sight appeared to be an abyss, but which in fact was Metroplex's eye socket.Into the AbyssUnbeknownst to them, an Ammonite had been hiding behind the Rodpod, and while it's crew was occupied navigating Metroplex's shifting interior, it had been rigging up some explosives. Once noted, it detonated them.No Exit
Back with theLost Light,the remaining Ammonites had breached the ship, only for them to pull outen masseand head for Metroplex. Whirl, meanwhile, had caught the saboteur and beaten a confession out of him. He told the Autobots about what he and his compatriots had been doing, only to promptly and involuntarily explode on mentioning Shockwave.The Dead Are Not Enough
The remaining two-thousand or so other Ammonites quickly burst in on the Rodpod's crew conversing withsome otherrobots,who quickly fled the scene with Ultra Magnus andRatchet.When the Autobots managed to use theLost Light'squantum engines to leave the ocean world,Burning Brightthe Ammonites came with him. Soon, they overcame the Autobots fighting them. Then, thanks to Megatron, Metroplex was reinvigorated, and his immune system immediately killed the intruders.Finis Temporis
As Shockwave made his final move, preparing to compress all of time and space into a singularity, he summoned all seventy billion of the Ammonites to attack Cybertron.The BecomingThey quickly attacked the surface, a small section going to theLost Light,while some went for Metroplex. The majority seemed to form a protective wall between Iacon and the Crystal City, where Shockwave's base of operations lay.Black PlanetAs the battle raged on, theLost Lightmanaged to get rid of around ten thousand Ammonites. However, the source of the Ammonite's power proved their undoing, for Shockwave fuelled them using the perfect balance of his ores. When the temporarily revived Metalhawk managed to use his own link to them to throw the balance off, the Ammonites all spectacularly exploded....And the Damage Done
Beast Wars: Uprising
The Ammonites resided in theAndromeda Galaxy.Some centuries after the end of theGrand Uprising,Cybertronian travel to their galaxy precipitated an Ammonite invasion. Whatever the result was, it was enough to make theConvoy Councilforbid extra-galactic travel from then on.The Inexorable March
Games
Transformers Legends
Some Ammonites attacked theLost Lightand a Decepticon starship near a planet, and were defeated by a combined Autobot/Decepticon alliance, shortly before said alliance fell apart and the Autobots and Decepticons turned on each other.Into the Abyss
Toys
Generations
- Released in theGenerationsDeluxe Class assortment, theMini-Con Assault Teamis composed ofWindshear,Heavytread,andRunway,who can also combine to formCenturitron.Although their packaging and tampographed insignia give their faction asMini-Con,the characters appear among the Ammonites oncover AofMore than Meets the Eye#24(the same issue alsoincludedwith the figures, albeit with a different cover), and Centuritron himself shows up among an army of Ammonites on the final page ofissue #27.
Notes
- Unbeknownst to the Transformers, they are popularly known as theEvilAmmonites (as opposed to theHeroicTerradores) and as such are analogous to theDecepticons.It looks like Whirl took the wrong side.
- Paddox refers to their forces as scattered.
- In real life, Ammonites are either anextinct group of molluscs(likeDead End) or anancient tribe from Biblical times.Given that they combine into a giant shellfish in "Into the Abyss", these Ammonites are most likely named after the former.
- Among the edits (mostly for tone and language) thepack-in versionsof theDark Cybertronissues available with theGenerations Thrilling 30Deluxe Class figureswere subjected to, the name "Ammonites" was frequently (but not consistently) changed to "Minicons".
