Fortress Sinister
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- The Fortress Sinister is a Decepticon base from the Marvel portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
The Fortress Sinister is a Decepticon base built at the summit of a mountain in Oregon. Its greatest feature is the massive foundation of irony on which it stands; it was built out of a nuclear power plant during a Decepticon energy crisis.
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Marvel The Transformers comics
Shortly after arriving on Earth, the Decepticons attacked the Harrison Nuclear Power Plant and stripped it of useful technology. They then used the materials salvaged from the plant to build a giant fortress atop a nearby mountain. Power Play!
Desperate for fuel, they then kidnapped Sparkplug Witwicky, brought him to the fortress, and attempted to force him into synthesising Transformer fuel from oil. (Sparkplug, in turn, noticed that the Decepticons had stripped down a nuclear power plant to build their fortress in order to "hack it out like cavemen".) Gears and the human superhero Spider-Man later infiltrated the fortress and managed to rescue Sparkplug. However, Gears was sent plummeting from one of the upper floors to the ground and was badly damaged when Megatron blew a hole in the floor of the fortress. Prisoner of War!
The fortress was later abandoned when Shockwave took control of the Decepticons away from Megatron and set up base first in the captured Ark, The New Order then later at the Blackrock Aerospace Assembly Plant Number One. Shockwave was nice enough to come to the same conclusion as Sparkplug about the fortress's impractical construction, and he shared the obvious with a recuperating and enraged Megatron. The Worse of Two Evils!
Following Megatron's disappearance and Shockwave sinking to the bottom of a swamp, Soundwave took command of the Decepticons and reoccupied the fortress. From here, he coordinated a plan to destroy Optimus Prime by using a captured Bumblebee as bait. Crisis of Command!
Following his return, Shockwave operated out of a "makeshift fortress". Plight of the Bumblebee!
Following Shockwave’s return, he also returned to the fortress. During this period, Buster Witwicky attempted to use an experimental robotic battlesuit to infiltrate the fortress and show Optimus Prime that the suit was a good idea. He came face to face with Shockwave and narrowly escaped with his life. Robot Buster!
Shockwave continued to use the fortress as a base, where he tested the newly developed Constructicons and eavesdropped on the premonitions granted to Buster by the Creation Matrix relating to the next generation of combiners. Devastation Derby!
After Megatron returned, Soundwave managed to engineer a joint leadership between him and Shockwave, which resulted in the fortress being abandoned for their long-term base in a coal mine in Wyoming.
The fortress then remained unoccupied for many years, until Shockwave once again used it following Ratbat's assumption of the command of the main Decepticon force. Shockwave took the remaining Decepticons back the fortress.
It was here that he developed his plan to use Megatron as a weapon against Galvatron. Salvage! Having brainwashed Megatron into a weapon, he tested him against Cyclonus and Scourge after they revealed that they would be responsible for Shockwave’s death in the future. Megatron killed Cyclonus, and Scourge barely escaped with his life. Dry Run!
This foreknowledge led Shockwave to have a breakdown, and he mounted the body of Cyclonus on the wall as a trophy. Shockwave then descended into a depression and closeted himself away inside the fortress.
It was only when Ravage appealed to Shockwave’s logic that he left the fortress and cast the body of Cyclonus into a time rift that threatened reality. The fortress thereafter played no further part in events, and its fate remains unknown. Time Wars
The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual
Shortly after awakening aboard the Ark, the Decepticons built Fortress Sinister from the remains of a nuclear power plant. It was a replica of another Fortress Sinister on Cybertron. From Cybertron to Earth the War Continues...
Notes
- The name "Fortress Sinister" is only found in the Marvel UK material. In Marvel US, it was referred to commonly as the "Decepticon fortress". While 'Fortress sinister' may merely have been intended as a poetic description, it is objectively an awesome name.
