M.T.O.
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- M.T.O.s or Made to Order Soldiers are a type of Transformer from the 2005 IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family
Made to Order Soldiers are soldiers who were constructed cold by either Autobot or Decepticon High Command from a stockpile of sparks in response to numerous military campaigns. They are named after the military campaign that precipitated their creation.
Known M.T.O.'s include:
- Ammo
- Ambulon of Operation Split Infin-
- Biteback
- Dipstick of Operation: Doom Patrol
- Genitus of Operation: Solar Storm
- Getaway of the Corcapsia Incursion
- Riptide of Simanzian Dawn
- Scattergun of the Fourth Vorsk Offensive
| “ | Three steps, Nautica: "from thaw to war in under an hour." | ” |
| —Skids, "Twenty Plus One" | ||
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Fiction
2005 IDW continuity
Before they were sent into battle, M.T.O.s had to go through a ten-step educational program that ensured that they had sufficient knowledge. As the war progressed, this was eventually cut down to eight steps, and then to just three: everything to do with Cybertron's culture was stripped out and the test merely checked if they could fight. A sarcastic Skids later put this down to callousness, the M.T.O.s being seen as cannon fodder by High Command and not worth teaching to read.
An M.T.O. is a hundred times more likely to have a mystical vision than any other Transformer; Ratchet attributes this to their senses being forced into action too early, the neurological equivalent of running before being able to walk.
Ammo (ten-steps) was constructed in response to an attack on K'th Kinsere, whilst Riptide (eight-steps) was constructed as a Hydrobot in response to an event called the Forced Flood. Getaway was brought online and deployed in the middle of a heated battle over Corcapsia.
With members of the Lost Light's crew disappearing rapidly, Nightbeat attempted to link the victims by method of construction. Despite it being unnecessary, Getaway revealed to everyone else present that he was a M.T.O., constructed in response to the Corcapsia Incursion. This prompted the other M.T.O.s on the Rodpod (Ammo, Dipstick, and Riptide) to reveal the events that led to their own creation. The number of M.T.O.s on the ship made Nautica muse that a lot of Autobots owed their lives to Megatron. Twenty Plus One
At least some Decepticon M.T.O.s were constructed using raw material from Autobots who were captured and murdered. Speak, Memory! (Part 2) Ambulon was a known Decepticon M.T.O., but neither the exact campaign for which he was created nor what kind of educational program he might have received are known. The Not Knowing
Notes
- While getting his snark on, Skids says M.T.O.s have a three-minute life expectancy. This is probably an exaggeration.
