City-dweller
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- The city-dwellers are a robot species from a micro-continuity of the Generation 1 continuity family.
The city-dwellers are an advanced pacifistic offshoot of humanity living in a hidden city a mile below Antarctica. They have conquered their emotions and, at the dawn of the new millennium, are ready to join with Transformers and humanity to teach them how to live in peace... or so they would have us believe.
In reality, the city-dwellers are cold, calculating robots. For millions of years they have hidden on Earth, studying the planets. They seek to study the "warrior-factor" and program it into themselves to become an unstoppable race of conquerors, beginning with Earth!
The city-dwellers appear to be tall fair-skinned humans. Though they have studied the appearance of humanity through viewing screens, they are easily given away by an insensitivity to extremes in temperature—touch being one of the things the screens could not show them. They are led by the Watcher.
Fiction
Battle Beneath the Ice
The city-dwellers came to Earth millions of years ago, constructing a hidden city a mile below the Antarctic ice.
In the year 2000, the city was discovered by the Federation of Western Europe while drilling for oil. Being pretty effeminate Europeans, they naturally called the Americans for help, and Cal-Tech sent over some Autobots on a plane.
The city-dwellers shot the plane down, killing most on board, and pretended the Decepticons were responsible. They planned to study the ensuing battle between the Autobots and Decepticons as the basis for their new combat-programming.
The city-dwellers planned to download advanced combat techniques directly into their minds by observing the Cybertronians. Thanks to Ravage and Jeff Grey, they were instead mentally reprogrammed en-masse, to act like 'toons. Battle Beneath the Ice
