abstract
| - Autroopers are a group of human-created artificial Transformers that serve the Earth Defense Command. 48 Autroopers are known to exist in the Tokyo Autrooper Team, divided into 12 squads, each named after one of the signs of the Chinese Zodiac. Autroopers are physically identical to one another apart from their squad markings. They are armed with rifles that fire Kremzeek bullets and can convert into the alternate mode of a police-style Mazda RX-8. Each Autrooper is assigned a Kiss Player partner by the E.D.C. These young women serve a very important purpose. In times of crisis, a Kiss Player will kiss her Autrooper, activating a power that lets her merge with the much larger robot, bestowing upon it enhanced combat and regenerative abilities. If the merge's time limit expires, the Kiss Player is disgorged from her partner unconscious, naked and covered in viscous fluid. It is so far unknown what a voluntary separation entails. Autroopers are often dispatched to the scene of Transformers-related incidents. This usually brings them into conflict with Legion attackers, but they also sometimes find themselves battling or pursuing anti-E.D.C. resistance fighters such as Optimus Prime, Hot Rodimus, and their human partners. Autroopers have an as-yet undisclosed connection to the same ParasiTech fusion process that Legion units use. One Autrooper partially fused with the corpse of Optimus Prime before Marissa Faireborn interceded. This fusion caused the resurrected Prime to suffer nightmares of his old enemy Megatron, suggesting a link between the Autroopers and the Galvatron-derived Legion army. This link would eventually bear fruit as the Autroopers went rogue and merged to reconstitute Galvatron's body. Note: The name "Autrooper" is a pun on the English words "auto" and "trooper". The name has been officially rendered in English as both "Autorooper" and "Autolooper". The spelling used here is the closest transliteration that keeps the spirit of the pun intact.
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