Teletraan I

Teletraan I is the name of several fictional characters in several Transformers universes. Teletraan I is usually the Autobots' computer on board their spaceship called the Ark.

Transformers: Generation 1

Teletraan I

Autobot
Function	The Ark on board ship computer.
Alternate Modes	"Sky Spy" (a probe that reformats Transformers).
Series	Transformers: Generation 1 Transformers Transformers: Prime Beast Wars Transformers: The Headmasters
English voice actor	Casey Kasem Frank Welker (Teletraan II)
Japanese voice actor	Masashi Ebara Yoku Shioya (Teletraan II)

Teletraan I is the supercomputer that is stored upon the Autobot's spacecraft, the Ark. It serves as a principal diagnostic center, a control center, and as a surveillance system through its control of the Sky Spy satellite, as well as a giant database for the Autobots.

Marvel Comics

Note: Stories from the U.K. Transformers series are in italics.

The Ark's computer is called Aunty in Marvel Comics stories. Aunty first appeared in issue #1 called "The Transformers". In this stroy, she reformats the Autobots however she wasn't fully reaweakened. In the U.K. Marvel story "Raiders of the last Ark", Aunty reawoke and made her single most major role in the series. In this story, she defeats the Decepticons attacking the Ark. Aunty is not explicitly mentioned by name after this, but the Ark and its systems had many more appearances.

In issue #4, Aunty automated the Autobots' use of the "Tubes of Transference", in issue #60 called "Yesterday's Heroes!", Optimus Prime talks to Aunty about the presumed death of Ratchet, and in issue #2 of the Transformers: Generation 2 comics called "All or Nothing!", the Ark was destroyed, putting an end to whatever may have been left of Aunty. Unlike Teletraan I, Aunty is portrayed as being female. She is the first instance of Cybertronian gender in the Marvel Comics series, despite that Arcee would be introduced later as the first (and only) Female Transformer in this series.

Animated series

Teletraan I was a minor character in the series, appearing primary in Seasons 1 and 2. Teletraan I is credited for reformatted the Autobots and Decepticons after millions years after crashing down to earth. Teletraan I was also deactivated in that time, but was reactivates after the volcano the Ark had crashed into has a minor eruption. The eruption also triggers one of Teletraan I's protocols, search and repair, which sends out the "Sky Spy" satellite to scan holographic images of Earth vehicles for the repair part of the protocol, integrating the new vehicle forms into the Transformers' systems as they are repaired. After the first Decepticon (Skywarp) is revived, he immediately restores Megatron, who then orders the rest of the Decepticons to follow. The Decepticons find their way out of the Ark, and Starscream blasts the volcano, causing a rock slide that reseals the exit, trapping the Autobots within. The blast causes Optimus Prime to fall into the line of Teletraan I's repair equipment, which results in his revival as a blue and red semi-trailer. After he is restored, he starts the revival of his companions, the other Autobot warriors.

Teletraan II was Teletraan I's replacement in the third season of G1, after the Ark and Teletraan I were destroyed by Trypticon. Voice actor Casey Kasem left the series, and Frank Welker became the voice of Teletraan II. In Transformers: The Headmasters, Teletraan I is rebuilt and is seen being used in Autobot City. After that Teletraan I would also appear in several japanese manga and cartoon storylines such as The Stargate Battles: Activation, 15 Go! Go!, and Scramble City: Mobilization. The 15 Go! Go! storyline, would even introduced Teletraan 10 and Teletraan 15, artificial intelligence being created as successors to Teletraan I.

Devil's Due Publishing

Teletraan I would appear in the G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers storyline, along with a new version of the computer as well, called Teletraan 3. While Teletraan I was the Ark's computer, Teletraan 3 was a pod-like machine which created wormholes.

Transformers: Robots in Disguise

T-Ai

Autobot
Japanese name	Ai-Chan
Sub-group	Female Transformers
Function	Director of Space Bridge; activates Battle Protocols; manages operations at Autobot base.
Alternate Modes	Avatar of a young japanese policewoman.
Series	Transformers: Robots in Disguise
English voice actor	Sandy Fox
Japanese voice actor	Chieko Higuchi

T-Ai, her name being an abbreviated form of "Tactical Artificial Intelligence", is the sentient computer program which runs the day-to-day operations of the Autobots' base, manning and directing the Global Spacebridge and activating Battle Protocols, selecting suitable members for the mission at hand.

She is reportedly the "daughter" of the Teletraan I computer system of the RiD universe. What exactly this means is unknown. She keeps tabs on events across Earth, coordinates Autobot forces across the globe, maintains the elaborate Space Bridge network, and generally keeps things running smoothly at the base (or as smoothly as possible considering the variety of odd personalities that make up the Autobot ranks).

To interact with other beings, T-Ai manifests herself as a holographic avatar resembling a young human girl in a maroon uniform, similar to that of a Japanese policewoman, which seems have caught the eye of Koji (who, in the Japanese version, is the only character to affectionately refer to her as "Ai-Chan"). She is an incredibly advanced computer that displays distinct emotions, self-awareness, a sense of humor, and -perhaps most notably- the ability to lose her patience. She is quick to verbally berate any Autobot found shirking their duties - usually Side Burn.

Animated series

T-AI's first major action on Earth was to initiate Battle Protocol and send the Autobot Brothers to New York City. A short time later, Optimus Prime brought Koji Onishi to visit the base—Koji's father had been kidnapped by Megatron. On being introduced to T-AI, Koji attempted to shake hands with her and fell through the holographic projection. The boy stuck around with T-AI to monitor the currently-developing situation—the Predacons were trying to steal an explosive device from a car.

T-AI would continue to monitor odd goings-on, such as a series of suspicious train wrecks which turned out to have been caused by the Predacons. The only Autobot she tended to have problems with was Side Burn, a notorious slacker who would often be out chasing red sports cars rather than go to the assignments given to him. On one occasion Side Burn turned out to be actually doing something useful—exploring some ruins with Koji. As a result of this adventure, a computer microchip owned by Doctor Onishi was discovered, and T-AI set about extracting information from it.

It wasn't unusual for Side Burn to cut off contact altogether, which is probably why T-AI didn't immediately panic when he was captured by the Predacons. Once Prowl and X-Brawn alerted her to the situation, T-AI dispatched the Spy Changers to assist in rescuing both Side Burn and Optimus. On another occasion one of the Spy Changers, Mirage appeared to have left the Autobot ranks but in reality had pretended to defect and had located Megatron's "Mega-Laser Cannon". T-AI was able to extend the Global Space Bridge, allowing the Spy Changers to use the sphere formation to destroy the laser.

When new Autobot arrival Skid-Z went missing, T-AI was able to download his scanner log and determine that, as suspected, the Autobot had become contaminated with Auggie Cahnay's psychotropic energy, giving him the urge to compete in races. She warned the other Autobots that they needed to get Skid-Z back to headquarters for decontamination or he would burn out his circuits. Tow-Line's introduction didn't go much better. Shortly after his arrival, T-AI lost contact with Side Burn, X-Brawn and Rapid Run—Tow-Line had gone renegade and abducted the trio. She coordinated with Optimus and Prowl to track down the rogue Autobot.

Puzzled by the Predacons' interest in statues, T-AI dispatched the Autobot Brothers to the Cave of the Dragon, which Koji had a hunch was involved. There Side Burn encountered a giant moving statue, which T-AI was able to reveal was a special effect created by a film crew working there. As it turned out the cave had another secret, the first of seven Cybertronian artifacts called O-Parts. Shortly after the discovery, T-AI called all of the Autobots back to base to review footage of their past missions and attempt to work out where the Predacon base was hidden.

T-AI was able to unlock more information from Dr Onishi's microchip, pointing the Autobots to Castle Peak, where they discovered the wreck of an Autobot spacecraft. After Megatron stole the six protoforms from inside it, T-AI was able to track him to McKinley Army Base and alert Optimus, though ultimately Megatron was able to reformat the protoforms into Decepticons.

After the destruction of a dam by the Decepticons, T-AI sent the Autobot Brothers to patrol Sherman Dam and soon lost contact with them. Once Optimus arrived at the dam, T-AI alerted him to the fact that the Decepticons had mined it with pulsar bombs. Fortunately disaster was averted once again with the help of Team Bullet Train.

T-AI continued to monitor Predacon activity, dispatching Optimus and the Spy Changers to Montrose Island where the Predacons were causing trouble. After a shuttle was launched by the humans, she attempted to access the signal from it and, to her puzzlement, received images of X-Brawn from the data stream. It wasn't long before the space agency revealed that the shuttle which was launched had been a fake—the Decepticon Movor. As the Decepticons were tracking Side Burn, T-AI contacted him and X-Brawn was able to send his brother to a location where the Decepticons could be ambushed.

Side Burn continued to cause trouble and T-AI caught him using the computer to do online fish tests. Opining that it didn't make sense, as Side Burn was a sports car, not a fish, she nagged him about going out on patrol. Eventually he did, but he and the other two brothers ended up going to the wrong locations anyway.

When Build Team requested that they be allowed to go on a mission, they insisted that T-AI use the member select program just to make it all official. And then bickered amongst themselves until T-AI told them to knock it off and get moving. Some time later, strange glitches began occurring in the Global Space Bridge, with Autobots failing to arrive at the destinations T-AI had programmed, and she soon discovered that someone had been tampering with the computer link. Build Team was dispatched to fix the problem, and T-AI also detected that Megatron was attacking the north energy research facility, so the next destination was set.

When the Predacons attacked the new CGA Tower and took the people inside hostage, Sky-Byte demanded something from Optimus. Something he wasn't terribly clear on. T-AI suggested Sky-Byte might mean the O-Parts, which probably wasn't the most clever thing considering he didn't seem to know about them.

After an attempted energy theft, the Decepticons began attacking construction sites and fleeing every time T-AI sent the Autobots to stop them. Eventually the Build Team found out, and T-AI detected Landfill fighting Ruination. She sent the Autobot Brothers to help, but Build Team had sabotaged the Global Space Bridge, and they ended up in the middle of nowhere.

T-AI intercepted a transmission indicating that Sky-Byte was searching for O-Parts. She and Optimus suspected it was a trap, so they sent the Autobot Brothers in. With Optimus under attack from Decepticons on an island, T-AI monitored the situation with Koji, and was amazed when Optimus merged with the newly arrived Autobot Ultra Magnus into Omega Prime. She reported reading a massive amount of energy.

While out looking for Ultra Magnus, the Autobot Brothers failed to check in and T-AI was unable to contact them. She sent Team Bullet Train to look for the brothers and coordinated the search from base. Puzzling over the way the three Autobot Brothers managed to power up during the fight against the Decepticons, T-AI theorised that the power came from the Matrix, somehow channelled through Ultra Magnus. She contacted Side Burn and Prowl to search for Magnus, and sent X-Brawn in as backup when the two brothers found themselves fighting the Decepticons.

T-AI was able to extract more information from Doctor Onishi's microchip, pointing to a dig which the doctor was working on before he was kidnapped. The Build Team were dispatched, and when the Decepticons were sighted in the area, T-AI sent the Spy Changers, Autobot Brothers and Team Bullet Train for protection. She reassured Koji that his father must still be alive as the Predacons were still extracting information from him. She was proved right a few hours later when Sky-Byte inadvertently set Doctor Onishi free.

With the release of Doctor Onishi, T-AI worked with him to create a detector to locate the rest of the O-Parts. The Autobot Brothers and Build Team managed to locate and retrieve the five remaining O-Parts and, back at base, T-AI wondered whether finding them was a blessing or a curse. T-AI was able to detect a data stream coming from the activated O-Parts and, despite Optimus' concerns, merged with them to get more information. Although she was able to find out the location of the Orb of Sigma, she became trapped in the globe created by the O-Parts.

Optimus and the brothers took the O-Parts globe to the Sahara Desert where, in a pyramid beneath the desert sands, they found the Orb of Sigma. The O-Parts globe merged with it, cutting off their communication with T-AI completely. The Autobots managed to keep the Orb away from the Decepticons and return it to Autobot base, where T-AI was successfully extracted. She reported that she had gained from the Orb the knowledge of where to find Cerebros, the key to Fortress Maximus.

The Autobot Brothers and Build Team attempted to retrieve Cerebros, but the 'bot was snatched from their grasp by the Decepticons. T-AI was very annoyed and chewed out X-Brawn over it. She sent the Autobot Brothers to guard Fortress Maximus' hiding place, getting Tow-Line to tow Side Burn there to prevent him from being "distracted". The Decepticons managed to use Cerebros to activate Maximus and T-AI monitored the battle from base with Koji. The young boy was subsequently able to help by commanding the giant robot to stop.

T-AI and Doctor Onishi worked on the puzzle of why Maximus obeyed Koji's command, but were unable to draw a firm conclusion. When Scourge again attempted to control Maximus out in the desert, Doctor Onishi realised that Maximus would only control humans, and T-AI had Team Bullet Train and the Build Team take a thousand children to the battlefield. She continued to scan for Fortress Maximus' location, but was hampered by the Autobot's shielding. Finally, after Koji's friend Karl was kidnapped by the Predacons, she was able to locate the titan in a forest.

Finally the Decepticons located the Autobot base and began to attack. T-AI alerted all of the Autobots to go to designated co-ordinates so that Optimus could lead the Decepticons into a trap. She monitored the battle from base, contacting Omega Prime when Galvatron used his cyber-bats to seize control of the Earth's children. She activated the Global Space Bridge so the Autobots could retreat, but was too late to warn them when Galvatron ruptured the tunnel wall to flood it with molten rock. At Omega Prime's command, she opened space bridge portals to the Earth's core and sealed them after he had led Galvatron through for a last confrontation. Fortunately Koji was able to mobilise Earth's children via the Internet and send a massive amount of power to Prime, enabling him to win the fight, though T-AI told him that Prime was still trapped.

Fortunately the energy from Galvatron's defeat had reopened the Global Space Bridge, allowing Omega Prime to escape the Earth's core. The Autobots began enjoying a look around, though T-AI had to tell Skid-Z to slow down.

Dreamwave Productions

The character also put in a brief appearance in one comic book story in the Dreamwave Summer Special, but no more stories were published. The RiD lost a contest Dreamwave between itself and Beast Wars to gain a mini-series. Before either storyline could get the series Dreamwave went out of business.

Transformers: Animated

Main article: Omega Supreme#Transformers Animated

Transformers: Timelines

Teletraan X

Autobot
Function	The Ark on board ship computer.
Alternate Modes	Computer
Series	Transformers: Timelines

In the mirrorverse, Teletraan X is the Ark's computer. Teletraan X has a female persona, like her Animated counterpart. She is portrayed as being cold voiced and hates Goldbug. Even though she is appears in the story, she is not given a visual, but was named in her appearances.

Fun Publications

In Eye in the Sky, Teletraan X held Goldbug captive when he lost the battle for leadership of the Autobots against Rodimus. When Goldbug accepted him as his new leader, Teletraan released Goldbug, but still didn't trust him. Rodimus had Wheeljack reprogram Teletraan to only answer to them two.

In Blitzwing Bop, Goldbug passes by Teletraan's main console. Goldbug is scared at it as it was beeping at him.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

In the live-action film continuity, Teletraan I is a super-computer created by Bumblebee to record the many Autobot victories. The character would make no appearances in the films nor related comic books, but he would nonetheless make appearances in the series. Teletraan I was featured on a Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen promotional birthday card with Optimus Prime and was mentioned on Bumblebee's Transformers: Dark of the Moon toy bio.

Transformers: Prime

Teletraan 1 appears in the novel Transformers: Exodus. He is a computer created during the Golden Age to protect Omega Supreme. He was located in the vaults beneath Iacon, but was relocated to the Ark when the Autobots left Cybertron. Teletraan 1 is also the name of Transformers: War for Cybertrons' main menu.

External links

• Teletraan I at TFWIKI.Net, the Transformers Wiki