PERCEPTOR
ALINEACIÓN: AUTOBOT
FUNCIÓN: SCIENTIST
PRIMERA APARICIÓN: TRANSFORMERS N.°17
"One's ultimate truth lies in one's molecular structure."
Personalidad:
Perceptor's thirst for knowledge is unquenchable. He will
seek it to the exclusion of all else. To him, being on
Earth is like a miner finding a new vein of gold - each
eagerly plumbs untold riches, neither knowing when his
source will run out, if ever. Perceptor's specific role
in the Autobot cause is studying how best the Autobots
should adapt to Earth, and conversely how Earth's alien
environment is affecting the Autobots. Autobot Leader
Optimus Prime considers
this research vital to the Autobots' survival as long as
they're marooned on Earth. Although good-natured and
friendly, Perceptor is not easily drawn into joining with
other Autobots to do anything other than his work.
Habilidades:
Perceptor is extremely intelligent. His capacity for data
storage is second only to Optimus Prime's. Although
familiar with all the sciences, his specialties are
metallurgy, molecular chemistry, and electrical
engineering. He has two different capacities in
microscope mode. He can magnify objects up to 10,000
times as an optical microscope and up to a million times
as a scanning electron microscope. Using his magnifying
lenses to concentrate and intensify its beam, he can
convert his lens barrel to a powerful light cannon. It
can blast a hole in a cinder block wall 2,000 miles away
with pinpoint accuracy. He can use the cannon in robot
mode or convert to a third form and use it as a
stationary field artillery piece. He also carries a
concussion rifle in robot mode.
Debilidades:
If he were human, Perceptor might be called
absent-minded, since he is rarely aware of anything but
the work in front of him. He actually forgets at times
that he is involved in a raging war and, as a result, is
sometimes a casualty of it. His magnifying lenses,
although resistant to cracking, are nevertheless the weak
link in his make-up. Any problems with them not only can
bring his work to a halt, but can also considerably
reduce his offensive abilities.