ALLEGIANCE: DECEPTICON
SUB-GROUP: SEACON

FUNCTION: UNDERSEA EXCAVATIONS
FIRST APPEARANCE: TRANSFORMERS # 47

“Blame someone else before they blame you.”

Profile: Despite his fierce appearance and formidable weaponry, Nautilator
is actually a stumbling, bumbling amphibious foul-up. Originally a land-based
warrior, he underwent adaptive reconstructive surgery for oceanic combat on
Cybertron without ever being tested to see if he had an aptitude for the undersea
environment. Once he joined the Seacons, it became apparent to everyone that
he liked that environment – he just wasn’t very capable within it. His fellow
Seacons have had to haul his chassis out of tidal undertows more times than
they care to admit. Some of them secretly whisper, “Let him drown,”
whenever he calls them for help nowadays. They’re also fed up with having to
retrieve him – almost every time he goes on one of his underwater exploratory
excavation missions, he usually gets lost. And to make relations with his comrades
even worse, he’s always quick to blame them for his mistakes. But there are
very good reasons why the Seacons usually come to Nautilator’s aid, as Snaptrap
explains, “If he didn’t bring back an occasional lost nuclear bomb from
the ocean bottom, we’d have left him down there to rust a long time ago.”

Abilities: In his lobster mode, Nautilator uses chemical, thermal, electrical,
magnetic, seismic and sonic sensors located in his legs and tail to search for
and detect underwater fuel deposits and other materials useful to the Decepticon
cause. His claws have an unbreakable grip and can pierce the thickest of ship
hulls with minimal effort. He wields a triple crusher cannon, a weapon that
shoots energon bands that encircle and trap their target, tightening around
it until only rubble remains. He can mount the cannon on his mouth, convert
to weapons mode and use it in a stationary position, or use it on land in robot
mode. In weapons mode, he can also convert it to a torpedo cannon. He combines
with his fellow Seacons to form the super-robot Piranacon.

Weaknesses: Nautilator suffers from a defective gyroscopic circuit center,
which accounts for his poor navigational skills. He also rusts relatively easily,
and can stay underwater for no longer than 4 hours without suffering damage.