Miners were used in the Decepticon effort to uncover viable fossil remains of the lost Predacons. Prey A number of Insecticons arrived at an energon mine reported to be under attack, but encountered only confused miners. Some miners were in an energon mine that Wheeljack blew up in an attempt to kill a giant metal dragon. Miners were used to excavate an Iacon relic and eventually dug up the Star Saber. They managed to find the device, but when Arcee and Bumblebee arrived, the miners were all dispatched by the Autobots. Stronger, Faster After Dark Energon began spewing from a volcano, the miners were set to work gathering it up and storing it in the Nemesis hold.įour miners accompanied Knock Out and an Insecticon to recover a relic in the subways beneath Manhattan. More miners were destroyed when the Autobots came to rescue Ratchet. The miner was presumably destroyed when Ratchet kicked the living daylights out of Breakdown. His cries for help, caused by Ratchet's aggressive act of burning the right side of his face, brought the attention of the other Autobots to his location and he was saved by Optimus Prime, whose proclamation of Ratchet going too far stopped the latter from impaling the poor miner with his blade.īreakdown later told a miner about a Decepticon spider that he liked. Despite trying to act tough with his 'potty mouth', Ratchet simply used his blowtorch to torment the answers out of him. Ratchet easily followed and incapacitated him with a large boulder, then proceeded to interrogate the miner.

However, a Synthetic Energon-enhanced Ratchet led an unexpected assault on the group, to which the Decepticon Miner responded by climbing up a cliff in front of his machine. Though some of the Miners even used drills as offensive weapons, the Autobots destroyed pretty much all of them in their search and the mine was destroyed by Starscream.Ī Decepticon Miner was working on a large drilling machine to help harvest energon on Earth, along with some Vehicons. The Autobots detected Cliffjumper's life signal and invaded the Nebraskan mine, encountering heavy resistance from the Miners as they did so. After Megatron used Dark Energon to raise Cliffjumper, the zombified Autobot trashed a couple of Miners.

In the three years Megatron was wandering around space, the Decepticon Miners were constantly at work mining energon on Earth. As they're not warrior-class, the Autobots don't kill them indiscriminately like they do to the Vehicons.ĭespite this, Miners possess the same weapons as the Vehicons and are capable of defending themselves and their work, if necessary. Decepticon Miners are servant-class Decepticons, working on Megatron's various Energon mining projects.

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