Cemetery Wind

Cemetery Wind is an incredibly shady human organization from the Age of Extinction portion of the movie continuity family.

There are some names you should run away from really, really fast. Cemetery Wind is a CIA black ops unit created after the Battle of Chicago for the sole purpose of hunting, capturing and destroying Transformers. Badges and previous allegiances are irrelevant in their crusade to save mankind from the alien menace, as embodied by its leader and founder Harold Attinger.

Their actions aren't exactly authorized by the U.S. government.

Fiction

Age of Extinction film

Guess they didn't forgive Ratchet for betraying Superman to Cadmus all those years ago.

Established after the Battle of Chicago, Cemetery Wind was, in theory, supposed to hunt down the remaining Decepticons on Earth. However, unknown to higher-ups in the government, they actually hunted down both Autobot and Decepticon indiscriminately, and were secretly working with the unaffiliated bounty hunter Lockdown, who had his own agenda of hunting down the Autobot leader Optimus Prime. That its members were made up of those who seemingly lost friends and family to Transformer attacks probably did not help.

Field agent James Savoy led a team that hunted down Ratchet on an abandoned ship, brutally executing the Autobot medic with Lockdown's help, and transferring Ratchet's remains to KSI to be melted down into its component parts. Cemetery Wind also utilized KSI-built hovering insect-like drones to track down their prey.

Later, acting on a tip that Optimus Prime had been sighted, a team of Cemetery Wind operatives went to Cade Yeager's farm and used extremely aggressive interrogation methods and threatened to kill Cade's daughter Tessa. Optimus revealed himself, and while Cemetery Wind tried to hunt down the humans, the unexpected arrival of rally driver Shane Dyson and his unconventional driving skills (as well as a little help from Optimus) allowed them to evade Cemetery Wind. By capturing one of their drones, Cade Yeager was able to hack into their system and discover their connection to KSI. Cade Yeager then discovered footage of Leadfoot being executed by Cemetery Wind, and shared the footage, along with that of the attack on Ratchet and Sideswipe's death^[1] with the Autobots accompanying him.

Later, members of Cemetery Wind received the Seed from Lockdown in Chicago once the bounty hunter had captured Optimus Prime. During the ensuing battle in Hong Kong, Savoy was killed by Cade Yeager in a battle between the two. Before he could gun down Cade Yeager in cold blood, Attinger was struck down by Optimus Prime, who had earlier promised to make an exception for whoever was responsible for the deaths of the Autobots. Age of Extinction

The Last Knight film

A few years after the deaths of Attinger and Savoy, the deeds of Cemetery Wind were eventually exposed and the organization was replaced by the Transformers Reaction Force, whose actions were more U.S. government-authorized, but no less merciless in their hunt for Cybertronian life forms regardless of factions. The Last Knight

Ask Vector Prime

Among Cemetery Wind's operatives were Sergeant Chaos, a rogue NEST operative, and Master Disaster, a mercenary formerly in the employ of the Decepticons. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/08

In Tyran 609.23-PX Kappa, the Decepticons brought Cybertron to Earth orbit and gained control of Earth, and thus human pragmatists in the Decepticon puppet government formed Cemetery Wind to hunt down rogue Autobots. They were effective at it. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/22

In Tyran 511.0 Kappa, Bluestreak and High Wire were among the group's Autobot victims. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/16

Notes

• In a summary of Age of Extinction, the UK's Transformers Annual 2015 called the evildoers "Savoy Strike". Presumably this was an early name that was still in the press material Pedigree Books got.
• Sergeant Chaos and Master Disaster's G.I. Joe-themed profile cards say they joined Cemetery Wind, allowing them to use Wind's emblem à la Cobra's.

Foreign names

• Brazilian Portuguese: Vento de Cemitério (Cemetery Wind)
• European French: Vent de Cimetière (Cemetery Wind)
• Turkish: Mezar Fırtınası (Cemetery Wind)

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