Voltronic Galaxer
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The Voltronic Galaxer encodes audio waves into pulses, which aliens can then easily translate into their own language. It can also intercept and decode transmissions.
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Fiction
The Transformers cartoon
Professor Haley attempted to show off the Voltronic Galaxer at Haley Observatory. His demonstration proved to be effective in contacting alien life; however, the alien life it contacted was Megatron, who was standing on the roof of the observatory. The Decepticons blasted their way into the building, with Starscream almost inadvertently destroying the device. Megatron stole the Voltronic Galaxer and spirited it away to the moon. It was installed in the Decepticon lunar dome base as part of a plan to block all of Earth's radio waves, and ransom them for the planet's energy.
Unfortunately for both Megatron and Professor Haley, Blaster and Cosmos injected feedback into the device, destroying it in order to foil Megatron's plan. Blaster Blues
TransTech
In Axiom Nexus, Cybertron Galactic Systems planned to update their transdimensional radiowave scramblers with voltronic galaxers, allowing them to tap into a beforehand unexplored market, as their memo-streams could now be understood by almost any sentient species in existence. Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News, 2015/05/09
Games
Transformers Roleplaying Game
The Voltronic Galaxer was a device capable of translating electronic signals into human speech. Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook
Notes
- Let's be honest; even by the standards of the cartoon, "Voltronic Galaxer" is a nonsense term and has no bearing on the actual function of the device. It was for this reason that it became the subject of some backroom derision at Sunbow Productions, after Flint Dille and Jay Bacal reviewed the script for "Blaster Blues" and started making jokes about "Voltronic Galaxatives."[1] From there, the term became corrupted into "Voltronic Galaxiter", which went on to be employed behind the scenes at Sunbow as a term not unlike "MacGuffin", used refer to "whatever stupid machine that either Cobra or the Decepticons were coming up with" in a given episode.[2] Though these "Galaxiters" would almost always wind up with a different name in finished scripts, Buzz Dixon used the actual term in the 1986 G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero episode "My Brother's Keeper". It wasn't just about making fun, though; something about the silliness of the whole enterprise gave Dille the impetus to stop and reflect on the types of stories they were telling in the show, and to make changes so that their stories could not be solved by such "bogus plot devices."[1]
- Tangentially, the Galaxiter was not the only reference in Dixon's "My Brother's Keeper" to originate with The Transformers. The episode also featured a television program depicting a robot based on the Prowl/Bluestreak bodyform, and a reference to Dash Jordon from "Hoist Goes Hollywood" appearing at a sci-fi convention.
Foreign names
- French: Galaxo-stéréo (Europe)
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Flint Dille reminisces about the "Voltronic Galaxiter" on his Facebook
- ↑ Flint Dille in "Men and Women of Action: Creation the G.I. Joe Animated Series" featurette on Shout! Factory's G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1.3 DVD box set
