Dear Vector Prime, has there ever been a group of Cybertronians who have taken the alt modes of agricultural equipment? If so, can you please tell me more about them? Thank you very much.
Dear Farmer Friendly,
Certain versions of Cybertron, particularly during peacetime, are home to the Agricultural Guild. This organization oversees the farming and cultivation of fuel sources such as energon crystals, and as such many of their members take on the form of farming machinery. In one reality, an energon farmer named Megatron bristled against the Agricultural Guild, who enforced what he saw as archaic inefficiencies while refusing to offer any support to the lunar colonies. In another, the Guild was led by Brushguard, a talented but arrogant agriscientist; though Alpha Trion, head of the Guilds Domesticus, valued his advice, Supreme Commander Ultra Magnus never entirely trusted him, believing that his ambition might lead him to turn against the Autobots some cycle.
I assume, however, that you are asking about Cybertronians who have taken part in the Great War. Farming equipment is, I admit, much rarer amongst the Autobot and Decepticon armies; lacking either obvious military function or the practicality of common road vehicles as disguise, most farmers choose to undergo reformatting into a different alternate mode once they join up as soldiers.
The one major exception I can think of is the Decepticon Thresh. A hulking brute of a soldier, Thresh scanned a combine harvester upon arrival to Earth, and stubbornly refused to reformat away from it—he found it too much fun to menace humans, chasing them down as they tried desperately to escape his whirling blades. This bullheaded attitude eventually paid off for Thresh, as he was tasked with sabotaging Earth's defenders by destroying their farms and other sources of food. To aid him in this task, he was assigned the Agricons, a quartet of drones that transformed into agricultural machinery: a Tractor Drone, Grain Truck Drone, Loader Drone and Baler Drone, the last of which could be towed by the Tractor Drone. Thresh himself was also upgraded with Power Core Combiner technology, allowing him to combine with his drones to form a super mode, letting him take his love of destruction to a new level.
