Dear Vector Prime, does Thunderhoof exist somewhere in the Viron cluster?
Thunderhoof was one of the many influential Predacons in the employ of the Predacon Council—while his cyborg moose alternate mode and its ability to unleash seismic shockwaves made him a formidable fighter in his own right, Thunderhoof rarely took to the battlefield. Instead, Thunderhoof presented himself a wealthy business tycoon who’d built his personal fortune in the galactic shipping industry; supposedly, he’d abandoned the Predacons during the civil war and become a Maximal, receiving amnesty in exchange for turning over notorious Predacon criminals like Gnashteeth, Overhead, and Polar Claw.
In truth, however, this was all a lie: Thunderhoof was an ambitious Predacon—one with deep connections to the Cybertronian underworld—and he’d used his fake “defection” as a means to eliminate some of his most notorious business rivals and expand his own criminal empire into their vacant territory. In his new position in high Cybertronian society, Thunderhoof uses his connections to smuggle black market arms shipments from offworld Predacon colonies through to the Cybertronian underworld, where they inevitably find their way into the hands of clandestine cells of Predacon agitators. For his services, Thunderhoof receives a handsome fee from the Predacon Council—and Autobot port inspectors with too much integrity to take a bribe inevitably receive a “visit” from some of his employees.
