The colony world is 'saved' from Menasor by Superion, putting Caminus in Starscream's debt. Using the Enigma of Combination-recovered from Earth by Scoop-Starscream restores Menasor and Superion and sends them to play out a scripted 'attack' on Caminus. The series sees tensions surrounding the IDW universe's combiners come to a head when Starscream-led Cybertron re-establishes contact with Windblade's homeworld: the long-lost colony Caminus. Whilst not billed as such in their initial release, the trade paperback collecting these issues was labeled Combiner Wars-First Strike, and they were reprinted as Combiner Wars #9-14 with the third and fourth waves of Deluxe Class figures. The next five issues would go on to tell a story about the Enigma of Combination, an ancient Cybertronian artifact holding the key to successful combiners. Issues #1 and #2 (and reprints of #3 and #4) would later be released with the Combiner Wars Deluxe Class Combaticon toys.Įxplicit buildup for the event began in Robots in Disguise #33, which introduced the notion of a combiner arms race, as well as setting the stage for Superion's new team members.

Due to production timing issues, however, issues #1 and #2 were not released in these initial waves, whilst #3 was available only with the limited-release Quickslinger figure. Eight issues covering the creation of Superion and the new incarnation of Devastator were reprinted with the Combiner Wars Deluxe Class Aerialbot and Stunticon toys, rebranded as Combiner Wars #1-8. Combiners and the technology behind them were an important part of Robots in Disguise since its early stages, underpinning much of the book's initial 16-issue story arc.

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