A volcanic eruption is quite another, for, as the journalist who does a framing voice-over narration for Brooks’ latest puts it, when Mount Rainier popped its cork, “it was the psychological aspect, the hyperbole-fueled hysteria that had ended up killing the most people. In the first nineteen months of European war, from September 1939 to March of 1941, the island nation of Britain and her allies lost, to U-boat, air, and sea attack, to mines and maritime disaster, one thousand five hundred and ninety-six merchant vessels. Dark Voyage's name was decided partially based on a community vote posted to Tower Unite's Discord server.

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She is the Santa Rosa, she flies the flag of neutral Spain and is in Lisbon to load cork oak, tinned sardines, and drums of cooking oil bound for the Baltic port of Malmö. Since Cheetor was shown in " Beast Wars (Part 1)" to be the size of a real cheetah, that snake that attacks him must be truly gigantic—far larger than any living species and any fossil variety known to science when the episode was made.

DeHaan is the captain of the Dutch freighter the Noordendam, and he’s been approached by his superiors to help the Allies in this little world war that’s been sending plenty of his fellow ship captains to the bottom of the ocean. Rhinox silences the group so he can use his ears to detect if something is near the group—his suspicion is confirmed as a large snake grabs Cheetor. When Waspinator transforms to attack the Maximals crossing the log, some green robot part clips through and floats in his chest. It was the job of the Intelligence Division of the Royal Navy to stop it, and so, on the last day of April 1941 . Rattrap fails to fight the snake off, but Cheetor is saved when the reptile decides that Rattrap would be a better meal.

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Skagerrak, Smygehuk, Liepaja, Falsterbo, Kronstadt these are the kinds of places that take on critical importance. The mounting evidence of ever more and ever worse skulduggery will pull Tempe deeper and deeper down what even she sees as a rabbit hole before she confronts a ringleader implicated in “Drugs. After Rhinox says he has some flowers to go sniff, he sings a melody to himself while stomping away, to the tune of his verbal tic (" Danaaaa danadana danaaaa! We are—well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on his bestseller World War Z (2006). The year 1988 saw publication of Night Soldiers—inspired by his 1984 trip to Eastern Europe on assignment for Esquire—which invigorated his career and led to a succession of related titles.Rhinox, at the front of the train of blind Maximals, comes to a sudden stop, causing the Maximals behind him to bump into his large posterior. The CR chamber's door clips through the locking mechanisms, which strangely remain un-animated, as Rhinox emerges from the chamber.

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The Time Vehicle goes down, rapidly speeding up through a winding track and looping around a tall rock with a shootable flesh-hook-monster perched on it. In the aftermath of the explosion, the four Maximals have all survived, but because of energon poisoning, all of them have lost their sense of vision. Apart from when we found out last episode, I guess, but Cheetor has a really bad memory so he needed to learn it again"), but late-arriving characters Airazor and Inferno are notably absent from the screen. Heavner isn’t exactly mollified when Tempe, aided by retired police detective Skinny Slidell and a host of experts, puts a name to the dead man. Furst] glides gracefully into an urbane pre—World War II Europe and describes that milieu with superb precision.Showboat Medical Examiner Margot Heavner makes it clear that, breaking with her department’s earlier practice ( The Bone Collection, 2016, etc. With profound understanding of the historic panorama, Furst subtly evokes the emotional and mental highs that resided at that time, even within the most ordinary and anonymous of citizens. Past episodes have established that Optimus can only support Rattrap's additional weight for flight, so if he rushed back, then the other three would have to be carried back to base by the remaining two Maximals. His great-grandfather was drafted into the Russian army, and, as a Jew, was required to serve 20 years. When Rattrap turns back into robot mode near the end, not only do his beast mode eyes turn normal during his transformation (only to go back to white afterwards), his rat form briefly sports a small black "ring" on its eye before he begins transforming.