Tera-Kura Co.
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Rivals to the Axalon Trading Company, the Tera-Kura Co. (テラクラッ社 Terakurassha) is just your regular, ordinary corporation in the Tokyo of the Legends World. Its employees include:
- Chairman Megatron/Noble
- President Megatron
- Blackarachnia
- Inferno
- Nightbird
- Scorponok
- Slipstream
- Tarantulas (development department)
- Terrorsaur (head of factory lines)
- Waspinator (sales department)
Following a merger with the Decepticon Headmasters, it becomes known as the Decepticon Tera-Kura Co. (デストロンテラクラッ社 Destron Terakurassha) or just Decepticon Co. (デストロン社 Destron-sha) for short. In this incarnation, the company suffers from almost every single employee either secretly or openly trying to usurp leadership. The new lineup adds:
- Apeface
- Astrotrain (resigned)
- Chromia
- Devil Z (stock owner, not technically an employee)
- Flywheels (resigned)
- Mindwipe (development department)
- Scourge and the Sweeps (janitors)
- Shockwave
- Skullcruncher (sales department)
- Soundblaster and the Decepticon Mini-Cassettes (information department, later resigned)
- Ultra Magnus
- Weirdwolf (sales department)
Fiction
Legends World
Tera-Kura Co. was originally led by Legends Megatron, who considered his company a rival of Optimus Primal's Axalon Trading Company but had his hands full with his eccentric employees. Rivals! Tera-Kura Co.! Megatron himself got pretty weird as well from studying Transformers too much, as Quickstrike learned when he visited the company for a job interview. The Results of Mega-chan's Studies Despite being rivals, a brief partnership between Tera-Kura and Axalon was formed when Megatron visited a Q-Transformers event with Optimus Primal and Rattrap. Deckss × Q-Transformers
The hierarchy changed when G1 Megatron arrived from another dimension and chose Tera-Kura Co. as his foothold in this world, interrupting a series of job interviews to take over the company. When the local Megatron refused to relinquish the title of president, he simply installed himself as a chairman ranked above president instead. Bonus Edition Vol. 13 This new boss also found himself confused by the antics of the people who worked there. Widow-chan's Usual Day He soon got into running a business and increased profits by using the company's resources to mass-produce and sell Nightbird clones. Bonus Edition Vol. 15 He also hired Slipstream. Bonus Edition Vol. 16
Through Tarantulas, Tera-Kura Co. struck a deal with the Decepticon Headmasters, getting access to their technology in exchange for providing them with transtectors. Headmaster Chapter Prologue Thus Decepticon Tera-Kura Co. was officially formed, Bonus Edition Vol. 22 but a schism soon arose between the two groups: whereas Chairman Megatron wanted to stick to conquering the world through legitimate business, Headmaster leader Weirdwolf and Tarantulas preferred violent means. Bonus Edition Vol. 23 Terrorsaur was the first to attempt a hostile takeover by hiring and empowering Scourge, who then betrayed him and tried to take the company for himself (and failed). Bonus Edition Vol. 26 The company offices were later invaded by Nightbeat-type Headmasters looking to steal their transtectors. Bonus Edition Vol. 28
Tera-Kura Co. purchased Metroplex from Axalon Trading Company and made his city mode their new office building. Bonus Edition Vol. 31 Mindwipe took over the company for a short while by hypnotizing everyone else into serving him. Bonus Edition Vol. 34 Devil Z then bought up all the company's shares, effectively taking ownership of it and working the employees to the bone Bonus Edition Vol. 35 until he was driven off and things returned to normal. Bonus Edition Vol. 36 The next attempted usurper was a super-powered Apeface, though Chairman Megatron was able to defeat him. Bonus Edition Vol. 38 The arrest of Tarantulas and departure of Devil Z left Tera-Kura Co. unable to produce transtectors, leading to Astrotrain resigning. Bonus Edition Vol. 40 The company's facilities were instead used by Weirdwolf's faction to complete Godbomber. Bonus Edition Vol. 42
Weirdwolf's faction eventually rebelled against Chairman Megatron and attacked Tera-Kura Co. to steal Metroplex transformation cog. Decepticon Civil War Megatron later departed to pursue a political career, Targetmaster Chapter Prologue so leadership of Tera-Kura fell back into the hands of Beast Megatron. Unfortunately for him, the company was then attacked by the Concurrence, who took control of its facilities to produce weapons and turned him into an evil, robotic lackey. While the Concurrence was ultimately driven off, Beast Megatron's mind was left split between his own body and that off Noble, who joined the company as a second president. Bonus Edition Vol. 63
Notes
- "Tera-Kura Co." is a pun that doesn't translate well into English. In Japanese, it is pronounced as "Terakurassha", similar to the Japanese name of the Predacon ship in Beast Wars, "Terror Crasher" (テラクラッシャー Tera Kurasshā).
- The name is also rendered in Latin letters as "Tera Craco" in Bonus Edition Vol. 20 and "Tera Crush Company" in Vol. 63.