Project Ice Man
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Located in the icy reaches of Brasnya, the subterranean Project: Ice Man facility forms the nexus of Garrison Kreiger's research into anomalous Cybertronian artifacts and their potential applications—including the mysterious Talisman, the remains of Domitius Major and one of his crew, and the eponymous "Ice Man" himself, the comatose Atomic Man!
Fiction
2005 IDW continuity
The base was built sometime after World War II in the wilderness of Brasnya, just beneath the crater left behind by the Axalon after it disappeared. Strange Visitors Kreiger spent years gathering and studying what scraps of Cybertronian technology he could find, using them to construct several lesser copies of the Talisman which he stored in the bunker. The Iron Klaw Power and Glory
At some point, Kreiger recovered the body of "Optimus Prime"–in reality, a brainwashed Maximal named Domitius Major–and housed it in the building, where it was eventually joined by the expired body of "Shockwave." Power and Glory In the 1980s, Kreiger finally discovered the genuine Talisman in Egypt, and it was temporarily relocated to the bunker for government sanctioned study. When Eagles Scream Some time later, Kreiger was approached by Mike "Atomic Man" Power, who was searching or a way to further increase the power of his artificial limbs.
In 1994, Kreiger and Centurion conducted more experiments on Power and the Talisman, which somehow managed to yank the lost Axalon and its hapless passenger Sgt. Savage fifty years into the future. Before Savage could adjust to his surroundings, the lab was stormed by Joe Colton's Adventure Force, and in the ensuing standoff Power was presumed dead. The Talisman was subsequently moved to the United States as part of Project: Hot House. When Eagles Scream Mike Power had survived his run-in, however, and remained prisoner in the base, his comatose body growing ever more mangled as Kreiger experimented on his cyborg physiology, eventually turning him into an avatar of the Talisman and the central nervous system of the base. Power and Glory
In the mid-2000s, a newspaper distributed in Knoxville, Tennessee sported the headline "Project Iceman". Devastation #2
About a decade later, Kup, Mayday, Garrison Blackrock, and Action Man–joined by several M.A.S.K. agents–stormed the Project: Ice Man facility to investigate the last known whereabouts of the Atomic Man. In the ensuing battle, Kreiger deployed advanced anti-Cybertronian security measures, using Atomic Man's control over machinery to reanimate the I.R.O.N. Cybertronians: engineered from the corpses of Domitius and "Shockwave". After Action Man flooded the base, the two mindless Cybertronians were washed away; when Action Man managed to break Atomic Man from his mental conditioning, the despairing cyborg committed suicide, allowing the heroes to capture Kreiger. Power and Glory
Notes
- The code name "Ice Man" is, of course, a reference to Megatron from the live-action film series, who was also frozen in ice and interred within a secret base for study. However, in a clever inversion, the frozen Transformer is a red herring for the real "Ice Man," Mike Power.
