NEST forces mobilize to counter isolated Decepticon activity around the globe.
Vital statistics[]
ISBN 978-0-345-51592-6
Writer: Alan Dean Foster
Pagecount: 281
Synopsis[]
Transformers: The Veiled Threat's Synopsis on Wikipedia
Featured characters[]
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Quotes[]
"You see? Provide this element in insignificant quantities and the organics further prove their degenerate nature."
"Even arthropod organics behave more sensibly. They fight only for territory and food. Not tiny bits of metal."
- —Starscream and Macerator discuss the humans' reaction to gold.
Lennox: This is not a vacation jaunt, Dr. Ishihara. That extended free fall you just took was unwarranted.
Kaminari: Why, Captain, how thoughtful of you to be concerned for little me.
Lennox: Got nothing to do with the kind of concern you're talking about. You've here because of your skills and I'd be disappointed to lose them.
Kaminari: Ah. So if I were to die your regret would be wholly professional?
Optimus: If it would not constitute too much of an imposition, might I remind both of you that we are here to look for Decepticons whose signal has been lost and who may be moving farther away from this location with every minute that you both stand here jockeying for individual social dominance?
- —Optimus Prime rather impolitely asks Captain Lennox and Kaminari Ishihara to shut up and roll out.
"Surely you remember me also, Prime? You once called me a fool for following Megatron. But the universe is vast, and compared to some ancient powers, even Megatron is subservient. That power grows again, and against it none shall stand. We have here the means to revive our fallen leader, and when he sits again in power, he will remember those who were loyal to him, even in death. He will be pleased when I bring him your head."
- —Kickback could teach Galvatron how to be subtle in hint dropping.
"I've maintained this multiple missile launcher in excellent working condition, don't you think? [fires] And this cannon—it's a personal favorite of mine. [fires] Then there is the two-thousand-round-per-minute minigun. I invite you to listen to its music."
- —Ironhide gives Tread a hands-on demonstration of some of his weapons.
Errors[]
- On page 38, "exists" is misspelled "exsits".
Notes[]
- The Veiled Threat was originally entitled Transformers: Infiltration. There has been no stated reason for the change, but it is speculated that it was done to avoid confusion with IDW Publishing's similarly titled Infiltration comic book series.[1]
- According to author Alan Dean Foster's blog, he took pains to make sure this book did not clash with IDW Publishing's The Reign of Starscream comic, though he later reported that he had been asked to make significant revisions.[1] In the end, though, the only conflict with IDW continuity was Dead End, who had been killed in NEST's first mission in Alliance, were now racing through yet another city in a later mission in The Veiled Threat (Swindle was also killed in that story, but he is a drone after all).
- In a later update on May 2009, Foster said no part of the Somali pirate scene at the start was written by him, and that while much of the book was by him, on the whole it was a corporate product, with the final end product being out of his hands.
- Longarm, Salvage, and Knockout are present among the Autobot forces leading directly into the events in Shanghai, China, but are not featured in any of the accounts of events associated with Revenge of the Fallen. The end of Alliance is similar to The Veiled Threat, but the Autobots who appeared in the Shanghai incursion are the only ones present. Making the Alliance ending canon.
- Starscream's plan in Zambia seems a little dubious. He intended to catch all three of the Decepticons after they plunge over Victoria Falls with the Autobots, but given he only just manages Macerator, that's more than a little optimistic. Of course, this is Starscream, and it may just be that, as Ratchet says, he didn't care whether his part of the plan succeeded or not.
- Despite the fact that the book's cover features The Fallen, he doesn't appear in it.