Swindle, profile: Origins and Background
Rather than recite a ‘historical account,’ this report, compiled some time before the start of the war upon his arrest for arms trafficking, says much about Swindle’s origins, background and 'career.'
Cybertronian North Quadrant: Department of Corrections
Bail Application Report
Name: Swindle.
Age: About 150 Joors.
Home: Currently in Praxus, where he co-habitats with one Smokescreen, a grounder and former employee at the Bank of Iacon.
Origin: Kaon, the Heights District. His creator was a plant supervisor of no consequence who had little interest in him, he is now non-functional. Swindle is a bilateral creation. His other programming is superior - Alpha caste, but there is no record of this side of his ancestry and it cannot be traced.
Education: He has had little formal education and appears to have lost interest in it at an early stage. He spent much time absent from home as a sparkling and mechalescent, and left his creator's residence altogether at an early age, having discovered that he could well support himself on the streets. Swindle is of high intelligence, however, and would benefit from greater development of his superior programming. It is in many ways a waste and a pity that he has gone down the path he has.
Employment: There is no record of him ever having held down a formal job, and he claims neither to want or need one. He has made a living mainly through buying and selling, but never established a formal shop or company. His sales career has frequently been infused with illegal dealings.
Criminal History: He was first arrested as a mechalescent for petty pilfering in a Praxan street market. Since then, Swindle has come to the attention of authorities on a number of occasions with charges of increasing severity which now include fraud, tax evasion, drug and illegal arms trafficking and money laundering. He spend time in Kaon prison for mechslaughter, a crime which he did not commit but was accessory to the facts.
Associates: Swindle has many associates but few friends. He is quite a well known figure on the nightclub-casino scene. He has shares in a nightclub on Itopis owned by triple changers, and more recently he has been working for the Combaticon leader, Onslaught and spending increasing time with the latter’s employees and associates. This current offense is connected to members of that outfit, but Swindle refuses to disclose the details.
This offence: Swindle was apprehended by the Third Gate sentinels and found in possession of a large quantity of weapons. Most of these are not unauthorised on Cybertron, but no duty has been paid and their destiny has not been disclosed. With the current resurgence of the Decepticon movement, this has to be of concern.
Recommendation: Swindle intends defending the charge on grounds that he had every intention of paying the duty and the weapons were for a legitimate purpose. With the evidence before us, we have no option but to continue the prosecution. His friend Smokescreen has, however, acquired sufficient funds for bail, which is set at 40,000 credits.
It is recommended that Swindle be released, and a trial date set in approximately 20 cycles.
Cybertronian North Quadrant: Department of Corrections
Bail Application Report
Name: Swindle.
Age: About 150 Joors.
Home: Currently in Praxus, where he co-habitats with one Smokescreen, a grounder and former employee at the Bank of Iacon.
Origin: Kaon, the Heights District. His creator was a plant supervisor of no consequence who had little interest in him, he is now non-functional. Swindle is a bilateral creation. His other programming is superior - Alpha caste, but there is no record of this side of his ancestry and it cannot be traced.
Education: He has had little formal education and appears to have lost interest in it at an early stage. He spent much time absent from home as a sparkling and mechalescent, and left his creator's residence altogether at an early age, having discovered that he could well support himself on the streets. Swindle is of high intelligence, however, and would benefit from greater development of his superior programming. It is in many ways a waste and a pity that he has gone down the path he has.
Employment: There is no record of him ever having held down a formal job, and he claims neither to want or need one. He has made a living mainly through buying and selling, but never established a formal shop or company. His sales career has frequently been infused with illegal dealings.
Criminal History: He was first arrested as a mechalescent for petty pilfering in a Praxan street market. Since then, Swindle has come to the attention of authorities on a number of occasions with charges of increasing severity which now include fraud, tax evasion, drug and illegal arms trafficking and money laundering. He spend time in Kaon prison for mechslaughter, a crime which he did not commit but was accessory to the facts.
Associates: Swindle has many associates but few friends. He is quite a well known figure on the nightclub-casino scene. He has shares in a nightclub on Itopis owned by triple changers, and more recently he has been working for the Combaticon leader, Onslaught and spending increasing time with the latter’s employees and associates. This current offense is connected to members of that outfit, but Swindle refuses to disclose the details.
This offence: Swindle was apprehended by the Third Gate sentinels and found in possession of a large quantity of weapons. Most of these are not unauthorised on Cybertron, but no duty has been paid and their destiny has not been disclosed. With the current resurgence of the Decepticon movement, this has to be of concern.
Recommendation: Swindle intends defending the charge on grounds that he had every intention of paying the duty and the weapons were for a legitimate purpose. With the evidence before us, we have no option but to continue the prosecution. His friend Smokescreen has, however, acquired sufficient funds for bail, which is set at 40,000 credits.
It is recommended that Swindle be released, and a trial date set in approximately 20 cycles.