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TheRemote Control Circuit Linker was a piece of electronic circuit created by theDecepticons. It was used to link various vehicles to one another and a central computer.

Fiction

The Transformers cartoon

Megatron used this piece of technology to link all machines toTORQ III allowing the computer intelligence to control vehicles that were normally beyond its influence. When the Autobots fought a bunch of TORQ-controlled machines atQuantum Laboratories,Sparkplug found one of the Circuit Linkers on a damaged machine.Optimus Prime used the disabled card to trick TORQ III, allowing him to get close enough to forcibly disrupt the computer with a punch. The Decepticons had meanwhile placed the Circuit Linkers on the world's fleet ofoil tankers, using TORQ to force them to anoil platform where they could be pillaged. Though TORQ was disabled, Megatron had a backup controller for the Circuit Linkers, and used that to continue to bring in theoil tankers. The Autobots had to storm the oil platform and destroy the backup controller in order to free the oil tankers.Day of the Machines