May we, perhaps, have the IDW bot Stardrive in these trying times?
sorry for the long wait!!
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Hey! Just wanted to drop in and say that I picked up your Star Drive books from a used bookstore and am absolutely hooked! Never heard of that property and I grabbed them based on your name alone, and I'm having such a grand time. I love how your licensed work is so accessible to newcomers.
Thank you! I'm delighted you're having fun with those. They were a ton of fun to write. :)
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Coeli's Picks: Men, part 3 (Dishonorable Mention)
Just in time for April Fool's Day, here are some truly eyebrow-raising and head-scratching costumes. I know neither of these shows had a huge budget, but that's no excuse.
Coeli's comments:
"If I had to look at them, so do you!"
Blake's 7 (s4e4, "Stardrive")
"Punk space pirates who totally fail to come across as menacing:"
Doctor Who (s10 e5, "Carnival of Monsters") / Leslie Dwyer as Vorg (and Cheryl Hall as Shirna)
No seriously, why is his costume Fruit Loops?
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Always a good time to remind folks that there are actually a lot of female Transformers who aren't Arcee, Elita-1, or Windblade!
Seriously. There is a whole list on tfwiki. With a variety of body types too (though this can often depend on the artist).
Just a few examples:
Javelin
Vibes
Road Rebel
Crasher
Spacewarp
Cancix
Treadbolt
Falcia
Quickslinger
Stardrive
Thrashclaw
Twirl
Static
Diveplane
Axelgrease
Road Rage (my favorite)
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Transformers ask: Stardrive
Oh now *THAT* is the kind of lesser knowm character I'm talking about.
So to integrate her into a story I'd have to change her character and backstory a bit....Have her be part of a crew of Autobot's who were stranded on Mars in the time between the Ark's landing and reawakening (Something close to Sentinel Prime in DotM but not exactly) and then take her Cybertronian Knight idea and make it more Ronin, someone wandering the moon and protecting a ghost ship until she's found.
As for her alt mode.... canonically she knows she's different from other Cybertronians, being raised among organic lifeforms and I feel like there's only one vehicle we have that fits
The opportunity Rover
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I've been re-reading some chapters of The echo garden and happened to remember this scene so I have two questions.
1. Will we see Stardrive again?
2. Who was Stardrive referring to when she said this
Her body slumped. Her eyes went white. Her field sharpened. “Soundwave. You're in his mind.”
Was it Astrotrain? Maybe Im just delulu but Im sure its him.
1) no, not in this fic. I’ve thought she would be great for a sequel, though. so if i write a sequel, she might be back
2) Rodimus :D When she was trying to tear into Rodimus, she saw Soundwave in his mind, and vice versa with Soundwave. That’s how she knows to hurt him with the phrase “you’re not good enough for Rodimus”.
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What if Stardrive appears in Earthspark?
Stardrive is a transformer that appears in the comics. Her story begins with her being a protoform. The ship where she was traveling was attacked and only she survived.
She was rescued by the space knights. She was raised away from her kind. She knew she was a transformer thanks to the education she received from her rescuers, as well as how she learned the history of the species from her.
This made Stardrive the first Transformer to be raised away from her kind and by other beings.
In Earthspark I imagine her as a newborn Terran who was unfortunately found by someone else. Either by bad people or by another human child.
In case she was found by another good human child. The Maltos would know that something is wrong because they would not stop feeling strange emotions that do not come from the Terrans at home, so they would suspect that one is missing.
Stardrive, like Twitch and Thrash, would learn about her species thanks to Transformers comics but would feel that there was something different about her.
At some point it would be discovered by GHOST or Mandroid. Or perhaps in a battle she meets her family who would welcome her with pleasure.
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What is the story of stardrive in idw2019?
Dear Stardrive Seeker,
Not all newly-forged Cybertronians spend their early lives on Cybertron—always, there are those Cybertronians born with an instinctual thirst for adventure, who yearn to venture beyond the confines of their metallic homeworld. Thus, in the years following the War of the Threefold Spark, the Cybertronian government authorized the creation of a cultural exchange program between the Cybertronian commonwealth and some friendly galactic neighbors, an incentive program where newly forged Cybertronians could study abroad on a diverse range of planets, assimilating the local culture and language as part of a possible career in Xeno-Relations.
I should comment, briefly, on the history of the Solstar Order—it originated corewards of Cybertron, not far from the barricaded region of space known as the “Quintessence”, and expanded outwards not through conquest, but by carefully negotiating trade agreements and alliances with alien civilizations and gradually building a strong federation of many diverse species: Elonians, Intriessians, Karkans, and more. By the era of the Nominus Edict, the borders of the Solstar Order nearly bumped up against remote Cybertronian colonies like Velocitron and Omicron. Despite their proximity, the two star-nations had only ever enjoyed a strained relationship. The Solstar Order consolidated much of its recent power by absorbing the defeated remnants of other empires, smashed to bits by Cybertronian hegemony—in particular, a large contingent of Szorian refugees who’d seen their homeworld obliterated by the Titan Waypoint eyed the Transformers with a deep and abiding distrust. More recently, tensions flared when unscrupulous elements of the Cybertronian government conspired with the ambitious Natalus to abruptly declare that the planet Probat was a Cybertronian colony, despite the fact that no Cybertronians lived there—deliberately smashing years of careful accession agreements that would’ve seen the citizens of Probat join their galactic government.
Into this already-tense environment came Stardrive—already a model mentee with a rare triple-changing bodyframe, a knack for languages, and eying a possible career in Xeno-Relations—who announced that she would like to study abroad on the planet Elonia. The request, while highly unusual, went through, and before long Stardrive had arrived in Solstar space and enrolled in a xeno-linguistics program on the planet Ofsted XVII, with a minor in astro-navigation. Although she faced prejudice and even outright discrimination from many of her organic classmates—and indeed, more than one lecture hall had to be renovated so that she could fit into their classrooms—Stardrive persevered.
One day, Stardrive and her class were on a field trip to monitor the unique phenomenon known as the “Quintessence”, a seemingly insurmountable barrier of electrical energy that prevented the Solstar Order from expanding any closer to the galactic core. Suddenly, while monitoring the phenomenon aboard an orbital research station, Stardrive witnessed a bizarre astrological phenomenon: what appeared to be a nebula somehow shifted into a massive portal that crackled with arcane power, a gateway through which a new kind of shapeshifting lifeform came to attack their vessel! The creatures, their slug-like bodies immune to conventional weaponsfire, easily breached the station’s hull and devoured many of the beings inside. Those who survived were infected with toxic biomatter and converted into more of their kind. However, the invaders hadn’t prepared to deal with a Cybertronian, whose mechanical biology rendered her immune to their necrotic touch, and whose tight-beam plasma blasters could simply burn through their arcane biology. Fighting her way through the hordes, Stardrive piled as many students as she could—including their professor, Rom K’atsema—into her space fighter alternate mode, then beat a hasty retreat as the station exploded behind her.
By the time Stardrive limped back to Elonia, it soon became clear that the Solstar Order faced a grave crisis. The “Dire Wraiths”, as they were now called, had launched coordinated invasions of outlying worlds like Xeres and Buras, and lightly-armed planetary garrisons had already been overwhelmed. Although the Solstar Order’s celebrated diplomatic corps had long since assumed that they could defuse any problem with negotiations, it soon became clear that they were fighting an enemy that had no obvious means of communications, and would accept nothing less than total extinction. It soon became clear that the Solstar Order would need something new to combat the hordes… and, eventually, all eyes fell upon the one Cybertronian in their midst.
Before long, Solstar scientists had gathered enough firsthand testimony and video recordings to draw up a weapon capable of meeting the aliens head-on: a full-body suit of armor forged from artificially-synthesized cybertonium that would be cybernetically grafted to one’s skin, equipped with a plasma-blasting “neutralizer” powered by a miniature energon reactor. While the scientists referred to their creation as merely an “anti-Wraith battle armor”, it was Rom who joked that the suit resembled the knights of old—and so it was he who volunteered to become the first organic to undergo the procedure, and emerge as “Rom, the Space Knight!” Inspired by his example, other courageous members of the Solstar Order stepped up to undergo the process, and over time the efforts of these “Space Knights”, supported by Stardrive herself, gradually helped push the Wraiths back.
It soon became clear that Stardrive couldn’t fight alone; fortunately, the Cybertronian embassy on Elonia was able to pull the strings that would allow Sentinel Prime to authorize the deployment of the Wreckers on the technicality that the Dire Wraiths posed a threat to Cybertronian territory—namely, their embassy on Elonia. Supported by a hundred Space Knights, Stardrive and the Wreckers took part in the effort to take back Xeres, which had, by this point, been turned into a grotesque hive-world where billions of fast-breeding Wraiths reproduced. Their victory was pyrrhic; they were able to cut off the primary source of the infestation, but only by destroying the planet and scattering millions of Wraiths across their member worlds. The Solstar Order would have to prepare for a protracted war against the alien infiltrators, who'd already put down roots on dozens of planets—but Stardrive, honorary Space Knight, gladly agreed to support the Space Knights in their quest.
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