#Transtectors

[pluralsword]

lowkey thinking about writing solus as somebody who made herself into a transtector so she actually will take on a variety of frames from across what she finds euphoric, as sort of also a fourth wall commentary on there not being a baseline body for gal transformers and also how she approaches robot aesthetics in a way many humans don't.

her view on alt modes in this case for herself is kind of all four of the reasons presented by earthspark season 1:

-accident but I like it

-disguise

-for protecting others and yourself

-expressing your true self

thank you titan returns truly

[ultracreativelywritten]

NGL: with Prometheus’s obsession with creating an fully organic transformer I can see him using cars with some kind of cybertronian based parasite planted in vehicles to create a whole slew of technorganics that would be more “agreeable” than the two existing ones

May be a good way to introduce Transtectors as a means of curing or at least curing the infection

That would be cool!

Sadly I don’t know enough about the Transtectors to write a good story about it.

[askvectorprime]

Dear Vector Prime, Is Grandus in any way related to the Metro Clan (Metroplex, Metrotitan, Metrobase) of Transformers? He's a pretty big fellow to just show up out of nowhere.

Dear Biggest Battlestar,

Grandus’ mighty size and strength is in fact not the product of his construction, but of his own hard work. Once a Cyberdroid of planet Master, Grandus found the idea of piloting a lifeless Transtector body unsettling, akin to developing a single giant phantom limb.

Still wishing to be of use to his fellows, Grandus continued his training well past that of the other Cyberdroids, supplementing it with a special diet of locally sourced oils and energon. Instead of just learning how to transform, Grandus developed an incredibly potent superstructure, allowing him to upgrade his body well beyond the means of most normal bots. By the time he was assigned to the Battlestars, his hard work had allowed him to rub shoulders with natural-built Titans!

[just-someone-online]

I I also have a masterforce Prime au about Miko getting a transtector and kicking ass, do you have more details about your au?

Uh, lemme see

I know that out of the Autobot headmasters (Powermasters? I haven't decided which they would have), Miko is definitely the biggest and strongest. Like Breakdown, her alt mode is an armored truck, though her driving skills (Or lack thereof) rival that of TFA Sentinel. Miko ends up proving she can wreck with the best a little earlier than in canon, and she wears the wrecker's insignia instead of a standard Autobot badge.

Raf essentially becomes the Autobot's Soundwave. I'm unsure of what kind of car his alt mode would be, but I know that it would be able to keep up with the likes of Bumblebee and Smokescreen. Or at least it would if he could reach the pedals.

I'm unsure of what Jack's alt mode would be, but I know he and Raf don't go out into the field anymore than they do in canon.

MECH's transtector is nearly torn apart for study, but Silas quickly realizes what it is and decides that this will be the perfect meld of man and machine. After Nemesis Prime crushes him, his men figure out how to permanently bond him to his transtector, only for him to turn around and kill them all in favor of joining the Decepticons, though I'm not completely sure whether or not he becomes a science project. Breakdown's either alive and on the ship or alive and rogue, so he doesn't become a suit in this. At the very least, Knock Out and the Vehicons are gonna have it out for him for gutting Breakdown.

[poptimus-prime]

I wanted to start my other art idea tonight but I had to start working on my medical sociology final and I got through like 2 pages before finally needing to quit.

[churino]

Design for go Shūta, minerva, cab, goshooter, minelba, and carb

I LOVE CHILD SOLDIERS!

Their headmater units remade by the power of an artifact called the emberstone, The robots are individual beings but it's hard to tell as The bond forged between the kids and their transtectors allow one to inhabit the body of the other on command,

With the differences between the earthlings and the autobots settled, metalhwak entrusts the safety of the kids to the greater resources of the autobots, formally uniting the cyber ninjas with optimus prime's forces as they search for the allspark's location.

In the process discovering it lay somewhere beneath the Philippines. As they moved their operations to begin secretly drilling for it, they continued to be antagonized by the six clan and the decepticons, although the latter began an on again off again aliance with the autobots, becoming more akin to rivals than enemies as they shared the same goal, in the process of their battles they put another life in danger, a third human child to take care of,

The autobots were able to reverse engineer the headmaster units created by professor go to create a third unit to keep cab safe, but frustrating metalhawk rather than stay away from the danger the kids continued to get involved in the fighting. When metalhawk expected the autobots to have the resources to give them a safe place to live.

Eventually he confronted both Ginrais and optimus prime about taking the kid's headmaster units away for their own safety, but Shūta overheard their argument and before they could go through with it he tattled to the other kids and convinced them to run away in the night to find the allspark all by alone to prove they were grown up and could take care of themselves (do keep in mind these kids are no older than 14)

As they approached the dig site it was like the ground itself was parting, like something was calling for humans specifically. Inviting them into the confines of the earth where they saw. A temple, deep beneath the earth, overtaken by six clan ocupation there was a power that flowed through this site and it remade their machines into guardians new living things but uniquely entangled with the children, and would grow an evolve just as they did

Goshooter is the upgraded loudmouth, primed to be the leader of this sub unit, dubbed the earth force, his voice box is replaced by stadium speakers that let his voice travel from one city to another, and be used as a hyper sonic brainwave scrambler.

Detachable speakers even allow him to do so remotely, his voice is so loud it doesn't even matter if you can't hear him anymore as the vibrations don't just damage your hearing they can cause the entire human body to pop like a bubble at maximum volume. Thankfully that takes a lot of effort on his part so he can't ever be harmful acidentally

and if he ever wants to talk like a normal person he can still talk via Shūta and within his mind, although they have been given a massive responsibility and a duty to their team and each other, their one true personal goal, is sports, Shūta dreamed of being a football player for as long as he could remember, unable to match his father's incredible intellect he found other ways to excel even if Shūta himself doesn't see it that way, as far as he knows he just is the way he is. Conversely shooter dreams of a sporting event involving rocket powered cars within a closed stadium and a giant ball that explodes upon entering the goal.

Minelba is the upgraded siren, forever worried about the health of the squishy humans, the second she got online she searched out ratchet to learn anything she could about medicine, her desire to aid humans specifically exposed a worrisome blind spot in ratchet's repertoire, which led them to contact ginrai's wife who was a nurse and was able to impart enough knowledge on how to take care of humans that they could be reasonably trusted with a scalpel. (I am referring to the deception of course, they can't hold an actual scalpel with their big plastic fingers)

Both minerva and minelba are less on the side of preventing injury as they are healing from it. unlike the other two members of this little team, Minerva's family is alive, well, and looking for her, this whole time the little girl has been sacrificing so much without truly having a stake in things, just worried about the well being of her friends, and the larger robot is here to finally give her the care she needs

Carb is the upgraded quiq, a fire fighting boat that allows cab to leave his island off of his own power carb is a clumsy lug who contrasts cab in disposition and skill but protects him from his often rash actions, when cab met the autobots he was running away from home to avoid responsibilities that came with age (just going to school) in favor of living with animals on the jungle, he was free from the shackles of societal expectations ( going to school) but got hungry and had to learn how to survive on his own,

until he stumbled upon the autobot's dig site and that same force that would later call out to them and upgrade their headmaster units called out to him and it's movement alerted the decepticons to their location. Which led to the fight that endangered cab and had the autobots take him under their roof, he's thankful for being fed but still even with his new big brother the kid still acts like he's better off alone with his pets determined to be "king of the world" (without going to school) he feels a special bond towards the giant city underneath his home country

[cleverthylacine]

Japanese G1 continuity is absolutely not normal about girls but damned if they don't give us some of the best ones

There was a significant amount of Transformers continuity released between 1987 and around 2007 that was produced in Japanese and is really only known to most English-speaking fans through fansubs, dubs that were only released in Australia, and the like. Shows like Headmasters, Victory, and Zone. Manga like Victory and 15 Go Go Go Teletraan (which was really mostly Kiss Players). Radio shows like Kiss Players.

I'm gonna be super up front. Japanese G1 is not normal about femmes in any way, shape or form. At the same time, it gave us some of the BEST and most underused female characters in the Transformers universe.

Headmasters, which came out right after the US G1 show ended, is particularly egregious. In Headmasters, Arcee has been reduced to Fort Max's administrative assistant, uses ridiculously polite and subservient language, and is also the only medic. And being a medic would be kind of badass if they let her be as badass as Ratchet, you know? But they absolutely do not.

Also, in Headmasters, Carly (now married to Spike) allows her son--a freaking child, not even a teenager--to go on missions when Spike can't and a human is needed, because uh, for some reason it's better for a 12 year old boy to go, not an adult woman?

But most of the good femmes don't come from Headmasters. And some of the best femmes we have are from Japanese G1.

Super-God Masterforce made it up to us by giving gave us Minerva, a human girl who is a Headmaster with a robot body (transtector) making her basically a bad ass mecha pilot, and who actively does fight.

The Victory manga gives us Esmeral, Deathsaurus' incredibly classy wife, and Lyzack, Leozack's twin sister, who is in charge of defending the homefront but really does want to go out and fight. Illumina appears in both the Victory manga and the anime. She's a little human girl who has a crush on Jan Minakaze and is always trying to get people to choose nonviolence.

(Lyzack later appears in an English-language comic - the Wings Universe--wherein she's basically Deathsaurus' servant and Starscream hits on her. I don't like that.)

There are a number of great femmes who were only ever toys. The Cobalt Sentries set gave us Howlback, leader of the Decepticon military police (called the Cobalt Sentries). She is basically Ravage's twin sister but instead of being super stealthy she can turn your attacks right back on you.

(Later she appears in several English language comics and in at least one she is canonically trans. I'm not a fan of her depiction in the SG Recordicons Batman tribute arc, though.)

The Unite Warriors toyline - Takara's response to Combiner Wars, basically - gave us the combiner Megatronia, made up of Megaempress, and her four guards, Lunaclub (sometimes called Luna Clover or Luna Trefle), Flowspade, Moonheart, and Trickdiamond. They are incredibly awesome.

(IDW 2019 used Trickdiamond, but none of the others. Tricky was one of Swindle's contacts.)

Then there's the elephant in the room that everyone pretends isn't there...Kiss Players.

So, okay. There is nothing normal about Kiss Players whatsoever. On the other hand, I'd rather listen to KP than watch RID2015 which is just blatant copaganda from hell.

Kiss Players had an interesting plot involving little bits of Galvatron and Unicron getting into humans and creating the Kiss Players--humans who could give TFs a powerup by kissing them and then merging with their internals somehow. Then there are the Legions, the dick-tongued monsters that everyone who hasn't actually listend to the show or read the manga thinks are Megatron.

The dick-tongued monsters are gross. It is also gross that some of the Kiss Players are barely teenagers and definitely not adults and are constantly ending up in Situations.

But the plot centres around the apparent rise of Convoy, or Optimus, from the dead, and his transformation into a weird groomery dude, which many people don't understand there was an actual reason for, because it's not Optimus, it's someone else riding around in his body.

Melissa Faireborn is like if you chopped Marissa Faireborn's IQ in half, dyed her hair blond and threw out any pants or skirts that covered her knees. She is nothing like Marissa and I treat them as cousins, but Xiaoxiao Li is amazing and her real lover.

Anyhow, this female scientist (Dr Amaou) lost her mind over the loss of her daughter during the events of the 1986 movie et sequelae, and she's got to be stopped from turning Atari and her Autorooper robot pal into a permanent fusion to reincarnate her daughter Shizuku (whom for some reason I always want to call Setsuna instead).

It's a little confusing because most of the really good parts of the plot got jammed into a few episodes near the end of the season, although once you know what it is, it's clear that it's being set up. That artist just likes borderline lolicon way too much.

The second season of KP is very squeaky clean and sends the girls out to collect what they think are Allspark fragments, and they are very annoyed because Ravage, whom they call "black panther man" keeps getting in their way and fucking with them, only to later find out that the bots who gave them this task are Unicronian heralds and Ravage is trying to stop them from helping Unicron do what Unicron does.

Rosanna, everyone's favourite robot pop idol, comes from the second season of KP, although you don't see very much of her or her companions Glit and Sundor.

Incidentally KP sets up the Unicron Trilogy and some of its characters end up in the UT--which did come to the US, and gave us Alexis Thi Dang.

(This post is brought to you because I just wrote an Esmeral thing and someone was musing separately about Megaempress as a parent and I almost ended up writing this post while reblogging them, because I'm a nerd with a hyperfixation).

[little-jesters-artblog]

Got into Transformers, so I made a oc! Meet CoreStrike, a headmaster minicon who's apart of the decepticons. Her Transtector is based off of a F-14 Tomcat She's a little shit and will spy on you

also i kinda shipped her with Soundwave because i love him sm

[phoenixisobsessed]

Hiiii cat formers guy!! I've been feeling a bit down lately and I was hoping to request something cute of Browning and Cancer (not ship) from super-god masterforce since there's basically nothing on here of them haha

If you don't wanna draw a human but still wanna take this request, you could draw Cancer's Transtector, I'd be super happy either way ^^

SPRINTING TO MAKE THIS DRAWING IMMEDIATELY TO MAKE YOU HOPEFULLY FEEL A LITTLE BETTER.

They are making DEVIOUS plans…

This request made me start rewatching super-god masterforce AUEHAU. It’s so great.

Anyway, I don’t really mind drawing humans tbh. I just LOVE drawing robots. But I love this duo as well like yes king listen to the little gun with anger issues on your shoulder.

[cerebrosurgeon]

"...What was it like, in your universe? After the war ended, that is. Did you return to Cybertron? Was Iacon still intact?"

Max paused, lowering the twisted piece of metal he was examining. Quietly, patiently, Prowl had been watching him make his way through a pile of smelted remains, something he'd seen from afar resting in a scrapheap and needed to look at. Cerebros was performing maintenance on his Fortress transtector, the med bay Prowl loaned him private and secure, and there was a small blockade between the Headmasters' thoughts to mutually limit distractions. Sucking air into his intake vents and slowly cycling it out, Fortress Maximus looked at Prowl, just over eye-level with him where he knelt at the pile.

"I have dedicated millennia to the pursuit of peace," Maximus rumbled, voice gentle yet strained, "and haven't found it."

He held the once molten metal up between them, shiny and rounded where it liquefied, jagged and gnarled where it remained solid. The scar of a word, symbol, or decal once held by whatever the debris had previously been was dark, but subtle, and merely a miniscule fraction of whatever the original message had been. "The war never ended. The Headmasters go where we're needed; some of us vowed never to return to Cybertron until peace was restored."

Turning the piece over, he showed Prowl the tiny glitter of deep blue still clinging to the metal under layers of carbon, a rare unscathed millimeter nestled deep in a sharp curl. "Iacon remains standing. The Dome never fell. I can show you."

[deusvervewrites]

Inhumans x Heart of Steel: Not to infodump about Transformers, but Midoriya is 100% a Headmaster (I swear to Nedzu that's their real name.) meaning he can still pass off as human, only to summon his transtector and link up and also transform into the Hercules.

Interesting

[sparklingpax]

So i just recently watched Super God Masterforce and. Man that show changed me. Its in my top transfomers show. It truly captured both the true meaning of the Indomitable Human Spirit and the power of Found Family. Also Metalhawk is so pretty

HELLO AHHH SORRY I FORGOT TO RESPOND BUT OMGGG 🥹✨‼️💕💗💗🌟 That makes me so happy to hear........YES!!!!!!

[some spoilers so im putting the rest of this ramble under the cut here 😅]

The indomitable human spirit is a great way to put it--like in how it was one of the things that shifted Sixknight to really understand where he stood on things; seeing Ginrai leave his robot form after their first fight, to show it was just him (and the kids) beneath it all--humans, not giant robots, not "trained warriors" with something to prove....just regular humans who only wanted to protect their fellow humans, who even without the transtectors and upgrades, had their determination, will, individual personal values, and heart......and from that is where they drew their strength.

The bonds of family and human connection!! the weight those bonds hold, how pretty much everyone ends up realizing the real enemy all along was this being of blind hate and destruction....powerful, but who put their loved ones at risk.....even Hydra and Buster, who ultimately sold their humanity for a taste of that power and never did abandon Devil Z's cause--they still stuck together through it all, showing the power of that sibling bond too, oddly enough. In victory, defeat, desire to be stronger--it was the two of them, always.

And...Giga and Mega....😭❤️‍🩹

This series just....has so much to consider and think about.....i love the characters and really only wish we got even more about each of them and their mannerisms & dynamics with one another....it was just a really interesting series, rather layered and fun....I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it :3 🥰

And so true....Metalhawk is SO 🫣🌟✨💕🥺

...my Exhausted™ but determined, brave and kind blorbo frfr......🥹😭‼️💗 His pretty eyes....

Anyways that's enough rambling outta me I think, hopefully it made some sense ahhh 😭

have a good day!! Thanks for stopping by and telling me that! :]

-Kuni ✨

[protagonistprime]

"This is the end of the road for you Super Galvatron! "

In a Universe where Bots and Cons posses super modes and other powerful enhancements, a lone, disliked and hated bot goes on a journey to find his place in the universe. On his journey he met many people but only one stood by his side during their Darkest Hour. His fellow powermaster partner Firedrive(Shaoshao Li), who unable to merge with any transtector gets sidelined and eventually fired from her ex-team, met him on her way to Tokyo before being ambushed by evil predacon headmasters. Together with the help of the transectorless powermaster Hot Rod merges to form Super Rodimus Convoy and defeats Predacon Menace and thus creating Vigilante Fire Duo.

Rodimus super form was inspired by many designs and concepts, such as: Fire Rodimus from Zone, Energon Rodimus, Brave Police J-Decker, Power of the Primes Rodimus Prime toy and many others.

Transformers, Hot Rod, J-Decker, Firedrive, Shaoshao Li belong to their rightful owners The Super mode head "Hot Flame Convoy Head for Upgrade Armor" was made and belongs to Steam Shield's Bot Foundry on Shapeways. This digibash i guess belongs to me

[askvectorprime]

hello vector prime I have a question what happened with the autobots X in transformer g1

Dear Mind Merger,

I think you may have already seen the end of the story of Autobot X, in the pages of Generations Selects. In order to humiliate and defeat the Quintessons, an aged and dying Spike Witwicky transferred his mind into a new body composed of multiple Neo Autobot City components: Neo Autobot X. But I suppose you wouldn’t know the chain of events that lead to this rebirth. I shall tell them to you now.

Sparkplug Witwicky had never feared death. While obviously an untimely death was something to be avoided, he was a practical man, and accepted that human beings got only one chance at living. Even as he and his son became embroiled in the Great War, he put his faith in the Autobots, many of whom he considered kindred spirits, like-minded tool and die men like Ratchet and Wheeljack. On one occasion, even knowing the associated risks, he trusted the Autobots with the very life of his son, Spike’s mind being transferred into the failed Autobot X prototype. After that terrifying episode ended, the prototype was stored away, and life went on.

Sparkplug grew old, and watched with pride as his son grew as well. The Autobots came to Spike and Carly’s wedding, Bumblebee bringing along the Peruvian villager Luisa and her brother’s convertible as his date. They came to the birth of Sparkplug’s grandson, Bumblebee in awe as a tiny hand pawed at his smallest finger.

Would they be there at Spike’s funeral as well?

The thought made Sparkplug shiver. Was his son’s time with his closest friends destined to be a mere blink in the eye for the Autobots? Why should Bumblebee be left behind as Spike moves on?

Thoughts raced in Sparkplug’s mind. The Autobots and the EDC had used data from the original mind transfer experiment on a number of projects over the decades. Binaltech, the Eldedroids, even the Kiss Players… Autobot X’s DNA lay in all of them. There had been other advances too, old technology rediscovered as heroic young men and women used the power of the Masterforce to transform, culminating in a borderline miraculous copy-pasting of personalities when their transtectors became true Transformer life-forms.

Using his connections and seniority among the Autobot’s human allies, Sparkplug began what became known as Project Neo: the development of inert Transformer bodies to be used as full-body prosthetics in the event of catastrophic harm or death. Unfortunately, Sparkplug wouldn’t live to see its completion, dying in 2040 shortly after the founding of the new Cybertron Alliance.

Only when humanity began its stellar adolescence as the age of Angolmois and the Selectors arose did the project bear fruit. Using the full processing power of the Mother Computer at Neo Autobot City allowed for a safe and secure mind transfer. Sparkplug had informed Spike of the project near his death, and to his credit never forced the idea upon him. In truth, I see the value in such a technology if used for good and the protection of life, and like any parent Sparkplug wanted to give his child every possible option. That said, only under the threat of death did Spike undergo the transfer. Perhaps as he grew older and reliant on the slavery of the Selectors did he begin to feel some disconnect from the Cybertronians around him… For shame.

As humanity and the Selectors spread out among the stars following the abandonment of Earth, the common adoption of Neo Autobot X technology was but the first step in the multitude of evolutionary branches that would bloom from the humans. If nothing else, it brought the humans and their Selector partners closer together.

I cannot help but see my brothers and sisters in this story. Such great change, all stemming from the love of a father for his son. As humans become Transformers and vice versa, I believe we find the truest glimpse of Primus’ dream.

[just-someone-online]

TFP AUs I Probably Won't Expand Upon

Exactly what it says on the tin. Just little AUs I've thought about but probably won't do anything with.

Masterforce AU - In which several headmaster and powermaster transtectors land on Earth. Three of them are found by the Autobots and are used by Jack, Miko, and Raf, while a fourth has been snatched up by Silas and MECH. Whether or not this means Breakdown avoids being used as a suit by Silas is anyone's guess.

Terrorcon Cliff AU - In which Cliffjumper's death was recent enough that the dark energon truly reignites his spark. Aside from a new uncanny valley effect and hearing the voices of Megatron and Unicron, he's as healthy as ever.

Out of Body Experience AU - In which Bumblebee is able to fight off Megatron and prevent the Decepticon leader from returning to his own body. Unfortunately for Bumblebee and the Autobots, it means the base now has a new permanent resident.

Earthspark AU - In which the kids get lost in a cave and stumble upon the Emberstone. Their Terran partners would all be original characters.

Action Master AU - In which Bumblebee's T-cog, while functional, isn't as reliable as it used to be, leading to him becoming stronger, faster, more alive to make up for the loss of his vehicle mode.

Miko & Arcee AU - In which Arcee is Miko's Autobot partner. I'mma be real, this is just an excuse to her face off against Airachnid.

Seaspray Lives AU - In which... well, you can figure it out. He and Wheeljack hunt down Dreadwing for trying to bump them off and decided to stay on Earth. To the surprise of nobody, Seaspray's alt mode is a boat.

Primal Mode AU - In which Optimus actually uses the T-rex mode he acquired in Rescue Bots. Whether this leads to the other Autobots taking on beast modes remains to be seen. At the very least, Bumblebee takes on the raptor mode one of his rescan toys had.

Fourth Human AU - In which Smokescreen picks a fight with one of Jack's classmates at the beginning of Legacy and they need to be brought back to base. Smokescreen is assigned to be their partner, which doesn't go well considering their initial meeting.

Actual Beast Hunters AU - In which Project Predacon is successful and the Autobots begin hunting the beasts before they can harm humanity.

Pretender AU - In which an unaligned Pretender lives among the humans, but comes out of hiding when the Cybertronian war threatens the humans they've come to care about.

Operation: Bulkhead AU - In which Bulkhead is the one to be captured by MECH, and whose corpse is later used to save Silas' life.

[autobotdecepticonpeacekeeper]

AU Mon: Masterforce in TFP

I've got a bunch of tf ideas in my head, so I'm gonna start doing AU posts on Monday to share them with y'all. This week's is a TFP/TF Masterforce crossover, cause I recently started watching the latter show.

The Premise

Metalhawk and his crew (Lancer, Diver and Phoenix) were part of the crew of Autobots who were seeding Earth with energon, when they came across the crew of the Harbinger doing the same for the Decepticons, led by Bludgeon and backed by the Predacon clones Shockwave had created. The Harbinger was shot down, and the two sides joined in battle, with all cybertronians lost except Bludgeon and Metalhawk's crew. The Autobots then used the experimental/mystical power of the Master-braces to access the Masterforce and become Pretenders, taking human form and hunting down the Predacons (and inspiring many myths and legends in the process). In the end, it came down to Metalhawk and Bludgeon, who battled and severely injured each other, but retreated before either could strike a killing blow. They both fell into stasis, with a collection of Master-braces at both their sides.

Fast-forward several thousand years to Season 1 of TFP. The Autobots are scouting an area for energon, and have brought Jack, Miko and Raf along cause it's a low risk mission. The kids explore on their own and stumble upon Metalhawk's resting place and activate the Master-braces, turning themselves into junior headmasters and reviving Metalhawk with the energy surge. Metalhawk explains his story and joins the team, helping teach the kids how to use the Masterforce safely and wisely.

Meanwhile, not too far away, MECH is also scouting for cybertronian tech or biology, and stumble upon Bludgeon's resting place. Silas activates his own Master-brace, and Bludgeon decides to ally himself with the group, though his motivations to do so are unclear.

My Notes of the AU

AU starts between Operation: Breakdown and Rock Bottom, probably specifically between Operation: Breakdown and Crisscross, which in turn makes the latter episode more interesting with Jack and Silas having headmaster capabilities.

Jack's Headmaster form is Bluefire and his transtector is a blue truck with red flames. Miko's is Songblade, her transtector a pink and black sports car. Raf's is Radar, his transtector being an orange compact car.

Silas might also recruit two more Headmasters for his side, who could be two of the Destron Headmaster Juniors from Masterforce (Wilder, Cancer and Bullhorn), OR Sierra and Vince, for some interesting conflict among the kids OR two OC MECH soldiers.

Lancer, Diver and Phoenix are either dead and gone (which could be some nice angst for Metalhawk) OR they are all also in stasis, but their resting places have been lost to time, until someone stumbles across them during energon scouting, mining, or relic hunting.

That's what I've got for you guys this week. See you later!