#bloodron

[thenamesblurrito]

eleven whole ask dumps

that’s a LOT! topics this time are: survivalists, cavemen, survival tv shows, Bloodron, plantformers, food storage, eating underwater, beast mode mouths, Rodimus and Abominus and flammability, and Rock Lords

as a matter of fact yes! it’s sort of difficult, because it’s a labor intensive process to mine, purify, distill, and store enough energon and other foodstuffs all by yourself unless your alt mode is like an energon refinery or something. so it isn’t a quick and easy solution for just anybody who has issues with the current regime. as it stands, it’s genuinely easier and safer for many junkers to hang around in the city than it is to rough it in the wilds, otherwise they’d be gone in a heartbeat.

but!

there’s certainly been folks who prefer roughing it to living in civilization. this has been true throughout history and isn’t specifically driven by the corruption of the Stratocracy. a popular counterculture in Kup’s youth was spelunkers/squatters who would specifically seek out old buried ruins and underground places to live in, like cavemen if you will, just because they could. there are antisocial folks and hermits and extreme introverts who would rather homestead than deal with anyone in their vicinity. there’s one crazy kook of a dedicated scientist in particular that i am still waffling about actually showing in SNAP’s storyline, but old gramma Glyph is definitely still kicking somewhere in the Forbidden Zone and has been since before size classes became a thing! she would absolutely fill the role this ask describes (not the same Glyph as the JAAT student, mind you, it’s just another common name)

there are still people who live in caves. no, not the folks i mentioned in the above answer, i mean like there are entire underground cities and everything. there’s a lot of stuff down there anyway! living underground is not unusual on Cybertron and a good percentage of infrastructure and industry isn’t even visible from the surface in some places

that said, there is archaeological evidence that the original Cybertronian civilizations actually developed below ground and migrated upward/outward! First City, a set of ruins swallowed by the Rust Sea, is the aptly named earliest appearance of a proper settlement aboveground, but it shows evidence of being a base camp before a proper city, and contains artifacts and materials thought to have been taken from belowground before being put in the city. the entire concept of Simfur was of a holy temple city that was already supposed to be underground before some great cataclysm sundered it so far beneath the surface that not even its original inhabitants could find it. so “cavepeople” were, in a way, the default from which mecha have branched out from to live on the surface

and re: eating mechanimals, that’s definitely a (relatively) recent cultural value, and it isn’t even universal. there’s been people eating mechanimals throughout history, and likewise there have been people squeamish and disapproving about it for just as long. the current social climate is disapproving, but that’s variable depending on when and where you look into history

fsdfhgljfsdghfk yknow what sure. on Carcer and Eukaris specifically because these are the cultures i think would be into that. the more widespread popular version of this is probably space travel survival instead of on-planet wilderness. like can you pilot a ship for a vorn with limited supplies out into the black and make it to your destination with minimal contact kind of challenge. not unlike those solo sailing challenges i suppose

okay so this was a joke ask from Jensen that has now fleshed out a piece of SNAP history thanks

Bloodron was a tyrant of Caminus during the Prime Wars who took over after the murder of the previous de facto Camien leaders, Solus Prime’s children Magnum and Pyra (the original Magnus and Mistress of Flame, respectively). he was successful where other conquerors had not been in part because of his ruthless execution of the original usurpers who murdered the twins, instead of trying to pander and please. while his methods were cruel, he was debatably the safest option for leadership at the time and was instrumental in putting down further unrest on the colony as even Cybertron was swallowed by chaos. he and his enemy/conjunx/??? Convoy (a name at this point, not yet a fancy title) worked together to thwart scheming insurrectionists vying for power amongst their familial and political blocs, which resulted in a mostly unified culture for Caminus many centuries later and gave them a legacy of being a very strong, put-together colony. the academic community remembers him and his period of history with mixed feelings. while what he did for Caminus was pretty good, all things considered, he was not exactly a good person himself

excellent questions!! i think the only plantformer i’ve got in my cast list atm is Botanica so i won’t have a lot of examples here. unlike beastformers looking like mechanimals, not a lot of plantformers actually take after a specific species of cyberflora. most seem to generate their own unique specimen, although in root mode many of them are quintoid frametypes

since cyberflora grow out of/need to be rooted to some kind of hotspots, plantformers often have very strong sparks, or at least a very high degree of energy cycling, and act as their own personalized hotspot. this gives them quicker and better than average healing, but it does mean they have a higher metabolism. some of them have alt modes that can process energon and/or package it. these are considered “fruit bearing” cyberflora alt modes, and are often given fuel processing functions much like vending machine, distillery, or refinery alt mode. this is really the only kind of food you’ll get from a plantformer, even though actual cyberflora are used for food in many many more ways than just energon fruit. most plantformer alt mode products won’t be eaten and are instead used in their function’s industry, or perhaps as a rare and expensive knick-knack in the same vein as some kind of handmade collector’s item

their mobility isn’t usually very high, in keeping with how most cyberflora function. filling a niche in the ecosystem may look like sifting metal, crystallizing minerals, conducting and rerouting electricity, or another small but significant part of planetary upkeep. as such, the majority of plantformers have alt modes designed to slot into a given environment where they can participate in the ecosystem, often moving only at the whims of their environment. a heavily cabled transmission tower tree meant to fit in amongst buzzing mangroves will have flexible bases and strong grounding roots as it connects to other trees with its cables. a lone lightning rod pine out on the prairie will have similar grounding roots that go even deeper and broader, meant to conduct lightning all the way to a planetary leyline, and windmill sequoias have perhaps the sturdiest, broadest trunks to brace their height against the movement of their milling boughs. on the opposite end of the spectrum, tangled cable tumbleweeds can unplug at any moment and be set adrift to seek out any new crevice or cranny to worm its wires into. it really depends on the plantformer’s individual alt mode. Botanica has root cabling to keep her steady when in alt mode, but her leaves and boughs are still mobile

this actually has less to do with stuff like mold or sour milk and more to do with expiring chemicals, decaying materials, and loss of charge. the point of energon is how it inherently carries a charge instead of just being burnt for power, but if you leave energon or batteries or what have you for too long, it’ll lose that charge. maybe it can be recharged, but you’ve lost an important part of your fuel just from waiting too long. undercharged energon is better than nothing, but it won’t fix your lethargy. expired chemicals can either be inert and useless or highly flammable/explosive/dangerous in some way depending on what it is and what kind of reaction it had over time. you don’t really wanna raid the pantry and pick up something that explodes in your hand because it expired a month ago. and decay isn’t always bad, with stuff like steel woolies turning into rust bunnies, but if you’re need an iron meal and instead find just a hunk of corroded rusty junk, that’s not gonna meet your nutritional needs. proper food storage is about minimizing corrosion and decay, preserving or restoring charge, and preventing adverse chemical reactions when possible, as well as keeping out pests like scraplets

that said, i think edible-grade energon can retain its charge for... at least a good while? it’ll longer than a month and still be a full meal, i’d say, if it’s just straight liquid energon on a regular charge. that’s why it’s kept in glass despite its delicacy, since glass isn’t a good conductor. so community pantries, dead drops, hideyholes and such are all fairly effective as long as everyone remembers to keep the spaces pretty clean and make sure nothing gets left too long, which is never a problem

ummmm.... hm. this is an off the wall question. i guess i think it would be weird and difficult. like, could you eat underwater?? could you take a bite of like i dunno what’s something that doesn’t instantly fall apart in water..... a candy cane? could you safely eat a candy cane underwater? probably yes if you were very careful to keep your throat closed and also try to force out all the water in your mouth before chewing and swallowing, but it would be hard. mecha aren’t in danger of choking/drowning like humans, and it’s safe to assume that if they’re already underwater then they probably have the seals for it, but still consuming a lot of water isn’t great for a mechanical species, and it’s not easy to make sure you’re not swallowing that along with your food

oh sure, like they’re perfectly functional mouths and all, the issue is just the connection to the fuel systems. no throat, as it were. whereas the folks who can eat in beast modes essentially have two esophagi that rearrange depending on what mode they’re in. for folks like Strafe who have intact beast heads in root mode, it’s possible they can use their jaw? like she in particular uses them as a second set of unwieldy hands, but a pocket is a good idea too, or a can opener, etc etc. chewing food just to spit it back out is probably something only a very determined person with a specific food craving is going to do, because most folks who aren’t able to chew would just get silted shakes to sip with a straw

oh all the time. Rodimus’s whole THING is setting himself on fire and just throwing himself into the fray. like that one Denethor scene in LOTR but madly cackling. he only bothers showing some finesse when around Drift who he wants to impress clearly requires more careful application of skill to beat. Abominus can’t set himself on fire like Rodimus can, but he can shoot flames from his beast head and will fan them higher with his wings, which means he can essentially generate a firestorm to stand in if necessary that will drive everyone else away. Elita 5 has some immunity to flame too as a pyrokinetic hero, but is in fact still vulnerable to heat unlike the other two. she won’t get scorched, but she does need to watch her temperature

in general mecha aren’t like extremely flammable, they have much much higher heat contact tolerance than humans, but ironically have lower atmospheric heat tolerance, because the majority of them use air cycling for cooling systems and so hot weather makes them overheat easily. buncha pansy computers. but they’ll think nothing of holding an open flame, picking up embers right from a fire, ducking through a burning doorway, setting off firecrackers in their hands, etc. their caution is more about smoke and soot clogging vents, or discolored paint, or getting dents from small explosions than actually burning. they start endangering themselves when the heat gets high enough to overtake their cooling systems or melt their kibble, or has enough force to punch like in an explosion, but even then they can struggle through until actual vital internal components are compromised, at which point they’re in danger of catching fire themselves. energon isn’t super flammable when in a controlled environment like their insides, and a liquid trail can catch fire, but it’ll take a mortal wound to really get someone burning up inside

hhhmmmmmmmmm i... don’t think i’m going to use them in SNAP, or at least this storyline. i’d probably make them extraterrestrial creatures sort of like what they were in TFA. they’d fit in with stories of demons and invaders for sure

[blueikeproductions]

Age of the Primes was officially revealed, and the first guy shown off Prime wise was Megatronus.

And they decided to go back to the Dreamwave design that kickstarted all this.

The main difference is he has equipped the Requiem Blaster, based on its Prime Wars design….

…and a new version of the Void Scepter based on the TFONE version.

So The Fallen alone implies that some of the preexisting Thirteen might be based on their originating designs but cherry pick things from other incarnations.

The box art shows off Liege Maximo in his original G2 design.

That’s a surprise since the G2 design is rarely acknowledged, in favor of a more humanoid design instead of a monster.

Most of what the new Liege Maximo takes from his other counterparts is his Aligned’s self legs. Liege skipped leg day a lot it seems…

The other robot represents The Thirteenth Prime, who recently in TFONE became Zeta Prime.

The original concept via Aligned had this 13th member be the so called “Arisen” was actually just Optimus Prime. This robot’s design appears to homage that, resembling Powermaster Optimus Prime.

It also loosely resembles Star Convoy and God Ginrai…

Star Convoy is in this toy line, but I don’t think he’s meant to be the Thirteenth, just yet another Optimus variant. So who this is supposed to be we don’t know yet.

It does reinforce an observation that Hasbro has moved away from the unpopular idea Optimus was one of the original 13, and that the robot is whoever it needs to be for a given story, with Zeta Prime filling in the role specifically in TFONE.

So safe bet it’s Zeta based on trends, or it’s a Ginrai homage called Apeximus Prime or something. (It would be a clever way of giving the Apex Armor a Prime unique to it, since Godbomber (Ginrai’s drone partner) is often dubbed as Apex Bomber and Optimus’ non Roller drone. Might as well complete the reference.)

Incidentally, the Primes cast as gold statutes on the packaging is likely a nod to the G1 Decepticon Hall of Heroes.

I don’t think we’re getting toys of any of these guys such as Bloodron or Murdron anytime soon, though Devron maybe since he resembles Scourge (and probably was meant to be him, had old plans about the Hall’s Life Sparks been used instead).

Admittedly, one thing that would be cool is seeing a toyline based on past Decepticon leaders, since even relatively newer stuff has shown other wars before Optimus and Megatron existed, so you could justify it. Doubly so in you found have some of these Decepticons from the Hall be reinterpreted as The Fallen’s and Liege Maximo’s followers. Something to consider maybe~!

[bairdcrevan]

For the WIP ask thing - Babysitter's Club, or Warlord in Training?

Thank you for doing this!

I just answered Babysitter's Club in the replies, so I'll do Warlord in Training... and give a SNIPPET lol

Megatron adjusted the old bandolier slung across his shoulder and chest. No matter how many times he tried to move it, the antique itched against his plating and all he wanted to do was to take it and all of the gaudy medals off. He never wore any kind of stupid ornament in the arena, but Bloodron insisted.

“You need to display your status as my favorite. Appearances are important in the Decepticon army,” Bloodron said, adjusting the bandolier so that it was in the most uncomfortable position again.

“I didn't earn any of these medals,” Megatron grumbled.

“That doesn't matter. All that matters is that I recognize you as worthy.”

Megatron suppressed a sigh and went back to watching the battle monitors. He itched to get out there and join in, but he'd barely begun the training required of every Decepticon officer was expected to complete. He didn't want to make a fool out of himself.

“Have you told the other officers yet?” Megatron asked, fiddling with the bandolier again.

“Soundwave already knows, and approves. The others… will know soon enough.” Bloodron's long, fanged denta flashed in the low light of the observation deck. “Why such anxiety, Megatron? I never saw this trepidation in the arena.”

Megatron scowled. “This is not the arena.”

“That much is obvious,” Bloodron replied.

Megatron's arm tensed, wishing to draw a sword or a gun. Just as quickly, he exvented, keeping himself still and his face bland. “I know the rules of the arena, Lord Bloodron. You plucked me out of that world, convincing me that we could help each other. But I have yet to be given any instructions other than stand here with these gaudy trinkets affixed to me.”

Essentially, War Academy Graduate Starscream joined the Decepticons and discovered they have no military acumen and will likely lose within a year. Leader Bloodron decides to bring in a celebrity to help and forces Starscream to train him on how to be a general... much to BOTH of their annoyance.

Still, things get intense and *interesting* between them, only for Bloodron to declare Megatron as his heir/successor leading to Starscream to lose. His. SHIT.

[lukesshowcaseplace]

Greetings, everyone. I have been pouring my heart and soul into writing what i would call a rough draft for my Transformers reboot lore/timeline. None of this is expected to be final, but do note that i've thought of this idea for about 2 and a half years now- If you do decide to read beyond this point, be warned, this is VERY hefty/organized, and only you guys will know what is contained in the series and its lore should you move forward and read this. If you wish to discover the truth, press the read more block.

If you got here, then great, i'm proud of you!! You appreciate the talent, effort, and work a small guy like me puts into creating something like this... So now, after 2 and a half years in the planning, i give you:

The Grandus Encyclopedius

Creation of Cybertron & Battle against Unicron

• Primus and Unicron are created, beginning their eternal conflict

• Primus creates Cybertron after temporarily subdueing Unicron

• Unicron creates his 4 Harbingers of Chaos, which Primus counteracts with the 13 Primes

• Unicron returns, in which he and his Harbingers fight off against Primus and the Primes. Unicron and his Harbingers are defeated, with the 13th Prime sacrificing himself to exile Unicron into deep space. The 13th Prime's essence is then transferred back into Primus' spark

• Primus sacrifices himself to give Cybertron the ability to create life and live as a planet (along with the 13th Prime's essence eventually manifesting itself into the planet later on), creating the Allspark in the process

• The rest of the Primes gives a part of themselves to Cybertron for it to create life in Primus' image

• The Allspark creates the Matrix of Leadership, which contains the 13th Prime's essence

Post-Unicron Darkness

• Cybertron bears the first generation of Cybertronians thanks to the Allspark

• Megatronus, one of the 13 Primes, falls under Unicron's control. He kills most of the other Primes, with Alpha Trion, Vector Prime, Alchemist Prime and Onyx Prime being the only survivors. Afterwards, Megatronus becomes the First Decepticon and rallies like-minded Cybertronians to his cause

• Alpha Trion claims the Matrix and flees to Cybertron

• Alpha Trion creates the Vaults of Vos and wipes his memory to become A-3

• Onyx Prime flees to an uninhabited jungle planet and becomes its guardian. Cybertronian life develops on the planet, and Onyx becomes their leader and mentor

• Vector Prime flees to his time dimension, where he vows to protect time and space to prevent spacio-temporal anomalies from destroying the timeline

• Alchemist Prime flees to Iacon on Cybertron and founds Maccadam's Old Oil House under the guise of Maccadam, creating the no fighting rule to prevent aggression inside the bar

Resistance and Retribution

• A-3, now wielding the Matrix, leads a resistance against Megatronus and his Decepticons, eventually "winning" after Megatronus is killed by Unicron for disobeying his orders

• A-3 gives the Matrix to his resistance and returns to the vaults. Over the years, he eventually recovers his identity as Alpha Trion, but he lacks the wisdom to return to his original form

• The resistance team dubs themselves the Autobots, annointing a Prime out of their ranks with the Matrix

• The Decepticons, in secret, prepare to strike back against the Autobots with a brand new leader to lead them

Wars for Cybertron

• Over time, a terrible series of wars would plague Cybertron for millenia

• Autobots strike back against evil Decepticon tyrants, while Decepticon treachery would topple peaceful Autobot leaders

• The last war, the Silver War, would see Nova Prime kill Bloodron and end the war in the Autobots' favor

Dynasty of Primes and Decepticon "Heroes"

• Autobot Rulers during the Wars for Cybertron (which are those who wielded the Matrix of Leadership) in chronological are as follows:

1. Sentrus Prime

2. Alphar Prime

3. Terminus Prime

4. Nova Prime

• Decepticon "Heroes" during the Wars for Cybertron in chronological order are as follows:

1. Floron

2. Dery

3. Devron

4. Rapiron

5. Pinoy

6. Gladiaron

7. Cannibaron

8. Murdron

9. Ghoulon

10. Bloodron

Golden Age, or Gilded Age?

• Nova Prime may have ended the wars and led Cybertron into a Golden Age, but he turned out to be an egotistical and crazed maniac who believed that the secret to power and authority lied beyond that of the Matrix itself

• Nova Prime gave leadership of Cybertron (and the Matrix) to Zoltar Zeta, who became Zeta Prime afterwards

• Nove then set out to discover a secret source of power alongside a self-formed group of likeminded Transformers in a ship he called the Novastar. He and his team were never seen again

• The twisted and often experimental Zeta Prime ruled Cybertron alongside Nominus for a short time, before he was betrayed by the latter. Nominus then stole the Matrix and became Nominus Prime, who turned Cybertron into a Functionalist society based on the alternate modes Cybertronians were given on birth

• Nominus Prime stepped down and handed control to Sentinel Major, who became Sentinel Prime and made this system even WORSE by making himself fully in charge of who was allowed to have functions in Cybertron and what Transformers turned into

• Alpha Trion would later leave the Vaults of Vos to regain his wisdom by reading his Covenant of Primus stored in Iacon's library

• The Vaults' contents were transferred during this process, with the foundation eventually repurposed into a maximum security prison under the command of Sentinel Prime

Megatron's Origins

• Megatron was created by a group of Decepticon Constructicons under the dying message of Bloodron to build the ultimate Decepticon, which the team who built Megatron composed of:

1. Grindcore (a huge heavily armed drill tank, who Megatron would name Grindcore Prison after)

2. Trench (a tracked loader)

3. Mortarcrusher (a cement mixer/mortar launcher)

4. Gravedigger (an excavator)

5. Hightower (a crane)

6. Steamhammer (a steam shovel)

• Megatron would then secretly begin to rally up the remaining Decepticon forces as well as create some of his own in able to properly strike against the Autobots. After the original Constructicons were killed by the heavily unstable monster combiner Monstructor, Megatron handed the construction-based operations to Shockwave, who would later serve to be Megatron's Enginus/Scientus Supremus, as well as guardian of Cybertron when Megatron takes over most of the planet.

• Megatron makes the loyal Sky-Byte his second-in-command, Starscream his lieutenant and aerospace commander, the three-faced triple-changer Blitzwing into his technician/computer specialist, front-end soldier, and Chaos Marauder, and Soundwave as his communications officer and espionage specialist

• Megatron later kills Sentinel Prime during a parade in Kaon, where he would ultimately establish as his base of operations

• Megatron then causes havoc and conquers various cities all over Cybertron

Rise of Optimus Prime

• Orion Pax, his best friend Dion, and his girlfriend Ariel work as cargo storage maintenance bots until the day they heard the news that Megatron had killed Sentinel Prime in "one of the outer cities" (the three all worked in Iacon)

• Dion refused to believe that Sentinel was dead, but Orion and Ariel tried the best they could to defend each other and Dion when Megatron surprise-attacked them all in an effort to take over Iacon

• Alpha Trion overheard everything and came out of his library as soon as the attack ended, only able to repair Orion and Ariel as their sparks were still present in their bodies (and since both of them had strong senses of justice)

• Alpha Trion remade Ariel into Elita-1, and he remade Orion Pax into Optimus, who would later find Sentinel's corpse and wield the Matrix as told in many prophecies to become the one known as: Optimus Prime

• Alpha Trion then returned to his library, where he would remain to guide Optimus all throughout his life

The Great War and Megatron's Master Plan

• Megatron starts the Great War after being defeated by Optimus Prime in the Battle for Iacon

• Many years of fighting drains the planet of its golden color, reducing it to a blueish gray color as both factions continue their war

• Megatron eventually decides to secretly create what he calls the "Ultimate Weapon", a God Gun that uses Cybertron and its moons to destroy anything in its way, granting the Decepticons total dominion over the universe

• Megatron then conspires with Shockwave to build said weapon without the Autobots' knowledge, which they realize that in able to fuel the weapon, they need the superfuel known as Ore-13, which naturally generated on a foreign planet

The Cybertronian Exodus

• Megatron appoints Shockwave guardian of Cybertron

• Megatron and his Decepticons then prepare to find the Ore-13 on The Nemesis, whom Optimus Prime and a squad of Autobots pursue in The Ark. Both factions battle over and crash on Earth, doomed to wait in stasis lock 4 million years before they eventually awaken...

While Leaders Flee

• While Shockwave takes total control of the planet, many Autobots fight against other Decepticons and their corresponding Decepticon Commanders

• A team of Prime-like Transformers arises in legends called the Warriors of the Seven Lights, who left Cybertron and defended the galaxy from intergalactic threats such as Ex-Archon and who imprisoned the ex-Autobot mnemosurgeon Sunder (later revealed to be a self-proclaimed Herald of Unicron) in the now-repurposed Vaults of Vos

• The Warrior of Evil (as a natural counterbalance to good) would later betray and kill the other warriors, taking their Light Matrices and scattering them across the universe before transferring his consciousness into and warping his own Matrix somewhere in the mysterious dimension known as Unspace

4 Million Years Later...

• In the year 1994, Optimus' squad of Autobots and Megatron's group of Decepticons awaken, continuing their war on the planet Earth

Building Relations and Calling Reinforcements

• Optimus Prime and his Autobots meet the adult Spike Witwicky and his father Sparkplug, befriending them and being assisted by them during their war against Megatron and his evil Decepticons. They also find the ancient warrior Grimlock, request the aid of a few other Autobots, and restore a Decepticon-controlled Ultra Magnus

• Megatron and his team find, call, and create other Decepticons while on Earth, including the long-lost Stunticons (excluding Wildrider, who the Decepticons found first), a new iteration of the Constructicons (consisting of the six that are most well known), Bludgeon (the mystic master of Metallikato and guardian of his own pocket dimension), and Lugnut (called to Earth from Cybertron under Megatron's direct orders)

• Megatron and Shockwave direct the creation and installation of a basebound Space Bridge system, which allowed Megatron to beam resources directly to Cybertron

• Lockdown, a freelance bounty hunter, gets paid by Megatron to travel to Earth to capture Optimus Prime and deliver him to Megatron

The Ultimate Weapon

• After eventually gathering enough Ore-13, Megatron plans to beam his team and the remaining Ore-13 to Cybertron

• Optimus and his Autobots pursue Megatron and travel on the Space Bridge to Cybertron, which results in a fight across Unspace. Megatron redirects the Autobots to one of Cybertron's moons to witness the unfolding of Megatron's 4 Million Year Plan: the transformation of Cybertron and its moons into the God Gun

• Thundercracker is killed by Megatron after finally standing up to him and trying to prevent him from activating the God Gun

• The God Gun is activated after a long fight on the planet's surface and before Optimus can stop Megatron from doing so

• Shockwave betrays Megatron after he imprisons the Autobots within Grindcore Prison, which is spearheaded by leader of the Decepticon Justice Division (aka Megatron's Secret Police): Tarn (named after the first city that fell to Megatron)

• With the help of Megatron and Starscream, the Autobots successfully defeat Shockwave before he could use the God Gun to drain the universe's resources and power Cybertron (but leave the entire universe destroyed)

Aftermath

• After the chaotic event known as the God Gun Gambit, both Cybertron and Earth would be repaired over time by both Autobots and Decepticons

• A funeral is held for Thundercracker's honorable sacrifice in New York, whom both factions attend in solem rememberance for

• Shockwave is then reprogrammed by Megatron to become his titular loyal self whilst keeping his unique skillset

• Eventually, after repairs on both planets are finished, Megatron resumes the war on Earth

Road to Unicron

• Over time, as both Autobot and Decepticon reinforcements are sworn in, strange and mysterious figures start to appear, such as Sunder and the Harbingers of Chaos (aka the Destructons, led by Lord Imperious Delirious), which leads to a few alliances between the Autobots and the Decepticons

• Megatron grows more cunning and more brutishly violent as he begins to slaughter SCORES of Autobots across the years

• The Autobots, under the swift approval of Earth's leaders, construct Autobot City to better defend against Megatron and his Decepticons

Darkest Hour

• In the year 2005, Megatron and his troops prepare to finally finish the war by not only destroying The Ark, but also raiding Autobot City, which turned out to be an Autobot Titan called Metroplex

• Megatron failed to raid the city, leaving him fatally wounded by the Titan. However, MANY Autobot and Decepticon lives were lost, not to mention the deaths of many civillians

• Among the Decepticon casualties were Sky-Byte (due to a battle against Springer), Lugnut (due to a last-minute sacrifice that shook the entire battlefield thanks to an overcharged Punch of Kill Everything which, well, rose the death toll by a LOT), and Skywarp

• Megatron was never recovered by his fellow Decepticons despite their best attempts and died of his injuries, eventually being found, revived, and reformatted into Galvatron by the Dark God Unicron

• The dead bodies of Thundercracker and Sunder were given new life, fused, and reformatted by Unicron into Scourge (whose design combines his G1 and RID 2001 appearances), aka the Nemesis Prime

• Sky-Byte and Skywarp's dead bodies are fused by Unicron and reformatted to become Cyclonus

• Galvatron and his revived bretheren reclaim leadership of the Decepticons and immediately go after Optimus Prime

• Optimus finally gets through to Galvatron after one long battle across three places: one in Giza, another in Unspace thanks to a secretly installed Space Bridge, and the last in the Cybertronian city of Kaon. Galvatron and Optimus then team up to stop Unicron from devouring the universe

• After a long amount of turmoil and before Unicron could get to Cybertron and Earth to feed himself, Optimus Prime sacrifices himself to kill Unicron and completely free his Heralds from his control

War's End

• In utter shock and pain, Galvatron saw just how far Optimus was willing to go to free him, his Decepticons, and everybody else from their common enemy. In complete disbelief and absolute insanity, along with the loss of will to continue his ways, he personally ends the Great War, fiercely abandons his troops, and left for the planet Thrull to sink deeper in his insanity

• Ultra Magnus is then encouraged to take his brother's place as Autobot Leader by Hot Rod and Kup, who serve as advisors for him

• Tarn learns of Galvatron's "change of heart" and eventually vows to "become the Decepticon that the universe had never seen before", swiftly taking control of Kaon on his own before building himself a throne of all of Grindcore's dead prisoners

• After his already bold movements, Tarn personally kills Starscream after locating him and his new Decepticon forces

• Tarn takes command of the Decepticons and starts viciously slaughtering his way to the now mentally-unstable Galvatron, fully ready to make Galvatron pay for what he did...

And that's it for right now. Hope you enjoyed this lengthy documentation of the direction i want to take this, taking inspiration from the old and incorperating the new into it. Take care, friends, and remember...

Till All Are One.

[transingthoseformers]

I like the idea that a hypothetical dark age would be were Transformers with “ancient” or “reference” sounding names could hang out. For example: Seizer, Bloodron, Cannibaron, and Blue Baccus. Those 4 are all real transformers by the way!

Ooh! I can see why they choose those names too

[brandwhorestarscream]

hey so i kind of got curious about how many named decepticons there have been in various media and toys and i am currently on day 3 of just finding names of said decepticons there was a decepticon leader called Bloodron in g1 the only info on him is a statue and that his memories are stored somewhere don't know why i brought that up but i have found over 100 so far and i will eventually go on deeper dives to get more info on individuals but it's about finding as many as i can right now if i ever manage to sort through my thoughts enough to make my own personal universe for these mechs i'll be using the info i find to help build the world pre war and war time or if i ever get around to writing that regress like story staring megs and soundwave being the star.

Cool

[scatter44]

Bloodron

I really want to know more about this guy https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Bloodron

[thenamesblurrito]

nine ask dumps already???

most of the time i feel like this blog is just a few months old but holy cow okay here we go. talking about: sports, hostile architecture, exploding sparks, more on subspace, swimming, medical health and safety practices, Hot Rod and Abominus vs a sun, thievery, sleight of hand and street magic, aaaand Cannibaron and Bloodron

lol i love that mental image, like the armadillo from El Dorado. as of today, not many people are small enough to be a ball, given the whole size classes thing. there’s some size nulls like Cogman or Rewind who are especially tiny though, so you might find an appropriately small ball-shaped elder to play, or just nab a sparkling

there’s a rough category divide between alt mode sports and root mode sports. alt mode sports would be road racing, aerial acrobatics, spaceborne relay races, excavation competitions, hauling or towing weights, even calculation races for digital-based alt modes, or wrestling for beastformers. root mode sports include things like cube, basketrek, and mecha-soccer/pedeball (all of which i am ripping straight from canon), as well as skating, competitive dancing, geochaching or scavenger hunts, and exploration sports like climbing or diving. there’s a handful of “violent” sports that are generally frowned upon but tolerated, like boxing and fencing, which Star Upper and Star Saber practice respectively

of course, different cultures and environments generally have different sports. Velocitron is, of course, THE undisputed center for racing, including aerial races. Caminus likes mind-based sports. Eukaris has more water and winter sports than anywhere else. Carcer’s unofficial national sport is either drinking competitions or how long can you evade the Enforcers on the run. Devisiun loves team sports. Kaon leans more towards demolition and excavation alt mode sports, Vos has a lot of aerial sports, Hydrax is famous for its long grueling endurance races, and Iacon regularly hosts ball-based sport tournaments. at the JAAT, Shreddicus Maximus and Eject are sports teachers, and Override and Grandus are physical education teachers, so everyone gets an opportunity to find the strengths of their frame in root and alt mode

it’s a little bit the norm already, with size segregated sections of communities so only certain folk can actually access buildings, amenities, and transportation avenues. hang on have i mentioned that before??

yes i have in this post: “physical infrastructure is not geared towards diverse interaction. Even furniture and every day tools like utensils aren’t universal, they come in different size classes. A place meant for one frametype or size class won’t have accommodation for others. A grounder’s restaurant won’t have open-backed seats for winged fliers, and a minibot library won’t have doors that could fit a size 2 adult, much less size 5.”

so in the lower levels where junkers are more likely to hang out, this kind of size-segregated architecture isn’t as prevalent, but it’s still there to some degree. different spaces of the city are also divided off, and someone in a lower functionist class had better have good reason for entering a higher class area when Enforcers and their security drones are keeping an optic on everyone. in general Enforcers set up a lot of retractable barriers or spikes in roads to force people to stop and be checked before they’re allowed through, board over and reinforce power conduits or waste receptacles to make it more difficult for junkers to scavenge from them, and either fill in or demolish old empty spaces that they can’t easily monitor so junkers can’t stay there. it’s also common for places like factories or construction sites to require every worker to have a badge with a relay signal, and any living being detected on the grounds that doesn’t have an accompanying badge signal is flagged as an intruder by the security systems, making it very risky for junkers to trespass or travel across a work site

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under the right circumstances, maybe so! Optimus is the type of guy to figure out how to detonate himself in some kind of self-sacrificing move to let others get away, meanwhile Hellscream is the type of guy to figure well my enemy has already mortally wounded me, I may as well make it worse and blow us both up. it’s absolutely possible and i wouldn’t put it past them

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so, the thing about subspace in SNAP is, it exists, but people don’t know that. the heroes have subspace, but they have to figure this out on their own because they’ve never heard of it before. as for traveling to subspace, it’s not really a place you can go and explore like an alternate dimension. it’s like... like a pokeball i guess, you’d just be stuck in a pocket of reality. sparks are inside their own subspace, and unless you end up inside that one particular spark’s subspace, you will be entirely unable to access it

with sparks being half inside subspace specifically, mecha understand that they are in a quasi-real state while held in their chambers, and there’s probably some level of dimensional nonsense going on, but they don’t have advanced enough science to tell just what is going on, and that’s made more complicated by the fact that messing with sparks and innermost is kind of taboo, so it’s an extremely limited field of research

man this is an answer i don’t know how to tackle, i’m not a swimmer and idk anything about hydrodynamics. but! most mecha don’t really swim, they... sink? unless they have some sort of natural buoyancy, like a submarine or a boat or certain flight and space frames, they are not going to overcome their nature as beings of dense metal weighing several tons. so, assuming they are capable of going in water or have at least put the right seals in (seventh ask here), the majority of mecha will end up taking a leisurely stroll along the bottom of the body of liquid they’re “swimming” in. this makes flotation devices pretty common for mecha of all ages, since some folks want a way to get to the surface without walking all the way back to the shore, and some just want to enjoy feeling suspended instead of going down deep

i think kibble would be both helpful and hindering here, all depending on how the individual is using it. if you don’t know what you’re doing, swimming is hard, so somebody with a lot of kibble producing a lot of drag would need some practice before those doorwings, wheels, armor, or what have you become useful propellants instead of ungainly irritants. this is another reason why most mecha who aren’t already adapted for underwater work don’t really seek out swimming. they just aren’t a super aquatic species!

flu shots are more like flu patches, as in a bug patch or firewall update, since most transmissible diseases like that are data-borne viruses or parasitic nanobots (not the nanobots of a mech’s frame, but rather the microscopic cyberfauna of the ecosystem, filling the same niche as bacteria). bugs in downloaded data, public run programs, or object interface systems can get into someone’s memory cache or even neurocircuitry and make them a little glitchy for awhile, and if that isn’t patched it could fester and lead to actual processing problems. naturally someone who regularly interfaces with objects or is some kind of computational/data processing alt mode will be more susceptible to this kind of virus than, say, a beastformer who lacks datacables and has no physical way to object interface. there are rumors of commhazards, certain patterns of colors or flashes or sounds that hijack a mech’s subconscious binary and forcibly upload a program just by being seen or heard, but these are only rumors and no commhazard has ever been isolated or proven. on the physical side, a person’s healthy paint layer will fight off virulent nanobots, but a good update can inoculate someone against a particular strain in advance. rust infections are also a relatively common “disease” for people in humid environments or upon exposure to rusty debris and aerosolized particulates, as is mold! certain organic molds and fungi are adapted to eat through metals or plastics and just love to find the warm dark vents of a person’s frame and start a colony. good personal hygiene and regular checkups or antifungal washes will prevent this, but it’s still a common “disease”, with mold seasons every year like flu season. this is the only real experience the vast majority of mecha will have with any organic lifeform their entire lives, which doesn’t exactly set a good precedent huh

quarantine protocols and medical seals (not unlike the swimming seals linked above) are only put into effect when there’s a particularly aggressive strain of infection, or a particularly damaging environment, like around the Rust Sea. if a viral digital bug is going around, entire city-wide data systems can be shut down and combed through until the bug is patched and the health and safety firewalls are solid again. in comparison to organic life, there’s actually far fewer infectious or virulent maladies going around, since their ecosystem works differently

hohoho! excellent question! Abominus would be completely fine, because Abominus is completely immutable. not heat, gravity, mass, or time will physically wear him down! that’s the nature of the Apex Armor, it’s rather intimidatingly unmatched

for Rodimus, his particular manifestation of powers makes him basically immune to heat entirely, but the gravity of being right on top of a sun would uh. probably crush him? like a soda can. however, also due to one of his powers, his spark would reignite and he’d be reforged... only to probably be crushed again. i’m not actually sure if his spark would adapt and forge his frame stronger over each iteration so as to eventually not crumple up like tin foil. possibly, but generally that kind of adaptation is highly unlikely, so dying and reviving over and over is not a good way to force evolution

well the first who comes to mind is Getaway, but he’s on Carcer, and also doesn’t care about charity so much as negging authorities. there’s also junkers who mostly steal to survive, and criminal rings or black market dealers who steal to survive and make a profit, but these aren’t exactly notable i think? like there are mob organizations on Cybertron, who extort and smuggle and launder goods and money, which is kind of just a facet of civilization in general. Thunderhoof is a good example of this

hmmmmm. Shadow Striker is a junker smuggler and fence of sorts, i’m not sure if she’s a thief herself though.... uhh Soundwave has digitally stolen from banks for funzies and had no idea what to do with the money afterwards. Deadlock steals his relic from Alpha Trion’s archives because he’s feeling mean? i’m sort of blanking on this, i don’t think i’ve got any significant thieves or thievery and i don’t really know enough to just make something up on the spot

i think the only real, notable thievery i know of is the “discovery” of the “holy book” now known as the Covenant of Primus, which in actuality was a certain someone’s diary that they left out and forgot to close, and some rando came along and read it and decided hey you can make a religion out of this and stole it. so that’s actually a pretty significant part of the cultural history of Cybertron

man i didn’t even think of this until i saw this question. yes, i suppose there are. it’s all about misdirection and leading the optic away from the tricks you’re pulling. lots of hiding things in armor or kibble, flashy biolights to cover a quick switch, careful mods or false plating to really sell the trick, etc. i don’t know enough about sleight of hand to elaborate though, but please imagine Makeshift doing a very basic card trick for their roommates and Blurr proceeding to lose his mind because he’s never seen anything like that before

let’s see what i have in my notes...

so Cannibaron was a warlord and despot during the Council of Ancients era of Cybertron, setting up his regime from Corumkan in modern day Uraya. this was about 2 billion Earth years ago by the way, so he’s a figure that would be taught in Cogman or Kup’s history classes, but not super relevant today

Bloodron i don’t have any notes for, but he’d probably be a similar ancient historical figure, since in canon he’s sort of a historical figure and i always need more people to pad out my timeline