#nominus prime

[tailgateonrollerskates]

Tf character requests I did in a server I’m in!

[planetformer-central]

I wish I thought of this sooner, but Optimus being followed by all the baby Primes like their ducklings.

(Yes that includes Bumblebee, I take no criticism)

The Baby Primes have a chokehold on me, and I shall fully embrace it.

Low quality because I am tired, but I 100% love this mental image. I too am consumed by the baby Primes, so we can suffer together.

[askvectorprime]

Why would anyone come up with the Functionist caste system?

Dear Caste Castigator,

As many ideas do—be they dangerous or benign—it began as innocent curiosity. Every generation inevitably asks itself the same question: “What is my purpose? For what reason was I created? What part do I have to play, in our society?” Our alt-modes are important to us, and throughout history, many have looked to our forms for the answer. “Why do I turn into this, and not that? If I was designed this way, then what for?” And as we find that our own bodies have precious few answers to give us, we turn to those around us: “Why are there more cars than particle accelerators?” At the dawn of our civilisation, even my siblings wondered about these mysteries.

It was during the rise of Nova Prime, in response to the war of the Primes, that these philosophical questions morphed into the ideology of Functionism. Nova Prime decided that the tribes had gone astray—that each had their own divine purpose to fulfill, which they had forsaken. He recruited twelve bots—one from each of the original tribes, excepting Onyx's—who formed a council to comprehend and expand this list of functions, forming the first Grand Cybertronian Taxonomy.

Having arrived at what they believed to be a complete set of categories, they thus set out to fit the planet’s population into these categories. At its basis, this meant that Solus’ followers were assigned to work in the forges; Alpha Trion’s followers to the archives; the Darklanders to the barracks. Few at the time considered this societal structure to be asserted unnaturally. Rather, it was seen as codifying the existing cultures of the tribes, unifying them in its view of Cybertron as a single people collectively working to a divine mandate. The dissenting voice of the Beasts was easy to disregard, given their defeat at the Citadel of Light, and most abandoned Nova’s society to live in the wilderness.

As the Golden Age continued, the Taxonomy grew more and more complicated. The original set of castes was expanded, coinciding with the introduction of ratioism: the more unique your alternate mode, the more important you were believed to be. Castes believed to be “important for society” were heavily subdivided into hyperspecialized classes, allowing the Prime and his followers to be seen as blessed. Meanwhile, laborers remained in larger, more generalized castes, where they were treated as interchangeable.

Naturally there were objections to this—but with the weapons held by the newly-formed military classes, the rebellion was halted in its tracks, and society was forced to accept the caste system wholly, even as it grew ever more byzantine and oppressive.

It may be surprising, given his later reputation, but Nominus rose to become Prime mostly on the back of his promises to loosen the caste system. This was supposedly implemented through the introduction of the intellectual classes—those who were judged to be valuable for their minds, not their alt modes. This was a huge development at the time, bordering on heresy... but in truth, this progress proved to be a fantasy.

[cherrytimemachine]

Tidbits of Cybertron and the culture.

[singingcicadas]

Just realized that I'd gotten Nova and Sentinel's alts mixed up the the Functionism post. Nova is the third one there with wings.

Front view; his wings are really impressive too, wish we could see what he looks like after transforming

the idw1 version of Sentinel's normal mode doesn't seem to have wings. There's this 🔽 version with wing panels (which are more obvious after Megatron turned him into a chair) but that's after he put on the Apex armour.

His normal altmode's a tank:

Nominus Prime isn't in the first pic there so here's a concept art design from wiki. idk why he isn't included, his matrix was fake but so was Sentinel's

Zeta's whole wing/mask design after becoming prime just looks impractical and ugly

[halenhusky309]

idw2 Nominus Prime and idw2 Sentinel Prime are so funny is that while they are quite tyrannical to their own peoples, but it comes from the place of worrying about their own brethens would potentially become the worst colonizers/expansionists/imperialists to other alien civilizations. I don't know but as a non-cybertronian, I have to stan them.

[mrfandomwars]

Reasons Why I Think IDW2 Sentinel Prime Was A Still Technically A Young Prime/New First Senator By The Time We Meet Him - a mini meta

We are told that Nominus not only oversaw the final push against Exarchon - which happened like, 2000 years Before canon events - but also that he was the one who was in charge when Bumblebee and Cliffjumper were built - and Iacon was already rebuilt by that point, or at least mostly rebuilt from what we could see

2000 years to a species who can live up to millions, at very least, is like. Not a lot. At most a month or a year, something like that; Meaning that Sentinel could have only become a Prime at least 500 years after the War of the Threefold Spark ended, and that is if we are being generous with how quickly the Constructicon's finished Iacon and of Bumblebee and Cliffjumper's age.

So like. Sentinel, although he probably had been trained to take up the mantel of Prime by Nominus, was probably a young Prime by the time we met him

At most, he was like. A newly elected president who may not have yet fully completed a year on the job (maybe even less, enough to settle in with a new president but to still be considered a New President), because even though a lot of time passed to us for Transformers, it isn't, again, a lot comparatively to their life spans.

Also also: what better time to try and start a revolution/civil unrest? with a new leader that people are getting used to and is currently away.

[maranigai]

Nostalgic sketches, 2019 was... a good year.

[zephyrrhiesfyrian]

some more of my MTMTE screenshots and sillies :D

HE'S SO SHORT

HIS FEET DON'T REACH THE FLOOR 😭 (i am also short, i understand)

disappointed dad

y'all seeing this shit?

AYO WHY HE GOT SHARP TEETH???

ngl nominus be looking kinda dilfy here

bask in my beauty orion

AYO HANDS TO YOURSELF ಠ_ಠ

[planetformer-central]

Hear me out okay- Sentinel doing Orange Cat Activities (come on he looks the part) and/or all the little Primes sharing a singular brain cell

POV: Your kids found out you have cookies.

Or more specifically, Sentinel found out and roped his siblings into getting a treat from their dad.

[pluralsword]

Nova is easily our favorite from these four because he is such a fun villain to write/read, like honestly he's an imperialist progressive and one of the if not the prototypical OG Functionist (not counting Shockwave's complicity here that's a time loop thing) and is a arguably canonical (trans)misogynist (he is at the very least structurally for wanting to take away people's wills and thus capacity to realize and actuate but we'll get to why he certainly is because of the Primus Vanguard thing) unconfirmed but most likely partially responsible for the societal doing away of gender in favor of androcentric 'genderlessness' (Shockwave is to blame for letting it happen but make no mistake this was a societal act under autocracy like singular individuals do not shape history alone)... and probably was kept informed about his head scientist and fellow imperialist schemer Jhiaxus taking Arcee's request for gender affirmation during that time period and then not giving her what she wanted/putting her through unnecessary and painful procedures and abandoning her...

This is the same guy whose colonial peacekeeper (see: cops) Primus Vanguard members would sometimes come back from deployment beyond cybertronian space using she/her pronouns and that was publicly known but the government did nothing to help make them or their own number who didn't join the Vanguard to figure themselves out understood (Anode in Lost Light #8 spoke to how she didn't get what the big deal was with those pronouns until she went to space and met other species during the Great War). So yeah you know what this guy regularly used and abandoned trans women canonically and we think that's something severely not noted about Nova.

And all of this is done in a way that is not in the framework of human history and our particular versions of patriarchic baggage within the hegemonic masculinity on this Earth, despite the fact some of the writers trip through alt-mode as a race metaphor/allegory (that doesn't really work for these alien robots because race is a particular colonial construct created for oppressive purposes, we do it as a gender/aesthetic erasure anatomy hierarchy instead but that's a discussion for another time) because most of the typical (trans)misogyny from our world in terms of seeing as weaker or property or things we don't want to say and so forth simply isn't there.

But other things from othering such as confusion over gender, sidelining and erasure of (trans) women from history despite the fact they were still part of cybertronian society during the Golden Age and onwards (see: Crasher, what Anode said about the Primus Vanguard, etc.), and thinking of e.g. Arcee as crazy (hi Blurr honey you did that and that wasn't nice) are.

So yeah, combined with the fact that this whole gender thing we just talked about is just one part of Nova Prime's evil scheming and the fact he's being manipulated by Shockwave and Jhiaxus at the same time while thinking he's in charge of the colonial Expansion, and was a Matrix bearer perhaps because he thought he was worthy and not because he was a good person, all of that makes him... someone we can read and write fanfic about without getting exhausted by the baggage that writing about a misogynistic person in a position of power would normally carry for us if that person was a participant in human imperial patriarchy. And so writing about or just thinking or reading about people resisting his rule or destroying his legacy just feels so very good.

Zeta is the counterrevolutionary reformer so we get why people chose him because he's also a different can of bolts but yeah just had to say all that. Because we want people who haven't read our stuff to get our perspective a bit and we kind of hyperfocused on this.

Anode, Lug, and Arcee survived these four scrapheads and helped destroy the empires and legacies they were responsible (including by navigating the Autobot hegemony), despite everything they went to because of them, and they did with the help of multiple species including humans, an anti-Functionist resistance, bots including gal bots of worlds that did not forget gender but embraced it, and with cybertronians who worked alongside or finally embraced them. If that's not dark hopepunk we don't know what is.

Of course our favorite Prime really is Solus Prime but if you list her it's like 'what do I do with the rest of Thirteen' and she was the least 'bastard politician' of the lot lmao.

*small note: Sentinel Prime is amatophobic, not just homophobic, we know this because he knows gals exist (he mentions Nickel for example in the Titans Return one-shot iirc) and presumably can put together than m-spec/f-spec relationships can exist but he's still a homophobe who is gay you are correct so emphasizing it makes sense XD

If you follow me and don't have a favorite bastard politician prime then shame on you, honestly

[askvectorprime]

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.

[singingcicadas]

idw Ratchet is someone who follows orders and respects authority. He might follow his conscience in spur-of-the-moment decisions that allows him the leeway/initiative to act on his own (e.g. setting up clinic on Dead End, breaking cover to save Verity and Hunter, going to look for Drift, voting against Rodimus in mtmte) but he's never openly defied the orders of an acting leader. Regardless if he doesn't agree with said order and thinks it's stupid. Or wrong.

Even when Ratchet thinks Rodimus' treatment of Drift is unfair, he never speaks up against Rodimus during the actual issue of the exile verdict. He only offers Drift silent support by helping him up on the way out, because Rodimus is the captain and you don't argue with the captain. Yes he thinks Rodimus is a crap captain and acts condesending towards him all the time but when it comes to rank and orders there's no ambiguity.

Voting against Rodimus in the crisis act is a legitimate expression of disapproval, made anonymously in private. He doesn't care about Rodimus knowing his vote, but in public it stays anonymous. He does tell Rodimus off about what he did to Drift, but again, he makes sure it's a private one-on-one appointment. He also doesn't make Rodimus formally revoke Drift's exile or sanction his search, he resigns his position as CMO and quietly leaves to look for Drift himself as a personal commitment.

Common stereotype of what Ratchet is not:

Medic ethics and commitment to patients comes first, factions be damned. I don't care if he's a Decepticon, he's my patient.

No he's not actually like that? When Megatron's in custody he's all lets dissect him awwwww why can't we dissect him why does mass murderers still get rights that's so stupid can't I just torture him a little?

Like he spent the whole war patching up Decepticon-inflicted wounds and witnessing Decepticon-inflicted deaths. He's not a saint. He has as much good reason to hate Megatron and his faction as any other Autobot.

In fact he was pretty eager to ask Optimus about what he's going to decide as Megatron's punishment after he heard about Optimus frying Megatron on the voltage harness.

Optimus has his heart on clemency. Ratchet's the one hoping for execution or something equally nasty. Even though their opinions doesn't line up, Ratchet's still 100% supportive of Optimus' decision.

He repairs Megatron only because of Bumblebee's orders, and makes his unwillingness known.

Later in mtmte Ratchet does save Megatron's life of his own volition and repairs him again, but that's after he's lived with Megatron on the same ship for six months (again something that he considers to be a colossally bad idea but is forced to live with because of orders) and got to know him as a person. Not because of bleeding heart syndrome.

Also Ratchet's not just a grouch all the time. He can be blunt but also knows when to be respectful as appropriate to the occasion. He reprimands Wheeljack for being disrespectful to Bumblebee because leaders should be treated like leaders.

The guy's been CMO since Nominus Prime, essentially the highest-ranking of his profession on the planet; you can't get to that type of position and hold it through consecutive leaders for millions of years without considerable interpersonal skills and knowledge of social protocol.

Prowl does have Ratchet on his little blacklist but the stuff on there really just refers to Ratchet saving Verity and Hunter back in Infilitration. I read it as more of a testament to Prowl's pettiness than Ratchet actually being a problem.

[raptorfae53]

Megatron Mondays week 2 - Megatron.

To Cybertronians Megatron needs no introduction. A terrifying,nigh-unstoppable warrior and conquerer and seemingly unquestioned leader of the decepticons even after 500 years of absence. Starting out as D16, a lowly miner who secretly dreamed and wrote of freedom, through circumstances beyond his control megatron lead a rebellion out of the gladiator pits of Kaon, tearing apart Cybertronian leader nominus prime before declaring war on the entire empire, who disappeared into space trying to kill Sentinel prime. Unknown to his people Megatron crashed on a strange world and too damaged to move, was captured and studied by the locals under the name "project nephilim" but thanks to a platoon of loyal soldiers Megatron is back in action, ready to destroy this new prime and finally win the war! And then!, and then...

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Week 2 of drawing characters from my transformers continuity, this week being the bucket headed old leader of the decepticons in-absentesia and the namesake of this whole thing, Megatron! (I'm going autobot-decepticon-autobot-decepticon in regards to scheduling btw, eventually adding in other factions like the predacons, terrorcons and the like...)

Hope you like this art, and see you next week for the next one...

[idlepollingofcybertron]

1.) The Red Rust: The Dead End is along the dock and waterways and canals of Rodion in the poorer older area. It is tightly packed and old with both some of the oldest historical buildings and the poorest areas on Cybertron. A return of the Rust Plague is reported first there in a clinic. The disease was wiped out and had previously devastated Cybertron. Rather than risk it get out the government shuts down the Dead End and as even bodies would be infected, "clears it out". There is an attempt to cover this up but it fails as does the containment attempt of the disease. It was actually caught by a wealthy collector who purchased an otm that contained it and he visited the Dead End and spread it. The new variant of the Rust Plague, the Red Rust, spreads until a young doctor named Pharma makes a cure. By this point the survivors of the Dead End have fled Rodion.

2.) The Destruction of Nyon: Nyon became a mining town heavily operated by the government and regulated with strict divisions. The city has miles and miles of tunnels dug under it and support from abandoned shafts but lower areas are not maintained and many due to divisions cannot live in areas without permits. During a shift tragedy strikes and Nyon collapses on itself. The higher caste areas are evacuated and rescued first leadings to thousands dying neglected and buried in the Lower City.

3.) The Death of Delta Magnus: Delta Magnus, the Leader of the Primal Guard, is attacked at a political event during Nominus Prime's tour across Cybertron to visit each polity. Angry protestors try to shoot the Prime and Magnus takes the hit. A local doctor, Glit, treats him and Delta Magnus dies due complications. Scandal erupts when "evidence" is produced that Glit was intoxicated on the job and protests against beast formers and other frames that aren't "naturally medical" being employed increases. Glit is very publicly found culpable and loses his license.

4.) The Trypticon Incident: The Titan Trypticon causes devastation when he goes on a rampage, leaving Vos and destroying Crystal City. He has to be brought down. It is discovered after the fact that his Hot Spot, known for mainly producing Seekers, was poisoned by waste dumping. The company found guilty throws a few employees, including a lead researcher Mesothulas, to the wolves but gets off due to connections within the government.

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