#prion colony

[tzuu-died]

doodled up an oc for the prion colony!! meet cobalt!!

here’s some info + lore i have for them!!

cobalt uses they/she and is sapphic :))

when designing them i wanted to make them have some organic traits.

they were a medic like nickel, and used to be great friends with her, as they were each other’s amica endura.

in pursue of new materials to use for medicinal purposes, she left prion to seek answers in other worlds.

during their travels in one, they were attacked by a horde of insects after accidentally damaging their nest.

having barely survived, the venom cobalt was injected with gave them moth-like attributes (insect + four eyes, antennae, mutated back plating to resemble wings, animal-like structure of the legs, night-vision).

after prion’s destruction, they tried to reunite with their amica, but nickel did not want to see her because they became everything nickel hated; an organic.

they did work with the djd for a while, coming up with various medicine they could use, including something that would strengthen tarn’s t-cogs

at some point they made up with nickel (or well, nickel stopped hating them so much 😭) and BOOM now they’re dating yay yippeeee

[witchofthesouls]

How tiny would the second set of sparklings be after Overlord?

Very tiny and delicate as they're really premature. Their saving grace was that their forms were nearly settled and had begun the bulking phase.

Nickel was able to drop them inside an incubator, so their bodies could stabilize more and hopefully get more weight on them. And had a screaming match with some 'con medical personnel. She stole joints and sliced cabling since she's at the perfect height for knees and ankles before kicking people out.

It's unfortunate that the Decepticons don't have a blacksmith that's experienced with neonatal care, but there's a Prion medic and Camien nurse from Order the Luminara that made some plans.

Because the three are itsy-bitsy, they wear onsies for better thermoregulation. They're either sleeping or eating as they have severely limited reserves.

Tarn has upgraded to perch since all three can curl into the nook between his neck and collarfare, which is far easy to keep track of them since all three can fit in his palm and still have room to squirm around. The split-sparks are grumpy because that was their favorite spot, and they got kicked out to his chassis.

Nurse is grumpy because of the healing process, and the lack of biolights on their armature means Tarn's cozier to all the sparklings' senses.

[shimmeringembers]

Lightbulb / The Lantern / Little Prion

Just wanted to show off my little scug OC. They’re The Lantern! A little sluggy that lives within the can of their local iterator. They were left behind by their family because of a shortage in food while traveling through the grounds of this iterator. Lightbulb crawled their way inside of the superstructure to protect themselves from the rain, feeding on the neuron flies within, earning their glow.

They really like the local iterator because she rambles to them about all sorts of stuff, but Lightbulb lacks the mark of communication, so to them, it’s a lot of funny noises. She calls them “Little Prion”, because they’re literally eating parts of her brain. Lightbulb does leave the can occasionally to explore! They’re sort of recognized as a colony member in a larger group of slugcats, and because they glow, members of this colony refer to them as The Lantern.

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Lightbulb (Self name)

The Lantern (Colony title)

Little Prion (Nickname)

They/Them

Lives inside of the local iterator, part of local colony.

Omnivore, prefers neuron flies.

Left behind by parent due to food shortage, lacks glow as a pup, really likes local iterator despite her obvious tolerance of them. (The iterator is saying “Oh. Little Prion…”)

[karanseraph]

How many Titans do we need? (Transformers)

A list of Titans, from various continuities, which may not even be up to date in the sense it doesn't reflect the Titan Class toys of Decepticon Nemesis and Autobot Ark.

Planet    Associations  Titan

Antilla    history, rust, Alpha Trion   Croaton? 

Aquatron   water, Quintus Prime   Quintessa (Necrotitan)

Aquatron (Jellyfish City)  water     Hydratron

Arduria    cold, Alchemist Prime   Metrobase

Athenia -> colonies  Mobile Battleship    Grand Maximus

Biosphera (Eukaris, Animatron) jungle, Onyx Prime   Chela

Biosphera (Eukaris, Animatron) jungle, Scourge    Hyperborea

Botropolis (a comet)  guard     Botropolis?

Caminus (a moon)  forge, hammer, Solus Prime  Caminus

Combatron? (or Cybertron?) war, Alchemist Prime   Iaconus

Cybertron (Argon Sea)  horror     Dweller

Cybertron -> colonies  Mobile Cybertronian Embassy  Lodestar

Cybertron -> Earth  Mobile Seeker Station   Trypticon (Nemesis ship)

Devisun    combination, enigma, Nexus Prime  Devisun

Earth (Pacific NW US)  Mobile Ark Annex   Metrobase

Earth (Central US)  power, Ultra Magnus   Metroplex

Earth (Eastern US)  cube (sport), Scorch? Wedge?  Citadel Secundus

Earth (Atlantic)        Atlantis

Earth (Japan)        Brave Maximus

Elba (Garrus-9)   Mobile prison of Liege Maximo, Elita-1 Carcer (Vigilem)

Elonia    protection, Star Saber, Prima  Emissary

Gigantron   size, bridge-building   Citadel Lemuria

Gorlam Prime   death,     Necrotitan (Quintessa)

Junkion    gravity? Requiem Blaster? ???

LV-117    time, Vector Prime   Tempo 

Micron (Prion, Zone)  size, Mini-Cons, Micronus Prime  Prion

Nebulos (Dominus, Master)      Fortress Maximus

Nebulos (Dominus, Master) Zarak     Scorponok

Paradron   peace     Cargohold 

Szoria    apocalyses    Waypoint

Theophany (New Crystal City) light     Metrotitan

Titan (a moon)        Metrotitan

Tsiehshi    destruction, Megatronus   Emissary

Unicron    Galvatron    Nemesis (Titan)

Velocitron   speed, Amalgamus Prime   Navitas Delta (Ogygia)

This seems way too many to keep track of for one "All Media Types" continuity soup fanfic continuity. So, I need to combine where I can and reduce the list to the best most interesting and necessary ones.

(Soon, I have characters out scouting to find which ones are being built first.)

Opinions on which are most interesting or necessary?

[nickel-of-the-djd]

❌ ~

Something that Nickel regrets.

Nickel doesn't regret much. She tries her hardest to live for the future and not the past. But that doesn't mean she's always successful.

"I was forged in a hot spot on Prion, the Titan colony of Micronus Prime. I lived among my fellow minicons and was making headway in the medical field. Not many minis pursued a medic position, seeing as a war was going on at the time. War time usually requires field medics and minis aren't typically built to be on a battle field. But I always had a vision of myself helping my family, my friends, in their time of need. And I couldn't imagine any other course of action for my life. On top of that, I was blessed with highly specialized servos, ones that were ideal for the medical field. So my fate was set in iron, as far as I was concerned.

Then, like things always tend to do, everything went wrong. The Black Block Consortia devastated my home. Killing and kidnapping my brothers and sisters, decimating our buildings and structures. They felled our titan, Prion. Our world, Micron, was completely and utterly razed. My kind, victim to genocide. And I was the sole survivor. Forced to take shelter in the optic socket of Prion, I stayed there for, I don't know how long, too long. I was being eaten alive by my guilt, my hatred, my despair. Until a glimmer of hope shined upon me. Like a rescue beacon in the dead of space, the DJD found me.

Of course I was highly skeptical and distrustful when they asked me to join them. I probably said some very rude and hurtful things. But despite my poor manners and my distrust, Tarn spoke to me the rhetoric of the Decepticons, and illuminated my path forward. It was as if the universe sent them for my salvation. To fill the void in my chassis that was left after the total annihilation of my kind. The universe sent me my new family, and made me whole once more.

I joined them and have since devoted my whole existence to them and our great cause. And I will continue to do so for the remainder of my cycles.

So, what is my one regret you ask?

Not being big, or strong enough to kill every last member of the Black Block Consortia

But I do have some very big and strong friends to help me."

[shamebate]

Prion Song

I am pleased to report that

The equality act 2010 has been ruled (a decade on)

to protect

Vegan terfs' beliefs

(Though not

the lives of workers

trans or otherwise)

thanks to the open letters and the reports written by those waged from that last twenty in our pockets

For their Important Work, their Service Making, Representative Theses, Tracts and Tomes, video essays and streamed debates

I will be over here

Dragging my tail in the mud

And snacking on bones 

you cant taste the taboos once

youve heated them past 55 degrees.

Their grease limns my lips, hal(l)o(w)-ed sphincter

sometimes i think about

How we are all being shaped into not just

Cogs of industry, 

But interstellar ones

Shiny new colonial subjects 

Reliant on industrial gut flora--

trans liberation means

survival probiotic sponcon spots filmed with bisexual lighting.

The fear in me is beyond anything you can summon up with the gothic horror of the abbatoir 

Stories based on notknowing the slaughter heralded by the field

The rainbow draped notburger winking from a playdough(tm) illustration notmade by any artist 

is worse than any workhouse gruel

the joke is the sanitised cannibal

 wework Saturno devorando a su hijo

Could not have existed without the dropshipped Eat The Rich! lapel pin marketed by the skinny white club twink

Whose hands go straight (lol, lmao) to the keyboard and plink out police dial tones

When they see a spatter of brain

and yet

All of this is dust. rage against the dying of the

Screenlit

graebers flunkies, fisher's protestants

or laugh, for when the floods and fires come

stinking flats will be from where the lotuses spring 

middens forever 

More beauteous and exalted than 

anything spewed from that bleached tower / page / form

tickbox

Tulip schemes of legalists' prestige based on foreswearing the rot 

created by their charnel pits, filled

By their wartradeplay

Folding and folding the same flesh, recursive senescence 

necromasses rise up

[eld-red]

some other fun facts about vixy in my hc of her!!

- vixy is half-deer/half-fox. fox from her dad’s side, deer from her mom’s.

- vixy has two older siblings. they are also technically her half siblings—they all have the same dad but different moms. she’s also the only one out of their family that’s multi-species

- she has an oldest brother name viktor, and another older sister named vanya. vanya is a mechanic that lives on corneria. viktor is a soldier turned mercenary who was stationed on katina but found his way to macbeth.

- vixy has. dead mom trauma. the wound doesn’t hurt all that much anymore. sometimes it just hits her and she has to be by herself for a little bit

- as soon as she could, when she was 18, she filed a petition to change her last name to her mom’s. she hated the association she had with her dad and his last name. he just thought she did it for “business” reasons, or that she was doing it so that people didn’t think she was getting things handed to her. she has a really complex relationship with her dad.

- her middle name is andromeda. victoria andromeda reinard

- she was always a born performer. from a young age, she would sing for people at her dad’s meetings or investors. she took music lessons as a little girl. she’s played a lot of different instruments, but she always finds herself coming back to the guitar and baritone ukulele.

- she grew up on katina, but she and her sister convinced her dad to let her enroll in the CCTA. the CCTA is where she attended high school. she never went back to katina after that

- vixy and james were never actually friends in high school. they always saw the other around, they were in some classes together, but they just had wildly different friend circles that never really overlapped. but she always liked him. she found him to be genuine and real in a school full of phonies

- vixy shared a class with beltino and lived near vivian (hare). beltino had a knack for sound mixing and being bass guitarist, and vivian loved playing the piano. they always joked that they would start a band if the CCTA and college went south, with vixy as their lead singer/guitarist and primary lyricist. their band name flitted between “Vixy Rei and the Prions” and “Vixy Rei and the Living Dolls”

- she would frequently pretend to take notes while she was actually songwriting. she would sometimes get in trouble during class for doing this. luckily no teacher was ever cruel enough to read it outloud to the class.

- vixy’s family was family friends of andross. so the two have known each other for a very long time. one of her first jobs was working as an intern in his lab. he really mentored her. they both viewed the other as family.

- vixy and james met again when they were 19 and 20 respectively. they were both in their second year of college. they met by complete chance again. in andross’ lab, of all places.

- an idea that vixy’s had ever since she was a litte girl (that she was able to bring to fruition eventually!) was finding a way to purify the air on venom or at least making the very hostile environment more livable. she was always enraptured by the air footage of venom, the big temples and ruins—and she’s always wanted for scientists or historians to be able to set up colonies on venom and be able to do field research. the venomian air purification project put her in a lot of very dangerous situations. people wanted that patent from her so they could profit off it.

- vixy wanted to name fox fionnbharr/finbarr. it was her maternal grandfather’s name. and if she was born a boy, its what she’s always wanted her name to be. she and james concede by letting it be his middle name. james finbarr mccloud jr.

- after her time in the CDAS was really beginning to wear down on her psyche, she was considering going back to school to get her certifications to be a teacher. but she wanted to teach little kids. or, she’d find a job as a pianist for the art school, the CMSA/cornerian magnet school of the arts

- sometimes, if she’s out in public, someone will recognize her from her “local cornerian band” days. she always finds it funny when a teenager would be the one to recognize her for it.

i have. so mant things to say about her

[transingthoseformers]

Quintus started the colonies anon here, in my reasoning almost all of the colony Transformers have a tiny amount of energon within them, but mostly subsist on other energy sources: techno-organics along with Maximals and Predacons can subsist on organic and techno-organic food sources and photosynthesis, Camiens can subsist on solar energy so their bodies support various solar panels in their designs, Junkions can use any kind of fuel considering how their planet is basically a scavenger world, Aquatrons including Sharkticons can absorb energy from water and air, etc. Their secondary source of energy aside from energon is that "magic cave water" that the Terrans partake in, but due to the amount on any of the worlds present, it's either not as important or guarded or used only if nothing else can be used.

Camien society is solarpunk inspired and centered around arts and the worship of the 13 Primes.

Eukarian society is centered around scientific discovery and philosophy, with an emphasis on bettering their world through understanding the world around them.

Biosferan society is nature oriented, with a strong spiritual connection to the Primal Plane.

Junkions live on a desert world with a lot of junk on it, and usually pride themselves on recycling the junk around them into useful things, like housing, tools, transport and broadcasting, as well as helping each other when needed.

I haven't figured out any of the other cultures, but that's what I have figured out.

Oooop yesss

There's the minicons on Prion like Nickel

RID15 gives us mecha like Underbite who can survive off of scrap metal (dunno where he's from, I've thought about the idea of Chompazoids coming from a planet that has/had an excess of metals), and predacon-esque mecha like Crazybolt and Flamesnort who cough up great plumes of fire (Crazybolt is referenced as being from Velocitron???), i think in general rid can use the colony worlds as an explanation for why these mecha are rather different from everyone else (i think? That's what tfwiki said somewhere? Somewhere. Perhaps.)

Plus tfwiki gives us several possible planets to fuck around with

[loversveil]

u know when u think a date is going rlly well but then u go into a bookshop and see the book tender is the flesh by agustina bazterrica and rave abt how good it is to ur date but complain abt the regular consumption of human meat never led to any of the characters who ate human meat (so basically everyone) developing transmissible spongiform encephalopathies or prion diseases which then sent me down a tangent where I explained in detail the fore tribe of the okawa district and the interference of anthropologists berndt and berndt in 1957 and the discovery of kuru through the fore peoples practicising their traditional funerary cannibalism and why the rate of kuru was so much higher in women and children because customarily they would eat the brains during the funerary rites and then started having an intense debate amongst myself and me alone about whether this act of colonialism caused more harm in destroying a cultures religious practices even if those practices were leading to their deaths than it ~solved the problem~. but yeah anyone else have that happen on a date before

[bathspaces]

Henry, Prion's childhood friend (or more...?). As Prion's powers in disease became more pronounced, they were brought to a leper colony, where they met Henry. The two became quick friends- the kind where you don't remember how you met yet it seemed you were inseparable from day 1. But of course, idyllic childhood settings only last so long...

Henry had always sought a higher calling, training for knighthood. And he was getting close- he had often talked with local visiting knights, proving his swordsmanship to them and making a name for himself.

Prion, meanwhile, was content to live out their days in the colony. In their most intense fever dreams they were able to contact a mysterious entity; one that could help them master their power, bring them closer to control. It was in these dreams Prion learned the true name of Tunic, but was still too far to put a face to it.

One fateful day, a group of knights came to see Henry, offering him a chance to train under them for knighthood. Far across the land, Ichneumon succeeded in stealing Tunic's name. This event directly influenced Prion, whose powers warped and broke out of control. Upon seeing the diseased wizard, the knights decided to give Henry his first mission- slay the plaguewalker. Desperate to achieve his dream, Henry chased Prion throughout the colony, up to the waterways. In a final confrontation, unable to force himself to kill his friend, Henry threw Prion into the waterway, letting the river decide their fate.

Henry would go on to become a respected knight, but the guilt of betraying his friend hung heavy over him. Prion, expelled from the only home they had, would spend the next twenty years migrating from dungeon to dungeon, managing their powers in the only way they knew how. The memory of Henry hung over them too, taunting them with the constant question, why?

With the finding of Tunic, it seems their paths will cross again.

[witchofthesouls]

At least Tarn's a tank and can help feeding the little ones when the nurse sleeps or works.

Unfortunately no. In the donor clause au, Tarn's a Seekerkin mech. Any kind of personal refineries or shared fueling systems will be incompatible with any frame he has.

Nickel had beat that into his head before the impulse to get a botch job from a catalog took root. Tarn simply gets a thing for your own wells and becomes a walking encyclopedia on various personal refineries and fueling systems.

Unless it's bottle feeding, then yes. Luckily, the nurse has fantastic production. There's a nice surplus in the medbay and Tarn's quarters. He gets the bottle for the newsparks can suckle. Thankfully, Seekerkin sparklings develop a fueling rhythm within the clutch, so only one or two (particular to the split-sparks) need to be fed at a time and around the clock.

Seekerkin femmes have unique refineries of pure protoform. The D.J.D. got a good look at yours and are highly curious because it's not the silicone bags that needs to be emptied out before packed away like they're used to.

Helex and Tesarus were in a room with their own out and went, "Oh yeah, those are different. Let's ask Nickel."

Nickel understands what they're asking about. It's the same quirk that's that was an issue in Prion among their own brand of Seekerkin. Because on Prion, everyone had multiple alt-modes. It came with its own challenges to get their frames and coding in smooth order. Depending on the mecha's spark, some alt-mode unique characteristics need to be suppressed or taken out to work with others.

Because Nickel enjoys her submarine alt-mode, she doesn't have personal refineries. She has an external fueling system that's similar to a convoy where the access points are hidden along her torso and the cables can be pulled to a certain distance where it's tapped into her internal hold.

[shimmeringembers]

Star Stringed Web

My iterator OC! I finally made a design I like.

Star Stringed Web is an old gen 1 iterator. She’s not the first one ever, but she’s definitely not new— I’d say she was built a bit before Moon. Web served two purposes, finding the Triple Affirmative and also mass producing parts for other iterators. Her can takes up most of the space within her retaining wall, leaving little room for ground structures. There’s a larger than average amount of railways leading in/out of her superstructure to deliver parts to far off projects.

Web’s local group consists of two other iterators (not currently named or designed) that were built loooong after her. She appreciates their company, but also wishes the two of them would stop flooding her inbox with game invites and photos of every creature they see through their overseers.

Web is aware of the growing slugcat colony making their home on her grounds. She’s fine with them being there, as they don’t cause structural damage like the scavengers do, but would rather the colony keep out of her main systems.

Web somewhat tolerates the little beast crawling through her can. No matter what she does, Lightbulb won’t leave. She could zap them to death, but she considers that needlessly cruel. She counts herself lucky that she’d been build with the machinery necessary to craft more neuron flies, as the Little Prion seems to favor eating those.

[pierre-demet]

[utopians]

stop saying "cannibalism causes prion diseases" this is a common misconception

gonna preface this by saying I'm not trying to be weird or edgy here I just have an interest in diseases and find it frustrating to constantly see people spreading misinformation abt how they originate and spread

this misconception comes from an epidemic of kuru, a type of prion disease (you might also seem em referred to as TSEs) that broke out among the Fore people of Papau New Guinea in the 1950s. until colonial rule, the Fore people practiced a form of funerary cannibalism in which a loved one's flesh, including organs, would be consumed after they died. this practice isn't exclusive to the Fore, and has no profound inherent dangers; cooking and eating human flesh doesn't have any more health risks associated with it than eating the flesh of an animal. what started the epidemic wasn't the practice of cannibalism, but rather a stroke of incredibly, incredibly bad luck.

(more under the cut; there's cannibalism and disease talk, but nothing graphic.)

a prion disease is caused by infectious prions in the brain. this is a type of misfolded protein that can cause other proteins to become misfolded as well. the misfolding of these proteins results in a deadly neurodegenerative disease. CJD (creutzfeldt-jakob disease), one type of prion disease, is capable of spontaneously occuring in otherwise healthy individuals with no family history of the disease; this is likely what happened to one unfortunate member of the Fore community. most of the time, only contact with brain and spinal tissue transmit this prion disease, so the women and children who traditionally ate these tissues soon began to present symptoms of the disease. the rest is fairly self explanatory; the community has no experience whatsoever with the disease, so doesn't know how to stop the spread; the afflicted die, and when they are eaten, the disease spreads to a new set of people, they die, the disease spreads more, et cetera. this continues until the practice of funerary cannibalism is brought to an end, and the last known sufferer of the disease dies in 2009.

so there's a couple things to note here. firstly, CJD, the disease that likely struck the initial sufferer, is incredibly rare. it affects roughly one in a million people, and only 85% of these cases are the result of spontaneous generation. secondly, the only reason that it was able to spread to such a degree is because cannibalism was practiced regularly in this culture. to act as though any cannibalism (ESPECIALLY in a culture where cannibalism is not normal) will lead to prion disease is absolutely absurd. the likelihood of even encountering someone with a prion disease is wildly low, and even then, if the brain and spinal tissue are avoided, the disease most likely won't transmit between the consumer and the person being eaten.

ultimately, saying that cannibalism will give you a prion disease is as absurd as saying that going to the doctor for a blood transfusion is going to give you HIV. blood transfusion might be capable of spreading HIV, but in normal circumstances, this will not happen. there is nothing inherent to blood transfusion that causes HIV, just as there's nothing inherent to cannibalism that causes prion diseases. yes, cannibalism would most likely give you a prion disease; if you happened to live in a community that already regularly practiced cannibalism, where a prion disease was already running rampant. yes, cannibalism will give you a prion disease; if you happen to stumble into one of the one people per million who has one, fail to recognize a single symptom that might deter you, and then choose to eat brain or spinal tissue rather than meat.

once again, this isn't trying to be some weird edgy cannibalism joke, i just think it's important that people have an understanding of where diseases come from and how they spread. kudos if you read this whole tangent

[hello-nichya-here]

All this discussion of Brazilian cannibalism reminded me of kuru - the prion disease that plagued the Fore tribe in Papua New Guinea because it was transmitted through funerary cannibalism. (Relatives of the deceased ate their brain tissue, which, if they died of kuru, was filled with infectious prions.)

I hope that nothing like that is happening anywhere in Brazil. Prions are fucking evil.

Kuru IS pretty fucking horrifying. I don't know if that specifically ever happened in to Brazilian natives (most of the rituals I've heard about had the people eating hearts and livers, but not brains, so that could be why), but there were absolutely a bunch of health problems.

For starters there's the obvious fact that if the deceased died because of an illness, eating their flesh could mean getting the same illness.

Like I said, some tribes had an entire mourning process that lasted two or three days before anyone ate any part of the body - meanwhile the body was decomposing in the freaking amazon rain forest, with all the humidity and heat.

So yeah, even though all cannibalism stopped for quite a terrible reason (literal colonialism) there IS a reason why natives never push to bring this specific tradition back. It'd lead to more death among people groups that already vulnerable.

[transingthoseformers]

What do you think nickels life on Prion was like?

Honestly?

I feel like her life on Prion was pretty good, if a tad mundane compared to what was to come

Tfwiki doesn't have much on what Prion was like beyond it having been a peaceful colony, or much on Nickel's life before the Black Box Consortia arrived, so there's a lot of directions we can go

But

I like to imagine Nickel was "just" your typical Minicon medic on Prion, perhaps she's been practicing medicine for a little while and hasn't kept in touch with her friends as closely as she (in her opinion) should have. Maybe she was working in a relatively isolated part of the planet and that aided her survival in the tragedy. (It's been a little while since I've read mtmte I forget if we were shown exactly when the DJD found her or no) but I feel like she did have friends. She did have colleagues she used to be close with and she did have people who cared about her.

Did, being in the past tense.

She lost everything she had when the Black Box Consortia arrived. That's part of why she latched onto the DJD so quickly. Did not help that the DJD, as it seemed, needed her help.