#the lore and especially the biological and psychological info about transformers as a species will never cease to sctivate my neurons

[cybertron-smash-or-pass]

This is unrelated but I literally follow no other transformers blogs, so...

It's funny how tfa handles age. Prowl and ratchet are the same age but prowl is a nature loving twink while ratchet is... The war

I don't think they're the same age tbh. The timeline is a bit inconsistent, but if we go off the first episode, 1. Ratchet considers prowl to be young, implying he's probably closer in age to Optimus than he is to ratchet, even if hes still older than Optimus and can remember at least a little of the war before it ended. And 2. The war only ended a few centuries before the show starts up. Which gives us an age range for Optimus, and puts prowl only slightly above it because it's very likely he was only drafted at the very tail end of the war, whereas ratchet was likely around long before it even started. It's also hard to tell exactly HOW long before the war ratchet was built, but it's older than shockwave (he calls him a tough old model) who we can safely assume was a young bot by its inception.

In human years it's probably something like this

Bumblebee & Bulkhead: 20ish

Optimus: mid 20s

Prowl: late 20s, pushing 30

Probably all of con high command (assuming they were all together from the start of the war): anywhere from late 30s to early 50s (kinda hard to tell, we don't have a great timeline)

Ratchet: 60s-70s

But even then, trying to apply human timespans to it is a fool's errand because we don't really know how long it takes for them to reach maturity vs how long they live in total. Bumblebee could've joined boot camp only a few months after the assembly line with a fully formed brain and a short period of schooling (we know they gotta get some level of orientation after they come online if Arcee existing is any indication), he could've been 18 in earth years, or centuries old.

It's always gonna be wild because their lifespans are truly just incomprehensibly long. We just don't have any sort of framework for how that affects the psyche, let alone how it'd work for a separate sentient species.