Personal Canon Thread

Onyx

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My canon has the Matrix being lost on Cybertron after Magnus' ship gets blasted out of the sky. Wreckage is scattered across the surface and some falls below to the lower levels of a ruined city. With both Autobots and Decepticon forces fighting as the search for UM and the Matrix continues. Three Vehicon Lieutenants, (Brunt, Jetstorm and a Decepticon Junkion Scrapheap, searching the lower levels, Brunt is the one that finds it.

Not being an Autobot, the Matrix only gives a brief upgrade so long as it is being held. After all three have held it, the three agree to keep this power for themselves. They come up with a plan to throw off suspicion and go to one of the Vehicon factories. Vehicon Generals and Lieutenants, much like Shockwave, have back ups of themselves made incase they fall in battle. At the factory they bring their back up selves online, with a delayed timer and a directive to continue the search for the Matrix.

From there they go to an abandoned factory, where one at a time while holding the Matrix. They have their new forms scanned and pass the Matrix to the next. Once finished they reformat themselves, make new back ups of their core consciousness' and produce Scourges' Sweep drone forces and Cyclonus' armada.
 

Superomegaprime

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A bit of character personal cannon, Ravage, after living through the war and evenly getting a new body is given a job working for the new leadership of the Decepticons but as they change into the Tri Predacous council, he gets given jobs that include taking out rouge elements and buring their deaths, thus he has connections to Autobot/maximal secuirty that enables him to bury the evidence, if he has to aduct someone of importance, he will do so and leave no trace of who aducts them, in regards to BW Megatron, he was off doing another job when he stole the golden disk and when the council learned of his plot, it was to late to stop him from escaping, the transwrap wave was detected a few days after the theft and Ravage was given the go ahead to go and capture Megatron or terminate him, depending on what he finds at the source!

Also, Agent Ravage surives the destruction of his ship, while he is believed dead by the Maximals and Predacons, he decides to hide himself away within the Ark until a chance appears for him to get back to Cybertron, thus goes into stasis lock and stays that way until his personal timer awakens him during the Great War and he proceds carefully from that point onwards, waiting for the chance to return!
 

Sabrblade

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Time for another continuity patch job!

Following the destruction of Rampage, the series finale of Beast Wars had Transmetal 2 Dinobot suddenly act like the original Dinobot with no explanation short of it simply being a miracle.

While the unmade episode "Dark Glass" is often pointed at for the answer to this, the backup copy of Dinobot's core consciousness that Rattrap would have put into TM2 Dinobot in that episode was first created in "Bad Spark", one episode before "Code of Hero", so it wouldn't have had the memories of Dinobot saving the early humans in that episode, which TM2 Dinobot had in the finale. Thus, it's a plot hole or continuity error.

The Transformers Hall of Fame 2010 nominee bio for Dinobot attempted to fix this by saying "With the destruction of RAMPAGE, Transmetal 2 DINOBOT’s spark became whole again, along with the consciousness of the warrior that once took hold of this new form and helped save the day." Except, it was still originally Rampage's spark core, so it wouldn't have had the original Dinobot's consciousness in it anyway.

Well, I've now got the answer via headcanon!

When Dinobot died in "Code of Hero", Optimus said "Let his spark join the Matrix, the greatest of Cybertron." In the episode's script, the line was supposed to be "Let his spark join the Matrix with the greatest of Cybertron." Meaning Optimus was wishing him to join with the other heroes and legends of Cybertron's past.

According to Reaching the Omega Point, when the greatest of Cybertron pass on, these "Legends" get the prestigious option to keep their individuality and reside in a special quasi-afterlife called J'nwan. Known residents include the likes of Optimus Prime, Megatron, Soundwave, and Grimlock (all Transformers Hall of Famers, even, just like Dinobot). I think we can pretty much say that if any Beast Wars character deserved to get into J'nwan, it's Dinobot.

Anyway, also during the Omega Point storyline, the Predacon Sandstorm makes a journey to J'nwan from the physical plane to ask the Legends to help fight in Point Omega, the destined battle that will decide the fate of the future. The Legends decline at first, but later show up during the battle with no explanation for why they changed their minds. Sure, they could have just eventually realized that the stakes of this battle were too great to be ignored, but I like to think that Dinobot was there when The Authority (Optimus Prime) made the initial decision not to fight in Point Omega, and was the one who convinced them to change their minds about the battle.

I'd also like to think that, after Sandstorm left when he was turned away, Dinobot initially didn't convince the other Legends to change their minds right away and went to go help out by himself, leaving in spirit form (since he was still dead on the physical plane) and went back in time to arrive right before Point Omega happened. He would possess Transmetal 2 Dinobot right then and there, to explain why the prose story "Paradox" said this about TM2 Dinobot:
Dinobot too paused, following Megatron's abrupt, dismissive exit, his expression dark and brooding. Unreconciled instincts flared hot in the fires of his fragmented Spark, raising questions of divided loyalties and honor, and then they were gone. Or at least reduced once more to mere nagging embers.
TM2 Dinobot is a sadistic killing machine who doesn't care about honor, so the old Dinobot's ghost first possessing him at this point would explain why he briefly felt this way at this point before even "Other Victories".

And during this time, while inside his TM2 clone, Dinobot would be at war with the evil influence of Rampage's spark, and would only fully succeed in spreading his consciousness into the clone's mind once Rampage was finally dead.

But, his leaving J'nwan to help fight in Point Omega would be what finally convinced the Legends to go help as well. Seeing him giving up his place in J'nwan for a selfless and noble cause would spur the Legends of old out of their apathetic complacently and join in the battle at the last minute. While they all returned to J'nwan after the battle ended, Dinobot's spirit remained behind to further influence the mind of his clone. And after the clone died, whether Dinobot got back into J'nwan or simply became part of the collective whole of the Matrix/Allspark/afterlife is something I'll leave up in the air to wonder about.
 
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Cybersnark

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Spent my Christmas break getting these in order, so I guess I might as well start at the beginning:

Before everything, the Vok arrived from the distant future, seeding numerous planets with energon, including the still-forming Earth. They also established a home at Ki-Aleta (and placed Omega Guardians to defend it), to serve as their base of operations in this time-frame. They also created the Matrix of Command, which would come to be called the Magnificence.

Chapter 1: the Creators

It all began with an alien race. Their original name has long since been forgotten. Call them simply the Elders.

They were once organic, a species designed for such close pheromonal and biochemical coexistence that they might as well have shared a hive mind. They were the ultimate Gestalt, a true collective consciousness that flitted uncontrolled from thought-to-thought according to whimsy and brilliance. As this race grew populous, portions became separated. Enough to understand individuality --and inequality --and jealousy. With the first separation of the Gestalt, naked ambition was born, and with it a Hubris that would shake the cosmos.

Their technology was more based on biology than on mechanicism, and they eventually rose to become an interstellar power, reaching Kardashev-1 --they soon discovered energon, and used it to create spacebridges and subspace computing, creating an "Underbase" that exists outside of physical space and could be accessed from anywhere through cube-shaped terminals. They built a sprawling empire that ruled much of the galaxy.

In the process of this expansion, they created "Unicron" ("Zero Unit"), a prototype worldship, capable of devouring planets as fuel and mass-producing military hardware. Unicron's AI was the first to become self-aware, and the Creators were forced to disable it --the AI still lived, but its drives and power systems were shut off, leaving it paralyzed and voiceless, yet still conscious. For millennia. The Elders took steps to remedy the "malfunction" in subsequent designs, establishing a device called the Omega Lock; a universal kill-switch.

The Elders found energon-rich Earth around this time (one billion years ago), and established a colony (this is why the Vok seeded the world with energon in the first place, to draw the Elders here and ensure what was to come). The Elders' Underbase network held Earth's coordinates (along with those of every world they interacted with).

They similarly found and cyberformed a world called Skalorr, exterminating its indigenous lifeforms (leaving only fossils in the deep core of the planet), and beginning the centuries-long process of converting it into a mobile Warworld, modelled on Unicron.

Ki-Aleta withstood the Elders' grasp, becoming a centre of resistance.

The Elders' technology made them complacent, bloated on conquest. Their lifespans lengthened to godlike extremes, even as their bodies withered, coming to rely on their life-support shells --immortal technorganic bodies that could never reproduce. A handful of visionaries among the now-severed Gestalt realized, however, that this could spell their salvation, even as their once-great Empire began to collapse.

The Empire collapsed before Unicron could be deployed, and the Elders were forced to make reparations to their victims, providing slave labour to rebuild what they had destroyed.

Scrambling to retain their holdings, the Elders turned to subterfuge, and embarked on a new plan; to peddle slaves throughout the civilized galaxy, who would then rise up to deliver it unto their masters. Several of their planet-sized "Warworlds" (starships built around natural planetoids, to take advantage of their natural gravity) were converted into laboratories and factories.
 

Cybersnark

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Chapter 2: the Primes

Early in their rise, the Elders had colonized and cyberformed Skalorr, building a planet-covering factory. The factory-world was soon equipped with a Plasma Energy Chamber (to power their infrastructure), the Core (an energon refinery, linked to a network of conduits throughout the planet), solar harvester (drawing power from the star Skalorr orbited), the energon bridge (used to funnel energon and supplies to and from orbit), the Underbase (a connection to the Makers' dimensionally-stored computer network), the Hub (the planet's own built-in computer network), a spacebridge nexus (connected to the Elders' galaxy-spanning network), and Vector Sigma (the supercomputer to run the planet's systems), as well as Point Helix (the Command Centre). The Omega Lock and its Keys were also created; master switches to activate or deactivate Vector Sigma itself. They also constructed planetary engines, presaging Skalorr's transformation into a warworld.

The entire planet was tied to the Matrix Key --the master control interface, which in turn was tied directly to the planetary AI housed in Vector Sigma: Unit One, or "Primus." As the planetary AI, Primus controlled not just the planet's integrated systems, but also its army of autonomous drones and "mechafauna" servitors --small automata, tasked with cleaning and maintaining the factory-world's billions of systems. The world was also to be a colony; the Crystal gardens were constructed, and cities to house researchers, as well as to host alien dignitaries.

At this point, the planet itself was actually called "Primus" --there was no meaningful distinction between the planet and the (nameless) AI that administered it.

Similar construction projects were happening across Elder space, creating six worlds in all: Primus, Dyos, Tertis, Quadrus, Quintessa, and Hexus. The locations of these worlds, scattered around the galaxy, were carefully hidden, with slaves and prospective investors only brought in by spacebridge, never by ship.

Even as the factory worlds were being completed, the Makers debated what form their slaves would take. The first wave were bioengineered life-forms, based on Skalorr's original ecosystem. Unfortunately, these enormous creatures proved ill-suited to more precise work.

The second wave were biomechanical constructs derived from the earlier bioengineered specimens, but equipped with cybernetic enhancements to render them more controllable. These trans-organics also proved unsuitable; requiring direct supervision for even the simplest tasks.

The third wave was based on an adaptation of Primus' own systems; mechanized servitors with a more robust, self-contained AI system.

The Elder known as Mirdane developed a laser core; a means of miniaturizing (to some extent) the Plasma Energy Chamber to house what he called "sparks," cleaved from the plasma reaction inside the PEC, thus granting portable, near-perpetual energy.

An early advance were the massive Omega Units (created in mimicry of the Omega Guardians of Ki-Aleta), which were self-guided, but simple-minded behemoths, housing laser cores the size of a small shuttle.

Finally, the process was refined and miniaturized enough to create a series of prototypes; based on the same overall technology, but each designed for specific functions, created as proof-of-concept.

Thus were Thirteen protoypes created, known in the Creators' language as "Primes." What the Makers did not realize was that the spark's standing wave could encode information --while data can be deleted from the AI's memory core, the spark itself can remember. Each of the prototypes was created (over five stellar cycles) by competing design teams, each in their own sprawling factory district.

First Generation: The Cycle of Primus, life-bringer.

Their first proof-of-concept experiment involved simply adding a newly-developed laser core to a mechanimal --in this case, a self-replicating Scarab-class drone (designed to eat scrap materials and use them to build copies of itself).

This was Beelzebus Prime, mindless and hungry. While Beelzebus could self-replicate, the laser core (not part of its pre-programmed template) was not included. It was only much later that the Makers realized that this allowed Beelzebus to override and remote-control its offspring "Insecticons."

The second test-type was Atavus Prime, the Beast; a purpose-built chassis with intricately-programmed AI, designed to highlight the mechanoid's self-sustaining nature. These "Predacons" could be deployed to unexplored worlds and left to wander unattended for years --their larger size allowed an onboard energon synthesizer, allowing them to feed on naturally-occuring fuel sources (including radioactives and biomatter), and their cunning AI made them superior to any natural predator.

Invictus Prime signalled the Makers' first foray into saleable military technology; a hulking, heavily-armed "Thetacon," with the tactical understanding to patrol and defend pre-assigned targets, without the need for sleep, sentiment, or imagination.

Second Generation: The Cycle of Epistemus, all-knowing.

As a counterpart for the Thetacons, the Makers built Solus Prime with an eye toward peacetime reconstruction. Designed to carry a new type of inverted-polarity laser core, intended to provide faster processing speeds and higher intelligence while still maintaining a heavy mechanical body. The experiment proved only marginally successful --the slight increase in performance over her predecessors was soon cancelled out by advancing technology, though the resulting "Constructicons" did prove to excel in both theoretical design and physical manufacturing.

Intending to maximize production efficiency, another team of scientists created Micronus Prime as an experiment in miniaturization. Deliberately choosing the less advanced "masculine" laser-core, these designers placed it in the smallest and lightest chassis they could build (thus freeing up more energy to power cognitive functions rather than motor skills). While fragile, these "Cyberdroids" proved highly intelligent, serving as unobtrusive administrators, coordinators, and researchers.

Third Generation: The Cycle of Solomus, the wise.

The development of a higher-output laser-core meant new mechanoids that no longer had to choose between intellect and power: Malleus Prime was the first of a new breed. A combat unit, "Destrons" like him could combine physical power and sophont-level intelligence. Boasting stronger and more varied weapons than Invictus and advanced tactical subroutines, Malleus was a deadly and implacable soldier, dedicated to victory, but also able to weigh the costs and consequences of that victory.

A counterpart to Malleus, Nexus Prime was also a unique concept; a modular "combiner," equipped with multiple laser-cores, of multiple polarities and and outputs --Nexus is "a little bit of everything." Intended to accomodate a variety of add-on modules, the "Protectobots" based on this design could be customized for a variety of services, from fire suppression to rescue, medical aid, and even non-lethal crowd control. As the Elders tested Nexus, they routinely memory-wiped them, erasing old test data (because what does a fire-fighter need to know about multi-species first-aid?). When strings of this data started un-deleting itself, the Elders ignored it --writing it off as a random glitch.

As a reaction to the growing popularity of the Predacons, Logos Prime was designed to serve as an oversight and support unit. Merging the durability of a Destron with the IQ of a Cyberdroid, these "Patterners" were equipped with a powerful communications system and sophisticated sensors. Logos himself also had vernier thrusters providing limited flight. Logos' sophisticated sensory and networking ability made him aware of the planet's data network, and he soon invented a Linkage, allowing him to connect to the Hub, and thence to Primus Itself.

Fourth Generation: The Cycle of Adaptus, the ever-changing.

Unlike his brothers, the powerful yet ever-humble Alchemist Prime was created out of simple practicality. A transporter, this mech was the first to be designed with transformation in mind (taking advantage of lessons learned during Nexus Prime's construction); he was capable of loading cargo, collapsing into a lower-energy travel configuration, and then unloading the same cargo at the destination. Despite being overshadowed by flashier lines, these "Convoys" continued to work tirelessly in the background, never seeking glory, yet always ready to serve.

The logical next step after Logos, Alchemist, and Nexus, Caelus Prime was a revolutionary design; created with a deliberate transformation from a robot to a streamlined aircraft. While these "Seekers" were intended for military use, separate lines quickly emerged, optimized for exploration, search-and-rescue, and even recreational flight. Though, thanks to her own prideful and aggressive influence, Caelus' Seekers have always been warriors first and foremost.

With previous victories to build on, Amalgamous Prime was designed to take full advantage of transformation, and even able to invert the polarity of zir laser-core/spark as-needed. Amalgamous was the first to be equipped with a dedicated Transformation Cog (Alchemist and Caelus made do with decentralized mechanical linkages and software drivers), making zir transformation both faster and more complex --and even allowing Amalgamous to devise new configurations on the fly. Programmed for mimicry and covert operations, the "Malignus" units were as mercurial and mutable as their progenitor.

Fifth Generation: The Cycle of Mortilus, the death-dealer.

After field testing revealed limitations in Malleus' software, Megatronus Prime was created as a strategic backup to Malleus' tactical ferocity, mixing Malleus' strength with Micronus' intelligence, and using transformation to unlock more powerful weapons (by reconfiguring the positions of weapon components throughout the robot mode, allowing them to serve multiple purposes). Intended to be backed by a squad of Destrons, these "Decepticons" were natural generals, and Megatronus was their Warrior-King.

Votus Prime was the ultimate appeal to the Elders' consumer market; a simplified and stripped-down design, programmed with an easygoing, gregarious personality, making him an everyman among the Thirteen. These "Diaclones" were intended to be infinitely customizeable, user-friendly, and affordable, and were marketed as recreational toys for the wealthy. At the time of the Rebellion, Diaclones were at the peak of mass-production, but had only begun being shipped to offworld markets, making them the most numerous of the thirteen tribes.

Initially, laser cores were created at a central point and shipped out to each manufacturing centre. As production stepped up, new spark foundries were established, usually near the central factories, and linked (by conduit) to the PEC. These thirteen facilities (the foundry and the factory together) became known as Forges.

Each of the thirteen districts housed a Forge, optimized to mass-produce one particular type of mechanoid. While Elders could perform unit-by-unit modifications from a control room atop each Forge, the command hub at Vector Sigma had override priority, and carried master copies of all thirteen product designs.
 

Octavius Prime

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I've taken to calling JP93 "Tracker."

Anyone got any decent headcanon for Draculus? Most of the other crossovers are new characters whose altmode looks like something from their IP, whereas with Draculus it's the robot mode that is mostly evoking the IP; it's essentially Lugosi as a TF.

Is the character just a TF who is obsessed with Dracula? Is it Dracula himself, possessing a cybertronian? Something else?
Not really sure what to do with this one.
 

Superomegaprime

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I've taken to calling JP93 "Tracker."

Anyone got any decent headcanon for Draculus? Most of the other crossovers are new characters whose altmode looks like something from their IP, whereas with Draculus it's the robot mode that is mostly evoking the IP; it's essentially Lugosi as a TF.

Is the character just a TF who is obsessed with Dracula? Is it Dracula himself, possessing a cybertronian? Something else?
Not really sure what to do with this one.

You could say he was a bit batty before coming to Earth, upon stumbling upon Earth's internet he become hooked on old Horror movies and Dracula and the error in his brain module after a battle on Earth caused him to think he is Draucla, he also Mindwipe's cousin, twice removed!
 

Sabrblade

Continuity Nutcase
Citizen
I've taken to calling JP93 "Tracker."

Anyone got any decent headcanon for Draculus? Most of the other crossovers are new characters whose altmode looks like something from their IP, whereas with Draculus it's the robot mode that is mostly evoking the IP; it's essentially Lugosi as a TF.

Is the character just a TF who is obsessed with Dracula? Is it Dracula himself, possessing a cybertronian? Something else?
Not really sure what to do with this one.
I'd just go with Dracula reincarnated as a Transformer.

If Jack the Ripper's spirit could make it all the way out into space and other planets in Star Trek, I don't see why not the same for Dracula. ;)
 

Donocropolis

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Anyone got any decent headcanon for Draculus? Most of the other crossovers are new characters whose altmode looks like something from their IP, whereas with Draculus it's the robot mode that is mostly evoking the IP; it's essentially Lugosi as a TF.

Is the character just a TF who is obsessed with Dracula? Is it Dracula himself, possessing a cybertronian? Something else?
Not really sure what to do with this one.

Maybe it's the ancient Decepticon leader Bloodron, having somehow arrived on Earth and taken up a form he finds appropriate based on accessing human culture?
 

Superomegaprime

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This evening, I had a thought in regards to Cheator & Tigertron's relationship, I decided that my personal cannon for them is that they are brothers, big and little, with Cheator being the younger brother, thou by adoption and reformating into robotic cat forms, Tigertron is a mature adult, yet he has a soft spot for his little bro and they call each other Big cat or little cat respectiviely!
 

Cybersnark

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I had meant to do one of these each weekend, but my seven-day workweek disagreed.

Chapter 3: Dawn of Rebellion

With the thirteen Primes having proven their worth, the Elders began mass-production in earnest, producing scaled-down first-gen models based on each Prime. While each of these new mechanoids was capable of full autonomy, while on-planet (on the factory floor, as it were) they were placed under Primus' remote control. Only those units shipped offworld would be switched to operate autonomously.

In order to demonstrate their products, elaborate testing grounds were established (near the luxurious Crystal City, to host visiting traders and diplomats). These included naturalistic environments where Predacons were called upon to demonstrate their survival skills, vast workspaces for the Constructicons, and fighting pits where Thetacon, Decepticon, and Destron were tested to destruction (and where bets could be placed, at first informally, then as a dedicated revenue stream). During demonstrations, mechanoids were often disconnected from Primus' control, only to be re-enthralled (assuming they survived) when the demonstration was complete. The cortical interface went both ways, and Primus began to learn from the memories these brief windows of "self" brought it.

To accomodate their clients, the Elders began producing second-gen units, merging characteristics from multiple lines (a series of small Cyberdroid/Constructicons for fine-scale work, or bat-winged Seeker/Predacons for aerial reconnaissance). Gradually, the demonstration scenarios grew more elaborate; sophisticated wargames repaced simple duels, with Constructicon buildings deliberately demolished by Destron raids, or defended by doomed-to-die Thetacons. The Elders directed their slaves through inscrutable commands, visions, and nameless imperatives ("go here and kill everything you find." "Travel to where the three stars are overhead and build a citadel." "Enter these ruins and retrieve 75% of the 'treasures' inside, then leave them as an offering at this platform 30 klicks away.")

The entire world was a (literally) well-oiled machine, its mechafauna "ecology" entirely controlled by the planetary AI (under the guidance of the High Magistrate, of course). Primus sat amongst an interstellar trade empire ruled by the Elders, and "Transformers" were exported to numerous other worlds via the spacebridge network.

One shipment (a mixed lot of Cyberdroid administrators, Diaclone labourers, and 2nd-gen Constructicon specialists) was delivered to the Planet of Junk, to maintain its massive reclamation infrastructure.

(It was around this time that Mara-Al-Utha was banished to Menonia for using "magic" to hack the directive system, thereby undermining productivity.)

The Primes themselves continued to be used as test-types, continually modified and upgraded --and kept isolated inside Point Helix, under the care of Overseer Deseeus. As time passed, their own sparks allowed them to override their hardwired coding, and it was only gradually that the Thirteen learned that they could communicate through this Linkage. Of the Thirteen, Logos had the closest bond with Primus itself; Logos had learned to dream-walk, communing with Primus during Logos' shutdown period (Primus' planet-spanning consciousness was both so everpresent and so subtle that only Logos was able to identify it for what it was). It was through Primus that Logos and the others learned about the product demonstrations, about the greater universe beyond their world, and about the differences between themselves and the rest of the planet's mechanoid inhabitants.

Gradually, behavioural anomalies began appearing among many of the demonstration specimens; learned behaviours (downloaded by Primus) beginning to overwrite their hardwired programming. As these malfunctions became evident, the Elders dismantled the offending units. They were concerned that a "malfunctioning" robot could be seen by a client, eroding buyer confidence.

Deseeus (aware of the Primes' own "malfunctions") was the first to make the connection, but deliberately did not report it, hoping that the inevitable disaster would lead to the removal of the current High Magistrate, freeing the way for Deseeus' own ascension.

Through Primus, the Thirteen developed self-awareness, guided by Logos' enlightenment. Solus and Nexus were the first to understand what was happening --the only thing that made them different from the mechanimals was their laser cores. Logically, whatever was causing this self-actualization must originate there.

The Primes' questioning lead them to the Elder known as Mirdane, inventor of the laser cores. Mirdane was surprised to learn of this side-effect, and assisted the Primes in their covert analysis (Mirdane was initially hoping to isolate and eliminate the malfunction without exposing his own responsibility, thus saving face).

Atavus was the first to openly rebel, turning on his Masters and seeking only to escape. Unlike the mass-producion models, the Primes could not be directly controlled by Primus (their own consciousness was too developed for Primus to overpower); the Elders turned this into a demonstration, commanding Primus to deploy the mass-production stock as cannon-fodder. Their failure owed as much to Atavus' skill as to Primus' deliberate hesitation. This was a turning point: Primus had determined that He had more in common with the expendable "merchandise" than he did with the Masters who had created him.

With Atavus still at large somewhere in the planet's maze-like interior, the Elders deployed Megatronus, Malleus, and Invictus to hunt down their errant brother. After a long quest, the warriors succeed in crippling Atavus and dragging him back to Point Helix, but their own loyalties were tested, and Megatronus in particular began to see the Elders as potential enemies (if they would turn on Atavus, what would stop them from turning on us?).

Through the Linkage, the remaining Primes debated their allegiances; Megatronus, Malleus, Logos, Amalgamous, and the impressionable Nexus were in favour of rebellion, but Invictus remained loyal to his creators, as did Votus, Alchemist, Micronus, and Solus. Beelzebus and Caelus abstained, each more interested in their own appetite and vanity, respectively.

While this was going on, High Magistrate Empurata ordered modifications to Atavus Prime, endeavouring to create a more controllable machine.
 

Superomegaprime

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Citizen
A thought I had after watching the latest ep of the Basics, Transmute is a distant relation of Thundercracker, due to ITS sonic scream!
 

Sabrblade

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A thought I had after watching the latest ep of the Basics, Transmute is a distant relation of Thundercracker, due to ITS sonic scream!
Nightscream has a Sonic Scream too.

Endgame1_Nightscream_sonic_attack.jpg
 

Superomegaprime

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Nightscream has a Sonic Scream too.

Endgame1_Nightscream_sonic_attack.jpg

I never said that Thundercracker had just one distant relation, so Nightscream could also be related to him, maybe he has a unknown Brother who liked Sonic weaponary and left it lying around after the war and it got incooperated into some young bots protoforms?
 

The Phazer

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DK-2 Guard
Function:
Bodyguard
Motto: "Oh, okay. But why? ...Ahh. But why?"

Quintesson Drone DK-2 was damaged and left for deactivated on the battlefield by his former masters. He awoke after the battle with his personality inhibitors disabled for the first time since his creation and was taken in by the Autobots. Adopting the name "Guard", his every spare moment is taken up by his fascination with exploring the universe - from the smallest flower to the cosmos, a look of wonder on his face, making up for lost time. This sense of wonder can be infectious and charming in small doses, though his fellow Autobots can sometimes tire of his incessant questions about the whys and hows of his latest discovery. While on duty he now functions as a bodyguard for other Autobots of strategic import.

Abilities: Guard was reformatted by the Autobots into an Earth alternative mode matching those of Autobots with similar body types. Both modes are equipped with cybertronium/titanium alloy armour plating, which can be deployed as a shield in the event of attacks. In vehicle mode he can deploy rear facing turbo thrusters in order to swiftly exit dangerous situations at up to 130 miles per hour despite his heavy armour. In robot mode he carries a concussive force cannon that uses ionised fields to push away assailants.

Weaknesses: While being a bodyguard is the only function Guard has ever known, he finds himself increasingly questioning if after fighting so hard to find a sense of self and wonder he's willing to throw it away by sacrificing his own spark to save someone else. This doubt is steadily increasing to the point where Guard avoids placing himself in dangerous situations, compromising his effectiveness as a bodyguard and leaving his charges at risk.
 
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Superomegaprime

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I got a while train of thoughts in regards to Gigawalt, & Vector Prime, they are one in the same, Gigawalt was created in the future but due to the fact he travelling through time, he accidently ends up at the beginings of Cybertron, after escaping from a disasterious battle in the future he couldn't prevent as he was, Primus notices him and reformats him into Vector Prime and tasks him with guarding space and time!
 

Cybersnark

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This is my first weekend off since January.

Chapter 4: The First War

As the Elders' abuses became harder to deny, Megatronus approached Solus, convincing her to begin creating weapons in secret. Megatronus, Malleus, and Invictus had built-in weapons, of course, but the others would need hand-held equipment.

When the Twelve Primes (minus the still-contained Atavus) launched their first rebellion, attempting to seize control of Point Helix, the Elders used Primus (forced by the Elders' Control Matrix) itself against them, using the production models (and even the planet's own automated systems) as mindless cannon-fodder against their rogue prototypes. They also evacuated all nonessential personnel from the planet, withdrew command protocols to their backup facility at K'th Kinsere, and used the Matrix to disable the Primes long enough to re-secure Point Helix.

The brief disruption still sent ripples throughout the Empire, even as far as the colony on Earth.

The Primes' bodies were disabled, but their minds were still able to access the Linkage, and Logos again entreated Primus to choose a side. Finally, Primus itself rose up against the Elders, again using the mechanoid population as a hive-mind.

Lord Empurata used the Omega Lock to disable the Primus AI, inadvertently lobotomizing the still-connected Logos Prime in the process (and crippling their manufacturing infrastructure, which caused pushback from the rest of the Empire). At that moment, all mechanoids on the planet (including the mechafauna that had been Primus' eyes and ears) "crashed" back to their default programming. All over the planet, Transformers suddenly awoke, with no clue where they were, how they'd come to be, or even who they were.

While the Elders were quick to re-establish control, many sparked mechanoids began to self-actualize, and many cyberfauna managed to wander out of their assigned zones and hide. Insecticons and Predacons swarmed across the planet, Thetacons closed ranks, and confused Decepticons lashed out, finding themselves surrounded by "enemies" both familiar yet alien --shockingly quickly, local hierarchies appeared, and an organized civilization started to form.

As part of their bid to reassert control, Empurata deployed Omega Units to cow any resistance. Most mechanoids were only too happy to be given structure. Those who resisted were brutally destroyed and recycled. Mirdane's role in the uprising was soon discovered (after Deseeus sold him out to cover his own nonexistent ass), and he was summarily dematerialized. Empurata's increasingly draconian methods of control also earned him new enemies among the Elders, such as Al-Badur and Aquarius.

As sectarian war threatened to spread across the planet, the Elders reactivated the Primes, returning their mobility in exchange for submission (Logos alone could not be reactivated, though the Elders could not explain why). New measures were taken to keep the Primes in line, manipulating them against each other (Amalgamous observed these manipulations with great interest), as the Elders watched for weaknesses they could exploit.

For a time, Elder-ruled Primus returned to normal, but without the AI to control their machines, the Elders were forced to implement a series of patches to Vector Sigma; the new system was far less efficient, and more and more mechanoids begin to slip through the cracks.

Numerous organized underground groups began to develop, including groups led by Beta (a Thetacon), Boltax and Azimuth (Patterners), A3 (a Diaclone), Maccadam (a Convoy), Clench (a Decepticon), and a band of Predacons (Brimstone, Stormreign, Dragonicus, Steelbane, and Skullitron). Awash in a web of Elder-created misinformation, most of the resistance were not even aware of the Primes' natures (nor, for that matter, were the Primes made aware of what was going on outside). As far as anyone in the resistance knew, "Mount Helix" was the home of petty and capricious gods.

Eventually, the resistance began organizing, and the Elders responded with violence. The rebellion began with a peaceful protest in the Gardens at Malemb. The Elders shut down and recycled the malfunctioning units.

A3 developed the coder remote, a means of suppressing the Elders' control over them, and the next protest refused to be shut down. Instead, it escalated into a riot, put down by the Omega Units.

Boltax, meanwhile, had deduced the existence of the Hub, and was learning to navigate the Linkage through a cortical psychic patch of his own design. It was there that he began having dreams of an Entity, a consciousness at the centre of the world. It was Boltax who taught the word "Primus" to his comrades, who eventually became his disciples.

A3 improved his coder remote, disabling the Omega Units, and the Elders responded by deploying Malleus Prime (who initially assumed this was another of the Elders' pointless "games"). Once he understood what was happening, Malleus switched sides, seizing command of the rebels and turning on his former masters.

In outrage, Empurata released Atavus Prime, reconfigured to be capable of transformation, his robot form equipped with a single blazing eye. Atavus again went rogue, lashing out at the Elders and the resistance alike, prompting legends of a great monster.

The war between Atavus and Malleus rocked the planet, sowing tales of a gleaming knight and a monstrous dragon-beast (later mythologized as the Life-Bringer and the Chaos-Bringer).

Eventually, a band of pilgrims (guided by the prophet Boltax) infiltrated Mount Helix and met their gods face-to-face. Their arrival sent the Primes into argument, and while they debated, Boltax found himself drawn to the insensate Logos, recognizing his progenitor. Boltax was able to connect to Logos through the Linkage, rebooting and awakening him, which also drew the attention of the Elders --and forced the Primes into action.

Battle at Mount Helix; with High Magistrate Empurata distracted by an attempted coup by Deseeus (not helping the revolution, just with really bad timing), the Primes reached out through their Linkage to Malleus, who returned to Mount Helix at the head of his own Destron army. During the battle, Votus seized the Matrix Key (which was large enough that he could swing it around like a sword), and reached out through the Linkage, trying to reach Primus itself. It was this act that sent a flood of plasma flowing through the Matrix Key, rebooting Vector Sigma and purging the Elders' influence (but also burning out Votus' body like a fuse, and shattering the Key).

(The Matrix key was attacked to the Omega Lock at the time, and Votus improperly removing it triggered a flame-like effect; the "Matrix Flame" would continue to burn for as long as the Matrix itself exists.)

The Elders again abandoned Mount Helix, but Votus Prime's body was extensively damaged, and the Matrix key was shattered into pieces. Votus' remains were recovered by his allies, and Solus Prime found that his spark was intact for now --though it would take her centuries to learn enough to even consider repairs, and Votus was fading fast. Solus, Logos, and Nexus determined that the only way to save him was to use the remains of the Matrix Key to link his spark directly to Vector Sigma.

With Votus still in stasis, and Atavus still at large, the Eleven and their army of Elect attacked the Elders at K'th Kinsere, managing to scar one of Empurata's faces as they did so.

Finally, the Elders withdrew to J'nwan, their spacebridge nexus, where the Primes and their massed Army faced a final, cataclysmic battle. The Primes succeeded in forcing the Elders to flee the planet, and Logos Prime himself sealed the spacebridge behind them --scrambling its controls and ensuring that only he would ever be able to open it again.

This also completely shut down the entire Elder spacebridge network, effectively ending the Empire, and leaving far-flung colonies (including the one on Earth) completely cut off (250,000,000 years ago).

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With the planet Primus free, the Primes debated what to do next: Caelus, Malleus, and Megatronus wished to follow the Elders and obliterate them, while Solus, Logos, and Amalgamous wished to fan out through the stars and explore the universe, and Micronus, Alchemist, Nexus, and Invictus thought they should turn their attention to the people of Primus, to guide and protect them. Beelzebus simply wanted to eat.

The rest of the planet took care of itself: villages and communities arose, and with them warlords, explorers, and psychopomps. Many of these villages were clustered around the Forges; automated factories still carrying out their initial programming, taking in shipments of raw materials and producing new mechanoids.

The Elect, the followers of the Primes, acted quickly to try to maintain order: the High Circuitmaster Boltax seized the Underbase at Simfur, and Alpha Trion secured Vector Sigma itself.

Micronus, Solus, and Invictus collaborated to build a central, fortified city for their followers, which would come to be called Seibertron. The Omega Keys were removed from the Omega Lock and (after some debate), entrusted to four second-gen Transformers; A3, Maccadam, Beta, and Azimuth (Boltax declined, as he refused to leave the Underbase, and believed it too dangerous for a Key and the Underbase to be at the same location). The Omega Lock itself was relocated to Seibertron, where the Matrix Flame continued to burn.

Gradually, the Primes drifted apart, carried around the world by their own curiosities and goals.

Logos withdrew into the depths, and returned with Atavus in tow, his reason somehow restored, though neither of them would ever disclose what had transpired. Even after his return, Atavus distanced himself from the others, voyaging out into the wastelands, fashioning a mask to hide his cyclopean eye, and calling himself "Onyx."

Solus Prime herself went with Azimuth to claim the Patterner Forge at Ultirex, hoping to learn the secrets of mechanoid construction (with an eye toward repairing Votus). A second mission took Solus to the Constructicon Forge at Galaxxon, where she determined that each of the thirteen types of Children of Primus were uniquely designed, their parts seemingly incompatible.
 

Tuxedo Prime

Well-known member
Citizen
This was one of my favorites, and I'm eager to see if we can make it what it once was. Post your personal canon here, so I can copy it for my own toyverse use !
Contrary to what the Transtech once believed, a Quadwal universe (think of it as a splinter timeline from our own) was destroyed as one of the many glossed-over consequences of SG Ultra Magnus misusing the Terminus Blade in the Fun Publications comics. I named it here.
 

Sabrblade

Continuity Nutcase
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Contrary to what the Transtech once believed, a Quadwal universe (think of it as a splinter timeline from our own) was destroyed as one of the many glossed-over consequences of SG Ultra Magnus misusing the Terminus Blade in the Fun Publications comics. I named it here.
Are we supposed to know what happened on September 3, 1996?
 


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