Sad thing is we've thought more about the foam than the show writers ever did.

https://imgur.com/ky0qGVD

Current status of my collection room in my new, still-under-construction apartment:

Depends on whether or not the motive engines for the vehicle mode are the same as the robot mode. Cause we know they use energon for everything.

I was thinking today if Transformers would carry the fuel for their alternate mode in their robot mode? They'd have to, right?

I mean, the clear meta reason is so non-Transformers don't die horribly on their ships, but that's not as fun to speculate about.

There's also lots of chemical reactions which only precipite with oxygen.

Oxygen is obviously a native gas on cybertron and also let’s the equipment “breath� so to speak.

@Wonko; Yeah, but why oxygen? There are a lot of non-flammable gasses they could've used. And we've seen TFs using radio to communicate in vacuum.

As the Cream of Wheat glugged forth from his meatus, his mind focused on only one thing: Mommy loved him so.

there's lots you can't do in vaccuum. The least of which is audio communication.

Though that begs the question of why a robotic species would keep their ships pressurized with oxygen in the first place.

Guess it's just me playing FTL recently. Opening a few doors out to the void is a good way to deal with fires and rude visitors.

Plus it depends on what part of the ship, can’t easily vent an interior area.

depends on what's wrong. If you need to get something out and away, would also need to have started in a pressurised space to begin with. If you just want to vent extra heat: it wouldn't work as well as vaccuum is an insulator.

If they're in space wouldn't it make more sense just to vent the area affected to vacuum?

I mean the foam was dangerous, but in space they probably put out the fires, then wore the equivalent of a hazmat suit to clean up.

Only on special occassions.

you don't?

I mean, we don't usually use asbestos on our souls.....

*looks at asbestos" Yep... Cause we've never used something harmful as a fire retardant. x.x;

fire retardant foam is so powerful it can extinguish even sparks

I mean, this is a species that can be disabled (possibly fatally after a while?) by flame retardant foam, so yeah.

Transformers are exactly as resilient as the plot needs them to be, so who knows, it could be lethal today.

Which is why Marvel Megatron was interested in Dr. Biggles-Jones' railgun design and had it grafted onto his G2 tank mode.

Doesn't really matter what transformers are made of. If you send a 10 pound ball of metal flying at a good enough velocity, you will do damage.

A regular cannon that shoots cannon balls and does nothing to other transformers because they are robots but would put a mean whole in the side of your wooden boat...

wtf did the shoutbox do to my emoji

also @ patchy its whatever your heart desires 😘

shes not a drill but she is a grill

POTP CINDERSAUR IS A GIRL THIS IS NOT A DRILL

A fusion cannon, or just a regular cannon?

megatron but he turns into a ford fusion with a cannon badly welded onto the roof

My Little Fusion Cannon: Friendship Through Tyranny.

was that supposed to sound sexual

I'm pretty sure that megatrons cannon is his best friend, so that friendship is magic stuff won't work.

And then the magic ponies force everyone to be friends FOREVERRRRRRR

Or... megatron just goes to war against skynet cause he can't stand the competition.

As for Megatron vs Skynet... Shockwave decides to partner with Skynet and oust Megatron after first contact is made. We get Terminator/Vehicon hybrids. At first the humans are expedient pawns (why waste loyal Decepticons), then enough humans augmented with Cybertronian tech impress Megs that, after victory, humanity is absorbed into the Decepticon empire. Even if only as second or third class citizens, it still beats being seen as vermin by Skynet.

Like I said, it is a nitpick; it makes sense, I'd just like to see a "regular" Earth setting where the 'cons take a stealthier approach to things - maybe because the Autobots are a better check against them and so they play the heroes. I mean, they could use various means to take being a sort of M.A.S.K. meets Power Rangers style team.

@Nevermore Works well enough for me. If I had to nitpick, I think there are actually two different stories being forced together. A "Thunderbolts" style story with the Decepticons doesn't need Skynet... and Megatron liberating the humans from Skynet doesn't need the subterfuge, at least for long.

I can dig it

So Thunderbolts with giant robots?

Thundercracker, in particular.

Some of the Decepticons start to really enjoy being the good guys. Well, they enjoy the act, at least. They find fulfillment in their assumed personas.

Except SHockwave eventually betrays his teammates and teams up with Skynet.

Starscream becomes the young, eager Nightscream, and so on.

Megatron becomes the noble Megabolt, taking cues from Beast Wars Silverbolt.

A Thunderbolts-esque masquerade.

In order to do so, the Decepticons pretend to be the good guys and take on different personas.