"Existing beyond normal space and time, the Chronarchitect appeared at pivotal moments, bringing warning of possible divergences along the route wound by the intersecting courses of the timestream and the Grand Plan. But his last appearance had been a fractured, disjointed affair, one that had culminated in his
apparent destruction. The Chronarchitect warned of a devastating disruption to the timestream, an anomaly that threatened the final dissolution of the Plan, and left them with a cryptic entreaty, 'return to the beginning'." --
Paradox
Okay, you highlighted "destruction", I italicized "apparent", because well, can we be sure?
But let's say yours is the correct reading. As with
Cybertron Vector Prime, we could run into the character at a later point in our timeline but an earlier one in his, because that's just how characters of that type are.
Either way, I don't really see a disagreement, per se. Or a reason why the Chronarchitect couldn't have been the one to fix things in the wake of the
apparent (emphasis mine again!) cataclysm over in Primax 787.3 Alpha. (should have been .03, but oh well).
If I myself were to take a stab at a guess, I'd say The One was overlooked because of how, at the time, more of Derik's meddling had made people unwilling to touch The One with a ten-foot pole since The One's wiki page had been made
a confusing convoluted mess at the time thanks to Derik's belief that the Vok were servants of The One. Recall that
a certain AVP question that asked directly about the Vok's connection to The One pretty much skirted around the question entirely (and thank goodness for that since the Vok
aren't servants of The One at all).
Looked it over, it seemed to make sense to me. But -- as with a lot of these
Phenomenal Powers That Are Literally Above It All, it can be hard to write for or about them, for the reasons one might expect going back to the old Greek plays. Now, if you follow that link, you'll see that Marvel had the One Above All actually show up, taking the form of Jack Kirby, as a tribute. Maybe someday some Transformers fiction might do similar (with Bob Budiansky, maybe?), but the Primus/Unicron thing has been more of the focus, and The One is in all likelihood never going to get a toy likeness (and again, this fiction is here to do what?), so there isn't that big push (unlike with other Numbered and Remote beings such as, oh, the Thirteen....
)
Not "people", just one guy. One rabid theorist who was so full of himself that he would not let it go, and everyone and anyone who challenged his deluded ideas was argued into exhaustion by his persistent insistence. That's why his ideas about Prowl 2 made their way onto the wiki. All opposition was too exhausted to keep arguing and were like, "Whatever, I'm done with this!"
I kind of wish I had that level of confidence in my fixed ideas, to be honest.
But aside from declaring
Kiss Players a
cognitohazard, and making sure that people do not forget
a certain fan character and an
unrelated fan series, there hasn't been too much for me to insist upon. Am I... becoming casual?
Sabr, come
on. We've discussed said individual in messages, you can't have forgotten.
I use an alias she's had since the mid-1990s for her writing, because even way back then she was worried about doxxing.
Only because no one on the English-speaking side of the fandom put in any active efforts to really explore and translate the RobotMasters fiction. The 2000s fandom was still in its "Oh, haha, Japan, you so hopelessly weird and foreign!" phase that no one really gave a care about finding out what was really going on RobotMasters, and those few that did were considered weebs.
Well, back then we were still appropriating the Japanese word "otaku", but the point stands.
Binaltech, on the other hand, got more respect and more dedicated translation work since it dealt with more hard sci-fi and government conspiracies and tied directly in with Beast Wars via Ravage, which at the time was still regarded as "the one true coolest TF series EVAR!".
Ravage's appearance in "The Agenda" was definitely a high water mark for Mainframe-Beasties, and I think it brought over just about everyone still on the fence save for Raksha and Skyflight. (They were, of course, still upset by what they saw as two Ass Pulls in the Animated Movie and "The Rebirth" that prevented an eternal Decepticon victory. What can one say in the face of that?) Having that version come back to Binaltech would definitely have been a lift for attracting the attention of fans overseas (of which some of the Japanese creatives were becoming aware).
That was only in the final 3D diorama comic, though. As a means to advertise the then-new Hybrid Style toy. The manga was the main story of RobotMasters.
Even so, one can see the precedent. If Galaxy Convoy showed up from... well, at that point, Cybertron was presumably
an Aurex stream but not
the Aurex Stream, because of miscommunications amongst the creatives, but if he was from there then why not Double Face/Sideways?
And Derik ran with that, and in the face of us only knowing that the Blasty Zone was "a placey that existy", and Universe (2003) being right there with a "May contain characters from any continuity" label... well, the rest is bunk.
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