Yes, this is now an official article series. You’ll find all the previous chapters and one important sidebar in the BW Prose library. That’s also where I debuted the fancy logo above.
For new readers (hello and welcome) this started out as me combining the Primus and Quintesson origins into something more science-fiction in format. As I thought more about my issues with Cybertronian history in recent incarnations I started following up on that with a series about how I’d write the history of Cybertron, how and why the war started, and how Transformers functions as robotic lifeforms. None of that pseudo-organic stuff. In the second installment I went into how Cybertronian life works, with how Sparks are created and what components keep a Cybertronian functioning as a living being. No “organs” or “DNA” knockoffs here. Maybe with technorganics, but I’m hardly worried about that right now. We don’t even have a functional Cybertronian society.
To get there we need to dig a bit deeper into how Transformers work both mechanically and as lifeforms. I thought I was going to dig more into the various alternate modes the toyline has produced, since making the toys the source material is important to how I approach the lore. After rereading part 2, I don’t think that’s so necessary anymore. So instead I’ll play with other toy gimmicks and go over different types of transformation, size classes, and a basic overview of functionality that I’ll go over in more detail as we form Cybertronian and Autobot society. [Additional commentary outside of our Chronicler character will formatted this way.] So let’s return to the Chronicler as he tries to explain Cybertronian basic perspectives to his fellow organic beings.
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