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Commission to draw Preceptor from Transformers

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thank you anon! took me a bit to come up with these because (and i know this may shock you) i am not exactly rich and affluent and used to expensive foodstuffs, so i wasn’t sure what to use offhand

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1) a strange, rare, subterranean cyberflora species, goldleaf produces long delicate ivy strands of golden ore, cascading down and sometimes creating huge nests of golden flakes if left undisturbed for long enough. i based these off of those perfect pencil sharpening moments when you’ve managed to create a long thin strip of wood, or peeling apples in one super long coil of skin. this cyberflora will grow around any underground seam of soft metal, but it pops up around gold most often. finding them can be difficult, but harvesting the ivy without the strands breaking or even disintegrating completely is very delicate work. the scarcity and difficulty means a coil of authentic goldleaf ivy atop a dish is an expensive addition

2) these truffles aren’t actually grown from cyberflora at all! manganese nodules form naturally in oceans, so they’re quite plentiful here on Earth. but on Cybertron, where bodies of water are hardly common… let’s just say they’re a little tough to get. on Eukaris and Caminus, planets with more water, truffles are more common and thus less expensive. they’re blobs of layered iron and manganese, which is an excellent source of repair material for mecha, and thin slices of these nutritious and delicious truffles are used in very fine, very pricey meals

3) now this one is a little tricky. given the fact that most people consider it barbaric to eat mechanimals, and how mechanimals don’t even reproduce, instead emerging from hotspots, caviar on Cybertron is not fish eggs. it does however come from fish! specifically, the orange caviar is from cybersalmon living in the flooded parts of the Rust Sea. when the cybersalmon reach a point in their lifecycle where the corrosion and rust has decayed them too much, they migrate to the closest hotspot, consolidate much of their energon and other precious fluids into beads, and then scatter these beads nearby before dying, so newly forged mechanimals coming from the hotspot will have an immediate source of rich fuel. the beads are, like many things in the sea, stained orange from rust. the black caviar come from sturgeonoids, native to the underground Argon Sea. they don’t usually swim in schools, but they do forge minor drones for themselves, essentially becoming a single organism with multiple decoy bodies that they inhabit and control simultaneously. forging a drone takes some time, and it starts with a little bead of condensed energy and material. black caviar is more difficult to harvest, making it more expensive, but both varieties are considered luxurious

The kinda gave me the motivation to draw up some of the Cybertronian food out of my fics such as Kilk away, human effects, perfume. So enjoy some of the drinks and foods Cybertronian have.

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Cybertronian food dump! Designing this stuff is addictive.

1) a typical cafeteria meal at the JAAT. Maccadam ensures the students get only the best, even occasionally arranging for “culture fuel” days, serving dishes from different city-states or colonies.

2) if you let steel woolies sit long enough, you get rust bunnies, delicious lil bunches of spice. It’s pretty easy to make them (Whirl keeps a bunch of steel woolies under his berth and just lets them rust until they’re ready), but commercial grade rust bunnies have grease and seasoning that adds to the flavor.

3) cyberflora aren’t really alive like organic plants are, but they do contribute heavily to the energon cycle, metal distribution, and energy generation of Cybertron. This one is called a brollypalm, a solar collector that gathers energon and charges it to a sweet buzz with the energy. Brollypods can be cracked open and drank, or they can be chilled to a gelatinous solid and eaten.

The average human is amout 175 cm tall. 

The average cybertronian… Bumblebee is usually considered short/minibot, and the most consistent size given for Bumblebee is five meters. Three to five meters according to the wiki.

Optimus is considered above average in size, and he’s usually  somewhere between 6 and10 meters, sometimes taller after an upgrade.

Add in the various universes, the sizeshifting between altmodes, and that the smallest autobots in idw 2005 tend to be the same size as the largest autobots in tfa…

So, size is all over the place with Transformers, and this is a fan-made au, and…

Oh, thank fandom, Blurrito had made scale comparisions in their art, and said scale comparision outright states that the average adult in their universe is is 40.5. Now to convert that, ok, that’s 12,3444 m.  So 12,34 or 12,35 m. 

Ok, 175 divided by 20 is 8,75.

1234,44 divided by 8,75 is about 141,08

To check, 1234,44 divided by 141 is about   8,755

So the the pick-tongs are about 1,41 m. Which is well over four feet. (by, like, five or six inches? I might be reading this wrong. Converting into two incomprehensible measurements turns out to be a bit tricky)

Considering the smaller characters are about half the size of the average adult (measuring Minimus to Optimus and Moonracer to Elita-definitely-not-Chromia)  and the taller ones are-one-and-a-half as tall as average, there’s definitely going to be huge differences in how they hold the pick-tongs.

since yall went HAM over the last Cybertronian food stuff, here’s some more

1) crunchy snacks! Chips, crisps, and crackers are many and varied, so these are just some examples, but they sure are good ones mmmmm. There’s many, many varieties of flavors, from just the raw material, to oil and grease, to mineral seasoning, to gel or energon coating, and on and on. Mixed bags of multiple chip types are also available.

2) energon sticks are pretty ubiquitous, in both dust and solid form. Other minerals get similar snack stick treatment, like selenite and beryllium, but energon will always be at least a little more popular.