#alpha q

Dear Combiner Concerned,

This was another of the many mysterious changes which followed the defeat of Unicron, and his collapse into a black hole.

It is a shame, as Jetfire was always a skilled combiner. Having Powerlinxed with Optimus Prime long before the Spark of Combination was bestowed upon the other Autobots, Jetfire was able to pass on his mastery of this technique to more inexperienced ‘bots like Ironhide, before the art was all but forgotten.

Yet, I find myself wondering. During that final battle, the Autobots’ Combination Sparks merged into one, giving Optimus Prime the strength to hold the Unicron-possessed Galvatron in place, as the Energon surged towards them, incandescent with divine light. And for a moment, something brought Galvatron to his senses—the determination in his own spark flaring, driving him to throw Prime to safety. Had he only given in, it would have spelled the end for not just his oldest adversary—every last one of the Autobots would have been destroyed with them. Only Galvatron himself could have said what drove him in that moment.

Regardless, Primus’ plan proceeded, as it always would have. A sun was born. Alpha Q’s dream became reality. Optimus Prime’s ultimate self dispersed, returning the sparks to all of his valiant soldiers.

As that fateful chain reaction began, roiling and exploding, I ask you… how long did Galvatron live? As the last of Unicron’s strength burned away, for how many cycles did his chassis hold together, before it began to melt, to disintegrate?

Could it have been long enough for a Combination Spark to reach him? Some fragment of Primus’ own power, Primus’ dream of unity, drawn to whatever enigma in Galvatron’s spark caused him to spare his hated foe.

What would a sun do, with that power? With those instructions: to combine?

More of the Energon AU. This helps lay down some of the general ideas. Already some of the Alpha Q System citizens are teaming up with the Autobots like Kranix. The platform they’re standing on was supposed to be the Miranda II, but it’s now Omega Supreme because in the middle of drawing it I remembered he had a battleship mode. The Seacons were originally going to be part of the Energon toy line as Terrorcons but they were scrapped. Fittingly the Japanese Seacons typically are drones with a single sentient commander, like the Energon Terrorcons so I repurposed them.

In this version of events, Sharkticon and Slugslinger were upgraded from generics, similar to Wing Dagger. Their original identities were, imaginatively enough, Sharkron and Slug. Unicron Scales are lifted from an early concept from the G1 movie, where all Decepticons were upgraded using said scales.

The idea of designated reformatting idento computer terminals comes from an observation that the Energon characters never displayed an ability to Scan on their own, while they could in Armada and Cybertron. Making it a treaty deal so the Decepticons couldn’t sneak around and scan something to fight back was my rationale.

The Dinobot Combiner, Volcanicus Maximus, has sentient components which can all assume Robot Modes, to reflect the idea intended by Hasbro/Takara but not in the cartoon with the other Maximus combiners. Scorn is named after his movie counterpart, while the others are Skar (ankylosaur), Slash (parasaurolophus), Strafe (pachy) and Slog (styracosaurus).

I made Snow Cat(and technically Cyclonus) into Chibi animals to shove them in Miniforce

Design notes technically

I was originally going to make him a bird, but I decided to just make him a cat with wings when he was Cyclonus as he becomes Snow Cat, and when he gets “upgraded” into Snow Cat instead of losing his wings they instead look like they’ve been horrifically ripped up to the point he can’t use them because I said so

I replaced his monoboobs with fluff

And that’s mainly it(besides if I do make him a suit form I’m thinking about giving him more helicopter like blades on his back)