#autopedia

Character moment (sharing w mama)

[twitter convo between Laaamp @Laaamp and James Roberts @jroberts332 on 7 February 2013.

L: Did Tailgate edit his Autopedia entry or... did Magnus find an Autopedia from some sort of alternate dimension?

JR: He edited his own entry - and it was further embellished by other crew members after he misled them. ]

A guide to stages and movements and terms of carrying a sparkling to term (with supplemental diagrams)

Creation Types

Edited June 3, 2025: Carrier bulking and strengthening

A diagram of different ways cybertronians are born. Categorized in three sections: constructed cold (CC), forged, and gestated

Additional info:

- cc bots don't go through an "infantile" phase as gestated sparks and forged sparks do.

- CC sparks were harvested from the matrix during the silver age

- The quickest method to build cybertronians is Cc's (few hours), followed by forged (hours to days), then gesparks (years). With the influence of political and religious beliefs, as well as circumstances such as war, some methods were favored over the other, and some let go of to compensate for the lack of resources.

- What distinguishes cc and forged bots from gestated ones is the origin of the spark, however the coding from gesparks doesn't wildly differ from either others fundamentally. During the orbiting phase, Gesparks simply inherit both codes from their sire and carrier, then rewrite it to remove any overlapping sequences (this process is randomized, which explains why gespark bots pick up characteristics from both parents), then refines it to become its own personalized copy before the descent phase.

UM. THE ANSWER to this question is not straightforward. Like, yes but also no. They happen by accident because of ignorance, not because of like “unprotected sex” or “faulty protection”.

More like “hey i didn’t know putting our life forces together would make a third life force.”

Omg i was just thinking about this in the car today

So the event is pretty straight forward — the way it looks is just the carrier’s frame opening up and transforming away / transforming the sparkling out. Their bodies are made to move and change. This is objectively very simple.

The time in between the event beginning and the actual opening of the frame is where it gets complicated. This is because it’s not the carrier that decides “the baby is done. It comes out now”, it’s the SPARKLING that decides “i am done. Release me please” (ideally — this says nothing of any potential health complications).

From Descent to the beginning of Emergence, the carrier’s t-cog has been frozen for upwards of several years. Emergence begins when the sparkling sends a signal that reactivates its carrier’s tcog to open up and let it out. It is essentially a negotiation between the sparkling and the carrier’s frame to be released, as the carrier’s frame, which is NOT in control of one of its major organs, typically tries to resist opening up in an unnatural way to allow for the evacuation of what the carrier’s frame fully believes is a very heavy very sentient part of its body.

Basically, the sparkling tries to open its own carrier and the carrier’s frame instinctively is going to do whatever it can to stay shut and keep the baby inside where its safe.

Hence why it is Emergence and not Expulsion.

I want emergence to be difficult and laborious without it being too organic-mammal-forcing-wet-baby-out. There isn’t MUCH screaming involved, it does hurt a LOT when your body tries to keep its organs closed and inside, but i’d say its more a labor of pure terror than a labor of physical distress. Sparklings are so integrated into their bodies, it’s like if your own heart and soul started trying to crawl out of you :)

This CAN be negated with special codes or program blocking. Assisted emergence where a medic manually activates the tcog while the carrier is under.

It’s because of the second spark, revealing a way to make another Cybertronian life form without the need for a hot spot or crystal storage.

So it wouldn’t be the materials, but Deadlock’s EM field, and the EM fields he interacts with. That’s how sparklings learn and develop emotionally and mentally.

A War-time sparkling would be exposed to a lot of aggression, fear, and hate. Anger as well. Not just Deadlock’s but anyone Deadlock is exposed to.