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How are you doing on Planet Earth?

Jokes aside, I wanted to ask what Sparkling's relationship with the others will be like when they grow up? Or more generally, what do they do when they grow up?

God, they're so cute and Priceless. I just can't.

Btw, i love your art and it got me Inspired to work on my own stuff. Keep going! XD

Hello! Ah, Earth is... difficult. I suppose I've arrived on one of those you call "Interesting Times" seen how many earthlings are angry with other earthlings that guide city states (or maybe you call them Country). Is harsh to see, since pretty looks much as pre Cybertron global war and fall and, even that organic are strange and do many (MANY) yuck things, destruction of your house and living beings... I think is somehow tugging my spark. :< *AHEM* Said those above I leave the rest of the post answering abt little precious sparklings :> You can find some ideas here on the mini master post dedicated to "The Sparkling Deal"

°°But here some info about Atalanta & Windrider.°° Atalanta is very generous and sometimes very naive, and get along very well with the youngers of the autobots, aka Bee, Smokescreen & Arcee (which she sees as a sort of cool aunt). But she struggle a lot riding with them bc she never feel good in any vehicle scans she did, risking often to burn her engine, but for a long noone managed to understand what was wrong with her transformations. Atalanta is very interested in humans and have a strong sense of protection through them (pretty much like his dada Optimus) and develops skills into human medicine ( inspired by his brother's dada Skyfire the biologist) and she used an alt form of an ambulance like Ratchet for a while (she and her brother have a high respect of the medic). She actually manages to found her earth alt version scanning the Bloodhound (probably thanks to Raf & Fowler researching with Ratchet about the chance that Atalanta was a ground type frame with a flying engine), which lets her have sort of wings and reach the same speed of a flying vehicle.

On the other side, Windrider is quite bigger and stronger than his sister, and enjoy fighting even that he doesn't like to scratch his frame or loosing in general and can became a real glitch while venting.

Despite this, Windrider looks like to be quite loyal coded and works very well in team, following orders of bots that he respect, which are usually the olders (like Ratchet) or with strong personality (like Wheeljack). And it's a good thing because he has a very violent side that can came up under pressure or danger and needs an authority figure to calm down.

He's not very affectionate, and while he was a sparkling this was mistaken for shyness: actually he doesn't like to be too much touched (except from his family- Atalanta, Starscream, Skyfire & Optimus- and Jack). Also, when the brothers go together in mission, Windrider uses his alt version (a cargo plane Kawasaki C-2) to bring around Atalanta, which has the habit to throw herself out of the cargo and be dropped on site (using some special giant kind of parachute).

The family before the war, mother and son talking.

Spending time with family.

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F4U Corsair Mk. I fighters and Fairey Barracuda torpedo bombers on the deck of the aircraft carrier HMS Formidable in the Norwegian Sea. July 1944.

A series of photos which were made in April 1986 on board of the US aircraft carrier USS "America" (CV-66) off coast of Libya. Visible are A-7E "Corsair II" of the squadrons VA-72 "Blue Hawks" and VA-46 "Clansmen", which were prepared for their mission against military facilities of the Libyan Armed Forces near the city of Benghazi. One photo shows also F-14A "Tomcats" of squadrons VF-102 "Diamondbacks" and VF-33 "Starfighters".

At that time the USS "America" was part of Operation "El Dorado Canyon", a massive aerial retalitation strike against Gaddafis Libya after a terrorist bombing struck the "La Belle" discotheque in West Berlin earlier that month which killed two US soldiers and a civilan. The attack which originated in Libya, targeted this place as it was a very popular and well frequented spot among US soldiers deployed to West Berlin. Supported by the East German agency STASI, the attack occured during a phase of increased tensions between the US and Libya. With the bombing, this tensions reached a first major peak.

"El Dorado Canyon" included assets of the USAF and USN, also three aircraft carriers, USS "America", USS "Coral Sea" and USS "Saratoga", plus several F-111Fs of the USAF which conducted long range strikes from its bases in the UK.

Carrier Air Wing 1 on board of USS "America" targeted mainly the Benina Airfield, South of the city of Benghazi and the Jamahiriyah Guard Barracks. The latter one was mainly used as a training compound for the military education and training of terrorist groups, something which reached during the 1980s a peak, as Gaddafi offered support for dozens of such groups all around the world. The main attack was conducted by A-6E "Intruder" of VA-34 "Blue Blasters", with A-7E`s as supporting element for SEAD (Suppression of Enemy Air Defense) of the Libyan air defense network around Benghazi.

The F-14As of VF-102 and VF-33 conducted MIGCAP over the area. The A-7Es were mainly armed with AIM-9L "Sidewinder" AAM, AGM-45 "Shrike" ARM and MK 20 "Rockeye II" cluster ammunition. The F-14s with AIM-9L and AIM-7M AAM for their MIGCAP role.

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