#constructed cold

Okay, so in my fanfic stuff there are three ways Transformers are made: constructed cold, Vector Sigma and sparklings.

Pre-war, the way that's most considered common and 'normal' for bots to be created is through Vector Sigma. You had to petition to the senate to get sparks from Vector Sigma, stating the make and purpose of it's creation, and the senate would eventually be the ones to okay if you got granted sparks. Often it would be used, by say; a construction company going "We need about 6 more construction workers for this project, also a gestalt link is preferable" (so thats my hc for how the Constructicons came about). The bots would be put into protoforms and had a short period where they had childhoods before being placed into an adult frame and getting on with work. The senate gradually made it harder for normal civilians to petition newsparks and so bots made this way would often be owned by companies since they were created for a specific purpose. Under functionism this method really thrived, since it fit into their narrative that bots had to be created for a specific purpose.

Then of course, there's constructed cold, the cheapest way to produce bots. Just mass producing a thousand indentical bots at a time on a factory line. These ones were put straight into adult frames and were normally put to work the moment upon being created. My hc is any type of mechs we see sharing the same body type but with different colours are cc. So obviously we all know seekers, built to be military cannon fodder. But also since Prowl, Bluestreak and Smokescreen are all basically recolours I now can't help but think of the senate producing a police force en masse to keep things in line. Also we have Cliffjumper and Bumblebee, who would presumably be created as menial workers or something (my hc for minibots is they are a type of bot that can formatted into any frame type, since we have Seaspray, Powerglide and Cosmos amongst their number, but they're still cheap and easy to make).

Then we have sparklings, which before the war was actually the rarest way to create transformers. They can only be created via a sparkbond. And normally only really created by mechs that had specific need of an heir, so it'd be most common amongst the higher classes (though there are exceptions and of course accidents still happen). But my hc is mechs like Mirage, Tracks and Perceptor were created that way.

Also under functionism, because it was pretty much an apartheid system, having sparklings of mixed frame types was illegal (because the functionist system couldn't stand the idea of a creation being born outside of fitting into a preassigned function).

Any creators that did have mixed frame sparklings would normally try to hide that fact. There was even a lot of propaganda claiming that hybrid frames would have health problems (which is complete bullshit, hybrid sparklings develop entirely fine so long as you just allow their frame to develop on their own. In fact Tracks is one; being half-seeker. The result of his sire having an affair, but his sire had enough money to cover this fact up and Tracks himself didn't know until in his adult frame).

Ghostwire always, always never wants to talk about what happened when she first on-line... it brings such visceral, nightmarish memories. A lot of bots where kind of scared by the extreme reactions. 

The first hybrid.

This is what Rodimus says when he realizes the underlying paradoxes of Megatron that has become accepted background noise in the common culture of the Cybertron Civil War. How can someone rumored to have a green mottled spark, a rumored point one percenter, be a common mining vehicle, something that was mass produced five million years ago?

And Megatron deflects any questions about his origin as well, showing that in the society that he wants, the question itself should not exist to begin with, be it in law, spoken, or even in thought.

But this is not about him. This is about a different origin of Cybertronians. We have the Forged, we have the Constructed Cold, we have the MTOs. And then we have a breed rarely spoken of.

The Warborns are rarely spoken about. With Whirl’s comment we know that Fortress Maximus never experienced Cybertron before the war, never experienced the senate or even the reign of Zeta Prime. And we know that he’s also Forged, as his spark did not seize when the Kill Switch was activated.

Fulcrum is also Forged. He did not suffer the effects of the Killswitch either.

But notice his wording. It seems to be even more suspect. Sure, Forged has been used to describe the so-called “birth” of a Cybertronian, to the point where it is basically the word for it.

But where do the Warborn come from?

Bumblebee was of the last generation of Cybertronians, yet at the start of his life the war hadn’t really begun. Sure there were Decepticon terrorists, but nothing outright. The Warborn label wouldn’t apply to him or those from his hot spot. The war hadn’t truly become what it was later.

So let’s look at Fortress Maximus again.

Pious Maximus was a figure from before the war. Outspoken against the caste system to the point where he ended up being one of many who conveniently “disappeared”.

And one would have to admit that there is a resemblance. Enough for Sentinel to confuse Fortress Maximus with him.

He disappeared to the Institute, and was never seen again. And there his body was gutted, the brain module taken, probed, peeled.

We never learn what happened to the sparks. While Rossum’s Trinity is a medical term in the Cybertronian medicine, we know that through the Triple-M that you don’t need the transformation cog, and we know that with spark isolation, a common way to house dangerous criminals, the spark can survive on it’s own.

Iced, inside a flower, in a cockpit, the spark can survive a lot. Maybe it need helps, but it can survive.

Rodimus called Megatron the First Hybrid. Which seems to indicate that there are more than one. That there are other forged sparks within constructed cold bodies.

And we do seem to have some sort of indicator that dysphoria in some form might exist, with Starscream continually changing his body, either never feeling that his body was “right”, or he never grew attached to his looks because they weren’t “his”.

So the Warborn, where do they fit to make this a complete image? We don’t know if the Institute kept the sparks, but what if they did? Kept them with the other mass produced bled sparks from the Matrix, but probably catalogued and written down from whom they came from as well. And if dysphoria was documented, hell, it could be used to “explain” Decepticons, then what if Constructed Cold bodies were made to “fit” the sparks.

Nightbeat was the best detective in Cybertron.

Prowl was (one of) the best manipulative— pardon the language— bastard(s) in Cybertron.

Spinister found a way to reverse lobotomy, which prior had been noted to be impossible (if I was not mistaken).

The four of them were Constructed Cold bots. I knew not if this was the message James Roberts trying to convey, but the message I managed to capture was this: ‘’How you were born did not matter, what matter was what you do.’’

Remembered the reveal about Rung’s true purpose forced the Functionist Council to reconsider their thoughts on Constructed Cold bots from heretical to an existence endorsed by Primus as much as the Forged bots? Well, the Functionist Council used this as political/religious propaganda to justify their action... but Soundwave had been preaching on and on about everyone being equal in Primus’s eyes.

Then, Windblade came and said that CC was born wrong.

I think CC bots had no problem in finding their ‘truth’.

Did anyone else think that the cold constructed and M.T.Os are just robo-alien equivalent to the robotik from the R.U.R movie? I was skimming the Wikipedia page (I couldn't watch it in the computer I was using at the time because it blocked YouTube and whatnot, haven't made it around to watching it fully, I will try) they're made from a synthetic matter.