Even More Things I Know For Semi-Certain #4
- Hound’s voiceclaim is David Tennant
- Hound’s ‘terrarium’ escaped in the four million years between the Ark crash and the Autobots’ reawakening, so his quarters with Mirage are a little overgrown with crystal plants
- A few brave plants also escaped out of the broken window in their quarters, so there has been an unusual formation of what is possibly beryl (actually a non-fuel grade kind of Energon) being studied by the university even before it was founded.
- Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus are spark siblings, though they are not aware of it
- If a member of a spark bond has a spark sibling, the other members of the bond may feel their sibling like they do their bondmate.
- If he isn’t thinking about it, Ratchet will write in the Kaonite script since that’s what he was raised on.
- So will Wheeljack, come to think of it
- Jetfire likes to lie on top of Skyfire, which is something he’s done since they were young. He finds the sounds and sensations of his big brother’s mechanics soothing.
- Skyfire has always been pretty ambivalent about Jetfire’s habit of lying on top of him. It was fine when Jet’ was noticeably younger and smaller, but since he’s caught up and they’re now the same size and weight, it can be a bit uncomfortable depending on where and how Jet’ positions himself.
- Jetfire is about five hundred years younger than Skyfire, just over six vorns. Sky was just about to go into his first frame when Jet was sparked.
- How fast Cybertronians grow is dependent on their eventual adult size and the strength of their spark. Bots who will be 60ft+ typically take longer than 20 vorns to reach their final frames, while bots who will be minibot sized, 20ft or under, don’t usually take much longer than eight vorns to reach their final frames.
- Regardless of size, all Cybertronians have about the same lifespan of about 45 million years, with minicons being the exception and having very long lifespans.
- Sparkplug Witwicky has a bizarre amount of knowledge about cryptids and conspiracy theories. This likely stems from Hillary only receiving three TV channels in the eighties, one of them being inexplicably in Dutch and only airing reruns of shows with some vague connection to David Hasselhoff, and the library having a large collection of ‘modern mythology’ books.
- The Ark’s ‘engine rooms’ were sealed chambers that used a combination of space/groundbridge technology and nuclear fission to power the ship and move it through space. No one was meant to enter them because radiation, but there were access ports, one in the hold, the other in the medbay.
- Any radiation that escaped as a result of the Ark’s crash has most likely dissipated and decayed to the point of safety. Hillary does have very slightly elevated levels of background radiation, but it’s nothing of concern and is mostly non-ionising.
- As perfectly as they combine, Sunstreaker and Sideswipe’s combined form Spinout doesn’t stay together very well. This is probably due to the damage to their sparks.
- Ironhide’s official title is Head Armourer and his specialism is with guns and with anything else you can point and shoot at someone.
- Chromia used to be (and still kind of is) a weaponsmith and she can mostly produce or modify any weapon she’s ever held in her hands.
- That’s not to say she actually has any of her kit around except for cutting tools, welding tools and a few sanders. In fact she hasn’t had much more than that since before she was in prison that time.
- Chrome and Hide basically swapped their skills, Hide teaching her how to make and modify projectile weapons and Chrome teaching him how to maintain other weapons.
- Chromia’s voiceclaim is inconsistently Cate Blanchett, with a touch of Geordie in places. So Cate Blanchett trying to be Northern English?
- Propagation by a Metrotitan seeds a colony planet with Cybertronian alloys, which partially cyberforms it and makes it possible for emergent Cybertronians to be born. These mechanisms are literally the offspring of the Metrotitan, but they are not legally considered so.
- If a Metrotitan dies or leaves the planet it has propagated, the planet will eventually recover from cyberforming as the alloys break down and compound with other elements in contact.
- A Metrotitan’s root mode is their propagating form. Their alternate mode is a ‘transport’ or mobile form where they can move under their own power or can be transported. Some also have a bipedal or ‘robot’ form, but not all of them do.
- Metroplex has a ‘robot’ form that looks Cybertronian, but Hydrax does not
- Hydrax’s ‘robot’ form looks more like a Cybercat
- Double Dealer’s voice claim is Idris Elba
- Double Dealer is Optimus sized, but when in his trailer he looks a lot smaller.