I think initially the Autobots tried to manufacture frames that had two alternative forms, referencing combiner gestalts and their structure (both the frame itself and their T-cog), and found... middling results; turns out combiners - despite the shape of their T-cog allowing for a third-mode - only have the capacity to transform into that third-mode if another gestalt member did the same, seemingly needing another spark to bare the brunt of the form and a new combined identity to form it, all the while only having a portion of another root-mode rather than an additional alt-mode. That realisation spun off into its own combiner-centric research, the study of gestalts (which split off into the study of bondlinks in of themselves), and has recently ballooned in interest after the development of Safeguard and the formation of a gestalt bondlink POST-forge rather than during construction. Scientists have their own theories as to why and are *coughs in hand* 'considering subjects to research on' but haven't quite gotten Council approval yet-
But that's a side tangent and way too far into the future for the Triple-Changer Trials!
So yes, constructing a triple-changer frame didn't work; the mecha couldn't access one of their other forms, and upon autopsy found that the structures intended for the secondary alt-mode were partially reabsorbed into the proto-form as if deemed redundant, better used as materials to be consumed like a parasitic twin. On that front, they needed a new direction. Not wanting to construct a lone member of a gestalt that never existed - to have a triple-changer's third-mode be a detached limb - or for the alt-mode they had designed be absorbed by the growing proto-form, they turned their research to fully developed mecha.
There have been rumours of (illegal, backalley) surgeries that can change a mecha's alt-mode, the High Guard tracking cases of warframes and beastframes trying to infiltrate civframe districts (their words not mine), identity theft [REDACTED BY THE HIGH COUNCIL], and investigating the surgeons themselves following a line of corpses (ignoring the fact some mecha identified have been civframes trying to convert into warframe or beastframe bodies). If the researchers can get their hands on a couple of these infiltrators if not the surgeons themselves, then they may be able to *coughs into hand* 'pick their brains' about the operation if not find out themselves with a full-body inspection. Some surgeons were successfully paid off to work under them for the on-going project.
Combining (HAH) their research on combiner T-cogs and their learnt understanding of alt-framing (the reassignment of frame type), they found that unlike first-sparked proto-forms for newcons, a fully developed mecha's endoform does not view the replacement pieces of a different alt-mode as material to consume, rather it adapts and slots the new pieces along seams that reconstruct themselves to open and part in corresponding ways; the body is able to adapt to the replaced material rather than viewing it as redundant. The issues arise when certain sparks sputter under the strain of even just this so called 'simple' procedure of alt-framing, but you can't forge a tool without smelting a few scraps; they were criminals anyway, can't have that.
Before turning to untainted mecha, the researchers studied on T-cog mechanimals, testing first on frizz-rats and glitch-mice, attempting to give each respectively a pigeonoid and bolt-bat third-modes. They increased the size; combining a singlehorn with an alloygator; and even larger; a fusion between a buzz-boar and a sonicondor. They eventually were satisfied enough with the results, testing combinations left and right, making sure if each pair could work with A + B and B + A. Vitals were tested (those that survived measured from healthiest to least and the variables listed down to the minute differences), behaviours observed (does the mechanimal retain it's knowledge of it's original frame, does it's third-mode come with instincts to assist in use or does it need to learn everything from scratch, does the mechanimal desire to transform at all), and the effects of domestication were considered (is a dieselle still docile with a hellhound third-mode, can a hellhound be tamed with a dieselle third-mode). This period of testing came to an end and the mechanimals were put to rest.
With what they learnt, the scientists turned to the populace, and hand-selected a trial of 3 to start. This will be their undoing.
TL;DR, referencing combiner physiology, they discover that a third-mode is supported predominantly by a gestalt bondlink rather than their frame/T-cog. This has unintended side-effects unobserved from mechanimal testing, which serves as a biomechanical risk factor to certain system forming related mental disorders :)
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i am not! i've never really done it before. sometimes i'll look at people's prompt lists for inspiration but that's all :) although if you had a specific prompt you liked you can shoot it this way and we'll see what happens.
Not optimisticmakerdaze trying to hop back in my follows on their other blog that has the exact same icon, pinned post, and blog theme/colors. You can't just have a different name and think a bastich won't notice.
@fdskogjifd you don't get to start shit, act like an ass, block me, and then try to follow again from another blog. Fuck off
I like how person decide to be rude ['I'm just asking questions' no the fuck you weren't otherwise you wouldn't ignore the info already provided] but then decide to get huffy when I'm 'rude' back.
Idk, maybe dont start off ignoring easy to find info and acting like you are owed an explanation of what a stranger feels about something or someone after blatantly ignoring the info already provided that gives plenty of fucking context.
edit: yeah no optimisticmakerdaze is exactly as entitled and asshole-ish as the ask they put in my inbox implied. It was very much the correct move to tell them to go find the info cuase it was never about getting answers. A fucker just wanted an opportunity to sealion about something
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Also one of the things that optimisticmakerdaze was 'just asking questions' about [while actively ignoring the already provided info] is why I dislike Harry Potter? Like?
Either a fucker has been living under a rock while having access to the internet for the past 5 years or it's blatantly fucking sealioning bait.
yeah no optimisticmakerdaze is exactly as entitled and asshole-ish as the ask they put in my inbox implied. It was very much the correct move to tell them to go find the info cause it was never about getting answers. A fucker just wanted an opportunity to sealion about something and they decided that since I didn't play into their bait like they wanted they're just gonna make a big stink about me not answering a blatantly rude question
Gee golly, maybe there's multiple reasons ya didn't get an answer asshole. Like? Why should I waste time giving answers to someone who clearly doesnt want them if they ignore the info they were already provided? And why should I answer questions asked rudely sent by a person who proves to be even ruder?
