#tech specs

Jazz

Function : Special Operations / Saboteur

“ Do it with style or don’t bother doing it “

Optimus Prime’s right-hand man. A danger-loving daredevil with a bottomless bag of tricks. Loves Earth culture, particularly rock’n’roll. Outer shell armed with semi-automatic ion pulse gun and deflector shield. Inner robot armed with photon rifle and hydraulic lifters in legs that enable him to jump over fifty feet. In race car mode, equipped with blinding, full-spectrum headlights and deafening 180 decibel speakers. Nitro-injected 12-cylinder engine allows him to reach speeds in excess of Mach 1. Thermal-sensitive windows also provide supplemental solar power. Smoke ejector pack in tailpipe produces blinding smokescreen

Strength - 5, Intelligence - 9, Speed - 8, Endurance - 7, Rank - 6, Courage - 9, Firepower - 7, Skill - 10. Total : 61

Bumblebee

Function : Espionage

“ The least likely can be the most dangerous ! “

A free-wheeling, fun-loving Autobot. Recommissioned as a Pretender, this formerly tiny titan is now bigger and better than before. Outer shell equipped with titanium armor, sonic blaster and turbo-thrusted rocket pack. Reinforced helmet equipped with multiband radio-transmitter and thermal-tracking meters. Inner robot armed with laser pistol. Car mode is also equipped with X-ray lasers in headlights that can burn through solid rock. Entire frame, chassis and outer armor refortified for added endurance and fighting power on the battlefield

Strength - 7, Intelligence - 8, Speed - 4, Endurance - 8, Rank - 8, Courage - 10, Firepower - 6, Skill - 7. Total : 58

Grimlock

Function : Lieutenant Commander

“ Among the winners, there is no room for the weak “

A raging, reckless robot. The most fearsome and powerful Dinobot ever. Very strong and very stupid. Easily angered. Particularly nasty when he’s reminded that he now resembles a human. Outer shell equipped with jetpack and atom-smashing submachine gun that pierces all forms of armor and eats away enemy fortifications. Inner robot armed with double-barrelled, self-propelled rocket launcher. In dinosaur mode, serrated steel jaws can tear through solid rock. Also armed with heat ray beams in eyes that can turn hardened steel into molten metal. Power pistons in legs enable him to produce small earthquakes when he stamps his feet. Jet boosters in legs also provide flight capabilities

Strength - 10, Intelligence - 4, Speed - 3, Endurance - 10, Rank - 9, Courage - 10, Firepower - 8, Skill - 9. Total : 63

Starscream

Function : Aerospace Commander

“ Conquest is made of the ashes of one’s enemies ! “

A cheating, traitorous villain. Ruthless and cold-blooded. Always plotting another evil attack against the heroic Autobots. Determined to rule the universe with a fist of iron. A monstrosity of Cybertronic metal and complex circuitry. Outer shell armed with methylial-powered jetpack and thermal carbine that can either freeze or melt metal on impact. Inner robot armed with a null ray rifle that shorts out electrical impulses. Maximum speed : Mach 3. Also equipped with suborbital capabilities. Arrogance is Starscream’s only weakness

Where is technology taking us? The more we depend on the technology, the more we should talk about it, evaluate it, and spot both risks and opportunities.

Take a look at tech quotes by Pablo Picasso, Douglas Adams, Stewart Brand, and Northrop Frye that are visualized on vintage patent drawings.

Gender: female

Personality type: good natured, friendly, kind, prone to tangents where she utilizes complicated technical terms to describe things

Faction: autobot

Subgroup: dinobot

Function: aerial combat specialist, bombardier, technological specialist

Weapons: underslung wing mounted single fire twin missile batteries, thermal arming sword, thermal spiked flail, retractable combat claws

Alternatively, writers for children’s cartoons have no sense of scale.

(look GaoGaiGar is amazing but I have no illusions what it’s target demographic was supposed to be, and I am not it)

What’s this? Side characters for my Wreck and Rule: WAR TFAU?????!!!! It’s more likely than you’d think!

Blackarachnia does a lot of the tech work for the Wreckers, while not officially joining, herself. Had a lot of fun tinkering with her design until it got to a place I liked! Her body is actually pretty modular, and her hair-cables let her directly connect to machinery and other bots (though she avoids the latter) so when she’s working on a big ship she tends to, well...be a bit like

And...Wheelie. God I love this little savage gremlin. Listen, if you find a random-ass child living feral and alone on a spooky planet, you don’t get to complain when said spooky goblin child turns out to be a spooky goblin child.

I’m sure it’s fine.