#tfes mandroid

Dot would be a tank. She used to have a visor, battlemask, and camouflage paint during the war but stopped wearing them and got a new paintjob after she quit. Her prosthetic leg is a metal bar that ends with claw toes, while her other foot is more "normal" and doesn't have toes. Because she lost a whole leg, the tank probably has a huge gap where the armor is missing. Idk what her name should be, "Dot" is a word but I kind of want to distinguish everybody's names from their canon counterparts.

Alex's name could be Alexandrite. Idk altmode.

Robby or Mo could be a motorcross bike because of the bicycles (and Rocinante)? Or maybe minicons, still close to the terrans' heights? I can only think of a name for Mo, Slo-Mo, and I don't even know if that's good.

Schloder, idk name or altmode. Maybe an FBI style pickup or van? Has a visor.

Croft is Schloder's twin but doesn't look like him at all. Still turns into some kind of a government car though. Idk her name either.

Mandroid could have a spider or spider-like altmode because of the arachnamechs, but I'm not sure if that's a good idea of how to avoid him looking too similar to Tarantulas. I don't know what kind of a vehicle he would be if he was a vehicle... His name would be "(Something) Atlas" to retain the map reference and because some cybertronians have latin names, but idk what word to put in front of "atlas". Ideas?

Can someone make Scene packs for the human antagonists in transformers? I know I could do it myself but I don’t know if I have the patience to find them and record them all separately.

The ones I want specifically: Mandroid, Dr Morocco, Madeline Pynch, Silas, Meltdown/Prometheus Black, (I can think of more but these are the ones I need for edits.)

It seems to be more body control than mind control anyway, i understood that Mandroid's victims are aware of their surroundings and actions but unable to stop them.

Instead of taking place during the tail end of World War III on a post-apocalyptic Earth, maybe the Earthspark edition would take place on Cybertron? Maybe humanity would be living there for some reason, and almost extinct? Not sure how exactly the backstory or the actual story would work.

Dot's name could still be "Dot" since it's also a word. She would transform into a pickup truck because she drives one, or a military vehicle since she's an ex-soldier. Maybe she was military colored and had a battlemask and/or visor during the war, but after the war stopped wearing them and changed her paint color to something else. She would have some kind of a peg leg with claws on the end, propably with a wheel attached so she can still drive.

Alex's name could be Alexandrite? I can't think of anything else that resembles "Alex". Idk what he'd transform into.

Mo's name could be Slo-Mo? Not sure, I don't know a lot of Cybertronian name-suitable words that sound like "Mo". Maybe she transforms into a small offroad motorcycle?

Idk Robby's cybertronian name, or what he'd transform into.

Idk Croft's name, some kind of a government vehicle like an armored car, spy van, or something. The kind of ones FBI and the like drive.

Idk Schloder's name, propably transforms into something similar to Croft but distinct from her. They shouldn't obviously be twins (though they are, because that's the only canonical way cybertronians have siblings). He wpuld have a visor.

Meridian's name would be "(Something) Atlas" to keep the map reference and because some cybertronian names are rendered in latin. He would transform into a spider because of the arachnamechs, but idk how to avoid him looking too much like Tarantulas. Also if I make him mainly white and green-eyed, he might end up looking like that Fox Kids repaint of BW Tarantulas. The spider's abdonmen could split in bot mode and be positioned in a way that invokes a labcoat, but idk beyond that. Still has the arachnamechs.

The terrans' human names are hard. I know at least americans give their kids weird names, but still. Terratronus' first name would be Terra though. Maybe I could get away with Jawbreaker only ever being called J.B.? The others are more difficult though.

They might not all be biologically related, since having five kids is pretty unusual in modern society.

The terrans should still be somehow unusual or have an abnormal origin in order for their importance to make sense. Maybe the remaining humans are too few to survive for more than a few generations, and the terrans were created from scratch in a lab?? Not sure how the plot would work then, especially if the twins and the triplets were still born separately, and Spitfire and Aftermath also separately or as a duo. How wpuld that work if Quintus was gone the while time and the humans were, idk, looking for him??

The other bots' human names are taken from my TFP species swap au and the humanformers G1 SG draft I wrote a while ago, the priority was to sound as much like the bot's real name as possible. I don't have surnames for most of them though;

Optimus Prime is Ryan Pax (idk the "Optimus Prime" part)

Elita One is Adelita ???

Arcee is Sree ???

Bumblebee is ??? ???

Cosmos is Cosmo ???

Grimlock is ??? ???

Wheeljack is ??? ???

Prowl is ??? ???

Starscream is Starla ???

Shockwave is Shokufeh ???

Soundwave is Sündeviin ???

Frenzy is Fränzi ???

Ravage is ??? ???

Laserbeak is ??? ???

Nova Storm was named Novak Sturm in the G1 one and Skywarp was Skye Warper (not sure about the surname), but they're canonically sisters in Earthspark so having different surnames is kind of weird

Breakdown is ??? ???

Swindle is ??? Schwindler

Hardtop is ??? ???

Tarantulas is Taran ???

Brawl is ??? Brawley

Bombshell ??? ???

Shrapnel is ??? ???

Skullcruncher is ??? ???

Quintus Prime is ???

If she was born in 1971, she would have been 13 when the transformers appeared in 1984. She would have turned 18 in 1989, 18 being the age you were allowed to enlist in at least the real-world eighties.

Last i checked the real world US army still doesn't allow women in real combat roles, so imagine how bad the situation must've been for them to allow female soldiers in the 1990s. Battle of the Bay doesn't get a year or any indication about how late in the war it happened, but Dot was a lieutenant — a junior commissioned officer rank, whether she was first or second lieutenant. Even though second lieutenant is the normal entry-level rank for most commissioned officers and the lowest one (and leading a platoon a lieutenant's normal duty), the situation would propably have to have been pretty bad for the army to have black female commissioned officers in the 1990s and the likelihood of promotion propably none. She did retire as a lieutenant. I'm not sure how much training do you need to be a lieutenant, but propably not a lot especially when the country is at total war against alien invaders. So the Battle of the Bay could have happened anywhere between 1989-2006. Anywhere in the period of 17 years.

The first battle was explicitly in San Francisco, and the guidebook says the spacebridge (which was propably the Deceptocon base held through the war) was also in the San Francisco area.... How long could it reasonably be at most between the Autobots/humans taking San Francisco, and them taking the spacebridge?

I used the adults' appearances, Alex's and Meridian's studies (canonical doctorates), and Dot's military career to approximate when they were propably born.

Nobody can be any younger. Dot can't be much if any older or she would have started menopausing around 2012 when Mo was canonically born. Mandroid also can't be much older than 55 because he's obviously not in his sixties. Alex has to have been in his teens when he left the Philippines. Schloder especially can't be younger, but there propably needs to be some time in between Croft's father's death and her mother getting on with a new man. 42 is a good age for Croft, and i want her to be old enough to remember her father.

I'm not sure about the duration of Alex's and Meridian's studies. History takes more time on average than other subjects, and then there's the matter of financing it particularly for Alex (somebody in engineering told me on a writing forum that an employer sponsoring your higher education can help a lot, which would be the case with Mandroid here). Is four years long enough of having been coworkers and becoming good friends? Not sure if 2000-2006 is crammed....

I think Drexel university also has history professors.

Extremely unsure about the time placement of the Battle of the Bay. It was propably before the Battle of the Spacebridge, but there's the matter of Alex and Mandroid having to have time together before thr government drafted Mandroid and Dot having time to recover from her amputation and learn to walk with the prosthetic well enough to be at the spacebridge on summer(?) 2006.