Cybertronians are kinda horrendously designed ngl
Their main source of energy is Energon (fair enough) which is found in a solid crystal form that they have no method of self processing. They have to liquify and refine the stuff manually and externally before they can drink it AND it’s only found on ONE planet. The only reason it exists literally anywhere else in the universe is because during the war, both the Autobots and Decepticons would stash the stuff away on random planets.
They don’t even know how to synthetically reproduce it! At least not very well, synth-en had weird effects on Ratchet.
Like???? I can go outside and eat some berries. They’d be shitty city blackberries but there’s a whole zero effort, aside from finding it, required to eat them. Agriculture is more advanced than mining for food, they’ve been doing the equivalent of foraging for their entire existence!!
They bleed pure Energon, which, yeah it’s gotta get from your tanks to whatever needs energy somehow, but I expected something more like converting Energon taken from tanks into electricity which then signals via wires to make the body do stuff.
If you get shot in the tank youre basically dead unless you can warp/weld metal on the spot to heal up. The only reason full body Energon lines would make sense is if there are one way valves into mini tanks in each area to ensure that the bodypart can function if cut off from energy
But this also implies that it just starts to degrade/rust instantly if cut off
Energon doesn’t clot either: if they’re injured, it just flows freely. Blood seal’s itself up and sends proteins, hormones, and immune cells to help fight infection and heal the wound, so long as you’re not stressed or starving you can heal on your own (depending on severity). But they can’t, they need to be manually repaired for every injury. Their armour means it’s rare, sure. But they’re kinda fucked if they’re injured without a medic.
SOMETIMES theres nanites/nanobots that act as an immune system depending on continuity, but they’re basically never elaborated on??? Which kinda makes me disregard them as a McGuffin tbh
There’s definitely diseases, Optimus basically instantly started dying when he got some infected energon in his eye which suggests a whole entire no immune system. Like…plants and most animals have at least a PASSIVE immune system (that is, defences that fight intrusions but cannot learn to fight better during a second infection). Even for severe and highly infectious diseases there is always an incubation period before symptoms occur. Depending on the disease it ranges from days to YEARS.
NO IMMUNE SYSTEM FOR THEM THOUGH????
Okay primus, they’re not your favourite creations after all
If some upstart bacteria started metabolising cybertronian metal or Energon they’re basically fucked. Actually, fungi are more likely to start fucking shit up tbh, they just release enzymes and digest shit externally.
They’re literally millions of years behind evolutionarily because they only get born from either the all-spark or primus themself.
Yes, many animals survive just fine with a passive immune system and not an active one (aka their immune system cannot/does not learn from infections like ours does). But THOSE ANIMALS TYPICALLY REPRODUCE IN LARGE AMOUNTS VERY FREQUENTLY!!!! They can adapt and evolve fast BECAUSE they die a lot
One two combo of no immune system and no active evolution means that once an evolving system has grown to accommodate them (aka Earth) they’ll be quickly surpassed and consumed for their resources.
And that’s just taking into account life on earth.
They have no freeze resistance either, Arcee and Optimus almost straight up died in the Antarctic during the scraplet episode. I’m assuming it’s because energon solidifies at those temperatures? Which, fair enough blood does too. But seriously ZERO internal heating systems to prevent this?
I’m starting to think Primus likes scraplets more. That, or he let Unicron give input on designing these guys
I might add onto this later but jeebus
