#alchemor

[mrfandomwars]

Forever thinking of an au where the Alchemor exists during the war and crashes into Earth during one of the TFP seasons

[askvectorprime]

Dear Vector Prime - According to you, the Grimlock from Robots in Disguise 2015 was formerly one of Shockwave's experiments named Clobber, but according to Rescue Bots Academy, he used to be a Cube player named Steelwall. What gives?

Dear Contradiction Codifier,

As I mentioned, I was relying on my brother Micronus's report of the events, and it does seem he missed out a good deal of information.

He was still accurate in the broad sense, Grimlock had been called "Clobber" when first created, earned the name Grimlock from his fellow neo-Dinobots when he escaped Shockwave's clutches, and was eventually arrested in Iacon after an incident with some former-Vehicons.

But between this, there was a rather impressive lacuna. Grimlock had travelled through several of the gradually rebuilt settlements on Cybertron, exploring and discovering who he wanted to be. After taking a Cube to the head while intruding on a sports match, it was discovered he had a talent for the game. The Hydrohex Hammerers recruited him then and there, although they felt his given name of Grimlock was a bit boastful, and suggested he use a nom-de-sport. Because of his defensive prowess, he took the moniker of "Steelwall" and became one of the best Cube players on the reborn Cybertron, even winning the 217th All-Bot Brawl for his team, being awarded MVP and with it one of the few remaining pre-war cubes as a prize.

That cube ended up being his undoing. While the Hammerers were on tour in Iacon, a couple of former Vehicon construction workers attempted to take his antique cube, planning to sell it on the black market.

When Grimlock took it back he did so with his characteristic strength and efficiency, which took the form of lobbing one of the match cubes at their heads. This display of brutal protection attracted the attention of the Iacon Guard, who arrested him on the spot.

Unfortunately, the Iacon Guard had been fully subverted by Cyclonus and his new council by this point, and Grimlock's name tripped up a warning as a "dangerous element." It didn't matter that it had been a different bot by that name, his dinosaur mode was enough for them to confuse the two. He was imprisoned on the Alchemor, which ironically ultimately turned him into the kind of hero he was accused of being, worthy of being blacklisted by his own deeds.

When Cyclonus was brought down, Grimlock's name was cleared, and he was able to recover his prized cube from the Iacon vaults. Although by this stage, the Hydrohex Hammers had been shut down, and his cube playing days seemed behind him.

Still, some bots still remembered the strength and fortitude of Steelwall, which was sure to bring Grimlock some joy.

[askvectorprime]

Are there any other Decepticons in the aligned continuity who were pardoned from their crimes like laserbeak?

Dear Redemption Researcher,

Indeed so—the Great War in that universe was a particularly destructive affair, and by the end of the long, long conflict many Decepticons had grown just as weary as their Autobot brethren. When Optimus Prime sacrificed himself to heal Cybertron, plenty of Decepticons landed in rusted warships and battered refugee vessels and promptly surrendered. As more and more Decepticon prisoners piled up, Ultra Magnus sought the services of the ex-Decepticon Tomb to establish a bipartisan commission to try and reintegrate what Decepticons they could into society. The Vehicons, for instance, had never been allowed to choose their side, and were acquitted of all crimes. Other pardoned Decepticons included Hotwire, Hoverbolt, Ursa Major, and Doomwings, who publicly renounced the Decepticon cause before settling into peaceful civilian lives.

Not all Decepticons could be so easily dealt with, however—in the weeks that followed Bulkhead and Arcee worked together to crack down on armed splinter cells, fanatic remnants of the Decepticon military who refused to believe that Megatron had surrendered, and bizarre underground cults that venerated Megatron as a living god. For those Decepticons who refused to lay down arms, the Autobots were forced to repurpose a number of civilian transport vessels into heavily-armed prison ships, intended to transport them to a distant prison colony in the Elba system—the worst of the worst, irredeemable ‘bots like Tarn, Turmoil, Heretech, Demolishor, or Deathsaurus. 

Unfortunately, like so many other Autobot plans, this institution would be hijacked by Cyclonus; once he’d infiltrated the provisional government and launched his coup that saw the Autobot ousted from the system they’d sought to build, the new High Council promptly began targeting and imprisoning all ‘bots who had ever worn the Decepticon badge, regardless of whether or not they’d renounced Decepticonism, loading them up onto prison ships and taking them off Cybertron… while also removing Cyclonus’s would-be rival Steeljaw from power. Common gangsters and street criminals would be scooped up and rebranded as “Decepticons”, overexaggerating the degree by which the Decepticons had infiltrated their society to keep the citizens of Cybertron paranoid. 

Those “prison ships” would be sent to the distant world of Pyrovar, a staging ground where Cyclonus could weed out those Decepticons who had not abandoned the cause, recruit newly-arrested ‘bots, then ship them back to Cybertron’s new “Trypticon Prison” to prepare for the birth of his neo-Decepticon empire. Of course, when the prison ship Alchemor suffered mechanical troubles over the planet Earth... well, you know the rest of that story.

[askvectorprime]

Dear Vector Prime, Did the Grimlock being held prisoner on the Alchemor meet the Grimlock who led the Lightning Strike Coalition?

Dear Dino Delver,

Two Grimlocks? Ah, I believe you are referring to a tale recounted to a Uniend version of myself by my brother Micronus. His telling seemed accurate, if rather insulting, so I shall do my best to properly convey it.

Though Shockwave’s initial experiments in creating super soldiers from alien life ended in a tower being dropped on him, he still found the basic results acceptable. Initially focused on recruiting loyal test subjects through the Forged cult, he also began growing these animalistic warriors from scratch following pressures to provide them in ever-greater numbers. While many of these new subspecies would go on to found their own fascinating societies and cultures, particularly in the criminal underworld, Shockwave kept his new Dinobots on a tight leash, intending for them to be dropped on targets marked for devastation. Micronus told me that they were “bred for stupidity”, but I believe it to be more likely that Shockwave simply left them undereducated. Under the harsh eyes of Shockwave's Insecticon guards, whispers spread throughout these sheltered ‘bots of five Autobots who rejected the restrictive law of Shockwave, wreathed in lightning and led by a warrior named Grimlock. 

The younger Grimlock was one such next-gen Dinobot, born in one of Shockwave’s pens in Kaon, near the end of the war. Then known as Clobber, he earned the name of Grimlock from his fellow Dinobots after accidentally orchestrating a breakout from the pens, simply raising the point that if they could smash anything, why not smash the pen walls? From there, Grimlock made his way towards the now-rebuilt city of Iacon, the war having ended. Seeing some former Vehicons assisting in construction, he tried to start a game of lobbing; unfortunately, security forces mistook him for a Decepticon soldier, arrested him for damages, and eventually imprisoned him on board the Alchemor. He went on to experience many adventures with Bumblebee and his team of erstwhile peacekeepers, ultimately helping destroy the hidden Decepticon loyalists who composed the new Cybertronian government. This attracted the attention of the original Autobot Lightning Strike Coalition, who had been exiled among other Autobot war heroes. Though Swoop, Slug, Snarl and Sludge welcomed him to the team, the original Grimlock had not returned with them, having come to distrust the Cybertronian status quo as a whole. He left only a message for the young warrior: “Now, you Grimlock”. 

[askvectorprime]

What's with all the animalcons in RID15? Where did they come from?

Dear Prisoner Profiler,

I believe they mostly came from the crashed Alchemor.

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top 10 favourite albums and why you enjoy them Shoot

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- '...for the whole world to see' by death -- infectious grooves that blend the feeling of classic rock with hardcore punk

- 'life rips' by mommy long legs -- feels like the soundtrack to a disney 'girl's night' movie

- 'all of them naturals' by the uranium club -- i love surf punk and anything that sounds surf-punk adjacent. this album fulfills that very specific niche

- 'jessica rabbit' by sleigh bells -- ugh i cant even explain why sleigh bells is so good go listen to it

- 'raw steak black coffee' by free refills -- i like earsplitting music <3

- 'kills kids' by crimekillz -- every song ends and begins with gunfire/its all about drug + gun violence in l.a./its synthpunk. what more could you ask for

- 'return of the boom bap' by krs-one -- aside from being the album with sound of da police, every groove is so smooth and infectious and fun and the lyrical content flows through my ears like butter..leading me into my next one

- 'the low end theory', 'midnight marauders' and 'the anthology' by a tribe called quest -- i cant think of a better old school hip hop group than atcq but these specific albums get me every time with electric relaxation, butter & steve biko

honorable mention - 'drugs and guns for everyone' by that handsome devil -- while its not the album that contains the famous charlie's inferno, this was actually the first thd album i ever listened to and every song on it gets my heart going so fast without fail. also learning that godforbid was from brooklyn made me happy as a fellow brklynite

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