Tansformers/Cybertronian Reproduction Part.1
This part will go over all the different ways the Cybertronian race can make more Cybertronians and the next part will be more about the specifics on different Cybertronian species.
How sparks are made
Hot Spots - Sparks emerge from hot spots on cybertron, either on the planets face or a underground pocket, and are harvested to be cold constructed or Foraged depending on the spark type and the area they emerged. Sparks are only harvested by those the Senate has given the ok to, if there harvested by anyone else high punishment is given.
Spark Merging - The way Sparks are made when two or more cybertronians Spark Bond after interfacing. This way of reproduction is illegal because the Senate can’t keep track of everyone as easily. This form of reproduction is only used by upperclassmen and cybertronians who live outside the law an example being Insecticons.
Seekers are the main upperclassmen given the privilege of Spark Merging and only the best after all good soldiers breed better ones. This was also a way the Senate kept their millitary in check because if you were misbehaving you could kiss that possibility goodbye. This was also one of the safest groups to give the privilege too because if a Seekers Sparkling acted up they corrected it immediately, being able to have kin was a big thing so you couldn’t have them acting up.
The Senate went as far as removing the knowledge on how to reproduce by Spark bonding to not educating the masses that it was a thing that could be done, though the information still got around many still didn’t try out of fear of punishment and it being to risky to try to raise their own in a system where everyone was documented so a new face wouldn’t go unnoticed.
How body’s are made
Foraging - A spark is harvested from a Hot Spot and squished into protometal which will become it’s protoform. Kida like the way you flatten out then fold and squish play dough. The spark will heat up the surrounding protoform and this becomes the sparkchamber.
Cold Construction - sparks are taken from Hot Spots and put into pre made body’s with bits of protoform placed where there would be the T-cog and Brain Module so those can form essentially stealing their bitlit stages of life from them. After being put into a full grow body it takes a few days to for the newspark to make their T-Cog and Brain Module out of the given protoform and are immediately put into training for the jobs best suited for there alt mode which had been pre-determined. Cold Constructed bots are more likely to suffer from mental disorders because of the way they are essentially forced into adulthood.
Carrier - The Newspark’s protoform body is made inside the carriers incubation chamber and when the bitlit emerges they have a fully formed protoform. The carrier is not the more “female” looking bot but rather usually the bot with the more transfluid in their tanks. Carriers require constant feeding and transfluid donations to make the sparklings protoform. The sparkings Spark is housed by the carriers spark even able to crss to their other parents spark if spark bonding occurs again, not required , before returning. If the carrier is under intense emotional stress this can actually kill the newspark because it’s to much for them to handle so carriers need to be covered in affection especially in the beginning stages.
Cloning - Clones in my universe are mindless bots that are exact copies of each other, they don’t have a spark but they use production line bodies making them indistinguishable form those who are cold constructed. These are used mainly by the Decepticons as A war tactic, the enemy won't know if there shooting someone with a spark or just a drone and these also create create large intimidating numbers.